Chapter 277
Chapter 277
Nanshu did not hold back. “What kind of senior do you think you are?”
“Eunuch Sun, you’ve been banished to this place, yet you’re still abusing your power?”
Eunuch Sun’s face darkened terribly.
“Nanshu.”
His aged voice carried a distinctive shrillness. White powder and lip rouge covered his face, giving him a strange and exceptionally mean appearance.
“No matter what happens to me, I still serve the Emperor. So long as His Majesty remains on the throne, I will always have another chance to rise. But you…”
“You rely on Ji Yan’an to contend with an old senior like me now, but no one knows when Young Master Ji will die. When that happens, I’d like to see how you fight me!”
He pointed at Nanshu, certain Ji Yan’an had little time left.
Nanshu sneered. “You needn’t concern yourself. The Young Master has already made arrangements for me in Mobei. No matter how much you hate me, you can’t touch me here.”
“The Ji Family built this place up piece by piece and defended Mobei. Out of respect for the Ji Family, Mobei’s soldiers will never mistreat me.”
“As for you, half your body is already in the grave. You lack the parts of a man yet imitate men by playing with women. At your age, you live like some grotesque creature. Truly shameless!”
“You… you…”
To be cursed so viciously to his face made Eunuch Sun want to kill Nanshu on the spot.
“Wow, your skin is turning green.”
The little girl’s sudden voice drew everyone’s attention.
They followed Jiang Yunsui’s pointing finger. Everyone but Nanshu sucked in a breath.
“E-Eunuch…”
One lackey went pale and pointed at Eunuch Sun’s face with a trembling hand.
Eunuch Sun’s heart lurched. He hurriedly covered his face.
“What is it?”
Even the white powder could not conceal the skin gradually turning green beneath it.
Then Eunuch Sun saw his hands.
The change in color was even more obvious there.
“Aah!”
“My hands! What happened to my hands?”
“Eunuch, have you been poisoned?”
“Quick! Fetch a physician!”
Eunuch Sun forgot all about Nanshu and Jiang Yunsui. Terrified by his green skin, his eyes rolled back and he nearly fainted. He grabbed the eunuch beside him for support and ordered someone to find a physician.
The scene descended into chaos.
“Let’s go,” Nanshu said.
Having witnessed Eunuch Sun turn green, he was thoroughly satisfied. He led Jiang Yunsui and the victims’ relatives away.
“B-but our Ni…”
“Let’s leave this place first,” Nanshu said.
Once they reached the street, the four kept looking back.
Suddenly, a familiar voice called to them.
“Father! Mother! Brother! Brother Hao!”
They all turned and saw a delicate young woman gazing at them through tearful eyes. She ran toward them.
“Ni! My Ni!”
Her parents embraced her and wept as though recovering someone from the dead.
Seeing the family reunited, Jiang Yunsui and Nanshu slapped palms.
“Yes!”
While the two of them stalled at the gate and held Eunuch Sun’s attention, they had sent Ji Si, who was secretly following them, into the residence to find the girl.
Fortunately, Ji Si had brought her out safely.
The entire family knelt before Nanshu and Jiang Yunsui, startling them into jumping back.
The family was painfully sincere. Their knees struck the ground with a thud, and when they kowtowed, their foreheads hit the street hard enough to turn red immediately.
“Enough. Hurry home,” Nanshu said. “Old Villain Sun shouldn’t have time to trouble you now. If he causes problems again, don’t foolishly beg him for mercy. That man is a vicious old bastard. Report it directly to the authorities or find us at the former General’s Mansion.”
The family thanked them profusely.
Before they left, Jiang Yunsui pressed three pieces of silver into their hands.
“They threw this on the ground. You should keep it.”
It was the same three taels the eunuch had discarded. The family had never intended to sell their daughter, so they had refused it.
Jiang Yunsui had swiftly picked it up afterward.
There was no sense quarreling with silver.
If it was dirty, they could wash it.
The family finally departed with the three taels.
Having done a good deed and vented their anger, Jiang Yunsui and Nanshu skipped happily home.
Both immediately went looking for Ji Yan’an.
“Ji Yan’an! Ji Yan’an…”
“Young Master! Young Master, where are you?”
Ji Yan’an heard them and fell silent.
He did not particularly want to see those two.
“Ji Yan’an, listen…”
Taking turns and speaking in a rapid jumble, they recounted everything that had happened at Old Villain Sun’s residence. When they remembered his green skin, both burst into laughter.
Afterward, Jiang Yunsui suddenly asked, “He must know we poisoned him. Will he come cause trouble?”
“Wait and see,” Ji Yan’an replied.
Eunuch Sun’s main purpose here was to deliver the Emperor’s decree ordering Mobei to send troops against the Prince of Nanyang.
But Mobei’s troops had already departed, and Eunuch Sun still delayed his return.
Clearly, he had another assignment.
Ji Yan’an himself was one of those assignments.
No matter how unwilling Eunuch Sun might be, he still had to confirm Ji Yan’an’s condition.
Jiang Yunsui had absolute confidence in Ji Yan’an. After worrying for a few seconds, she cheerfully skipped next door without another thought.
“Grapes, grapes, why are you so big…”
Humming a nonsensical song, she picked some grapes to eat, then went to inspect the corn.
“I want potatoes. Why aren’t there any potatoes?”
They had sweet potatoes but no ordinary potatoes. Jiang Yunsui found that unreasonable.
They simply had not discovered them yet.
“Screech!”
Milk Tea called from the sky.
Jiang Yunsui looked up. The eagle descended to a branch and dropped something from its talons.
“What’s that?”
Milk Tea cooed softly.
Pigeon.
Jiang Yunsui picked up an injured pigeon. It was not wild; a small bamboo tube was tied to its leg. It was a messenger pigeon.
“It doesn’t seem to belong to us.”
Jiang Yunsui knew nearly every Ji Family pigeon. They might look identical to humans, but she could distinguish them.
This one was not theirs.
She felt no shame about invading someone’s privacy and immediately pulled out the message.
“Huh? What kind of gibberish is this?”
She could not read it, so she would give it to Ji Yan’an.
Little Mushroom rushed off once more, clutching the pigeon and its message.
In the study, she handed Ji Yan’an the note with an expression that plainly said, I did something impressive, didn’t I?
“It’s written in the language of the Barbarians,” Ji Yan’an said. “This is a contact signal.”