MLIAM Chapter 58
by VolareChapter 58: Feeling Satisfied, Archers, Cease Fire!
Chou Dongshuo widened his eyes, carefully discerning the voice of the large-faced man before him, and finally came to an unbelievable conclusion: “You are… Yu Shuli?!”
Yu Shuli smiled, the tip of his short sword pointing at the man’s head: “Not so hopelessly stupid after all.”
Chou Dongshuo gritted his teeth, his body trembling slightly: “Can’t you just let me go…” He raised a stubble-covered, dirty face: “I’m already like this… can’t you… give me a way out?”
“Give you a way out?” Yu Shuli punched him in the face, angrily saying: “But who has ever given those innocent girls a way out?”
“When you tricked them into going to the theater, when you forced them to take drugs, when you let them be violated, did you ever think about their future?” Yu Shuli punched again, hitting Chou Dongshuo in the eye: “You people, do you deserve to have anyone give you a way out?”
Chou Dongshuo groaned painfully, spitting out a mouthful of blood, and lay on the ground for a long time, unable to get up.
“Coward!” Yu Shuli cursed: “You kind of scum, besides bullying girls and causing trouble for Da Liang, what else can you do? A bunch of losers, even saving food by dying.”
Blood still oozed from Chou Dongshuo’s teeth, and he sneered: “So, it’s for that bunch of stinky women.”
“I’ll let you see who’s stinky!” Yu Shuli used some force in his foot, kicking towards Chou Dongshuo.
The kick, amplified with precise force, directly hit Chou Dongshuo’s waist. Chou Dongshuo screamed miserably, and some bright yellow liquid flowed from his lower body.
Having tasted the bitterness, his eyes rolled back, and he dared not argue anymore, moving his body backward in humiliation.
“Incontinence?” Yu Shuli added another kick, asking him: “Who’s stinky?! Speak!”
“I… I’m stinky!” Chou Dongshuo almost cried out: “I was wrong… my mouth is stinky…”
“You’re more than just mouth-stinky.” Yu Shuli stepped on his hand: “Tell me, where is Dong Siwen?”
Chou Dongshuo’s body trembled violently: “I… I don’t know…”
Yu Shuli frowned: “You don’t know?”
“I spend my days fighting crickets and chickens, or gambling with Brothels. How would I know anything about Dong Siwen… I’ve never been interested in men.”
Yu Shuli’s expression changed: “Not a man, a woman, with a tear mole under her eye, half a head shorter than me.”
Chou Dongshuo’s eyes changed, blinking absently, looking away: “Don’t know…”
Yu Shuli grabbed his neck, picking him up from the ground: “Really don’t know, or pretending not to know?”
Chou Dongshuo strained his neck: “You can ask me again, but I still don’t know.” He paused, suddenly changing his tone: “But, if you promise to let me go, and provide me with good food and drink, and prepare a good horse to send me out of Quzhou, maybe I can remember.”
Yu Shuli laughed in anger. “If you don’t know, so be it. I’ll take you back, and naturally someone will make you remember.”
He carried the listless Chou Dongshuo away like picking up a chick, and was stopped by the Zhenlei Gang’s group of beggars along the way.
“Stop! You’re not allowed to leave.”
“Knowing our secret, and still thinking of leaving?”
Faced with the hostile gazes of this group of people, Yu Shuli smiled: “For those Five Stone Powder, so unafraid of death?”
He narrowed his eyes slightly: “What did Chou Dongshuo promise you? To make you agree to let him hide here?”
The surrounding beggars surrounded them, with veiled threats: “Things you shouldn’t know, don’t ask.”
Yu Shuli raised an eyebrow: “Alright.” He muttered: “Anyway, it’s just a difference between confessing sooner or later.”
“Put him down!”
“Him?” Yu Shuli slapped Chou Dongshuo, whom he was carrying, twice, then looked around: “Where is him, how come I don’t see him?”
“Don’t refuse a toast only to be forced to drink a forfeit! Today you’ve provoked the Zhenlei Gang, even if you escape death by luck, you will definitely be skinned. Better be honest, and suffer less!”
Yu Shuli feigned surprise and “ah”-ed: “The Zhenlei Gang is so powerful?!”
“Scared now!”
Yu Shuli nodded, looking at the surrounding group of beggars: “Are all of you here?”
A man with a small mustache replied: “Of course not! Most of us are outside, and only come back in the evening.”
Someone on the side glared at him: “Why are you saying so much?!”
Yu Shuli nodded knowingly: “Understood.” He put down Chou Dongshuo in his hand, changed to a comfortable stance, and said lazily: “Then I’ll condescend to wait a while longer.”
Leaving a group of beggars who didn’t know what to do for a moment, looking at each other.
They held weapons in their hands, looking at the so relaxed Yu Shuli, not knowing how to react for a moment.
The beggars who reacted pointed their weapons at Yu Shuli: “What do you think this place is?! Come as you please, leave as you please?!”
Yu Shuli gave a playful smile: “Isn’t it?” What came at him was two sticks with the sound of wind.
Yu Shuli deftly dodged the sticks, and raised his hand in a gesture.
In an instant, rustling sounds rang out outside the alley walls.
The faces of the beggars in the alley changed. “An ambush!”
They looked at Yu Shuli: “You’re so despicable!”
Yu Shuli smiled: “Thank you for the compliment.”
“Wait and see,” Although Yu Shuli looked lazy, he was actually paying attention to Chou Dongshuo’s every move, and seeing that the man actually wanted to take advantage of his speech to slip away, he kicked Chou Dongshuo in the back, sending him staggering, “I can’t interrogate you, naturally someone can deal with you.”
The beggars saw the real archers and knew that this matter was no longer just about secretly consuming Five Stone Powder.
Their faces changed, and they became respectful to Yu Shuli. “Then… we allow you to take this person away, can you withdraw the archers?”
“Why would you think that?” Yu Shuli shook his head, revealing a shallow smile: “Naturally, I want to wipe you out in one fell swoop. Addicts… don’t even think about leaving one!”
“I advise you to be more disciplined, the archers above are not my people. They shoot whoever they don’t like, and I can’t control them.” Yu Shuli stretched, facing a group of shivering beggars, whose words and actions suddenly became cautious: “Not too long, when you’re all here, it’ll be over.”
The surrounding breathing became cautious, Yu Shuli was bored, so he leaned against the wall, kicking Chou Dongshuo to play with.
Before long, strange noises finally appeared in the alley again.
Yu Shuli’s ears twitched, thinking: It’s finally coming to an end.
Silver-white arrow tips made rustling sounds in the air, and with a few “whooshing” sounds, the alley was silent again.
After a moment, the beggars who entered the alley later were all holding their legs, screaming in pain, and none of them were spared.
Yu Shuli yawned, counted the heads, and asked behind him: “Is everyone here?”
The beggars in the alley were lucky that they had not been hit by an arrow, and immediately responded honestly: “Everyone’s here…”
Yu Shuli gave a gesture to the above, and said spiritedly: “Cease fire!”
*
Back in the courtyard, Wei Yan personally welcomed Yu Shuli in.
“Why did it take so long?” Wei Yan took the outer robe from his hand, carefully looked him up and down, and frowned: “Why are you so dirty?”
Yu Shuli tilted his head to take a look, thought for a moment, and said “Oh”: “It’s from when I was hitting Chou Dongshuo…”
Thinking of the half-dead appearance of Chou Dongshuo after being beaten by him, Yu Shuli guiltily tugged at Wei Yan’s sleeve: “That… the words you said earlier, still count, right?”
Wei Yan raised an eyebrow: “What words?”
Yu Shuli gritted his teeth: “Don’t pretend you don’t know!”
Wei Yan smiled: “Alright, alright…” He pinched Yu Shuli’s nose: “It all counts.”
Yu Shuli finally breathed a sigh of relief, honestly saying: “I seem to have accidentally paralyzed that Chou Dongshuo…”
Wei Yan chuckled: “What’s so important about that? A scum like him deserves to die.”
“But it ultimately affects your handling of the case.”
“Don’t worry, it doesn’t affect it.” Wei Yan patted his shoulder: “It’s more important that you feel better.”
Yu Shuli “hee”-ed: “Wei Yan, you really know how to talk.”
“Isn’t that right? There’s a little tiger at home, I have to coax him all the time.”
Yu Shuli clenched his fist and hammered Wei Yan’s chest: “Who are you calling a tiger?!”
“Your husband was wrong…” Wei Yan touched Yu Shuli’s head, and said softly: “You fought well, you fought beautifully, it’s a pity I wasn’t on the scene to witness the glorious beauty of the young general.”
Yu Shuli was amused, and scolded: “What glorious beauty? Just a pancake face!” He turned his head, “Wei Yan, tell me honestly, did you deliberately make my makeup so ugly?”
Man? The corners of his lips curved, a layer of red blush spread on his fair face, his eyelashes trembled slightly, his fingers gently caressed Yu Shuli’s face, and his thin lips parted slightly: “Where is it ugly, I think it looks pretty good.”
“Get lost!” Yu Shuli’s cheeks were flushed red by his touch, even his ears unconsciously became hot, and he quickly pushed the man away: “I’m going to wash off this black paste on my face.”
In the evening, after washing up, Yu Shuli went to bed groggily.
In a daze, a damp body lifted the bedding beside him and broke in.
Yu Shuli frowned, smelled the familiar scent and didn’t push him away, but gave him some distance, and muttered: “Wei Yan…”
“Hmm?” Wei Yan leaned down, bringing his ear close to his lips: “What’s wrong?”
“Sleepy…”
“Sleep if you’re sleepy.”
“But…” Yu Shuli opened his eyes slightly, and his fingers rubbed Wei Yan’s leg: “What if… that Chou Dongshuo dies during interrogation, what about Dong Siwen…”
Wei Yan’s eyes deepened: “If he dies, he dies.” His tone became a little heavy: “As for Dong Siwen’s matter, there’s me and the Second Prince. We will definitely be able to bring her back safely, so rest assured.”
Yu Shuli “um”-ed: “But I don’t know how to make it up to her.” He raised his head, his moist eyes full of confusion: “Wei Yan, what I owe her, I’m afraid I’ll never be able to repay it…”
“This is not your fault, Ji’an.” Wei Yan lowered his head to coax him: “What she owes is to that group of scum, those addicts who indulge in wine and lust, it has nothing to do with you. What we have to do is protect her well in the future, so that she can enjoy her future life freely and happily, instead of being decadent.”
“There are still many things you need to do next, to let Dong Siwen feel relieved, to punish those addicts, to create a peaceful and tranquil environment for the world.”
Yu Shuli “um”-ed softly: “So, there’s so much I can do.”
His fingers slid to Wei Yan’s chest: “Wei Yan, were you sent by God to help me? Every time I’m sad and confused, you’re always by my side.”
Wei Yan grabbed his fingers, his eyes deepening: “Do you know what you’re saying?”
Yu Shuli’s red lips moved: “Saying what?”
Wei Yan leaned over, grabbed his palm and pressed it above his head: “Saying words to seduce me.”
Yu Shuli turned his eyes away shyly: “Then… what if I seduce you… so what?”