Chapter 231

Lu Ziyan is coming?

Xie Wan Ning's first reaction was nervousness, but she quickly relaxed.

He went to Xiangzhou to quell the rebellion, but Xiangzhou was more than 200 miles away from Bianzhou, which was really far away.

If nothing major had happened, a country's crown prince would never be bothered to come in person.

Thinking of this, Xie Wan Ning smiled and comforted Chen Xier, "Why panic? Not to mention that he went to Xiangzhou, even if he came to Bianzhou, I rarely go out now, how can he catch me?"

Everyone in the world knows that the eldest daughter of the Marquis Xuanping's Mansion has died in Dayang Lake, and Lu Ziyan's people only fished for her body in Dayang Lake and never searched for her all over the world.

She is safe.

She was open-minded, but Chen Xier beside her was simply scared of Lu Ziyan to the core.

When she was in Qingzhou, she had heard of the other party's reputation from her father, and later she saw it with her own eyes. Even the Chen family was wiped out by that killer.

Whenever I thought of Lu Ziyan, my heart started pounding with fear.

But she also knew that what her cousin said was right. If nothing serious had happened, Lu Ziyan would not have come to Bianzhou, and they were safe.

Chen Xier was worried every day that the far-away Lu Ziyan would come to her house one day to take her cousin back, but she didn't expect that her own family would be the first to get into trouble.

This year is the provincial examination. Li Wenhan has studied hard for three years and is determined to take the exam.

As the autumn examination drew closer, the city was crowded with scholars from the counties and prefectures who came to take the exam. He no longer buried himself in his studies, but often accepted invitations from other students in the academy and actively went out to attend meetings, hoping to spread his reputation. After several visits, he made quite a few good friends.

There are always some personal connections between good friends. The Li family is not very wealthy, but they run a pastry shop, which is also a time-honored brand in Bianzhou City. As time goes by, Li Wenhan likes to bring his pastries to his friends when they get together. The problem lies in these pastries.

Several scholars ate the cakes and pastries he brought, and after returning home they all suffered from vomiting and diarrhea. Not to mention concentrating on studying for this year's autumn examination, they would soon pass away if they continued like this.

Their families sued the authorities.

As the autumn examination was approaching, several scholars were implicated and the government certainly did not dare to be negligent.

When Chen Xier came to the house, Li Wenhan had already been captured by government officials. The Li family's pastry shop was sealed, and Li's mother-in-law, who made pastries, was also taken away for interrogation.

If she hadn't been pregnant and hadn't gone to the pastry shop to help out in the past few months, she would probably have been taken away by now.

Xie Wan Ning looked at Chen Xier, who was so panicked that she was even talking incoherently, and hurriedly helped her into the house. After hearing the whole story, her brows were tightly furrowed.

"There is absolutely nothing wrong with the cakes. My mother-in-law would bring the cakes that were not sold out back home after closing the shop. I ate them even though I was pregnant. How could they have harmed them?" Chen Xier said, "They must have wanted to harm my husband."

Xie Wan Ning agreed that there was no problem with the pastries. After all, her appetite had recovered a little in recent days, and she had eaten a lot of Li's pastries.

But it doesn't make sense to say that several scholars joined forces to harm the Li family.

As far as she knew, Li Wenhan passed the imperial examination at the age of 20, which was considered quite talented among common people, but compared with many other students, it was nothing.

He is neither a favorite to win the championship nor does he have a high status or background.

This is the autumn examination held every three years. There are only a few three-year periods in a lifetime. Several young scholars did not study hard to pass the examination, but instead joined forces and risked their own health to frame such an unknown little person.

Picture what?