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"Miss Xianrui!" Fu Hai greeted her sincerely, "Last night, my junior sister and your third junior sister had a conflict in the city, which was quite serious." Although Miss Die said that Ji Xiangtao was actually more at fault.
But they are, after all, running a business, which in another world is called the "service industry." We should still take the initiative.
Li Xianrui said calmly, "They've gone too far. I've already made Junior Sister Xiangtao kneel at the gate all night, and she's not allowed to enter the city today either."
Fu Hai hurriedly said, "I also severely punished my junior sister." Li Xianrui nodded, not taking it to heart.
In her view, the mistake her junior sister made was much more serious.
However, that has nothing to do with the facts themselves. The main point is that Xiangtao, as the third young lady of Huaxian Pavilion, has a noble status. How could she possibly have a fight and make a scene in the street with a maid who is similar to a waiter in an inn?
As for now, although the other party came over to offer their condolences.
But my junior sister also made mistakes. If I were to be too concerned about it, wouldn't that be like arguing with her?
She said calmly, "It's nothing serious, and you don't need to punish your junior sister. It's just two girls being silly!" She then went to the main gate and looked outside.
I was slightly annoyed... Yesterday I went to Baoshuzhai Langyuelou and met that Lady Langyue.
However, although Lady Langyue treated her guests with great hospitality, she ultimately did not reveal the identity of the author who used the pen name "Southern Flying Bird".
She pondered for a moment, then said, "I've never seen a work like that before; it must be from a newcomer. This person has excellent writing skills and many ingenious ideas."
He doesn't have that mature look, he's unconventional, and his age probably isn't too old.
"New authors are more likely to submit their work to local publishers. Since they are not well-known and bookstores in other places have never heard of them, they are unlikely to be commissioned to write for them. Although the books are distributed in various places, this first edition is still distributed in large quantities at the Lantern Festival."
"The author of 'The Young Hero's Adventures in Heaven' is most likely from An County. But An County is a county town with many young scholars, so the author probably wasn't very famous before."
"How am I supposed to find it now?"
His Dao heart was affected by this, which led to his failure to break through, leaving him feeling depressed.
Although I wouldn't kill him for it, this thought simply wouldn't be able to be fulfilled unless I found that person and slapped him a couple of times.
"Is that Li Xianrui, the renowned talented woman from the Painting Immortal Pavilion?" A soft, feminine voice slowly rang out from inside the carriage. The carriage, which had been parked under the tree, drove towards the city gate.
A gap was lifted in the curtain of the carriage window, and a pair of eyes quietly observed the woman standing at the entrance of the inn.
There were two people in the car: a young man with heavy makeup who looked more effeminate than a woman, and a middle-aged woman holding Qiang Bao.
The one who spoke was the effeminate young man. His gaze was as sharp as a hawk's, quickly scanning the young lady of the Painting Immortal Pavilion and the surroundings of the inn.
He saw a young woman, who was probably a waitress at the inn, wearing a light blue thick skirt, come out from inside, move the lanterns at the entrance of the inn, and seem to glance in his direction.
The young man lowered the curtain and frowned.
The woman shook the man in her arms: "What, you've been discovered? Does Li Xianrui have the ability to sense your gaze when you're spying on her? If that's the case, then her strength probably needs to be reassessed."
The effeminate young man said, "No! Li Xiande's strength is above mine, but we're both at the seventh realm, and she doesn't have that ability yet. It's just that, for a moment just now, I had a strange feeling that it was best not to cause trouble in that inn."
He then revealed a disdainful smile: "Forget it! Anyway, we never intended to make a move at that inn, to break the rules of the martial world."
The carriage drove into the city and then headed southwest.
They arrived at Zhengjiazhuang, right behind the Goddess Temple, in that wasteland. The carriage stopped, and the middle-aged woman and the effeminate young man alighted. The expressionless coachman turned the carriage around and quickly drove away.
"What a deadpan face!" The effeminate young man glanced at the carriage. "It's clearly a body, but it looks like a real person. Qingnang Nu's skill in controlling bodies has improved a lot."
The middle-aged woman looked around and said, "I don't know why you brought us here. I thought that girl wouldn't be comfortable living in a mortuary."
The effeminate young man looked down and said coldly, "This place was probably a graveyard a long time ago, and the underground energy is quite heavy." A sinister smile crept onto his lips: "If people could live underground, it would really be quite suitable for her."
As soon as the words were spoken, a strange yet languid female voice, like a cat's meow, seemed to seep from the ground and enter their ears:
"He truly lives up to his reputation as a learned and ruthless scholar; he knows where to find peace for humans and where to find shelter for ghosts." Hehehehe
Immediately afterward, a cat emerged from the woods ahead, meowed, and then sprouted a pair of wings on its back, flying into the forest.
The pale-faced scholar and the middle-aged woman he was carrying calmly followed behind the flying cat. In broad daylight, a pale white mist rose from the forest.
The surroundings were like a maze, with visible and invisible paths crisscrossing each other.
Before they knew it, a well appeared ahead, and then the well seemed to sink down in their eyes, and a crack appeared in the ground. The two of them were not surprised at all, and they walked down the crack.
Behind them, the sky suddenly closed in, and lanterns lit up on both sides, revealing a strange and chilling cave. "Hehe, hehe, hehe, hehe. Welcome to my new home. Meow!"
From a dark corner, a girl staggered out. She had a slender and thin body, a pair of cat ears on her head, and a cat tail wagging behind her.
Her hands hung limply at her sides, and she walked listlessly. Her eyes gleamed with an eerie, cold yellow light in the dim lamplight: "Sorry... I haven't quite gotten used to this new body yet."
The middle-aged woman holding Bao said, "Why is it a cat again this time? Wasn't it a deer from the mountains last time?"
The woman from the Green Pouch swayed and turned around to lead the way: "There are lots of cats here. I like it...hehehehe...meow." As she spoke, a bright light appeared ahead, where five more people were already waiting.
An elderly man dressed in brocade robes, sitting in a wooden wheelchair. A burly man with a muscular build and a face full of fat.
A dwarf with a large, obese body, less than half the height of an average person.
A constable, around thirty years old, dressed in black, with a look of surprise and uncertainty on his face.
There was also an old woman lying on the ground, trembling; it was none other than Granny Liu, whom Murong Die and Fu Hai had previously been tracking. Meanwhile, the constable was also discreetly observing the two newcomers.
Chapter 116 What kind of magic can bring the dead back to life?
In the dark, eerie cave, a constable in his thirties, dressed in black, quietly observed the two newcomers. The pale-faced scholar! Also known as "Pale-faced Bee."
A ruthless criminal wanted by the Six Doors since the age of twelve, he has been responsible for at least ten murders every year, causing the Six Doors a great deal of trouble. Peach Doll's Mother! Her real name is Peach Third Sister. She always holds an infant in her cup. Rumor has it that whenever this infant cries, someone will surely die.
She was a notorious assassin among the unorthodox sects. Because she worked for money and risked her life, she posed less of a threat to the Six Doors than the pale-faced scholar.
After all, no one would pay to have someone like that killed, and she wouldn't easily lay a hand on them... as long as the baby in her arms didn't cry. The constable's gaze then shifted to the burly thug covered in scars and the short, fat dwarf.
Tiger Master, also a wanted bandit in the Northwest, was ruthless and merciless, killing people like chopping wood, completely disregarding human life.
Tiger Master's strength is at the eighth level, not as good as the White-Faced Scholar, Peach Girl, or Green Bag Girl, but he has connections in the bandit world and a reputation in the underworld. Chen Dwarf Tiger, nicknamed "Bingfeng".
Bingfeng is the two-headed pig recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
This person also possessed the seventh realm. He was initially known for picking flowers. He was short, fat, and ugly from a young age and was often looked down upon by women. After learning a set of evil techniques, he devoted himself to the shameful act of picking flowers, harming countless women.
A group of people, including the pale-faced scholar, Peach Girl, Green Bag Girl, Tiger Master, and Chen Ai Hu, appeared in An County on this important festival.
If the officials of Anjun had known of their arrival beforehand, they would likely have been on high alert, spending the holiday in constant fear. The only saving grace was that they weren't targeting Anjun.
This made him feel a little better... Although I secretly accepted money, and although I felt I had let down this official uniform, at least I hadn't wronged Anjun!
The infant in Peach Maiden's arms stirred, making a soft, guttural sound. This instantly put everyone else on high alert.
"Good boy! Don't cry, don't cry!" Peach Girl unbuttoned her bodice, revealing one breast, and picked up Qianglu to breastfeed.
No one knew if she was really breastfeeding, after all, she had been breastfeeding this baby for over ten years and was still doing so. Peach Doll Mother shook the baby to calm him down.
Her gaze then darted to the corner: "What's going on there? And what about this old woman?" The Green Nang Woman drifted toward that dark corner.
With a casual wave of her hand, a lantern flew into her hand, and she shone the lantern down.
That corner was originally dark and gloomy, and the constables had no idea what was there.
Looking at it now, all that could be seen under the lamp was the naked body of a girl, riddled with holes and covered in tiny black spots. The constable felt a chill run down his spine.
Since becoming a constable, he had seen countless strange cases. But never before had he felt such a chill run through him.
Being with these people in this cold, damp underground made him wonder if he had fallen into hell along with them. "Just a hairy demon. Hehe!"
The woman with the blue cloak made a strange, meowing sound, "Decades ago, this place was a place that raised little ghosts."
"Afterwards, the master probably died, and the other little ghosts scattered. Only this one was lucky enough to survive, occupied this yin cave, and used the well outside to kill the old woman's daughter, devour the child's soul, and steal her body."
"But now, even though the child's body is being nourished by yin energy, it's already completely ruined. So she lied to the old woman, saying that she was her child, and that if the old woman helped her, the child could be resurrected."
She chuckled and said, "Although it's a furry demon, it raises many little devils, hehe. Now all these little devils are mine." She clapped her hands.
Peach Girl, Hundred-Faced Scholar, Tiger Third Master, and Chen Dwarf Tiger felt something unseen jumping around them.
The woman carrying the lantern floated back, her feet barely touching the ground, wagging her cat tail: "So, there's no such thing as magic to bring the dead back to life. Once you're dead, you're dead, hehehehehe."
Grandma Liu collapsed to the ground and wept bitterly.
The baby in Peach Maiden's arms stirred and seemed to make a soft gurgling sound.
This immediately put everyone on edge again. The pale-faced scholar twitched his finger slightly.
With a thud, Granny Liu collapsed to the ground, motionless, only a trickle of blood seeping from her left temple. The Green Pouch Girl said, "Hey, hey, this is my territory now, meow. They said they'd let her go, meow." The pale-faced scholar glanced at her: "You made Third Sister's child cry, are you going to comfort her?"
When Qingnang Nu looked at Tao Ou Niang, her already pale face appeared even paler, almost surpassing the pale-faced scholar whose face was covered with a thick layer of makeup.
The old man in brocade robes sitting in the wooden wheelchair was a mystery even to the constable; the only thing the constable knew was that the old man was rich.
These people who caused the local government such a headache were all people he had recruited.
“A very interesting place!” The old man in the brocade robe picked up a folded handkerchief, covered his mouth, and said something that seemed somewhat insincere. “However, I don’t quite understand why, since you found out where Li Xianrui and her three junior sisters lived, you didn’t just take action when it was dark and windy, instead of going through all this trouble?”
Tiger Master laughed and said, "Mr. Zhao, you are not a person of the martial arts world, so you don't understand."
"The martial world also has its own rules. In the martial arts world, inns have always been neutral places, since everyone needs to stay in an inn sometimes. Fighting in an inn is breaking the rules."
The old man in the brocade robe said, "Even the government can't do anything about you. What can they do if you break the rules?"
Tiger Master said, "There's really nothing we can do, but the rules of the martial world are the rules of the martial world. You wouldn't understand."
The pale-faced scholar said calmly from the side, "I've also looked at that inn. I have a feeling that it would be better if we didn't go in."
"When Third Sister and I were monitoring the inn, it seemed that someone was also monitoring us, and deliberately letting us know as a warning."
The old man in the brocade robe said, "Alright! I don't understand the affairs of the martial world. I only want Li Xianrui and her three junior sisters. If I can't get them all, Li Xianrui alone will do."
Chen Ai Hu's eyes gleamed, and he chuckled, "So, it doesn't matter if her three junior sisters die, no matter how they die—as long as Ji Xian Rui is handed over to you?"
Once those words were spoken, everyone knew what he was going to do.
The pale-faced scholar coughed twice and said, "You'd better keep your guard up. After all, they have Jade City Mountain behind them."
"So what?" Chen Ai Hu chuckled maliciously. "As long as no one knows who did it, isn't that enough? Isn't that our goal?"
The Green Pouch Girl floated around: "As long as you can lure them in, I can guarantee they'll never get out... Meow. I think we can actually use that old woman's original plan... Meow!"
The scholar with a hundred faces glanced at Granny Liu, who was lying motionless on the ground: "What is her plan?"
"Five ghosts moving a cart!" the Green Bag Girl chuckled. "What she originally wanted to move was a float with four little girls scattering flowers. But one of them knew martial arts..."
The boy was in the way, so she wanted to injure him first before revealing her true colors.
"Otherwise, even I wouldn't have known such a place existed. Besides, she had already used the kid to do things inside the float that no one else could see. Hehehehe!"