Chapter 222 Chaos arose
A strange thing happened in the capital.

Overnight, the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion was reduced to an empty house, and even the shops became empty shells.

Gu cried until her eyes were swollen like walnuts. She was wearing only her inner clothes and was crying and wailing in front of the gate of Shuntian Prefecture.

Her children and grandchildren looked the same as her, all of them looked as if their parents had died.

Long Sanqi went out early in the morning to watch the excitement, and came back to tell Long Er about the miserable conditions of those people.

"I really want to know how the young lady did it. She was able to empty the entire Zhenguo Mansion in one night. No one followed us out last night."

After saying that, he looked at the woman in her thirties and scratched her head ungracefully.

Long Er frowned and tapped the table lightly.

"So, what they said before was true." She looked solemn, and ecstasy gradually appeared in her eyes.

The girl and her husband might really be immortals, otherwise, how could the Duke Zhenguo's Mansion be emptied overnight?
He didn't think of anything other than divine means.

Long Sanqi's eyes lit up, and he excitedly pulled Long Er's sleeve, "Second sister! Are we going to rise to heaven with them too?"

Long Er pulled back her sleeves and glared at her unhappily, "You are so old but still not steady at all. I have wasted all these years teaching you."

Although she said this, there was no disdain on her face. Instead, she joked, "I'm not a chicken or a dog."

Long Sanqi didn't mind being a servant at all, she was very happy.

"Oh, I have to hurry and do what the girl asked me to do." She stood up excitedly and ran out like a butterfly.

Long Er stood up and stretched her body. She had been sitting for almost the whole morning and she had to get things done quickly.

However, as soon as the incident happened in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, the Lu Mansion reported the case.

Because the young master of the mansion was missing, the house where he often played was filled with the bodies of servants, and the old housekeeper of the Lu Mansion also died there.

The people from the Lu Mansion and the Zhenguo Mansion almost surrounded the Shuntian Prefecture Government Office.

Wan Tong, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, was almost bald and his head was buzzing.

"Why are there so many things happening every day!" He cursed with gritted teeth, but he couldn't just ignore it.

Marquis Wu'an is far away in the northwest and can be put aside for the time being, but the Lu family has a queen, and the missing person is the only son of the Lu family, the queen's biological brother.

Let’s find someone first.

Wan Tong straightened his official robe and strode out of the room.

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Pan Yingying slept soundly and had no idea that the capital city was in turmoil.

Yu Chaosheng had already woken up and was playing with Batian in the yard.

Honglian, who was guarding the door, heard the noise and hurried in, "Is the girl awake?"

Pan Yingying said "hmm" and sat up from the bed.

"Ask Aunt Long Er to come see me." She thought of something and said.

Honglian turned around and went out to tell Lumei to go and call Long Er over.

Green Plum ran away like a gust of wind, and Red Plum hurried to the small kitchen to ask Long Shi to prepare the meal.

When Pan Yingying finished washing up and sat down to drink tea, Long Er came.

Without waiting for Pan Yingying to bring it up, she took out two pieces of paper from her bag.

One is filled with words, and the other is a route map.

Pan Yingying was very satisfied with her efficiency and praised her with a smile.

Long Er smiled but said nothing. She didn't dare to show that she had ulterior motives on the list.

She had recorded every one of the concubines' families who had been at odds with her in the past. After Long Er left, Long Sanqi came to see Pan Yingying secretly and stuffed a bag of silver into Pan Yingying's pocket, but no one noticed.

That night, two dark shadows left Qin's house again.

Bisheng sat under the eaves, and when he saw the shadow go away, he strung the beads on his hands with peace of mind.

The lights in Lu's mansion were bright.

All the servants were sent out to look for people. There was a curfew in the city, but Minister Lu went to ask for the Queen's decree.

Minister Lu, who is in his early forties, is obese. Because of his son's disappearance, he has blisters on the corners of his mouth and gasps in pain whenever he speaks.

The concubine beside him was applying medicine to him with a look of heartache, but he impatiently waved her away and slapped her in the face.

The concubine's face swelled up instantly, and she retreated to the side without daring to make the slightest sound.

On the roof, Yu Chaosheng gently covered the tiles, looked at Pan Yingying, and said in a low voice: "Is it this woman?"

Pan Yingying held a painting in her hand and looked at it again and again in the moonlight, still not quite sure.

"Come and take a look." She turned the painting to Yu Chaosheng.

Yu Chaosheng stared. What on earth was this thing that could barely be made out to be a "person" in the painting?

"Did Aunt Sanqi draw this?" He couldn't believe it. When Yu Chun'er and the others had just started learning to paint, they also drew better than this. "Didn't they say she has been hanging around in the palace all these years?"

Even if he is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting, it shouldn't be possible for him to paint like this, right?

Pan Yingying: ...

She was also helpless. She was in a hurry to eat and had no time to open the painting to look at it. Now she could only stare at Yu Chaosheng.

"What should I do now?" she sighed.

The person that Long Sanqi was talking about was Long Er’s biological sister and also Minister Lu’s concubine.

When Long Er and his sister were separated, she was recruited into the Long Yin Guard by accident, and her sister joined the opera troupe. When she found her sister, her sister had become a concubine in the Lu family.

Long Er originally wanted to reunite with his sister, but something happened in the Eastern Palace at that time. He had been thinking about her all these years and knew that she was not having a good time in the Lu Mansion. He tried to rescue her from the fire pit several times, but was always hindered by things.

Long Sanqi knew her worries, so he brought a portrait and a bag of silver to her, hoping that Pan Yingying would get the person out when she cleaned up the Lu Mansion.

Pan Yingying accepted the call readily, after all, it was just a matter of convenience.

I didn't expect to get stuck on recognizing people.

Who the hell could have imagined that there were seventeen concubines in the Lu Mansion!

Minister Lu was cursing below and started beating the concubine with a whip he got from somewhere.

The concubine was beaten to the ground and rolled on the ground, but she didn't make a sound.

Hearing the noise, Yu Chaosheng lifted the tile again.

Pan Yingying's eyes suddenly turned cold, "Start the action!"

Minister Lu vented all his anger on the concubine, unaware that danger was about to come.

The smoke blew into the room, and soon the obese Minister Lu fell to the ground.

This drug was seized from Song Dachui. Its effect is really amazing. Yu Chuner's drug was developed based on this drug.

Pan Yingying looked coldly at Minister Lu who looked like a fat pig, and thought to herself that if she met the man in black again someday, she would definitely ask him to get more smoke.

As usual, Yu Chaosheng went to deal with the others. Pan Yingying put on a black mask, jumped down from the roof, and walked in with a swagger.

The woman was lying on the ground covered with bruises. She couldn't help but let out a "tsk" sound, picked up the tea on the table and poured it on the woman's face.

The woman shuddered and slowly opened her eyes.

The moment he saw Pan Yingying in front of him, he opened his mouth to exclaim.

(End of this chapter)