Chapter 69

"After Qing'er's accident, she made trouble several times, and the son banned her feet from appearing in front of people again..."

Wen is not stupid. He knows that Xu Mingyi has the intention to ask this question. Even if he ordered the dowry mother to bring Cui Yunwei here.

Although she asked all the questions that should be asked, these days she and Wei'er were dazed by anxiety. Maybe elder sister and Xu family girl can ask other key questions.

"Mother, but have you heard from your second sister?"

Cui Yunwei soon came to the Shizi courtyard, walked all the way with her skirt, and almost ran into the inner room.

Looking at his daughter, who was sweating on his forehead, looking forward to and uneasy, Wen felt another pain in his heart. He shook his head slightly and said, "it's your aunt and cousin who want to ask about your second sister."

Cui Yunwei was disappointed, so she could pay attention to saluting Cui.

"Aunt, cousin Zhaozhao..."

"Sit down and talk," Cui whispered.

Cui Yunwei nodded and sat down, and her pale face was gone.

"In cousin Wei's opinion, is there anything unusual about cousin Qing before the accident?" Xu Mingyi asked aloud, "or have you ever seen anyone worthy of attention?"

Since he went out alone and sold his jewelry, he must have something else inside, even if he didn't run away.

Wen looked at his daughter and said, "Wei'er, think about it..."

"Two days before the second sister's accident, I was very cold, so I didn't go out of the yard. On the day of the second sister's accident, I felt much better after taking a nap. I went to her yard to find her, but the servant girl said she was out, so I went back. I didn't know that the second sister was gone until the next day!"

Cui Yunwei recalled regretfully, "the last time I saw my second sister was three days before her accident - that day I went to Shangyu pavilion with my second sister to buy bracelets for my mother."

If she had been a little colder in those days, she wouldn't have seen her second sister for a few days. Why couldn't she notice any clues.

But before that, she really didn't feel anything wrong with her second sister from beginning to end——

Hearing this, Xu Mingyi flashed in his mind what happened in Shangyu pavilion that day.

It turned out that cousin Qing happened three days after she appeared in Shangyu Pavilion.

Mentioning the purchase of bracelets, Wen felt even more painful.

She didn't know that what she had seen more in Shangyu pavilion that day was quietly remembered by her two daughters.

After the bracelet was bought back, Qing'er also said that when she saw her in Shangyu pavilion that day, she looked at the bracelet and forced her face to smile. She was very unhappy. As a daughter, she also wanted to make her mother happier.

But where is she forced to smile

At that time, she thought that although she couldn't buy the bracelet today, her mother-in-law could live soon. At that time, Zhongfu and the dowry will return to her hand. In the future, she will buy whatever she wants—— Thinking like this, I couldn't help revealing a smile.

But Qing'er thought so carefully.

This is nothing. In the final analysis, my daughter is filial and considerate. Being a mother is only comforting.

But it happened that Qing'er had an accident only three days after he bought the bracelet——

"In order to buy this bracelet for me, the two children took out all their private money." Wen was ashamed and said: "I thought that Qing'er must have some place to use silver. She was arrogant. She didn't want to be known. Then she went out of the house alone and sold her jewelry quietly. If she really met some villains or calculations on the road... Didn't I hurt her as a mother?"

"What's the mother's remark! The wrong one is the one who hurt the second sister, how can it be the mother!"

Cui Yunwei bit her lip, summoned up her courage and said, "if I say, it may not be Xia Xi's doing! That day in Shangyu Pavilion, she embarrassed me and my second sister in every way. I'm sure it was her deliberate revenge!"

Wen's expression changed slightly.

"Wei'er, if you don't have evidence, how can you talk freely, but you forget why your father banned your feet?"

She also asked her father to roughly verify this matter. The fourth girl of the Xia family has nothing unusual recently.

"Without evidence, you really can't wrong others easily. But if you really have something suspicious, you should say it." Xu Mingyi looked at Cui Yunwei and asked, "in addition to Xia Xi, has cousin Qing ever had a conflict with others?"

Cui Yunwei shook her head without thinking.

"The second sister is introverted and kind. If she is not forced to hurry, she never quarrels with others!"

"What about Qi Lin?"

Xu Mingyi asked again, "does he really have contacts with cousin Qing on weekdays?"

"There are also some contacts." Cui Yunwei said realistically: "when my second sister and I were studying in the family since childhood, he often went to the library, but we haven't seen each other much in the past two years."

She and her second sister haven't been to school since they turned 12 last year.

Qi Lin waited on pen and ink with his father. He was in the front yard and rarely had a chance to meet them.

"But it's impossible to say that my second sister ran away with him... With him!" Cui Yunwei said firmly.

Xu Mingyi was noncommittal, but then asked, "before the accident, what was different about Qi Lin?"

The Bo family must have inquired about these things in detail.

Sure enough, Wen said, "a few days before that, his mother outside the house happened to be seriously ill. He came back to Bo's house and his old house all day. He often didn't see anyone for half a day. No one could notice anything unusual."

A person whose mother is seriously ill at home will not be taken into account, even if his performance is somewhat different from that in the past.

"Seriously ill?" Cui frowned slightly.

The mother is seriously ill at home, and is in the mood to learn from others to elope?

It's not right.

"The day after Qing'er disappeared, the government sent someone to his house to see her. It was found that the woman had died of illness... It seems that it has been a day or two." Wen's face was a little ugly again: "In other words, before he disappeared, he should have known that his mother had died, but he did not mention it or prepare for mourning! However, all the valuable things in the family have been sold."

Therefore, some informed servants in the house had such speculation as "secretly preparing to elope outside the house in the name of serving their seriously ill mother" and "seeing that their mother died, they had no worries anymore, and even couldn't deal with the funeral, so they took the two girls away".

Xu Mingyi listened and thought.

This Qi Lin is obviously very suspicious.

If it is not elopement, this person is deliberately creating the illusion of elopement.

This intention is undoubtedly to prevent Bo's house from going deep into the matter in order to cover up and confuse the truth of cousin Qing's disappearance——

So... Did he have a crooked idea, or was he bribed by someone?