Perfect Encounter - Chapter 59.2
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Chapter 59.2
“Why are you here?”
“I came out to take a stroll and saw you were strolling around, which did not look like something you would do.” An Ruoxi had a “got you” look on her face. “I waited for a while but didn’t see you come out, so I came up to look.”
“It’s inconvenient to talk to you today, so you should go now.”
“Is that so?” An Ruoxi had an unhappy face, “Is it convenient to catch up with me only when you need me?” She leaned back and put up a stance, ‘I won’t leave, so what can you do?’
“Yesterday, Master Qian came to the house and asked about you. If I tell him I feel that my sister is a bit odd, seems to be doing something sneaky, what do you think will happen?”
“You will be thrown into prison and then released when you learn to control your mouth well.” An Ruochen said coldly.
An Ruoxi’s face sank: “You think you are great? Is the court yours? And that you can lock up whoever you want?”
“Don’t talk about whether I can lock you up. Just say you provoke me like this. What good does it do for you?” An Ruochen stared at her and shook her head: “Why haven’t you learned to be smarter? Do you still think you are at home? That your father or mother have the final say?”
An Ruoxi choked and said coldly, “Does being submissive to you make me smarter?”
“Yes.” An Ruochen stopped looking at her and continued to stare at the Liu Residence and the gambling house, “At least it’s not bad for you.”
An Ruoxi followed her line of sight but still couldn’t notice anything. She turned her head to glare at An Ruochen and said, “If you want to use me, you should say it clearly.”
“I told you to leave quickly. Didn’t I already make it very clear?” An Ruochen didn’t have a good temper. She was just about to drive her away again when she saw the back door of the Liu Residence suddenly open. A person seemed to rush out but got pulled back again.
An Ruochen was startled, stood up, and ran downstairs. An Ruoxi did not see the situation just now. Although she didn’t understand, she followed her, shouting: “Where are you going?”
Back at the Liu Residence, Liu Ze and Lou Zhi locked eyes for a long time inside the mourning hall.
Liu Ze finally gave him a chair, and they sat face to face.
“I wonder what you want to ask me?”
“I wanted to ask why you hung the bells. Didn’t we agree to do it together on the seventh day of the first month? We would entice An Ruochen and Young Master Min into the messy funeral ceremony, where the guests mix up. The spy will have wanted to deal with An Ruochen, and the result would be that she died and dragged the others into it. Isn’t it all set?”
“The incident of Li Xiu’er is too big. The situation is a bit out of control. I am worried that Young Master Min will complain and things will not be easy at the back. So it’s always necessary to stabilize him.”
“Then why did you hide it and not discuss it with me?”
“I didn’t intend to hide it from you. I was planning to talk to you, and here you are. Last night An Ruochen came to me. She said that the Great General Long was coming back soon. She found a clue about Young Master Min and asked me to confess. I didn’t say anything, and she was out of options. But Young Master Min is an obstacle. We have to remove him as soon as possible.”
“What clues did she find?”
“She recognized Young Master Min’s appearance and knew he was a regular customer of my restaurant. She came over last night and coerced me, trying to use the case of Li Xiu’er to force me to talk. She said she had Li Xiu’er in her possession.”
“What?” Lou Zhi was startled.
“She said Li Xiu’er knew a lot of things. That’s why she was able to find Young Master Min.”
Lou Zhi frowned: “This Xu Matchmaker was really unreliable with her mouth.”
“But the Xu Matchmaker doesn’t know us.” Liu Ze said.
Lou Zhi pondered.
“So the only way we can protect ourselves is to get rid of Young Master Min and An Ruochen.” Liu Ze’s words were honest, “I was planning to find you to discuss it. Maybe we should take advantage of this time and capture the one surnamed Min first at the Guan Liu Pavilion, then lure An Ruochen to a place and kill them together. When General Long returns, everything will already be over.”
“But I have one more question.” Lou Zhi said, “If she was dead, why would she still need to drink medicine?”
Liu Ze froze, followed Lou Zhi’s gaze, and reacted to what he was saying.
He fed Zhao Jiahua a bowl of medicine that rested on the small table next to the coffin.
“Do you think if I walk over there now, will I see a dead person or a living person inside the coffin?”
Liu Ze stiffened.
“You having arranged this many flowers in this mourning hall, it should normally be to disguise the corpse stench. But now, it looks like it is actually to disguise the absence of corpse odor at all.”
Liu Ze clenched his teeth. Even though he had eight faces, he did not know what to say for a while.
Lou Zhi said: “To tell you the truth, you guessed correctly. Young Master Min feels that your situation is too dangerous and will bring trouble to the whole plan. Your position is important, so you must not fall into Long Teng’s hands. This danger occurred after my sister-in-law started to approach An Ruochen. That’s why he wants to kill you. You and your wife.”