Madam, protect me!.

Chapter 84 Song Jiaren and Li Anning's First Meeting
A carriage stopped at the gate of Li's house, and Li Nuo and Song Jiaren got out of the carriage.

"Master, Madam!"

Along the way, the servants in the mansion greeted them respectfully.

Li Nuo always felt that being a servant in the Li Mansion was a very happy thing.

He and his wife seldom go home, and his father seldom shows up at home either.

The servants of the Li family did not have to serve their masters, nor did they have to follow other people's wishes. Their lives were more comfortable than that of the young master.

Today is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the Li family simply hung some lanterns.

A figure stood in the yard with his hands behind his back. Li Nuo and Song Jiaren walked over together and said, "Dad."

Li Xuanjing turned around, nodded slightly, and said, "I'm back."

"Ah."

"Get ready and go eat."

After not seeing each other for many days, the conversations between father and son were still extremely brief.

As Li Nuo gradually became more familiar with his wife, they were no longer as silent as they were at the beginning.

Sometimes we would chat while lying in bed at night, but I still have nothing to say to this father.

One reason is that the two have only met a few times so far. After all, Li Nuo is from another world, and there has always been a slight distance between him and him.

The more important reason is that his aura is too strong and he is very serious. It is difficult for people to get close to him.

While eating, no one spoke, completely practicing the principle of not talking while eating or sleeping.

No matter how skilled the Li family's chef was, Li Nuo still found the meal tasteless.

At a certain moment, Li Xuanjing put down his chopsticks and said, "I'm done eating, you guys take your time, there's no rush."

After that, he stood up and left.

Watching him walk out of the room, Li Nuo breathed a sigh of relief.

Song Jiaren's nervous expression also relaxed a little.

The two looked at each other, both feeling relieved.

After finishing his meal leisurely, Li Nuo first went to his father's study, found a few books, and then returned to his room.

The books he took were all from the Legalists, which were similar to biographies. They recorded in detail the growth paths of some Legalists predecessors, including some experiences in cultivation and how to break through bottlenecks.

I don’t know why there are so many Legalist classics in my father’s study. Li Nuo even suspects that he is secretly studying Legalism.

As the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple, he was in charge of the criminal laws of Daxia. Even if he did not take the initiative to do anything, but just reviewed and signed cases, with so many cases added up over the years, he might have been able to reach the fifth level.

After all, even Princess An Ning could cultivate to the fourth level, let alone the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple.

Of course, the premise is that he doesn't take the initiative to do anything.

If he often disregards human life and murders loyal officials, then it will be difficult for him to even enter the fifth realm, let alone the fifth realm.

Legalism and Confucianism are different from martial arts. In martial arts, the more you cultivate, the more true energy you will gain, and the martial artist will become stronger and stronger.

The Legalists misjudged a large number of cases, and the Confucians were selfish, which could cause their cultivation to stagnate, or even lose all their cultivation in a very short period of time, and completely degenerate into ordinary people.

Li Nuo was engrossed in reading a book when he heard several explosions outside.

He looked up out the window and saw a full moon hanging high in the night sky, with several fireworks blooming brilliantly around the moon.

In the thirty-third year of the Supreme Saint's reign, Li Nuo's first Mid-Autumn Festival after arriving in Daxia passed so uneventfully.

Li Nuo did not sleep well that night, as he always felt that something was missing.

When he got up in the morning and had breakfast, there were only him and his wife.

Butler Wu said that his father went to the Dali Temple early in the morning.

Over the past decade, he rarely took a break even during holidays.

After breakfast, Li Nuo and Song Jiaren looked at each other tacitly.

Not long after, a carriage slowly stopped in front of the Song Mansion.

Li Nuo jumped off the carriage and looked at the familiar gate of the Song Mansion. He felt relaxed.

Sure enough, the Song Mansion feels more like home.

A sedan stopped at the gate of the Song Mansion. Song Yu got out of the sedan listlessly. Seeing Li Nuo and Song Jiaren, he raised his hand and greeted them, "Brother-in-law, Jiaren, good morning..."

Looking at his expression, Li Nuo knew that he had gone out to fool around again last night.

Didn’t he say that he was pursuing a certain lady? Li Nuo thought he was going to turn over a new leaf, but how come he went back to his old ways after just a few days? Could it be that the poem didn’t impress her?

Li Nuo asked Song Yu, "Have you shown the poem to Miss Shen?"

Song Yu waved his hand and said, "Don't mention it."

Li Nuo was surprised: "She doesn't like it?"

For Song Yu's lifelong happiness, that was the love poem he carefully selected. He himself was reluctant to use it and let him use it to pick up girls first.

Miss Shen may not like Song Yu as a person, but if she doesn't like that poem, it only shows that she doesn't know its value.

Song Yu shook her head and said, "She liked that poem very much. She asked me to write another one that was similar. I couldn't do it, so I had to tell her that it was written by a friend of mine..."

"and then?"

"She said she wanted to marry my friend, even as a concubine."

……

It seems that the third young lady of the Shen family is a connoisseur of good things.

Very knowledgeable.

There was nothing that could be done about Li Nuo. He was just a supporting wingman. The real battle had to be fought by Song Yu himself.

He shook his head regretfully and said, "I believe that one day, you will find a woman who appreciates you."

Song Yu waved his hand and said, "Forget it. I think it's fine now. I don't know how many beautiful girls are waiting for me to save in Chang'an. I'll introduce you to a few next time..."

Song Jiaren behind Li Nuo glanced at him indifferently. Song Yu shuddered and immediately shut up.

"I didn't sleep last night, so I'm going back to sleep. Goodbye, brother-in-law, goodbye, my beauty..." He said this quickly and quickly slipped away.

Song Jiaren looked ahead and asked casually, "Miss Shen is..."

Li Nuo took the initiative to explain: "Last time, Song Yu said he wanted to pursue a girl, and asked me to help him polish a confession poem..."

Song Jiaren was very curious about what kind of poem could make a young lady from a wealthy family willing to become a concubine without ever meeting the author of the poem.

She looked at Li Nuo and asked, "Can I take a look at that poem?"

Li Nuo looked at her. She couldn't even recognize all the characters, so how could she understand poetry?

He thought she had misunderstood something, and explained again: "That poem was written for Song Yu. I really don't know Miss Shen. She must have been joking when she said that. You know, I don't know any other girls in Chang'an..."

Before Li Nuo finished speaking, he heard the sound of horse hooves.

He turned his head reflexively. Who was so bold as to ride a horse on the streets of Chang'an?
This is an extremely serious crime in the Daxia law. Riding a horse on the streets of Chang'an without reason will be punishable by a minimum of three years in prison and a maximum of death.

A horse galloped over and stopped in front of the Song Mansion. A female knight with a proud figure on the horse reached out to grab Li Nuo's shoulder and said hurriedly: "Finally found you. No time to explain. Come with me first..."

Before she touched Li Nuo's shoulder, someone grabbed her wrist in mid-air.

Li Anning paused, looked at the woman in white standing next to Li Nuo who was extremely beautiful but not as good-looking as her, and asked, "Who is this..."

"My wife."

Li Nuo explained and asked Li An Ning, "Is there anything you need from me?"

Li An Ning looked away from Song Jiaren, looked at Li Nuo, and said calmly: "Last night, a murder occurred in Sifang Pavilion, involving many high-level warriors. Aren't you about to break through? I will take you to investigate the case. If we can find out something, maybe you can enter the country. Do you want to go..."

After saying this, she rode away on her own.

Li Nuo never expected that Her Royal Highness the Princess would think of him for such a good thing. He got on the carriage immediately and asked Butler Wu to drive and follow her.

Halfway through the walk I realized that I had been in such a hurry that I had forgotten to say goodbye to my wife.

After all, it involves high-level warriors. If this deal is successful, he may have a chance to enter the country.

Moreover, up to now, he still doesn't know how many times the lifespan will be increased by judging a high-level warrior.

In front of the Song Mansion.

Watching the carriage disappear at the end of the street, Song Jiaren retracted her gaze, turned around and walked into the Song Mansion, subconsciously looking down at her chest...

……

Sifangguan was an official office of the imperial court, responsible for receiving and accommodating envoys from foreign countries.

It can be understood as the embassy district, which was under the management of the Honglu Temple.

The carriage stopped at the gate of Sifang Pavilion. Li Nuo jumped off the carriage and Li An Ning was already waiting for him there.

Two teams of soldiers in armor stood on the left and right, guarding the entrance of Sifang Pavilion.

Li Nuo thought that it was indeed the embassy district, and the security was much stricter than that of the Ministry of Personnel. Come to think of it, the people living here were all envoys from other countries. Once something happened to them in Daxia, it would be a diplomatic dispute, and if not handled properly, it would easily affect the relationship between the two countries.

"follow me."

Li Anning said something to a man who looked like a general at the door, and took Li Nuo into the gate of Sifang Pavilion.

When Butler Wu wanted to follow in, the other party stopped him with his hand: "The entire Sifang Pavilion is under martial law. No outsiders are allowed to enter!"

Li Anning looked at Butler Wu and said, "The situation today is special, so I can't bring too many people in. You wait outside first."

Butler Wu glanced at the general, clasped his fists towards Li An Ning, and said, "Princess, please take care of my young master's safety."

Li Anning nodded and said, "Don't worry, I brought him here, so I won't let him lose even a hair."

Following Li An Ning into Sifang Pavilion, Li Nuo discovered that not only was the outside heavily guarded, but there were also many armored soldiers inside, guarding the passages, and the atmosphere was solemn and murderous.

Li Nuo looked at Li An Ning and asked, "What happened here?"

Li Anning said: "This morning, an envoy from the State of Chu was found dead on his bed in his room. The people from the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple have not found any clues yet. I will take you to see..."

Li Nuo knew that with Her Royal Highness the Princess' personality of eating only the meat and not letting others drink the soup, there was no way she would think of sharing good things with him.

They are all law-abiding practitioners, who doesn’t know who?
It turned out that she couldn't handle it herself, so she had no choice but to ask him for help.

The State of Chu was a superpower that was even stronger than Daxia. The death of an envoy in Daxia could be a big or small matter.

If the relationship between the two countries is harmonious, even if the murderer cannot be caught, the State of Chu can avoid further investigation and just send another envoy.

But if the relationship between the two countries becomes tense, in the worst case scenario, Chu can even use this as an excuse to declare war on Daxia.

Inside the Sifang Pavilion, there are independent courtyards, and each courtyard is an embassy of a country.

Although this is Daxia, even Daxia officials cannot enter without the permission of the embassy owner.

Soon, the two arrived in front of a palace.

Li Nuo and Li An Ning walked into the hall and found that there were many people standing inside.

This is the meeting hall of Sifang Pavilion, which is also used as a banquet venue on weekdays. After the case occurred, the court summoned all the people involved in the case here.

Li Nuo spotted an elegant middle-aged man in the crowd at a glance. The man was tall and strong, handsome, and had an outstanding temperament. Even among the big shots in the hall, he was the most eye-catching one.

It was his father, the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple.

There were many people around Li Xuanjing, but Li Nuo did not go over to say hello.

Just now on this short journey, Li Anning gave him a brief introduction to the case.

Early this morning, an envoy from the State of Chu did not leave his room for a long time. When other envoys entered his room to check, they found him dead on the bed. The cause of death was that his heart meridian was shattered by someone's true qi.

This Chu envoy was a warrior at the peak of the third realm. He was able to sneak into his room silently and shatter his heart meridians in an instant with his true qi. The murderer's cultivation was at least at the fourth realm, most likely at the peak of the fourth realm.

Warriors of the fourth realm are rarely seen outside, but this is Sifang Pavilion, where envoys from various countries live, and they all have their own guard forces.

Even among the delegations from small countries, there are strong men in the fourth realm.

Superpowers like Chu, Qi, Zhao, etc. even have master-level guards.

In Sifang Pavilion, there are dozens of warriors above the fourth level.

It is not an easy task to find the murderer among dozens of fourth-level warriors.

However, there is good news.

The court's masters analyzed the faint remaining true energy in the body of the Chu envoy and concluded that the murderer's true energy tended to be yin and cold, and thus deduced that he was practicing a yin and cold attribute martial arts.

Since the true energy has remained for such a long time and has not dissipated, the murderer's cultivation must be above the fourth level, which also confirms the previous speculation.

Most warriors pursue domineering and powerful true qi, and those who practice yin and cold attribute skills are much rarer.

Last night was Mid-Autumn Festival, one of the busiest days of the year in Chang'an. The guards around Sifang Pavilion were several times stricter than usual. Even if one was at the fourth level, it would be impossible to sneak into Sifang Pavilion silently, kill someone, and then leave calmly.

In this way, the identity of the murderer was confined to Sifang Pavilion.

In the Sifang Pavilion, warriors above the fourth realm practice Yin-cold attribute skills, and the range has actually been shrunk to a very small extent.

There are only three such people in the entire Sifang Pavilion.

However, the identities of these three suspects are very special. They are from the envoys of Qi, Zhao and Wei respectively.

These three countries are not small states, but superpowers like Xia and Chu.

Xia, Chu, Qi, Zhao, and Wei, this case in Sifang Pavilion involved the five most powerful countries on this continent. The court attached great importance to this case and had issued a death order to the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple.

The murderer must be caught within three days.

However, due to the special identities of the suspects, the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple could not do anything excessive to them before the identity of the murderer was confirmed, and they only temporarily restricted their actions.

Li Anning said to Li Nuo, "Do you want to go and see the crime scene?"

Li Nuo shook his head.

There's nothing good about a dead body. In this regard, the people in the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple were much more professional than him. They didn't find anything, so it was a waste of time for him to go there.

Li Anning said: "Then I'll take you to see the suspect."

She walked to an official from the Ministry of Justice, pointed at Li Nuo not far away, and said something to the official. The official looked in Li Nuo's direction and shook his head at Li An Ning.

Li An Ning frowned and continued to argue with him for a few more sentences. After a while, he walked back and said to Li Nuo helplessly: "The strong man from the Three Kingdoms has been interrogated by the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple for a whole morning. It hasn't ended yet. He is very irritable at the moment. Let's wait and see..."

Taking advantage of this time, Li Anning told Li Nuo more details about the case.

The exterior of the Sifang Pavilion is heavily guarded, but the security inside the embassy is the responsibility of each country itself.

The embassy involves secrets of various countries. Even if Daxia wants to help, they will not allow it.

Yesterday was the Mid-Autumn Festival and the whole country was celebrating. The imperial court held a Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the Sifang Pavilion to entertain important envoys from various countries.

There should have been small banquets inside each embassy, ​​and many people drank alcohol, which led to their lax defense, giving the assassins the opportunity to seize the opportunity.

Several major countries are in competition with each other. Xia and Chu have had close exchanges in the past two years. These days, the Chu delegation is discussing some deeper cooperation with the court of Daxia. This is certainly not what the other three countries want to see.

Because of this incident, the relationship between Xia and Chu became strained, which the other three countries naturally welcomed.

In terms of motives, all three countries are suspects.

But having cultivated their martial arts to the fourth level, they couldn't possibly be unaware that using their true Qi to shatter their heart meridians would leave obvious evidence.

After all, they are the only three who possess the Yin-cold attribute of true qi. If something happens, they will be the first to be suspected.

Unless they are extremely stupid, they would not leave such a loophole.

The officials of Daxia who are investigating the case are now in a dangerous situation. The State of Chu cannot be offended easily, and they must be given a satisfactory result. The other three countries are not easy to mess with either.

Without sufficient evidence, they dare not and cannot make a conclusion.

The officials of Daxia in the hall were visibly anxious.

Li An Ning was also very anxious. As the princess of Daxia, she was of course concerned about Daxia. After discovering that the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple could not solve the case in a short period of time, she went to find Li Nuo as soon as possible.

Last time, everyone was fooled by Han Zhuo, but he was the only one who saw the problem at a glance.

According to the Chang'an County Magistrate, he was able to accurately identify the murderer from among two hundred people, which has left Li An Ning with doubts to this day.

But there is no doubt that he has some talent when it comes to investigating cases.

While Li Nuo and Li An Ning were waiting in the hall, a figure came over. When Li Nuo saw him, he immediately stood up and said, "Dad."

Li Xuanjing first looked at Li An Ning and said, "Meet Princess An Ning."

Li Anning's expression also became more serious, and he said, "Hello, Lord Li."

Li Xuanjing didn't seem surprised that Li Nuo and Princess An Ning were together. Li An Ning rolled her eyes and suddenly said, "Lord Li, can you let us go see the suspect?"

Soon, Li Nuo saw what power was.

He only used one sentence to make people from the Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, and the Sifangguan clear their way for Princess An Ning to handle the problem.

……

"I've already said it's not me, it's not me. I have no grudge against him, why would you kill him? I got drunk last night and slept till dawn, and when I woke up you caught me here. You asked me the same question dozens of times. Aren't you annoying me? I want to protest, call your chancellor to come here!"

Sifangguan, a courtyard somewhere.

As soon as Li Nuo and Li An Ning stepped into the yard, they heard angry shouting coming from a room.

When Li Nuo walked to the door, Li An Ning suddenly protected him behind him and waved his hand forward.

An illusory long whip appeared in her hand.

Snapped!
A teacup flew out of the room and exploded in the air, with fragments scattering everywhere.

If it weren’t for Li An Ning, the teacup would have hit him directly on the head.

Li Nuo was watching with envy. The Whip of Law, an ability of the second level of the Law School, could ignore part of the warrior's true qi defense. With her current strength, even a warrior of the fourth level would feel uncomfortable if he was hit by a whip.

When will I be able to have this ability?
Inside the room, a middle-aged man with disheveled hair looked irritable, while several officials from the Ministry of Justice and the Dali Temple looked helpless.

Hearing footsteps at the door again, the man with long hair turned around abruptly and said angrily: "You guys are never going to stop, are you? I tell you..."

Looking at the illusory whip in Li An Ning's hand, the anger on his face gradually disappeared, and he said calmly: "If you have any other questions, just ask. I will cooperate. After all, this matter is not small, and you can understand..."

(End of this chapter)