Farewell Flower Festival

After Zhao Huan was convicted, Zhao Zhong took sick leave and refused to see guests. To outsiders, it seemed that he fell ill due to the heavy blow.

But there is often a crisis hidden beneath the seemingly calm surface of the water, which the people on the surface have not discovered yet.

Chaoyan didn't think that Zhao Huan would be able to be executed smoothly. According to the plot in the TV series, there would most likely be many twists and turns.

Just as Chao Yan expected, the first wave of twists and turns was about to come.

After recuperating at home for a few days, Zhao Zhong reappeared in the court. After the court session, he went to the imperial study to ask to see Emperor Mu to plead for Zhao Huan, hoping to save Zhao Huan's life.

Emperor Mu, mindful of Zhao Zhong's past military achievements, replaced execution with exile.

Unexpectedly, on the night before his exile, Zhao Huan was poisoned. Someone poisoned his dinner.

The news soon reached the Marquis' Mansion. Zhao Zhong rushed to the Jiuxing Division overnight. Seeing that Zhao Huan was vomiting blood, he wanted to take him away by force. Captain Yu stopped Zhao Zhong and asked someone to notify Mu Tianling.

When Mu Tianling came over, Zhao Zhong had already taken the person away.

Captain Yu told Mu Tianling that Governor Yuan was also there at the time and it was he who ordered the release of the prisoners.

Mu Tianling found Governor Yuan and asked him why he released the person without saying hello to him, as this was the case he was in charge of.

Governor Yuan took a sip of tea calmly and said, "If someone dies in prison, Your Highness will not be free from responsibility."

"What if the person runs away?" Mu Tianling asked back.

Governor Yuan said: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I have people watching you, you can't run away."

Mu Tianling didn't waste any more words with him and took his men to the Marquis' Mansion.

The door of the marquis's mansion was closed, but light was coming through the crack, indicating that people were still awake, but no one came to open the door.

Only after Captain Yu knocked on the door for the third time did the housekeeper bring people to open the door.

Mu Tianling didn't waste time talking to the housekeeper and asked directly where Zhao Huan was.

The housekeeper said the doctor was seeing the patient and the patient had not woken up yet.

When the housekeeper brought Mu Tianling over, a doctor was taking Zhao Huan's pulse, and two other doctors were waiting nearby.

Zhao Huan's lips turned dark, which really looked like the symptoms of poisoning.

"Your Highness, have you found the person who poisoned me?" Zhao Zhong asked.

Mu Tianling asked back: "Does the Marquis have any enemies?"

Zhao Zhong looked towards Mu Tianling. Although he did not say it explicitly, his eyes made it clear that he thought it was him who ordered the poisoning.

Mu Tianling asked: "My Lord, are you doubting me?"

Zhao Zhong said: "I dare not."

Mu Tianling snorted and laughed, and asked Captain Yu and Qian Feng to stay. He went back first and waited for the others to report to him when they woke up.

The next morning, when Chaoyan came to have breakfast with Mu Tianling, she didn't see Qianfeng, only Feiyu was there. She asked casually, and Mu Tianling replied casually that he was out on business.

Just at this time Qianfeng came back from outside.

"Is the person awake?" Mu Tianling asked casually.

Qian Feng replied: "He has woken up. The doctor said that the poison in his body has not been cleared yet and he needs to rest for a while."

Chao Yan asked, "Who was poisoned?"

Seeing Mu Tianling's tacit attitude, Qianfeng told him about Zhao Huan's poisoning last night.

"Is he really poisoned?"

Chao Yan suspected that this was a joint play between the father and son. As long as the dosage of poison was controlled so as not to be lethal, it would be fine. This was one of the common self-protection methods she saw in detective novels. She pretended to be the target of the murderer to eliminate her own suspicion, but in fact she was the murderer.

When Chao Yan expressed her guess, Qian Feng was a little surprised and a little impressed by her wisdom.

Mu Tianling asked Qianfeng to find out who delivered dinner to Zhao Huan yesterday, and Qianfeng took the order and left.

After breakfast, Mu Tianling was ready to go out. Chaoyan wanted to go with him to investigate the case, but Mu Tianling said he wanted to eat osmanthus cake.

Chaoyan agreed to make him osmanthus cake, but she asked him to share the progress of the case with her when he came back. She also reminded him to be careful and not to get knocked unconscious by someone on the way.

After arriving at the Marquis' Mansion, Mu Tianling went to see Zhao Huan first, but the other party pretended to have amnesia and said that he didn't remember anything.

The doctor's explanation given by Zhao Zhong was that he was too frightened and needed to rest well, otherwise he would easily suffer from sequelae.

Furong wiped her tears with a handkerchief and pleaded with Mu Tianling, hoping that he would show leniency.

It was she who came to expose Zhao Huan's crimes to Chao Yan before, and now she is acting like a loving couple in front of Mu Tianling. I don't know what she is saying.

Mu Tianling ignored it.

Zhao Zhong's wife also accused him of taking personal revenge and poisoning her son.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law play the good cop and the bad cop respectively.

Mu Tianling also ignored it.

After sitting for a while, Mu Tianling said goodbye.

Just as the housekeeper sent him out the door, a man suddenly jumped out from the alley, knelt down in front of Mu Tianling, admitted that he was the one who poisoned him, and kowtowed for mercy.

This dramatic scene quickly attracted a large number of onlookers, all waiting to see the show.

"Your Highness, please spare my life. I won't tell you anything. Please let Li Niang go. She really doesn't know anything."

As soon as he finished speaking, the other party suddenly pulled out a dagger from his sleeve and stabbed towards Mu Tianling, his expression suddenly became extremely ferocious. Fortunately, Feiyu reacted quickly and stopped the other party's assassination. After a few moves at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion, the other party was defeated and captured by Feiyu.

After being pressed to the ground by Feiyu, the other party's vicious eyes were still staring at Mu Tianling, asking him loudly why he wanted to kill people to silence them. He had done what he ordered, so why didn't he let his wife go!

The voice was so loud that all the onlookers could hear it, and the intention was self-evident.

Mu Tianling glanced at the other person's face, which looked familiar, and said lightly, "This king has never ordered you to do anything."

The other party roared: "Liar! You ordered me to poison, and you sent people to kill my wife. I want you to pay with blood!"

Mu Tianling glanced at the butler's hurriedly leaving back, and asked Feiyu to tie the man up and take him back to the Jiuxing Division for interrogation.

After the person was taken back to the Jiuxing Division, Mu Tianling was about to interrogate him when one of Governor Yuan's men came over and delivered a message, and Mu Tianling followed the man and left.

Then the two of them went to another interrogation room, where Qianfeng was also, tied up like a prisoner, with an officer guarding him on each side.

Seeing Mu Tianling, Qian Feng lowered his head in shame, feeling that he was useless and had fallen into the opponent's trap.

"What does Lord Yuan mean?" Mu Tianling asked.

Governor Yuan picked up a letter on the table, walked over and handed it to Mu Tianling, saying, "Your Highness, everything will be clear after reading this."

The writer of the letter claimed that he was instructed by Mu Tianling to poison Zhao Huan's food. He was worried that he would be killed to silence him afterwards, so he wrote this confession. He hoped that Governor Yuan would send someone to protect his wife in return for his revealing the mastermind.

After receiving the letter, Governor Yuan sent someone to Zhou Hua's house to check on the situation, but it was too late. His wife had been killed. The murderer had killed her with a single sword in the throat, with a quick and efficient move.