Chapter 433 I'm Alone Here
Xingxing returned to the courtyard with a slightly frowned brow.
Fan Pingfang had already skillfully coaxed Ling Jie'er, and Hao Ge'er was also held in An Ningxin's arms and patted gently, and he no longer cried loudly.
Hao Ge'er put his hands around An Ningxin's neck and sobbed, "Mom, I really heard the voice of my sister calling me brother just now..."
An Ningxin had a gloomy expression. She stroked Hao'er's back and comforted him softly, thinking that Hao'er missed his sister too much and was hallucinating.
Hao Ge'er was very persistent and even a little anxious, grabbing his mother's clothes and not letting go: "Mom, I really heard it! Really!"
Haoge cried for a long time before he fell asleep in a daze. Xingxing called An Ningxin and Fan Pingfang together and told them what she had discovered outside the door.
An Ningxin's first reaction was to cover her mouth excitedly: "...You mean, Hao Ge'er didn't hear it wrong, it was really Cheng Jie'er who called Hao Ge'er?... Cheng Jie'er was here? Is she okay?!"
Having said that, An Ningxin excitedly wanted to run out to find Cheng Jie'er.
Xing Xing and Fan Ping Fang each held An Ning Xin and said, "Don't get excited."
Xing Xing quickly shared her guess with An Ningxin: "...From what has been said above, it is clear that someone has held Xiao Ancheng hostage for some purpose. When Xiao Ancheng wanted to call out Hao Ge'er, someone covered Xiao Ancheng's mouth and took him away."
When An Ningxin thought of that scene, she felt as if her heart and lungs were broken.
She trembled and said, "...If, if it is really that bandit...He, he kidnapped Sister Cheng, he must want to take revenge on me..."
An Ningxin's tears flowed more and more violently. She rushed out of the yard and shouted towards the gray sky: "Second Master! If you want to seek revenge on me, come after me!... Cheng Jie'er is still so young, let her go, then come after me!"
An Ningxin collapsed and fell to the ground in the yard, crying bitterly.
Fan Pingfang and Xingxing helped An Ningxin, who was on the verge of emotional collapse, back into the house.
No matter how independent Fan Pingfang was, she had never encountered such a situation.
She frowned and whispered to Xing Xing: "What should we do?... Shuntian Prefecture has been talking about suppressing bandits, but there has been no results."
Xing Xing put her hands on the edge of the table and made a decision: "...From today on, I will go to the escort agency to hire a few escorts. I will have them split into two shifts to guard this small courtyard. If the bandits come again, we will try to fight them for a while and wait for their support..."
Xing Xing paused for a moment and said to Fan Pingfang, "Sister Fan, if this courtyard is really targeted by bandits, it will be very dangerous. You and Sister Ling..."
Before Xing Xing finished her words, Fan Pingfang shook her head and said, "I'm afraid that bandit doesn't dare to start a big fight. Otherwise, there are only women and children in our courtyard. If he wanted to kill people, he would have done it long ago."
That is indeed true.
"But..." Fan Pingfang hesitated, but she still didn't dare to gamble with Ling Jie'er's life. "Can you let Ling Jie'er come to your house and play for a few days these days?"
An Ningxin suddenly walked up to Xingxing and knelt down, saying in a hoarse voice: "Miss Xingxing, ever since we met, you have saved me again and again... I shamelessly ask you to help me one last time. Hao'er is innocent in this matter. Can you take Miss Fan, Sister Ling, and Hao'er to stay at your house for a few days? The bandit's target is me, so I'm fine here alone."
Xing Xing went to pull An Ningxin: "Madam An, you don't have to do this..."
An Ningxin kowtowed to Xingxing several times.
Xingxing saw An Ningxin's determination. She paused for a moment, but still responded solemnly.
Fan Pingfang could only sigh deeply.
This is settled for now.
That night, Fan Pingfang brought Lingjie'er, Haoge'er and Xingxing back to the Zhenxi General's Mansion and stayed in Xingxing's courtyard.
Xingxing also found people from the escort agency, and divided them into two shifts, day and night, to secretly guard the courtyard.
The next day was the seventh day of the first lunar month.
After Xingxing explained everything to Mrs. Wei, she changed into plain clothes and prepared to accompany Cen Yueyi to the outside of the city to pay homage to Cen Yueyi's biological mother.
When they met outside the city, Cen Yueyi's eyes were red, obviously she had been crying.
Xing Xing glanced at the convoy behind Cen Yueyi's carriage. The sacrificial offerings prepared by the Jiang Taihou Mansion were simple, even crude - just some gold and silver ingots wrapped in paper, some paper utensils and the like. Apart from that, the Jiang Taihou did not show up.
Xing Xing pursed her lips and handed some of the things she had prepared for the memorial service to Cen Yueyi's maids, asking them to put the candles, paper money and the sacrificial offerings she had prepared together with the sacrificial offerings prepared by the Jiang Taihou Mansion.
"Nothing." Perhaps she saw how sad Xing Xing was, so Cen Yueyi spoke to comfort her. However, as soon as Cen Yueyi opened her mouth, her hoarse voice completely revealed her feelings.
Xingxing climbed onto Cen Yueyi's carriage to accompany her.
Xing Xing patted her own shoulders and said, "Sister Cen, if you are sad, just lean on me."
Cen Yueyi smiled appropriately and dignifiedly as usual.
However, Xingxing's eyes, as pure as black glass, were always looking at her quietly. Cen Yueyi pursed her lips and slowly, slowly leaned on Xingxing's shoulder.
The carriage was quiet except for the sound of the driver whipping the carriage.
Perhaps God also felt Cen Yueyi's sadness, and the sky gradually darkened.
The sky was foggy and it looked like it was going to snow again.
The tomb of the wife of the former Marquis Jiang Tai is in the ancestral tomb of the Marquis Jiang Tai’s mansion.
The ancestral tomb of Jiang Taihou Mansion is located deep in the mountains.
During the Chinese New Year, Marquis Jiang Tai brought people from his mansion to pay homage, and most of the tombs had traces of burning paper and incense candles.
That's why Marquis Jiang Tai felt that even though today was the anniversary of his ex-wife's death, he had just held memorial ceremonies for her. So why was there any need to hold another grand memorial ceremony today?
In the eyes of Jiang Taihou, he was already giving Cen Yueyi a lot of face by allowing her to come and pay homage today!
The wind rises.
Like complaining and crying.
Cen Yueyi knelt in front of a grave, looking down as she burned incense, candles and paper money.
Her expression didn't reveal anything, but her eyes were filled with sorrow.
A few pieces of unburned paper money swirled, fluttered past the corner of Cen Yueyi's clothes, and then flew out.
Xingxing knew that what Cen Yueyi needed more at this moment was quiet company.
On the way back, although it was windy outside and was about to snow, Cen Yueyi's mood was obviously much better.
She sat in the carriage and whispered to Xingxing, "I actually don't know what my mother looks like... But I saw a portrait of my mother when she was a girl at my grandfather's place, and she looked very much like me. So I thought, if I miss my mother, I can just look in the mirror..."