Within just three days, the entire capital knew that Marquis Wu Ding's wife was missing.
Now the streets and alleys are covered with Rong Xi's portraits, and the high reward on them has attracted many people's attention.
Xiao Qingze had been looking for people like crazy for the past three days. When he saw someone who looked a little bit like Rong Xi, he wondered if Rong Xi had changed his appearance.
That day, Old Madam Xiao came to his room again and smelled a strong smell of alcohol as soon as she entered the room.
Looking at the dozen or so empty wine bottles on the ground, you can tell how much Xiao Qingze had drunk.
In fact, she still doesn't understand why Rong Xi left. He clearly came to her room to pay his respects that day.
I asked Ze Ge'er several times but he still couldn't explain it clearly.
"Ze'er, cheer up. The entire Wuding Marquisate is relying on you now. You can't just disappear like this."
"Grandma, will Xier never see me again?"
Old Madam Xiao sat down. Since he brought it up today, she wanted to ask him what happened between him and Rong Xi.
"Ze'er, tell grandma the truth. What happened between you and Rong Xi? Why did she leave so suddenly? This child is definitely not an impulsive person."
When Xiao Qingze heard this, he held his head as if he was deeply shocked, and spoke after a while.
"Grandma, Xier is pregnant."
"What! You're pregnant? Didn't the doctor say you..."
"Yes, that night she suddenly vomited in front of me. I thought she disliked me, but she told me she was pregnant. I didn't believe it was my child, so I strangled her and almost... almost hurt her."
He looked at his hands and wished he could chop them off.
Madam Xiao's mind was in a mess after hearing this.
"So is the baby in her belly yours?"
"Grandma, I don't know. After I regained consciousness, I told her that no matter whose child she was carrying, I would treat it as my own. But she told me that she regretted saving me."
"What do you mean, she woke you up? What's going on here?"
Old Madam Xiao felt as if some mystery was about to be solved.
Jiang Rongxi once told her with great certainty that Ze Ge'er would wake up, and now she is repeating it over and over in her mind.
"It wasn't some miracle doctor who saved me. It was Rong Xi who helped me recover from the beginning to the end. She gave me acupuncture and medicine and helped me recover."
Only then did Old Lady Xiao understand why Rong Xi always acted as if Ze Ge'er would definitely wake up. It turned out that she was treating Ze Ge'er.
"You beast, Rong Xi has such high medical skills, the child might be yours. Even if it's not yours, so what? You can't give birth, so at least the child is Rong Xi's, you..."
When Old Madam Xiao said this, she was shocked by herself. How could she have such an idea?
But this is indeed what I mean in the deepest part of my heart.
"She is a great benefactor to our Marquisate. I tell you, hurry up and find my granddaughter-in-law for me, or you won't recognize me as your grandmother anymore."
After the old lady finished speaking, she flicked her sleeves and left, leaving Xiao Qingze sitting there alone with a dejected look on his face.
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The news of his wife's disappearance is no longer a secret in Kyoto.
The emperor summoned him to the palace several times for this reason, originally thinking that after he recovered, he would send him to the border to garrison and deal with the unrest.
But how could he feel at ease when he was like this?
He had hinted several times, both explicitly and covertly, about the 200,000 troops in his hands, but he had no intention of handing them over.
Instead, he just kept looking for people every day, and he almost turned the whole Kyoto upside down.
The voices in the court were quite loud, and every day the court became a place specifically for impeaching him.
That day, when he came back from visiting Rong Xi, he saw Yuan Qianxue coming to his house again.
He still ignored her and prepared to go back to his and Rong Xi's yard.
Just after taking a few steps, Yuan Qianxue called him, "My Lord, I have something to tell you."
Xiao Qingze didn't want to listen at all and had no intention of staying.
Seeing this, Yuan Qianxue could only use her trump card and shouted to Xiao Qingze, "I know where Madam Xiao is."
Xiao Qingze, who was about to leave, suddenly stopped and looked at Yuan Qianxue fiercely, "Tell me, where is she?"
"I know the Marquis is very worried about the Madam. I know where she is, but I have a condition."
Xiao Qingze endured his impatience and asked, "What are the conditions?"
Yuan Qianxue held the handkerchief tightly in her hand and mustered up the courage to state her conditions.
"I want the Marquis to marry me."
"You want to die?"
Yuan Qianxue had never seen such a terrifying murderous look in Xiao Qingze's eyes. She actually regretted making this condition, but since she had already made it, she had to know the result.
"I met Madam Xiao not long ago. If the Marquis agrees to marry me, I will tell you where Madam Xiao is."
When Xiao Qingze heard this, he actually laughed. He was really happy. Yuan Qianxue had met Xier, which meant that Xier was still in Kyoto.
Yuan Qianxue felt much more relieved when she saw him smile.
Xiao Qingze took a step closer to her and whispered in her ear, "Even if I don't marry you, I have a hundred ways to make you tell me Xier's whereabouts."
"What are you going to do?"
"I'm giving you a chance to tell me Xi'er's whereabouts, or my sword will be stained with blood today."
"You, you don't dare. No one knows where she is except me."
"Then you try." He then said to Fu Qi, "Take the man away and keep him under guard."
Yuan Qianxue was so frightened by Fu Qi's ferocious look that her legs went limp, and she told the truth.
A few days ago, she went shopping and saw Jiang Rongxi in a clothing store. Although she was wearing a hat, she had seen the two maids beside her.
After hearing this, Xiao Qingze took his people to the clothing store.
Although I couldn't find out where Rong Xi lived, I knew that she bought clothes for a seven or eight-year-old child here, and also bought a few clothes for Jiang's mother to wear at that age.
From that day on, he stayed by Jiang Mu's small courtyard every day, and he didn't see anyone for more than twenty days.
He began to wonder if he had made a mistake.
"Xi'er, where are you?"
The system looked at Xiao Qingze's decadent appearance, and then looked at Rong Xi who was lazy and just basking in the sun all day, and felt that he really couldn't lead Rong Xi.
[Rong Xi, are you really not going to give the target of your mission a chance? I think he really knows he's wrong. He's been looking for you like crazy lately.]
Rong Xi turned over in annoyance. It had been nearly two months since she left the Wuding Marquis Mansion, and the system still hadn't given up.
Moreover, she had severe morning sickness during this pregnancy, and she was woken up by him just when she finally felt comfortable enough to sleep.
"You've forgotten how he wanted to kill me. If it weren't for his pity, I would have to forgive him."
[But he is the child's father. In this era, it will be very difficult for children to be born without a father.]
"So I have to let Xiao Qingze kill me again for the sake of my child? I'm not a cat demon now. I only have one life."
The system could not refute it. This was a thorn in Rong Xi's heart that he could not pull out.
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