Chapter 367.

The caravan was full of jianghu people with swords and guns, who had heard of the great name of the Flying Swallow Woman, and had organized and followed on their own initiative.

This was the third time they went out to hunt the barbarian rangers, and thanks to Fei Yan’s divine power, they still returned with a full load this time, killing one hundred and twenty barbarian rangers, capturing fifty horses, sixty-eight scimitar swords, as well as reclaiming the women and food that had been plundered by the barbarian cavalry.

War horses and scimitars, as well as women and food, suffered varying degrees of damage and death in the fighting between the two sides.

The soldiers guarding the city squinted their eyes and looked out, and when they saw the heroic and delicate Fei Yan warrior on top of the white horse, they immediately showed their admiration and called out to the guards at the top of the city to meet them with spears in their hands.

“You’re back, Mistress Fei Yan? Aigoo, you killed so many barbarians this time.”

“Quickly, escort Mistress Fei Yan to the Yamen to collect her reward.”

The soldiers guarding the city were pleasantly surprised and only felt that Mistress Fei Yan was a poster child for the great men of the jianghu and a great man worth following.

Two columns of soldiers led the way at the front, escorting Li Miaozhen and his party into the city. The people of the city saw the Flying Swallow warrior on top of the white horse, and saw the corpses of the barbarians that had been transported back, and enthusiastically greeted them in the middle of the road.

Shouting the name “Flying Swallow”.

The Jianghu people behind Li Miaozhen straightened their chests with honor.

About ten years ago, Flying Swallow suddenly came to the North Mountain County, in the name of justice for God, severely punished a group of price-gouging merchants, robbed hundreds of stones of grain and grass, distributed to the poor and beggars who could not open their pots and pans.

The treacherous merchant, backed by a big official, of course would not stop there, so he sent his soldiers to capture them. But they were repelled one by one by Flying Swallow.

And then later things, the city people do not know, only that after that incident, Fei Yan female warrior pulled together a group of jianghu people in the North Mountain County, specializing in hunting barbarian rangers.

Then look for the government to collect the reward, the reward money is exchanged for food, and build porridge huts outside the city to give alms to the stragglers and beggars who cannot afford to eat.

For a while, the good deeds of the Flying Swallow Heroine were widely rumored and talked about among the people.

There were even stragglers from other counties who traveled dozens of miles on foot and crossed the mountains to come to Beishan County to wait for the congee.

………

After the almsgiving was over, Li Miaozhen returned to the inn where she landed and bathed under Su Su’s service to wash off the smell of blood from her body.

She sat at the table, pensive.

At the end of that day’s transmission, Li Miaozhen followed Xu Qi’an’s advice and made a high-profile appearance, traveling around to be chivalrous, and is now considered to have a small reputation in the Northern Realm.

Due to the limited time of “debut”, if you want to spread the fame throughout the whole Yunzhou as it was in the beginning, you definitely can’t reach it.

A whole decade had passed, and there were countless jianghu people who had defected to her. Some were there for fame, some for profit, and some purely wanted to fight against the barbarians.

Li Miaozhen did a simple exclusion with the Heavenly Sect’s Heart Method, eliminating the ones with wrong intentions. Those who stayed were mostly jianghu warriors who did things for the sake of the name and the people.

In her opinion, it’s okay to do good for the sake of profit as long as you’re willing to do good.

However, the person Li Miaozhen really wanted to wait for did not arrive.

“Master, is there no new progress with that kid? Isn’t he as good as a god at solving cases, I’m afraid he’s out of ideas.” Su Su held the tea and placed it on the table.

Seeing her master frowning and laboring, Su Su became a little distressed.

“This matter is not that simple.” Li Miaozhen had already learned the truth about the “Blood Slaughter 3,000 miles” case from Xu Qi’an through the earth book transmission.

“I’ve been thinking over the past few days that if the great event of the blood slaughter of 3,000 miles had really happened in Chuzhou, even if the officials wanted to hide it, the mouths of the jianghu people and the people of the marketplace couldn’t be gagged.”

Li Miaozhen was worried, “But no matter how much I asked, no one knew.”

Su Su tilted her head, pouring her stunningly beautiful face, revealing seldom seen contemplation, suddenly her beautiful eyes lit up, joyfully said, “I thought of it, I thought of it.”

Li Miaozhen remained skeptical, “What do you know again.”

Su Su’s green onion-like jade finger twisted a strand of green silk, playfully winking and smiling:

“Think about it, if the great event of blood slaughtering 3,000 miles really happened and no one knew about it, would it be possible that the person involved had his memory erased? Just like I can’t remember what my father was convicted of and sentenced to be beheaded in the first place.”

Li Miaozhen sniffed and scoffed, ”A large-scale killing of this magnitude, even if the memory is erased, it will still leave traces that cannot be erased. The barbarian scouts would not be able to detect it? You are really ……..”

She suddenly froze, her eyes emptying a little, her whole body frozen.

Su Su busily asked, “Master, what did you think of.”

Li Miaozhen snapped back to her senses and pondered, “But your idea may not not be a clue, if such a big thing really happened, yet it can be hidden from everyone …….. Which system, what grade of powerhouse could do it?”

First of all, she excludes Takeshi, which is a no-brainer.

Then two words came to her mind: warlock!

Xu Qi An once said that high quality warlocks can shield the heavenly chances, shield someone or something, and turn themselves into a little transparent …….. Li Miaozhen only felt her brain electrified.

Ideas are open to interpretation.

In today’s Kyushu, there was only one person she could think of who had this kind of ability as a warlock: the Supervisor.

Li Miaozhen shuddered at this speculation.

Calm down, calm down, Xu Qi’an said, first boldly hypothesize, then carefully seek evidence …….. Before there is evidence to confirm it, everything is my speculation, not reality ……. Li Miaozhen took a deep breath and was about to take out the Earth Book fragment and tell Xu Qi’an about her bold idea.

At that moment, the door to the room was snapped shut.

Li Miaozhen faintly said, “Come in.”

While speaking, the little kid who was Houli behind the door, attentively opened the door of the room and invited the guest to come in.

The visitor was a middle-aged man, one of the jianghu pikers who defected to Li Miaozhen, a local of Chuzhou, called Zhao Jin, this person’s cultivation was okay, and every time he killed the barbarians, he was the first to fight.

Not for fame or fortune, but only because he is a Chushu man and wants to expel the barbarians for the benefit of the Chushu townspeople.

Li Miaozhen, who wore his regular uniform, was unsmiling, with the seriousness and composure of a soldier, and said, “Brother Zhao, what is it that you are looking for me for?”

Zhao Jin laughed out loud with bravado, “We’ve come back with a full load again this time, the rice and grain we exchanged is enough for the stragglers outside of the city to drink congee for three days, the brothers are all very happy and want to find a restaurant to celebrate.”

As he spoke, he drove to the table, probed his finger into Li Miaozhen’s teacup, dipped it in the water, and wrote on the tabletop, My lord wants to see you, it’s about the slaughter of the people by the King of Zhenbei.

“I just came over to ask if you’re going to the banquet tonight.” Zhao Jin’s voice was loud and his smile was bold.

Li Miaozhen gazed at the handwriting on the table, remained silent for a long time, and said, “Thank the brothers for me for their kindness, and don’t go.”

Zhao Jin nodded his head and did not linger any longer, turning to leave the room.

He returned down the stairs to the lobby, where a group of Jianghu people gathered around the table, drinking and eating meat, immediately pursued, “Well, has Mistress Fei Yan agreed?”

Zhao Jin shook his head helplessly.

There was a rush of disappointment and boos from the crowd.

A female warrior such as Li Miaozhen was most in line with the appetite of the jianghu people, and this group of people abounded in those who admired her in their hearts and wanted to marry her as a daughter-in-law.

Nine times out of ten, this kind of crush ends up being nothing but a memory years later.

Zhao Jin drank a few glasses of wine and went back to his room to sleep on the pretext that he was not able to drink.

Closing the door, he touched a talisman given by Li Miaozhen just now from his bosom and ignited it with his qi, snorting, as the talisman burned, he only felt drowsiness coming in like a sea tide, his eyelids sank, and he fell into a deep sleep.

In a haze, he opened his eyes again, and there was an additional pretty woman in a Taoist robe in the room, none other than Li Miaozhen.

“It was a dream, what you saw was my firstborn, heh, you guys didn’t say it explicitly, but I know some of you already know who I am.”

The Celestial Controversy had fermented for more than a month, and not many people knew the truth that the Holy Maiden of the Celestial Sect was Li Miaochen, who was also the Flying Swallow Heroine, but there were quite a lot of people who did.

But that wasn’t the point, Li Miaozhen stared at Zhao Jin and said in a deep voice, “Who are you?”

“My real name is just Zhao Jin, a Chuzhou Ranger.” Zhao Jin said.

Li Miaozhen nodded slightly, seemingly having the ability to tell whether he was lying or not in the dream world, and then asked:

“Who is your lord, and how did you know about the matter of the Zhenbei King’s massacre of the people, as far as I know, no one in Chuzhou seems to know about this matter except the barbarians.”

Her implication was that you, a jungle ranger, couldn’t possibly know the inside story.

“My lord, he ……..”

…………

After several days of secret investigation and visits, Sheriff Chen had no choice but to return to the post, stating that he had not obtained any valuable clues.

Royal Secretary Liu mused: “I think we can look for a breakthrough from the Chuzhou Prefect Zheng Xinghuai here, this person has always been extremely good, in Chuzhou is loved by the people, is a rare good minister.

“If he knew about this, he definitely wouldn’t hide it. Perhaps, it was threatened by the King of Zhenbei and the Commander-in-Chief. Why don’t we go to him and probe him, moving him to reason.”

Yang Yan looked at the Chancellor of the Da Lisi and the other imperial historian, and seeing that the two had no objections, he thought for a moment and said, “Then take a trip to the office of the Minister of Prefecture.”

Immediately, he took Liu, a royal official who had a friendship with Zheng Xinghuai, and rode on a horse to the Buzhengzhi.

After the pass, Zheng Xinghuai received the two in the inner hall.

Learning of the two men’s intentions, the stereotypically serious Zheng Xinghuai frowned and asked rhetorically, “Both of you, I have a question I would like to ask.”

Royalty Liu smiled, “Please speak.”

Zheng Xinghuai swept past Yang Yan and Liu Gu Shi and said, “The so-called blood slaughter of 3,000 li is only because of the mere words revealed by the remnants of a corpse’s soul. To investigate the King of Huai on the basis of this, don’t you lords think it’s too rash.”

Liu Royalty frowned, “What you mean is ……”

Minister Zheng Buzheng smiled, “This official handles the affairs of Chuzhou, I know exactly where there is unrest and where the barbarians are looting. If something like this really happens, believe me, King Huai can’t plug the long list of people, for reasons that Royal Secretary Liu should be able to understand.”

Even the emperor could not possibly gag his ministers, let alone the King of Zhenbei.

Royalty Liu stopped talking and sat there with a frown on his face, deep in thought.

At this time, Yang Yan faintly said, “If that’s the case, why are you obstructing the mission to handle the case?”

Minister Zheng Buzheng’s smile remained unchanged: ”After all, King Huai is a Prince, the court sent a mission to investigate him, and in the eyes of the generals, this is a false frame-up. It’s only human nature for them to feel aggrieved for King Huai.

“What’s more, King Huai is sitting in the north, holding military power, and above the court, I don’t know how many people want to cut his military power. The mission’s encounter in Chuzhou City was just a stress reaction from King Huai’s lineage.”

Royalty Liu and Yang Yan exchanged glances and rose to take their leave.

Riding on horseback, side by side on the road, Liu Royalty turned his head sideways, looked at Yang Yan, and said, “Does Yang Jinluo think that what Lord Zheng said, has any truth in it?”

“I don’t know!”

Yang Yan’s answer was crisp and clear, working so hard in the past few days was just looking for clues for Xu Qi’an, not so much so that after the two sides rendezvoused, the envoy and his party found no clues whatsoever. Too humiliating.

However, he is not good at investigating cases, and only found this case inexplicable and complicated.

………..

“My lord is the only survivor, he managed to escape from King Huai’s butchery and has been fleeing around ever since.”

Just as Zhao Jin finished speaking, he was coldly interrupted by Li Miaozhen, “King Huai is a Third Grade Martial Artist, and your family’s lord was able to escape from his butcher’s knife, so what kind of god is he. In addition, since you have been lurking around me for a long time, why did you never show up until today?”

“It’s a long story.”

“First tell me who your lord is.” Li Miaozhen frowned.

“My lord is Zheng Xinghuai, the Minister of Prefecture of Chuzhou.” Zhao Jin said in a deep voice.

………..

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