Yun Manying said apologetically, "I've dragged you into this."

"Third sister, please don't say that. They're the ones who are blind." You Ran said with a smile, placing a chicken leg on her plate. "Do you remember what I used to say?"

"Only flowers and delicious food should not be missed!" Yun Manying replied, then put the chicken leg in her mouth and took a big bite. The two looked at each other and laughed.

In the private room on the second floor, where the window paper had just been pierced by chopsticks, a handsome man calmly swallowed the last bite of his food, put down his chopsticks, and then said in a low voice to the guard beside him, "Yu Ze, let's go."

"Yes," Yu replied, taking the veiled hat from the side and preparing to put it on the man.

The man pushed his hand away, saying, "No need."

Yu looked surprised.

A moment later, the door opened, and Yu helped the man out of the private room.

Then I slowly went downstairs.

He turned out to be blind.

The waiter was already used to it.

Some people in the lobby were slightly surprised and took a second look.

As the two approached Yun Manying, for some reason, the man's legs suddenly gave way.

Yun Manying instinctively reached out to steady him, "Young Master, be careful!"

The man smiled and said, "Thank you, young lady."

Seeing his unfocused gaze, Yun Manying immediately realized what was happening and smiled at Yu Ze beside her.

Once the two figures disappeared through the doorway, she immediately turned around and whispered to You Ran, "You Ran, I was just saying it casually, how come someone actually showed up... no, someone who can't see?"

You glanced at it casually, "You recognize it?"

"No, no, no, I don't recognize him." Yun Manying's voice was even lower. "Do you think... he might be trying to identify with the person in the story?"

Seeing that the person had already left, You Ran reassured him, "No, it's alright. Oh, it's all my fault for Fu Xi Lou, the food is just too delicious. Look, look, even people who can't see have to grope their way over to eat here!"

Yun Manying: ……

The two of them got tired from walking around, so they went back to their residence.

After a leisurely afternoon nap, Zhao Mama rushed in in a panic, "Miss! Manager Shen from Fuxi Restaurant is here!"

You Ran was taken aback. In all these years, Manager Shen had never come to the Yun family to look for her. "What happened?"

Mrs. Zhao shook her head, "He was also very flustered and didn't say anything in detail."

You Ran quickly went out to greet the guest.

Unexpectedly, it turned out that the Duke of England's mansion, the Duke of Jiang's mansion, and the Third Prince's mansion all ordered a banquet from Fuxilou Restaurant to eat at their mansions, and people died from the food!

You Ran immediately recalled the Jiang family, Jiang Xian, and the veiled woman from noon.

"That's... Madam Yu!"

She hurriedly followed Manager Shen to Fuxi Restaurant.

Three stretchers and three corpses were placed in front of the Fuxi Building.

Madam Jiang, Jiang Xian, and Madam Yu stood to one side.

Upon seeing You Ran arrive, Madam Jiang immediately said to the constable beside her, "Sir, the mistress is here! Why haven't you arrested her yet?!"

You Ran said, "Wait a minute, how did these three people die? Has the foreman examined their bodies? On what basis do you say their deaths are related to my Fuxi Restaurant?"

A short, stocky clerk stepped forward and bowed, saying, "Princess Fengle, I am a clerk from the Jingzhao Prefecture. I have just examined the bodies of the three women, and they have indeed died of poisoning."

"Oh?" You Ran looked at him sharply. "What kind of poison did you suffer from?"

"It is a highly poisonous fish called the Yangtze finless porpoise." Chu Zuo pointed to the food beside him. "I just tested the food they brought back, and it is indeed poisonous."

You Ran sneered, "Just because of a few food boxes containing deadly poison, you're concluding that there's something wrong with the food at my Fuxi Restaurant? They ordered the meal from Fuxi Restaurant, and these food boxes are indeed the takeout boxes we use, but anyone can tamper with the food inside. How can you prove that it was my Fuxi Restaurant that poisoned it?"

"This..." Chu Wei was at a loss.

"The county princess is right!"

"That's right. It's true that the food box was delivered by Fuxi Restaurant, but once the food box enters the Duke's mansion, anyone who touches it can tamper with it."

Jiang snorted coldly, "Our three families all ordered banquets from Fuxi Restaurant at the same time, and were all poisoned at the same time. Fuxi Restaurant is naturally the most suspicious!"

You Ran glanced at her and said, "Oh, may I ask, Madam, why did you order a banquet?"

Jiang Xian said arrogantly, "Today is my birthday. I invited my sister to dine at Fuxi Restaurant. It was you who stopped us from dining in the main hall of Fuxi Restaurant. That's why we went back to our own residences and ordered our own meals."

Madam Yu also spoke up, "Yes, Miss Jiang was just unhappy with the disrespectful attitude of your Fuxi Restaurant waiter and wanted to teach him a lesson, but you, the owner who stood up for the waiter, kicked her out. It's understandable that the waiter would hold a grudge and deliberately poison the food we ordered as revenge."

"So they had a grudge against each other, which gives them a motive for murder!"

You Ran then asked with a smile, "As everyone knows, a banquet at Fu Xi Lou starts at a minimum of one hundred taels. With such an expensive banquet, even if it was poisoned, how could it have resulted in such a death? None of the three families had any masters; instead, it was all servants who died?"

She had just heard from the shopkeeper that of the three dead, two were old women and one was a maid.

The people started gossiping again, "Yes, such an expensive feast, and the master hasn't even eaten yet, how come the servants have already started eating?"

Jiang Xian was somewhat annoyed, "I...we just like to...have the servants taste the dishes first! Yes, that's what we do, we have them taste the dishes, and they ended up killing us!"

He nodded leisurely, circled the group twice, and suddenly asked, "Lord Chuzuo, as far as I know, this highly poisonous finless porpoise doesn't exist within the territory of our Great Zhou, does it?"

Chu Zuo was taken aback for a moment, then nodded. "The Yangtze finless porpoise is a highly poisonous fish, and this fish has never appeared in the Great Zhou River Basin."

You Ran suddenly walked up to Madam Yu and quickly tore off her veil. "Then, what about Nan Yue?"

Madam Yu's expression changed drastically, and she covered her face, exclaiming, "What are you doing?!"

The man standing next to him replied, “The Nan Yue region has abundant waterways and a spring-like climate all year round, making it very suitable for the growth of finless porpoises. I have heard that there are often cases of people in the Nan Yue Kingdom being poisoned by finless porpoises after accidentally eating them, and the deceased had the same symptoms as these three people.”

Looking at Madam Yu with a leisurely air, he said, "Tazana, former Lady of the Southern Kingdom, do you think that my Great Zhou is completely unaware of the poison of the Yangtze finless porpoise in your Southern Yue?"

The crowd was in an uproar. "What? The Lady of the Southern Kingdom? Isn't the Lady of the Southern Kingdom in the palace?"

Jiang Xian gave Tazana a disdainful look.

Tazana, enraged, retorted, "You're talking nonsense! I'm not the Lady of the Southern Kingdom! I'm Lady Yu of the Third Prince's residence!"

You clapped her hands leisurely, "I already said she was the former Lady of the Southern Kingdom, so naturally she's not the current Lady of the Southern Kingdom!"

No sooner had the words left her lips than a sharp shout rang out from behind, "The Lady of the Southern Kingdom has arrived—"

The people made way for them.

Then a beautiful and alluring woman, who looked seven or eight parts like Tazana, came in a sedan chair.

Upon seeing this, Tazana turned pale and covered her face with her sleeve.

Lady Nanguo raised her hand, and the sedan chair was lowered. She stepped down slowly.

Several members of the Jiang family bowed to her.