Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?-Chapter 84 - 82 Too Many Words Want a Younger Brother_2
Chapter 84: Chapter 82: Too Many Words, Want a Younger Brother_2
Chapter 84: Chapter 82: Too Many Words, Want a Younger Brother_2
A cold shiver ran down Li Xuan’s spine. He mused that he had greatly underestimated this woman.
“I’ll take care of this woman.” Zhang Yue uttered an icy laugh, “Both Qianzhi and Peng Fu, neither of your families are in a position to do so right now.”
After giving it some thought, Li Xuan didn’t object. He solemnly warned, “You can use direct methods, just don’t get yourself involved.”
The entire Earl Chengyi’s mansion was currently under close scrutiny due to the assassination attempt on the Prince. On the other hand, Xi Xuer’s father, the deputy Zuodu Yushi Xi Ying, who was in charge of overseeing Xunjian Yushi, was associated with Peng Fulai.
“Understood!” Zhang Yue nodded in understanding. If he was going to use direct methods, he would target the woman’s reputation. This was the best way to ruin a woman.
She was so indiscreet that it would be very easy for him to make his move.
This move would also indirectly involve her father, since what those officials needed the most was a good reputation.
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At this point, Li Xuan looked at Zhang Yue and laughed, “So this is what you call ‘As long as you, Zhang Taishan, is here, she will not dare to step over the line’? How many times did you rendezvous with Lady Meng yesterday, you weakling?”
A red blush spread across Zhang Yue’s usual stern face as he scratched his head awkwardly, “It was unexpected! Peng Fu and I had agreed yesterday that we would renounce our profligate ways and turn over a new leaf. We decided to have one final indulgence last night. How could we have known that we would encounter such a powerful demon today?”
Last night, he had forced himself to go six rounds, trying to accomplish his boasted feat of going nine rounds in one night. Alas, his attempt ended in vain and left him sore and exhausted.
Peng Fulai nodded, confirming Zhang Yue’s words, “Taishan said that even the most lazy and aimless among us has decided to strive for improvement, so we two can’t just continue to mess around. After considering it, I felt he was right. We are of the age where we should start sorting our lives out now. Besides, we have been to all the brothels by the Qinhuai River so its about time we get bored of them—Stop laughing! We are very serious this time, we even cancelled the birthday feast that we had arranged for you at The House of Night.”
He should not have brought up The House of Night, because then Li Xuan’s face turned green and he felt a throbbing pain in his eye sockets.
If not for these two good-for-nothings, he would not have had to seek Lady Jiang’s assistance, and there would not be this ambiguous relationship between him and the devilish woman, Jiang Hanyun.
He’d better record this in his notebook and seek his revenge later.
“We actually wanted to find you to join us last night, but you weren’t home.”
At this point, Peng Fulai asked curiously, “Where on earth did you go these past three days on your days off? We couldn’t find you anywhere for three days straight.”
“Sir Youjiao wouldn’t mess around like you guys do,” responded Yue Qianqian, “I don’t know about the first day, but on the second day he was investigating a case with the Xiaowei, and they caught two culprits who had slipped through the net in the Xue Wuya case. On the third day, Sir Youjiao was distributing donations throughout the city and providing food and clothes for orphans, widows, and the disabled. At night, he even went to Dushan Temple to take care of the children who were deceived by the Maitreya Teaching.”
Both Peng Fulai and Zhang Yue stared at Li Xuan in disbelief after hearing this.
Going to Dushan Temple to take care of the children—this was more surprising for them than seeing Li Xuan kill the Eye-Stealing Demon with a single sword slash.
While they were talking, Ma Chenggong only arrived then to provide backup. Li Xuan had already sent a call for help when he encountered the enemy, but Ma Chenggong didn’t arrive until half a moment later.
“I encountered a sixth house level evil spirit on my end as well. It was very troublesome and delayed me a bit.”
After Ma Chenggong explained, he looked at Yue Qianqian somewhat doubtfully, “It was a sixth house level Eye-Stealing Demon on this side?”
Among the four of them, he thought that only Yue Qianqian could be believed.
Ma Chenggong did not doubt their abilities to kill the Eye-Stealing Demon. The combat power of any one among these four could not solely be judged by their cultivation level.
In particular, Li Xuan and Zhang Yue were not ones that any ordinary fourth house level could go against.
But Ma Chenggong didn’t believe that they could kill the Eye-Stealing Demon in such a short time. In his view, this should have been a difficult fight. It would have been more reasonable if one or two of them were injured in the process.
“It was indeed the Eye-Stealing Demon!” Yue Qianqian answered honestly, “It had eighty-three eyeballs. We injured it by joining hands, then Li Xuan killed it with a single stroke.”
Ma Chenggong didn’t pay it much mind. He must have thought that the four of them had used some powerful talismans, and with Zhang Yue, who was both an attacker and defender, it wasn’t impossible to get rid of the Eye-Stealing Demon in half a moment.
However, it was annoying! These rich, young heirs regarded money as nothing! To get rid of this Eye-Stealing Demon, they might have spent several thousand silver pieces. Even if they had sold the intact Eye-Stealing Demon on the black market, they would not have fetched this much.
“Alright! With the spirit detector from Zhuque Hall, you can’t falsify anything. I’ll take Cui Hongan back with me.”
Ma Chenggong was most pleased with Cui Hongan, as Li Xuan had once again made a contribution to ‘Mingyou City’. Previously, this guy had brought so many silk-robed nobles back to Zhuque Hall, which had made them a fine of more than a hundred thousand silver pieces.
Next, Ma Chenggong took out a booklet from his sleeve and recorded it according to what Yue Qianqian had said, “I just didn’t expect that things were calm here before, but when something did happen, it was a sixth house level evil spirit.”
Yue Qianqian knew the reason—the reason nothing happened the previous few days was due to Li Xuan’s Guardian Spirit.
——With the ability to deter all ghosts below the sixth house level from showing up, this newborn Shouyuan Spirit was even more powerful than she had previously thought.
However, Peng Fulai furrowed his brows, confused, “What exactly is going on this year? I heard that just yesterday, over thirty fierce demons above the fourth house level appeared in Nanjing City. Was the Ghost Festival in previous years this lively?”
“How should I know? A while ago, it was all kinds of demons, and in the last few days, it’s all been ghosts,” Ma Chenggong replied irritably. “Anyway, since I joined the Liudao Division ten years ago, this is the first time that all the demons and ghouls in the city have been so rampant. Also, you’re asking the wrong person—” He pointed at Yue Qianqian, “Here, we have an authentic Demon Professor.”
Yue Qianqian furrowed her brows, “This year marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Jin Dynasty, and this year’s Ghost Festival also happens to fall on a Yin year, Yin day. However, normally these evil spirits wouldn’t be so brazenly defiant.”
Suddenly, Li Xuan thought of his father Li Chengji fortifying the seal of the graves of the Chen and Han soldiers at Poyang Lake in advance. He also thought of Tingtian Ao asking him to go to the Duchenghuang Temple on the evening of the Ghost Festival. He wondered if it was related to this.
He felt that this situation did not bode well, and he could already sense the coming storm.
