Chapter 617 You Know All

What he needs is for the person who cast the curse to become nervous and then reveal a flaw.

The next few days passed as usual.

The only difference was that the construction speed had increased. Because the soldiers were well-trained, their speed was naturally incomparable to that of the disaster victims who were unwilling to contribute.

By the end of August, with the city defenses nearing completion, some people finally couldn't sit still any longer.

That night, a dark figure silently slipped to the city's defenses. After looking around and seeing that no one was there, the figure slowly took out a packet of powder from his bag and sprinkled it into the wooden buckets where the soldiers drank water.

Watching the powder dissolve into the bucket of water, the dark figure turned to leave. Just then, Ji Wenjin appeared out of nowhere and blocked the figure's path.

Upon seeing Ji Wenjin's dark figure, he was clearly taken aback for a moment, but then he quickly stepped forward, intending to escape.

Ji Wenjin naturally wouldn't let him escape right under her nose, and the moment he made a move, she grabbed his shoulder.

"Trying to run? Not so easy!"

As Ji Wenjin spoke, he pulled the shadowy figure back, and the figure turned around with his force, changing direction.

Seeing the shadowy figure slip out of his grasp, Ji Wenjin realized he had underestimated the enemy. To make amends, he quickly rushed forward to intercept it.

In the end, Hei Yin was no match for Ji Wenjin and was captured.

The tent was immediately lit up as the dark figure was brought in.

"Guard Gao, what a coincidence?"

Yun Yichen glanced at the guard in black, and his eyebrows involuntarily rose.

"Have someone wake them up!"

After giving the order, Yun Yichen sat down directly in front of the guard. There was no surprise in his eyes, only a playful glint that didn't suit his status.

For some reason, seeing Yun Yichen's expression, a sense of fear suddenly rose in the usually calm guard's heart.

"What is the meaning of your bringing me here, sir?"

Even knowing he couldn't escape, the guard tried his best to appear less afraid.

Yun Yichen didn't reply, but just glanced at him and told the guard to shut up.

The guard had heard many rumors about Yun Yichen before, and he knew from his time in the capital that he was a man everyone feared.

However, as he traveled to Suzhou and saw Yun Yichen being close to the people and treating everyone kindly, he gradually forgot Yun Yichen's true nature.

"Lord Yun, it's so late..."

Lu Changqing entered from outside and was taken aback when he saw the guard standing inside the tent. He blinked and looked at Yun Yichen, "My lord, how come my men are with you?"

If Yun Yichen didn't know Lu Changqing's background, he would probably have really thought that Lu Changqing was innocent, given his innocent questioning manner.

Yun Yichen had long suspected that Lu Changqing was behind this, and seeing his reaction now, Yun Yichen was even more certain that he was the one who cast the Gu poison.

"Let's not beat around the bush. Since I've summoned Your Highness here alone, don't you think it would be better if you were honest with me?"

"What do you mean by being honest?" Lu Changqing looked puzzled, and after looking Gao and Yun Yichen up and down, he suddenly realized, "Could it be that Gao did something wrong?"

Looking at the usually quiet Lu Changqing, Yun Yichen wanted to applaud him.

What kind of time is this to be putting on airs? Does he think everyone in the world is an idiot?

Frowning, Yun Yichen looked at Lu Changqing, "I suppose the Gu poison on those disaster victims was administered by His Highness's guards!"

Yun Yichen personally exposed the truth, and Lu Changqing's face finally stiffened.

His signature smile vanished, and his gaze was no longer as innocent and harmless as before.

"Looks like you already know!"

Lu Changqing originally thought that even if Yun Yichen caught the guard Gao using the Gu poison, he would only say that the guard Gao poisoned the water. Then he would find an excuse or have the guard Gao take the blame himself, and the matter would be over.

Who would have thought that Yun Yichen would know about Gu, and even know that those disaster victims were infected by Gu?

"Who exactly are you?"

Yun Yichen asked this question without realizing it.

Lu Changqing found it amusing and actually laughed out loud.

"What kind of person does Lord Yun think I am?"

Lu Changqing's gaze fell on Yun Yichen's covered face, and he slowly began to narrate.

"Actually, my birth mother was a descendant of the Jiuli tribe. When the Jiuli tribe was wiped out, my mother's maternal grandmother sneaked out to play and luckily escaped the massacre. Later, she pretended to be a beggar and wandered the streets, and was successfully adopted by a kind couple."

"Everything should have continued peacefully, generation after generation. But the hatred of the extermination of her clan is irreconcilable, how could she truly live in peace?"

"In order to avenge her family one day, after getting married and having children, her great-grandmother secretly passed on the art of Gu poison to her grandmother, who then secretly passed it on to her mother. After learning that she was from the Jiuli tribe, her mother insisted on entering the palace as a maid despite her grandmother's objections."

“Looking at the luxurious life in the palace, and thinking about how her simple and honest people died at the hands of those high and mighty people, my mother became more and more insane. In order to take revenge, she even began to secretly raise forbidden Gu, hoping that one day she could drive the Gu worms to kill all the descendants of her enemies.”

"However, despite all her calculations, my mother never expected that she would be favored by the emperor. Later, my mother became pregnant with me."

"So, your mother gave up on revenge?"

Seeing that Lu Changqing had paused, Yun Yichen couldn't help but ask.

Lu Changqing smiled bitterly after hearing this: "How could someone as stubborn as my mother give up on revenge?"

Lu Changqing had heard from his mother that when she found out she was pregnant, she didn't want the baby. If the imperial physician hadn't told her that if she aborted the pregnancy, she would lose the right to be a mother, she wouldn't have gritted her teeth and given birth to him.

Even so, due to years of raising Gu poison, the poison spread throughout her body, so Lu Changqing was born with a congenital disease.

"So, this task is assigned to you?"

Yun Yichen remembered that Lu Changqing's mother had been dead for many years. Since Lu Changqing was raising Gu poison, it meant that this matter had been handed over to Lu Yuanbin.

Upon hearing this, Lu Yuanbin turned to look at Yun Yichen, then changed the subject, saying, "I will tell you how to remove the curse."

Seeing that he himself was unwilling to mention it, Yun Yichen did not say much, but he had not yet revealed the purpose of Lu Youming's actions.

Then he asked again, "Why are you stopping us from building the city?"

Lu Changqing talked about so much, but only about his own background. He didn't tell Yun Yichen his purpose in doing so.

"As you can see, the project is being delayed." And also, it's a test of your abilities. Lu Changqing naturally didn't say the last sentence aloud to his face.

Looking at Yun Yichen, Lu Changqing still had that gentle demeanor, but in Yun Yichen's eyes, this man had long since become deformed.