Cheng Chili straightened his back: "Nothing!"
Liang Zhi raised his voice: "If you’ve got sothing to say, spit it out! What’s with the hemming and hawing?"
Cheng Chili slumped his shoulders: "I just wanted to say, Fifth Brother has been pestered by Uncle Pei and Aunt Pei to get married lately, and it’s really bothering him. Maybe Aunt could..."
"Stop right there!" Liang Zhi said, "What kind of rotten idea is this? Has a nephew ever married his aunt?"
"But Aunt is now a daughter of the Ning Family, isn’t she? Anyway, outsiders wouldn’t know..."
"That’s still not okay!" Liang Zhi said, "No matter which family the young lady belongs to, the family hierarchy is plain as day!
"Besides, even if we disregard this issue, Fifth Brother never liked Aunt. Would she be happy marrying him?"
"It’s not like that! Fifth Brother, he—"
Cheng Chili was so anxious he almost blurted it out, but when he saw the six pairs of eyes staring at him, he fell silent again.
"What about him?" Su Xinger was full of curiosity, "Hurry up and tell us!"
Cheng Chili’s face turned red from holding back, he couldn’t bring himself to say it!
Fifth Brother asked him for help, but the person involved was his boss. How could he proceed, or speak of it?
"Aunt!"
At this mont, Liang Chen’s voice ca from the courtyard!
"Boss Liang is back!" Cheng Chili felt relieved and stood up quickly!
Liang Chen strode into the room, sized up Fu Zhen, and then asked, "How did Zhang Shicheng get into Xu Yin’s room?"
"Li Er led him there, then Guo Song moved in."
"Aren’t they suspicious?"
"Not sure about Xu Yin, but Zhang Damazi surely wasn’t. When the guards, pretending to be panicked temple visitors, led him around in circles, he thought he was encountering a ghost hitting the wall and started rambling."
Cheng Chili said.
"Alright then." Liang Chen said, "Let’s strike while the iron is hot, catch Zhang Shicheng, and crack the case directly through him!"
Fu Zhen said, "Do you have a plan?"
"Earlier, when Prince Rong’s Mansion was panicked, Fifth Brother arranged people around, luring Prince Rong to co out to search for the assassin. At the sa ti, he coordinated with you and set up secret posts to spread the rumor of ghosts in the temple.
"Zhang Shicheng seems to have taken the bait. Fifth Brother just ca out from there and saw Zhang Shicheng hurriedly heading to his Zen temple after lurking in the dark.
"Guess what he did when he got back? He was kneeling, chanting scriptures in front of the Buddha!"
At these words, everyone exchanged glances imdiately!
"This Zhang Damazi is so guilty, he must have a ghost!"
Liang Zhi was the first to jump up!
Cheng Chili said, "How shall we act?"
"Aunt has to play the leading role!" Liang Chen looked outside, "Old Seven, go close the door!"
...
At Prince Rong’s Mansion, everyone gathered in the main courtyard, and when Xu Yin arrived, the room was in complete silence.
"Husband!"
Upon seeing him, Yongping was the first to stand up!
Xu Yin glanced around the room and walked straight to Prince Rong: "May I ask, Your Highness, what on earth happened?"
"We found a dagger in the garden. Just as we got a clear look at it, soone snatched it away!"
Princess Rong’s voice was urgent, and her hands on the armrest were so tense that her knuckles turned pale!
"A dagger?"
Xu Yin’s expression changed, and his eyes fixed on Prince Rong and his son. "What kind of dagger?"
Prince Rong slowly raised his head, and his face was no better than Princess Rong’s knuckles. The calm eyes of the past had suddenly beco sowhat cloudy: "Follow ."
After saying that, he stood up and moved towards the inner courtyard.
Xu Yin hurried to follow.
Yongping and Mrs. Zhang wanted to go too but were blocked by Yang Zhan at the door: "Matters of n, don’t interfere!"
After saying that, he himself strode into the room.
The guards stood at the door, and the inner courtyard was so quiet that even a heartbeat could faintly be heard.
Prince Rong stood in the center of the room with his hands behind his back, only turning around after Xu Yin and Yang Zhan had arrived behind him.
"We lost that knife in Baiyu Lane many years ago, and we searched through several lanes and never found it. I rember you said it would never reappear."
His face was turned towards Xu Yin, his words ca out one by one as if weighed down by stones.
Xu Yin was speechless for a mont: "Your Highness ans, the dagger you found in the garden earlier was that sa dagger from back then?"
"It was a tribute presented by King Yi of Dayue to the forr emperor, and there is no second one in the world! Even if there were sothing similar, it would never be identical; both the princely heir and I saw it clearly!"
Prince Rong’s voice had turned from somber to outright chilling!
Xu Yin looked at Yang Zhan, whose face could be described as terrified: "There’s no mistake, it’s that very one!
"I want to know, you once said it wouldn’t reappear, so why did it? And why, of all people, did it appear in front of us?
"Besides us, you were the third person who knew about this. Did you leak the news?!"
Even with his composure, Xu Yin couldn’t help but tense up upon hearing this: "That’s impossible!"
The dagger was last with Liang Ning, and only Liang Ning knew its whereabouts!
Liang Ning has been dead for six years, and no one has any idea where she might have hidden it during her lifeti, so nobody could know about the dagger!
Including the Liang Family!
They haven’t even questioned Liang Ning’s death, so how could they know about the dagger? If they did, they would have certainly reinitiated an investigation into Liang Ning’s cause of death!
They haven’t done so at all!
"Just because you say it’s impossible doesn’t an it is!"
Yang Zhan gritted his teeth, agitation distorting his face: "We saw it with our own eyes and experienced it ourselves, could it still be false? Do I need to fabricate sothing to fool you?!"
Since Prince Rong voluntarily proposed marriage with Xu Yin, in these six years, the family of Prince Rong’s Mansion could not be said to have disrespected him at all, never had they spoken like this!
Xu Yin was not soone to take insults lightly?
But now he was entirely preoccupied!
—The dagger really appeared, how did it appear? It was taken, and by whom?
"Did either Your Highness or the princely heir get a good look at who it was?"
"How could we have seen clearly? That person moved as quickly as a ghost, disappearing in a flash!"
As Yang Zhan spoke, he shivered involuntarily. The sudden appearance of the dagger and the so-called "assassin’s" swift moves in this ancient mountain temple were enough to give anyone the chills!
Xu Yin involuntarily twitched at the ntion of "ghost"—it was the second ti he’d heard the word today!
"There’s no such thing as ghosts in this world!"
As if to dispel the shadows in his mind, he quickly said, "Soone must be deliberately causing a stir. They must have happened upon so rumors, and just happen to be skilled, so they’re putting on a show to scare you!
"What’s there to panic about? Keep calm, don’t lose your heads!"
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