Quick Transmigration: Hosts, We're Only Responsible for Counterattacking

Chapter 107 Turning the Tables to Become King (20)

As the saying goes, to catch a thief, you must first catch the king. Left with no other choice, Shen Yun had to drag the leader to a corner and beat him up.

At first, the man didn't realize what was happening and took several hits for nothing. Later, when he did realize what was happening, he found that he couldn't beat the attacker.

"Stop...stop hitting me, Miss." The man raised his head, revealing a face swollen like a pig's head.

Shen Yun clenched his small fist, waved it in the sunlight, grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth, and said, "Now you believe I'm not dead?"

"I believe you, I believe you." The man lying on the ground glared hatefully at the group of onlookers. If everyone was talking together, why was he the only one being attacked? He wasn't good-looking to begin with, and now with this face, it would be even harder for him to pick up girls.

The people being watched felt inexplicably guilty.

The group entered the house, which was not much better decorated than before.

"Young Miss, what exactly is going on?" One person scratched his head, completely puzzled. Announcing to the world that the Empress was dead, and then letting her leave the palace? He couldn't believe Xia Yuliu would do such a thing; she wasn't out of her mind.

Shen Yun found a place to sit down, put his fan aside, and said nonchalantly, "Mu Changxue hired someone to set fire to me and burn me to death, but I escaped when they weren't paying attention."

"Don't call me Miss anymore." Shen Yun pondered for a moment and said in a deep voice, "From now on, just say that I am the twin of the current Empress, but I left home to study when I was young and have only recently returned to the capital."

"Oh, right, there's one more thing, about the cause of my father's death."

"Isn't the general seriously ill?" The men looked on with suspicion.

Shen Yun raised an eyebrow. "Do you really think my father, with his health condition, would get a serious illness and die?" She shifted her position and took out a white paper packet from the sachet at her waist.

“This is what I found in Mu Changxue’s room. It contains oleander flower powder. She was the one who took care of my father when he was seriously ill.”

"Pollen can kill people?" The crowd was puzzled, but judging from her expression, she didn't seem to be joking.

Shen Yun sneered disdainfully, "One is too ruthless, and the other is too ambitious. Who can be blamed for this?"

Although to outsiders it might seem that the original owner's father's favorite was the original owner, whom he always kept by his side and personally tutored, it was she who fought on the battlefield and bore all the scars, big and small, while it was Mu Changxue who enjoyed wealth and luxury in the capital.

Therefore, what disappointed the original owner the most was not Xia Yuliu's fickleness, but Mu Changxue's betrayal.

She enjoyed the glory that belonged to the Mu family in the capital, yet she also destroyed the Mu family with ease and without hesitation.

"To avoid giving myself away, you shall call me Young Master from now on."

Ever since they heard the cause of the original owner's father's death, the group's faces had been extremely grim. Recalling their own experiences over the past few days, they felt even more resentful.

"Young master, what should we do next?"

"Xia Yuliu eliminated the Mu family simply because he was afraid of their influence. Whatever he fears, we will give him."

"Before that, I want to ask you whether you are willing to follow me to help Xia Yuliu wake up from his dream and restore the glory of the Mu family army."

They all said in unison, "It is our duty."

"As for the reason," Shen Yun looked at them, his eyes cold, "to purge the court of corrupt officials, the wicked concubine Mu Changxue murdered her own father. To protect the foundation of the country, Mu Chang'an, the son of General Weiyuan and the younger brother of the current empress, raised an army to seek justice for his father and to eliminate the wicked concubine for the emperor."

One person asked doubtfully, "But what if the dog emperor hands over Mu Changxue?" Shen Yun smiled, a subtle curve appearing at the corner of her mouth. "He won't." Mu Changxue is no pushover. If he dared to have such a thought, it would be exactly what she wanted. When the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman benefits.

"I will make the Mu family army appear proudly in the eyes of the world, and I will not let you shed blood and tears." Shen Yun said firmly, his eyes shining with hope.

Several people's eyes turned red, but their pupils were frighteningly bright.

In the afternoon, the group took Shen Yun to meet many more people. Some of these people were the original owner's subordinates, and some were the original owner's father's subordinates. Because they were framed and had been dismissed from their posts, Shen Yun packed up and took these people to the general's mansion. It took several days to remove all the gold and silver treasures from the basement of the general's mansion.

She then sent these people to recruit soldiers in remote areas far from the capital. These people were among the best soldiers and generals under her father and her command. The people Xia Yuliu later appointed were incompetent and jealous, so they were sidelined.

She stayed in the capital, and it was true that she was working with people from both inside and outside the city. However, the person she was working with was her original body's uncle, her mother's biological younger brother, Shen Mo.

He was the strategist of the Mu family, a fact known only to those in the military camp. Even Mu Changxue assumed he was just using his sister's connections to get a job in the military, and therefore always treated him with disdain whenever she saw him.

After the Mu family's decline, he spent his days just hanging out in the training camp in the capital.

The person Shen Yun was looking for was him.

Now that Empress Mu Changrao is dead, her uncle is the most suitable person to enter the public eye as Mu Chang'an.

Finding him is easy. Three days later is the anniversary of the original owner's mother's death. No matter what, Shen Mo will definitely go to pay his respects alone.

The sky was overcast, and a few drops of rain fell from time to time. Shen Yun nervously held up an oil-paper umbrella. The umbrella surface was outlined with a picture of fish playing in the water. Raindrops fell on the umbrella surface and then bounced off, which was really interesting to watch.

Shen Yun wouldn't have cared about this light rain in the past, but now her top priority is to protect her eyebrows.

This was the snail-shell eyebrow pencil she bought from the best cosmetics shop in the capital. She drew it according to the original outline of her eyebrows, only slightly slanting it upwards at the tail to show a bit of heroic spirit.

At this moment, Shen Mo, holding a food box in his left hand and an umbrella in his right, walked towards this side.

It is said that a nephew resembles his uncle. The original owner's face had a three-tenths resemblance to Shen Mo. After the disguise, that three-tenths became four or five-tenths.

"uncle."

Hearing the voice, Shen Mo looked up in shock. Upon seeing her, he quickly glanced around and whispered, "Let's talk somewhere else."

Shen Yun then led him to the house where he was currently living. The biggest advantage of this house was that it was rumored to be haunted. Shen Yun naturally did not believe the ghost story, but it was enough as long as others believed it.

"Tell me, what exactly happened?" Shen Mo asked seriously, looking at his niece as if he were meeting her for the first time.

Shen Yun then told him her plans in detail.

After listening, Shen Mo pondered for a long time, then looked at her intently. "Have you made up your mind? You're not going to care about Xia Yuliu anymore?"

"I was blinded by greed and misjudged him before, which brought disaster upon the Mu family. I beg you, Uncle, to lend me a hand this time and avenge this blood feud."

We ordered fried chicken, shrimp cakes, lotus root sandwiches, and cheese sticks...

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