Chapter 132 Why did he die?
Among the aristocratic families, the Cen family is considered to be extremely well-behaved.
Except for a few elders who were retired in Beijing, most of the younger generation stayed in Weiyang, to show that they had no desire to be proud of their achievements.
This is what Yin Heng said to Cheng Nianying when he mentioned Cen.
Thinking of Yin Heng, she couldn't help but frown again.
"When you see the master later, just call him 'Third Master'." The maid suddenly turned around and instructed.
"Um."
"We're here." The maid pulled her sleeve, "Wait here for the message."
As the maid finished speaking, the door happened to open.
A man who looked like a servant walked out quickly. Cheng Nianying's eyes turned and scanned the man from head to toe. The man was covered in dust and said, "Prepare the horses."
It seems to be the imperial Beijing accent.
The boy left quickly.
Cheng Nianying was not called in.
In a blink of an eye, two middle-aged men came in and walked in. They seemed to be discussing something with Mr. Cen Sanye.
Cheng Nianying pricked up her ears, but the voice of the person inside the door was so low that she couldn't hear clearly. She could only vaguely hear the words "come", "sir", and "good thing".
Cheng Nianying waited outside for who knows how long, her fingertips starting to feel cold. A maidservant sniffed beside her, "I'm afraid it's going to snow today."
As he was speaking, the door opened again.
"Take her back. The Third Master doesn't have time to see her today." The steward of the Cen Mansion came out and said.
Cheng Nianying couldn't help but frown again.
The maid replied "Yes" and asked, "Does the Third Master have any other instructions?"
"Hmm... I heard that she came into the mansion voluntarily?"
"yes."
"Then let's just send them back to where they came from."
The maid was shocked: "This..."
Cheng Nianying also raised her head.
Why? Is it related to their previous conversation?
But the steward was staring at Cheng Nianying's face in a daze.
Cheng Nianying pinched her fingertips gently. Could this person have seen Qin Yurong?
She wasn't nervous.
Although she had been required to bathe and change her clothes before coming here, and had no place to hide her weapons, she still wore the copper hairpin in her hair. It was inconspicuous, but it was very useful.
"Why are you standing outside without moving?" A deep voice sounded from inside the door, followed closely by approaching footsteps.
Mr. Cen San actually walked out by himself.
Cheng Nianying felt regretful.
There are too many people in the yard, so it's inconvenient to take action.
"Third Master." The steward quickly turned around and saluted.
Third Master Cen stopped dead in his tracks, and Cheng Nianying looked directly at him without hesitation. He was wearing black boots and a white shirt, and was probably in his thirties. His features did bear a resemblance to the Empress.
When he saw Cheng Nianying, he paused noticeably.
This guy has also met Qin Yurong? Cheng Nianying didn't show it on his face, but deep down he had already started to murder.
Master Cen Sanye clasped the seal he was playing with in his hand and said, "It's a beauty."
The steward bowed and said, "I was just thinking about that. It's quite different from before."
Cheng Nianying was slightly confused.
Was he stunned because she was pretty?
"Well, she has a certain purity and innocence." Mr. Cen stared at Cheng Nianying for a few more seconds and asked, "What can she do?"
Cheng Nianying said: "I don't know anything."
“…” Master Cen San choked.
The steward said hurriedly, "It's not a big deal. She'll learn it after a while. Master, do you think she'd better learn the piano or chess..."
Mr. Cen waved his hand, thought for a moment, and said, "I think it's better not to learn anything."
The steward was surprised: "This..."
"You can't even embroider?" Mr. Cen San asked Cheng Nianying again.
"Won't."
Mr. Cen Sanye smiled and said, "That's perfect. This is very different from the past. If she knows nothing, she's like a blank sheet of paper. Some men like that, they can write whatever they want on her. If I teach her little by little, wouldn't that be more interesting?"
The manager suddenly understood: "That makes sense!"
"Take her back, and don't let her come to the front these days. Otherwise, she might offend the nobles by mistake."
Cheng Nianying understood.
It turned out that the woman sent to the Cen family was not taken over by the Cen family, but was sent somewhere else.
Then I won’t be able to get close to Mr. Cen San today.
"Let's go." The maid called her.
Third Master Cen stood there and ordered the other servants: "Go clean up Tingxuexuan and go buy some incense."
"Master, I don't know what kind of incense to buy?"
Mr. Cen San thought for a moment and said, "Buddha incense, please."
Cheng Nianying was now certain that the Cen family was having guests, and they were coming from Imperial Capital.
trouble.
She still needs to hide.
After taking Cheng Nianying back, the maid gave her a few more instructions: "You are not allowed to leave this courtyard. Someone will bring you food every day. If you break the rules, there will be punishment waiting for you."
She sneered and closed the door casually.
Cheng Nianying turned around and went out, finding the courtyard where Mr. Cen Sanye had been before. She waited patiently until there was no movement in the house, then she went in under the cover of night and searched.
This place is still far from the strict security of the prefectural government.
Not to mention comparing it with the Prince's Mansion.
Cheng Nianying closed the last box. ...She didn't find the gold headpiece.
She even opened the locked doors, but found nothing except some letters.
Mr. Cen San was quite cautious, having resealed the letter. Opening it would inevitably destroy the seal. Cheng Nianying frowned and put it back for now. "Let's get some glue tomorrow..."
The night grows darker.
The maidservants of the Cen family deliberately ignored the new beauty so that she would know that the rules of the Cen family were strict. So no one came to knock on Cheng Nianying's door again.
Rolling hills.
A slender figure could be vaguely seen passing by.
The moonlight danced as the girl walked in.
Cheng Nianying went down the mountain overnight and climbed over the wall of the county government office.
Everything seemed to have been decided the day before yesterday… Yin Heng's study remained exactly as it had been when Cheng Nianying left. The half-eaten snacks she had bought were still there.
The paper on the table was rolled up, but the person was gone.
"Miss Jiang? Miss Jiang, is that you?" A suppressed and fragmented voice sounded behind Cheng Nianying.
Cheng Nianying turned around and walked towards the lowered curtain. She raised her hand to lift it up, and the servant Yin Ping was huddled behind it.
"Why are you hiding here?"
The servant boy jumped up excitedly, tears streaming down his face. "I, I don't believe the master was frightened to death... I, I'll wait for you here. Miss Jiang, I know you'll come again. I don't dare to trust the commander, so I have no choice but to trust you..."
Cheng Nianying was slightly stunned.
This was different from the feeling when Chu Zhen cried and shouted that the life of the Marquis's Mansion depended on her.
Such trust and reliance made her happier.
She was supposed to just kill people... but she had already saved Wei Yanhua. Now she could save another one, right?
She sat down.
The girl's face was extremely calm: "Shh, speak softly and slowly."
"Yeah, yeah!" The servant boy felt relieved.
It was as if I was back to the night when I escaped from the official post station. The moment I saw the girl, my heart finally settled down.
"After you left, I accompanied Master to get the files. Master was going to take them to visit the local headman... But halfway through, Master suddenly said he remembered he had forgotten something and asked me to wait for him at the door. But I waited and he never came back."
"I knew something was wrong, so I quickly went to find Commander Jiang. We searched everywhere but couldn't find him."
"Until the next morning, the official suddenly came to report that the master had died of fright."
The servant boy's face turned blue with anger. "How could I believe it? They just told me to go back quickly to announce the death and ask the master's family to handle the funeral. Otherwise, they would just bury him casually."
"I won't leave, so I'll just have to hide for now."
"Where is Jiang Tuanlian's envoy?" Cheng Nianying asked.
"He has already left the city to find the commander and report this matter." The servant opened his eyes blankly. "Now, what should we do?"
"Then you go back and report the death."
When the servant heard this, he gritted his teeth and cried again: "Then Weiyang, Weiyang..."
"And me." Cheng Nianying said softly.
The servant boy widened his eyes and wiped the tears from his face: "It's a pity that the master hasn't given you..."
"With me?" Cheng Nianying asked, "What?"
The book boy swallowed his words again, feeling extremely sad. He thought to himself that since the master was gone, what was the point in bringing up all that? This made Miss Jiang feel sad too.
He then said vaguely, "The master said you are very good. If he becomes a high-ranking official in the future, he would like to have you as his female official."
"Female officer?"
"yes."
Cheng Nianying felt a dull pain in her chest.
She doesn't even know how powerful she is.
"You can leave tomorrow."
"Hmm." The servant sniffed.
Cheng Nianying did not leave the county government office immediately, but went to the morgue where the mortuary was kept. Inside, there were three stacked coffins, and beside them were corpses lying flat, wrapped in white cloth.
What others fear is nothing to her.
She peeled them off one by one.
Men, women, old, young... there were eleven bodies in total.
But Yin Heng is not here.
Cheng Nianying remembered that she had forgotten to ask, and she immediately returned to the servant: "Where is the prisoner?"
The servant was stunned: "I, I haven't been able to take care of him these past two days. I have forgotten about him."
"Where was he imprisoned before?"
"I'll take you there!"
Another window was opened silently, and Cheng Nianying climbed in.
The servant stretched his neck and asked softly, "Miss Jiang, how is it?"
"No one is here." Cheng Nianying lit a candle.
The servant boy's eyes widened when he saw this: "Will this be discovered?"
Cheng Nianying said indifferently, "Anyway, they also said that the county government office was haunted, right?"
Bookboy: "...That makes sense."
He hurriedly followed in.
He wasn't very skillful when climbing through the window, and he fell. When he got up, he couldn't help but admire Miss Jiang's prowess. "I wish Miss Jiang had stayed with the adults earlier." The servant lowered his head sadly.
At this time, the girl's voice was heard: "There is blood on the ground."
The servant boy was alert: "Where?"
He leaned forward to look.
really.
The gaps between the floor tiles, the bed curtains... were all covered in blood.
The servant boy felt a pain in his chest: "So that's how it is! This thief must have killed the master! If I had known this, I shouldn't have spared his life..."
Cheng Nianying thought seriously for a moment and said, "Not necessarily."
"But this blood..."
"He came here to kill Yin Heng from the beginning. If he had succeeded, why would he have taken the body with him?"
"A body? Not in the morgue?"
"It's not there. I'll go check them out."
The servant was stunned: "He's not here, he's not here? What's going on..."
"We need to think about this slowly."
"Um."
"I should leave now." Cheng Nianying thought about it and added, "Go back and report the death. Be careful."
The servant said in a sad tone: "Well, Miss Jiang, thank you very much, thank you very much..."
Cheng Nianying left the county government office.
The servant boy said to himself, "I can't let anyone cheat me on this trip." He muttered and couldn't help covering his face and crying again.
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