Disaster For the Country · Return Journey - Chapter 3

Cheng Guo, one of the Weifang Four Kingdoms, was originally a mere sea island with barren land and few people. Some time ago, the residents of the island discovered a kind of iron, and the weapons made of that iron were extraordinarily sharp. Therefore, under the condition of the whole people practicing martial arts, coupled with the magic weapon and the ambition of the country leader at that time, Cheng country began to expand outwards, and within a few years, all the surrounding islands were included under its banner. In order to rule the country better, King Cheng killed all the original tribes on the island. In this way, he laid the foundation of Cheng State with iron and blood.

Flash forward a hundred years.

The thirty-fifth generation Cheng Wang Minggong tried to follow the example of his ancestors and continue to expand. Unfortunately, time has passed and the three countries of Yan, Bi, and Yi are no longer the weak countries of the past. , Under successive defeats, he was so angry that he had a stroke. Of course, there is another theory that Yishu poisoned him in order to seize the throne. In short, the plan to support the country with war has completely failed. However, Cheng Guo is still rich.

Where does the money come from?

On the bright side, it is the arms trade and the taxation of Kabuki venues that make its economy continue to grow abnormally but prosperously. After digging deeper, you will find that it is much more than that.

From the country of Bi alone, Empress Jiang’s father, Jiang Zhong, raised 3,000 dead men. These dead men had a strict division of labor and discipline, and were able to complete many difficult tasks. And such talents cannot be cultivated in three or two years. They must receive professional training from an early age and go through many tests before they can become dead soldiers. It is impossible for Jiang Zhong alone to do it. So where did these dead men come from, and how were they cultivated?

The answer lies in three hundred and ninety-seven thousand.

Over the past 20 years, 397,000 children with records were abducted by human traffickers and sent to Chengguo, where a secret organization sorted them out: those who were suitable for martial arts training were sent to training; The beautiful ones were sent to performers; the frail and sick ones were enslaved to work and then let them die.

Day after day, year after year.

Dripping water wears away rocks, and the results are astonishing.

After Queen Jiang fell out with her father, she finally found out the origin of the family dead man, and this secret finally surfaced.

Therefore, the first thing she has to do is – put an end to sin.

Jiang Chenyu said to Xue Cai: “I don’t care about other countries, but anyone who smuggles people within the territory of Bi country will die.”

Xue Cai stared fixedly at the queen for a long time before bowing: “I obey the order.”

He couldn’t sleep at night. The queen’s order sounds simple, but it is extremely difficult to implement.

First of all, after so many years of accumulation and precipitation, the trafficking organization has become quite large, forming a complete system of its own. They have money, power, and people, and they permeate every aspect of life, and it is impossible to eradicate them all at once; secondly, the organization The real leader is Cheng Guo, so it doesn’t matter how much trouble is in the country of Bi. Once it involves other countries, a slight difference will become a major issue between countries; These dead soldiers, without these chess pieces that can be sacrificed at will, how to deal with those things that are inconvenient to be solved on the bright side?

Last but not least, Ji Ying told him a plan before he died, a plan that would shake the world and make ghosts and gods cry. Ji Ying originally wanted to complete it in five years, but he had no chance, so he had to leave this will to Xue Cai.

“You can do it, or you don’t have to.” Ji Ying said that at the time, “If you do it, I am grateful to you; if you don’t do it, I won’t blame you. It’s just the fate of the Ji family and the fate of the Four Kingdoms.” , the fate of the world.”

A dying person, no matter how regretful, how unwilling, how much wronged, how much pain, but because he knows that the end is coming, he sees it all.

Xue Cai, who was only eight years old, knelt in front of him, angry and anxious, shaking all over.

Finally, he said bitterly: “Who cares about your gratitude, who cares about whether you blame me or not!”

Ji Ying smiled when he heard this, stretched out his hand, hesitantly, gently, and finally firmly placed it on his head.

too small. It would be nice to be a little bigger.

It’s too short. It would have been nice to have taught him a little longer.

Too cruel. To give such a secret to such a child.

“Xiao Cai…” He said word by word, “Don’t be afraid.”

Xue Cai’s trembling stopped because of this sentence. He raised his head, stared at the man in front of him called the master, looked at his smile, looked at his gentle eyes, it was like a door was pushed open in his heart, since then, the sky is high and the sea is wide, without fear.

Don’t be afraid. Small mining.

A year later, Xue Cai was in the study of Bai Ze Mansion, thinking of Ji Ying’s expression at that time, for some reason, his heart relaxed and he laughed.

He closed the file, closed his eyes and thought slowly. This matter involved too much and had too much influence, and he had to take every detail into consideration. He may seem arrogant, but in fact he is as careful as a hair, and he is best at grasping the boundary between killing and letting go in political affairs. Although he gives the impression of being tough, he actually handles most things tactfully.

Either one hit is sure to hit, or else just hold back.

This is the style of behavior of Xue Cai, the new prime minister of the Bi Kingdom, who is only nine years old.

In the end, he decided not to move for now. This cancer should not be touched for at least three years.

When he reported this result to Queen Jiang, Queen Jiang didn’t say anything. At dusk that day, Empress Jiang went to the inner courtyard to visit her former dead warrior. The flowers that the teacher left were all flooded due to a heavy rain. He sat in a wheelchair and struggled to sweep the water with one hand. When Empress Jiang saw that scene, her eyes were slightly red.

On that day, the exhausted Xue Cai went back to the Prime Minister’s mansion alone, locked herself in the study and wrote a letter.

The recipient of the letter is Zhanghua, the king of Yan Kingdom.

In a few days, I received a reply.

In the reply, Zhang Hua gave a suggestion: “If it is not public, why not private? It may not be impossible to shake the tree and the mayfly.”

Xue Cairu was enlightened and realized immediately.

While letting people spread rumors in Chengguo that the lord has no children, which is not in line with the state; at the same time, he bribed the ministers to put pressure on Yishu in the court; Together, Yishu was finally moved and decided to choose a husband.

In the territory of Cheng State, of course, priority is given to the heirs of the five major clans. For the other three countries, Yi State is interested in Hu Jiuxian’s financial resources; Xue Cai’s name; there are too many noble sons in Yan State, Yishu didn’t consider Feng Xiaoya at all, but Zhang Hua said that he can choose anyone, as long as it is not Xiaoya. In this way, Yishu objected to Feng Xiaoya’s heart, and when he inquired, this man was actually so domineering——

He has eleven concubines! Every time I marry one, live with it for a few days, and if I don’t like it anymore, I throw it up the mountain and marry a new one.

Yishu’s teeth were itching, and he said angrily, “What did he think of a woman!”

And he is also a super lazy guy, he has to be fed when he eats, rides in and out of the carriage, and rarely walks by himself!

Everyone is curious. People with greater power love more. Yishu is undoubtedly a woman standing on the pinnacle of power. She has experienced all the hardships she should have experienced, and she has seen as many strange people as a crucian carp in a river, but this is the first time she has heard of someone like Feng Xiaoya. Therefore, after the dead man who visited Feng Xiaoya sent back such a secret report, Yishu resolutely decided that Yan Guo chose Feng Xiaoya as the candidate for the king’s wife.

In this way, the candidate was finalized, and only waited for the ninth day of September, when the eight young masters gathered in Luwan, at the Hall of Guiyuan, to have a showdown.

And on the ninth day of June, Feng Xiaoya came to Bi Country to meet Xue Cai.

Their plan is to cut down the big tree growing the cancer if the cancer is hard to cure. Moreover, it must be done without anyone noticing.

This plan may seem rough and simple, but when you think about it carefully, the success rate is very high. In order to increase the bargaining chip, Xue Cai bets on Yi Fei.

In Chengguo, the horse king Zhou Yunyang’s five clans are deeply rooted and their status cannot be shaken. It is not so easy to defeat them and be elected as the king’s husband. However, with Yi Fei around, things would be much easier.

First of all, apart from the Ma and Wang families who are Yishu’s diehard loyalists, the Zhou Yun family are all fools. They turned their heads to Yishu because of the failure of the second prince Hanqi and the third prince Yifei. However, if Yifei goes back at this moment and the conditions offered are attractive enough, there is a great possibility of winning over those two families.

As for the Yang family, they survived in name only, although they still held the title of nobility, they were sent to neighboring islands three generations ago, fishing and drying their nets every day, no different from ordinary people. It’s just that a sage, Yang Hui, came out of this generation. He opened schools and recruited apprentices everywhere, and his reputation among the people flourished. But this Yang Hui is very pedantic and thinks that it is immoral for a woman to call herself emperor. In order to show his great love for talent, Yishu went to visit this “Cheng Guo version of Yanrui” after he became the throne, but he closed the door and saw him, making him a laughing stock. If it wasn’t for the fact that this person was so famous, he would have been executed long ago. Therefore, Yishu deliberately appointed his son Yang Shuo this time, probably either to please him again or to **** him off. We all feel that the latter is more likely.

In short, Xue Cai is bound to win the position of Wang Fu. But he is also very clear that Yi Fei is by no means such a person who is easy to manipulate obediently. So he tried it out first, if Yi Fei agreed under the lure of half Cheng Guo’s interests, then this person would be considered useless.

***

In the study, Xue Cai finished explaining the cause and effect, and looked at Yi Fei: “You really did not disappoint me.”

“Don’t look at me like a grandpa looking at his grandson with relief.” Yi Fei disdainfully.

“If you really agreed to the previous conditions, then we will not be able to use you.” Xue Cai smiled unprecedentedly, such a small face that pretended to be deep, only when he smiled, he was a little bit like a child of this age The immature air that should be there, “If you don’t want to be strong, if you have selfishness, you will be inclined. This matter is too important, and I don’t want to make mistakes in choosing people from the beginning.”

Yi Fei laughed: “So you think I can be trusted by resisting the temptation?”

“Actually…” Xue Cai said slowly, “I always thought you could be trusted, but—”

“It’s just to prove it to me.” Feng Xiaoya smiled slightly, “After all, I don’t know you, and I don’t understand you.”

Yifei fell silent.

Both Feng Xiaoya and Xue Cai stopped talking, and let him think quietly by himself.

After a long time, Yi Fei suddenly raised his head and looked at Qiu Jiang: “Who is she?”

Qiu Jiang trembled, deep in his heart, the dark tide surged and swayed, and he became uncomfortable again because of this explanation.

——The reason why Feng Xiaoya divorced her was because she was going to do such a big thing. He really is a nice guy.

If he’s a good guy…he’s a…bad guy.

Was I really an **** in the past?

Qiu Jiang’s eyelashes trembled like butterfly wings, she wanted to see Feng Xiaoya’s expression at the moment, but she didn’t dare to look at his expression at the moment.

“She is…” In her ears, she heard Feng Xiaoya’s deliberately low voice, like a spider’s thread, tightly hanging on her heart, which would break at any moment, Qiu Jiang’s breathing stopped involuntarily.

Feng Xiaoya looked away from her, and regained her indifferent expression: “She is my former concubine.”

“Nothing else?” Yi Fei’s eyes sparkled, “If you still lie to me, the so-called cooperation will come to an end.”

Feng Xiaoya and Xue Cai exchanged glances.

Finally, Xue Cai said: “You know, just as the human trafficking organization is rooted in Chengguo, the best secret organization is also in Chengguo.”

Qiu Jiang was startled, feeling ominous.

“The name of the organization is Ruyimen, and the leader is a lady named Ruyi. If the price is high enough, they can take on some commissions and let you fulfill your wishes. And Qiu Jiang…” Xue Cai glanced at her, “Yes Mrs. Ruyi sent to spy on Brother Feng’s secret work.”

“You’re talking nonsense!” Qiu Jiang immediately retorted, “Impossible! I’m not!”

Xue Cai ignored her protest and continued: “Someone wanted to dig out secrets from Brother Feng. Therefore, Qiu Jiang appeared and became his eleventh concubine. He stayed by his side for half a year, but was discovered by Brother Feng and his identity was exposed. …”

“You’re talking nonsense! Impossible! Absolutely impossible!” Qiu Jiang rushed to Feng Xiaoya in a panic, and said anxiously, “You tell them that’s not the case, how could I be a spy?”

Feng Xiaoya looked at her quietly, although he didn’t say a word, but Qiu Jiang’s heart swayed slowly, like duckweed caught by water plants, and finally sank.

“You found that you couldn’t hide it anymore, so you simply framed Prime Minister Feng for having an affair with Gong Xiaohui, and made Prime Minister Feng angry to death. Brother Feng had no choice but to attack you. You suffered a head injury. After waking up, you don’t remember the past. Brother Feng, please forgive me.” I will send you to Yunmeng Mountain. But you are still rebellious, and ran away without making a sound. By chance, you came down to my mansion. Brother Feng, please don’t tell me when you find out, and let you stay here forever.” Xue Caiyi After finishing speaking, he looked at Feng Xiaoya and said, “Do you want me to explain it more thoroughly for you?”

“No. This is the truth.” Feng Xiaoya looked at Qiu Jiang coldly, “Do you have any questions?”

“You are talking nonsense, you are all liars! I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it!” Qiu Jiang yelled, turned her head and slammed open the door of the study and rushed out.

The three people in the room didn’t move, they looked at each other.

Feng Xiaoya turned to Yi Fei: “Then what about the Third Prince, do you have any questions?”

Yi Fei frowned: “Is she really a secret?”

“Madam Ruyi’s direct disciple, code-named Manao, known as Qi’er, skilled in all kinds of tricks, good at disguising, also known as Qianzhiniao.”

Yi Fei wowed, “You still keep such a dangerous woman? Are you still so nervous seeing me kill her?”

Feng Xiaoya’s gaze flickered a few times, she turned her head away and stopped talking.

Xue Cai said leisurely: “Actually, I deliberately left her to you.”

“What? Me?” Yi Fei raised his eyebrows.

“She has lost her memory, and her loyalty to Mrs. Ruyi is gone. But the skills are still there. If you want to do something, she will be a good helper. So, you know what to do.” After saying a word, Xue Cai stepped forward and untied the rope on Yi Fei himself.

Yi Fei said: “It seems that I haven’t agreed to join your crazy **** project.”

“You will.” Xue Caiyang smiled confidently.

A faint light came in from the wide-open window, illuminating his smile. Yi Fei suddenly realized that he could no longer speak a word.

He has nothing to say.

Xue Cai knew him too well.

I know, I know that he can’t be tempted, but he has weaknesses to impress.

twenty years…

Three hundred and ninety-seven thousand.

In this number, there are actually three people.

Three names that are deeply imprinted in his memory, unforgettable and will not fade, turning into scars that are painful and rotten, but will never heal—

Shochiku. landscape. And… gin.

On the eighth day of June in the fourth year of Tubi, the Palace of Cheng Guo was changed.

Under the support of the two kings, Yan and Yi, Princess Yishu quickly took control of the situation, while Yifei, as the loser in the battle for the throne, had to burn down the mansion and flee overnight.

The secret escape route has already been prepared, it is at the bottom of the lake, unexpectedly it will be useful one day.

He jumped into the lake, held his breath and sank to the bottom of the lake, finally swam to the huge rock in the northwest corner of the lake, and secretly said something was wrong.

The secret tunnel was dug five years ago, and it has never been used in the past five years. In addition, it is impossible to clear and take care of it to avoid people’s eyes.

Seeing this, the attendants hurriedly drew their swords and daggers, and went up to cut.

As time passed, there were fewer and fewer vines at the entrance of the cave, and some of them couldn’t help but float to the surface of the water to take a breath. As a result, a rain of arrows flew from the shore, instantly shooting them into hedgehogs.

Qin Jiu didn’t look good under the water, so he quickly put more strength on his arms and split a gap in the vines and grass at the entrance of the cave. Although it was small, it was enough for one person to get in.

Qin Jiu gestures for Yi Fei to go first.

Just as Yi Fei was about to drill, a cold light came from behind him, he quickly dodged to the side, the light brushed his body and slid towards the rock wall.

Looking back, it was Yishu’s pursuers who had arrived. The attendants who went up to take a breath just now exposed their whereabouts, and the pursuers jumped into the lake one after another to hunt them down.

Although Yi Fei is proficient in water skills, after all, he has been in the water for a long time, and the result of being unable to breathe is that he is slow to move. When the second knife light struck, he wanted to dodge, but he couldn’t dodge. Minus, I’m afraid it will be cut through.

With a kick on Songzhu’s foot, he rushed over, and while pushing him to the secret passage, he used his body to block the remaining light of the saber.

Yifei struggled to climb into the entrance of the cave, turned around to save Songzhu, when he saw the scarlet liquid swell in the water. At the same time, Gin, who crawled into the cave after him, grabbed his arm and pulled him deep into the secret passage.

The water of the lake is icy cold.

But the eye sockets were painful and swollen, and it was warm.

The aquatic plants swayed around with the fight, like a demon with teeth and claws in a childhood nightmare, and under the cover of the demon, the pine and bamboo in green and the landscape in white were dyed bright red little by little.

Yifei will never forget what Songzhu and Shanshui looked like before they died.

What’s more, I can’t forget how humiliated and embarrassed I was when I escaped from Chengguo. They made an appointment to go together and start over, but in the blink of an eye, the most important person was gone.

Many things are actually inseparable.

In particular, he had already lost too much. In the end, he was empty-handed, and even the only three subordinates who shared life and death were all gone.

After Songzhu and Shanshui, Qinjiu also couldn’t get sick. They finally hid in Tibet and found the ship of the envoy of Bi Kingdom. sank into the sea.

The three of them were all children who were trafficked to Cheng Guo in childhood. After receiving cruel training, he became a qualified dead soldier. Yifei bought them from Mr. Pin, and they have become his closest people ever since.

He still remembers the first time he met them.

Mr. Pin led three seventeen-year-old boys who were about the same height, short, fat, and thin, and even looked the same, to show Yi Fei their martial arts on the spot.

The three teenagers all have extraordinary martial arts skills, and they can walk through Yang with a hundred steps.

Yi Fei was very satisfied, and asked Mr. Pin: “How do you sell it?”

Mr Pin held out five fingers.

“Fifty gold? It’s not expensive. Come…” He just ordered someone to take the money, Mr. Pin laughed: “It’s not fifty, it’s five hundred gold.”

Yi Fei was taken aback. Based on his understanding of the dead, fifty gold per person is considered as high as the sky. And these three people actually want five hundred gold!

“Why?” He couldn’t help asking.

“If you buy one person alone, it’s fifty gold. If you want all three, then five hundred gold, no bargaining.”

“Buy three and you raise the price without discounting…what’s so special about them?” Yifei is so clever, Mr. Pin said this, and he immediately understood.

Mr. Pin didn’t say anything, just blindfolded the eyes of the three teenagers, and then gave each of them a drum and asked them to knock three times casually.

In a room so quiet that you could hear a needle drop to the ground, the three teenagers stood quietly, then raised their arms at the same time, beat the drums, and stopped. After a while, they raised their arms, beat the drums, and stopped at the same time.

The three drums all started and stopped at the same time, with a tacit understanding, just like one person.

Yi Fei was amazed, and immediately ordered someone to prepare five hundred gold.

While waiting for the money, Yifei asked Mr. Pin: “They are good at martial arts, and they have a tacit understanding. How about loyalty?”

After hearing this, Mr. Pin said to the three teenagers, “Everyone punches himself.”

The teenagers were still blindfolded. When they heard this, they punched themselves without any hesitation, and the sound of the punches was equally neat.

Mr. Pin stepped forward and opened their clothes, only to see three bluish-red fist marks swollen high on the dark chest—as expected, he showed no mercy to himself.

Yi Fei saw this scene in his eyes, thoughtful. At this time, the gold was taken, and Mr. Pin counted the gold ingots, and said with a smile: “Okay, you three are the third prince’s people from now on. The third prince is your master, and you know what to do.”

“Meet the new master!” The three teenagers knelt down at the same time.

Yi Fei stepped forward to remove their blindfolds one by one. The faces under the blindfolds were young and dull, expressionless, and the pain of injury was not visible at all.

Yi Fei looked from the first person to the third person, then back to the first person from the third person, and finally, he took out three pieces of candy from his sleeve and smiled at them: “I invite you to eat candy. Follow me, you won’t get beaten, and you can eat sweets.”

Just such a sentence lit up three faces that were already dead in an instant.

Follow me, you won’t get beaten, you can eat candy.

At that time, Yi Fei really believed that he would definitely win. Compared to the weak and incompetent eldest brother Linsu, and the stubborn and ungrateful Hanqi, he is the most suitable heir apparent in every aspect.

It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have a prominent background, and it doesn’t matter if he isn’t loved by his father. In Cheng Guo, a country where power is paramount, he hides his strength, cynical, and accumulates and expands his power bit by bit…

In the end, he lost to a woman.

Nothing is more ironic than this.

The subordinates who followed him not only had no candy to eat, but also lost their lives one after another.

Landscape, pine and bamboo, gin.

Of course they were not called these three names. They had their own names and their own homes, but they were abducted by the evil human traffickers, and they began their hellish life from then on. Born humiliated, died without dignity.

And there are 397,000 people like them, or even more…

Is this Cheng Guo’s crime?

Yi Fei seemed to have seen the end of the day, and a **** pronounced the sentence in the sky, saying——

“Cheng, your crimes are heinous, you should be drowned.”

Then the serpent-shaped island sank, sank, sank.

***

A thick cloud floated over, covering the faint morning light.

Qiu Jiang sat on the steps, leaning against the railing, looking at the overcast sky, just staring at it, as if that was all she cared about.

A colorful dress suddenly came into sight.

Yi Fei appeared at the gate of the courtyard, looking at her from afar. Seeing that she didn’t intend to greet him at all, she walked in.

“You really don’t remember?”

“They lie.”

“oh?”

“They lie.”

“oh.”

“They’re lying!” Qiu Jiang was suddenly enraged and jumped up, “Feng Xiaoya is lying, I’m not a spy! I don’t care about being his concubine, even if he didn’t give me a divorce letter, I would have wanted to get rid of him a long time ago. Why do you need to fabricate charges? Force them on a helpless me whose parents are dead…”

Yi Fei shot suddenly.

His hand was quick, and he clasped her wrist all at once, and the other hand slapped down on the top of her head. Qiu Jiang turned over subconsciously, stepped on his shoulders and flew up into the air, and jumped behind him in a somersault. However, before Qiu Jiang could stand firm, Yi Fei had already swept her lower body.

While beating, Yi Fei asked, “Where did your martial arts come from?”

“My father taught me.”

“Who is your father?”

“Qiufeng, he used to be an escort.”

“A mere bodyguard can teach a daughter like you?”

“I am blue out of blue.”

During the conversation, the two had passed ten moves.

Yi Fei kept attacking, while Qiu Jiang flew back and forth to dodge. Yi is not fast, but Qiu Jiang is more dexterous.

“What is the Tripitaka of Buddhism?”

Qiu Jiang was stunned for a moment, but still answered very fluently: “I always say the fundamental teachings are the scriptures, the precepts are the rules, and the elaboration of the teachings is the theory.”

“What are the three graves?”

“Fuxi, Shennong, and Huangdi.”

“What are the twelve laws?”

“Huang Zhong, Da Lu, Tai Cu, Jia Zhong, Gu Xi, Zhong Lu, Rui Bin, Lin Zhong, Yi Ze, Nan Lu, Wu She and Ying Zhong.”

“What are the Ruyi Seven Treasures?”

“One treasure of gold, two treasures of silver, three treasures of glass, four treasures of pears…” Qiu Jiang was stepping on the railing and wanted to jump onto the roof, but when he recited it here, he seemed to think of something. fell down.

Yi Fei didn’t save her either, let her fall to the ground, and said in a deep voice, “Remember?”

Qiu Jiang looked at the front tremblingly, and murmured the second half of the sentence: “Five treasures of clam, six treasures of red beads, seven…seven treasures…agate.”

“You have a good command of music, you know Buddhism, you know a hundred histories, and you know martial arts… Do you still think that these are all coincidences? Agate.”

“I’m not agate!”

“Then…Qi’er?”

“I’m not Qi’er either!” Qiu Jiang got up angrily, wiped off the dirt on her face, turned and left.

Yifei followed closely: “How long do you want to pretend?”

Qiu Jiang didn’t even look back: “I’m not pretending!”

She walked quickly to the front of the hut, opened the door, and was about to go in, but was horrified when she saw the scene inside—

Small house with four beds.

Because it was going to rain, the sky was very dark, but it was almost 4 o’clock, and the maidservants of the Xiangfu should get up to work at this time on weekdays. However, at this moment, the three of them were lying on the ground, all eyes wide open in horror, motionless.

Qiu Jiang rushed in and hugged the head of one of them: “Dong’er! Dong’er!”

Dong’er wasn’t breathing.

She went to hug the second person again: “Lianlian! Lianlian! No, no…”

Yi Fei stood at the door with a shocked expression on his face.

Qiu Jiang eagerly groped for Lian Lian’s wound, and said in a trembling voice: “They were killed by cutting their throats with a sword. The person who drew the sword moved very quickly. With only one sword, all three of them died…”

Yi Fei walked in, checked the throat of the third person, Xiangxiang, and nodded, “Indeed. There was hardly any bleeding.”

“How did this happen…” Qiu Jiang looked at him beggingly, “Who? Who killed them? Why did you kill them?”

“You ask me? Haven’t you been sitting on the steps outside?”

Qiu Jiang suddenly changed color. After she ran out of the study, her heart was in a state of confusion. Although she returned to the small courtyard, she didn’t enter the house, and sat outside with her head in a daze. Unexpectedly, there was a murder case inside the house!

Yifei saw something, his eyes lit up, and then he looked at Qiu Jiang’s expression with a lot of emotion: “Actually…you shouldn’t be able to see it, right?”

“What, what?”

“Such a fast knife, is this the first time you have seen it?”

Qiu Jiang was furious, and just about to refute, Yifei broke Xiangxiang’s clenched fist, took out something from it, and held it in front of her—

It was a wind chime.

The body of the bell is carved out of pears, as bright red as blood.

Like a blood-red magic eye, while fixing Qiu Jiang’s sight, it also fixed her heart.

“Are you trying to say that this is the first time you’ve seen this thing?”

Qiu Jiang’s tears flowed down without warning.

She fixedly looked at the wind chime in Yi Fei’s hand.

The wind chimes carved by Poli have only the bell wall and no bell core, so they have no sound. Because it was not made to make a sound. It is a token and a symbol.

Representing the identity of the owner, it is Poli, the fourth person among the seven most powerful disciples in Ruyimen, the most mysterious organization in the world.

Qiu Jiang saw this wind chime for the first time.

That’s why she was crying.

Because, she shouldn’t know such a thing, but she knew what it was at the first sight. Just like when she saw the ink stones in the drawer of Xue Cai’s study, she immediately knew what type of ink they were and what they were suitable for.

No one is born with this skill.

It takes a lot of rigorous training to master.

But Qiu Jiang just forgot the learning process.

This also means that she has forgotten her original identity. She only remembered that she was Feng Xiaoya’s concubine, but she forgot how and why she married him.

“Someone wanted to dig out secrets from Brother Feng. Therefore, Qiu Jiang appeared and became his eleventh concubine. He stayed by his side for half a year, but Brother Feng finally noticed him, and his identity was exposed…”

“You found that you couldn’t hide it anymore, so you simply framed Prime Minister Feng for having an affair with Gong Xiaohui, and made Prime Minister Feng angry to death. Brother Feng had no choice but to attack you. You suffered a head injury. After waking up, you don’t remember the past. Brother Feng, please forgive me.” I will send you to Yunmeng Mountain by fate. But you are still rebellious, and ran away without making a sound. By chance, you came down to my residence. Brother Feng, please don’t tell me when you find out, and let you stay here for a long time.”

Xue Cai’s voice echoed in his ears at this moment, and the three corpses in front of him seemed even more shocking.

Qiu Jiang was trembling all over, and she had to restrain herself to hold Dong’er’s head up again, facing the face of her once closest companion—Dong’er’s eyes were wide open, although the sword wound on her throat was very sharp, indicating that she was dead. She moved quickly, but her expression was terrified, and her facial features were all distorted.

Therefore, Qiu Jiang didn’t even dare to think about what Donger, Lianlian and Xiangxiang experienced before they died.

She could only hug Dong’er into her arms with tears streaming down her face, holding that already stiff and cold body, crying uncontrollably.

Yi Fei looked at her coldly from the side, changed his usual frivolity and exaggeration, and looked abnormally cold: “They died because of you.”

Qiu Jiang bit her lower lip desperately.

“The murderer must have come looking for you. At that time, I hijacked you and fled outside. All of Bai Ze’s subordinates came out to chase us. The mansion was not on guard, so the murderer was able to break in and ask them to tell you about your whereabouts.”

“no no…”

“These maidservants naturally don’t know that the honest and well-behaved Aqiu is Qi’er from Ruyimen. The murderer couldn’t ask anything, and couldn’t find you, so he killed him in a fit of anger.”

“Don’t… say no more…”

“He left this wind chime, maybe unintentionally, maybe on purpose, he is deliberately reminding you and warning you, asking you to go back quickly.”

“Stop talking!” Qiu Jiang roared, jumped up and punched Yi Fei in the chest.

Yi Fei didn’t dodge, and punched her forcefully.

When the fist penetrated into the flesh, it seemed to be blocked by a wall, and it was impossible to enter half a point.

Qiu Jiang opened his mouth, but couldn’t say another word.

Yi Fei suddenly reached out and wrapped her fist around her fist: “Are you angry?”

Qiu Jiang trembled.

“Still… do you feel wronged?” Yi Fei’s eyes were like a sharp knife, slowly, calmly but honestly picking at her, “Do you think all this has anything to do with you? I don’t remember, do I? I don’t remember how bad things I have done, I don’t remember who I have intersected with, and I have completely thrown away the past! So, if I can’t remember it, I can’t remember it, why? To be responsible for this, why make it your own fault—do you think so?”

Qiu Jiang’s fist was struggling desperately in his hand to break free, but he held it tightly, unable to move at all.

So Qiu Jiang retreated, but when she took a step back, Yi Fei took a step forward, step by step, and finally cornered her.

A white light illuminated his and her eyes, followed by a heavy thunder rumbling down.

The torrential rain was brewing until this time, and finally poured down.

Qiu Jiang’s tears flowed like rain outside the door.

For a moment, the dense water vapor tainted the dead silence in the house, and the faint smell of blood spread again. Qiu Jiang’s breathing became extremely rapid, and she felt that she was about to be breathless.

Yifei said in a deep voice: “I’ll ask you again—really, can’t you remember?”

Qiu Jiang opened her mouth, but her voice suddenly became hoarse, and she couldn’t utter it. She took a deep breath desperately, trying to calm herself down, but the more anxious she became, the more she couldn’t do it. The anxiety caused cold sweat to flow down her forehead along with tears.

Yi Fei let go suddenly, Qiu Jiang’s legs gave way and fell down.

She fell to the corner of the wall, her forehead pressed against the cold wall, trembling all over.

Yi Fei showed a look of disappointment, and sneered: “I thought it would be so powerful, but that’s all.”

He turned and walked out.

It was raining heavily, but he didn’t pay attention to it at all, and just walked out with great strides.

The heavy rain soon drenched him all over.

Every step he took was firm.

He kept walking, and finally came to Xue Cai’s study room, and opened the door abruptly. The thunder and lightning tore apart the shady scene behind him, and his figure looked tall and aloof.

And Yi Fei looked at Xue Cai with that aloof expression, and said in a deep voice, “I’m going to Cheng Guo.”

Xue Caiben was reading the memorial book behind the desk, and when he heard the words put the paper away, he raised his frost-like pupils.

Yi Fei looked at him without giving in. “But I have three conditions. First, don’t interfere with any of my actions; second, don’t follow me; third, and most importantly – I don’t want that woman .”

Xue Cai’s eyes flickered, and after a while, she clicked