An Qian took out the handkerchief and wiped the blood stains on Mingyi's hands inch by inch. She frowned tightly when she looked at the bloody mark on the back of her hand that was pinched by Chu Yanqing.
Mingyi watched her wiping her hands, and her heart calmed down a little bit, "What should we do now? Chu Yanqing never revealed the whereabouts of Gillian until his death. The clues are broken. Where should we go to find it?"
"I'll go check out where he's been these past two days. Maybe there are some missing clues... Ahem!" Fu Ruixuan said, but suddenly he coughed like a cold wind.
With this cough, the expressions of An Qian and Mingyi changed.
"Your Highness is weak. Don't get cold. You'd better go back to the palace first!" Mingyi said hurriedly. Seeing An Qian and Fu Ruixuan both looking over, she said without waiting for them to speak, "I'll take the people with me." Take a look, there is also someone at the Prime Minister's Mansion who has to go to the Highness to explain, and the Eldest Princess has someone to worry about."
An Qian and Fu Ruixuan looked at each other, and they probably felt that she had thought carefully and didn't insist anymore.
"Okay! I'll go back to the palace first, quietly report today's events to my father, who has been worried about me, and then discuss with my father the affairs of the Prime Minister's Mansion... These people I brought are all mine. Confidants, you can send them with confidence, I will leave them all to you." Fu Ruixuan said after pondering for a moment.
Mingyi nodded, "Thank you, Your Highness!"
"I'll go to the eldest princess's mansion first. If nothing happens, I'll come back and look for you." An Qian also said, but just before she did, she opened her lips for a moment, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say it out loud, just softly With a sigh, he supported Fu Ruixuan and left first.
Mingyi looked up at the gray sky and sighed softly, Li Fengjiao, where are you? Due to Chu Yanqing's death, Li Fengjiao's disappearance could no longer be concealed. Such was the rumor. A drop of fire would start a prairie fire in an instant.
In this case, Emperor Chongning no longer had any scruples and sent a large number of troops to search for Li Fengjiao's from the eldest princess's residence, including Fu Ruixuan, An Qian and Mingyi, were not idle, but even so, they searched for several days and dug almost three feet into Wangjing City, but they still couldn't find Li Fengjiao.
The eldest princess finally couldn't hold on any longer and fell ill in An Qian and others didn't say anything, they also understood that Li Fengjiao was probably in bad luck after so many days of no the person who kidnapped Li Fengjiao was Chu Yanqing and hid her somewhere, what would happen if she couldn't escape or even didn't eat or drink after so many days?If it wasn't Chu Yanqing, he must have wanted something else. However, no message was received from the eldest princess's mansion or elsewhere, not even a blackmail letter. Could it be that the person was afraid and simply killed someone to silence him?
"Maybe... Gillian is no longer in Wangjing City?" It was this thought that made Mingyi, who had no idea, have another direction, and asked Lu Zhao to check the land and water routes that left Beijing before and after Li Fengjiao's accident.
After such an investigation, some clues were actually this day, she followed Lu Zhao out of the city and arrived at the dock beside the canal.
Boats were coming and going on the pier, and there was a mixture of fish and dragons. It was very lively. The air was filled with a strong smell of water, and there was also a strong smell of sweat from the boatmen who came and went.
In two lifetimes combined, this was the first time Mingyi had returned to a place like this, but she just frowned.
Lu Zhao was walking beside her, and Lu Ming was on the left and right, separating the people coming and going. As he walked forward, he whispered, "Princess, that Gao Laosan is in front, he is the boss here." Experts have sharp eyes and ears. It was he who said that on the day Princess Changning disappeared, he saw a group of people carrying a sack on a boat. Most of them looked unfamiliar to him. He thought they were photographers, but Thinking about it later, I felt strange. After all, I only saw it once and only moved a sack..."
Mingyi listened and pursed her lips, understanding what Lu Zhao meant. If he was a philanderer, it was unlikely that he would only do one that's not necessarily the case. After all, Li Fengjiao has a special status, and her face is too troublesome. In the eyes of some people, she is a cash cow worth thousands of it really fell into the hands of Paihuazi... Mingyi didn't dare to imagine what Li Fengjiao must have experienced at this moment. She just stepped two minutes faster and walked quickly in the direction Lu Zhao said. There was a hint of worry in his eyebrows.
Lu Zhao has been working with Mingyi these days, so he naturally knows how much she cares about Princess Changning, so he does not dare to persuade her, but just follows silently, giving Mingyi directions at the right time, "Princess, go this way... "
Mingyi nodded, not caring about the mud on her feet. She picked up her skirt and walked into the dark alley. "Mingyi..." At this moment, a weak call suddenly sounded from behind.
Mingyi stepped forward for a moment, and for a moment she almost thought she was hallucinating. The next moment, she suddenly turned her head and looked over, and saw a figure standing not far away, wearing a thorn hairpin skirt and a curtain hat on his head. The long gauze hangs down to the ankles, making the figure appear more Mingyi recognized him at a glance, felt her breath tightening, and rushed over immediately.
"Gillian!" she called tremblingly, and it wasn't until she reached over and held Li Fengjiao's hand that she felt something real.
A gust of wind blew away the gauze on Li Fengjiao's hat. Mingyi raised her eyes and touched her behind the hat. Her pupils suddenly shrank and she said in shock, "Gillian, you..."
Li Fengjiao didn't look at her. She looked at a certain place through the gauze with a dazed look on her face.
Mingyi suddenly turned her head and looked where her gaze fell, but she only saw a figure striding into the crowd. He was dressed in ordinary commoner clothes, but he was tall and had a bamboo hat on his head. Maybe he noticed it. They looked at each other, held down the brim of their hats with their hands, walked two minutes faster, and disappeared into the crowd in a blink of an eye.
Mingyi's heart moved, and she looked back at Li Fengjiao. The latter would also look away, with a hint of disappointment in her eyes that she couldn't put away in it was fleeting, the other person was Li Fengjiao, the person Mingyi was most familiar with. Even the slightest change in emotion could not escape Mingyi's eyes. "Gillian, that person..."
Li Fengjiao tightened her hand, "Let's go back first and then talk!"
Mingyi looked at her for a moment and finally nodded.
From the dock to the carriage, the two of them held hands tightly and did not separate.
"Are you here to find me?" Li Fengjiao asked hoarsely as the carriage started to jolt.
Mingyi nodded, "I just found some clues. Oh my God, you are finally back safely. Your Majesty, the Princess and the others can feel at ease."
"I've made you worry so much." Li Fengjiao's eyes darkened slightly.
After suffering this catastrophe, Li Fengjiao has changed. Mingyi's eyes fell on her face, and a deep pain flashed across his eyes. He patted the back of her hand gently, "What happened? Was it Chu Yanqing's doing?"
"Chu Yanqing?" Li Fengjiao was startled and shook her head slightly, "I don't know. On the mountain road... I fainted, and when I woke up again, I was already on a boat. When I was confused, I heard those people say , their master named me, but I don’t know whether their master is Chu Yanqing."
"Then your face..." Mingyi's eyes fell on Li Fengjiao's face, and the ends of her eyes suddenly moistened.
(End of this chapter)