Chapter 131: Gorgeous and radiant
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The room was silent.
Xiao Qingxu was stunned, a blush crawling up from the bottom of his neck and spreading all over his head, as if he had been steamed.
Shang Yuwan raised her hand and waved it in front of his eyes, deliberately asking him, "What's wrong?"
"no!"
Xiao Qingxu suddenly came to his senses and stood up abruptly.
"?" Shang Yuwan was startled and retracted his hand.
"I, I'm going to drink some water. You're lying there alone without crowding me. I'm a little thirsty. I'm going to..."
Xiao Qingxu was so flustered that he didn't know what he was saying. Shang Yuwan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
"Since you don't want to come up, then just stay by my bed." Seeing that the boy was like a virgin, she didn't force him.
After such a commotion, the two finally fell asleep peacefully.
An hour later, under the moonlight, several figures disappeared silently.
When the people who were monitoring outside finally left, Shang Yuwan's hand, which was held by Xiao Qingxu, suddenly moved.
She wrote a few words on Xiao Qingxu's palm.
Something is wrong with Cui Xing.
Xiao Qingxu tapped the back of her hand twice to show that he was aware of this.
After Shang Yuwan understood, he fell into a deep sleep not long after.
Shang Yuwan was injured and couldn't rest for a long time. She had been running around for so long. Even though she was surrounded by danger, she was not made of iron after all. She had to get a good sleep.
At the hour of Mao the next day, Miao Gu yawned and let the maid dress and put on makeup for her.
"Miao Gu, Sister Cui is already waiting in the front hall."
"Yeah." Miao Gu's expression was indifferent. "What about Miss Shang?"
"They haven't woken up yet."
"Let them sleep a little longer. Ask someone to prepare the medicine and send it to them when they wake up." Miao Gu took the eyebrow ink from the maid, carefully drew her eyebrows in front of the bronze mirror, and then looked left and right.
"After all, he's going to die when he returns to Beijing, so it wouldn't hurt if he suffered less before he dies."
"yes."
Cui Xing waited in the front hall for a long time, and finally the gorgeously dressed Miao Gu arrived.
“So slow.”
Miao Gu chuckled twice, "Why, haven't you pretended enough in front of Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu to be unable to bear the young girl of Dayu being killed?"
Cui Xing sneered, "No, no, he's no more clever than Miao Gu. He captured so many young girls, are you trying to build up your own power?"
Miao Gu sat on the main seat, took a sip of tea, and spoke with a dagger hidden in her smile.
"So Cui Niang really hopes that Dayu will have an ambitious empress? If we little people don't make some small moves, how can we make the Dayu royal family more lively?"
"The Xiao royal family? You're jealous of those children having loving parents, aren't you?" Cui Xing snorted coldly, "Where did you hide those children? Don't blame me for not warning you. If His Majesty and the General find out about this, you'll be dead."
When Miao Gu was young, Dayu and Langjiang were at war. Soon after her family ran out of food, she was sold to a brothel by her biological parents. If the empress had not saved her, she would have been a piece of rotten meat under a man.
Miao Gu laughed and said, "You are the same. You think you are just a worthless life, so you dare to pretend to obey the general but secretly disobey him."
Twelve was loyal to Shang Yuwan and was willing to bite his tongue to commit suicide for his master. Zhao Qinglian received orders from the empress herself, so how could she let Cui Xing send Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu to her den of wolves and tigers?
Cui Xing's face suddenly turned gloomy, and Miao Gu smiled and waved her hand.
"Hey, don't be so angry. Do you know why there aren't any young girls in Caixia Town?"
"You say." Cui Xing sat with her legs crossed and her arms folded across her chest.
"Most of them were sold to me voluntarily by their parents."
Cui Xing was stunned when she heard this.
Miao Gu asked someone to bring a cup of strong tea to Cui Xing, but Cui Xing put it aside and ignored it.
She asked Miaogu, "What do you mean?"
Miao Gu picked up a piece of cake with her fingertips, took a small bite, chewed it slowly, and then swallowed it.
"What do you mean? The obvious meaning."
"Shang Yuwan and the others arrived in Caixia Town late, so there weren't many people around. It's understandable that they didn't notice anything, but you're acting like you're blind. Or are you afraid to admit your suspicions?"
Miao Gu's eyes were filled with sarcasm. "Before you found Shang Yuwan and the others, when you secretly came to look for me through Caixia Town, didn't you notice? The men in that town are all drunkards, and most of the women are pregnant."
Cui Xing dug her nails into the armrest of the chair, and a painful memory flashed through her mind, "They..."
"Yeah, it's what you think."
Miao Gu lowered her eyes to look at the tea leaves in the cup and sneered slightly.
"Caixia Town is too small, so small that no one would notice this place—selling women's bellies and girls' bodies, exchanging everything women have for the gold and silver men want and the prosperity of Caixia Town."
Cui Xing's face turned pale.
Miao Gu curled her lips and chuckled, "You didn't expect that, did you? I didn't expect that Emperor Chengming of Dayu, such a person, would have such a black market under his control."
"These women living in the corners of the world have endured inhuman suffering and torture, yet they enjoy it even more than the women of Langjiang. Several mothers have begged me to buy baby girls who are expected to be born next year."
She let out a breath. "That's disgusting... Years ago, when we were on a mission together, we encountered something like this, right? But that was a village, and it was even bigger than Caixia Town."
"His Majesty was so enraged by this incident that he ordered the massacre of the entire village, in order to intimidate those despicable people... How did you discover this?"
Cui Xing frowned and dug her fingertips into the armrest more and more forcefully.
Miao Gu took a sip of tea and said, "Don't you know? The first place our group of 'doing' people will be sent to is Yanmen City. That old guy Zhang Jiuquan is restless. If he gives in, it will be bad for His Majesty and the Princess."
"The Princess is wary of us again. She's using the excuse of raising private soldiers in Yanmen to pin us all down. No one can enter Dayu's capital, and that place is right under the Emperor Chengming's nose. It's extremely difficult to get any information out of His Majesty."
Cui Xing asked, "Then why are you here?"
Caixia Town is far away from Yanmen City.
"Me? If Bai Ying hadn't discovered that Yanmen City had started to have several transactions of buying women after Shang Junhu's death, I wouldn't have come here." Miao Gu sighed rarely.
"Bai Ying? Is Bai Ying okay?"
Miao Gu lazily replied, "She's fine. No one knows she's been acting arrogantly in Yanmen. It's all Shi Kun who's speaking for her."
"Shi Kun died not long ago. I guess Luo Qi has been acting as her right-hand man these days."
Bai Ying is the 100th person in the "Heaven" element of the "Ten Heavenly Stems and Twelve Earthly Branches". Although she is the last one, her status is higher than Luo Qi, who is the first person in the "Stem" element.
"Have you forgotten our agreement?" Cui Xing's face darkened, as if she had suddenly thought of something. "You want to spare their lives?"
"Yes, I lied to you. I just wanted you to find the person and send him over to save me from wasting manpower."
Miao Gu spread her hands. "Do you really want to disobey the general's orders? Even if you use me to get the account books and then use that child to kill Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu, what good will it do other than irritate Baijialou and make them expose everything?"
"By then, Langjiang and Dayu will go to war again. Aren't you afraid that something might happen to the general? Don't underestimate Dayu's military strength. Even without a brave and capable commander, they can overwhelm Langjiang with just their sheer numbers."
Cui Xing pursed her lips and said, "The estrangement between sisters has always been a concern for the general."
Miaogu always puts the interests of the empress first, and Cuixing also obeys Zhao Qinglian.
The master is depressed, how can the subordinates not see it?
"Some of these children were snatched from their parents by me..." Miao Gu suddenly changed the subject, "Cui Niang, do you still remember the Crown Prince of Dayu?"
Cui Xing stared at Miao Gu, pursed her lips and said nothing.
Miao Gu chuckled.
"I don't want Your Majesty to be used by the Princess all the time."
"Their prince wouldn't want to kick us all out, would he? That kid keeps pretending to be stupid, isn't it just so his good aunt can have a few more words with him?"
Cui Xing's pupils suddenly shrank.
"you mean......"
Miao Gu's eyebrows curved. "Their prince, his possessiveness of his aunt is a bit too strong."
"Instead of using my hands to kill people, it would be better--"
Miao Gu looked at the ripples of tea in the teacup and smiled sweetly.
"Let His Royal Highness the Crown Prince shine."
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