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Before going to sleep tonight, Qu Ling instructed the Aunt Tao, "Tomorrow morning, head over to the South Wind House and ask Murong to find two people from the Miao Boundary for me."

Aunt Tao was surprised, "Another person from the Miao Boundary has arrived in the capital?"

Only with Jiang Huo and Jin Yi in front did Aunt Tao use the word "again".

Qu Ling did not explain any further and vaguely responded.

Murong Yan had a wide network of people and was very efficient. Very quickly, he managed to find traces of the two Miao Boundary people.

After receiving the news, Qu Ling followed Jiang Huo out of the palace without saying a word. When Xiao Jingyue returned from the imperial court, he wanted to bring Qu Ling into the palace.

Xiao Jingyue's face darkened, and asked coldly: "Where's the Madam?"

Aunt Tao did not dare to lie, but he could not speak the truth, so he said: "Just now, little young master came over to find little miss, and after saying a few words, little miss followed little young master out."

Hearing that, Xiao Jingyue's face became even uglier.

He knew very well that he was going to the palace today, but he was still so restless!

After leaving the Clearwind Institution, he shouted in a low voice, "Xiao Er!"

The Xiao Er didn't wait for Xiao Jingyue to open his mouth to ask, and instead took the initiative to speak: "A message came over from Xiao Yiyi, saying that the Madam has gone to the Mortal Flower Lane."

After returning to the capital, Chen Linye had invited him to eat wine at the brothel more than once, hence Xiao Jingyue knew that the alley was full of brothels.

Hearing that, Xiao Jingyue was so angry that his face turned green, he gritted his teeth: "Immediately call for troops, follow me to the alleyway!"

When Xiao Jingyue led his troops to pass by the South Wind House gate, he turned his head and looked at the South Wind House. His gaze was impartial and met the gaze of Murong Yan, who was currently leaning against the window.

Murong Yan cupped his hands calmly.

Xiao Jingyue nodded and retracted his gaze, continuing to walk without looking back.

Lotus Blossom House was the largest brothel in the capital, and it was the source of almost every Courtesan Belle.

Last year's Courtesan Belle, Shuang Xue, was one of Murong Yan's men.

Shuang Xue brought Qu Ling to her room and gently said, "There are indeed two Miao Boundary people in the Lotus Flower Hall. It is said that you have made a huge fortune in the capital, but for some reason, you have not left. You have been staying at Qing He's place for the past few days and have barely left your house. "

The rules here weren't quite the same as in the other houses. As long as they spent money on the girl every day, the guests would be able to stay in the girl's room for the rest of their lives.

Without thinking much, Qu Ling could guess that the windfall was from Huo Xinyi.

Just thinking about what might happen in the room made Qu Ling shiver uncontrollably.

"Where is Qing He's room?"

Shuang Xue replied, "It's at the end of the third floor."

Qu Ling took out a bag of medicinal powder from his bosom. "I'll have to trouble Miss Shuang Xue to help out with something."

Shuang Xue lowered her eyes. She calmly received the powder and said in a low voice, "I owe Sir Murong a favor. Since Sir Murong has spoken, I will do my best."

With that, Shuang Xue blessed her body and then left.

After an unknown amount of time, a ruckus suddenly came from the outside.

Shuang Xue hadn't come back yet, so Qu Ling didn't dare to go out to look for her. He restrained the soul of the Eight Trigrams, and patiently waited for her inside the room.

After a while, the door was kicked open from the outside.

Qu Ling jumped up from the chair in fright, staring angrily at the approaching man.

It would have been great if she hadn't looked at it, but now that she saw a face as black as Guan Gong's, she couldn't help but wish that she had never been here before.

Qu Ling's mouth was agape, and he smiled at the person outside: "General, good morning."

The soldier thought that he was guarding the two sides of the door, and then Xiao Jingyue who was dressed in a dark purple robe walked in slowly.

The old procuress who was behind Xiao Jingyue almost fainted on the spot when she saw Qu Ling, "Qu … Xiao … Mrs. Xiao! "

Who could tell her why the General Xiao's wife would appear in their brothel, and why she was hiding in their family's Courtesan Belle's room?

The old procuress quickly knelt down and kowtowed continuously, shouting, "Generals mercy, Generals mercy!" "This one really doesn't know that madam is here. This one definitely hasn't done anything disrespectful …"

Xiao Jingyue impatiently raised his hand. Xiao Er who was waiting outside immediately went up and dragged the old procuress down.

Qu Ling thought that since Xiao Jingyue had already brought his troops, it would be better for him to go up and capture the two Miao Boundary people.

Therefore, she quickly walked in front of him, tried her best to ignore his devouring gaze, and lowered her voice as she said, "General, those two Miao Boundary people are inside the Lotus Flower Hall!"

Xiao Jingyue did not say anything, but glanced at Xiao Yi who was at the side.

Xiao Yi understood and immediately led his men to search.

"Hey, wait for me. I'll go with you!" Qu Ling raised his leg and was about to run, when he suddenly tensed up and uncontrollably retreated a few steps.

Xiao Jingyue said in a calm voice: "It's getting late, I think it's best for Madam to follow me into the palace."

Qu Ling breathlessly tried to break his hand, "You better understand the seriousness of the matter! Girl, I'm a suspect right now, and I need to find the truth to clear my name. "

Hearing the two words "Miss", Xiao Jingyue sized Qu Ling up from head to toe, and sneered with unknown meaning.

Qu Ling frowned, but just as he was about to speak, a sharp scream came out from the third floor.

She was so scared that her whole body trembled and her heart skipped a beat.

For some reason, she suddenly had a bad feeling about this.

Xiao Yi, who had led his troops in a search of the Lotus Flower Hall, returned. "Master, we found those two Miao Boundary people."

Xiao Jingyue saw that his expression was strange, and asked: "What happened?"

Xiao Yi replied in a low voice, "Those two Miao Boundary cultivators are dead."

Dead? Qu Ling opened her eyes wide in disbelief, she attempted to struggle free of Xiao Jingyue's grasp and ran up to investigate. But before she could do anything, her waist suddenly tightened, and she was brought flying, in the blink of an eye she was already on the third floor's corridor.

The door to the room at the end of the corridor was currently filled with the soldiers Xiao Yi had brought along.

In the middle of the soldiers stood two women.

One of them was Shuang Xue, while the other one was pale and trembling all over was Qing He.

At this moment, two men in Chinese clothing were lying on the ground in Qing He's room. Blood was flowing from their seven orifices, and their deathly appearance was extremely frightening.

With just a glance, Qu Ling was able to confirm that these two men were indeed from Miao Boundary.

Their faces were all tattooed with totems. These totems were the markings of a certain clan in the Miao Boundary, which one they were, she couldn't remember immediately.

Qing He recognized Xiao Jingyue and immediately knelt down and cried: "Please spare me General Xiao, these two people were truly not killed by me, I am innocent!"

Shuang Xue had walked over at some point. When Qing He saw her, she immediately pointed at her and yelled sternly, "It's Shuang Xue! It must be her! Esteemed guests love tea. Just now, I went to the latrine to make a mess and Shuang Xue took the initiative to serve tea for me. She must have poisoned my tea! "

Qu Ling looked at Shuang Xue subconsciously, but she didn't look at her. She knelt down and said in a low voice: "It's my tea, but I definitely did not apply any medicine into the tea."

Seeing that Shuang Xue did not reveal herself, Qu Ling secretly heaved a sigh of relief.

She had only given Shuang Xue ordinary knockout drugs, but if she were to say it out loud, she was afraid that it wouldn't be long before she would have to eat prison food in the justice courts.

Usually, Xiao Jingyue would hate this kind of place with fireworks. If it wasn't to capture Qu Ling, he wouldn't even take a step inside this place.

He raised his hand with a displeased expression, and instructed his subordinates: "Send him to the Caoital Officials Palace."

In the capital, the death of an ordinary person was handled by the imperial government and the death of a court official was handled by the justice courts. Xiao Jingyue had no intention of meddling in this matter.

Leaving the Lotus Blossom House, Xiao Jingyue walked to the corner of an alley where no one was around and asked with a dark expression: "Does Madam have anything to explain to this general?"

Qu Ling raged: "Explain then! Why are you hugging me!"