“Do you like it that much?” Fu Chen turned his head and looked at her.

“When I was young, I ate at my grandfather’s house. My grandmother knew how to cook it, but after she left, I never ate it again.” Song Fengwan didn’t have a deep impression of her grandmother. Her impression of her was still on the photos of the Qiao family’s offering table and the food she cooked. “She even knew how to make glutinous rice cakes and steamed buns…”

Fu Chen nodded and listened. After sending her back to the school, he browsed Baidu about how to make qingtuan and went to the supermarket to buy the ingredients.

“Third Master…” Shi Fang pushed the shopping cart and followed behind him.

“Hmm?”

“I went to investigate Mr. Qiao and Miss Tang.”

“And then?”

Fu Chen had been paying attention to Qiao Xiyan’s and Tang Jingci’s abnormal behavior for a long time. Since he was his brother-in-law, Fu Chen was naturally concerned about him.

“According to the time you gave me, they went to Ninth Mansion last week. At the time, Miss Song and Miss Tang met He Xi there…” Shi Fang briefly explained about the car racing. “Later, the two of them returned to the hotel, but the strange thing was…”

“Hmm?”

“After the two of them returned to the hotel that night, a section of the surveillance camera footage in the elevator was removed.”

“Camera footage?”

“There was a scene of the two of them entering the hotel, but the elevator’s footage was removed. Miss Tang seemed to have drunk too much, so Mr. Qiao sent her back to her room.”

“Sent her back to her room? Did anything happen in between?”

“That can’t be. The surveillance cameras in the corridor showed them in the elevator for around a minute. Even if something happened, it was too fast…” Shi Fang was speechless. This brother-in-law from the Qiao family might be the fastest man…

“In that case, something happened in the elevator.” Fu Chen raised his eyebrows. “There’s no backup of the surveillance footage in the hotel?”

“It’s all been transferred out. Previously, Miss Tang was almost hit by a falling object at the hotel, so when Mr. Qiao made this request, the hotel agreed. They didn’t say anything about the specific content either.”

“A falling object!” Fu Chen was exceptionally sensitive when he heard this. Song Fengwan had only said that something had happened to Tang Jingci that day, but she didn’t say anything specific. “Yes. The hotel said that it might have been an accident, but it was a porcelain bottle that fell. If it really hit someone, they would either die or be injured.”

“Go investigate further. How can there be such a coincidence?” Fu Chen was sensitive, and his intuition told him that this matter was unusual.

“Then, Mr. Qiao and Miss Tang…”

“Don’t worry about it.”

In any case, he could conclude that the two of them did something in the elevator. As for whether he helped them or tripped them up, it depended on how well he made the qingtuans tonight. It depended on his mood…

***

On the other side…

After dinner, everyone left one after another. There had been a total of nine qingtuans, and there were two left after Yu Manxi distributed them. She didn’t want to pack the remaining two and take them away, so she left them at the Jing residence. Duan Linbai stayed at the Jing residence for a while longer. After Jing Hanchuan sent him off, he returned to the living room. The Jing family members had already tidied up the dining table.

“Sixth Master, everything is ready.”

Jing Hanchuan nodded. “These qingtuans…” The Jing family member pointed at the wooden box on the table. “Are you going to throw them away?”

They were from that family in Lingnan.

Jing Hanchuan stared at the emerald green qingtuans.

“You all go down and rest. These things…” Jing Hanchuan’s face was cold and solemn. “I’ll handle them personally.”

Was there a need to take such small things seriously and deal with them personally?

He made it sound as if he wanted to execute them.

Later on, no one in the Jing family knew where these two things went.

But the most popular rumor was that after dark, Sixth Master went to the backyard ponds with a fishing rod. Perhaps he fed the two qingtuans to the fish.