Sure enough, Bai Zheng's disappearance was also related to her!
Bai Sheng stood in front of him, casually tucking a few loose strands of hair behind her ear with her other hand. With a faint smile, she said, "Why is Your Lordship in such a hurry? Sometimes, haste won't get you anywhere."
As she spoke, the corners of her lips curved slightly. Against the backdrop of the occasional fireworks blooming in the distance, Bai Sheng's crimson lips looked as eerie as if she had just tasted blood.
Feng Linyuan frowned slightly, his eyes cold as he said, "It seems that the eldest young lady knows where Zheng'er is?"
Bai Sheng raised her eyes and gave Feng Linyuan a deep look.
She had to admit that this man was truly good-looking. Just as the rumors said, he was elegant and imposing, like a towering tree in the wind.
However, she wondered if his devastated expression would be equally good-looking when he learned that his wife had been burned alive.
Just thinking about that scene made Bai Sheng feel elated. She covered her mouth and laughed, saying, "What are you talking about, Your Lordship? Zheng'er is the wife of your Dingyuan Marquis Mansion, not the wife of my General's Mansion. You can't even watch over your own people properly. How dare you come and ask me?"
As she spoke, she burst into laughter. Her laughter was so cold and heartless that the air seemed to freeze suddenly.
"Really?"
Feng Linyuan lowered his eyes slightly and suddenly reached out, firmly grasping Bai Sheng's throat. The cold and violent look in his eyes gradually penetrated into hers.
"Where on earth have you locked her up?"
Bai Sheng was choked and couldn't breathe at all.
Her face turned pale due to lack of oxygen, and her mouth instinctively opened wide. But there was still a smile on her face, and there was no trace of panic in her eyes. Instead, it was filled with provocative sarcasm.
"Hehe, Your Lordship, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk nonsense. Why on earth would I lock up Zheng'er? She's my dear younger sister. How could I bear to lock her up?"
Bai Sheng emphasized the words "dear younger sister" extremely heavily, as if they were squeezed out from between her teeth.
Looking at Bai Sheng like this, Feng Linyuan suddenly realized -
This woman was not afraid of death at all. She had gone crazy!
Feng Linyuan's eyes were almost bloodshot.
Needless to say, Bai Zheng must have been locked up by Zhuo Lingxiao and Bai Sheng in collusion. But it was obvious that these two people would not tell him the slightest bit of information.
Looking at Bai Sheng, who still tried to maintain a smile and showed no trace of fear even in this situation, Feng Linyuan wished he could tear this venomous woman into pieces right now!
But he didn't have time for that. Bai Zheng was still somewhere, waiting for him to rescue her.
He took a deep breath, then directly let go of Bai Sheng and threw her to the ground like a rag. He was about to step over her and move forward.
But just as he passed by Bai Sheng's side, a strange smell seemed to waft into Feng Linyuan's nose.
He stopped and quickly turned back to Bai Sheng's side. He crouched down and sniffed carefully.
Bai Sheng coughed for a long time before she could catch her breath. Seeing Feng Linyuan like this, she was a bit confused but not afraid at all. She continued to provoke him, saying, "Your Lordship, don't tell me you're getting carried away and want to do something to me here?"
But Feng Linyuan seemed not to hear what Bai Sheng said at all. His mind was running at high speed.
The smell on Bai Sheng was very familiar. He seemed to have smelled it somewhere before.
It seemed...
His eyes lit up.
It was sesame oil!
This sesame oil was specially made and easy to recognize. It was a gift from the vice minister of the Ministry of Works to Feng Jingxuan today, the sesame oil that had been offered in front of the Buddha.
Bai Sheng was just an ordinary guest. How could she get this smell for no reason?
Feng Linyuan's eyes twitched slightly, and he quickly figured out the key.
Bai Zheng was locked up by her. The smell on her body was very likely to be from the place where Bai Zheng was locked up.
So, Bai Zheng was locked up in the place where the sesame oil was stored in the Third Prince's Mansion?
No.
Feng Linyuan seemed to think of something else, and his face changed slightly.
There was not only the smell of sesame oil on Bai Sheng's body... There was also a smell of ash!
As a noble lady of Yongding, there was no reason for her to get ash for no reason...
Feng Linyuan suddenly raised his head!
A terrible thought flashed through his mind.
Sesame oil, ash, Bai Zheng...
His tall figure swayed silently. The cold and tense expression on his face gradually cracked.
In an instant, his eyes were red with horror at the terrible thought that suddenly popped up in his mind.
Almost immediately, he stepped on the gaps in the rockery and flew up to the treetop with the help of the branches. He scanned the surroundings and saw the place where the flames were raging in the distance.
Feng Linyuan was stunned. His throat seemed to be tightly grasped by a big hand, and he couldn't make a sound.
Zheng'er... His Zheng'er...
There was a crazy red light dancing in his eyes. He no longer cared about anything else and flew towards the fire at the fastest speed.
This was a storeroom in a side courtyard. It was usually forgotten and had been empty all the time.
However, in the past few months, Feng Jingxuan had successively gotten engaged, and there had been a series of happy events in the Third Prince's Mansion.
Not to mention that today's fiancée was the legitimate princess of Xiliang. Gifts had been sent from countries such as the Great Zhou, Xiliang, and even Nanshu.
There were too many gifts. The usual storerooms in the Third Prince's Mansion were temporarily unable to hold them all. So, several rooms in this side courtyard were opened, and some of the gifts from the court officials of the Great Zhou were stored here.
Now, it was on fire. The fire was so big that it alarmed several servants who hadn't had time to run far away to watch the fireworks nearby.
They quickly passed the news to the steward of the mansion and began to try their best to put out the fire.
But now, the side courtyard was ablaze with fire. Several servants in charge of guarding the gifts saw that the situation was hopeless. They were so scared that they cried and wailed.
A man who looked like a steward bent down and beat his thighs with both hands. He shouted hoarsely, "Oh my god, what should we do! The back of this storeroom is connected to the fireworks room. If the fire continues to burn like this, the Third Highness's painstaking efforts... Oh, it's all over! God, why on such a wonderful day..."
The cries mixed with the roaring of the fire. But the front yard was still immersed in the excitement of the fireworks and didn't notice anything here at all.
A few calmer people were still gritting their teeth and constantly carrying buckets back and forth.
Unfortunately, these were all wooden-structured houses. Once the fire started, it couldn't be extinguished so easily. No matter how many buckets of water were poured, the fire showed no sign of subsiding.
When Feng Linyuan arrived, he saw a chaotic scene.
The tiles on the roof exploded violently due to the high temperature and fell down. The wooden beams were tottering in the fire. The whole sea of fire was so hot that it was impossible to get close.
Feng Linyuan closed his eyes tightly. Feng Linyuan, the Marquis of Dingyuan, who had always been decisive in killing and calm and self-restrained, seemed to be left with only a trembling soul in the face of the sky-filled blaze in front of him.