After Yan Xu went away, the room fell into weird silence suddenly.
Dong Shuang saw that the two masters remained still as they did when Yan Xu left, so she swallowed in fear and stated cautiously, “I am off now.”
Afterward, she walked out of the room gingerly and considerately closed the door for them.
They were in a stalemate for a while. In the end, Shi Qingxue sighed first and received the medicine bowl from Mo Junyang. “Take medicine first. Xiao has said that the effect of the medicine will be not so good after it goes cold.”
So Shi Qingxue usually thought that taking medicine was like a state affair. Even though they had a conflict, she still kept thinking about it.
After she fed him medicine as usual, they kept silent again.
Shi Qingxue fiddled with the medicine bowl in her hand occasionally and asked in a distant tone, “Don’t you have anything to tell me?”
Mo Junyang paused for a
Shi Qingxue couldn’t figure it out.Mo Junyang paused for a moment and then said something to awaken the girl in the dream. “When they can make a choice, most people naturally won’t be willing to cannibalize, but it’s uncertain when they don’t know.”“Do you mean...” Shi Qingxue’s eyes lit up suddenly, like the stars in the sky at night.They were bright and fascinating.She looked at Mo Junyang excitedly. “Somebody secretly made the common people in Jiangzhou eat the food with ptomaine?”Before Mo Junyang answered, she had clearly felt that she guessed the truth.However, she soon had new doubts.For example, how did so many victims eat the food with ptomaine when they didn’t know it?What was the purpose of the people behind the scenes who did that?Or why did they make the “epidemic” in Jiangzhou disappear?The questions perplexed Shi Qingxue, s
Yan Xu held a banquet to entertain the imperial envoy and his people in the mansion, yet in fact, only Mo Junyang and Shi Qingxue attended it.Mo Junzhan was nowhere to be seen.Yan Xu was in doubt, and the answer he got was that the ninth prince was injured a few days ago and hadn’t recovered, so he didn’t want to go out but stayed in the room to heal his wounds.This answer was too normal, and it sounded untrue.However, Mo Junzhan was always bad-tempered and couldn’t be offended. Moreover, he didn’t like Yan Xu, so Yan Xu was happy as he didn’t need to cope with such a nobleman who was difficult to handle, and he put this subject aside after saying only a few words.After the rice wine and dishes were served on the table, Yan Xu toasted to Mo Junyang first and said politely, “Your Excellency, since you came to Jiangzhou, I have been always busy with work and didn’t invite you to dinner. I propose a toast to y
Shi Qingxue couldn’t help but laugh, while Mo Junyang’s expression softened, and he seemed to be satisfied.Seeing that, Yan Xu was complacent and thought that Mo Junyang looked lofty at ordinary times and disdained everything, while in fact, with the gold and silver in front of him, everything could be discussed.He showed that he wasn’t tempted because others didn’t give him enough.Lord Yan thought that he had seen through Mo Junyang and felt proud, so he said in a flippant tone involuntarily.“They are only a few gifts. Hope that you don’t dislike them, Your Excellency. If you think that it’s not enough, please tell me. You rarely came to Jiangzhou, and I will surely make you go back after enjoying yourself to the full.”He said meaningfully and even winked at Mo Junyang vaguely when Shi Qingxue didn’t see.Mo Junyang laughed again, yet it was cold in his eyes, which were terrifying.
Mo Junyang turned the tables almost without effort.Yan Xu was scared out of wits and didn’t know why he became an underdog even though he had gained the upper hand earlier. He knelt in front of Mo Junyang and cried sadly, starting to repent.“Your Excellency, please spare me. I was brainless only for a moment, and I didn’t want to take your life. Please spare my life. I beg you.”Yan Xu kowtowed with clear sounds, and only judging from the sounds, people knew that he admitted his fault “sincerely”, which could make others feel cold on the backs.Unfortunately, after he did everything, the repentance was useless, and nobody would feel sad for him.All people watched coldly and waited to see how Yan Xu would die.Yan Xu cried his heart out. If he weren’t afraid that he would be kicked away by Mo Junyang, he must have rushed to the imperial envoy and hugged his thigh. Fortunately, he didn’t do that. O
Shi Qingxue’s head popped out of Mo Junyang’s arms and she looked the father and daughter up and down curiously. Then she couldn’t help but ask, “What is so important?”Was it so important that Ye Zhirong cared more about the stuff than his daughter after he saw her?Ye Zhirong turned ghastly pale and knelt in front of Mo Junyang, kowtowing hard. “I am incapable. I thought that I had the evidence against Yan Xu who took bribes, bended the law and did harm to the common people, yet my disobedient daughter lost it in the end. I am guilty.”Ye Zhirong had hidden himself everywhere in the past. Although he lived a poor life, he was confident and thought that he would defeat Yan Xu someday.However, when this day came, he found that what he could rely on was missing, so he was desperate.Mo Junyang calmly listened to Ye Zhirong’s regret and sorrow. After a long time, he looked up and gave Wei Ziye a hint with the eye
Yan Xu showed a sinister and complacent smile, as if he were not afraid of Ye Zhirong confronting Tian Ping.Ye Zhirong had known Yan Xu for so long, so he certainly understood the hidden meaning of Yan Xu’s expression. He looked terrible at once and shouted at Yan Xu, “Where did you hide Tian Ping?”Yan Xu responded, “Anybody has two legs. How can I decide where he wants to go?“But if you want to find him, it will probably be difficult, Lord Ye.”Ye Zhirong thought that he had known Yan Xu’s weakness, yet at the critical moment, he was irritated by Yan Xu unexpectedly. He was so angry that he stomped and almost cursed Yan Xu regardless of his manners.Fortunately, at last, Ye Zhirong restrained his urge to beat Yan Xu and begged Mo Junyang again, “Your Excellency, Tian Ping is the key witness to prove that Yan Xu victimized the common people. I hope that you can capture him as soon as possible. Otherwise...”
Tian Ping looked at Mo Junyang who was indifferent and then at Yan Xu who had lost the momentum of an official. He swallowed desperately and wanted to shake his head to temporize, while he suddenly heard Mo Junyang’s distant voice. “I just want the truth.”Tian Ping’s words were stuck in his throat and he didn’t dare to say it but had to hold back.He admitted that he was cowardly, yet under Mo Junyang’s cold glance, he had forgotten all he had measured and confessed everything while trembling.“Your Excellency, the porridge with dead people’s flesh was made by Lord Wu’s people. Lord Yan just provided porridge with the identity of the magistrate in the places Lord Wu had chosen in advance...”Tian Ping incoherently spoke out the ulterior transactions of Yan Xu and Wu Xiong.In fact, Tian Ping deserved to be Yan Xu’s trusted subordinate, and he was clear about Yan Xu and Wu Xiong’s dirty deals.Altho
Mo Junyang had thousands of kinds of explanations on his mind, and he could speak out thousands of reasons for each to convince Shi Qingxue.He had just known that Wu Xiong worked for Mo Junhao, or he didn’t speak it out earlier because he had no solid evidence, or there were a lot of things involved and he didn’t find the truth of many things.As long as he mentioned all kinds of reasons, he could mix the spurious with the genuine.However, he didn’t say anything in the end, nor could he meet Shi Qingxue’s questioning eyes.Shi Qingxue didn’t want to act like before. She would let it pass if Mo Junyang was unwilling to tell her in the past.She was determined to know the truth about this matter.She even wondered involuntarily if Mo Junyang knew something else about Mo Junhao but didn’t tell her as he kept this information about Mo Junhao from her.Such a conjecture was too horrible an