Upon hearing that it was for Su Linyuan, Mo Qi's hands, holding the medicine packet, trembled uncontrollably. He looked at Su Xuening with tears welling in his eyes and pleaded, "Please, Miss, spare this servant! This servant truly doesn't want to die..."
He was terrified when he helped the young lady deal with the young master. He finally got through that ordeal, but now the young lady wants him to poison the young master. Isn't that just forcing him to die?
This is completely leaving him no way to survive!
"It's not that I won't let you go, it's that Su Renyi and the Zhong family won't let you go!"
Su Xuening's calm words made Mo Qixin tremble. He looked at Su Xuening blankly, his heart filled with panic.
Su Xuening leaned closer to Mo Qi and said in a low voice, enunciating each word clearly, "You were the one who brought Su Linyuan into my room. When Su Linyuan had his accident, you were the only one by his side. Even if you manage to explain everything perfectly without any loopholes, the Zhong family won't completely believe you. Do you think they'll let you off the hook?"
Mo Qi panicked and said hastily, "But didn't you say that as long as this servant saves the young master's life, nothing will happen?"
He did exactly what the young lady taught him!
Su Xuening raised her eyebrows noncommittally: "You certainly passed the test in front of the Emperor and others. But as Su Linyuan's close attendant, you should know better than anyone what kind of person Zhong Shi is. Su Linyuan has become a cripple and is about to be exiled. Do you think Zhong Shi can tolerate you, who failed to take good care of Su Linyuan, and remain unharmed in the Yong'an Marquis's residence?"
Thinking of Zhong's ruthlessness, Mo Qi panicked completely. Dragging his injured leg, he got out of bed and knelt down in front of Su Xuening: "Please, Miss, give this servant a way out and save this servant."
The young lady is so clever, she must know how he can save his life.
Su Xuening lifted Mo Qi's chin, stared into his eyes, and said, "Your only way out is to go into exile with Su Lin!"
"Going to exile with... Young Master?" Mo Qi was completely stunned, and said in a panic, "But this servant's leg is injured..."
Before Mo Qi could continue, Su Xuening interrupted him: "I'm not asking you to go into exile, you're just being exiled. You've injured your leg, so hire a carriage and take good care of it. Just follow Su Linyuan from a distance. Your leg injury won't get you anywhere."
“But this servant…” Mo Qi resisted this plan from the bottom of his heart; he did not want to go into exile at all.
Su Xuening could easily see through his thoughts, and interrupted him coldly again: "Now, you have no other choice but to take this path to survival."
Mo Qi felt a sense of despair and slumped to the ground in a daze.
"Don't worry, with this packet of medicine, you'll be back soon." Su Xuening said, then leaned close to his ear and whispered, "This medicine is colorless and odorless, so even the coroners in the palace won't be able to find anything. There will be no trouble afterward."
Su Xuening stood up, patted his shoulder, and left with Bihe and Lülian.
Mo Qi slumped to the ground, unable to recover for a long time, until someone knocked on the door: "Is Mo Qi there?"
Mo Qi was startled and instinctively clutched the small medicine packet in her hand, nervously calling out, "Who is it?"
"I am Ding Shan. The Marquis and his wife request your presence."
Upon hearing that it was Ding Shan, Mo Qi's face instantly turned pale.
"Okay, just a moment." While dealing with Ding Shan outside the door, Mo Qi hid the medicine packet and the wound medicine that Su Xuening had just given him. But after hiding them, Mo Qi felt it was not right, so he simply put the medicine bottle and medicine packet in the medicine box openly.
After doing all this, Mo Qi unbuttoned his clothes and dragged his injured leg to open the door: "Guard Ding."
After bowing slightly to Ding Shan, Mo Qi asked, "May I ask what brings the Marquis and his wife to see me?"
"Since they're looking for you, they must have something to say. Come with me quickly, don't keep the Marquis and his wife waiting." Ding Shan said, then glanced at Mo Qi's legs: "Can you walk by yourself?"
“Okay.” Mo Qi dragged his injured leg and limped after Ding Shan.
Just as Ding Shan led Mo Qi out of Hanlin Garden, Cai Mama, who was by Zhong Shi's side, led Zi Shu into Mo Qi's room.
Ding Shan brought Mo Qi to Ya Lan Garden.
Upon entering the room, Mo Qi discovered that not only were Su Renyi and Zhong Shi present, but Su Feiling was also there.
"Lord Marquis, Madam, Second Miss." Mo Qi dared not show any panic and bowed to the three of them, dragging her injured leg.
"Tell me, how exactly did the young master get into Jingxue Pavilion?" Just now in the prison, Madam Zhong's eyes were red from crying, and now she glared at Mo Qi, looking even more ferocious.
As the young lady had predicted, the lady clearly did not believe what he had said to the Emperor.
Mo Qi suppressed the panic in her heart and forced herself to remain calm, saying, "Yesterday, the young master went to Zuihuanlou and didn't return until dawn. The young master was drunk and kept going to Jingxuexuan. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't pull him away, and I didn't dare to call for help. In the end, I could only follow the young master to Jingxuexuan."
Zhong squinted: "Why don't you dare call for help?"
Mo Qi glanced at Madam Zhong with a fawning expression and said, "Because you went to see the young master yesterday, he should have been studying in his study, but he sneaked off to Zuihuan Tower. The young master was worried that you would blame him, so he took me out the back door. I was afraid of disturbing you, Madam, so I didn't dare to ask anyone else for help."
Unexpectedly, this was also due to her; upon hearing this, Madam Zhong instantly regretted her actions.
If she hadn't gone to see Yuan'er yesterday, would Yuan'er have been safe today?
“Tell us in detail what happened after the young master entered Jingxue Pavilion.”
Zhong stared at Moqi with venomous resentment, and Moqi felt his scalp tingle: "When the young master entered the room, the eldest young lady was woken up by him. The young master then went to the inner room... to bully, to bully the eldest young lady. This servant wanted to pull the young master away, but he was drunk and very strong, and this servant couldn't hold him back at all. The eldest young lady kept calling for Bihe, so Bihe came in. This servant then went to stop Bihe, and was knocked unconscious by Bihe hitting him with a copper basin. When this servant woke up again, the house was on fire."
After finishing speaking, Mo Qi glanced at Zhong Shi and the others. Seeing that no one spoke, he could only continue, "This servant discovered that both the young master and I were trapped under a pillar. Fortunately, the young master was only slightly trapped. It took a lot of effort for this servant to lift the pillar and drag the young master into the side room, which saved the young master and this servant's lives."
"How is your injury?" Su Feiling, who was sitting next to him, suddenly asked, staring at Mo Qi's injured leg.
Mo Qi immediately became alert and bowed to Su Feiling: "Thank you for your concern, Second Miss. My injuries are not serious."
"The injury to my palm isn't serious." Mo Qi showed them his palm, then pulled up his trouser leg to reveal his injury. "My leg injury isn't serious either. If my injuries were serious, I'm afraid both I and the young master would have died in that fire."
Su Renyi, Zhong Shi, Su Feiling and the others stared at Mo Qi's palm and injured leg.
Actually, they were all seriously injured, but their injuries were much less severe than Su Linyuan's.
Mo Qi spoke so flawlessly that they couldn't detect any flaws or loopholes in his words, and it seemed as if everything he said was true.
"Madam, Miss." Just as the conversation reached a stalemate, Granny Cai returned with Zishu.
Zhong gave Cai Mama a wink.
Granny Cai understood and laid out what she had found in front of Madam Zhong and the others: "These are all the things we found."
Mo Qi looked closely and was shocked to see that it was the medicine and poison that the young lady had just given him.
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