Chapter 1878 Snowman's Face
She suddenly asked, "Then, where is the messenger?"
Speaking of this, Nan Yan's face darkened slightly, and she seemed to be more angry than when she talked about this matter before, when she talked about Gu Yiyou and Tong Sinian.
However, she did not show her anger.
He only said in a deep voice: "The messenger sent by the emperor is called Wei Liang."
Ran Xiaoyu immediately remembered: "It was the one who a few days ago, the entire Duwei Mansion and Shazhou Wei Tian turned upside down to look for him."
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Nan Yan said, "The Emperor told me about this guy. When he was still the Prince of Yan in Peking, Wei Liang was a guard who followed him. Later, he was injured and could not be treated, so he castrated himself and became a eunuch."
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"Although he can no longer serve in the army, this man has an upright character and knows a bit of fighting."
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"It's very difficult for ordinary people to take him down."
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"More importantly, the emperor knows this person inside and out. He knows that Wei Liang would never do anything like changing his imperial edict, let alone disappear without a trace."
When Ran Xiaoyu heard this, her face suddenly turned pale.
He said, "Your Majesty means that the Duke and his men replaced him with someone else to deliver the letter in order to frame the two young masters. And this Wei Liang—I'm afraid he has been killed."
Nan Yan said: "It's not just fear."
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“He has been killed.”
"How can you be sure, Madam? Didn't you look for him everywhere a few days ago and couldn't find him?"
Nan Yan was silent for a moment before she said, "I've found it."
Ran Xiaoyu looked at her with wide eyes: "What? Found it?"
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"When was it found? How come this servant didn't know?"
Nan Yan glanced at her and said, "Do you remember that on our way back from Bailong City, the Emperor slowed down his pace and camped in the wilderness for a night."
Ran Xiaoyu immediately said, "Of course I remember."
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"Originally, we were supposed to return to Shazhou Guard that evening. I heard that Yang Dai and the others were still waiting for the emperor, but because we camped in the wilderness overnight, they also waited all night, and only received the emperor the next morning. I even heard a few complaints from the people below."
Nan Yan asked, "You didn't quarrel with anyone, did you?"
Ran Xiaoyu rolled her eyes at her. "Originally, the Emperor was worried that the fast journey would affect the fetus in your womb, so he ordered us to slow down and rest for a night on the road. I'm too lazy to argue with them about such a trivial matter."
Nan Yan smiled and said, "That's it."
Ran Xiaoyu continued, "The Queen hasn't told you yet, how did you know for sure that Wei Liang was killed?"
Nan Yan sighed and said, "In fact, the entire Shazhou Guard has searched for Wei Liang but to no avail. I, and the Emperor, both suspect he was murdered. However, disposing of the body is a problem."
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"Shazhouwei is not that big, and it's a military settlement. Unlike ordinary towns, it's not easy to dispose of the body. If you want to dispose of the body outside, the Duwei Mansion often sends soldiers to patrol outside, and it will be easy to be discovered."
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"But that day, we found his body."
Ran Xiaoyu opened her eyes wide: "How did you find it? I have been following the Majesty all the time, how come I didn't see it?"
Nan Yan said, "You have been following me all along, but that evening, the Emperor took me to play on the icy lake and left you all behind, so you didn't go with me."
Ran Xiaoyu then remembered.
That day they were returning to Shazhouwei from Bailong City. It was evening and the sun had not yet set, but Zhu Feng did not want to speed up the journey as the bumpy ride would make Nan Yan uncomfortable, so he asked them to set up camp on the spot to rest. After the two of them drank some hot soup, they were full of interest and thought about going boating on an icy lake not far ahead.
Moreover, they are not allowed to follow.
But later, when they came back, they did not look as happy as they did after boating on the lake. Instead, the atmosphere seemed a bit depressing. If it weren't for the fact that they were still getting along well, Ran Xiaoyu would have worried that they had quarreled again.
Ran Xiaoyu asked hurriedly: "What about his body——"
Nan Yan took a deep breath and said, "That icy lake, actually, the emperor took me there once before, and we built a snowman there and pushed it all the way to the center of the lake."
"So what?"
"But that day, we found two snowmen on the frozen lake."
"Two snowmen?"
Ran Xiaoyu looked at her in astonishment. In such a wasteland, the bad weather could be fatal. Everyone wanted to leave this damn place as soon as possible. Who would have the leisure time to build a snowman on the icy lake?
There were only the two of them.
But, they found another snowman.
Speaking of this, Nan Yan's face turned pale, because she also recalled that time when the setting sun was like blood, shining on the ice lake. In a trance, the blood color covered the entire ice surface, as if the ice lake had become a blood lake.
On the blood lake, two snowmen stood there quietly.
Nan Yan was a little curious at the time and asked with a smile, "Who came here and built a snowman again?"
As he said that, he wanted to go over and find out what was going on.
But Zhu Feng obviously noticed something strange. He stopped her, picked up a ball of snow from the ground, rolled it into a snowball, and threw it at the new snowman.
A piece of snow fell off the snowman's head.
Inside, a gray, dead face was revealed.
Wei Liang’s face!
At that moment, Nan Yan's heartbeat almost stopped, and she could hardly hold back from screaming, but Zhu Feng turned around and hugged her in his arms.
Even though his embrace was so warm and his arms were so strong.
But Nan Yan still couldn't stop trembling.
She was really scared.
That night, after spending a hasty night in the wilderness, they returned to Shazhouwei the next day. However, both of them tacitly agreed not to tell anyone about this matter. After all, they didn't want to alert the enemy.
When she finished saying this, she looked up at Ran Xiaoyu, only to see that she also shuddered.
I didn't expect it to be so terrifying.
She said: "Those people are so hateful!"
Nan Yan said: "Not only hateful, but also smart."
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"Wei Liang's body is difficult to dispose of. Put him on the frozen lake and make a snowman. When the weather warms up and the snow melts, the ice will naturally become thinner. Before the snow melts completely, the weight of the body will break through the ice and sink to the bottom of the lake. By then, no one will have discovered what happened."
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"And all this,"
She spoke with a somewhat desolate tone: "These are just our guesses, but if we present them in court, they won't be enough to convince others. Duke Cheng and the others won't admit it either."
Ran Xiaoyu couldn't help but gritted her teeth and clenched her fists: "Damn it!"
"Just bear with it,"
Nan Yan sighed softly and said, "Even the emperor has to endure it."
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