Empress is a sick beauty

The woman secretly looked in the direction of the two brothers, pinched the dress even tighter with both hands, stared blankly at Ling Xi's probing gaze for a moment, then hurriedly lowered her head and took a step back.

Seeing that she was so nervous, Ling Xi asked softly, "Girl, where are you from? Why are you single?"

The woman lowered her head and refused to speak. After waiting for a while, there was no response. Shen Rui frowned and said, "Girl, we are a decent family and will not bully you. If you have anything to say, just say it."

"Yes, girl, tell me quickly, you can have a place to stay after you have made it clear."

Under Ah Jiu's persuasion, the woman finally opened her mouth, "I am, I came from another place, and I met a bandit on the road. Both my parents were killed by the bandit. The bandit killed me, and I have nothing to worry about. I have no other relatives. Just asking for a place to stay is enough.”

Ling Xi looked at the woman thoughtfully.

Ah Jiu and the butler looked at the woman with sympathy, but they wanted to listen to their master after all, so they all looked at Ling Xi and waited for the arrangement.

"Brother, let's keep her."

Shen Rui gave Ling Xi a surprised look, and then replied, "Since the young master has spoken, let's stay, find her clean clothes, and get her to work with Mrs. Deng in the backyard."

The woman bent down to salute the two of them, never looked up from the beginning to the end, and then followed the steward and the others.

When the people walked away, Shen Rui asked, "This woman's rhetoric is too simple and full of loopholes, why did you keep her?"

Ling Xi blinked, with a sly look in her eyes, "She has a story, and I don't think she's a bad person."

There are many problems that can be seen through a person's eyes, even with the best disguises.He asked himself that his vision for seeing people was quite accurate, but there was something wrong with His Royal Highness King Yi, for example, the occasional gaze that His Highness stared at him was really incomprehensible.

After Ah Jiu went to settle the woman, she came back to report. The strange woman called herself Xiao Cui, and after washing up, she couldn't tell much difference from the pretty maids in the mansion.Because Shen Rui had told her not to let her have any important errands, especially about Ling Xi, Mrs. Deng only assigned some chores to her.

For several days in succession, everything in the mansion was as usual, and the people in the mansion almost forgot about this little episode. The Shen family has a great career, so who would always remember a new maid.

"My lord, you have been in the yard for a long time. If the eldest son comes back later and sees you still in the yard, he will definitely blame us." Xiao Zhong followed closely behind Ling Xi, not leaving every step, afraid of blinking. Lost people.

Ling Xi has been recovering well recently, and seeing the good weather outside, she couldn't help but go out for a walk.He walked from the wing room in the backyard to the back door, and he still didn't feel tired. He had to admit that the tonic sent by King Yi was really effective.

"Don't worry, big brother won't blame you, we'll go back to the house after a while." Ling Xi suddenly heard the strange sound, and said, "Listen, is there a cat meowing?"

Xiao Zhong stretched his neck and listened carefully, "It seems to be from the woodshed."

Ling Xi searched for the sound and saw a gap in the door of the firewood room. He approached lightly and saw the scene inside through the gap.

A woman squatted on the ground, holding some food in her hand, and was feeding a cat in front of her.

Xiao Zhong looked over, "Why are there cats in the house?"

The woman turned her head suddenly, hiding the food in her hand behind her back in horror.

Ling Xi pushed the door open and went in, saw the tabby cat on the ground with a big belly and was unable to move. When she sensed someone coming in, she limped and hid behind the pile of firewood.

"Did I scare you?" Ling Xi recognized the woman as Xiaocui who entered the mansion that day, "Is this the cat you bought?"

Xiaocui lowered her head and said timidly, "My lord, forgive me. The cat was picked up by my servant during the rainy days two days ago. I only kept it for a few days because I felt sorry for it. If you don't like cats, my servant will let it go immediately."

Ling Xi laughed, "When did I say I don't like cats? Since I picked it up, I'll keep it in the mansion. You can take care of it from now on."

Xiao Cui raised her head, as if surprised by what she heard, she stared at Ling Xi in a daze for a while, "Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord!"

"My lord, it's time to drink the medicine."

Ling Xi glanced at the little tail behind her, came back and nodded at Xiaocui, then turned around and left the woodshed.

Drinking medicine is the most important thing, even if the eldest brother doesn't stare at him, there are still a group of people reminding him that after the medicine is not bitter, it will be much easier for him to drink medicine.

"Son."

Ling Xi raised her eyes and saw that Ah Jiu was dressed in dusty clothes, she couldn't help but smiled and reprimanded, "Where did I go to play without your son?"

Ah Jiu chuckled, and came over honestly to please, "The slave is out to help Lao Li push the cart, not to play, and the slave heard something."

Ling Xi talks about him on the surface, but in fact she is willing to listen to the rumors in the market, and there is one more thing to pass the time.

"I heard it at the teahouse?"

Ah Jiu waved his hand, "I didn't hear Mr. Shu's story, but I heard it from a noodle vendor on the street. In the east of the city, 37 members of the Yang family were exterminated overnight. But the matter is too big, and leaks are inevitable. People dare not upload it publicly, but they will still say it behind their backs."

Ling Xi fixed his eyes as he listened, he hadn't heard such a heinous thing for a long time, maybe he was recuperating in the mansion, others didn't tell him these things, they only picked interesting and fun things to tell him.

"Has the yamen made any moves?"

Ah Jiu tried hard to recall, "It seems that someone beat the drums and complained, saying that he had seen the murderer. I don't know the specifics."

If this kind of killing is not a vendetta, it is to fight for something, such as a family heirloom.If someone bumps into a murderer.How did the hand get out of the way?

Yunyi promised her elder brother to attend the banquet someday, but she didn't come to the door for a long time. Is it also because of this?

Ah Jiu saw her young master concentrating his brows in a daze, and quickly patted her mouth, "It's all my servant's fault, I have nothing to tell you what you are doing with this vicious thing, and it's even bothering you."

At this time, Xiao Zhong who returned the medicine bowl went back and forth, trotting, as if he had something urgent to report.

"My lord, His Royal Highness King Yi is here, and now we are in the living room. Eldest lord, please come over."

Is it possible that anyone who thinks of it will come?

Ling Xi nodded, "Got it, I'll go right away."

When he stays in the room, he mostly wears his inner coat, leans against the head of the bed, covers himself with a quilt, and at most puts on a coat.Now that distinguished guests come to the door, he has to tidy up.

When he arrived at the living room, Yun Yi and Shen Rui sat opposite each other, as if they had been waiting for a long time.There are two jugs of wine on the table, but there is no dish.

"Your Highness."

Looking up and seeing Ling Xi enter the door, Yun Yi nodded slightly, and then said to Shen Rui, "It's time to serve."

It turned out to be waiting for him.

Ling Xi sat between the two, he saw that there were wine cups in front of the two of them, but he was the only one who didn't.Dishes are served up one after another, and the table is filled in a short while.

The solemnity of the banquet can be seen from the dishes. Eight-treasure duck, anchovy shark's fin, canary bird, and many other such meat dishes.

"Let's leave it simple, but I hope His Highness will not dislike it." Shen Rui picked up the wine cup and served first as a respect.

Yun Yi then drank it, "Young Master Shen, you are welcome."

Ling Xi looked in front of him, there was only a bowl of fish soup, should he use soup instead of wine?

"Ling Xi, have a few sips of rock sugar hawthorn porridge first, for an appetizer." Shen Ruisheng took out a bowl and put it in front of him, even putting the spoon in a specific place.

Yun Yi's eyes shifted, and then he picked up a few chopsticks and put the steamed fish meat into his bowl, "This is light, you can eat more."

Ling Xi looked around and said with a helpless smile, "Your Highness and Big Brother don't just care about me."

Normally, as long as the two brothers eat at the same table, Shen Rui must remember that Ling Xi eats first, and it has become a habit to add vegetables to him.Seeing this situation now, Shen Rui pursed his lips and smiled, and quietly handed over the job of taking care of people to His Royal Highness King Yi who was opposite.

But Yunyi seems to be doing this with ease, very skillful, not like a high-ranking prince at all.

Maybe it was because someone was used to feeding the medicine with his own hands before, but now that this person picks up the vegetables with his own hands, Ling Xi didn't feel uncomfortable.Those who didn't know thought they were old friends who had known each other for many years.

Ling Xi had almost eaten, and seeing that Yunyi wanted to pick up some vegetables, he changed the subject, "I heard about the case of the Yang family. Do you have any clues?"

Yun Yi finally stopped picking up vegetables, "Yesterday someone beat the drums, claiming that he knew the inside story, and ran into the murderer. The yamen painter drew a portrait of the suspect according to what he said, and the prefect Xu sent someone to put up arrest notices."

Ling Xi raised her eyebrows, this witness not only bumped into the murderer.At the scene of the crime, do you still know the inside story?

"What's the inside story?"

If another person asked this question, Yun Yi might have taken him back as a suspicious person, but Ling Xi asked this question, so of course he knew everything.

"This person claims to be the murderer of the Yang family who killed the family. It was Zhou Yu, the fiancée of the only son of the Yang family. The only son of the Yang family was disabled, and no famous lady was willing to marry, so someone found a poor girl who had no father or mother. Zhou Yu I have lived in Yang's residence for more than a month, if this disaster did not happen, the Yang family will get married in a few days."

Ling Xi thought about it, "That is to say, what does this witness mean is that Zhou Yu didn't want to marry the young master of the Yang family, so he killed the Yang family?"

Seeing that he didn't move the food in the bowl, Yun Yi pushed the pastry at hand over, "According to the confession, Zhou Yu first took the money from the Yang family to bury his father, and then secretly communicated with a blacksmith in the city for a total of [-] yuan. He poisoned the Yang family, attempted to seize the property of the Yang family, and flew away with his lover."

What else?

Ling Xi picked up a piece of cheese, "What about the blacksmith?"

"The blacksmith has died at home."

Ling Xi was meditating while eating the pastry, except for the witness who beat the drum to complain, the others were dead without evidence.

"Who's here?"

The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, got up and left the room at the same time.

Yun Yi glanced at the gate guard, "What happened?"

"Returning to Your Highness, someone was spying here just now. After this subordinate found out, that person ran away. Do you want your subordinate to chase after him?"

Just as Yun Yi was about to speak, Ling Xi already had a guess in his eyes, and he grabbed Yun Yi's sleeve, "I seem to be a little dizzy."