Massacre
Three days passed before Jiang Nian was able to remove the white gauze and walk like a normal person again.
Meng Zheng investigated a lot of things on her way to Zuihualou, and the maid at Youguan Mansion brought her a letter about Meng Zheng.
The envelopes were placed on a tray, forming a thick stack on the table in front of Jiang Nian, almost covering her head.
Jiang Nian looked up at the envelope that he had to reach up to get, and suddenly sighed.
Meng Zheng is really a workaholic. He was able to find out so much information in just half a month.
At the moment, he could solve the problem of the eldest princess's death by himself and did not need her help at all.
However, with the mentality that since they had already cooperated, they should cooperate to the end, Jiang Nian took the envelopes one by one, arranged them neatly on the table, and then opened and read them in the order of the time he wrote the letters.
The first letter should have been sent on the second day after she went to Zuihualou.
Jiang Nian's eyes fell on the letter, and after a moment's pause, he raised his hand and pulled the letter out of the envelope.
The letter paper was spread out in front of him, with only a few strokes of ink on it.
Meng Zheng's handwriting is not quite consistent with his own. The strokes are gentle and restrained, like the hand of a woman who is planning a strategy.
Jiang Nian stared at the paper and suddenly remembered the inexplicable sense of familiarity he had felt when he looked at the envelope before.
This handwriting is somewhat similar to that in the diary.
“…”
Jiang Nian sighed, slightly adjusted the gesture of holding the letter, and lowered his eyes to read.
[According to the clues my subordinates have found, I will personally visit the remaining remnants of the group in Cang County today and tomorrow.]
The letter started with a sentence, and the following ink stains looked like it was written after further verification.
According to the remnants, they were merely following their leader's orders, pretending to be sent by Shou Zan to deliver a message to the Princess.
[As for the other matters, we need to find the remaining bishops who were involved in this incident.]
“…”
Jiang Nian turned the letter over and found the back was empty.
She looked up at the pile of stationery on the table and suddenly sighed.
If he reported the investigation progress step by step, the number of pieces of letter paper on the desk would be enough for him to write down all the contents.
After opening several letters in succession, she was almost able to find out the truth behind the incident.
[Back then, Shouzan was hindered by the late emperor and it was difficult for him to establish the sect. Therefore, the bishop, who was in the same predicament, approached him and told him that he was willing to help him establish the sect. In contrast, because the bishop was hunted down by the late emperor and had to flee everywhere, the bishop needed Shouzan to provide them with a place to take shelter.
But after the sect was founded, Shou Zan's advocacy of equality angered the late emperor, who attempted to take the sect under his wing.
In order to avoid being hunted down by the late emperor, Shouzan hid in Huandu and lost contact with the eldest princess.
While Shouzan was on the run, the bishop was worried that Shouzan would sell them out to escape the late emperor's pursuit, so he came up with a plan.
That is to threaten the eldest princess.
——This is the only way to control Shouzan.
Therefore, after the eldest princess was sent to the mountains by the late emperor, they sent someone pretending to be sent by Shouzan to send a forged letter.
Inform the princess that Shouzan is now cooperating with them and needs the princess's cooperation.
On the other side, while avoiding the pursuit of the late emperor, Shouzan was also trying to get in touch with the eldest princess.
At this time, the eldest princess had believed the bishop's words, so she wrote some words according to the disguised "letter from Shouzan" and asked the bishop to deliver the letter to Shouzan.
The content of the "Letter from Shouzan" was to lure the eldest princess into writing what they wanted her to write, so that when the letter was delivered to Shouzan, Shouzan would not have too many doubts.
By deceiving people on both sides, the bishop tasted how easy it was to manipulate people's hearts, and he became more and more aggressive.
It was not until Shouzan had firmly established the sect in Huandu and wanted to send a messenger to bring the eldest princess who was far away to the sect that something unexpected happened.
Because the contents of the letter were all fabricated by the bishop, if the two of them met and talked, they would find that something was wrong.
So the bishop told Shouzan that the eldest princess had been poisoned by a villain when she secretly sent him a letter, and he needed his cooperation.
Worried that the princess was poisoned by a villain because of him, Shou Zan immediately prepared to go to the deep mountains where the princess was.
The bishop was unable to stop Shouzan from going to see the princess, and he also didn't want Shouzan to discover that this was all their plan, so he ordered the maid guarding the princess to light the incense, which would trigger the toxins in her body and cause her death.
Jiang Nian closed the stack of letters, thought for a moment, and wanted to take out paper and pen from the drawer to write a letter to Meng Zheng to inquire about the poisoning.
It was not until she reached into the drawer and felt something cold that she remembered that the room she was in was not the room she originally lived in.
“…”
Jiang Nian silently closed the drawer, then stood up and prepared to find the maid to ask where Xiao Yingzhu was at the moment.
After returning from Zuihualou, she didn't see him at all.
I recalled the moment when I fainted outside Zuihualou and the glimpse of a figure in the billowing smoke and dust.
At first I thought it was Xiao Yingzhu, but now I think I was confused. The one who could show up there in time should have been Mo Qing.
The wind coming in from outside made Jiang Nian feel a little chilly.
The afternoon sun was not as scorching as before, but a little gloomy. The shadows of the trees on the ground were lighter in color, and only the leaves on the treetops reflected a bright golden light that dazzled people's eyes.
Jiang Nian raised the back of his hand and looked outside for a while. Seeing no one, he went back to his room to get some clothes to put on, and then walked out to the corridor.
—
The place where she rested was not far from where she had lived before, so she could see the maid she had met several times before.
After asking the maid about the direction of Xiao Yingzhu, Jiang Nian had a goal and went straight to the information room.
The only thing she hadn't explained to them right now was the matter of the mine. After telling them about the mine, she would find paper and pen to write back to Meng Zheng.
In fact, even if he didn't ask the bishop how he poisoned her, Jiang Nian could figure out that the reason Shou Zan couldn't wake up after returning to the modern era was because of the eldest princess.
Because he could not accept that the eldest princess died because of him, he was forced to return to the modern era at Lan's request, but his worries were not resolved.
The soul is unwilling to wake up from the era without the eldest princess.
As Jiang Nian was walking towards the information room, he met Ai who was hurriedly walking out of the mansion.
After two weeks of not seeing each other, Ai hadn't changed much. He just nodded gently at Jiang Nian when he saw her: "Miss, you're awake."
I inexplicably had the illusion that I had been sleeping for a long time due to illness, and now I was out for a walk after recovering from a serious illness.
Jiang Nian subconsciously tightened her outer garment and smiled softly at her, "Well, I'm going to look for Xiao Yingzhu now. Is he still in the reference room?"
Hearing the question, Ai hesitated for a moment, his calm expression looking a little hesitant.
"Well, Duke Xiao is outside the house..."
Thinking of Sister Tao still arguing with the Pavilion Master in the information room and the one-sided communication, Ai paused for a moment, then nodded slightly.
"If the young lady needs to find him, please go to the corridor."
"good."
Jiang Nian responded with a smile, then watched Ai take the loose leaf and simply put it into his sleeve, then continued to walk hurriedly out of the house without stopping.
Looking away, Jiang Nian turned around and continued walking towards the information room, thinking about how he should start talking when he saw Xiao Yingzhu later. He could hear the sound of talking even from a long distance away.
"You soaked the ink from my book. How capable are you?"
"How on earth did you manage to wipe out the writing on the pages of this book without ruining it? Why don't you just soak it and ruin it? I don't have to return it. I can just tell my master that Qin Lan drank the water I soaked it in, okay?"
“Ouch—it hurts! I was wrong! I will never do this again!—Ahhhh Xiao Yingzhu, save me!!!”
Jiang Nian paused and withdrew his foot hesitantly.
This seems to be the voice of Qin Lan and Miss Tao?
She had heard Tao Yu's voice in her dream before, but when she woke up, she didn't see Tao Yu. In addition, the sect and Cang County were far away, so she thought she had misheard.
Didn't expect it to really come?
In what capacity?
If the sect appears in the current situation, it will be a bit tricky.
Jiang Nian continued walking forward, looking into the information room through the open window.
The soldiers inside were busy working, only two silhouettes blocked by the windows were standing.
One of them was standing and was shorter; the other was half bent over and was taller, with his hands slightly raised, a bit like a gesture of surrender.
But that's not the point.
The point is, the person who usually lets his black hair down to look good is now being pulled by the shorter person like a weeping willow, as if he wants to pull his entire head off.
Tao Yu grabbed Qin Lan's hair with one hand, pulling at his scalp, and leaned close to his ear to ask sinisterly, "How do you want me to return this hopelessly damaged book to Master's library?"
"Horizontal or vertical?"
"Or should I peel off your skin and make it into a book cover, pretending that the book is not soaked, and then put you on the bookshelf?"
“? Ahh ...
"Does this taste like tea?"
"Wrong, wrong, it's Tremella, Lotus Seed and Wolfberry Soup, Tremella, Lotus Seed and Wolfberry Soup—I just want to try the health-preserving methods described in that book—!!!—Ouch!"
Tao Yu looked at him coldly without saying a word.
Jiang Nian stood far away outside the window, tilted his head slightly and took a look inside.
Not far from them, a book that had been soaked and looked aggrieved was curled up in the sun. After receiving the sun's scorching care, it reflected a few water marks.
The water stains have not dried yet, maybe they will dry up the moment Tao Yu pulls Qin Lan's head off.
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