"Silence!" Pei Shu shouted loudly and then couldn't help but sneer, "Those villains committed crimes, and you two who helped dispose of the bodies are no better. Weren't you the ones who threw that mother and daughter's corpses down there?"
Pei Yuqing didn't intend to go inside. He just stood outside the door, staring fixedly inside. Upon hearing this, his lashes trembled slightly, and his lowered eyes were exceptionally cold.
That glance made the two servants fall to the ground in fright.
"Spare us, noble sir!"
They knew that everyone else on the merchant ship that day had been sunk in the lake, and only they had been saved by this mysterious nobleman. Now their lives and fortunes hung on his whim, and they kept begging for mercy, "We were just following orders. If we didn't listen to the steward, we would be the next ones thrown into the lake."
