Peach Blossom.

Tao Ye's face turned red. How could she have thought that this was what Wang Jing wanted to ask?

She looked up at Li You again, and Li You's face turned red... She really wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into!

Li You smiled awkwardly: "It's windy here, I can't hear you clearly... How about you two "borrow a step" to talk?"

Tao Ye lowered his head, left the stall dejectedly, and walked to a small river not far away, which was a tributary of the Qinhuai River.

Wang Jing, leaning on a crutch, followed Tao Ye closely until they reached a secluded place where no one was around.

Tao Ye was very angry. She stopped and turned back to angrily scold Wang Jing: "What do you mean? How can you ask such a question in front of others?"

"I'm sorry, I know it's inappropriate, but I do need to talk to you alone." Wang Jing's face was calm, as if nothing had happened.

"You..." Tao Ye stared at Wang Jing, wanting to give him a good beating, but she couldn't bear to do it...

She rolled her eyes at Wang Jing, stuck out her tongue, and yelled in a pretentious manner: "If you weren't a cripple, I would have pushed you into the river long ago!"

Wang Jing couldn't help but smile.

Tao Ye became even angrier: "What are you laughing at?"

"You and Gillian really look alike, especially when you lose your temper." Wang Jing's eyebrows curved, as if he was reminiscing again.

Tao Ye became more and more angry and actually pushed Wang Jing!

However, Wang Jing was not pushed into the river. Although he was using crutches, he still stood very steadily.

Tao Ye yelled, "I hate that you use me as her substitute!"

Wang Jing restrained his smile, and his eyes became a little vague: "I won't treat anyone as a substitute for Gillian. It's just that every time I see you, I can't help but wonder if you are possessed by Gillian's spirit? Otherwise, how could there be two people in the world with such similar temperaments?"

"You are the one who is possessed by a ghost! Your whole family is possessed by ghosts!" Tao Ye cursed loudly, still feeling indignant.

Wang Jing couldn't help laughing again.

Tao Ye picked up a stone and wanted to throw it at Wang Jing, but failed. She turned around and threw the stone into the center of the river, causing ripples.

She felt very sad. Every time he appeared beside her, every frown and smile of his was related to Mantangjiao. If she did not have a similar personality to Mantangjiao, if she had not been related to Mantangjiao's murder, huh... he would not remember who she was at all!

Wang Jing looked at Tao Ye and said solemnly, "I really have a few very important questions to ask you. I hope you can answer them truthfully."

Tao Ye faced the reflection of the sun in the river, feeling irritated: "You just want to ask me if there was a man beside her on the day she was buried? Even if there was, so what?"

"who's that person?"

"Why should I tell you?"

"I'm begging you, okay?" Wang Jing gave him a pleading look.

Tao Ye's dissatisfaction gradually turned into doubt: "Why do you have to investigate the identity of that person? Is there any difference between one witness and two witnesses?"

Wang Jing shook his head and said with certainty: "He is not a witness, he is the murderer who killed Gillian."

Tao Ye's heart was shaken suddenly, and she vaguely recalled the night when she met Mantangjiao... The killer who hacked at Mantangjiao and her servant seemed to be similar in height and build to Chen Jidu!

Moreover, the killer disappeared after committing the crime, and there was no one in sight in the dark. But after Mantang Jiao died, Chen Ji suddenly ran over from a distance.

Thinking about it this way, Tao Ye also felt that it was entirely possible that Chen Ji first disguised himself as a killer in black and killed Mantangjiao and his servant, then walked away, took off his nightgown, and returned to the scene!

Tao Ye didn't quite understand, she muttered to herself blankly: "But... why did Chen Ji want to kill Man Tang Jiao?"

"Chen Ji? Is it really Chen Ji?" Wang Jing asked, just to confirm the facts and not to have any error. He was not surprised by the answer.

Taoye nodded.

Wang Jing thought about what happened before and after Tao Ye went to Wang's house, and asked again: "So, you pretended to be A Jiao and sneaked into Wang's house. Was it also Chen Ji who instigated you?"

Tao Ye nodded again, but she was very curious: "How do you know?"

"I have roughly figured out the whole story."

"Ah?" Tao Ye felt her head was a mess: "What...what's going on?"

Wang Jing told Tao Ye very seriously: "I guess Chen Ji killed Ah Jiao because he found you who has a similar temperament to Ah Jiao, so that you can replace Ah Jiao and sneak into my house. You are simple and ignorant, and it is easy for him to control you, so it is easy for him to do what he wants."

Tao Ye felt depressed when listening to this. She remembered Si Yao said that Chen Ji and Mantang Jiao had never met before, so how could he know what Mantang Jiao's personality was like?

So she asked weakly: "Chen Ji... recognizes your wife?"

Wang Jing knew what Tao Ye was wondering about, so he explained to her, "Before Ah Jiao got married, Chen Ji had come to propose marriage, but Ah Jiao rejected him outright. Ah Jiao always spoke harshly and embarrassed Chen Ji in public, so Chen Ji held a grudge. After Ah Jiao married me, he always wanted to cause trouble for our family, and some gossip spread in the capital. Later, the Grand Marshal asked for the princess to marry him, and he wanted to cover up the shame, so he lied to the late emperor, the empress dowager and others that he had never met Ah Jiao."

Tao Ye suddenly realized that it was no wonder that when she married into the Chen family from the Wang family as Mantangjiao, Wang Jing was not surprised by the origin of the marriage, but just regarded it as Mantangjiao's "anger".

Tao Ye listened to Wang Jing's description of Chen Ji's proposal to Man Tang Jiao, and then thought of the tragic scene when Man Tang Jiao was killed. She was horrified again: "How can a person kill the person he once loved with his own hands? He is too terrible..."

Wang Jing continued to speculate: "Is he... still alive?"

Tao Ye didn't want to deceive Wang Jing, so she could only nod.

"Where is he?"

"You...you want to seek revenge on him?"

Wang Jing smiled slightly, with some contempt: "He killed the person I loved. Don't you think I shouldn't seek revenge?"

Tao Ye's gaze moved horizontally to the center of the water. The waves on the river surface were surging together, sweeping up the fragmented sunlight, which made her uneasy. She was afraid that Wang Jing would fail in his revenge and be harmed by Chen Ji instead.

"Where is he?" Wang Jing asked again.

Tao Ye looked at Wang Jing again, feeling uneasy: "At first, he told me that he was going to Yongchang County and seek refuge with the King of Yongchang. Later, after he achieved his goal, he never contacted me again, and I didn't know where he was."

"Achieved his goal?" Wang Jing didn't quite understand: "What goal did he achieve?"

At this point, Tao Ye lowered her head in shame. She was really embarrassed to tell Wang Jing that she had stolen the key and the secrets in Wang Yi's study...

"Yongchang..." Wang Jing pondered for a while and seemed to guess: "Did he know that my father was in Yongchang a long time ago? So he sent you to find out about my father?"

Tao Ye did not dare to answer. She lowered her head very low. She thought that even if she did not answer, Wang Jing should have gotten the answer.

Wang Jing recalled Tao Ye's words and deeds in the two days before her fake Mantangjiao mask was exposed, and guessed more: "You stole the key to my father's study from me? The extra wax on the candlestick in the study was also left by you when you ran into the study at night?"

"Yes... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you..."

"What did you steal for him?"

"I..." Tao Ye lowered her head and stammered, "Your father... I showed him all of your father's handwriting. Among them... he also copied a copy... and said it was the most important..."

Wang Jing understood, but he was confused: "How did you pass on such complicated information to him?"

"I didn't pass on the message. I'm not very literate. I showed it to him directly through the mirror..."

Wang Jing became more and more confused as he listened. He really had no idea what the "mirror" Tao Ye was talking about was.

Tao Ye then reorganized her past events and told Wang Jing everything about her late-night encounter with Mantangjiao, how she buried Mantangjiao with Chen Ji, how she dressed up as Mantangjiao to send back Shuangshuang's bodies, her fake marriage with Chen Ji, how Chen Ji faked his death in the fire, the function of the magic mirror, and every time she used the mirror to contact Chen Ji after she arrived at the Wang family.

After hearing this, Wang Jing was speechless and helpless. Before he came to see Tao Ye, he had some basic guesses about these things, but he could never have imagined that there would be such an unusual mirror!

"You believe everything he says? Why do you do things for him so foolishly? How can you be even more brainless than Gillian?"

Wang Jing looked at Tao Ye, shook his head and sighed, with a fake smile. He did not scold Tao Ye, but felt sad that Tao Ye was so easily deceived and used.

Tao Ye lowered her head. When she was in school, her classmates had ridiculed her for having "low IQ and even lower EQ". She herself was often anxious about her ability to do things.

"I have asked all the questions I wanted to ask. You can go back to your brother." Wang Jing leaned on his cane and started walking back.

Tao Ye was very uneasy. She chased after him and followed Wang Jing: "Where are you going?"

Wang Jing walked as fast as he could. Perhaps because he was used to using crutches, he walked no slower than an average person. "My father may be in danger of dying. I must go home immediately to say goodbye to my mother and go to Yongchang to find my father as soon as possible. Perhaps I can still save him."

Tao Ye couldn't figure out what Wang Jing meant when he said his father's life was in danger, but in this situation, she thought it must be related to Chen Ji and those secrets.

If Wang Jing's speculations were true, then judging from the scene on the night when Mantang Jiao was murdered, Chen Ji's kung fu was quite impressive, and he was a habitual murderer... She didn't know if Wang Jing also practiced martial arts, but he was a cripple after all...

Tao Ye was getting more and more worried: "With your legs and feet like this, won't you be in danger of your life if you go to Yongchang?"

"The Great Qi Kingdom can survive without me, but it cannot survive without my father."

Wang Jing had already walked to a horse, which he had tied there before going to the market to look for Tao Ye.

Tao Ye watched Wang Jing untie the rope and mount the horse, but she could not say anything to dissuade him. It was natural for a son to want to save his father. What could she, an outsider, say?

"Miss Tao, see you later." Wang Jing whipped his horse, raising dust with the sound of his horse's hooves, and gradually disappeared from Tao Ye's sight.