Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 130 You are next!
Yan Ciwan proposed two other possibilities.

"Perhaps the murderer's target was not fixed. He actually wanted to randomly select two unlucky people from the guests present to poison. Or perhaps, the person the murderer really wanted to kill was me, but because he didn't know which bowl of mutton soup I would drink, he poisoned both bowls of mutton soup. Who knew that I didn't drink a single sip, and the innocent Fu Xue was implicated instead."

Xiao Wang felt nervous when he heard this. He said in a deep voice, "This is your first time at Mengdie Villa. You don't know anyone here. Who would want to murder you?"

Yan Ciwan thought that this might not be the case. Among those guests, there was one person who knew her, and that was He Chunzhuo.

He Chunzhuo knew that she was Princess Leyou. Back then, when he was in the Xiangzhou Governor's Mansion, He Chunzhuo had wanted to kidnap her, which showed that He Chunzhuo had ill intentions towards her.

As to whether this malice will drive him to poison her, it is not yet known.

Xiao Wang stirred the mutton soup with a spoon and scooped out a piece of white ginger. He suddenly said, "I know why the poison of the aconite in the mutton soup has become weaker."

Yan Ciwan was very curious: "What's the reason?"

Xiao Wang gestured for her to look at the white ginger in the spoon and explained in a gentle voice.

"This is white ginger, also called dried ginger, a medicinal material that has the effects of warming the middle and dispelling cold, restoring yang and unblocking meridians. Adding a small amount of dried ginger to mutton soup can remove the fishy smell of mutton. In addition, eating it with aconite can reduce the toxicity of aconite."

Yan Ciwan suddenly realized, that's how it is!

Xiao Wang put down the spoon: "The real murderer wanted to use aconite to kill people, but he didn't expect that there was white ginger in the mutton soup. By accident, Fu Xue saved her life."

He looked at where the stove was. The cook had been guarding next to the stove during the Nuanhan Party. After Ling Niang took the two bowls of mutton soup from the cook, she put them on the tray, and then passed behind He Chunzhuo, Fang Zhiyou, Zhou Qi, Huang Yefei, Sun Hu, and Feng Wu, and finally came to Yan Ciwan and Fu Xue.

If someone poisoned the mutton soup while Lingniang was serving it, then the murderer could only be one of the six guests.

Yan Ciwan sat in the seat where Fu Xue had sat before, and his eyes swept over the dishes on the table in front of him one by one, finally stopping at the small bamboo basket.

The small bamboo basket is padded with oil paper and is specially used to hold cakes and pastries.

At this moment, there was only one piece of almond cake in the small bamboo basket, and a piece of paper was pressed underneath the almond cake.

She pulled out the note and saw a line of words written on it -

"Tell us the truth about what happened at Lingdie Temple 20 years ago, or you'll be next!"

Each stroke was written very neatly, but the content made Yan Ciwan feel a chill in his heart for no reason.

On the back of the note, a scarlet butterfly was painted with vermilion paint.

She thought of the Mengdie Villa that was burned to ruins and the eleven charred corpses carried out from the ruins.

Perhaps the cause of the fire at Mengdie Villa, which killed all the guests, was related to this strange note.

"What are you looking at?" Xiao Wang asked.

Yan Ciwan handed the note over and motioned for him to take a look.

After reading the contents of the note, Xiao Wang's expression became more serious: "It seems that you guessed right. The murderer's target is not only Fu Xue. He randomly selected his targets at the Nuanhan meeting. His purpose is to cause panic and force everyone to tell the truth he wants."

Yan Ciwan frowned: "What truth does the murderer want?"

Xiao Wang put away the note and said in a deep voice: "It seems that we have to visit Master Chu. As the owner of this place, he must know some inside information."

The two left Guanhai Pavilion and returned to Wanxiangyuan together.

However, Chu Wangshan had already left. Besides Fu Xue who was still unconscious, there were only Chao Lu and Ling Niang in the bedroom.

Xiao Wang took out the note and showed it to Ling Niang, and asked what happened in Lingdie Temple twenty years ago?

Lingniang's eyes were still red, and she looked very depressed. She said in a hoarse voice: "I married into the Chu family fifteen years ago. I have never heard of Lingdie Temple, and I don't know what happened twenty years ago."

Yan Ciwan asked, "Are there any elderly people in the villa?"

Lingniang understood what she meant and said helplessly: "The servants in the house are all young. I guess they are the same as me. They don't know what happened twenty years ago."

Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang looked at each other and it seemed that they could only go to Chu Wangshan for advice.

When they learned that Chu Wangshan had returned to Ruixue Tower, they immediately left Wanxiang Courtyard and rushed to Ruixue Tower along the Wind and Rain Corridor.

The snow fell heavier and heavier, and the cold wind whistled past. Xiao Wang quickened his pace slightly, walked to her left front, and blocked the cold wind for her.

Yan Ciwan's mind was full of thoughts about the note, and he didn't notice Xiao Wang's little action.

The murderer poisoned people in order to force them to tell the truth about Lingdie Temple twenty years ago. If the result did not satisfy the murderer's wish, what would he do?
She remembered the last words on the note -

"You're next!"

This means that as long as the murderer does not get the truth he wants, he will continue looking for the next target to murder.

One by one, until all were killed.

Finally, the murderer set a fire and burned the entire Mengdie Villa into ruins. All the evidence and witnesses were burned, and the real murderer's crime was perfectly covered up. Even if the government wanted to investigate, it had no way to start.

So there was the scene that Yan Ciwan saw in his dream——

The villa was burned into ruins, eleven unrecognizable charred corpses, and black snow was flying all over the sky. The detectives thought it was a fox demon at work and finally closed the case hastily.

Now the mountain is blocked by heavy snow, and all of them are trapped in Mengdie Villa. If they don’t want to be targeted by the crazy murderer, they must find the real murderer as soon as possible!
Yan Ciwan quickened his pace and came to Ruixue Tower with Xiao Wang.

Just as they were about to go up and knock on the door, they heard a quarrel coming from inside the house.

"Master Chu, where did you hide Ah Fei? Did you kill him secretly?!"

This is the voice of the escort master Sun Hu.

Yan Ci Wan and Xiao Wang looked at each other. It seemed that now was not a good time to go in, but neither of them had any intention of leaving. They just stood quietly outside the door, listening to the sounds inside the house.

However, the next moment, the door was opened from the inside!

Feng Wu looked at the two people outside the door and mocked them with a fake smile: "Since you two are here, why don't you knock on the door? Hiding outside the door and eavesdropping is not a gentleman's behavior!"

Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang, who were caught eavesdropping, were not panicked at all.

The two responded calmly as if nothing had happened: "We are here to see Master Chu. I wonder if the Master is free to see us now?"

Feng Wu turned to look at Chu Wangshan who was sitting in the house, and threatened coldly: "If you don't return Ah Fei to us, don't blame us for not considering our friendship!"

Chu Wangshan's mental state seemed worse than before, he said weakly.

"Okay, you guys go back first. I'll have someone send Ah Fei back to your place tomorrow."

Feng Wu and Sun Hu did not leave. Feng Wu said, "We have other things to discuss with the owner of the manor."

Chu Wangshan had no choice but to let the two of them sit aside and rest, and then asked Yan Ciwan and Xiao Wang to come in and asked, "You two came here at this time, but what clues did you find in Guanhai Pavilion?"

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