Chapter 545 – The Depths of the Cellar

“How would we underlings know about such things.”

The little maid hung her head and shook it, well versed in what to say and what not to say.

Li Lingsu got up and left the bed, walking over to the table, bracing her hands on the tabletop, leaning forward and looking down at the little maid in an aggressive position, the corner of her mouth raised:

“A little girl has to be obedient and well-behaved to be pleasing to the eye.”

Du Cuckoo’s small face abruptly reddened, lowered her head, not daring to look directly at Li Lingsu, and weakly said:

“Just, just know a little. Master, you have to promise not to reveal it, or else the slave girl will be in trouble.”

The eyes are bright, such as containing stars, the features are handsome, and the temperament is extraordinary ……… But whoever is a young girl who is pregnant with spring, and who can resist the charm that I should be!

Li Ling Su let out a sigh like a sigh from a high place.

“Don’t worry, I won’t reveal it.”

He smiled as he gave his promise.

“The relationship between Missy and Master has been excellent since, but Missy doesn’t seem to be willing to marry the Huangfu family, and once pleaded with Master many times, and went on a hunger strike for a few days for that reason.”

Chai Lan is not willing to marry the Huangfu family, and in order to resist, she has even gone on a hunger strike ……… Li Lingsu frowned and said Why didn t Xing Er tell me about this.

“Then, what about the relationship between Missy and Chai Xian?” Li Ling Su asked in a deep voice.

“Close as brother and sister.” Cuckoo said.

“Between them, is there any, uh, love between a man and a woman?” Li Ling Su tried.

“This, this slave girl how to know ah ……..” Du Cuckoo for the sake of it.

He then asked about the relationship of several core members of the Chai family, and when he asked about the relationship between Chai Xing’er and Chai Jianyuan, Du said:

“Auntie and the head of the family used to have a falling out.”

Li Lingsu narrowed his eyes and said without moving, “Oh? Tell me in detail what’s going on.”

Cuckoo hesitated:

“That was years ago, the former auntie’s surname was Liu, the Liu family and the Chai family were family friends, then the Liu family fell on hard times. The aunt master then joined the Chai family. Later, the aunt master and the family head met with an accident when they went out and didn’t come back alive.

“But I’ve heard that there seems to be an inside story to the aunt’s death, and that the aunt had a big fight with the head of the family ……..”

She paused, not continuing on.

Speaking of which, it was pretty much over the line, and the exact inner workings of the situation were not clear to her as a maid.

Apricot s ex-husband died in a strange way? This, during the time that I got good with her, how come I never heard ……… of it Li Lingsu frowned darkly.

He whirled around and figured out that of course people wouldn’t mention his aunt’s ex-husband in front of him, his Chai aunt’s new favorite.

“Thanks for telling me, Cuckoo Girl!”

Li Lingsu revealed a warm smile that was comparable to the central air conditioner, making the little maid’s body soothed and her cheeks peachy red in the cold winter season.

After sending the maid called Cuckoo away, Li Ling Su returned to her room and collapsed on her bed, trying to catch the truth of the incident in the mist of confusion.

Chai Lan is not willing to marry the Huangfu family, if I am Chai Xian, I directly take the other party to elope is not it ………

How did Apricot’s ex-husband die? It looks like it has something to do with Chai Jianyuan? Why else would the two have had a big fight ……… In addition to being the biggest beneficiary, she has an additional motive for murder.

Li Lingsu sighed and rolled over to sit up, intending to make a trip to the inn to tell Xu Qian the news he had poked around.

“Really, I’m perfectly capable of investigating this on my own, just because Xu Qian has a high cultivation level doesn’t mean he’ll investigate the case ah, who does he think he is, Xu Qi An?”

Li Lingsu muttered, but didn’t discount the idea of reporting the news to the bad old man.

………

Capital City, Xu Mansion.

The aunt, peeling an orange in her hand in the inner room where a charcoal fire was burning, said:

“When you go to the king’s residence in a few days, you must know how to be polite and peaceful, and you mustn’t let the wives and ladies of the king’s residence despise you, understand?”

As she spoke, she lifted her head, her gaze leaving the orange and looking to the young girl beside her who was waiting with bated breath to eat it.

“Says you!”

Auntie said in a bad mood, “All you know is eating and eating all day long. Sooner or later, I’ll send you to learn the art in the Si Tian Supervisor.”

She wore a jacket embroidered with cloud patterns today with a dark colored long skirt with pleats, and in her delicate hair bun, embellished with jade hairpins and gold steps, dignified and beautiful, at first glance, very much like a noblewoman of a luxurious family.

Of course, anyone who knew her aunt well knew that she was a golden oldie.

“Yes, yes, yes, that way I can follow Sister Caiwei and play.”

Xu Zhongyin, who had her hair tied in a child’s bun, said happily.

What she really wanted to say was that Sister Caiwei had a large amount of silver and could always buy all kinds of delicious food.

But she’s not the old Suzuki Hsu now, now, now ……..

“Mother how old am I now.”

Xu Lingyin asked aloud.

The aunt ignored her and turned her head to Xu Ling Yue:

“But you can’t be bullied either, you know, like the royal family like a big family, none of the ladies inside are good with each other. You have a weak nature and won’t say anything if you are bullied.

“If you are bullied, look for Si Mu, in short, grasp the proportion yourself, know no. By the way, the royal family’s eldest son and the second son’s brother and sister, the age and the bell sound is not too different, the most headache between the children, can not say the reasoning ……… don’t let the bell sound to the other people to beat up the bad.”

Xu Lingyue let out a “hmm”, “Got it Mother.”

When Erlang Xu and Miss Wang were to be betrothed, there needed to be some ceremonial walks between the two families. Auntie, as the head of the family, definitely can’t just show up, it’s not in line with her status.

So the women’s correspondence was left to the two sisters, Reigetsu and Suzume.

But Auntie is not at ease ah, think of her a combination of beauty and wisdom of a strange woman, in addition to giving birth to a fairly good Erlang, the remaining two daughters are poor.

Xu Lingyue was too weak, a soft-spoken sufferer, and Xu Lingyin was not too smart, a naive and stupid girl.

Auntie was afraid that if they went to the royal residence, they would be bullied by the Wang family.

It’s not that Auntie is worrying about nothing. A high family like the Wang family has a strong sense of superiority. The Wang family’s young lady marrying Erlang is a completely inferior marriage. How much can the women of the Wang family look up to the Xu family?

It’s not so much a stink face, but a sheepish knock, I don’t think it’s going to be a bad idea.

With Xu Ling Yue’s weak nature ……..

“Ugh!”

The aunt sighed with hatred.

She stopped thinking about this crap and grumbled, “That Yang Qianyi, at least he knows your big brother, I wrote to him to ask the Si Tian Supervisor to accept Suzaku as a disciple, but he even delayed in giving a reply.”

Xu Lingyue peeled an orange and said, “Mother, the Divine Constabulary has already given an answer. I forgot to tell you about the letter I received yesterday.”

The aunt’s eyes lit up in surprise, “What did the Commissioner of Heaven say?”

Xu Lingyue said in a thin voice, “Senior Brother Yang said that Suzume is exceptionally gifted and not something he can teach. He introduced Suzume to the Supervisor, but the Supervisor ignored him and didn’t even let him go on the Bagua stage.”

Turns out it’s because Suzume is so gifted!

Auntie felt much better in her heart, and after thinking about it, she thought it would be better to let her practice with Lina first.

To this day, my aunt has given up on the idea that a great lady should start from a baby, and looks forward to an early marriage between Erlang and Miss Wang to give her a granddaughter.

The number I raised myself is not working, so I can only look forward to the smaller number my son has raised.

At the thought, the aunt wore a slightly relieved expression:

“Simu is talented, intelligent, and well-read despite being a woman. Er Lang is even a scholarly seedling, and their children in the future will definitely be smart.”

Saying that, she raised her hand, and on her snow-white slender white wrist was a pair of emerald green bracelets.

“This bracelet was given to me by your father when I married him. He said that it was passed down from your grandmother. When she left early, she was not able to pass it on to her daughter-in-law in person, so she entrusted him with the bracelet, so that he could give it to her in person when she got married in the future.”

The aunt reminisced about her youth and laughed, “From now on, I’ll pass it on to Simu. Well, only one, and the remaining one will go to Da Lang’s daughter-in-law.”

“Wow, it’s beautiful.”

Xu Lingyin stretched out her chubby little hands, “Mother, show me, show me.”

The aunt, who still spoiled her young daughter, took off the bracelet and handed it over, urging, “Be careful, don’t break it.”

As he was talking, Xu Pingzhi entered the inner hall, holding his armor and his long sword at his waist.

Xu Pingzhi is now the Imperial Sword Guards thousand households, high position, power, become the capital of the five guards in the new nobility, although there is no title, but the average honored to see him have to be respectful.

The aunt sniffed and frowned, “Why are you buying clementines again? There are sweet ones at home.”

“Love acid lately.”

In the absence of his nephew and son, Xu Pingzhi opened his eyes without changing his color.

At that moment, he saw the bracelet on the wrist of his infant daughter Xu Lingyin and was taken aback:

“Why did you give her the family heirloom bracelet, what if it gets knocked out.”

Xu Lingyin raised her chubby little hands and flaunted, “Father, look, see what I look like?”

“Like what?”

Xu Pingzhi subconsciously asked back.

Xu Lingyin said in a brittle voice, “Like your mother not.”

……. Xu Pingzhi glanced at her, silently lowering his helmet and picking up his sheath.

Xu Lingyin’s wails resounded through the Xu Mansion.

………..

Chai Mansion.

Li Lingsu left the room and walked through the compound, seeing the serious faces of the residence’s sons and daughters, all of whom wore swords and guarded the entrances to the corridors and courtyards.

“What happened?”

He leaned in close to one of the Chai House children and asked.

“A thief broke into the cellar last night.”

That Chai son said in a deep voice.

Cellar …….. Li Lingsu was bewildered and listened to another son on the side explaining:

“The cellar is where the walkers are kept.”

In the side business of the Chai House, there was the business of driving corpses, and the cellar was used to store corpses. In addition, some corpses were used for other purposes, for example, after the children of the Chai Mansion and their crowns, they could receive a walking corpse from the cellar to use as a puppet.

The children of the collateral line could only receive ordinary corpses, while the first line could receive blood corpses, which had been sacrificed by their predecessors, and were at least at the Refined Essence realm of battle power.

If he could sacrifice the blood corpse into an iron corpse, then he would be considered to have reached the upper echelon of the corpse mastery course.

The strength and defense of the iron corpse was comparable to a martial artist of the Sixth Grade Copper Skin and Iron Bone Realm, but the battle power was weaker, after all, it did not have the qi or the anticipation of danger that had been honed at the God Refining Realm.

“Xu Qian said that last night Chai Xian had invaded the cellar and was looking for Chai Lan’s body …….. Chai Xian suspects that Chai Lan is dead.”

Li Lingsu immediately changed her mind, not rushing to find Xu Qian, and after asking about the location of the cellar, she turned around and left.

Not long after, he came to the inner courtyard sticking out, a secluded courtyard.

The place was handled by a dozen or so Chai House disciples, blocking his way.

“Sir Li, this is a forbidden area of the Chai Mansion, you can’t go in.”

Li Lingsu frowned and said unhappily, “How dare you block your aunt’s path?”

Pushing through the crowd, he strides into the courtyard.

The children of the Chai House looked at each other in disbelief, not knowing what to do for a moment.

Going down the steps to the cellar, Li Lingsu immediately covered her nose: “It stinks to death.”

Soon he saw rows and rows of corpses, like motionless statues.

“That awful old man Xu Qian must really like it here.” Li Lingsu muttered.

He had at least spent some time in the Southern Border Compass Clan and knew what kind of virtues the Corpse Compass Department’s Compass Masters were.

Li Lingsu tapped his brow, his pupils instantly faded, his vision immediately changed to a different one, this body was not a pure walking corpse, their earth souls were tightly bound in their flesh.

It was as silent as the stagnant water in which it was immersed.

But if they are awakened in a suitable way, they will become warriors who know no pain and fear no death.

In the Southern Border Compulsion Clan, the Heart Compulsion Department that controls beasts and the Corpse Compulsion Department that manages corpses, as well as the Poison Compulsion Department that uses poison in an invisible manner, have always been the most headache-inducing existences.

He took a big step inside, and after half a quarter of an hour, he finally saw a living person, a few Chai family children guarding a wooden door.

The wooden door was half-open, candlelight filtering through it.

A cellar within a cellar? What was stored inside? Li Ling Su leaned over and once again encountered a block.

“Who’s out there.”

Chai Xing’er’s clear and cold voice came out from the wooden door.

“It’s me.” Li Ling Su said.

There was silence within the door for a long time before Chai Xing’er whispered, “Let him in.”