Chapter 276
Chapter 276
Jiang Yunsui took the remaining Moonlight Flowers to Fat Chef. While still fresh, the beautiful blossoms were ruthlessly destroyed and transformed into flower cakes.
The next morning, everyone received one Moonlight Flower cake.
With the first bite, an intense floral fragrance spread across the tongue, sweet but not cloying.
“Delicious. I never expected these flowers to taste this good.”
Jiang Yunsui held her cake and nibbled tiny bites, nodding as she ate.
She had three more, and Ji Yan’an had three extras as well.
“It’s a pity there are so few.”
Jiang Yunsui smacked her lips. “If we had more, I’d want to make wine with them.”
Flowers could be used in wine.
Peach-blossom wine, for example, was delicious and had an especially beautiful color.
Its alcohol content was low, placing it closer to rice wine.
Jiang Yunsui liked it very much.
“Come on. Let’s see what Old Villain Sun is doing today.”
Jiang Yunsui immediately perked up and nodded.
“Let’s go now!”
The two could hardly wait to cause trouble for Eunuch Sun.
The others smiled and shook their heads.
When they reached Eunuch Sun’s residence, Jiang Yunsui used her easily overlooked presence to carry the poison into the kitchen.
This time, the drug would change the color of a person’s skin.
After adding it to the food, Jiang Yunsui prepared to leave.
But she heard an argument while crossing the courtyard and crept closer to look.
“Sir, please spare our Ni! She’s only a child, only a child! She already has a fiancé!”
Four people knelt at a side entrance, pleading desperately.
The household servant before them looked impatient.
“Enough already. She’s only a little girl. Our master taking an interest in her is her good fortune.”
The beardless man’s voice was somewhat shrill. He yanked his robe from their hands and dusted it off in disgust.
“Our master is one of the Emperor’s favored attendants. Serving him is a blessing for your family too. People shouldn’t be ungrateful. Otherwise, their miserable lives may not be worth much.”
The four kneeling figures went ashen.
“Enough. Here’s some money. Take it and stop making trouble, or you’ll disturb our master and suffer the consequences.”
He casually tossed three taels of silver onto the ground, his voice openly contemptuous.
“This is more than enough to buy your family’s girl. In a remote place like this, you’ll never find another noble man like our master.”
The four stared at him fiercely.
“No! We don’t want the silver. Ni… our Ni…”
“Men, take them away. If they keep causing trouble, teach them a proper lesson.”
The four were dragged away, their faces deathly pale.
Jiang Yunsui hurried outside to find Nanshu.
“Nanshu!”
Speaking rapidly, she told him everything she had witnessed.
Nanshu flew into a rage. “That damned Old Villain Sun! He dares act so arrogantly on our territory?”
“Let’s save those four people first!”
When they reached the side gate, the four were still struggling to enter. Eunuch Sun’s men had lost patience, and their leader gave an order.
“Break their legs and throw them out!”
A wooden board was raised and about to fall.
Nanshu rushed forward and kicked the wielder hard in the back.
“Aah!”
As the scream rang out, Jiang Yunsui covered her eyes-though she left very wide gaps between her fingers.
“Ow, my back!”
The man climbed up, clutching his waist with a twisted expression.
“How dare you! Who are you?”
Nanshu pointed at them. “You’re the ones who have some nerve! Do you know where you are, committing violence here?”
“Hmph. We serve the Emperor.”
“What, did the Emperor order you to beat ordinary people whenever you pleased?” Nanshu demanded.
“They offended our master.”
“Bullshit!”
Nanshu unleashed his full fury, pointing at the lackeys as he cursed them.
“Offended him? Don’t you know what sort of thing your master is? Is he some especially fragrant pile of dung that people would deliberately seek him out? Do you think everyone is a dog eager to sniff around him?”
“You grovel and pretend to be grandsons in the Capital City, then come out here and act like mighty wolves? Let me tell you, Mobei is not lawless!”
“And you four-why beg that sinister old bastard? Go straight to the magistrate’s office! Today we’ll show you that Mobei has people governing it. We won’t let gutter rats like these abuse their power. Rootless creatures trying to swagger like men!”
That was an exceptionally filthy tirade.
Eunuch Sun’s lackeys swallowed nervously. People often cared most about what they lacked, and eunuchs especially loathed mockery of their castration.
Eunuch Sun hated being called rootless above all else.
Of course, his men stood obediently and endured Nanshu’s abuse not because they were calm.
Two enormous dogs stood behind Nanshu and Jiang Yunsui, watching them hungrily.
They did not dare fight.
Jiang Yunsui planted her hands on her hips. Though short, she drew courage from her dogs, raised her little chin high, and looked unbearably triumphant.
“Nanshu, what about the girl named Ni?”
“Right.” Nanshu turned back to the men. “Tell Old Villain Sun that I, Nanshu, said this: he’d better send Ni out. Otherwise… my Young Master is gravely ill, but that only makes him care less about consequences. If anything happens to Eunuch Sun, don’t claim I failed to warn him.”
Nanshu behaved even more arrogantly than Eunuch Sun’s people.
“You-bring me two stools.”
The man he pointed at did not want to obey. The two dogs bared their teeth, and he immediately scrambled inside to fetch two stools.
“Quick! Inform Eunuch Sun!”
Eunuch Sun was eating, but the moment he heard Nanshu’s name, he trembled.
“Nanshu!”
“Why is he here?”
The messenger explained what had happened, tactfully softening Nanshu’s threats. Eunuch Sun’s expression became wonderfully colorful.
“Very good!”
He slammed his chopsticks onto the table.
“Does he truly think I’m afraid of Ji Yan’an? What can a sickly wretch who might die at any moment do to me? I serve His Majesty!”
“Hmph. I want to see what Nanshu has to be arrogant about after being reduced to this remote place of exile. Once Ji Yan’an dies, what good end can await him?”
Eunuch Sun smiled coldly and rose to go outside.
At the gate, Jiang Yunsui and Nanshu sat with equal arrogance. The four commoners stood behind them, flanked by two enormous dogs.
Eunuch Sun nearly ground his teeth to powder at the sight.
“Well, Nanshu. We haven’t met in years, and you look more spirited than ever. Is Young Master Ji keeping well?”
His question dripped with false concern.
“You see an old senior like me and don’t even offer a greeting. What impressive airs.”