A life of ups and downs is pure joy

Chapter 271 Fireside Narrative

The winter in Dayan is different from that in Dasheng. Ning Sijue has rarely seen snow since he came here as a child. The occasional snowflakes would quickly melt away. But now, facing Hong Qi who was sitting by the fire with him in the Tailai Villa, his dead heart slowly revived like the arrival of spring.

"Why did you want to assassinate Gong Koushi?"

Ning Sijue clearly remembered what Hong Qi shouted as he flew over.

"He's a bad guy!"

Hong Qi said angrily.

Xiao Fan frowned and looked anxiously at the woman in red who took a long time to say a word. He didn't know that Hong Qi was of inland descent with poor verbal expression skills.

Ning Sijue, who was sitting quietly on the side, continued to ask calmly.

"What's your holiday?"

"The bad prince deceived the girl and locked me up, making me fight all the time."

Hong Qi said angrily while looking at the crackling charcoal in the stove, stirring it with an iron stick unconsciously.

"Where is the girl?"

Ning Sijue continued to ask with some excitement after hearing this.

"I almost hurt the girl. I'm an asshole too."

Hong Qi angrily took off the two swords from his waist and placed them heavily on the wooden couch beside him, wishing he could smash the weapons of the culprit.

"Oh, she's not my sister-in-law. Although that lady is pretty, she's not even a hair's breadth away from my sister-in-law."

Xiao Fan sighed and said, then looked at the iron stick that Hong Qi placed next to the charcoal stove, picked it up and started stirring the charcoal fire.

"That's the girl, it's Huan'er. The young prince is a liar, and so is he!"

Hong Qi glared at Xiao Fan, snatched the iron rod that stirred the fire from Xiao Fan's hand, raised his voice and spoke firmly.

"They just have similar body shapes, but their faces are completely different."

Xiao Fan looked at the stolen iron rod helplessly, and continued to talk to the female guard of the Lin family.

Ning Sijue also looked at Hong Qi very strangely. She had seen the face of Madam Zhuang, so how could she have recognized the wrong person?

"I've watched Huan'er grow up, and there's no doubt about it, she's a girl. The way she walks, talks, and breathes are all girls, and her voice is the same."

"Can't be wrong."

"The girl was sick and they cured her."

"She is Huan'er, that's who she is."

"But I'm useless. I can't beat the evil prince."

Hong Qi's voice became softer and softer as she spoke. Finally, she lowered her head, wiped away her tears, and handed the iron rod in her hand to Xiao Fan.

"Have you spoken to that Lady Zhuang?"

Xiao Fan remembered that Ning Sijue had always been staying with Gong Heyu and the others.

Ning Sijue shook his head.

"She was silent the whole time."

After all, Ning Sijue thought that she was just a woman who looked like Lin Qinghuan and was also the concubine of his best friend, so he didn't think about talking to her.

"Don't worry, we are here to find Huan'er. If it is really her, I will take her home."

Ning Sijue looked at Hong Qi for a long time and said, thinking back to the woman whom Gong Heyu had risked his life to protect, he would rather believe the words of the Lin family female guard, at least there was still hope.

"Why do you all think that's my sister-in-law?"

Xiao Fan could not accept the fact that Madam Zhuang was his elder sister-in-law. After all, their faces looked completely different. He had no choice but to get up and find something to do. He walked to the door, took the silver charcoal sticks from the maid's hand, and poured them all into the stove.

He was speechless. It was obvious that the two people had nothing to do with each other, but the two family members in front of him insisted that she was his sister-in-law, as confused as if they were drunk.

Ning Sijue glanced at the second son of the Xiao family, then turned around and asked in detail about the causes and consequences of Hong Qi's disappearance. Xiao Fan also listened attentively out of boredom.

"He is a clever and vicious guy. He doesn't seem like a biological son to my second brother."

After hearing the story, Xiao Fan recalled the way Gong Kou Shi deliberately shot arrows at him in the forest farm and said.

"It's a good thing you saved him. It will be easier for Jia Xu and others to enter the city tomorrow."

Ning Sijue nodded and said.

"But why is he here?"

Ning Sijue murmured, having already guessed who the other assassin was. There was no other person in the world who could shoot an arrow without an iron arrowhead.

"Xiang Lao Si didn't really intend to take the young prince's life. He was shooting at the shoulder."

"You're taking the risk of assassinating someone but you don't intend for them to be fatal. You're just doing it for free. You're just trying to scare that arrogant brat."

"I think that kid is really panicking."

The moment Xiao Fan saw the arrow, he knew it was from the sharpshooter Xiang Quan. According to seniority, he should call him senior brother, but Xiang Quan was even better than his master. He learned from the sharpshooter Li, but his attainments far exceeded Xiang Quan's.

In short, just don't provoke him. My eldest brother almost got hit in the heart, but fortunately he was stopped by my second sister-in-law, the eldest princess.

Now I think it was because there was no arrow back then, otherwise ten miracle doctors would not have been able to save that infatuated woman.

"He has always been crazy, but since he is here we must pay attention to him."

Ning Sijue was very calm, but still wanted to give some advice.

"How to save the girl?"

Hong Qi asked again after listening to what the two of them said.

"If she is really Huan'er, now is the safest time. We can discuss the next step after meeting Jia Xu and Miss Lin tomorrow."

What Ning Sijue is most worried about now is Xiao Yi being poisoned. He is also worried about the second son of the Xiao family who has been holding an iron rod. Today in the forest farm, he wanted to ask the second brother he has called for more than ten years for help.

"I was rescued, but I don't know by whom. They just told me to go to the hunting ground and kill the bad prince."

Hong Qi said this to Ning Sijue again before returning to her room to rest.

The two cousins probably guessed that it must be Xiang Quan who saved Hong Qi. After discussing for a while, they drove to the prince's mansion to visit the young prince of Dayan.