Chapter 400: Who Can Insist?

Jiangzhou City was not big, but there were many mountains in the south, and the transportation was poor, so the villages and towns in this area were many and scattered, and it was not easy to sum up the people who died of the epidemic.

Shi Qingxue didn’t stop because she wanted to sum up all the data as soon as possible, yet Mo Junyang got impatient while waiting.

The man’s eyes were deep, and it seemed that he had a plan.

He said, “Yan Xu has known my identity, so he will be more alert. I must check the place where the epidemic started before he has time to arrange everything.”

Shi Qingxue had guessed that Mo Junyang would do that, so she had no objection yet stated, “I will go with you.”

“No need. I will just go to see the surviving common people and ask them what happened then. There is nothing serious, but your job is more important. I hope that you can sort out all the information of the whole Jiangzhou City as soon as possible.”

“…Okay!” Shi Qingxue pondered for a long time and nodded unwillingly in the end.

Although she still wanted to follow Mo Junyang, she was not a child anymore, and she had to attach importance to the overall situation.

Qingxue bit her lower lip and asked, “Where are you going?”

“I will go to Shang Village to have a look first.”

Mo Junyang seemed to be easy-going now and explained before Shi Qingxue asked.

“Shang Village is in the south of Jiangzhou City, in the area under the alluviation of the river flowing out of the mountain. It’s low-lying and hard to get to. When there is a flood in the river, Shang Village is always the first to suffer, but it is tough. I have heard that there are still villagers staying there after the flood and epidemic.”

The epidemic could destroy a town or village as soon as it started to spread, while Shang Village could survive as its origin, so it was quite strong.

Mo Junyang doubted that there were other reasons, so he wanted to go there and have a look in person.

“Shang Village?” Shi Qingxue murmured and furrowed her arch eyebrows slightly. Then she whispered, “It sounds familiar.”

Mo Junyang reached out his hand to rub her nose tip and couldn’t help laughing. “Didn’t you sort out the information of this village just now? Of course it sounds familiar.”

Shi Qingxue patted Mo Junyang’s finger away with displeasure and snorted. “I didn’t mean it. I mean that I seem to have heard of this place before. Let me think about when I heard it.”

Mo Junyang looked at her hairy head which was lowered all the time. Even though he couldn’t see her face, he could guess that she was racking her brains. He couldn’t help but laugh. Then he put his palm on her head again.

“Fine. If you can’t remember, don’t bother to. You stay in the mansion and continue to sort out the information today. I will go to check Shang Village with Mo Junzhan. Let’s talk about everything after we come back.”

Shi Qingxue still tried to search the memories in her brain and didn’t take Mo Junyang’s verbose reminder seriously. She just answered “Hmm” perfunctorily and didn’t raise her head.

Mo Junyang waited a moment. Seeing that Qingxue didn’t plan to say goodbye to him, he shook his head while laughing and left.

“Ah! I remember it.”

Shi Qingxue suddenly raised her head, with surprise in her big beautiful eyes, yet there was no Mo Junyang’s voice.

Dong Shuang walked to her. “My Lady, what did you think of?”

The light in Qingxue’s eyes dimmed, and she answered in low spirits, “Nothing. I just remember that the supervisor in Jiangzhou, Ye Zhirong, is from Shang Village.

“But we don’t know where Ye Zhirong has been, so it must be unimportant.”

Shi Qingxue didn’t figure it out. Mo Junyang was not here, so she had nobody to discuss with. She stopped thinking about this matter and continued with her job.

Dong Shuang didn’t have Mo Junyang’s ability to read rapidly, nor could she cooperate with Shi Qingxue with a tacit understanding.

Shi Qingxue spent twice as much time as yesterday before finishing the information of a small town.

After she finished the data of one place with difficulty, she involuntarily put down the brush pen and rested her chin on her hand, glancing at the thick books of records in front of her with flagging interest.

She was so bored.

She did the boring and energy-consuming job in depression.

And she couldn’t concentrate. After she wrote something, she would think about where Mo Junyang was, what he had found and when he would come back.

Then she didn’t want to continue.

“Dong Shuang, let’s go out for a walk.”

Shi Qingxue closed the book of records with a crack and got up, walking out of the room.

She happened to see that Ye Zhixin was sitting in the pavilion under a tree alone with her hand resting her chin, looking serious, as if lost in thought.

However, with Shi Qingxue’s experience, she thought that the girl must be in a daze.

She walked to Ye Zhixin, yet the latter’s expression didn’t change. The girl’s pupils couldn’t focus seemingly but just fell on something in the void by instinct.

Shi Qingxue followed Ye Zhixin’s eyes yet couldn’t see anything, so she walked to some place several steps away from the girl and coughed gently twice.

She wanted to attract Ye Zhixin’s attention in this way, while the girl seemed to be silly and had no reaction.

Shi Qingxue couldn’t help but sigh and call, “Miss Ye.”

“Ah!” Ye Zhixin looked confused and helpless as if she were suddenly awakened. It seemed that she was pitiful yet pretended that nothing had happened.

However, she came to her senses soon. The beautiful girl with unique temperament of the region of rivers in the south showed a gentle smile and greeted Qingxue, “My Lady, nice to see you.”

She was polite with a warm and pleasant voice.

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She looked the same as what she had been before.

Shi Qingxue sighed in secret again. She wasn’t familiar with Ye Zhixin. If there was a relationship between the two, this was just a person who she saved when she had sympathy.

There was nothing that she needed to care about specially.

Even though Shi Qingxue thought so, she still couldn’t help but ask with concern, “What were you thinking about just now?”

Ye Zhixin’s expression stiffened when she greeted, yet in no time, she showed the passive attitude that she wouldn’t cooperate with them.

It appeared that she didn’t plan to say anything this time.

Shi Qingxue sighed in a low voice and then said, “I have something to ask you.”

Ye Zhixin nodded slightly. “My Lady, please go ahead.”

“I remember that your father is from Shang Village. Do you come from there, too?”

Ye Zhixin was surprised and suddenly raised her head, looking at Shi Qingxue. After a while, she nodded feebly. “Yes.”

Then she added at once, “But I haven’t been back for a long time. There were flood and epidemic there. I don’t know if it is existent now.”

Her voice was perplexed, as if she knew nothing about the situation in Shang Village.

However, Shi Qingxue couldn’t be fooled so easily. She acutely felt that Ye Zhixin hid something, yet she couldn’t find the girl’s thoughts kept by her for now.

“Speaking of which, you have stayed in the magistrate’s mansion for a few days. I have never asked you what you want,” Shi Qingxue looked at Ye Zhixin and said.

Ye Zhixin still shook her head and responded in a low voice, “I don’t ask for anything.”

“Why do you still stay here?”

Ye Zhixin was speechless.

She thought that Shi Qingxue would ask more and then promise to give her some profit. Only in this way could she show that the superior was gentle to the weak.

However, Shi Qingxue didn’t follow the pattern but only asked coldly, with disgust seemingly.

It made Ye Zhixin wonder if she was so hateful.

“I…” Ye Zhixin said hesitantly and peeped at Shi Qingxue several times, while she didn’t say anything useful even though she stuttered for a long time.

At this time, she should say, “If you dislike me, I will go away.”

However, Ye Zhixin was afraid that after she said that, Shi Qingxue who didn’t follow the rules would nod. Then she would have no way out because of her perversity.

Ye Zhixin didn’t dare to say that, but she had put on airs for so long and was supposed to gain the upper hand, while she was at a disadvantage now, so she was reluctant.

However, Shi Qingxue didn’t give Ye Zhixin time to think it over. She waited a moment and Ye Zhixin didn’t answer, so she looked away in low spirits.

She said impassively, “His Excellency led some people to Shang Village these days, and few of our people are left in this mansion, so you’d better be well-behaved. If something happens to you, nobody will save you.”

Shi Qingxue said that unkindly, yet she told the truth.

Although Mo Junyang told Wei Zichao to stay, this guard’s job was to protect her.

So she was almost sure that if something happened and she needed to use Wei Zichao, because he couldn’t leave her, he would choose to watch Ye Zhixin being killed.

Shi Qingxue could do nothing to the inflexible Wei Zichao, so she had to remind Ye Zhixin to be careful.

After all, Yan Xu didn’t dare to let anything happen to Shi Qingxue in this mansion, but he could let Ye Zhixin die in a corner silently.

However, Ye Zhixin wasn’t frightened this time. She opened her eyes wide, and then she looked terrified and restless, repeating Qingxue’s words in a daze. “His Excellency went to Shang Village?”

“Hmm.” Shi Qingxue nodded. She found that Ye Zhixin’s attitude was strange, so she couldn’t help but ask, “What’s wrong?”

Ye Zhixin seemed to have been stung by a bee and shook her head repeatedly. Then she hurriedly denied it. “No, nothing.”

Shi Qingxue looked at Ye Zhixin several times more in disbelief and opened her mouth yet didn’t ask more.

She turned around and went back to her room.

Dong Shuang followed her into the room and complained in a low voice at once, “My Lady, Ye Zhixin is so ungrateful. We cured her and saved her out of kindness and gave her a sanctuary, but she still refuses to tell us the truth. Why should we keep her?”

When Dong Shuang heard Shi Qingxue ask Ye Zhixin why she didn’t go away, she felt happy and wished that Ye Zhixin would be more arrogant, so she could kick her out openly.

Then she wouldn’t be an eyesore.

Unfortunately, Shi Qingxue let that woman go at last.

Alas.

Dong Shuang sighed with a feigned manner.

Shi Qingxue was amused and knocked at Dong Shuang’s forehead, saying helplessly, “Anyway, it’s a human life. We know that Yan Xu wants to take her life, so we can’t stand by and watch her die.

“Moreover, I am really curious about the secret she keeps. Just wait patiently and see who can insist.”

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