Don't Ask Where People Go After Time Travel

Chapter 1583 Speculation

"I once ordered people to investigate secretly." Li Shengxuan kept writing, and in a blink of an eye he sketched out several mansions and a large camp.

"Are these the suspects?" Fang Zilan frowned slightly. "The scope is too wide. It is unlikely to find out the details in a short period of time."

"It's not impossible." Li Shengxuan connected the various places on the map one by one. Fang Zilan thought thoughtfully, "We are now in Jiangdu. Although it is not far from the various prefectures, but..."

She stopped talking halfway and stared at the circle marked on Li Shengxuan's map. "Is this... Suzhou Prefecture?"

"The Fang family will hold an annual spring party in Suzhou Prefecture. At that time, officials from surrounding prefectures, regardless of their rank, will come in person or send people to honor them." Li Shengxuan said with determination: "This is the opportunity."

Fang Zilan was silent for a long time before she said, "Although I have the identity of a member of the Chamber of Commerce, I have not received an invitation to the Spring Meeting. I would not rashly go there..."

"Don't worry, I have an invitation to the Spring Festival Party." Li Shengxuan said, and took out a gold-sprinkled invitation from his arms and handed it to Fang Zilan. After taking it, Fang Zilan looked at it and said, "There's nothing written on it?"

"So I need to borrow your identity from the Chamber of Commerce." Li Shengxuan said as a matter of course. Fang Zilan's expression froze. She held the invitation card under her nose and sniffed it. "This is a new invitation card. The gold sprinkled on it is also different from what the Fang family usually uses."

As she spoke, she stroked the gold powder on the invitation with her fingers. The particles were too rough, not as delicate as the one she saw at Fang's house.

"You are quite perceptive." Li Shengxuan's lips curled slightly, "But others may not be so. This post is enough to fool laymen."

"It might be enough to fool laymen, but it's not possible to fool the Fang family." Fang Zilan said helplessly: "Can't you find someone to imitate it more realistically?"

"The Fang family's gold-sprinkled invitations are all specially made by a special person, and they are hard to come by." Li Shengxuan shrugged innocently, "Even if it's me, I don't have that much skill."

Fang Zilan took a deep breath. Perhaps it was because she had always regarded Li Shengxuan as a god in the temple worshipped by everyone, with great powers and omnipotence, so when she heard these words now, she just found it incredible, as if the person in front of her was an imposter.

Li Shengxuan felt a little uncomfortable being looked at by Fang Zilan, and couldn't help but ask, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"I'm confirming." Fang Zilan tightened her grip on the invitation, "Are you Li Shengxuan?"

"Fang Zilan, you are so bold!" Xiahou Zhang, who had been guarding the door, finally couldn't help but interrupt, "How dare you call me by my name?"

He deliberately lowered his voice, looking like a puffed-up pufferfish, puffing up his cheeks but not daring to explode. Fang Zilan laughed at this and wanted to tease him, wanting to see what it would look like if the pufferfish exploded.

Li Shengxuan saw through Fang Zilan's thoughts and changed the subject first: "It doesn't matter. I am just an ordinary person now and I still need Miss Fang's support."

"Me?" Fang Zilan pointed at herself and laughed dumbly, "Give you a tip?"

"Ms. Fang is a businessman, so of course she is much better off than a poor commoner like me." Li Shengxuan looked natural. Fang Zilan held the invitation card more and more tightly, and it looked like the invitation would shatter into pieces in the next moment.

"Miss Fang, please show mercy." Li Shengxuan said seriously, "I spent a lot of effort to get this invitation. If it is destroyed..."

"So what if it's destroyed?" Fang Zilan tore up the invitation without hesitation. "I will find a new invitation for the Spring Party, a real Fang family invitation."

Li Shengxuan chuckled, "In that case, thank you for your help." "You did it on purpose." Fang Zilan restrained her expression, "Since you want to cooperate, then don't play any tricks. If you have something to say, just say it. I don't have the time to play tricks with you."

She left without looking back. Li Shengxuan had reservations about her, and she didn't trust him completely. However, the current situation was not suitable for mutual suspicion.

"Master." Mingxiang bowed respectfully, and Fang Zilan raised her hand to indicate that she didn't need to be polite. "The Fang family is about to hold a spring party in Suzhou Prefecture. Do you know about this?"

"Start with you, one by one." Fang Zilan pointed at a person casually. The man was stunned at first, then began to explain in a trembling voice.

Perhaps because they were frightened, everyone's statements were incoherent. On the one hand, they did not want to drag Pei Poming into the water, and on the other hand, they did not dare to lie, so they spoke haltingly and with many loopholes.

Fang Zilan listened expressionlessly. When the last person's voice gradually weakened and he could not say anything, the hall fell into an almost eerie silence.

"Have you finished?" Fang Zilan raised her eyebrows, turned to Xu Youtong and asked, "What do you think, Lord Xu?"

Xu Youtong remained silent, but the indescribable expression on his face said it all.

Fang Zilan knew what was going on, so she said, "Since you can't explain anything, I'll ask you questions so as to avoid wasting time."

Without waiting for anyone to respond, she asked, "Yesterday, a girl from my house went to the Ministry of Justice. Has anyone of you touched her?"

"Master Fang, this is all a misunderstanding. We accidentally bumped into each other during the argument..." Before one of them could finish his words, Fang Zilan interrupted him harshly, "You answer whatever I ask. Don't you understand?"

The man was shaking violently, and stammered, "Yes... I touched it..."

"Which hand touched it?" Fang Zilan's expression became colder, and the man said in panic: "I don't remember..."

Fang Zilan called out to Zheng Yan, who understood and ordered someone to bring the torture device over. Seeing this, Xu Youtong's expression changed slightly, "Master Fang, do not abuse lynching!"

"Lynching?" Fang Zilan glanced at Xu Youtong and said coldly, "Since they have confessed everything, how can I be considered to have lynched them?"

Xu Youtong's expression froze, and the next moment he heard a scream. Fang Zilan covered her ears in disgust, and Zheng Yan blocked their mouths with a tactful look.

"Lord Fang..." Xu Youtong wanted to say something, but fell silent when he met Fang Zilan's gaze. He had no choice but to turn his head and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

If Fang Zilan continued to interrogate, he would definitely pull Pei Poming out. However, the people he sent to the Pei family today had already tested the wind direction. Even if Pei Ranqing could not manage the affairs, the Pei family would not easily hand over Pei Poming.

Neither the Pei family nor Fang Zilan were people he could afford to offend. If Fang Zilan could deal with the people in front of her now, she could shake hands and make peace with the Pei family and no longer pursue Pei Poming. That would be perfect.

If he couldn't, he would be offending Fang Zilan by stopping her now, and he would have to offend her again when the Pei family asked for an explanation in the future. It was like a fire in the city gate that affected the innocent, and he could only blame himself for his bad luck.

Thinking of this, Xu Youtong sighed and gently closed his eyes. It is indeed not easy to be a parent official in the capital. If you are not careful, you will become a pawn of the aristocratic and powerful.