Chapter 262

The sun is high.

Zheng Yi opened her eyes, slowly spat out a turbid breath, reached out and knocked on her numb thighs, turned over and got out of bed. Walked to the table, poured a glass of water and drank it, and then sighed long again.

From the time she sent Yin Suqin and Cao Hanyan to inquire about the news until now, it has been exactly three days.

In these three days, Zheng Yi has seen Li Miao's "nature".

He doesn't get out of bed until noon, and doesn't open his eyes when talking to people. All day long, except for eating and sleeping, or changing his appearance and walking around with his hands behind his back, sitting there like a puddle of mud and sliding down. It's like two different people from the fierce look at Songshan.

Obviously Li Miao forced her to find someone, but now Zheng Yi is worried all day long.

After pondering for a long time, Zheng Yi gritted her teeth.

"I don't know what he's thinking... Yingzhou has four Heavenly Beings dead, and they will definitely not give up. Although the sea route is far, unlike the land route where you can use light skills to rush, at most three months, the next wave of people will arrive."

"If you can't find out the details of Yingzhou within three months, it's equivalent to fighting the enemy empty-handed. The enemy is in the light, I am in the dark, if Li Miao dies, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find such a strong helper like him again... relying on myself alone, I'm afraid it will be difficult to pose any threat to Yingzhou in this life."

"No, he's a martial arts maniac, maybe he's looking forward to people coming to the door to kill, but I can't sit here and wait!"

Once her mind was made up, she grabbed the long sword on the table and walked out of the room quickly.

"Where are you going?"

As soon as she stepped out of the room, Li Miao's lazy voice sounded in her ears.

Li Miao's crazy look that day really left Zheng Yi with no small psychological shadow. Hearing Li Miao's voice suddenly, she couldn't help but shiver, almost instinctively drawing her sword, and it was not easy to suppress the movement, looking at the sound.

In the courtyard, a huge blanket was spread out at some point, with low tables and cushions on it. Li Miao lay half-lying on it with his eyes narrowed, with a book covering his face. There were two maids who didn't know where they came from, blushing and pinching his shoulders and beating his legs.

Zheng Yi pursed her lips and couldn't help but say.

"Lord Li, you are... Yingzhou..."

Li Miao waved his hand, signaling the two maids to stop, took the book off his face, and looked at Zheng Yi with a smile.

"Little Yizi, looking at you, you are stupid from practicing martial arts."

He reached out and took a pot of wine from the side and took a sip.

"There are four seasons in the year, and each season has the most things to do. Spring outing, winter snow viewing, this September season, the autumn is high and the air is cool, although the weather is a bit cold, it is just right for martial arts practitioners."

"At this time, don't drink some wine and bask in the sun, but carry a sword and run out to find someone?"

"Your martial arts practice is too boring."

Zheng Yi took a deep breath.

"Lord Li, it has been the third day since those two left... how can you still sit still? Do you really think those two first-class boys can find the traces of the people of Penglai?"

Li Miao sneered when he heard this.

"Just find something to toss them around."

Zheng Yi said urgently.

"Then you wait here, what's the point?"

Li Miao asked back with a smile.

"Then what's the point of you running out with a sword?"

"Not to mention that if you and I appear in front of the people of Penglai, will they think that Yingzhou has come to find them and run for their lives directly. Even if you change your appearance, a Heavenly Being wanders around and inquires about news, won't the people of Penglai run?"

"Take a step back, even if you find the traces of the people of Penglai, without me present, are you sure you can keep him?"

Zheng Yi widened her eyes and said: "They are all from Penglai, I will explain to him, my internal foundation can also prove my identity—"

Li Miao smiled: "So what?"

Zheng Yi was stunned.

Li Miao smiled and pointed at Zheng Yi.

"Penglai has been destroyed for nearly fifty years. The human feelings in this world, it is rare to be able to carry for three years, and it should be alienated if you don't meet for ten years, even if it is your own father and mother, let alone fifty years?"

"It's you, didn't you also bring me to find them for revenge? Do you still expect people to see you and cry, and then tell you everything?"

A maid peeled a piece of pear, inserted it with a bamboo stick and sent it to Li Miao's mouth. Li Miao chewed while saying vaguely.

"Don't be naive, talking about feelings is useless. Now you and I are going to find trouble with Yingzhou, and we are going to force these people who have lived a clean life for fifty years into this trouble. It's good if they don't beat you."

"Without me present, it's useless to find them, maybe you have to send your life."

Zheng Yi pursed her lips.

She couldn't refute Li Miao's words, and had to admit that what Li Miao said was right.

After a while, she let out a long breath and said slowly: "Then, Lord Li, you and I change our appearance and go out to find, how about it?"

Li Miao lay down with his hands behind his head.

"I won't go."

"Yingzhou has been looking for fifty years and hasn't found anyone. Can you find them based on the few words your mother left behind? Besides, whether these people are still alive is two things."

"I'm just wandering around because I have nothing to do. If there is news, I will go to see it. If there is no news, I will wait for Yingzhou people to come and die."

"I stopped doing low-end work like inquiring about news twenty years ago."

Zheng Yi was silent for a while, sighed, nodded, and turned to go back to the room to practice internal skills.

At this time, footsteps came from outside the courtyard.

Zheng Yi looked back and saw Cao Hanyan and Yin Suqin walking in quickly, looking left and right, then walked to Li Miao and stood still, but didn't dare to speak for a while.

Both of them were haggard, with bloodshot eyes, and their eye sockets were faintly bruised, obviously they hadn't rested for these three days. Cao Hanyan was slightly better, Yin Suqin had his right arm pinched off by Li Miao and hung on his chest with a cloth strip, his face was pale, and he didn't even have the spirit of the first two days.

These three days can be said to be like years for Yin Suqin. Because of his cheap mouth, his dominant hand was abolished by Li Miao, and he dragged Cao Hanyan into the water, and Li Miao's finger was hanging on his head like a Yama sticker—Wu Gong, brothers, life, all in a mess.

In three days, he seemed to be a different person, his mouth was tightly pursed, he didn't say a word, and he didn't have the demeanor of "Cheap-Mouthed Young Master" at all.

So it was Cao Hanyan who spoke first.

"Lord Li."

Li Miao opened his eyes and said indifferently.

"Got the news?"

Cao Hanyan gritted his teeth, but shook his head.

"Lord, Brother Yin and I ran through the entire Kaifeng Prefecture these three days, and couldn't find anyone who looks similar to you."

"We found quite a few martial artists surnamed Zheng who came to Kaifeng fifty years ago, but most of them have died, and only two are still alive, they are already old and weak, and their origins are clear, unlike those with tricks."

"As for people with high Wu Gong and unknown origins... we only found two, one of whom is only thirty years old, not the person you are looking for."

Li Miao narrowed his eyes: "Tell me about the remaining one."

Cao Hanyan nodded and took out a portrait from his arms, unfolded it, revealing a woman's face on it.

"This person's name is Xue Bangzhu, she came to Kaifeng forty-five years ago, married and had children locally, later encountered a disaster, her family died, so she moved to the foot of Yishan outside the city alone."

"Thirteen years ago, she turned to the righteous village outside the city, specifically doing some work of collecting corpses. But that righteous village has been abandoned, we inquired, it is said that no one has seen her for several years."

Cao Hanyan shook the portrait.

"This painting was drawn by us looking for her neighbors back then, according to the description of her appearance when she first came to Kaifeng. Not to mention the appearance, the eyebrows are faintly similar to yours."

Li Miao listened, twisted his fingers and asked.

"Besides the eyebrows, what is the basis for you to pick her out alone?"

Cao Hanyan didn't answer, elbowed Yin Suqin on the waist, and signaled him with his eyes. This matter was caused by him offending Li Miao, and now he didn't speak when he saw Li Miao, what if he made Li Miao dissatisfied?

Moreover, Yin Suqin's spirit had been getting worse day by day these three days, and Cao Hanyan saw it all. If he didn't force him to say two words, Cao Hanyan was afraid that he would turn around and seek death.

Yin Suqin pursed his lips, knowing that his friend was worried about himself, so he cheered up and took the conversation.

"Actually, this person can't be said to be a martial artist, and no one has seen her perform Wu Gong, and Brother Cao and I heard people mention it inadvertently, so we found her."

"Because there are too many tricks on this person."

"One is that the origin is unknown. According to the insiders, she came to Kaifeng alone back then, and bought a courtyard to live in as soon as she came. She never heard her mention her relatives and friends—as if she was deliberately hiding it."

"The second is the disaster that her family encountered back then."

Yin Suqin took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to Li Miao.

"She married a wealthy household in the city back then, and her life was considered happy, but she never had children. Twenty years ago, she took some servants to a Guanyin temple outside the city to pray for children. When she returned, she found that her family had been destroyed."

"The person who did this was a martial arts thief back then, nicknamed 'No Leaving', who was an evil expert who specifically did this kind of extermination and robbery, first-class top level, and was quite famous back then."

Yin Suqin said in a deep voice.

"After returning home and seeing the blood all over the ground, the servants who went out of the city with her were all stunned, but this Xue Bangzhu was inexplicably calm, while ordering the servants to report to the official, while running into the house to check the corpses."

"When those servants brought the officials back, she disappeared. After looking around, the official felt that she had colluded with outsiders to murder her husband and had fled. This matter was spread throughout the city back then."

"After a few days, those servants couldn't wait for her to return, so they sold the land in the house, took a part for themselves, and the rest held a ritual for the dead family."

"This Xue Bangzhu, however, suddenly returned."

Yin Suqin took out a piece of paper again and sent it to Li Miao's hand.

"This is the news we got from the servants back then, it should all be accurate."

"Say, they took the money from selling the land back then, and felt a bit guilty in their hearts, so they took turns guarding the spirit for the master. Guarding until the third night, they didn't see anyone open the door, Xue Bangzhu suddenly walked in from outside the spirit hall."

"The clothes were still the same as when she left that day, as if she just went out for a walk—but a servant had sharp eyes and found that the place she stepped on left some traces."

"Bloodstains that were close to drying."

"From that day on, that 'No Leaving' who destroyed Xue Bangzhu's family never appeared in the martial arts world again."

"Xue Bangzhu didn't say anything, finished the ritual as usual, moved out of the city, and never had any contact with anyone again."

Li Miao nodded and said: "Anything else?"

Yin Suqin hesitated, nodded and said.

"There is one more thing, but it's just hearsay, it sounds a bit absurd, I don't know if I should tell you."

Li Miao waved his hand: "Tell me."

Yin Suqin then opened his mouth and said.

"She moved out of the city twenty years ago, moved to the righteous village outside the city thirteen years ago, and then this righteous village was abandoned five years ago, and no one has seen her since."

"But when Brother Cao and I inquired about her recent situation, some merchants who often traveled there mentioned that the righteous village where Xue Bangzhu lived started to—have some anomalies after she moved there."

Li Miao raised his eyebrows: "Oh? What anomalies?"

Yin Suqin said.

"It is said that it seems to be haunted or something like a monster."

"From the time she moved there, the corpses in the righteous village were always lost, and the number was always wrong when the coroner went to check."

"However, the corpses entering the righteous village were all ignored, so no one pursued it—until five years ago, a passing merchant died in Kaifeng, the corpse was brought to the righteous village for placement, and the accompanying people sent a letter home, asking his family to come and pick up the corpse."

"Who would have thought that after the person's family rushed to the righteous village, they didn't find the corpse."

Yin Suqin talked for a long time, and finally recovered some spirit, and when he spoke, he had the demeanor of high-talk just a few days ago, spreading his hands and describing it vividly.

"The family died in a foreign land, these people traveled thousands of miles to collect the corpse, and the fire in their hearts couldn't be suppressed. In the pushing and shoving, Xue Bangzhu fell."

"She was already sixty or seventy years old, and she was already at the end of her life, and she happened to hit the back of her head, and she fainted on the spot."

"Those people saw this situation, didn't dare to entangle, and fled Kaifeng overnight."

"That Xue Bangzhu didn't die, and someone saw her a few days later. But a few days later, someone went to the righteous village to send a corpse, but couldn't find her trace anymore."

"Since then, this righteous village has started to have accidents."

"First, the situation of losing corpses became more and more serious. The person who took over the righteous village woke up, and all the corpses in the righteous village disappeared. Sometimes the corpse was just sent, and as soon as he turned around, the corpse disappeared."

"The person watching the righteous village was afraid, so he abandoned the righteous village and fled back to his hometown, and this righteous village was abandoned."

"But this is not over yet. Since then, merchants passing by there wanted to go in and rest, and they always had nightmares and lost things at night."

"If it was just like this, it would be fine. After a year or two, a group of foreign merchants didn't know the situation and went in to rest for a night—guess what?"

Yin Suqin said mysteriously.

"The whole team, all gone."

"If it weren't for the merchant firm that had an appointment with them in the city to report to the official, and someone passing by saw them enter the righteous village, I'm afraid this matter would not be known!"

"Since then, no one dared to go to this righteous village, and no one mentioned it anymore. If we hadn't found an old storyteller, we wouldn't have been able to inquire about this!"

"You say, this Xue Bangzhu—can there be no problem?"