Chapter 36: What Actually Happened that Evening (1)

His mother was responsible for the blood-flaming poison in Su Yu’s body. She fed him the poison bit by bit after he was born. The poison had followed him for a long time. Yun Feng was from the Yun family—a family that had passed on the knowledge of medicine for thousands of years. Yun Feng had the talent to treat poison since he was young.

Su Yu’s lady master was from the Yun family. She helped to take care of him and suppressed the poison when Su Yu was under her training. After all, Su Yu was from the Nanyao Nation. He could not stay with her for long. Thus, she sent her nephew, Yun Feng, to take care of Su Yu. Yun Feng had been by Su Yu’s side for 13 years. He knew the poison better than anyone else and how difficult it was to expel from his body.

He had tried his best and never thought that things would take a new turn.

Then, a miracle happened. Even Su Yu himself thought it was absurd! They had spent so much time and energy to get rid of the poison, and it disappeared unexpectedly. Neither Yun Feng nor him could believe it.

Both of them remained quiet for a long time. Finally, Lan Ji brought the person that Han Yuxiao brought to Peony Pavilion.

He looked like he was in his thirties. He seemed like a creep. He was in fear as Lan Ji had caught him. He kneeled on the floor and begged, “Please spare my life!”

“Master, I’ve checked. He is a beggar from the south city wall. The evening before yesterday, Han Yuxiao dressed him up and brought him to Peony Pavilion and left. The guards saw an unfamiliar face and interrogated him, and then they locked him up. They planned to have the people from Peony Pavilion to come and check him out. Lady Han went to the Peony Pavilion alone, the guard was going to ask Lady Han to bring him back, but Lady Han was being drugged and fell asleep. The guards dared not disturb her and thus locked him up the whole night. The next day, after Lady Han left. He kept repeating that Han Yuxiao brought him there, and the guards let him go. Yesterday afternoon, Han Yuxiao gave him one hundred taels of silver and told him not to leave the capital,” Lan Ji reported.

Su Yu did not look at the beggar. “Take care of him and come back for a talk,” he ordered.

Lan Ji brought the beggar out, but Yun Feng was flabbergasted. “Isn’t Lady Han your niece? Shouldn’t she call you ‘uncle’? No, I remember that she is engaged to your nephew, then she should address you as uncle-in-law…”

Su Yu grabbed a book and threw it at Yun Feng’s face!

Lan Ji returned a moment later. Su Yu remained silent. Yun Feng quickly said, “Did you know where your master was the evening before yesterday? Did you check on that? Other than Lady Han, were there any other women in the Baihua Compound? Was there any women who came to the Baihua Compound who died suddenly yesterday?”

Lan Ji carefully glimpsed at his master’s facial expression and he felt a shiver down his spine. The master’s face was calm but dangerous at the same time! He should not have listened to his master and took the evening off to go drinking with Lan Mu!

“Master was in the Peony Pavilion that evening. Don’t worry, master. The only guard in the Peony Pavilion that discovered this is now under my control. We await your orders at any time.”