Chapter 415: Find Some Truth

Shi Qingxue couldn’t figure it out.

Mo Junyang paused for a moment and then said something to awaken the girl in the dream. “When they can make a choice, most people naturally won’t be willing to cannibalize, but it’s uncertain when they don’t know.”

“Do you mean…” Shi Qingxue’s eyes lit up suddenly, like the stars in the sky at night.

They were bright and fascinating.

She looked at Mo Junyang excitedly. “Somebody secretly made the common people in Jiangzhou eat the food with ptomaine?”

Before Mo Junyang answered, she had clearly felt that she guessed the truth.

However, she soon had new doubts.

For example, how did so many victims eat the food with ptomaine when they didn’t know it?

What was the purpose of the people behind the scenes who did that?

Or why did they make the “epidemic” in Jiangzhou disappear?

The questions perplexed Shi Qingxue, so she was filled with bewilderment.

Judging from Mo Junyang’s expression, he seemed to know something, but he pretended that he knew nothing, which made her anxious.

“Hey, don’t you plan to explain to me?” Shi Qingxue hugged Mo Junyang’s neck with displeasure and forced him to face her, insisting on making him see how unhappy she was.

However, she didn’t realize how tempting she was when she pouted and looked at Mo Junyang with her big eyes widening.

The Adam’s apple of Mo Junyang bobbed secretly, and he chose the former as he might be exposed by Shi Qingxue if he hid it and it might be troublesome if he told the truth.

Then he asked seriously, “Do you know why the magistrate could keep his position after so many people died in Jiangzhou?”

Although it still had aroused the suspicion of the imperial court and Mo Junyang was sent to investigate it.

Shi Qingxue rolled her eyes in confusion. “Isn’t it because he bribed the superiors and thinks that he can rest easy?”

She had heard about many similar stories even though she was not an official.

Since ancient times, the atmosphere that officials protected other officials was not as exaggerated and horrible as it was said in the books, yet there was something like this. At least, her father had told her many such disgusting and dirty stories.

Shi Qingxue was taught since childhood to believe all the beautiful stories in the world, but she wouldn’t beautify this world too much.

So when she said this, she was depressed yet didn’t feel too sad.

Mo Junyang seemed to feel her low spirits, so he rubbed her head and comforted her in silence.

Then he stated, “There must be factors you mentioned, but it must be because Yan Xu didn’t make a big mistake and the superiors dare to protect him.”

“But so many people died in Jiangzhou. Isn’t it a big mistake?” Shi Qingxue goggled in disbelief.

Mo Junyang shook his head and thought that Shi Qingxue was inexperienced in something like this, while he explained to her carefully, “There was a big disaster in Jiangzhou and many people died, yet most people died of that horrible epidemic, which is force majeure.

“In other words, anybody couldn’t change the situation if he were the magistrate.”

Shi Qingxue lowered her head and murmured with displeasure, “No. If you were the magistrate, it wouldn’t end up like this.”

Mo Junyang was speechless.

He didn’t know that his sweetheart thought so highly of him, and he didn’t know what to say even though he was always silver-tongued.

Shi Qingxue probably realized that it was too much that she said the honeyed words, so she hurriedly coughed twice and changed the subject. “Er, I didn’t mean it. Do you mean that Yan Xu keeps his title of magistrate because he did what he should do but the result was dissatisfactory?”

Mo Junyang was considerate and didn’t expose that Shi Qingxue was afraid of being found out. He nodded. “At least, it appears to be like this on the surface.”

“What?” Shi Qingxue got unhappy again. “But he didn’t do anything. He was indifferent to the common people’s life and death. And it appears that he is an unqualified official that all people want to kill, right?”

Mo Junyang responded, “What you said can be right or wrong. If you don’t believe it, you can go out and ask. When there was a flood, the common people in Jiangzhou received the magistrate’s kindness. If the magistrate didn’t report to the imperial court, ask them to send food and money and open the granary, giving the victims porridge, many common people suffering in the flood disaster couldn’t sustain themselves.”

“Is he so nice?” Shi Qingxue asked doubtfully.

However, after Mo Junyang said that, Shi Qingxue remembered that a story of kindheartedness was recorded in the county annals that the magistrate led all officials in Jiangzhou to provide the common people with porridge at the gate of his mansion after the flood came.

Nevertheless, Shi Qingxue thought that it was just a story and Yan Xu manufactured it shamelessly in order to praise himself.

Wasn’t it true?

Mo Junyang looked at Shi Qingxue’s eyelashes trembling like dancing butterflies and laughed involuntarily. “Of course not. Even if Yan Xu is bold, he doesn’t dare to record a story that has never happened in the county annals. If it is found, it is a capital crime.”

The county annals were like history books and should base on facts. It could be exaggerated or stress something occasionally, but if he dared to record something that never happened, he would distort history.

Then he would be beheaded in any case.

This rule was severe, yet it was set just to prevent the local officials from overstating their contributions randomly.

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So the smart officials wouldn’t risk their lives just to leave a good name in history. It was not worth it.

Yan Xu certainly wouldn’t do something like this.

It meant that Yan Xu really did a “good deed” of providing porridge?

Shi Qingxue was dumbfounded.

Mo Junyang seemed to think that she was not surprised enough and then continued, “Moreover, Yan Xu offered porridge not only at the gate of his mansion. He sent people many times to provide porridge in every village and town. There were footsteps of the government workers who ‘cared about’ the common people in many villages and towns in Jiangzhou.”

“I see.”

Shi Qingxue looked confused and didn’t come to her senses after a long time.

So Yan Xu was a good person, but they were prejudiced by first impressions and thought that he was a bad guy before they came to Jiangzhou, making a false countercharge?

She made blind and disorderly conjectures and felt more ashamed while thinking, wishing to find a hole to hide herself.

“Don’t imagine wildly. I don’t know if the other officials are wronged, yet we don’t wrong Yan Xu at all.” Mo Junyang stopped Shi Qingxue’s unnecessary guilt in time and told the truth resolutely.

Shi Qingxue was really puzzled.

Mo Junyang said that Yan Xu provided porridge to save the victims, but why did he say that Yan Xu wasn’t a good person now?

Mo Junyang seemed to have noticed Shi Qingxue’s doubt and uplifted his eyelids lazily, saying coldly, “Who told you that he provided porridge just to save the victims?”

“Do you mean…”

Mo Junyang suddenly changed the subject. “I have checked before. The disaster relief money and food sent from the imperial court were taken away on the way before they reached the granary of Jiangzhou. Why did Yan Xu have money and food to help the common people?”

Shi Qingxue was shocked.

She felt that she seemed to get close to a thrilling truth, so she didn’t dare to continue imagining.

It seemed that Mo Junyang was afraid that she was not astounded enough, and then he asked unhurriedly, “Didn’t you ask me how the victims were infected with ptomaine in a large area when they didn’t know?”

Shi Qingxue was so astonished that her eyes almost popped out of their sockets, and she thought of such an image on her mind uncontrollably.

Yan Xu looked kind like a savior and stood at the gate of the mansion, providing porridge for the victims who were sallow and emaciated and had been starving for many days. The porridge’s aroma spread, with the good smell of meat seemingly, and it attracted the victims, so they came to get it in a mad rush to be the first. After they ate one bowl of thick porridge with the meat’s smell, they were grateful to Yan Xu and then left with satisfaction.

However, they didn’t know what they had eaten…

“Yuck!”

When Shi Qingxue imagined such a scene, she turned away and retched involuntarily. It was so gross.

Seeing that he seemed to speak too straightforwardly and scared Shi Qingxue, Mo Junyang patted her back gently in a hurry.

Nevertheless, the fact was so disgusting. He didn’t know how to make Shi Qingxue forget the nauseous scene, so he had to comfort her awkwardly. “Don’t think too much.”

Perhaps the man’s rare soft voice worked, and Shi Qingxue stopped retching.

However, she still didn’t look well. After a long time, she complained to Mo Junyang unwillingly with a wrinkled face, “Yan Xu even did something so inhuman frantically. He should be killed.”

Mo Junyang thought so and nodded, promising, “Don’t worry. He will surely die.”

Shi Qingxue heard the promise and then got relieved a bit.

After she pondered for a moment, she worriedly grabbed Mo Junyang’s sleeve and asked in a low voice, “He is so crazy. Are we really going to attend his banquet tonight?”

When Shi Qingxue thought about Yan Xu’s face, it turned her stomach. She didn’t dare to promise that she wouldn’t throw up in front of Yan Xu when she saw him.

It was so nauseous when she imagined the scene.

Moreover, Yan Xu was so frantic. Who knew if he would serve that kind of “food” to them when he got crazy?

Shi Qingxue’s skin crawled because of her imagination, and she buried herself in Mo Junyang’s arms, refusing to get out. Meanwhile, she murmured with complaints.

Although she knew that Mo Junyang wanted to draw a snake out of its hole, what Yan Xu had done was beyond the scope of what she could accept.

She couldn’t tell Mo Junyang not to attend the banquet, and even she had to go. Was she not allowed to hide in her future husband’s arms and play the woman?

Her future husband…

This thought made Shi Qingxue who was frustrated feel better, and she stopped complaining. She just clung to Mo Junyang and said honeyed words intimately.

“Junyang, let’s hurry up to finish the job in Jiangzhou and then go back to the capital, okay? Father must have captured Mo Junhao then, so I have taken revenge. Let’s stay with each other happily forever and not think about what happened in the past, okay…”

Mo Junyang listened to Shi Qingxue quietly who imagined their good life in the future in a sweet voice, and he felt peaceful.

Neither of them knew that a bigger disaster was waiting for them.

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