31: Aunt Shen's tenderness! Find a clue!

By the time Li Shengyuan returned to the Shangshu Manor, everyone from the Sun family and the captured demon cultists had already been imprisoned.

As for the slaves and pill slaves in the dungeons, they were all placed under unified control, to be dealt with later.

However, Li Shengyuan went straight to the secret passage of the well in the backyard, repeatedly investigating and searching within it.

Finally, after searching for half an hour, he discovered some clues…

He found a trace of spiritual power residue on the rats and insects nearby!

If he had gone a little later, it might have dissipated.

Li Shengyuan let out a long breath, a smile appearing on his face.

After extracting these spiritual power residues, wrapping them with pure yang power, and hiding them, Li Shengyuan said with a cold, focused voice:

"You want to play the mantis stalking the cicada, with the oriole behind? And you dare to use me as a pawn?!"

"You'd best be prepared to pay with your life!"

With this trace of spiritual power residue, it would be much easier for him to find this person in the future.

Because of different physiques and different cultivation methods, everyone's internal qi and spiritual power would vary.

As long as he encountered this person, Li Shengyuan would definitely be able to recognize him, and then he would naturally know who was secretly pulling the strings!

Having made some gains, Li Shengyuan could finally return to his Grand Secretarys Courtyard to sleep and rest contentedly.

He didn't need to worry about the arrest of the Sun family; he just needed to find an opportunity to kill Minister Sun tomorrow night to silence him!

Making a move now would be unreasonable and unwise.

After all, the experts in the capital were currently hiding in the shadows, and even if the Demon Cult wanted to silence someone, they couldn't react that quickly.

With most of the major worries off his mind, when Li Shengyuan arrived at his courtyard, he couldn't help but recall a poem from Blue Star in his joy, and he recited it involuntarily.

"This can be considered 'When the deed is done, I brush my sleeves and leave, my achievement and fame hidden deep,' for me, right?"

Li Shengyuan couldn't help but curl his lips slightly. If Empress Sister and Chief Assistant Grandfather knew that he had eliminated a great hidden danger for them, they would probably be taken aback.

"However, 'Walk to the end of the water, sit and watch the clouds rise' suits me better."

Li Shengyuan's lips curved slightly. He felt it was better to be low-key in this crisis-ridden capital.

His top-tier cultivation talent had already drawn the envy of certain people.

But when he pushed open the door to his room, he froze.

The woman sitting upright on Li Shengyuan's bed, reading a book, looked up at Li Shengyuan and said with a smile:

"Shengyuan, what happy event did you encounter today, that you speak such famous poems and beautiful verses?"

"Aunt Shen has never heard these lines before; could you recite them for her again?"

The woman who called herself Aunt Shen was beautiful, around thirty years old, with a touch of mature charm.

After a moment of stunned silence, Li Shengyuan entered the room with a look of great joy. After closing the door, he walked towards her.

Sitting together on the edge of the bed, he held Aunt Shen's soft, fair hand and said happily:

"Aunt Shen, didn't you say that your trip to Yangzhou would take at least several months? How did you come back in less than a month?"

Aunt Shen, Shen Xinrong, was ten years older than Li Shengyuan, currently exactly thirty, in the prime of her life. In fact, he should have called her Sister Shen.

When Li Shengyuan was young, Aunt Shen was already in the Li family. Her mother was Li Shengyuan's deceased grandmother's sworn sister, which is why Li Shengyuan called her Aunt Shen.

But when Shen Xinrong was young, her family was tragically wiped out, and only Shen Xinrong miraculously survived.

She was later adopted by Grandfather, and because she was not much older than Li Shengyuan, she often took care of him out of gratitude.

After spending a long time together, their feelings for each other were naturally extraordinary.

Although Shen Xinrong's talent was not as good as Li Shengyuan's, her cultivation had now reached the peak of the Fourth Rank, so she wanted to go to Yangzhou to investigate the tragic case of her family's annihilation.

Li Shengyuan had thought Aunt Shen would be gone for a long time, so he didn't expect her to return to the capital so soon, giving him a surprise.

At this moment, his heart was deeply unsettled, not only because of Aunt Shen's return.

The most important thing was a promise Aunt Shen had given Li Shengyuan before leaving the capital:

Regardless of whether she found the truth, upon her return to the capital, she would give herself to Li Shengyuan wholeheartedly and without reservation!

Shen Xinrong's mature, jade-like face carried a gentle smile. She pulled one hand free from Li Shengyuan's and gently stroked his cheek.

With misty eyes, she said: "My Shengyuan, in just one month, you've become more mature and weathered. It must have been very hard..."

Li Shengyuan's face also showed a gentle smile. He looked directly into Aunt Shen's eyes and said softly:

"It's not hard. How can it be as hard as your trip to such a distant place in Jiangnan, Aunt Shen?"

"By the way, you still haven't told me why you came back so early? Has the matter... been cleared up?"

"I came back because I missed my Shengyuan. For so many years, I've never been away from you for a month. Do you miss me?" Shen Xinrong smiled brightly.

Li Shengyuan felt that Aunt Shen's trip to Jiangnan, Yangzhou, was not smooth, so he didn't ask further, thinking that next time he would definitely go to Jiangnan with Aunt Shen to investigate the matter thoroughly!

He said with a joyful laugh: "Of course I miss Aunt Shen!"

"Didn't you see how stunned I was when I saw you just now?!"

Upon hearing this, Shen Xinrong's smile became even brighter.

Li Shengyuan then asked, "Aunt Shen, is it permissible?"

Shen Xinrong's cheeks were already flushed. She naturally knew what Li Shengyuan meant by asking this question.

As long as she nodded, tonight would probably be...