After listening to Lu Qingtang's suggestion, everyone got up and went out to watch the fireworks.
Only Xu Lingshu sat motionless in her original position. Her eyes were flustered and she looked at Lu Qingtang uneasily.
Lu Qingtang looked away from her and winked at Su Mu beside him.
Su Mu immediately stepped forward to help Xu Lingshu up, and said to her with a smile: "Let's watch the fireworks together. Sitting here alone is so boring."
Xu Lingshu had no time to speak before she was forced to leave the main hall by Su Mu.
Originally, it would be easier for her to be assassinated sitting alone in the palace, but the target would be too obvious, which would arouse Ji Wuxuan's suspicion.
In the corridor, people who had just eaten looked up at the fireworks in the sky.
Lu Qingtang glanced in Xu Lingshu's direction, stretched out his hand to hold Mo Zeshen's arm, and pushed him in the opposite direction.
Mo Ze took a deep look at her, with doubts in his eyes.
Lu Qingtang smiled and said to him: "The view here is good, you can see more clearly."
After saying that, she looked around again.
Why doesn't Ji Wuxuan come? If the fireworks are finished, these people will have to go inside.
While I was thinking about it, I saw movement on the roof not far away, and a dozen men in black jumped down along the ridge of the roof.
The sound of the fireworks was so loud that it drowned out their movements.
The leader Ji Wenzhan saw Lu Qingtang at the first sight. Everyone except her was attracted by the fireworks.
Lu Qingtang winked at him, and Ji Wenzhan immediately looked in the direction of Xu Lingshu and nodded at her.
He waved to the other guards behind him, and they allocated tasks in a tacit understanding.
Ji Wenzhan was responsible for dealing with Ji Wuhen, while some of the other guards were responsible for covering, while others were responsible for assassinating Xu Lingshu.
Soon, Ji Wuhen and the palace guards discovered their movements, immediately attacked them, and started fighting with Ji Wenzhan.
The more he fought, the more he felt something was wrong. The man's figure and movements seemed to be his son. With such doubts, he did not kill him.
Mo Zeshen also wanted to step forward, but was held back by Lu Qingtang.
She hugged his waist, not saying she was afraid, and winked at him as she spoke.
Mo Zeshen looked confused and didn't understand the meaning at all.
At this time, the courtyard was in chaos. Ji Wuxuan and his family were all in panic. Ji Wuxuan was holding his daughter in his left hand and his wife in his right hand. His son was hidden behind him and he couldn't care about Xu Lingshu at all.
Xu Lingshu was hiding in Tibet, and was stabbed in the stomach by a guard without even struggling.
Everyone just watched her fall in a pool of blood, and then the "men in black" disappeared on the roof.
After the man in black left, Ji Wuxuan rushed forward in a panic, hugged her and started crying.
He regretted his cowardice just now and hated himself for not being able to protect his woman.
Ji Jianing on the side hugged her mother. Both mother and daughter looked unhappy, but they didn't say anything. After all, it was a human life, and it was a pity to die like this.
Ji Wuhen stood aside, staring blankly at the dead Xu Lingshu, his mind filled with images of his son just now. Why did his son kill Xu Lingshu? Did he hate her so much? No matter what she had done before, she had always taken care of him when he was a child.
Moreover, this is not his son's character.
There must be something wrong!
Thinking of this, Ji Wuhen pretended to seal off the palace to find the murderer. At the same time, he left the front yard and went to the back to find Ji Wenzhan.
Lu Qingtang stepped forward, confirmed that Xu Lingshu was dead, and ordered his subordinates to carry Xu Lingshu aside and clean the ground at the same time.
Fortunately, the three children who were watching a shadow puppet show in the backyard didn't want to come to the party, otherwise they would have been frightened by such a scene.
After seeing that the ground was cleared, Lu Qingtang excused himself to go to the backyard to see the children, and left the backyard with Mo Zeshen.
The two of them passed through the hanging flower door and walked on the Chaoshou veranda built on the pond, and Mo Zeshen spoke.
He asked: "What happened just now? Why didn't you let me save people?"
Lu Qingtang reached out and took Mo Zeshen's hand, making him feel the trembling in his hand.
Mo Zeshen hugged her immediately and asked nervously: "What's wrong with you? Why are you so scared?"
"I was negligent just now. I thought you were joking with me. Don't be afraid. It's safe now."
Lu Qingtang pushed him away and whispered: "It's not because of this, it's because of Dong Chengbin."
Mo Zeshen was a little confused, so Lu Qingtang told him about meeting Dong Chengbin and being seen by Xu Lingshu.
After finishing speaking, Mo Zeshen's face turned pale.
After a long while, he leaned on the railing and said, "You did a good job and prevented all our hard work for so many days from going to waste."
Turning around, he hugged Lu Qingtang, "It's okay, Xu Lingshu is dead. Ji Wuxuan doesn't know the truth of the matter, so he's not afraid anymore."
Lu Qingtang breathed out, she leaned into his arms and whispered: "Let's go see the children, I miss them."
The two held hands and walked through the corridor to the backyard.
At this time, Ji Wuhen had already found Ji Wenzhan in the backyard.
He looked coldly at Ji Wenzhan, who had just changed clothes, and ordered him to kneel down.
Ji Wenzhan was very obedient and immediately knelt on the ground with a plop, looking neither humble nor arrogant.
Ji Wuhen sat on a chair nearby and said sternly: "Tell me, why do you want to kill your cousin?"
"No matter what she did, she will always be your elder. She brought you up when you were a child."
Ji Wenzhan didn't dare to look up, and kept rubbing the corners of his clothes with his hands. He replied in a low voice: "It's not that I want to kill her, it's that she heard things she shouldn't have heard."
Ji Wuhen was very puzzled, "What's the matter?"
Ji Wenzhan then raised his head and looked directly at his father, "It's my little sister. She said she saw something she shouldn't have seen. I don't know the details, but I know she won't lie to me. It won’t take people’s lives in vain.”
Ji Wuhen was stunned. He was stunned for a while before he remembered that his son was still kneeling on the ground, and quickly helped Ji Wenzhan up.
Then, the father and son went to the courtyard where Lu Qingtang and Mo Zeshen now lived.
Lu Qingtang and Mo Zeshen have also just returned.
The three babies were sitting on the small bench and watching the masters perform shadow puppetry attentively. When they saw their parents coming back, they all jumped on them.
Mo Zeshen opened his arms, wanting to hug a random baby, but he didn't want them all to go to Lu Qingtang. At this time, they were acting coquettishly in her arms, and no one paid attention to his feelings.
He curled his lips, hummed a little sourly, and then squatted aside to watch the shadow puppet show.
On the surface, it looked like he was watching a show, but actually he was watching the mother and son making love.
After a long while, Lu Qingtang stepped forward with the youngest Mo Yue in his arms and handed it to Mo Zeshen, "Go to your father's place."
Mo Zeshen stretched out his hand to hold Mo Yue in his arms, and said sourly: "Now that I'm here, everyone doesn't take me seriously."
Little Moyue sat in Mo Zeshen's arms, tilting her head to look at him, and said bluntly: "Who said that, there is daddy in Yueyue's eyes."
Her words immediately made Mo Zeshen laugh.
He stretched out his hand to pinch Mo Yue's chubby face, and put his broad arms around her. He couldn't hide the smile on his lips, "Yue Yue is still the best, and Daddy likes Yue Yue the most."
Mo Bao and Mo Mo also gathered around, one of them squeezed Mo Zeshen's shoulders, the other of them beat his legs, making Mo Zeshen happy together.
Lu Qingtang was pouring tea and drinking. Looking at this scene, he couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips.
When will such a peaceful life be possible? I have to be on tenterhooks all day, guarding against this and that. It is really tiring to live my life.
At this time, a servant reported that Ji Wuhen and Ji Wenzhan were coming.
Ji Wuhen looked like he was hesitating to speak, and Lu Qingtang knew that Ji Wenzhan had already told the story.
