After I stopped being a lady from a rich family, I fought all over the capital

Chapter 357 Lychee Feast

Song Lan smiled but remained silent.

Jiao Bubai inexplicably understood.

The bodies have been burned. Those people's families are also heartless; they could even kill their own daughters, turning their bones to ashes.

Without any evidence, what makes him claim that the Xue family are the murderers?

Without evidence, no matter how close a guess is to the truth, it is still just a guess!

If word gets out, not only will it fail to punish the Xue family, but the Xue family will also seize on this as leverage to accuse him of abusing his power for personal gain and bullying aristocratic families.

At that time, it might even reunite the previously disharmonious aristocratic families.

If it really comes to that, he will truly become a sinner.

He has become the sinner of all students from poor families!

For many years, powerful families have monopolized the court. Now, with great difficulty, they have split up because of that incident. They are no longer as united as before, protecting and supporting each other, which has given students from poor families a chance to breathe.

Gradually, he gained a place in the imperial court.

If, based on his slightest speculation and suspicion, he were to arrest people without any evidence, thus uniting the powerful families once again, he would likely be immediately sentenced to death by imperial decree.

Just thinking about it made Jiao Bubai break out in a cold sweat.

"I was too attached to appearances!"

Jiao Bubai bowed respectfully to the person, thanked them, and then kept quiet about pursuing the murderer.

However, the Prefect of the Capital Prefecture, seeing that the two seemed to have finished speaking, couldn't help but express his curiosity.

"...What about all those weeds from earlier?"

Why does it suddenly appear and then suddenly disappear?
It doesn't seem like it's fake, since the Prefect of Jingzhao personally touched it back then.

Those wild grasses were so real they couldn't be more real!
"It's just a little smokescreen."

Song Lan said calmly, "Or, has Your Excellency the Prefect ever heard of 'being trapped in a maze'?"

"Of course I've heard of it..." "What the Prefect just saw is the same as being trapped in a ghost wall!"

Prefect of Jingzhao Prefecture: ...

Why does that sound a little scary?
However, they really killed the day with their conversation.

Fortunately, the awkwardness didn't last long before someone came over and announced that the feast was about to begin.

The Prefect of Jingzhao was curious about Song Lan's trickery, but he was even more curious about the lychees that were being served at the banquet!
What he was more curious about was whether he could get a lychee or two to taste at today's lychee feast.

In previous years, families would compete with each other, and when lychees came to market, they would try to hold three lychee banquets a day.

I'll go to your house in the morning, to my house at noon, and to his house in the evening.

Hey! What a busy person he is!
But simply inviting them to a banquet to enjoy lychees, along with fine wine and delicacies, was naturally an option.

Dishes with lychee in them include lychee shrimp balls and lychee duck meat, as well as sweet wines and desserts such as lychee wine and rock sugar lychee.

But once it's stir-fried in a hot pan, it just doesn't taste the same anymore.

What's more, they always add a lot of seasonings.

The original flavor of lychees had long been lost, and the Prefect of Jingzhao wanted to taste something fresh.

Unfortunately, in the past, each family only had a few of these to show to everyone.

After all, lychees are precious and difficult to transport. After a bumpy journey, by the time they arrive in the capital, very few are still intact and fresh.

Even so, they still had to pick out the best ones and send them to the residences of the imperial family and powerful nobles.

The remainder was then divided among various powerful and influential families.

The number of high-quality lychees that were distributed to each household was already limited.

Therefore, every year, the lychee feasts held by each family are mainly for everyone to feast their eyes on and see whose family has purchased the freshest and most beautiful lychees.

I don't know what they're fighting over.

It looks nice, but you can't eat it.