0p0 Chapter 93 Cross-examination
Chapter 93 Cross-examination
Jiang Ming put away the stone ball, had Xianyu sit at the table, and began to question her.
"Is your sister a demon too?"
Salty Fish immediately retorted, "Pah! Don't talk nonsense!"
Jiang Ming understood; Shen Yao was indeed a member of the Immortal Clan.
Jiang Ming sat opposite Xianyu, tapping the table as he watched her with great interest.
Salty Fish puffed out her cheeks, stared at him for a few moments, and finally choked out, "Don't look at me! It's disgusting!"
"Haha." Jiang Ming thought she was going to swear, but all she said was this? She's not even as good at swearing as her sister.
Jiang Ming teased, "If your brother-in-law isn't looking at you, he'll go look at your sister later."
Upon hearing this, Xianyu panicked, struggled to his feet, and roared at him, "Yaoyao is in your hands too? What did you do to my Yaoyao?"
Jiang Ming replied with a faint smile, "What's wrong? What's wrong with everything?"
The salted fish bared her teeth, about to rush over and kick him, but Jiang Ming smiled, tapped the table with his dagger, and ordered her in the tone of a superior: "Sit down."
After a moment of hesitation, Xianyu sat back down, looked at his smug smile, and snorted coldly: "Hmph, give up, Yaoyao will never, ever like you!"
Having achieved his goal, Jiang Ming stopped laughing, and his expression visibly turned sinister.
He stared at the salted fish with a gloomy expression for several breaths, then coldly said, "I've never had braised koi before."
Xianyu really wanted to retort, "Eat if you want!" But remembering that Yaoyao was also in his hands, he backed down and remained silent.
Seeing that she had backed down, Jiang Ming leaned back in his chair, put one foot on the edge of the table, and threatened her with the dagger: "You answer whatever I ask. If you give a wrong answer, I'll cut a piece of your sister's flesh."
Xianyu's wide, almond-shaped eyes nearly pierced Jiang Ming's gaze, but Jiang Ming didn't care at all. He continued his interrogation with measured pace: "Are you and Shen Yao sisters?"
Salted Fish: "No."
Jiang Ming: "Who is Huo Die's father?"
Salted Fish: "Yao Yao's."
Jiang Ming: "Is he my biological father?"
Salted Fish: "I don't know."
Jiang Ming stared at her with a stern face.
Xianyu was afraid he would cut Yaoyao's flesh: "I really don't know. There are many things about Yaoyao that I don't know. She doesn't tell me, and I never ask."
Jiang Ming: "Aren't you and her from the same place?"
Salted Fish: "No."
Jiang Ming: "Where did Shen Yao come from?"
The salted fish lowered its eyes and remained silent.
Jiang Ming got up and left.
The salted fish cried out anxiously, "Beyond the heavens!"
Xuanhu Town and Minshan are things that can't be mentioned. Anyway, Huo Die said he came from Tianwaitian, so Xianyu thought that it wouldn't be wrong for her to say that Yaoyao came from Tianwaitian.
Hearing that Shen Yao came from Tianwaitian, Jiang Ming wasn't too surprised.
Jiang Ming sat back down: "Why does Shen Yao hate me?"
Salted Fish: "You're indiscriminately killing innocent people."
'Hmph, another case of indiscriminate killing.' Jiang Ming kicked a table leg and growled, 'Whom did I kill?'
Salty Fish curled his lip: "Go ask Yao Yao about that!"
That means she knows. Jiang Ming, with a gloomy face, began to threaten again: "You seem to have forgotten what I said."
The salted fish was furious. After much deliberation, it had no choice but to compromise: "You killed her master."
Jiang Ming: "Who is her master?"
Salted Fish: "I don't know."
Jiang Ming: "Her home is in the Outer Heavens, how could she have a master from the outside world?"
Salty Fish: "I don't know either, Yao Yao didn't say anything about it."
Jiang Ming: "How is she so sure that I killed her master?"
The salted fish couldn't hold back any longer and roared, "How can you be sure? She saw it with her own eyes! You not only killed her master, but you tortured him to death! You also caused her to lose her body and become a wandering ghost for a long time! How do you think she's sure? She experienced it herself! Anyway, she didn't wrong you!"
Jiang Ming was speechless.
He had considered many possibilities, but he never expected it to be like this.
After thinking for a long time, he asked, "Is Shen Yao's inner demon related to this?"
The salted fish angrily retorted, "Yes! It's all your fault!"
Jiang Ming felt a dull ache in his heart.
Seeing that Jiang Ming was losing ground, Xianyu pressed his advantage: "So give up. Yao Yao will never forgive you. Don't even think about getting her to like you or anything else."
Jiang Ming remained silent, his face extremely grim.
Fearing that he would hurt Yao Yao in his anger, the salted fish coaxed him, "You've seen it too, I'm a lucky koi fish. I know there are treasures in many places. As long as you don't hurt Yao Yao, I'll take you to find the treasures."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Ming suddenly stopped believing her.
Jiang Ming laughed again. He felt that Shen Yu was lying to him. The demon cultivator must have had another purpose in coming to the immortal territory.
A demon is a demon; it can't be that innocent.
Shen Yao is frank and straightforward. This koi demon may very well be using its cute appearance to deceive Shen Yao, get close to her, and profit from her.
Otherwise, why would the immortals recognize a demon cultivator as their sister?
She even tried to trick him into going to find the treasure.
Ha, does the mighty Jiang Ming lack treasures?
I almost fell into the koi demon's trap!
It's not even certain whether Shen Yao knows that this Shen Yu is a demon.
He decided to ask Shen Yao himself.
If Shen Yao is deceived by this demon cultivator, then he will eat braised koi tomorrow.
……
Jiang Ming pushed open the door and entered the inner room, where Shen Yao was still huddled in the corner of the bed, clutching the blanket.
He felt a little panicked, afraid that what the koi demon said was true.
After hesitating for a moment, he sat down by Shen Yao's bedside, looking at her red, swollen eyes, and tried to soften his voice, but it was still cold: "Are you done crying?"
He frowned as soon as he heard the sound.
Shen Yao cried for a long time. She had just calmed down when Jiang Ming started making sarcastic remarks. She pulled the blanket up a little and shrank back a bit.
Jiang Ming watched her subtle movements, but couldn't bring himself to ask the question he wanted to.
Jiang Ming pulled the blanket off her, but Shen Yao held on tightly, angrily asking, "What do you want to do?"
Jiang Ming: "Are you hungry? I'll take you out to get something to eat."
Shen Yao: "I won't eat."
Jiang Ming: "If you don't eat your fill, how will you have the strength to escape?"
Shen Yao sneered, "Heh, do you think I can escape?"
Jiang Ming: "We have to give it a try." He tugged at her blanket again: "Let's go."
Shen Yao glared at him and said irritably, "How am I supposed to leave?"
Jiang Ming remembered that he had torn her collar.
He had no time for teasing her. He took out clothes from Shen Yao's storage ring and placed them by the bed: "Change into these. I'll wait for you outside."
A quarter of an hour passed, but Shen Yao still hadn't come out. Jiang Ming went in to check, and she was exactly the same as when he left. Shen Yao was still huddled in the corner of the bed, not moving an inch.
Jiang Ming was unhappy: "What? Does Fairy Shen want me to help you change?"
Shen Yao still didn't move.
Jiang Ming walked over, picked up the clothes, and roughly pulled off her blanket.
Shen Yao stopped holding on, hugged herself tightly, and said without frowning, "Anyway, you're going to do whatever you want sooner or later, so you might as well do it now so I can die."
“Fine.” Jiang Ming was not one to be coerced: “Since Fairy Shen wants me to sleep with her so much, I will grant your wish.”
After saying that, he pulled Shen Yao over and pinned her down.
Shen Yao didn't even change her expression, looking like she was ready to die after she finished.
Jiang Ming wanted to see just how tough she could be.