Smiling Under Lanter Chapter 561 - 197 Others2

Chapter 561: Chapter 197 Others_2

"The young master went out with his mother to wander the temple fair at night and sohow disappeared. Director Li, upon hearing the news, was beside himself, and he imdiately notified all the forces and the City Guards, vowing not to stop until he had turned Shengjing upside down."

"After such a commotion, they actually found him."

Miao Liangfang paused at this point and looked at the people around him, "Guess where the young master was found?"

The crowd was clueless.

Pei Yunming’s eyes moved slightly, "Hidden in the Mo Residence?"

Miao Liangfang was startled, "How did you know?"

Pei Yunming shrugged, "I guessed randomly based on your long preamble."

Miao Liangfang was taken aback.

"Found in the Mo Residence?" Lin Danqing was surprised, "How could the child end up in the Mo Residence?"

"Not just—"

Miao Liangfang looked at the wine bowl in front of him, his eyes suddenly changing, "Not just Director Li’s young master, but also the little girl who had been poisoned, rescued, and then went missing again... and the young children who had disappeared one after another in Shengjing this past year..."

"...All of them were found in the flower garden of Miss Mo’s backyard."

The room fell silent at these words.

Lu Tong kept his head down, his expression unreadable.

Duan Xiaoyan was astonished and Zhu Ling shrank back a little in fear.

"Did Miss Mo kill the children?" Yin Zheng asked, her voice trembling.

Miao Liangfang shook her head.

"There is a secret chamber in Miss Mo’s boudoir. Director Li’s young master was still alive. By the ti the governnt officers found him, he was nothing but skin and bones, barely breathing. It was only after Director Li questioned him that they learned of a shocking secret from the child," he continued.

He paused for a mont before continuing, "Miss Mo was collecting young children from all over to serve as ’dicine n’ for her experints."

"dicine n?" Lin Danqing exclaid.

The crowd looked at her, and she explained, "I had heard that so people conducted new dicine trials on human subjects to develop treatnts, but such thods caused great harm to those being tested, and were considered unethical by dical practitioners, so I have only heard about it in rumors."

Miao Liangfang nodded, "Correct."

"The day the officers found many children’s bones buried in the backyard of Miss Mo, they later discovered she had been secretly acquiring children to use as ’dicine n’."

"It started with the young girls in her courtyard, but the frequent replacent of servants within a month raised suspicions. Later, she began buying poor children from various traffickers, because she offered much Silver Coin, gradually enlisting a group of people who deliberately looked for beggar children and farrs’ children to buy."

"She hid these children in the secret room, providing them with food and drink, feeding them various poisons, and then counteracting them, over and over again. The children’s bodies were fragile to begin with; how could they endure such tornt? At most they would last only a few months before they perished."

Miao Liangfang lanted, "As Doctor Ji once said, practicing dicine and diagnosing illness requires seeing a large number of patients. Although Miss Mo was exceptionally gifted, these children she treated as ’dicine n’ were key to her frequent miraculous redies."

"The children led a miserable existence under her, worse than death. Except for the newly caught ’dicine Man’, none survived."

"Had those people not happened to abduct Director Li’s illegitimate son from his concubine, who knows when this case would have been solved, or how many more innocent children would have died by her hand."

Duan Xiaoyan frowned deeply, "Is this not utterly devoid of conscience? What happened to that woman afterward? Was she executed on the spot?"

Miao Liangfang nodded, then shook his head.

"At the ti, this case shocked Capital City, and the Mo Family was implicated as a result. Mo Wensheng was also thrown into prison. He claid to be unaware of his granddaughter’s rearing of ’dicine n,’ but given the gravity of the situation, the Mo Family could not be exempt from responsibility, and all were imprisoned."

"On the day of the incident, Miss Mo happened to be out and thus escaped, but the Emperor ordered a city-wide manhunt. However, Miss Mo secretly returned to her residence one night."

Yin Zheng asked curiously, "What did she go back for?"

"It is said that there were many dical prescriptions hidden in Miss Mo’s boudoir, all developed while she was rearing ’dicine n.’ Miss Mo set her room ablaze, burning all those left-behind prescriptions to ashes. The governnt officers uncovered a charred body in the burnt-down residence, and the prison guards brought old Doctor Mo to the scene, who personally confird it was indeed Miss Mo. Not long after, Mo Wensheng was sentenced to death, and the case was closed."

A cool breeze carried a fine chill on the skin. Miao Liangfang picked up his wine bowl, moistening his lips that had beco dry from talking, and said, "The story is finished."

The story is finished.

It was a tale of retribution for good and evil, but there was an undeniable sense of lancholy upon hearing the end.

Lin Danqing muttered to herself, "So that’s how it was. But why have I never heard this person’s na from childhood to adulthood? My father has never ntioned it, either."