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Chapter 54 One-on-One Battle Against Black Wind Temple

The witness's name is Yan Qi, and he is a villager from the vicinity of the crime scene.

The testimony was quite simple: when the two women were being chased by assassins, Yan Qi was passing by with a sheep.

Thinking he had encountered bandits, he was so frightened that he immediately hid in the woodpile, abandoning his sheep.

Of course, Yan Qi did not witness the entire incident firsthand; he only heard the assassins' extremely arrogant threats.
"Dare to oppose my Xiliang and slaughter my Xiliang soldiers, this is the consequence."

Then the two women screamed, which scared the trembling Yan Qi so much that he wet himself.

After enduring until the assassin left, he cautiously emerged from the woodpile and was the first to witness the two women whose faces had been hacked to pieces.

Then she screamed in terror, attracting a crowd of villagers who then reported the incident to the police.

Yan Qi couldn't describe the assassins' appearance in detail, only remembering that they were all dressed in black and carrying gleaming curved blades.

As for the two women, they were disheveled and stumbled as they ran. In the dim moonlight, he couldn't see them at all.

There were no valuable clues, but in the end, there were witnesses' names, fingerprints, and addresses.

However, a line of small print below the testimony caught Liang Jiang's attention.

When the assassin left, he took Yan Qi's sheep with him.

Liang Jiang thought about it and felt very puzzled.

First, the presence of sheep indicates the presence of people nearby. Assassins, by their very nature, would undergo extremely rigorous training and should seek out witnesses to kill and silence them.

Secondly, as an assassin from Xiliang, how could he be so greedy as to take such a small advantage, not even letting go of a single sheep?

Is it possible that the assassin deliberately left survivors?

Including the scimitar left at the scene, surely the assassin couldn't have lost his weapon when facing two defenseless women?
If that is indeed the case, then whether the other party is actually from Xiliang is debatable.

My father spent his life fighting and eliminating countless bandits and outlaws. Perhaps some of his old enemies took the opportunity to retaliate and framed the Xiliang assassin.

If we find this witness, can we find any flaws in his testimony?

Liang Jiang silently noted down the village where Yan Qi lived and put the dossier back in its original place. It was almost dawn when they left the capital.

After finding a random inn, taking a nap, and having something to eat, Liang Jiang found Yan Qi at the address recorded in yesterday's dossier.

He was a bachelor in his forties or fifties, slovenly, with his cuffs slicked back with oil, but his eyes gleamed with shrewdness.

Hearing that Liang Jiang was looking for him, the bachelor squinted and looked him up and down, his smile even a little lewd.

Liang Jiang didn't want to waste words with him, so she took out a silver ingot from her bosom and waved it in front of him: "Tell me the story of the murder you witnessed two years ago, word for word, and this silver ingot is yours."

Yan Qi stared, his eyes wide with amazement. This silver was enough for him to buy a flock of sheep, and with sheep, he could have a wife.

Therefore, he immediately recounted what he had seen that day in its entirety.

He had boasted about these words to others in the village countless times, so he said them almost without thinking.

Liang Jiang did not give him the silver, but said seriously, "I want to know some things that others don't know."

Yan Qi racked his brains, and finally his eyes lit up: "I know where those assassins live!"

Liang Jiang immediately perked up: "Where do I stay?"

"Live on the mountain."

Liang Jiang frowned: "Which mountain?"

"I didn't say," the bachelor said matter-of-factly.

Liang Jiang patiently asked, "Then how do you know they live on the mountain?"

“After they killed the man, one of them took my sheep and said he would roast it on the mountain.”

"Anything else to say?" "No."

"Didn't anyone notice you?"

Yan Qi thought for a moment and said, "I'm just a fool with good luck. I was hiding under the woodpile at the time, and they were so busy leading the sheep that they didn't see me."

"Then why didn't you mention this when you were in the government office?"

"I only told them half of what I was saying, that if they found the murderer, they should remember to get my sheep back. But they told me to stop talking nonsense and not to ramble on about things that weren't related to the case."

Liang Jiang asked again, but couldn't get any other useful clues, so she threw the silver to him and turned to leave.

Yan Qi received the silver, took a big bite, and to make sure he wasn't dreaming, he immediately beamed with joy.

"Hey!" he called out to Liang Jiang, "If you give me another piece of silver, I'll tell you which mountain they're on."

Liang Jiang paused, then turned around suspiciously: "You know?"

"It's almost certainly true." Yan Qi was confident.

Liang Jiang immediately pulled out an even larger piece of silver from her bosom: "Speak!"

Yan Qi's eyes widened, his face filled with drooling. He couldn't wait to say, "About thirty or forty miles to the west, there's a Black Wind Mountain. They must be a group of Taoist priests from that mountain."

"A Taoist priest? How do you know? Didn't you say they didn't say anything?"

The bachelor chuckled and said, "That sheep was the one I raised to get married. I was a little unwilling to let it go, so I kept asking around to see which mountain nearby had bandits living on."

As it turned out, they actually found out that someone had personally witnessed several men carrying a sheep up Black Wind Mountain.

On Black Wind Mountain stands Black Wind Temple, where a group of Taoist priests skilled in scaling walls and leaping across rooftops have always lived. The temple owns no land and has been abandoned for many years, with no one donating incense.

According to the villagers at the foot of the mountain, they were actually using Taoist priests as a front; in reality, they were nocturnal, engaging in robbery and plunder.

"Didn't you report it to the authorities?"

"It's better not to mention it, because it makes me angry. At the time, I thought I was definitely not someone to mess with, so I went to the Duke's mansion to find the family of the mother and daughter who were murdered, hoping to use this clue to exchange for some reward money, and also to kill these bandits under the pretense of the Duke's mansion."

To my surprise, I was immediately kicked out by that Master Liang and even got two whacks on the head. He said that if I continued to spread nonsense and slander Taoism, he would send me to the border to build city walls.

"Fine, better to avoid trouble. I'll just accept my bad luck. After all, the current emperor is a big fan of Taoism."

Such a crucial clue was not only ignored by my second uncle, but he also threatened and intimidated him. Clearly, his claims of worry and anxiety were nothing but pretense.

Further questioning was all that could be asked.

Liang Jiang readily gave him the silver and instructed him, "You must keep my visit today a strict secret; you must not tell anyone. Otherwise..."

Before Liang Jiang could finish speaking, Yan Qi replied repeatedly, "I understand, I understand!"

After finding out the direction of Black Wind Mountain, Liang Jiang set off alone.

Yan Qi shook his head and clicked his tongue in regret: "Such a beautiful young lady, sending her to that bandit's den is like throwing a lamb to the slaughter. She'd be better off as my wife."

Liang Jiang was highly skilled and daring, and didn't take the bandits from Black Wind Mountain seriously at all.

Reaching the foot of the mountain, they inquired with nearby villagers about the route into the mountain and the situation of the robbers. In broad daylight, they sneaked up the mountain and cornered the robbers at the mountain god temple.

These bandits have been entrenched in this mountain for several years. Just as Yan Qi said, they disguised themselves as Taoist priests, but in reality, they were engaged in murder, robbery, and plunder.

Moreover, each of them possesses exceptional martial arts skills and is extremely agile.

After finding out the situation, Liang Jiang showed no mercy when she made her move, quickly dispatching the vicious bandits and leaving only two alive.

The two bandits had no idea how they had offended this living devil, and knelt at Liang Jiang's feet, trembling with fear.

"Grandma, at least let us die knowing why. I really can't remember when I offended you."

(End of this chapter)