Chapter 183 Aftermath
Cheng Nianying's gentle words not only shocked Pei Yuanwei, but also shocked Wu Xun.
How can you make such a light talk about collecting corpses? You're not even pretending? Do you still remember what you were like at the Prince's Mansion? Aren't you afraid I'll tell the Prince?
Pei Yuanwei came back to his senses first, his tone still a little dazed: "You deal with it? How...will you deal with it?"
"You need to change your clothes first." Cheng Nianying said.
Pei Yuanwei suddenly realized that she was unusually calm.
Wu Xun looked around and said, "I'm afraid there's nothing to change into here."
Cheng Nianying: "Go get it."
"Me? I..." Wu Xun stuttered, then thought carefully, well, he was the only one suitable to go.
"I wonder which way the door to the Fourth Master's bedroom opens?"
Pei Yuanwei answered instinctively, "Go out of the courtyard and walk to the left. When you reach the Handan Courtyard, it's to the left of the main house."
Wu Xun responded and walked out.
It was a small matter for him to avoid others to pick up a piece of clothing.
The room suddenly became quiet again.
Pei Yuanwei really didn't know what to say for a moment and just stood there stiffly.
Cheng Nianying asked, "How many people did Chu Zhen bring with him?"
Pei Yuanwei pursed his lips and said, "I only brought three people with me: a coachman, a servant, and a maid. It's not a large group."
Cheng Nianying still remembered the grand ceremony when the noble ladies in the imperial capital traveled.
"Is the number of people you brought considered small?"
"It's quite small." Pei Yuanwei responded, "Now that we no longer have the Wuning Marquisate, we'll keep a low profile."
"Could she have come out without telling Marquis Wuning?"
Pei Yuanwei paused and said, "It's possible."
"If that's the case, it will be the easiest way." Cheng Nianying said as she squatted down beside Chu Zhen's body.
She reached out and checked the belongings she had with her.
Seeing that she was organized, Pei Yuanwei gradually regained his composure.
He asked, "Just now you were outside the door..."
"I heard it all." Cheng Nianying said.
Pei Yuanwei sighed unconsciously: "Your mother... doesn't want you to know your shameful background."
"But Chu Zhen told me already."
Pei Yuanwei's brows furrowed again when he heard this, and the anger that had just been surging in his chest surged up again.
"Did she tell you already?"
Cheng Nianying nodded: "She told me not to recognize the Fourth Madam, saying that I would harm her."
"..." Pei Yuanwei clenched his fists, "Chu Zhen deserves to die."
"If Madam Four doesn't want me to know, then I will pretend not to know." Cheng Nianying said again.
Pei Yuanwei was stunned.
Cheng Nianying looked up at him and said, "Just like you, I don't want her to be sad or in pain anymore."
Pei Yuanwei's cheek muscles trembled slightly, he smiled and replied, "Yeah."
At this time, Cheng Nianying held Chu Zhen's hand and examined it carefully.
Pei Yuanwei couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"
He actually didn't understand why the girl had to conduct such a careful examination of Chu Zhen's body.
"She had ink on her hands."
"Um?"
"These two fingers were especially stained, the ink fresh. ... She had just written something, and she was writing in a hurry, so she didn't care to get her hands dirty."
"A letter? She wrote a letter?" Pei Yuanwei asked hesitantly.
Cheng Nianying immediately searched around but did not find any letter.
"What she wrote was taken out."
Pei Yuanwei reacted quickly and said, "Qin Yurong was here before you came."
"Qin Yurong?" Yes, so when Pei Yuanwei saw her appear at the door, the first thing he called out was "Qin Yurong".
"She wrote a letter and asked Qin Yurong to take it out." Cheng Nianying frowned slightly.
"We can't let her go out... I will send someone to chase her immediately." Pei Yuanwei said, and then realized that he couldn't go out in his current state.
I should have known not to use a dagger.
Pei Yuanwei's heart sank.
Cheng Nianying was not panicked: "No hurry, the city gate has just been blocked."
"Um."
Pei Yuanwei finally had time to ask: "Pei Jiata..."
Cheng Nianying did not hide it from him and directly said that she had met Fu Yi, and then let Pei Jia return alone. But she did not expect that something would happen.
"Chu Zhen is not wrong. The people who kidnapped him should have come for me."
Pei Yuanwei fell silent.
After a while, he asked again: "What did Prince Danshuo do to you?"
"Nothing. The one who sent me back was his subordinate."
Pei Yuanwei immediately understood: "The city gates were blocked in order to find Pei Jia? Did Prince Danshuo issue this order?"
"Um."
"Chu Zhen told me about the substitutionary marriage. Did Prince Danshuo get angry with you for it?"
"Well, just sit down and talk, and everything will be fine."
How can such a big thing be resolved by just sitting down and talking it over?
Pei Yuanwei felt a blockage in his throat.
After a moment, he regained his voice, "Why did someone come at you? What did that person want to do? Does it have anything to do with your experiences growing up?"
He paused, "Can you tell me?"
Cheng Nianying didn't intend to tell anyone.
Fu Yi discovered it himself, which is different.
She looked up at Pei Yuanwei, and Pei Yuanwei said, "It's still too difficult to walk alone in this world."
"You heard it all just now. I have already informed the old master. If you stay, you will be the daughter of Chu Lin and me, legitimately and openly."
"Are you hesitating? Is the person coming towards you very troublesome?"
"But I think you don't have to think about it alone. You should speak it out, so that someone else can think about it for you, how difficult it is and how to deal with it."
Cheng Nianying moved her lips, and at this moment the door was pushed open from the outside.
Before Cheng Nianying could jump up, the person who came in quickly said, "It's me."
Wu Xunxuan is here.
Not only did he bring back a set of clothes, he also brought back a basin.
"I think this can be used?" Wu Xun threw the copper basin aside.
Cheng Nianying nodded.
Pei Yuanwei did not delay and immediately changed into new clothes.
Then wash your hands and face and change your shoes.
When he came out from the inner room, Cheng Nianying was wringing out a wet handkerchief.
"You go first, and leave the rest to me."
Pei Yuanwei frowned slightly: "You..."
"Now that the Fourth Master appears in public, people won't be suspicious." Wu Xun smiled.
Pei Yuanwei knew that this was not the time to push and I gave in.
The girl was calm and smart, and she did not become weak just because she found her relatives at this moment.
He wanted to treat her like an adult and believe what she said.
"Okay, I'll go first. We'll talk about the rest later."
Pei Yuanwei thought for a moment and added, "When we meet again, don't call her 'Fourth Madam' anymore. She is your mother."
He paused for a moment, "I am the father."
Cheng Nianying didn't even raise her head and replied muffledly, "Hmm."
The handkerchief in his hand carefully wiped the blood splattered on the shelf beside him.
Only then did Pei Yuanwei step forward with a heavy heart.
Wu Xun stood by and borrowed a copper basin to burn Pei Yuanwei's bloody clothes.
After the burning was finished, he turned around and saw Cheng Nianying carefully cleaning the soil in the flowerpot.
"Is there blood in there?"
"Something splashed in."
"How do you know they're all here?" Wu Xun leaned over and found that it was really hard to distinguish in the brown soil, but there were faint traces on the leaves, which disappeared with a wipe of his bare hands.
Cheng Nianying muttered, "Killing someone head-on, killing someone from behind, using a dagger, using a long knife... I know how the blood will splatter."
Wu Xun was dumbfounded.
So powerful?
No, why did she say that?
Wu Xun touched his chin, his tone not fearful: "You won't kill me too, will you?"
Cheng Nianying handed him the dirty handkerchief and said, "No, you still have to help me carry the body."
“…”
Wu Xun grabbed the handkerchief and turned to wash it: "...How did I end up like this?"
Cheng Nianying didn't realize he was just saying it casually, and thought he was really dissatisfied, so he suddenly said quietly: "Do you know why I want to leave the Prince's Mansion?"
Wu Xun pricked up his ears: "Why?"
"Because after returning from Kuizhou, I found that the Duke of the County was too cunning, and I couldn't stand him." Cheng Nianying paused, "Then do you know why I found the Duke of the County to be so cunning?"
"W-why?"
"Because you said something when you left Kuizhou."
Wu Xun's scalp tingled: "What did I say?"
"You said it was the prince who came up with the idea for the emperor to surrender Kuizhou. When I heard that, it suddenly dawned on me."
Wu Xun was shocked: "So it's... my fault?"
"Yes. Earlier in Weiyang, the prince asked me, but I haven't told him yet."
Wu Xun jumped up and said, "Okay, okay, Miss Jiang, take a rest. I'll clean it up and move the body. I can do it all by myself! Where should we move it to? Do you think... throw it in the well?"
"No, take it out from the dung cart."
Wu Xun showed a disgusted expression: "If Chu Zhen knew that she was taken away like this after her death, she would not be able to rest in peace even after her death."
"Wait, I have something to ask Miss Jiang." Wu Xun smiled politely.
"Um?"
"You were the one who killed that servant from the Prince's Mansion and threw him into the well in Diyue Pavilion, weren't you?"
Cheng Nianying responded: "Ah."
"It's really you!" Wu Xun muttered, "Why didn't you just throw it into the well back then? Why are you still making such a fuss today?"
Cheng Nianying whispered, "How are they the same?"
"You can cause trouble for the Prince's Mansion, but not for the Pei Mansion? You're biased!" Wu Xun pounded his fist. "My master would be sad to hear that."
Cheng Nianying looked at him: "You just said, is it really me? Did the prince suspect me of murder a long time ago?"
Wu Xun quickly shook his head: "No, no, no, no, I won't say anything, I'll go mop the floor now."
He didn't even dare to look at Cheng Nianying again.
While working, he muttered to himself that he could not handle the prince's cunning.
He thought this "Miss Jiang" was very powerful!
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The other side.
The man who had been waiting for Cheng Nianying for a long time looked at the closed city gate and cold sweat slowly flowed down his face.
Can’t get out?
I can’t get out!
He quickly blended into the crowd, walked through the streets and alleys, and finally came to where farmers lived and hid in an abandoned pig shed.
Pei Jia was tied up inside, unharmed, but his face looked really ugly.
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