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Xi Mengyao returned to her room, unable to put down the doubts in her heart.

She waited for a while as the maidservants served dinner as usual. All of them lowered their heads like frightened rabbits.

Nothing seemed to have changed.

"Then what did he come here for?" Xi Mengyao mumbled to herself while biting her chopsticks.

When Song Chongjing came over, he didn't say anything. The reason he wanted to bring her out first must be because it was hard to deal with Song Qian.

However, this was even more strange.

Why did he suddenly think of a reason? He wanted her to bring him to the Third Prince Palace.

It had to be known, that there was a relationship between Song Qian and her that was not too big. The princess had even had a huge conflict with her, and Xi Mengge was also there.

Wasn't this obviously sending her to the tiger's den?

However, if it was really his scheme, then after he suspected her, he decided to abandon that idea.

Could it be a passing word?

Xi Mengyao could not understand, these messy thoughts caused her to not even have time to eat dinner. After hurriedly eating two mouthfuls, she did not think anymore, and let them eat instead. She prepared to go out for a walk, and at the same time, investigate the situation.

She yawned and walked out into the courtyard. Suddenly, she felt as if someone was staring at her from behind!

She suddenly looked in the direction of her gaze, but when she turned around, she was quite surprised. Because there was no one there at all. It was just a wall.

This small courtyard was originally very remote and dilapidated. At night, it seemed even more eerie. Xi Mengyao did not like this atmosphere, so she made people light up a few lanterns on the walls of the courtyard, lighting them at night to give the courtyard a little more warmth.

However, the sky had yet to completely darken.

The maids were not so competent as to light the lamps, so it was still pitch black. Xi Mengyao looked at it for a long time, thinking that there was a problem. She really wanted to go over, but the servant girl behind him saw him and hurried over to say it.

"Princess, your servant will light the lantern now."

Xi Mengyao nodded, and did not say a word.

The young maid's hands and feet were nimble as she hurried over to light the lantern.

The small courtyard was instantly illuminated by the warm yellow candle flame. The maidservants did not dare to stay here any longer. They were afraid that this strange princess would come up with some plan to deal with them.

Xi Mengyao, on the other hand, was quiet this time. She only took a walk over here, looked over there, and from time to time, lowered her head to help the new autumn chrysanthemums in the courtyard wipe their leaves.

After she had waited for everyone to leave, Xi Mengyao saw that there was no one left and right. Only then did she pretend to have unintentionally closed the door to her courtyard.

Before she reached the wall, she thought it was strange, but she didn't do anything. She just looked down at the flowers. He was actually using his peripheral vision to observe the wall.

Taking a closer look, she saw that a brick had been pushed aside by someone.

At this time, the brick was slowly wiggling. Obviously, someone outside the wall had noticed her coming and was afraid of exposing her, so she quickly put the brick back.

Xi Mengyao immediately frowned, thinking about it, she raised her foot and kicked fiercely.

Then, he shouted, "Who is outside?!"

The person outside was obviously shocked. The brick became unstable and directly fell out. Xi Mengyao immediately peeked out from the hole.

However, it was already too late. She could only see the corner of a person's clothes.

She narrowed her eyes and immediately gave chase.

When she went out, she had already disappeared. She frowned and looked around, but there was no sign of her.

There were still some messy footprints on the ground.

From the looks of it, he was quite tall.

Fortunately, in these few days, there was a lot more moisture in the frozen mud, which was why the footprints could be made. If it was in the dry land, they probably wouldn't be able to find it.

However, since they were using their feet to run, it meant that they didn't know any martial arts. If Song Chongjing had sent someone to monitor him, he probably wouldn't choose such a noob.

What was he trying to do, peeping around here, and what did he hear?

Could it be a servant girl?

After thinking about it for a while, she still didn't have a clue. Raising his head to look from afar, he saw that the courtyard Song Chongjing lived in was already lit up by candles, and the candles were even brighter than the ones here.

She was just thinking about it and told this to Song Chongjing.

However, when he turned around, he noticed that there were traces of blood on the ground!

The blood stain looked very strange, as if it had been dry for a long time. For some reason, no one had cleaned it up.

"Did something happen here?" Xi Mengyao said softly as she looked again to her left and right.

She only calmed down when she saw that there was no one around her.

After tracing the trail of blood, she discovered that it was purposely spilled here.

She squatted down to check, only to find that behind the marks previously, there were traces of blood near the corner of the wall.

The blood stains were still somewhat moist and sticky, and did not look like human blood stains …

However, leaving such a big spot meant that they must have killed some animals. But, what was the use of killing livestock here?

After she walked around the wall, she found that there were traces of burning marks in the corner.

The fire was not big, and the brick wall only had a faint yellow color. If one did not carefully look at it, they would really miss it.

Could someone be burning paper money?

As she thought about it, she began to search carefully. There was a circle of grass and small shrubs outside. No one had cleaned it for a long time. It was not clean, but it could easily leave behind traces.

She walked around her yard and found that not only did they find it in the corner, but also in the southeast corner of the yard. However, the marks were lighter, as if left behind by something earlier.

Moreover, it looked like someone had cleaned it in the northwest.

Such a small four-sided courtyard had actually been accidentally turned into this state by someone.

Xi Mengyao did not really understand much about these things, but she could still tell that this was definitely not an accident.

Although she didn't really believe that these things could really have any effect, but the people who believed in these things here were countless like the hairs on a cow's head.

"Is that a servant girl …?" She was somewhat doubtful as she tried to recall just how many people she had offended recently.

However, she soon gave up.

She would never think about these things, nor would she care about them.

She had always held the attitude of trying to fend off the unhappiness of the maids' attendants.

She only saw shallow footprints around her. From these footprints, she could tell that they were around 1.7 meters tall, and one of them was even taller.

However, it was very obvious that she had never seen such a tall woman.

"Is it a man?" Xi Mengyao thought, but still quietly went back.

"I was just worrying about the boredom when such a big matter was delivered up to me. It's just the right time to relieve my boredom."