Everyone stared at him. Song Qingshu's thoughts raced as he flatly denied it. "I never asked him to come here." With something like this, whoever got entangled with the enraged victim would be doomed. Naturally, he had to distance himself from it. Besides, Naya'a was already dead; there was no evidence left.
"If you didn't ask him here, why did Naya'a say it was you?" Temujin waved a hand, and Naya'a's two attendants were pushed over, bound hand and foot. The moment they saw him, they cried out, "It was him! He came to see our general early yesterday morning, and then the general brought us to Bayin Restaurant to meet him!"
Seeing Temujin's gaze gradually turn cold, Song Qingshu answered without panic, "I did go see Naya'a yesterday morning, but I only discussed the matter of the shares he had mentioned before. I didn't say anything else."
"Shares? What shares?" Temujin asked with a frown.
Song Qingshu pretended to hesitate. After a while, he finally explained haltingly, "Naya'a had previously promised to let me join him in some business dealings with Hu merchants..."
Temujin understood as soon as he heard that. Such matters were commonplace among the Mongol Empire's upper ranks.
"I only went to discuss that matter with him. I never invited him here." Song Qingshu then looked at Naya'a's two attendants. "Did either of you hear me invite him?"
"No, we didn't." The two exchanged glances. Naya'a had sent them outside as soon as he arrived, and now it did seem possible that he had come here for a tryst.
Song Qingshu continued, "If the Great Khan doesn't believe me, you can ask the restaurant owner whether I reserved a table here."
At a glance from Temujin, one of his subordinates promptly dragged over the restaurant owner,