Chapter 350 Jade City

"The flute-flying Yingzhu armor was found in your Lotus Pavilion, and you still say you have no connection with the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance?"

Fang Duobing, who was all smiles after learning sword techniques, turned to Li Lianhua but suddenly changed his expression, saying that he was actually a medicine demon and that he had ulterior motives for getting close to Lan Yan, and then produced "evidence"!

Seeing that Lan Yan had no intention of defending him, Li Lianhua had no choice but to step in himself. Fooling a fool was a piece of cake.

"This thing has such a big background?" Li Lianhua looked at Fang Duobing with an innocent expression. "I found it on the beach a few years ago. It's not illegal to find things, is it?"

"Is it really such a coincidence?"

“Who says otherwise?” Li Lianhua pointed to the watermelon on the table. “Young Master Fang, I need to recuperate and can’t eat too much. You should have some. You look like you’ve suffered a lot on this journey. You even pawned your jade pendant?”

Fang Duobing instinctively clutched his lower back, awkwardly straightening his posture. "For Brother Lan's sake, I'll let you pass for now. But I'll be keeping an eye on you; heaven is watching..."

Before he could finish speaking, a bolt of lightning flashed, startling Fang Duobing. Was his mouth really that sharp?

"You know, this godforsaken place, it rains every night, and the ground is covered with human bones..."

Just then, the people at the next table started chatting. Fang Duobing and Li Lianhua unconsciously pricked up their ears to listen, while Lan Yan slowly sipped his tea. A stormy night with thunder and lightning—it's a night full of stories.

A sudden gust of wind blew the window open, and the papers pasted on the wall were also blown down. Lan Yan reached out and caught one of them.

The waiter in the shop was still explaining to the other customers: "The girl in the portrait is Yu Qiushuang, the younger sister of the city lord of Jade City behind the mountain..."

Lan Yan handed the notice to Li Lianhua, and Fang Duobing followed to look at the contents.

"Squeak, squeak..."

Li Lianhua looked up and saw Fang Duobing eating melon while listening to the waiter talk and comparing the contents of the notice. She couldn't help but complain, "You seem to be quite busy."

"What do you know? As a criminal investigator, you need to have a keen eye for spotting problems."

Fang Duobing spoke with conviction, but Li Lianhua's gaze fell on the melon rinds he had eaten clean on the table, and she said quietly, "So, even criminal investigators are required to be able to eat?"

Fang Duobing's face flushed slightly as he forced a defense: "I did this so as not to waste it."

Upon hearing this, Lan Yan didn't say anything, but simply pushed the plate of watermelon in front of Fang Duobing again. Encouraged, Fang Duobing ate even more enthusiastically. Li Lianhua looked at Lan Yan with a resentful expression. He had promised to indulge Li Xiangyi, but he, Li Lianhua, didn't get any. What did Fang Duobing count for?

Suddenly, a woman dressed entirely in white with a white veil over her head walked in, startling everyone.

The waiter screamed in terror, "A ghost—!"

"Who are you calling a ghost?" The woman lashed out with her subordinate's whip, glaring angrily at the waiter.

"This is?"

The seated guest looked at the woman's face, then at the notice in his hand, and said, "This is Yu Qiushuang."

"What are you looking at? You're not allowed to look!" The woman seemed a little flustered and closed the veil over her head again.

At this moment, a group of armed guards came down from the second floor and addressed her as "Second Miss," further confirming her identity.

"Did your elder sister send you?"

"The city lord is in the south of the mountain and will not be back for several days. It was Miss Yun Jiao who brought her people. She is on the second floor."

Upon hearing this, Yu Qiushuang hurriedly went up to the second floor, followed closely by the guards.

“Miss Yu Cheng…” Fang Duobing couldn’t help but sigh, “She seems to be highly valued. After disappearing for a few days, people in Yu Cheng have been posting notices everywhere.”

Lan Yan put down his teacup and said gently, "It's getting late, you should get some rest. Did you book a room for Duobing?"

"Wangfu..." Fang Duobing was about to say that Wangfu had made the arrangements for him when he realized that Wangfu and Li'er had been sent by him to secretly check Li Lianhua's room and hadn't come down yet.

Thinking of this, Fang Duobing's eyes suddenly became somewhat evasive.

Li Lianhua narrowed her eyes slightly: "Your servant isn't doing anything underhanded, is he?"

"What are you saying! I told him to take a look first... to check out the accommodations, in case I'm not used to it." Fang Duobing tried to find an excuse.

"He really is a young master."

Li Lianhua didn't expose him, but just teased him in a playful way.

Fang Duobing hurriedly got up: "I'm not that picky. I'll go see how his examination went. Li Lianhua, please sit for a while longer."

Fang Duobing went upstairs to the second floor, and Lan Yan also got up, looking innocent: "I asked you to sit for a while longer, but I didn't. I'm going back to rest now."

Li Lianhua shook his head helplessly. What was he doing sitting there all alone? Listening to the rain? Of course, if he could take the opportunity to eat another slice of watermelon…

Lan Yan picked up the plate with the watermelon on it. "Can't waste it, let's have it as a midnight snack."

Li Lianhua laughed in exasperation. Was he doing this on purpose? He didn't really want to eat it either!

She got up angrily and followed Lan Yan slowly upstairs, refusing to speak to him and severing ties for a quarter of an hour!

...

"The little mouse is destroying the house."

As Lan Yan walked up the stairs, his ears twitched, and he chuckled softly.

Despite having declared her intention to sever ties with Lan Yan, Li Lianhua subconsciously curled the corners of her lips and said, "I hope my room can be a little tidier..."

"who!"

Upon hearing Fang Duobing's rebuke, Li Lianhua's expression changed, and the Fei Bai sword at Lan Yan's waist flew out.

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. When Li Lianhua and Lan Yan arrived, they saw Fang Duobing supporting Wang Fu, whose arm was bleeding, as he walked out.

"Li Lianhua, quickly take a look at Wangfu."

"What happened?"

Li Lianhua took out her first-aid kit and began bandaging Wangfu.

Wang Fu, still shaken and pale, stammered, "I...I was rummaging through things when I turned around and suddenly saw a dark figure stabbing at me with a sword..."

Fang Duobing added, "As soon as I came up, I noticed a dark figure in the room. I called out, and then a sword flew past my eyes, pierced through the window, and rushed in."

Lan Yan walked out of the room carrying his sword.

"It's this sword!" Wang Fu suddenly became excited. "This sword saved me. If it hadn't blocked it, that person wouldn't have stabbed my arm..."

Wang Fu, who felt like he had just escaped death, looked at Lan Yan and the sword in Lan Yan's hand with gratitude and enthusiasm.

"Brother Lan, thank you."

Fang Duobing also sincerely thanked him. If it weren't for Lan Yan's help, Fang Duobing couldn't imagine what would have happened to Wang Fu.

"It's nothing." Lan Yan shook his head. "It's a pity that person jumped out of the window and got away."

"Do you have any enemies?" Li Lianhua asked Wang Fu.

Wangfu shook his head in confusion, while Li'er looked at him with concern. "Wangfu and I both grew up in the manor, how could we have enemies?"

She looked up at Li Lianhua and asked, "Wang Fu entered your room. It's so dark. Was that person coming for you?"