Chapter 134: Straight Talk, Collaboration
Shang Yuwan blinked.
"Besides these girls, there are others."
No matter how small a town is, there are at least tens of thousands of people, so there are definitely more than just these children.
Xiao Qingxu looked at Miao Gu seriously.
He takes good care of every child he buys, and he can do this... Were Doctor Su and Mrs. Gu really burned to death on the orders of this person?
Miao Gu said, "There are still some young ones. I bought a bunch of maids and nannies to look after them."
The people under her command don't know how to sing songs to comfort children. They just pick up knives and scare a lot of people into tears.
"Where is Yin'er? Where is she?" Shang Yuwan looked at the fifty or so children one by one, but could not find any trace of Yin'er.
Miao Gu said, "She's not here. She's in the cool pavilion in the back mountain. That kind of memory-destroying drug has a certain impact on the human body. Yin'er just drank it yesterday, and it's not time for her to recover yet. She needs a quiet place to recover."
"You are so cruel." Xiao Qingxu said lightly.
"So what?" Miao Gu didn't care.
Shang Yuwan looked at Yu Nianqing and the children for a while, his eyes slightly meaningful, but he said nothing.
Cui Xing asked about Xiao Yi and Lu Shi: "Where are they?"
Miao Gu glanced at her and said, "I'll return it to you when I get what I want, but I don't have the antidote. If you want to save people, you have to find a way to detoxify them yourself."
She is so good at pretending. Wasn’t the poison given to those two people by Cui Xing herself?
Shang Yuwan said, "Lead the way."
She wanted to see with her own eyes what had happened to Yin'er before making any further plans.
Miao Gu, whether intentionally or unintentionally, led them to see the scene of Yu Nianqing teaching, and then took them to the Qingliang Pavilion in the back mountain.
But it was not the cool pavilion where Yin'er was, but another pavilion farther away from her.
Shang Yuwan knew that Miaogu was a meticulous person, and she would never let them get close to Yin'er as long as the account book was not in her hands.
Shang Yuwan didn't say much, just looked at Yin'er who was in a daze under the cool pavilion from afar.
Yin'er changed into a white dress and wore a small hairpin in the shape of a white chrysanthemum on her head. She huddled against the beauty chair, staring with her hollow eyes, as if she was looking at a bird flying high in the sky.
She stayed there for as long as Shang Yuwan and Xiao Qingxu looked at her.
"Go ahead." Shang Yuwan's eyes finally changed.
Miaogu, who was leaning against the beauty cushion, replied lazily, "Hmm?"
"What do you two want?"
Shang Yuwan turned around and glanced at Cui Xing and Miao Gu.
"Speaking directly is always much faster than playing charades, isn't it?"
Miao Gu was stunned at first, then she reacted.
"The girl is really smart." Why isn't such a smart person a girl from Langjiang?
Xiao Qingxu stood beside Shang Yuwan and turned to look at them. Cui Xing's face changed slightly, but she didn't say anything.
Miao Gu touched her chin. Since Shang Yuwan had seen through her, it might be better for them to be direct rather than beat around the bush, so they just came to the point.
"There's a saying that goes, 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend.' What do you think of that, young lady?"
Shang Yuwan lifted his robe and sat down, leaning back against the beauty.
"If I'm right, Miss Cui wants to use you to kill us directly, and then use the token from Xiao Qingji to pin our deaths on him."
Zhao Qinglian might have indeed sent someone to rescue them at the request of the Twelve, but Cui Xing was ultimately from Langjiang, and her only concern was Langjiang's interests. Miao Gu was an old acquaintance of hers, and she was near Caixia Town. Rules are dead, but people are alive. Why would Cui Xing need to do it herself if she wanted to kill them?
Shang Yuwan smiled kindly, crossed her legs, and placed her hands on her knees. "But you're smarter than her. After going through so much trouble, you must have come up with a better solution."
The people at Baijialou weren't fools who would be completely kept in the dark, not to mention Ji Suxian was there. If anything happened to those two, not only Xiao Qingji, but also Xiao Tong and Empress Langjiang would all be dragged into the water, not to mention Emperor Chengming.
Cui Xing: “…”
"Pfft." Miao Gu smiled and covered her lips with her hands. She looked at Cui Xing with her crooked eyes. "Did you hear that? You're so stupid. You used to have the nerve to call Ning She stupid."
Cui Xing stood aside with her arms folded across her chest. She turned her face away and said nothing.
Shang Yuwan smiled but said nothing, waiting for Miaogu to continue. Xiao Qingxu sat down next to her.
"What else did you see, young lady? Why not tell me?"
Shang Yuwan looked directly into Miaogu's eyes and asked, "Where did you hide Doctor Su and Gu?"
"Miss, are you so sure that I am so kind? I am a killer, a Langjiang killer planted in your Dayu." The smile on Miao Gu's face deepened.
Shang Yuwan raised an eyebrow, "Because you are the people raised by His Majesty, I believe you have a kind heart."
"Besides, kindness isn't a human weakness. As long as it benefits everyone, you don't have to worry about us taking advantage of your kindness."
Shang Yuwan had read countless times through the books in the Shang family library, so he naturally knew the situation in Langjiang Kingdom over ten years ago. To be able to become the first empress of Langjiang in such a situation, and to raise such a humane killer, was truly not easy and extremely rare.
Even if Shang Yuwan were to train her personally, he probably wouldn't be able to achieve what the empress did.
Shang Yuwan saw that Miao Gu was a little stunned, and Cui Xing also turned her head suddenly and stared at her.
"?" Shang Yuwan was stunned for a moment. Why were they all looking at her like that? Could it be that she had said something wrong?
"...She is worthy of being Madam Lu Xu's daughter." Meeting the puzzled gazes of the two people opposite her, Miao Gu came back to her senses and smiled faintly.
Cui Xing also restrained her expression, lowered her eyes slightly, and her thoughts drifted away.
Long ago, His Majesty once said to them:
Kindness is not a weakness, but a reason for us to hold the blade tightly, and it is also an invisible weapon that can make us stronger.
【Only when we are strong enough can everything we want to protect not be trampled upon.】
Miao Gu's expression turned serious. "Although I don't know how you managed to change your appearance so perfectly, if you hadn't gone alone to rescue the Second Young Lady, we wouldn't have recognized you."
Shang Yuwan smiled faintly, and Xiao Qingxu took over the conversation: "What do you want to conspire with us?"
Miao Gu's gaze fell on him, and the smile on her lips faded a lot.
"Your Highness is the Prince of Qi of Dayu. Are you really willing to join forces with us?"
Xiao Qingxu said calmly, "If Wanwan wants to cooperate with you, I will naturally not reject her."
Moreover, he needed to create some obstacles for Xiao Qingji so that Emperor Chengming would pay more attention to Xiao Qinggu's existence. If the crimes of Caixia Town and the trafficking of young girls were pinned on Xiao Qingji, the worst outcome for Dayu would be the abolition of the crown prince. With Emperor Chengming in charge, Kyoto wouldn't be in chaos even without the crown prince.
In fact, Xiao Qingxu and Shang Yuwan were both secretly happy at this time.
Because Emperor Chengming had not made any major moves for many years, some people had forgotten that he was the pillar of support for Dayu - Miao Gu was one of them.
But Miao Gu was smarter than Cui Xing after all, and she narrowed her eyes slightly.
"But I still want the account book, otherwise you won't be able to take anyone here away."
What is most important to Miao Gu is Lang Jiang’s interests.
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