Chapter 335: Female Guests

Marquis Jingnan sits down in his chair with the tea without uttering a word.

This makes Mrs. Marquis Jingnan feel even more troubled, she says, “Surely this case has disturbed the marquis’ heart?”

Marquis Jingnan sip tea: “No.”

Mrs. puzzled: “Then why?”

He drank the tea and sat fixedly for a moment, then slowly put the tea down, “Today Qinglian said something that makes one not feel like recalling.”

“What words?”

“He said that it doesn’t have to be an enemy to do it.”

Mrs. Marquis Jingnan paused, “What does this mean?” Although she was a woman of the inner house, she also thought that she had a lot of insight, but she really didn’t participate in this sentence. “He is saying that whoever did this, he already has a target?”

Marquis Jingnan’s eyes stared straight out of the window at the blank night color: “I think, in addition to this meaning, he has other meanings.”

“What else could it mean?”

Marquis Jingnan looked at her, “Recently, there are quite a lot of strange events in the court, haven’t you heard?”

The strange events in the dynasty are just the collapse of the Imperial Tomb’s underground palace, the Cheng family’s secret story, and then the theft of the Eldest Princess’s armor, of course Mrs. Jingnan Marquis has heard of these. But she failed to understand what these had to do with Huo Xiu. She guessed, ”Do you mean that the same person is behind these things? The person who did these things, what grudge does he have against the Huo family?”

Marquis Jingnan didn’t say anything for a long time before he said; “The person who stole the armor coat has not followed up on the matter up until now, which makes it possible that stealing the armor coat is only one of the person’s purposes, and not the ultimate goal, just like the matter of the Imperial Tomb, as well as the rumors about the Cheng family, which is just one of the parts of the process for him to reach his goal.

“Now he’s checking on Luo Zeng’s family who had trouble with the old Weiyuan Marquis, but the Luo family obviously doesn’t have this much strength, I don’t think this person will be Luo Zeng or the Luo family’s youngest child.”

“Then who could it be?”

“That is where the doubt lies.” Marquis Jingnan glanced at her, “In fact, there are quite a few strange things about him himself.”

Lady Marquis Jingnan was numb.

Marquis Jingnan continued to gaze into the night, “Yanping has lived in the palace for several years and has always been well, two years ago when he suddenly asked for permission to pick her up and take her to Guangxi on the grounds of a reunion, it was very intriguing.”

“Isn’t it because they originally had only one relative for each other?”

Marquis Jingnan didn’t deny it and walked to the window and stood in front of it, “But if that’s really the reason, how could he be willing to pick her up and take her to the poor border?”

Mrs. Marquis Jingnan couldn’t answer either.

She doesn’t think it’s a question worth pondering over, and Marquis Jingnan’s over-anxiousness repels her instinctively because once he thinks that way, it means that her daughter’s marriage will be even less likely to find an outlet from him. Taking a step back, even if Huo Xiu did have another reason for picking up Yanping, she didn’t think that it represented a bad outcome, instead her husband’s blind pondering was what was superfluous.

“I don’t think this approach of his is worth delving into.” She said.

“A woman’s opinion.” Marquis Jingnan lightly commented. And then he lifted his step and went out, “I’ll go see how they check Luo Yi’s result?”

“Hey–”

Mrs. Marquis Jingnan wanted to call out to him, but she only saw him already striding out of the courtyard door.

Sister walked in, “Marquis has left again?”

Lady Marquis Jingnan frowned in chagrin, “This time he’s simply a little too attached to the Huo family’s affairs!”

……

Zhao Su has yet to hear back from Luo Yi about finding someone, the time for Huo Mingyu to ask her and Cheng Zhuyun to board the door has already arrived, and the two of them have arranged to meet at the Marquis’ residence before traveling to the Huo family together.

After breakfast she had just studied the newly drawn portrait with Yun Qianyi when Cheng Zhuyun was led in by Xiao Ju. Zhao Su saw the lacquer box held by the maid behind her, and joked: “This is another thought to bring me food to come.”

Cheng Zhuyun took the box and sat down, “I always eat your food, so I’ll return the favor. Naturally, it’s not as good as your own hands, but this basket of preserved meat is Cangzhou old shop to keep buying, usually we are also difficult to go out of the city, this is not there to bring you over.”

“That’s really thank you!”

Zhao Su took it and put it on the side, letting the tea on one side.

Cheng Zhuyun looked toward the portrait on the table, “Who is this painting again?”

“Someone I’m looking for.”

Zhao Su casually responded, but the piece of paper in front of her was suddenly quickly drawn over by Cheng Zhuyun. She looked up in surprise, only to see Cheng Zhuyun’s gaze condensed on the portrait, and his gaze burst out with a sharp light.

Zhao Su suddenly straightened up, “Could it be that you recognize this person?”

Cheng Zhuyun shook her head, “No……”

She put the portrait down, her face still a little white.

Zhao Su and Yun Qianyi exchanged glances. How did this look like they had never met before? It was clearly the look of knowing and still having a relationship.

However, she could see that Cheng Zhuyun didn’t want to talk about it, so she frankly said, “This person is a person that Master Yun met at the theater a few days ago, in his twenties or thirties, dressed as a merchant, and at that time, he made some remarks in public that made me feel that there was some suddenness, plus in these past two days, I’ve had some new speculations in my heart, so I wanted to inquire about what this person’s origins were.” Speaking here she said in a slow voice, “If you know him, I’ll also trouble you to point the way.”

“I’ve never seen it, nor do I recognize it.” Cheng Zhuyun replied back, her tone overly certain and still looking a bit rushed. But then she raised her head and looked straight up at Zhao Su, closing her hands and not averting her gaze.

She said so, Zhao Su is not good to ask again, but also thought that a clue at hand, but the result is the hope is empty, slightly deflated.

She gave the portrait back to Yun Xiangyi: ”When Little Flower comes back, let her take it back to Luo Yi. I’ll go to Wei Yuan Marquis’ residence first.”

Yun Shengyi’s greatest hobby was to draw pictures of beautiful men in her spare time, and naturally, the face of the man she had seen under Tuoxia was no big deal. Just that day because of time constraints, hastily painted, many details distorted, these two days she carefully recalled, add perfect, this will be a new painting, according to the same impressive Zhao Ha said, is already ninety-nine percent similarity to that person.

Luo Yi has brought a lot of people in the past two days, special squatting in the center of the theater, within a radius of five streets, if this person is not a guest, then with this painting, will certainly let Luo Yi find.

On the way to the Huo family Cheng Zhuyun look as normal, on the way to chat with Zhao Su some family life, Zhao Su also when the previous that matter turned over the page, not long after walking to the place.

Huo Mingyu with maids in the front yard to meet, a few days do not see, her face than just returned to the capital to fair and rosy some, look better.

“Was it hot going out this trip?”

She smiled and welcomed her under the carriage.

Zhao Su took off her cloak: “After the fall, this sun is not hot. I still have to wear two pieces in the morning.”

“I precisely saw that the weather is cooler today, which is why I sent someone to invite you here. –Miss Luo will also be here, it’ll be about a while, let’s go to the garden for tea first.”

Huo Mingyu raises her feet briskly.

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