Chapter 42 Holding a Person in Mouth
"Keep your voice down!" Xu Miaoyan looked around hurriedly, and when she saw that there was no one around, she whispered, "The Queen Mother only said that the Qilin should be obedient, but she didn't say that medicine cannot be used. This is the elixir I prepared, which can make the beast docile."
Lu Changqing was extremely shocked: "Why do you have to do this? Can't you understand the language of all beasts? Why do you have to use such means!"
He suddenly recalled the night when he was attacked by the white cranes. Fang Qianxue said that Xu Miaoyan had poisoned the parents of the two baby cranes and also used poison on the two baby cranes. At that time, he would never believe that Miaoyan would do such a thing and just thought that Fang Qianxue was slandering him.
Now, he was having trouble distinguishing what was true from what was false.
"This Qilin is from the Western Regions and speaks the Western dialect. I... don't understand." Xu Miaoyan held his hand, tears in her eyes. "Lu Lang, now that things have come to this, if you really want to sacrifice your relatives for the sake of justice and tell the Queen Mother the truth, I won't blame you. It's all my fault that I was bewildered. I'm sorry. Our fate can only continue in the next life..."
"How can I... how can I kill my own relatives for the sake of justice? You are my wife!" Lu Changqing's heart was in a mess, as if it had been struck by lightning.
"It's all my fault," Xu Miaoyan said with an expression as if she had done something wrong. "Lu Lang, if you regret it now and don't want to marry me, that's fine."
"Miao Yan," Lu Changqing held her hand, "This is just one time, don't do it again, this is a capital crime of deceiving the emperor!"
He wanted to protect his upright principles, but he and Xu were already attached to the same vine.
Lu Changqing was a man who read books of sages and hated deception the most in his life. But if he told the Queen Mother now that Xu could not understand the Qilin language, in front of so many guests, the Queen Mother would certainly lose face and would probably punish Xu for the crime of deceiving the emperor.
If Xu died, he would be ridiculed by the world.
So, in order to protect Miao Yan, he had no choice.
"Yes, don't worry, I will never use this medicine again." Xu Miaoyan promised, "Thank you for helping me this time. When I become the Saint of the Nation, I won't need to use these dirty tricks anymore."
"Will it not poison the Qilin beast to death?" Lu Changqing looked down at the medicine powder poured into the trough.
"No, it will just become weak and at my mercy," Xu Miaoyan seemed to be very experienced. She walked forward with a wooden stick and said to the exhausted Qilin, "Be good and take this medicine, otherwise don't blame me!"
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At the banquet not far away, Fang Qianxue had just finished talking to the eldest princess, turned around and threw a braised fish tail into the grass.
A tabby cat as fat as a ball popped out from somewhere, grabbed the braised fish tail and ate it clean in a few bites.
"How's the investigation I asked you to do going?" Fang Qianxue recently adopted this cat and named it "Maotuan".
Maotuan used to be a wild cat and was used to moving freely. Fang Qianxue didn't restrain it and let it run around to help her collect intelligence.
"That Qilin is so fierce! I dare not get close to it."
"Then was the fish eaten in vain?" Fang Qianxue patted its head.
"Who got the food for free?" Maotuan raised his head defiantly. "I don't dare to get close, but I have spies in the stable!"
"You know someone in the stable?" Fang Qianxue was surprised. "Who is it?"
"I can't tell you who it is, but I know why the Qilin won't eat." Maotuan's spies are the gopher family in the horse farm. They usually live in the stable. Maotuan caught the smallest gopher, and under coercion and inducement, the gopher family told him everything they knew.
"Come on, don't keep us in suspense." Fang Qianxue said with a smile, "There are a lot of delicious dishes at this banquet. I just saw a plate of squirrel fish."
Maotuan raised his paw to wipe the saliva from the corner of his mouth, and meowed twice: "Pick me up so that no one can hear me, and I will tell you alone."
"..." Fang Qianxue was a little disgusted with its greasy paws and mouth, "Besides me, who else here can understand you?"
"That fake Xu is here. Even though she's far away, there's no guarantee she'll hear me!" Mao Tuan waved his paws, "Come on, hold me!"
Fang Qianxue had no choice but to bend down and pick it up, listening to the tabby cat meowing a few times.
"So that's how it is..." She suddenly realized and let the cat go. "I see. Wait here and I'll find you a squirrel fish."
She had just stood up and was about to bring the squirrel fish over when she heard a woman's scream coming from the direction of the stable. Then the ground shook, and after a loud bang, everyone was stunned.
"Oh my God! The stable has collapsed!"
"What is that? Is it the legendary Qilin beast?"
"Ah!!! It...it has a person in its mouth!"
Maotuan rubbed his eyes and looked towards the center of the horse field. When he saw clearly, he was almost scared to death. ??? It could only hold a mouse, but this Qilin was holding a person!
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