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"I don't know," Cong Ming said helplessly with a frustrated look on his face. "I caught a few servants who were unfamiliar with the Marquis of Changping's mansion and tried to torture them to get some useful information out of them. I didn't expect that even those spineless ones were surprisingly stubborn. Even after several bones were removed, they still insisted that they knew nothing."

While walking towards his own yard and listening to Cong Ming's report, Gu Xiuyan felt a throbbing pain in his temples.

Everything happened so suddenly yesterday that no one was able to react.

Ever since he received the invitation from "Zhao Qingwan" yesterday, it seemed that there was a hand constantly pushing things forward.

Although everything that happened in the Changping Marquis Mansion yesterday seemed chaotic, every step was purposeful.

More importantly, yesterday's incident seemed to be aimed at Changping Marquis Mansion only. In fact, while calculating Changping Marquis Mansion, the person behind the scenes also calculated Yong'an Earl Mansion, involving Taifu Mansion and Hong Mansion...

Throughout Luojing, he had never seen anyone who could stretch his hand so far. Even if there was someone, he would do it secretly, hoping to clean up the tail for fear that others would find out, instead of leaving a lot of loopholes for his people to find out the existence of the "tail", and in the end his people would not be able to interrogate anything...

This was a blatant provocation to him.

After feeling groggy all night last night, he heard these explosive news when he came back today. His blood boiled and Gu Xiuyan felt restless all over.

After finally returning to his residence, Gu Xiuyan rubbed his brows tiredly, and finally couldn't help but speak, "Cong Ming, prepare some water. I'll take a bath first. Cong Hui, please go outside and inquire about everything that happened in Changping Marquis' Mansion yesterday."

As Cong Hui withdrew, he added, "We have also sent people from the Dingbei Palace to keep an eye on them."

Dingbei Palace?

An idea flashed through his mind, and Cong Hui cautiously asked, "I suspect..."

Gu Xiuyan's cold and tired eyes slowly narrowed, "Except for that place, I can't think of anyone else who has this ability and dares to be so bold."

Previously, there was a rumor in Luojing that Prince Dingbei and his family were going to return to Beijing. However, more than half a month has passed, and there is still no one from Prince Dingbei's mansion, not even any news of Prince Dingbei's visit to Beijing.

Then there are only two possibilities. Either the Dingbei King and his family did not come to Beijing; or someone from the Dingbei King's Mansion secretly came to Beijing and tried to disrupt Luojing while everyone's attention was focused on the Dingbei King...

And that person was most likely the Prince of Dingbei who had never shown his face in Luojing since he was three years old.

The current emperor is in good health, but the princes below have already made moves...

Thinking that things would become extremely troublesome due to the intervention of Dingbei Palace, Gu Xiuyan's face gradually became gloomy - Dingbei Palace must not become that variable.

Congming and Conghui left Gu Xiuyan's residence together. During the period, Conghui looked inside from time to time.

Cong Ming nudged Cong Hui's shoulder with curiosity. "What's wrong? You look like you have something on your mind?"

Cong Hui turned around and looked at Cong Ming in confusion, "Why didn't you tell the master about the second house of the Marquis of Changping's mansion?"

If we were to ask who has been with Gu Xiuyan for the longest time and knows his master best, it would probably be Cong Ming.

Knowing Gu Xiuyan's preferences well, Cong Ming raised his chin as a matter of course, "Master's time is precious, that woman is not worthy of taking up the Master's time."

Recalling that Gu Xiuyan's attitude towards Su Sui'an was indeed not very good, Cong Hui nodded in understanding.

"That seems to be the case."

...

The Ji residence outside the city of Beijing.

After leaving the Changping Marquis Mansion, Su Sui'an relaxed his body and mind, and had the first good sleep since his rebirth.

This sleep.

I didn't wake up until around 11:00 p.m.

Liu'er and Mei'er were waiting quietly in the room. When they heard the movement on the bed, they immediately became alert.

He went up to Su Sui'an diligently and asked her to tie up her hair and wash it.

Su Sui'an was shocked by the admiration flashing in the two people's eyes.

"Why do you all look at me like that?"

"Miss, thanks to you for making a prompt decision to let us leave yesterday, otherwise the dirty things that happened in the first house yesterday would have been thrown on us again." Mei'er looked scared.

"Yes, yes, Miss, you are really smart. After leaving the Marquis' Mansion, you found someone to spread rumors that we were forced to leave by the Marquis' Mansion of Changping. So when we were being smeared, there were still people speaking up for us.

This morning, Uncle Ding asked Brother Ding to come and tell me that at first, those people outside were talking about how you, the young lady, seduced men everywhere and ruined the innocence of several young ladies of the Marquis of Changping. Later, for some reason, someone dug up the previous things and asked, "Why is it that every time there is a problem in the first or second house of the Marquis of Changping's mansion, it is always the second house that gets scolded?" Liu'er was so excited when she said this that people who didn't know would think she was there at the time.

With a smile on her face, Su Sui'an let the two of them wash, comb her hair and change her clothes, while she listened to Liu'er's vivid explanation.

"...My goodness, that man, his mouth is just like it has been blessed by Buddha, he can even make the dead come alive.

There were still some people in the crowd who refused to give up and said, "We, the second branch, have been taking advantage of the first branch all these years."

As a result, the hero directly said, "What you mean by taking advantage is taking advantage of being scolded? Or is it that the entire Changping Marquis's Mansion has risen to prominence because of the military merits of the second house master, and then they turn around and blame the second house master for being an adopted son?"

According to what you said, every time someone does something weird, they bring you up and smear you in a different way, you are taking advantage of them. I wish you take advantage of them every day.' The continuous questioning made the man speechless, not to mention how refreshing it was for the people at the scene to hear this."

When Liu'er spoke, her eyes sparkled and she looked full of life.

With the Prince of Dingbei speaking personally, Su Sui'an already knew that things would not be peaceful at the Marquis of Changping Mansion yesterday. If anything happened at the Marquis of Changping Mansion, Su Qishun would definitely try his best to drag the Second House into it.

But she didn't expect that her arrangement would not come in handy...

Liu Er thought that she was the one who spread the rumors, but that was not the case. Most of her energy was on Ji Lanshuang and Su Jinchi yesterday. She was short of manpower and could not handle everything. Even the arrangements for dealing with the big room's calculations later would require the use of Liu Er and Mei Er, and maybe even Uncle Fu...

And now, not only did she not need to make arrangements herself, the person who made the arrangements even handled things more perfectly than she had expected.

Currently, among the people Su Sui'an knows, the only ones who know her attitude towards the Marquis of Changping's Mansion and have the ability and purpose to manipulate public opinion are the Prince of Dingbei and the Ninth Prince...

The person behind the Ninth Prince is the Prince of Dingbei, so Liu'er said that the person who spread the rumor to protect their second house was most likely the Prince of Dingbei's man.

Although she didn't understand what the real plot behind the Prince of Dingbei was, and the two of them had only met once, but based on the fact that he had taken action to protect the Second House this time...

She had to accept this favor.