Chapter 150: Jipu

"Drag the corpses out and burn them, let the cook wait in the kitchen, I'll eat in a while. Have someone tidy up a room, I'll go rest in a while."

Li Miao said to An Wenjie.

"Yes!"

An Wenjie puffed out his chest and responded with full energy, quietly giving An Ziyang a wink.

An Ziyang shook his head secretly, squeezed his eyes, and gestured a few times below.

An Wenjie understood instantly, took a deep breath, and ran out of the secret chamber to supervise Li Miao's orders.

An Ziyang and Li Miao were left in this secret chamber.

An Ziyang didn't hesitate at all, and smiled flatteringly at Li Miao: "Master, if you have anything to say, just speak."

"Killing, arson, cheating, I can do it all. Being your lackey, I am happy to do it."

Li Miao's grand fight with the "Pupa Maiden" above, and the mysterious means of healing their father and son while laughing just now, had made An Ziyang completely understand that he had no room to resist in front of Li Miao. His expression became even more flattering.

Li Miao sneered.

"Being a lackey for a tiger is not a good word."

"If you want to play dumb, you have to choose the person. This pile of Ming Sect brats all died in your hands, and now playing dumb with me will only make me think you're treating me like a fool."

An Ziyang was shocked. Then his eyes filled with tears, and he actually shed a few drops, as if he had suffered a great grievance.

"Master, these words are all sincere!"

"If you don't believe me, I—"

"Shut up."

Li Miao said faintly.

If he really believed that An Ziyang had submitted to him, then these twenty years in the Embroidered Uniform Guard would have been in vain.

This kid looked oily, but he was actually very tough inside. For someone like him, his attitude couldn't be too good, otherwise he would climb up the pole.

It must be said, Zhu Zai probably thought the same of Li Miao.

An Ziyang closed his mouth and didn't speak, his eyes rolling around.

Li Miao looked left and right and said.

"Your secret passage is built quite large. It leads in all directions, almost hollowing out the ground under the house."

An Ziyang accompanied with a smile.

"The Jianghu is dangerous, just preparing a way out. My father and I have no skills, we can only think more about hiding and escaping."

Li Miao waved his hand: "In this secret passage of yours, there should be a room where you can hide when it's inconvenient to go out for a while, right?"

"There are three."

"Take me to the nearest one first."

"Yes."

An Ziyang led Li Miao into a secret passage, turning left and right, and it took a cup of tea's time before stopping at one place.

He first crouched down to lift a stone slab, reached in and twisted it, and heard the sound of a bowstring loosening inside. Then he stood up, felt a subtle protrusion on the wall, and pressed it.

*Rumble—*

The wall turned, revealing a secret chamber.

"Master, here it is."

Li Miao nodded, looked inside, smelled the smell inside, and shook his head.

"Go to the next one."

"Yes."

An Ziyang roughly guessed Li Miao's meaning and didn't say much. The two arrived at the second secret chamber, and Li Miao still shook his head after looking.

The two walked toward the third secret chamber.

As a result, two turns away, Li Miao said faintly: "This is it."

"Your martial arts are too poor, wait for me here."

With that, he left An Ziyang behind and walked to a wall by himself.

An Ziyang seemed to suddenly remember something and shouted: "Master, I haven't told you where the mechanism is or how to open it!"

"Not needed."

Li Miao raised his hand and slapped the wall, his true energy passing through the wall, directly damaging the spring inside. Then he pushed it open easily.

As soon as it opened, a sweet, greasy fragrance rushed toward him.

Li Miao tasted it, smiled first, and then seriously circulated his energy for the first time.

This fragrance was poisonous. More than ten times more poisonous than the Tang Men's pill poison. Li Miao could resist Gu poison, but this fragrance, if Li Miao really took it lightly and ignored it, he would inevitably suffer a muffled loss.

It's just that the concentration of this fragrance... didn't look like poison deliberately placed, but more like the body fragrance of a woman, naturally scattered in the air after living for a period of time. This secret chamber was not very ventilated, so it accumulated, until Li Miao opened the door and it rushed out all at once.

Li Miao stepped in.

This secret chamber was well decorated and spacious. In the center was a desk, and in the four corners were some sundries, hidden weapons, weapons, silver, various clothes, etc., which should be the preparations made by the An father and son for their escape.

The most conspicuous was a clothes rack placed on the outermost side, on which hung a set of large men's clothes, black robes with gold silk trim, not like the Central Plains style.

And on the very top of the clothes rack, a bronze mask was hung, with a note stuck on it.

Li Miao stepped forward to take off the note and looked at it carefully. The handwriting was graceful, and it wrote the following content:

"'Ji Tianrui' presents to Lord Li. If Lord Li is willing to raise his hand, this thing can make it convenient for Lord Li to report."

Li Miao sniffed, the fragrance on this clothing was exceptionally thick, as if it had just been taken off not long ago.

Li Miao smiled and put down the mask.

Against the wall facing the door was a Luohan bed, and the bedding was still scattered on the bed.

Li Miao walked to the bed, lifted the bedding, and couldn't help but say "Whoa" involuntarily.

He had really never seen such a messy bed.

I saw that under the bedding, there was a pile of food, a pile of finished ones, a pile of unfinished ones, and a few pens, a few unpaired socks.

Li Miao hooked his foot under the bed and hooked out a pair of embroidered shoes, which were also crooked, and the heels were stepped on.

This was far from what he had expected before.

Li Miao smiled silently, dropped the bedding, turned around and walked to the desk.

Besides pens, inks, papers, and inkstones, there was a stack of draft paper with words written on the top left corner of the desk, as if someone was practicing calligraphy.

Li Miao randomly pulled a stack from it to look.

"Kill. Live."

"Great Ming. Zhu family."

"Emperor, Heaven-Man."

"Ming Sect, Founding."

All were such words that didn't match the front and back, and the logic was scattered.

Li Miao vaguely sensed the connection between these words, and after sharing with Zhu Zai, he had been thinking about these things. These words helped Li Miao vaguely string together a blurry line.

He smiled silently and turned to the last page.

"Those who are not of my race, their hearts must be different."

The eight characters were written with a pause in the brush, as if they were written involuntarily by the person who wrote them under the fluctuation of their heart.

Li Miao sighed.

"This matches."

"No wonder the Imperial Court must have Ji Tianrui die."

"Ji Tianrui, Ji Tianrui... should I call you Jipu Tianrui, Jipu Tianrui?"

"Or call... Gupu Tianrui, Gupu Tianrui?"

Why did the Miao people collude with the Ming Sect, why did the Imperial Court have to have Ji Tianrui die, how could Ji Tianrui connect the two distinct things of Gu arts and martial arts. Where did the Ming Sect's Wedding Dress Divine Art come from, and why were the Gu soldiers of the same origin as the Gu beasts of the Miao people.

The answer was all in the surname "Ji".

"Ji" as a surname had little inheritance in the Great Ming. There were four origins written in the ancient books checked by Yin Minjun.

Not to mention the other three, just the last one—Jipu of the Wei State in the Spring and Autumn Period, belonging to the surname based on the place name.

It is said that in the Spring and Autumn Period, the Wei State had the royal Jipu, which was the garden where the royal family Ji Tian planted fruit trees, melons, and vegetables, or the garden where rare flowers, plants, and rare birds and animals were raised. The officials and servants who managed Jipu were called Jipu clan, Jitian clan, etc.

Among the descendants of the Jipu clan and Jitian clan, most of them were simplified into the single surname Ji and Tian, which have been passed down from generation to generation to this day.

So the surname Ji can also be said to be Jipu.

Jipu Tianrui is a pseudonym, to hide his origin.

And the original name should be "Gupu" with a similar pronunciation. Li Miao had encountered this surname in Pingshan Guard of Qilu.

Gupu clan, one of the twelve branches of the Miao people.

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