Pei Sanlang replied, "Your Highness, you may not know this, but my great-grandfather is usually not in his right mind, but last night he suddenly became lucid for a moment, so he summoned me."
Duan Rongshi: "So, you were here all night last night?"
Pei Sanlang: "Yes. Last night at 1:00 PM, I arrived at this courtyard and did not leave the house for the entire night."
Li Qingluo also followed Prince Su into the house to take a look at the old Duke.
When she passed by Pei Sanlang who was waiting at the door, she saw that he clearly stretched out his hand, but still had no intention of stopping her.
In the dark room, heavy curtains were drawn all around. There was only a lamp lit next to the bed. In the dim light, one could vaguely see an old man with messy white hair lying on the bed.
This is the old Duke! ?
Grandmother's biological brother!
This is the brother that my grandmother has been thinking about for decades and can never let go of.
He was the great general who was famous on the battlefield and defended the country for the entire Daliang!
At this moment, he was sleeping soundly with his eyes closed, just like an ordinary old man who had been bedridden for a long time.
It is hard to imagine what he looked like when he was extremely violent.
Li Qingluo sniffed the room carefully. Not only was there no strange smell of blood, but there was also a faint sweet fragrance...
Duan Rongshi did not move forward, but quickly left with Li Qingluo.
Little did they know that as soon as they left, the old Duke on the bed opened his eyes.
He sniffed and a strange smile appeared on his face: "Hong'er, why do I smell an unusually sweet smell?"
Pei Qinghong had just sent Prince Su and the other two away when he immediately stepped forward and said, "Grandfather, a little girl did come in just now."
The old Duke's eyes were red. "Who is it? This smells... so fragrant, even better than the sweet juices I've had in the past. It seems to be several times sweeter!"
Pei Qinghong thought of the veiled woman and steeled his mind: "Grandfather, do you want this woman?"
The old Duke was lying on the bed, clearly unable to move, but he still stretched his neck with a greedy look on his face.
"I want...I want...Hong'er, bring her over to my great-grandfather, bring her over here—"
"It's worth it even if I die..."
Pei Qinghong lowered his head, a dark bitterness hanging on the corner of his mouth: "Yun Yi just died. He's dead anyway, so he can't be wasted. Why not quench your thirst first before he gets cold?
Li Qingluo did not stay in Duke Pei's mansion for long.
Duan Rongshi also wanted to leave, so he took her out with him.
As soon as Li Qingluo boarded the carriage, Nanny Deng said, "Miss, someone over there is watching us."
Li Qingluo lifted a corner of the carriage curtain and looked out.
At the opposite alley, there was a carriage with a blue tent roof. When it saw them looking over, the carriage immediately turned around and drove away quickly.
Madam Deng: "When we arrived this morning, the carriage was parked there. I just saw the people inside immediately lift the curtain to look over when they saw us come out. I wonder why they've run away again now?"
Li Qingluo: "Wu Quan, go and chase it to see whose carriage it is."
Wu Quan jumped down and disappeared in a flash.
Prince Su rode forward on horseback, parallel to Li Qingluo's carriage.
He said, "This is just one time. Miss Li, please don't come to the Peiguo Mansion again."
After saying this, he rode away at full speed.
Li Qingluo knew that Prince Su would take him to see Nan Jia for the last time today, which was an exception.
But she must get to the bottom of Nan Jia's death!
That night, Wu Quan sent a letter saying that the carriage with the blue tent roof came from the Pan Mansion.
"Pan Mansion?"
For some reason, Pan Li's face popped up in Li Qingluo's mind.
Could the person at the alley entrance today be Pan Li?
If it was her, why would she come to the gate of Pei Guogong's mansion? What was she looking at?
Moreover, what a coincidence that Pan Li came back to life last night, and Nan Jia was also found tragically dead last night...
At almost the same time, the two noble ladies died at the same time!
Li Qingluo shook his head, not daring to let himself continue to fantasize.
"Que'er, Madam Deng, please tell me how you've compiled the information you gathered."
Today, when Li Qingluo and Prince Su went to the old Duke's courtyard, Que'er and Nanny Deng followed Sha Lei and Leng Dian separately to inquire about the news in Pei Mansion.
Que'er went to close the door, and Aunt Deng quickly said, "Young lady, we, the two of us, have sorted it out. This matter is truly too strange. Please listen to it."
It turned out that Pei Nanjia had not left her own yard for a whole month.
Ever since she became seriously ill from the poisoning, she has been drinking soup and taking medicine in her small courtyard every day. Except for Pei Sanlang who occasionally visits her, no other sisters in the mansion have visited her for many years.
She and the other girls in Pei's house had a grudge when they were young, so they have never been on good terms over the years.
The second house and the second courtyard have no close relationship with the entire Peiguo Mansion. Except for festivals, they almost always live their own lives behind closed doors.
Therefore, the entire Peiguo Mansion thought that Pei Nanjia was just suffering from a minor illness and was not in danger of his life.
Even on New Year's Eve, the old lady of the second house had Pei Nanjia taken out for dinner and scolded her for being ignorant. It was because Pei Yuan was disobedient and got angry at his mother that he protected Pei Nanjia.
As for last night, Pei Nanjia drank a bowl of medicine in the afternoon, so he was still asleep at the hour of You.
At one o'clock in the evening, the maid saw that it was getting later and later, so she went into the room to wake her up to eat something.
But where is the girl on the bed?
There was no one inside or outside the yard.
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