Then Cui Jiuyang remembered that cup of fine tea.
The tea had smelled wonderfully rich, yet the servant had brewed it roughly with scalding water, ruining it completely.
Thinking it over carefully now, even tender green tea should never have tasted that bitter and astringent, even if it had been boiled.
Could someone have secretly added something else to that tea to make me so restless and irritable?
The more Cui Jiuyang thought about it, the more wrong it seemed, and a sheen of cold sweat broke out on his back.
There was definitely something wrong with the Li Residence! Something very fishy indeed!
Instinctively, he gently touched his chest, where he kept He Feixu's scorched Crane Feather close to his body.
He murmured to the Crane Feather, "Old He, Old He, wait just a little longer. I have a feeling... someone probably set me up this time!"
As for who exactly had set Cui Jiuyang up, the answer was already all but obvious-the Queue Army!
For some unknown reason, Li Zhongqing must have come under the Queue Army's scrutiny too.
Or rather, the Queue Army had been targeting that entire circle of people all along, from Bai Susu's master to Bai Susu, and then to Li Zhongqing.
Although he had rescued Bai Susu on the train, the Queue Army in the Capital had clearly already moved against Li Zhongqing.
By rashly coming to knock on the door in Willow Tree Hutong, the two of them had walked straight into the enemy's net, falling into a carefully laid trap!
This theory also perfectly explained why there was not a single maid in the Li Residence, only male household servants and attendants.
After all, where could those Queue Army men have found so many suitable maids?
If they had brought in