4. Are You the Birthday Banquet Killer?
The next day, Gong Yiling first had Yan Chuyue go to the pharmaceutical companies to gather information, confirming that Murong Jing hadn’t sent anyone to look for them.
At the same time, her biggest plan and preparation began in earnest. Everything was basically ready, just waiting for the east wind.
After noon, Miss Gong, with the help of her undead puppet, saw some things she wanted to see.
But as she was controlling the puppet to semi-materialize and flip through a book, the system said unceremoniously, “The soul connection with the ghosts has increased. The ghosts like the host very much, so the host’s Ghost Value has increased by 5 points.”
5 points!
A full 5 points!
This Ghost Value was a negative effect. Why was the description so normal, even sounding good, yet it gave her such a frustrating bonus?
At this moment, she really wanted to say, “I’m sorry, I don’t like ghosts. Can I return this point?”
Of course, that was impossible. She could only gloomily control the puppet to flip through the book, while Yuan Qin, on the side, looked at a piece of empty air doing this with disbelief.
That feeling was like seeing a ghost.
Of course, in fact, he did see a ghost. It was just that this ghost was controlled by someone.
And so, Gong Yiling spent the entire afternoon flipping through everything recorded in this secret room, basically reading all the files she could.
Closing the book, Gong Yiling wrote on a piece of paper, “This is enough,” then broke the connection with the undead puppet.
“This Murong Jing, he’s quite brave.” Gong Yiling, her consciousness returning, couldn’t help but chuckle.
Yan Chuyue, on the side, knew what she was doing. She had been sitting beside her, peeling oranges, just waiting for her to finish her work.
Hearing her speak, Yan Chuyue asked curiously,
“What’s wrong?”
“Murong Yun said before that the mother and child of the Twin Gu must be from the same bloodline. But in the Youhan Dynasty, although the various vassal kings are not particularly strong, they are still vassal kings.”
“Therefore, the ones Murong Jing really used for the Twin Gu effect were not all pure-blooded royal family members, but some illegitimate children.”
Yan Chuyue: “…??? He’s that awesome? He doesn’t look that old. Can he handle it?”
Gong Yiling rubbed her forehead, speechless. “Of course he didn’t do it himself. He just acted as a bridge, connecting some of the royal family with the side-branch women of those chamber of commerce families who wanted to get close to the royal family.”
“After the child was born, they would use the method of swapping a civet cat for a prince, swapping their children over, and raising them as death guards.”
“And these death guards, we’ve seen them.”
At this point, the identity of these death guards was obvious. They were the personal guards of Murong Jing that they had seen.
“This method, it probably didn’t start in this generation, right?” Yan Chuyue said, “These death guards look to be at most ten years younger than Murong Jing.”
“If I told you that Murong Jing did this when he was 6 years old, what would you think?”
Yan Chuyue: “…”
This age was truly astonishing.
But Miss Gong’s next words made Gong Yiling spit out a mouthful of water.
“You’re not bad either. You wanted to be an astronaut when you were little.”
“Can an astronaut be compared to this?” Miss Gong quickly fed her some oranges to wash her mouth. “I probably didn’t even know the difference between boys and girls at that time. This guy was already breeding people. It’s not comparable at all, okay?”
Mmm, although this sounded a bit subtle, that was what it meant.
In any case, for this guy to do such a thing at the age of six, his character was indeed far from ordinary.
But then again, what this guy did was not something an ordinary person could tolerate. All the insiders of these things were basically controlled by the Lingxiao Pavilion, so not many people knew about this inside story.
“Tell me, if we were to expose this,” Gong Yiling smiled and said, “what would happen to Murong Jing’s reputation, do you think?”
Yes, once this inside information was announced, its terrifying degree was not to be underestimated, especially those chambers of commerce. Although the ones involved were just some side-branch children, this matter was ultimately about their own face.
Even if they knew that His Majesty had such means, this was not a reason for them to swallow their pride.
Thus, the situation where Murong Jing’s reputation was ruined already had a precursor.
“But Yiling, when are you planning to expose this news?” Yan Chuyue couldn’t help but ask.
“Naturally, I have to find a perfect time.” Gong Yiling winked at her with a smile and said, “Do you remember how we dealt with that little Baili brother before?”
“How that was…”
Gong Yiling blinked and said with a smile, “It’s that, the birthday banquet.”
“This person also has a birthday banquet?”
Miss Gong nodded subtly.
She didn’t know about this matter originally. She had accidentally heard it from Yuan Qin. That was, Murong Jing’s birthday was actually not long after.
As the richest king in this world, this guy’s birthday banquet naturally couldn’t be compared to an ordinary person’s. It was said that on the day of the birthday banquet, countless chamber of commerce bosses and civil and military officials would be invited. At that time, the current head of the Youcang Court would also be present in person.
One could imagine that on that day, this Murong Jing would probably pull some special moves, such as announcing some things at the birthday banquet, or doing some things.
“How come I find that you really like to cause trouble at people’s birthday banquets?” Yan Chuyue glanced at her with some helplessness. “You’re not the legendary birthday banquet killer, are you?”
Gong Yiling’s mouth couldn’t help but twitch. “It’s not my fault. It just happened to be at this time. I should do what I should do, right?”
“And even if I don’t act, someone will force us to act at about that time. What’s coming will come.”
“Then what about my birthday? You’re not planning to cause trouble for me, are you?”
“How could I?” Gong Yiling shrugged. “Your birthday will definitely be celebrated in a grand way. If it’s not exciting, you can twist my head off and kick it like a ball.”
Although the topic of birthdays was just casually brought up by Yan Chuyue, and she didn’t expect Gong Yiling to say anything, Miss Gong’s reaction couldn’t help but make her chuckle.
“Then can I look forward to it?”
