And at this time, in the Mo family.
"What did I exhort you with? Look at the good deed you have done!" In the study, Gu Yue Mo Chen slapped the surface of the desk, flying into a thunderous rage.
Mo Yan stood opposite this old man, lowering her head, her eyes revealing feelings of both surprise and anger. She had also just learned of this news, Gao Wan was actually killed by Fang Yuan!
That fifteen-year-old youth actually had such means and state of mind. Gao Wan was after all a domestic slave of my dignified Mo family, Fang Yuan killing him was simply not putting the Mo family in his eyes!
"Grandfather, you do not need to be angry. This Gao Wan is just a domestic slave, if he died then so be it, anyway his surname is not Gu Yue. It is that Fang Yuan instead whose guts are too big, to beat a dog one must also look at its master. He not only beat our Mo family's dog, but also beat the dog to death at once!" Mo Yan said with resentful indignation.
Gu Yue Mo Chen shouted angrily: "You still have the nerve to say that! Do you have hard wings now and do not put the words I speak into your heart, is that it? What I warned you about, you have completely forgotten it all!"
"Granddaughter would not dare." Mo Yan was terrified, only then establishing that her grandfather was truly angry, and hurriedly knelt down.
Gu Yue Mo Chen pointed his finger out the window and reprimanded: "Hmph, if some whatever domestic slave died then so be it, but you are still staring fixedly at Fang Yuan and not letting it go, truly short-sighted and not knowing the gravity of the situation! Do you know the meaning of this action of yours? Struggles between the younger generation are their matters. We, as the older generation, should not intervene. This is the rule! By going to find trouble with Fang Yuan now, you ruined the rules. Now I don't know how many people are outside, watching our Mo family's joke with cold eyes!"
"Grandfather, please quell your anger, anger harms the body. It is Mo Yan who is bad and has implicated the Mo family. Whatever grandfather tells Mo Yan to do, Mo Yan will do it! It is just that granddaughter truly cannot swallow this breath of grievance, that Fang Yuan is truly too abominable, too shameless. He first deceived me, entering the academy. Then he hid in his dormitory, refusing to come out no matter how I yelled and cursed by every means. Once I left, he killed Gao Wan. It is truly insidious and shameless to the extreme!" Mo Yan reported.
"Oh, it is like that?" Gu Yue Mo Chen frowned slightly. This was the first time he had heard this information, and a glint could not help but flash across his eyes.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, stroked his beard and began to ponder: "I have also heard a bit about this Fang Yuan. In his early years he composed poems and showed premature intelligence. Unexpectedly his aptitude was C grade, making it difficult for him to shoulder great uses, therefore I gave up on recruiting him. Looking at it now, he is actually somewhat interesting."
Pausing for a moment, Gu Yue Mo Chen knocked the surface of the desk with his finger: "Someone come, bring that box over."
Outside the door there were naturally people serving. Soon a box was respectfully brought in. The box was neither big nor small, but somewhat heavy. The servant held it with two hands and stood beside the desk.
"Grandfather, what is this?" Seeing this wooden box, Mo Yan asked doubtfully.
"Why don't you open it and see?" Gu Yue Mo Chen narrowed his eyes, his tone somewhat complex.
Mo Yan stood up, lifted the wooden lid, and looked inside.
Instantly, her expression changed drastically, her pupils abruptly shrinking to the size of pinpricks. She could not help but take a large step backward, emitting a suppressed gasp of surprise from her mouth. The wooden lid in her hands also slipped and fell to the ground.
Without the wooden lid, the things contained inside the wooden box were presented before everyone.
It was actually a pile of flesh and blood!
This flesh and blood had obviously been sliced into pieces and chunks by someone, and placed inside the box. Scarlet blood pooled inside. Some of it was pale skin and flesh, some were long strips of intestines, and mixed within were one or two pieces of bones, either leg bones or rib bones. In the pool of blood at the surrounding corners, two fingers and half a toe were also floating.
Bleurgh…
The color drained from Mo Yan's beautiful face. She took another large step backward, her stomach boiling for a burst, almost vomiting on the spot.
Although she was a Rank 2 Gu Master, had experienced some tempering and had killed people, this was still the first time she saw such a disgusting and abnormal scene.
The flesh and blood inside this box was obviously a human corpse that had been chopped into pieces and then stuffed inside.
A sky-soaring bloody aura instantly permeated out, filling the entire study.
The domestic slave holding the box was trembling in both hands, his face completely pale. Although he had already looked at this box previously and had also vomited, holding it now still made him feel waves of palpitations and disgust.
Of the three people in the study, only elder Gu Yue Mo Chen's expression remained unchanged. He lightly swept a glance at the flesh and blood in this box and spoke slowly to Mo Yan: "This box is what Fang Yuan placed at the back door of my family early this morning."
"What, it's really him?!" Mo Yan was greatly shocked, Fang Yuan's image unavoidably floating up in her mind.
The first time she saw Fang Yuan was in the tavern.
At that time, Fang Yuan was sitting by the window, quietly eating his food and dishes. His facial features were ordinary, his eyes dark and deep, his body thin, and his skin color carried the characteristic paleness of a youth.
Obviously such an ordinary and quiet youth, yet he actually took such an abnormal and crazy action!
After the terror came furious rage. Mo Yan shouted: "This Fang Yuan is too rampant, he has eaten the heart of a bear and the gall of a leopard! To actually dare do such a thing, this is a provocation towards our Mo family! I will go over right now and escort him back to question his crimes!!" Saying so, she was about to walk outside.
"Bastard thing, you stand still for me!" Gu Yue Mo Chen was even angrier than her. Casually grabbing an inkstone from the desk, he swung his hand and threw it out.
The hard and heavy inkstone hit Mo Yan's shoulder, and with another bang, fell to the ground.
"Grandfather!" Mo Yan clutched her shoulder and exclaimed.
Gu Yue Mo Chen stood up, pointing his finger at his own granddaughter, his tone very agitated: "It seems your tempering these past years has been in vain, you truly disappoint me! Dealing with a tiny Rank 1 initial stage Gu Master, not to mention you mobilizing forces, you were constantly led by the nose by the opposing party the entire time. Now you are again blinded by anger, do you still not understand the meaning of Fang Yuan's action until now?"
"What meaning?" Mo Yan was greatly confused.
Gu Yue Mo Chen snorted: "If Fang Yuan wholeheartedly wanted to provoke and blow this matter up, why didn't he place this box at the main gate where people come and go, but instead placed it at the rarely visited back door?"
"Could it be he wants to reconcile? No, since he wants to reconcile, apologizing face to face would be better, why send this box of dismembered corpse. This is simply a provocation!" Mo Yan said.
Gu Yue Mo Chen shook his head, then nodded his head: "He wants to reconcile, and is indeed provoking. Him placing the wooden box at the back door is wanting to reconcile. Putting the dismembered corpse in the wooden box is provoking."
"Look." The old man pointed at the box, "This wooden box is not big, it cannot contain a complete corpse. Therefore what is inside is only a portion of the dismembered corpse. He wants to tell us that he does not wish to blow this matter up, and wants to settle the matter and calm the people. But if our Mo family still wants to grab onto this matter and not let go, he will then scatter the remaining portions of the dismembered corpse at the main gate and thoroughly blow this matter up. When that time comes, it will be a loss for both sides. The entire clan will know that our Mo family broke the rules first, and that the future person in power of our Mo family is actually so weak that he requires such doting and defense from his elders."
Hearing these words, Mo Yan was somewhat dumbfounded for a time. She had never expected that this action of Fang Yuan's actually held such profound meaning.
"These methods are truly brilliant." Gu Yue Mo Chen sighed emotionally, "Just a single action, coupling hardness with softness, knowing when to advance and retreat. This simple wooden box expresses Fang Yuan's intention to compromise, and is also his threat directed at our Mo family. Yet unfortunately, our Mo family has truly had our soft underbelly pinched by him. If the Mo family's reputation suffers damage because of this, what will closely follow is the Chi family making a challenge, and a blow from the clan leader's faction."
Mo Yan spoke unconvinced: "Grandfather, are you looking too highly of him? Based on just him, he is no more than fifteen years old."
"Looking highly?" Mo Chen cast a displeased look at his granddaughter, "It seems you have been too used to smooth sailing these years and have cultivated the bad habit of arrogance, becoming somewhat unable to see reality clearly. This Fang Yuan was first not panicked in the face of danger, deceiving you to enter the academy. Then hitting upon an idea in a moment of desperation, taking refuge from the disaster in his dormitory. Following that, enduring your curses yet not acting tough, this is forbearing and calm. After you left he immediately killed Gao Wan, this is resolute and brave. Now he delivers this box, this is clearly shrewd calculation and plotting. Tell me, am I looking too highly of him?"
Mo Yan was dumbfounded hearing this. She had truly not expected her grandfather to actually appreciate Fang Yuan like this, immediately saying unconvinced: "Grandfather, he is nothing more than a C grade."
Gu Yue Mo Chen stroked his beard and sighed deeply: "Yes, he is just a C grade. To possess such a state of mind, yet only a C grade aptitude, it is truly a pity. If only his aptitude was one tier higher, a B grade, he would definitely be our Gu Yue clan's future person of the hour riding the tides. A pity it is C grade ah."
The old man's sigh was full of emotional sentiments. Seeming to be regretting, and yet seeming to be rejoicing.
Mo Yan stayed silent without speaking. Her mind could not help but float up with Fang Yuan's image again. Under her psychological effects, Fang Yuan's originally frail face was now shrouded in a layer of secretive, dangerous, and sinister shadow.
"This matter was caused single-handedly by you. How do you feel we should deal with it?" Gu Yue Mo Chen suddenly broke the silence, beginning to test Mo Yan.
Mo Yan pondered deeply for a while, before speaking with a cold tone: "Gao Wan is just a slave, if he died then so be it. Fang Yuan is nothing more than a C grade, it's also just a small matter. The crux is to safeguard my Mo family's reputation. To pacify this matter, we might as well kill Gao Wan's entire family, showing the entire clan our attitude of safeguarding the rules."
"Mm, you being able to start from the overall situation, temporarily toss aside personal feelings, and safeguard the family's interests, this point is very good. However, this handling method is still somewhat improper." Gu Yue Mo Chen stroked his beard and evaluated.
"Granddaughter asks grandfather to instruct." Mo Yan bowed.
Gu Yue Mo Chen muttered to himself: "This matter started from you, grandfather will punish you with seven days of confinement; from now on do not go find trouble with Fang Yuan again. Gao Wan offended his superiors, a mere servant offending his masters deserves death, his crime is punishable by execution! Because he was the Mo family's domestic slave, the Mo family also has the responsibility of lax discipline, so we will compensate that Fang Yuan thirty primeval stones. As for Gao Wan's family members, give them an allowance of fifty primeval stones, and then expel them all out of the manor."
Pausing for a moment, he added: "Within these seven days, rest properly at home, do not go out. At the same time, also think properly about the profound meaning of grandfather handling it this way."
"Yes, grandfather."