Wishful Things

"I just said that I seem to have eaten something less. How can I be full if I eat only vegetables and drinks? After all, I still have to have a bowl of staple food." Xu Jin said with a smile.

Xu Mingshi looked at the sesame seed cakes and dumplings left on the table in disbelief.

It turns out that these things can't be counted as staple food in the eyes of my father? So what is their positioning? —An hors d'oeuvres?

"..." Cui glanced at her husband's swollen belly, and hesitated to speak.

Forget it, persuasion cannot be persuaded.

I also blame her for being careless... In the future, you should think twice when speaking in front of your husband.

"Would you like to have a bowl at Zhao Zhaoming?" Xu Jin asked the children.

Both siblings shook their heads.

"Father, eat slowly, mother, I'm going back first." Xu Mingyi stood up.

Xu Jin and Cui Shi nodded.

"Let's rest earlier." Cui Shi confessed: "Now that the weather is cold, you don't have to go to my place every day. You might as well sleep a little longer before getting up early in the morning. If there is anything wrong, just ask the maids to pass on the message."

After the poison of the Everlasting Grass was detoxified, Xu Mingyi had to pay his respects to the Son's Court every day.

"Okay, my daughter understands." The girl responded.

Waking up early is a habit she has developed over the years. Even if she doesn't pay her respects to her elders, she still has to get up early to practice archery.

But her mother didn't want her to wake up early and suffer from the cold and busy work, so she just listened.

Xu Mingshi also left his seat.

"Father, mother, and son have also returned."

The siblings left the dining room together.

"Grandfather drank too much tonight, remember to go and have a look later." After going down the stone steps, Xu Mingyi confessed to his younger brother.

The courtyard in Ming Dynasty was the closest to the grandfather.

"En." Xu Mingshi nodded, and then sighed slightly: "The second uncle's marriage is already a piece of grandfather's heart disease."

Hearing his younger brother's old-fashioned tone, Xu Mingyi also sighed, and echoed: "Yes. Second uncle has always had his own ideas. As far as he is concerned, he would rather be short than excessive in matters of affection. Besides, with his temperament here, he can't help it. One who does not want to be bound."

"Better lack than abuse?"

Xu Mingshi glanced at her: "You really think so?"

"Otherwise?" Xu Mingyi looked at him.

Xu Mingshi was silent for a while, and then said in a very low voice: "...I think that Second Uncle must not have that kind of thought for women. If not, why wouldn't he even give it a try?"

Xu Mingyi was surprised for a moment: ...?

Why would her ten-year-old brother say such things?

"Besides, Second Uncle has been too depressed over the years, and there is nothing wrong with it that is worth mentioning...Second Uncle has been famous since he was a child, and he has become an admirable master of calligraphy and painting casually... ..." Xu Mingshi analyzed seriously: "After thinking about it, only that secret thing that cannot be said clearly can make him so decadent, and feel that life has no hope, right?"

Xu Mingyi remained silent with complicated emotions.

At first glance, it still makes people feel that it is very possible...?

But why has she never thought about it before? ——Is it because she is not learned enough?

"Tomorrow..." Xu Mingyi called out in a low voice.

"What for?"

Xu Mingyi blinked at him, and asked earnestly: "Where did you hear these words? The analysis is so clear and logical, don't you... feel the same way?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

Xu Mingshi stared, and left quickly in anger.

Looking at the boy's back, Xu Mingyi couldn't help smiling.

Sure enough, it's much better to tease her younger brother when she's in a bad mood, and her younger brother is also really useful.

After returning to Xiyuan, Xu Mingyi washed and took a bath, then got into the soft blanket.

He didn't take a nap during the day, so he was tired at this time, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

I don't know how long I slept like this, when I was suddenly awakened by a soft waking sound.

"girl--"

In the darkness, Xu Mingyi opened his eyes, heard Ah Zhu's voice clearly, and immediately woke up.

"What's wrong?"

She asked as she sat up.

"Father has news, and he is waiting for the girl in the yard right now."

Xu Mingyi lifted the bed curtain and got out of bed.

Ah Zhu then went to light the lamp.

It was still pitch black outside the window.

Xu Mingyi took the ginger smock hanging beside the screen, fastened the belt with his hands, and glanced at the hourglass under the window—it was just past midnight.

Uncle Zhu is different from Uncle Qin Wu, who is known for being too ignorant of winks around his grandfather. He is measured and understands priorities. At this hour, something may happen.

After arranging her thick black hair a little, and tied a ribbon behind her head, Xu Mingyi walked out of the bedroom.

"girl."

Zhu Xiu entered the hall from the courtyard and saluted Xu Mingyi.

He was still wearing night-walking black clothes, obviously coming directly here.

"I found it in a ruined temple in the west of the city, but it was a step too late—" Zhu Xiu's eyes were a little complicated.

"Dead?" Xu Mingyi asked.

"yes."

Xu Mingyi pursed his lips slightly.

really--

But this is too fast.

There was a traffic jam on Xiyi Street after noon today, and now the person died within half a day.

In her previous life, she didn't know these details and the timing of the incident, nor did she know how the other party died. Now that she has experienced it herself, she just realized that there seems to be a lot of strangeness in it.

The more this was the case, the more she felt that the death of this person might have an important connection with the death of the Eldest Princess.

"How did you die?"

"He was killed with a knife."

After Zhu Xiu answered, he hesitated for a moment, and then said: "This is what my subordinates saw with their own eyes—"

Xu Mingyi looked at him: "Uncle Zhu saw the opponent's attack with his own eyes?"

Zhu Xiu said truthfully: "When my subordinate led people to find the vicinity of the ruined temple, I noticed that a group of people had already arrived one step ahead. To prevent exposure, my subordinate hid in the dark and did not go forward. The other party had five people, all Wearing black clothes, two of them entered the temple, and came out soon after they got their hands."

"After they were far away, the subordinates led people into the temple, and through comparison, they knew that the person who was killed was exactly the one the girl wanted the subordinates to find."

Xu Mingyi's eyes narrowed slightly.

In other words, after the other party killed someone, he did not clean up anything, nor did he take the body away.

Let’s listen to what Uncle Zhu said, this pedestrian is obviously well-trained, and doing so will definitely not be careless, but intentional at all——

They can be done cleanly without leaving traces.

You don't even have to use a knife.

But being so blatant, it can be seen that the purpose is to make this matter public.

No wonder the news of this person's death in the previous life was so widespread that everyone believed that the Eldest Princess must have been affected by this incident to fall ill...

If we speculate based on this, and combine it with the situation of the eldest princess in the previous life... the mastermind behind this group of people is most likely for the eldest princess Jingrong!

"Can Uncle Zhu see the skills of those people? Or did they leave other clues?"

Hearing this question, Zhu Xiu's eyes fluctuated strangely.