Chapter 492: Transmitting Information

Mei Qinghe spread the glove out in her palm, her five fingers stroking it bit by bit, carefully observing every detail on it.

After a long while, she let out a long breath.

"That's right, this is the Commander's glove."

"And it's the pair he wore when he first walked the Jianghu, damaged during his struggle with the Miao King. But it seems that because it was a gift from an old friend, the Commander has always kept it on his person... the style, the tear, and the smell of the Gu-insect blood stained on it, none of it can be fake."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yijing beside her eyes lit up.

"Hey, I know this, this glove... hehe, it was when Brother Miao was seventeen, he ran into a girl who came to my house to steal things—"

Before he finished speaking, he was glared back by Mei Qinghe.

Although Zhu Yijing was nominally higher in rank than Mei Qinghe, he was actually sent by Zhu Zai to work under Mei Qinghe to do chores and accumulate experience.

And with Zhu Zai's temper, he naturally had said some harsh words like "if the child is ignorant, just beat him; if he's beaten to death or crippled, it's on me"... this was fine to say to others, but to Mei Qinghe, this blockhead, she would really take it seriously.

So Zhu Yijing, this Vice Commander, really had no face in front of Mei Qinghe, this Battalion Commander.

Seeing Mei Qinghe's unpleasant expression, Zhu Yijing hurriedly swallowed the gossip about Li Miao and stiffly changed the subject.

"I originally just discovered that the documents regarding the tiger infestation in Fukan County were problematic, so I came to see if there were any Jianghu bandits using the commoners to study the Xuanlan... I didn't expect to run into Brother Miao."

The three-day period Li Miao mentioned referred to the time it would take for the events in Fukan County to spread and attract one of his subordinates.

The reason Mei Qinghe and Zhu Yijing arrived so quickly was because they found something suspicious in the documents reported by the Fukan County Magistrate and rushed to check the situation; they were just coincidentally an hour late, missing Li Miao exactly.

Mei Qinghe nodded with a cold face.

"The Commander has been resting for two years, and no one knows where he is except for Lord Zhu."

"Now that he has suddenly appeared and left a token for us, it must be that the matter here is of great importance, forcing him to handle it personally... This matter is the dereliction of duty of us subordinates!"

"We must investigate strictly! We must immediately send word to Battalion Commander Cao, telling him to come and turn everything here upside down to give the Commander an explanation!"

Zhu Yijing beside her wanted to speak but stopped, wanted to speak but stopped again.

There is a saying that "admiration is the distance furthest from understanding."

To Mei Qinghe, Li Miao's image was naturally incomparably tall; whatever he did had a purpose, and even if he spat on the ground, Mei Qinghe would feel it was telling her to dig three feet deep.

But Zhu Yijing grew up with Li Miao, so naturally, he didn't have this filter... He really wanted to say that with Li Miao's personality, it was ninety-nine percent likely he was just bored to death, accidentally followed a clue to this Fukan County, killed until the rivers ran red on a whim, and then slipped away, leaving the mess for his subordinates to clean up.

But he didn't dare to say it.

He could only nod vigorously.

So Zhu Yijing was responsible for negotiating with these women, spending some time to get them to lower their guard, calling a few Embroidered Uniform Guards to clean up the scene and handle the aftermath, and finally moved to the study in the back hall of the county office, starting to record the situation here from the mouths of the remaining women.

As for Mei Qinghe, she took the woman who handed over the token to a side room.

As soon as she entered the door, the woman suddenly knelt on the ground with a *thump*.

"My lord... I have one thing I want to ask."

"Who exactly is the Hero Li who saved us?"

Mei Qinghe helped her up and said.

"You should have guessed it, right?"

The woman trembled and slowly opened her mouth wide in disbelief.

"It really is... that lord..."

Mei Qinghe nodded.

After a long while, the woman recovered from her shock, held onto the table, and gasped for air.

"So that's how it is."

"Every drink and every peck is predestined... the Xuanlan cultivation method flowed into the Jianghu because of Hero Li, Huangfu Hui dared to do this because Hero Li stopped appearing, and in the end, she died at the hands of Hero Li."

Mei Qinghe frowned.

"Are you complaining about the Commander with these words?"

The woman stood up with a *thump*, her face flushed red.

"How could you misunderstand me like that, my lord... Am I the kind of person who forgets favors and violates justice! A hero like Hero Li should naturally stir the trends of the world; how can it be blamed on Hero Li that a few beasts emerged in the trend and dragged us into it!" ===== CHAPTER 493 =====