Chapter 348 - Laying Low
The old fat lady was standing in a room along with a group of servants, Yue and some guards.The inaugural upload of this chapter took place via N0v3l-B1n.
"Now tell me exactly what happened?" The madam questioned with a cold tone.
Yue was nervous and was still a bit dazed as she had just woken up. It had taken the others a few minutes to be able to wake her up. She couldn’t remember how she had fallen asleep, and the last thing she remembered was kicking the servants out.
The first thing she did after waking up was checking her body and she was shocked to find out she was not touched at all. It wouldn’t have been uncommon for a client to do something and they wouldn’t really mind it either.
But this was the first time a client had gone away without doing anything at all. He had only eaten some of the food, which reminded her that the food was drugged.
’Wait, why did he continue to eat it even after he found out it was drugged? Seems like that was a warning, to show us not to try tricks like that on him.’ Yue thought to herself.
The servants that had served Lin Mu were currently trembling in their place and didn’t have the courage to speak.
"WELL DID THE CAT GET YOUR TONGUES? SPEAK!" The madam yelled.
"EEK" the servants flinched but still didn’t dare to speak.
"Madam, let me tell you what happened. These bitches dared to act on their own and drugged the food that was served to Young Lord Mu Lin. Thankfully, he was merciful and did not punish us, which would have been valid considering his status." Yue said with spite while looking at the servants.
The expression of the servants only kept on falling the more they heard Yue’s words, but they didn’t dare to deny it either. The proof was already there as the food was still there. If they were found lying their punishment would only be more severe.
"WHAT! You dare!" The madam shouted and slapped the leader of the servants, knocking her to the wall.
Lin Mu was indeed quite tired, even if not physically but mentally he was. This was the largest amount of spirit qi he had used ever since reaching the peak stage of the qi refining realm.
"Looks like the mayor got the Gu legion to try to take over the Alluring Wisteria pavilion so that he can get their money for all his needs. Lord Cai is influential in the city too which means that even the mayor cannot act in a highhanded manner with him and would need to hide his real intentions." Lin Mu analyzed.
"What do you want to do now? Will you inform the Lord Hei?" Xukong asked.
"Hmm, I’m thinking to wait and watch for a couple of days. There are still many things we do not know and acting on our own may become problematic considering that we’ve already ruffled a few feathers today. The disciples of the Tri cauldron peony sect should find out about the missing servant too soon, and perhaps even the seal that I stole.
We’ll lay low and watch the show, only acting when we have more information. Besides, the wife of the mayor is also alert from my mistake before. It would do us no good if we are reckless." Lin Mu replied after thinking for a bit.
"Good, this a well thought out plan," Xukong praised.
Lin Mu nodded his head and went back to cultivating. With all the basic qi pills he had replenishing all his qi would still take him an entire day as he had used a lot of liquid spirit qi.
’I need to get rid of the servant’s body too...’ Lin Mu remembered.
Hours passed by as the night turned to day and then back to night. Lin Mu heard a knock on the door and woke up.
"Master, would you like to have dinner?" The servant asked.
Lin Mu looked outside and saw the moon, knowing that he lost track of time, he nodded his head.
"I’ll get it in a minute," The servant said before going away and coming back with trays of food.
"Tell me what has recently happened in the city." Lin Mu ordered the servant.
Lin Mu then calmly ate his food while hearing some news from the servant.