Seeing Xie Xun who had just walked out of Luoyueyuan, Hua Jin relaxed a little, slowed down and adjusted his breathing, "Third cousin is leaving?"
Xu Tianyi's escape made Xie Xun feel very bad.
In order to catch all Lu Deqiu and others, he can be said to have secretly laid a dragnet.
In the end, there was still such a flaw.
"Is something wrong?" Xie Xun was in a bad mood, and his expression was inevitably a bit unhuman.
Hua Jin felt a chill in his heart, but he still mustered up the courage to say, "I want to go with my third cousin."
"Want to come with me? What do you want to do?" Xie Xun sneered.
If some time ago, in order to buy time for Xu Zan and Wen Baolin, he could still see some warmth in his words, then at this moment, not to mention warmth, not even a trace of family affection can be found.
"I..." Hua Jin's limbs were cold, and the courage he finally mustered up seemed to be shot through by an ice blade. But thinking that this might be her only chance to reveal her feelings, she once again plucked up the courage to say, "My favorite third cousin."
"So?" Xie Xun looked at her coldly, "Even though you know that uncle Huang has given me a marriage, you still want to pester me and want to be my concubine?"
Hua Jin clenched her fists and bravely raised her head to meet his gaze, "Yes, as long as I can marry my third cousin, I am willing to be my concubine!"
"You are willing," Xie Xun mocked, "Have you asked me if I am willing?"
Hua Jin's pupils shrank suddenly, "You...are unwilling?"
Xie Xun was even more mocking, "Why should I be willing? How good, outstanding, and different are you? If you want to be my concubine, I have to be willing?"
Every time he said something, Hua Jin took a step back.
At the end of the sentence, Hua Jin's body weakened and he supported the tree, looking at him in disbelief, "Just because of her, you said this to me..."
"You think too highly of yourself," Xie Xun sneered, "Even without her, it wouldn't be your turn!"
Hua Jin fell to the ground.
Xie Xun, however, walked past her without any pity and left.
Chen Anning paused and then followed suit.
When the maids arranged their luggage and left Washington in the carriage, heading for Jincheng County, Chen Anning said, "Are those words of yours a little too serious?"
"If it's not serious," Xie Xun glanced at her, "Are you going to let her continue to pester you?"
Chen Anning looked at him twice.
She didn't know whether Hua Jin would continue to pester her.
But when he left, his behavior of not saying goodbye to Mrs. Hua and Mrs. Hua would definitely be remembered against her.
"If you have the leisure to care about me," Xie Xun spoke again, his words full of ridicule, "Why don't you think about it carefully. After coming to Jincheng County, the ladies in the Prefecture treated you with sincerity, but you didn't show any affection at all. How will people outside see you for sending them to jail without mercy?"
Chen Anning was amused, "According to what you said, after completing the mission, those plainclothes or undercover agents will not only receive no reward, but also have to bear the burden of being ungrateful?"
Not to mention that Lu Wenjun and others approached her first.
Just say that Lu Wenjun and others are "sincerely affectionate" to her. Do they really want to make friends with her?
Besides, Lu Deqiu colluded with Zhao Yongsheng, Xu Tian and others to deceive. Even if they were innocent, they did not deserve sympathy.
This is similar to how modern criminal crimes affect direct descendants.
Which of the things they eat, wear, and use is not obtained by their father’s deception?
Behind the fraud, how many families were destroyed?
Xie Xun's purpose was not to accuse her, but: "You know this truth, but you still accuse me of speaking too harshly?"
"If you don't think it's heavy, then don't. Anyway, those are your grandmother, aunt and cousin." Chen Anning said disapprovingly.
"They are my grandmother, aunt and cousin," Xie Xun's voice was filled with mockery, "but they allowed the two cousins to pester me. Do you think it's really because the eldest cousin likes me?"
Chen Anning said nothing.
Xie Xun continued: "The government was able to gain the emperor's trust and get the position of guarding Jincheng Pass because of the identity of his mother, Princess Guangling. But relying on this alone, if there is no successor, at most two generations, the government will not be able to succeed. It will be reduced to a small household. It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. After enjoying the favored scenery, you will naturally not want to be ordinary again."
"It's a pity that my uncle and aunt's only son is good at eating, drinking and playing, but he is an inconspicuous idiot when it comes to reading, calligraphy, riding, shooting and martial arts."
"If you want Washington to continue its current glory, you will definitely not be able to rely on him."
"What should we do?"
"The Guangling Palace allows the emperor to value the Hua family so much. If you marry another daughter, will the emperor value it even more?"
"My eldest brother and second brother have been talented since they were young. They are quite self-aware and don't dare to make random decisions about them."
"Me..."
Xie Xun laughed twice and said, "You should have heard about what happened before. Those powerful families in the capital were unwilling to wrong their daughters, and my mother was unwilling to wrong me. Since they had such intentions, they naturally hit it off. "
"You used to..." After hearing him mention the past, Chen Anning asked, "What is really stupid or fake stupidity?"
Xie Xun looked at her condescendingly, "What do you think?"
"Pretending?" Chen Anning asked.
Xie Xun did not answer, but asked: "What was your mood like when you first came here?"
"What kind of mood?" Chen Anning's memory drifted involuntarily to the moment when she opened her eyes and saw a group of ancient people around her, and smiled, "It's very interesting."
Xie Xun raised the corners of his lips and said, "Very interesting?"
Chen Anning's smile did not change: "I thought I was dead, but when I opened my eyes, I found that I was still alive, still alive in this way, living at the scene of a crime that was framed."
Xie Xun couldn't help but laugh when he thought about the first time he saw her, "It's really interesting."
Chen Anning looked at him, "What about you, why are you here?"
"Me? It's because..." Xie Xun was about to say that Xu Zan suddenly came on horseback, "Xu Tianyi's whereabouts are known!"
"Miss Chen Er!" Xu Zan came closer and said hello to Chen Anning before continuing, "Xu Tianyi should be looking for a girl named Ling'er."
Linger?
Xie Xun searched his memory and determined that this name did not appear in the fraud information of Lu Deqiu, Zhao Yongsheng and Xu Tianyi, so he said: "Be clear."
Xu Zan took the tea handed over by Chen Anning. After a few sips, he took a moment to calm down and said excitedly: "First, let me tell you how we found this girl Ling'er."
"According to your instructions, we posted Xu Tianyi's wanted posters in the streets and alleys of Jincheng County, and arranged secret guards and government officials to guard the whole process. Earlier, after you arrived in Jincheng County, you went to the secret shop on South Second Street. Wei discovered that a child of seven or eight years old secretly tore up a wanted notice and went out of the city."
"The secret guard will follow you secretly according to your request."
"This time, we followed him to Chongmashan in Daji Town, which is more than ten miles away."
"There is a temple behind Chongma Mountain."
"There are more than a dozen children living in that temple."
"The one who looks after these children is Miss Ling'er."
"The kid who secretly tore up the wanted poster was one of them."
"After the child returned to the temple, he immediately gave the wanted order to this girl Ling'er."
"After seeing the wanted notice, Miss Ling'er fell to the ground as if she couldn't believe it. Then she rushed out of the temple like crazy and rushed down the mountain. But for some reason, she stopped halfway. He stopped and hurried back to the temple, and asked the children to quickly close all the doors and windows of the temple."
"That's it for now. Let me tell you about Miss Ling'er," Xu Zan said eloquently. "After Wen Baolin got the news, he went to Daji Town to investigate because he was eager to make up for his mistakes."
"I learned from his inquiries that the dozen or so children were all beggars adopted by Miss Ling'er."
"Miss Ling'er was originally a beggar and had been hiding in that temple. The temple used to be a ruined temple with no shelter from the wind or rain. Originally she was the only one there because she was deaf and mute and had no eyesight. That's great. After her parents passed away due to illness, her grandparents threw her there. It is said that she was only five or six years old when they were thrown there."
"I originally thought she would starve to death there, but I didn't expect that she survived tenaciously by going to the city to beg from time to time. There were people in the town who took pity on her and would occasionally send her food, but most of the time, she still She walked down the mountain by herself to beg for food in the city."
"It must have been when she was eight or nine years old. When she went to the city to beg for food, she picked up a little beggar."
"According to people in the town, the name Ling'er was given to her by the little beggar. They said it was taken from Zhong Ling Yuxiu's spirit."
"With this little beggar taking care of him, Ling'er's life will be much easier."
"It's just that the good times have only passed six or seven years. When people in the town thought that Ling'er would be happy after all his hardships and would live a peaceful life with this little beggar, the little beggar suddenly disappeared."
