Jian Zhaoxing

Chapter 295 Results-Oriented

Just as Lin Zhiqing was reminiscing, Lin Yangyang's voice rang out from outside the courtyard:
"Qing-meimei, I'm back!"

Her footsteps sounded slightly heavy.

After entering the house, she threw the woman on her back onto the ground, then clapped her hands, her tone slightly disgusted:

“I’ve brought the murderer back with me too.”

Lin Zhiqing slowly stepped forward and looked at the woman lying on the ground.

She had delicate features and a beautiful face; the small mole at the corner of her eye made her even more charming. She was a real beauty.

Before she could take a closer look, a servant announced from outside the door that Lu Nanyue had arrived.

As close friends, Lin Zhiqing's public display of affection, catching her fiancé cheating on her in the street, would surely cause Lu Nanyue concern, and she would definitely come to investigate.

As expected, Lu Nanyue's first words upon entering the room were a scathing rebuke of Jiang Liuyun.

In the past, Jiang Liuyun and Lin Zhiqing secretly competed with each other, but they never brought their relationship to the forefront. Lu Nanyue could only keep her thoughts to herself no matter what she wanted to say.

Now that I've got the chance, I can't vent my anger without hurling a few curses.

Lin Yangyang shared the same thought and gave Jiang Liuyun a thorough dressing-down.

Lin Zhiqing only had tea served after the two had finished arguing.

It was at this time that Lu Huai arrived with Yun Feng.

Lu Huai had already changed out of the clothes he wore to the Hidden Fragrance Pavilion, and he no longer looked like the person Jiang Liuyun had seen, who was drugged and limp.

Yun Feng plopped down on the windowsill:
"Hehe, Miss Zhiqing and my young master are too clever. How could Jiang Liuyun possibly outsmart two people?"

“Exactly, exactly.” Lin Yangyang chimed in, “That idiot really thought we’d fallen for his trick! He completely disregards me, Lin Yangyang!”

"Zhiqing is perceptive. If it weren't for her, both the Lu and Lin families would have been tricked this time." Lu Huai smiled slightly.

"This is by no means my achievement alone." Lin Zhiqing frowned. "The matter is not over yet, but we can be considered to have achieved the first stage of victory."

“If you hadn’t been to Yongqing before, Jiang Liuyun wouldn’t have known about this. With that information gap, we might have all been caught up in this mess.” Lu Nanyue said with some lingering fear.

Lin Zhiqing also felt that the news Yan Yu brought back from Yongqing County was the key turning point in this matter:

"The information from Yongqing County is very detailed. The fact that Zangxianglou in Shengjing City can send trained courtesans to its stronghold in Yongqing means that it is definitely not just a simple brothel."

"Jiang Liuyun probably didn't want or didn't expect that we could get hold of this news."

A brothel and a chain of brothels are of course different.

This "chain" is just Lin Zhiqing's own internal interpretation, but its meaning is not far off.

That's the difference.

Even without Yongqing's little incident, Lin Zhiqing would still have had a way to find out that the woman with the mole came from Cangxiang Pavilion.

But at that time, she certainly wouldn't have thought that Zangxiang Pavilion was a trap; she would have thought that it was just a brothel that she could control.

Moreover, Jiang Liuyun knew her very well and believed that even if there were traps in Cangxiang Tower, she would still go and risk them for Aunt Mu's sake.

Jiang Liuyun was right about this, but what he didn't know was that Lin Zhiqing was always a person who was more rational than emotional.

She had been given a second chance at life and cherished it greatly.

Even if she wanted to avenge Aunt Mu, she would choose the safest path.

"Then, Xiao Huai, how did you know that Cangxianglou was problematic?" Lu Nanyue asked curiously.

“I found Zhiqing the day before she decided to go to Cangxianglou, because I realized something was wrong,” Lu Huai replied.

Lin Yangyang also asked, "What's wrong?" "The person I know isn't of high rank in the Ministry of Justice. He told me about this woman's identity, but he knew nothing about what she had done wrong," Lu Huai analyzed, looking at the woman with the mole on the ground.
"There are two possibilities in this situation. First, the woman's crime was so serious that only those in higher positions knew about it."

"Secondly, someone has been bribing people behind the scenes to prevent the truth about what she did from being revealed."

“But this has nothing to do with her going in and out of the Tibetan Incense Pavilion. Besides, once we go to the Tibetan Incense Pavilion, we can find out who is behind her and follow the clues to find out what she did wrong. It’s quite normal.” Lin Yangyang waved her hand.

Her thinking is correct; it's results-oriented.

From the perspective of an average person, this is indeed the logic:

Find the woman with the mole, find the incense pavilion, find the person behind the incense pavilion, learn about the woman with the mole's background and the truth behind Aunt Mu's murder.

But Lu Huai is no ordinary person. He is extremely meticulous. If he grasps a point, he will make sure that point has no impact on the whole matter.

So he began to investigate the background information of the woman with the mole.

However, it seems that the woman's past has been buried in the dust, and nothing can be found out at all.

Even though this had nothing to do with their finding the Hidden Incense Pavilion, it still aroused Lu Huai's suspicion.

He pondered this for a long time using reverse thinking, and he always felt that the reason this woman with the mole would appear was because the person behind her had enough confidence that no one could find out about her background.

Moreover, no one needs to investigate her background.

In short, if you want to know these things, you can only go to the Tibetan Incense Pavilion.

The investigation revealed that the source was Zangxiangge, and by peeling back the layers, the clues became quite clear.

That night, after Lu Huai realized that there was something wrong with Cangxiang Pavilion, he immediately contacted Lin Zhiqing.

The two men shared some common ideas, but after discussion, they both agreed that they still had to go to the Tibetan Incense Pavilion.

First, the murderer who killed Aunt Mu must pay with his life.

Second, Lin Zhiqing wanted to find out why the neutral ministers opposed a retrial.

The answers to both questions can only be found by visiting the Tibetan Incense Pavilion.

They discussed it all night and finally decided to go with the flow and definitely go to the Tibetan Incense Pavilion.

But the two of them were fully prepared.

At this point, Lu Nanyue spoke up again: "No wonder you asked me in advance to prepare the antidote for the drugs commonly used in brothels. How is it? Did you use it?"

"It's been used." Lin Zhiqing nodded. "However, the sleeping potion from Zangxiang Pavilion is rather special."

"How is it special?" Lu Nanyue asked again.

Lin Zhiqing slowly began to speak: "After I arrived at the private room of the Tibetan Incense Pavilion, I kept an eye on the spices there, but I didn't find any problems."

"Until Lu Huai and I entered the same room."

Lin Yangyang leaned closer: "Could it be that only your room has a problem?"

“Not exactly,” Lu Huai said. “There’s something wrong with the rooms that A Qing and I were originally in, but the drug only works when we’re together.”

Upon hearing this, Lu Nanyue felt a sense of relief.

"Luckily, we prepared the antidote in advance. Otherwise, if the two of you had both fainted in the same room and someone had seen you, you would have been in serious trouble, like being drowned in a pig cage and beaten with a cane!"

"However, according to the two of you, only you entered the house at first. How did Yun Jian get in? Wasn't she always locked up in the Lin family?"

"How did she end up on the bed in the Hidden Fragrance Pavilion?"

"Did you take her there?"