Zi Qiao breathed a sigh of relief: "I knew it. The young prince would not lie to you, Miss. He invited you to the teahouse today for important business."
Wei Shuwan felt a pang of guilt. Yes, what did it matter to her if Li Qingchen was fickle and philandering? He had saved her life and helped her with such an important matter; at least to her, he was a good person.
So what exactly was she angry about just now...?
"Has the young prince said what his next steps are?" Miao Xiang's question interrupted Wei Shuwan's wandering thoughts.
Wei Shuwan gently curled her lips, revealing an expectant expression: "His letter said that he has already arranged for these people to be brought to the vicinity of Shengjing, and that I will be taken there for interrogation in seven days."
Some of the Wei family's old servants remained in Jiangzuo, while others had gone elsewhere. Compared to checking each one's address individually, it was clearly more efficient to send them all to Shengjing. Moreover, gathering everyone together would make it easier to detect any lies, eliminating the need for repeated verification.
With this plan in mind, Wei Shuwan hesitated whether to tell her mother directly. However, she thought that this investigation might not be able to find out the truth directly. Rather than letting her mother's mood fluctuate, it would be better for her to investigate without her mother's knowledge and then tell her the truth later.
Now that her father was not at home, and her grandmother was exempt from the custom of the whole family eating together in the dining hall, Wei Shuwan would often go to Sun Lurong's courtyard to eat alone with her mother.
During dinner tonight, Wei Shuwan used serving chopsticks to put food on her mother's plate while laying the groundwork for what would happen seven days later: "Mother, Father has been away from Shengjing for almost two months now. I often miss him, so I was thinking of going to Luoyun Temple on the fifteenth of this month to get a peace charm for him."
Seven days later, it will be the fifteenth.
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