phoenix jiuxiao

Chapter 91

Everyone has something on their minds, so naturally the dinner at the Marshal's Mansion cannot be enjoyed to the fullest.

Lan Jing looked curiously at Mu Qingchen who took off his veil, it was this man who sharply pointed out his purpose.Of course she sent someone to investigate Mu Qingchen's background, Qinglian's successor...it's a pity.

Lan Qinshuang didn't notice the strange gaze of her mother, she was still thinking about the conversation with Su Hailing just now, and she kept scratching the chopsticks in the bowl.

Su Hailing was very calm, while helping Mu Qingchen serve dishes, while chatting casually with Lan Jing.

Nothing to do with the political situation, nothing to do with the military, really just gossip.

Only Lan Qinxue, who was an accompanying guest, looked at this for a while, looked at that for a while, took a few mouthfuls of food, and raised her head again, her face full of bewilderment.

It was hard to end the tasteless meal, and seeing that Lan Jing didn't intend to stay any longer, Su Hailing smiled and stopped Lan Qinshuang from sending him off, just like when he came, holding Mu Qingchen's hand, walking Moonlight returns.

"Shuang'er, come to my study for a while." Looking at their backs, Lan Jing dropped a sentence with a heavy face.

"Yes." Lan Qinshuang nodded, touched the little girl's head, signaled her not to worry, and then followed Lan Jing.

There are some things... it's time for a decision!

After leaving the Marshal's Mansion, Mu Qingchen was in a rare spirit and didn't feel sleepy, so Su Hailing was naturally willing to accompany him to stroll around the night market.

"Take it!" Su Hailing came back from a small stall, holding two bunches of red candied haws in his hands, and stuffed them into Mu Qingchen's hands.

"How old are you?" Mu Qingchen stared at a group of children who were also holding candied haws and chasing past.

"Who stipulated that candied haws are a snack for children?" Su Hailing stuck out his tongue and licked it with a smile, "Eat it, or it will melt."

Mu Qingchen frowned, looked at the crystal and lovely candied haws in his hand, and carefully took a bite.

Suddenly, the sweet and sour taste gradually melted in his mouth, suppressing the discomfort in his stomach, and he couldn't help but take another bite.

"How is it? Is it delicious?" Su Hailing said with a smile.

"Yeah." Mu Qingchen didn't have time to talk to her, his mind was completely occupied by the red candied haws.

Su Hailing shrugged, well, one day she was reduced to the point where she was jealous of snacks...

"Still following." Mu Qingchen spit out suddenly.

"Whatever he wants." Su Hailing nodded unsurprisingly.

"A person from Lan Jing?" Mu Qingchen asked.

"Probably not." Su Hailing frowned, and when he turned the corner, he quietly peeked behind him and chuckled, "We just came out of Lan Mansion, Lan Jing is not that boring."

"Really?" Mu Qingchen disapproved, "Lan Jing also knows your identity, does she dare to let you mess around outside?"

"Didn't she already make a move?" Su Hailing said, paused, and dragged him into a nearby grain store.

"What are you two buying... Ah, owner Su!" The boss immediately greeted the guest when he saw the guest coming. When he saw Su Hailing, his welcome speech suddenly turned into an exclamation.

"Sister Bai, how is business doing recently?" Su Hailing asked while looking at the goods piled up in the store with a smile.

"It's not bad." The shop owner followed her around, laughing along with her.

"If I want food now, how much can I get in three days?" Su Hailing asked suddenly.

"This..." The shop owner was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head to make up his mind, and then hesitated for a while before saying, "No more than two thousand shi."

Su Hailing gave a "hmm" without saying anything, and walked out of the shop with Mu Qingchen on his arm, leaving the shop owner alone in a daze.

"You don't intend to give food, do you?" Mu Qingchen whispered.

"There is always something to do." Su Hailing shook his head, and continued, "Su Yuling will arrive in Xijing soon. Although Su Jinling has not moved yet, he will never sit still. Even the one on the phoenix chair...I'm afraid I also have my own calculations. The day of the storm is not far away."

Walking slowly all the way back to Haiyue Villa, until they entered the door, the two faint sights behind them disappeared.

"Master, you are finally back..." Yang Wan stopped in the middle of his sentence, staring blankly at the candied haws in their hands.

"What happened?" Su Hailing asked.

"Master, Yang Jue is dead." Yang Wan said in a low voice.

"What?" Su Hailing raised her eyebrows, and almost instantly, she was sure of one thing, Yang Jue would never commit suicide.After being captured for so long, if he wanted to commit suicide, he would have committed suicide a long time ago. There are so many ways to go on a hunger strike by biting his tongue and hitting a wall, so how could he wait until now to die?

Then, naturally, there is only one explanation left - killing people to silence them.

"Hailing, Zhuangli..." Mu Qingchen said softly.

"I know." Su Hailing's heart sank.

She understood that the dungeon was built underground, and it was difficult for outsiders to come in and kill people silently. Even if it wasn't done by the people in the village, at least there were internal responses.

"Is the master going to take a look?" Yang Wan said.

"Okay." Su Hailing nodded and said, "Qingchen, the dungeon is very humid, you go back first, I'll go alone."

"En." Mu Qingchen agreed, and went back to the small courtyard by himself.

"Let's go." Su Hailing said, going to the dungeon first.

In fact, after the dungeon of Haiyue Villa was completed, only one prisoner was imprisoned, and that was Yang Jue.

The guards in charge of guarding the dungeon opened the thick door lock tremblingly.

Su Hailing walked down the stone steps, and not far away, he saw that the door of Yang Jue's cell had been opened. When he walked in, he saw Yang Wan lying on his back, his face was blue and black, his lips were black and purple, and his seven orifices There was purple-black blood slowly oozing out of the blood, and it was known that he died of poisoning without careful inspection.

"When did it happen?" Su Hailing was silent for a while, then turned around and asked.

"Not long ago." Yang Wan said, waving to the guard, "When Wang Yan opened the cell door to deliver food to the prisoners, she saw such a scene when she went in, so she notified me immediately."

"You are the guard of the dungeon?" Su Hailing's sharp eyes swept over Wang Yan.

"Yes... yes." Wang Yan lowered her head, a little uneasy.

"How many people have entered the dungeon today?" Su Hailing asked directly.

"Since I was on duty, no one has ever gone in." Wang Yan quickly replied, "But sister Zhao was on duty before dinner, so I don't know."

"Go and call her here." Su Hailing said.

"Yes, owner." Wang Yan trotted away.

"Unexpectedly, there is a ghost in the village..." Yang Wan's indifferent face turned livid, "This time, I must clean up everyone in the village!"

"Don't be angry, this kind of thing is inevitable. In this world, who doesn't like to press a few nails around the opponent? Where can I find it clean." Su Hailing smiled and said indifferently, "When the water is clear, there will be no fish. Yang Wan , traitor is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as we know who it is, isn't it up to us to make rounds and flatten?"

"What the owner said is true." Yang Wan replied, knelt down and unbuttoned the corpse's clothes, only to find that even the skin on his body had turned a dark color.

"What a powerful poison." Su Hailing couldn't help gasping, "Yang Wan, do you know what kind of poison this is?"

"Excuse me for my lack of talent and learning." Yang Wan smiled wryly, and said, "I can't find a foreman or a doctor for an autopsy like this. How about letting Mr. Situ take a look?"

When Su Hailing heard the words, he couldn't help hesitating slightly.

Although Situ Ye's medical skills are superb, he was the son of a daughter after all, so it's not too much to ask him to go to the dungeon to see if the corpse is... Besides, she still remembers the absurd incident last night.

"Master?" Seeing that she was so dazed, Yang Wan had no choice but to remind her.

"Ah, it's nothing." Su Hailing came back to his senses, took out a silk scarf from his bosom, and pressed it on the mouth and nose of the corpse, a large area of ​​the pure white silk scarf was dyed black immediately.

"The owner, this is..." Yang Wan looked at her actions and realized something.

"I'll leave the interrogation here to you. I'll go find Situ Ye." Su Hailing carefully put away the silk scarf.

"Yes." Yang Wan replied.

Su Hailing walked out of the dungeon in a few steps. Although he felt a bit awkward looking for Situ Ye now, he couldn't hand over the poisonous thing to Mu Qingchen at this time...

Walking into the door, I saw that the chaos of last night had long disappeared in the Litang courtyard. Situ Ye was sitting under the window, quietly flipping through a book. The faint candle shadow reflected his side face, showing a calm demeanor. .

Su Hailing coughed dryly twice, and knocked twice on the open door.

"Hailing?" Situ Ye put down his book and wondered, "It's so late, why did you think of coming to my place? Something happened at Marshal Lan's mansion tonight?"

"It's true that something happened, but it's in the village." Su Hailing sighed, and handed him the poisoned silk scarf, "Help me find out, what kind of poison is this?"

Situ Ye looked at her deeply for a while, as if he wanted to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything, he just took the silk scarf silently, put it under his nose and smelled it.

"How?" Su Hailing asked nervously.

Situ Ye frowned tightly, looked at the silk scarf for a while before saying, "Which idiot poisoned it?"

"Is there something wrong with this poison?" Su Hailing wondered.

"Crane crest red, peacock gall, heartbroken flower, carrion grass...well, there are also seven-star crabapple." Situ Ye curled his lips and said, "This poisoner doesn't understand the properties of medicine at all, he just took all the extremely poisonous things out of his self-righteousness. It’s all just put together, in fact, any one of them is blood-sealed, and if you touch your lips, you will die, what a waste!”

Su Hailing couldn't help being speechless after hearing this, wondering which person who poisoned him did not understand the properties of medicine, or did he intentionally confuse people?

"Who's dead?" Situ Ye asked.

"Yang Jue." Su Hailing sighed.

Situ Ye also fell silent.As the son of the Shangshu Mansion, he certainly knew about Yang Jue. When he followed his mother to salute King An during the night banquet at Fenghexuan, he had seen the heroic guard behind King An.

Three years is enough for things to change.

"After setting things up in Xijing, I'm going to the capital." Su Hailing said suddenly.

"The capital?" When Situ Ye heard these two words, he felt a shock all over his body.

"You..." Su Hailing hesitated a little before saying, "Do you want to go with me?"

"Yes!" Situ Ye blurted out almost without thinking.

"Want to see your mother?" Su Hailing said.

"No." Situ Ye gave a wry smile, and said sadly, "I'm just a dead person, how can I see her? Just...just look at her from a distance."

"Situ, do you regret leaving the capital with me to fake death?" Su Hailing asked.

"I don't regret it." Situ Ye smiled, "In my heart, I'm not a victim who obediently waits for the family to seek prosperity and wealth and use it in marriage."

"Okay, get ready, we'll be leaving in three or four days at the most." Su Hailing said.

"So fast?" Situ Ye was startled.

"Lan Jing and I... Lan Jing has a big problem for me. It's not easy to solve it head-on, so it's better to attack against each other." Su Hailing said.

"I don't understand the fight for the world." Situ Ye smiled charmingly, shaking the silk scarf in his hand and said, "But if you don't want to see anyone, don't go looking for such a low-level killer, there is a ready-made killer here." of."

Su Hailing couldn't help laughing, but he said seriously: "Using poison to kill people will lose your life after all. I don't want you to do such a thing."

"Does this mean that you still have room for me in your heart?" Situ Ye said, and as soon as he let go, the silk scarf stained with poisonous blood fell into the charcoal basin, and it was reduced to ashes in a short while.

Su Hailing was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer.

"Su Hailing, I will not give up." Situ Ye's tone was not intense, compared to last night, it could be said to be indifferent, but the firmness revealed in those words made people startled.

"I, Situ Ye, just fell in love with you, Su Hailing. How about it?" He continued, "Maybe I just admired you three years ago, but since we met this time, I've experienced everything together, and I'm sure I like you!"

"Situ..." Su Hailing took a deep breath, avoiding his question, but said, "I remember you asked me why this world is so unfair, why women can go anywhere and do anything freely They treat men as their appendages. Why do men have to stay out of the door, just wait for one day to marry a woman they don’t know, and watch their wives teach their daughters, and then watch the wives one after another. Take the man home."

"Yes, so what? Am I wrong?" Situ Ye looked directly at her.

"No, that's right." Unexpectedly, Su Hailing nodded and said, "So, Situ Ye, I have always admired your courage."

"Just admiring it?" Situ Ye asked in a daze.

"Situ Ye..." Su Hailing sighed, and said softly, "What have you been pursuing? You hope to get all the rights of a woman, and to get rid of the shackles of your identity, but... I have Haoyue, With Mu Qingchen and Mei Junhan, I am destined to not be able to give you the only one you want. Are you going to be the fourth one? Now you want to go back to the cage you have finally gotten out of?"

"I..." Situ Ye opened his mouth, unable to answer.

Yes, if he fell in love with Su Hailing, he had to accept that there was someone else around her, but if he was wronged like that, what was the freedom and equality he had always insisted on?
"Think about it yourself." Su Hailing left a sentence and turned to leave.

The shadow of the candle was red, but the people under the lamp did not move for a long time...

(End of this chapter)