Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 205 Secret Message
When Yan Ci Wan was pushed away, Xiao Wang wanted to take action, but he saw her blinking quickly. He immediately realized that she did it on purpose, so he could only stand there and watch.

After Yan Ciwan fell to the ground, she used her sleeves to cover her face and quietly wiped her palms on the ground. She frowned and looked painful: "It hurts!"

Xiao Wang just reached out to help her up at this time: "Where did you fall?"

Yan Ciwan raised his right hand, revealing his scratched palm.

Xiao Wang felt so distressed that he immediately took out a towel and carefully helped her wipe off the mud and sand.

He looked at Xie Li angrily and asked, "Aci is just a weak woman, and you relied on your position as a judicial officer to use force on her. Is this how you should be an official? Come with me to see the Grand Chamberlain. I want to ask the Grand Chamberlain to seek justice for Aci!"

Yan Ciwan covered her face with her sleeves and sobbed softly, looking so pitiful.

Xie Li was very annoyed: "It was clearly Ning Ci who started it first!"

Xiao Wang frowned, "Xie Fazhi, look at yourself, Ah Ci's two arms combined are not as thick as yours. How brave did she have to be to attack you? It was obviously you who took the opportunity to be rough with her, which caused her to get hurt. If you had just apologized honestly, it would have been fine, but now you are actually biting back, which is really too much! Ah Ci, let's go find the chief leader now, and we must make him give an explanation for what happened today!"

After saying that, he helped Yan Ciwan away.

Xie Li knew that these two people had no good intentions. If they really met the Grand Lord, they would definitely exaggerate and deliberately frame him with charges.

He was angry and anxious, so he quickened his pace to catch up and intercept the two men.

"Stop!"

Yan Ciwan's eyes were slightly red, and her right hand was wrapped in a sweat towel. She seemed to be frightened by the thank-you gift and hid timidly behind Xiao Wang.

"What else do you want to do to me?"

Xiao Wang took the opportunity to protect Yan Ciwan behind him and stared at Xie Li with a wary look on his face.

Xie Li's face was as gloomy as water: "I should be the one asking you this. I have no grudges against you. Why do you have to target me?"

Xiao Wang said: "You said it yourself, we have no grudges against you, so why would we bother to target you? Now it is clearly you who hurt Ah Ci, you are the one bullying us."

Xie Li gritted his teeth and said viciously, "You and I both know that I didn't use much strength just now. You deliberately framed me. Isn't your purpose to drag me to see the Grand Master? I warn you, don't meddle in things that are not your business. Only in this way can you live longer."

Yan Ciwan saw an internal guard passing by not far away, and she hurriedly shouted loudly.

"Help! Xie Fashi is beating people!"

Xie Li caught a glimpse of the inner guard out of the corner of his eye, his heart tightened, and he immediately ran away.

Yan Ci Wan and Xiao Wang exchanged glances.

"I'll go after her, you stay."

"it is good."

After quickly finalizing the plan, Yan Ci Wan chased in the direction Xie Li left, while Xiao Wang stayed where he was. When the inner guards came closer, Xiao Wang discovered that the person who came was actually an old acquaintance, Yue Jin.

Yue Jin looked at the direction Yan Ci Wan and Xie Li left, frowned and asked, "Why are they running?"

Xiao Wang said, "They just had a conflict. Ah Ci wanted to ask Xie Sifa for an explanation. Why are you here instead of standing by the Grand Master?"

Yuejin was distracted by his words and answered.

"The chief asked me to tell you that Xiao Dalang is here and he wants to see you."

Xiao Wang immediately said: "Please lead the way."

Yue Jin hesitated a little: "Just now I heard Ning Ci shouting for help, is nothing going to happen?"

"It's okay, she just shouted like that on purpose to scare Xie Fashi. Let's go quickly and don't let brother wait too long." Xiao Wang knew Yan Ci Wan's strength. In a fair fight, Xie Li would not be her opponent. Besides, she had the crossbow he gave her. If she encountered special circumstances, she could also launch a crossbow to attack the opponent. Therefore, he was not worried about Yan Ci Wan's safety.

After hearing what the other party said, Yuejin, as an outsider, could not ask more questions, so he just responded, "Well, please follow me."

……

The place where Xie Li lived was called Liuyanju.

But he did not return to Liuyanju, but went straight to the pigeon house in the backyard.

There are many pigeons raised here. They are familiar with the routes between various government offices and often deliver letters from the Governor's Office to various government offices. However, there is a pigeon among them which is not raised by the Governor's Office, but was secretly stuffed in as a thank-you gift to pass it off as real.

He found an excuse to send the clerk in the pigeon house away, and when no one was around, he opened a pigeon cage and took out a gray-black pigeon.

This pigeon was given to him by someone else and was specifically used to deliver secret letters between him and that person.

Xie Li took out a brocade bag from his arms, opened it, and found a white jade Buddha amulet inside.

This was what he took from Xie Tanyu last night. In order to avoid being discovered, he quietly hid the amulet inside the rockery in the garden. Fortunately, he did this to avoid last night's search.

But there were people coming and going in the garden, and the rockery was not very safe, so Xie Li quietly took the amulet back this morning, intending to carry it with him. After all, he had been searched last night, so he thought that no one would search him again in the short term.

Unexpectedly, Yan Ciwan suddenly asked for a body search. His first reaction was that he was afraid that the white jade Buddha amulet would be found.

He didn't know whether Yan Ci Wan really knew that he had clues or she was deliberately deceiving him. In any case, to be on the safe side, he decided to find a way to get this hot potato out of the governor's mansion as soon as possible.

Xie Li stuffed a small note into the brocade bag and then hung the bag around the pigeon's neck.

He touched the pigeon's back and then threw it into the sky.

The pigeon spread its wings and flew out of the mansion.

Having solved the hidden danger, Xie Li felt much more relaxed and he left the pigeon house with brisk steps.

But what he didn't know was that the pigeon was hit by a crossbow arrow before it left the governor's mansion. It flapped its wings twice and fell to the ground, where it was picked up by Yan Ciwan who was waiting there.

The crossbow arrows were poisonous and the pigeon was paralyzed and unable to move.

It could only open its small green eyes and let the treasure bag on its neck be taken away.

Yan Ciwan opened the brocade bag and took out a white jade Buddha amulet and a small note from it.

She put the amulet into her sleeve pocket and then unfolded the note.

The note was only the size of a thumb, and there were only four words written on it:

"Here's the target."

Yan Ciwan frowned. Who was Xie Li's target? And who was the person who was secretly communicating with Xie Li?
She put the note away and strode back carrying the injured pigeon.

When she returned to Yongchunyuan, she found that Xiao Wang had not come back yet. She looked at the pigeon that was still bleeding and it was dying.

She was a little worried. She had originally planned to cure the pigeon and then use it to help lead the way to find the person who had secretly sent the message to Xie Li.

But now it seems that the pigeon will not survive.

As she was thinking this, a familiar voice was heard outside.

"Liu Lang, do you live here?"

"Yes, the east wing is where Ah Ci lives, and I live in the west wing."