Chapter 66: Old Bastard
Shang Wuyang glanced at Big Goldy, who had turned into a ‘village flower’, with disdain in his eyes.
Yin Yuanli: “You lost.”
Placing down a chess piece, the child stated the facts in a calm and steady voice.
Shang Wuyang: “You’re letting me have a chess piece.”
“This is already the fifth piece I’ve let you have, and you still lost even with that.”
Shang Wuyang threw down the black piece in his hand: “I’m just not good at this.”
He leaned back lazily.
Yin Yuanli looked at him for a moment without speaking.
A terrible chess player, and he still wouldn’t admit it.
“Quiet.”
The assassination outside had ended, and Shang Wuyang lifted the carriage curtain to look out with a cold laugh.
“The last batch wasn’t even able to fight.”
At least the last batch managed to reach his carriage.
Yin Yuanli also looked out: “You’re more popular than my Imperial Father.”
However, this popularity was clearly not meant as a compliment.
Shang Wuyang didn’t care and simply snapped his fingers.
Immediately, a Ghost Mask Shadow Guard appeared in the carriage.
“Master.”
“Who sent this group? Have you found out?”
“We’ve found out. It’s a wealthy merchant from Tianqi’s Jiangnan region. You previously disrupted several of his businesses and ruined his plan to get acquainted with the heir of Marquis Anbo. His profits have shrunk considerably, so he harbored resentment and hired people at a high price to kill you.”
So it was hired help, no wonder the interrogation was so quick.
“He can’t manage his own business and blames me?”
He sneered, then reached out: “Give me his detailed information.”
The Shadow Guard was prepared and immediately presented a stack of papers.
Qin Wanwan was curious, and stopped braiding the Great Lion’s hair. She scurried over to Shang Wuyang and nestled into his arms, her little head peeking out.
“Daddy, what does it say?”
Shang Wuyang lightly poked her little forehead: “You should be able to read by now.”
Qin Wanwan blinked her eyes, her expression innocent as if she hadn’t understood anything.
“I’ll read it to Cub.”
Keke flew over, patting its chest, and offered to take charge.
Shang Wuyang: “You’re not even as smart as a bird.”
Keke raised its voice: “Don’t try to drive a wedge between me and Cub. It’s normal for Cub to not understand at three years old, alright?”
Qin Wanwan stroked Keke’s head to soothe it.
“Don’t be angry, Wanwan isn’t angry.”
Her voice was as sweet and obedient as could be!
Keke was instantly healed by the fair and tender little cub.
“Ahem… let me see. Qian Dayong, originally a poor scholar from Erhe Village, passed the child-level exam, but failed to become a Xiucai scholar for five consecutive years. His family spent all their savings on him, and his younger sister was sold to support his studies.”
However, instead of studying, he used the money to frequent teahouses with his bad influences from the academy under the guise of making friends, hosting lavish parties. His mother later fell gravely ill due to the heavy burden and died.
He couldn’t continue his studies but was unwilling to remain a commoner. He schemed to get close to the only daughter of a local wealthy merchant, pretending to be a good man to marry into the wealthy family. Later, he secretly had an affair with the merchant’s maid and secretly poisoned the merchant.
After taking over the wealthy family’s business, he demoted his wife to concubine status, shamelessly took concubines, and forcibly married civilian girls. He even forced his own daughter-in-law. What a shameless old scoundrel!”
Qin Wanwan nodded heavily and repeated what she learned: “Old scoundrel!”
Then Keke was sent flying.
Shang Wuyang & Yin Yuanli: “Mind your speech.”
Keke, who was sent flying into the wall:
Although it wanted to curse, it drooped its wings upon meeting Qin Wanwan’s clean eyes.
Fine, it was its fault.
“But that Qian Dayong really deserves to be cursed.”
Who could tolerate that?
Shang Wuyang and Yin Yuanli agreed on this point.
“Let me see what’s next, there’s more.”
Qin Wanwan also perked up her little head, concentrating intently.
“Wow, his business dealings are malicious. The quality is not up to standard, and he shortchanges people. He even mixed sand into the rice he sold and cruelly harmed many people with sinister methods. How dare he try to kill you?”
Shang Wuyang slowly poured himself a cup of wine: “He probably thought many people were hunting me and gambled on the chance that I wouldn’t investigate.”
Yin Yuanli was curious about how Shang Wuyang would get revenge: “Are you going to fight back?”
Shang Wuyang shook his head: “That would be too boring.”
He pointed at the stack of papers, which contained almost all of the man’s life from childhood to adulthood.
His intelligence network was no joke.
“If you spread this information, I won’t even have to lift a finger.”
Yin Yuanli understood.
Qian Dayong’s ruthless actions had offended many enemies.
Spreading this information would not only ruin his reputation completely but also attract his enemies to come after him.
Keke actively offered an idea: “Why don’t we write a storybook based on him, and have people tell it in teahouses? It’s guaranteed to make him infamous.”
Shang Wuyang said: “Okay, here are the pens, you do it.”
Keke:
“Do you see these claws? Do they look like they can hold a pen?”
Shang Wuyang said “oh” and pinched Qin Wanwan’s little face.
He threw all those papers to the Shadow Guard: “Did you hear that? Find someone to turn this into stories and have them spread around properly.”
“Yes!”
Soon, a certain wealthy merchant in Jiangnan would become rapidly famous.
Keke was extremely regretful: “It’s a shame I can’t go and see it myself, otherwise I could take Wanwan to watch the excitement. She loves watching commotion the most.”
Qin Wanwan nodded her little head in strong agreement.
“Yes, I like it.”
“Is that so.”
Shang Wuyang rested his chin on his hand: “There’s actually some excitement to see right now.”
The excitement Shang Wuyang was referring to was happening within the city.
To watch the commotion, they quietly took a carriage to the bustling downtown area.
And they took the best private room at a restaurant.
As soon as they sat down, they heard the noise coming from outside.
Upon closer inspection, it was actually an acquaintance.
It was the Tartars who were arrested some time ago.
Two groups, one group was the one arrested at Heavenly Realm before, and the other group was arrested at the teahouse.
At this moment, the people from both sides were confronting each other and arguing.
Qin Wanwan rubbed her little ears: “Keke, can I use the language of all things to hear them speak?”
Keke: “This is an innate ability of a Qilin. It’s not aggressive, why don’t you try?”
Qin Wanwan said okay, and then leaned against the window, muttering a cryptic language in a low voice that ordinary people couldn’t hear.
A hint of purple flashed in the depths of her eyes, the same purple as Shang Wuyang’s.
However, it quickly returned to normal.
And the people below, who were arguing in the Tartar language and other languages, were automatically translated into a language she could understand.
“Alright!”
The surprise on her face was too obvious.
“Daddy, I can understand what they’re saying.”
A strange look flashed in Shang Wuyang’s and Yin Yuanli’s eyes.
Before they could ask, the people below had already started fighting.
“If we hadn’t come to find you, we wouldn’t have been arrested. A bunch of idiots from the Kunmu Royal Mansion!”
“How dare you talk about us? You came, not only did you not rescue us, but you got caught yourselves. You are the real idiots!”
Both sides had hot tempers, and when they started fighting, they didn’t act like they were fighting their own people, but more like enemies, fighting to the death.
Shang Wuyang slowly fanned himself with his fan: “It’s not peaceful within the Tartars right now.”
