allonlinenovel Chapter 131 It’s you!
Chapter 131 It’s you!
They were all dead; Nakata hadn't even processed the news yet.
Du Chen, who was writing a memorial to His Majesty, almost jumped up. She had just been talking at length about her own merits in the memorial, and in the blink of an eye, all of these people were dead.
Du Chen was the first to react and immediately went to check the cave. Zhong Tian looked anxious and wanted to go check as well, but Le Xingxi hesitated. Zhong Tian touched Le Xingxi's hand and asked, "Are you afraid of seeing dead people?"
Le Xingxi shook her head.
Upon arriving at the cave, the scene before him caused Zhongtian a pang of pain in his heart. Part of the cave had collapsed, and more than 20 people lay sprawled on the ground.
To facilitate their placement, all 20-plus people were housed together in a cave. These were all criminals, and once Du Chen reported to His Majesty, His Majesty would send someone to escort them to the capital.
Who would have thought they would all be dead now?
Nakata stepped forward with some difficulty, touched the bodies of these people, and frowned with some doubt.
Du Chen was on the verge of collapse. She knelt on the ground, clutching her head, repeatedly muttering, "What should I do? What should I do?"
Le Xingxi glanced at Zhong Tian, then slowly walked up to Du Chen, squatted down, and met Du Chen's gaze. His harmless, cute, and even somewhat holy face miraculously calmed Du Chen down.
Le Xingxi's tone was very calm: "Madam Du, there's always a way out. Madam Du, what you should do now is save yourself!"
"How can I save myself? Master, teach me!" Du Chen seemed to regard Le Xingxi as his only lifeline.
"Keep this matter completely hidden!"
Du Chen shook his head: "How could we deceive His Majesty?"
Le Xingxi smiled and put his hands together: "Madam Du, do not fall into delusion. I do not want you to deceive His Majesty, but only to postpone the time when His Majesty will know about this matter."
“Right now, we have only discovered that someone is building weapons, but we do not know who the seller is or who the mastermind is. If you report this without knowing anything, His Majesty will appreciate your hard work and consider it a great achievement. However, the person you were guarding has died, and you know nothing about it. How can you explain this to His Majesty?”
Le Xingxi continued to patiently persuade him. "You must understand, His Majesty is the ruler of the world, high above all others. How could he possibly have any sympathy for a mere yamen runner like you?"
"Madam Du, you must think this through! Don't let this merit that could bring you promotion and advancement become evidence to kill you!"
Du Chen listened slowly, her expression gradually calming down. The provocative meaning in Le Xingxi's words was extremely obvious, but it undoubtedly struck a chord with Du Chen. She slowly nodded.
Le Xingxi smiled, but the smile aggravated the wound at the corner of his mouth, causing his face to involuntarily twist.
He looked at Zhongtian with a hint of smugness, while Zhongtian stood beside him, giving him a meaningful look.
The moonlight was low outside!
Zhongtian stood outside, looking at the bright moon in the sky, waiting for Zhao Duan and Le Xingxi inside.
So much has happened these past two days, Le Xingxi must have suffered quite a few injuries. Zhao Duan, being a male doctor, is very convenient, so Zhong Tian asked Zhao Duan to give Le Xingxi a full-body examination, in case Le Xingxi hides his injuries to avoid worrying Zhong Tian!
Just as women today have their own private conversations, men sitting together also have many topics that belong to boys, only they take a long time.
Zhongtian remained patient and waited quietly. The images of the more than 20 dead bodies kept flashing through her mind. In modern times, if more than 10 people die in an accident, it is considered a major accident.
Were the lives of ordinary people in ancient times so worthless?
The door creaked open, and Nakata looked over.
The two were talking about something, and Le Xingxi's face turned slightly red. When she met Zhong Tian's gaze, she quickly looked away as if she had been burned.
Zhao Duan looked at Zhong Tian and Le Xingxi with some amusement. Having been in the world of pleasure for a long time, he could naturally see the ambiguity between the two.
Just now, when Zhao Duan was applying medicine to Le Xingxi, Le Xingxi was quite embarrassed and blushed as she asked Zhao Duan for advice on bedroom techniques.
Le Xingxi was a blank slate in this regard, and he wanted to add some color to himself so that Zhongniang wouldn't feel that he was too monotonous.
Zhao Duan nodded with amusement, and without holding back, he shared all his knowledge with her. Looking at the blushing Le Xingxi, he said, "This is just theoretical knowledge. To truly experience the wonders of this kind of thing, you have to try it yourself!"
Practice, how to put it into practice?
The two then talked for a while longer.
When they came out, Nakata was waiting outside. Nakata was not impatient; she always seemed to have an unusually high level of patience with men.
Zhongtian looked at Le Xingxi and asked gently, "Xingxi, Zhao Duan, don't you two have anything you want to tell me?"
The deaths of those more than 20 people haunted Zhong Tian, keeping him awake at night. This human tragedy, however, seemed to have no effect on Le Xingxi. He was not a cold-blooded person, and his indifference could only mean that there was more to the story.
There's something wrong with the bodies of those 20-plus people. Zhongtian just touched them, and they still had the warmth of living people. If they hadn't stopped breathing, they would have been no different from living people.
Du Chen was too emotional to notice at the time, but if she had been more alert, she would have noticed something was wrong with just a slight touch!
Le Xingxi and Zhao Duan exchanged a glance, and Le Xingxi said playfully, "We've been found out."
Zhao Duan suddenly knelt on the ground and kowtowed deeply to Zhong Tian.
Zhongtian took a step back: "Get up, what are you doing?"
Le Xingxi looked at Zhong Tian, "Zhong Niang, yes, I did it!"
Zhong Tian's expression changed slightly: "You killed people? More than 20 lives!"
“I’m not that cold-blooded. Those people didn’t die. They just took the medicine that Zhao Duan prepared and fell into a temporary coma.”
Zhao Duan was a marginal figure in the group, and no one paid special attention to him. So she appeared quietly in the cave and gave her fellow villager a drug that would temporarily suffocate him.
"We are trying to save ourselves! We can't just sit here and wait to be arrested and dealt with in Beijing!"
"Remember? I said I wanted to help you achieve your ambitions, Zhongniang, this is your chance!"
Nakata immediately understood. "Doing this is too risky!"
"High risk, high reward."
Le Xingxi looked at Zhong Tian: "Zhong Niang, you need to have your own backup plan, your own trump card, and the ability to protect the people you love!"
Le Xingxi placed his hand on Zhongtian's face and gently stroked it. His affectionate eyes looked at Zhongtian and he said, "Zhongniang, my body is so weak, you must be able to protect me!"