Chapter 401 I'd only be willing if she were like you
After Yu Sui finished his lunch alone, he received a message from Mei Liangyu saying that he had arrived in the territory of Yan.
She asked, "Did it go smoothly?"
Mei Liangyu then sent her a telepathic message. As soon as Yu Sui answered, she heard the sounds of wailing and howling, begging for mercy, and fighting coming from the other end.
Yu Sui asked in a low voice, "Senior brother? Has a fight broken out over there?"
"More or less." Mei Liangyu glanced at the low-level sorcerers causing trouble in the border towns of Yan. "Unilateral suppression, no need to worry."
Yu Sui was both amused and exasperated: "You were sending me telepathic messages while you were fighting with someone? Senior brother, the outside world is much more dangerous than Taiyi. They don't listen to reason or rules."
"What's wrong with just wanting to talk to you?" Mei Liangyu raised an eyebrow, turning to the side and stepping on the person who had ambushed her. "I'm not one to follow rules and reason. Do you think I'm a three-year-old just because we're outside Taiyi?"
Yu Sui said in a serious tone, "When I was in Taiyi, you worried about me like a three-year-old. Now that you've left Taiyi, it's my turn to worry about you like a three-year-old."
Mei Liangyu: "Fine, you'd better keep in mind your senior brother who can't even walk properly after leaving Taiyi."
As he spoke, lightning flashed all around him. After killing all those who had been knocked to the ground, he looked at the woman trembling behind the table and strolled over to her.
The terrifying pressure from the five elements inside the house tore through the walls, yet the man's tone towards Tingfengchi remained warm and friendly: "How does it feel to be home?"
“Not good.” Yu Sui sat down on the rocking chair behind the flower bushes, bent her legs to bask in the sun, and said after thinking for a while, “I want to destroy everything, but I have to wait.”
If she were to kill Madam Su now, she might not even be able to leave the capital.
Mei Liangyu stopped and asked her, "Do you want me to come over?"
Yu Sui still spoke seriously while teasing Mei Liangyu: "You can't come to Qingyang. There are three World Destroyers in Qingyang now. It's too dangerous. You could be burned to the ground if you're not careful."
Mei Liangyu laughed along with her, "I'll add fuel to the fire and make it burn even brighter."
Yu Sui said, "No, I can't let you be burned to death in Qingyang."
Mei Liangyu looked back at the woman begging for mercy and said in a low voice, "I will first look in Yan State for the place where He Hanxing bought the wine back then, and see if I can find out the approximate time."
Yu Sui also said, "I asked Gongsun to go outside the city to rescue Sister Yuezhen. The Zhongli family can't get involved. I was confined to my quarters as soon as I got back, and Nian Qiuyan is also in a precarious situation."
Mei Liangyu frowned upon hearing this.
Does Nian Qiuyan still dare to return to Qingyang Imperial Capital? Is he looking for death if he goes back to the capital?
"Don't worry too much about Yuezhen; the people who will meet them are arriving soon," Mei Liangyu said. "As long as we don't touch on the issue of his uncle's wife and daughters, he's still quite stable and reliable. If..."
He paused for a moment and said, "If my uncle really finds Zhao Yuxiang in the capital, I can't say for sure what he might do."
Upon hearing this, Yu Sui felt that his wife and daughter were Gongsun Qi's Achilles' heel. As long as this part was not touched, he was a rational, thoughtful, and reliable person.
When someone like Gongsun Qi loses his mind and becomes out of control and insane, then in his eyes, no one can escape the word "death".
Yu Sui said, "At least he won't be crazy enough to kill me."
Mei Liangyu smiled, changed the subject, and said some things to make Yu Sui happy. Only after Yu Sui hung up the message did Mei Liangyu stop smiling, look calmly at the woman kneeling and begging for mercy, and lightly lift her finger to transfer the memories she had gleaned from the River Styx to her.
The woman screamed and covered her head.
Mei Liangyu asked, "Do you know which border town Song Dongling is in?"
The woman shook her head, crying, "I don't know, I really don't know, I was just following orders..."
Mei Liangyu turned and left without looking at the woman who had fallen to her death.
He left the blood-soaked village and headed to his next target.
...
Not long after Yu Sui put away the Wind-Listening Ruler, the mute woman returned.
The mute woman brought Yu Sui some tea after the meal and placed it neatly on the stone table. Yu Sui, basking in the sun, lazily asked her, "Grandma, what does my mother want with you?"
"Ask the princess if she is angry," the mute woman said in sign language.
“Isn’t it obvious?” Yu Sui sat up from the recliner, blinking at her. “Didn’t I make it obvious enough? Or did I hold back for too long, giving her too much confidence, making her think I’m really a clay figure, that she’d only feel wronged and not angry if I slapped her twice?”
She continued talking to herself, but to the mute woman, it was indeed as the girl had said.
People have become accustomed to the fact that Princess Nangong only feels aggrieved, not angry.
Yu Sui picked up the steaming teacup and said angrily, "I'm not afraid that you, Mother-in-law, will tell Madam these things. Go ahead and tell her. Anyway, I don't care anymore."
When the mute woman saw her pick up the teacup, she stepped forward and took it from her hand, indicating that it was too hot and should be cooled down before drinking.
Yu Sui said, "I now prefer drinking hot water and don't like cold water anymore."
After saying that, he snatched the tea back from the mute woman's hand, raised his head and drank it, but because it was too hot, he obediently put it down as soon as it touched his lips: "Too hot."
The mute woman then opened another food box, took out some ice cubes, put them into another cup, and poured Yu Sui another cup of ice water.
Yu Sui held the cold water glass, her warm fingertips gently pressing against the rim. She said, "Did you prepare this for me?"
The mute woman lowered her head: "Qingyang is different from Taiyi. The midday sun is too strong. I was afraid that the princess was not used to it after returning, so I prepared this to quench her thirst."
Yu Sui lowered her eyes and looked at the clear water in the glass. She gently blew on the water, rippling the calm surface, much like the trembling in her heart at that moment.
Mother-in-law, are you going to kill me too?
Under the gaze of the mute woman, Yu Sui raised her head and took a sip of the cool, sweet water in her cup. She casually spoke ill of Madam Su and asked the mute woman, "Do you also think I should die to save her?"
The mute woman did not answer.
Yu Sui drank cup after cup, and then asked, "She is my mother, and because of the backlash of her power, she has been seriously injured for many years and has not recovered. She has lived an unhappy life. So, should I be willing to die to save my mother and give her the Breath Soil?"
Her direct question made the mute woman lower her head even further.
"Mother-in-law, tell me!"
Yu Sui stared longingly at the silent woman, and after waiting for a long time, she finally said "Oh" and lowered her eyes: "I forgot, you can't speak."
The mute woman responded with sign language: "This is a matter for you, Princess, to decide. No one else has the final say."
No one can force you to make choices you don't want to make.
Yu Sui raised her head and stared blankly at the silent woman in front of her.
"Is that so?"
She laughed and said, "That's why I don't want to give it to her. I don't want to die for someone like her."
"I would only be willing if she were like you."
The mute woman listened to the girl's last whispered words, and a fleeting smile crossed her eyes.
Yu Sui and the mute woman chatted about the past until the sun set, and the afterglow of the sunset painted half the courtyard red. After the girl sitting on the recliner kept yawning, the mute woman took the tea she had finished drinking and left.
The courtyard fell silent. Yu Sui gazed in the direction the mute woman had left, her finger lightly tapping the stone table. She remembered that before leaving Taiyi, Xue Mushi had stopped her and given her a Gu worm.
The Gu worm was named "Blood Breaker," and it was the first Gu worm that Xue Mushi refined using the abilities of the Dao Gu worm body.
Xue Mushi said to Yu Sui, "After you leave Taiyi, you may encounter a lot of counterattacks from the peasant sorcerers. Their poisonous Gu is hard to defend against. If you take this with you, at least you will be immune to poisonous Gu. It will absorb the power of all poisonous Gu for you."
The Gu worm looked like a pure white ribbon, with a soft body. It often coiled itself into the shape of a flower. If it absorbed the power of the poisonous Gu, it would turn into a small blood-red flower.
Yu Sui stared blankly at the still-white Gu worm in her palm.
Shanling told her about the conversation between the mute woman and Madam Su. She thought the mute woman would take action and that the person who had raised her from childhood would also kill her.
But the mute woman hadn't made a move yet.
Are you still hesitating?
Yu Sui fell silent.
After a while, Yu Sui asked, "Shanling, where did Grandma go?"
Shanling replied, "We are on our way to Madam Su's courtyard."
After cleaning the tea set, the mute woman went to reply to Madam Su. She said that the princess hadn't drunk much and hadn't noticed anything yet. If the princess had consumed the amount she was supposed to, it would have taken at least seven days.
Madam Su covered her mouth and coughed. Although she regretted the long wait, she was at least looking forward to something. She thanked the mute woman and looked a little more relaxed.
The mute woman lowered her head, her expression as calm and silent as ever.
She knew in her heart that there were only seven days left.
Madam Su had barely relaxed for a moment when she saw her eldest daughter approach with a cold expression. Before she could even greet her, Chu Jin barged into the room and asked directly, "Have you seen Nangong Sui?"
"What's wrong?" Seeing her expression, Madam Su had a bad feeling again.
Chu Jin looked down at the woman sitting at the table and said in a deep voice, "Sheng Fei was also present when Taiyi was on the verge of death, causing the Wuxiang Serpent to escape."
Madam Su's heart sank to the bottom in an instant. How could it be such a coincidence?
“Impossible.” She instinctively denied it. “I’ve seen her, there was nothing unusual about her, and I didn’t find the presence of the Formless Serpent.”
Chu Jin scoffed, "Things are different now. How many tricks does she have up her sleeve?"
Madam Su replied, "She wasn't the only one present at the time. If the Formless Serpent had truly been with her, would I not have noticed?"
Since she didn't sense it, then it didn't happen.
"Just in case, you should still try it out." Chu Jin became even more cautious because of Nian Qiuyan's deception. "Guessing is useless unless she really doesn't react at all when you summon the Formless Serpent."
After Chu Jin finished speaking, Madam Su fell into a long silence.
Even if we take a step back and assume that the Formless Serpent is indeed inside Nangong Sui's body, it wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing.
Because she is different from Sheng Fei.
Sheng Fei had the protection of Madam Sheng and the favor of Nangong Ming, which made Madam Su dare not act rashly and could only try her best to hide it. But what would she be afraid of if it were Nangong Sui?
Before leaving, Chu Jin glanced at the pensive Madam Su and said, "I have delivered the message to you. It is up to you to do what you want. But I must remind you that it is best not to let Madam Sheng know about the Wuxiang Snake. If that woman finds out, she will not let you off easily."
Madam Su came to her senses and watched Chu Jin leave.
We just need to wait another seven days.
She took a deep breath and told herself not to cause any trouble, to just quietly get through these seven days, and everything would be over.
Chu Jin was displeased to find that Madam Su did not intend to test Yu Sui. She thought that Madam Su's timidity was due to her pity and soft heart towards Yu Sui.
So she said to Tang Yingxiu, who was also a farmer-turned-sorcerer and practiced forbidden magic, "Go and test her, and see what her strength is now."
Tang Yingxiu bowed her head and accepted the order. A communication beast landed on her shoulder. She was slightly taken aback, then said to Chu Jin, who was walking in front, "Miss, they have found Wenren Xu's trail outside the city."
Chu Jin stopped and asked with a cold laugh, "Where?"
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