Accompanied by a cold wave that swept through from the north, it snowed these few days, causing delays in the trains and planes coming from the north. This also made it difficult for the Qiao family and the Yan family to arrive in Beijing.

The two Fu elders even thought for a while that they might as well postpone the engagement banquet for two days or even move it to after the new year. Fortunately, two days before the engagement banquet…

The wind and snow stopped, and the sky was clear.

The snow stopped, but some people started to stir.

***

Song Fengwan’s final exams had already ended. During this period of time, she didn’t stay in Yunjin Prime Manor but instead stayed with her two roommates in Yishui Community. Hu Xinyue and Miao Yating would also attend the engagement banquet.

She originally wanted to arrange for the two of them to stay in Yunjin Prime Manor, but it was the home of her boyfriend after all, so it wasn’t appropriate for them to stay there. They were all adults, so it was better to avoid arousing suspicion.

After the snow stopped, Hu Xinyue couldn’t sit still anymore and suggested going shopping at nine in the morning.

Actually, she had already discussed it with Miao Yating. The two of them were students and had average family conditions, so they couldn’t give Song Fengwan any precious gifts. They planned to treat her to a meal and go out to play for a day.

“Okay, I’ll tell Third Brother.” Song Fengwan had been lazily staying at home for a few days, so she wanted to go out and move around.

“Oh, why do you have to report everything to your third brother?” Hu Xinyue teased. “Song Fengwan, after you get married, you must be very strict with your husband.”

Song Fengwan glared at her and said something to Fu Chen before the three of them left.

After eating grilled fish at a certain mall, the few of them strolled around nearby. Because it was close to the new year, the streets and large malls were crowded. The few of them were tired from shopping and planned to get some food before going back.

This place was about ten minutes away from Xu Yuanfei’s dessert store. Song Fengwan suggested buying some food there and bringing some bread back for breakfast.

On her roommates’ birthdays, Song Fengwan had ordered birthday cakes from Xu Yuanfei. They tasted very good. The three of them agreed and immediately took a taxi to the dessert store.

When they arrived at the store, there was only one part-time worker inside. She was a little surprised to see her. “Miss Song.”

“Your boss isn’t here?”

“It snowed a few days ago, so we’ve been closed. We just opened for business today, and it’s all delivery orders. The boss went out to make deliveries. What would you like?” The part-time worker was a local, so even though she was on vacation, she still came to help.

The three of them ordered something, and the store gave them a special winter drink. There were always endless topics to talk about between girls. It was just a small cake, but the few of them sat in the store for more than an hour.

The main customers of the dessert shop were students. At this time, the school was on holiday, so it was inevitable that the store would be deserted. If there were many people, Song Fengwan wouldn’t have sat for so long.

When Xu Yuanfei returned, it was already an hour and a half later.

“Wanwan? Why are you here?”

“I dropped by to eat while shopping.”

“I’ve prepared everything for your engagement banquet.”

At the mention of the engagement, Song Fengwan smiled shyly.

Because there were not many customers in the store, the few of them sat and chatted for a while.

Hu Xinyue was very sociable and could talk to anyone.

But Miao Yating had a slow and shy personality. She was the typical kind of person who would only go crazy after getting familiar with someone. She wasn’t familiar with Xu Yuanfei, so Song Fengwan noticed that she kept fiddling with her phone with her head lowered. Seeing that she was a little shy and that it was getting late, she prepared to say goodbye to her…

At this moment, Miao Yating’s expression stiffened. She suddenly bent her elbow, nudged Song Fengwan, and passed her phone under the table.

Song Fengwan originally thought that she had seen something strange or interesting, but when she saw the headlines, her eyes narrowed.

[A poisoning incident occurred in a certain Pear Garden in Beijing. The food is suspected to have come from an internet celebrity shop.]

There was no mention of the specific name of this internet celebrity shop, but it pointed out that Duan Linbai had visited and recommended it.

Duan Linbai was in the media industry to begin with. When the news spread, he was in his company’s annual summary meeting.

Assistant Little Jiang rushed into the meeting room and whispered into his ear. Duan Linbai was stunned for a moment before lowering his voice. “Food poisoning? Are you sure?”

“All the poisoned people were sent to the nearest Third People’s Hospital for treatment.

“This internet celebrity shop refers to…

“Miss Xu’s dessert store.”

“Then, could the Pear Garden be…” Duan Linbai’s fingers kept tapping the documents in front of him.

“Mrs. Jing and the Jing family should have received the news by now. How should we deal with this matter? Because it’s food poisoning, the police and the health department will definitely intervene.

“Furthermore…” The assistant cleared his throat. “Someone paid to make this news trend.”

“Let’s get rid of the heat first.

“Then, next…

“Someone will take over.”

At this moment, Duan Linbai still didn’t know Xu Yuanfei’s true background. But she wasn’t someone to be trifled with either. Besides, Jing Hanchuan would definitely take action. At worst…

Fu Chen wouldn’t sit back and do nothing.

At this moment, Fu Chen had indeed noticed this matter and was on the phone with Jing Hanchuan.

“Who do you think this matter is targeting?” He held his bracelet between his fingers with a serious expression.

This was because it happened just before the engagement banquet. If something happened to Xu Yuanfei, he might also be affected because everyone knew that Xu Yuanfei would be providing the desserts for his engagement banquet.

There was still time to find someone to replace her at the last minute, but Fu Chen and Song Fengwan would definitely not agree.

“I don’t think they’re targeting just any one person…”

At this moment, Jing Hanchuan was rushing to Xu Yuanfei’s store. But because of the heavy snow a few days ago, the road was blocked, so he could only take a detour, which would take a lot of time.

“How many people in the Pear Garden were poisoned?”

“Six. My mom has already rushed to the hospital, and…” Jing Hanchuan’s fingers tapped his knees lightly. “This poison is harmful to the throat.”

“Is it targeted?”

“Yes!”

Fu Chen pressed the tip of his tongue against the inside of his cheek. “Do you think it’s possible that someone wants to kill three birds with one stone? Ruin Miss Xu, destroy her relationship with the Jing family, and conveniently drag Wanwan and me in?”

When considering problems, he always considered the worst situations.

“Ruin Yuanfei?” Jing Hanchuan sneered.

How bold was this person?

“Who has Miss Xu offended recently?” Fu Chen asked.

He didn’t believe that there were problems with the food in Xu Yuanfei’s store. She had met Jing Hanchuan’s parents before. If it was food sent to the Pear Garden, there wouldn’t be a problem. Because if she did this, she would completely offend Sheng Aiyi.

That was unless Xu Yuanfei was utterly stupid.

Only then would she think of poisoning people collectively and risk breaking off ties with the Jing family and even losing her reputation.

But the person behind this probably didn’t know Xu Yuanfei’s identity and background. If they knew, they wouldn’t dare to spread the matter of them sowing discord between the two families to the media. Master Xu wouldn’t be able to sit still when the eldest daughter of the Xu family was condemned by everyone.

He would ‘cut’ this person.

Once this matter was exposed, they would be ‘hunted down’ by the Jing family and the Xu family. This person wasn’t stupid.

***

Jing Hanchuan hung up the phone and immediately instructed his subordinates to get to work.

“Investigate if she has a feud with anyone recently.”

There was no need for him to name her. The Jing family members knew that this referred to Xu Yuanfei.

“Sixth Master, the investigation might take time. After all, it involves the Xu family. If we investigate with great fanfare now, Master Xu will definitely notice. When the time comes…”

If your affair is exposed, I’m afraid…

“There’s no need to investigate the Xu family.” Jing Hanchuan naturally knew what Fu Chen could think of.

They couldn’t rule out the possibility that someone knew about them and deliberately tried to sow discord between the Jing and Xu families. But this person actually exposed it to the media. This was equivalent to hanging Xu Yuanfei up for others to beat and completely offend the Xu family.

At this moment, no one in the capital dared to provoke the Xu family openly.

Therefore, this person definitely didn’t know Xu Yuanfei’s identity. In that case, there was no need to investigate the Xu family.

“Focus on investigating our family and the Pear Garden. Investigate everyone she has come into contact with, especially those with any unpleasantness with her.”

Before Jing Hanchuan could finish speaking, the man in the front passenger seat cleared his throat. “Sixth Master, actually, there’s something I haven’t told you.”

“What?”

“When you were sick and Miss Xu came to the house, she had some words with Miss Yin.”

Jing Hanchuan frowned slightly. “Yin Changge?”

“Yes, but…”

Jing Hanchuan had no impression of her. She was an irrelevant person to begin with. Although they had had a few meals together, they had never spoken much. “But what?”

“She’s also on the list of poisoned people and is now in the hospital.”

His eyes narrowed, perhaps because of his intuition. “Continue investigating the people who have conflicts with her. Yin Changge… focus on investigating her.”