Chapter 190 The Young Master Requests a Meeting
This is probably also why Zhuang Mei secretly changed her signature.
She was afraid she would win first place.
"As for saving Xue'er, do you think it's possible?" Mu Jianjian's voice was matter-of-fact as she stood in the courtyard, feeling the afternoon sun shining on her. "Three cultivators, and I have no cultivation or true qi."
Zhuang Mei clenched her fists at both sides, but her attention was diverted to several stewards who entered from behind the courtyard gate.
Two men with two stripes sewn onto their collars were seen, followed by the old women who used to manage and teach them.
The stewards in the Red Mansion were divided into three levels. The steward with one stripe on his collar had the highest status, and the steward with three stripes had the lowest status. However, they were just the newest and lowest-ranking women who had entered the Red Mansion, and it was always the stewards with three stripes who came into contact with them.
What wind blew these two stripes into charge?
Two of them came!
Zhuang Mei glanced at the other bewildered women in the courtyard, then looked at Mu Jianjian, whose expression remained unchanged. Her intuition told her that this matter was related to the other woman's recent departure.
"We came here because we found three bodies in an empty courtyard not far away." The two stewards got straight to the point, standing on either side of the courtyard, their cold eyes sweeping over the women who quickly fell silent and walked into the courtyard.
Upon hearing about the corpse, many women turned pale, but Zhuang Mei became inexplicably agitated.
“The three corpses are the men who came to your courtyard before. The bodies are in the empty courtyard, but the women who were taken away are nowhere to be found,” a steward walked to the front and looked at the wooden plaques with numbers in front of each woman. “And today we found that one of them is missing.”
“It’s…it’s me,” Mu Jianjian stepped forward, her voice trembling, seeing some of the women seemingly about to faint, “It’s because of—”
“She went to the outhouse because she wasn’t feeling well. I told the nanny about it at the time, and I can vouch for it, as can anyone else.” Zhuang Mei stepped forward, her voice calm but without the slightest hint of fear.
"...Yes, yes, yes," Mu Jianjian nodded hurriedly, her body trembling as if she was extremely afraid of the people in front of her, but she tried her best to suppress her sobs. "My stomach was hurting so badly at the time that I rushed to the toilet... But don't worry, I'm fine now, I'm perfectly healthy!"
Seeing the girl's "realistic acting skills," Zhuang Mei couldn't help but think of how the two first met.
The other person, covered in blood, appeared in the underground passage of Kyoto in Yingzhou, and said the same thing to that woman.
But based on our recent interactions, does Mu Yuanyuan really seem like that kind of person?
It doesn't seem like it.
She didn't seem like a delicate young lady who had been kicked out of her home; rather, she seemed to have survived a major battle and, after being hunted down, had no choice but to tie her fate to the Dream of the Red Chamber, using it to her advantage...
escape!
"Search her body and her room thoroughly, don't miss a single place." Manager Ergang hesitated for a moment as he looked at the girl's tear-streaked face, but still said this.
The old women behind the two immediately went up to Mu Jianjian and began to search her body, while another steward went into the room and began to search something.
But neither of them found anything.
Mu Jianjian lowered her eyes.
Of course, she found nothing. Her Fire Fox Dagger could be stored in her spatial storage, so no matter how the other party searched, they couldn't possibly discover the existence of the system space.
"Why do you smell of blood?" The old woman looked up, her cloudy eyes fixed on her, as if trying to see the other woman's panic.
"Granny... I've had my period recently, I'm so sorry." Mu Jianjian's cheeks were flushed, and she looked shy.
It's a pity she came back too late and didn't get rid of the smell, but using her period as an excuse won't cause any major problems.
The old woman narrowed her eyes and gave up, then turned around and walked behind the two stewards.
The steward sighed upon seeing the girl's appearance.
How could a woman like that be a murderer?
I don't know how she offended the higher-ups, who specifically named her and wanted to arrest her.
"Take her back for questioning." The second steward raised his hand, and the other steward immediately walked to Mu Jianjian's side and grabbed her.
Zhuang Mei raised her hand and then lowered it again. "Are you sure you're not mistaken? She already said she wasn't feeling well and had something to do, how could it be—"
The second-in-command's gaze fell on her, and Zhuang Mei's voice abruptly stopped.
"I really didn't... Why are you arresting me?" Tears streamed down Mu Jianjian's face like pearls, falling to the ground. Her frail body offered no resistance as the man pulled her along. "I really didn't, Granny, please save me!"
Despite her flustered and helpless expression, Mu Jianjian was frantically trying to figure out what the problem was.
Logically speaking, there shouldn't be any reason to investigate her... Could it be that someone had to take the blame, so they chose her?
No one answered in the silent courtyard until a maid appeared at the front of the courtyard and bowed her head, saying, "Young Master Baili specifically requests to see number 520."
Young Master Baili!
Not only was Mu Jianjian stunned, but everyone in the courtyard was shocked by the sudden news.
There is only one young master in the entire Duyunfang, and that is the owner's biological son, Baili Yicheng!
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