The Blessed (Book 5)

641-650

641. Keep Investigating; Feed the Decoction with Great Difficulty
Translator: Guy Gone Bad

After a series of inquiries, others roughly knew what was going on. Not to mention Sikong Yu who often teased the child, even today's newly arrived Duke Fu wore a long face. They knew those dirty tricks in the backyard. It could be said that this was the case in every backyard. Every year, many legitimate or illegitimate sons and daughters suffered from such misfortunes, and some of them even couldn't have a chance to come see this world. For them, this kind of thing was already commonly seen. Every time they heard or saw it, it already couldn't arouse their sympathy. But when it happened to the person they recognized, the situation changed.

At first, Ling Jingxuan thought he had underestimated that Zangjing person. Yesterday, the other side had just tried poison him in Duke Weiyuan's mansion, and today he reached out his hand to their mansion again. Now, he was sure that it should be more than one of them. The assassination and the poisoning yesterday should be the same group of people, because they were both bold. And the person who sent the noodles to Duke Wenyuan's mansion last time and the person who sent the poisonous chicken soup for the nanny when the nanny went back home might be another group of people, because their methods were almost the same. More precisely, their tricks were quite dirty.

"No? Why? Miss Ling, are all the people arrived?"

The nanny searched in the crowd for a long time, but couldn't find the one she was looking for. Feeling flustered, she grabbed Ling Yun's arm anxiously, tears streaming down her face. If she couldn't find that person, his crown princess would suspect that she was lying. The murder of the little highness was to plagiarize and exterminate her whole family. She was just a woman from an ordinary family, and couldn't bear such fear.

Ling Yun looked at her quietly for a while before waving her away, then walked towards Ling Jingxuan in silence, "My crown princess, there is indeed a maid who hasn't arrived yet. Her name is Xiaolian and she usually serves in the hall. I've asked someone to check her residence, but no one is there. According to the record that Steward Zhu got, she left the house yesterday after we left, and hasn't come back yet."

Ling Jingxuan didn't ask her about it, and she didn't have time to tell him. This Xiaolian was the original maid of the mansion, and she looked very honest. He used her because she was diligent and honest, but never expected that... Was it that Xiaolian?

"It should be her. I'm afraid she can't make it back anymore."

Ling Jingxuan gave a cold smile and beckoned Yan Yi, "have you recorded what I asked you to record last time?"

Did those people really think they were dead? Since they dared to keep their moles in the mansion, they should have been well prepared. If this Xiaolian usually waited on in the yard, it was impossible for her to go out often. There should be someone in the mansion who contacted her. He didn't believe that they could keep them all.

"Yes, except those you brought from the Ling village, the other servants and maids, including the servants and maids of Crown Princess Hua, I have d recorded whom they have contacted every day. Please have a look. This is the record of that Xiaolian."

Yan Yi took out a thick pamphlet and handed it to him. Hearing what he said, all the people there couldn't help but widen their eyes. Was he a god? How could he even prepare for such a thing in advance? What else could he not think of? Xue Wuyang, Duke Fu and others secretly felt lucky that they were friends of Ling Jingxuan, not his enemies. Otherwise... If they went against him, they would definitely have a miserable ending, wouldn't they?

Ling Jingxuan took over the pamphlet and leafed through it, and memorized some special places. In fact, the reason why he did so was that he was inspired by the electronic eyes in his previous life. In addition, their families all lived in the front yard, and the shadow guards were quite concentrated. There were not many servants and maids used, so the monitoring records were not a complicated job. If the whole mansion was fully used, this method would be useless, because they didn't have so many shadow guards to cover the whole mansion.