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Zhongsun Ce’s voice rose higher and higher. “A’Mou is missing, and all signs point to disaster, yet he’s still being mocked all over Lingxu City! Even the rabble in the Lower City now dares point fingers at our family! Do they think they’re fit to?”
Zhongsun Chi’s hand was trembling, yet this time he used his staff to strike him. “I asked you a question. What exactly were you doing just now?”
“I went to teach Fushan Yue a lesson.” Seeing the old man glare, Zhongsun Ce hurriedly added, “I didn’t lay a hand on him. I only meant to make that fellow surnamed He beside him suffer a little! I went to kill the chicken to warn the monkey!”
He knew well enough that Fushan Yue had entered Lingxu City under orders from the ruler of Chiyan and was here on important business, which made him inconvenient to target directly.
Still, he found the so-called “special envoy” at Fushan Yue’s side even more hateful and deserving of death than Fushan Yue himself. After all, the special envoy had been the one who had exposed his brother’s collusion with Cen Boqing in coaching false testimony at Baishajue.
If not for that meddling bastard, Second Brother would have escorted Fu Songhua back to Lingxu City to report in, and none of this mess would ever have happened.
Killing him would serve as a good warning to Fushan Yue.
“That fellow surnamed He is the one who ruined Second Brother…”
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