Just as unexpected as Old Lady Ren was Aunt Fang.
"You said the person ran away?" Aunt Fang looked at the old woman who came to Yunyang City to report, and her usually gentle tone rose slightly.
The old woman felt sweat on her forehead for some reason. "Yes, Auntie. We followed your instructions and got her out of the house, but she was too cunning and she finally got away."
Aunt Fang looked at the floating shadows of the trees outside the window with an unfathomable look in her eyes, and no one around her dared to speak easily.
After a while, she let out a very soft sigh: "I was negligent. She is not someone who can be manipulated easily. Let's go and look for her secretly. We must find her before the first wife's men."
Seeing that Aunt Fang did not hold them accountable for their negligence, the maid breathed a sigh of relief and said gratefully, "Yes, yes, yes, I'll go right away."
Seeing the old woman retreat, Aunt Fang's beautiful eyebrows were tightly furrowed.
The Kang family has disappeared! What a bunch of useless losers!
It wasn't that she didn't know how to punish her subordinates, but unlike other legitimate masters, she didn't have many trustworthy people around her, most of whom she had brought from her mother's family. She needed people right now, so it would be better to let them make amends than to punish them one by one.
However, a shadow was still buried in Aunt Fang's heart. She rescued Kang and made her husband the new family, but Kang still chose to escape. This showed that she did not trust her. Who knows what kind of troubles she would cause in the future.
When Xiao Jingxi heard his subordinates report that the dragon heads were missing, he was stunned for a moment, then the corners of his mouth slightly raised with a hint of a smile, but his eyes were still deep and unfathomable.
At this moment, what emerged in his mind was when he got off the big ship and sat in the pleasure boat, Ren Yaoqi looked at the dragon heads in the river with a thoughtful expression.
"It should be the people of the Lei family who did it themselves." Seeing that his master did not continue to ask questions, the servant Tongde reported again dutifully.
Xiao Jingxi raised his eyebrows slightly: "You just want to watch like that?" His tone did not reveal his joy or anger.
Tong De replied meticulously, "Master said before that he would not interfere in these matters. If Master wants to investigate the Lei family, I will send someone to do it right away. I have been secretly monitoring their whereabouts."
Xiao Jingxi tilted his head slightly, sighed, and smiled: "Forget it, let her be."
Tongde could hear the subtle complexity in his master's words and couldn't help but look up, not understanding who the master was referring to as "he". Or was he referring to the Lei family?
"Where is Tongxi?" Without giving Tongde a chance to think about it, Xiao Jingxi asked casually.
Tongde didn't say anything, and Tonghe, who was standing next to him, immediately replied, "Tongxi is cleaning the library. Does the master want to summon him now?" After a pause, Tonghe said carefully, "He has been going to the library quite frequently these days."
Xiao Jingxi raised his eyebrows thoughtfully when he heard this, but didn't say anything.
Tongxi, or rather Dongsheng, was indeed in the library of the outer study of the Yanbei Palace at this time. The library of the Yanbei Palace was very large, with five spacious rooms filled with bookshelves filled with books.
Dongsheng had a feather basket hidden in his clothes at the back of his neck, but he was leaning under a bookshelf in the innermost room, holding a thick book in his hand and flipping through it seriously with a frown on his face.
Although he told Ren Yaoqi that he had not found out anything about the Qu family, Dongsheng was a serious and cautious person. Thinking of Ren Yaoqi's slightly disappointed look at that time, he always felt a little uneasy.
So after returning, he used the excuse of cleaning to go to the library to check the local chronicles of Yanzhou over the past few decades, fearing that he had neglected them the previous times.
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