Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 881: Chapter 882: Depending on the Mood

As soon as Meng Zhuqing heard that she didn’t wear women’s clothes, he quickly walked back to the wardrobe and took out a set of black men’s clothes, ”I made two sets for you, precisely one set of women’s clothes and one set of men’s clothes.”

Miss Yan Yao didn’t say anything, just accepted the clothes Meng Zhuqing handed over.

”Then go ahead and change, I’m going out.” Saying this, Meng Zhuqing strode out and then closed the room door from the outside.

Miss Yan Yao looked at the clothes in her hands for a long while before she began to change. The clothes fitted perfectly, clearly made for her.

She closed her eyes briefly, as if to mask emotions that shouldn’t be there, then said, ”Alright, you can come in.”

Only then, did Meng Zhuqing come back inside.

Upon entering, Meng Zhuqing appeared extremely uneasy, as his recent behavior seemed to have revealed too much. His feelings for her had been exposed too much.

”Don’t you have anything you want to ask me?” Miss Yan Yao sat at the table, very elegantly drinking the already cold tea on the table. Seeing that Meng Zhuqing was silent, just standing there, she thus broke the silence.

Meng Zhuqing hesitated, then countered, ”If I asked, would you answer?”

Miss Yan Yao said, ”Depends on the mood.”

Meng Zhuqing, quiet. Forget it, better not to ask, he felt she definitely wouldn’t answer.

About her quest for revenge, she had always been tight-lipped.

However, seeing her wounded...

It really was quite distressing for him.

Seeing Meng Zhuqing looking at her with a pained expression, Miss Yan Yao immediately looked away, slightly panicked and uncomfortable, she took a couple more sips of tea before getting up and walking towards the door.

Meng Zhuqing did not stop her this time.

But as Miss Yan Yao walked past him, he couldn’t help but speak again, ”Be careful.”

Miss Yan Yao paused for a moment, then continued walking out.

Not long after Miss Yan Yao had left, someone came to inform Meng Zhuqing, saying that Su Chengjin had been killed by someone dressed in Night Clothes.

Meng Zhuqing felt as if he had been placed in an ice cave. Miss Yan Yao had indeed been wearing Night Clothes when she came to see him earlier...

...

An Jing and Xiao Changyi woke up early in the morning to find Meng Zhuqing standing at the entrance of their courtyard.

”What’s the matter?” An Jing asked.

Meng Zhuqing seemed distraught. Caught off guard by An Jing’s question, he was initially stunned, then quickly regained his composure and respectfully replied, ”The Fifth Prince is gone.”

An Jing was stunned, ”Gone?!”

Xiao Changyi was also taken aback.

Meng Zhuqing said, ”Last night, an assassin broke into the Fifth Prince’s Mansion. Not only did he kill many guards, but he also killed the Fifth Prince.”

”This...” An Jing didn’t know what to say. After a long pause, An Jing finally asked, ”Was the assassin caught?”

Meng Zhuqing shook his head, ”No, he escaped. They couldn’t trace him at all. According to the people at the Fifth Prince’s Mansion, the assassin’s Martial Arts skills were so advanced that they were no match for him.”

After a pause, Meng Zhuqing still decided to report honestly: ”Sir, Ma’am, yesterday Miss Yan Yao came to see me. She was wearing Night Clothes and had been injured. The timing... matches the time of the Fifth Prince’s murder. After she attended to her wounds at my place and left, someone then informed me about the Fifth Prince’s death...”

No wonder you were so distraught just now.

An Jing nodded. After a moment of silence, she asked, ”If you had known about the Fifth Prince’s death before she came to see you, would you have captured her?”

”I... don’t know.” Meng Zhuqing truly didn’t know; he wasn’t sure if he would have been able to act at that moment.

If she had been threatening their master’s safety, even if he couldn’t bring himself to do it, he would still have killed her.

But now...