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"Why do you always have so many reasons?" Long Ao Tian couldn't help but ask Bing'er, what Bing'er said just now was very reasonable.

Bing'er let out a deep sigh, looking up at Long Ao Tian thoughtfully, saying slowly: "The longer you live, the more understanding you will have." She had lived a thousand years longer than him. It was normal for her to know more than him.

"Have you lived long? He looks like he's only in his teens. " Long Ao Tian frowned, he did not understand what Bing'er meant.

Bing'er smiled at Long Ao Tian, "Think of it as me maturing early."

"Miss Bing'er, your servant has brought you the food." Xiao Yun stood at the doorway and reported to Bing'er.

Bing'er and Long Ao Tian looked at each other, and then Bing'er returned the teacup to Long Ao Tian and got up from the bed. Although her body was still hurting, but it was not as painful as before, at least it did not affect her daily life.

When Bing'er had reached the table, she said to Little Yun, "Come in."

Long Ao Tian and Bing'er had lunch together, and after the lunch, the two chatted for a while, before Long Ao finally got up and left.

At night.

Heartfall Mansion was still filled with people. From time to time, the hall would be filled with cheers.

Deep in the night, a figure that no one could see, borrowing the moonlight, leapt to the second floor of Qingxin Building and quietly opened the window, closing it tightly.

Borrowing the light from the candles in the corridor, Zhining walked up to the bed, laid down on the floor, stuck her body under the bed, and knocked on the bed with her hands. When she heard the crisp crosstalk, ZhiNing took out a small dagger from her waist, stabbed the dagger into the floor, and then forced it to rise up. Several times in a row, nearly all the templates under the bed had been pried open by her. Zhining arranged the floor she had pried open, reached her hands under the floor and searched everywhere to find out what exactly was placed under the wooden floor.

However, after searching for a long time, Zhining couldn't find anything. She was puzzled. Could it be that someone had taken away the thing that was hidden here? Just when she pulled her hand back, her fingers touched something similar to porcelain. ZhiNing quickly reached out and took it out from under the floor, gently putting it aside, and then laid the wooden board as it was, in case anyone found out that someone had been here before.

Zhining left the room in the darkness, holding a porcelain pot that resembled a vat.

Zhining did not return to the Chen Estate, nor did she return to the Southern Prefecture. Instead, she went straight to the Liang Prefecture.

She stood at the door of her room, holding the jar with one hand while lightly knocking on Sihan's door with the other.

"How is it?" As soon as she opened the door, she asked Zhining impatiently.

ZhiNing waved the porcelain jar in her hand towards Sihan, "We only found this jar, we don't know what's inside." As she spoke, she placed the jar on the table.

Sihan looked around to make sure there was no one around her room before she closed the door.

Sihan walked to the table and looked at the jar you just brought back from Cai Die's room, frowning slightly.

"What's wrong?" ZhiNing looked at Sihan and asked.

Sihan pointed at the porcelain vat and explained to Zhining, "Look, this vat is similar to our modern vat. It has a big mouth and a small bottom, and there's even a lid on the vat."

ZhiNing nodded. She had seen all that Sihan had said. "What's wrong?" It was just an ordinary stall, and the jar was very light, as if there was nothing inside.

"I doubt it." Sihan looked deeply into the booth and hesitated to speak.

Zhining could not help but lean forward, she looked at Sihan curiously and asked, "What is it?"

"It's used for holding ashes." Sihan slowly voiced out her thoughts.

Zhining denied Sihan's words without even thinking, "How can that be?" Who would keep a urn under the bed?

Sihan did not pay attention to Zhining's disbelieving gaze. She stood up from the chair and gently took off the lid of the jar.

ZhiNing curiously looked into the jar, only to see that there was a jade bracelet inside. She reached out for the jade bracelet and held it in her hand. She turned around and smiled complacently at Sihan. That smile was clearly telling Sihan, "Look, it's clearly a Treasure Chest!"

ZhiNing held the jade bracelet in her hand and carefully examined it. She slightly frowned; she really knew very little about jade bracelets.

Sihan ignored ZhiNing's smug look. She looked towards the porcelain vat and said confidently, "There must be more ashes inside!"

She gave Sihan a helpless smile, then placed the jade bracelet on the table and reached her hand into the porcelain vat. When her hand came in contact with a few pieces of foam as fine as flour, the smile on her face immediately disappeared. She gently grabbed a handful of powder, took her hand out of the porcelain jar, and spread it out in front of Sihan.

Sihan lowered her head and carefully looked at the powder in ZhiNing's hand. She saw that it was extremely thin and grayish-white in color. Sihan raised her eyes to look at ZhiNing and slowly said, "These are human ashes."

"Human ashes?" ZhiNing looked at the powder in her hand in shock.

"Yes, human ashes." Sihan was very concerned about Zhining.

ZhiNing put the ashes back into the jar, then looked at Sihan seriously, "What do you think about this?"

Who would hide a urn in a secret compartment under the bed?

Sihan picked up the jade bracelet on the table and said thoughtfully, "If you want to know who's ashes are in this urn, the first thing you have to do is to find out her identity, and this jade bracelet is an important piece of evidence to confirm her identity."

"How can we be sure with just a jade bracelet?" ZhiNing looked at Sihan in doubt.

The corner of Sihan's mouth curled up into a beautiful smile, her eyes like the crescent moon. "We might not be able to see anything special about this jade bracelet, but there's definitely someone who can."

ZhiNing lowered her head and thought for a long time, but still couldn't figure out who the person was. She looked up inquiringly at Sihan.

"Liang Shibai." Sihan received ZhiNing's inquiring gaze and replied to her.

"Liang Shibai?" How could he have studied jade bracelets?

Sihan gently placed the jade bracelet on the table, then stood up from the stool. "Everyone thinks that the Liang Family started their business with the gold mine, but the truth is that it wasn't. In reality, the Liang Family started their business with jade artifacts, but jade artifacts are rather inferior, so Liang Shibai was afraid of people gossiping about it, so he didn't say anything about it."

"Your father sure is tired of living. He even cares about that." ZhiNing pursed her lips.

Sihan turned and picked up the jade bracelet on the table. "I'll go ask Liang Shibai now."

ZhiNing stood up from her stool, following behind Sihan. "I'm going to the Southern Prefecture to investigate the case. I want to see if there was any murder case that occurred at Qingxin Pavilion."

Sihan took the jade bracelet and walked to the front of Liang Shibai's door. She raised her hand and knocked lightly on the door. "Dad, are you asleep?"

"Cough, cough." Liang Shibai coughed a few times, trying his best to hold it in. "Here, come in."

When Sihan entered the room, Liang Shibai, wearing a robe wrapped around his shoulders, sat on a stool and waited for Sihan. He had a head of white hair and a slightly aged face, and his eyes were filled with grief.