After Chu Mubai led Xia Yixin back to the banquet, he took his leave. Because of Xia Youyou's incident, Minister Xia was angrily searching for the culprit everywhere, and had no time to care about anything else.
That night, the Minister's residence was in turmoil for half the night. After Xia Youyou woke up, she went completely insane, and Yuanyang suddenly died for no apparent reason.
On the way back in the carriage, a system notification sounded in her mind: "Ding! Congratulations to the host for completing the second main quest, 'Revenge and Vengeance,' 100 points. Reward: 200 points. Current total points: -710!"
Xia Yixin had no interest in this matter; she looked at Chu Mubai with a slightly guilty conscience.
Xia Yixin simply confessed everything: "Xia Youyou was the one who tried to harm me first. She and Chu Qin set up this scheme tonight. She originally arranged to meet some villains tonight to try and defile me. Chu Qin wanted to take revenge on you, so he came tonight. I was just trying to protect myself. Chu Qin had drugged you before at the Grand Tutor's mansion. Chu Mubai, I swear that what I said is true. I can confront Chu Qin face to face."
After she finished speaking, she noticed that Chu Mubai's expression remained unchanged, except when she mentioned the word 'defilement,' Chu Mubai's grip on her hand tightened slightly.
Inside the carriage, an eerie silence reigned, broken only by the creaking of the wheels.
Just as she thought he wouldn't answer, the man sighed softly.
"Chu Qin has never stopped thinking about taking action against me for the past ten years or so. Do you know why I haven't dealt with him yet?"
He knew it all along!
Xia Yixin didn't know why she was so sure that this man knew about Chu Qin. Perhaps it was because she felt that if she could see that Chu Qin had bad intentions, how could Chu Mubai not see them?
She shook her head honestly.
Chu Mubai said in a deep voice, "The Chu family has held high office for four generations. The new emperor has been on the throne for less than a year, but he is very controlling. Before, because I was weak and the Chu family had an incompetent second young master, he did not take any action against the Chu family. However, now that the news of my recovery has probably attracted his attention. If Chu Tan is dealt with again now, what do you think he will do?"
When he brought it up, Xia Yixin realized that she hadn't thought about it deeply before, but that was because she didn't know much about the Chu family's situation in the Southern Yu court.
As if guessing her doubts, Chu Mubai explained, "It's not your fault. After all, you've only just joined the Chu family, and you can't get involved in politics in the inner quarters. The Chu family has followed the royal family since the founding of the country and is the head of all officials in the court. We have also opened many academies and were responsible for the imperial examinations in Nanyu. Now, more than half of the first-rank officials in the court are students of my Chu family."
After he said that, Xia Yixin immediately understood, and she also realized why Chu Mubai received so much support when he forced Chu to abdicate in the later part of the original story.
The Chu family was actually much stronger than she had imagined; the wealth she had previously come into contact with was just the tip of the iceberg.
She looked at him cautiously. "Wouldn't that mean I'd ruin your plans?"
"It's not that bad." Chu Mubai rarely saw this usually cunning girl show a guilty expression. Just as he was about to say something, the carriage suddenly shook.
Chu Mubai was naturally not as steady as Xia Yixin. Just as he was about to fall to the side, Xia Yixin tried to grab him, but was instead pulled down onto the soft mat.
As the two grew closer, she discovered some situations caused by the accident.
Xia Yixin was embarrassed and shocked, forgetting that she was in the carriage. When she got up, she bumped into the roof of the carriage with a bang.
Chu Mubai was also a little embarrassed. Seeing her in pain with tears in her eyes, he felt sorry for her and wanted to rub her head, but was ruthlessly pushed away by the woman.
"You, you, you should take care of yourself first!" Xia Yixin didn't dare to look at him, her whole body felt like it was on fire.
She was met with a deep, pleasant laugh from a man.
"The lady wasn't this shy when she was carrying a naked man just now." He had a very roguish air about him.
"Chu Mubai!" This guy's gentle and refined temperament was completely shattered in Xia Yixin's heart today!
Chu Mubai remained calm, saying, "This shows that Madam has indeed taken good care of me, and my blood and energy are abundant."
My blood and energy are overflowing, God the hell!
Despite the uproar, news of what happened to Minister Xia still spread.
The next day, rumors began to circulate that a villain had suddenly entered the Minister's residence and defiled the young lady. It was unclear who it was, and what was even more frightening was that the person appeared and disappeared without a trace. The rumors gradually became more and more bizarre, and people said that Minister Xia had done too many bad things and that they were done by ghosts!
This is not without evidence. The night after the incident, all the gold, silver, valuables, antiques, paintings, and other things that he had hidden in the Minister's mansion's storeroom disappeared without a trace.
The money-loving Minister Xia was so worried that his hair turned white overnight, and the ghost stories intensified.
Otherwise, who would have such high martial arts skills to sneak past the layers of barriers set up by the Minister's Mansion and steal the things silently?
That's over a hundred pounds of stuff.
Even the new emperor couldn't help but ask Minister Xia during the morning court session if he had offended anyone.
In reality, it wasn't some kind of ghost or god, but rather a storage ring that Xia Yixin bought from the system for 10 points. In this Xianxia world, it was considered the smallest, only a little over a hundred cubic meters, but in this world, it was an existence that defied the heavens.
She couldn't let the gifts Chu Mubai gave her go to the Chu family for nothing.
She not only emptied the storerooms of the Minister's mansion, but also discovered the dowry that the Minister had hidden, which was originally intended for Xia Yixin by General Xia. It was ten times the dowry that the Minister's mansion had previously given out, and there were also property deeds for more than ten towns in the desert.
This made her feel that getting another 10 credits was incredibly worthwhile, especially since the storage ring was invisible.
She even went to check on Xia Youyou's situation. She really had gone mad, but she definitely wasn't the one who gave her the mad drug. Yuanyang was also poisoned to death. As for who helped with the disposal, she could guess with her toes.
As for Chu Tan.
Chu Tan has disappeared. Rumor has it that he went with a sorcerer, heading west, and even wrote a letter severing all ties with the Grand Tutor's mansion. This infuriated the old lady. However, since Chu Tan was originally uneducated and incompetent, the old lady focused her anger on the child in Jia's belly after a few days, hoping that he would not be as useless as his older brother.
From then on, Chu Tan was no longer a person in the Grand Tutor's mansion. Xia Yixin knew that Chu Mubai must have taken care of it.
Minister Xia fell ill within days of losing all his treasures and his daughter. Fearing that they would get nothing if the minister died, his sons rushed back to the minister's mansion to cause trouble. The three sons fought fiercely over the remaining inheritance, and the minister's mansion became a laughing stock for the whole country.
Not long after, Minister Xia also resigned, married off his other daughters, scraped together some money, and returned to his hometown in disgrace. His daughter, who had been sent to the palace to replace Xia Youyou, also died in the palace intrigue. Yang, who had hoped her daughter would become a phoenix, went mad not long after returning to her hometown.
Of course, that's a story for another time.
Xia Yixin also received a new side quest.
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