168. Chapter 168 Don’t meddle in other people’s business

Author: spicy pen Xiaoxin

Chapter 168 Don’t meddle in other people’s business

The conditions here are limited, and many details cannot be tested.

"Inform the people from the government to come and collect the body. Please pay attention to this matter. Be sure to let me know when the results of the autopsy come out."

Xuan Ming nodded: "Yes."

Xu Ruqing stood up and looked around. As night fell and the lanterns came on, under the illumination of the bright and dark lanterns on the street, she always felt that there was a gaze focused on her. They were two eyes like flames. She didn't know this

Where did those two gazes come from? They burned her slightly.

She walked towards the end of the street despite the burning gaze, when suddenly a black figure flashed behind her, like a ghost.

"Since you brought me here, how long will it take if you don't show up now?"

"call out--"

A sharp dart shot towards Xu Ruqing's life gate from a dark corner. Xu Ruqing quickly turned sideways and effortlessly dodged the attack.

The dart did not hit Xu Ruqing but hit a wooden stake behind him. There was a piece of paper at the spot. Xu Ruqing stepped forward and took it in his hand. He unfolded it and took a closer look, and six big characters were written on it:

Don't mind your own business.

"Thank God, I finally found you, Princess." Zhiqu ran over panting. She didn't look at Xu Ruqing for a moment, but when she turned around, Xu Ruqing was nowhere to be seen, which made Zhiqu extremely anxious.

"Princess?" Compared to Zhiqu, who was anxious, Xuan Ming seemed much calmer. He knew that Xu Ruqing knew martial arts, and she was not an impulsive person. He guessed that she might have discovered something when she came here.

Xu Ruqing put the note away calmly and nodded in response to Xuan Ming's guessing look: "Well, it's not advisable to stay here for a long time. Let's talk about it when we get back."

Xuan Ming brought the carriage, and Xu Ruqing and Zhiqu got on it. As soon as the carriage started, they saw a woman rushing towards them in a panic.

"Help, help!"

The woman asking for help was wearing an apricot yellow stand-collar winter skirt. She looked back while running, looking embarrassed as if she was being chased by a ghost.

"Help me, strong man, someone is trying to kill me!" The woman saw the burly Xuan Ming with sharp eyes and hid behind him without any explanation.

Xuan Ming almost without thinking jumped out of the carriage and pulled the woman to protect her behind him. He pulled out the sword from his waist and looked around cautiously, but after looking for a long time, he could not see any suspicious figure.

"You said someone wants to kill you, where is the person?"

The woman had not yet recovered her breath and was out of breath. "I don't know, he was following me just now. He probably saw that strong men are not just ordinary people, so he left wisely."

"If you, a woman, don't just stay at home and embroider, what are you doing out at night?"

The woman bit her lower lip, with a lonely look in her eyes. "The strong man doesn't know something. I am not a local. I have no home here."

"Then why did you leave your hometown?" Xu Ruqing asked.

When I talked about this woman, I couldn't help but feel sad. She covered her face and sobbed: "The little woman lives in the Northern Wasteland. There was a flood in my hometown half a year ago. After the flood, the plague came again. Unfortunately, my family was affected by the plague."

They died one after another. I came to Bianjing alone to seek refuge with my relatives, but my distant uncle refused to take me in, so I ended up wandering the streets alone."

Xu Ruqing sighed slightly when he heard this, she was another orphan girl without a father or a mother.

"May I have your name?"

"The little girl's name is Yan Xiang'er."

Xu Ruqing raised her head and looked at the sky. It was now completely dark. She really couldn't rest assured that she was left alone as a girl on the street where unexpected dangers could happen at any time.

"I have five taels of silver here, which is enough for you to have food and accommodation for a while. I will ask my bodyguard to take you to a nearby inn."

"Madam, I don't want this money." Yan Xiang'er refused without thinking.

Xu Ruqing frowned and expressed confusion.

Yan Xiang'er explained: "The place where the inn is located is a mixed bag of good and bad. I suffered an inhumane experience and had no choice but to wander out."

"You can't stay homeless forever, can you?"

Yan Xiang'er followed Xu Ruqing's words and said, "I wonder if Madam can take me in? Xiang'er is willing to work as a cow or a horse for you."

Xu Ruqing was a little hesitant: "This..."

"Little girl, please madam, I can really do anything. You can ask me to chop wood and carry dung. Please have mercy on this poor little girl and give her a place to stay." Yan Xiang'er plopped down as she spoke.

He fell to his knees and hit his head on the ground with a muffled sound.

Xu Ruqing glanced at Xuan Ming and asked him what he thought.

Xuan Ming met her eyes and nodded invisibly. In his opinion, this woman was not aggressive. If what she said was true, he could consider taking her in for a while.

"Okay, come up and go back home with us."

Yan Xiang'er was overjoyed and kowtowed to Xu Ruqing a few more times: "Thank you, madam, thank you madam."

It wasn't until the sky turned completely dark that the three of them successfully arrived at Prince Wei's Mansion.

"You will live here from now on. If you are new here and you don't understand anything, you can always ask me."

Yan Xiang'er took a look at her living environment. The room was not big but it had all the necessary features. "Okay, thank you for knowing me, Sister Zhiqu."

"Don't thank me, you should thank the princess. It was the princess who took you in with great mercy."

"Yes, Xiang'er will never forget the princess's great kindness."

After exchanging a few insignificant words, Zhiqu went back to his room to rest.

Yan Xiang'er looked out through the gap in the window, looked around to make sure there was no one, and then said to the screen behind her: "Come out, they have left."

As soon as he finished speaking, a man walked out from behind the white screen embroidered with pictures of Jiangnan ladies. The man had a feminine appearance and was wearing a crimson corset. The most special thing about him was his pair of gloomy eyes, which seemed to be full of conspiracies.

"Xianger, how is your injury?"

In front of men, Yan Xiang'er showed her true side without any scruples. In fact, she had always been extremely weak, and she had to pretend to be a normal person just to deceive others.

Yan Xiang'er limped to the table of the Eight Immortals and sat down. She leaned into the man's arms with great dependence. Then she slowly undressed and took off her belt, leaving her naked and staring at the man.

It wasn't until he saw the hideous wounds on her body that the man took a deep breath.

He reached out and touched several wounds that were leaking and rotting. They were on his knees, collarbones and arms. They were injured by Xu Ruqing's revolver a few days ago. The wounds were very deep. The medical level of this era was unable to remove bullets from the flesh.

The bones were removed, so these wounds had to be delayed again and again, and the disease became serious and turned into a pile of dead flesh, attracting many maggots to gnaw crazily in the flesh holes.
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