After farming, the big devil, she's salty

Chapter 85
Qin Zhao wiped the sweat from his forehead, and it was obvious that he respected and even feared Steward Ning.

Han Yu took the opportunity to tease as he walked: "I didn't expect General Qin to have people who are afraid, but I asked Han to learn from him today."

Qin Zhao glared at him angrily: "Do you know who Butler Ning is? That's the female general Ning Yan who guarded the border gate of Suzhou City back then. Isn't it right for me to respect her?"

Ning Yan?

Han Yu raised his eyebrows.

He remembered that Ning Yan was a person who fell into the enemy camp and her martial arts were abolished, and she disappeared afterwards.I didn't expect to be a housekeeper in Qin Yingwu's residence.

"It should be respected." Han Yu sighed, "It's just that such a person with military exploits shouldn't spend the rest of his life in this small government office. I would like to ask, how did Ning Yan come here?"

"It's a long story." Qin Zhao deliberately lowered his voice, as if he was worried that Ning Yan would hear, "I only know that my uncle wanted to preserve her reputation. When I came back, I couldn't help but be rumored by others. Although she is the housekeeper of the mansion, she can always mention my uncle when it comes to affairs of the court, and she is my uncle's right-hand man."

Han Yu nodded slowly.

Indeed, from ancient times to the present, there is no such thing as a good general who finally died well. Perhaps to be a small person is what Ning Yan yearns for.

A few people came to the pavilion in the plum garden, Ning Yan greeted the maid: "Go ask the kitchen to prepare some plum cakes for the young lady to taste."

The servant girl backed away.

This plum garden is so beautiful that Jin Yao almost forgot his purpose for coming here.

Facing Ning Yan's enthusiastic attitude, it was really hard for her to mention the corpse.

As if seeing through what Jin Yao was thinking, Ning Yan poured a cup of tea for Jin Yao, and cut straight to the point: "I heard from Zhao Er that you found the corpse in the cave. Presumably, you came today because you wanted to Find out about the corpse."

Jin Yao blinked, but Ning Yan did not expect Ning Yan to be open-minded: "Yes."

"Then let Zhao'er find Wu Zuo and explain it to you in detail."

Ning Yan gave Qin Zhao a look.

"Oh, what are you looking for?" Qin Zhao pouted, "Actually, I didn't find anything new. The female corpse must have been poisoned before she was alive, and she died of poisoning in the end. She died about a year ago. Checked the women who disappeared in Suzhou City in recent years."

"Including outsiders who settled here?"

Qin Zhao nodded.

"What?" Ning Yan heard Jin Yao's analysis, "Could it be that this corpse is a woman outside the pass?"

"It's very possible." Jin Yao said, "Based on the current speculation, she doesn't look like the skeleton of our Central Plains people."

"This is going to be difficult." Ning Yan said quietly, "Although we in Suzhou City have been in contact with Hu merchants all year round, to be honest, the women who came here to settle down have never seen anyone else come here except the one from Chunxiang Pavilion. Settle here."

Jin Yao frowned.

If this is the case, then who on earth transported the bones to the mountain in front of his house after traveling thousands of miles?What is the motive?
She suddenly remembered the nightmare and the bold guess she had last night.

No way?
Jin Yao clenched his fists, pursed his lips, and asked Ning Yan: "Butler Ning, can I ask you a question?"

"Please say."

Ning Yan raised her hand.

Jin Yao and Han Yu looked at each other, and then asked, "Do you think there is any difference between the current Mrs. Li and the Mrs. Li when she first came here five years ago? Oh, I mean behavior habits."

Han Yu opened his eyes wide when he heard this, and suddenly remembered what Feiying had said to him before.

Could it be that……

"What's the difference?" Qin Zhao felt dissatisfied when he saw Jin Yao's inquisitive look, "Don't you suspect Mrs. Li again? I can tell you that you have to be responsible for wronging others .”

"Shut up, Qin Zhao!!" Ning Yan interrupted Qin Zhao impatiently, "What's the proper way to be frizzy? How old are you, and you still look so unstable."

Qin Zhao: "But they..."

"People are just asking casually."

Ning Yan didn't know if it was because she was still sick, but she couldn't help coughing when she spoke anxiously.

Seeing this, Qin Zhao quickly stretched out his hand to help Ning Yan pat on the back: "Don't be angry, don't be angry. Don't get mad at yourself."

"You still know." Ning Yan took out a silk handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth. After sheaving a sigh of relief, she turned to look at Jin Yao, "If you want to say that there are indeed differences. Li Ji had a very obedient temperament when she first came here. , it’s not like now, when you get angry at people at every turn, sometimes even I don’t pay attention to it.”

"Maybe it's because of what happened to her, the changes that happened to her that she can't let go of for many years?"

Han Yu interrupted midway.

Ning Yan smiled lightly and nodded: "It's not impossible to say so. But in fact, she was not so perverse a year ago. Although she was a little cold, she was simple and kind, and everyone in this mansion They all get along very well.”

a year ago……

These words made the suspicion in Jin Yao's heart intensified.

However, in this ancient society with undeveloped surgical technology, how can one completely become another person?
Or, in the beginning, they were twins?
Jin Yao stood up, looked at the huge plum garden, and suddenly sighed in his heart: "This place is so interesting, the place where the plum blossoms grow is like a formation, if the housekeeper didn't bring us here, I'm afraid we would easily get lost .”

Ning Yan was stunned: "Miss, you have good eyes. This plum garden was carefully designed for the adults by a skilled craftsman with the help of the plum garden. But after Mrs. Li entered the mansion, it became her private area. If others are not familiar with it It is very easy to touch the mechanism on the ground and endanger life.”

"So that's it." Jin Yao nodded, looked at a circular building in the distance, and asked curiously, "What's over there? Can you show me there?"

Ning Yan shook her head: "The location of the office here has been changed by Mrs. Li a year ago. Without the blueprint, we can't get through."

Han Yu was suspicious: "Ms. Li still has this ability? So if you reform this place privately, Master Qin has no objection?"

"No." Ning Yan hooked her lips with a fake smile, "Perhaps she took Master Qin there several times, so Master Qin didn't say anything else."

Jin Yao looked at the circular building in the distance and narrowed his eyes.

It can't go there, and there are agencies around it. This kind of dangerous place is very suitable for detaining prisoners.

Jin Yao snorted coldly, turned around, and looked at Ning Yan: "I heard that you are not in good health, if you don't mind, let me take your pulse?"

(End of this chapter)