The system jumped to me

Hua Xiaozhou had another flash of inspiration. She grabbed Li Lianhua's shoulder, leaned very close, and spoke urgently:

"Also, the person impersonating 'Yu Qiushuang' is Yun Jiao. Apart from me and that maid, she is the only woman who appeared in both Yucheng and Xiaomian Inn at the same time. She is also the only one who knows Yu Qiushuang best and can imitate a similar tone and expression."

"So clever." Li Lianhua cupped Hua Xiaozhou's head and kissed her forehead.

"award."

Hua Xiaozhou became even more confident after being praised.

Sometimes, the more you praise someone, the faster their mind works. Hua Xiaozhou quickly connected the dots and another clue came to mind.

“Yun Jiao is not from Yucheng. She doesn’t have enough manpower to do both the impersonation of ‘Yu Qiushuang’ and the ghost killing people at the same time. She must have accomplices, but I can’t be sure who they are.”

You just mentioned Yun Jiao's love poem, "My heart is tied to Mingzhu, my feelings are hard to understand; the falling petals of flowers stir up longing." I can only think of Zongzheng Mingzhu, but... I noticed that he and Yu Hongzhu both have the same strong osmanthus fragrance. That doesn't make sense!

And the osmanthus petals on Yu Qiushuang's shoes—it's impossible that Yun Jiao, Yu Hongzhu, and Zongzheng Mingzhu killed Yu Qiushuang together!

Just as Li Lianhua was about to open her mouth to solve the mystery, she heard a gasp of surprise.

Fang Duobing and Buwei discovered a clue and excitedly ran over to tell him, but what they saw made them instinctively turn away, realizing they shouldn't look at such things!

Hua Xiaozhou looked down and quickly backed away. It turned out that while they were talking, she had almost completely leaned her upper body on Li Lianhua.

Li Lianhua intertwined her fingers with Hua Xiaozhou's with one hand, and wrapped her other arm around Hua Xiaozhou's waist, their posture was truly intimate.

"Slower."

Hua Xiaozhou retreated too quickly, and Li Lianhua was worried that she would fall.

Buwei glanced at it secretly, then jogged up the steps.

"Father, my brother found red clay footprints with osmanthus blossoms inside. I know that osmanthus and terracotta are rare here, but Miss Yu Er's footprints have them. I asked an older sister, and she said that only Madam Yu's courtyard has osmanthus blossoms. Miss Yu Er was here..."

"Shh, let's talk outside." Li Lianhua quickly covered Buwei's mouth.

"Where are you going?" Fang Duobing asked as he caught up.

"First, go to Madam Yu to make the antidote, then go to Xiaomian Inn."

Li Lianhua grabbed a handful of grass from the bushes that could be seen everywhere in the city lord's mansion and gave it to Yu Hongzhu to brew the antidote. She also used the excuse that a certain ingredient was missing and needed to be taken together to delay curing Yun Jiao until the next morning.

That being said, once the prepared Crimson Grass Soup is served to Yun Jiao, she will know that she has been exposed.

Yun Jiao's impending recovery from her mental illness will arouse the suspicion of her accomplices, who will then attempt to kill her to silence her. This presents an opportunity to catch the thief red-handed.

"I know, this is called luring the snake out of its hole." Buwei has read the Thirty-Six Stratagems.

The group finally left Jade City and arrived at Xiaomian Inn.

The fox spirit has finally found its master. Last night, it followed them all the way to Jade City, but after wandering around all night without finding anyone, it returned to the Little Cotton Inn and finally found its master.

"Woof woof..." The fox spirit was extremely excited, sometimes pouncing on Hua Xiaozhou, sometimes on Li Lianhua, and then circling around Buwei, whimpering and barking.

"Thinking back, you vixen, I miss you too." Buwei squatted down and hugged the vixen, the two of them expressing their longing for each other.

On the way here, Li Lianhua led Buwei to guess what Yun Jiao had done at Xiaomian Inn and the origin of the bloody footprints.