Quick Travel: Dream Hunt

Ting He nodded thoughtfully and asked, "Have you ever met Wang Sheng in person?"

Qing Ning nodded: "I have seen him. He is my aunt's cousin and looks very much like me. Every time he would hurriedly give me the letter, and then tell me the next time to pick it up. I embezzled the girl's money and a pendant, and gave everything I had to Prince Wang."

When Ting He heard this, he got angry: "You are still embezzling? Where is the thing? What pendant?"

Qing Ning pointed in the direction of the door and said, "It's hidden under the bricks under the bed in my room."

Upon hearing this, Ting He picked her up and teleported to the side room where Qing Ning lived. He opened half of the brick door and found that there was not a single ounce of silver underneath, but there were several hundred ounces of silver notes and a pendant.

Ting He recognized that this pendant was the token of the Yan family shop that the original owner asked Qing Ning to give to Wang Sheng. She didn't expect that in the end, it didn't leave the Yan family, but was embezzled by this little maid. She put the pendant away and asked again:

"Does Wang Sheng really look like your aunt? Can you confirm that he is her nephew? Also, didn't Wang Sheng say that he was going to take the imperial examination and took away your lady's money? Jiangnan is a long way from Shengjing, so how could he meet you so frequently?"

Qing Ning said without hesitation:

"Master Wang and my aunt look almost exactly the same. In the past six months of correspondence, Master Wang and I have only met twice, once to pass a message and once to give money. The other letters were all from my aunt, who said that her nephew was taking the exam and couldn't come back, so she asked me to bring them. But the two times I met Master Wang, he had sweat on his forehead and his breathing was unstable. I also smelled a strong scent of powder on him. At that time, I thought Master Wang came too hastily and might have been contaminated from somewhere."

Ting He frowned and pondered for a while. She had a bold guess in her mind, but she still needed to verify it. She asked again: "Then do you know where the aunt is from? Where is Prince Wang staying?"

Qing Ning shook her head and said, "Everything is in the letter. Miss will understand after reading it. I was only responsible for delivering the letter and did not peek. I don't know anything else."

Ting He nodded and said, "Who told you I was dead? You didn't see it with your own eyes, so why did you lie?"

Qing Ning replied in a panic, "XX told me that as long as I said that the young lady had eloped with someone and my persuasion failed, the old lady would not blame me. Later, the old lady personally sent people to investigate, and only found out that the young lady fell off the cliff and died. I didn't hide it from the master and the old lady on purpose. I just didn't dare to say that it was because of me who delivered the message that the thieves took the opportunity to kidnap the young lady."

When Ting He heard the crucial moment, Qing Ning automatically muted her voice, and she couldn't hear who that person was at all. But this time she understood clearly that the thief this time was not the Wang Sheng she had seen before, so she didn't dare to say anything. She asked:

"On the day when Wang Sheng made the appointment, you went with your daughter. Was the Wang Sheng you saw the same Wang Sheng you had met twice before?"

Qing Ning shook her head. "No, no, I don't know that person. When I saw that he was a stranger, I knew something was wrong. I was afraid that I had fallen into a trap. The letter was given to me by my aunt. The young lady read the letter herself and found out that it was Mr. Wang who asked her to meet him, and he was a high school graduate. The young lady even changed her clothes and went there."

Ting He thought for a while and said, "Do you know who planted the poisonous insect in your body?"

Qing Ning shook her head: "I don't know what a poisonous insect is, and I don't like insects."

Seeing that Qingning seemed to really not know anything, he did not ask any more questions. After reading the secrets of the Gu worm, he knew that there was a kind of silence Gu in Qingning's body. It was probably to prevent her from revealing any secrets. After seeing that removing the silence Gu would cause the infected person to self-destruct, Tinghe gave up the idea and did not plan to take out the Gu worm.

Hongying wants to sell Qingning to Wanhualou, but now Wanhualou is just a song and dance troupe that does not live up to its name. It is better not to let Qingning go there. It is better to send her to another brothel to be a secret prostitute. As long as Qingning is not dead, the person who gave her the mute Gu will probably show up sooner or later. But if both the mortal Gu and the mortal are lost, there is no guarantee that the person behind the scenes will hide forever and never show up.

Ting He teleported with Qing Ning to a brothel outside Jiangnan. They all looked pretty good, so he didn't want to let her get away with it. Then he teleported to several places and found a shabby brothel. On a whim, he threw her in and left a few words and ten taels of silver for the madam.

(If she runs away, you will die)

……

Then Ting He returned to the Yan family again. Seeing that the original owner's father was still unconscious in the mourning hall, she took away the sleeping talisman and asked:

"Where is Jinniang's tomb? Where are the ruins of Loulan? What secrets does the brocade have? Why did the nobleman snatch it away?"

Yan Jiuwen, who was in a daze, just opened his eyes and heard the question. Under the influence of the truth talisman, he said without thinking:

"Jinniang has no tomb. After she died of hemorrhage, she gave me the remaining blood in her body, asking me to protect Tinghe until she turned 20 and passed the death calamity, then take her to the ruins of Loulan to recognize her ancestors. After giving her blood to me, Jinniang disappeared, leaving nothing behind."

He continued:

"The brocade gauze was made by Jin Niang. I kept it for more than ten years. It was not until the Yan family was in crisis that I thought of selling one piece to make some money. But Concubine Cui in the palace took a fancy to it. I gave away and sold more than ten pieces, and then said that I had no raw materials and could not make it. Concubine Cui gave up temporarily."

"I don't know what secrets there are in brocade gauze. It's made by Jinniang by grinding glowing stones into powder and mixing it with gold threads. I don't know anything about the clothes except that they look beautiful. The ruins of Loulan are in a Gobi desert in the center of the desert. The key to unlocking the ruins is my daughter Tinghe and her blood."

Not hearing anything valuable, Ting He simply let her go. However, he remembered the name of Concubine Cui. After knocking her out again, he found Nanny Li and used a set of truth pills on her again. Only then did he realize that she was just an ordinary old woman who had been guarding the old lady for her entire life but knew nothing.

After not getting any more useful information, she looted the entire Yan Mansion and put all the things related to the original owner's mother into the space. When she saw the pieces of brocade in the warehouse, she thought about it and took them all away.

Including the brocade clothes that the original owner had worn. Until the Yan family no longer had her and her mother's things, she searched the warehouse for jewelry. There were still tens of thousands of taels of gold and silver left. Then she picked up Hongying, who had been unconscious in the mourning hall, and left the Yan Mansion together.

……

One day has passed of the three-day schedule, and things are still confusing. The aunt is dead, the old lady and the original owner's father are not good people, and they are big bad guys who take advantage of the original owner's mother. Ting He has no attachment to this broken place at all.