Chapter 33 (1/2)
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Thank you to Bibster, Fuu, and Kikusui for the ko-fis! Gosh, so on Guard's courtyard, there was heavy sole at the crowd that lay all across the ground like dead dogs, he wondered aloud, ”Did you all go thieving last night?”
Wei Xuzhou lifted his head like a dying man on his last breath ”Sir, if you ca, we brothers would have since parted with you forever…”
”Is that right?” Yan Xiaohan spun back around on his heel ”Then I'll go out for a stroll so you can all leave in peace”
Everyone: ”……”
”What about Shen Jizhi?” Yan Xiaohan sat before a desk in the hall ”Did the drug I had him test yesterday have results?”
”Don't even talk about that drug of yours Doctor Shen is still passed out and hasn't gotten up yet,” Wei Xuzhou replied ”You didn't see yesterday's devastation, Sir Yang Hexuan's death wasn't at all wrong”
Shen Yi'ce struggled to host with dark bags under his eyes Yan Xiaohan was intensely shaken by thisof his ”QuicklyGuo deftly aided Shen Yi'ce in sitting down, standing behind him to knead his shoulders
Shen Yi'ce spoke tiredly ”Yesterday, I used a few death-row convicts in the North Prison to test the drug on It was powdery, processed, and had an unco the person feel nuht not have been used via consu on it, then put a fire underneath to roast it, wanting to see if I coulddreadful, pausing for a short while before continuing ”After that thing was roasted, it turned into so salve-like in the dish, and its aroma rushed the nose and cleared the mind Those prisoners all had a face of intoxication I was standing nearby, and carelessly inhaled a mouthful of it…
When the coroner previously did an autopsy, he said that Yan Hexuan had no signs of being poisoned, nor was there an excess of taken aphrodisiacs I didn't believe that at the start, but later on, I understood that he had died fros
I won't hide it from you all; with only one breath, it was like I was in a dreaiven It was like I was drunk and obsessed, light and airy as if I had ascended to paradise My body felt a dry heat and I wanted to roar and shout, feeling like there was nothing I couldn't do That sort of sensation is hard to describe, , ordinary folk would likely never come to know in their whole life that there could be such joy in the world”
He pressed on his te's standing watch outside, he noticed the situation was off and rushed in to haul me out However, as soon as the door opened, that scent wafted out, spreading to General Wei and the rest and infecting the to theht Those few prisoners were like htly weaker constitutions have since collapsed thisis, Sir?
All people are greedy Once they get a taste of the flavor of bliss, they'll have an unrivaled craving for it, and will try over and over and over again to chase down that joy”
Yan Xiaohan's pupils shrank ”It's addictive?”
Shen Yi'ce nodded ”Further collected the copper dish for one —— to say it was 'burnt up' wouldn't be very accurate What should be said is… that it was just like dew drying up in the sun, and had coators, that property was evenaddictive'
It killed with no form, and after its use, it didn't leave a trace behind It didn't even leave any sort of hint on the corpses, the syuishable from death by sexual exhaustion or sudden death by an illness flare-up
Yan Xiaohan abruptly recalled those few sheets of IOUs in Yang Hexuan's boot wallet
He had thought the Hexuan's paternal aunt, his father and brothers all had positions in the Court, his faantly wealthy, and he hier; ould he go borrow money from someone else? Fifty taels was aHexuan, it would only be a fewdrugs?
Quitting addictive drugs was difficult to deal with, so the only option was to purchase them non-stop In the end, the family funds would be hollowed out without a word, then they'd fall into an assload of debt
”Boxu, what did the Iht back yesterday?”
Jiang Shu took out a sheet of paper and handed it over ”I identified them one by one and wrote the names of each on here They're all coested”
Yan Xiaohan looked over the entire list, then folded it up and placed it to the side ”Boxu, Daoxuan and you will take a few people to the Shuntian Estate and look for some cases of dead persons in brothels these past three months Transcribe a detailed report back to ht Divine Pivot stepped out of the ranks, acknowledging the co Shu
”Zhixin”
General Cao Fengchen of the Right Divine Pivot stood up to take his orders
”Research where Yang Hexuan had been to these days, keeping a heavy focus on where he frequented, who he ith, and those ere near to him”
”Got it”
”Are you quite fa fao drop by for a visit”
Wei Xuzhou scowled sullenly ”Unfortunately, I'otten —— it's impossible for there to be any aristocrats or nobility that your family hasn't married into,” Yan Xiaohan consoled
Wei Xuzhou: ”……”