Chapter 372 Madness

The person who came was Yuan Ziyu.

Yuan Ziyou curled the corners of her lips. "It's me. It seems Aunt Yan has a pretty good memory. She only met a few times, but she still remembers me so clearly after two years. How honored am I that Aunt Yan is so concerned about me? Hmm?"

The word "hmm" rose slowly at the end, but it was like a heavy drum, hitting Chen Yan's heart.

Chen Yan glanced at Yuan Qilei, who had fainted on the table, and couldn't help but smile stiffly: "Second Miss, you are joking. You are the legitimate daughter of General Yuan, with such a noble status. How could I not remember you?"

"Well, that's indeed a reason." Yuan Ziyou nodded, then smiled and looked at Chen Yan and asked, "Then Aunt Yan, can you tell me about your identity?"

"What is my identity?" Chen Yan blinked. "I was brought back from the south by the master. I used to make a living in the brothel. How can I be worth mentioning?"

"Heh." Yuan Ziyu smiled upon hearing this: "If Aunt Yan doesn't want to talk about it, then that's fine. I'm just asking in vain."

As he spoke, Yuan Ziyou took out a piece of letter from his bosom and said to Chen Yan with a smile, "I was originally saying that the handwriting on this letter was extremely beautiful, and I wanted to praise Aunt Yan."

When Chen Yan saw the letter Yuan Ziyu took out, she was stunned for a moment, and then her face turned pale.

How could she not recognize it? This was the secret letter she was going to send to Tuoba Hun.

Chen Yan never dreamed that this secret letter would fall into Yuan Ziyu's hands.

"Second Miss, you're joking." Chen Yan calmed herself down and said to Yuan Ziyu with a smile, "I was born in a place with a lot of smoke and willows. How can I write good characters? Besides..."

Chen Yan carefully glanced at the letter and said, "I don't recognize the words on this letter."

Yuan Ziyou smiled and said, "Aunt Yan did a good job of pushing it away."

"Second Miss." Chen Yan didn't want to continue this topic, and hurriedly said: "What's wrong with me? Why do I have no strength in my body?"

"No need to pretend anymore." Yuan Ziyu was too lazy to play along with Chen Yanxu anymore: "How could you not know what you've been poisoned with? You're just trying to buy time, but I tell you, it's useless. You won't be able to wait until the drug's effects wear off."

Chen Yan's eyes shrank involuntarily when she heard this.

Chen Yan has always been smart, otherwise she would not have been sent to the Dali Dynasty by Tuoba Hun. She naturally understood the meaning of Yuan Ziyu's words.

"Got it?" Yuan Ziyou smiled and looked into Chen Yan's eyes: "Sure enough, talking to smart people is easier."

Chen Yan took a deep breath and said, "Second Miss, I don't know how I have offended you. I apologize to you. I hope you will forgive me and not take it personally with a mere servant like me."

"Aunt Yan, please stop pretending to be confused." Yuan Ziyu pursed her lips and smiled. She brought the letter in her hand close to the candle flame and lit it. She watched it burn into ashes quietly. "Aunt Yan has a bad memory and can't recognize this letter. But it doesn't matter. This letter will accompany Aunt Yan. Aunt Yan can slowly recognize it in the future."

“No——” Chen Yan’s heart trembled, and he shouted loudly, trying to attract people.

It was just that she had been poisoned by cartilage powder, and her throat had no strength at all. The voice she thought was loud was still extremely weak.

Yuan Ziyu glanced at Chen Yan indifferently, then walked up to her, pulled out a pearl hairpin from her bun, and gestured at her neck.

Chen Yan was so nervous that her breathing almost stopped. At this moment, she clearly sensed Yuan Ziyu's murderous intent.

"Second Miss, you...you must have made a mistake." Chen Yan's voice trembled.

No matter who you are, when facing death, you will never be able to be completely indifferent.

Yuan Ziyu was too lazy to talk any more. He looked at Chen Yan coldly, raised his hand and inserted the pearl hairpin straight into Chen Yan's neck.

"No... no..." Chen Yan felt a sharp pain in her neck and wanted to cover the wound with her hands, but she had no strength. She felt her neck getting cold and something seemed to be flowing out.

She knew it must be her blood.

"No...you...you..." The blood from her neck was flowing more and more. Chen Yan stared at Yuan Ziyu unwillingly. She tried to raise her hand tremblingly, but it finally fell to the ground weakly.

Gradually, Chen Yan could no longer make any sound. He only made a few gurgling sounds in his throat and then took his last breath.

Yuan Ziyu watched coldly from the side until Chen Yan died, then walked to Yuan Qilei's side, put the pearl hairpin in Yuan Qilei's hand, and at the same time took out a small bottle, sprinkled the powder in the bottle on Yuan Qilei's mouth and nose, and then carried Yuan Qilei to Chen Yan's side, and placed Yuan Qilei's hand holding the pearl hairpin next to Chen Yan.

After doing all this, Yuan Ziyu stood up and took a deep breath to calm the complicated emotions in his heart. Up to now, the grievances and hatreds between their family and Yuan Qilei's family can be completely resolved.

Afterwards, Yuan Ziyu carefully searched Chen Yan's room and found the stack of letters that Yuan Qilei had left with Chen Yan to slander Yuan Qifeng. He threw them into the Qiongjiang Pavilion and then drove away from the Qiongjiang Pavilion.

What happened next was just as Yuan Ziyu had expected. In the early morning, Chen Yan's maid found Yuan Qilei and Chen Yan both lying on the ground. Chen Yan was already dead, and Yuan Qilei was holding a bloody pearl hairpin in his hand and fainted beside Chen Yan.

The murder naturally alarmed the government, and it was Zuo who sent someone to report it to the Jingzhao Yin.

The prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture acted quickly, but the other people in the mansion, including Chen Yan's maid, did not notice anything unusual on the previous night, and no clues were found in Chen Yan's room.

This murder case is destined to go unsolved.

The reason is simple, Yuan Qilei is crazy!

After waking up, Yuan Qilei was so crazy that he didn't even recognize himself. After confirming that Yuan Qilei went insane due to poisoning, the prefect of Jingzhao finally closed the case: his concubine Chenyan poisoned Yuan Qilei for unknown reasons, and Yuan Qilei found out and stabbed Chenyan to death in anger.

Zuo calmly accepted the result and took Yuan Qilei back from Jingzhao Yin. As for Chen Yan's body, it was sent to the charity cemetery outside the city.

At the same time as Zuo reported the case, he also sent someone to General Yuan's Mansion to deliver a letter to Yuan Qifeng. As soon as Yuan Qifeng learned the news, he hurriedly called Yuan Ziyu to Liufengyuan.

"You'er, something happened at your second uncle's house..." Yuan Qifeng didn't know how to ask, but he had to ask. His intuition told him that this matter must be related to Yuan Ziyu.

Yuan Qifeng was extremely disappointed with his younger brother, but he was very worried that Yuan Ziyu would be involved in this case.

"What happened?" Yuan Ziyu blinked her eyes. She didn't intend to tell her father the truth because it would scare him.

"Chen Yan is dead, and your second uncle is a major suspect." Yuan Qifeng said with a sigh.

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