Chapter 156

When Xiao Yu returned to the Red Sleeve Workshop, it was about nine o'clock in the evening. Aunt Liu hadn't slept yet, and the Red Sleeve Workshop was also at the peak of its customer flow.

In fact, the four-story brick-and-wood mixed building facing the street wasn't repaired yet.

Although the battle between the immortals didn't last long, the power was too strong; the Daoist boy Qingsong failed his earth escape, shaking the building's foundation; Suiyuanzi threw Samadhi True Fire around, burning the beams and support pillars inside the building; Xiao Yu's "Conferring God Slash" caused the least damage to the building, but it also pierced through the walls of several floors.

The building was still under repair, but the Red Sleeve Workshop faced the Qingshuihe, and there were still pleasure boats in the river.

In the past, during the hot summer period, various pleasure boats would stretch for more than ten li on the Qingshuihe, and the lights, singing, and dancing on the boats would continue until two or three in the morning before slowly calming down.

It was normal for Aunt Liu not to have slept, but she seemed to be waiting specifically for Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu had just entered Qingshuiwan with Xiaoqiang when she was discovered, and before long, Aunt Liu found her in her wheelchair.

"Hah, where did this mongrel come from? It's really fat and strong; is it a gift for the dog-meat Daoist to snack on? He'll definitely like it when he sees it."

"Bought from a village outside the city, it has great spirituality and can guard the house for me," Xiao Yu said.

Upon hearing this, Aunt Liu didn't say 'Why does the Red Sleeve Workshop need you to buy a dog to guard the house,' but instead nodded repeatedly and said, "You are thoughtful; the Little Lang Mountain outside the Dongcheng Gate is indeed remote, having a dog to keep you company can both relieve loneliness and guard the house."

Xiao Yu raised her eyebrows and said, "Aunt has already chosen a place for me?"

"Yes, you can move there tonight; anyway, you have internal strength and run fast," Aunt Liu said.

Seeming to feel that this was a bit heartless, she immediately added, "You've been gone for two or three days, you should have found a place.

Today at noon, I also arranged for three old people to go over—two to guard the courtyard gate, and one old aunt to cook and clean."

Xiao Yu had only gone to court at the government office yesterday morning; how could she have been gone for two or three days?

"Has Aunt seen Clerk Li these two days? I mean the Lacquer Garden Clerk Li Dan, Clerk Li."

Aunt Liu's eyes flashed, she shook her head lightly and said, "I haven't seen him, but Clerk Li sent a letter to Tianmen Town."

Clerk Li spent most of his time in Luodu.

Especially now that the Great Qin Imperial Envoy Dongfang Shuo hadn't left yet.

On ordinary days, the Prince of Qinghe accompanied the Imperial Envoy, and Clerk Li served the Prince of Qinghe.

When encountering matters of "talisman envoys and heavenly punishment," the Prince of Qinghe would at least send Li Dan to make a trip to Tianmen Town to discuss it personally with Aunt Liu and Xiao Yu.

But now the Prince of Qinghe wasn't even in Luodu.

Therefore, Aunt Liu only received a letter sent by Clerk Li using a hummingbird: The Prince is handling a major matter, is not in Luodu, has no time, and cannot manage the matter of the Tiangong's talisman envoy; he can only leave it to Heavens Yu Fengxian's own fate.

As for the assassination case in the Dam-Bottom Alley, the Prince of Qinghe clearly stated his attitude—cursing Zhu Tong and the others: A group of lawless brutes, they deserved to die!

Could anyone with a bit of insight not know that the Red Sleeve Workshop was his property?

Abandoning their posts, stealing heavy crossbows and heavy armor from the army, and surrounding and killing Heavens Yu Fengxian... it could at least prove one thing: Ge Qing and Zhu Tong didn't really take him, the Prince of Qinghe, seriously.

The Prince of Qinghe could even guess Ge Qing's thoughts: I am now a ghost god of the underworld, you are just a mortal prince, what are you worth?

He did value the Luye Guard, but a mere group of people like Zhu Tong could not represent the Luye Guard at all.

Even before the Luye Guard was rebuilt, they were just dispensable chicken ribs.

Because the key to the Luye Guard had always been the mysterious weapon that cultivated the "Mysterious Soldier True Qi"—the Ancestor's Divine Spear.

What's more, after drawing elite troops from the counties in the south, the current Luye Guard had barely restored its establishment.

The newly enlisted soldiers were entering the Ancestral Temple in batches to cultivate the "Mysterious Soldier True Qi," so this group of old soldiers and generals had the opportunity to ask for leave to go out.

"Clerk Li said to satisfy your needs as much as possible; involving Tiangong divine generals, this is all the Red Sleeve Workshop can do to help you," Aunt Liu sighed.

"Has Zhu Tong's case been concluded?" Xiao Yu asked.

She hadn't expected the Prince of Qinghe to help at all.

Aunt Liu hesitated and said, "The Prince is very dissatisfied with Zhu Tong and Ge Qing; he doesn't blame you for wiping them out.

The crime of setting up a station is just a formality; just muddle through it.

If there were no Tiangong divine generals, once Zhu Yitao's case file was sent to the Ministry of Justice, Luodu could immediately give a final ruling.

After all, the case isn't complicated, and there is both human and physical evidence.

But what does the Tiangong talisman envoy stopping you from killing Zhu Tong represent?

The lords in Luodu dare not defy the will of heaven!

However, you don't have to worry about the case being reversed.

From ancient times to the present, there has never been a precedent for the Tiangong to directly interfere in human cases."

—So, if heavenly punishment strikes me dead, even if the Dam-Bottom Alley assassination case has become an ironclad case, it could still be reversed, making me the villain and them the tragic heroes protected by the Heavenly Emperor?

Xiao Yu felt a stifling anger in her heart, wanting to draw her sword and roar, let the frost-edged blade rage, let the blood fly, and directly kill through everything, doing the world's first happy deed and being the world's first happy person!

She wasn't targeting the Prince of Qinghe and the Luodu nobles.

They were just one of the countless specks of dust that fell on her and made her feel stifled.

She wasn't even targeting the Heavenly Emperor, but this world that didn't suit her heart and made her feel unhappy.

It wasn't about whether the world was good or bad, but that it didn't suit her heart and made her feel unhappy.

—Power, I need power! If I had the strength of Brother Monkey right now... just Brother Monkey's strength isn't enough, far from enough!

"Where is Little Lang Mountain? I'm going now!" Xiao Yu said.

She had to deduce the "Method to Slay the Heavenly God Ge Qing" first.

Today slay heavenly soldiers and generals, tomorrow...

"It's late at night now, why not wait until tomorrow..."

Seeing Xiao Yu's cold expression, Aunt Liu sighed secretly, called the gatekeeper Old Lu, and asked him to drive the carriage to send her out of the Dongcheng Gate to the "Roaring Shanzhuang" on Little Lang Mountain.

"Roaring Shanzhuang?" Xiao Yu, stifled in her heart, looked a bit awkward.

"Little Lang Mountain backs onto a bay; the Roaring Bay isn't actually the sea, it's the Liushahe. You are an old neighbor of the Liushahe, you must know how big and urgent the wind and waves of the Liushahe are."

After hesitating for a moment, Aunt Liu added, "Or, you could go to the 'Willow Forest Shanzhuang' in the south; it's sunny and breezy there, more suitable for quiet recuperation."

She wasn't deliberately choosing a "noisy" place for Xiao Yu.

It was just that the Red Sleeve Workshop only had one villa outside the Dongcheng Gate that backed onto a bay.

"Let it be Roaring Shanzhuang; I am an old neighbor of the Liushahe and I'm not afraid of the sound of the waves." Xiao Yu went east specifically to get closer to the Liushahe.

Now that Roaring Shanzhuang directly faced the river bay connected to the Liushahe, she was happy, so why would she change places?

Old Lu was originally the gatekeeper of the Red Sleeve Workshop's building facing the street.

Now that the building was being rebuilt, he was free, so he was arranged by Aunt Liu to send Xiao Yu to Roaring Shanzhuang.

The villa was a bit far from the city gate, a full thirty or forty li.

Xiao Yu sat in the carriage, and Xiaoqiang ran outside.

After walking for more than two hours, it was almost five in the morning, and they finally arrived.

"No wonder it's called 'Roaring Shanzhuang'; the wind and waves here are really big!"

The small hill where Roaring Shanzhuang was located didn't connect directly to the Liushahe.

From here to the Liushahe, there were still two hundred li.

Most of the one or two hundred li to the east were barren mountains and mudflats.

But behind Roaring Shanzhuang, there was a "bay," narrow and deep, somewhat like Feixian Ferry, which connected to the Liushahe outside the eastern mountains.

The more such bays there were, the easier it was to produce a "roaring" sound, like a big megaphone.

And the villa was built in the mouth of the megaphone.

"Old Lu, don't leave tonight; wait until dawn to go back."

Old Lu didn't object and asked, "Miss Yu, do you want me to go in and wake up the servants in the villa?"

"No need, let them rest."

Xiao Yu sneered in her heart; they didn't need you to wake them up, they were already awake and staring at us from the dark!

Aunt Liu said there were three people in the villa—two to guard the courtyard, and one to cook and clean.

At this moment, even the old aunt who cooked and cleaned woke up the moment the carriage entered the villa.

The old aunt practiced martial arts, suspected to be Nine-Flower Sword—probably a retired old prostitute from the Red Sleeve Workshop, her internal strength was not weak, reaching the True Qi realm.

The other two old servants were even more powerful.

They were the two great experts who had been hiding in the Red Sleeve Workshop, staring at Little Jingxuan.

Xiao Yu looked up quietly and glanced at the sky.

The Duty Officer sent by the City God Guan was wandering around, moving extremely fast, like teleportation.

"Xiaoqiang, what's going on with demon language?" Xiao Yu asked while lying on the bed.

Xiaoqiang's eyelids drooped, and it said dully, "Master, it's already five in the morning, let's talk about anything tomorrow!"

It was truly tired.

It had been chased by her for more than an hour yesterday afternoon, and since then it hadn't had a chance to rest, running all the way with her, from Xinghua Village to Tianmen Town, back to the Red Sleeve Workshop, and then to Roaring Shanzhuang dozens of li away.

It had finally managed to lie down and was about to enter dreamland, only to be pulled back by its master.

"Your master is about to face heavenly punishment, and you can actually sleep?"

Xiao Yu wasn't sleepy at all, because she had slept for two hours in the carriage.

"I don't see that Master has the appearance of an early death; she should be able to turn bad luck into good fortune. Perhaps heavenly punishment is just Master worrying blindly; the Heavenly Emperor manages the Three Realms and has so many major matters to attend to, why would he care about the excessive words of a young child?" the dog said.

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm asking you about demon language, not asking you to evaluate heavenly punishment," Xiao Yu shouted.

"I actually don't know very well; after eating the Buddha's head, I gained wisdom, but I couldn't speak.

I could understand human speech, but I couldn't say it, only bark wildly.

Later, I was sleeping outside when I suddenly saw a string of 'spiritual energy beads' like grapes falling from the moon.

I didn't know what they were, only that they made me drool.

I ate a few strings, and a hidden corner in my brain seemed to suddenly open a gate, and wisdom gushed out like a spring.

I understood many things; for example, the spiritual energy beads falling from the moon are called 'Imperial Flowing Pulp'.

For example, Imperial Flowing Pulp is very rare.

On ordinary days, I can also extract the essence of the sun and moon.

Now everyone praises me for being fat and strong, but Niu Er didn't feed me well at all; I usually eat some fresh dump, and being able to grow like this is thanks to my absorbing the essence of the sun and moon year after year.

Besides gaining weight, in the ninth year of absorbing the essence of the sun and moon, I suddenly understood demon language.

I don't know the reason, I just guessed that I had become a demon, and demons naturally have to understand demon language."

Xiao Yu frowned and said, "After absorbing the Imperial Flowing Pulp, the wisdom you gained was just to extract the essence of the sun and moon?"

The dog's eyes flickered, and it hesitated in its heart.

Xiao Yu shouted, "Do you know that I saved your life? The dog-meat Daoist of Xianyun Temple had been eyeing you for a long time, and last night he even said he would slaughter you and cook a pot of fragrant meat, which would be good for you and everyone else.

Because you are a demon, demons will harm people sooner or later.

Once you harm people, you will inevitably lose your foundation and sooner or later fall into the underworld, suffering the pain of the Avici Hell."

Xiaoqiang said quickly, "Master, I never harm people, really! Since eating the Buddha's head, I have even started to become a vegetarian... at most, there is some meaty smell in the dump, and I will satisfy my craving."

Xiao Yu looked disgusted and said, "Don't mention 'dump' in front of me again.

From now on, you can continue to eat it, but don't let me know; remember to wipe your mouth and rinse it after eating.

If you want to talk to me, go to the roadside and gnaw on some green grass first to get rid of the bad breath."

Xiaoqiang said aggrievedly, "I am not an ordinary dog, my mouth doesn't stink... and the mouth isn't necessarily the taste of what I eat. My original master Niu Er ate fragrant pig legs, and the fermented stench in his mouth was unbearable even to me."

"Even if your mouth doesn't stink, I feel it does. In short, do as I say; if you want to talk after eating shit, gnaw on some green grass first to get rid of my disgust for you," Xiao Yu said.

Speaking of this, she suddenly reacted and scolded, "What a cunning old dog, I asked you about demon language, but you dragged me into other topics and deliberately diverted the subject! Honestly confess, what benefits did you get from the Imperial Flowing Pulp?"

Xiaoqiang said, "I am an honest dog, not cunning, and I didn't drag you into other topics; whatever Master says, I—"

"If you talk nonsense again, I'll send you to Xianyun Temple tomorrow!" Xiao Yu said angrily.

Xiaoqiang was helpless and said, "There really were no benefits, just some information about the ancient demon race."

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