Chapter 392: Probing, Ning Huaiyuan’s Doubt

Although it was already spring, a rain fell in the evening, and the weather became chilling. At night, all the mansions and courtyards closed their doors early. The matter in the backyard had already spread throughout the mansion. Not only was Madam sick, but the Old Madam was also sick.

Coupled with this cold and dark rain, everyone in the mansion felt grim, with a chilling coldness.

Ning Huaiyuan intercepted Ning Xueyan, who had just come back from visiting the Old Madam, on the road. His complexion was deeply cold, his gaze was tightly locked on Ning Xueyan’s face, and his eyes were icy cold and complex.

Ning Xueyan stood firm, pulled Lan Ning, who was in front of her, behind her, raised her eyebrows, and looked at Ning Huaiyuan with her ink jade eyes, neither avoiding nor evading. This was the first time she had seen Ning Huaiyuan since the last matter.

“The matter of Second Miss, you designed it, didn’t you?” Ning Huaiyuan didn’t let her wait too long and directly said, “What grudges and hatred do you have with Second Miss? You actually ruined her like this.”

Ning Huaiyuan actually didn’t have any evidence for this matter, but later he asked Ning Yuling. She originally intended to design Ning Xueyan, but Ning Xueyan was fine, but it was Ning Yuling who had the problem, especially the matter of those clothes. It was said that those clothes were first sent to Ning Xueyan’s Mingshuang Courtyard, and then to Ning Yuling.

Just based on these few points, it was known that there should be Ning Xueyan’s involvement in this matter. Of course, this was also Ning Huaiyuan’s suspicion of Concubine Xiao Xu’s matter before.

Those witchcraft dolls, Concubine Xiao Xu clearly said that they were all buried in Ning Xueyan’s courtyard, but in the end they were found in Concubine Xiao Xu’s place. If no one had done anything here, it would be impossible to understand. The result of these two matters was the same, how could Ning Huaiyuan not think it was Ning Xueyan?

It’s just that the witchcraft matter involved too much, and Ning Huaiyuan himself couldn’t be spared, so of course, he would now use Ning Yuling’s matter to make a case.

Ning Xueyan didn’t answer, but looked at Ning Huaiyuan with a strange gaze. After a while, she smiled and brought a touch of mockery, “Does Eldest Brother want to say that Ning Yuling is innocent, or that this disaster should have been borne by me? But unexpectedly it fell on Ning Yuling, so I am the biggest perpetrator, and Eldest Brother is now here to accuse me?”

“I don’t mean that, don’t you have a bit of responsibility for Second Miss’s matter!” Ning Huaiyuan couldn’t take these words. How could Ning Yuling be innocent? If she was innocent, she wouldn’t do such a thing. Ning Yuling was going to ruin Ning Xueyan, he certainly knew.

“Since Eldest Brother doesn’t mean that, there’s no need to ask me. There were no less than a thousand people present at the time. The facts they saw were no less than mine. As for Ning Yuling’s matter, what does Eldest Brother want me to do? Show some sisterly affection? Or comfort her injured heart? Eldest Brother talking about this sisterly affection, I don’t know that she has harmed me several times before, almost losing my life, and even my mother also suffered, I don’t know if that counts as her sisterly affection to me?”

Ning Xueyan mocked and curved the corner of her mouth, revealing a slight smile on her face. She really didn’t know what Ning Huaiyuan was using to accuse her. How Ning Yuling treated her, others didn’t know, who in this mansion didn’t know? If she hadn’t been strong as a child, she would have died long ago.

And this person who forced her to death, actually wanted her to show this sisterly affection, which was truly the most ridiculous thing in the world.

“The things from those years, Second Miss was still young and didn’t understand things.” When he said this, Ning Huaiyuan was also quite embarrassed. How Ning Yuling treated Ning Xueyan back then, the people up and down in this mansion saw it clearly, but no one reached out to stop it. In the past, they didn’t feel anything, it was just a useless young girl, but now Ning Xueyan revealed strong methods, only then did they find out that the weak young girl from those years was no longer the same.

“Ning Yuling was still young, so she could do such things again and again, let the servants beat me, humiliate me, force me to death, and the people in the mansion, they were all small people, watching her play me to death? Originally, I was wrong, everyone in this mansion are small people.” Ning Xueyan smiled, her smile was as chilling as a cold well.

“Ning Xueyan, don’t go too far…you’re not afraid that I’ll tell Father about these things.” Ning Huaiyuan’s calmness on his face was immediately embarrassed, and he said in an angry and dangerous voice.

“These things? Which things is Eldest Brother talking about? Could it be that Eldest Brother has evidence to say that these things were all done by me? Did I let Madam and Ning Ziyan snatch Xia Yuhang’s wedding and kill Ning Ziying?”

Hearing that Ning Huaiyuan even dared to threaten her, Ning Xueyan’s smiling face suddenly sank and said in a cold voice.

“You’re talking nonsense!” Ning Huaiyuan scolded in a panic and stern voice. Although he didn’t know the final death of Ning Ziying, he knew that what Ning Xueyan said was true. The plans of the mansion, Ning Ziyan’s plans, and Xia Yuhang’s matter, he was clear about them, and sometimes he even created opportunities for them in order to specially match them.

“Whether it’s true or not, isn’t it being investigated? Eldest Brother, some things, it’s not that you can’t investigate them just because there’s no evidence.” Ning Xueyan smiled softly. After finishing speaking, she no longer cared about the complex expression on Ning Huaiyuan’s face, and walked towards Mingshuang Courtyard with Lan Ning.

After walking a distance and being unable to see Ning Huaiyuan’s figure from afar, Lan Ning spoke and asked, “Young Lady, what does the Eldest Young Master mean? To seek justice for the Second Miss?”

Ning Xueyan smiled slightly and said, “Seeking justice? Ning Yuling’s current appearance is the most just. He’s just here to test the waters?”

Ning Huaiyuan specially stopped her, of course, not just to talk about this groundless rumor. As for Ning Yuling’s matter, besides herself, who could really say who would harm her? Even Ning Yuling herself, at most, would wonder why her clothes didn’t fall off, but her clothes were torn.

As for the others, no one could find out.

“What information does the Eldest Young Master want to probe? Could it be that the Eldest Young Master suspects these things? Then why does the Young Lady say she knows about Miss Ziying’s matters?” Lan Ning asked worriedly.

“Since he suspects, then let him suspect even more.” Ning Xueyan coldly snorted, and a icy cold smile curved at the corner of her mouth. If Ning Huaiyuan wanted to find evidence of her involvement in these matters directly from here, he was thinking too perfectly. Concubine Xiao Xu’s witchcraft matter, Ning Yuling’s startled horse matter, this should be the place where Ning Huaiyuan suspected her the most.

As for Ning Ziying’s matter, Ning Huaiyuan would never have thought that she was Ning Ziying reborn, especially when Ning Ziying entered the mansion, it was exactly when Ning Xueyan was in self-seclusion in Mingshuang Courtyard, it was almost impossible to know the things that happened clearly, but she could say the facts they tried to conceal.

Saying this matter at this time was to disrupt Ning Huaiyuan’s thoughts. No matter how much imagination he had, he could not know that she was Ning Ziying. With such an impossible thing inside, it would only make Ning Huaiyuan even more unable to guess who was scheming inside.

As for Ning Yuling, she didn’t need to pretend to have any sisterly affection with her anymore, after all, everyone in the mansion knew how Ning Yuling treated her.

In the past, maybe the Old Madam would punish her for not talking about sisterly affection with Ning Yuling, but now, the Old Madam would probably be glad to be rid of the shame of Ning Yuling from then on.

The night truly fell. The Duke’s Mansion had lights lit everywhere, but because of what happened during the day, the lights in each courtyard seemed to sway and fall, looking particularly uneasy.

The lights in the Cloud Mist Courtyard room were also lit, and they were also lit brightly. Madam Ling was dozing on the bed. After she was knocked out by Ning Zuan and awakened by Madam Chen, she had been dozing off. When Madam Chen went down just now, she was originally going to blow out the lights, but she didn’t let Madam Chen blow them out no matter what.

Helplessly, Madam Chen had to go down, and Madam Ling was dozing half-dreaming and half-awake, being awakened from time to time. In her dreams, Ning Ziying’s cloak, loose hair, and fresh blood were flowing as she sought her life.

Suddenly, she woke up from her dream, and suddenly opened her eyes. She was facing a pair of big black eyes. That kind of dark, enlarged outline was definitely not something a normal person could have. And those eyes were set on a face that was white without a trace of blood, but the corner of that face’s mouth was still hanging down, with fresh red blood, and a strand of it fell on her face, icy cold.

That ghost face was on a floating white hemp clothes, and there were traces of blood on the hemp clothes. A voice seemed to be right in her ears, but also seemed to be far away: “First Madam, I’m here to find you, I died so unjustly!”

“Ah!” Madam Ling let out a shrill scream, sat up sharply, shrank to the corner of the bed, waved her hands and feet and beat around wildly, “It’s not me, don’t find me, it’s Xia Mansion, it’s them who want to marry Yan’er, it has nothing to do with me, don’t find me.”

The ghost shadow hanging in front of her made a “cackle” ghost laughter, and Madam Ling even felt the wind sound of the ghost shadow rushing towards her. She had never felt so much terror before. The strings of her heart were all tense, as if in the next moment, the flesh and blood of her whole body would explode and fly away.

In her chest, it was as if something was covered, and there was a chilling, bloodthirsty coldness, rushing down into her body. Her hands unconsciously moved, and she screamed frantically.

“First Madam, First Madam.” The door was suddenly knocked open, and Madam Chen rushed in and said anxiously to support her.

“Where…where did you go?” Madam Ling’s hand was grabbed by Madam Chen, and she opened her eyes blankly, looking at the sky with a hint of madness.

“First Madam, what are you looking for, where did you go?” Madam Chen shook her hand and said anxiously, trying to wake her up.

“She’s here, she’s here to seek retribution, she’s here!” Madam Ling’s dazed gaze stared blankly at the sky, and her whole body was shaken back and forth in Madam Chen’s hands.

“First Madam, you’re dreaming, it’s not real, it’s a dream.” Madam Chen saw this situation and hurriedly shook Madam Ling’s body again.

“Dream?” This time Madam Ling reacted, her eyeballs turned twice, and she turned to Madam Chen.

“Yes, it’s a dream, it’s not real!” Seeing that she finally reacted, Madam Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly guaranteed.

“It was originally a dream, it’s fake, it’s all fake.” As soon as Madam Ling finished speaking, her whole person relaxed, her body fell backwards, and she suddenly fainted.