Hello Chang’an

 Chapter 22 Scholar Zhou Ding (additional update)

Chang Suining shook his head directly: "I don't remember it at all."

It makes sense that she's out of her mind after all.

"Which female envoy was accompanying Suining that day?" Chang Kuo asked with a frown.

Chang Sui'an: "It's Xi'er!"

Chang Suining: "Are you still alive?"

Chang Sui'an was stunned for a moment by her question, and then nodded quickly: "He is alive! Since the night of the Lantern Festival, he has been detained in the room for questioning...Uncle Bai, bring him here!"

Soon, a female envoy who was about the same age as Chang Suining was brought over. Her eyes were red and swollen like rotten peaches, and her clothes were not clean. She looked like she hadn't washed herself in at least three to five days, and she was very embarrassed. Desolate -

As soon as she entered the hall, her eyes that were so red and swollen that she couldn't open her eyes immediately found Chang Suining. She knelt down towards Chang Suining and cried: "Girl... you are okay! It's really great." !”

Should he say it or not, Chang Sui Ning was slightly moved.

So far, this is the first person to recognize her at a glance.

"...Xi'er kept this tone just to wait for the girl to come back!" Xi'er looked up at Chang Sui Ning and showed a smile that said "I will die with no regrets and no more worries": "Now that I see the girl, Xi'er feels at ease. "

As he spoke, he bit his lip, turned around suddenly, and bumped his head against the corner of the table.

Chang Suining: "?"

As expected of a family governed by military law, are everyone in the Chang family from top to bottom so brave to take on the responsibility and die enthusiastically?

It's really too good.

She quickly grabbed Xi'er's arm and said, "Don't worry, I still have some questions to ask you."

Xi'er sobbed, nodded in confusion, and temporarily postponed her suicide plan: "Girl, please ask."

"First tell me what happened before and after my accident on the Lantern Festival night."

While Chang Sui Ning was talking, Chang Sui An moved a wide chair behind her and whispered: "Ning Ning, sit down and ask."

Chang Kuo glanced at his son with satisfaction and sat down.

Of course, Chang Sui'an was standing.

Xi'er said in one breath: "...On the night of the Lantern Festival, the maid went out with the girl to enjoy the lanterns. The maid suggested that the girl guess lantern riddles, but the girl said she didn't want to go to a crowded place, so she took the maid across the Moon Bridge and went After lighting up the lanterns, they went to the shore and asked the maid to wait under the bridge. She said she wanted to go for a walk by the river alone. Seeing that the girl was walking further and further away, she was almost out of sight. The maid was really worried, so she chased after her, but who knew she was still there? It's too late. When the servant chases the reeds, he can't find the girl!"

No wonder she spoke too skillfully, after all, she had spoken to Manager Bai and Chang Sui'an countless times these days.

Chang Suining frowned slightly after hearing this: "...Have I ever expressed the thought of committing suicide in my daily life?"

Xi'er was stunned and shook her head: "Although the girl is a little sentimental, she has nothing worth mentioning recently...and the girl has always been afraid of pain..."

However, doesn’t the girl know better than she does?

But he continued: "The servant searched for the girl by the river for a long time but could not find it, so he hurriedly asked the coachman to return home and informed the husband of the matter. The husband also weighed the valuables into the river and hired a nearby man. The boatman fished in the river all night, but found nothing."

Chang Suining thought - at that time, Ah Li had probably been swept away by the current and hit the kidnapper's hands.

Is it really a simple slip and fall into the water?

Chang Suining didn't want to make a conclusion easily: "Did I say anything before going out? What did I bring? Or...do I have an appointment with someone, who am I going to see?"

Facing Xi'er's increasingly confused expression, Chang Sui Ning said: "I can't remember many things right now. The doctor said that I need to rest for half a month before I can recover slowly. Just answer your question now."

Xi'er's previous words are all true - if something happened to Ah Li before, and the other party was still able to use his own fabricated excuses to deceive Chang Sui'an and Bai Guanshi, then "A Li" is back now, and the other party will be able to He was determined not to confront her face to face.

In other words, this female envoy, at least until now, is telling the truth.

And her statement that "it takes half a month to recover slowly" is naturally meant to scare people. Hearing this, Xi'er was shocked at first, and then there was a look of guilt and self-hatred in her eyes: "The girl has suffered... It's all my fault that Xi'er didn't protect the girl, and that's why the girl suffered like this..."

"Act as ordered and do nothing wrong." Chang Suining interrupted her self-blame: "It's important to answer first. Think carefully about it."

"Yes..." Xi'er thought for a moment and said, "The girl has never said anything worthy of attention... The girl doesn't like to interact with others, and she doesn't have a good wife..."

Chang Suining: "What about my dear husband?"

Chang Kuo: "?"

Chang Sui'an: "?"

Xi'er opened her mouth: "Xiao Langjun, neither... nor..."

As he said that, he suddenly thought of something: "But there is a gentleman who is not a young man..."

Chang Sui'an suddenly frowned: "Are you talking about Zhou Ding?"

Xi'er nodded hurriedly.

Seeing Chang Sui'an's look of disgust, Chang Sui Ning couldn't help but ask: "Who is Zhou Ding?"

Chang Kuo also heard this name for the first time.

"That's a hypocrite..." Changsui An just wanted to scold him, but thinking of his sister's appreciation and admiration for this person in the past, he held it back and said euphemistically: "It's just a man who drank a few pots of ink and picked up a few songs. The sour poem is just a poor scholar who wants to deceive his sister!"

Chang Suining was not in a hurry to answer his words, and only asked Xi'er: "Since I rarely interact with people, and he is considered to be someone who has some contacts, will I go to see this person on the night of the Lantern Festival?"

Xi'er shook her head: "But the girl didn't mention it to the servant that day, so she probably didn't have an appointment with this person..."

"Or... I knew that my brother disapproved of my association with him, so I didn't tell anyone, and used the excuse of going to the river alone, but in fact it was just to see him?" Chang Suining guessed: "The lantern festival is inherently crowded. I went to join in the fun, but I said I didn’t like crowded places and went to remote places alone. If there is no other reason, isn’t it self-contradictory?”

Xi'er was about to speak but stopped.

Chang Sui'an scratched his head and whispered: "Ning Ning...it's not contradictory, after all, you have always been like this."

The front leg says that one wants to be alone, while the back leg sheds tears and says that one is extremely lonely in the world... It is a common thing.

Or maybe it's because she lost her biological parents when she was young, so my sister's temperament has always been fragile and changeable.

Or perhaps because he needs to express his emotions, he is obsessed with poetry and songs on weekdays, but he, as the elder brother, is not born with that kind of material. Although his sister does not know it, he feels that his words and deeds are rude and rude, and gradually he does not dare to talk to her in front of her. , for fear of frightening her and annoying her.

All in all, my sister likes talented people—there were just so many of them that week.

Chang Sui Ning was silent for a moment, then asked: "How did I get to know this person?"

Although the incident of Ah Li falling into the water may not necessarily be related to this person, since this person ranks high in Ah Li's relatively closed life, it deserves more attention.

"It was half a year ago, at a poetry meeting..." Xi'er briefly explained what happened.

Since they met at the poetry party, the girl has often exchanged letters with this person, and she has secretly helped this person many times -

"...I actually gave him money back?" Chang Sui Ning found it unbelievable.

Xi'er: "The prince of Zhou often lamented the poverty of his family in front of the girls. Although he had the reputation of being a scholar and was talented and learned, the road to the imperial examination was long and difficult, and it was difficult..."

"So, I had the intention of supporting him in studying for the imperial examination?" Chang Suining frowned: "...and he promised to propose marriage to me in high school?"

"No, no, no!" Xi'er quickly waved her hand to deny.

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