CH 107.1

Translator – Xiao He Lian

Chapter 107.1

But soon, Hua Yin looked away.

And Wen Chi felt relieved.

At the same time, the person behind him also walked up to him. It turned out to be General Lin, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time. Seeing Wen Chi’s expression turned unpleasant, General Lin thought something had happened to him: “Young Master Wen? What’s wrong with you?”

Only then did Wen Chi realize his gaffe. He quickly squeezed out a smile, shook his head and said, “I’m fine, thank you General Lin for your concern.”

When General Lin heard this, he still worriedly advised him: “If Young Master Wen has any discomfort, it’s better to say it earlier, so as not to drag a minor illness into a serious one.”

Wen Chi nodded and thanked him a few times gratefully.

General Lin just saw Wen Chi from the sidewalk and thought of coming over to exchange some pleasantries. Now that the exchange of greetings was over, he planned to return to his seat.

Just as General Lin was about to leave, Wen Chi suddenly remembered something. He quickly stopped General Lin, saw General Lin turned back in doubt, he smiled, and asked casually: “Speaking of this,  I wonder if Prince Xuan’s illness has improved.”

General Lin was at a loss: “Illness?”

Wen Chi said: “When I was in Jinzhou, Prince Xuan looked very haggard. Later, you left in a hurry. It has been two years and I have never had the opportunity to visit Prince Xuan… Naturally, I can’t visit Prince Xuan with my current position, so I can only ask you, General Lin.”

After saying this, Wen Chi looked guilty, he was not good at acting, fortunately, after he lowered his head, General Lin could not see his face, so he didn’t need to show much acting skills.

After hearing these words, General Lin immediately understood. He comforted Wen Chi and said, “Prince Xuan is already fine, please worry about it.” After a pause, he sighed, “Speaking of it, I am to blame for this matter.”

Wen Chi said: “What is the relationship between Prince Xuan’s illness and General Lin?”

General Lin thought that Wen Chi was one of the few witnesses, so he didn’t hide anything: “Young master Wen, do you still remember the stone I showed you? The stone that I picked up at the Peach Blossom Banquet that was strung with a red rope.”

Wen Chi had a vague guess in his mind, but on the surface he still pretended not to know anything. With a serious expression on his face, he nodded and said, “I have a little impression.”

“Ai, I thought it was just an ordinary stone but I didn’t know it was so evil!” General Lin looked a bit odd as if he had recalled something bad, and continued after a moment of deliberation, “It’s a long story, but I guess that stone has the effect of charming the mind and can turn a normal person into a strange person.”

Needless to say, the person who was made weird must be the Fourth Prince Shi Jin.

One could guess from the twisted look in General Lin’s eyes, as for what strange things Shi Jin did to General Lin and for a moment, Wen Chi didn’t know whether to pity the innocent Shi Jin or the even more innocent General Lin.

General Lin felt that this matter was too mysterious, so he didn’t say anything to Wen Chi. He only said that the stone was not a good thing, and told Wen Chi not to pick up anything and wear it on his body in the future.

Wen Chi thought that ordinary people really wouldn’t just pick up a stone of unknown origin and hang it around their necks but the possibility that General Lin was bewitched by the stone could not be ruled out.

Finally, Wen Chi got around to the topic he wanted to ask the most:  “What about the stone? Did you throw it away?”

General Lin scratched his head: “Yes, I did, but I wasn’t the one who threw it away.”

Wen Chi: “?”

General Lin explained: “Later I took the stone out and put it in the cabinet. When I got up to look at it a few days later, the stone had disappeared. So I thought perhaps the cleaning maids had taken it and thrown it away but when I asked the maids, they all said they hadn’t seen the stone. I asked around a few times, but I didn’t find anything, so the matter was left unresolved. “

From the looks of it, General Lin  should have gotten rid of that stone before he left Jinzhou.

No wonder when Wen Chi bumped into Shi Jin and General Lin outside the emperor’s bedroom, Shi Jin no longer rejected General Lin like he did in Jinzhou and he didn’t expect that Shi Jin’s strangeness was really caused by that stone.

And……

Around the time when General Lin said that the stone had gone missing, the name of Hua Zi Zang appeared in Wen Chi’s mind.

His intuition told him that Hua Zi Zang might have taken the stone.

Apart from him and Shi Jin, the only people who knew that General Lin owned the stone were Hua Zi Zang.

Therefore, Hua Zi Zang must have stolen the spirit stone from General Lin and returned it to the Hua family and then the news reached Shi Ye’s ears. Then Shi Ye decided to go get the spirit stone himself but was injured by the Hua family and fell in the bamboo grove behind his house in the villa. 

After connecting all these in series, the cloud and mist lingering in front of Wen Chi’s eyes dissipated a lot.

He also never dreamed that Wen Liang just picked up a random stone during his outing but this stone turned out to be the center of many incidents, just  like the steamed bun that everyone was bantering about started a bloodbath in the movie “The Promise”1(The Promise/ Steamed Bun Murder→ ” A Murder Caused by a Steamed Bun ” is an online short film created by Hu Ge , a freelancer in mainland China . It is reinterpreted in a spoof way, satirizing the storyline and theme of the original movie “The Promise”. The film was completed at the end of 2005 and was widely circulated on the Internet in mainland China . Synopsis → In a well-known casino, staff members Qingcheng and Manager Wang staged a jumping show because of long-term wage arrears . Later, the two had a dispute because of emotional problems, and finally fought. At this time, a mysterious figure in armor fell from the sky and killed Manager Wang and left. The police were ordered to investigate and found that the armor worn by the mysterious man turned out to be the famous Captain Sanada of the urban management team. They sent negotiator Manshin to talk with Captain Sanada all night to ask what happened, but the captain said that it was not him that day. Later, the police locked Kunlun, the team leader’s subordinate, but there was no evidence, and the police were helpless. At this time, the noble son Wu Huan stepped forward and said that the captain did it, so the captain Sanada and Qingcheng were arrested. In the court, Kunlun suddenly admitted that he did it, so the judge decided to convict them separately (Kunlun was sentenced to death , Captain Sanada was convicted of dereliction of duty for failing to manage his subordinates, and Qingcheng was convicted of undressing in public for many times. Indecent, was sentenced to one year of forced labor ), and the criminal law was enforced by Wu Huan. During the execution, Wu Huan picked up a steamed bun: told them a secret, this conspiracy was planned by him, and he was in order to avenge Qing Cheng…).

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