Three days quickly pass by (1)

"All that will have to wait until after I've left this place..." Yang Qing muttered as he poured his concentration back on the slip.

Even though the founding families were his primary suspects, the small aristocratic families still had to be given due consideration. Who knows the mastermind might have come from there, keeping a low profile, hiding in plain sight.

For the next few hours, Yang Qing learned everything and anything he could about them. He supplemented the information on the jade slip from what the Library had in stock which turned out to be pretty extensive.