After the divorce, the four big guys became my servants

Yuan Jinglie's breathing stagnated when he heard this. He rushed into the crowd as if he had lost his soul.

Right on the ground in the corner, there lay the body of a beggar who had already died.

In the beggar's dirty hands, he was holding a piece of hairy dessert.

The young man was struck by lightning.

His face was pale and bloodless. He wanted to speak, but found that his throat could not make any sound.

Until a patrolman found this place, wrapped a mat for the beggar, and took it away to an unknown place.

"He was thrown into a mass grave. This beggar is so pitiful. He had mental problems to begin with, and now he died so tragically." A passerby sighed.

Yuan Jinglie clenched his hands hanging at his sides, and suddenly he ran in a certain direction, as if he was thinking of something.

Finally, it stopped outside a mass grave on the outskirts of the city.

The mass grave was filled with bones and overgrown weeds; once you got close, the stench of corpses was overwhelming.

Yuan Jinglie was looking for the beggar among the dry bones.

Finally, he saw the beggar who had died.

He didn't get any posthumous respect, he was just thrown there casually.

The boy knelt before him, feeling heavy-hearted.

In the past fourteen years, he seemed to have been bullied by everyone, and he had even thought of killing those hateful young men.

But he never thought of bullying weaker people like those people did.

This beggar was even weaker than Yuan Jinglie at the beginning. Because he was old and his mind was not clear, he didn't know that the snacks were not allowed to be eaten.

He indirectly harmed him.

He couldn't let this go.

After leaving the mass grave, Yuan Jinglie went directly to Huichun Hall and took out half a piece of snack from the beggar.

"Please help me take a look, doctor. Is there anything wrong with this snack?"

For the sake of the silver, the old doctor frowned and took it. After studying it for a long time, he gave it back to him: "It's too bad. I can't smell anything else."

"Will I die if I eat this hairy snack?"

"That won't happen." The doctor said, "I think it's just a small bite, at most it will cause vomiting and diarrhea."

"If he's dead, he must have been poisoned."

Yuan Jinglie's eyes flashed.

He left Huichuntang and went to Chunlaixuan, asking the shopkeeper who had bought the white jade water chestnut cake in the past few days.

The proprietress was playing with an abacus out of boredom. She was puzzled when she heard this and said impatiently, "Are you asking this to ruin things?"

Before he finished speaking, the proprietress looked up and was stunned for a moment.

"What a handsome young man." The plump proprietress couldn't help but smile with joy, but she was slightly surprised when she saw his blue eyes.

"This is the second time I've seen heterochromia in my life."

Yuan Jinglie paused: "Where else has the boss lady seen heterochromia before?"

"It was many years ago." The lady boss stretched and stared at him with a smile: "If you want to know, why not sit down with me and have a cup of tea, and I will tell you slowly."

Yuan Jinglie's face turned cold: "No need."

The lady boss didn't make it difficult for him. She just smiled and said, "It's okay. I believe you will want to know later."

"..." The young man changed the subject: "The white jade water chestnut cake——"

"If you want to know, I'll check for you." The proprietress changed her previous attitude, called the waiter and asked him who had bought water chestnut cakes in the past few days.

The waiter was surprised and said, "How can I remember it clearly? But two days ago, a young man with an eye patch came to buy it. I only remember him."

Hearing this, all the blood in Yuan Jinglie's body rushed to his head.

He really underestimated Meng Changning's cruelty!

She saw that the effect of the calming incense was minimal, and thought that it would take too long to kill her sister, so she cruelly poisoned the snacks. Then she asked someone of his age to pretend to be him and buy snacks.

By then, when Sister dies of the poison and the truth is revealed, he will be the only murderer.

This idea was tailor-made for him.

Because he is the only one with heterochromia, he occasionally wears an eye patch when traveling.

This characteristic is so distinct. There may not be another man wearing an eye patch in the whole city of Chai'an, so the waiter remembered it so clearly.

Yuan Jinglie felt scared. If he was a fool, he would really give the snacks to his sister to repay her kindness...

He dared not think.

After returning to Prince Jing's Mansion, the young man closed the door, leaned against the door panel, and closed his eyes.

Are Meng Changning, who murdered her own sister, and 'she' who helped the beggar that day, really the same person?

The appearance of the beggar lingered in his mind.

Even till night, he couldn't calm down no matter what he did. After thinking about it for a long time, he went to Plum Garden.

Candles were still burning in the Plum Garden. The young man quietly pushed the door open, with only his head peeking out from the crack.

"Sister?"

Meng Zhaoge was sitting at the desk. Hearing this, he smiled and looked up: "Why are you here?"

Seeing that she was still awake, Yuan Jinglie pushed the door open and walked in, "I'm here to see what Sister is doing."

As the boy spoke, he moved a stool to one side and sat quietly on the table watching her paint.

The candlelight was dim, and shadows flickered on the boy's angular face, casting shadows on his face due to his thick eyelashes.

He is incredibly well-behaved.

"Sister, who are you drawing?" After staring for a long time, Yuan Jinglie became a little curious.

Could it be that bad guy King Jing?

Thinking of this, he felt a little depressed.

Meng Zhaoge painted and replied, "Your Majesty's birthday banquet is coming soon, and this is my gift to Your Majesty."

"So this is His Majesty?"

"Otherwise, it's you." Meng Zhaoge smiled: "You've been looking at it for a long time. What do you think of my sister's painting?"

Yuan Jinglie immediately stood up and said solemnly: "Sister's painting skills are at the pinnacle! Anyone who disagrees is just jealous!"

It's so easy to say that he even wants to kill someone.

"Pfft..." Meng Zhaoge was so amused by him that her face turned pale. The tassels on her bun were shaking, and she was bent over with laughter. She couldn't even hold the brush in her hand.

"You just know how to make me happy."

Yuan Jinglie also smiled: "I like to make my sister happy."

"You are the best at talking." Meng Zhaoge finally stopped smiling, picked up the pen and drew a few whiskers on the boy's handsome face.

"Meow, little kitty, please."

Yuan Jinglie closed his eyes and let her make trouble on his face. Then he frowned slightly, pretending to be unhappy, but he still looked like a spoiled child calling her: "I don't meow, sister bullies me."

Meng Zhaoge just smiled: "Go look in the mirror, you are very cute."

So the young man stood up, walked to the bronze mirror, looked at himself, and then smiled with his eyes curved.

"Sister, you draw really well."

“Is this also a good painting?”

The boy said seriously, "Okay."

Meng Zhaoge laughed again, thinking that he was just joking with her.

"Well, I have to continue painting seriously, otherwise I won't be able to give anything to His Majesty on his birthday, which will be troublesome."

Yuan Jinglie also calmed down, staring at her focused profile, and asked casually, "Sister, will the ministers and their families attend His Majesty's birthday banquet?"

"This year is His Majesty's fiftieth birthday. The Queen Mother has ordered a grand celebration. I think all the important officials in the court will attend."

Anyway, in the previous life, as long as the officials of a certain rank went there, the gifts they gave would almost fill up the Qiankun Hall.

Meng Zhaoge asked him: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Yuan Jinglie concealed the emotions in his eyes.

At the same time, in General Mingxi’s Mansion.

Meng Changning paced back and forth in the room, feeling upset.

She put a lot of arsenic in the water chestnut cake, but after so long, the Meng family is still peaceful.

I'm afraid that little monster has betrayed her.

Meng Changning had an idea in mind, and after a little thought, he came up with another idea.

——She wants to use Yuan Jinglie one last time.