Junior Brother Pays Respect to You: Chapter 58
Chapter 58:
At the entrance of Zui Xian Pavilion, two more people had somehow joined the waiting servant at some point.
When the servant saw the Young Heir walking out of the tavern in high spirits, he immediately signaled to the people beside him to go in and reminded them, “Be clever about it!”
Lin Sui smugly boarded the carriage that had brought Qin Zheng there and said, “Back to the Prince’s Residence!”
“Yes, sir!”
The servant got on the carriage, tugged the reins, and the vehicle immediately began heading toward the prince’s estate.
As if nothing had happened at all.
Soon, the carriage pulled up in front of the residence.
However, Lin Sui remained seated inside for quite a while before finally lifting the curtain and stepping out.
The moment he got off, he asked the servant at the gate, “Are Father and Mother in the residence?”
“Replying to the Young Heir, the Prince and Princess Consort are both in, currently in the main hall.”
Lin Sui took a deep breath at the gate, then pretended to be in a panic and rushed inside toward the main hall.
The calm expression on his face was now replaced with fear and urgency.
He stumbled past the garden and into the main hall.
At that moment, the prince and princess consort appeared to be in a cheerful mood, chatting inside.
Lin Sui fell to his knees before them with a thud.
Seeing him rush in like that, the prince scolded, “How improper for a future heir to act so discourteously! Where are your manners!”
The princess consort patted his arm and said, “Sui’er isn’t usually like this. Something serious must’ve happened. Let’s not blame him just yet.”
Before either of them could ask, Lin Sui began to cry, “Your son has failed in his filial duty. I fear I will disappoint Father and Mother greatly!”
Seeing how serious he was, the prince’s expression darkened. “Just say it — what happened?”
Lin Sui wiped his eyes and said, “Elder Brother is a fake.”
As soon as he said this, the princess consort glanced at the prince and scolded, “What nonsense are you speaking? Didn’t you hear a word I said this morning?”
Lin Sui argued, “I’m not lying. I have proof.”
The prince frowned. “Speak.”
Sniffling, Lin Sui said, “I accidentally overheard the servants at the gate saying that the imposter who claimed to be Elder Brother came to the residence with a group of strangely dressed people. That group scattered before reaching the gates, and only he and the person he called his junior brother came forward to acknowledge kinship.”
“All the gatekeepers know about this.”
The prince said nothing more and called out, “Summon the gatekeepers!”
Soon, the two gatekeepers from that day were kneeling in the hall.
The prince looked at them impassively and said, “Tell us everything you saw two days ago. Leave nothing out!”
“Yes, Your Highness!”
“Two days ago, while we were on guard duty at the gate, we happened to see a group of oddly dressed people in the distance.”
“They stayed there for a bit and then dispersed. After that, the young master and his junior brother approached the gate to claim kinship.”
“We didn’t think much of it at the time. Just assumed it was a coincidence. But last night, I saw the young master sneak out of the estate by climbing over the wall. I followed him out of curiosity and saw him meeting up with the same strangely dressed people from before.”
“When I got a closer look, I realized they were people from Miaojiang.”
“Then I remembered how odd the Prince and Princess Consort were acting after seeing the young master. I thought — could he have used some kind of Gu poison on them?”
“I was just sharing this with someone when Young Heir happened to overhear.”
The prince listened silently, then snapped, “Why didn’t you report this earlier?”
Terrified, the servant prostrated himself and replied, “Your Highness and Her Highness trusted him so much. Even if I had said something, it would’ve seemed like I was trying to sow discord.”
Seeing the servant finish, Lin Sui quickly added, “Also, yesterday I ran into him in the garden. I asked if he could show me some sword-flying techniques, but he kept making excuses.”
“Isn’t flying with a sword basic for any cultivator? Yet he made so many excuses just to avoid showing it.”
“So today, during the gathering, I slipped poison into his wine to test if he was the real deal.”
“I figured a real cultivator wouldn’t be affected by worldly poisons. If he was fine, I’d acknowledge him as my real brother.”
“But after drinking it — he died, just like any ordinary mortal!”
The moment the princess consort heard this, her body swayed and she nearly collapsed.
The prince quickly supported her and helped her sit down.
It took a while before she recovered. Pointing at Lin Sui, she scolded, “How could I have raised such a vicious son!”
“Even if he’s a fake — did you have to kill him?!”
The prince frowned but said nothing.
Lin Sui, observing his father’s reaction, sensed an opportunity.
His father was a suspicious man by nature. After hearing all this, he was surely starting to doubt.
Lin Sui cried out, “I had no other choice! These past few days, you and Mother have been under some spell, convinced that he’s your long-lost son!”
“This was the only way I could prove the truth.”
“If he really were my blood brother, he wouldn’t die from some ordinary poison.”
“He supposedly came from the esteemed Tianque Sect — a sect of cultivators! You yourself have said that Daoist Wei Feiluan once declared my brother was born with immortal fate. If that were true, he should have become immortal by now!”
“And this whole thing about him leaving in three days? I bet his real goal was to steal the heir’s position!”
“If he truly were my brother, I’d willingly hand over the title of heir.”
“But I absolutely cannot give it to a fraud!”
Lin Sui spoke excitedly, constantly watching his father’s expression.
Seeing his father’s growing suspicion, he felt much more at ease.
The princess consort seemed to gradually calm down after hearing Lin Sui’s words but didn’t want to say much more, quietly saying, “Since the person is already dead, there’s no use in saying anything.”
With that, she left the main hall.
The prince sighed after calming himself and scolded, “You were too impulsive!”
“Since the person is dead, just find a place to bury him.”
Seeing that his father believed him, Lin Sui wiped his tears and said, “Yes.”
Lin Sui left the main hall and arrived at the gate of the prince’s residence.
At that moment, a servant came to report, “Young Heir, we’ve carried the person out. What shall we do?”
Lin Sui sneered, “Take him out to the forest in the suburbs and bury him!”
After some thought, feeling a bit uneasy, he added, “I’ll go with you.”
Before leaving, he reminded the servant, “Drive that junior brother out of the residence in the backyard as well!”
“Yes!”
***
Qin Su was meditating inside when suddenly someone pushed the door open without knocking.
He knew it wasn’t Qin Zheng—there was no sign of his presence.
Qin Su ended his meditation, opened his eyes, and saw an impatient-looking person.
He didn’t know what was going on.
The man in front looked at Qin Su with disdain and said, “Young master, please leave our prince’s residence.”
Qin Su looked at the man puzzled but said nothing and stood up to leave.
Before leaving, he casually picked up the flower Qin Zheng had picked for him earlier.
Qin Su followed the servant to the residence gate, but the man closed the main gate without a word.
The street outside was empty, but Qin Zheng was nowhere to be seen.
Had he been kicked out of the residence?
Or had something happened to Qin Zheng?
Qin Su looked back at the closed gate and used his power to pass through it, entering the residence, then instantly teleported in front of the servant, blocking his way.
The servant was startled.
When he recognized who it was, he pointed at the door behind him and nervously said, “You…”
Qin Su glanced at him and asked, “Where is the person who came with me?”
The servant quickly knelt and kowtowed, “Please spare me, Immortal. The person who came with you is dead!”
Qin Su was stunned, his expression instantly turning icy cold. “Where is he?!”
The servant trembled, pointing outside the door, “He was taken out to the suburbs and buried!”
As soon as the servant finished speaking, Qin Su immediately disappeared.
The servant was so scared he nearly fainted.
Qin Su quickly flew in the direction the servant pointed.
However, along the way, he still couldn’t sense Qin Zheng’s presence.
When he reached the forest outskirts, he finally felt the familiar presence.
At the same time, he sensed Qin Zheng’s condition was very bad.
Qin Su immediately flew down in that direction.
***
Lin Sui saw that the grave pit was almost finished and ordered, “Throw the body in.”
The servants obeyed, lifting the corpse at the edge of the pit and tossing it inside.
As they picked up the shovels to fill the grave, someone suddenly appeared beside them.
Startled, everyone stepped back.
Qin Su stood by the pit, looking at the person inside.
Qin Zheng’s eyes were tightly shut, his breathing weak, with a shocking red stain around his mouth.
Qin Su gathered his power and lifted Qin Zheng out of the pit.
When Qin Zheng reached him, Qin Su held him horizontally in his arms.
Ignoring the people opposite, Qin Su used his power to gather the poison inside Qin Zheng into one place.
Lin Sui, seeing the person who had come with the fake elder brother and noticing the dead man in his arms, felt extremely pleased.
But when he saw Qin Su use an unknown power to retrieve the person from the pit, he was shocked.
Seeing Qin Su seemingly healing Qin Zheng with his cultivation, Lin Sui couldn’t bear it and shouted, “Get them! Take the person back!”
Thanks to Qin Su’s effort, Qin Zheng, who looked like a dead man, coughed violently a few times and spat out a mouthful of black blood.
The surrounding servants looked at each other hesitantly, unwilling to step forward.
They all knew Qin Zheng had been poisoned with crane’s bile (He Ding Hong), a lethal poison.
Those who drink it are doomed to die, yet this man seemed to come back to life.
Seeing Qin Zheng finally improving, Qin Su looked coldly at Lin Sui opposite him, and suddenly a sword appeared in front of him.
The sword floated in the air, its tip pointing at Lin Sui.
The people beside Lin Sui found themselves unable to move.
Lin Sui was no exception.
“What are you doing?! I’m the heir of this residence!”
“If I die, none of you will survive!”
Lin Sui screamed in terror.
Suddenly, a hand grabbed Qin Su.
Qin Zheng shook his head and said to Qin Su, “He... can’t die.”
“Let’s go back to the old man.”
Qin Su looked down at Qin Zheng and finally retracted the sword.
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