What Fu Yifu sent in Huaicheng was the signal of "the crisis is over, retreat quickly". The reinforcements to support him did not enter the city, and they did not see us.
But the Fu family's money was shared by passers-by. This news should have reached Magnolia City long ago. The Fu family's backers must have known that something happened to them.
Even if you don't send anyone into the city and just ask passers-by, you can still know who lifted the 'roof' in Huaicheng.
Normally when we enter Magnolia City, the brother of the city official’s wife must be prepared and waiting for us in ambush.
I specifically picked this inn with the intention of throwing myself into a trap. All the inns in Huaicheng belong to the Fu family, and maybe Magnolia City is the same.
But the waiter's attitude towards us was no different from other guests, but he was extra enthusiastic towards the fake An Daxia. The boss even came out to toast us, but we didn't get this treatment.
Maybe the owners of this inn haven't gotten the information about our appearance. Maybe they want to numb us?
In short, An Daxia is thriving here and making a lot of money.
The dinner was all free wine and food, as well as exquisite late-night snacks, which were served to his room like water.
Ximen Wuhen's desire to win emerged again, and he planned to spend a lot of money to get double the food and drinks.
I stopped him, quickly distracted him, and asked him to go to the bookstore and look for the code book left by Guard Jia and the others.
Magnolia City is so big that it is divided into four districts: east, west, north and south, with a population of hundreds of thousands. We don’t know where Guard Jia and the others live, or if they have already left here.
Ximen Wuhen took Yue Nanxiang and Manager Zhang out together. Yue Nanxiang wanted to visit the night market, and Manager Zhang had to follow. It was safe for the three of them to go together.
I asked Xiaojiao to go out to buy snacks. I also bought red silk and tied it into a big red flower on the window.
This is the secret code between me and Yue Bading. They are now my employees and they will contact each other according to my requirements.
I didn’t even ask them what their secret code was with Manager Zhang.
With Xiaojiao helping me with daily chores, I can practice Qigong with peace of mind.
She takes care of all the lock-in tasks such as asking the waiter to deliver water.
As long as Yunzhou is around, has snacks, and toys, he doesn't care about anything else.
It was already late at night when Yue Nanxiang and the others came back. She bought a lot of delicious and fun things, all in double portions. She was so tired that she fell asleep, and Ximen Wuhen carried her back.
Manager Zhang carried all the food and toys. He knocked on our door before entering the house, handed the things for Yunzhou to Xiaojiao, and they went back to the house to rest.
I told Xiaojiao not to sleep tonight, but Yunzhou didn't care, she had to stay awake and watch the night.
I put on my night clothes and told her to be smart and alert to any movement. If someone sneaked into the room and wanted to harm them, she would ask Yunzhou to take action.
If there is only movement outside the house and no one comes into our room, there is no need to call Yunzhou.
There is no need to worry about Ximen Wuhen. He has high martial arts skills and can detect any abnormal movement.
Xiaojiao asked me where I was going, but I didn't tell her. I only told her that if I didn't come back before dawn, they must leave Magnolia City immediately and follow Ximen Wuhen to the Demon Sect.
Ximen Wuhen brought back the code book from the bookstore, sandwiched among the toys he brought for Yun Zhou.
Because Guard Jia and the others heard that there was a big boss in Magnolia City who was the backer of the Fu family and his son, they did not dare to come all to the city. They only sent Guard Jia to the city to release the code book.
The fact that they exploited the Fu family's wealth at night also became known to everyone, and everyone in Magnolia City heard the news.
They were afraid of retaliation from the Fu family's backers, so they only sent guard Jia in to deliver books and buy food.
He consigned the code book to a bookstore, bought enough dry food for traveling in the wild, and left the city.
Wan'er suggested that they go to the Demon Sect first. Staying at one stop like this would easily lead to complications.
They also felt that staying longer would be risky, so they unanimously agreed to go to the Demon Cult territory.
Wan'er has a license from Ximen Wuhen and can bring people in.
But in this way, they would have to trek through the wilderness and mountains, which would definitely be much harder than walking on the main road.
Ximen Wuhen has already read the code book, and he should know that Wan'er is on her way to the Demon Sect's territory.
Thinking that I had nothing to worry about, I decided to take the risk and visit Mo Qiwei's brother, Mo Ai's home.
In Mo Qiwei's generation, women's names have the character 'Qi' in the middle, and men's names have the character 'Guang' in the middle.
For example, Mo Guangxuan, the current king of Tengxue Kingdom, and Mo Qiwei's biological brother Mo Guangye.
But Mo Ai doesn't have this qualification. He is an illegitimate son who is not recognized by the royal family.
However, his mother died early and was sent back to his father's home when he was just over one year old.
His father, King Han, did not like this illegitimate son. He had an excellent eldest son and a caring daughter.
He was able to grow up smoothly in Prince Han's Mansion, all thanks to Prince Han's Princess Tong.
Mrs. Tong felt pity for him when he lost his mother at a young age, so he took him to his courtyard to raise him.
He and Mo Qiwei are the same age. They grew up together and ate, drank, played and studied together.
Mo Guangye was seven years older than them. He was smart and studious, and had high hopes from his elders. He entered the palace at a young age and studied with the prince.
Therefore, Mo Qiwei did not have many opportunities to interact with her biological brother. Instead, she spent time with her half-brother and had a deep relationship with him.
Mo Guangye's identity and his excellence meant that the other brothers had no chance to compete with him.
Especially Mo Ai, he has no biological mother to fight for him, and no maternal grandfather to rely on. He has been raised under the knee of his wife since he was a child, and he has a very close relationship with his aunt.
Mo Qiwei trusted him quite a bit, and he had no intention of being an official or doing business in the capital. When Mo Qiwei got married, he moved to Magnolia City with his sister.
Princess Han was also happy that after her daughter got married, her relatives would still be around to take care of her.
Now it seems that their siblings are taking good care of each other.
Mo Ai's house is not far from the city government office, only two streets away.
Mo Ai has no wife or concubines, so he is the only master in the house.
Maybe he knew that he had done too many bad things. The mansion was heavily guarded, with squads of guards patrolling the mansion, and there were still people standing guard in each courtyard.
In the courtyard where he lived, there were teams patrolling outside and people standing guard inside.
There were people keeping vigil outside the courtyard door and the room door, and there were several secret guards hidden in the dark.
There is no one who is better than me in martial arts, but there are two who are on par with me.
There was a surge of air in the calm sea, which inevitably attracted their attention.
My Qi threads moved by the wind and drifted into the courtyard with the wind.
The dark window was open, the wind blew in, and my breath also drifted into the window.
The breeze blew the gauze beside the bed, and the air threads took the opportunity to get into the gaps between the gauze.
Through the "Qi" thread, I can feel that there is a person lying on the bed, and he is sleeping soundly.
Threads of Qi fell on the back of his hand, seeping in silently.
When foreign 'Qi' enters the body, people will feel it.
But this man was sleeping deeply and was not woken up.
I am outside the courtyard wall. Since I have succeeded, there is no need to alarm others.
The night is getting dark, but there are still several lively areas in Magnolia City, where the lights are brightly lit, making the other places darker.
I walked through the dark alleys and came to the city official's mansion. There were not as many guards here as there were at Mo Ai's mansion.
Perhaps Wan Shize still didn't know what his wife and brother-in-law had done. In order not to arouse his suspicion, the siblings did not dare to strengthen the guards of the city government.
But for such a trivial matter, you can add more guards for any reason, even if you arrange a fake assassination.
Although the city government office looked like normal, I was still extra careful and didn't dare to get too close.
I squatted on a tree outside my house for half an hour, finally waiting for a cat to come.
The cat jumped from the tree to the wall of the city official's palace, and it looked like it was about to jump in.
I seize the opportunity and let out the air threads to get into the cat's body.
The 'qi thread' is in the cat's body. As long as the distance is too far, I can sense something through it.
Unfortunately, there is no way to control it to go to a specific location, so it can only run on its own.
It ran to the place where there was food, in the backyard of the city official's house.
A young woman prepared food for it. It must be very familiar with this person, so it naturally walked up to eat the cat food she prepared without fear or caution.
The woman waited for the cat to finish its food and then picked it up.
Seeing that the opportunity had come, I activated my supernatural power again, and the Qi threads came out of the cat's body and penetrated into the woman's body.
I don't know who the woman is, but she is pregnant.
Most of the women who lived in the city official's house, lived in the backyard, or were pregnant were the city official's concubines.
Mo Qiwei has two daughters after marriage, both of whom are six or seven years old.
I haven't heard of any good news coming from her recently.
And this pregnant woman is very old and should give birth in less than two months.
The people in the city had just seen the city official's wife going out to do business a few days ago. If she was pregnant with Liujia, the news would have spread throughout the city.
I hid the 'qi' thread to avoid harming the fetus.
Let’s take a small step tonight and see what happens tomorrow.
Since Wan'er and the others have gone to the Demon Sect's territory, we don't have to stay here long.
Even if you want to stay, there is no need to keep them all.
With Ximen Wuhen around, Manager Zhang and Yue Nanxiang's safety is guaranteed.
It's really dangerous to act chivalrously, so I can do it alone.
I returned to Fenglai Inn and made several loops on the way, but no one was following me.
After jumping out of the window and returning to the room, Yunzhou came over immediately. He was wearing pajamas but not lying on the bed. Xiaojiao quickly explained that she had advised Yunzhou to sleep, but Yunzhou refused to listen and insisted on sitting and waiting.
She had suffered a hard time by trying to stop him last time, but she didn't dare to do it again this time, so she could only forcefully persuade him, but Yunzhou didn't listen.
"It doesn't matter. If he doesn't listen, just let him go. You can go and have a rest. You'll be fine tonight." I opened another room for Xiaojiao. It's next door to Ximen Wuhen and the others. There is only a wall between them. If there is any movement in her room , Ximen Wuhen could hear it.
After Xiaojiao returned to the room, Yunzhou immediately ran to the bed and lay down to sleep, without me asking, and fell asleep instantly.
After Xiaojiao left and Yunzhou fell asleep, three gentle knocks sounded outside the window.
"Come in." I walked to the window, and a figure jumped into the window and stood right in front of me.
"Mr. An."
"Well, how was the investigation?" I'm not used to being the boss of others, and I am indeed the superior of some people, so I asked Yueba and the others to call me Mr. An according to modern names.
The person who came was Yue Ba, who I had sent to the city to investigate the situation in advance. She came to the city in advance and must have gotten more information than me.
"It's been found out." Yue Ba told me the news she had found out, and there was one thing I just wanted to know.
The woman who is about to give birth in the backyard of the city official's house is indeed the city official's concubine. She was originally a girl in the house who was responsible for cleaning the study. She was attracted by the city official. Now she is pregnant. The doctor said it is a boy. She is in the house. As the tide goes up, the status of all boats rises.
Mo Qiwei has no son, and the concubines in the house either don't have children or give birth to daughters. If she can give birth to a boy this time, it will be Wan Shize's first son.
In this world, the idea of favoring sons over daughters is deeply ingrained. No matter how capable a wife is, if she cannot give birth to a son, her status as a head wife may not be guaranteed.
It is slightly better if your natal family has a strong background, but you can save face, but in reality the treatment will still be much worse, and you will most likely lose your husband's favor.
Among the news brought back by Yue Ba was about Mo Qiwei's health. She was injured when she gave birth to her second daughter, and her stomach had not moved for several years.
A few years later, she will have passed the best age for women to have children.
I guess this concubine is quite a threat to her.
Combining this information, let's think back to the situation of the pregnant woman tonight. Her body was abnormally weak, which affected the fetus.
There seems to be signs of poisoning, but with just a wisp of Qi, I can't diagnose or treat her illness. My strength is not that strong at the moment.
There are a lot of troubles in the inner courtyard of the deep house. This concubine has no background. There are only two results waiting for her, one death and two lives, or the mother will be killed and the son will be left behind.
If it is the former, it means that there is nothing wrong with Mo Qiwei's body and she can still give birth after a while.
If it is the latter, it means that her health is indeed failing. It is better to have a son born by another woman than to have no son at all.
But what if this woman doesn't die?
Mo Qiwei must have a headache.
I seem to have found the direction of 'effort'.
I continued to practice hard that night, and the magical cave exercises helped a lot in improving my abilities.
The skills Liu Yanyan passed on to me functioned as stacking buffs, and the martial arts secrets she gave me were similar to the 'Star Absorbing Technique'.
No moves are required, the focus is on how to absorb other people's skills.
But this martial art has a flaw. It can only absorb other people's skills, but it doesn't know how to transform and fuse them.
That is to say, it is very useful when hurting others. It can turn the opponent into a useless person without martial arts, and the indigestion on his side cannot be solved.
In fact, I can turn Liu Yanyan's skills into energy and use them to improve my abilities. Other people's skills should also work.
To confirm this I need someone to cooperate with me in conducting experiments.
Before the technology matures, I don't want others to know about the 'Star-Absorbing Technique'.
There is only one person around me who is quiet and has inner strength.
I walked to the bedside and looked intently at Yun Zhou, who was sleeping soundly. His internal energy came and went, but I used my supernatural powers to observe that he only acted like this when he was awake, and had internal energy to protect his body when he was sleeping.
What would happen if I sucked away the inner strength of his protective body?
Yunzhou suddenly turned over and something fell out of his arms. As soon as I saw what it was, my heart immediately jumped up to three feet high.
"Get up, get up!" I grabbed his collar and pulled him up.
He was in a daze and didn't know what was going on. He looked at me with sleepy eyes and said vaguely: "Have you eaten?"
"I think you want to eat P." I shoved the braised pig's trotters that fell out of his arms in front of his eyes, "Did I say you are not allowed to sleep with pig's trotters at night?"
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