The uncle borrowed some merits, and the princess drew the talisman fiercely

Lu Zhaoling sat in the carriage and went over what Liu San had said in his mind again.

"Maybe there is a connection, but I won't know for sure until I see that Liu Yi."

According to Liu San, there was a small storeroom in Liu Yi's house, where some lanterns were stored.

The eldest and second uncles of the Liu family suspected that Liu Yi secretly intercepted customers who were going to the Liu family lantern workshop to buy lanterns and sold the lanterns he made to them.

Those thousand-craft lanterns were made by Liu Yi.

"At first, Liu Yi proposed to leave the Liu family and start his own business, but the Liu family disagreed. Liu San said that Liu Yi later gave up the idea, but Liu Yi disappeared. Did he run away on his own or did he encounter some kind of accident? This requires Lord Lin to investigate."

Qingyin nodded.

After thinking for a while, she asked again, "Miss, do you want to tell the Sun family about Mo Qingqing's matter?"

"Lord Lin will tell them. After all, Mo Qingqing also had some connections with Liu Yi. Lord Lin still needs to investigate her death. The Sun family is qualified to know the truth."

"If Mo Qingqing had explained clearly to Miss Sun the crimes she had committed, would she not have died?" Qingyin had wanted to ask Lu Zhaoling this question in the prison cell.

"Maybe." Lu Zhaoling lowered her eyes. "Don't be afraid of losing face when you can seek help. Face is not as important as life. If you don't want to seek help, you must work hard to improve your own abilities. If someone wants to hurt you, you can outsmart them. If you can't outsmart them, you must have the courage to take the risk and bite off a mouthful of flesh and blood from them."

"People, don't be stupid and let others bully you."

"Miss, I understand." Qingyin answered seriously.

After returning, Lu Zhaoling simply took a shower and then took a nap.

Lord Chen went to Yingshan to look for someone, and Prince Jin followed him. The suspect in the incident of the Thousand Workers Lantern has temporarily been identified as Liu Yi, so we have to wait for Lin Rong to investigate. It would be best if he could find Liu Yi.

Lu Zhaoling felt that she had some free time. She had a good sleep and when she woke up, Qingbao came back and brought two boxes of snacks from Babaozhai.

However, she got no results for what she wanted to find out.

"Miss, I have gone around the capital and everyone says that this box was not made by them, and I have not found a carver as good as this one."

Qing Bao returned the small wooden box to Lu Zhaoling. "However, an old shopkeeper told me that this kind of thing was most likely made by a skilled craftsman and used as a gift, not to be sold. He said that the carving is very good, but not too artificial. It is not the style commonly seen among the nobles in the capital of our Great Zhou. It is more like a personal preference."

"Oh?" Lu Zhaoling took the box in his hand and looked at it carefully.

"The old shopkeeper also said that if this was really made in large quantities and sold for money, then based on the jewelry boxes he had handled over the years, he must have seen a few similar ones, but he had never seen this style."

That makes sense.

"So, it's possible that someone made this for my mother, or it could be bought from somewhere else, not from the capital or nearby."

Qingbao nodded.

Lu Zhaoling's eyes flashed. Her mother had several items of the same style, and she used them all the time, which meant that she liked them very much or cherished them very much. Then the person who gave her these things should be someone she cared about and valued very much, right?

"Miss, does Lord Lu have this skill?" Qing Bao asked curiously, blinking his eyes.

Lu Zhaoling said with disdain, "I think he can't even hold a knife properly to cut vegetables, and he wants to carve wood."

It’s not that she looks down on Lu Ming.

Qingyin and Qingbao both smiled.

"Miss, could it be that this was carved by the Madam herself?" Qingyin had a different guess.

"Probably not."

This was just Lu Zhaoling's intuition, but Cui Liyue was in poor health to begin with, and doing this kind of craftwork was not only mentally tiring but also physically demanding.

"Forget it, since we can't find it, let it go for now. We can look for it again when we have the chance."

Lu Ming came to urge her to find the marriage certificate quickly. Lu Zhaoling had nothing to do, so she wandered around the house and visited the houses of Lu Zhaoyue, Lu Zhaohua and others. These people were so angry that they jumped up and down, but they could do nothing about her.

As long as she said that Lu Ming asked her to help find something, no one could stop her.

Of course, it was not found this time.

Lu Ming was anxious and angry, but Lu Zhaoling said she was tired and it was dark, so she would look for her tomorrow, so there was nothing he could do.

However, when it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Lu Zhaoling woke up, changed into light clothes, slipped out of Tingnuan Tower, and walked quickly towards the west wing.

The third aunt's yard was also pitch black and everyone was asleep.

She quietly walked to the big tree, rubbed her hands together, hugged the trunk, and climbed up quickly like a monkey.

I guess no one expected that she was so good at climbing trees, and she didn't make any sound while climbing.

After climbing to a position almost level with the roof, Lu Zhaoling sat on the branch and reached out to touch the branch carefully.

During the day, the talisman ash shattered when it touched the tree, and the direction was also right. She guessed that the thing was hidden in the tree.

After taking a look around today, she also realized that the tree was full of vitality, but she could vaguely feel that the branches facing the house were not as vigorous as those on the other side. She guessed that there might be some tree holes that had already been hollowed out by insects.

So she came over to check it out now.

She had to read the marriage certificate first before deciding whether to give it to Lu Ming.

Her fingers suddenly felt a crack. She paused, then tapped it with her fingers, and sure enough, she heard a not-so-solid sound.

Only then did Lu Zhaoling take out a fire starter and light a fire.

She saw two thick branches growing close to each other, covered with mud in the middle. She didn't know how much mud there was, but it was almost the same color as the tree trunk, and had a thin layer of moss growing on it.

Lu Zhaoling immediately took out a knife and dug up the mud.

A small wooden box appeared inside.

Sure enough, it's here!

She quickly took out the wooden box, put out the fire, stuffed the things into her arms, slid down the tree, turned around and left.

I went back to Tingnuan Tower, closed the door, turned on the light, took out the box and saw that it was another wooden box with the same carved style.

There is only one peony flower on it.

The box was not big and it opened with just a press among the flowers.

Inside were two neatly folded pieces of silk cloth with writing on them, and a jade plaque underneath.

Lu Zhaoling picked up the jade plaque. There was a "Ling" on the front and a simple landscape carved on the back. The jade was of the best quality, warm, with an oily sheen and slightly cool to the touch.

She looked at it for a while, put down the jade token, and opened the first piece of silk cloth.

A contract of sale?

Lu Zhaoling, who thought she would see the marriage certificate, was a little dumbfounded for a moment.

What is this? Whose indenture is this?