bookcurios Chapter 106 Goodbye Miss Dong 3
Chapter 106 Goodbye Miss Dong 3
The capital is a city that never sleeps!
After dusk fell, all the shops in the city lit up tall lanterns. Red, yellow, blue, in various and bright colors, they decorated the entire capital city with extraordinary beauty.
Su Qingwan and Xiaonian climbed over the wall of the Marquis' Mansion and went straight to Liu's Grocery Store on West Street.
She had never been to this place, but Xiaonian knew the location of West Street, so the two of them walked over there.
There are a lot of people on the street, especially in front of restaurants and teahouses, where people come and go in an endless stream.
"Why would this rich young man want to go into the water to catch turtles? Can anyone of you guess the reason?"
When passing by a teahouse, Su Qingwan heard the storyteller inside asking people questions. She looked inside the teahouse and saw Qing Laoer joining in the conversation.
"What else can we do? Catch it and eat it, right?"
"Yeah!"
“Maybe it can be sold for money…”
The storyteller clapped the small wooden block in his hand and said loudly:
"Wrong, wrong, wrong! He is a rich and noble man, how could he lack food, clothing and daily necessities? He did this because of a lingering love relationship..."
Su Qingwan and Xiaonian walked away and gradually could no longer hear the storyteller in the teahouse.
"Miss, the person mentioned in that story is not King Rui, right?"
Xiaonian didn't know what Qing Laoer was assigned to do, but after listening to a few words of the storyteller, he vaguely guessed it.
"Yeah! It's him. I didn't expect Qing Er to be so capable. He tells a very good story."
Su Qingwan ate a piece of candied fruit she had just bought. It was so sour!
She lost interest in eating any more.
"Come on, let's finish our business first and then go to the teahouse to listen."
"it is good!"
Xiaonian took the paper bag of candied fruit handed to him by Su Qingwan, rewrapped it, and stuffed it into the cloth bag on his shoulder.
They had just come out for a while, and the cloth bag was almost full of snacks bought by the young lady, such as preserved fruits, candied fruits, and peanut snacks, making his cloth bag look bulging.
Finally they arrived at West Street. Xiaonian asked someone about the location of the grocery store and then led Su Qingwan there.
The person from Liu's Grocery Store was a guard himself, and he had followed the chief guard to the Marquis of Chengping's Mansion before, so he knew Su Qingwan.
Seeing Su Qingwan coming in, he hurried to greet her.
"This guest, please come this way."
Su Qingwan nodded and followed the man into the inner hall.
She was very curious at the moment. She didn't expect that her father had opened a grocery store in the capital. She wondered whether this store was profitable.
If she made money, where did the money go? Did it go to the public? Or did it become her father's private money?
Su Qingwan followed the man into the inner hall, but she didn't expect that after turning several corners, she entered a large courtyard.
This place is quite interesting!
Xiaonian carefully remembered the way he came and remained highly vigilant.
However, they were led into a room, and as soon as Su Qingwan entered, she saw Lord Shen and the captain of the guards.
"Lord Shen, why are you here? Don't you have to stay in the Imperial City Division now?" Su Qingwan asked in surprise.
Did His Majesty feel that Lord Shen no longer needed to be a witness when he was in the palace today?
It's still very dangerous to let him walk outside like this!
"Yes, His Majesty has already imprisoned all those involved in the corruption case in Xide County, so it is relatively safe for me to walk around outside for now." Li Yuncheng said with a smile.
He did not lie to Su Qingwan about this. The emperor would not let these corrupt people go.
"Oh, that's it."
My father is also going back to the capital, and I don’t know if he will bring that woman with him this time.
"By the way, why did you ask me to come here?" Su Qingwan asked.
She thought it might be her father who asked them to find her, but Lord Shen said:
"Miss Su Si, let's go to the inner room."
Several people entered the inner room.
The inner room was very empty, with no bed or cabinets, only a large square covered with black cloth in the middle.
However, there was a bloody smell in the house. Although it was not very strong, Su Qingwan and Xiaonian both smelled it. They looked at each other and then looked at the large square covered with black cloth.
"Light a few more lamps." Li Yuncheng said.
The captain of the guards and others immediately added a few more lights in the room.
Su Qingwan didn't ask any questions, she just looked at the black cloth. What was inside? Gold, silver, and treasures?
Two guards pulled down the black cloth.
Su Qingwan took just one look and instantly became angry.
"You called me here just to see a naked girl? And you locked her in a cage, you..."
“Roar! Hoo…”
"Bang bang bang!"
The woman trapped in the cage suddenly jumped up and roared towards Su Qingwan through the tight iron cage.
"Scared me!"
Su Qingwan muttered something, but looked carefully at the things in the cage.
Her skin was extremely white, without a trace of blood, the pale color of a dead person.
The eye sockets were white, without pupils.
This situation reminded Su Qingwan of the guy who was infected by the spider poison before.
But I heard from Da Nian that the person is still alive, but has been in a coma, and he is currently studying the reason.
However, she felt that the woman looked slightly familiar, and she must have seen her there before.
"Miss Su Si, she is Miss Dong San from the Prime Minister's Mansion. We found her at the Guandi Temple. She was very ill at the time and insisted on not returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion, even threatening to commit suicide."
"There is no other way. We can only leave her here to recuperate temporarily, but I didn't expect her illness to flare up suddenly."
"They ate the maid who took care of her and killed many people in succession. We finally put her in a cage with great difficulty." said the captain of the guards.
After hearing this, Su Qingwan remembered that she had indeed seen this woman underground in the Guandi Temple, and she had shown her the way at that time.
It was thanks to her that she showed her the way that she was able to find Han Yue.
But she doesn't look like she's having a seizure!
He even stopped breathing, only the sound of "hoohoo" and "haha" remained. He looked like a living dead.
"She looks like she's dead." Su Qingwan said.
Just as he finished speaking, the woman in front of him grabbed the iron cage so hard that her nails flipped up and fell off.
Some tiny white things fell out from the wound, landed on the cage in clumps, and then spread out along the cage.
Xiaonian was horrified and grabbed some powder and sprinkled it all over the place.
The white stuff instantly turned into a pool of blood and no longer spread out.
"Are these poisonous insects?" Su Qingwan asked.
Xiaonian didn't look very happy, but he nodded.
"Yes. They are still juveniles, so they are still white. The black bugs that the lady said she saw before should be semi-adults."
"Then isn't this person's body full of these bugs?" the captain of the guards exclaimed, his scalp tingling.
"That's about right! She must have been poisoned for some time."
While Xiaonian was speaking, he grabbed another handful of powder and sprinkled it into the cage.
The powder fell on the woman's broken fingers, making a series of squeaking sounds that sounded extremely harsh.