Chapter 248: Doubt
Duke E's Mansion
When Fu Guanzhang returned from the Shenguan Gate, it was almost Xu and Wei. It was too late, so he did not disturb Mrs. Fu and went back to his singing park directly.
When the servant saw him come back, he hurriedly stepped forward to change his clothes.
"You don't need to serve the servant today, you can go down first." Fu Guanzhang was a little irritated, so he waved the servant back and changed into casual clothes by himself.
When I walked to the inner hall, I happened to see my sister Fu Yingfu coming in with the maid. The maid was holding a tray in her hand, with steaming noodles on it.
"Fifth Brother, you are back." Xu Zhilan's face was filled with a smile and walked over with light steps. "I know you must have not eaten enough at the Shenguan Sect, so I specially cooked the three-fresh noodles you like for you. Come on, and eat them quickly while the noodles are not yet covered."
Because he often had to catch criminals and tried criminals, Fu Guanzhang often had three meals at the God's Capture Sect and occasionally came back hungry. Usually at this time, his sister Fu Yinghua would leave her food or cook the noodles he liked for him again.
Today, as usual, when I saw my brother come back so late, my sister made someone prepare the noodles he liked and brought them to him for food.
Fu Guanzhang was originally a little upset, but when he saw his sister's smile, he immediately disappeared. When he smelled the fragrant and familiar fragrance, he felt hungry. After washing his hands in the wash basin, he walked to sit down.
"My sister understands fifth brother the best." Fu Guanzhang reached out and shaved Xu Zhilan's nose lightly, "What did you put in the noodles? Why does it seem to be more delicious than you used to eat?"
Xu Zhilan flickered his eyes and then smiled and said, "Fifth brother's nose is so smart. You don't like eating meat, but you are always running around outside. Where can you get the strength if you don't eat meat? So I added coriander to it. Coriander can remove the taste of meat, so you won't feel the taste of meat."
After speaking, she asked the maid to retreat, then picked up the chopsticks and stuffed them into Fu Guanzhang's hand, "Eat quickly, the batter will not be delicious."
Fu Guanzhang held the chopsticks and picked it up, chewed it a few times, then put it down. Seeing this, Xu Zhilan said, "What? Isn't it delicious?"
"No." Fu Guanzhang shook his head, "I just thought of what happened before."
"before?"
Xu Zhilan looked at him. Fu Guanzhang did not respond to her words. He reached out and rubbed her forehead and said, "How did you raise money today? Did you sell a lot of paintings?"
Xu Zhilan, who was smiling, immediately gathered up, "How can I sell so much? One painting can match my ten paintings. Fortunately, it is a fundraising and doing good deeds, not a competition, otherwise I will lose again with your sister."
Fu Guanzhang comforted her and said, "Don't be unhappy. You all say that this is doing good deeds. You can make as much as you get. Don't care about those false reputations. Do what you want."
"What the fifth brother said is, you can do your best."
When the noodles were almost slurry, Fu Guanzhang only took one bite, and Xu Zhilan urged him to eat the noodles quickly.
Fu Guanzhang lowered his head to eat noodles and soon ate them all.
Xu Zhilan asked someone to take the bowls and chopsticks, poured a cup of tea for Fu Guanzhang, and poured himself tea, took a sip, and then pretended to be careless: "Fifth Brother, have you been busy working for the God's Sect recently, and have forgotten about my father and mother's affairs?"
"Don't worry, sister." Fu Guanzhang picked up the teacup and sipped: "I forgot myself, and I will never forget the revenge between my father and my mother."
"How are you doing now?" Xu Zhilan lowered her eyelids, and the expression in her eyes became dark. "I lost Hu Tianba's whereabouts last time, is there any news now?"
Just as Fu Guanzhang was about to say something, Xiao Jingxuan's reminder suddenly flashed in his mind, and said, "No, the direction you are looking for may be wrong. After working on the God-Slaying Sect, I want to find a new direction."
Xu Zhilan tentatively said: "Fifth Brother, we have been looking for it for so many years. Will Hu Tianba be no longer alive, or will he retire from the world?"
The person who Shadow went to kill that day was Hu Tianba's confidant. She had been looking for someone for a long time. Although their people were successful, all of her people were killed. It was impossible to find out which one killed them. Therefore, she wanted to find out whether he was related to this matter from Fu Guanzhang.
"It's hard to say." Fu Guanzhang said: "There must be many enemies like Hu Tianba who do all the bad things. Maybe he was really killed by his enemies. And there have been news about him over the years that someone wants to do bad things in his name and push all the sins to him."
"If this is true, what should we do with our revenge?"
“There will always be a solution.”
Xu Zhilan held his cheek and frowned and said, "I originally wanted to find the murderer and talk about my lifelong affairs, so when Brother Yao proposed to me, I hesitated, but I didn't expect that he not only did not understand me, but also decided to keep his promise and marry Chu Xinyu."
"You can't blame him for this. I heard that Master Hongyi calculated his life palace and would marry him in the second half of the year. If he missed it, he would be lonely for a lifetime. Because of the forced marriage between the Empress Dowager and Mrs. Lin, he was eager to get married. But he didn't expect that by accident, he was given the marriage to Chu Xinyu by the emperor."
Fu Guanzhang knew about this, and he heard from Gui Ye. At that time, he knew that Lin Chenyao was going to marry another woman, so he looked for Lin Chenyao in anger. After the two fought, Gui Ye came to him and explained the reason. Only then did he realize that he had misunderstood Lin Chenyao. It was just a wonder that his sister had too many worries at the time and missed this fate.
But so what if I knew that I had blamed Lin Chenyao by mistake? Fu Yinghua is his sister and I have loved Lin Chenyao for many years, so when I was in Yingshui Villa, I wanted to persuade Chu Xinyu to let go.
Xu Zhilan remembered his previous life. Lin Chenyao never married because Fu Yingfu married King Jin. Master Hongyi's calculations were true, so she thought that Lin Chenyao might not really like Chu Xinyu, but only married Chu Xinyu for the pressure and promises of his elders.
She bit her lip gently and pulled the handkerchief. No matter what Lin Chenyao's original intention was to marry Chu Xinyu, now it is a fait accompli, and she is destined to marry King Jin, everything is in the set direction. She should be happy, right?
"Sister, the emperor has given you marriage to the King of Jin, don't think too much, if you don't want to be so fast..." Fu Guanzhang paused, his eyelids were a little heavy. He shook his head and said, "If you are about to get married, just tell my grandmother that you will get married next year."
"In a few days, it will be my 18th birthday. According to family rules, I can get married at the age of 18. I can't help but think about it."
As he said that, Xu Zhilan looked at Fu Guanzhang, but saw him lying on the table and fell asleep. He reached out and placed his hand on his shoulder and pushed it gently, "Fifth Brother, are you tired?"
The man lying on the table nodded, and she said again: "It's not good to lie here, I'll help you go back to bed and sleep."
The man nodded again.
Xu Zhilan took a little effort to help Fu Guanzhang lie down on the bed and called him twice. He seemed to be sleeping heavily and showed no sign of awakeness at all.
Her eyes darkened slightly, and she returned to the table, poured out the tea in the teapot, replaced it with new tea, and then returned to the bed to take a bunch of keys from Fu Guanzhang's waist, but she didn't see what she wanted. She groped on him again and found a key in the dark bag, which was exactly what she was looking for.
At this time, Tao Xin came in with a soft candle, Xu Zhilan took the key and printed it on it, and then said, "Go and get a handful of it quickly. Remember, if you can't save him, kill him."
"Subordinate to obey the order!"
Tao Xin turned around and left.
Xu Zhilan carefully put the key back on its original position, then covered him with a quilt before turning around and leaving with the tray.
When the door was closed, the man on the bed slowly opened his eyes, and a deep pain flashed in his dark eyes. He recalled an hour ago that he was coming out of the prisoner's investigation. When he returned to the lounge, he saw Gui Ye waiting for him, which surprised him.
Gui Ye was ordered by Lin Chenyao to investigate the people who attacked Chu Xinyu today.
The person caught was very polite and refused to speak no matter how he interrogated him. Finally, he was locked in the water prison and used various punishments before admitting that they were the guards of Juxing Pavilion, the one who died was his brother, and the other two were his colleagues. Because the dead brother owed the other two colleagues silver, he started to fight.
He also solemnly stated that he did not know Chu Xinyu, and as for why the big sword flew towards Chu Xinyu, they failed.
Fu Guanzhang didn't believe such confession. If he had fought just because of debt collection, why would he not confess and insist on severe punishment? It was even more impossible to miss it. At that time, he saw Chu Xinyu being pulled away by her maid. These people were obviously deliberately throwing the knife at her back.
After reading the confession, Gui Ye believed that this person was from Juxing Pavilion because he had seen this person in Juxing Pavilion, and his other words were just as unbelievable as him.
This person's confession is obviously protecting the person behind the scenes. Gui Ye said that this person is very important to them and must be strictly defended. In order to find out the person behind the scenes, Gui Ye asked him to pay special attention in the past two days. The key to the water prison should not be left. When interrogating the criminal, he asked him to go there in person.
When he left, he also gave him a sachet, so that he had always kept with him in case someone fell off his body. At that time, he was wondering what the relationship between the sachet when he fell off his body was related to the sachet?
Now he finally understood that the sachet was the antidote to the drug. He just now had heavy eyelids and fell asleep on the table in a daze. After a while, he gradually woke up as his sister searched for him, but his hands and feet were unable to move, but his mind was very clear.
He heard everything his sister said to Tao Xin, and his hands and feet could move.
After the sister left, the man supported the bed and sat up slowly.
If he hadn't heard it with his own ears, he would have been unbelievable that his gentle and pure sister would have colluded with the people from Juxing Pavilion to attack Chu Xinyu!
The background of Juxing Pavilion is so complicated, how did my sister meet people there?
Thinking of her tone of Taoxin, she was so cruel and seemed to kill someone very ordinary. Fu Guanzhang's eyes could not help but narrowed his eyes dangerously. Could it be that he had been blinded by her gentle and weak appearance?
He also found out the whereabouts of his enemy over and over again, and the clues were always cut off at the most critical moment. Xiao Jingxuan once reminded him to be careful of the people closest to him. Does he know something?
Chapter completed!