bayedsolid Chapter 142 Yangcheng Hu Family
Chapter 142 Yangcheng Hu Family
Last time, we talked about Li Yi and Yu Jiu arriving in Yangcheng. He wanted to take Yu Jiu to see the excitement of the Yangcheng Fair. So what will happen next? Let's read on.
Li Yi first took Yu Jiu to find the tailor shop that the clerk mentioned, and had clothes made for Yu Jiu with measurements. Making clothes would definitely take some time, so after paying the deposit, Li Yi took Yu Jiu to the market.
The Yangcheng Fair was indeed very lively. Yu Jiu had never seen such a scene before and exclaimed, "Oh my God, why are there so many people?"
Li Yi smiled and said, "Let's go and see what those performers are doing." The two of them walked into the crowd and wandered around. Yu Jiu was attracted by the fire-breathing show and squeezed closer to watch.
Li Yi asked: "This is just a trick of spraying wine at a torch. Why do you like to watch this?"
Yu Jiu shook his head and squeezed out of the crowd. Li Yi followed him and asked, "What's wrong? Was I wrong?"
Yu Jiu replied: "That person is a cultivator, and what he played was not just some trick, it was a real fire spell."
Li Yi asked in confusion: "Oh, how did you figure that out?"
As they happened to pass by a wine shop, Yu Jiu said, "Let's get a bottle of wine and try it and we'll know."
Li Yi bought a pot of wine. Yu Jiu picked up a branch and rubbed one end of it with his hands. The branch started to catch fire. Yu Jiu said, "Young Master, try spraying wine on it."
Li Yi took a sip of wine and sprayed it towards the branch, but it extinguished the fire. Li Yi then reacted and said, "Ah! I see. The alcohol content is not high enough. It can't be lit at all. That person really used magic!"
Yu Jiu nodded and said, "Yes, those performers are not simple people, they should all have some skills."
Li Yi smiled and said, "They are all wanderers, so it's normal for them to have some means of self-defense. It's not surprising."
Although Li Yi said this, he had already started to respond carefully. He knew that Yu Jiu's body had not yet recovered from his death, and Yi Ling had told him to be extra careful in the next seven days.
But even so, Li Yi had no plans to take Yu Jiu back to the inn, because he said he wanted to help Yi Ling. How could there not be a few bad guys mixed in such a bustling market? Moreover, Yu Jiu carried the saber on his back all the way, wasn't it just to lure those evil cultivators from Yemao Mountain?
The two continued to stroll around. After watching the monkey shows and circus performances, Yu Jiu was attracted by the colorful opera performances. On the stage, a masked man had a candlestick in front of him with thirteen candles burning on it. He asked the people in the audience to come on stage and blow out the candles. Anyone who could blow out all the candles would receive one hundred copper coins.
But as soon as the people on stage blew out a few candles, the previously extinguished candles started burning up again. This happened several times. Several people who tried worked for a long time, but finally gave up helplessly.
Yu Jiu asked Li Yi: "Sir, can you see what's going on?"
Li Yi shook his head and said, "I really didn't realize that. If you ask this, could it be that he is another martial artist?"
Yu Jiu nodded and said, "It is true that he has cultivated himself, but this method is not magic."
Li Yi asked, "Are you planning to defeat him and get the 100 coins?"
Yu Jiu smiled and said, "You can try." Then he raised his hand to indicate that he wanted to go on stage and try.
The masked man smiled and said, "Little boy, you should wait until you grow up before coming back. It's not okay if you don't see the adults, right?"
Li Yi said: "Why, you are afraid that he will take the money away, so you don't dare to do it?"
The masked man laughed and said, "What a joke, I'm afraid of a child? Come on, come up and try it!" Li Yi sent Yu Jiu to the stage. Yu Jiu came to the candlestick and smiled, then he took a breath towards the candlestick, and all the candles in the row went out.
There was a round of applause from the audience, and Yu Jiu stretched out his hand and said with a smile: "Give me money!"
The masked man put a hundred copper coins into a purse and gave it to Yu Jiu, who walked off the stage with the purse looking very proud. He returned to Li Yi and shook the purse but felt something was wrong. He opened the bag and found that the copper coins had turned into stones!
Yu Jiu turned around and was about to go on stage to argue, but Li Yi reached out to stop him and said, "Throw the purse back quickly, something is wrong here!" Although Yu Jiu was puzzled, seeing Li Yi's serious expression, he immediately did as he was told and threw the purse bag onto the stage.
The masked man picked up the purse and asked, "What do you mean, kid? This is a hundred coins!" As he spoke, the masked man opened the bag and took out a handful of copper coins to show to the people below the stage. Yu Jiu was about to speak but was stopped by Li Yi and then dragged out of the crowd.
The two of them came to a secluded place, and Yu Jiu asked, "Why did you pull me away, sir? Why don't you even want the money?"
Li Yi said seriously: "There's something strange about that masked man!"
"That person can no longer be called a human!" Shan Yiling's voice suddenly came from behind. Li Yi and Yu Jiu turned around. Yiling continued, "That is a puppet technique from Ye Mao Mountain. The man wearing the mask is a living dead! If you don't leave now, he will attack you."
Yu Jiu looked at Li Yi and asked, "Sir, have you figured out the problem?"
Li Yi shook his head and said, "No, but the righteousness in my body has reacted, so it must not be a good thing!"
Li Yi turned around and asked Xiang Yiling: "What are you going to do?"
Yi Ling replied: "Since we entered the city, three groups of people have been targeting you. I don't know what they are going to do, so I want to use calm to control movement."
Li Yi was surprised and asked, "Three groups of people? Are they coming for us, or for the knife?"
Yi Ling replied: "All of them, but one of them is from the Hu family, which is very strange. How did you provoke the Hu family?"
Yu Jiu said, "Could it be because the young master scared He Wu away?"
Li Yi nodded and said, "It's possible, but the chances are slim. Yiling, do you know that there are water ghosts in Fuling Lake?"
Yi Ling replied, "I've heard of it, but we have sent people to explore the lake many times, but we have never found a water ghost. There must be something strange going on."
Li Yi smiled and said, "It seems that there is something wrong with the Hu family. I'm afraid it's not the water ghosts that are harming people, but someone is using the water ghosts to harm people in order to sell Ze Lan."
Yi Ling asked in confusion, "Are you saying that the Hu family is colluding with the exorcists of Ye Mao Mountain? If so, it would explain why the Hu family is targeting you. Do you want to go to the Hu family to investigate? If they are really colluding with Ye Mao Mountain, I can't just sit back and watch."
Yu Jiu wondered, "If the Hu family really colluded with those bad guys, then they are also bad guys. Can't we just kill them all?"
Li Yi gave Yu Jiu a headbutt and scolded him, "Brains are good things, but you have to use them! It's not enough to just kill people. Besides, is there no good person in the Hu family?"
Yu Jiu covered his head and asked, "What do you say we should do then, sir?"
Li Yi looked at Yi Ling and asked, "How do you want to investigate the Hu family?"
Yi Ling said: "Just take me into the Hu Mansion, I will find out their details."
Li Yi nodded and said, "Okay, then let's go visit the Hu Mansion. Um, your clothes don't seem to be suitable."
Yi Ling asked: "Why is it inappropriate?"
Li Yi replied: "If the Hu family is really colluding with Ye Maoshan, are you wearing this Taoist robe because you are afraid that they will not be on guard against you? Then I will take you to buy a new dress, and then go to the Hu Mansion."
Yi Ling glanced at Li Yi and said coldly: "Don't have any evil ideas! See you at the main gate of Hu Mansion in an hour!" After that, he disappeared.
Yu Jiu looked at Li Yi and asked, "Sir, why did Sister Yi Ling say that? What evil intentions did you have?"
Li Yi smiled and patted Yu Jiu on the shoulder and said, "This is an adult matter. You will understand it when you grow up. Let's go. Your clothes are almost ready. Let's put on new clothes and go to Zelan Pavilion first to see how Duliang Zelan exorcises evil spirits and avoids disasters."
After changing clothes at the tailor shop, Li Yi and Yu Jiu came to Zelan Pavilion. The first floor of this attic sells Zelan hay, which is divided into two types: for medicinal use and for making incense. Some are sold as whole plants, while others are chopped, and the quantity is determined by volume.
After walking around and finding nothing unusual, the two went upstairs. The second floor sold incense, sachets, and sachets, with a full range of styles for men, women, and children. Li Yi listened to the waiter's introduction for a while, and finally bought two sachets. After that, he went to the third floor.
When he reached the stairs, he was stopped by two waiters. Li Yi asked in confusion, "Why can't we go up to the third floor?"
The waiter waved his hand and said, "Sir, you can't go up to the third floor without the boss's order."
Li Yi was surprised and asked, "Oh, then what is sold on the third floor? And how can I get the letter from the boss?"
The waiter replied, "If you can get the boss's letter, you will know what the third floor is for. If you have real ability, you may as well pay a visit to the boss's house. The third son of our boss likes to make friends with heroes all over the world. If you can be favored by the third son, you will naturally be able to get the letter."
Li Yi bowed and thanked him. At this moment, a man with two swords on his back walked over, staring at Li Yi and Yu Jiu. Seeing this, the waiter immediately bowed and said, "Hey, Brother Cheng is here. Please come upstairs."
The man surnamed Cheng asked, "Have you found the person who killed my brother?"
The waiter shook his head and said, "Brother Cheng, how would I know about this? You should go upstairs and ask the manager."
The man named Cheng walked up to Li Yi and said coldly, "You keep an unlucky child by your side, aren't you afraid of bad luck?"
Li Yi bowed and smiled, "Afraid? Otherwise, why would you come to buy a sachet? Isn't it to ward off evil and avoid disaster?"
The man named Cheng sneered and said, "Then you have to buy more, otherwise you won't be able to avoid this disaster."
Li Yi casually took out two sachets and said with a smile: "I bought two, which should be enough. Thank you for your reminder, brother."
The man named Cheng asked, "Have you ever seen a Taoist priest, a female Taoist priest?"
Yu Jiu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, and he subconsciously dodged backwards. The man surnamed Cheng immediately noticed and glared at Yu Jiu. Li Yi stretched out his hand to block Yu Jiu behind him and shook his head, saying, "Female Taoist priest? I haven't seen one before. Is she pretty? If she is a beauty, I would really like to meet her."
The man named Cheng said coldly: "Humph, then you'd better go find her quickly. If I see her first, you may not be able to see her."
Li Yi smiled and said, "Oh, then I'll go look for it right away. Let's go, Yu Jiu." The man named Cheng gave a wicked smile and then went up to the third floor.
Not long after, the roar of the man surnamed Cheng was heard from the third floor of Zelan Pavilion: "What? My brother's knife is in the hands of a child! Wasn't it a female Taoist priest who killed him? A child with bad luck?
Hiss, I just ran into one downstairs, and there was a Confucian scholar beside him? That's him!" He rushed out of Zelan Pavilion to look for the two, but at this time Li Yi had already disappeared into the crowd with Yu Jiu.
Li Yi and Yu Jiu came to the gate of Hu Mansion. Yi Ling, wearing a sky blue double-breasted robe, a light green long skirt with a waistband and a ribbon, came to greet them. Yu Jiu widened his eyes and said, "Wow, sister Yi Ling, you are so beautiful!"
Li Yi gave him a headbutt and said sternly: "Your sister Yiling has always been so beautiful!"
Yi Ling rolled her eyes at him and asked, "Why are you two so slow?"
Li Yi shook his head and said, "We have run into your enemy, Cheng Jinshi's brother, who is looking for you all over the world! We took a detour to avoid him."
Yi Ling immediately asked: "Where did you meet?"
Yu Jiu interrupted, "The third floor of Zelan Pavilion. We wanted to go up to the third floor but didn't."
Li Yi interrupted, "Yu Jiu, are you excited to see your sister Yi Ling? Why are you talking so much?"
Yu Jiu looked at Li Yi's sharp eyes, closed his mouth and stepped aside. Li Yi then looked at Yi Ling and said, "It has been confirmed that the Hu family has a close relationship with the evil cultivators of Ye Mao Mountain. Your enemies went to Ze Lan Pavilion to inquire about the news. So, isn't it like a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth to go to the Hu family now?"
Yi Ling looked at Li Yi and asked, "What? Are you scared?"