In the Supreme Sect Library, Lin Du sat by the window, quietly looking at the chessboard in front of him.
Yuan Ye and Yan Qing were in tandem, one holding a booklet and the other carrying music scores, but neither of them read them.
"I don't have a problem, but junior uncle, you are so busy, are you still responsible for contacting the Liangchen Chamber of Commerce?"
Lin Du picked up a black chess piece and said, "No, I'm just afraid that you can't tell the difference."
Yuan Ye sighed, "Uncle, I'm almost thirty, and I can be a grandfather on New Year's Eve! There's no need to be so worried."
"That's okay." Lin Du knew his own shortcomings. He had too much control over the overall situation and didn't fully trust the intelligence of others.
But there is a saying that if you don’t lead a team, you can only work until you die.
Lin Du decided to at least believe that the person he and his second senior brother had worked so hard to educate, at least Yuan Ye, was very discerning.
"Once there is a list of Huyou or Fusifang, please tell me as soon as possible."
Lin Du dropped the black piece and then the white piece, "People in Fusifang have the imprint of spiritual consciousness. They will not take the initiative to ask for help from outsiders easily. Even if they ask for help, it will be very hidden and they will probably not explain it directly."
"Hu You is in Fusifang's territory. He will be reported even if he is not in Hualou for one day. Although he severed the relationship between father and son in front of the third hall master that day, it is hard to say whether it will arouse suspicion again."
"So if there is any abnormality in those business lists, call me immediately. Hu You's cultivation level is not high. Although his brain is still bright, there is no king in the world of cultivation. It is normal to kill someone on suspicion."
Yuan Ye nodded, "It's not a big problem. Leave it to me. Don't worry, uncle!"
Lin Du looked at Yan Qing who was eager to give it a try, "If you have anything to say, just say it."
"Uncle Junior, there is something I checked." Yan Qing opened his booklet, "The craftsman Quan we met in the valley that day admitted that he was once a member of the Jiang family, and that he had a daughter and a wife. , My daughter is good at using knives, so I have some doubts in my heart."
"So I found some connections and asked around. More than eighty years ago, Jiang Lirong of the Jiang family was expelled from the family. Before that, because Jiang Lirong had no cultivation talent, low cultivation level, and few resources from the family, he My wife could not make up for the loss after giving birth, so she became seriously ill. The family lived in great embarrassment, and in the end they had no money for medical treatment.”
"One time when a family servant went to deliver medicine, he discovered that Jiang Lirong had cut open his wife's body. They thought he had gone crazy, so he immediately called someone. The Jiang family felt that the son could not be kept, so they expelled him from the family."
Lin Du had something to worry about, but Yan Qing hadn't finished his words yet.
"Later I asked specifically about Jiang Lirong's daughter," Yan Qing shook her head, "Guess what?"
Lin Du looked at him with half a smile, and Yan Qing immediately stopped trying to quell her appetite, "I asked, that daughter's name is Jiang Yan, she is disgusting."
"Because his father passed away and his mother fell ill and died, some elderly people in the Jiang family felt that the little girl was born to defeat her parents and was disgusting. So in the end Jiang Yan was reduced to working in the kitchen and begging for food."
Yan Qing frowned slightly when he said this. He probably felt that a family as big as the Jiang family was too ungrateful. "Then one winter, Jiang Yan disappeared from the Jiang family. It seemed that a direct descendant saw Jiang Yan in the kitchen. I stayed there because I thought she was eating spiritual food secretly, so I kicked her out because she was as unworthy of the spotlight as her father."
The chess piece landed on the chessboard with a click, "Is it really boring, rather than boring to learn?"
"Perhaps Jiang Lirong just wants to express one and is satisfied?" Lin Du lowered his eyes, "How could any parent name their child with disgust? Even if they really don't like it?"
Yan Qing thought for a while and said, "That makes sense. If I were Jiang Lirong and saw that my wife was going through such a big loss just to have a child, I would definitely feel that she would not have any more children in the future and this one would be enough."
Lin Du smiled. Even if her parents in her previous life didn't like her, they still named her Du. Du at the ferry wanted to pick up his son. At least it sounded nice, didn't it?
"Names are given by parents, but meanings are given by yourself." Lin Du settled down again and looked up at Yan Qing, "Did you go out of your way to find out about the craftsman's daughter to verify your guess?"
"I think this daughter may be a feast." Yan Qing closed the booklet, "Especially the Jiang family's unique skills she used that day, I think it's nine out of ten."
Lin Du nodded, "That makes sense."
"What about us?" Yan Qing remembered that Shengyan and Lin Du seemed to have something to do with each other, "Are we going to tell Shengyan that we found her father?"
Lin Du shook his head, "Don't interfere in other people's affairs, she knows it well."
"Okay." Yan Qing regretfully cut off his thoughts of selling the news.
Lin Du suddenly felt something in his heart, "Tell me honestly, will you provide the manuscript for the Record of Strange Stories from Zhongzhou?"
Yan Qing felt a little guilty, "Can't you?"
"No, no." Lin Du smiled, "That's good. If you do, help me write something."
"I only write real news!" Yan Qing warned, "Otherwise the manuscript will be retracted!"
"Who said what I asked you to write wasn't the real news?"
Yan Qing met his junior uncle's gaze suspiciously, "Really?"
"Ang!" Lin Du said firmly.
Yan Qing opened the booklet and listened attentively, "Say what you said."
The next month, the summer was hot, and there were not many pedestrians on the road, but more and more people were drinking loose tea and chatting in the teahouse.
"A new volume of Zhongzhou Strange News is out. Hey, have you read it?"
"What's wrong? Which family's head has married a third wife, or which family's young master has been lost?"
"Oh, this time Zhongzhou Weiwenlu has done something big!"
"How to say?"
"This time they directly exposed a big conspiracy of the Demon Lord!"
"It is said that there are evil people who released evil spirits in Kongxiang Valley. There is also a coachman to prove it. On that day, he was transporting a person who insisted on paying extra money to go to Kongxiang Valley. Who knew that after the passenger arrived, in front of the coachman? My son turned into a demon, what is the difference between this and poisoning!"
"Hey, who has such a dark heart!"
"Who else do you think it could be? That Demon Lord never does any good things all day long! Before, Zhongzhou Dabi wanted to kill our Zhongzhou genius in front of everyone, but Yan Ye Xianzun drove him away. Now he actually thought of this evil Fa'er turns living people into demons!"
"Fortunately, the driver met a disciple of the Supreme Sect who was passing by. He was rescued and the evil demon was killed on the spot. At the same time, the evil demon that emerged in the valley in the past few years was cleared away."
"It is written in the article that the fierce fire burns through the body of the evil spirit, and the spiritual snow cleanses the human soul."
The man shook his head and sighed, "If he really turns from a human to a demon, loses his will, and eats human flesh and blood, that would be really... If you ask me, this Demon Lord is really guilty of a heinous crime! He is so insane! It's not enough for him to be a demon, and he still thinks about it. Make people become evil spirits! Don’t he have enough control over the people in the devil world?"
Outside the teahouse, a group of three happened to pass by.
"Young master uncle, I have bought all the materials I asked for. Qi Zhen, do you have anything to buy?" Ni Jinxuan turned to look at the person beside her.
Qi Zhen came back to his senses, and a trace of embarrassment flashed across Xiuzhi's face, "I have nothing to buy."
"It's not enough to always wear my senior brother's clothes. Why don't you go buy some new clothes? I don't know if the twelve sets of clothes of different cyan colors that my junior uncle ordered this year are ready? I have to go and take a look."
"No need, senior sister, I have no money." Qi Zhen whispered.
Ni Jinxuan was about to say that she could use her share, but suddenly she met the face of Yuan Ye, who was walking lazily behind him. The man silently mouthed, "Don't be a mother to a man."
"Okay then, it's okay, you will always find a way to make money! Just go out and practice, and come across some natural and earthly treasures and sell them."
Ni Jinxuan said and turned to look at Yuan Ye, "When will we go down the mountain again to practice?"
"Well, it depends on what master and uncle want." Yuan Ye sighed, "After all, now is the time to employ people. Who knows when the devil will go crazy and arrest people to transform evil spirits."
"I'm a bastard, so I have to crawl on four legs all over the world. What's the point?"
Ni Jinxuan nodded in agreement, "This devil is really nothing!"
Qi Zhen walked under the shadow of the eaves, and his face was distorted for a moment when he heard this.
