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9. Chapter Nine
Mingchuan is famous for tea. The local people rely on growing tea and picking tea for their livelihood. Tea leaves are dried in the courtyards of every household, and even the streets are filled with a quiet fragrance. Mingchuan tea is very popular among high-ranking officials and nobles, and there is a market for monks. It stands to reason that people here are at least well-off even if they are not rich, but this Li family is a disciple. You Jiang swept the walls with his spiritual knowledge and found that there were even chairs in the hall. None, really miserable.
According to the information provided by the inn’s shopkeeper, the Li family’s old father was named Li Yunian. He had been a dartist in Chang’an when he was young. Later, he was injured by a robber while holding the dart. He returned to Mingchuan to marry his wife and settle down.
Li Yunian had some savings when he went north and south. Even with a disability, his life was pretty good. Unfortunately, his wife died young, leaving him with a daughter called Li Xiaopu.
Mingchuan’s most precious glazed fairy tea must be picked by a girl who has not left the pavilion. Li Xiaopu was selected as a tea picker by Cangtian Mansion at the age of fourteen. She enters Yujun Grottoes every morning to pick tea, and she goes home with her father at noon. Flowers and grass feeding chickens and ducks, fathers are kind and filial, and the two depend on each other to make a living.
Unfortunately, all this has changed since the day Li Xiaopu disappeared. In this life, Li Yunian only had a daughter. In order to find her, she was waiting for news in the Cangtian Mansion. Later, more and more people were missing in the city. Qiuyuebai was also overwhelmed. So he ran away his wealth and asked the young and middle-aged in the city to look for people and even pay a lot of money. Ask the caravan to go to Yuncheng for themselves and ask for help from Xuanmen. He hasn't worked for many years. After looking for March, he has no savings in his family, and he has everything he can.
After March, the people in the city had long since changed their conversations with the Wishing Well and Cangtian Mansion, and Li Xiaopu was only remembered when he mentioned Zhang Jiayun's affair. Everyone is concerned about the monks, the strong, the dignitaries, and the nobles. No one cares about how a commoner lives. The people who watched the excitement at the time retreated, leaving only the old father waiting at the door day and night waiting for his daughter to return.
Li Yunian was also a figure who went north and south, repelling many bandits and thieves with one shot. It's a pity that the hero will finally have a late year. The years have paled his hair and squeezed his spine. The red tasseled spear that once stood in the palm of a man was finally replaced with a crutches of vicissitudes of life. When he was young, he had escorted thousands of treasures, and he never thought that one day he would not even be able to protect a little girl.
Today’s Li’s house is deserted, and the old man in front of the door can still faintly see the heroic martial arts of his youth. His hands are also calluses from the hard training of the past, but his spirit is on the verge of collapse, like a lifeless stone sculpture. Standing between the red and red sunset, only muddy eyes stared at the street blankly, seeming to be expecting his daughter to appear suddenly.
The vicissitudes of the hero’s end can only be understood by people in the rivers and lakes. You and Jiang were silent when they saw this situation. In the end, Fu Hongye took the initiative to salute: "Excuse me, does the missing girl Li live here? "
Just a single sentence awakened the old man’s vitality. Li Yunian was a knowledgeable person. At a glance, he recognized Fu Hongye’s cuff moiré as a symbol of Xuanmen. He was so excited that his voice trembled, “Yes, that’s right, it’s my girl. Xiaoxia, did you see her? Is she safe?"
Such a reaction made Fu Hongye's eyes dim a little. An ordinary woman was abducted by a monster for more than three months. I was afraid that it would be too bad for him. He has never been a liar, and he didn't know how to speak at this time. Instead, You Jiang shook his fan and relieved him blankly: "He is nosy to help you find someone, so please tell me if you have any clues."
"Okay, okay, thank you Shaoxia, don't hesitate to say what you want!"
The power of Xuanmen is well known in the world. Li Yunian burst into tears when he heard that, and immediately ignoring his long sitting and numb legs, he stood up suddenly, leaning on crutches around the courtyard, trying to find valuables, but how could he use it? He had already been pawned to hire a casual repairer in the city to find his daughter. After turning over it for a while, he only took out a bag of rice to deal with Hongye. You can take it away!"
Li Yunian looked for his daughter to save money and completely ignored him, and now he only took out the cheapest brown rice. He probably couldn’t hire a small worker if he left it outside. Fu Hongye sighed when he saw it. He pushed his hand back, and said softly, "Old man, I don't need to be paid, can you tell me where Miss Li went before she disappeared, and who is there any conflict with?"
The old man was even more touched when he said this, and he hurriedly shared out the information he knew: "Thank you, Shaoxia! My girl is named Li Xiaopu this year. She is just eighteen this year. She works in Yujun Grottoes and goes out early in the morning before March. When picking tea, the daughter of the Wang family who went with her said that she had seen her at the end of work, and then disappeared. My daughter is a good girl. She has never had a quarrel with anyone. She is extremely filial to the young man, and she doesn’t know who she was. I was kidnapped, what's it like now..."
As he talked, his eye sockets became moisturized again. You Jiang knew that with Hongye's temperament, he would be able to comfort him again, so he asked first: "Didn't the Zhang family want to marry her?"
When he mentioned the matter, Li Yunian was stunned, and replied with some doubts: "There is such a thing. Last year, the Zhang family was hired suddenly, and the little old man couldn't bear his daughter being a concubine, so the Zhang family gave up. But, Now that Master Zhang is also missing, my daughter still hasn't come back."
His attitude did not seem to regard the Zhang Family as a criminal. You Jiang frowned when he saw this, "Have you ever been to Yujun Cave?"
The betrothal ceremony of Zhang’s family was last year, and now it’s approaching late autumn, Li Yunian himself almost forgot. I don’t know why they mentioned it. He only pointed to his leg and sighed helplessly: “The Yujun’s cave is in the mountain, and the old man’s leg is even out of the city. It's difficult, I can't go."
He was telling the truth. If he was able to move easily, how could he wait at home so anxiously, he would have been searching for his daughter a long time ago. It's just that the paper in the wishing well cannot appear out of thin air. If the name of the Zhang family master is not written by Li Yunian, who has made a vengeance with the Zhang family and made a wish to make him disappear?
The monsters in this matter are also very strange. Among the twenty-nine people who disappeared, there are wealthy merchants like Master Zhang, some casual cultivators living here, some bullies in the city, and even a widow with a bad reputation. Everyone except that Apart from the note with the name written on it, there is almost nothing in common.
You Jiang thought to himself that most of the demonic cultivators are picking young girls to refine the furnace. He would not be interested in the inanimate old bones like Master Zhang. That’s it, why bother to build a wishing well like this. At present, it seems that this well has no effect other than making people panic. What is the picture of the monster making such a thing?
The Cangtian Mansion sent people to investigate the disappearance of Li Xiaopu at the first time. They searched Yujun’s Grotto and did not see the girl’s trace. Now Li’s family has no clues. Fu Hongye calmed Li Yunian to rest earlier when he asked. Pulling You Jiang along the street, he thoughtfully analyzed: "The first person who disappeared from Yujun Cave was not Master Zhang, but Li Xiaotuo. I think that the usage of this wishing well must be someone Deliberately preaching and finding out the first person who reported this should have a clue. Bong, what do you think?"
What else can see? Since this old man Li doesn't know you, it seems that you have been cheated before you have a chance to investigate the Mingchuan incident. Useless brat, let's quickly give up your position as No. 1 in the world.
You Jiang has been alive for so long. He has seen too many things about life and death. Now he has no reaction. After a while, he secretly taunted Fu Hongye and realized that the young man's question was too methodical. Just like this, he said that he was crazy. One person will believe. Thinking about it this way, You Jiang couldn't help but wonder: "You look sober now, why do you go crazy when you run into this seat?"
Fu Hongye's demon is really strange. He evades all information related to the leader of the demon cult, and ignores You Jiang's magic power. Even if You Jiang stood in front of him, he still only called the name that had been abandoned for many years, seeming to completely ignore the fact that this was a magic repair, and only treated Feng as a bad-tempered colleague.
It’s the same now. The young man doesn’t care about the dark magic patterns in the corners of You Jiang’s eyes, nor does he think about how unusual the person’s words and actions are. He just smiles and stretches out his hand at him.
The feeling of punching cotton like this is really not good, but You Jiang can't do anything with him. It's so exciting that this person goes crazy, afraid that he has to go to bed and fight again.
Regardless, for the safety of his rear, You Jiang decided to quickly find a way to restore Fu Hongye to normal. However, the demon is slain and the demon is slain, and the devil's deeds have nothing to do with him. The leader of the demon sect immediately warned: "Don't be wrong, this monster knows that this monster will not come out of the city to meet him, so arrogant it should be dead. This seat is implementing the rules of the magic way, and it has nothing to do with you."
Mo Xiu still spoke with an arrogant attitude. The cold glance of Feng's eyes made Fu Hongye want to pinch his face and ask if you can’t be more cute. Fortunately, the youth still has a sense of reason. He made this action that would surely irritate You Jiang, and only smiled softly, "Okay, I get it."
However, this smile was vaguely sarcasm in You Jiang's eyes, and immediately glared at him, "Smelly boy, what a smile, I will kill this monster first, and the second one will make you into a furnace.!"
It didn't seem to make a difference if I couldn't bear it. Fu Hongye watched helplessly as the demon leader waved his sleeves away. Even though he was in a daze, he realized the reality of being rejected, so he only sighed in his heart-alas, in a bad mood and wanted to practice the sword.