“Bind your hands, you little brat.” Li Dian laughed and lunged at Qing Yu.
Qing Yu’s eyes reflected Li Dian’s approaching figure, but he was indifferent.
As he got closer and closer, he saw that he was about to capture the mysterious boy, and Li Dian was overjoyed.
“What’s wrong, my body doesn’t work ——” Li Dian felt stiff, his arms and legs didn’t work, only his fingers could still move a little.
Li Dian fell down in front of Qing Yu in a doggy pose, the top of his head just touching Qing Yu’s boots. Behind him, the First and Second Elders also fell to the ground.
“Since you guessed that I had poisoned Li Quyin. Why don’t you think about the fact that the table of dishes you are eating tonight are all served by the junior of this shop. If I’m so good at poisoning, how come I wouldn’t spice up your meals?” Qing Yu squatted down and smilingly looked at the unwilling look on Li Dian’s side face and said.
Li Dian’s eyes turned to the right as hard as he could, staring at Qing Yu with a deadly stare, “What exactly —— are you?” The words were broken, and it took all the effort in the world.
Qing Yu, however, did not answer positively, but got up and looked around the tavern, saying, “You people do not look stupid, how come you do not feel that the wind in this Yangcheng city has been a bit tight lately.”
He turned around and drew the Bi Shui Sword from behind the counter, holding the longsword as he walked towards the First and Second Elders who had collapsed at a wine table not far away.
“The atmosphere in Yang City is not so good these days. You ran to the Zhang family’s tavern to eat at a time like this. Did you think that the Zhang family and the Li family were on good terms?” With that, Qing Yu held the Bi Shui Sword upside down and stabbed it downwards, the tip of the sword penetrating the Second Elder’s throat and pinning him to the ground.
The Grand Elder looked around him, the Second Elder’s eyes that were also looking at him lost their sparkle, and screamed in fear, “Don’t —— spare my life —”
The first is to ask for forgiveness, but due to the medicine, even the tongue is not able to work, a complete game of words can not say.
Qing Yu, however, did not immediately make a move on him, but explained to Li Dian in a picturesque manner, “Yang City is too small to accommodate four families. The Li family’s business overlaps greatly with the Zhang family, so if you want to make a move, you can naturally only swallow the Li family first and strengthen yourself.”
“No — no —— you are — grafting.” Li Dian is also not stupid, Qing Yu words so blatant, how to look at it, is not good intentions.
“Oops,” cried Qing Yu, not surprised at all, “I can’t believe you found out. But it doesn’t matter, all it takes is for you to die in the Zhang family’s tavern.”
Qing Yu stomped on the back of the Eldest Elder, who felt his death was near and struggled for his life.
“Don’t blame me, who told you all to get in the way of people unifying Yang City.”
Hearing this, the Grand Elder seemed to have an understanding, and then struggled even harder, his eyes revealing a bone-deep resentment and unwillingness. However, he eventually died with his eyes open with his resentment.
Qing Yu smiled with satisfaction as he looked at the marks that the Grand Elder had left on the foot of the nearby wine table in what he thought was a hidden manner. After all the effort and perfect implementation of the villain’s code of talking too much, wasn’t it just for this little trace.
“Then, you should die too.”
Now that the objective had been achieved, Qing Yu did not want to waste any more words, and simply ended Li Dian.
“Vile and shameless poisoning, full of malicious provocation. Award the host 100 villain points.” The system’s prompt came to his ears, the content of the prompt was as unpleasant as ever, and Qing Yu was used to hearing it, anyway, every time he heard a similar prompt, it was a villain point coming in, and Qing Yu couldn’t be happier to hear it. Let the unpleasantness come more violently.
“100 villain points, not bad. Add the 150 points for giving Li Quyin the Three Corpse Brain God Pill and the 100 points for giving Li Xin advice plus providing poison, and you now have 350 villain points.”
“Should I save my villain points first and draw the intermediate draw when I’ve saved enough, or draw the beginner draw now ——”
“Forget it, with the Sword of Purging Evil accelerated, I can turn all my moves into magic, no shortage of moves and no need to replace my internal skills. It’s better to save it for the intermediate draw.”
Qing Yu walked out of the restaurant and disappeared into the blanket of night.
Li Ping Sheng put down the tea in his hand, looked at his eldest son Li Qiusheng who had entered from outside the house and said, “How is the investigation going?”
Li Qiusheng’s eyes were red and bloodshot, like an angry beast ready to devour someone. With a hoarse voice, he said, “I’ve already interrogated the houseboy who travelled with Quyin. Qiu Yan sneaked out at night and went to the Spring Pavilion to compete with the Zhang family’s second son to see who could last longer, and took a booster pill brought from the turtle god at the Spring Pavilion.”
“Haven’t I grounded him? Who let him out.” Li Pingsheng slapped the handle of the tai shi chair fiercely.
Li Quyin had returned to the Li family the previous afternoon when she had met Li Xin’s mother, who had just left the Li family and wanted to go looking for Li Xin, and had given her a kick in the side. Who would have thought that this kick would have caused Li Xin’s mother to suffer a recurrence of her old illness and die. In order to suppress the matter, Li Ping-sheng forbade the third son, who had always been tongue-tied, to go out that night.
“Yes… mother…” said Li Qiusheng naggingly.
“——” Li Ping Sheng wanted to say something, but the words came to his throat, but no sound came out for a long time. Even though he had never believed in retribution in his life, he had a feeling of reincarnation at this moment.
Li Qiusheng also felt this way.
The two of them were speechless for a long time.
After a long time, Li Qiusheng broke the silence: “The three men from the Iron Daggers who came to pay their respects yesterday were killed last night in a restaurant under the Zhang family name.”
“The same Li Dian three who came yesterday in mourning?” Li Ping Sheng would not forget these three fools who had stirred up trouble. When such a big scandal happened to the Li family, Li Ping Sheng had planned to suppress the matter and deal with it in a low profile, and wait for some time to wait for a secret funeral on the pretext that it was bad luck to be infected. As a result, the next day, Li Deng and the three of them wore mourning clothes and cried all the way to the Li family, where they knelt until the evening.
Everyone in Yangcheng knew that the Li family had lost the mother and the third young master in one night, and there were now all sorts of rumours going around.
Li Ping-sheng was so angry that after Li Dian’s departure, he had all of his maidservants and servants who were talking out of their a*ses caned to death.
If Li Dian and the three of them had not died last night, they would not have survived more than a few days. Li Ping-sheng had no intention of letting them off the hook.
“There were no signs of a struggle at the scene. The three were poisoned and killed by a long sword through their throats.” Li Qiusheng continued.
“Are there any clues?”
“At the foot of the wine table next to one of the corpses, a carving of the character ‘宀’ was found, which should have been carved out by the deceased with his fingernails.”
“宀, Song?” Li Ping-sheng immediately thought of the City Lord’s Song family and his face was grave.
“We can’t rule out the possibility. Of course, there is also the possibility that the Zhang family did it, wanting to cover up the crime and trying to frame the Song family. The tavern owner, too, was found dead in a compartment on the first floor of the tavern.”
“Is it possible for the Sun family?” Li Ping-sheng thought of the Sun family.
“It’s not very likely. Several of the Sun family’s cottages outside the city have also recently been cleared, and none of them have survived.” Li Qiusheng said back.
Li Ping Sheng’s face became even more pensive: “It seems that someone wants to unify Yang Cheng and has started to make a move.”
“This, could it really be Song ——” Li Qiusheng’s first thought was of the strongest Song family.
Li Ping Sheng interrupted him, “You continue to investigate, don’t make a blind guess yet.”
“Yes,” Li Qiusheng bowed, “My son excused himself.”
When he reached the door and was about to leave, Li Ping Sheng’s voice came from behind, “Check on Li Xin.”
Li Qiusheng’s eyes snapped and he walked out the door wordlessly.
