After sending Qing Wen and Xiang Ling away, Li Xuan laughed and said:
"Now you can tell me, what bad thing do you want to take your brother to do?"
When Lin Dai Yu came, Li Xuan thought she was like Jia Lian, asking him to do something for her.
But she didn't say anything until midnight.
That means the thing she wants to do, is likely to be done tonight.
"The esteemed Madam Wang, the wife of the Rongguo Mansion, has prepared things to send to my parents, and I want to take you to see them."
"You have a wide variety of martial arts skills, you should be good at things like picking locks, acupoint capture, identifying poisons, right? Help me check if there's any problem with the things."
"The things sent by the Jia Mansion in previous years were all problematic. I want to see if there was something wrong with them from the beginning, or if they were swapped by thieves along the way!"
If there was something wrong from the beginning, then it means the person in charge, Madam Wang, had bad intentions.
If there is no problem now, and they were swapped along the way, then the Yanwu of Yangzhou is definitely the culprit!
"That's easy, I'll change my clothes and go with you."
Li Xuan is still wearing his official uniform.
Although he won't be caught, he can't be like Bai Yutang, who deliberately wears a white nightgown, right?
While saying this, he also looked at Lin Dai Yu.
This little girl really has no good intentions, she wore dark clothes when she came.
Maybe his gaze was too intense, causing Lin Mei Mei to roll her eyes at him.
After changing his clothes, Li Xuan, led by Lin Mei Mei, quietly entered the outer study of Jia Zheng in the front yard.
"During the day, Madam had someone check the gifts and sent them to the master's outer study, saying that they would be sent to Yangzhou early tomorrow morning."
"So the best time to switch the things is tonight."
Lin Dai Yu whispered, leaning against the wall of the corridor, her eyes scanning the outside to see if anyone was patrolling.
If it were a noble family that hadn't yet fallen into decay, they would have arranged for servants to patrol.
But the Jia family, like a pig, pretended to be a real pig.
Some people pretended to be harmless, while others were stupid enough to dislike the honesty of the guards, always saying unpleasant things, so they were all sent to the manor.
If a real martial artist jumped over the wall, the Jia family would die without knowing how they died!
So after just a quick glance, Lin Dai Yu led Li Xuan forward.
Arriving at the door of the outer study, looking at the locked door, Lin Mei Mei sneered and gestured for Li Xuan to go in.
Li Xuan nodded and looked around.
Lin Dai Yu is still young, she doesn't have hairpins or hair ornaments yet, she's not old enough to wear them.
He examined her body, there were no good tools, so he had to look at himself, pulling a thread from his clothes.
He made a loop and slowly inserted it into the keyhole, then pulled it.
"Click."
A light sound, and the lock opened!
Taking off the lock, he pushed open the door and gestured for Lin Dai Yu to enter.
Lin Dai Yu smiled and entered the study first.
Then a sigh came: "Brother, I need your help again, each of these boxes is locked."
Li Xuan didn't hesitate, he quickly opened all the boxes.
He even commented while looking at them.
"Furs, medicinal materials, gold and silver jewelry, let me see, various nutritional supplements."
"It's okay for regular items, but how come the quality of these personal items has dropped so much?"
Lin Dai Yu coldly said: "Some brocade has become tattered cloth, gold and jade have become cheap wood, even the hundred-year-old medicinal herbs have been replaced with broken roots and leaves, what a good aunt she is!"
"Calm down, there's something even more explosive," Li Xuan picked up the jade that hadn't been changed, "This is coated with a slow-acting poison, long-term contact can lead to physical weakness."
"I remember your self-introduction to Lady Jia when you first came, you said that you were weak since childhood and only recovered after practicing martial arts, right?"
So, Lin Ruhai, Jia Min, Lin Dai Yu, and the Lin family's male offspring who should have died, may have all been poisoned by Madam Wang?
I don't know if she was being clever and accidentally wanted to destroy Jia Min, indirectly destroying Lin Ruhai, an important figure for the Jia family's transformation and survival.
Or if it was ordered by Prince Teng.
It's most likely the latter.
Only when the Jia family falls into decline can Prince Teng take advantage of it.
Only when Lin Ruhai and Jia Min die can he find a way to take over Lin's political resources.
For example, the Golden Wood Good Match.
"Now that we've confirmed, let's go back, thank you brother tonight."
Lin Dai Yu forced a smile and put everything back.
She knows that her parents have already known that there is something wrong with the things, even if they were sent, they wouldn't use them, so she naturally wouldn't worry about them being poisoned again by Madam Wang.
Moreover, the subordinates she has recruited are all stationed in Yangzhou.
Her parents will be fine.
"Don't mention it, let's go."
…
The next day, after morning exercises with Lin Mei Mei, they washed up and had breakfast.
Looking at the progress of [Golden Bell Cover] (Level: 12/13, Progress: 2%), Li Xuan asked Xiang Ling: "How are you doing with the Life-Preserving Exercise? Have you reached small success?"
Xiang Ling felt a little embarrassed and said:
"I'm sorry, I've disappointed you, sir."
"Since building my foundation and refining my body, I have been diligently cultivating Qi every day, suppressing the dragon and tiger, and collecting herbs."
"Although I can supplement myself a little, I can expel evil spirits, make the five elements generate and restrain each other, water and fire communicate with each other, but I'm still far from achieving small success, which means filling the twelve meridians with inner Qi, warming the fifteen main channels, reducing illnesses until they gradually disappear, and my physical strength will obviously recover."
"As for filling the channels (after small success), gradually mastering the eight channels to achieve great success, and achieving perfection with the Qi of the whole body being integrated, mixed and without leakage, I dare not even think about it."
It's like checking homework, those who haven't written like to find excuses.
Li Xuan sighed and asked again:
"So, how many of the twelve regular meridians have you filled with inner Qi?"
"One, one."
"Hmm? Tell the truth?"
"Really! I, I just ran out of medicine and haven't bought any..."
Li Xuan: "..."
Xiang Ling carefully looked up at Li Xuan's expression and muttered: "Sir, that medicine is too expensive, why don't we just forget about it?"
"You're afraid of bitterness, that's why you didn't buy it, right?"
With medicine, it takes a year to fill one meridian. Without medicine to supplement it, when will the twelve meridians be filled?
So Li Xuan threatened her:
"This exercise makes you live longer than others, if you can't do it, in a few decades I'll take others out, and you'll just be a little old lady lying at home."
When he mentioned this, Xiang Ling, who was particularly attached to Li Xuan, was really scared.
With a crying voice, she said: "Don't leave me, sir, I will definitely practice hard!"
"That's more like it, I'm not short of money, you don't have to save money," Li Xuan then turned to Qing Wen, "How's your literacy going recently?"
Qing Wen showed a big smile: "Your method is really effective, I've learned many characters."
"Sir, I wonder if I can learn that Life-Preserving Exercise you mentioned just now?"
"That's easy, let Xiang Ling teach you. If you can learn, you can learn, if you can't, don't give me the cold shoulder, this requires talent, otherwise all the nobles wouldn't be healthy and long-lived?"
Li Xuan deliberately said this in front of her.
Otherwise, Qing Wen might only have a three-minute attention span.