jdhmnovel Chapter 297 Why didn't I think of such an easy way before?
Chapter 297 Why didn't I think of such an easy way before?
Xia Mo stared intently at Wan Sinong without saying a word.
Wan Sinong actively spoke in order to achieve cooperation.
“Lord Anjia, in order to enable all the people to wear clothes, you studied mechanical arts and created looms and spinning wheels. This shows that Lord Anjia is a person who cares about the people,” Wan Sinong said anxiously and expectantly, looking at Xia Mo like a dog.
"In my opinion, how the planting techniques came about is not the most important thing. What's important is that we acquire those techniques so that people can have enough to eat!"
Wan Sinong looked sincerely at Xia Mohou and continued, "Does the Lord of Anjia think what I said is correct?"
Wan Sinong sincerely hoped that Xia Mo would agree with his idea.
“I’ve come here to make a deal with Lord Anjia,” Wan Sinong continued.
After hearing what Wan Sijia said, Xia Mo was surprised. She turned her head and looked at Huangfu Qian behind her. When their eyes met, they also communicated with each other using their divine sense.
Huangfu Qianwei nodded in agreement with Xia Mo's next move.
With a blank expression, Xia Mo flipped her hand, and a compass appeared out of thin air in her hand, which she placed on the table.
As Xia Mo placed the Taoist compass on the table, Wan Sinong was shocked to find that the live-streaming screen in front of him had disappeared! The screen that he refused to let go of had vanished!
"It's you, it's you, isn't it?!" Wan Sinong jumped up from his seat excitedly and stared at Xia Mo.
Xia Mo neither nodded nor denied, and continued, "Has Wan Sinong ever considered that everything in the world, especially strange things like these, is governed by the law of equivalent exchange?"
"What?" Wan Sinong asked blankly, somewhat taken aback.
Xia Mo frowned. Surely she wouldn't have to explain every single simple answer?
Was Wan Sinong actually a fool?
Xia Mo looked at Wan Sinong with a suspicious gaze.
Wan Sinong hurriedly said, "Equivalent exchange means that to gain something, you need to give something of equal value."
Great, she doesn't need to explain even the basics.
“What invading foreign entities want is not an equal exchange,” Xia Mo said.
Wan Sinong's breath hitched, and he pressed, "What does the Lord of Anjia mean?!"
“When you stole your cousin’s fortune, you deliberately spared his life. Didn’t you roughly guess that once your cousin died, you would also be killed?” Xia Mo said.
When these things were said at the end of summer, the air was calm and the breeze was gentle.
“…Yes,” Wan Sinong nodded. He did indeed have such concerns, which was why he had hesitated to kill his cousin.
"Once... my main quest... drops to zero, will I also turn into a charred corpse like Young Master Lan and Young Master Li?" Wan Sinong thought he wouldn't be able to say the words "main quest," after all, he had tried to say it before, and the live broadcast system would mute him, but this time, he wasn't.
Wan Sinong looked at the compass on the table again with a complicated expression.
Wan Sinong believed that it was the compass that played a role, but in reality, it was Xia Mo who used his divine sense to isolate this area into a forbidden zone that even the live broadcast system could not detect.
Xia Mo looked at Wan Sinong with a noncommittal expression.
"Isn't it more worthwhile to let me gain more beneficial planting techniques than to let me die?" Wan Sinong still wanted to struggle.
He's about to achieve lasting fame, so why not?!
“Luck is equivalent to the destiny of this world. If the destiny of this world is completely plundered, do you think this world will still exist?” Xia Mo asked with a half-smile.
Wan Sinong's pupils trembled, his eyes widened in astonishment, and he looked at Xia Mo in disbelief.
Xia Mo left a divine imprint on the live streaming system in Wan Sinong's mind, and then used her divine sense to envelop Wan Sinong completely. As long as she did not release her power, the live streaming system would not be able to detect her little actions.
As summer drew to a close, Wan Sinong put away his compass and discovered that the light screen in front of him had returned.
At this moment, Wan Sinong was in a daze, and his mind was in complete chaos. He didn't even notice when Xia Mo and Huangfu Qian left.
In a daze, Wan Sinong returned to the Wan residence and locked himself in his study. None of the Wan family's servants dared to disturb him.
* * *
Two days later—
Before the first month of the lunar calendar was even over, bad news came from every household!
Wan Sinong is dead! He hanged himself at home and wrote a letter of self-reproach.
The Wan family wanted to keep the letter of self-reproach a secret, but Wan Sinong had already arranged for it to be submitted to the imperial court, and thus the letter of self-reproach was made public.
Wan Sinong admitted that the method of grain cultivation he had previously developed was stolen from the Anjia family patriarch, and therefore offered his life as an apology.
Wan Sinong's actions shocked the old emperor.
The old emperor supported Wan Sinong because he thought Wan Sinong could suppress Xia Mo. However, this is what Wan Sinong returned!
The old emperor couldn't stand this suffocating feeling and wanted to have Wan Sinong's entire family executed to relieve his frustration.
The old emperor sent people to search Wan Sinong's house, only to find that it was already empty!
Inside the east courtyard of the Jiang Prince's Mansion—
Xia Mo looked up, expressionless, towards the direction of the Wan residence, sensing the aura gathering from that direction. Incidentally, she used her divine sense to capture the live-streaming system residing in Wan Sinong's mind.
Wan Sinong, driven by ambition, resorted to any means necessary, harming his own kin and stealing destiny. In the end, knowing that his actions would destroy the world, he chose to hang himself.
Wan Sinong knew that only when he fell into ruin could the fortune he had stolen return to its original owner, so before his death, he deliberately ruined his own reputation.
Human nature... A complex expression flashed through Xia Mo's mind.
Upon hearing the news of Wan Sinong's death, Huangfu Qian worried that Wan Sinong's death would also cause the luck stolen by the intruder in Wan Sinong's mind to disappear. He rushed back to the Jiang Prince's Mansion and found Xia Mo.
Xia Mo nodded to Huangfu Qian and said, "Wan Sinong deliberately smeared himself in order to return the item to its rightful owner, and it has already been returned."
Huangfu Qian's worries were gone, and he dropped his serious demeanor.
"Tell me, if the heads of the Zheng and Chen families knew, what choice would their father make?" Xia Mo's eyes sparkled.
It would be much easier for the Zheng and Chen family heads to deal with their own sons than for her to devise a counterattack.
“We can give it a try,” Huangfu Ge nodded after pondering for a moment.
Young Master Zheng and Young Master Chen knew that, given their character, they would certainly not destroy themselves. However, the heads of the Zheng and Chen families were upright and might very well sacrifice their own family for the greater good.
"It was Wan Sinong who gave me the hint. How come I didn't think of such an easy way before?" Xia Mo said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll do it."
“No need for testing, just go for it. If the two of them object, I can use my abilities to seal their memories,” Xia Mo said.
“Okay, I’ll make the arrangements,” Huangfu Qian said.