Chapter 325: Unveiling a Corner of Veil
It was already after dinner when Xiao Lanyuan came back.
Fu Zhaoning was writing and drawing in the study room in Jianjiayuan.
When he came in, he saw her standing there writing. The candlelight was bright, making her face look as if it was coated with a layer of warm light, making her look beautiful and tender.
The frost on my body that I had brought back from outside melted away in an instant.
Xiao Lanyuan didn't want her to leave the palace.
Now he truly felt the benefit of being married, with her by his side.
"Are you back?" Fu Zhaoning looked up and put down the pen in his hand.
Hong Zhuo followed in, "Has the prince had dinner?"
"have eaten."
After Xiao Lanyuan answered this, he suddenly looked at Fu Zhaoning. "You haven't eaten yet?" He turned to Hong Zhuo and asked, "The princess is waiting for me?"
"Don't worry about it. Of course I'll eat first. Who knows how long you'll have to wait to come back?" Fu Zhaoning said.
Hong Zhuo replied in a low voice, "Your Highness, in fact, the princess waited for quite a while, and when she saw that Your Highness had not returned yet, she said that she would eat first."
She had to speak for the princess. The princess did wait, but not until so late.
"It's my fault. If you don't come back for dinner in the future, you have to send someone to deliver a message first."
It was only then that Xiao Lanyuan realized that he had not thought of this, and it was also because he had not thought that Fu Zhaoning would wait for him.
But he has to develop this habit in the future.
"Bring me a pot of hot tea."
"yes."
Xiao Lanyuan walked towards Fu Zhaoning and said, "I went to the An Mansion to eat and had a drink with An Nian."
After he came out of the palace, he went back with An Nian. He had to listen to An Nian's account of what happened today from the beginning. After all, it was An Nian who discovered Hu Jiatai.
"You don't have to tell me. I won't stay in the palace forever." Fu Zhaoning said, "But it can save the palace from having to prepare your meals, and it won't be wasted."
"I will ask someone to tell me whether I will come back or not. But I will try my best to come back." Xiao Lanyuan didn't care what she said and continued talking to himself.
Fu Zhaoning pursed her lips and didn't argue with him.
"I went to the Mo family today."
"The Mo family?" Xiao Lanyuan was surprised. "Is Mr. Mo a noble?"
"Yes, you also know about her illness?"
“Yes.”
"I gained something there." Fu Zhaoning told him what he heard at the Mo family, "It turns out that old Lord Feng had met my mother back then."
She pulled out a paper from the stack on the table.
There is a picture of a woman on it.
She drew the appearance of the woman she saw talking to Fu Lin based on the appearance of Madam Mo Er and with some minor changes to the description given by Old Lord Feng.
"This is the general appearance. I think this person is very important." Fu Zhaoning asked him to look at the painting.
“That’s the kind of clothing that was worn at that time.”
Xiao Lanyuan said, "Do you remember that I kept Bai Shuang and Jin Xue?"
"Isn't he still here? He's doing some rough work in the mansion's courtyard." Fu Zhaoning raised his eyebrows. "Are you thinking that they might know this woman?"
At that time, the two maids were only about one or two years old.
"When I had nothing to do at Youqing Peak, I asked them to study the clothing of the women in each mansion at that time."
Only then did Xiao Lanyuan reveal the mystery.
Fu Zhaoning was surprised.
"So they always thought it would be useful. They spent several years researching this, and now they should know more." Xiao Lanyuan said, "I'll let them take a good look and see which mansion this costume belongs to."
"Do you think that far ahead?"
Fu Zhaoning never expected that he had thought so much back then.
"In the past few years, I was not feeling well and could not travel around. I could not do anything else, so I could only think about everything I could think of," said Xiao Lanyuan.
"Then let them take a look. It's just a chance for them to redeem themselves." Fu Zhaoning nodded.
Xiao Lanyuan called Qing Yi over and gave him a few instructions.
Qing Yi immediately took the map and went to find Bai Shuang and Jin Xue.
Hong Zhuo brewed some hot tea and Xiao Lanyuan took a sip, then looked at the paper on Fu Zhaoning's desk.
Some people are written on it and a relationship diagram is drawn.
"Did you meet Hu Jiatai today?"
"Well, I just found out that the late Madam Hu must have known some secret when she came to the capital, and then she was poisoned. I asked Mr. Hu carefully about her symptoms back then. Guess what the result was?"
Xiao Lanyuan looked at her, "Could it be that she is similar to the old Lord Feng?"
hiss.
Fu Zhaoning was a little surprised this time, "Is it that easy to guess?"
Why did he guess it right away? Xiao Lanyuan's brain is indeed quite useful.
Seeing her like this, Xiao Lanyuan couldn't help but smile and touch her head. Why did he feel that she looked a little childish, very lovable.
"It's hard to guess, but your husband is smart."
Tsk. Fu Zhaoning slapped his hand away, moved the relationship chart in front of him, and gestured to him.
"Madam Hu came to Beijing fourteen years ago. Can you send someone to check if anything happened in the days before the Queen Mother's birthday banquet fourteen years ago? It is said that the Queen Mother suddenly felt unwell at that time and cancelled the birthday banquet."
"Yes, she was said to have caught a cold and was bedridden. The eldest lady of the Hu family should have visited the Queen Mother with some other female relatives. She must have met a lot of people at that time."
Seeing that Fu Zhaoning was a little worried, Xiao Lanyuan changed the subject and said, "However, since she and Old Lord Feng were poisoned by the same poison, then the scope has been narrowed down. We can ask Old Lord Feng again."
They must have seen the same person, and they will be able to find that person by eliminating some of the possible options.
"Okay, after I receive the medicinal materials from the Medicine Alliance, I will go to the Mo family again. I will ask in detail then."
"I will have someone check on the wives of Marquis Jun'an first. Also, the Pang Da whom An Nian saw today, he confessed that he had joined the Shenyi Cult when he was still young."
"Pangda people?"
"Sit down and talk." Xiao Lanyuan pulled her to sit down and told her what happened in the palace today.
"This Pang Da said that the people who led him to join the Shenyi Sect all left the capital for some reason, and have never returned since?"
"Yes, so he almost forgot that he had ever joined this sect, if Hu Jiatai hadn't found him this time."
"How old is this huge man?"
"In his early thirties, because he was also a child prodigy, very popular in the academy, and was lured into joining the Shenyi Cult when he was twelve or thirteen years old."
"You mean, it was around the same year as the accident?"
"Yes, so now we can roughly infer that the people who led him to join the Shenyi Sect were most likely to have suddenly left the capital because of the same incident."
"In other words, what happened to my parents back then was related to the Shenyi Cult?" Fu Zhaoning looked at him steadily, "You don't suspect that they have also joined the Shenyi Cult, do you?"
Xiao Lanyuan sighed, a little helpless, "I didn't say that, but you can't deny that this is possible."
For a moment, Fu Zhaoning was speechless.
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