Chapter 384: Slash It

Hearing Mo Junyang’s words, Shi Qingxue knew that no matter what choice she made, he could control the situation.

So she nodded without hesitation.

Then she asked, “What’s another way?”

Mo Junyang casually threw the iron box to the ground and raised his hand to draw the long sword on Wei Ziye’s waist, slashing something with it.

Shi Qingxue watched Mo Junyang slash it, with her eyes widening in an instant.

Till there was a sound of metal collision, Shi Qingxue came back to earth.

Mo Junyang slashed that iron box.

Shi Qingxue heaved a sigh of relief, with countless questions in her head.

“What are you doing?” Shi Qingxue was shocked and angry.

She almost thought that Mo Junyang prepared to stab the girl with the sword.

Mo Junyang didn’t answer but pointed to the iron box on the ground. “Have a look.”

“What?” Shi Qingxue asked in reply subconsciously and then paused, opening her bright eyes wide again.

Mo Junyang slashed the iron box with the sword, yet the box was undamaged, still lying on the ground quietly.

Shi Qingxue looked at the long sword in Mo Junyang’s hand, blurting out, “Is this a fake sword?”

Mo Junyang was speechless.

Even King Rui’s heir had to admire Shi Qingxue for her imagination.

Wei Ziye explained in time, “My Lady, this is a real sword made of rare iron.”

“Why…”

Shi Qingxue picked up the small iron box curiously.

It was inconspicuous at a glance, and even after she looked at it several times carefully, it must be an iron box with some weight at most, but unexpectedly, it was so…solid?

The iron sword couldn’t destroy it?

“Are there some treasures inside?” Shi Qingxue held the iron box with both hands and put it beside her ear, shaking it up and down.

It was silent, as if it was empty inside.

Shi Qingxue scratched her hair and didn’t know what to do.

“Junyang, we…”

She understood what Mo Junyang meant by doing that. He would save the girl after confirming her identity, so no matter what happened, it wouldn’t put himself in a passive position.

However, now it appeared that they couldn’t see the treasure in the iron box until the girl woke up.

Would they save her?

“Take her with us if you want to save her.”

Before Shi Qingxue finished her words, Mo Junyang understood her intention.

Shi Qingxue smiled in embarrassment and hurriedly explained, “I think that this girl doesn’t look like a trap. She is so weak now. If we don’t save her, perhaps she will pass away soon.

“If she is a good person but we fold our hands and see her die, it will be improper. What do you think?”

Qingxue thought that she couldn’t be dictatorial, so she asked in a certain tone in the end.

Mo Junyang couldn’t help but laugh, with his lips raising.

He didn’t plan to refuse Shi Qingxue, yet as she said that, he felt happy.

He smiled with love involuntarily. “It’s up to you.”

Shi Qingxue pretended that she didn’t notice the ridicule in his words, and she just thought that he approved of this proposal.

She started to push Wei Ziye to carry the girl into the carriage. “Ziye, thanks.”

Wei Ziye carried her obediently and then frowned deeply.

“What’s wrong?”

Wei Ziye quickly carried her into the carriage and reached out a hand to the girl’s forehead. Then he answered, “My Lady, this girl has a high fever, and she may be dying.”

“Let’s enter the city quickly. Find her a doctor in the city.” Shen Luo was not here, and none of them knew medical skills, so they had to rush to Jiangzhou City.

In the carriage, Shi Qingxue moved the girl to the innermost corner and laid her down.

She didn’t have much experience in looking after a person, nor did she know how to take care of a patient with a high fever, so she had to wet a towel and wipe the girl’s face and hands, cleaning her up simply. Then she dried the towel and put it on the girl’s forehead to lower her temperature.

In the beginning, Mo Junyang controlled himself and didn’t say anything, but seeing that Shi Qingxue was busy for a strange girl, he got unhappy.

He reached out his hand and held Shi Qingxue in his arms. Before she protested, he said bossily, “She won’t die. Leave her alone.”

The man was much more awesome than Shi Qingxue in this aspect, and he saw the girl’s urge to survive under her weak appearance at a glance.

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Such a woman wouldn’t die easily.

It took them about one hour to reach the suburbs of Jiangzhou City. Different from the cheerless atmosphere earlier, it was surprisingly bustling on the way.

The pedestrians carried something with a shoulder pole or on the back, coming and going in great number. Some of them walked at leisure, and some were in haste. It was like a big city finally.

Shi Qingxue looked out of the window of the carriage and could see the city gate in the distance.

The common people entering the city stood in a long line at the city gate and occupied half of the road. She could see the long line move forward with difficulty after quite a while.

When they almost reached the end of the line, they finally saw clearly that some officers and soldiers guarded the city gate and questioned all the people who wanted to enter the city. They didn’t check the luggage but seemed to ask questions only.

“Gee? What’s the matter?” Shi Qingxue curiously lifted the carriage curtain, with her head sticking out.

Logically, trade and business were prosperous in Mo Country these years, and the rule to interrogate and examine the people coming and going had been cancelled since long ago, so they didn’t need to check so strictly at ordinary times.

“Lady, you came to Jiangzhou City for the first time, so you are surprised, right? The city has been like this since two or three months ago.” A passer-by heard Shi Qingxue’s question and spoke to her casually.

The speaker was a woman in her thirties, with a package in her hand. She was next to the carriage and prepared to enter the city.

Shi Qingxue stopped looking around and instantly showed a sweet smile, greeting, “Madam, how are you? What are you going to do in the city?”

The woman was talkative and didn’t hide anything from an outsider. She said, as if chatting with a friend, “Alas, my husband is feeling unwell these days and lying at home. The doctor in the village has gone out, so I have to enter the city to buy him some medicine.”

“Now they check so strictly. We will be delayed for long,” Shi Qingxue responded.

The woman instantly stated in agreement, “Right. In order to enter the city earlier, I came out before dawn and reached here after walking for nearly two hours. There are so many people now. I don’t know when I can enter.”

An older woman in the line ahead of them cut in, “Don’t worry. We came alone, and the officers will let us in after asking a few questions casually, and it won’t take long.”

“Gee? So the officers will check different people in different ways?” Shi Qingxue asked.

The old woman nodded and pointed ahead. “Right. Look at the big carriage in the front. It has stopped for fifteen minutes at the gate. The people inside are the important targets to be interrogated and examined.”

While speaking, she looked Shi Qingxue’s equipment up and down and tut-tutted. “Young lady, I am afraid that you can’t enter the city so easily.”

Shi Qingxue looked flustered and helpless in time, saying anxiously, “What should I do? Somebody in the carriage has to see a doctor in the city.”

The old woman glanced at Qingxue several times more and comforted her with a smile. “Don’t be too anxious. It’s not that you can’t enter.”

Shi Qingxue’s bright eyes seemed to light up in an instant. “Madam, you are so smart, and you must have a solution.”

The old woman was satisfied with the praise and looked complacent. “I tell you. When the officers check you, you give them some money in secret and say something nice. Then you can enter the city.”

Hearing the old woman’s words, Shi Qingxue understood it.

However, she still looked surprised in time. “Can it work?”

At the moment, the two women smiled knowingly and said that Shi Qingxue was too young and didn’t see a lot.

“All the officers are like this. It’s said that money talks. If you give them money, it will work.”

“Right. A cousin of my uncle’s nephew is a businessman, and he wanted to enter the city to pick up goods the other day. Two carriages bigger than yours came to the city. In the beginning, they were stopped and interrogated. After a long time, they were not allowed to enter, and the officers said that they imposed a curfew in the city, but that cousin secretly gave two silver ingots to each officer and bribed them, then he was let in.”

“But you came at the right time. There was an epidemic in Jiangzhou City one month ago, and the city was heavily guarded. Nobody was allowed to enter. Now it is better as the city gates are opened and people can enter.”

“So many people died of the epidemic. Even if people were allowed to enter then, perhaps nobody dared to.”

“Right…”

The two women started to chat and gossip. Shi Qingxue listened for a while and felt bored. Then she withdrew her head and looked at Mo Junyang.

“Have you heard that?”

Mo Junyang nodded. “Hmm. Perhaps the people in the city have known that we are coming.”

They mainly checked the carriages. Didn’t it mean that they targeted the imperial envoys?

“They don’t let us in…They are too overbearing. Aren’t they afraid that you will accuse them after going back if they block you outside by accident?” Shi Qingxue didn’t know what the officials in Jiangzhou City thought about.

Even if they were afraid that the imperial envoys would enter the city in secret, they should make inquiries in the dark. Now they did it in a big way. Didn’t they tell the outsiders that they had a guilty conscience?

Mo Junyang sneered. “Perhaps they fear nothing as they have backups.”

“Hmm?” Shi Qingxue didn’t understand the tricks.

“When there was an epidemic in Jiangzhou City, it was right to guard the city heavily, but they open the city gates and let people in now in order to give us an explanation.

“They don’t allow the suspicious people to enter the city, which just shows that they are dutiful, and there is no other explanation. Moreover, if we are stopped, we can show our identity and enter. Then they won’t offend the imperial envoys.”

Shi Qingxue heard a lot of tortuous tricks in officialdom and then finally got enlightened.

It turned out that there were such reasons. She thought too simply in the beginning.

“So they did so much in order to force us to reveal our identity?”

Mo Junyang nodded and glanced at the city gate, saying in a low voice, “No hurry. Wait and see.”

Shi Qingxue paused for a moment and then had an idea. It would take some time before they entered the city, so she turned back to search for something in her package.

She chose a more beautiful coat from it and changed into it without avoiding Mo Junyang. Moreover, she took out two hairpins and made her long hair a bun.

She winked at Mo Junyang and smiled. “Leave it to me later.”

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