Chapter 133: Chatting and laughing, with sarcasm and sarcasm
When Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu followed Cui Xing to the front hall, they were suddenly taken to the dining hall by a maid.
"Hey." Miao Gu waved at them from the main seat, "Come on, come on, we eat early here, so I brought you here directly."
"Miss, were you okay last night? I was so stupid that I forgot to send medicine for you."
Shang Yuwan walked forward with a smile and sat down on Miaogu's right. "I'm much better now. Thank you for your concern, Miaogu."
Miao Gu smiled and nodded, "That's good, that's good."
"Hurry up and sit down. Don't just stand there."
Xiao Qingxu sat down next to Shang Yuwan, and Cui Xing sat on Miao Gu's left, both with a unhappy expression.
The table was filled with delicious dishes and meat, most of which were light.
Shang Yuwan looked around and asked, "Where are the other two?"
Miao Gu's eyes curved as she said, "Their status is not high enough to eat at the same table with me."
Cui Xing is ranked 20th in the "Gan" industry, so how could the people she orders around be those ranked high?
Seeing this, Shang Yuwan stopped asking questions and waited until Miao Gu started eating before the others started eating.
At the dinner table, Miaogu and Shang Yuwan were chatting and laughing with each other, but in fact they were testing each other, just like a war without smoke.
Before Shang Yuwan came to the dining hall, Miao Gu had already received the news that Baijialou was rushing here. Although she didn't know where the mistake had gone, this was exactly what she wanted.
She calculated the time in her mind and asked directly, "Don't blame me for being anxious, but I'm really curious about what good plan you have come up with that will allow me to take you to the Dark Moon Pavilion?"
After all, this is Miao Gu's territory, so it's not difficult to detect that she has a deal with Cui Xing.
Shang Yuwan did not respond to her. After finishing the meal, he waited quietly for the maid to clear away the dishes.
After the maid who cleaned up the dishes left, the maid carrying the teapot and teacups came over and put the things on the table.
The maid poured tea into four teacups and placed them in front of each person. Shang Yuwan finally took action, calmly picking up the teacup and taking a sip of the tea.
"What Miao Gu wants is very valuable. Apart from the children from Dark Moon Pavilion and Yin'er, what else can you offer me in exchange?"
"Girls, aren't you afraid that I will poison you?" Miao Gu curled her lips and smiled.
Shang Yuwan asked back, "Miao Gu is an all-powerful figure here. If she really wanted to kill us, why would she go through all this trouble? She's been holding back for so long, is there some other agenda?"
Cui Xing deliberately led them to Caixia Town, and Miao Gu used Yin'er to lure them here. It is very likely that Cui Xing had a secret deal with Miao Gu, and wanted to use Miao Gu to kill them, and finally put the blame on Xiao Qingji or Xiao Tong. After all, Miao Gu and other Langjiang people openly obeyed the orders of those two people.
But judging by the way they'd acted last night, Miaogu didn't seem to want to kill them. She wanted to use them to gain more than just the account books, perhaps something else. Perhaps it was something that would make Miaogu even more excited, and a benefit that Cuixing couldn't refuse?
This girl is really smart.
Miao Gu sighed inwardly and a smile appeared on her face.
"It's really sad that the girl is so defensive of me."
Shang Yuwan said without a trace of politeness: "Miao Gu had Doctor Su and Gu burned alive, which really chilled my heart."
"Haha." Miao Gu covered her lips and laughed twice, "Why are you being so sarcastic, young lady? Isn't Yin'er still alive?"
She propped up her chin with her left hand, her eyes full of smiles, "So, young lady, are you planning to use that thing to exchange with me for all the lives in the Dark Moon Pavilion?"
"Isn't that thing more important to you than the empress?" Shang Yuwan also smiled at her without showing any timidity.
Those account books contain the details of the transactions between the people of Langjiang, Xiao Qingji and the prime minister. Once they are exposed, will Emperor Chengming let the Langjiang Kingdom live in peace?
Miao Gu still had a smile on her face, but her eyes looked a little gloomy.
Shang Yuwan was not in a hurry. He drank his tea slowly and waited for her reply.
"But you have nothing in your hands now." Miao Gu will not be led by the nose.
A genuine smile appeared in Shang Yuwan's eyes. "Miss Cui said before that all the people from Baijialou have come out to look for us, and they will naturally bring their things with them."
But whether it is true or not, we don’t know.
Miao Gu sneered, "Can your people be as fast as me?"
"Miao Gu is naturally faster than our people." Shang Yuwan praised insincerely.
"But the most important thing to you now is that thing, isn't it?"
If Miao Gu rashly killed her and Xiao Qingxu, it would only bring disaster to Langjiang.
Miao Gu naturally knew this truth. Seeing that the momentum was almost there, she pretended to be patient and forbearing.
"Since you care so much about those children, I won't refuse you. Let's go now, meet them, and then once your people and things arrive, we can trade. How do you think?"
Xiao Qingxu suddenly asked, "Why did you capture those young girls?"
Miao Gu looked at him and said, "I'm not catching them, I'm buying them."
Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu were shocked and said in unison: "Buy?!"
Buying and selling women in Dayu is a serious crime, punishable by burning with fire and being torn apart by five horses!
Miao Gu hummed, "Haven't you two investigated our master's background? Don't you know this?"
She barely managed to say the four words "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince", but Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu still heard something.
Why did Xiao Qingji secretly buy young girls? Could it be that he wanted to raise a killer like Langjiang's "Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches"?
Both of their hearts sank, and Miao Gu was naturally happy to see it happen.
She stood up without further ado and said, "Alright, don't delay any longer. Yin'er is probably still crying over there, calling for you."
Seeing this, Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu put the matter aside for the time being and went to see Yin'er and the other children of Dark Moon Pavilion first.
Since both of them knew about the Dark Moon Pavilion, Miao Gu no longer sealed the carriage tightly. The four of them sat in the carriage, not saying a word the whole way.
An hour later, the carriage stopped.
Miao Gu and her men got off the carriage. After Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu got off, they first glanced at the three words "Dark Moon Pavilion" on the plaque, and then looked around.
It is called a "pavilion", but it is actually a large mansion hidden among the mountains and fields. She didn't know if it was Shang Yuwan's illusion, but she seemed to vaguely hear bursts of reading sounds.
She and Xiao Qingxu looked at each other, and the latter nodded.
He heard it too.
Miao Gu walked in front, and the two maids guarding the door recognized her. After they bowed, they opened the door.
She stepped into the house, suddenly turned around and smiled faintly.
"Girl, why don't you leave?"
Shang Yuwan came back to his senses and chuckled, "Here it comes."
She pulled Xiao Qingxu in, and Cui Xing followed closely behind.
Passing through the hanging flower gate and entering the courtyard, the sound of reading in my ears becomes louder and louder.
Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu were full of doubts, but they didn't say anything. They followed Miao Gu quietly, always alert to the situation around them.
Miao Gu took them to the private school at the back of the house.
The five or six-year-old girls' voices of reading were noisy and varied, but without exception, they were all concentrating on reciting the "Thousand Character Classic" seriously.
The teacher was a pretty woman, wearing a simple long gown. She was holding the Thousand Character Classic at the desk and teaching.
She obviously saw Miao Gu waving at her silently out of the corner of her eye, but she ignored her and continued to teach the girls to read and write wholeheartedly.
Although Miao Gu didn't get a response, she was not unhappy. She leaned back and moved closer to the stunned Shang Yuwan.
"This teacher is also from Langjiang. Her name is Yu Nianqing."
Miao Gu saw that Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu were frowning, and she was rarely willing to give them a sincere explanation.
"She's different from us. She's of innocent origin. She simply enjoys being a teacher, teaching children to read and write. Since no one in Dayu was willing to hire her as a teacher, I spent a small sum to hire her. Don't forget, Dayu and Langjiang have a lot of trade. As long as the conditions are met, citizens from both sides can petition for a five-year 'temporary residence permit.'"
You can't buy so many children and ask them to learn embroidery, right? After all, the people under Miaogu's command are all killers, how could any of them know how to embroider, and teaching them is even more impossible.
Shang Yuwan took a serious look at Miao Gu and Cui Xing.
"Um."
"We understand."
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