My Lord, your wife is spreading rumors about you again.

Chapter 8 You Follow Me
The night swept across the sky and the earth. The Ming family mansion was lonely and silent. Drops of winter rain fell, making people shiver.

"What did you say?! They were all burned? Didn't the Kyoto government investigate? How could they not even have a single body?" Old Madam Ming slammed the table and stood up, her face full of horror: "The Zhou family caught fire, and the entire house along with dozens of bodies were burned. How could it be such a coincidence that the second girl had just returned from the Zhou family when a fire suddenly broke out there."

Aunt Cui asked suspiciously, "Madam, could it be the second young lady who did it?"

"Impossible." Old Madam Ming sat down slowly and waved her hands. "How could she do such a thing with her weak character? Although she was a little confrontational with us today, I guess it was just because Mingyi and Mingxin died inexplicably, and she was angry for a while. Besides, what did she want to do by setting the fire?"

"Could it be that they want to destroy the body?"

Hearing this, Old Lady Ming laughed out loud: "According to what you said, the entire Zhou family was also killed by Ming Li? Hahaha, if she can have that kind of ability, I, an old woman, will eat shit!"

"Old lady, you are talking without thinking again." Aunt Cui scolded. She had served Old Lady Ming for more than ten years, but she still couldn't change her rural shrewdness. She kept talking about shit and shit, which was really offensive.

But Old Mrs. Ming didn't care about any of this.

She pinched a piece of cake and put it into her mouth, chewing while she instructed: "Speaking of which, this damn girl actually dared to use Wen's dowry list to argue with me, it's really insulting! I think she is tired of living! Aunt Cui, go tell the third wife to find a reason to kill her in the next two days while Boyuan is away on business and has not returned to Beijing yet. This will save me from seeing her every day and getting angry."

Madam Cui hesitated for a moment and said, "But the second young lady is the only one who survived the Zhou family massacre. This case is horrific, and the Kyoto government will definitely investigate. If they come to ask for her, we can't just hand over a corpse."

Old Madam Ming also thought this made sense. Now that Boyuan was not in Kyoto and the eldest wife, Mrs. Meng, was still worshipping Buddha, she finally had the final say in the Ming family, so she naturally had to seize the opportunity to kick out all the people she disliked.

But the Kyoto government office is involved in the affairs of the imperial court. If one makes a mistake, Bo Yuan will come back and hold him accountable.
"Old lady, in my opinion, it is better to..."

Nanny Cui rolled her eyes and tempted, "How about adultery? Anyway, we send a lot of men to her room every month. When the time comes, ask them to testify and say that the second young lady has always been immoral and has colluded with men outside the mansion, and drive her out of the mansion. If the Jingdu government comes to ask for her, we can just send a murderer to them. In this way, we can still sell our face, isn't it wonderful?"

"Very good, very good! Let's do as you say." Old Lady Ming felt relieved after hearing this, and immediately rewarded Madam Cui with five taels of silver.

Mingli was lying on the rooftop in a black nightgown. Seeing the conversation was over, she covered the tiles with a piece of tile gently, then hugged a branch and slowly moved down. Fortunately, the tree was lush and leafy, and Mingli was petite, so no one noticed her climbing up and down.

If I had known this would happen, I should have practiced Qinggong back then!

Shancha was getting so anxious waiting down there that she almost died. It wasn't until she vaguely saw a koala-like creature moving down that she felt relieved. She opened her arms to help him: "Second Miss, be careful."

"fine."

Mingli took Shancha's hand and jumped down, not even bothering to brush off the dust on his body, and pulled her to hide in the corridor beside. Shancha asked hurriedly: "How is it, did you hear anything?"

Mingli frowned and pursed her lips. She lowered her head, feeling extremely sad. What do you mean by "there are many men sent to her room every month"? Whose room are they sent to? Her sister's room?

Shan Cha never told her about these things, so she probably didn't know about them.

"Second Miss?" Shan Cha was very nervous when she saw that she hadn't spoken. She grabbed Ming Li's sleeve and said, "What's wrong? Don't scare me."

"It's okay. You can pretend to be me and sleep peacefully in the room. I will be back before you get up tomorrow morning."

After saying that, Mingli put on his mask and disappeared into the night.

There was no curfew in Qi State. It was late at night, but the streets were still full of lanterns and people. Behind an Ao Mountain, Zhang Zhi's eyes followed the man hiding in the dark.

"Sir, Miss Ming looks like she's going to kill someone. She kept her word. She agreed to kill Mo Zhao for us during the day, but she did it at night!" Wuwei held the black can in his hand and looked at Mingli's back with a look of relief. Zhang Zhi: "."

"Master, shall we follow? If Miss Ming II is in danger, we can rescue her in time!"

"Wuwei, the more beautiful a woman is, the more dangerous she is." Zhang Zhi sneered and glanced at him: "Don't think I don't know, you just want to follow her because she is pretty."

Wuwei chuckled: "Then we won't follow?"

"No, I'll go by myself." Zhang Zhi pointed at Dahei, "As for you, go back home and take it to sleep."

Before Wuwei could argue, he saw Zhang Zhi quickly following him and disappearing into the alley.

However, the moment Zhang Zhi stepped into the alley, a steel needle came from behind and pressed against his neck, with the tip of the needle only the length of a sweat hair away from his skin.

"Your Highness has such a refined taste. Instead of looking at the lanterns or hugging a girl at night, he comes to follow me?"

Zhang Zhi smiled and pointed to the main street on the right: "Here, the lanterns." He then pointed back at Mingli, "Here, young lady."

Mingli's eyebrows twitched. What a playboy he is in Kyoto.

As she exerted force, the tip of the needle touched the skin, and she warned in a cold voice: "Don't move, my prince. The tip of my needle is coated with snake venom, which will kill the throat immediately, even gods cannot help."

Ming Li was half a head shorter than him, and the hot air she exhaled when she spoke just happened to blow behind his ear. Zhang Zhi smiled slightly and said, "Second Miss Ming, you won't kill me."

"Heh." Mingli laughed, "Is the prince such a popular person? I have to protect and love him?" She said as she put away the needle, "But you are right, I will not kill you. After all, I still need the prince to take me to find the burial place of my brother and sister-in-law."

Zhang Zhi's expression froze, and a smile reached his eyes. He turned around, lowered his head to follow Ming Li's gaze, and said happily: "You said I'm a popular person? You still want to protect me and love me?"

Mingli: “.”

Does this person not understand good or bad words, or is he selectively deaf?

Seeing that she was speechless, Zhang Zhi suddenly felt the pleasure of turning the tables.

He laughed loudly, waved his folding fan, and strode forward: "Your brother and sister-in-law died in a cold and lonely way. After all, they were the children registered under the name of the late Madam Wen, and nominally they were legitimate. How come they died without even a funeral or condolences? Even many households in Kyoto don't know about it."

"Your Majesty has only been on the throne for a short time, so it is not appropriate to hold a grand funeral for fear of bringing bad luck."

This reason was the answer Shan Cha got after asking Nanny Cui today.

Seeing that she was unhappy, Zhang Zhi quietly changed the subject: "By the way, were you the one who set the fire at the Zhou family?"

"Of course not." Mingli walked beside him, his face unchanged as he said righteously, "Sir, haven't you heard the rumors among the people? It was a strange fire that fell from the sky and burned an unscrupulous family. What has it got to do with me?"

(End of this chapter)