The eldest daughter, she is proud and sassy

Chapter 354 The Whistleblower

Hearing no response, Bai Qi stretched out his hand, ready to push the door.

"Commander Bai—"

Shui Rong quickly reached out her hand to stop Bai Qi: "Yuan Niang is fast asleep, she must not have heard it, Commander Bai might as well wait patiently and let me come."

Bai Qi glanced sideways at Shui Rong, then withdrew his hand.

Shui Rong calmed down a little, and raised her voice and shouted: "Yuan Niang, Commander Bai is here to see you."

This time, there was movement in the house.

After a few breaths, the door opened, and Mrs. Wen appeared at the door wearing a coat.

She glanced at the people outside the door first, and then her eyes fell on Bai Qi: "Yuan Niang is still sleeping, I don't know why Commander Bai came so early, why?"

"The Duke is worried about Yuan Niang, so he sent me to take a look."

Bai Qi explained to the woman behind him and said, "Go in and have a look."

The mother-in-law immediately walked into the room, seeing Mrs. Wen blocking the front, she pushed Mrs. Wen away and rushed in.

"Who are you to break into my room?"

Cui Hengyue's angry voice came from inside, and then came the voice of the mother-in-law apologizing: "Forgive me, Yuan Niang, it is the Duke who is worried about Yuan Niang, so he sent me to visit.

"Seeing that Yuan Niang is well, the Duke is relieved.

"Don't get angry, Yuan Niang, I'll leave right away."

Before Cui Hengyue could speak, the mother-in-law quickly left the room.

"Commander Bai, Yuanniang is all right." The old lady reported to Bai Qi.

Bai Qi said "excuse me" and left with the people.

Shui Rong winked at Shui Fu, and chased after her: "Commander Bai, I'll see you off."

Seeing Bai Qi and his party disappear before her eyes, Shui Fu still didn't dare to relax. She didn't dare to breathe a sigh of relief until she entered the main room and closed the door.

As soon as the tense nerves were relaxed, there was pain in the legs, and with a "bang", Shui Fu fell to the ground.

"Are you okay?" Mrs. Wen hurried forward and helped Shui Fu up.

Cui Hengyue came out from the inner room, holding the wound medicine and gauze in her hands, she walked up to Shui Fu, squatted down, and lifted Shui Fu's skirt.

Shui Fu shrank her feet, and at the same time reached out to grab her skirt: "Yuanniang, you."

"Don't move, the wound is open."

Cui Hengyue scolded her in a low voice, then took her hand away and helped her change her medicine.

Seeing Cui Hengyue's gentle movements, Shui Fu felt a surge of heat in her heart, and her cheeks were hot. She called out in a low voice: "Yuan Niang."

Cui Hengyue didn't speak, until she helped her change the medicine and bandage the wound, and then began to ask: "Why did you and Shui Rong appear outside the mansion?"

"I"

Shui Fu still hadn't figured out how to answer.

There was a sound of opening the door outside, and then Shui Rong walked into the inner room, saw Shui Fu lowered her head, and saw Cui Hengyue's serious expression, so she guessed that Cui Hengyue was interrogating Shui Fu.

She stepped forward and suddenly knelt down towards Cui Hengyue: "Yuan Niang calm down, we have no intention of spying on your whereabouts, but we are really worried about you, so we decided to go out of the house to find you.

"I didn't expect such a coincidence that you were besieged and killed by those men in black.

"If you are angry, punish me. Shuifu was injured. If you are punished again, I am afraid that your body will not be able to hold on."

Cui Hengyue said with a straight face: "How do you know I'm out of the house?"

When asking this question, Cui Hengyue glanced at Mrs. Wen.

Seeing Cui Hengyue's eyes, Mrs. Wen lowered her eyes guiltyly.

Shui Rong replied calmly: "I came to look for you an hour ago, but Mrs. Wen said that you were sleeping and no one should disturb you, so she didn't let me into the room.

"After I went back, I felt that Mrs. Wen's expression was not right, so I ran to the back and opened the window to take a look, only to realize that you were not in the room."

Lady Wen's head drooped even lower. She was too sleepy at the time. Although she stayed in the room, she didn't hear anything.

Cui Hengyue glanced at Mrs. Wen again, then looked at Shui Fu and Shui Rong: "Now, what are you going to do?"

If she was going to be reported, she was reported just now. She definitely didn't mean to ask this when she asked this question.

Shui Rong thought for a while, met Cui Hengyue's eyes, and replied firmly: "As early as the moment we went down the mountain, we were Yuan Niang's people, so naturally we will do what you tell us to do."

"Yes, yes, we will listen to you." Shui Fu hastily agreed.

Cui Hengyue bent her lips: "Okay, I hope that from now on, my words and deeds, as well as the matter of Jinglanyuan, will not spread from your mouths to anyone's ears."

Shui Fu and Shui Rong moved their eyes and said in unison: "Yes, we will never reveal anything."

Cui Hengyue showed a satisfied expression: "Later, I will find someone to punish Shui Fu to go back to her room to think about her mistakes, and Shui Fu will recuperate in the room."

After the arrangements were made, everyone acted on their own.

Not long after, when Shui Fu and Shui Rong were serving Cui Hengyue to wash, Shui Fu knocked over the basin, and Cui Hengyue scolded her and punished her to go back to her room to think about her mistakes.

There was a lot of commotion in the room, and the servants outside heard it. Soon, all the servants in Jinglanyuan knew that the girl close to Yuanniang was punished.

When Cui Hengyue went to Fuhai Courtyard to pay her respects, Mrs. Cui specifically mentioned this matter.

"Although you are my granddaughter, the two girls beside you are still from the Prince Chu's mansion after all, so be careful when punishing them, and don't let the King of Chu misunderstand you."

Cui Hengyue lowered her head, with a look of being educated: "Yes, my granddaughter respects my grandmother's teachings."

Seeing that she was obedient, Mrs. Cui was satisfied, and turned to talk about preparing a birthday gift for the regent princess.

Coming out of Fuhai Courtyard, on the way back to Jinglanyuan, Shui Rong first glanced around and saw no one around, then whispered to Cui Hengyue: "The old lady knew what happened just now, there must be spies in Jinglanyuan .”

Cui Hengyue was silent: ".Who do you think informed the old lady?"

Shui Rong thought for a while, with a sad face: "I didn't think of it, I will investigate after I go back."

As long as it is found out that anyone who has left Jinglan Garden after Shui Fu was punished will know who the whistleblower is.

However, after returning to Jinglanyuan, after some investigation, Shui Rong found that no one had left Jinglanyuan.

"Yuanniang, it seems that this person is very meticulous in his actions, and has a special way of communicating with Fuhai Academy." Shui Rong said to Cui Hengyue after some careful consideration.

Cui Hengyue was very calm: "Don't worry, the fox will always show its tail."

At the court meeting that day, without waiting for the emperor to ask, Sun Shangshu, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, took the initiative to stand up and report: "Your Majesty, I have caught the murderer who killed Ye Zhicheng, Minister of Industry."

All the ministers looked sideways at Sun Shangshu.

Wang Wenqian pretended to be curious and looked over, but in fact he already knew what Sun Shangshu was going to say.

"Who is the murderer?"

The emperor was also very curious. He didn't expect that Shangshu of the Ministry of Justice really caught the murderer in only three days.

Sun Shangshu replied calmly, "It's General Zuo Wuwei——Qi Nianguang."

As soon as this statement came out, the whole hall was in an uproar.

"How could it be? Why did General Qi kill Ye Shilang?"

"That's right, General Qi has no grudge against Ye Shilang, why did he kill Ye Shilang? I can't figure it out."

"Could it be that there are secrets that we don't know?"

All the ministers whispered to each other, suddenly there was a coughing sound in the hall, they looked over and saw the regent coughing with his fists on his lips, they immediately closed their mouths.

(End of this chapter)