GBP Chapter 104 Whatever You Say is Right
Chapter 104 Whatever You Say is Right
No sleep for one night.
Sang Wan sat in the cold bathtub, watching the dawn break outside the window.
The room was empty, the candles had long since burned out, solidifying into a pile of wax, and the mottled wax spots resembled the confused heart.
The medicinal properties of Hehuan Powder have completely dissipated and she is fine now.
A maid stepped in from outside the room and said respectfully, "Grandma, I am here to help you change your clothes."
Sang Wan finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you."
"The prince said that he would take you back to shore as soon as you woke up."
The maid dried her hair and handed her new clothes. Sang Wan put them on and found they were the perfect size.
Thinking of Pei Jinzhi, Sang Wan felt complicated and asked in a low voice, "Where is the prince?"
"The prince returned home early in the morning." The maid replied with her head down.
I guess I was the one who pissed him off.
Sang Wan felt somewhat relieved and somewhat disappointed.
The pleasure boat docked, she looked back at the boat with carved beams and painted pillars, recalling her first meeting with Pei Jinzhi, which seemed like a lifetime ago.
"You can't just get on or off my boat whenever you want."
Alas, his ship is destined not to be her shore.
*
“A-choo!” “A-choo!”
Pei Jinzhi sneezed several times in succession.
Li Jiu brought a bowl of ginger soup: "Master, drink another bowl to drive away the cold."
Pei Jinzhi sniffed, picked up the bowl of soup and drank it all in one gulp: "She went back?"
"Yeah. Xiaoshun saw her enter the house with his own eyes before she left." Li Jiu replied.
Pei Jinzhi said sadly, "Okay. How's the Qian Lu issue going?"
"Our men followed Qian Lu all the way to the City God Temple, and sure enough, Mother Wang came with the silver to get the medicine. She took advantage of Qian Lu's unpreparedness and tried to kill him to silence him. We caught her red-handed. Look, sir."
Li Jiu handed over a porcelain bottle.
Pei Jinzhi opened it and found the smell was a bit pungent.
"Qinghe has examined it. This is a poison made from blister beetles. Madam Wang said Aunt Zhao bought it to poison rats. Oh, even a drop of this stuff can kill a horse. With just one bottle like this, I'm afraid all the rats in Fengshui Town will be wiped out."
"Go on." Pei Jinzhi's face was gloomier than usual.
"Xiao Shun simply pinched his mouth and tried to feed him blister beetles, but Qian Lu was so frightened that he confessed everything. He had an affair with Aunt Zhao, and Aunt Zhao had him search for poison specifically to kill you."
Li Jiu pulled out a stack of papers from his sleeve: "Master, this is the confession."
Pei Jinzhi unfolded it and looked at it, feeling puzzled: "Aunt Zhao wants to poison me?"
"Aunt Zhao holds a grudge against you because of the Third Young Master's studies."
Pei Jinzhi was suspicious. Although Aunt Zhao was an actress, she was not so stupid.
The Bailu Academy that Pei Wuyan went to was the best academy in Daxia. Why would she want to kill him for this?
"You are to hand this evidence over to Chunhui Hall. The matter concerning the women in the inner chambers will be handled by the old lady. The matter involving Qian Lu and Mother Wang involves murder, so they will be sent to the authorities for investigation."
As soon as he finished speaking, he sneezed violently several times.
Li Jiu was a little worried. He had just vomited blood and had not yet taken good care of himself, but he caught a cold.
"I'm saying the same thing to you. Why did you soak in cold water with Grandma last night? You caught a cold and you'll be sick for a while."
Li Jiu was guarding outside the door, and his ears were still sharp.
I called for water seven times last night, but it was all cold water.
"What do you know? What if she has some residual poison from the Hehuan Powder on her body and infects me? I'm soaking in it together to detoxify her."
Pei Jinzhi sniffed and glared at him.
Li Jiu pressed his lips tightly, trying hard not to laugh out loud: "Yes, everything you say is right."
"What's going on with the second brother?" Pei Jinzhi asked.
"His leg was broken, and he's lying on the bed screaming. Earlier, you asked me to rescue Chen Laosan and his sister, and now they've both testified. The assassins who were assassinated on the pleasure boat the other day were also Qi Bo's men. He confessed everything without much torture."
"Have you mentioned Pei Yanting?" This is what Pei Jinzhi is most concerned about.
"I mentioned it, why didn't I mention it? She burst into tears on the spot, saying that it was all instigated by the Second Young Master."
Li Jiu went to listen to the trial and wanted to laugh when he thought of that scene.
Pei Jinzhi's expression finally improved a little: "It's time to make him spit out the blood-stained silver."
"Ms. Kang went to the old lady to complain early in the morning, and she couldn't rest in peace."
"Let her cry. Even if the old lady knows, she will not interfere with the county government's judgment of the case." Pei Jinzhi knew the temperament of this old ancestor well.
"The old ancestor shouted that he knew the family rules and wanted to break the second young master's other leg as well."
Pei Jinzhi sneered, breaking his legs would be too easy for him.
"Where's Baili Xi? Why didn't I see him bothering me today?"
Normally, he would come to disturb her early in the morning, but today she was particularly quiet.
"Master Baili is at the county office. The body of the assassin who attacked the man in the street a few days ago was swapped. Now there's the Sihai Casino incident. The county magistrate can't erase his guilt for shielding the gambling den's evil deeds. Master Baili has already written a memorial and is returning to Beijing to present it to the emperor."
"This kid is a scoundrel in his daily life, but he is not vague at all when it comes to big things." Pei Jinzhi showed approval.
Li Jiu also admired him: "Master Baili is a handsome man with great potential at a young age."
Seeing that Pei Jinzhi looked better, he plucked up the courage to ask:
"By the way, Master, why don't you bring Grandma back home? None of the Sang family are good people. If she goes back, she'll be walking into the tiger's mouth again."
Everything was fine last night, but the prince suddenly left in anger.
"Anyone can come into the Pei Mansion now?" Pei Jinzhi's face changed.
Li Jiu was confused by this sudden scolding: "Master, that's not what I meant."
When did grandma become a nobody?
What is going on?
"Don't mention her in front of this prince anymore!"
Pei Jinzhi flicked his sleeves and went straight back to the inner room, leaving Li Jiu alone in the wind.
Li Jiu: Where am I? What did I do wrong?
*
When Sang Wan returned home, the house was in a mess again.
Sang Daqing took all his valuables and ran away. Liu Yumei simply dragged Fang'er back to her parents' home in anger, and Sang's mother was crying alone.
When she saw Sang Wan coming back, she burst into tears again and complained bitterly.
"It's too late! How could I have raised such a beast? What should I do now? I heard that he owes more than 10,000 taels? Oh my God, why am I so miserable?"
"When I came back today, I heard that the gambling house was raided. Mother, those gambling house servants won't harass us anymore. Sang Daqing, that beast, he..." Sang Wan gritted his teeth, but still didn't say anything about the bad things he had done.
It was useless to say anything. Sang's mother had no choice but to cry.
Sang Wan suppressed his anger and followed the maid to clean up the mess.
When she returned to the room, she found her things in a mess and her clothes scattered all over the floor.
Sang Wan felt a chill on her back instantly.
She searched through the pile of clothes in the cupboard for a long time but couldn't find the token.
Damn it, the token of the Imperial City Bureau is missing.
Sang Wan felt extremely uneasy: "Who has been to this room?"
The maid replied, "Master Qing came and turned it over, and then I saw the eldest lady sneaking in and turning it over again, and there was no one else."
Could it be that Sang Daqing took it? Could it be that Liu Yumei took it?
"Hurry up and go to the eldest lady's family home. If you see her, ask her to come back."
Pei Jinzhi said that whoever holds the token will be in danger of his life.
The token must be recovered before they pawn it.
The maid responded and left quickly.