Chapter 1640: Chapter 22: Ho
The rain was pouring heavily that day.
It was as if a river in the heavens had burst its banks, and water was cascading down from the sky.
After so many years, many details have beco blurred.
The only thing she rembered vividly was the heavy rain.
It was nightti, and she was in her room copying Qi’s Law. Having played wildly during the day, she always had to make up for her studies at night to avoid being scolded by her father.
The nurse was by her side, stitching shoe soles to accompany her.
The sound of rain was rushing outside, and occasionally a flash of lightning illuminated the window, accompanied by the rumbling of thunder.
So when the urgent knocking at the door sounded, she didn’t hear it imdiately.
It wasn’t until the knocking continued for a while that the nurse stood up to open the door.
She curiously looked outside, because her father had said he wouldn’t be back for a few days.
Who could it be so late at night?
She wasn’t afraid of bad people; no bad person would dare co to her house; her father was the one who caught bad people.
The mont the nurse opened the door, she only heard a “bang” sound—
A dark shadow fell into the house.
The shadow lay on its back on the ground, eyes tightly closed, lips purple, with a large cut on the neck, the blood not yet drained…
Her father was back.
Later, a pair of hands covered her eyes.
Grandpa Wu seed to be angrily scolding sothing.
She couldn’t hear anything at all.
Her ears were buzzing, and then ca the thunderous booming again.
Her vision wasn’t pitch black, but crimson.
There was blood everywhere…
That bloody, grim wound has remained in her sight for so many years.
She could always see it.
They said her father committed suicide…
They said the best arrest officer in the world, unable to solve a case, committed suicide out of fear of responsibility.
But she only rembered her father saying that the honor of the Green Badge was worth defending with everything in one’s life.
When many voices began to quarrel again.
Lin Youxie opened her eyes in the darkness.
She calmly sat up, got out of bed, and in the pitch-black room, walked to the table by the wall.
Her “boudoir” should be different from any other woman’s residence in the world, filled with bottles and jars, various dossiers, Legalist classics, and so peculiar “evidence.”
But it was not chaotic.
Everything was categorized and arranged neatly and orderly.
Her father said that things must be done thodically. No matter how complicated a case is, as long as all its details are categorized and organized, the truth becos apparent.
She was obedient.
She diligently studied Qi’s Law and didn’t indulge in play for many years.
Her heart was pounding fast and hard, so she proportionately mixed so dicinal herbs and began grinding them.
The pestle in the stone mortar…
Thud thud thud, thud thud thud.
…
…
From Gongsun Yu’s deanor, it was clear he knew sothing.
But since he was unwilling to speak, Jiang Wang didn’t want to force him.
Everyone has their own choices; you may be right, but that doesn’t an others are wrong.
Imposing one’s thoughts on others is the greatest of demons.
Perhaps soone unscrupulous could pry so information from Gongsun Yu, no more than Yang Jing could keep him, but if Jiang Wang were willing to be unscrupulous, why bother coming to Gongsun Yu?
The differences between people ultimately lie in what they choose to do and not do.
When he returned to Linzi, the day was already breaking.
Under the cover of the Shadow Guard, Jiang Wang quietly returned to his residence, as if nothing had ever happened.
This night, he indeed gained nothing.
He was not disheartened.
Gongsun Yu’s circumstances in themselves were a clue.
As a disciple of the School of Nas with his tongue severed, and as the confidant of the Longevity Palace Master choosing to live in seclusion, this could not be without cause.
When did he leave the Long Life Palace? What happened there during that ti?
There can’t be many things that would force Gongsun Yu into such a predicant.
The answer lies within the suffering.
The Shadow Guard’s investigation would require so ti, and there were no ssages coming from the Beiyaduwei side. Jiang Wang practiced quietly in the mansion until the housekeeper ca to remind him of the ti, and then he leisurely left the door.
Longsword on his left waist, white jade on his right, wearing a green robe, he was truly a fine youth of Linzi.
The carriage was long prepared, and once Jiang Wang boarded, the driver whipped the horse straight towards the Crushing City Marquis Mansion.
A few days ago, Li Longchuan had casually ntioned inviting him over for a al today. Since he had already agreed, Jiang Wang would not break his promise easily.
When reaching the Marquis Mansion, the carriage ca to a halt. Though the driver was newly hired, he had been specially trained by the housekeeper to understand the rules and went forward with a na card.
The Marquis Mansion had already sent people to greet him at the door: “Is it soone from the household of the Samurai with the Golden lon?”
Seeing Jiang Wang erge from the carriage, they quickly called out, “Sir! Our young master instructed to have you co in directly as soon as you arrive.”
The manager led Jiang Wang and simultaneously called soone to attend to the carriage driver from the old Jiang Family.
It wasn’t his first ti visiting the Marquis Mansion, so Jiang Wang followed the path with ease, traveling only a few steps before a valiant young man, with a jade belt wrapped around his forehead, strode out briskly.
“Brother Jiang!” he waved warmly, smiling brightly.
Jiang Wang smiled back, “You said it would just be a casual al, why such a formal welco?”
“I can’t help it,” Li Longchuan joked sourly, “To navigate officialdom, one must know how to flatter. Now that I’ve beco an official, I have to consider my future… You’re a Third-rank Samurai with the Golden lon!”
In terms of being sarcastic, he still lags behind Xu Gaoe.
Jiang Wang didn’t bother to engage with his quip, and looked around: “Who else is coming today?”
Li Longchuan pulled his arm, dragging him inside: “Just you!”
As he was being tugged along to walk briskly, Jiang Wang found the ti to ask, “Co to think of it, we could have had the al anywhere else; why did it have to be at your house?”
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