When Shi Qingxue talked with the waiter, Mo Junyang kept silent from beginning to end.
However, with Mo Junyang’s character, if he really talked with ease and fluency to the waiter, it would be surprising.
When Shi Qingxue asked him, he seemed to be still lost in thought. After a while, he realized her question but asked, “How do you think those people disappear for no reason?”
Shi Qingxue knew well about Mo Junyang and wasn’t surprised at his reaction, so she didn’t get angry but spoke out her opinion.
“The saying about River God is unreliable. Since the waiter saw the robbers on horseback, it must be true, but…”
She looked hesitant and expressed after a while, “I always think that this thing is strange, yet I can’t figure out what is wrong for now. You…”
Qingxue looked up at Mo Junyang with expectancy, and there was trust that she didn’t find in her eyes.
She subconsciously thought that Mo Junyang must have found the key point of the problem.
Mo Junyang smiled and stated in a gentle voice, “The saying about robbers on horseback may be unreliable.”
“Gee?” Shi Qingxue blinked. Although she found something unusual that she couldn’t speak out, judging from his words, he would deny the story told by the waiter?
Shi Qingxue asked in surprise, “Did that waiter cheat us?”
Mo Junyang still shook his head. “Not necessarily, but…seeing may not be believing.”
Shi Qingxue was still confused.
“Didn’t he say that he went out during curfew and saw some people lying on the horses’ backs when the people in black passed the street on horseback?”
“Right. Doesn’t it mean that some people robbed them at night who disappeared?” Shi Qingxue nodded subconsciously and answered.
Mo Junyang smiled. “Yes. As you said, some people…”
He intentionally stressed the words “some people”.
Shi Qingxue instantly understood. “Do you mean that the people who robbed them might not be robbers but others?”
However, as soon as she spoke out this answer, Shi Qingxue was more confused. “How is it possible? Who would ride horses to the town at night just to rob some people?”
“Why do you think that the ones who can do something like this must be robbers?” Mo Junyang asked in reply.
Shi Qingxue was speechless and thought, “Isn’t it a matter of course?”
Who would do evil like burning, killing and pillaging except the robbers who made a living by robbing?
“But have you thought about what the robbers will do after robbing these people?”
Shi Qingxue was stunned and seemed to have finally realized this question, so her big eyes widened slowly.
“The robbers make a living by robbing. If they can’t gain profit, will they capture some people for no reason?”
“Didn’t some robbers take some people to the mountain and then extort money from their families?” Shi Qingxue asked in astonishment.
Mo Junyang nodded. “This is the key point of the question. There was no news about those people after they disappeared. Who would just kidnap people yet forget to ask for money, which is the most important?”
“Is it possible that because the robbers are short-handed, they rob people and force them to join them?” Although Shi Qingxue had never seen it, she had heard her grandpa and father tell many such stories since childhood.
She knew that those robbers were merciless and inhuman beasts, and it was not surprising that they would do something like this.
Mo Junyang expressed, “Most of the people who disappeared are the old, young, women and children. The robbers won’t provide for them after robbing them.”
Shi Qingxue pondered for a moment and finally understood that the saying about robbers on horseback didn’t make sense.
However, in this case, where did the people who disappeared go?
“They can’t be eaten up, right?” Shi Qingxue murmured crossly.
It might be understandable if one or two disappeared, but as the waiter said, perhaps dozens of people disappeared in this way, besides some people who disappeared yet nobody found it as they didn’t have relatives or friends.
How could so many people disappear?
Even if they were attacked by beasts or killed by others, their dead bodies must be left.
She couldn’t figure out the second way to make a person disappear from this world silently except tearing him up and swallowing him.
Mo Junyang couldn’t bear to see Shi Qingxue bothering about this question, so he poured a cup of warm water and gave it to her, saying casually, “It’s late now. Drink some warm water and go to bed early.”
Shi Qingxue received it and took a sip obediently. Then she turned to the window and found that the moon was in the sky.
So she nodded. “Okay.”
After saying, she blinked her big bright eyes and looked at Mo Junyang, seeming to wait for him to speak.
Mo Junyang felt excited and itchy, while he controlled himself in an instant.
He just turned away and got up, trying to keep his countenance. “I am going out now. Have a good rest.”
Afterward, he didn’t give Shi Qingxue a chance to say more but opened the door and went out.
Shi Qingxue looked at the closed door and finally came back to reality after being in a daze for a long time.
“You really went away.”
She murmured and had a feeling of loss for no reason.
It was not that she was expecting something, but there were only two rooms left in the hotel, and Mo Junyang told Wei Ziye to stay in one room. Why would he rather go out than ask her?
He must know that she didn’t avoid the taboos at the unusual time.
Shi Qingxue looked at the soft couch in the room, and it was wide enough to hold a grown-up man, yet it was empty now.
It seemed that nobody needed it.
Shi Qingxue frowned involuntarily and regretted it.
“I should have made him stay.”
Although she would be shy, compared with her unspeakable shyness, letting Mo Junyang have a sound sleep was more important obviously.
Why didn’t she say it?
If she said that she didn’t mind, Mo Junyang wouldn’t be so hesitant.
At this thought, Shi Qingxue couldn’t control herself. She decided to find Mo Junyang, as she couldn’t make him find a corner randomly to spend one night.
Shi Qingxue had never thought that Mo Junyang might go to Wei Ziye’s room and stay with him because she knew that her man was a little obsessive about cleanliness.
Why was it a little? Because this man had great self-control and wouldn’t show it easily. He could endure it in the emergency and even nobody would find it.
However, Shi Qingxue knew that after Mo Junyang took the throne in the previous life, he was extremely obsessive about cleanliness. Sometimes, he even didn’t want to touch anything that somebody else had touched, and the eunuchs and maids who served him had to wear white gloves every day before they were allowed to touch the emperor’s belonging.
He was extremely picky and difficult to get along with.
If Mo Junyang could make a choice, he wouldn’t make himself suffer.
Shi Qingxue knew that Mo Junyang’s obsessiveness had something to do with his experience in the previous life, so how could she bear to blame him?
She was just surprised as the man wasn’t obsessive about cleanliness in front of her.
When Mo Junyang stayed with her, she had never seen him hesitant or displeased.
Would his cleanliness attack him in front of some people?
“Gee, he is so troublesome.”
Shi Qingxue pretended to be angry and said that, while she still had a smile on her face.
She made a decision and opened the room door in a good mood, preparing to tell the guy to come back.
Shi Qingxue walked out to the corridor, to find that it was silent. Mo Junyang was nowhere to be found.
She pondered for a moment and walked to the staircase, asking the waiter who was on night shift, while he said that he didn’t see Mo Junyang go downstairs.
“Where did he go?” Shi Qingxue murmured in doubt.
The waiter was the one who had got two gold ingots from Shi Qingxue, so he replied solicitously at once, “The man must have gone back to his room to have a rest. Lady, don’t worry. I am guarding here, and I ensure that no bad guys can go up to disturb you and him.”
Shi Qingxue didn’t say that the waiter misunderstood her but just walked to her room doubtfully.
When she was at the door, she stopped and wondered if she should go to have a look in Wei Ziye’s room.
However, Wei Ziye might have fallen asleep. If she went there, she would disturb him…
When Shi Qingxue was hesitant, she suddenly thought of something and seemed to realize it. She looked up at the roof opposite to the corridor.
Mo Junyang was sitting on the roof and looking at her room deeply.
Perhaps he hadn’t expected that she would find him. When their eyes met, Shi Qingxue saw the embarrassment which he didn’t have time to conceal in his eyes.
However, the man on the roof calmed down soon and flew to her.
He asked in a low voice, “What happened?”
Shi Qingxue gazed at him. “Where will you sleep tonight?”
Mo Junyang guiltily avoided Qingxue’s eyes and fixed his eyes on the door for a while. Then he turned back and explained in a soft voice, “Don’t worry too much. I didn’t want to stay in the room, so I went to the roof to enjoy the cool. Moreover, it’s summer now, and the weather is nice. I am used to it, and I won’t…”
He realized what he had said and hurriedly shut his mouth, yet Shi Qingxue looked as if she was suddenly enlightened.
She goggled at Mo Junyang and questioned furiously, “You went to the roof every night in the past few days?”
Mo Junyang wanted to explain, “No, I…”
“Don’t lie to me.” Shi Qingxue stared at Mo Junyang stubbornly, her eyes glistening.
Mo Junyang probably had countless excuses to fool her in this matter, but looking at her clear eyes, he couldn’t speak a word.
He didn’t want to lie to her.
He could do nothing but lower his head in silence.
Shi Qingxue didn’t need more explanations.
“What on earth are you doing?” Shi Qingxue frowned deeply and almost cried in a low voice.
She couldn’t figure out why Mo Junyang stayed on the roof instead of being in the room at night…
What was wrong with him?
Seeing that Shi Qingxue really got mad, Mo Junyang hurriedly reached out his hand to grab hers, explaining softly, “I really felt too hot, so I came out to enjoy the cool. You know that I am in good health, and I will be fine. And it’s dangerous all the way. If I guard outside, you will…”
“Mo Junyang!”
Shi Qingxue couldn’t help but raise her voice and interrupt him, with surprise, confusion and anger in her eyes.
Mo Junyang finally realized that he had said something wrong once more.