Chen Anning smiled and said: "As expected of mother and daughter, you saw through it right away."
Ms. Qiu received the praise, but she didn't feel any happiness. She only felt cold in her heart and her hands and feet were cold. "Did you really push Miss Zhao Er into the dark room and let Song Fu destroy her innocence?"
Chen Anning tilted her head and asked an unexpected question: "We haven't seen her for a few days, and the scars on my mother's face seem to have faded a lot."
Qiu quickly covered her face.
The scene on the day of the Peony Banquet, when she stabbed her face with a dagger without blinking, came to mind unconsciously.
Chen Anning smiled slightly, "The two of them want to destroy my innocence, so I can only fight back. Then if I don't push Miss Zhao Er to go to the darkroom, I will push my sister to the darkroom. Which one does mother want me to push?"
Mrs. Qiu said subconsciously: "Then I'd better recommend Miss Zhao. Your sister has already gone to Kaiyanghou Mansion. If her innocence is destroyed by Song Fu again, she will have no way to gain a foothold."
"I think so too." Chen Anning said, "That's why I came to Chen's house with Mrs. Yibo and begged my grandmother to let me save Miss Zhao Er. Does mother understand?"
Qiu nodded repeatedly.
Chen Anning looked at her with a smile, "Do you need me to give it to mother?"
Ms. Qiu quickly shook her head, turned around and left.
After walking a few steps, she turned back and saw Chen Anning still looking at her. She quickly turned back and walked faster.
Chen Anning waited until she was out of sight before she looked away and returned to Qingzhiyuan.
That night.
The moon is bright and clear.
The gauzy moonlight shone dappledly into the bedroom through the half-open window.
A layer of hazy light casts a hazy light on the dark bedroom.
There are still two moments until midnight.
Chen Anning turned over quietly.
Between the sleeves hanging down from the bedside, a thin layer of fragrance instantly overflowed.
Just for a moment.
The sound of insects chirping and singing various operas outside the house disappeared.
In the room, Chun Tao, who was leaning on the table and sleeping lightly, was breathing gradually. Chun Rui and He Xiang, who were taking a rest in between, also fell into a deep sleep.
Chen Anning got up, took the bedside cloak and wrapped it around her body, then quietly went to Hengwu Courtyard.
Xie Xun had already changed into night clothes and was waiting for her. When he saw her coming, he tapped the night clothes next to him with his chin and said, "Change."
Chen Anning took the clothes and quickly went to the inner room. When they changed into night clothes and came out, neither of them spoke. They only exchanged a glance and quietly left Chen's house under the cover of night with a tacit understanding.
In the shadow of the alley outside the back door of Chen's house.
Four secret guards waited for the two of them silently.
After the two sides met, Xie Xun made a gesture, and the four of them quickly followed, and then the six of them rushed towards Hepingfang silently with the help of Qinggong.
Under an old willow tree three feet away from Hepingfang.
Chen Anning took out a porcelain bottle, poured out some pills, swallowed them, and handed them to Xie Xun.
Xie Xun poured out a pill without any hesitation, swallowed it, and handed it to the secret guard behind him.
"Act separately or together?" After several secret guards also took the pills, Chen Anning asked as he looked at Hepingfang in the distance.
"Split up, work in pairs, you and I." Xie Xun ordered without hesitation, "We are responsible for exploring the house where Song Fu's carriage stopped the day before and looking for the gray cloth carriage. They went from the south gate separately. Enter the Heping Square with the east gate and explore the layout of the square."
Chen Anning had no objection to his forced grouping.
She was not familiar with the secret guards, so there was definitely no tacit understanding of their cooperation.
As for their night visit today, what they lack most is time.
After taking out two more porcelain bottles and throwing them to the secret guards behind him, Chen Anning whispered: "Pharmaceutical powder that suppresses the nerves of humans and animals and makes them unresponsive. After entering Hepingfang, just spread it with the wind. But because the space is not closed, The drug's effect lasts only a short time, about a quarter of an hour, so the detection speed must be fast."
Xie Xun glanced at the porcelain bottle in the secret guard's hand, "Can't it be used multiple times?"
"Okay." Chen Anning said without hesitation, "If you are not afraid of alerting the enemy."
Since it is a drug that suppresses the nerves of humans and animals, repeated use will inevitably have an impact on human nerves. One or two people fell down, and something happened to the people and animals in Hepingfang overnight. You don't need to think about it to know what happened.
"Then let's do this." Xie Xun ordered, "We will take action at two o'clock. We will meet here at three o'clock."
There is still almost half a quarter of an hour before midnight.
After whispering a few words to a few secret guards, and watching their backs quickly leave under the cover of night, Xie Xun pulled up his faceband to cover his mouth and nose: "We are also preparing to take action!"
"Let's go!" Chen Anning pulled up her face towel, nodded to the ground with him, and sneaked into Hepingfang silently.
After taking out the medicinal powder that suppresses the nerves of humans and animals, and scattering it in the wind, Chen Anning motioned to him to lead the way as he listened to the barking of dogs that gradually calmed down.
Xie Xun has already been here once.
After roughly glancing at the location of the two of them, he quickly sneaked towards the house where Song Fu got off the carriage the night before.
Chen Anning followed closely behind him.
moment.
Xie Xun stopped.
Chen Anning also stopped immediately.
"This is it." Xie Xun said.
Chen Anning followed his gaze and looked at the courtyard a few steps away.
It is a very ordinary two-entry courtyard house.
Very old and shabby.
The atmosphere of life seems to be very strong, but it is vaguely deliberate.
For example, the ground in the yard is deserted in many places. Only the road from the courtyard entrance to the house entrance has the feeling of being stepped on by people walking around for a long time.
There is also a collapsed wall in the courtyard. Although it has been repaired, the repairs are too perfunctory.
In short, after looking around, there is an absurd feeling that there are people living here, but not serious people, both inside and outside.
After looking away from the courtyard and glancing around, Chen Anning said: "I didn't see any carriage."
Xie Xun took the lead and dived toward the southeast.
Chen Anning followed his footsteps.
In an instant, Xie Xun stopped in front of a gray cloth carriage.
Chen Anning glanced at the carriage, then at the courtyard next to the carriage, and whispered: "The memory is confused?"
Xie Xun looked forward.
Chen Anning also followed his gaze.
There was also a gray cloth carriage parked outside a courtyard five or six feet away from them.
Xie Xun didn't say anything, walked through the alley next to him, and walked onto another street.
Chen Anning followed him and saw the same gray cloth carriage on another street.
More than one gray cloth carriage!
After the two of them looked at each other, Chen Anning walked lightly to the nearby gray cloth carriage and walked around it. After seeing no traces of blood or cleaning, she carefully lifted the The door curtain of the gray cloth carriage was carefully inspected inside by the moonlight.
There was no blood inside either.
The carriage that the people of Baoningfang saw on the night Tian Daming was killed was not this one.
"Search separately!" Chen Anning put down the door curtain and whispered.
Xie Xun responded and ran quickly in the opposite direction.
There are about thirty similar gray cloth carriages in Hepingfang.
Time was tight and there was no time to check carefully, but judging from the seventeen carriages that were roughly screened, there were no problems!
The medicine that suppresses the nerves of humans and animals slowly began to wear off, and the barking of dogs began to sound from light to heavy.
After Chen Anning glanced at the direction Xie Xun was leaving, she left Hepingfang without looking back.
