Chapter 411: Persuading People to Give Up Being Good and Follow the World
Qiao Wanyan lowered her eyes and looked at the dagger in his hand.
There was bright red blood dripping from the tip.
Such a gentle and elegant person is extremely inconsistent with the thing in his hand.
Xu Shujian's hand loosened and the dagger fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
He walked towards her.
Under the coachman's astonished gaze, he watched him get into the carriage directly.
Xu Shujian sat by the door, lowered his head and said nothing.
Qiao Wanyan saw that his body was shaking a little, as if he was trying hard to suppress his inner anxiety and fear.
Is he afraid that I would tell others about his murder?
"Second Miss." He called out softly, "I killed someone."
Qiao Wanyan rested her elbows on the soft pillow and supported her chin with the back of her hands. "I'm not blind. I saw it."
Xu Shujian was silent for a moment, choked.
"Even if the Second Miss wants to send me to the government, I will not run away. Killing someone means paying for one's life."
Xu Shujian's eyes were bloodshot, and his already enchanting peach blossom eyes were misty with tears that were about to fall. They were filled with water and red, like crushed sunset glow.
Because of nervousness, the fingertips that were clutching the cuffs were blue and white. From the side, when Qiao Wanyan looked at her, the red mole behind her ear was particularly obvious.
Tsk, it would be a shame if Xu Shujian didn't become a concubine given his pitiful appearance.
"Why kill people?"
Xu Shujian was silent for a moment, then looked at her with a look full of helplessness and fear.
"I was feeling a little unwell today and planned to go home to rest, but the road home was blocked because of a disturbance, so I decided to take a detour through the alley."
Xu Shujian's voice trembled as he spoke, "I didn't expect to meet a beggar following me with a dagger and demanding all the valuables on me be handed over. I gave him the purse, and he also wanted the jade pendant that the second lady had given me before. I refused and he wanted to kill me, and in desperation I accidentally stabbed him in the chest with the dagger."
Qiao Wanyan lowered her eyes to look at the jade pendant on his waist, which seemed to be a gift from him before.
Xu Shujian lowered his eyes and a tear fell.
"I killed someone."
"Killing someone means paying with one's life. Second Miss, I will die too, right?"
Qiao Wanyan found the man crying interesting and asked, "Killing requires evidence. The dagger you dropped is physical evidence, and someone seeing it is evidence. If one of them is missing, then you may not exchange one life for another."
Xu Shujian blinked his eyes, "The Second Miss is the witness..."
Qiao Wanyan smiled even more beautifully, "So, you asked me to do that."
"I've satisfied your request, so I'll naturally pretend that I didn't see anything and let you go."
Xu Shujian immediately knelt down and looked at her pleadingly, "Second Miss, please have mercy on me and let me live."
Qiao Wanyan pointed out a clear path for him: "You cried beautifully just now."
Xu Shujian understood in an instant, and tears fell one by one like a bead curtain with a broken string.
Ziyuan felt that the young lady really was not a bad-hearted bully.
This Mr. Xu looks ridiculous when he cries.
He is so weak and fragile that it makes people want to bully him.
The more he cried, the more people wanted to bully him, making him cry more pitifully.
For the first time in her life, Ziyuan wanted to persuade a man to go to a brothel.
But it was too presumptuous, so she didn't dare say it out loud.
The young lady likes Mr. Xu's paintings very much, so she can't speak carelessly.
Qiao Wanyan: "Do you want to go to Changhua Pear Garden?"
Zi Yuan looked suddenly at her young lady.
"???????"
Not a lady? ?
Xu Shujian's face turned red in an instant, all the way to his ears. He lowered his head and said nothing.
Qiao Wanyan laughed and said, "I'm just kidding. How can you go to Changhua Opera House when you are an official? But..."
Qiao Wanyan dragged out the last part of her voice to keep the audience in suspense, "But if you go to jail for murder, you will no longer be an official. I can help you get through the back door. Although you won't die, your official career will end. Then you can go to Changhua Opera House."
Qiao Wanyan gave him a clear path.
Xu Shujian looked at her with burning eyes, without saying a word, but grabbed the hem of Qiao Wanyan's skirt with his slender hands with distinct joints, silently begging her to spare his life.
Qiao Wanyan suddenly chuckled, "I was just kidding. I'm not that obsessed with men. Go away."
Xu Shujian lowered his eyes, "Thank you, Second Miss. I will never forget your kindness. No matter what you ask me to do in the future, I will be willing to do it without any complaints."
Xu Shujian got off the carriage and it continued to move forward.
When passing by the beggar, Qiao Wanyan saw that the beggar was holding a purse tightly in his hand, and he died with his eyes open.
Qiao Wanyan withdrew her gaze.
Zi Yuan: "Miss, a weak person like Master Xu might be frightened and have nightmares at night."
Qiao Wanyan took the porcelain with ice cubes in her hand to cool off. "Who knows if the reason he said is true?"
Zi Yuan: "Miss, are you saying that the truth that Master Xu said is not correct? He lied?"
Qiao Wanyan said calmly: "I don't care whether what he said is true or not. Even if he killed someone for no reason, it has nothing to do with me. It doesn't harm my interests. Who has the time to go to the government office to file a complaint against him?"
I won't pay any attention to people who are unimportant to me.
After the carriage drove away, Xu Shujian still stood there without leaving.
When Liuyun arrived, he saw his young master standing there, not knowing what he was looking at. He looked in the direction of his gaze, but saw nothing there either.
Weird.
"Sir, why are you here?"
Xu Shujian said calmly, "She saw me killing someone?"
Liuyun didn't understand, "Who saw it? Do you want your subordinates to kill it?"
Xu Shujian was silent for a moment. "I told her that it was the beggar who wanted to steal my things and kill me, so I killed him in desperation."
Liuyun breathed a sigh of relief, "So, that person believed it? What you said makes sense, the man pretended to be a beggar to assassinate you, and he was dressed like a beggar."
Xu Shujian walked away. "She probably didn't believe it, but she didn't care about it so she didn't bother asking more questions."
"Deal with the people."
"Yes, sir."
There were monks temporarily staying in the Shangshu Mansion, and the front yard was always busy with people coming and going.
But today when Qiao Wanyan went back, a doorman came to report that Shen Zishan, the grandson of Prime Minister Shen, was waiting for her in the front hall.
Qiao Wanyan did not go directly to the front hall, but went back to Yongning Pavilion to change her clothes.
It's hot in the summer, and it's really uncomfortable to be sweating after going out.
But at this time, Jiang Qiyun came.
When Qiao Wanyan heard the news, he did not send the man away directly, but asked him to go to the front hall and wait for a while, and he would be there soon.
Chen Zishan waited for a long time and finally heard footsteps. He thought someone had returned, and then he saw Jiang Qiyun coming in and their eyes met.
Surprise at first glance turned into hostility at second.
This is Jiang Qiyun's transformation.
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