Chapter 209 The Arrival of a Guest
“Miss Mu doesn’t know me, but I’ve known you since you entered the manor yesterday,” the woman said in a charming and alluring voice. “You can just call me Shi Dong.”
"Please come in." Mu Jianjian invited the other party to enter the hospital, and Shi Dong nodded slightly without refusing.
As she walked past her, Mu Jianjian easily noticed the red marks on the other woman's neck. She lowered her eyes, concealing the thoughts in them.
"I heard that the young master brought back another woman from the Red Chamber and is even thinking about her. So I rushed here today to visit you, young lady. I hope you don't mind my intrusion." Shi Dong placed the dark brown wooden box on the table.
"No." Mu Jianjian shook her head.
"It's good that Miss Mu doesn't mind. After all, we both know this place. It's a place that eats people up without spitting out the bones. There's nowhere to go and nowhere to escape. Sisters from the Red Mansion should naturally look after each other."
Mu Jianjian echoed the other person's words, and even though the other person spoke softly, she did not let her guard down.
"I wonder if Young Master Baili gave you a pill yesterday?" After the two chatted for a while, Shi Dong slowly got to the point.
"I gave it to her." Mu Jianjian didn't hide anything and nodded in acknowledgment.
Since the other party learned of this news and did not show any obvious hostility, she naturally did not need to turn away the intelligence she was about to receive.
“I won’t beat around the bush with you. That kind of pill is poisonous. Once ingested, it can easily turn people with weak mental strength into his puppets, similar to… soul-controlling among cultivators?” Shi Dong seemed to be thinking about how to describe it more clearly. He thought the girl opposite him would change her expression drastically, but she didn’t react at all.
According to the information her master gave her, she was clearly an exceptionally delicate woman. Or had she underestimated her?
Shi Dong pondered for a moment, then continued, "Those pills are imprinted with the deepest spiritual imprints of cultivators. Once they are ingested and remain in the body for a certain period of time, one will lose control of the body and be able to do whatever others want you to do."
The woman's voice was very low, but it still didn't frighten Mu Jianjian.
This pill is even more vicious and ruthless than the one Jin Hongze fed her before. Jin Hongze wanted to kill her to avenge Jin Fuzhen, and Baili Yicheng would use such a cruel method even to deal with an unarmed woman like her.
She looked up at Shi Dong and said, "Thank you for telling me all this, Miss Shi Dong. But I wonder how you knew all this?"
“Everyone who enters the young master’s residence will be given this drug. This way, he can better control us, and if he gets tired of us, he can easily get rid of us.” Shi Dong lowered her head, letting the black hair beside her cheeks cover her expression, her eyes flashing with resentment and anger.
Even though her master knew she would be treated this way upon entering, he still sent her here. Shi Dong once thought that her master trusted her the most to entrust her with this mission, but the jade slips that had been passed over the years were always about missions and never mentioned her.
"Then we are really pitiful." Mu Jianjian's emotions were weak and listless. No matter how Shi Dong tried to sow discord between the two, it was like punching cotton, without stirring up any emotional fluctuations.
Shi Dong couldn't fathom the other person's emotions. Her gentle smile gradually faded as she opened the wooden box on the table. "I've been in this household for over a year now, and naturally, I've already inquired about the elixir through various people. I've come today to deliver the antidote to my sister."
Mu Jianjian wouldn't be so narcissistic as to think that everyone loves her so much that people rush to be nice to her as soon as she enters the manor.
Before she could even ask, Shi Dong explained, "I heard that you are Miss Yunrong's new disciple. When I was in the Red Chamber, I was protected by her and was not violated by those people. Now that you have entered the mansion, I naturally want to do my best to repay her."
“I see,” Mu Jianjian murmured, her previous doubts largely dissipating after her explanation. “Thank you.”
"Miss Mu, there's no need for thanks. I just wonder how Miss Yunrong has been these days?" Shi Dong's eyes revealed genuine concern.
The feelings are real, but something feels off.
Mu Jianjian smiled and told the other person about the interesting things that happened between her and Yun Rongjian. After the two chatted for a while, Shi Dong left.
After saying goodbye to the girl, she could no longer hide the smile on her lips.
Didn't her master tell her to give the antidote to this woman?
She copied it exactly, but she didn't know if the other person would become suspicious or take the antidote.
That's beyond her control. After all, what in Young Master Baili's mansion is predetermined?
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At the entrance of Duyunfang.
An antique-style plaque stands atop vermilion pillars, with dragons and phoenixes carved at the base of the pillars upon closer inspection. Abundant true energy permeates the vast jade stone yard, exuding an aura of luxurious spiritual stones.
On the plaza, countless monks dressed in uniform gray and white robes waited in front of them. In front of them, a fat man adorned with countless jewels rubbed his hands together as he stared ahead.
"Father, I'm telling you, is there anything important that you absolutely have to let me come?" Suddenly, a flippant male voice broke the silence. Baili Yicheng yawned and continued, "Didn't you come last time?"
Every time he climbed the ten thousand stone steps of Duyunfang, he was exhausted, but he just couldn't refuse.
"Shut up! Look at where you are! And what kind of appearance are you!" The brothel owner, Baili Wantong, glared at Baili Yicheng, who was disheveled in front of everyone, and scolded him in a low voice.
"Tsk, old man, I'm already giving you face by even coming here." Baili Yicheng scoffed lightly, not caring at all.
The surrounding cultivators remained silent with their heads down, their expressions calm, seemingly accustomed to the conversation between the two.
Baili Wantong was so angry he wanted to curse, but he held back because of the current situation. He could only raise his index finger and point at Baili Yicheng, and said to calm himself down, "I don't care what you're like now, but when other guests come, you're not allowed to be rude to them!"
Baili Yicheng didn't take his words to heart. He leaned against the pillar and glanced at the person coming down the stone steps.
Thick smoke and mist were already rising from the stone steps, swirling around the jade-white staircase and slowly moving with the breeze.
After a while, a white figure appeared on the stone steps.
The man was dressed in white, with a face as fair as jade, a gentle expression, and a smile on his lips. The only thing he wore was a thumb-sized jade pendant hanging from his waist, yet his temperament was as ethereal and refined as a celestial being.
Even though the other party was walking uphill, Baili Yicheng felt a strange and terrifying sense of oppression rising in his heart.
Who is this person?
Why did his father bring all the cultivators in the neighborhood to wait for him?
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