Perfect Encounter

Xue Xuran didn't change his expression this time, and said sternly: "Miss An, don't need to pretend to be mysterious, what did I expose? The girl just said it."

"If I can know the secrets of the young master or your Xue family with just a few words, then I am too powerful. Of course I don't know now, but it is not difficult to know. If it is really the general's business, go to Just ask the general."

Xue Xuran sneered and said, "Threats like this are not very powerful."

"It's not a threat, it's just telling the truth. In addition, I want to tell Mr. Xue that since the general found out about your family's secrets, he didn't take any action, didn't reprimand and inquire about your family, but hoped to facilitate the marriage. That means the general can be trusted. you."

Xue Xuran sneered again: "Have you changed the temptation?"

An Ruochen ignored him, and continued: "But if you don't know good from bad, it's fine if you don't accept the marriage, but if you go outside and gossip about generals, make up lies about officials to deceive people, kidnap and deceive, then you The details of the Xue family, the details of your Xue Xuran, I am afraid the military will have to investigate carefully."

Xue Xuran choked.

An Ruochen smiled at him: "This is blackmail."

Xue Xuran said coldly: "It's really scary."

An Ruochen said again: "But as I said just now, the General let go of your Xue family must have a reason, but others may not. If someone with a heart finds out and uses your shortcomings to make a fuss, I'm afraid your family will be in trouble. "

Xue Xuran rushed to talk: "How dare you say that you have never deceived people with such filthy threats?!"

"Young master Xue is wrong again, I haven't finished yet." An Ruochen said calmly: "Your Xue family is an outsider to me, what happens has nothing to do with me, nor with the general. But if you succeed If my brother-in-law is involved, then the Xue family's troubles are naturally our troubles. We will not let others bully us to come to Xue's house." An Ruochen smiled again: "Mr. Xue, this is called temptation."

Xue Xuran gave her a big roll of eyes.

An Ruochen stood up, stroked his clothes, and said: "Okay, I've finished what I want to say, Mr. Xue is weak, and the cold spring hurts people, so let's go home quickly. As for this marriage, Mr. Xue will think about it later." Think about it, if you really don't agree, then forget it. You can comfort your mother, or give Master Jingci another horoscope, let him tell your mother that other people are also suitable."

Xue Xuran frowned, is this mocking him?

"My sister, she is actually just like the son, she was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, and she has a big temper..."

Xue Xuran couldn't bear it anymore, stared and scolded: "Who are you calling spoiled and spoiled!"

An Ruochen waved his hand as if nothing had happened: "You're talking about my younger sister, sir. Don't interrupt me. My second sister, to be honest, I don't know if I'm so similar to the son in mind, will I fight within two days after marriage?" Get up. Don't look at my sister's soft and weak appearance, she has a lot of strength to hit people. If you hurt your son, it is really difficult to explain to Mrs. Xue."

Xue Xuran almost slapped the table, who wants to fight with the woman! Still can't beat? !

"Anyway, you can do whatever you want about the marriage. I'll ask the general about your family. I'm leaving." An Ruochen said enough, and walked away. Xue Xuran was so angry that she almost jumped.

Mrs. Xue waited anxiously in the private room next door, when she heard the maid outside reported that An Ruochen had come out, she hurried out to greet her. Seeing that An Ruochen's expression was not unhappy, he calmed down a little. Busily pulled An Ruochen to ask.

An Ruochen only said that Mr. Xue had his own ideas, but she still meant that. If the Xue family was sincere about this marriage, she would help find a way to solve the problem of the An family. Instead, she advised Mrs. Xue to relax, since the zodiac coincides, there must be fate, but everything is according to fate and cannot be forced. Otherwise, Mr. Xue will be disturbed by making troubles. First, it will not be conducive to recuperation, and second, it will cause disobedience. Even if the marriage is completed in the future, the husband and wife will not be happy together.

Mrs. Xue naturally knew this truth, she was willing to help after hearing what An Ruochen meant, so she felt relieved. Xue Xuran came over to say hello and left, ignoring An Ruochen at all. Madam Xue sighed in her heart, ordered someone to serve good tea, and dragged An Ruochen to talk more, intending to win her over and get closer, so that even if the marriage really didn't work out in the future, there was no need to offend the wife of the future general.

It was almost noon when An Ruochen returned to the Ziyun Tower, and felt that the atmosphere was not right when he entered the gate, and Zhou Changshi was leading the troops to go out in a panic.

"Master Changshi, where are you going?"

"Miss An!" Zhou Changshi was very excited when he saw her, and shouted: "Something happened, something big happened." When he was about to continue, he looked around and swallowed it back.

An Ruochen frowned and moved closer.

Zhou Changshi attached to her and said, "Mr. Huo committed suicide in the prefect's mansion."

You Ru suddenly a thunderbolt exploded on An Ruochen's head, she was stunned. "How could this be?"

"The **** ordered someone to come and report. I have to find out quickly. Otherwise, how should I write this report? General Long will be furious!"

It's not a matter of being angry or not, An Ruochen's scalp was numb, and the scenes of the war that Zong Zeqing told her about had already appeared in her mind. She closed her eyes and kicked out the imagination of Si Xiajiang who was stained red with blood from her mind. Not much to say right now. Hurry up with Zhou Changshi to the prefect's mansion.

When they got there, Zhou Changshi hurried to find the master Bo Jianghongqing to inquire about what happened, while An Ruochen ran to Huo Mingshan's residence.

Now there is no guard to stop going to the courtyard. An Ruochen got there smoothly all the way, and heard a young voice screaming with tears: "It's all you, you're the ones who drove Mr. to death!"

There were many people standing in the courtyard, An Ruochen passed through the human wall, and finally saw the situation in the courtyard clearly. Huo Mingshan's attendant, Cao Yihan, knelt in the courtyard and cried loudly while holding Huo Mingshan's "Peace Sword", while the prefect's wife, Meng Jiayue, knelt in front of him, tears streaming down her face. Between the two of them was a piece of paper full of words.

An Ruochen walked up to the livid Jiang Qing and asked him what was going on in a low voice.

"The time is about to pass, so Cao Yihan went to the hut and found that Mr. Huo had left a suicide note and killed himself at the table, using that sword." Jiang Song pointed in the direction of Cao Yihan with his chin.

And a suicide note? An Ruochen looked at the piece of paper in front of the magistrate's wife, and thought it was a suicide note. At this time, it was not easy for her to go forward to check, so she had to ask Jiang Song again: "General Jiang, is the handwriting on the suicide note correct? What did it say?"

Jiang Song's face was extremely ugly. An Ruochen understood his pressure. He hardly rested, and he personally watched over Huo Mingshan's safety. On the way to Beijing, he also needed to lead a team of guards in person, but he unexpectedly appeared under his nose. this kind of thing. But even if he was in a bad mood, An Ruochen had to ask, suicide? She couldn't believe it.

Jiang Song slowed down, suppressed his temper, and said: "It is indeed his handwriting. His attendant confirmed it. Mr. Huo said that he has felt a heavy responsibility recently, and he is not sure that he can complete it. Why can't he tell Nanqin The emperor confessed and was deeply worried. Instead of running around and struggling and then apologizing with death, it is better to be relieved today. He is ashamed of the Southern Qin Emperor, the two countries, and General Long. It’s over."

An Ruochen still couldn't believe it. Huo Mingshan was still chatting and laughing at the night banquet yesterday, she still remembers his firm expression when he took the sword from Meng Jiayue. How could it be possible to commit suicide under pressure? !

"Was this suicide note written by someone? Did someone say anything to him? Did someone enter his house..."

"Manager An!" Jiang Song couldn't help losing his temper, and restrained An Ruochen angrily. The surroundings fell silent, and even Cao Yihan and Meng Jiayue, who were crying bitterly, looked over. Jiang Song gritted his teeth, slowed down his tone, and said loudly: "Miss An, we have hundreds of pairs of eyes on this yard, dozens of pairs of eyes on these rooms, Mr. Huo's room, except for his attendants, there is no one No one has ever gone in. After the body was found, we went in to check, the doors and windows were closed, no one came in and out, and the guards outside the courtyard also confirmed that no suspicious person had passed by."

Jiang Song stared at An Ruochen, as if he wanted to tell others to listen: "Miss An, do you understand? Even this yard is not going in and out, but passing by! Even passing by, no outsiders pass by! Let alone entering Mr. Huo's house !Unless all of us are blind and deaf. No assassins!"

There was silence all around, but An Ruochen's head was buzzing, no assassin? Is there no omission? That's right, with dozens of pairs of eyes staring at him, one person, two people, or three people can't be fooled. But dozens of people, how to hide it?

An Ruochen opened his mouth, trying to clear his mind: "Then, when he killed himself, did he, I mean, feel the pain and always scream..."

Jiang Song stared at An Ruochen, his whole body tensed up, his fists clenched in anger, but he still restrained himself and said, "There is no big movement, the doors and windows are closed, we did not hear the sound outside."

"I'm not..." An Ruochen was very sorry and wanted to explain that she didn't mean to accuse Jiang Song of anything, but she also knew that every question she asked seemed to be questioning something wrong with the security guards. She wanted to say that she didn't believe it was suicide, but if it wasn't suicide, where did the assassin come from? If there were assassins, then Jiang Song would be even more dereliction of duty. An Ruochen opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

"Miss An." Meng Jiayue came over and pulled An Ruochen back. Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her sadness was beyond words. She didn't say much, but just handed over Huo Mingshan's suicide note.

An Ruochen took the suicide note, at this time Cao Yihan suddenly shouted: "Stop pretending! Everything is your trick! You are the one who persecuted Mr.! First General Long, then Prefect Yao, each of you, everyone is persecuting you!" Go to Beijing, sir, to meet your emperor! What's the use of meeting! Let him go to accept the humiliation? Don't think we don't know! The previous envoys were humiliated back here! The envoys after that were killed in your Great Xiao Yes! Now you are treating Mr. like this again! Why are you pretending to be a good person!"

An Ruochen ignored him and quickly read the suicide note. The content was exactly the same as what Jiang Song said, Huo Mingshan said that he was overwhelmed by the pressure and wanted to die for relief. In the letter, he expressed his apology, and asked Cao Yihan not to blame anyone, and asked him to clean up his remains, and bring the ashes back to Nanqin after cremation. He even explained where he would be buried.

An Ruochen hesitated, and Cao Yihan shouted again at this moment: "If you have the ability, you kill me too! Wait for my Nanqin army to kill me, and avenge my blood feud with my husband!"

Jiang Song was so angry that he wanted to draw his sword, but An Ruochen and Meng Jiayue reached out to stop him at the same time. Jiang Song also knew that he was impulsive, but he really couldn't swallow it, and shouted: "Put him down! The last person to meet Mr. Huo is him! What happened, he should be judged strictly!"

"General Jiang." An Ruochen disagreed with this approach.

Cao Yihan jumped up and yelled: "Yes, you are capable, and you are the best at planting dirt and framing. Everything was done by us Nanqin people, and you are innocent. Now my husband died in a foreign country, and I did it. Arrest me! Tortured! Forced me to confess! By the way, let General Long come! How did General Long force Mr. to go to see your emperor? Let him come and force me too! Yes, that’s right! I want to see General Long! I want to see General Long! Ask him face to face! What a good thing he did! How could he have the face to meet Mr.! I want General Long to see Mr. personally! Do you hear me? I want to see Long Teng! Let me see Long Teng!"

"Press it down!" Jiang Song couldn't bear it any longer, and waved his hand to let the guards take Cao Yihan back to the house. Cao Yihan yelled, saying that Nanqin would take revenge for this, that he must meet Long Teng and seek justice face to face. Shouting at the top of his lungs, he was dragged back into the house and locked up.

An Ruochen looked at the door worriedly, Jiang Song told the guards to take good care of Cao Yihan, and then said to Meng Jiayue that if there was nothing wrong with her, he had to discuss the matter with the prefect.

Meng Jiayue nodded in agreement. Jiang Song saluted Meng Jiayue and An Ruochen, and led the troops away.

There were suddenly fewer people in the yard. An Ruochen seized the opportunity to ask Meng Jiayue about the situation, and Meng Jiayue told her what she knew, and cried again while talking. When she heard the news, the incident had happened for quite a while, the prefect and other officials had arrived, Cao Yihan was emotional, the prefect asked him for an autopsy, and it was true that he committed suicide. The prefect, Jiang Song, and Yatou all questioned carefully, but no one noticed that an outsider had come. Mr. Huo was always alone in the room, only Cao Yihan had entered his room, but he came out quickly every time, and there was nothing suspicious about it. place.

The prefect asked Cao Yihan to identify the suicide note, which was indeed Huo Mingshan's handwriting and tone. The sword fell beside the chair, and there was blood on it, and the wound on the neck corresponded to the edge of the sword.

An Ruochen took the sword from the guard beside him. When Cao Yihan was escorted into the house, the guards confiscated the sword.

An Ruochen took a look at the sword and walked into the room. Meng Jiayue also went in, and she blamed herself: "Maybe, maybe it's because we said too much to Mr. Huo, always saying that hope is on him, and talking about how to go to Beijing, but he has been by the Emperor of Nanqin for many years. Maybe he knows better than us that the situation is not optimistic. But everyone is counting on him to resolve it. He is under too much pressure. We also let him hide in the hut, out of sight, and then the road to Beijing is far away and dangerous everywhere. If it were me, It would also be too difficult to bear.”

An Ruochen didn't answer, she entered the room and saw a big pool of blood on the floor at the desk, the chair in front of the desk was also covered in blood, from the chair to the bed.

"Has the body moved?"

Meng Jiayue said: "It must have been moved during the autopsy. When I came, I had already experienced it, and the adults were waiting outside the house, saying that Mr. Cao wanted to clean up Mr. Huo's remains according to his will, otherwise the corpse would be too stiff in a while. It won’t be easy to change. Mr. Cao has always said that Mr. Huo loved to be clean when he was alive, so don’t teach him to be messed up in blood.”

"Where is the body now?"

"It's in the east room. It's clean and tidy, which is what Mr. Huo wants." Meng Jiayue wiped her tears again. "Later, the adults went back to the Yatang to discuss matters. I wanted to talk to Mr. Cao, but he was a little dazed. I was worried that he would not think about it. He really blamed us in his heart, maybe Mr. Huo thought the same way."

An Ruochen ignored her nagging, she walked to the door, and asked the guard: "Where is the guard who guarded the house closest to the house?"

The guard pointed to his feet and replied that it was here.

"Okay, pay attention to what's going on in the room." After An Ruochen ordered, she closed the door, then closed the window, and then she stood in front of the desk, not paying attention to the pool of blood in front of her, and drew out her sword.

Meng Jiayue looked at her in surprise and took two steps back.

An Ruochen roughly gestured the height, then thought about it seriously, pretended to grit his teeth and said "ah", let go, and let the sword in his hand fall to the ground.

After finishing this, she opened the door and asked the guard, "What noise did you hear?"

The guard shook his head.

"Didn't hear anything?"

The guard nodded.