Chapter 21
Chapter 21
After the birthday banquet, everyone dispersed.
Shen Yan changed into clean clothes and left the bedroom, raised her eyes to glance at the disciples standing in front of his door.
Nie Xiu, Xie Qinghuan and other close disciples were all here, but Gu Wanqing was the only one who didn't see him, his heart sank instantly.
"Nie Xiu, go and put that carp spirit in the Juyao Pavilion to save it." After he ordered Nie Xiu, he turned to Zheng Ziqian and said in a low voice, "Ziqian, come with me, I have something to ask you."
"Yes, Immortal Venerable."
Nie Xiu took the refined red carp with golden scales, threw it into a jade bottle filled with water, and placed it on the table in Juyao Pavilion.
Zheng Ziqian followed Shen Yan to the quiet room, feeling uneasy all the way, there must be nothing good for the immortal to talk to him at such a late hour.
Shen Yan pushed open the door, raised her right hand, a red light popped out from her fingertips, and the candlestick on the table instantly lit up.
The quiet room is usually a place where he reads at night with the lights on, so Nie Xiu decorated the quiet room very elegantly.
In front of the window on the left side of the room, there is a rosewood table with white jasmine flowers in a celadon vase on the table.
There is an incense burner on the other corner of the table, and the green smoke is curling up, and the elegant fragrance permeates the whole room.
On the right side of the room, the red sandalwood wooden floor is covered with an embroidered patterned carpet. In the center of the carpet is a sandalwood table with an exquisite tea set and four indigo cushions neatly placed beside the table.
Shen Yan walked straight to the mahogany chair next to the tea table in the front and sat down, staring at Zheng Ziqian standing in front of him without turning his eyes.
"Ziqian, I ask you something, and you have to answer me truthfully."
Zheng Ziqian felt his right eyelid twitch suddenly, and he couldn't help feeling a little more flustered.
"Immortal Venerable... Just ask, I will know everything."
Shen Yan immediately put on a straight face, and said in a cold voice: "Two years ago, you and Gu Wanqing went down the mountain to catch monsters, and when you came back, you told me that Gu Wanqing asked you to go back to Xianmen first, and he went to the market to buy some clothes right?"
"Yes, it is……"
"You also told me that you found something wrong with him at the time, so you followed him all the way, and later found that he didn't go to buy clothes, but went to the brothel to have fun."
Hearing this, Zheng Ziqian's face lost all color, turning blue and white, he could only lower his eyes and reluctantly nodded.
"I'll ask you again, get back to me when you've made up your mind!" Shen Yan frowned, and the expression on her face became even more ugly, "Did Gu Wanqing go to the brothel that day?"
A trace of panic flashed in Zheng Ziqian's eyes, and he bit his lower lip with his upper teeth, panicking.
"Ziqian, if you tell me the truth today, I will treat it as if it never happened. If you insist on not telling me the truth, then I will have a way for you to find out what happened back then. , don’t blame me for punishing you.”
Seeing Zheng Ziqian biting his lips and trembling, Shen Yan immediately understood something.
Zheng Ziqian was brought up by him since he was a child. If he was found lying, he would usually do this kind of action.
Zheng Ziqian didn't dare to look at Shen Yan, and took a breath with his head down, knowing that he couldn't hide it no matter what.
"Xian... Xianzun, I... I really lied back then," Zheng Ziqian's chin almost fell to his chest, and then his legs gave way, and he fell to his knees, "Senior brother, he...has never been to a brothel... "
"Then why are you lying?"
"Because...because..."
Zheng Ziqian was tongue-tied, if he said that he was trying to create a misunderstanding and make Gu Wanqing suffer some flesh and blood, so that he hated the Immortal Venerable he had always admired, wouldn't his secret be exposed?
"Because I...are jealous of Gu Wanqing's talent...intellect, although he entered the fairy gate later than me, his cultivation...his cultivation is higher than mine, so..."
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