Hua Cui dared not hide anything and told him everything she had observed after entering Jiang Mingwei's room again.
This naturally includes the marks she saw on the window paper.
"This servant is not sure if those marks are from incense, but this servant thinks they are. It's just that there wasn't that round hole when this servant cleaned last time, so why it appeared today, this servant really doesn't know!"
Wei Jing narrowed his eyes dangerously, his gaze chillingly cold.
He got up and immediately had Hua Cui lead the way to check the situation.
At this moment, the General's Mansion appeared calm on the surface, but undercurrents were surging. Everyone could see that Wei Jing's expression was icy, and all the servants kept their distance from him, fearing that they would be reprimanded by him...
Upon entering the courtyard, the maids and servants had all returned.
Faced with Hua Cui and Chun Xing's questions, they all looked frightened, their hands nervously placed in front of them, shaking their heads at them, clearly not knowing what to do.
Not found, really not found!
Jiang Mingwei was nowhere to be seen in the entire General's Mansion...
Hua Cui's steps were unsteady, and she almost fainted, but she still led Wei Jing into Jiang Mingwei's bedroom.
He shouldn't have entered this place; he even hesitated for a moment before stepping in.
But now, Jiang Mingwei has disappeared.
When lives are at stake, he doesn't care about propriety or shame.
Thinking of this, his eyes sharpened, and he stepped inside without saying a word!
As soon as he stepped inside, the strong scent of dhara made Wei Jing pause slightly.
He was absolutely certain that he hadn't misheard!
It smells of turmeric again.
It's even more concentrated than before, almost permeating the entire room!
Then, he walked toward the incense that Hua Cui had mentioned, and sure enough, there was a small hole in the window paper, and the area around the hole was grayish-black.
It's clearly the result of being burned or scorched by smoke!
"There's no mistake, she was definitely drugged with sleeping potion. If nothing unexpected happens, my sister-in-law should have been kidnapped."
Hua Cui's mind went blank for a moment, and she almost fainted, but fortunately Chun Xing caught her.
"How could this be? Why would Miss be kidnapped out of the blue! Even if Miss had many enemies in the past, they cut off all contact with her after she married into the Wei family. Why would they suddenly kidnap her last night? It shouldn't be like this..."
Hua Cui murmured to herself, her face full of sorrow.
She didn't know when it started, but she felt that her mistress was getting better and better. Compared to the mistress who used to beat and scold her, she preferred Jiang Mingwei, who now shared everything with her, considered her needs, and no longer treated her as a servant, but as a good friend and sister!
She really didn't want anything to happen to her daughter.
If anything happens to the young lady, she will not live on!
Not long had passed since the last fall off the cliff, and she had thought that after this ordeal, her young lady would surely live to be a hundred years old.
In retrospect, she was wrong.
There are still people who don't want the young lady to have an easy time...
Why is Miss's life so miserable? Why does she have to bear all of this?
This is unfair, it's really not fair at all...
"Can't you smell a fragrance in this room?"
After pondering for a long time, Wei Jing couldn't help but ask.
His voice was cold and serious, but everyone looked puzzled and confused, exchanging bewildered glances.
"Second Master, this is Madam's room after all. Women use incense, and recently Madam has been buying all sorts of spices, so our courtyard is often filled with fragrance. Is there anything wrong with that?"
Seeing that Hua Cui was exhausted and almost unable to breathe from crying, Chun Xing had no choice but to answer for her.
Wei Jing shook his head with a cold expression and a serious face, his eyes filled with icy sharpness.
“I’m not talking about ordinary incense! You may not know, but Hua Cui, you often go with your sister-in-law to buy spices. Don’t you find the scent extremely strange? Did you really buy this kind of spice?”
Do you know the name of this spice and how much it costs?
Wei Jing questioned her coldly. Hua Cui, bewildered, sobbed and cried, her face full of confusion and doubt.
Granny Song stepped forward and reminded her with a serious expression.
"Just answer whatever the Second Young Master asks, and don't worry about anything else! There is a faint fragrance in this room, which is very strange. It doesn't seem to be the kind of incense that is popular in the capital. I have never smelled it before."
Upon hearing the two speak, Hua Cui quickly replied, "Yes!"
Wiping away her tears, she began to carefully inhale the incense in the room, and soon it dawned on her—
"This fragrance..."
She frowned and sniffed for a long time before finally confirming it.
He hurriedly went to Jiang Mingwei's dressing case, opened the drawer, took out the bluish-white jade pendant, handed it to Wei Jing, and asked, "Second Master, smell it, is this the scent?"
Wei Jing had barely brought it close when a strong scent of tamarisk made him furrow his brow and instinctively pull it away.
He nodded to Hua Cui, his eyes filled with sharpness.
"Yes, that's the scent! Where did it come from? Ever since you came back from the spice shop, you always seem to have this spice on you."
“I never asked before, and now I realize that was a mistake. I should have asked you back then.”
A bad feeling welled up in Hua Cui's heart, and she murmured to herself, "What's wrong?"
"Second Master, is there a problem with these spices?"
"I'm not sure now whether my sister-in-law's disappearance is related to this spice, but I suspect there is some connection. This spice doesn't come from Nanjing, but from the northern border. It shouldn't have been brought to the capital because it has a very strong addictive effect."
“If you smell it for too long, you will gradually become dependent on it and never be able to leave it again. You will be controlled by it for the rest of your life. Asking about a woman’s use of incense is too private, so I never asked my sister-in-law.”
"I thought I was avoiding suspicion, but now it seems... I might have actually harmed her!"
Wei Jing no longer concealed anything and told him everything about the incense.
Everyone was shocked, never expecting that such a sinister creature from the northern frontier would have entered the capital!
Hua Cui suddenly staggered, a strong, metallic taste of blood rising in her throat.
"Second Master said... this thing is from the northern frontier? Could it be related to Miss's disappearance! The scent on this jade pendant came from the spice shop. The shopkeeper said that if the jade pendant and spices are kept together for a long time, they will mix their scents."
"Miss thought the taste was special and wanted to ask him for a batch, but he said he didn't have any for the time being and would let Miss know when he had some. If it's really as you say, Second Master, how could he just give it to someone else?"
Hua Cui grew increasingly terrified as she thought about it. Recalling everything that had happened yesterday, she immediately knelt down and pleaded with Wei Jing in a pitiful voice.
"Please, Second Master, you must save Miss! Miss has long suspected something was wrong with the spice shop. I beg you to investigate the spice shop; they might really have a problem!"
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