Fang Duobing wandered around the room, but there was nothing special about it. "There's nothing special here either. Let's go look around somewhere else."

The group went to the backyard and overheard two maids talking. One of them urged the other urgently, "Is the Second Master's medicine ready?"

"Oh, alright, alright," the maid replied immediately, turning around to pour the medicine out of the pot. A more cultured maid noticed the herbal medicine list on the side and immediately realized the mistake, saying, "Why did you cook it according to yesterday's prescription? Wrong, wrong! Pour it out right now, quick!"

"Huh? Oh, okay." The maid was stunned for a moment when she misheard, and then immediately followed the other person's instructions to take the medicine out of the medicine pot and pour it out.

Standing out of the two maids' sight, right in front of the three of them, Fang Duobing heard everything clearly. "Did you hear that? Guo Kun shouldn't have two sets of medicine prescriptions. The maids just said he can't brew yesterday's medicine."

Was there anything special about yesterday? We just arrived at Cailian Manor yesterday.

"You can go and take a look in a bit."

Fang Duobing nodded and followed the maid who was pouring the medicine. Li Lianhua led Li Lianxin a short distance ahead, and as they turned around, they happened to see Granny Jiang squatting on the ground with a copper basin in front of her, filled with burning paper money.

Grandma Jiang continued to throw the food in, muttering, "Don't blame me, don't blame me."

"Oh, Granny, you..." Li Lianhua started to speak as soon as she saw Granny Jiang, wanting to ask her why she was burning paper money, but she was interrupted before she could finish speaking.

Granny Jiang, with a strange expression, blew on her finger and said nervously, "Shh~ Today is the anniversary of Lady Wang's death. One thing after another has happened at Cailian Manor. There are vengeful spirits. I'm burning extra paper money for her. Please don't be offended, please don't be offended, please don't be offended."

"The anniversary of her death? That's the day seven years ago at Cailian Manor, the day the second murder occurred." That's interesting. This housekeeper must be involved in Wang Niangzi's death, otherwise why would she go to such lengths?

Let's go.

"Huh? Where are we going?" Li Lianxin was confused. Where are we going?

"The pavilion in the middle of the lake is the one Guo Kun mentioned."

"oh"

The two then went to the pavilion in the middle of the lake. At that moment, Fang Duobing happened to find the maid to take the medicinal herbs outside to find a doctor to check their ingredients.

As soon as the two arrived at the pavilion in the middle of the lake, they saw a little boy standing there, looking around with a disappointed expression. It was already quite late, and there was unlikely to be anyone else coming, but the little boy still refused to leave.

Li Lianhua pulled Lianxin forward and asked, "Young man, are you waiting for Master Guo?"

"Who are you? Are you from Cailian Manor?" The little boy looked them up and down, not recognizing anyone from Cailian Manor. People from Cailian Manor who dressed so well must be of high status, and they didn't look like they were from Cailian Manor.

Li Lianhua didn't answer his question directly, but instead continued to ask, "What are you waiting for him for?"

"It's my birthday today. Every year on my birthday, Old Man Kun would come to play with me and learn to sing opera together. But why didn't he come today? Did his brother lock him up again?" The little boy said, his expression anxious and his tone worried, which showed that he really cared about Guo Kun.

[See? I told you Guo Kun was the only good person in the entire Cailian Manor. Everyone came to celebrate his birthday every year. It's just a pity that Guo Gan and Guo Huo were taken away this time. What will become of Guo Kun?]

"Hey young man, have you known Master Guo for a long time?" Li Lianhua naturally heard the key words in the words.

"Seven years," the little boy answered without hesitation.

"You remember it so clearly without even thinking about it."

Upon hearing Li Lianhua's words, the little boy smiled and said, "Of course, because on the night of my eighth birthday, I got separated from my family and was crying alone in the alley."

Just then, Old Man Kun also sneaked out to play. He saw me crying, so he came over and stayed with me until almost dawn when my family found me, at which point he finally left.

Thank you.

After expressing his gratitude, Li Lianhua led his people back. This was enough to report back to Fang Xiaobao. Once this matter was over, he would go to collect the Heavenly Ice to open the Luo Mo Cauldron. Judging by the time, the poison Lianxin had given should have begun to show.

Upon returning to Cailian Manor, Fang Duobing rushed over immediately, bringing with him the wedding dress found in Guo Huo's room and the testimony of the maid who had returned from Weiyuan Escort Agency. This, combined with the items he had examined at the doctor's office, further complicated matters.

From this, we can deduce the entire process of the wedding dress murder case. However, he never understood why Guo Huo killed his newlywed wife. People always need a reason.

“I found the wedding dress in Guo Huo’s room, and after I went to see the doctor, he said that the medicine would cause the mad patient to have an early onset. I just don’t understand…” Fang Duobing told all his questions.

This time, not all the relevant evidence was found, so Li Lianhua couldn't say much more. The result was that Fang Duobing brought the murderer and his son back to Baichuan Courtyard to report. The people from Weiyuan Escort Agency were kind enough to hire someone to take care of Guo Kun at Cailian Manor.

With the little boy's companionship, Guo Kun's life was finally settled.

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The three returned to the Lotus Pavilion. Li Lianhua drove the pavilion forward, with Li Lianxin sitting beside him and Di Feisheng sitting alone on the other side. Li Lianxin watched the passing scenery without paying any attention to Di Feisheng.

"It's probably going to be at least a month or six months before Fang Xiaobao comes back. Do you think the people at Baichuan Academy are in pain now? Are they in as much pain as you were back then?"

At this point, Li Lianxin almost burst into the classic villainous laugh, but since there was also Di Feisheng present, she had no choice but to forcibly suppress it.

Upon hearing her words, Di Feisheng merely raised his head without speaking. In any case, this matter had little to do with him; the people of Baichuan Academy were nothing more than ants in his eyes, utterly insignificant.

Li Lianhua did not answer her question immediately. After a long silence, she said in a low voice, "Perhaps not."

The carriage continued its journey, the twilight illuminating the Lotus Pavilion.

Just as Li Lianxin had said, after Fang Duobing returned to Baichuan Courtyard and handed the people over, he learned that all the courtyard masters, except for Shi Shui, had been poisoned. Crucially, no one had ever seen this poison before.

These past few days, Shi Shui has been busy taking care of the entire Baichuan Academy, and the news of the academy masters being poisoned has been completely blocked and has not been spread.

The doctor said they had contracted the poison in the last two days, which conveniently cleared Li Lianhua and the others of suspicion. This was something she specifically asked Xiao Kou to do; no one in the world could possibly detect when they were poisoned.

The most serious case was Yun Biqiu. Jiao Liqiao originally wanted to ask him for help, but when she saw his current state, she was afraid he couldn't do anything, so she could only leave reluctantly.