"Indeed, what happened? You look so serious."
Qin Yi can’t help but laugh, gently stroking her hair with his hand.
Su Pan’er, however, isn’t in a mood to joke around, she frowned and said, "Stop ssing around and let see your wound. Remove that gauze fabric."
"Don’t touch it! I’ll manage it myself."
Unable to resist her, Qin Yi took off his upper garnt and allowed her to unwrap the bandage.
Just a glance made Su Pan’er gasp in astonishnt!
She had seen many types of wounds, even severed arms and legs didn’t scare her.
But Qin Yi’s wound on his back was a ghastly gray!
As if the skin had completely lost its vitality, it was terrifying!
"What’s wrong? Pan’er."
Qin Yi looked back at her curiously and asked with a slight laugh, "What happened to you? They’re just so wounds, really not serious."
"Don’t look! Don’t look!"
Su Pan’er suddenly covered his eyes and was so choked up that she was unable to speak.
As if this could make the injury on his back disappear.
Even the slowest reacting Qin Yi could tell that sothing was wrong with her, he hurriedly pulled her hand into his and asked seriously.
"Pan’er, what’s wrong with my wound?"
"It’s a kind of poison. Soone has poisoned your wound...It’s poisoned..."
Su Pan’er’s hand was shaking, what kind of poison was it?
She couldn’t recognize it, her brows furrowed involuntarily.
"Poison on the wound? Could it be..."
Qin Yi couldn’t help but rember the yellow-brown powder Su Huarong had found in his wound earlier. A frightening figure appeared in his mind with a flash of his eyes.
"So, you rember who might have poisoned you?"
Su Pan’er couldn’t hide her elation and hurriedly asked.
"The only person close to who had a chance to poison was her!"
Qin Yi squinted and spoke.
Once the target was determined, Qin Yi showed no rcy, and the culprit was quickly caught.
She was injured when Qin Yi threw her down the stairs, her cheek was scratched, and there were several other abrasions on her body. She was dragged in by two servants, her face full of fear, she seed lost.
The wound on Qin Yi’s back had now been re-dressed by Su Pan’er.
His naked and increasingly robust body, with a thick bandage around his chest, despite looking pale, did not diminish his inherent fierceness.
He forcefully held Su Pan’er’s hand, sitting on the bed with a flourish, his brows furrowed, and his eyes cold. He shouted commandingly!
"Speak! Why did you want to harm by poisoning my wound!"
Xiyue trembled all over, tears dropping down her face.
"What poison? Xiyue didn’t... Sir! Sir, Xiyue is being wrongly accused! Xiyue really didn’t try to poison you, sir..."
"You dare to lie!"
Qin Yi glared, his chilling gaze sweeping casually over Xiyue’s face, making her feel as if she was sitting on a bed of needles. She beca uneasy, trembling all over.
"Xiyue didn’t lie... Sir!"
Xiyue crawled strenuously over to Su Pan’er and kowtowed three tis, "Madam, please show so rcy and speak up for your servant! Since your servant arrived at the mansion, I am at your service. I really did not poison the sir..."
Su Pan’er watched coldly, seeing only the anger and sorrow of being wronged in the girl’s eyes, but none of the panic that usually followed capture. She couldn’t help but furrow her brows.
Could there be so hidden secret behind all this?
"Xiyue, since you claim to be under my service, then fine! Tell , who was your previous master?"
A flicker of panic was clearly visible in Xiyue’s eyes!
Her eyes were spinning rapidly, uttering in fits and starts: "I... Xiyue doesn’t understand what My Lady is talking about? Xiyue..."
"Cough, cough!"
Su Pan’er uttered a heavy cough, cutting off her words that had yet to be finished.
She rubbed her temples, leaning so what weary against Qin Yi, slowly closing her eyes: "I won’t force you, as Your Lady, I give you three days to think it over. Whenever you rember, you can co to at any ti and tell the answer. You may leave now!"
Qin Yi was noticeably surprised by Su Pan’er’s action, but he remained quiet.
Uncle Liu ca in soon enough, taking Xiyue directly away.
Before leaving, Xiyue seed to want to say sothing several tis, but in the end, remained silent.
"You must be wondering, didn’t we agree to sell her, why did I change my mind again?"
Su Pan’er leant against his shoulder, speaking with a touch of fatigue.
Qin Yi genuinely found it hard to understand, but still obeyed her: "If you want to keep her, just keep her! Just dismiss her out of sight, as long as she’s not an eyesore."
"I believe, she’s not the one who poisoned you."
Su Pan’er spoke slowly, although she herself didn’t understand the origin of this feeling.
But this feeling indeed suddenly erged then!
"Earlier, when I rolled down the slope, there was indeed so pulling and tugging from you. However, I clearly rember that at that mont, soone tripped up, causing to fall with you. Soon after, another person violently pushed from behind, causing to lose my balance and roll down the hill."
Qin Yi was instantly on alert!
"Hmm? What do you an by this?"
"What I an is, among the people we bought this ti, there might be spies lurking among us!"
"Ah! This..."
Qin Yi paused for a mont, then quickly gripped Su Pan’er’s hand, his face full of anger: "Soone intentionally pushed you? At that ti, who were in front of and behind you? And who was standing next to you? And from which direction did the push co from?"
Qin Yi asked eagerly and in great detail.
"That night, because you were drunk and it was raining, Uncle Zhang was holding the lantern walking in front of you. And the two page boys were standing on each side of you. Behind were Miaoyu and Qingwen..."
As Su Pan’er spoke, she simply drew the positions of where everyone was standing that day.
Soon, the person who could have made a move on both of them without seeming awkward, and succeeded without arousing suspicion from others, surfaced swiftly.
"Is it really him? But right now we have no evidence. Even if we caught him, they might not confess, and it would also alarm the others!"
Qin Yi thought a bit more.
"It’s easy to address the denial, how about, we proceed like this..."
After discussion, noticing the late hour, they finally decided to rest.
But before dawn, soone ca knocking at the door.
"Sir, disaster struck! The maidservant nad Xiyue has escaped!"
Xiyue escaped?
Qin Yi and Su Pan’er exchanged glances, a strange look flashing through their eyes simultaneously.
Imdiately, they got up to investigate the situation.
The door to the room where Xiyue was held had been breached, the door lock lay quietly not far from the door, the door was wide open, and there was no one inside.
The first to discover the situation, the young maidservant Qingwen, trembled uncontrollably: "This morning I went to wash clothes, thinking that hanging the clothes out back would dry faster, so I ca walking this way with the wash basin. I saw this door open and curiosity got the better of , so I ca over to take a look, that’s when I realized sothing was wrong..."
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