Chapter 413 - Stay with Him No Matter What Happens

After Yan Xu went away, the room fell into weird silence suddenly.

Dong Shuang saw that the two masters remained still as they did when Yan Xu left, so she swallowed in fear and stated cautiously, “I am off now.”

Afterward, she walked out of the room gingerly and considerately closed the door for them.

They were in a stalemate for a while. In the end, Shi Qingxue sighed first and received the medicine bowl from Mo Junyang. “Take medicine first. Xiao has said that the effect of the medicine will be not so good after it goes cold.”

So Shi Qingxue usually thought that taking medicine was like a state affair. Even though they had a conflict, she still kept thinking about it.

After she fed him medicine as usual, they kept silent again.

Shi Qingxue fiddled with the medicine bowl in her hand occasionally and asked in a distant tone, “Don’t you have anything to tell me?”

Mo Junyang paused for a moment and then advised, “Yan Xu harbors evil intentions. Don’t go there tonight.”

Even though Mo Junyang cared about her sincerely, he had the ability to irritate her as soon as he started to speak.

Shi Qingxue had known Mo Junyang’s disposition that she should run away first if something bad happened, so she thought that she could cope with it well, but after she heard it, she was still irritated almost to death.

She opened her eyes wide, with many words to curse him flashing in her brain. If she started, she could speak without a stop for one hour and would stop only after he was left without an argument.

However, Shi Qingxue was clear that it was pointless to argue with Mo Junyang at this time, so she took a deep breath and forced herself to calm down.

After a long time, she still couldn’t help but say with sarcasm, “I can’t go there as it is dangerous, yet how about you? Do you think that you are an immortal and will never have an accident?”

Even an immortal would be powerless someday. Moreover, Mo Junyang was an ordinary person.

Once Shi Qingxue thought that Mo Junyang would attend the banquet with treachery alone tonight, she felt that her heart almost jumped out of her chest.

However, Mo Junyang still looked as if he were superior to God, saying in a calm tone, “I will be fine.”

As expected, she couldn’t make Mo Junyang surrender in a common way.

Shi Qingxue realized how horrible and impervious to reason this man was when he got obstinate.

She took a look at Mo Junyang deeply and asked in a low voice, “You will be fine…What about me? Have you thought about me?”

“So I told you not to go. It will be dangerous…” Mo Junyang explained.

Shi Qingxue expressed, “You know that you will be in danger yet tell me to keep out of it. Mo Junyang, do you think that I am so cruel or I have no feelings?”

Her voice was loud, and she almost shouted in the end, with sadness spreading from her words automatically.

After she experienced the scene that Mo Junyang almost lost his life, even though he was fine now, could the sadness and fear left in her heart disappear like dust blown away?

No!

That image was inserted into Shi Qingxue’s heart like a nail. She couldn’t pull it out. Even though she wasn’t hurt more, she couldn’t remove it but would feel the pain once she touched it.

She was unable to imagine the scene and had only one thought. From now on, she would stay with Mo Junyang no matter what hardships they would face.

They would be together even if they died.

However, Mo Junyang obviously couldn’t understand her feelings but wanted to push her away when it was dangerous, as if she were a fragile crystal doll and a layer of expensive crystal powder would fall once it was touched.

Was she so incapable and untrustworthy?

Mo Junyang got anxious after Shi Qingxue questioned him with grief repeatedly, and his emotion which was covered up with his indifference intentionally couldn’t be concealed anymore.

He grabbed Shi Qingxue’s hand and lost his composure. Then he explained anxiously, “I didn’t mean it. I am just worried that you will have an accident. I don’t hope that.

“I trust you. I trust you more than myself.

“Really!

“…”

Perhaps it was Shi Qingxue’s first time to hear Mo Junyang speak nervously in detail in two lives.

Shi Qingxue listened carefully till he finished his words. She didn’t think that he would cheat her in something like this, so she believed that he didn’t want her to be in danger because he was worried about her, but it didn’t mean that she could accept it.

She gazed at Mo Junyang and stressed each word. “Okay. Let me follow you tonight.”

Mo Junyang still wanted to refuse, yet when he met Shi Qingxue’s firm eyes, he couldn’t say anything to refuse.

He asked himself if he really wanted to refuse.

He just couldn’t accept it if there was something wrong with Shi Qingxue again, so he insisted on making this decision

At last, Mo Junyang couldn’t defeat Shi Qingxue who was stubborn. He sighed in a low voice and stated, “Okay. But the banquet tonight will be unpeaceful, and you can’t leave me.”

Shi Qingxue instantly showed a sweet smile and looked adorable. “Don’t worry. I just want to stay with you. How would I leave you?”

Her round eyes rolled, and she grabbed Mo Junyang’s arm. She was not stingy to play the woman. “I will be fine if I am with you. Don’t you believe in your capabilities?”

Although Shi Qingxue always complained that Mo Junyang acted recklessly, she had to admit that he was quite knowledgeable about schemes, and anybody couldn’t surpass him even if they worked hard.

Mo Junyang was harmed by Yan Xu for the first time and infected with ptomaine because he wanted to save Mo Junzhan, but this time, when he knew that Yan Xu harbored evil intentions, he would still go there, so he must have a complete countermeasure.

Even though Shi Qingxue knew nothing, she was sure for no reason.

Unexpectedly, Mo Junyang showed a bitter smile which could hardly be noticed, different from his confident and calm expression in the past.

Shi Qingxue’s first reaction was to rub her eyes as she thought that she misjudged.

When she opened her eyes again to look at Mo Junyang, he had returned calm.

She could notice nothing.

Shi Qingxue was speechless.

Was she dazzled?

Shi Qingxue shook her head and got rid of the blind conjectures. Then she pestered Mo Junyang and asked about what would happen tonight.

“Junyang, look, I will go with you tonight. You need to tell me what you plan to do. Otherwise, won’t I stand in your way as I know nothing?”

What she said was reasonable.

Mo Junyang glanced at Shi Qingxue impassively and pretended that he didn’t see the curiosity burning in her eyes.

He asked unhurriedly, “Although Yan Xu doesn’t know why I could escape from death, he must have guessed the fact that we know the truth about the epidemic in Jiangzhou. Do you think that he can keep calm?”

He must be restless.

When Shi Qingxue thought that Yan Xu might be scared out of wits, she felt happy and said, taking pleasure in his misfortune, “No wonder he was so anxious to invite you to dinner.”

When Mo Junyang came to Jiangzhou City, in the beginning, Yan Xu wanted to kill him, and this misdeed could be ignored. Later he was neither hostile nor friendly to the imperial envoy all the time, as if he didn’t take the imperial envoy seriously.

He almost wrote the word “neglect” on his face.

Of course, it was because Yan Xu was confident and sure that Mo Junyang and the others couldn’t find the evidence against him.

Now he was embarrassed, so he was scared.

However, wasn’t it too late to flatter Mo Junyang now?

Anybody who was smart wouldn’t show mercy to the people who had harmed him.

Mo Junyang knew that Shi Qingxue guessed wrong, so he pointed out seriously, “Since he dares to kill me, he won’t consider making peace with me. This banquet won’t be so simple.”

Mo Junyang could guess what Yan Xu planned to do.

Shi Qingxue was inexperienced and didn’t know the tricks of the officialdom. She was open-mouthed after hearing that. “Do you mean that he will make use of this banquet and try to kill you again? No, no way? Does he want to die?”

Mo Junyang had an accident on the way to Shang Village last time. If he really died, Yan Xu probably could hardly absolve himself from the blame. If Mo Junyang died in the magistrate’s mansion, didn’t Yan Xu want to stay alive?

Shi Qingxue couldn’t understand what Yan Xu was thinking about.

Mo Junyang touched Shi Qingxue’s head and conveniently pulled her into his arms, explaining in a good mood, “If he doesn’t take actions against me, I can find his crimes sooner or later, and then nobody can protect him. On the contrary, if the imperial envoy and his people have an accident, His Majesty may get furious, but the situation is unstable now, and the northern border is the main problem. How would His Majesty bother about his officials for a ‘dead person’ and disappoint others?”

Right, if Mo Junyang “died in an accident”, Yan Xu would be charged with negligence of duty.

Nevertheless, the negligence of duty might be significant or negligible.

If it was significant, he would be beheaded and all his family would be eliminated, which was not too much, while if it was a trifle and the problem was minimized, it would be nothing.

After all, when a grownup died in an accident, who could be to blame?

Shi Qingxue finally understood Yan Xu’s plan and pouted in a rage, saying in a bad mood, “This man is so bold. We can’t let him go.”

She clenched her fists in secret and showed that she was angry. She thought about nothing but what Yan Xu had done and didn’t notice that she was held by a man with a possessive posture in his arms.

It seemed that she was his possession.

Shi Qingxue didn’t notice it but moved subconsciously and found herself a comfortable position. Then she continued to ask, “Speaking of which, I haven’t figured out how those common people were infected with ptomaine. Do you know?”

Although Shen Xiao said that the people were infected with ptomaine only after eating the dead people’s flesh or being infected with ptomaine through the wounds, if she pondered it over, she would find that it was not as simple as what Shen Xiao had said.

The ptomaine was not like the epidemic. Although it would spread, it wouldn’t be so exaggerated as to cause all people’s death in a village or town.

Even if some victims were starving and ate dead people’s flesh, there must be few of them.

Shi Qingxue contemplated for a moment and always thought that she would rather starve to death than eat dead people’s flesh.

There was no dignified reason, but she would be disgusted and unable to eat it.

She believed that most people had the basic conscience and would die rather than cannibalize.

Under the situation, why did so many people die of ptomaine?