Falsches Blumenmuster - Kapitel 75
"Mother!"
Yang Nianqing was shocked: "Madam Ye!"
Tang Keyou was both shocked and pained, and hurriedly hugged her: "Mother! You..."
Li You said sadly, "Madam, why do you do this?"
Lying in her son's arms, Madam Ye smiled bitterly: "A life for a life is a matter of course. Although I have done right by Brother Tao, I have failed him. I was already prepared to go and join him."
Tang Kesi burst into tears.
"You'er," she called her son softly, her voice broken, "I...I harmed your father, and now I'm going to find him too. Do you...still blame me?"
In his unfathomable eyes, sorrow and pain intertwined.
Tang Keyou shook her head, gritting her teeth and choking back tears, "No, no, Father won't blame you, you mustn't..."
At this point, how can we persuade them to stay?
She smiled slightly.
Tang Kesi's face was streaked with tears. Suddenly, she raised her head and looked at Nangong Xue pleadingly: "Brother Nangong, my mother isn't a bad person. Please save her, okay?"
Nangong Xue remained silent.
Madam Ye suddenly remembered something, grabbed her daughter's hand, and said nervously, "Sisi, You'er, no matter what, you two must promise your mother one thing!"
The two were taken aback when she suddenly said that.
She stared intently at her children and said, word by word, "Although they are on official business, they are still your mother's killers. After I leave, you two must not have any further contact with them, and they must leave Tangjiabao immediately!"
Tang Kesi was stunned: "Mother..."
Tang Keyou was also stunned.
For her children's safety, she never wanted them to be associated with people like them, right? Yang Nianqing understood her meaning and felt even more heartbroken, tears streaming down her face. This scene would remind anyone of their own mother…
Li You squeezed her hand, but his eyes were on Madam Ye: "Don't worry, Madam, we will leave immediately."
Madam Ye nodded gratefully, then looked at her hesitant son and daughter and said urgently, "You two, are you going to agree or not!"
finally--
Tang Keyou glanced at Yang Nianqing, then lowered her head: "Mother, don't worry."
Mrs. Ye breathed a sigh of relief: "I know you are a filial child, Sisi, you..."
Tang Kesi didn't understand why her mother would make this request. Seeing her mother forcing her, she couldn't help but burst into tears, shaking her head and crying, "No, Mother..."
"Sisi!" Madam Ye's tone turned stern, almost furious. "You must no longer associate with these people. Did you hear what your mother said?"
"I didn't...I..."
Tang Kesi bit her lip slightly, her tearful eyes glancing at Nangong Xue. At this moment, she really hoped that he could say a word for her.
Nangong Xue looked away.
Seeing that she refused, Madam Ye was so angry that she spat out a mouthful of blood.
"You...you're not listening to your mother anymore!"
"I promise!" Tang Kesi panicked, disregarding everything else, and threw herself on her mother, crying, "Mother! Don't be afraid, I promise, I promise you..."
After saying that, she fainted.
Madam Ye sighed, slowly closed her eyes, and then opened them again after a while: "You'er, your sister is willful. You must keep her in check from now on. Don't let her go out and cause trouble. It's best to forbid her from going out at all."
Tang Keyou nodded: "Mother, don't worry."
Blood slowly trickled down her lips, flowing more and more, yet a calm and serene expression gradually appeared on her beautiful face, as pure and holy as when she first met her.
it's all over.
Is it really all over?
I'm congratulating myself now—Volume 3 is finished! Only one volume left.
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Volume Four: Suspicion and Scammers in the Jianghu
BMWs and their jeweled carriages paraded through the streets, attracting throngs of pedestrians and creating a lively atmosphere.
Yang Nianqing was no stranger to Lin'an City. That time she sneaked into Ruyu Tower with the playboy, things turned out quite horrible, with the beautiful women getting all the free pleasure they wanted. Therefore, as soon as she entered the city gates, the hairs on her body stood on end reflexively. The saying "once bitten, twice shy" was indeed classic.
Not long after Lunar New Year's Eve, Lin'an City was once again filled with countless prosperous scenes for the Spring Festival.
People from the martial arts world don't celebrate New Year's Eve.
Because she missed the Lantern Festival due to investigating the case, Yang Nianqing was extremely melancholy. She was also very upset about the series of events that had happened, but she quickly cheered up again. At least the matter was over, and everything would start anew in the new year.
Surprisingly, Mr. Chrysanthemum Qiu Bailu was not in a hurry to return to his You Ran Ju. Could it be that he had been with everyone for too long and was reluctant to go back?
Yang Nianqing was still very happy because she didn't want him to be a god; he was more lovable as a human.
Nangong Xue is indeed wealthy; even her villa is so opulent and elegant. Standing on the pavilion in the garden overlooking West Lake, gazing at the vast and beautiful lake view, one feels incredibly relaxed and at ease.
Yang Nianqing happily strolled around the garden for half a day, and was just about to ask Li You to accompany her shopping.
In the blink of an eye, Li You had vanished.
She knocked on the door but no one answered. Standing at the door, she muttered dejectedly, "Where did they run off to?"
"Looking for Brother Li?" a gentle voice asked.
Looking up, I saw it was Nangong Xue.
Dressed in magnificent robes and crowned with a golden crown, his handsome face still wore a smile, though his sword-like brows were slightly furrowed, adding an inexplicable touch of melancholy to that pure smile. His bright phoenix eyes seemed to see through everything, yet his gaze was also incredibly complex, making it impossible to fathom his thoughts.
Yang Nianqing was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Uh...yes, I don't know where he went."
He smiled and said, "Brother Li has gone out."
Seeing the faint sadness on his face, Yang Nianqing felt a pang of sympathy. He had been innocent from beginning to end, but now he still felt guilty about Madam Ye's death.
So she nudged his arm: "Everyone is born, grows old, gets sick, and dies. Don't dwell on the past. Besides, it has nothing to do with you. Uh, how about... we go shopping?"
Nangong Xue shook her head: "I'm fine, thank you."
“You’re alright,” Yang Nianqing said, trying to cheer him up with a mischievous grin. “Sisi is in trouble. Luckily, she was still unconscious when we left, otherwise she would have cried again. Tell me, what else could you be but a menace?”
Those phoenix eyes immediately gave her a gentle "glare".
"This is getting more and more absurd!"
Yang Nianqing patted his shoulder with a grin: "Let's go shopping."
He didn't move.
After a moment of silence, he looked at her and smiled slightly: "I have some things to attend to, so I won't go. I just saw Brother He in his room. If you're looking for Brother Li, you can ask him."
He Bi was indeed in the room, sitting leisurely in a chair, holding a cup of fragrant tea in one hand, while his other hand remained on the hilt of his sword at his waist, his whole body sitting upright.
Upon seeing the two, his cold and handsome face actually raised an eyebrow.
For the first time ever, he looked at Yang Nianqing and spoke first: "You've come at the right time, I've been looking for you."
Yang Nianqing was stunned for a moment, then rolled her eyes at him, walked over and sat down: "Hmph... what do you want from me? You just casually threw me into the air, and I haven't even settled accounts with you yet. How dare you? Is this how you treat a friend!"
He Bi frowned: "You can lose friends too."
"What?" Yang Nianqing jumped up, pointing at his cool, hooked nose. "Do you know how dangerous that is? What if Li You hadn't caught me? Would I have survived if I had fallen?"
He Bi glanced at her and said, "You can throw me away too."
Throw me at you?
Yang Nianqing stared blankly, speechless.
Do you think I'm reluctant to part with you? If I could throw you away, I would have thrown you to the sky hundreds of times over.
“You’re still standing here perfectly fine,” He Bi said disdainfully. “If Old Li can’t even handle you, he should really change his name.”
The tragedy of the weak lies in pretending to be magnanimous even when they have been bullied: "Forget it, for the sake of you saving Brother Nangong, I will be generous and not hold it against you."
As she spoke, she winked at Nangong Xue and changed the subject: "Where are we going now?"
"Investigate the case."
"What?" she asked, bewildered. "Wasn't it already over? What new case is there?"
He Bi looked at Nangong Xue and asked, "You think it's all over too?"
Nangong Xue remained silent.
Yang Nianqing was surprised: "Madam Ye has already admitted that she killed everyone. Since she has made up her mind to commit suicide, there is no need for her to lie anymore."
"Acknowledgment doesn't necessarily mean the end."
"First, don't forget Hei Silang. He owes the murderer a favor. What would he owe Madam Ye?"
Yang Nianqing was stunned.
He Bi continued, "Secondly, even with Lao Li's lightness skills, it would be difficult to place the corpse in Nangong Villa without anyone noticing, let alone her? Nangong Villa is heavily guarded and has many eyes and ears, so how did she manage to do it?"
“Thirdly, there is the death of Madam Leng,” Nangong Xue smiled. “If it really was Madam Ye, how could Madam Leng not be on guard?” At that time, Madam Ye was already a suspect, and Madam Leng probably noticed and took precautions even before she got close.
He Bi frowned: "Fourth, why did she destroy the body?" This was also a question that everyone had been trying to figure out. Since they already knew that the cause of death was the Ten Thousand Poisons Blood Palm, why would the murderer go to the trouble of destroying Zhang Mingchu with incineration water and burning Chu Sheng and his wife, Han Ren? Could there really be an important clue on the body that hadn't been found yet?
Who was it that came to see Madam Ye the night before Master Tang disappeared? The matter of Tao Men was a secret of the imperial court. Even someone of He Bi's status would have to spend a lot of effort to find out who the informant was. How did Madam Ye know about it?
“A life for a life. Although I have done right by Brother Tao, I have wronged him. I was already prepared to go with him.” Since she had no intention of denying her crime and living on, why would she go to such lengths to kill someone to cover it up and prevent others from investigating the case?
There is only one explanation—
There's someone else behind the scenes.
Why did Madam Ye refuse to expose him until her death? Who in the martial world could instill such fear in her? He Bi and others were all top-tier figures. She was a smart woman; if she was worried about her children, she would never be coerced into doing something so foolish.
She was protecting him.
He Bi's eyes flickered: "Now we can be sure that, in addition to the Myriad Poison Blood Palm, there must be another important clue left on those corpses."
Yang Nianqing said excitedly, "This clue must be directly related to this person's identity, so he had to destroy the body. Even if we investigate, we can only trace it back to Madam Ye based on the Ten Thousand Poison Blood Palm technique. He knows that Madam Ye will protect him!"
But as soon as she finished speaking, she became frustrated again: "But where can we find this clue now? Madam Ye is dead, and her body has been destroyed..."