Chapter 341 - 214: Xin’s Secret (1)
After thanking everyone, Xiao Song looked at Ran Pingyu and then said, "I have a few words to speak with the Seventeenth Lady, if I may..."
Ran Pingyu hesitated for a moment, then seeing that Ran Yan had no objections, he said, "Go ahead."
With the exception of Ran Yan’s personal maid, everyone in the room withdrew.
Xiao Song weighed his words carefully and said, "I don’t know what your relationship with Su Fu is, nor am I trying to interfere, but that man... he was destined to live a life of bloodshed from the moment he was born. Now that you’re involved, it’s impossible to come out of it unscathed. For your own sake and those around you, it would be best to avoid any association with him. Today it is Li Ke; tomorrow it could possibly be Li Tai."
Xiao Song furrowed his brows slightly. As someone involved in the court’s turbulent undercurrents, he was naturally very aware of such matters.
"I understand," Ran Yan said calmly, knowing that what Xiao Song was saying was not slander against Su Fu, but merely the harsh truth.
Xiao Song nodded slightly, "Rest well."
"Oh yes," Ran Yan called out, stopping Xiao Song as he was about to rise, and said, "When I was hiding in a forest east of the city, I crawled into a tree large enough for three people to embrace. It was hollow inside, and I discovered a human head there—it might be part of the body you’ve been searching for."
"Oh?" Xiao Song was also surprised. He had people search the woods for two days without any results; it turned out the body had been hidden in a tree hollow. "Is it the woods near the Cheng residence?"
"It was too dark, and I couldn’t make out the direction, but from what Su Fu said, it seems it was there," said Ran Yan.