Chu Xinian felt that the novel should have been called “A Thousand Years of Infernal Affairs” instead of “A Thousand Years of Feud”. It sounded more appropriate.
Chu Jiaoping did not want to say more so as not to leak secrets, but he feared that Chu Xinian did not know the seriousness of the matter, so he explained, “Prince Jin has received an imperial decree, next month he will go to Shuo Fang to suppress rebels, it is imminent. But the army is mostly Xie Jingyuan’s old troops. If they attack secretly, the damage is inevitable, but if we get their names, we can take precautions in advance. ”
The purpose of the advisors was to make suggestions and protect the safety of the lord. If the lord is dead, um…you know best, then you should not be a qualified adviser.
Chu Xinian slightly raised his eyebrows to express his understanding. He smiled and decided to deceive the cheap brother first, “Don’t worry Big Brother, I will find a way to steal the list.”
If he refuses, Chu Jiaoping won’t force him, but he will find another way. Instead of deceiving him, it would be better to be under his nose and be able to snoop on Prince Jin’s side.
Such is the power play of the Court, everyone makes their moves, and the one who wins is the one who wins, there is no petty and no scoundrel. Xie Jingyuan’s mansion was guarded like an iron barrel, not a drop of water could leak out, if there were no other way, Chu Jiaoping would not risk pinning his hopes on his younger brother.
Before leaving, Chu Jiaoping thought of something, stopped, and looked at Chu Xinian, “Second Brother…”
Chu Xinian raised his head unconsciously, “Big Brother, what else do you need me to steal?”
“…”
Chu Jiaoping shook his head slightly, “It’s nothing, you should pay attention to your safety. It’s good if you can get the list, and it’s fine if you don’t get it either.”
After he finished speaking, he turned around with a solemn expression, opened the door, and left with heavy steps. It seemed that Chu Xinian was not going to the bridal chamber but to a tiger’s lair.
But Chu Xinian himself did not care much, he went to bed to sleep. Unfortunately, too many things happened in one day, he could not fall asleep and tossed and turned for several hours without closing his eyes. In the middle of the night, he heard some noises and felt that someone was sitting next to his bed.
Chu Xinian closed his eyes and remained motionless, but in his heart, he was alert and worried that he would be assaulted.
However, that person merely sat on the edge of the bed and silently looked at Chu Xinian, then reached out to tuck him in and touched his head wound, let out a low, inaudible sigh, and finally left the room quietly.
Chu Xinian opened his eyes. The night was foggy, and he felt that the person’s back was somewhat similar to Madam Mei’s.
Early the next morning, a carriage was drawn up in front of Quyang Manor. Madam Mei’s maid was ordered to go out to the courtyard gate to see if Chu Xinian was awake but saw that he was already fully dressed and looked ready to leave at any moment.
Slightly surprised, the maid curtsied and said, “Second Young Master, the carriage is ready. Please accompany me.”
Chu Xinian was holding a decorative folding fan, although he could not use it on a cold day, he wanted to study the famous calligraphy and paintings on it. Hearing this, he looked around, but did not see Madam Mei, “Where is Mother?”
The maid said, “In response to Second Young Master, Madam is refreshing herself and will arrive later.”
The guards outside the courtyard feared that Chu Xinian would run away again, seven of them followed him with swords in their hands, keeping a tight watch. God knows how Chu Xinian, a young master full of alcohol and sex, escaped last time, and if they let him escape again, the guards would have no face to lose.
The servants made a private bet yesterday, guessing what kind of attitude their Second Young Master would adopt this morning when he was “sent” away from home, whether he would mourn his parents, or point to the sky and curse the earth.
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“Hm?” Chu Xinian turned at the sound of the voice, but saw that it was his cheap father, retracted the leg they were about to get into the carriage, “Father, why are you here?”
Marquis Quyang put down the bird cage in the servant’s hand, walked over to Chu Xinian, and asked in a low voice like a thief, “Xi’er, do you still want to run away?”
Chu Xinian raised his eyebrows slightly, “What?”
Marquis Quyang reached into his sleeve, took out a stack of crumpled banknotes, and quietly shoved them into Chu Xinian’s hands, “Son, if you want to run away, just run away, these banknotes are for you. I will distract your Mother.”
Chu Xinian looked behind him, he thought he was an exemplary father, “Father, where did you get these banknotes?”
Chu Xinian was a gambler, and his father was no different, to prevent the two from ruining the family, the financial power has always been in the hands of Madam Mei. The origin of so many bills was very suspicious.
Marquis Quyang, “Of course because I kept it.”
Chu Xinian, “Mother won’t be angry?”
Marquis Quyang snorted, “The whole manor is mine, what about your Mother, when has she ever had the right to tal- Ow ow ow! It hurts, it hurts! Madam, let go of me quickly!”
Before he boasted of the prestige of being Marquis of Quyang, Madam Mei appeared behind him and twisted his ear with one hand, smiling coldly, “I thought, where is the Marquis? He happens to be here, but since he is not in good health, he should go back and recover!”
As soon as the words fell, a servant immediately “helped” the Marquis Quyang in by force, who feared he would not be able to get out for two or three days.
The words just fell, and immediately the servants forced them to “help” to take him inside, not two or three days of confinement only fear of not coming out.
Seeing this, Chu Xinian hid the bills in his sleeve and shouted “Mother.”
Madam Mei looked at him, but only said, “Come up, let’s not waste time.”
Chu Xinian knew it was time to go to the General’s Residence, “Father is not going?”
Madam Mei, “I’m afraid with your Father’s temperament, he will say there are evil things and get sick. General Xie should not say anything.”
The Marquis of Quyang Manor had indeed gone into decline, and now the mansion had hardly any money and could only depend on one woman to keep afloat. If nothing was done, in the future, when the dynasty changed and the title declined further, they would not be able to survive after three generations and would disappear.
Hearing the crackling sound of whips in the air, the two-driver carriage moved forward unhurriedly. The wheels rolled heavily on the bluestone slabs, splashing a little because of the accumulated rain from the previous night.
Chu Xinian was in a daze because he would soon meet his self-written villain.
In the beginning, he had spent a lot of time writing this character and his level of attention was no less than that of the protagonist Chu Jiaoping. In a sense, he takes up no less space than the protagonist.
If you think carefully, the difficulty of saving him was great. As long as he lives, he will never have a good ending unless he ends Prince Jin for good.
Unless…
Unless the Crown Prince ascends to the throne…
Seeing that Chu Xinian was silent, Madam Mei thought he was afraid. After all, he was a piece of meat that fell from her body. And she felt pain in her heart, she hated being weak, “As obedient as a quail, what are you afraid of? His majesty bestowed the marriage, can Xie Jingyuan still kill you?”
Chu Xinian thought it was hard to say, after all, the plot collapsed, but still said, “What Mother says is true.”
As they spoke, they had already arrived at the General’s Residence. Chu Xinian stepped down from the carriage, only to feel a part of the cloudy and gloomy sky, and the mansion in front of him was so impartial that it was located in a place where the sun could not even shine.
The vermilion-red gate was guarded by four guards with armor and sword, and with a cold aura. When they saw someone coming from Marquis Quyang’s Manor, they went inside to report. After a while, an elderly steward with a friendly face came out.
“Greetings to the Marquise and Young Marquis Chu, the General is waiting in the main hall, please follow this servant.”
Hearing the voice, he felt somewhat out of place in this eerily cold mansion, the other party was born with a smiling face, a face full of wrinkles.
Madam Mei squeezed Chu Xinian’s hand, signaling him to be quiet, she followed the butler inside, while smiling and exchanging compliments, “Thank you, my rebellious son was found yesterday and I was afraid the General would worry, that’s why I brought him today…”
Then she paused.
“After all, they are married and should live together.”
The old steward smiled and bowed, “Young Marquis Chu is fortunate, he has Buddha’s blessing. Yesterday the General sent soldiers to look for him, fortunately, he was found and saved the General from worrying.”
This steward was also an extraordinary person, he knew perfectly well that what Madam Mei said was an excuse, but he still went along with it.
They passed through four archways, a garden, and a terrace, and when her legs were about to go numb, they finally reached the main hall.
Madam Mei straightened her clothes and was about to enter when she suddenly saw a man covered in blood, wide-eyed and wild-eyed, evidently long dead, being carried out of the hall.
The old steward noticed this and deftly turned to one side to avoid him, and went on ahead as if nothing had happened. However, Madam Mei’s face turned pale with fear, her legs trembled and she almost fell to the ground. Chu Xinian rushed to help her, and said worriedly, “Mother?”
He felt something strange and frowned slightly, taking a glance at the corpse.
Generally, about one to three hours after a person dies, rigor mortis begins to appear; after about twelve hours, rigor mortis spreads throughout the body.
The entire corpse was stiff and rigid; it had been dead for at least one night.
The lips were black, the nails blue, bleeding from the seven orifices, death by poisoning?
He had blue tattoos on the sides of his face. He looked like a bandit who had been in prison, he was wearing black clothes. No matter how you look at him, he wasn’t a good person by any stretch of the imagination. Could he be someone who came to play an assassin in the middle of the night last night and died under Xie Jingyuan’s hand?”
Chu Xinian had studied medicine for a few years, and to collect materials, he also stayed at a funeral home for a while. The corpses were nothing to him so he wasn’t scared.
He opened his fan in one motion and covered Madam Mei’s eyes, smiled, and said quietly, “Mother, the dead man is probably a servant who did something wrong, it’s okay.”
If others saw this scene, they would only think that Xie Jingyuan had killed an innocent person. But Chu Xinian’s comment about a servant who had done something wrong, made the scene seem less gory.
The old steward ahead of him stopped in his tracks and looked at him.
Chu Xinian’s reputation was negatively notorious, giving people the impression that he was just a drunkard and a womanizer. On the wedding day he quickly fled and didn’t even see his face, but seeing him today, he differed quite a bit from the one in the rumors.
When Madam Mei was still single, she was considered the most beautiful woman in the Capital. Chu Xinian inherited her good looks, soft and handsome, bright, and dressed in a white tunic, he seemed to have an extraordinary character. He did not panic when he saw the corpse just now and inevitably made people think that he was steady and self-disciplined.
He did not look like someone who would run away from marriage.
The old steward smiled without changing the curve of his mouth, “Marquise, excuse me. We have frightened you with the strict rules of the mansion.”
Hearing this, Madam Mei squeezed Chu Xinian’s hand tightly, her lips trembled so much that she couldn’t speak, she wished she could run out the door. Xie Jingyuan killed someone as soon as they walked through the door, how could this foolish son of his survive living here!
No matter what, she couldn’t stand by and watch his son jump into the fire, even if it was for the family. She now regretted agreeing to the marriage under Concubine Mei’s persuasion. Madam Mei decided to go to the Palace to find a solution.
Chu Xinian did not know what was going through Madam Mei’s mind. He helped her and they went inside with the steward, and when he saw the man on the high seat in the main hall, he couldn’t help but be stunned for a moment.
It was early in the morning, the dew had not yet faded and it was bone-chillingly cold. Xie Jingyuan was very sick and couldn’t stand the wind, so he put on a dark blanket, making his eyes look redder and his face a jade crown.
The right side of his face was covered with a silver mask, covering some gruesome scars. The other half of his face was flawless, a stark contrast. Xie Jingyuan pressed a white handkerchief against his lips to suppress the coughing sensation in his lungs. His bony hands were so thin that even the taut bluish veins were visible.
He was like a sharp poisonous needle, dangerous and weak, contradictory and self-consistent.
The body wrapped in a windy cloak was still strong, and some shadows could still be seen from when he led soldiers in battles.
Xie Jingyuan was the most wicked character in Chu Xinian’s pen, even the author couldn’t imagine what he looked like, but now he came out of the book so vividly. He made people feel that he was perfect.
Chu Xinian was a bit fascinated: Is this the villain I wrote?
Although the plot has changed beyond recognition, fortunately, the characters haven’t changed.
System reminded him: [Host, the target villain has appeared]
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This arc is so good. I like Chu Xinian so much. He’s not dumb, and is good at deceiving people. I really love black-bellied protagonists. Especially, black-bellied couples!
I feel sorry for his brother and team Jin. Their scheming to get a spy ended with creating a double agent. I really like the different feel of this arc.
Yessss!
I can’t wait for the next chapters! I’m really looking forward to it! The chemistry is so strong, even if the chapters were only 4 chapters for this arc, I’m already grinning like shii. Beautiful “husband” and ruthlessly handsome wife, well served!
*even if there were only 4 chapters
Also, it’s quite rare for a fierce General to be the shou. I’m so excited! Ugh!
I’m ready to strap in for the ride cuz this is definitely gonna have an entirely different feeling from the last arc!
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Whoa it seems like every arc get better and better
+1 you’re right! 🙌
bro is just so casual about this and is so charmed haha this will be intresting