Qin Xiao said in surprise: "Do you know?"

"I shouldn't have said that." Tang Rong's beautiful eyes were so tender that she whispered: "For the sake of keeping the sachet on her, I'll give you this news for free. In fact, two months ago, someone went to the pawnshop to inquire about the news about the Queen Mother's Club."

Qin Xiao's body was shocked and he immediately asked: "Is there any information about the Queen Mother's Association in the pawn shop?"

"Mr. Big is omnipresent. I believe Mr. Big must have mastered the information of the Queen Mother Society." Tang Rong frowned slightly: "But there are many taboos in pawnshops, one of which is not to trade the information of the Queen Mother Society with anyone, and there is indeed no file of the Queen Mother Society in the pawnshop."

Qin Xiao frowned and said, "I heard that the pawnshop is well-informed, and many news that others don't know can be bought in the pawnshop."

"It's true." Tang Rong slapped her head slightly, "but the pawnshop does not trade the information of the Queen Mother Association, and the man left in disappointment."

Qin Xiao said: "How did my sister know that there is someone from the Queen Mother's Club in Suzhou?"

"When the man arrived at the pawnshop, I personally received it." Tang Rong explained: "I heard from his tone that there were people from the Queen Mother's Association in Suzhou City, but he was not sure how many people there were. He traded with the pawnshop and asked us to provide specific information about the Queen Mother's Association in Suzhou City. If there was a Queen Mother's Association den in Suzhou City, there must be a leader, and he needed us to come up with an accurate name. After I refused, he was very disappointed and seemed very worried."

"Who is he?" Qin Xiao asked.

Tang Rong's lips moved slightly, without making a sound. After hesitating for a moment, she smiled bitterly: "The first order of the pawnshop is to not disclose the identity of the guest. If she violated it, she would be punished by the heart-eating of all insects."

Qin Xiao was stunned and thought to himself that the punishment was really cruel. The eldest gentleman seemed to be no good person.

"I know that since you ask about the Queen Mother's Association, it must be very important to you." Tang Rong said quietly: "For you, I am not afraid of any punishment."

Qin Xiao only knew that the great gentleman was mysterious. This person could be said to be very clear. Although only him and Tang Rong were willing to take the risk of telling him the name of that person, he did not want Tang Rong to feel pressured. He shook his head and said, "Don't tell me, I'll ask you a few questions, you just nod or shake your head."

Tang Rong's beautiful eyes lit up and she smiled and nodded.

"That person is from Suzhou and lives in Suzhou City?"

Tang Rong nodded.

"Is he a very famous person in Suzhou?" Qin Xiao asked: "Almost everyone knows this person when mentioning Suzhou City."

Tang Rong thought for a moment and slighted her head.

"He is from the Qian family of the first family in Suzhou?"

This time, Tang Rong shook her head, Qin Xiao's face became solemn, lowered her voice, and said word by word: "He is Dong Yuan!"

Tang Rong's delicate body trembled and she looked at Qin Xiao in surprise. She seemed to have no idea that she would guess the name and nodded.

"It's him." Qin Xiao's eyes became extremely sharp.

"Do you know him?"

"He just died, just tonight." Qin Xiao clenched his fist in one hand: "His mansion has been sealed up and his family has become a rebel. Once Pan Weixing presents the letter, the Dong family may be killed."

Tang Rong's flower face changed slightly and she whispered: "Why did he die?"

"Because he hired assassin to assassinate Pan Weixing." Qin Xiao sighed: "The officers and soldiers followed the bloodstains to find the assassin's hiding place, right in the Dong family, and found the underground secret room in the Dong family, and some evidence of guilt were found." Looking at Tang Rong's beautiful eyes like fog: "Dong Yuan is the envoy of the Queen Mother's Association!"

"Impossible!" Tang Rong said in a lost voice: "If he was the envoy of the Queen Mother Society, he would be very familiar with the situation of the Queen Mother Society in Suzhou City, and it would never be possible to go to the pawnshop to trade the Queen Mother Society's information."

Qin Xiao was silent, but he always held Tang Rong's small hand with one hand. After a while, he asked: "Is there a possibility that Dong Yuan was indeed the envoy of the Queen Mother Society, but he was worried that the pawnshop had mastered the information of the Queen Mother Society, and even worried that someone would go to the pawnshop to trade related information, so he deliberately went to the pawnshop to test whether the pawnshop would trade the information of the Queen Mother Society with others. When he learned that the pawnshop refused such a transaction, he deliberately pretended to be disappointed to confuse the pawnshop and make the pawnshop unable to know that he was the envoy of the Queen Mother Society?"

"Unless a person's acting skills are extremely excellent, he can't deceive my eyes. His mood was indeed extremely disappointed at that time." Tang Rong said: "And even if the pawnshop really knows the information about the Queen Mother, what can he do? Does he want to kill the pawnshop? If so, the Dong family will be in a big trouble. Even if he is the Queen Mother's envoy and offends the Grand Master, he will not escape death." After a pause, he said softly: "Although the black market is shameless, it is more lawful than the shops that are openly doing business. People who know the black market understand that if you make money in the black market, you won't offend you, but if you want to be an enemy of the black market, you can only wait for endless revenge."

Qin Xiao held Sister Rong's hand tightly and whispered: "So Dong Yuan can never be someone from the Queen Mother's Association?"

"He was framed by someone." Tang Rong whispered: "And there must be an insider in the Dong family. You just said that the officers and soldiers found underground secret rooms in the Dong family. In fact, many wealthy families will secretly build some secret rooms. The Dong family has secret rooms. It is not surprising that the evidence of Dong Yuan being the Queen Mother's envoy can be found in the secret room. This must be because someone put the evidence in advance, and Dong Yuan knew nothing about it."

"People from the Dong family said that even the family members could not easily enter the back garden where the secret room was located." Qin Xiao said: "So it is not easy for outsiders to find the secret room or even put evidence of guilt in it."

Sister Rong was naturally extremely intelligent and said, "That's why I said there was an insider in the Dong family. That person betrayed Dong Yuan and went in and out of the Dong family. No one suspected him." After thinking for a while, he said, "If the secret room needs a key to open, then this person must know where the key is hidden, and he is a very close person around Dong Yuan."

Qin Xiao sighed: "People who don't know you will not bring much harm to you. They are the closest people around you. Once you betray you, you can kill you."

"What do you want to say?" Tang Rong frowned: "Do you mean it to me?"

"No."

Tang Rong pulled her hand back and looked at Qin Xiao and said, "Do you feel that you can't see through my thoughts and get close to you, and you may betray you?" She chuckled and said, "Actually, it's not your fault. I have always been a spy, and of course the spy can't believe it."

Qin Xiao had already held her hand and said, "If one day you tell me lies, I believe you have no choice but to do so. You will never be harmful to me. Don't be angry. I was taught to be careful of anyone around me since I was a child, but I knew since I was a child that if a person is really good to you, you should treat her ten times and a hundred times better."

Tang Rong looked at Qin Xiao’s young face, but this face was mature that was inconsistent with his age. If it weren’t for the wind and frost, a young man would certainly not have matured so quickly.

She raised her hand, stroked Qin Xiao's cheek, and said softly: "Remember one thing I say, I may deceive the world, but I will never deceive you. I can betray the world, but I will not betray you, because you are the only person in my heart to let go."

Although Tang Rong's tone was soft, every word was extremely firm.

Qin Xiao was moved. Looking at Tang Rong's beautiful face, he couldn't help but lean forward. However, Tang Rong had already raised her hand and patted Qin Xiao's forehead lightly, saying, "Don't do anything nonsense. Are you going to Jiangnan to investigate the Queen Mother's Association?"

"It was not originally, but now it is." Qin Xiao looked serious: "Sister Rong, you said there is an insider in the Dong family. In fact, I already know who it is. Although I can't be completely sure, I'm almost inseparable." He said the process of starting tonight from Pan Weixing's assassination until he discovered the letter in the underground secret room.

Tang Rong lowered her head, thoughtful, and then said for a moment: "Do you suspect that the inner demon is the butler named Cao Xiu?"

"He is a major suspect, but he is not completely sure yet."

"Are you sure the body of the man in black in the secret room who assassinated Pan Weixing?" Tang Rong's beautiful eyes turned slightly: "You also said that the assassin escaped in front of everyone, with great light skills and extraordinary skills. Such a person would be easily killed by Dong Yuan? The assassin never truly trusts anyone. He is afraid that he will keep his eyes open when he sleeps, let alone let anyone stand behind him. Dong Yuan is just his employer. Of course, he cannot believe Dong Yuan, so why should he give Dong Yuan a chance to stand behind him?"

"This is indeed strange." Qin Xiao said: "When the assassin escaped, his thigh was injured, and the corpse in the secret room did have traces of being injured by porcelain pieces on his leg."

Tang Rong chuckled and said, "Since you can put the evidence of guilt into the secret room, it is not necessarily difficult to put a corpse inside. The assassin has injuries on his leg, and he can even frame a person. How can he not frame a dead body?" His beautiful eyes flowed and he chuckled, "My little guy is extremely smart, and it is impossible to think of these."

Qin Xiao smiled and said, "Actually, I also suspect that the assassination tonight was a careful arrangement, with the purpose of framed Dong Yuan. However, I have been thinking about the motives, why did those people choose Dong Yuan and why did they frame Dong Yuan as a member of the Queen Mother's Association. Fortunately, my sister came over and made me understand the reason."

“What’s the reason?”

"In Suzhou City, there are indeed people from the Queen Mother Association who are active, and the climate has already formed." Qin Xiao said solemnly: "Dong Yuan didn't know how to learn about the situation. He found that the Queen Mother Association infiltrated Suzhou City, but there was no evidence in his hands. If he reported it to the upper house without real evidence, no one would believe it. So when he went to the pawnshop, he actually wanted to spend some money to let the pawnshop help him find conclusive evidence that the Queen Mother Association would act in Suzhou. But unfortunately, his whereabouts were known, and even the Queen Mother Association had already known that he had found clues, so Dong Yuan had to die."

"It is of course easy for the Queen Mother to kill Dong Yuan, but Dong Yuan is second only to the Qian family in Suzhou. If he is killed, it will inevitably be a major case. It is very likely that even the imperial court will send people to investigate."

"So they not only want to kill Dong Yuan, but also do as much as possible without loopholes. Framed Dong Yuan as the envoy of the Queen Mother Association, and also hired assassins to assassinate the governor of Suzhou. If such a person is killed, he will naturally deserve the crime."

Tang Rong smiled and said, "To frame Dong Yuan, you only need to frame him and hire assassin to assassinate Pan Weixing. Why do you have to frame him as the envoy of the Queen Mother Society? In this way, will the secret of the Queen Mother's activities in Suzhou be exposed?"

"They have certainly more sinister intentions in doing this." Qin Xiao smiled faintly: "There is a big net in Suzhou. From the moment I left Kyoto, this net has been opened, or in other words, some people regard me as a chess piece they use." The hand with fists clenched raised blue veins: "This Suzhou has become a dragon and tiger den. It seems not easy for me to leave here alive."
Chapter completed!