Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Chapter 521

Even when Zhao Yuanzhou and Wen Xiao accompanied Zhuo Yichen and Xie Yuchen on the road to the palace gate, they still hadn't figured out how to reconcile with Bai Jiu without alerting the other people in the team.

The recent abnormalities of Wen Xiao and Zhao Yuanzhou were not only discovered by Pei Sijing, who had always followed Wen Xiao, but even Ying Lei, who had always been slow and cautious, noticed something was wrong. In the entire team, except Zhuo Yichen, who was now focusing on his brother, only Bai Jiu, one of the parties involved, and two people who were trying to find a solution did not notice the disharmonious atmosphere in the team.

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Gong Yuanzheng woke up early in the morning and, accompanied by Li Lun, went to the back mountain to look for some herbs that were not available at the foot of the mountain for research. He also wanted to check on the condition of Master Yue who was still in a coma.

"Master Zheng, how is Master Yue now? Is there any chance that he will wake up?"

Mr. Xue, Mr. Xue Chongzi and Mr. Hua from the Snow Palace and the Flower Palace have been taking turns to wait by Mr. Yue's bedside recently.

Gong Yuanzheng withdrew his hand from taking the patient's pulse, glanced at the anxious Xue Gongzi, and finally shook his head with a heavy face, "I still haven't found any effective method for the time being! I can only try my best to slow down the spread of the poison."

Master Xue looked at Master Yue, who was lying on the bed and whose breath was getting weaker day by day, with a worried look on his face. He then looked at Gong Yuanzheng and said, "How could this happen? Even Master Zheng can't remove the poison from Master Yue. Doesn't that mean that Master Yue really has no choice but to wait for death?"

When Gong Yuanzheng carried Master Xue on his back to organize the medicine box, a crazy smile flashed across his lips.

Li Lun saw that Gong Yuanzheng had packed his things, so he took his medicine box and helped him up. "You've been out for a while today, and you suffered some internal injuries a few days ago. You should go back to bed as soon as possible!"

Li Lun's words were not only a reminder to Gong Yuanzheng, but also a warning to the people in the back mountain. Gong Yuanzheng himself was now an injured person, and in order to treat the criminal who betrayed the palace, he even ignored his own health.

Gong Yuanzheng glanced at Master Xue and Master Hua who were still immersed in sorrow. Although Xue Chongzi, who was standing beside them, had no expression on his face, it could be seen from his eyes that Xue Chongzi's heart was definitely not as calm as he appeared to be on the surface.

"There are still many things waiting for me to deal with in the Zheng Palace. I have already handed over the prescription for Master Yue to the servants of the Yue Palace. Xue Chongzi is also quite knowledgeable about pharmacology and can adjust the prescription according to Master Yue's condition." Gong Yuanzheng instructed the servants of the Yue Palace one by one, "Xue Chongzi, Master Yue will be handed over to you in the next few days. I may not be able to come here for a while."

Xue Chongzi has been frequently going in and out of the front mountain recently because of matters concerning Young Master Yue, the palace gate, and the anomalies in the Council of Elders. He has some understanding of the reason why Gong Yuanzheng could not come, and it is probably Gong Yuanzheng's brother, the King of Wings, who is far away in Tiandu, who has come again.

"If anything is wrong, I will go to the front mountain to ask for your help myself."

Xue Chongzi asked the maid of Yuegong to escort Gong Yuanzheng and others down the mountain.

Leaving the back mountain and walking in the secret passage connecting the front mountain and the back mountain, Li Lun couldn't help but ask: "Are you really not going to tell them another way to save that person?"

Gong Yuanzheng walked in front, and the silver ornaments on his head collided with each other, making pleasant sounds because of the owner's happy mood.

"Tell them? Why? How can I treat a executioner? Letting him live like this is the greatest tolerance I can show him."

When Gong Yuanzheng mentioned Master Yue, he showed his disdain without saying a word, "She is a person who cannot distinguish right from wrong. On the one hand, she enjoys the support of the people in the palace, and on the other hand, she says that she wants to live freely. For someone who is unwilling to take any responsibility, isn't it better for her to die than to live?"

Li Lun did not respond to Gong Yuanzheng's words, but abruptly changed the subject, "I heard that Elder Yue from your Elders' Council has been bedridden and looks like he is about to die. I wonder if it is true?"

When Gong Yuanzheng heard Li Lun mention Elder Yue, he curled his lips and said disdainfully, "I've read his medical records. He was just too sad! He was either trying to put on a show for the assassins in the palace, or he was thinking about how to find a way out."

Li Lun: "What other way out does he have? Unless he died at the hands of the assassin, perhaps those ignorant members of your palace can avenge him. Otherwise, once his deeds are exposed, the only fate that awaits him is probably to be trampled into mud by your palace members."

Gong Yuanzheng's eyes were filled with contempt and disdain for Elder Yue and Young Master Yue, the father and son. "Death is only a relief for them. Living is the beginning of their nightmare."

Li Lun smiled evilly and glanced at a small fork in the dark in the secret passage. "You and Zhuo Yichen are really two extremes. He seems to have grown up in a honey pot. Although he does things decisively, he behaves like a child. Moreover, he is obviously an adult, but he is still as naive as a child. He thinks that everyone he meets in this world is a good person or a good demon, and can be saved."

Gong Yuanzheng glanced at the stone wall of the secret passage above his head with nostalgia, "My second brother was originally a very good person, so the people or monsters he met were also very good. He was surrounded by people who could support him, so naturally he could maintain his pure heart."

Li Lun glanced at the person next to him, "You're not bad! At least you fought your way out on your own, making everyone respect you instead of being afraid of you!"

"Light can only be seen in darkness, and darkness can only be seen in light."

After leaving the secret passage, Gong Yuanzheng plunged into Zheng Gong's small pharmacy and was completely immersed in the ocean of herbs.

Li Lun put down the medicine box in his hand, stood under the big locust tree in Zheng Palace, and took in what had happened in the front mountain during the time he was away.

On their way to the palace gate, Zhuo Yichen and Xie Yuchen also solved a long-standing property theft case in the local area.

It is no empty talk that money can move people's hearts.

"I never thought that some people at the bottom of society would actually do such a cruel thing for a few dozen taels of silver." Wen Xiao sighed.

Everyone present here is from a wealthy family. Even though Bai Jiu was young and went out alone, he had lived in wealth for more than ten years.

"For those people, dozens of taels of silver are the lifetime savings of their family of five. They were all poor people the day before, worrying about the livelihood of their family, but in just one night, their next-door neighbor suddenly changed and had dozens of taels of silver and even a few taels of gold." Although Xie Yuchen lived in a life of luxury, he was not like the people in the carriage who regarded money as dirt and had no common sense.

“But, just for a few dozen taels of silver, he was able to so cruelly kill a family of neighbors who were usually kind to him, and he could use the blood-stained money to satisfy his own desires without any remorse!” Zhuo Yichen had been living in the Zhuo Mansion or the Hua Mansion since he was a child. Even when he went out to buy things at the stalls, he never asked the price, because there were people behind him who would take care of it. Naturally, he would not understand that an ordinary person only earned about ten taels of silver a year, and most of it was just enough to make a living.

"Yuanbao, you have to know that not everyone is like you and doesn't have to work hard for a living. After all, only a minority of people are born into wealthy families. Most people in this world are ordinary people who worry about the few pieces of silver you mentioned."

Xie Yuchen also had a headache. How did his father raise Yuanbao? He raised him to be a person who didn't understand the world at all. Obviously, when he raised him, he was absolutely cruel.

Xie Yuchen couldn't help but shed a few bitter tears for himself. Back then, when he had just graduated from high school, his father coaxed and tricked him into leaving home with only 10,000 yuan left. He was also worried that someone in Yanjing would give him too high a salary because of his identity, so he even sent someone to send him to an unknown, poor small city in the south overnight.

He vaguely remembered that when he woke up from his sleep, the original rosewood bed had turned into a cheap hard bed, and even the silk quilt that had been covering him had turned into a thick cotton quilt with spots of dried yellow unknown liquid on it.

There was no cup of warm water prepared long ago on his bedside table, and there was no soft Persian carpet on the floor. The floor had been trampled so much that its original color could not be seen. Even the toilet in the bathroom was covered with a thick layer of yellow dirt.

Everything Xie Yuchen saw in the room seemed so unreal. He wanted to get into bed, but looking at the dirty quilt, he realized that it was a hard bed that had been slept on by countless people.

Xie Yuchen suppressed his nausea and explored the room. He put on the backpack on the sofa, wrapped the door handle with a few tissues, and tiptoed to the hotel where he woke up.

"How did I get here? Didn't your hotel conduct a thorough investigation? You just let the guest be sent to the room? Aren't you afraid that something bad might happen to him in your hotel?"

Xie Yuchen argued with the front desk staff of the hotel with good reason, but the front desk staff ignored him and said directly, "We don't have so many rules here. It's up to you to stay or not. If not, pay yesterday's room fee and get out!"

Xie Yuchen was very angry at the unreasonable front desk staff, but he was thin-skinned and had no idea how to communicate with her effectively.

Xie Yuchen held back his anger and threw out three 100-yuan bills from his backpack, "Based on your service attitude, I will buy you out sooner or later!"

The front desk clerk picked up the three hundred yuan on the table, dipped a little saliva in it to check its authenticity, and said, "You don't have enough money. The person who sent you here booked you a luxury suite, which costs eight hundred yuan, and you are still five hundred short! Pay quickly! You look young and well-dressed. You are not going to default on the room payment, are you?"

When Xie Yuchen heard that the shabby room cost eight hundred, his voice of doubt fell apart. "That room is called a luxury suite? What is that yellow unknown liquid on the quilt? It's ok that there's no Simmons mattress on the bed, but there's not even a bed! Have you never sent someone to clean the toilet? There's a layer of dirt on it!"

Just as the front desk staff and Xie Yuchen were arguing about the room issue, a group of people walked out of the hotel and came over due to the noise of the argument.

"Uncle Huaer! Why are you here? Why don't you have anyone with you? Dahua and the mute aren't you afraid that someone will kidnap you!"

Suddenly, a familiar voice came to Xie Yuchen's ears. The voice sounded a little mean. He didn't even need to turn around to look, he already knew who was speaking.

"Hei Xia Zi! My father tricked me into coming to this shabby place. He even sent someone to send me to such a remote place overnight. I was also forced to live in the so-called luxurious room of this hotel!" Xie Yuchen became more and more angry as he spoke. He told Hei Xia Zi all his dissatisfaction since he woke up.

He was already feeling nervous and confused because he was in an unfamiliar place, and the hotel was lying to him and making him the scapegoat, which made him even angrier.

However, just when he was feeling annoyed, he turned around and saw an acquaintance standing next to him. At that moment, he felt as if he had found someone to rely on, and his whole spirit was lifted at once.

"Hei Xiazi, look at this store, it's simply a shady shop! How dare they blackmail me!" Xie Yuchen pointed at the person at the front desk and said indignantly.

The person at the front desk was no pushover, of course. Her eyes were quite sharp, and she could tell at a glance that the guy in black behind the young man was definitely not someone to be trifled with. Moreover, the group of black-clad men who brought the young boy here in the middle of the night also gave people the same feeling that they were not to be trifled with.

She knew very well that she just wanted to extort some money, but there was no need to lose her life for such a small amount of money.

"Miss, I think the person who sent this young boy here should have already paid for him. And is the room you booked for him really the so-called luxury room in your hotel?"

Hei Xiazi rested his forearm on the table at the front desk, leaning forward slightly, his eyes were like a cold lightning, staring straight at the woman in front of him. Although his words seemed to carry some teasing and ridicule, the tone made people feel extremely cold, as if a poisonous snake hidden in the dark was quietly coiling around your neck, and it would bite you without hesitation if you made the slightest move.

"No, no, no! I was wrong! Really! I'm sorry, young master!" The woman was so frightened that her face turned pale and her body trembled like a sieve. Her voice was full of fear and despair. "I really just wanted to take more money because of greed. I also came up with such a bad idea because my family couldn't make ends meet!"

As the woman spoke, she suddenly collapsed to the ground as if all her strength had been drained away. Then she bent her knees and knelt on the ground with a "thump". She knelt down in the direction of Xie Yuchen. Her head was lowered deeply, almost touching the ground. She kept clasping her hands in front of her chest and kept muttering words of begging for mercy, hoping that Xie Yuchen would forgive her mistakes.

Xie Yuchen obviously did not expect this woman to be so panicked. He looked at the scene in front of him in a daze, and for a moment he did not know how to respond. He subconsciously looked at Hei Xia Zi, as if seeking his help and instructions.