The two men stepped forward to take a closer look.

Chifeng shook his head.

Lan Ying frowned, feeling that he looked familiar.

"I think I have seen it before. One day, I was in a hurry to go out and bumped into a servant at the gate of the mansion. A jade pendant fell out of the servant's sleeve. It seemed to have this pattern. Since few people carve snakes on jade, I have a deeper impression of it."

Yan Mobai's eyes turned cold.

"What is this pattern?" asked Lan Ying.

Yan Mobai put the paper on the table and tapped it with his slender fingers: "Anyone who has this kind of jade token is King Kang's man."

Lan Ying and Chi Feng were both stunned.

"We have carefully checked the background of everyone in the mansion, but there are still fish that slipped through the net?"

"Well, there is probably more than one, and you just happened to run into this one." Yan Mobai narrowed his eyes slightly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.

Then he ordered: "Lan Ying, go and inform everyone in the mansion to gather in the front yard. Just say that there is something important to announce, and don't say anything else, so as not to alert the enemy. After everyone arrives in the front yard, Lan Ying and his men will be responsible for searching everyone one by one, and Chi Feng and his men will be responsible for searching all the servants' residences to see if anyone has such a jade pendant."

"Now?" asked Lan Ying.

Now everyone is busy with tomorrow's wedding, and the wedding will be held tomorrow, so why start the killing today?

"What else? Keep them for the wedding banquet?" Yan Mobai asked in a cold voice.

Ok.

The two of them accepted the order: "Yes!"

After leaving the house, Lan Ying couldn't help but mutter, "In fact, it's not impossible to delay the arrest of the spy for a day or two. Your Excellency is deliberately trying to make the Marquis and the First Madam unhappy."

Chi Feng glanced at him coldly: "Superficial."

"Is not it?"

His parents have always done this.

Although he lived in the Marquis' Mansion, he never considered it as his home, never took the master and mistress of the mansion seriously, and never thought about the sibling love of his brothers and sisters.

The reason I went to Siyuan Academy today was because of some information exchange with Madam Ning.

He suddenly realized: "So, the snake pattern picture was given by Madam Ning?"

Chifeng: "It should be."

Lan Ying was a little surprised.

That woman actually knew such a secret thing.

I thought about the topic just now: "You said I was superficial, what do you mean?"

Chi Feng glanced at him and said, "Now is the best time. Let's gather together and announce the matter. Everyone will think it is related to tomorrow's wedding, so they won't suspect anything else and won't hide the jade token in advance."

Lan Ying thought about it and said, "That's true."

Also, we will know whether Madam Ning has returned when we gather together later.

-

Everyone in the mansion was quickly gathered in the front yard. Since everyone had to be present, even Sun's two three-year-old sons, a boy and a girl, stood in the line.

Yan Mobai was dressed in a jet-black cloak, standing tall as a pine tree, with his hands behind his back, standing right in front of everyone. He had a terrifying aura and was intimidating without even getting angry.

Yan Huating and Jin didn't look very happy.

"Your eldest brother's wedding is urgent and there is no time. Everyone is busy. If you have anything to announce, just let the housekeeper notify them. Why make such a big fuss and gather everyone here?" Yan Huating sounded dissatisfied.

Yan Mobai had a blank expression on his face: "Didn't you guys decide to rush the wedding?"

Yan Huating was speechless for a moment.

Everyone in the mansion was there, and it was natural that they felt embarrassed to be treated like this.

He wanted to refute him, but he knew very well the character of this unfilial son and knew that he was capable of anything.

If I refute him, I will probably put myself in an even more embarrassing situation.

Then he said unhappily: "What's the matter? Tell us quickly, everyone is very busy."

Yan Mobai raised his cold eyes slightly, scanned the whole place, and asked the blue shadow beside him in a deep voice: "Is everyone here?"

"Madam Ning is not here." Lan Ying replied respectfully.

Upon hearing this, Chunlan in the crowd hurriedly bowed and explained the situation to her master.

"Reporting to the Second Young Master, the eldest lady went to Siyuan Academy to deliver cakes from Cailianzhai to the Third Young Lady and has not returned yet."

She didn't know whether Yan Mobai went to school or not, nor did she know whether her master would be embarrassed by Yan Xuanji, and she was very worried.

Lan Ying glanced at Yan Mobai and saw that he didn't react at all.

After hesitating for a moment, he spoke tentatively, "Sir, how about sending a few palace guards to look for Madam Ning?"

"What are you looking for? Doesn't she know the way back home?" Yan Mobai replied coldly.

Blue Shadow: “…”

That's not what he meant.

"I am worried..."

Before Lan Ying could finish her words, Yan Mobai interrupted her in a deep voice: "What are you worried about? The wedding is tomorrow, are you worried that she will escape at the last minute?"

This one sentence made Yan Huating and Jin's faces change.

Are you fleeing?

No way?

However, it is really possible, after all, the man you are going to marry looks like that.

And I heard that he arrived at Cailianzhai in the morning and asked the driver to drive back.

Do you really want to escape?

No, we must not let this happen.

Although there is no plan to hold a large banquet for tomorrow's wedding and only the relatives have been notified, there are still quite a few relatives. If the bride is gone, where will they put their faces?

"We should send a few guards to look for her. Ning is not from the capital and is unfamiliar with the place. What if she gets lost or runs into trouble? What will she do as a weak woman?" Yan Huating said.

Jin also agreed: "Yes, since she is going to marry Changjing soon, she is our family. We can't be so cold-blooded."

Yan Huating immediately ordered the butler: "Quickly ask a few palace guards to go look for him."

"Bring a carriage," Jin added.

Lan Ying wanted to explain that he was not worried that Madam Ning would escape from the battlefield. How could someone who begged to stay in the Marquis' Mansion escape?

But when he saw that Yan Huating and Jin were going to send people to look for her, he decided not to explain.

The housekeeper called six palace guards and prepared to leave, but was stopped by Yan Mobai: "Wait."

Everyone was stunned, thinking he was going to stop it.

But he pointed at two of them and said, "You two stay here."

Then he pointed at the other two palace guards who were not dispatched and said, "You two go."

Six people left.

Lan Ying felt relieved and immediately understood Yan Mobai's intention.

This was because my master had not yet searched everyone in the mansion, in case any of the six people were spy for Prince Kang and took this opportunity to escape, so he replaced the two people of unknown identity.

The six people who are out looking for people now are all trustworthy people.

"Don't you have something to announce?" Yan Huating asked Yan Mobai.

Yan Mobai spoke in a clear voice: "A blood jade inkstone in my study is missing. It must have been stolen by someone in the mansion. Now everyone is gathered here and you are searched one by one. Chi Feng has also brought people to search your residence."

Everyone was surprised.

There was something important to announce, and it turned out to be investigating thieves!

Yan Mobai gestured to Lan Ying.

Lan Ying obeyed the order.

He led people to start searching one by one.

-

Ning Miao wore a veiled hat, carried a food box, and walked slowly along the way back to the Marquis' Mansion.

She deliberately took a detour to avoid Yan Mobai's carriage.

When he returns home and sees that she has not returned for a long time, I wonder if this will cause him some worry?

Looking at the hustle and bustle of people coming and going on the street through the white gauze, Ning Miao felt as if he was in another world.

Suddenly, he laughed at himself.

For her who was reborn, it was just like a lifetime ago.

Suddenly, a familiar figure came into view in front of her, and her eyes narrowed.

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