Saving the White Moonlight Chapter 36

When the people from Qiuming Pill Hall saw that Yan Zhuguang and Yun Mixue had made up their minds to interfere to the end, their expressions immediately turned ugly.
They exchanged glances. Perhaps they were secretly discussing through spiritual sense transmission. Yan Zhuguang did not stop them. She only watched to see what they would do.
After they “made eyes” at each other for a long while, Qiu Qiao said to Yan Zhuguang, “Since Miss insists on digging to the root of this matter, I have no choice but to speak.”
He shook his head. “This matter is a family disgrace. It should not be spread outside. But since Miss Yan insists on knowing, I suppose if I do not explain it clearly today, you two will not let us leave. I can only throw away this bit of face.”
“Then speak.” She wanted to see what kind of story he could make up.
“Miss Yan may not know this, but Qian’er came to the Pill Hall to find me because she wanted to break off the engagement.” Qiu Qiao’s expression dimmed a little. “Some days ago, she sent me a voice transmission saying she had an important matter to discuss with me, so I sent two old servants to pick her up.”
“On the way, she happened to be attacked by a demonic beast and was saved by Miss Yan. Miss Yan already knows what happened after that.”
Yan Zhuguang nodded.
“Qian’er is frail and sickly. She cannot remain outside for long. After Miss Yan left the Pill Hall, I wanted Qian’er to rest in the back courtyard first. Who knew she would refuse and suddenly say that she had come to the Pill Hall this time to dissolve our engagement.”
“I was deeply shocked. Qian’er and I have always been very close, so I was unwilling to believe it. But Qian’er threatened me with death and demanded that I agree at once.”
“I thought there must be some hidden reason, so I pretended to agree and quietly watched what would happen. Who knew that after I agreed, Qian’er’s servant suddenly opened his mouth and asked me for the engagement token between Qian’er and me.”
Qiu Qiao said, “That token was something the Qiu family and Su family exchanged when the engagement was set. The one in my hand is naturally something from the Su family. If the engagement were dissolved, I should have returned the token. But that servant’s expression was unfriendly. I suspected Qian’er had been threatened by him, so I did not agree. I only had people secretly close the Pill Hall’s doors, intending to seize that servant.”
“I did not expect that the man had already guessed this. He actually had a teleportation talisman and took Qian’er hostage to flee. Fortunately, I had a locating talisman. Before he left, I slapped it onto him, then used a teleportation talisman to chase after him.”
Qiu Qiao was still using the same explanation as before. He had only added some details. It looked as if it could match what Yan Zhuguang and Yun Mixue had seen. “Earlier, I did not explain clearly to you two. That servant wanted to die together with Qian’er. At the last moment, the manager acted and killed him. It was only because Qian’er was too close that she was accidentally injured.”
He sighed and shook his head. “To save Qian’er, it was a helpless act. Qian’er has no strength to even truss a chicken. If we wanted to harm her, how could she resist us? And would she have taken a healing pill and waited until you two arrived to rescue her?”
“So that is how it is.” Yan Zhuguang nodded. Just as the people from Qiuming Pill Hall let out a breath of relief, she added, “If your people had not ambushed me, I might have believed it.”
The manager’s face turned ashen. At last, he could not hold back. “You woman, you are simply unreasonable! You were the one who insisted on knowing the truth. Now my young master has told you this family disgrace, yet you still refuse to believe it. What kind of logic is that?”
“If you refuse to believe it, then do not believe it. If we had known this, why would we have wasted so many words on you?”
Yan Zhuguang gave a light snort of laughter. “I said earlier that this matter cannot be decided too soon. We should wait until Miss Su wakes up. You were the ones in a hurry to explain. Could I close my ears and refuse to listen?”
“You…”
“Sir,” Qiu Qiao said, shaking his head at him. “Forget it. The innocent are innocent. Qian’er’s matter is easy to misunderstand. If Miss Yan does not believe it, then let it be.”
“However, as for that so-called ambush, I truly know nothing about it. Miss Yan, if I did not do it, then I did not do it. I will absolutely not admit to it.”
Qiu Qiao’s expression looked extremely sincere.
Seeing this, Yun Mixue felt some doubt in her heart too. These people spoke clearly and logically, and they did not look like they were lying. Could what they said be true? Could it really have been an accidental injury?
Yan Zhuguang saw her expression and leaned over to whisper, “Senior Sister, do not believe them. I traveled with Miss Su, so I understand her somewhat. She clearly likes Qiu Qiao very much. She could barely speak three sentences without mentioning him. How could she suddenly ask to dissolve the engagement?”
“Also, Miss Su’s servant was honest and simple. He was quiet and not good with words, and he was very loyal to Miss Su. No matter how I look at it, he does not seem like someone who would die together with Miss Su.”
Although Yan Zhuguang’s voice was quiet, the people from Qiuming Pill Hall still heard her. Qiu Qiao said, “Miss Yan, one may know a person’s face but not their heart. Why are you so sure that what you saw was true?”
“Then tell me, why would that servant turn hostile, take Miss Su hostage, and try to die with her just because he failed to get the token back?”
Qiu Qiao’s face turned ashen. The manager also glared angrily at Yan Zhuguang. “You are going too far!”
Qiu Qiao’s expression was ugly. “Does Miss Yan still not understand? That servant had an affair with Qian’er. He realized I had only pretended to agree to dissolve the engagement, and he also failed to get the token. So he wanted to take Qian’er and elope. Later, when we caught up to them and he knew he could not escape, he wanted to die for love with Qian’er.”
Yan Zhuguang asked, “So you acted and killed him, then claimed you accidentally injured Miss Su. In truth, it was to cover up the scandal of your fiancee eloping with a household servant, and you wanted to kill her too to silence her?”
Qiu Qiao’s face was ugly, but he did not refute it.
“Hahahahaha.”
Yan Zhuguang burst into loud laughter. She even clapped her hands. “Funny. Truly funny.”
The faces of the people from Qiuming Pill Hall turned black as the bottom of a pot.
Yun Mixue felt somewhat helpless. It seemed a little improper for Zhuguang to laugh at others like this.
She shook her head. She would speak to her after they returned. One should still leave others some face.
After Yan Zhuguang finished laughing, her smile suddenly vanished. “You people are truly interesting. Should I say you do not care about small details, or should I say you know when to bend and when to bow?”
“To hide your real goal, you are even willing to claim your own fiancee cheated on you. That must have been hard on you, Young Master Qiu.”
A piece of old paper suddenly appeared in her hand. She waved it in front of the people from Qiuming Pill Hall. “Look. What is this?”
Qiu Qiao did not move. But after the manager saw the paper, his body leaned forward slightly. Even though he noticed quickly and stopped himself, Yan Zhuguang still saw it.
She knew it. She had guessed right.
“Let me explain,” she said with a slight movement. “You wanted this paper, this thing none of you even know the use of. So you sent your servants to tell Miss Su that you missed her and wanted her to come see you. You knew Miss Su had this paper with her, so you secretly arranged a demonic beast on the road, wanting to kill Miss Su, make it look like an accident, and take the paper.”
“You did not expect me to appear halfway and become a variable. Those two servants feared that if they let me leave, I might notice something strange. Then perhaps in the future, when Miss Su’s family investigated, they would find me. So they pretended to hire me and asked me to send Miss Su to the Pill Hall. In truth, they were stalling me so your side could prepare killers to silence me.”
“After I delivered Miss Su to the Pill Hall, you arranged people to intercept and kill me while also forcing Miss Su to hand over that paper.”
“You only did not expect Miss Su’s servant to be loyal to his master. He even had a teleportation talisman with him. After he sensed your intentions, he took Miss Su and teleported away. You had no choice but to use a locating talisman and a teleportation talisman to chase them and kill them both.”
“That servant fought with his life. Although he died, he still delayed you long enough for us to arrive here and save Miss Su.”
Yan Zhuguang tilted her head. “Am I right?”
From the other side’s expression, it was clear she had hit the mark.
Yun Mixue looked at Yan Zhuguang and vaguely remembered when she had first met her in the spiritual field of Yimiao Sect. At that time, when Yan Zhuguang had spoken about the method to improve spiritual grain, she had looked just like this, speaking with confidence and ease. That memory seemed to overlap with the current scene.
This confident, bright look, as if her whole body could shine, was perhaps Zhuguang’s true appearance.
Qiu Qiao took a deep breath, closed his eyes, then opened them again. “Miss Yan is truly clever. I admit I am inferior. But you only had brief contact with us. How did you discover it?”
“Also, how did Miss Yan know that the ambush I sent was mine?”
Yan Zhuguang laughed softly. “Blame yourself for not cultivating well enough.”
Of course, Yan Zhuguang could not be certain that these people wanted that strange paper. But earlier, while she listened to the Qiuming Pill Hall people talk nonsense, her mind had also been turning quickly. Some unreasonable details in her memory came back to her.
The paper Su Qian’er had given her was one major suspicious point.
Su Qian’er had kept saying that she wanted to repay Yan Zhuguang for saving her life. But who would give a paper of uncertain importance to their savior as a thank-you gift for saving their life? What if it was only useless scrap paper? Would that not make the other person angry?
Unless she clearly knew that this paper was important and was confident it could serve as a thank-you gift, or unless she wanted to hint at something.
If nothing had happened to Su Qian’er, then perhaps it would have been the former. But now that something had happened to her, it was naturally the latter.
Perhaps Su Qian’er had already sensed something, which was why she gave the paper to Yan Zhuguang as a way out for herself.
What if Yan Zhuguang discovered something wrong and noticed her hint? What if Yan Zhuguang discovered the paper was useless and came back to argue with her? What if Yan Zhuguang discovered the paper was precious and came back to return it? Any of those could become her chance to live.
Even if Yan Zhuguang discovered nothing, giving the paper to her was better than giving it to the fiance who wanted to kill her over a piece of paper.
Of course, perhaps Su Qian’er still held a little hope in her heart. She may have hoped that her fiance did not want to harm her and that she had only overthought things.
With Yan Zhuguang’s cleverness, if she had not been in a hurry to go to Tianyu City to find Senior Sister, she might have noticed the problem and rushed back to save Su Qian’er.
Still, Su Qian’er was not fated to die. Yan Zhuguang met Senior Sister halfway, and Senior Sister happened to be looking for her fiance.
After circling around such a large loop, the result had not changed. They still saved her.
Yan Zhuguang had no intention of arguing further with the people from Qiuming Pill Hall. She turned to Yun Mixue. “Senior Sister, how is Miss Su?”
Yun Mixue was just about to speak when the group from Qiuming Pill Hall suddenly moved.
Dozens of spirit stones flew out, and a huge formation formed beneath their feet.
It was a teleportation formation. And it was a random teleportation formation.
The formation had already lit up and started activating. The figures of several people suddenly became blurry.
Yan Zhuguang turned back and narrowed her eyes.