Chapter 16 You’d better hurry up and don’t let me catch you!
Once the Gu family reveals their true colors, there is a chance that they will be discovered by the people in the house-raiding team.
Upon hearing this, Madam Gu remained silent, while her sister-in-law Zhou Furong comforted her softly.
"Mother-in-law, it will be fine. Sixth brother will definitely be fine!"
"Yes, mother-in-law, God is watching what the dog emperor does. We must cheer up first!"
Several sisters-in-law were comforting Old Madam Gu. Ran Qingxuan felt sorry for her but didn't dare to say much.
The atmosphere was depressed for a while. Old Madam Gu wiped her face, forced a smile and invited the people at the table to eat.
"Yan Chen will be fine, and the Gu family will be fine, too. It will be fine!"
I muttered a few words to myself, to comfort everyone and myself.
Old Madam Gu was the first to pick up her chopsticks, and the other sisters-in-law followed suit and picked up the vegetable porridge in front of them and started eating with the side dishes. However, they were worried about something and had no taste for the food.
Due to the habit formed in the previous life, Ran Qingxuan's bowl was empty when the others at the table had only eaten half of their food.
But it just so happened that she was going to take this opportunity to bring some breakfast to Gu Yanchen.
The main hall was so quiet that only the sound of dishes and chopsticks colliding could be heard. After taking a quick look around, Ran Qingxuan remembered that most of the servants in the Gu Mansion had been dismissed.
Zhou Furong, the eldest sister-in-law who was sitting next to Ran Qingxuan, noticed that she was looking around and the bowl next to her was empty, so she thought she wanted to have another bowl.
But when Zhou Furong looked up, a hint of doubt appeared on her face.
"Sister-in-law, have you always been served by two maids?"
"Breakfast is simple. The two maids waited for the maids who had finished their meal to come and serve them before leaving."
Ran Qingxuan frowned, and after thinking of something, he stood up suddenly, which immediately scared everyone at the table.
"Ran, what's going on?"
Ran Qingxuan's expression was too serious, and the people at the table thought someone was coming to confiscate the property, and they all became nervous.
"Mother-in-law, where are Madam Xue and Madam Xu?"
"Madame Xue prepared dinner early in the morning, so she should be here soon. Madame Xu... was just here..."
"broken!"
Ran Qingxuan said this and ran towards the backyard. Before everyone knew what was going on, they all put down their half-eaten bowls and chopsticks and followed him.
When Ran Qingxuan ran to the kitchen door, he saw Nanny Xue lying in a pool of blood. He squatted down and took her pulse and found that she was no longer breathing, but her body was still limp.
After a careful examination, Ran Qingxuan found a fatal wound on Nanny Xue's back.
Although the knife was stabbed into the heart, the technique was not very skillful, and there were even messy extraction wounds around the wound, which showed that the murderer was in a hurry when he killed.
"Ah...don't come over here yet."
The second sister-in-law Chang Yue'e, who also walked quickly, followed soon after. After seeing the scene, she immediately turned around and signaled to the eldest sister-in-law Zhou Furong to stop the man.
But it was too late, Old Madam Gu had already seen the feet exposed at the door.
"What's wrong, Madam Xue...what...what..."
The third sister-in-law Chen Wan'er hurriedly supported the person, her face also pale and she did not dare to step forward.
Ran Qingxuan stood up and looked around but did not see Nanny Xu, and alarm bells immediately went off in his heart.
"Sisters-in-law, when did the fourth and fifth sisters-in-law leave?"
"In order to avoid being discovered, the fourth and fifth sisters-in-law took Xuan'er and left at Yinshi. Now I guess... they should have left the city!"
The second sister-in-law, Chang Yue'e, was from a family of military generals. She was calmer than the other two sisters-in-law about the situation, but she still trembled a little when she spoke.
After hearing this, Ran Qingxuan's heart tightened. Recalling the strangeness he had just noticed, he suddenly felt that things were not simple.
The faint smell of blood on Nanny Xu's body might have come from Nanny Xue!
"Sister-in-law, please take my mother-in-law back to her room first. I'll be back soon!" After saying that, she quickly walked towards the small door in the backyard.
Ran Qingxuan knew that if a person wanted to escape, he would definitely not go out through the main gate openly. In addition, the body of Nanny Xue was not yet completely cold, which proved that she had been dead for not long.
Calculating the time it took Aunt Xu to invite her to the front hall for dinner, it was only about ten minutes. An elderly person could not walk far.
Seeing that Nanny Xue's body was still in the kitchen, everyone was so panicked that they didn't even bother to find someone to deal with it. The eldest sister-in-law Zhou Furong made a prompt decision and took Madam Gu back.
When Ran Qingxuan chased to the small door in the backyard, he saw that the door was ajar.
Going out of the back door of the Gu Mansion, there were more forks in the road. Ran Qingxuan stood at the fork in the road and thought for a while, and took out the drone from the space before it was fully light.
Connect a micro camera and control the drone to fly into the sky.
The slight roar of the propeller attracted one person's attention, but Ran Qingxuan did not notice it. Instead, he stared at the screen on the joystick intently.
Soon, Ran Qingxuan saw a figure staggering through an alley in the images sent back by the drone.
"You'd better hurry up and don't let me catch you!"
After determining the direction, Ran Qingxuan walked and stopped along the way, occasionally looking down at the images sent back by the drone.
After walking quickly for about ten minutes, Ran Qingxuan finally saw the breathless Aunt Xu in a quiet alley.
There was no time to retract the drone, so Ran Qingxuan temporarily pulled it up and made it hover in the air. When she retracted the control handle into space, she took out a sharp dagger from it.
The moment he picked up the dagger, Ran Qingxuan seemed like a different person.
Putting away his occasional frivolity and aggressiveness, with sharp eyes, Ran Qingxuan fixed his eyes on the person in front of him, his whole body exuding a murderous aura.
The people following behind stared at the person being treated with sharp eyes.
Aunt Xu's heart was pounding like a drum. She was walking while holding onto the wall when she suddenly felt a chill on her back.
The moment she turned around, her eyes blurred and a shiny knife was pressed against her neck. The cold touch made her shiver. When she saw who was in front of her, her expression froze instantly.
Pulling the corner of her mouth, Nanny Xu said unnaturally.
"Princess...Princess, why are you here?"
Ran Qingxuan had a cold face and replied faintly, "Madame Xu is here, why can't I be here?"
Aunt Xu smiled awkwardly.
"That's a coincidence..."
"Is it a coincidence?" Ran Qingxuan raised his eyebrows, then slowly approached Aunt Xu's ear and uttered a few words slowly like a devil's whisper.
"Madam Xu, what does it feel like to kill someone?"
"ah..."
Nanny Xu had never experienced such a scene before. She was so frightened that her whole body trembled, and the sharp dagger left a bloody mark on her neck.
"Please spare me, Princess, please spare me..."
Ran Qingxuan ignored her pleas for mercy, stared into her eyes and said to himself: "Give me a reason to spare you!"
Nanny Xu frantically swallowed the saliva secreted out of fear. Ran Qingxuan's expression was too calm, as if there was no difference between life and death in her eyes.
The powerful aura broke down Aunt Xu's defense. She knew that Ran Qingxuan already knew everything.
"Someone paid me to keep an eye on the prince's every move, and before the wedding, I was told to report any unusual movements."
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