Reborn in a Noble Family - Chapter 46
Chapter 46 Raise Suspicion
After dinner, Qiao Yunxi returned to his room.
“Miss?” Seeing Qiao Yunxi’s serious expression, Lian Qiao asked curiously.
Qiao Xi shook her head, her heart filled with a lingering haze.
I always feel like something’s going to happen.
This kind of bad premonition made her very uncomfortable.
Leaving Forsythia and Angelica in the outer room, Qiao Xi hid on the bed.
At the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the temperature in Jincheng wasn’t too cold, but there was a big difference in temperature sooner or later. Qiao Yunxi wrapped the quilt around his body and sat quietly on the bed.
The moon is dark and the wind is windy.
Murder Night!
Qiao Xi’s dark eyes were exceptionally bright in the twilight.
The silver plate-sized moon hung in mid-air. White moonlight shone on the courtyard. It was white and clear without any impurities. It could only illuminate the small scenery, but it was exceptionally clear.
“Evanescent.”
The sound of sharp arrows piercing through the night sky.
As expected!
Qiao Yunxi’s eyes narrowed.
Therefore, she still had some golden fingers or something.
As the daughter of the curator of the dojo, she had something to do with ancient weapons.
Her petite body was hidden behind the window, and she looked out of the window quietly through the cracks.
It’s the left courtyard.
The courtyard where the male pilgrim was.
I wonder who’s so unlucky.
Eh?
Qiao Yunxi frowned.
Something’s wrong!
In the twilight, the seven or eight figures did not stop in the left courtyard.
The arrow that shot out was just a test.
Their goal is …
What kind of place is that?
Qiao Yunxi looked in the direction where the black shadow leapt, and his question deepened.
That place seemed to be where the monks lived.
Qiao Xi was not very clear about the layout of the temple, so she could not say any professional terms.
Her tiny body shrank into the darkness, holding her breath.
Curiosity kills cats.
She is not yet capable of meddling in other people’s affairs.
“Ka da.”
His figure stiffened.
Just as Qiao Yunxi was about to dive back into the darkness, the door bolt outside was opened.
The crisp voice was exceptionally abrupt in the silence.
Qiao Yunxi also adjusted the frequency of his breathing and the speed of his heartbeat.
If the ancients couldn’t control it with internal force, she had her own methods.
It was unknown if that person was anxious or conceited, and did not pay attention to the situation inside the room.
The figure paused in the twilight for a few seconds. After discerning the direction, it leapt forward.
In the blink of an eye, Qiao Xi could clearly see that person’s back.
Dang Gui!
She wasn’t naive enough to think that Dang Gui had heard the commotion, so she came out to check.
Dang Gui was a servant of Qiao Manor, her servant, and her duty was to protect her, not meddle in other people’s affairs.
Qiao Xi looked at the dark shadow in the twilight gloomily and retracted her body.
She didn’t have any qinggong, and this body wasn’t made of renminbi equipment. She knew her disadvantages, so she didn’t intend to catch up.
Whose man is Dang Gui?
He had seen too much of the house and palace battles, and he had also seen too much of them in his heart.
Don’t underestimate the ancients.
In the ancient times, when there was nothing to do, a group of women circled around a man and fought in the backyard, all of the women’s thoughts were on “fighting”.
Fight for favor.
A fight for power.
Fight for profit.
Even trivial matters need to be fought.
When a woman is focused on one thing, when one thing has been done for more than ten years …
Hehe, who can be more professional than a woman?
His lax thoughts only lasted for a second.
Qiao Yunxi rubbed his chin.
Four rooms?
This was the first possibility she thought of.
After coming here for a month or two, those who had a grudge with her, apart from Qiao’s Third Son, were black condoms.
Placing Angelica beside her was not an easy task.
First of all, they had to arrange a reasonable false identity for the Danggui Clan and put it on record in the government.
She didn’t think Fourth Floor was that capable.
Fourth Fang really had such great ability, so he wouldn’t have endured until now and directly attacked eldest branch.
Is that a black condom?
Qiao Yunxi’s eyes were tight.
Among the people she knew, only Black Condom’s identity was the most prominent. Even though she did not know Black Condom’s true identity, the awesome background of Marquis Zhen Yuan’s grandson made it easy for her to give Dang Gui a fake identity or something.
If it was a black condom, then what was his purpose?
Looking at the huge fortune of the Qiao family?
Or against her?
Qiao Yunxi favors the latter.
The black condom’s hatred towards her was not just endless. If it was possible, he wished he could dig her ancestral grave.
In addition, she also wanted to understand the black condom’s evil intentions towards Qiao San.
The black condom clearly had something to do with Qiao’s Third Son.
Although she wasn’t sure if it was love or something, the black condom’s protection of Qiao’s Third Son was too obvious.
As for why he didn’t reveal his identity to Qiao’s Third Son, Qiao Yunxi believed that she didn’t understand the world of the ancients at all.
Perhaps he was confident that he wouldn’t fight for his father, grandfather, beauty, and talent to conquer Qiao’s Third Son!
Dang Gui did not know when Qiao Yunxi came back, nor did she care. Regardless of whose person Dang Gui was, she did not have the ability to contend with him right now, nor could she ask for more information.
She’s really passive.
There was no one around, no one to trust, nothing to do.
However …
Angelica sinensis is not just a meticulous work!
This man’s hands were stained with blood.
As a martial artist, Qiao Xi was very sensitive to the aura on people’s bodies.
With that cautious glance in the twilight, she could clearly feel the distinct aura of Angelica sinensis.
That was why the ancients were the best at acting.
It was a completely different aura from the low-key presence of a peaceful day. To use a jargon, it was “murderous aura”!
This kind of aura could only be felt when one was personally in the midst of it, and the pressure and deterrence it brought could only be felt when one was in the midst of it.
Although Angelica purposely restrained herself, at that time, the piercing aura emitted from her body made Qiao Xi unable to ignore it.
“Imposing aura” might only be a physical reaction to others, but as a slap to a woman, the feeling was not simply “life threatened”, because martial practitioners were more sensitive!
A person’s aura directly reflected his identity, status, and profession. Of course, as a professional, he could grasp more information from the aura.
Dang Gui, the aura of slaughter all over her body explained her profession very well.
He wasn’t an assassin, but he was similar to an assassin.
Like the hidden guard, like the “scavenger” or something.
The next day.
Qiao Xi took the time to wash up and deliberately asked a few questions. There was no news of the sneak attack last night, and her heart instantly understood.
The black condom and the abbot were on the same side!
That’s why the news was suppressed!
After calmly eating breakfast, Ma Dongyi arrived.
After packing up, the group of people boarded their carriages and returned to the city. Ma Dongyi sent Gu Jingshu and Qiao Yunxi back to Qiao Family.
“Qiao Qiao is back.” Qiao Xingbang had been waiting in the courtyard all this time, and as soon as he heard the news from the porter, he came out to welcome him.
“Daddy.” Qiao Yunxi also smiled.
“Did you have fun?”
Qiao Yunxi nodded.
Apart from what happened last night, she was still satisfied on the whole.
Qiao Yunxi went back to pack up first. Qiao Xingbang chatted with Ma Dongyi for a while, then took him to the middle school to visit Old Madam Qiao.
Putting aside the friendship between the master and servant of the Qiao Clan and the Ma Clan, Ma Dongyi had arrived at the Qiao Clan as a junior, so he should also pay a visit to Old Madam Qiao.
Old Madame Qiao kindly chatted with Ma Dongyi. Regardless of the Ma Clan’s previous identity, the Ma Clan was now Qiao Family’s partner. She could secretly talk about the Ma Clan’s past, but in front of others, Old Madame Qiao gave the Ma Clan a lot of face and treated them as honored guests.
After all, Old Madame Qiao still had the experience to sit in this position.
Qiao Xi admired the Qiao Family for this.
It really had to be traced back to the fact that Qiao Family was still born with mud legs. Before Master Qiao started his business, he was also a farmer. As his business grew bigger and bigger, the people in Qiao Family came into contact with different levels of people and had different views. Old Madame Qiao knew how to change her identity and how to adapt to it. Just her ability to adapt and learn was not something an ordinary woman could do.
Although Old Madame Qiao was not born tall, she had her own set of skills in interpersonal communication. She was more skilled in all aspects and calculations than ordinary women.
After lunch in the Eastern Campus, Qiao Xingbang and Ma Dongyi went to the Chamber of Commerce to handle their business. Gu Jingshu said to Qiao Yunxi, “Qiao Qiao, I discussed with your father and prepared to send you to school.”
The school that Gu Jingshu was talking about was actually the Qiao Clan’s clan school.
Interesting.
The Qiao Clan’s so-called clansmen numbered more than a hundred. Compared to the real clans, this number was simply not enough. Moreover, among these people, only two or three had bloodlines with the Qiao Family. They were related to Qiao Xi’s grandfather, and they were all distant relatives. They almost had to wear five clothes. The rest of this was only because they were in the same village as the Qiao Clan. They were all surnamed Qiao, and they had a strong connection with the Qiao Clan on the genealogy.
Before the Qiao Clan developed, they were just peasant households. These so-called clansmen were all from the Qiao Clan Village. After the Qiao Clan developed, these people became clansmen, the village chief became the clan head, and the private school in the village became the clan school.
Of course, the clan school moved from the village to Jincheng. It was said that it occupied a decent position. Afterwards, the small comrades in the village also attended a school as clansmen at the expense of Qiao Family.
However, a child like Qiao Er, whose duty was to take the examination, would be sent to a government-run school.
This kind of government-run school is also divided into 369 grades. The children of ordinary people cannot be in the same school as the children of aristocratic families unless you are either talented or rich.
Well, that’s not his fortune.
Unfortunately, Qiao Family has money.
Therefore, the White Deer Academy that Qiao Er was currently in was an institution of higher learning that belonged to Jincheng City. It was said that the Dean was once a first-grade minister beside the former Emperor. After returning to his hometown in splendid clothing, he established this academy, which was very prestigious in the court. The disciples under his name played a pivotal role in the court.
Qiao Yunxi knew that Qiao Family had placed his hopes on the four boys of his grandchildren. Among them, Qiao Er and Qiao Da were the most important. Both of them were direct sons, but Qiao Da was from the third room. Old Madam Qiao did not care at all. Instead, she held back her breath.
The eldest grandson of the Qiao family actually came from the third room. How could Old Madam Qiao be willing?