C177 This Child Is a Monster!

Take revenge for Zeng Ce! Nonsense!

Xiao Jingyue felt a trace of disgust in his heart, and his voice grew even colder, "In order to 'avenge' our benefactor, you don't even care about your own child?"

She originally thought that when mentioning children, the woman would feel regret because she involved them. Who would have thought that she would become even more angry?

The woman turned her head to look at her child. That gaze was as if she was looking at a monster, and her entire body was trembling uncontrollably.

She clenched her teeth as she pointed at the child and said, "This humble woman does want to care, but he is already a monster. How can this humble woman care?"

Just as she finished speaking, her body shuddered violently as a trace of black blood flowed from the corner of her lips.

When the surrounding commoners saw this, their eyes were filled with fear. Those who were timid started to scream.

Xiao Jingyue frowned, but just as he was about to speak, she looked at him with eyes that seemed to be filled with poison, and a strange laughter came out of her throat.

She said in a strange, broken voice, "You people with high statuses and great wealth do not take human lives seriously, not a single one of you is good enough!"

With that, the woman's chest heaved as she spat out a mouthful of blood and fell to the ground.

It was motionless and dead.

The frightened child was stupefied for a long time. When he regained his senses, he looked at his mother who was lying at his feet. Two streams of hot tears suddenly flowed out from his round eyes.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the child raised his head, and his eyes started to tear up. He opened his mouth and started to silently cry.

It was at this moment that everyone realized that the child was actually mute.

When the Caoital Officials heard the commotion and rushed over, when he saw the scene, he was immediately scared stiff.

After instructing his subordinates to clean up the scene, he jogged in front of Xiao Jingyue. Just as he was about to bow, he was stopped by Xiao Jingyue.

Xiao Jingyue looked at the child, and said indifferently: "I will first bring this child back with me."

Once again, another accident occurred within his jurisdiction. The Caoital Officials was frightened, afraid that Xiao Jingyue would blame him, so she did not dare stop him.

When the guard guarding the General Mansion saw Xiao Jingyue, he immediately took out a letter from his chest and handed it over to him with both hands. "General, a letter from Feng Cheng."

The letters that were sent by the guest houses were usually unimportant. They were passed on by an envoy to the guards at the gates for them to pass on before leaving.

Xiao Jingyue took the letter. When he saw the words, the corner of his mouth twitched almost imperceptibly.

to be able to write words like this... What was thought-provoking was not what he thought except his wife.

Xiao Jingyue did not immediately open it, and kept the letter, leading Xiao Er and the child into the residence.

A quarter of an hour later, Chen Linye arrived.

On the way to the General Mansion, he had heard the details of the situation from the Dark Guard. When he saw that child, he didn't bother to greet him and immediately went to check his pulse. Then, without caring about the child's struggles, he quickly tore off his clothes and pierced a few silver needles into his back.

Xiao Jingyue sat by the side and sipped on his tea. After Chen Linye finished, he asked: "How is it?"

Chen Linye put away the silver needles with a serious face and helped the child put on his clothes. After handing the child to Xiao Er to take away, he said in a deep voice: "It is indeed a Soul Borrowing Gu."

Originally, the people who used Soul Borrowing Gu were mostly adults, but they did not expect those people to be so crazy, and actually used that sinister thing on a child.

Chen Linye could not help but sigh, "Perhaps Mrs. Xiao made the right choice, and did indeed have to quickly uncover the source of the poison Gu's sale."

When Qu Ling was mentioned, his expression eased up slightly.

Chen Linye paused for a moment, and then continued: "The woman clearly knows about the matter of the child being infected with the parasite. Someone who could afford to buy the Soul Borrowing Gu is either rich or wealthy, but looking at the child's skinny and typical malnourished appearance, he doesn't seem like a rich family. Furthermore, even if she wanted to take revenge for Zeng Ce, she didn't need to take her child with her and fight on the streets. Have you offended anyone in the capital? "

Xiao Jingyue shot a cold glance at him but did not say a word.

He had only been back in the capital for half a year and had not joined the camp or lined up. He also wanted to know who he had offended, to find such a foolish woman to assassinate him.

Chen Linye also did not plan to let him answer, as he replied while clicking his tongue, "That woman seemed to have been taking care of her children by herself all these years, and did not have any relatives either. She did not even care about her own life and the life of her child, and I wonder how the person behind the scenes instigated her to muster up the courage to commit murder against the imperial court officials."

Xiao Jingyue originally did not intend to bother with him, but after hearing this, she really could not resist giving him a look that seemed to say that he was retarded.

Chen Linye angrily laughed, "What, do you know the reason behind that woman's actions?"

Xiao Jingyue replied, "Of course."

"Then tell me."

"She didn't ignore the child's life."

"Huh?"

"I've brought the child back."

Chen Linye was startled for a good while, and finally understood.

He slapped his forehead and said in a low voice, "The person behind this is really high."

In truth, few people knew that Qu Ling did not return to the capital, and when everyone saw that Xiao Jingyue returned, they automatically thought of Qu Ling as well.

Since Qu Ling was able to cure the Soul Borrowing Gu, it was probably known to all that he sent a kid who was infected by the parasite as his ace in the hole.

Just as Xiao Jingyue had said, the woman did not want children. The reason why she was willing to do all of this was simply to "push to the end", and to take the initiative to "send" the child in front of Xiao Jingyue or Qu Ling, in order to attract their attention, and have them bring the child back to the General Mansion to treat him.

Even if Xiao Jingyue didn't care about the gazes of others, he still couldn't be so heartless as to not save a child who had just lost his mother and was poisoned by the poison.

Moreover, the person behind the scenes seemed to have predicted that he would be curious about the Soul Borrowing Gu.

In this way, the child was saved.

And the person behind this, could still use this matter to probe whether Qu Ling could truly remove the parasite or not.

It was a win-win situation.

In that case, the person who was likely to infect the child was the person behind the scenes.

This time, Xiao Jingyue really did not bother with Chen Linye, the guy with the obviously insufficient IQ.

What he didn't say was that the woman mentioned Zeng Ce before she died, calling herself Zeng Ce "revenge" and assassinating a court official.

Once word of this reached the ears of the emperor, Zeng Ce's case would definitely be tried. There was a high chance that the Ministry of Work would be in trouble. When that happened, the Crown Prince …

Xiao Jingyue withdrew his train of thought and said indifferently: "If there's nothing else for the next few days, you can stay in General Mansion."

Earlier, Qu Ling had taught Chen Linye a method to cure the Soul Borrowing Gu. Chen Linye wanted to give it a try, so he agreed.

When Chen Linye left, Xiao Jingyue immediately took out the letter.

Looking at the familiar handwriting, his indifferent eyes revealed hints of a smile.

The content of the letter was no more than a hundred words, but because the words were too ugly and crooked, Xiao Jingyue studied it for an hour before he was able to read it.

He read the letter again and again with great patience, and only when he had memorized the entire letter did he stand up and walk to the desk. He took out a brand-new letter, wrote it down, and wrote back to his wife.

The warm candlelight fell on half of his perfect face, completely dispersing the remaining coldness and painting it with a gentle color.

He did not reply with much, only a few words.

Compared to Qu Ling's hundred word acknowledgement, it was a little shabby.

Xiao Jingyue put down the pen, dried the paper and folded it neatly into the letter.

Suddenly, someone knocked on the study door.

Xiao Er's voice came from outside the door: "Master, the crown prince is here."

Xiao Jingyue's eyes flashed.

Shortly after, he said, "Invite him in."