After the matter was settled, the group returned to their room. Fang Duobing insisted on discussing the entire incident of the wedding dress murder with Li Lianxin. Li Lianxin lay on the soft couch, picking a grape from a nearby plate and putting it in her mouth.
They bought these grapes outside at noon. The entire Cailian Village was not as poor as it looked, but they still had nothing.
"I say, Master Fang, why do you have to come to my room to discuss these things so late at night? Don't you have time during the day?" Li Lianhua said helplessly to Fang Duobing, who was sitting opposite him, while Di Feisheng sat on the chair in the middle of the room, just sitting there quietly.
Fang Duobing slammed his hand on the table, the crisp sound followed by his firm voice, "No! We have to get to the bottom of this today. I feel there's something strange about the Cailian Manor incident; there are many suspicious points."
"Wait a minute, some things can only be judged reasonably after seeing them with your own eyes and hearing them with your own ears. Let's go to the Lotus Pond again tomorrow morning, and you can tell me then. Goodbye."
Li Lianhua pushed Fang Duobing out the door, following him all the way out. Turning back, she leaned against the doorframe and looked at Di Feisheng, who sat motionless. "What, Feisheng? Do you want me to personally escort you?"
Di Feisheng glanced at him and very consciously went back to his room. Fang Duobing stood at the door, indignant but helpless.
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"Li Lianhua, why did you insist on coming here? What is there in the lotus pond? It's just a pond full of lotus flowers, what's there to see?" I don't understand at all. Is it because Li Lianhua's name contains the word "lotus" that she insists on coming here?
Li Lianhua put her hand to her mouth and shushed, "This Lotus Pond is very precious to Guo Gan, can you keep your voice down, or we'll get caught."
Li Lianhua's gaze darted back and forth between Fang Duobing and Di Feisheng before finally settling on Fang Duobing. After a moment's thought, she said directly, "You... go down and take a look."
"Why should I go down? I'm not the one who should go down among us, A-Fei, go down and take a look." Di Feisheng heard Fang Duobing's voice and slightly turned his body, his meaning was very clear, but!
Fang Duobing was displeased. What did this mean? "What, you're not even willing to help with this little thing? Then you might as well not come with us."
"Who I follow and what I do is none of your business, you brat." Di Feisheng glanced back at him, then turned away, his gaze seeming to look down on him, at least that's how Fang Duo interpreted it.
He was so enraged that he couldn't be angrier anymore, and he went up and started fighting with Di Feisheng.
“They keep fighting like this. If they damage Lotus Pavilion one day, we’ll be homeless. Aren’t you going to stop them, Lotus?” Li Lianxin rushed to Li Lianhua’s side just before the two started fighting.
That spot is safe. I don't know how many times the two of them have fought. On the way to Cailian Manor, Fang Duobing has been eager to argue with Di Feisheng at least every day. When Di Feisheng isn't looking at him, he sneaks up on him in a very cheeky way.
Li Lianhua shrugged, indicating that he was powerless to help. Besides, it was good that Lotus Pavilion was damaged; it would give him a chance to collect debts from Thousand Machine Hall. Hall Master He wouldn't abandon his son, no matter what. He would also try to collect some debts from Di Feisheng.
The Golden Couple Alliance is a large organization; they can certainly afford this amount of money. They can renovate the Lotus Pavilion to make it even more luxurious, since it won't just be the two of them living there after they get married.
"Hey you two, can you keep your voices down when you're fighting?" Li Lianhua said to them. Just as she finished speaking, Di Feisheng was caught off guard by Fang Duobing and knocked down into the lotus pond. "Fang! Duo! Bing!"
Li Lianhua could hardly bear to look at him. "Fang Duobing, why did you provoke him?"
[Fang Xiaobao, all I can do now is offer you my sincerest prayers. When the sound of the flute strikes you, I'll stay far away.]
"Hahahaha~" Fang Duobing watched Di Feisheng fall into the lotus pond and let out a smug laugh.
To this, Li Lianhua could only say, "After the Cailian Manor matter is settled, you should stay away from Afei as far away as possible."
"What do you mean! You think I bullied him?" Fang Duobing was displeased. Wasn't this implying that he was bullying someone, even though he really was?
"Fang Duobing, just listen to Lianhua. If you get beaten up in the future, we can't help you. Anyway, no matter what, just stay as far away from Afei as possible. Don't ask why. Why are there so many whys in this world?"
Li Lianxin also stepped forward and gently persuaded Fang Duobing, stopping him just as he was about to refute her.
At this moment, Di Feisheng came up carrying a corpse with a bright lotus flower growing on its head. He threw the stone on the ground, looked at Fang Duobing, his expression changed slightly, and finally said, "I'll remember this."
After finishing his speech, he went to the side to wring out his clothes, as it was inconvenient not having the skill to do so.
Fang Duobing: "..."
"Corpse Fragrance Flower?" Li Lianhua looked at the method of cultivating lotus flowers, which looked very familiar.
[Oh right, I remember now. I originally came to Cailian Manor to find that Lion Soul, but this time it wasn't about finding the Lion Soul at all, since Lianhua already knows about Shan Gudao faking his death.]
"The bottom of the pond is full of corpses like these. So this is the Lotus Cultivation Secret Technique of the Lotus Picking Manor. If these roots were planted near the pond, they would have been discovered long ago." He found this method somewhat familiar; it seemed like something his Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance members would do.
However, the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance has a large number of members, and he simply cannot remember each and every one of them.
Fang Duobing looked at the corpse and, recalling what he had overheard at the inn the day before, said, "These lotus flowers were cultivated from corpses. Do you remember yesterday? The guests at the next table at the inn mentioned that the corpses in the cemetery had disappeared."
Lotus flowers need corpses as nutrients to grow, but the Lotus Picking Village can't kill people all the time, so they have to steal corpses from the cemetery.
"Most of the people in this Lotus Picking Manor probably know what's beneath the Lotus Picking Pond, but they dare not say anything out of fear of the master's authority."
Fang Duobing looked at the lotus pond in front of him. The pond was very large, and there were so many lotus flowers blooming in the middle that it was impossible to count them all. He was afraid that there were countless corpses as well.
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