Marriage of the Di Daughter

Chapter 103:

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Marriage of the Di DaughterChapter 103 Part 1:

"Why is there a tuóluó smell on this ancient fragrant satin?"

When these words came out, the people around looked at each other.

Ye Jia Er asked: "Master Tang, what is tuóluó ?"

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"Tuóluó is a kind of plant from the Western Region," before Tang Fan opened his mouth, Jiang Li had replied. "It grows around swamps, has a fragrant smell, but its petals carry poison. Once there's a person who grinded the petals and managed to turn it into poison. No one would notice when it's blended into food or clothes, after a long time, people would be poisoned."

Tang Fan looked at Jiang Li in surprise. He spoke after a long time: "How does second miss know so clearly?"

"I've seen a Western Region unusual record in my father's study. As it happened, there's a note about this." Jiang Li said with a smile.

Jiang Yuan Bai, as the chief assistant of the court, had a large collection of books in his residence, so it's reasonable to have such an obscure book. Tang Fan said: "So it's like that, second miss really has wide learning and a good memory."

Ye Rufeng and Ye Jia Er glanced at each other. Jiang Li was younger than them but she seemed to know more than them.

"Master Tang means, there's tuóluó on these ancient fragrant satin?" Ye Ming Yu asked.

"Correct," Tang Fan said: "it's undoubtedly tuóluó."

"There's fragrance in the tuóluó petals, the ancient fragrant satin also has its own fragrance. When the tuóluó petals are grinded into powder then mixed into the ancient fragrant satin, it's not easy to be discovered. From this it can be seen that the reason why the ancient fragrant satin caused rashes, and even death, was due to the tuóluó flowers." Jiang Li said.

"What second miss said is correct," Tang Fan looked at Ye Jia Er, "how could there be tuóluó inside the Ye family's ancient fragrant satin?"

Ye Jia Er shook her head: "Master, this is impossible. For no cause nor reason, why would the Ye family ruin our own reputation? There has not been any problem with the ancient fragrant satin for so many years. Suddenly there's an accident, there must be a reason. But it absolutely will not be our Ye family that did this."

Tang Fan stared at her: "Perhaps the Ye family accidentally mixed the tuóluó flowers during weaving?"

"This....." Ye Jia Er hesitated for a moment before shaking her head firmly. "Master, the Ye family's weaving place is closely followed and inspected by my father and the second uncle. It's impossible for a problem to arise. If there's problem within the Ye family, it would have been discovered way before something happened in the weaving place. It's not possible to let problematic fabric be released."

What else could Tang Fan say? Soon he heard Jiang Li spoke from the side: "Master Tang."

The words of the chief assistant's daughter, no matter how daring Tang Fan was, he would still give face on the surface. Thus he put out an attitude of listening seriously.

Jiang Li said: "As far as I know, tuóluó grows around the swamp in the southern side of the Western Region. The Western Region and Xiangyang are too far apart. In the final analysis, Xiangyang is not like Yanjing where numerous people come and go. The weaving girls from the Ye family's weaving manufacturer have not gone out of Xiangyang for many years, so they should not be able to obtain tuóluó. Other people in Xiangyang are also the same, might as well check the merchant going in and out of Xiangyang over the year, whether or not there's anyone coming from the Western Region. Supposed that there was, tuóluó would most likely come from their hands. Whether it was intentionally targeting the Ye family or accidentally mixing it in the weaving process, this kind of foreign dangerous plants is not something that can be seen on ordinary days."