Chapter 66: Liu Younihou, Invitation to Kyoto
Liu Mengyao immediately spat fiercely, "Bullshit!"
Xiao Qinggu: "......"
She looked at Shang Yuwan, whose face was gradually darkening, "Is this child always like this?"
Shang Yuwan hummed, walked up to Liu Mengyao, and slapped him unexpectedly, knocking him to the ground. He spat out a mouthful of blood and lost two teeth.
"Try to be rude again."
Shang Yuwan smiled kindly, her eyes curved, "I'll cut off your lips and feed them to the dogs myself."
Liu Mengyao's ears were buzzing. He was only a seven-year-old boy after all. He obviously sensed Shang Yuwan's murderous aura and shrank back in fear. For a moment, he closed his mouth tightly and dared not make another sound.
Xiao Qinggu saw that Shang Yuwan was a bit cruel, but he didn't stop him, and he would not say anything good for Liu Mengyao.
Zhou Zhou said, "No need for you to do anything, I'll do it."
"Thank you, Lord Zhou, but that's not necessary." Shang Yuwan turned around and looked at him. She didn't expect that this man was so cruel.
She was angry and wanted to scare Liu Mengyao, but Zhou Zhou looked like he really wanted to attack her.
That's right. After all, Zhou Zhou is Prince Zeng's confidant. Liu Mengyao was really disrespectful just now. If he had no reaction, she would have suspected that this was a fake.
Shang Yuwan glanced at Yuezhu who remained silent.
He was quite patient.
"You said they were father and son. How did you know that?"
Xiao Qinggu asked as he walked forward, followed closely by Yue Zhu and Zhou Zhou.
Shang Yuwan asked Lou Ke to pull Liu Mengyao up, "The reaction is not right."
"Wrong reaction?"
Shang Yuwan nodded, "The first thing I did was not get angry, but was anxious to cover it up."
"I didn't..."
Shang Yuwan gave her a light look, and Liu Mengyao immediately fell silent, just glaring at her fiercely.
Just stare at me, and when your eyes fall out, just have someone push them back in.
Shang Yuwan ignored him and signaled to Coroner Li to hand over the murder weapon.
"Princess, please look! This is the hairpin used to kill Liu Ziqi."
Xiao Qinggu took it in his hand and looked at it, then asked Li the coroner, "Is this the branch that killed Liu Ziqi?"
Coroner Li nodded. After Lou Ke gave him the thing, he immediately took it for examination. It was indeed this thing that pierced Liu Ziqi's neck.
"Where did you find it?" Xiao Qinggu remembered that Song Pingsheng had someone search Liu Mengyao's body.
"There's a crack in the sole of his shoe, and the hairpin is too small to feel it with a rough touch."
Xiao Qinggu turned his gaze to Liu Mengyao, "He is your father?"
Liu Mengyao's accent is obviously from Youkou Country. If he is really Liu Ziqi's son, then it would be... a bit subtle.
All kinds of love, hate, and vengeance from the storybook flashed through Xiao Qinggu's mind.
Liu Mengyao was about to spit out a mouthful of saliva, but was forced to hold it back by a look from Shang Yuwan.
His throat moved, still a little unconvinced, "No! Liu Ziqi, a loser, has no right to be my father!"
Shang Yuwan said coldly, "You're quite arrogant."
Liu Mengyao's face was still swollen, and he wilted again, still staring at Shang Yuwan, very dissatisfied.
"Your Highness, sir, the host asked me to bring this child here."
There were voices outside the room. Xiao Qinggu and Shang Yuwan looked at each other. The latter stepped out and soon came back pulling in a little mud monkey wearing coarse cloth.
Shang Yuwan's face was a little gloomy, and I wonder what news he had received.
"Brother Yao!" The clay monkey had his hands tied behind his back with a rope. He was thin and small, half a head shorter than Liu Mengyao. His voice was hoarse, as if he had been smoked by fire.
When Liu Mengyao saw this, his pupils shrank slightly and his body kept struggling. The guest almost couldn't hold him down.
"Let her go! Come to me if you have any problem!"
Shang Yuwan looked at him coldly. Liu Mengyao was not afraid at all, but became even angrier.
"Can't you hear me? I told you to let her go!"
Shang Yuwan looked at him coldly and deliberately pulled the rope in his hand hard, causing the little mud monkey to stagger two steps.
"You!" Liu Mengyao was furious. Lou Ke saw Shang Yuwan's eyes and then accidentally let him break free.
Liu Mengyao's hands were tied behind his back, so his movements were a little slow, but Shang Yuwan did not dodge and let him rush towards him.
Just before he almost bumped into Shang Yuwan, Shang Yuwan reached out and held his head.
The kid took a few steps forward but didn't move. Shang Yuwan increased his strength, preventing Liu Mengyao from moving forward.
Like a little wolf cub rushing into someone's arms but being ruthlessly rejected.
"puff."
Yue Zhu and Zhou Zhou both looked at Xiao Qinggu, who couldn't help himself. Xiao Qinggu coughed twice and looked away.
The sun is so nice today.
Zhou Zhou smiled, and Yue Zhu turned his gaze to Shang Yuwan, who had an expressionless face.
Like when that girl Wan'er taught Qi'er a lesson before.
Yuezhu felt a little depressed.
But they are clearly two completely different people.
Yue Zhu recalled that when he resigned from the emperor the day before, Emperor Chengming looked at him and was silent for a long time.
He asked him: "Do you think I killed the wrong person?"
Yue Zhu knelt down and bowed his head, saying, "Your Majesty is the ruler of Dayu, there is no way he could be wrong."
He asked him again: "Wan'er is a good boy, don't you think?"
Yue Zhu paused and said, "I don't know."
Emperor Chengming was stroking a string of Buddhist beads in one hand and playing with a colorful blessing stone in the other.
"How could you not know? I remember that you liked Wan'er the most. Her face is like her mother's—and her temperament is like her father's."
Yue Zhu bowed his head for a long time without answering.
Emperor Chengming sighed softly, "You can resign, but first you have to do something for me again."
"I will obey the orders of His Majesty."
Emperor Chengming raised his hand, and the eunuch beside him immediately came over to hand him a brush and then ground ink.
He wrote a few paragraphs on a blank piece of paper and asked the eunuch to pass it to Yue Zhu.
"Give this item to the owner of Baijialou."
Yuezhu held it with both hands and said, "Yes."
He returned home and looked at the two words written on the letter - invitation.
The Shangliu Banquet was about to be held, and Emperor Chengming asked the owner of Baijia Tower, Shang Yuwan, to follow Xiao Qinggu back to Kyoto for the banquet after they finished their work in Luzhou City.
Yue Zhu looked at Shang Yuwan with a serious look in her eyes as she pushed Liu Mengyao away with one hand and made him fall to the ground. She then threatened him with the mud monkey to tell him the truth she wanted to hear.
Ever since the name "Shang Yuwan" first appeared before Emperor Chengming after the Shang family was exterminated, Emperor Chengming had already ordered him to secretly send people to trace this person's origins.
Now, for some reason, Emperor Chengming no longer ordered people to follow Shang Yuwan, but instead wanted Shang Yuwan to appear in front of him directly. He wanted to see who this "Shang Yuwan" was.
Yue Zhu smiled bitterly in his heart.
It was obvious that the emperor could secretly send people to dig up Wan'er's grave to find out the truth, but he never saw that the emperor had such an idea.
As far as he knew, His Majesty was definitely not someone who was afraid of ghosts and gods.
Is it guilt? Or fear?
Just like when he faced Madam Lu Xu before, he was afraid that she would hate him.
Xiao Qinggu and Zhou Zhou both noticed that Yue Zhu's eyes were always on Shang Yuwan. They both had their own thoughts, but they remained silent and just watched quietly.
Shang Yuwan placed his hand on the back of the mud monkey's neck and said, "If you don't tell the truth, I'll twist him."
Liu Mengyao saw that Shang Yuwan's patience was completely exhausted. It didn't seem like she was trying to scare him. She pursed her lips and said, "I can tell you, but you have to let her go first!"
The clay monkey kept shaking his head, ignoring everything and looking straight at Shang Yuwan.
Shang Yuwan was silent for a moment, "Okay, but don't try to play tricks on me."
She let go of the mud monkey, and the mud monkey rushed towards Liu Mengyao, crying and shaking his head, saying something like "no, no" and so on.
Shang Yuwan looked at it coldly, "If even a single word of it is false, I will make both of you suffer."
She looked at Yue Zhu and said, "Commander Yue should be very familiar with interrogating people. How about helping me?"
Yue Zhu concealed the strange look in his eyes and nodded.
Shang Yuwan's eyes seemed to be frozen.
Business banquet, invitation, Emperor Chengming...Xiao Ling.
The guest who brought the mud monkey here told her the news as instructed by the owner of the building, which almost made Shang Yuwan lose control of her expression.
After sending people to arrest her last time, they finally took action again.
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