Chapter 119 "The evidence is irrefutable. There is nothing to argue about.
After Su Xiaoyuan finished practicing sword, Ling Yue Xianzun invited her to dinner as usual. She said that she had an appointment with a friend to go to the dining hall together, so he didn't insist. He just sent her to the door and watched her get on the car.
Before leaving, Su Xiaoyuan took out the jar of gems from her Qiankun bag and said, "Brother, I really can't accept it."
Ling Yuexianzun's expression was indifferent, as if he wasn't surprised, but he didn't take her jar: "Junior sister, you are still so distant with me."
"No reward without merit. These gems are too valuable," Su Xiaoyuan insisted, handing him the jar with a serious expression. "If you don't take it back, I won't dare come to Wuji Palace again."
Ling Yue Immortal Venerable looked at her for a moment before reaching out to take the jar. He opened the lid and took out a pill. "You can give the others to me, but please accept this one."
As he spoke, he took her hand and placed the gem in her palm. The gem was the size of a chestnut and was completely black, but there were countless tiny and bright points of light twinkling inside, as if it contained a galaxy.
This gem is priceless at first glance: "I can't..."
Immortal Ling Yue didn't wait for her to finish. He gently put her fingers together, looked into her eyes, and his voice seemed to have a bewitching power: "It reminds me of my junior sister's eyes, so I would like you to accept it."
After saying that, he placed her hand on the seat, withdrew his hand, glanced at the crane, and the crane flapped its wings and quickly flew into the sky.
Su Xiaoyuan sat in the cloud car and took a long time to come back to her senses. Her heart was beating fast. Thinking back on what had just happened, it was as if she had been bewitched.
She looked down at the beautiful stone in her palm, and suddenly thought of the eyes that had just been looking at her.
It clearly looks more like his eyes.
When she returned to her residence, she wanted to ask the puppet what the stone was, but she felt inexplicably guilty. After hesitating for a moment, she did not take it out to show him. She took it out secretly while he was making dinner, put it in a box with the ruby she picked at the fireworks display, and then hid it in the box where the winter quilts were kept.
Fortunately, after that day, Immortal Master Ling Yue did not take any further action, and the special meal once every seven days did not involve any inappropriate behavior, which made Su Xiaoyuan feel relieved.
If he continued to flirt with her like this, she might not be able to control herself.
She kept putting off the poisoning, and even had the insect on her body a few times, but either she didn't have the chance or she got scared when the time came, and she lived like this for more than a month.
Of course she couldn't hide the fact that she went to Wuji Palace for extra lessons every few days, not to mention that Immortal Ling Yue had never thought about hiding it from public eyes.
The classmates who passed the Dragon Ridge Peak trial with Su Xiaoyuan were all good people. Although they envied her for being able to receive guidance from Ling Yue Immortal Venerable, they got to know her character after spending time with her day and night, and they also knew how much effort she put into her studies and cultivation, so no one envied her for this.
Besides, she has a good personality and is not arrogant because of Ling Yuexianzun's favor. Instead, she is low-key and humble. And the candy she makes is delicious.
However, the other disciples of Tai Yan were not familiar with her, and when they heard that she was from a Hehuan cultivator, some rumors were inevitable. However, due to the reputation of Ling Yue Immortal Venerable, no one dared to say it openly, and the rumors just flowed quietly underground like a dark river.
Su Xiaoyuan is busy with various subjects every day, and in the evening she has to practice sword and soak in spiritual springs to circulate qi and improve her cultivation. Her activities usually do not go beyond Longji Peak, so she is not affected at all.
In a blink of an eye, it was already three months since she entered Taiyan.
That day, she returned to her residence after class. The puppet man had gone to the city to buy groceries and had not returned yet. She sorted out her notes for the day, reviewed tomorrow's formation class, practiced sword and the Xie family's body-building exercises for a while, and went to the bathhouse to take a bath.
I had just put on my clothes and was drying my hair with a towel when there was a knock on the door.
Who would come at this time? Su Xiaoyuan was very puzzled.
It can't be a puppet. He has a pass to the protective formation outside the door and also has a key.
Is it opening a mountain?
That's not right. They came back together after school and had been separated for only a short time. Even if she wanted to visit, she would send a message in advance to confirm whether she was there and whether it was convenient for her.
The knocks on the door became more and more urgent. Su Xiaoyuan felt a little panicked. She wiped her hair and walked towards the door: "Excuse me, who is it?"
"Excuse me, is this the residence of Fellow Daoist Su Xiaoyuan?" a young voice asked. The tone was polite, but there was something in the voice that made Su Xiaoyuan feel foreboding, as if it was a taut bowstring.
She calmed herself down, unbolted the door, and opened it. Outside the door stood two disciples, one male and one female, wearing the robes of the inner sect of Taiyan. The female disciple was holding a small golden animal in her hand. It looked a bit like a dog and a bit like a sheep, with a horn on its head.
Su Xiaoyuan glanced at the jade tokens on their waists. One was a green jade token, and the other was a black jade token.
Her heart skipped a beat.
Tai Yan uses the color of the jade tokens to distinguish the affiliation of his disciples. The green jade token represents that the female disciple is from Guang Moya, the Taoist Master Ci'en, while the black jade token represents the Law Enforcement Hall.
She didn't do anything, so why did she attract people from the Law Enforcement Hall?
Just as he was thinking about it, the two disciples saluted, and the disciple from the Law Enforcement Hall said, "Is this Fellow Daoist Su Xiaoyuan? Sorry to bother you."
"I wonder what the two fellow Taoists want to talk to me about?" Su Xiaoyuan asked.
Without waiting for the two to answer, the little beast that Guang Moya's disciple was leading suddenly raised its two front hooves and barked excitedly.
The two exchanged glances. Disciple Guang Moya held the little beast tightly, his face gloomy as he asked, "Can we go into Fellow Daoist Su's residence and take a look?"
Seeing her unhappy expression, Su Xiaoyuan became even more panicked: "What's wrong with you?"
The disciple of the Law Enforcement Hall said, "We are here to investigate some clues under the orders of the Hall Master. Thank you for your cooperation, Fellow Daoist Su."
Su Xiaoyuan: "Can you tell me what happened first?"
The disciple from the Law Enforcement Hall asked, "Did Fellow Daoist Su send a batch of orange candies to Immortal Venerable Ling Yue the other day?"
Su Xiaoyuan nodded, not understanding the reason: "I sent a few cans before, what happened to the candies?"
"Banned drugs were found in those candies." said a disciple from the Law Enforcement Hall.
Su Xiaoyuan suspected that there was something wrong with her ears. After a while, she came to her senses and said, "I didn't put anything in it. Those are just ordinary orange candies..."
"Let me be frank," said Guang Moya's disciple, "the jujube medicine was found in the orange candy. After identification, it was found to be produced by your Yunyu Sect. You are highly suspected."
She said "suspicion" but from her expression it was obvious that she had already condemned her in her heart.
Su Xiaoyuan hurriedly defended herself: "It's not me, I don't have any love potion."
"If you want to prove your innocence, let us search." said Guang Moya's disciple.
Su Xiaoyuan blushed. "Who sent you here? How can you just search like that? Don't you have a search token or something?"
A guilty look flashed across the face of the Law Enforcement Hall disciple. Guang Moya said, "We must make decisions in this emergency. Otherwise, what if the news leaks out and gives people time to destroy the evidence?"
Su Xiaoyuan knew they hadn't gone through official channels, so she grabbed the door frame to block them. "Without the token, you have no right to search my things."
"If you are innocent, why are you afraid of us searching you?" asked the Guang Moya disciple.
The disciple from the Law Enforcement Hall tugged at her sleeve and whispered, "How about I go back to the Law Enforcement Hall and ask the Hall Master to issue a token? You wait a moment..."
Guang Moya's disciple flicked his sleeves and said, "If you don't dare to search, I'll go by myself!"
Then he frowned and said to Su Xiaoyuan, "Don't try to delay us. If you stop us from searching, don't blame me for being rude!"
Su Xiaoyuan's eyes were sore, and she tried her best to hold back her tears: "I didn't drug it, I won't let you search!"
Suddenly, an idea flashed in her mind: "I will send a message to the Immortal Venerable to explain."
But as soon as she finished taking a shower, she hurried out to open the door. Her communication mirror and communication ring were in the room.
"Wait outside the door for a moment. I'll go get the communication mirror."
The disciple from the Law Enforcement Hall hesitated: "Otherwise..."
Guang Moya's disciple sneered, "As expected of the He Huan Sect, they have many tricks up their sleeves. Are you waiting for you to go in and destroy the evidence so you can frame Senior Brother?"
She drew a talisman in the air and pushed it towards Su Xiaoyuan.
A green light came straight at her face, and Su Xiaoyuan subconsciously dodged it. Although she was not hurt by the spell, the disciple of Guang Moya seized the opportunity to rush in.
She loosened the rope in her hand, and the spiritual rope flashed and turned invisible, and the golden little beast ran towards the inner room.
Su Xiaoyuan hurried to chase it, but it was as fast as lightning. When she reached the door, the little beast had already pounced on its owner with a Qiankun bag in its mouth.
Disciple Guang Moya snatched the Qiankun bag and dumped it on the ground, and everything inside fell out.
The little beast dug out a can of orange candy from a pile of miscellaneous items.
The Guangmoya disciple quickly picked it up, opened the lid and sniffed it carefully. He smiled with relief, closed the lid, and handed it to the Law Enforcement Hall disciple: "Keep the evidence safe, to prevent others from accusing us of wrongly accusing her."
A disciple from the Law Enforcement Hall drew a symbol on the bottle with his finger. "Don't worry, Fellow Daoist Su. We've recorded the entire search process and we won't wrongly accuse you."
"That's the candy I usually carry with me..." Su Xiaoyuan was completely confused. "Why would I put drugs in the candy I eat?"
"Who knows about the habits of your Hehuan Sect?" Guang Moya's disciple said contemptuously. "Anyway, the evidence is irrefutable. There's nothing to argue about."
Su Xiaoyuan was so angry that her face turned red. She was racking her brains to think of something to say back when she suddenly caught a glimpse of the golden little beast taking out another thing from the pile of junk.
It was a small jade box.
"What is this?" Disciple Guang Moya picked up the box and opened it in confusion.
All the blood in Su Xiaoyuan's body instantly turned into ice.
It contained the poisonous insect that the puppeteer found for her.
She was not afraid of the matter of the love potion. After all, if she had not done it, she had not done it. There must be a way to prove her innocence. However, there was no way to refute the matter of the poisonous insect.
She was indeed planning to put a curse on Immortal Master Ling Yue.
Guang Moya's disciples could see the sudden change in her expression: "It looks like it's some kind of eldritch creature. Let's take it back to the Law Enforcement Hall..."
"Fellow Daoist Su, please come with us to the Law Enforcement Hall." said the disciple of the Law Enforcement Hall.
Su Xiaoyuan felt numb all over and could not hear anything.
He's going to know.
Even if he didn't know what kind of insect it was, he would definitely find a way to figure it out. He was so smart that he would guess what she wanted to do in an instant.
The essence-collecting technique must have failed, but she didn't feel anything when she thought about it.
She was sad that he would find out that she was a liar and had approached him with a purpose in the first place.
She betrayed his trust.
No one could tolerate such deception and betrayal, let alone a favored child like him.
Su Xiaoyuan's soul seemed to have left her body, her consciousness was blank, and she just followed the two people out like a walking corpse.
Just as he was about to board the Law Enforcement Hall's cloud carriage, a crane's cry suddenly came from the horizon, followed by a middle-aged man's voice: "Fairy Su, please stay."
Su Xiaoyuan was stunned for a moment, then she remembered that it was Deacon Zhou from Longji Peak. Every time she went to learn sword, it was this deacon who drove to pick her up.
He has cheerful eyes and a round, plump, and short figure, which makes people feel friendly when looking at him.
Su Xiaoyuan was quite familiar with him and had even given him two cans of orange candy.
The deacon greeted her with a smile, but ignored the two disciples.
Su Xiaoyuan returned the gift, but couldn't even force a smile.
Deacon Zhou had the Dragon Ridge Peak token hanging around his waist. Even if the two disciples didn't know him, they would recognize the emblem on the token.
Both of them looked stern, exchanged glances secretly, and stepped forward to greet each other.
Deacon Zhou seemed to have only just noticed their presence. He asked with a forced smile, "What brings you to Dragon Ridge Peak? Why didn't you let me know you were here as guests?"
Disciple Guang Moya said, "We were ordered to come here to investigate the case. We found evidence in Daoist Fellow Su's room and were about to take people to the Law Enforcement Hall for a thorough investigation."
Deacon Zhou glanced at the Law Enforcement Hall disciple and asked, "Did your Hall Master Xiao send you here?"
He paused and said, "Are you still acting on your own initiative and executing first and reporting later?"
The disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall were sweating profusely on their foreheads and were stammering and unable to speak.
Guang Moya's disciples said, "Hall Master Xiao has gone out and hasn't returned yet. We are worried about the Immortal Venerable's safety..."
Deacon Zhou sneered, "When did it become your turn to worry about Dragon Ridge Peak? Does Taoist Master Ci'en know about this?"
Disciple Guang Moya's back was covered in cold sweat. She had never imagined that a deacon from Dragon Ridge Peak could possess such power. "I haven't had time to report this to Master yet..."
"That's strange," Deacon Zhou said. "As soon as something happened at Wuji Palace, you came to search the palace and arrest people. You're even more informed than a deacon like me. Why is that?"
Disciple Guang Moya didn't dare to say that it was the secret letter that the senior brother secretly sent to her from Wuji Palace, so she could only lower her head and remain silent.
Deacon Zhou turned over the tokens on the waists of the two men one by one and slowly read out their names: "Meng Caichun, Li Hanlin, you care so much about the Immortal Venerable. We at Longji Peak will definitely thank you very much.
"But this is the Immortal Venerable's family affair, so you don't need to bother with it." He stretched out his hand, "Just hand over the evidence to me."
Disciple Guang Moya struggled for a moment, ultimately not daring to oppose Immortal Venerable Lingyue's steward. Reluctantly, he handed the mustard seed bag containing the evidence to Steward Zhou. Finally, he couldn't help but say, "Please, Immortal Venerable, conduct this case impartially and give my senior brother justice!"
Deacon Zhou smiled and said, "Don't worry, the innocent will be cleared."
He put the mustard seed bag into his sleeve and said to Su Xiaoyuan, "Fairy Su, please accompany me to Wuji Palace."
Su Xiaoyuan was in a daze and didn't pay attention to what he said. She got into the car woodenly. Then she remembered that she didn't bring the communication mirror with her. She didn't tell Kaishan and the puppet man. The four spirit pets also went to the back mountain for a walk. She didn't have time to say goodbye to them.
I wonder if the Gu worm incident will implicate the puppeteer...
She made up her mind to at least get rid of him completely.
"Deacon Zhou," she sat up straight, leaned forward, and said to the chubby figure driving the car, "What if..."
She originally wanted to ask Deacon Zhou to help her deliver a message to the Puppet Man and Kaishan, but then she remembered that Deacon Zhou took orders from Immortal Master Ling Yue, and was being polite to her only because Immortal Master Ling Yue didn't know about the poisonous insect yet.
Once she is convicted, why would anyone do things for her again?
"What instructions does Fairy Su have?" Deacon Zhou turned around and asked.
Su Xiaoyuan shook her head: "It's okay..."
The crane carriage passed over the familiar mountains, passed through the dense sword formation, and stopped outside the side hall.
There are still bees and butterflies flying in the garden, creating a warm spring scene.
Deacon Zhou jumped down from the crane, lifted the carriage curtain, and bowed, saying, "Fairy Su, please sit in the carriage for a moment while I go in and report."
Su Xiaoyuan knew that he must go in and explain the matter of the two pieces of "physical evidence" first, and nodded woodenly.
She waited in the car, like a death row prisoner waiting to be executed. It was only a moment, but it felt like a hundred years.
Deacon Zhou returned, his smile unchanged. "Please come in, Fairy Su. The Immortal Master is already waiting in the inner hall."
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