Chapter 35

TRANSLATED BY MYPEN_22

After a day, Sang Yu returned from the Grange.

    Yan Shì put down the book in his hand, "How was it?"

    Sang Yu bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the matter has been completed, and the two boys will do what Your Majesty said."

    What Yan Shi wanted to do was to have the two boys take the information he had written and give it to King Zhaoge as if it had been written by Wu Kun. The two servants had acted faithfully when Wu Kun had first died. But people have weaknesses, and both of them had been with Wu Kun since he was a child. One of the boys had been with Wu Kun since his family was struck by a disaster, his parents died one after another on the way to the desert, leaving him with his younger brother. Yan Shi promised him that he would get his brother back if he behaved himself.

    Another boy falls in love with a maid in Wu's house, but that maid has been taken by Wu Kun's father, Old Master Wu, and will be raised as a concubine in the next few days. Yan Shi promises that he can get the maid out of the house and marry him.

    The two boys agreed to do so after thinking about it, since Wu Kun was dead and they could not compete with Yan Shi, so it was better to have the immediate benefits.

    Yan Shi was afraid that they would play tricks on him, so he asked for two pills from Qu Liu Goblet before doing this. These two pills will not kill you immediately, but you need to take the antidote once a month, otherwise you will bleed to death.

    The day they are no longer needed, Yan Shi will cure them all and let them live their lives.

    After all this, instead of resenting Yan Shi for killing their master, the two boys even felt sorry for him and hated that they had not met him earlier.

    That evening, Yan Shi and Hua Ling were taking a walk outside when the concierge suddenly came to report, "Your Majesty, there is a woman at the door asking to see you, saying she has something important to ask you."

    The only woman who had contact with Yan Shì was Princess Huajia, who could it be? He counted the days, today was the last day of the three-day deadline he had agreed with the Master of the Ten Square Sect, could this woman be from the Ten Square Sect?

    With this in mind, he stood up and said with a happy face, "Follow me quickly." The Ten Directions Sect had already shown their sincerity, so it was only natural that he should also show his sincerity and go to greet them personally.

    Hua Ling was like a big enemy and tugged Yan Shi's sleeve to follow him. "Brother, brother, I will go with you."

    When they arrived outside the residence, a beautiful young girl was standing there, and when she saw Yan Shi and Hua Ling come out, she bowed, "The Ten Square Sect's Xiangzhuo pays respects to Your Highness and Your Highness."

    The woman was well mannered and generous, she looked like a girl from a large family by her dress and behaviour alone.

    Before he had met Xiangzura, Yan Shi had thought that all the people of the Ten Square Sect were treacherous people, but he had never thought that there would be a woman like Xiangzura.

    "Please rise quickly." Yan Shi reached out and gave her a false hand to help.

    "Brother-" Hua Ling grabbed Yan Shi's sleeve even tighter.

    Yan Shi brought Xiangzhuo into the house and asked, "Is there any news about the Night Pavilion?"

    "In reply to your Majesty's words, Xiangzuo has come here today for this very reason." The small box was not too big, half the height of his thumb, and he presented it to Yan Shi with both hands.

    The three of them were the only ones in the hall, and Yan Shi was just about to leave his chair and reach for it when Hua Ling stepped ahead and took the object from Xiangzura's hand.

    Yan Shi opened the small box, but his face changed dramatically and he quickly closed it again.

    Hua Ling went over to look, but saw nothing, and scratched his ears in anxiety. Give me a look too."

    Yan Shì stroked Hua Ling's head, "Good boy, you can't touch this thing."

    "Someone come!" He shouted loudly and immediately several servants came in, "Go and invite Qingyue and Doctor Qu."

    Jiang Qingyue arrived earlier than Qu Liujing, and as soon as he entered the room, he saw Xiangzuo and took a glance at the small square box Yan Shi was holding. Yan Shi nodded to him and told him to sit down again.

    Not long afterwards, Qu Liujing also came in, still looking as if he was hanging around "I am about to go to bed, I wonder what the Prince has ... asked me to come here?"

    The moment he saw Jiang Qingyue, he said

   Yan Shi saw him come in and raised the object in his hand "Does Mr. Qu know what this is?"

    When he opened the box, his originally playful expression turned serious, "This, this is Afro! Did you take this out of the Night Pavilion?"

    Hua Ling stretched his neck to look again, but he saw nothing, and tugged at Yan Shi's sleeve unhappily "Brother, what is Aphrodite?"

    Yan Shi said "Aphrodisiac can be described as a medicinal herb, it can relieve coughs, pain and hypnotism, but it can also be described as a demon. Once a person is addicted to it, they are controlled by it, and if they don't take it for a day, their body will feel like they are being tortured, and they will suffer a lot. It can be pleasurable, but prolonged use can lead to death at its hands. Aphrodite is expensive and not everyone could afford to take it. The most important thing is that it has been banned for many years in the Great Abyss, and if anyone is found to be selling it, it is a major crime to have their family raided, and those who are caught taking it will have their heads cut off."

    Hua Ling shrank back in fear, "That's terrible."

    According to Xiangzhuo, the Night Pavilion was well organised, and the only people who were really in contact with it were the old biddy and the four servants. They had dug an underground passage in one of the rooms in the back yard of the Night Pavilion. The door of this underground passage was so hidden that even the customers who entered it had to be blindfolded before they could enter, and when they came out, they also had to be blindfolded and taken out by the servants.

    If there are new guests, they need at least five guardians to enter, otherwise they will not be received.

    "How dare Yan Sheng do this kind of business!" Yan Shi was so angry that he clenched his fists together and looked at Xiang Zuang, "Miss Xiang, can you find out when this Avalon business started?"

    Xiangzuo replied, "Your Majesty, it has been nearly a year."

    Jiang Qingyue said, "Does it mean that King Mu has also noticed something?" The city guards and the patrol battalion were all King Mu's men, if not, the disappearance would have happened more than half a year ago.

    Yan Shi touched the arm of his chair, "If so, it would be a good thing for us."

    "Then what does brother plan to do next?" Hua Ling asked with a tilted head, "Is it to raid that nocturnal hall?" If we raided it now, we would be able to catch him off guard.

    Yan Shi thought for a while and said, "For the time being, we should stay put. Yan Sheng dares to do such a thing, so he probably has already left a way out. If we raid the Night Pavilion, he will only send Wu Huai Shuo out to die." What they had to do now was how to pull down the Ding Wang rope.

    Xiangzura added, "The Red Mother of the Night Pavilion has a copy of the account book in her hands, but the time was too hasty for our men to steal it yet."

    Yan Shi stood up and cupped his fist towards Xiangzhuo "Thank you for what you have done today, please say thank you for me when you see the Sect Master."

    Yan Shi's words had two meanings, firstly, he was indeed asking Xiangzura to thank him, and secondly, he was sending her off.

    Xiang Xuezuo was smart and naturally heard the meaning of Yan Shi's words "Your Majesty's words will be conveyed by Xiang Xuezuo, but my master said that I should stay in the house until this case is over and be at the disposal of your Majesty."

    As soon as Hua Ling heard this, he immediately put Yan Shi's whole arm in his arms and hugged him tightly. Yan Shi patted his hand comfortingly and looked towards Jiang Qingyue, and saw Jiang Qingyue nodding gently to him.

    Yan Shi whispered a few words in Hua Ling's ear, and although Hua Ling was still not very reluctant, the colour on his face was in the end much better than it had been just then.

    Yan Shi said, "Then I'll be grateful to Your Highness for helping Miss Xiang prepare a place to live."

    Hua Ling took Xiangzhuo away, and Yan Shi and Jiang Qingyue continued to discuss matters, and before they could say a few words, they saw the concierge come again to report, "Your Majesty, King Zhaoge is here."

    Yan Shi and Jiang Qingyue looked at each other, Yan Shi had never come to King Zhaoge since he left the palace to build his house, and he had come in not long after Xiangzura had entered the palace, what did he want this time?

    The two of them were both wise, so Yan Shi gave Jiang Qingyue a wink, and Jiang Qingyue walked out of the hall.

    Sitting on a chair, Qu Liujing looked at Jiang Qingyue's back and was a bit sullen, the tacit understanding between these two was so strong that they didn't need to speak, they could know what the other was thinking and doing with just a glance, making it impossible for anyone to intervene.

    Jiang Qingyue suddenly left, thinking that he had gone to do something, King Zhaoge had come, and he could not stay here any longer, so he also intended to exit.

    If this Aphrodite is used properly it can be a life-saving medicine, it is useless in Yan Shi's hands, but in Qu Liujing hands it is different.

    "Bring him in." Yan Shi said to the concierge who had been standing by.

    In a short time, King Zhaoge entered the lobby, led by Qingji, and followed by two servants, each of whom was holding several boxes containing what must have been gifts.

    When King Zhaoge saw Yan Shi, he smiled and arched his hand, "Good day, Eldest Imperial Brother."

    "Well." Yan Shi picked up his cup of tea and blew on it and drank it down without paying any attention to him.

    King Zhaoge did not feel embarrassed and continued, "This brother has come to thank you for your visit."

    Yan Shi "I accept the gift of thanks, please go back if you have nothing to do."

    King Zhaoge was not impressed by the fact that he had been frustrated several times, "Won't you invite me to sit down?"

    Yan Shì stood up from his chair and walked to the middle of the hall "Since second brother likes to sit here with me, then you can just sit. It's just that it's getting dark, so I'm going to take a rest."

    King Zhaoge's face finally changed a few times, but in the end he maintained the gentle smile he had just given, "Eldest brother, let's talk together as brothers."

    Yan Shi snorted, "I have nothing to say to you."

    " The author has something to say Aphrodisiac is opium, which is said to have been introduced from the Tang Dynasty. This article is set in an empty space, so you know what I mean. As for Aphrodite, just know that it is a very powerful drug, don't get too serious about the properties of opium.