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Leng Qiyue did not refuse. Rong Fei was still unconscious, so it would be useless for her to stay. It would be better for her to go back and rest.

On the second day, Leng Qiyue disguised herself as a eunuch and followed the funeral procession out of the palace. The house of Guard Li was located in a small village outside the city. As soon as the carriage entered the village, they saw an old man looking at them from the street.

The eunuch who drove the carriage recognized the old man and shouted, "Uncle Li, we are sending brother Li back."

The elder looked at the carriage and saw that it was covered with white cloth. Tears immediately began to flow from his eyes as he cried, "Rich, you really did go. I'm old and I'm old. How can I go on …"

Leng Qiyue stepped forward to support the old man and said, "Uncle Li, let's first settle down Brother Li's corpse."

"Mm, mm …" Uncle Li wiped away his tears as he led them towards the village. Protector Li's house was an ordinary tile-roofed house. In the courtyard stood a beautiful woman with spring water in her eyes, feeding the chickens. Among the chickens, there was also a baby that couldn't walk, sitting on the ground and playing.

When the woman saw that Uncle Li was crying and that a carriage covered with white cloth had stopped at the door, her hands suddenly trembled and chicken food spilled onto the ground.

Uncle Li said, "Eldest Brother's wife, Da Fu is going home."

The woman covered her face as she squatted on the ground and cried. Seeing how sad they were, Leng Qiyue decided to ask them something else. She took out a bag of silver and said, "Uncle Li, this is the appeasing fee …"

Hearing that there was money, the woman immediately stood up and ran over to snatch it. She opened the bag and looked at it in disdain. "How can this amount of money be enough for me to live with an orphan?"

When Leng Qiyue heard this, she looked at the woman with her triangular cheeks and oval face. Her eyebrows were high, and her pair of peach blossom eyes rippled with spring water. The lips were fat and thick, unadorned and unadorned. In general, she was a beauty, especially with her white and smooth skin. She was especially eye-catching.

However, this woman's words and actions were not pleasing to the eyes, especially her expression as though she was snatching away a silver bag. How did she resemble a woman whose husband had just died? There was at least 200 taels of silver in the silver bag. It was enough to make an ordinary person eat and drink well for more than 10 years, yet she felt that it was too little.

Uncle Li said, "Eldest Brother's daughter-in-law, leave these silver coins for Niu Wa to study …"

"Come on, what's the use of this little bit of silver?" "Now that you're rich and dead, I have no one to rely on. How about you give me some of your family's silver and I'll immediately remarriage so that I won't drag you down." The woman said snappily.

Uncle Li was so angry that he coughed. After a long time, he said, "Where did you get the silver from? If you want to remarry, that's fine, but immediately pack it up and scram! "

The woman smiled mockingly and said, "Don't think I don't know. When I came back the day before yesterday to give you some banknotes, I saw it. It was two thousand taels. He even said that if he doesn't make it back alive, he'll give me a thousand gold. You old bastard, you want to take it all for yourself? "

"You … "You, you, you …" Uncle Li was so angry that he couldn't speak.

Leng Qiyue's eyes lit up. It seemed like this woman knew a bit about the situation. It would be better to provoke her and let her talk a little more. " Oh, this sister-in-law, Brother Li said before he died that he would give you a thousand taels. These are his last words, I just don't know how Brother Li got so much silver? His salary is not much, could it be that he's talking nonsense? "

The woman suddenly looked as if she had someone backing her, and she became even more arrogant, "Hey, did you hear that? Before he died, he even said he would give me money, you can't take it all for yourself. "I told you personally, there's a woman who gave him two thousand silvers to kill. If he succeeds, there'll be even more rewards. It's a pity that he's so stupid that he died."

Leng Qiyue continued to ask, "Does Eldest Sister-in-law know the name of that woman?"

Leng Qiyue took out a handful of golden leaves from her bosom. As she played with them, she said, "It's such a pity, Brother Li's master said that if anyone remembers her name, he would give them to her. It's such a pity."

The woman couldn't open her eyes due to the shaking of the golden leaf. She revealed a greedy look and quickly said, "I know …"

"Eldest Wife, don't speak nonsense." Uncle Li spoke up to stop them. He could already see that Leng Qiyue was trying to trick them.

The woman did not listen to him and said brainlessly, "I only know that her surname is Hua … "Ahh!" She let out a sudden cry and fell to the ground, a willow leaf throwing knife sticking out of her back.

Uncle Li was so scared that his entire body trembled as he sat on the ground.

Leng Qiyue looked around, but didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Could it be that she had been targeted the moment she left the palace? Then there must be a spy in the palace. With Madame Li dead, Uncle Li definitely wouldn't say anything. Moreover, they wouldn't know much. It would be better for them to leave, lest another person died.

"Uncle, it's best if all of you leave the capital and take care of yourselves. "Come, let's return to the palace." With a wave of her hand, Leng Qiyue brought the eunuchs back to the Imperial Palace.

After returning to the palace, Leng Qiyue reported to Dongfang Haotian about what had happened today. Dongfang Haotian said, "That woman said that the woman who gave Li Dafu the banknotes is surnamed Hua?"

Leng Qiyue nodded. "That's right. It's a pity that I was silenced before I could even finish speaking. It was due to my negligence that I failed to guard against it."

Dongfang Haotian comforted her: "You can't blame yourself for that. The woman surnamed Hua in the palace is only Flower Rain Butterfly, could it really be her?"

Leng Qiyue thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we go to the Hundred Meet Palace to investigate? Maybe we can make her confess without even fighting."

Dongfang Haotian asked: "What? Does a concubine have a way? "

Leng Qiyue said, "The incense you took last time is still there, why don't you use it to play?"

Dongfang Haotian slanted his eyes and looked at Leng Qiyue, saying, "Are you trying to put on a show again?"

Leng Qiyue disdainfully said, "Do I need to wear clothes? Looking for Xue Ling or Little Die to change a little bit is fine, that incense is my doing, what is there that you are reluctant to part with? I'll just give it to you. "

Dongfang Haotian laughed: "It's not that I'm reluctant, it's that I've used up all of it."

Leng Qiyue opened her eyes wide and asked, "You used it? "Tell me, which girl did you go and make trouble for?"

Dongfang Haotian laughed: "What is a disaster? I did use it on women, but I used it on old women. "

Leng Qiyue was startled. "It's the empress dowager?"

Dongfang Haotian nodded and didn't say anything.

Leng Qiyue thought about it for a while and really didn't remember that incident ever happened. In any case, she was just being careless. There were some things that she simply didn't remember at all.

Dongfang Haotian said, "It seems that you want to play tricks on yourself. Come find Xueling. It's better for a man to be a male."

A drop of sweat slid down Leng Qiyue's forehead. Male?

Very quickly, someone "carried" Xue Ling inside. She was actually sleeping like a dead pig while holding a jug of wine.

Black lines covered Leng Qiyue's face. She lifted her foot and kicked at his butt. Xue Ling was immediately kicked to the ground. He jumped up and shouted, "Which bastard kicked me?"