Chapter 131: Like Provoking an Evil Spirit
The people were still whispering, and no one paid attention to Cheng Nianying.
The sun was out in Weiyang today. Cheng Nianying clenched her fingertips but didn't feel warm. She rolled her eyes slowly and asked, "Is this place haunted?"
The officers looked at each other and laughed: "Yes, are you afraid?"
Cheng Nianying said softly, "What's so scary about that?"
Yin Heng should think so too.
He shouldn't be scared to death.
Where had Jiang Tuanlianshi gone? And where was the servant Yin Ping? And that captive...
She never likes to meddle in other people's business.
But this is no longer a trivial matter.
"Young lady, don't talk big." The officer sneered at the opposite side.
"What does the ghost in the county government office look like?"
The officer heard her question seriously, turned around and met her gaze. He shuddered for no apparent reason, then burst into laughter. "Why? Are you still going to catch ghosts?"
Cheng Nianying saw that they were timid but weak inside, and also saw that they were unwilling to tell the truth.
She changed the subject and asked, "Are you going to take me to the Cen family?"
The officer looked at her suspiciously, then scoffed, "You know this? But I'm taking you to see the county lieutenant."
Cheng Nianying stepped on the carriage and asked, "Do you always do things like this?"
The officer's face was frozen, and he felt her behavior was even more strange. He asked, "What's the matter?"
"Giving women away to other people."
"You..." The officer twisted his neck. How could she say such words so freely? If a normal woman knew about this, wouldn't she cry out? Could imprisonment really make someone obedient?
"You said it yourself that day, saying who you would dedicate me to." Cheng Nianying sat down and looked back at them.
The officer twitched his lips and said, "Well, yes, how is it?"
"Then I don't need to see any county lieutenant. Just send me to the Cen family directly." Cheng Nianying thought for a moment and said, "If you want to climb up the ladder of success, you should climb up to a higher level."
The officer's doubts vanished, and he couldn't help but burst out laughing: "You, you...you young lady...you are actually ambitious."
Cheng Nianying said: "I just want my things back."
The officer's mouth twitched again: "You're not thinking that once you get close to the young master of the Cen family, you can get your things back, right?"
Cheng Nianying: "Yeah."
The officer secretly laughed at her naiveté, but seeing her innocent words and surprisingly sensible demeanor, he also became interested and said to her, "Regarding the rules, we should send you to see the county lieutenant first. The county lieutenant will see your appearance and, if he is satisfied, he will send you to the Cen family."
"It wouldn't be a problem to send you there directly now, but I don't know what benefits you will share with us brothers in the future."
"As long as you take back my belongings, I will naturally give you some good things."
"Oh, let's go." The officer didn't want to get anything from her. He just thought it would be a good thing if he could get directly connected to the Cen family.
This young lady is quite interesting. Maybe Mr. Cen will really like her the first time he sees her.
The old house of the Cen family is located in the mountains. The green hills are majestic and this house is built in the same place with them, but it does not lose its majesty.
The officer knocked on the door, and soon someone stuck his head out and asked, "Who is it?"
"Delivering goods," the officer replied.
"It shouldn't be today." The doorman frowned.
"I got a good deal unexpectedly."
"Oh?" "Wait, I'll go and report it."
The doorman returned shortly after leaving, and Cheng Nianying also got out of the carriage. The doorman was startled when he saw her.
It doesn't look like it can be grown in Weiyang's soil and water.
"Stranger?" asked the doorman.
"yes."
"Then around her..."
"She has no relatives, not even a maid or servant." This means that the girl has no background and there is no need to worry about anything else.
The doorman nodded, and then asked the maid to lead Cheng Nianying in. But he stayed at the door and continued to talk with several officials.
The Cen family's house was very well built, even better than the original Kuizhou prefectural mansion.
"You stay here first. The master doesn't have time to see you for the time being." The maid opened a door and let Cheng Nianying in. "Someone will come to take you to change clothes in the evening."
Cheng Nianying didn't care when to see her, as long as she stepped in, it would be fine.
The Prince's Mansion had its own troops, and even though the Cen family was a royal relative, they did not have the right to raise private troops.
No matter how high the wall was built here, it would not be as troublesome for her as the Prince's Mansion.
A thought flashed through Cheng Nianying's mind, but she saw that the maid did not leave immediately.
The maid looked at her in surprise.
Cheng Nianying met her gaze and asked directly, "Why are you looking at me?"
"You seem to be very relaxed." The maid curled her lips, slammed the door shut and left.
When the sound became farther and farther away, Cheng Nianying propped up the window, turned over and walked out, and walked forward along the way she came...
Several officials were already on their way down the mountain, shaking a few pieces of silver in their hands, with happy expressions on their faces: "The Cen family is really generous."
"The concierge also said that if there are any new things, they can be sent here later. There is no need to go through the county lieutenant."
"The county lieutenant secretly detained two people earlier. I think this has caused displeasure for the Cen family."
As they were talking, they suddenly heard footsteps approaching and turned around.
I saw Cheng Nianying standing there alive.
"Why are you..." The officer looked stunned.
"Were you kicked out?" they asked.
"It shouldn't be."
Cheng Nianying took two steps closer and reached out to touch the sword at the officer's waist.
The faint fragrance of the girl entered the officer's nose, and before the officer could think of anything else, he only heard a "swish" sound.
Cheng Nianying drew his sword and slashed the man's neck, almost in one go, without a single pause.
They didn't even realize what was happening before they saw their companion fall down, sending dirt flying everywhere.
“You, you…”
Cheng Nianying said softly, "I asked you before, do you do this often?"
Her voice still revealed a sweet and innocent tone.
But the remaining three officials got goosebumps.
Two of them instinctively turned and tried to run, but one still had some courage and shouted angrily, "How dare you fight us? We are many! Come on, brothers!"
He rushed forward two steps, but found no sound behind him.
When he turned around, he was immediately furious: "Why are you running?"
Cheng Nianying gripped the hilt of the knife and swung it hard, the blade striking a fleeing man. The man stumbled, fell to his knees, and lay motionless. It was unclear whether he was dead or simply feigning death out of fear.
The rest of them were like seeing a ghost, squeezing out a scream from their throats: "Who, who are you?"
Cheng Nianying was not in a hurry. She bent down first, picked up the change from the fallen official's hand, and put it into her own purse.
The living official: "..."
Cheng Nianying then took the other person's badge and searched all his pockets.
Seeing her move, the other two wanted to take the opportunity to run away, but thinking of the knife she had just thrown, their legs felt like they were filled with lead and they couldn't move at all.
I could only wait quietly for her to reach into her pocket while tremblingly asking, "What do you want to do?"
"Everything can be discussed."
"The Cen family isn't far away. You... you don't want them to find out what's going on here, right? The Cen family has a lot of servants."
Their words became more urgent than the last, with knives in their hands and backs against each other, and only then did I feel a little relieved.
Cheng Nianying finally finished searching her pockets, stood up, and opened her hands to them: "And yours."
"W-what?"
"The reward you just received."
“…”
The two officials gnashed their teeth and were speechless.
But what can they do?
This girl acted too quickly... and her origins were unclear. They couldn't die here.
"Here, here." They threw it to Cheng Nianying's feet tremblingly.
Cheng Nianying stepped forward and took another step forward.
"Why are you doing this? If the Cen family likes you, you will have so much wealth and glory. Why, why do you have to rob us here?"
"I originally just wanted to be an ordinary person." Cheng Nianying looked at them seriously, "It was you who told me not to do it first."
The officer got even more goosebumps when he heard this.
This, these words.
ha.
It's as if they accidentally provoked an evil ghost?
"How did the new county magistrate die?" Cheng Nianying asked.
"Didn't I tell you that he was scared to death by a ghost..."
"Then summon the ghosts to me and let me see. If you can't..." Cheng Nianying said softly, "I will have no choice but to turn you into ghosts."
Cheng Nianying walked closer and pulled the knife from another fallen official.
"We, we really don't know... Ahhh! Wait! Maybe, maybe he discovered something he shouldn't have, that's why he was killed."
"Killed? Wasn't he scared to death by a ghost?"
"Listen to me, I can tell you where the new county magistrate went and who he met in the past two days. I can't explain anything else."
"Oh, go ahead."
…
The old house of the Cen family.
The maid pushed open the door and saw the girl who had come during the day still sitting on the stool, as if she had been sitting there for a long time.
The maid chuckled: "He is quite obedient."
"Come on, I'll take you to take a shower and change your clothes."
Cheng Nianying pressed the bulging pouch at her waist, feeling a little better. She slowly followed the maid's steps.
"What's that got on you?" The maid grabbed her sleeve.
Cheng Nianying: "I don't know either."
Like blood. The maid muttered secretly and withdrew her hand: "The master will see you later, wash yourself."
Cheng Nianying rubbed the blood that hadn't been wiped off her fingertips on the edge of her skirt: "Hmm."
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