The City Lord’s words immediately caused all the refugees around to stare wide eyed at him.
Ignoring the looks directed at him, the City Lord then went on to say: “These lofts here were in fact houses I had ordered people to build for the refugees who just came into the city and I do not know why Young Master Jun would come up with such a ridiculous idea to actually claim that these lofts were your idea instead? With Young Master Jun being so young, it’s rather understandable that you would be highly exuberant and want to gain a good reputation for yourself. But although at your age where one is filled with vigor, you still lack consideration in many other aspects in the way you do things. In order to build these lofts, I had depleted all my life savings and I did not do it for fame or good repute. I think that Young Master Jun is still very young and you still have much time to achieve great things, you shouldn’t commit such despicable acts like claiming the credit of others to become yours like this.”
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Chapter 1446: “Inverting the Truth and Falsehood (2)”
The City Lord’s words, instantly elicited a wave of uproar over the crowd as everyone stared incredulously at Jun Wu Xie.
What was just said, had been put across very directly, both insinuating and blatantly claiming that the lofts were not built by Jun Wu Xie at all but she had just leapt upon the chance before the City Lord could lay claim to it, stealing credit not due to her by insisting she had built them!
At almost the same moment the City Lord’s voice dropped, countless pairs of suspicious gazes were cast straight upon the figure of Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie’s eyes narrowed and an icy glint flashed as she looked at the City Lord who had inverted the truth with such falsehood.
The City Lord saw that Jun Wu Xie was not answering and he could not contain his glee. But before he was able to ascertain Jun Wu Xie’s power, he did not date to clash head to head against Jun Wu Xie. Afterall, for a single youth to be be able to kill Liu Er and his band of more than ten men, the youth was to be wary of.
But…..
[If physical force doesn’t work, he still has other ways of doing it!]
[He’s just a young and inexperienced youth, how can the lad be a match for him?]
“Young Master Jun, seeing that you are still young and ignorant, I will not hold the matter against you. But as the construction of the lofts have not been fully completed, there are still many unsafe elements existent within. For you to have rashly deceived all these people to come live in them just to gain recognition to improve your reputation, aren’t you taking the lives of so many people too lightly?” The City Lord continued to push the issue, putting on a highly pained look as he looked at Jun Wu Xie.
At that moment, the eyes of almost all the refugees looking at Jun Wu Xie had turned strange.
They had all thought that the construction of these lofts had been a little strange. They wouldn’t be able to know how much the construction of something that was of such big scale would really cost, but anyone would guess that it would be an astronomical amount. [Young Master Jun was of such a young age and wasn’t even a original citizen of the Clear Breeze City. Would he really be willing to fork out such an immense sum of money to build such a magnificent shelter for a bunch of people completely unrelated to him? Whichever way one looked at it, it would feel rather strange.]
Some of them had even held doubts in their hearts as they felt Jun Wu Xie was just too young and that the City Lord was sounding more convincing. Afterall, constructing these lofts was not small undertaking and as the City Lord had always been kind towards the refugees, they thought that it was more believable if it was said that the City Lord was the one who built these loft units.
Faced with the City Lord’s blatant slander and the suspicious looks that the refugees were throwing upon her, Jun Wu Xie was steady as Mount Tai, her icy gaze not showing a ripple under all that pressure.
The City Lord was showing himself to possess a little bit of smarts, having so smoothly pegged such a crime onto her head and was even blatantly trying to seize all these lofts to make them his own. That was a rather good ploy here.
Jun Wu Xie laughed coldly to herself in her heart but showed nothing on her face.
Jun Wu Xie’s silence only caused the City Lord to become more and more conceited in glee, to laugh at Jun Wu Xie’s youthful innocence which had made him lose his senses so quickly when confronted with a problem. The lad had actually become so panicked that he was at a loss for words!
The City Lord wasn’t that scared that Jun Wu Xie would physically strike at him as he had his soldiers standing behind him so he had nothing to fear. And once Jun Wu Xie made a move, he would claim that Jun Wu Xie had flew into a rage out of shame and by then taking over these lofts would be easy as pie!
However, just as the City Lord was ready to splash that all that dirty water onto Jun Wu Xie’s face, the corners of Jun Wu Xie’s mouth curled up into a chilling smile as she said: “You’ve finished?”
The City Lord was suddenly taken aback.
Jun Wu Xie then went on to say: “If you’re finished, then it’s my turn.” She clapped her hands together once, and the towering figure of Ye Sha suddenly materialized beside her!
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Chapter 1447: “Inverting the Truth and Falsehood (3)”
Having Ye Sha appear suddenly caused the City Lord’s face to darken a shade. The towering figure of Ye Sha with his cold and stern face gave people an invisible kind of pressure.
“To whom this place really belongs to will soon be revealed to everyone.” Jun Wu Xie said with an icy glint in her eyes.
The City Lord suddenly had an ominous feeling in his heart.
Ye Sha suddenly pulled out a thick stack of papers and when those papers were taken out, the City Lord’s face immediately changed colour!
These here are the title deeds for the original houses and these are the deeds to the land these loft buildings are built on. These here are the accounts for constructing all these lofts and every one of these papers has been stamped with the seller’s handprint.” Jun Wu Xie said as she stared coldly at the pale face of the City Lord before she turned to nod her head at Ye Sha, and Ye Sha displayed the contracts one by one before the eyes of everyone there.
The characters in black ink were cleared stated upon the white parchment that every inch of the land here belonged to “Jun Wu”, which was the assumed name Jun Wu Xie had taken up!
With such clear and irrefutable evidence, it immediately turned to become a slap that struck the City Lord squarely across the face. The refugees who had initially been highly doubtful had their eyes filled with utter surprise after seeing the contracts, the suspicions within their eyes quickly fading away as they turned upon the City Lord.
“If you do not believe me, the City Lord can jolly well fetch the shopkeeper of the shop standing beside the magistrate’s office and have him come verify whether these handprints had come from him.” Jun Wu Xie said with her chin slightly lifted. When she had bought these lands, she had made full and foolproof preparations, just to protect herself against incidents like this!
The City Lord suddenly fell silent as the eyes of the refugees surrounding them stared at him with suspicion. He had initially wanted to use the reason that the manors that had stood here had been demolished and wanted to forcefully take over the lands themselves, but he had forgotten that Jun Wu Xie had splurged such a great sum of money then, to not only buy the deeds to the manors alone!
She also held the deeds to the lands for the next fifty years!
Jun Wu Xie’s retaliation was carried out swift and clean, highly efficient which immediately shut down all of the City Lord’s excuses.
The City Lord’s face was seen to have turned so pale it appeared green, his joy from having received all those gold bars was at that moment completely flushed away, to be left with a strong urge in his mind, wishing for nothing more than to drag that shopkeeper in front of him and have him clubbed to dea
th!
“If there is nothing else here, the City Lord can leave now.” Jun Wu Xie said as she swept her glance over the City Lord whose face had turned deathly pale from holding himself back, her eyes flashing with a chill.
Trying such petty tricks like framing someone else for the crime, that pudgy pig was still too green.
Seeing that Jun Wu Xie was turning away and about to leave, the City Lord’s heart suddenly burned with a raging flame. As the Lord of the Clear Breeze City, no matter whether it was in the past or present, only before the revered one and Luo Xi did he have to bend his knee in humility! He had never had to suffer such outrageous humiliation!
This youth had just sprouted out from nowhere and dared to slap him so soundly across the face today! How was he supposed to take that lying down! ?
“Wait a minute!” The City Lord’s eyes narrowed as he stared at Jun Wu Xie, his eyes ablaze with a venomous chill.
“Young Master Jun, the words I said just now was just my way of giving you a way out of this embarrassing situation for you as that is not the reason why I am looking for you! The people here told me earlier that you had struck and killed more than ten citizens of the Clear Breeze City! For this matter! What do you have to say! ?” The City Lord was furious, and he no longer cared about anything else, immediately tearing off his kindly and benevolent mask.
The eyes of all the refugees standing around them went wide. [That….. That’s not what the City Lord said earlier! ! !]
Having believed that the “kindly” City Lord had come here to commend Young Master Jun for his heroic deed where he eradicated the thugs, the refugees could not believe that they had been so naive to have actually pushed their benefactor into the jaws of the tiger!
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Chapter 1448: “Inverting the Truth and Falsehood (4)”
For the few refugees who had opened their mouths earlier to tell the City Lord what had transpired, their faces had immediately gone white, their eyes in shock.
“Oh?” Jun Wu Xie’s brow lifted up slightly as she looked at the City Lord who was no longer able to hold himself back and then said nonchalantly: “No such thing happened. If the City Lord does not believe me, you can very well search through every inch of this place and of you manage to find any dead body here, I will be willing to take on the charge of being a murderer.”
“Guards! Search the place! I want it done thoroughly! Do not miss a single spot!” The City Lord spat out through gritted teeth as he stared at Jun Wu Xie. With that order, the soldiers the City Lord had brought with him surge towards him.
The refugees stood in their spots unmoving and they kept silent from fear. The few of them who had been too talkative earlier had now gone pale, their jaws clenched tightly as their knees shook, hearts overcome with endless guilt. They had not once thought that their highly naive minds would bring so much trouble to their benefactor, and what was even more unexpected was that the “kindly” City Lord would so suddenly transform into an entirely different person, to go back on his word without batting an eyelid!
It took only an instant for the City Lord’s kindly image to be completely shattered within the hearts of the refugees. The accusation that had been thrown at Jun Wu Xie was quickly and irrefutably countered by Young Master Jun and the City Lord had then pinned the crime of murder upon Jun Wu Xie’s head.
Unless one was a complete idiot, or else who wouldn’t be able to see that the City Lord was intentionally trying to find fault with Jun Wu Xie?
The gazes that the refugees were looking at the City Lord with fully told what their hearts were feeling at that moment. The pairs of eyes that all were looking at the City Lord were no longer filled with respect and gratitude.
But the City Lord couldn’t care any less about that anymore. In his eyes, all these refugees were all destined to be unable to live many more days and they were bound to die sooner or later. Once this batch of them were all dead, in the eyes of the refugees coming into the city after them, he would still be the same old “kindly” City Lord once again.
The City Lord was strongly determined to lock Jun Wu Xie up in prison and once he was able to pin the crime of murder upon the youth, he would then have a very good excuse to confiscate all these beautiful lofts.
But after the soldiers had searched for an entire two hours and had carefully inspected every nook and cranny throughout the loft buildings from top to bottom, they had not been able to find the slightest trace of any dead bodies. They did not even manage to find a single drop of blood.
Such a result, immediately caused the City Lord to become stupefied with shock.
Liu Er and his men had only been killed by Jun Wu Xie just earlier today and based on what the refugees had told him, Liu Er and his men had died a miserable death with their blood splashed across the ground. That had only been several hours ago and even if Jun Wu Xie had been prepared, it was impossible that all traces of their deaths could be so completely erased.
“Go search again! This time, dig up every single inch of the earth in this place!” The City Lord clenched his jaws and stared malevolently at Jun Wu Xie. Jun Wu Xie’s face was just as chilly as before and was completely unreadable. That highly indifferent calm, stoked the fire burning within the City Lord even further.
But even after the soldiers dug three feet into the ground, it still did not yield any results. The City Lord forced himself to stay in the city’s north till the moon grew hazy but he still did not manage to find the evidence he seeked to find.
Coming up empty handed, the City Lord almost wanted to grab at Jun Wu Xie’s collar to ask where those dead bodies were really hidden!
“Satisfied?” Jun Wu Xie asked with her arms crossed over her chest, calm and unruffled as she stared at the City Lord who had developed a twitch near his mouth, her clear eyes icily chill.
The City Lord discreetly gritted his teeth tightly but found no chance for him to kick up a fuss and he could only glare at Jun Wu Xie viciously before turning himself around to leave with his tail between his legs.
Not only the City Lord had found it strange, but all those refugees who had witnessed with their own eyes Liu Er and his gang being killed were completely baffled no matter how much they thought about it. They could not fathom just when and how Jun Wu Xie had managed to erase every single trace of the evidence.
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Chapter 1449: “Who’s Interrogating Who (1)”
The refugees who had spoken up realized the error of their ways and wanted to go up to Jun Wu Xie to apologize but did not have the courage to face her. Before Jun Wu Xie produced the irrefutable evidence, they had been half suspicious and doubtful where some of them had even fully believed the City Lord’s words at that time, blindly buying into it. They had all been slapped across their faces and they found that they were now lacking the courage to even say a single word to Jun Wu Xie.
On the other hand, Jun Wu Xie did not say anything but just turned around to leave. The refugees left behind could do nothing but stare after her, watching her back as Jun Wu Xie walked away for there.
The City Lord was cursing and swearing his entire way back. He had really been humiliated to no end this time. He had not only been unable to successfully snatch those lofts from Jun Wu Xie’s hands, he had even been forced to unmask himself before all those refugees which infuriated the City Lord even further.
“All of you are just a bunch of useless trash! So many people were killed and all of you had not even been able to find one clue! What are all of you still doing standing around here in a daze! ? All of you get out of my sight! The very sight of you just irks me!” The City Lord shouted, berating all those soldiers as he stormed into his City Lord’s Manor.
All was still and quiet inside the City Lord’s Manor. The City Lord had returned but he still did not see a single servant rushing up in greeting, which just made his already infuriated heart even more furious.
“Has everyone in this house died already! ? Ain’t any of you going to
get your sorry behinds out here right this instant! ?” The City Lord admonished loudly as he walked into the hall. But the moment he set foot inside the hall, he suddenly froze up in shock!
Upon a chair in the large hall, a youth with delicate features sat nonchalantly right in the middle. And that youth sitting there in plain sight was that very same one he had just met in the city’s north, Jun Wu Xie! !
The City Lord’s heart almost leapt out of his chest!
He had wanted to immediately bolt out through the door but the figure of Ye Sha had already silently slipped up behind him and raising up a foot, he had brutally kicked the City Lord right upon his back, immediately sending the City Lord to fall onto his face as he landed right before Jun Wu Xie.
Jun Wu Xie lifted her eyes to gaze at the deathly pale City Lord, before she slowly put the teacup she held in her hands onto the table.
“Oh my, hadn’t the esteemed City Lord been so aggressive and highly overbearing just a little while ago? Why is the colour of your face looking so ugly now? I was thinking since you have so many crimes that you wanted to pin onto my head, I might as well deliver myself to you and give you an opportunity to carefully interrogate me in detail. Isn’t that just great?” Jun Wu Xie’s eyes were slightly narrowed and her tone of voice very light. But when those words fell into the City Lord’s ears, they sounded like they were whispers from the devil’s mouth, sending chills to run up his spine.
“Wha….. What….. What are you going to do…..” The City Lord was in a flurry to get up but before he could steady himself, Ye Sha kicked him once again in the pit of his knee and he crashed back onto the ground before Jun Wu Xie on his knees.
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