Chapter 226: Didn’t you give my starling the puppet poison?
Mo Jiuye learned from the officials that Myna had left with Prince Rui, and immediately took He Zhiran to chase after them.
Nanrui ordered the guards to invite them in.
Mo Jiuye's eyes were cold and he said in a deep voice, "Greetings, His Royal Highness Prince Rui." He said this, but there was no respect in his heart, and he even ignored the greeting.
He Zhiran was not very interested in the etiquette of this era. He stood beside Mo Jiuye without moving or even opening his mouth.
Nanrui glanced at the two of them and made a gesture of invitation.
"Please take a seat, both of you."
Mo Jiuye pulled He Zhiran to sit next to the starling without any hesitation.
He had very good hearing. Just when he asked the guards outside the door to report to Nanrui, he vaguely heard some conversations in the room.
Facing a guy who might be his enemy, Mo Jiuye was not polite at all when speaking.
"Based on what His Royal Highness Prince Rui said just now, the puppet poison that infected my starling was indeed your doing?"
Facing Mo Jiuye's questions, Nanrui seemed very frank.
"I can only say it's about me."
Mo Jiuye raised his eyebrows: "Didn't you give my starling the puppet poison?"
Nanrui shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"It's true that I didn't plant it, but now the mother Gu is in my hands. I can't escape the blame no matter what."
When Mo Jiuye heard Nan Rui say this, he wanted to hear how he explained it, so he didn't interrupt.
Nan Rui continued, "Five years ago, I went on an outing in the suburbs with a few of my staff. A mysterious man appeared on the road. I saw him sprinkle a packet of poison powder with my own eyes. Everyone with me was poisoned and fell unconscious, except me."
Mo Jiuye asked, "Why?"
Nan Rui gave a bitter laugh: "I have had a special physique since I was a child, and I am immune to poison, so I was not poisoned."
"What happened next?" Mo Jiuye planned to listen to the whole story before saying anything else.
"Then the mysterious man knocked me unconscious and took me away. When I woke up, I was in a basement.
There were many experts guarding there and I couldn't escape until a day later when the mysterious man appeared again.
The mysterious man told me that he had cast a poison on my mother, and if I didn't do as he said, he would use the poison to torture my mother.
He knew that I didn't believe what he said, so he told me to go to the palace to visit my mother. Three hours later, my mother would feel pain all over her body like being bitten by insects. If that happened, if I wanted my mother to live, I had to go to Wangpo Pavilion, 20 miles south of the capital, to find him.
I rushed back to the palace and found that my mother was just as the mysterious man said. Her whole body felt as if it was bitten by insects. She looked like she was living a life worse than death.
To save my mother, I didn't dare to stop for a moment and rushed to Wangpo Pavilion. Sure enough, the man was waiting there.
As he spoke, pain appeared in Nanrui's eyes.
"The man took out another white porcelain bottle and told me that it was the mother Gu that controlled my mother. My mother's life and death were all in my hands.
I asked him what he wanted me to do. The mysterious man said that I had to do whatever he asked me to do, otherwise he would crush the female Gu to death.
For the sake of my mother's life, I can only compromise temporarily, and then find a way to help my mother get rid of the poison."
After hearing this, countless questions arose in the minds of the three people.
Mo Jiuye asked, "What did he ask you to do?"
Speaking of this, a look of guilt appeared on Nanrui's face.
"He asked me to win over the people in the Ministry of War. I'm not good at forming cliques and engaging in personal gain. I heard that He Zhiyuan's concubine had given birth to a daughter, so I set my sights on that..."
This completely confirmed what He Zhiyuan said at the beginning. It turned out that Nanrui was behind all this.
"It was you who asked He Zhiyuan to seize the soldiers' food supplies at the border?"
Nan Rui felt a chill down his spine when he saw the two Mo brothers staring at him with murderous eyes.
But since he chose to come here, he had already considered the consequences, so he had no intention of shirking responsibility.
"I told him to do that."
Mo Chuhan slammed the table and stood up when he heard this.
"Nanrui, you are a prince of the Dashun Dynasty after all, how could you do such a thing?"
I thought that facing Mo Chuhan's unreasonableness, Nan Rui would call someone in, but he didn't do that. Instead, he explained:
"I openly asked He Zhiyuan to seize the food and secretly leaked the news to Nan Qi. I knew he would not sit idly by if something happened to the Mo family."
Mo Chuhan was a somewhat impatient person to begin with, and even after Nan Rui explained it this way, he still didn't look happy.
"Even so, it cannot erase your crimes."
"I am indeed guilty. My wish will be fulfilled when I find someone who can remove the poison from my mother's body. At that time, I will leave it to you brothers to deal with." Nan Rui said sincerely.
Mo Chuhan snorted coldly, "Hmph! You are the prince of the Dashun Dynasty. How can we, common people, have the right to deal with you?"
Mo Jiuye still had a lot of things he wanted to know, so he reached out and pulled the starling, signaling him to be patient.
Seeing that the starling sat down and stopped talking, Mo Jiuye asked:
"What's going on with the puppet Gu on my starling?"
Speaking of the puppet Gu in Mo Chuhan's body, Nanrui took the initiative to hand the bottle to the two brothers.
"In order to help my mother remove the poison, I secretly found many books related to raising poisonous insects, so I have some understanding of the art of poison.
One day, a mysterious person sent someone to deliver a message to me. The person was wearing black clothes and a mask, but his eyes were dull and lifeless. I could tell at a glance that the person was infected with the puppet Gu.
Perhaps it was because the man in black was determined. After handing me the letter, he clearly wanted to leave immediately, but he kept circling back and forth in front of me.
Out of curiosity, I took the opportunity to pull off the mask of the man in black and recognized him as Mo Chuhan at a glance.
The moment I saw Mo Chuhan, I was completely stunned. In my understanding, Mo Chuhan had died in battle at the border, so why did he become that man's puppet?
At that time, you, Mo Jiuye, were the only descendant of your Mo family. I admired the Mo family, so I wanted to rescue Mo Chuhan.
While Mo Chuhan was still here to report, I quickly wrote a note saying that I didn't have many people with high martial arts skills and I wanted Mo Chuhan to stay by my side and help me with things.
I did this just to give it a try. After all, my mother's life is in his hands, and there's nothing I can do if he doesn't give it to me.
Just when I had given up hope on this matter and was planning to find another solution, that person actually came in person with Mo Chuhan.
He said that I was very satisfied with my work and that when he became the Emperor of Dashun, he would also like to have a few capable guards around him. Therefore, he agreed to give Mo Chuhan to me and at the same time, gave me the mother Gu that controlled Mo Chuhan.
He Zhiran and Mo Jiuye had no doubt about this. When they were reading the book "Compendium of Gu Insects", it mentioned that to transfer the mother Gu to another person, the person who raised the Gu only needed to let the new owner drop a drop of blood on it.
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