Volume 1 Chapter 21: A Series of Mysterious Deaths

  "Save me! Save me! The old master has killed someone!" Just as Xu Wuyan entered the Jun Guo Gong Fu, he heard a shrill cry for help. A little maid in a pink jacket and pants ran towards him, shouting in panic all the way, and rushed into his arms.

  "What's wrong?" Xu Wuyan asked, supporting the little maid.

  "Oh no! The master is going to kill me! The master is so terrifying!" The little maid said, her face covered in sweat, her expression painful and terrified.

  Xu Wuyan noticed that the maid had been staring at her left arm, Xu Wuyan hastily pulled up the maid's sleeve, a row of black tooth marks appeared on the snowy white arm, with a tendency to continuously seep into the flesh and blood.

  "Third sister! Stop her!" As he spoke, Xu Mo Xuan lightly floated down to stand in front of Xu Wu Yan, his exceptionally high lightness kung fu skills evident.

  "Musk! Master was just momentarily angry and hurt you, serving him for so many years, don't you understand his temper? Such a minor wound, just find a doctor to take a look! Do you need to make such a big fuss, making the whole house aware?" Xǔ Mòxuān said angrily, glancing at the small maid in front of Xǔ Wúyán.

  "Great... great young master! You don't know, the old master really wants to kill me! The old master..." Musk fragrantly pleaded.

  "Alright! Alright! Hurry up and get back to work! Stop embarrassing yourself here!" Xu Mo Xuan said impatiently.

  "Yes!...... Ah!" Musk had just finished saying the word "is", and then he started screaming in pain, the wound on his arm suddenly tearing open and worsening.

  Things are going to be bad! Xu Wuyan secretly shouted "bad", looked at the gatekeeper guard, pulled out his knife, aimed at the musk deer's wound, and cut down fiercely. A large piece of bloody flesh with black color was cut off by Xu Wuyan!

  "Ah!" Musk immediately fainted to the ground, while Xu Mo-xuan standing beside him was stunned by Xu Wu-yan's sudden action; Zhu Mo and the gatekeeper were so frightened that they couldn't say a word.

  Xu Wuyan's expression remained calm, but he quickly squatted down on the ground, "Quickly seal her acupoints! Block the meridians to prevent the blood from flowing back to the wound!" Xu Wuyan glanced at Xu Mo Xuan with a voice that was not loud but very authoritative.

  Xu Moxuan hastily squatted down to take a look, and saw that the meat that Xu Wuyan had cut off had suddenly turned black. He then looked at the wound on Musk's body, where he could faintly see a black color. As a martial artist, Xu Moxuan naturally knew that Musk was poisoned.

  "Zhū Mò! You immediately return to Tongshì Hall! Please ask Shào Qián and Fāng Zhuōhán to come to Jùn Guó Gōng Fǔ!" Zhū Mò continued to instruct, seeing this situation naturally didn't dare to be slow, hastily responding, turning around and running out of Jùn Guó Gōng Fǔ!

  "You two, take good care of her! If anything goes wrong, you will be the ones to blame!" Xu Wuyan stood up and said coldly to the gatekeeper guards.

  "Third sister! What's going on?" Xu Mo Xuan looked at Xu Wu Yan with some confusion, clearly just being bitten how could it be the symptoms of being poisoned by a deadly toxin?

  Xu Wu Yan looked at Xu Mo Xuan and said "It's a Black-headed Krait! Hurry up and take me to see Uncle!"

  As soon as he heard the black-bellied viper, Xu Mo Xuan was shocked. He had only heard that a poisonous snake had appeared in the mansion and bitten someone to death, which had given his mother a fright. Originally, he thought it was just an ordinary poisonous snake, and having people search for it carefully would be fine, but now it seemed that things were not so simple!

  "In the study! Qingyan and Qingning are taking care of it!" Xu Moyuan said, a faint sense of unease rising in his heart, and he hastily brought Xu Wuyan to the study.

  "Ah! Get out! All of you get out!" Xu Qing and was like a madman shouting loudly in the study, smashing things around. Xu Qingyan and Qingning stood guard at the door with a group of maids, their faces tense but not daring to enter.

  "Big sister! How's Father?" Xu Mo Xuan felt a lot more at ease seeing his two perfectly fine younger sisters, and hastily asked.

  Xu Wuyan observed each person present and, seeing no obvious injuries, cautiously asked: "Has anyone gone in and been hurt by Uncle?"

  "Big brother! Why did you call an outsider to do this?" Xu Qing saw Xu Wuyan and immediately had a gloomy face. It's really that no matter where, there is always you Xu Wuyan, I don't know what's good about you, but King Jing insisted on marrying you as his concubine;

  Xu Wu Yan ignored Xu Qing Ning and continued looking at others, emphasizing his tone: "I'll ask again, has anyone been hurt by Eldest Uncle?"

  "Hey!" "Qing Ning! Don't be rude!" Xu Mo Xuan quickly grabbed Xu Qing Ning's hand, which was about to hit Xu Wu Yan, and glared at her. "If you don't want to die, listen to Wu Yan's words!" Xu Mo Xuan looked around the room, his voice cold and warning, including the Xu sisters.

  Everyone saw Xu Moxuan say this, and naturally didn't dare to be slow in the slightest, all shaking their heads; "Yaozhi, just now went in to deliver soup to Master, seemed to have been caught by Master and ran out with a slap on the face!" A little maid suddenly spoke up.

  "What? Where is Yaozhi now?" Xu Wuyan hastily grabbed the little maid who was speaking and asked.

  "It's as if she was applying medicine in her own room!" The little maid said, seeing Xu's stern expression and tone, with a fearful heart.

  "Hurry up and take us away!" Xu Moxuan's expression changed, and he ordered, Xu Wuyan looked at the study that no one was guarding, Xu Moxuan immediately understood, "Come on in!" Five or six sword-carrying guards appeared at the door of the study.

  "You few guards stay outside the study door, no one is allowed to enter or exit without my permission!" Xu Moxuan ordered in a stern voice.

  "Yes!" Several guards immediately stood at the door of the study like gatekeepers. Xu Moxuan gestured for the little maid who had just spoken to lead the way, and they rushed to Yaoyi's residence;

  "Ah!" The little maid who led the way let out a scream and ran to the back of the crowd. Xu Wuyan and Xu Moxuan stepped across the threshold, only to see a maid with a face full of black scratch marks, her eyes bulging out, and an extremely terrified expression lying on the ground. They reached out to check for breath, but there was none, and her body had already gone cold.

  "Ah!" The Xu sisters, seeing this, also rushed out shouting and screaming. Xu Moyan looked at Xu Wuyan, whose expression didn't show a hint of fear, slowly closed Yaoyi's eyes with both hands, stood up, turned around, and looked at his own pale-faced younger sister, "Qingyan, Qingning, you two go back to your rooms and rest first! If there's anything, I'll send someone to inform you!"

  Xu Qingyan and Xu Qingning hastily nodded like they were in a rush, this miserable state was enough to make them remember for a lifetime, now they didn't want to stay here for another second; under the escort of the maid, they quickly left.

  Xu Moxuan looked at his two sisters leaving before turning to Xu Wuyan, slowly opening his mouth and saying: "Yaozhi died two hours ago! She was poisoned!"

  Xu Wuyan looked at the miserable death of Yaozhi again, and involuntarily clenched his fists, striding back to the study. Xu Moyuan's heart was also filled with an indescribable anger. Was it that his own father was such a cruel and tyrannical person who raised a black-browed viper that harmed people's lives?

  "Speechless! How is it?" Shao Qian and Fang Zhuohuan, who had been waiting at the door of the study room, rushed forward to ask when they saw Xu Wuyan.

  "Zhuo Han! How is Mei Xiang's injury?" As soon as he saw Fang Zhuo Han, Xu Wu Yan immediately thought of the injured Mei Xiang.

  "It's a good thing you cut off the festering wound of musk, my scraping bone and detoxifying treatment is effective! Don't worry, Musk is fine now!" Fang Zhuo Han said comfortingly to Xu Wu Yan.

  "Brother Xu! I'm afraid I've troubled you too much! It's my duty, please forgive me!" Shao Qian said to Xu Mo Xuan with courtesy.

  "Lord Shao, you're being too serious! At present, the Jun Guo Gong Fu still needs to rely heavily on the Ministry of Justice's support!" Xǔ Mò Xuān replied with a bow.

  Shao Qian said he would do his best to help, then turned to Xu Wuyan, "Wuyan! What's the situation now?"

  "Musk and Jade Branch were both injured by Uncle! Jade Branch is dead! Uncle's condition is just as you see it now!" Xu Wuyan recounted what he had seen,

  "From the wound on Musk's body and that piece of poisonous meat, it can be seen that Musk was poisoned by the venom of a Black-browed viper! I went to the Wang family's house to examine the body and found that the poison that killed Wang was also from a Black-browed viper!" Fang Zhuo Han said slowly.

  "Doubtless, the poison in Yaozhi's body must be of the same kind! And they were all injured by my father, could it be..." Xu Mo Xuan felt a chill at the thought that had occurred to him.

  "Big brother! Before things are clear, let's not jump to conclusions!" Xu Wuyan looked at the worried expression of Xu Mo Xuan and opened his mouth to persuade him, "Big brother, now the mansion needs you to stabilize the situation! Absolutely cannot mess up the formation now!"

  Xu Moxuan looked at Xu Wuyan and nodded. The Jun Guo Gong Fu had been plagued by consecutive murders, causing panic among the people. His father's condition made it impossible for him to take charge of the situation. If he were to lose his composure now, wouldn't the Jun Guo Gong Fu fall apart?

  Xu Wuyan glanced at Fang Zhuohan and Shao Qian, "In my opinion, this matter should not be spread outside before the truth is revealed, lest we invite unnecessary trouble! Zhuohan's medical skills are superb, and he is also an expert in snake venom. Why don't you stay in the mansion today to prepare for any unexpected situation? Shao Qian has been an official for many years and is well-versed in the art of discerning subtle signs. How about you also staying in the mansion overnight, and we can discuss countermeasures together? What do you think, big brother?"

  Xu Moxuan looked at Xu Wuyan, although he had some doubts in his heart, and was also dispelled by the black-browed viper incident, nodded in agreement.

  Fang Zhuohan thought Xu Wuyan's words were very reasonable, and since he was his benefactor, there was no doubt; Shao Qian's mentality was completely different. Although Xu Wuyan's statement was irrefutable, Xu Wuyan must have seen something unusual and thought that something would happen soon, so he came up with this strategy. Rather than saying that he himself was perceptive, it was better to say that Xu Wuyan wanted him to be an official witness, in order to protect the reputation of the Jun Guo Gong Fu in the future.

  Shaoyan couldn't help but feel interested in Xu Wuyan again, this woman was indeed not simple; however, the case of the Jun Guo Gong Fu was a big case involving two lives, and it would be necessary to see what Xu Wuyan could come up with. If necessary, using the Ministry of Justice's manpower to thoroughly investigate the case was still a must! Giving face to the Jun Guo Gong Fu at this time would save a lot of unnecessary trouble later on.