Fairy, I really am a villain!

"When the time comes, we will hand over the severed hand."

"After all, his cultivation was so strong that he could cut off the hand of a half-step Wai Jing with one sword. What's the big deal about killing someone under the city lord's nose?"

"As long as we fake the scene in advance based on the cuts and sword marks on the broken arm, the matter will be settled when we investigate."

She clapped her hands together, her eyes were particularly fiery, and she murmured, "When Master Wen San dies, won't the little guard still be mine in the end? Hehe~"

This was a perfect match for her original idea. After all, when she was trying to persuade the other party, she wanted to say "Mr. Wen is going to die", but she changed her words to "Join us".

Seeing his two children eagerly discussing the details of the plan, Jiang Hanzhou felt relieved, but then he thought again that he felt helpless.

He could see that Jiang Hongwen simply hated Mr. Wen San, while Jiang Wan'er wanted the woman with great martial arts skills, so they both brought a lot of personal emotions into the process of doing things.

Although this is not a good thing, we are young after all.

"All right!"

Jiang Hanzhou slammed the table hard, his expression serious, and said: "You have a good understanding of the plan, but there is a huge omission so far. Do you know what it is?

"what..."

Hearing this, Jiang Hongwen reacted immediately and slapped his head and said, "It was the canal worker who led the way! What a bummer! I forgot to kill him!"

"What?" Jiang Wan'er's eyes widened. "He is the only one who knows that we are cooperating with Mr. Wen San. How can you spare his life?"

"Everyone said I forgot about it. When I saw Wen Laogou flirting with Ye Jiu, I got angry all of a sudden..."

"I'm so convinced!"

Jiang Wan'er was so angry that she wanted to stamp her feet. Then she reacted and looked at her father with hopeful eyes, "Dad, since you found out in advance, is there any..."

"Ah."

Jiang Hanzhou nodded slightly and waved his hand casually, and a sturdy man appeared from the shadows behind him.

Dai Peng, who was full of tendons, grinned, produced a bloody knife from between his fingers, hooked it on his fingertips, turned it around, and said with a smile:

"Since we are in the same business, we should be careful when we act."

"So I just cut his tongue, broke one of his legs, and then let him go."

It is worth mentioning that this meeting hall is a few miles outside the city.

To crawl back to the city in the cold morning, with heavy blood loss and a broken leg, it is not something that can be done with just willpower.

Even if Liu Dazhu really returned alive, he would have become a disabled person. Having lost the ability to speak and make a living, all he could do was wait for death.

"Thanks to Dad for his thoughtful consideration." Seeing this, the Jiang brothers and sisters breathed a sigh of relief and smiled.

Chapter 435 Get Out of Jiangzhou

The sun rises in the east, and the noise of the whole night finally comes to an end.

Originally, Fang and Luo, who had suffered such a great punishment, wanted to go back to their room and take a nap.

Especially the latter, because she had been running around, she had been hungry all night, and she was thinking about asking the bad guy named Fang to make a delicious meal for her - now even the sun looked like a big delicious pancake to her.

However, after returning to the rented courtyard, they were both stunned and realized that this place might not be suitable for living now:

The yard is filled with old-style wooden structures. The original owner was quite sentimental and planted many flowers and plants throughout the yard. It originally matched the surroundings, but now most of them have been smashed beyond recognition.

I saw that several doors had been broken into pieces, the glazed windows were smashed and the debris was scattered all over the ground, the yard was littered with broken flower pots, the furniture in the house was in a mess, and there were several large and messy footprints on the soil.

"What's going on?"

After a pause, Luo Qingni went out and came back three times. After confirming that the door number was correct, she finally accepted it and rushed over.

The "ruins" of the kitchen.

It's fine if you don't look at it, but once you look at it, your pearls will fall off your cheeks:

"The stove fell over!"

"The pots and pans were also smashed, as well as your kitchen utensils..."

"The bowls were smashed, too. Not even half of the biggest one was left... And the seasonings, dried star anise and Sichuan peppercorns are gone too! Xiwen, what are we going to eat from now on!"

Suffering an extremely heavy blow, she rushed out of the kitchen with a scream, threw herself into Fang Xiwen's arms and began to twitch.

"No, your focus is too strange." Feeling a little amused, the latter patted her head perfunctorily, looked around, and shook his head: "After this trip, we have to pay a lot of money to the owner of the house."

"I have no pots to cook in, no bowls to eat in, I'm really going to have to starve!"

"Don't worry, don't the hundreds of restaurants in the city fill your stomach? We need to find out who robbed the house first."

"I want to eat what you cook!"

After pretending to cry for a while, Luo Qingni wiped her snot on his clothes, and finally raised her head, looking around angrily, "The criminal is definitely not a thief! If he stole money, there would be no need to smash so many of our things. He must be here to seek revenge!"

"uh-huh."

With a bit of disgust, Fang Xiwen pressed the handkerchief on her face and gently pushed it away. He went straight into the house and checked the damage to the furniture.

He picked up two of the pieces and looked at them. He thought, "Look, these two pieces were originally one piece, but were broken apart by brute force. What's a little strange is that there are footprints and handprints on the two pieces, indicating that they were formed in this way..."

He stepped on one piece, held another piece, and reenacted the scene. He continued, "This man almost used up all his strength to break the thick wooden board, which shows that he has no cultivation. After all, practitioners who have opened their minds or even accumulated great energy don't need to exert so much effort."

"That makes sense. I can break a few fingers if you ask me." Luo Qingni moved forward and nodded pretentiously.

After looking at a few more places, they went out to the yard.

Fang Xiwen pointed at some footprints left by mud and said, "There are three people, all wearing straw sandals. Look at the solidified appearance, there was still water when they stepped on them... Well, I roughly know who they are."

In fact, there was no need to go through so much trouble to check, because in his perception, he knew the owner of one of these auras. "Could it be..." Luo Qingni squatted down to take a look, staring at him with wide eyes, "It was those canal workers you helped?!"

"Well, it's quite consistent in many aspects."

"why?"

"Think about it, there were only a few people who knew we lived here, and there was only one person, Xiaoting. Maybe Xiaoting told Dazhu, and then Dazhu told others?"

“I’m asking why they’re doing this!”

"Who knows..."

As he spoke, Fang Xiwen caught a glimpse of something on the ceiling in the room and casually took a picture of it.

This was a note with very sloppy handwriting, and the content was simple and crude, just four big characters: "Get out of Jiangzhou!!"

The strokes were crooked, and what was used wasn't a brush, but probably just harder coal. There were even typos in it.

"unacceptable."

After snatching it and reading it several times, Luo Qingni was so angry that she tore the note into pieces and snorted, "We were obviously helping them, but they turned around and treated us like this! They are not good people!"

"That's understandable. After all, after what happened at the dock, they probably think I've become a lackey of the imperial court, and that the previous incident was a conspiracy with the Six Gates to fool them. It's normal for them to be disappointed."

After looking around the messy courtyard again, Fang Xiwen looked normal and just shook his head slightly.

Seeing this, Luo Qingni grabbed his hand and shouted, "Why do we have to suffer here? Pay the money to the owner and we'll leave! We won't serve you anymore!"

Maybe the boy didn't care because he had a good temper, but she couldn't stand it: How could you bully others like this?

Her man dared to slap the emperor in the face. He was almost invincible in the three realms when he first entered the location shooting. However, he was willing to pretend to be a middle-aged wealthy businessman in this small town and endured being assassinated. Why?

Didn't he just want to see the situation clearly so he could help these canal workers - these things could have had nothing to do with him - but in the end he got this result.

"Okay, it's only a few days. Stay and see if there are any changes." Fang Xiwen coaxed her with a smile, "Don't be angry. I'll make you something delicious."

"What else can change? Let them beat me up if they want. I can't bear to see you suffer this kind of injustice!"

Luo Qingni snorted again with a pout, "Dajiang Gang, what's so great about the Dajiang Gang? If I didn't have to hide my identity, I would have punched those bad guys to death!"

"Wow, Miss Luo is so majestic."

"I just want to vent your anger and make you feel better!"

"In that case, I have a good plan..."

After all, all the natural resources and treasures needed for dual cultivation are at hand. Although the effect of the technique is not very good, it is still okay to use it as it is.

Luo Qingni is probably quite smart in most situations, but she is very easy to deceive in front of him.

~~

For several days.

A fire at the east dock burned down almost half of Zhoushan’s ships—not counting those that had set sail and never returned, of course—but the number reached an exaggerated number of dozens or even hundreds.

In the following days, there were basically no boatmen or sailors at the dock. This was very unusual.

In theory, even if they cannot afford the various expenses for renting a boat and traveling on the journey, in order to support their families, these men will try every possible means, such as using things at home as collateral.

After all, in some families, several mouths depend on one person for food. If the machine stops working, the whole family will starve to death.

"It's really weird."

After watching the sparse crowds of people going out and returning boats at the restaurant near the dock for three days, Xue Ruyu muttered to himself.

If it was strange that the boatmen did not go to work, it was even stranger that they did not take to the streets to cause trouble:

Since the fire started, the Liushenmen Yamen has only received a few reports of crimes, and the damage suffered by the people was not serious. Most of the ships were fine, but the things inside were stolen during the firefighting.

To put it bluntly, there were many people who had their belongings burned down by a ship fire, but why didn't they come to report to the police?

"Well, it's probably because there's no point in reporting it. After all, the Six Gates will only clarify that the fire has nothing to do with them, and they dare not put the trouble on the Cao Gang..." Xue Ruyu thought helplessly.

Compared with these things, the demolition of Mr. Wen Sanye's house did not seem so surprising, and this was not the only strange thing.

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen him around lately... Could it be that he just left because he couldn't figure out the situation?"

Thinking that Master Wen San was gone, he inexplicably felt a little uneasy.

After sitting by the window facing the dock for a while, the door of the wing was opened and a man in casual clothes came in quietly. He knelt on one knee and said, "Master Xue, the memorial you submitted to the court not long ago has been rejected."

"Why?"

"The new Minister of Works, Lord Yang Jingyang, is on his way. He said he would tell you the reason."

"Hey, go down."

Waving his hand to dismiss his confidant, Xue Ruyu showed a bit of worry on his face:

The content of that memorial was simple. It was based on Zhoushan and described the local ecology in detail. It also emphasized that the relationship between the Cao Gang and the people was very complicated and that it was not appropriate to act rashly at the moment.

Perhaps it was this somewhat ambiguous attitude that displeased the saint, so he sent someone directly over, probably to take over his job.