Chapter 82 The Marquis's Ambition
Yun Wansheng drank her tea without even raising her eyelids: "I've annoyed you more than once or twice. If you can't bear to be angry, you can just let me go."
Mu Xingci looked at the woman's expression of not caring about him, and felt suffocated. "I will not bother with a woman like you. Come with me to a place after lunch."
"Where are you going?"
"You'll know when you get there. Don't worry, we won't let anyone show off in public." Mu Xingci sneered at her.
"That's good." Yun Wansheng felt relieved.
Soon, Wang Ma and Xiao Qing brought in a sumptuous meal. Yun Wansheng waited until the Marquis started eating before she began to eat. The two of them ate in complete silence, seemingly in perfect harmony.
After the meal, the two rinsed their mouths and drank tea, and then Mu Xingci led her out of the house.
Mu Xingci didn't say a word along the way. He just dozed off against the wall of the car, looking very tired.
He didn't say anything, and Yun Wansheng didn't chase after him, but as the carriage went farther and farther away, she became curious about where it was going.
He casually lifted the curtain and looked out. When he saw that he had arrived at North City, he couldn't help but panic: "My Lord, this seems to be North City, right?"
"Well! I'm here to handle some official business." Mu Xingci opened his deep and bottomless starry eyes.
"Why do you insist on me following you when you are doing your work?" Yun Wansheng's eyes flashed with nervousness.
"I like you to follow me."
Yun Wansheng listened to the man's joking tone and didn't dare to ask any more questions. Now she just hoped that she was overthinking it.
The carriage continued for a while and finally stopped: "My Lord, we have arrived at Lao Niu's blacksmith shop." Qi Yi was as respectful as ever.
When Yun Wansheng heard the name of this shop, her expression changed slightly, and her eyes unconsciously glanced at the man who had just stood up.
"Yun Wansheng, we're here." Mu Xingci looked at his woman with slightly deep eyes.
Yun Wansheng stared at the person in front of her with a fixed gaze: "My Lord, are you here again to supply weapons to the barracks?"
Mu Xingci did not answer her, but just smiled faintly and then got off the carriage.
Yun Wansheng pursed her red lips and got out of the car.
The two of them entered the blacksmith shop one after another. When the shopkeeper Niu saw that the visitor was Mu Xingci, he didn't bother to greet the guest and immediately came to greet him.
"I have met the Marquis."
When the others saw Manager Niu calling the newcomer "Marquis", they also bowed. Mu Xingci exempted them from the formalities and let them leave.
"Shopkeeper Niu, business is good!" Mu Xingci glanced at the shop and said casually.
"This is all thanks to you. With you, Lord Marquis, guarding the southwestern border, we ordinary people can live a stable and prosperous life." Shopkeeper Niu smiled sincerely.
Upon hearing this, Mu Xingci couldn't help but raise his lips: "Manager Niu, you are too kind. What you said is what I should do. There is no need to be grateful."
"Your Excellency is very polite. I wonder what orders you have for me today?"
"Shopkeeper Niu, I came here today to ask you something. I hope you can tell me the truth."
"My Lord, please feel free to ask me anything you want to know. I will tell you everything I know."
"That's good." Mu Xingci said, and took out the black pistol from his pocket: "Shopkeeper Niu, do you recognize this object?"
Shopkeeper Niu took a quick look and was slightly stunned. Then he took it in his hand and looked at it carefully: "My Lord, this is how it was assembled.
Although what we produced at the time were only fragments, the main part is still recognizable as being made by our shop.”
"Do you remember who came here to order it?" Mu Xingci glanced at the woman behind him casually.
"I remember that the first person who came was that man's elder brother, and the second and third time was the same person, a sickly young man." Shopkeeper Niu said truthfully.
"Shopkeeper Niu, take a look at this girl. Do you recognize her?" Mu Xingci moved aside to let the shopkeeper identify her.
Upon hearing this, Shopkeeper Niu looked at the beautiful woman in surprise.
After carefully examining it, he said in a slightly nervous voice, "My Lord, upon closer inspection, this girl bears some resemblance to the young man from that day. However, it seems that the young man may have deliberately dressed up, making it difficult to distinguish between a man and a woman."
After listening to him, Mu Xingci looked at the pale-faced woman calmly, "Yun Wansheng, is what he said true?"
Yun Wansheng just smiled faintly: "My Lord, as Shopkeeper Niu just said, he and I are somewhat similar, not exactly alike. There are many people in this world who look alike, let alone people who look alike.
The words he said later about pretending to be me were just his guess, and he wasn't sure if that person was me.
Mu Xingci didn't expect that even when the truth of the matter was revealed before his eyes, this woman still denied it calmly.
"Yun Wansheng, I brought you here not to do anything to you. I hope you can tell me the truth. Did you come up with the method for making that pistol?"
"No! How could a singing girl like me possibly have those things? My Lord Marquis thinks too highly of me." Yun Wansheng laughed lightly with a mocking tone.
Seeing that she refused to speak, Mu Xingci's face turned ugly: "Yun Wansheng, I know you are lying. Even if the blueprint was not made by you, you must know where it came from.
If you don't tell me, I'll ask your grandfather. I guess he knows. After all, there are only the two of you here. If you don't know, then he must know, right?
"Mu Xingci, my grandfather is an old man and he wouldn't know about this. Don't mess around. My grandfather has just recovered from his illness. If you scare him, I will never forgive you."
When Yun Wansheng heard that this dog marquis was going to look for the original owner's grandfather, she couldn't help but warn him.
"If you don't want me to do anything wrong, then tell me where the pistol came from. In short, one of you must tell it today." Mu Xingci exuded a sense of oppression.
"We don't know anything, what do you want us to say?"
Yun Wansheng didn't want these pistols to appear in large numbers in this ancient time when the world was divided by the Three Kingdoms. Each dynasty had its own process of gradual change, and she didn't want to disrupt the original trajectory of history.
Another point is that Mu Xingci looked down on her from the bottom of his heart and regarded her as a plaything. He didn't even let her know a small birthday and deliberately concealed it. Why would she tell him about such an important weapon with such lethality?
"Yun Wansheng! I don't want to force you with force. I hope you can be more sensible. As long as you tell the truth, I will give you as much silver as you want." Mu Xingci put his hands on the woman's shoulders and said seriously.
"Mu Xingci, if you insist that I am the young man in disguise, I can't do anything about it. If you want to torture me, come at me. You can't touch my grandfather."
"So you don't want to talk about it?"
"I don't know anything. What do you want me to say?"
"Where did you get your pistol? And it just happened to appear at the very point where you were escaping. I don't believe this is just a coincidence."
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