Once the big devil left, the Marquis' Mansion became a lawless place where Murong Yan could roam freely.
Just after the second watch, Ye Wanqing was applying jade skin cream after taking a shower, planning to have a good sleep, when she heard the sound of a stone hitting the window.
She opened the window in surprise, only to see Murong Yan squatting on a tree branch. Seeing her open the window, he lowered his voice and asked, "A Xu, are you asleep?"
"Your Highness?" Ye Wanqing opened the window and looked around. When she looked up, she found someone in the tree. She immediately complained, "Why are you becoming more and more like an owl? What are you doing in my tree in the middle of the night?"
Murong Yan leaped up and landed lightly in front of the window. The sweet scent of gardenia filled his nose. He frowned, "Are you applying powder again? Chen Xu, you are a man."
Ye Wanqing simply didn't bother to explain and directly retorted, "Which law in Yanyang Country stipulates that men can't use perfume?"
"It's not illegal." Murong Yan glanced into the room at A Rao standing by the bed and added, "But she's sick."
"Go to hell, you're the one who's sick." Ever since becoming familiar with Murong Yan, Ye Wanqing has become a lot bolder, often criticizing him without restraint.
The prince she had complained about to her girlfriends before was not like the one she saw now. He allowed her to make many rude jokes and allowed her to offend without any bottom line. He was a very easy person to get along with.
Unfortunately, these are privileges that only Shen Xu can enjoy.
"Hey - insulting the prince is against the law." Murong Yan had a faint smile on his face, and he had no intention of taking his anger out on her.
"Don't be so joking. Tell me, why are you looking for me so late?"
Murong Yan gave a wink, meaning to go out and talk. Ye Wanqing looked back at A Rao, raised her foot and stepped out of the window.
"Come with me." Murong Yan pulled her wrist, walked quickly to the bottom of the wall of the marquis' mansion, and climbed up the wall.
Hey, I'm familiar with the route.
Ye Wanqing was also very familiar with the route. Although the Great Devil had already returned to the southern border, it would take the two of them a while to change their habit of climbing over walls.
The two of them crossed the alley, ran to the street, and went to the original wonton stall.
The waiter warmly invited the two to sit down and asked, "My two guests, is it the same as usual?"
Murong Yan sat down and said, "I want to make wontons."
"Okay, please wait a moment."
After a while, two bowls of steaming wontons were brought up.
Ye Wanqing reached out and added a spoonful of chili oil, scooped up a wonton, and began to eat with relish. "I never realized before that the wontons in this wonton shop are really delicious. Especially the chili, it's just the right amount of spicy."
Murong Yan hummed and said, "They are open at night, so you can't eat during the day."
Ye Wanqing ate wontons and nodded, "Oh, by the way, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't ask me out specifically for a bowl of wontons, did he? I'll get fat if I always go out to eat at night."
"No, didn't you ask me to help you investigate Miss Ye's case before?"
"So, what did you find out?" She immediately put down the spoon and looked at him seriously.
Murong Yan exhaled lightly and said, "I did find out something. A few days before Miss Ye was murdered, my friend in the outer city told me that a few idle guys suddenly got a large sum of money. On the day Miss Ye died, these people disappeared."
"Is it really a murder for hire?"
"Well, what's interesting is that three of these people are missing, and the other one was killed in the slums of the outer city. The preliminary autopsy showed that the body was poisoned by arsenic."
Ye Wanqing exclaimed, "Then all clues are broken."
"Then we just need to follow the clues to find out the source of the arsenic and the person who silenced them, or find those missing people, and the truth will be revealed." Murong Yan spread his hands leisurely.
"So, did you find out anything?"
"I investigated the connections around Miss Ye and found something suspicious. For example, Miss Ye Er."
Ye Wanqing exclaimed something softly, it was really her.
"Miss Ye is very generous with her money. She often visits high-end cosmetics and jewelry shops like Zhenbaofang and Yuyanzhai, buying several items at a time, but she never wears them."
“Uh…” Those were actually bought by Shen Xu.
"Moreover, she would go to the bank every now and then to deposit a large sum of money. However, when I checked her account balance, I found that her money was withdrawn very quickly. Almost every time, she deposited and withdrew the money on the same day."
Ye Wanqing exclaimed, puzzled, "Then what's the point of her going to the bank to deposit money?"
“So that’s what’s suspicious.”
"Did she use the money to hire someone to kill someone?"
Murong Yan shook his head, stroking his chin as he analyzed, "It's hard to say. The last time she deposited or withdrew money was the day after Miss Ye was murdered. If she hired someone to kill her, she would have been out of money for a long time."
"So what do these have to do with this case?"
"Don't you think there's something wrong with the cash flow in the general's mansion? You and I both know how much money Old Ye makes from his family background. It's unreasonable for a concubine's daughter of a general's mansion to save so much money despite having such huge expenses." Murong Yan spread his hands and stated the suspicious points he had found.
Ye Wanqing pursed her lips and thought to herself: Isn't it because Chen Xu is stupid and has a lot of money? He wants to dress up as a man and secretly wear women's clothes. Isn't this just Ye Xueruo holding his head down and pulling him?
"Ah Xu, what do you think? Could it be that Old Ye was doing something shameful, and was caught by Miss Ye, and then killed to silence him?"
"No, Murong Yan, where's your brain?" Ye Wanqing almost choked on the soup and covered her eyes with regret. She shouldn't have let such a pillar of the country investigate this matter.
"They are all family members. What shameful thing is it that requires sending someone to defile their own daughter?"
"Oh, that's right, that's right. If there wasn't some deep hatred, he wouldn't do such a beastly thing."
Ye Wanqing said disdainfully, "So after all this time of searching, this is all you found?"
Haha, the prince and Shen Xu are really good for nothing, the Crouching Dragon and the Phoenix Chick!
"No, there's more. Miss Xu from the Censorate has been frugal for a long time, but recently she seems to have been spending a lot of money and bought a lot of paint."
Ye Wanqing immediately rejected it and said, "It can't be hers. What can you tell from her frugal living?"
Xu Wanrong came from the same family as her. As the second mother was the head of the household, she didn't have much pocket money. She liked painting, so it was no problem for her to save money and buy paints.
"I asked you to investigate Miss Ye's murder case, but why are you only investigating these useless things?"
Murong Yan spread his hands and said, "Who said we didn't find anything useful? The most suspicious person is that County Master Liu."
"It definitely can't be hers."
"On the night Miss Ye was murdered, she went out in a carriage and did not return until the next day. And a few days ago, during the poisoning case at the inn, she went out in a carriage again."
Ye Wanqing's pupils suddenly contracted, and she felt a chill running from the soles of her feet up her spine, giving her goose bumps all over her body.
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