strictlysupreme Chapter 2058 Missed the Target
Chapter 2058 Missed the Target
Li Lingshi then withdrew his hand and turned to look at Su Shengsheng.
Her eyes swept across Su Shengsheng's tense face, and her tone remained calm: "What did I do?"
"You're still asking me why?" Su Shengsheng's voice was still panting, obviously he had been running all the way here. "You just reached out to touch him! Who knows if you wanted to hurt him?"
"Harm him?" Li Lingshi repeated the word, his lips curled slightly, but there was no smile. "Miss Su, you should provide evidence when speaking. I have the token given by City Envoy Su and came to see his son. How can that be considered harming him?"
"The token was given to me by my father, but you know what your intentions are!"
Su Shengsheng stepped forward and protected Su Jingzhuo even more tightly. "My eldest brother has been treated by you, but he hasn't woken up yet. The raw fish he caught last time hasn't been investigated yet. Now that he's just woken up, you come to touch him. Who knows if you want to put something in him?"
Li Lingshi looked at her excited expression and did not rush to refute. Instead, he said slowly: "Inject something? Miss Su, I treated Jing Zhuo for a long time. If I wanted to inject something into him, how could he be alive today?
If I hadn't extended his life before, would the Su City Envoy have given me the token? What, now that you have changed doctors, you are not even worthy of looking at Master Su?"
Su Shengsheng was choked by her words, and her face changed, but she still refused to give in: "I don't care about the token! You just can't touch him! He just woke up and can't stand the tossing and turning. If you really want to do this for his own good, you should stay away from him!"
"For his own good?" Li Lingshi's gaze fell back on Su Jingzhuo lying on the bed, his eyes still cold. "Miss Su, are you sure everything you do is for his own good?"
Su Shengsheng was stunned for a moment, then became even more anxious: "Of course I'm doing this for his own good! But you, Li Lingshi, don't confuse right and wrong here! Leave now, or I'll tell Dad that you trespassed into my eldest brother's yard and wanted to attack him!"
Li Lingshi didn't move, but just looked at Su Shengsheng for a long time before slowly saying, "Go ahead and tell him."
Su Shengsheng's face turned red with anger. She opened her mouth but no words came out.
It's always like this. She clearly thinks she is right, but Li Lingshi's neither soft nor hard approach can make her angry.
If this really came to her father's attention, she might be the one who got scolded.
Li Lingshi looked at her and said nothing. He just glanced at Su Jingzhuo on the bed again, then turned around and walked towards the door.
When she passed by Su Shengsheng, she didn't stop and just said lightly: "If he wakes up and wants to look for me, what should I say? Say that you, his sister, are stopping me from seeing him."
Su Shengsheng gritted his teeth, watched her back disappear at the door, and stomped his feet in anger.
He sighed angrily, then hurried to the bedside, reached out and touched Su Jingzhuo's forehead, confirming that he was not awake and not frightened, and then he felt relieved.
Su Shengsheng whispered to the maid, "Well done, keep an eye on my brother. I'm going to the kitchen. If she comes again, be sure to stop her."
The maid hesitated and nodded.
As soon as Su Shengsheng left, Su Jingzhuo slowly opened his eyes.
Ling Shi, what happened during the days when I was unconscious?
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Yan Ruyu's fingertips traced the shallow mark on the corner of the wall, and she turned to look at Huo Changhe beside her: "This is the third mark Mu Wan mentioned. According to the route, Wu Ping'an should be staying nearby."
Huo Changhe glanced at the surrounding alleys and said in a steady voice, "We've been searching for half an hour. We've asked in all the nearby teahouses and inns, but no one has seen anyone matching the description."
He paused and added, "The secret guards also checked the surrounding defenses and found no unusual movements."
Yan Ruyu frowned slightly: "Could it be that there is something wrong here?"
As she was speaking, she heard hurried footsteps behind her. A secret guard approached quickly and knelt on one knee to report, "Your Majesty, Princess, we have discovered a courtyard three streets to the west. The gate of the courtyard has the secret mark that Mu Wan mentioned."
A glimmer flashed in Huo Changhe's eyes, and he immediately said, "Lead the way."
The three of them hurried to the yard, pushed open the half-open gate, and Yan Ruyu walked into the main house first. She saw the scene inside the house at a glance - the tables and chairs were tilted, the books on the bookshelf were scattered on the floor, and there was a half-finished cup of tea on the table, which had long been cold.
"It looks like he left suddenly." Huo Changhe walked to the table, touched the wall of the teacup with his fingers, turned around and instructed the secret guard, "Go ask the neighbors on both sides to see if they have any impression of the people in this yard."
The secret guard retreated and soon brought over an auntie carrying a vegetable basket.
The aunt stood at the door, her eyes a little uneasy. "Are you asking the people in this yard? I can't say much. I only see him go out occasionally. He doesn't talk much and always keeps his head down."
Yan Ruyu said gently, "Auntie, do you remember what he looked like? For example, his height, face shape, or any other distinctive features?"
Aunt Zhang frowned and thought for a moment: "As for her height, she's not tall or short, just average height, and her skin seems quite fair."
As soon as he finished speaking, another old man passing by came over. After hearing his intention, he waved his hand and said, "No, no, the man I saw had dark skin and a beard. He always wore a gray cloth shirt when he went out and walked with big strides."
Yan Ruyu and Huo Changhe exchanged a glance, and Huo Changhe asked again, "Uncle, are you sure you're not mistaken? Have you seen him many times?"
"Not too many, maybe two or three times, and we always met in the morning."
The old man stroked his beard and said, "I have good eyesight, I'm sure I didn't make a mistake. It's just that the beard is a little dark, there's no mistake."
The secret guard then found two other neighbors. One said that the man had a mole on his chin, but the other said that he had never seen the man with a mole, but instead there was a small scar on the left corner of his eyebrow.
The facial features described by the several people did not match at all, as if they were talking about several different people.
Yan Ruyu walked slowly around the room, her eyes carefully scanning every corner, checking the bookshelves, drawers, and windowsills. Finally, she shook her head and said, "I didn't find anything valuable. No letters, tokens, or anything like that."
Huo Changhe was squatting beside the bed at this time. He reached out and dragged out an object from under the bed - it was a pair of half-worn black boots. The soles of the boots were covered with a lot of mud and some grass clippings were hanging on the edges.
"Here are a pair of boots," he said, picking up the boots. "The mud on the soles hasn't been cleaned."
Yan Ruyu immediately walked over, took the boots and examined them carefully. She pinched a little dirt from the soles of the boots with her fingers, sniffed it, and rubbed it repeatedly with her fingertips: "The texture of this dirt... seems to have been seen somewhere before."
She took out a small porcelain bottle from her bosom, carefully scraped off some of the dirt on the soles of her boots and put it into the bottle. She then took out a piece of oil paper, carefully wrapped the boots, and put them into the space she carried with her.
Huo Changhe stood up and looked at the mess in the house. He said firmly, "He must have received the news and decided to leave on the spur of the moment."
He paused and turned his gaze to Yan Ruyu. "The neighbors have such a confusing impression of his appearance. I guess he must have deliberately changed his appearance."
Yan Ruyu's face was solemn, and her fingertips unconsciously stroked the edge of the porcelain vase. "We just returned from Longyin Island. Wu Ping'an was the person Mu Wan arranged to meet us in the capital. Not many people knew about this matter. Who would have leaked the news?"