After the new widow, I became a tyrant's tender outer chamber

Chapter 24
Although Ruan Yuyi didn't want to marry Cheng Rui, she never thought about what happened to him.Seeing that Cheng Zhu's complexion was not good, he comforted him softly, "Don't panic, Auntie, Brother Rui may be playing in some corner of the yard."

Can only hope so.

At this moment, Cheng Zhu could hear everything vaguely, couldn't get into his ears, and couldn't speak, staring at the door eagerly.

After a while, Mu Xiang and another servant girl came back. The servant girl wrung her hands, and under such a stagnant atmosphere, she dared not say a word, "Ma'am, the second son was not found."

Ruan Yuyi looked at Mu Xiang, and Mu Xiang met her eyes and shook her head slightly.

"Didn't find it?!" Cheng Zhu threw the teacup in his hand into the corner viciously, and the teacup shattered, splashing water all over the floor, "Where can such a big man go? It must be that you didn't search carefully enough, and you didn't look fast enough." Call someone to go again!"

Cheng Zhushi is the daughter of a small family. She is not very dignified and quiet, but has a very violent temper.The servant girl who spoke this time was a little girl, she trembled from being yelled at, and hurriedly retreated.

Cheng Zhushi's eyes fell on the steaming lunch in front of him.Although they are all vegetarian dishes, there are quite a lot of patterns. They are stacked one after another, and the color is attractive. Even if you live here for a long time, you will never get tired of eating it.

There were only a few masters left in the room, and it seemed quite empty for a while.

Cheng Zhushi unconsciously began to think about it, what if Cheng Rui was injured, would he cry somewhere and no one would pay attention to it; if he strayed into the forest and met a jackal, tiger or leopard, he would never come back How to do……

The more she thought about it, the more anxious she became, and she kept twisting the silk tablecloth.

"You guys, hurry up and find..." She pushed Cheng Xingqiu, asking him not to delay.

Seeing his mother's anxious look, Cheng Xingqiu suppressed the emotion in his eyes.

Cheng Zhushi has been closer to Cheng Rui since she was a child, she can play with Cheng Rui and laugh on her lap, but every time she sees him, she only asks him how his studies are, as if there is nothing else to say except this one.

So he studied hard in the cold window and passed the imperial examination, just for his mother to look at him more.

There are many monks in Shenghe Temple, and Cheng Rui just disappeared for a short while, but it can make her so flustered.I also don't know if Cheng Zhushi cried for him when the news of his death came to his family more than a year ago.

"Mother, don't be in a hurry, I'll look for it right away." Cheng Xingqiu held her by the shoulders and told her to sit back. After placing Zhaorong back in the wing, he turned and left the courtyard.

Cheng Zhushi didn't notice that the eldest son was in the wrong mood at all, he was immersed in his own terrifying imagination, his face sank like water.

"Auntie, I'll help you too." Ruan Yuyi couldn't sit still, and she still comforted her verbally, "Second cousin is the governor's office, so I don't think he will go too far. You can rest assured and wait for the news. "

Cheng Zhushi waved his hands weakly, "Go, go."

After walking a certain distance, Mu Xiang said to Ruan Yuyi, "This servant guessed that the second son should have gone out by himself. When we were looking for someone, the gate of the courtyard was half-closed."

It's just that I don't know why Cheng Rui, who has always listened to Cheng Zhu's words, left the yard by himself for no reason, even his wife didn't know.

But she said that after Zhaorong returned to her wing, she didn't stay here all the time, but went to Ruan Yuyi's room while there was no one around.

When she saw Ruan Yuyi just now, she noticed at a glance that she didn't wear the pair of Dongzhu earrings today. Thinking of seeing her in her room yesterday, she unconsciously came here.

It is obviously the usual elegant repair style in the temple, not much different from her house, but it is this strangeness that makes her feel subtly nervous, as if the owner of the house will appear behind her in the next moment.

After rummaging around a few times, Zhaorong found the Dongzhu earrings wrapped in a handkerchief in the left drawer.

The first time she didn't look carefully, but she didn't believe what Ruan Yuyi got from the vendor, so she pinched the things under her fingertips and carefully identified them under the light of daylight.

When she didn't buy it in Linglong Pavilion before, she once asked the shopkeeper surnamed Liu, hoping to know who the craftsman behind it was, to show that she was willing to pay for it.

But Liu Nanjun shook his head, teased with a smile, "Your Highness is wealthy, so he is not qualified to hire him, after all, the boss behind him didn't agree."

The circle of noble ladies in the capital always likes to chat about the names of some famous craftsmen, and they are proud to be able to buy the jewelry they make.Although sometimes it is hard to find something, craftsmen still have to rely on craftsmanship to make a living after all. As long as the money is enough, there is no reason why they cannot buy it.

But Zhaorong had never heard of such a weird craftsman.

The oriental pearl pinched on the fingertips is round and shiny, polished meticulously, like the tears of a shark, glowing with the faint light of the deep sea, and the gold thread wrapped and inlaid on it is also pure in color, unlike anything ordinary.

Zhaorong felt more and more that this was the pair of pendants she had been looking at before.

It's just that Ruan Yuyi, the daughter of a declining clan, has no financial resources, or face, to buy a pendant that she can't even take down.

Suddenly, Zhao Rong's hand stopped.

She inadvertently caught a glimpse of Dongzhu's underside, showing a little notch.She fiddled with her fingertips.

Between the two interdependent East Pearls, there is engraved a palace mark the size of a grain of rice—this is something specially made in the palace for the use of the masters.

The other one too.

She was breathless. If this is something from Linglong Pavilion, then why does it have the mark of the royal family.She thought of the Dong family that Liu Nanjun mentioned, and an unbelievable thought suddenly crossed her mind.

She pursed her lips, her fingertips turning white.The shopkeeper of Linglong Pavilion seems to know the identity of the owner, but he refuses to sell things to her, who is a relative of the owner, which makes her think about her relationship with Jinshang.

As the only first princess, she naturally grew up like a moon in the hearts of the crowd, but compared to her own biological brother, she is always more willing to get close to the noble and cold youngest emperor brother, perhaps because he feels that he treats her very well. The attitude was new to her.

Even Zhao Rong once looked down on this little brother Huang when he was young, but it did not hinder her from being close to him later on. Although it was only one-sided, it was enough for her not to blame him after her own brother was beheaded by him.

It was because she knew in her heart that once the palace transformation failed, Brother Sanhuang would not be able to escape this level of guilt. No matter which sword it is, there will only be one death in the end.

After that, she was worried all the time, for fear that little brother Huang would take his anger out on her. Fortunately, what she was afraid of never happened.

But she accidentally learned about the power behind Linglong Pavilion, but she couldn't help but realize that today she still doesn't regard her as a relative.

Zhaorong's eyes were flushed, he casually touched a pair of small scissors on the table, and cut off the pair of pendants with great force.

A few oriental pearls lost their fixation with the gold wire, scattered on the ground, and rolled into the dark place beating.

It made a series of crisp sounds on the ground.

(End of this chapter)