Chapter 72 No One Likes Little Scorpion

"Oh, sir, please spare me, please spare me! I will tell you everything, whatever you ask!" The man in gray was so scared that his soul was about to leave his body and he kept wailing.

"Well, you're sensible." Qing Yi nodded with satisfaction, "Then start from the beginning! What did Xue An do? If you dare to tell a lie, I will crush your eyeballs into powder one by one, then your nose, and then your ears..." As Qing Yi spoke, he pointed downwards viciously, scaring the gray-shirted man so much that he trembled all over.

"Grandpa, ancestor, I'll tell you everything! Please, spare my life! I have a seventy-year-old mother above me, and I have a…"

"Stop, stop, stop! Get to the point. Just say what I just asked you!" Qing Yi impatiently interrupted the gray-shirted man's sobbing. He was contemptuous in his heart. Is this considered a man? Being so afraid of death is too outrageous. He is really worse than the girl next to him!

"I'll tell you, I'll tell you!" the gray-shirted man spoke hurriedly, pouring out the whole story. "Xue An was bullied by you, great hero, and thrown into the lake. Later, he suffered a great loss in the palace. Although the wound on his buttocks looked serious, it healed quickly with medicine. But he couldn't swallow this anger, so he thought about how to seek revenge on you. It happened that he was eating and drinking in the restaurant that day, and he saw you watching the acrobatics downstairs. So he found a beggar and said that if the beggar could steal your silver, he would give him a reward of ten taels of silver."

"How could that little beggar die of poisoning?" Qing Yi asked the key question with sharp eyes.

"Well... before the little beggar went to steal, the young master gave him a glass of wine to boost his courage. That glass of wine was laced with Ban Dian San, which would have killed him within a quarter of an hour." The gray-clothed man didn't dare to hide anything and told everything he knew. However, he didn't tell the truth completely. He cleverly concealed everything related to himself, and he didn't dare reveal that he had given Xue An advice.

"Bandian Powder? Xue An actually carries this kind of poison with him. Where did he get it from?" Qing Yi frowned and continued to ask.

"Uh..." The man in gray hesitated. The poison was given to him by the masked man, who asked him to help Xue An find an opportunity for revenge. He didn't dare to say this easily.

"What? Don't want to talk about it anymore?" Qing Yi sneered.

"Yes... a masked man gave it to Young Master Xue." The man in gray made up his mind to put all the blame on the incompetent young master Xue An.

Qing Yi could tell at a glance that this man was holding back when speaking, and he had just heard with his own ears that this idea was clearly proposed by the man in gray to Xue An.

"Okay, if I find out what you are hiding, you'd better be careful." Qing Yi pretended to be ferocious and threatened viciously.

"I dare not, I dare not. Everything I said is the truth." Although the man in gray said this, a trace of panic flashed in his eyes.

Seeing that the gray-shirted man had almost finished his confession, Qing Yi reached out and pressed his mute acupoint, and then untied the mute acupoint of the woman named Tao Hong.

"What about you? Do you have anything to say?" Qing Yi looked at Tao Hong, his tone was much softer than before.

"I don't know anything! This villa was originally a nearly abandoned house in the Xue family. It was where the old master lived. After the old master passed away, the masters of the Xue family seldom came here. We servants only cleaned the yard occasionally. We really didn't know that Young Master Xue wanted to harm you!" Taohong pretended to be innocent and cried like a pear blossom in the rain, looking so pitiful.

"Uncle, I'm not asking you about this, I'm asking about that package." Qing Yi narrowed his eyes and asked with a smile.

"Ah, I don't know..." Taohong was suddenly at a loss, her eyes flickering.

"You won't tell me?" Qing Yi said softly with a smile, and reached out to pat Taohong's pretty face.

"..." Taohong looked at the young man in front of her in horror. Although this man was extremely handsome, for some reason, she felt scared from the bottom of her heart.

"Forget it. I, your Excellency, know how to be gentle and considerate to women." Qing Yi shook his head with pretended regret, but a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"You, what are you going to do?" Taohong didn't believe that the man in front of her would let her go so easily, and her heart was full of fear.

"Haha, don't worry, I won't treat you the same way I treat him. As a girl, you should naturally be more gentle and considerate." Qing Yi said, taking out a small box from his waist pocket.

"You, kill me!" Taohong knew it was difficult to escape, and she only hoped to die quickly and avoid torture.

"Want to die? Sure, but don't worry, wait, look what this is!" Qing Yi opened the small box, and inside was a small blood-red scorpion! This was his little treasure. To avoid being discovered by Xiao Ye, he kept it in a specially made small wooden box and carried it in his pocket. He knew Xiao Ye wouldn't go through his pockets.

"Ah!" Taohong screamed in fear. What girl in the world isn't afraid of insects, let alone a venomous scorpion glowing red? Qingyi didn't care. He reached out, took out the small scorpion, and placed it on Taohong's arm. The scorpion sniffed here and there, and began to crawl up her arm. It was fine because there was clothing underneath, but it was about to reach her neck, and it seemed to be crawling into the clothes.

Taohong was so frightened that she trembled all over, her eyes rolled back, and she fainted. Seeing this, Qingyi turned to look at the gray-clothed man who was sweating profusely and said jokingly, "Look, such a cute little scorpion, and she doesn't like it!"

After saying that, Qing Yi picked up the teapot on the table and poured the cold tea over Tao Hong's head. The stimulation of the ice water finally woke the frightened girl.

"Ouch...Ah!!!" Taohong woke up slowly, and after realizing the situation, she screamed in fear again.

"Hey, girl, look, the scorpion is in my hand. Look, how cute it is!" Qing Yi's words were sincere praise for his baby. In his heart, this little scorpion was really cute, but why didn't Xiao Ye like it?

"Please kill me!" Tao Hong begged bitterly. She wasn't a coward, but she was truly terrified of the scorpion crawling all over her.

"Hey, I've already said that this hero has always been kind to women. I won't even kill this man. Girl, you are so beautiful, how could I do that? This little scorpion is my favorite baby, girl, why don't you let it play with you for a while?" Qing Yi's tone was as gentle as that of a brother next door, but to Taohong, it sounded like a death warrant, which made her terrified.