Chapter 354 The Bridge Collapsed
"Huiwen, the concubine, how could she die?" When Qiao Huilan heard the news, she turned pale with fright. Her mother was sent to the farm, and her brother was beaten with a stick because of her. Now, the only one who could speak was Qiao Huiwen.
"Who knows? Serving the emperor is like serving a tiger." Qiao Huiwen looked at her worried expression and wanted to say something, but in the end, she could only sigh and say, "Just serve His Royal Highness the Crown Prince well."
"Huiwen, go and find out how the queen died." Qiao Huilan said anxiously. Now that she is Qiao Huiwen's housekeeper, she must know about this.
"Don't ask." Qiao Huiwen grabbed her panicked and cold hand and said, "Everyone who served in the courtyard where the queen lived was buried with her."
"What, what..." Qiao Huilan swallowed and said, "Including our people?"
"Yes." Qiao Huiwen nodded affirmatively. Seeing that she was frightened, she glanced around and made sure that no one was around before whispering, "I suspect the Queen did something. Otherwise, how could she die so suddenly? She seemed so happy to see the Queen yesterday."
"Yes, but what could cause her death?" Qiao Huilan's pupils dilated instantly. She looked at Qiao Huiwen in shock, covering her mouth, afraid that she would scream out loud.
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"Miss, what's in your purse? Why is it full of incense ashes?" When Lian Xin was packing up Xiao Jiuyue's things, she suddenly saw the purse filled with incense ashes and thought she was seeing things.
"Incense ash?" Xiao Jiuyue turned back in confusion and looked at the purse. The more she looked at it, the more familiar it looked.
"Don't move."
Hua Qing rushed in, looked at the incense ash that had turned into powder, and said, "Lian Xin, please don't move."
Lianxin held the purse in one hand and kept smelling the food with the other. She didn't dare to move at all as she listened to Hua Qing's words.
"This is a good thing." When Hua Qing came over to take the thing, he drew something in the air, muttered to himself for a long time, and held it in his hands with great piety.
Lianxin took the purse and put it in her hand. Hua Qing put her hands together again and started muttering something mysterious while holding the purse. Lianxin stood next to Xiao Jiuyue and always felt that Hua Qing at this moment... was like a fortune teller.
"Miss, please spit in here." Hua Qing came to Xiao Jiuyue holding the incense ash.
Xiao Jiuyue: “…” Although he was confused, he did as he was told.
Hua Qing held the incense ash and began to walk around the room again. Finally, he walked around Xiao Jiuyue, muttering to himself as he walked.
Lian Xin, who was standing aside, held her breath and concentrated, not daring to say a word, for fear that once she spoke, she would disturb Hua Qing's important event.
Xiao Jiuyue's eyes flashed slightly, and her mind instantly remembered what Hua Qing had said before about borrowing luck.
"Miss, I still need your fingertip blood." Hua Qing put the incense ash in front of Xiao Jiuyue again.
Xiao Jiuyue did as she was told and pricked her finger without changing her expression. When her blood dripped into the incense ash, the ash glowed brightly, which scared Xiao Jiuyue.
"break!"
Hua Qing shouted loudly, and not only did the incense ash in her hand disappear, but even the bag she had just held disappeared completely.
If it weren't for the smell of incense ash still lingering in the air, Lianxin would have thought that she had just had a dream.
"It's done!" Hua Qing grinned and looked at Xiao Jiuyue and said, "Miss, the Bai family will suffer backlash from now on."
In Shengjing, in a small Buddhist temple of the Bai family, a person who was meditating suddenly vomited blood.
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"Are you saying that the borrowed luck scheme has been broken?" Xiao Jiuyue looked at Hua Qing in confusion and asked, "I remember you didn't say that last time."
When Hua Qing first said that she had two souls in one body and her luck was borrowed, Xiao Jiuyue asked Hua Qing how to break the spell.
"Miss, Bai Miaoyun was the biggest beneficiary of the borrowed luck. Her death naturally presents the best opportunity."
Hua Qing showed off a row of neat teeth and said, "This incense ash is the trigger I left behind. I was worried that if it took more than three years, this luck-borrowing thing would be difficult to break. I didn't expect... the opportunity to come so soon!"
"The plan of borrowing luck has been broken. Will the Bai family backfire? Will we be in trouble? Or what?" Xiao Jiuyue asked what she cared about most.
"Borrowing luck is something that is not tolerated by the laws of nature. What is borrowed is borrowed after all." Hua Qing said mysteriously.
Seeing that she couldn't get any more questions out of him, Xiao Jiuyue stopped asking. After Hua Qing left, Lianxin stayed with Xiao Jiuyue and asked, "Miss, is Bai Miaojun really dead?"
Why did she have a feeling that it was unreal?
"The news we received is that he's indeed dead." Xiao Jiuyue picked up the tea and took a sip. "Let alone the Crown Prince, even an ordinary man, who could stand being cuckolded by his own woman? And being caught red-handed by the guards?"
"Miss, Bai Miaojun didn't reveal her identity, right?" Lianxin was worried.
"No." Xiao Jiuyue answered affirmatively. Donggui told her no, and Jinwen also told her.
At that time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not even give Bai Miaoyun a chance to argue, and directly took Bai Miaoyun's life. She said, "Tell Shang Yifan that we will return to Hongdu tomorrow."
Xiao Jiuyue had heard about the prince's impulsive and irritable personality when she was in Shengjing. When she delivered the medicine, she also deliberately chose the time. However, Bai Miaoyun's luck was really bad.
Perhaps Jun Lie had a hand in this? For example, the prince's guards returned so quickly, even faster than she had expected.
In the evening, the drizzle turned into heavy rain.
Lianxin and Luokui asked worriedly, "Miss, if it keeps raining like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to leave tomorrow."
"We can go back later, but I'm afraid the people living nearby are having a hard time." Xiao Jiuyue frowned. Since arriving in Donglin County, it has rained like a whole month, sometimes heavy, sometimes light, and occasionally cloudy with drizzle.
The autumn harvest is just around the corner. If the rain continues like this, I'm afraid we won't get a single harvest.
There were lightning, thunder and heavy rain all night. Xiao Jiuyue was woken up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall asleep again.
"Oh no, the bridge collapsed."
At the post station, someone was about to leave in the rain, but returned a short while later with a bitter face, saying, "The bridge collapsed, we can't leave."
"Miss, then, do we have to take a detour?" Luo Kui asked worriedly.
"It's okay to take a detour, but I'm afraid that if the rain doesn't stop, we won't be able to move forward." Shang Yifan looked at the heavy rain, which had not stopped since yesterday evening.
"I don't know how long this damn rain will stop."
"The Jinjiang River embankment won't burst, right?"
"That won't work. If the dam breaks, we'll be flooded!"
“…”
Many people were stranded at the post station due to the heavy rain. Hearing this, Xiao Jiuyue turned around and reminded them, "Everyone, pack up your things, especially your dry food. Always carry it with you."
Whether it will flood or not, they have to prepare! !
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