After hearing what Fu Rongxin said, Mei Gu was dumbfounded.
She dodged, "This crime is punishable by imprisonment. I helped the young lady this time, which only confirmed my own guilt. For a few dozen taels of silver, I won't risk my life."
Fu Rongxin had expected her to say this. She smiled coldly and said, "If I don't have any other evidence, I wouldn't dare come to see you in person."
Looking at the frightened Mei Gu, she paced slowly: "Mei Gu, you don't think that the fact that your two-year-old daughter, A'ruan, disappeared for no reason on the same day as this incident seventeen years ago is retribution for you, right?"
Hearing this, Mei Gu felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She looked at Fu Rongxin, covering her mouth in disbelief. After being stunned for a long time, she asked her in disbelief: "Do you know where my A Ruan is?!"
Fu Rongxin's smile deepened, but she saw that Mei Gu was extremely excited. She stood up and knelt weakly in front of Fu Rongxin: "I beg you..."
Fiddling with her carefully maintained nails, Fu Rong thought to herself, "I can tell you that your daughter is still alive, but if you want her to live after today, you'd better do as I say."
In order to be able to exchange Fu Rongxin back one day, Fu Ling had already made a backup plan. He had already detained Mei Gu's child in the Xue family as a slave. With this bargaining chip, Mei Gu would not dare to refuse the charge of stealing the child.
Looking at Mei Gu's tearful face, Fu Rongxin sighed slightly: "Your A Ruan looks very similar to you, and there is a mole on the tip of her left ear. If you don't believe that she is in my hands, I can cut off her ear and bring it to you for a look."
"Don't hurt A'ruan!" Mei Gu cried bitterly: "I promise you! This is the retribution I deserve, it has nothing to do with A'ruan! As long as... as long as you can let me see her!"
"Of course." Fu Rongxin pulled the hem of her clothes out of Mei Gu's rough hands with disdain: "When this is done and you are charged with the crime, I will bring A'ruan to see you in prison."
…
Jiangxuexuan.
When Hu Bai bowed in front of Xue Zhiyi, his steps were a little shaky.
Xue Zhiyi looked at him and found that he seemed to have lost a lot of weight and his complexion was not very good.
"Hubai, are you sick?" Sitting in front of the window, Xue Zhiyi tapped the black and white chess pieces in his hand.
But Hu Bai coughed twice and said, "I'm not sick. I was serving the master a few days ago and made a mistake and got beaten... As a servant, who doesn't get beaten?"
Seeing Xue Zhiyi looking at him, Hu Bai asked, "I wonder if the Third Miss called Hu Bai here for something important?"
The flickering candlelight cast a shadow on Xue Zhiyi's face, making the look in her eyes unclear.
She only said, "There is indeed something I need you to do. Three days from now at this time, Su Yue will give you something. I need you to put it in the Second Young Lady's room."
"Second Miss?" Hu Bai was surprised. "Excuse me, what is this object?"
"Nothing." Xue Zhiyi smiled casually, "I recently got a nice piece of material. I thought Second Sister would like it. Unfortunately, she doesn't like me, so I had to ask someone to secretly give it to her. But I don't know anyone around Second Sister well. Only you can work for Second Brother and pass the material in his name."
No one would believe such high-sounding words.
"I'm afraid this matter is a bit difficult to handle." Hu Bai said.
Seeing him refuse, Xue Zhiyi's expression suddenly changed: "But do you have any way to refuse?"
Xue Zhiyi holds the biggest secret about him, and he has no right to say no.
Hearing this, Hu Bai's sweat began to drip down: "Third Miss, this..."
"You figure it out yourself," Xue Zhiyi warned him, "otherwise, we still have the daughter of the county magistrate of Shili County at home. It would only take a letter to arrest you and bring you back to your hometown."
From an angle that Xue Zhiyi couldn't see, Hu Bai's eyes suddenly turned cold, but he still said, "Yes, Hu Bai obeys."
After sending Hu Bai away, Qiu Yun and Su Yue were a little worried. Qiu Yun said, "Miss, he's like this. Could he be desperate? I don't think he's a good person..."
The candle burned for half the night, and the exposed wick swayed slightly, making the candle flame flicker and dim.
But Xue Zhiyi just picked up the scissors on the table, fiddled with the candle wick, and smiled meaningfully: "Don't worry."
The flickering candlelight was reflected in her eyes, and then the hand holding the scissors exerted force, and her eyes became a little colder.
With a click, the candle wick was cut, and the shaking stopped. The whole room became brighter. "It's time to cut off the candle wick for someone who should have died long ago."
…
It's late at night.
Hongyingzhai.
In front of the table, candlelight flickered between Xue Tingliu's charming eyes, and he looked as cold as a wolf with blood at the corners of its mouth.
He picked up a paperweight with his bony fingers, weighed it, snorted coldly, and raised his hand to smash it in front of him.
The person on the ground was kneeling, his head was broken and bleeding, but he didn't even dare to breathe. He just knelt timidly with his hands covering his head.
After throwing the paperweight away, Xue Tingliu casually clapped his hands.
He stood up and walked in front of the man. The candle magnified his shadow infinitely until it completely covered the person in front of him.
The kneeling man kowtowed quickly: "Second Young Master... Second Young Master, please forgive me this time. I am grateful and will remember this in my heart! I will never dare to do it again."
"You don't dare?"
Kicking him, Xue Tingliu said coldly, "How dare you! How much good has Xue Zhiyi done for you, and you're so eager to plot against me for her? You're eating out from three different houses, aren't you afraid of starving yourself to death?"
Under such pressure, the man who had just been kicked over got up again and continued to kowtow: "I won't dare anymore! I won't dare anymore!"
Adjusting his cuffs, Xue Tingliu squeezed his hands until they creaked. "The last time I caught Rong Ziying cheating, I was puzzled as to how Xue Zhiyi knew Rong Ziying was pregnant in advance. At that time, I suspected that she, like me, had planted someone around my father."
As he spoke, he glanced down at Hu Bai again, "I didn't expect you to dare to inform him of the contents of the correspondence between my father and the Rong family. You're really desperate to take this little reward."
Hu Bai's blood and sweat flowed down his face. He wiped them away tremblingly, secretly thanking his lucky stars that Xue Tingliu didn't know that he had killed someone and escaped, otherwise he would have been dead.
Biting his back teeth, Xue Tingliu had already been engulfed by surging anger, but his face still did not show much anger, but his eyes were getting colder and colder, as if falling into an icy cave.
If his people had not seen with their own eyes Hu Bai secretly taking the letter and then secretly running to Jiangxuexuan, he really could not guarantee that he and Xue Zhiyi had bribed the same person.
It's really fate.
He thought in confusion and glared at Hu Bai again.
However, just as Xue Zhiyi learned that the Rong family had captured the son of the Minister of Rites, Lu Yan was assassinated.
If it was just a coincidence, it would be too much of a coincidence. But if it wasn't a coincidence, could it be that...she, Xue Zhiyi, had this ability? What good would it do her if Lu Yan died?
Could it be that... Xue Zhiyi already knew that he was secretly working for King Sheng?
How is that possible...
He paced back and forth while thinking, then sat down again: "What did Xue Zhiyi want you to do this time?"
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