Zongwu: Eavesdropping on the inner voices, the female warriors have become strange

"Miss, son-in-law." The two old women hurried over and bowed respectfully.

"Did you hear what your husband said just now?" Wang Yuyan asked.

"I heard it." One of the old ladies, whose surname was Li and whose name was Li Ma Ma, replied.

"I'll leave this to you. I don't care what method you use, just don't alarm anyone. Take out the gold, silver and jewelry inside the Buddha statue, wash them clean, and transport them back to the Song Dynasty." Wang Yuyan said.

Of course, there was no need for Chen Liu, Wang Yuyan and others to personally take the treasure. The servants and maids from Mantuo Villa who had arrived in Jingzhou earlier than them would come to take the treasure and transport it.

The maid looked at the huge statue and said, "My lady, my son-in-law, this statue is so huge, and the jewels inside are poisonous. It is impossible to remove it and transport it to the ship in one day. If you don't want to alert others, it would be best to buy this place and pretend to build a house or find an excuse to repair the temple so as not to attract attention."

"Since this matter has been handed over to you, just do it however you think it can be done well." Wang Yuyan said.

"Yes, ma'am."

After handing over the treasure to the servants at Mantuo Villa, Chen Liu returned to the city with Wang Yuyan, Huang Rong, and the others. The treasure was only a minor matter; the next step, the "Shen Zhao Jing," was the most important.

Chen Liu asked Wang Yuyan, Mu Nianci and the other girls to return to the inn first, while he went to visit the Wan family himself. What Chen Liu didn't know was that after he left, the two masters, Wang Yuyan and Lianxing, had quietly followed him. As for Huang Rong and Mu Nianci, because their cultivation was too low, they were afraid of being discovered by Chen Liu, so they could only return to the inn in frustration.

Wan Zhenshan, the head of the Jingzhou Wan family, is one of the three disciples of Mei Niansheng, known as "Iron Bone and Black Embroidery", a famous martial arts master in Hunan during the Ming Dynasty. He is the eldest and nicknamed "Five Cloud Hands".

In addition to Wan Zhenshan, Mei Niansheng also accepted two apprentices, "Land Dragon" Yan Daping and "Iron Chains Across the River" Qi Changfa. Although Mei Niansheng's martial arts skills are high and he is indifferent to fame and fortune, his vision in accepting apprentices is not good. He accepted three apprentices, all of whom are vicious and villainous. In order to obtain "The Untold Story", the three of them conspired to kill their master.

When Chen Liu went to investigate Tianning Temple, he also found out the address of the Wan family. When he arrived at the Wan family, Chen Liu used his Qinggong to jump onto the roof of the Wan family and quietly strolled around the Wan family. He saw many interesting things, such as Wan Zhenshan's concubine having an affair with his son Wan Gui, and the concubine stealing a servant.

Chen Liu also heard some of the casual conversation between Wan Gui and Wan Zhenshan's concubine, and learned that the concubine was the woman who framed Di Yun, and that Di Yun had now been framed by Wan Gui and thrown into the prison in Jingzhou. This means that Qi Fang should also be in Wan's mansion now.

Chen Liu's eyes rolled around, and he quickly searched the Wan family's house. The Wan family's house wasn't actually very big, so Chen Liu quickly found Qi Fang's room. Qi Fang was sitting at a table, sighing with a worried look on her face.

Qi Fang, her father Qin Changfa, and her senior brother Di Yun went to visit Master Wan's house in Jingzhou. Unexpectedly, her father beat up Master Wan and ran away. When her senior brother Di Yun saw Wan's concubine, he changed his honest and dull nature and became lustful. He wanted to molest Master Wan's concubine, so he was thrown into Jingzhou jail.

Qi Fang was just a country girl with little experience. At this moment, she was at her wit's end and could only ask Wan Gui to help her save her brother. Wan Gui was very kind to her. Not only did he promise to help, he also used money to bribe the jailers of Jingzhou Prison to make Di Yun's life better, which made Qi Fang very grateful. But she was still worried before Di Yun was rescued. In addition to worrying about Di Yun, what made Qi Fang most angry was not anything else, but Di Yun's emotional betrayal of her, Di Yun's infidelity, and her own loss of love.

Thinking of Di Yun's betrayal of her, Qi Fang sighed slightly and couldn't help but start crying again.

At this moment, a black shadow rushed in from outside the door. Qi Fang was shocked and was about to fight back and shout for help, but the black shadow was too fast and arrived in front of her in an instant. It hit her a few times and Qi Fang could not move.

"Tsk tsk, the little one is quite pretty." The person who came was naturally Chen Liu. He glanced at Qi Fang and couldn't help but click his tongue twice.

Qi Fang was indeed good-looking, with a round face, big black eyes, a slightly upturned nose, thin eyebrows, a curved mouth, narrow shoulders, a slender waist, and a delicate and beautiful appearance. However, she could not impress Chen Liu. Every girl around him was prettier than Qi Fang, and Qi Fang was deeply in love with Di Yun.

"No wonder Wan Gui framed that fool Di Yun for you."

Qi Fang: ...

What? Qi Fang was horrified.

Senior Brother Wan Gui framed her senior brother?

Chapter 163 Qi Fang (Part )

On the roof of Wan Zhenshan's concubine's room, Chen Liu watched Qi Fang's transformation from shock to anger, then from anger to shame, and from shame to deathly pale, in the dim light of the lanterns in the corridor of the Wan family. He found it very interesting.

Wan Gui originally intended to kill Di Yun; without Di Yun's death, he would have no chance of winning the girl's heart. However, while Wan Gui wanted Di Yun dead, Ling Tui Si didn't want to. He used many tactics to coerce Ding Dian, using torture, spies, and even threatening his daughter, but still couldn't get Ding Dian to talk. So, he thought of a different approach: to imprison an unrelated person in Ding Dian's cell to gain his trust. Ding Dian certainly wouldn't want to reveal his secrets to the underworld. Once Ling Tui Si revealed the secrets to the unrelated person, it would be easier for him to torture and trick them than to extract the secrets from Ding Dian.

Just as Ling Tui Si came up with this plan, the Wan family happened to send Di Yun over. He looked into Di Yun's background and learned that he was a simple, honest, and simple-minded boy. It was like someone delivering a pillow just when he was asleep. After receiving the money, Ling Tui Si naturally agreed to the Wan family's request for a heavy sentence for a minor crime. However, as for Wan Gui's plan to kill Di Yun, he had no intention of doing so. He accepted the money, but he would not kill him.

Just now, Wan Gui was talking to the concubine who had framed Di Yun, saying that he had offered Ling Tui Si many times to kill Di Yun, but no matter how much he offered, Ling Tui Si refused to kill him. This made Wan Gui extremely angry, and he called Ling Tui Si a greedy person who could never get enough. Chen Liu had acupunctured these words, and they were brought to the concubine's rooftop to listen to the erotic scene. Qi Fang, who was watching the show, overheard them, and how could she not be shocked and despaired?

It turns out her senior brother hadn't betrayed her; it was all Wan Gui's scheme to frame her brother. Qi Fang was even more furious when Wan Gui bribed the government to kill her senior brother. Luckily, the magistrate was too greedy and spared his life. But what good was that now? Her father had vanished after injuring Master Wan, and her senior brother had been framed and imprisoned. She was just a weak woman, what could she do? Even if she wanted to fight Wan Gui, she wouldn't be able to defeat him.

Chen Liu picked up Qi Fang, and with a flash of his body, he jumped onto the roof of another house. After flashing several times, he left the Wan family.

After finding a deserted spot, Chen Liu untied Qi Fang's acupuncture points. Qi Fang fell to the ground with a plop, and said with tears streaming down her face, "Why did he do this?"

"Of course it's for you." Chen Liu said with a smile.

"For me?" Qi Fang looked up at Chen Liu.

"You like your senior brother very much, right?" Chen Liu asked.

Qi Fang blushed slightly.

"Your senior brother likes you too, right?"

Qi Fang's face turned even redder.

"If you fall in love with a girl, but that girl already has a lover and they are very much in love, then what should you do to get that girl?" Chen Liu asked.

Qi Fang was a little confused. She was just a simple girl from the countryside. She didn't have much experience and had never seen any evil tricks. Naturally, she couldn't imagine the evil of human hearts.

"Wan Gui's approach was to first falsely accuse Di Yun of wanting to rape his father's concubine, leading you to believe that Di Yun couldn't resist his beauty and had changed his mind about you. Are you sad and disappointed by this?"

Qi Fang thought about it and it was true. When she heard that her senior brother actually wanted to rape Uncle Wan's concubine, she completely collapsed. And when the Wan family found gold, silver and jewelry from Di Yun's room, she was extremely disappointed with her senior brother.

"When Di Yun was thrown into prison, he came out and pretended to be a good guy, asking about your well-being and even showing that he was willing to do his best to help your senior brother. Aren't you very grateful?"

And rightly so, Qi Fang still thought Wan Gui was a good man, and therefore was very grateful to him. If Chen Liu hadn't brought her to the concubine's roof today, where she had witnessed Wan Gui having an affair with his father's concubine and heard him trying to kill Di Yun, she would still be in the dark.

"Of course, putting Di Yun in jail is not enough. The most important thing is to kill Di Yun. If Di Yun is not dead, how can he get you?" Chen Liu said with a smile.

In the original novel, Wan Gui only managed to win over Qi Fang after Di Yun had been imprisoned for three years. This shows that although Qi Fang believed Di Yun was wrong, she still loved him deeply, which is why Wan Gui spent three years to win over Qi Fang. As long as Di Yun was alive, it would be difficult for Qi Fang to change her mind. Naturally, Wan Gui wanted to kill him, but Ling Tui Si didn't want to, so he had no choice.

So that's how it is. Qi Fang's face suddenly turned extremely pale. It was all because of her that her senior brother was framed by the Wan family.

"Almost the entire Wan family knows about this. Wan Zhenshan knows, Wan Gui knows, Wan Zhenshan's disciples know, even the Wan family's servants know. Only you, a silly girl, are kept in the dark."

Qi Fang suddenly collapsed to the ground, her mind going blank.

After a while, Qi Fang turned around and knelt down in front of Chen Liu, kowtowed repeatedly, and begged, "Please, hero, save my brother. Please, hero, save my brother."

"Why should I help you save your senior brother?" Chen Liu asked with a smile.

Qi Fang paused, gritted her teeth, and said, "My father abandoned us and ran away..."

"Your father didn't run away, he died. He was killed by your uncle Wan Zhenshan, and then he built him into the wall. He pretended to be injured by your father and said he ran away."

Qi Fang's body shook, and she couldn't help but scream out in surprise, crying out, "Daddy."

"But your father didn't die. He faked his own death and escaped into hiding."

Qi Fang's mouth was slightly open, tears still hanging in her eyes. Just now she was still grieving over her father's murder, and this person immediately told her that her father had faked his death and escaped into hiding. This was just a joke.

"Haha, your expression is quite funny."

Qi Fang: ...

Qi Fang kowtowed to Chen Liu again and said, "As long as you can rescue my brother, I will repay your kindness even if I have to work like a slave."

"That's not something you should say!" Chen Liu said with a smile, "Do you know what you'll pay for saying this?"

Qi Fang's face turned pale. She knew she was beautiful and this man was just attracted to her. She also knew what she would have to pay if she agreed to him, but when she thought of her senior brother still suffering in prison, she couldn't turn a blind eye.

"Please, hero, save my brother. As long as you can save my brother, I am willing to pay any price."

"I'm attracted to you..."

Qi Fang's body swayed slightly, then she became resolute again. For her senior brother, she had no choice but to sacrifice herself.

"...and your senior brother."

"Ah!" Qi Fang exclaimed.

Chen Liu laughed and said, "Do you think I'm attracted to you?"

Is not it?

Qi Fang was a little confused.

"I think your senior brother is a good person, so I want him to come to my house to serve as a priest." Chen Liu said with a smile.

Di Yun was indeed a good man, loyal and honest. If he were made a tribute, and his junior sister Qi Fang was rescued and betrothed to him, he would definitely be loyal to Chenliu. Furthermore, Di Yun was the protagonist, and had good talent. If he could learn martial arts well, he would definitely reach the level of a master. A loyal and devoted protagonist and master would be wasted if he was let go.

Qi Fang heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing this, a look of delight on her face. Wang Yuyan, hiding in the shadows, also breathed a sigh of relief. Although she didn't mind Chen Liu taking a concubine, she would certainly be unhappy if he took her from anyone he saw.

Chapter 164 Qi Fang (Part )

"Do you want me to help you kill the Wan family?"

Chen Liu had no good feelings towards the Wan family. There wasn't a single good person in this family. Wan Zhenshan wasn't a good person, his son Wan Gui wasn't a good person, and his disciples weren't good people either. Well, throughout the entire "Untold Story," there weren't many good people.

Qi Fang was shocked when she heard this. This man had a strong murderous nature. The entire Wan family, including apprentices and servants, had a large number of people, at least hundreds of people. But this man talked about killing people as if it was like drinking water, without any emotional fluctuations.

"I, I..." Qi Fang didn't know how to answer. Qi Fang was kind by nature. She had killed chickens and ducks before, but never humans. Now that Chen Liu asked her if she wanted to kill the Wan family, she was a little overwhelmed. If she agreed, even though she didn't kill the Wan family personally, it would be the same as if she had done it herself.

"There aren't many good people in the Wan family. Besides framing your senior brother, they've done countless evil things. Dozens of innocent lives have been lost at their hands. Furthermore, Wan Zhenshan conspired with your father and your second uncle to kill their master."

"My father? You're lying." Chen Liu mentioned that her father and Uncle Wan had conspired to kill her master. Qi Fang immediately retorted, "My father is such an honest man, how could he possibly kill my master?"

"Of course it's for the Liancheng Sword Technique." Chen Liu smiled and said, "Your father's nickname is Iron Chain Across the River. This nickname is used to describe his insidious and vicious methods. It's like an iron chain across the river, leaving others in a dilemma, unable to live or die. He looks honest on the outside, but in fact he is unfathomable and cunning. He would even disregard family ties for the sake of treasure, and he doesn't even trust his own daughter. Such a character complements the nickname 'Iron Chain Across the River' perfectly!"

"Swordsmanship? Treasure?" Qi Fang was a little confused.

"Liancheng Sword Technique, oh, that's Tangshi Sword Technique, the book you took to pinch your shoe soles. He probably told you about the Lying Corpse Sword Technique, right? Actually, it's Tangshi Sword Technique. That book involves a treasure."

Chen Liu explained, "They teamed up to kill the master just for that treasure. Do you know why your father brought you here to celebrate Wan Zhenshan's birthday?"

Qi Fang shook her head.

"Because you took away the Tang Shi Sword Technique, he mistakenly thought it was stolen by Wan Zhenshan, so he brought you here to celebrate Wan Zhenshan's birthday and wanted to get the book back. Haha..."

It's really interesting, because Qi Fang took away the Tang poetry sword technique, Qi Changfa thought it was stolen by Wan Zhenshan, so he came to Jingzhou to find him, which led to a series of events and fights later.

Qi Fang couldn't help but shake her body. So that's what it was.

"Why do you know so much?"

Qi Fang was deeply puzzled. Chen Liu even knew she'd taken the Tang Shi Sword Skill Clip from her shoe, yet only she and her senior brother Di Yun knew about it. Could this man have been spying on them the entire time? Given his abilities, it wouldn't be a problem for him to spy on them without them noticing. This was probably the only explanation.

"I can tell fortunes." Chen Liu saw a suspicious look on Qi Fang's face. After a moment's thought, he realized that she probably suspected him of spying on them. The big trickster immediately came online and said with a smile: "Don't doubt it, I'm not spying on you. I know where the treasure is myself, so there's no need to spy on you. I don't just know your affairs, I know many, many things. My name is Chen Liu, and I'm known as the 'Divine Calculator' in the martial arts world. Some people also call me Chen Banxian. Not only do I know about your past, I can even predict that you will marry Wan Gui in the future and give him a daughter named Kong Xincai."

Qi Fang's body swayed again. Di Yun's nickname was "Kong Xin Cai," a name Qi Fang had for him, reserved for the two of them. Qi Fang had chosen it to describe Di Yun as "brainless, honest and devoid of any thought." If what this person said was true, the mere thought of not only marrying the enemy who framed her senior brother but also bearing him children filled her with despair.

"And you ended up dying at Wan Gui's hands." Chen Liu struck Qi Fang again and asked, "You really don't want to kill them?"

Qi Fang opened her mouth when she heard this. Although she felt that the Wan family deserved to die, she really couldn't bring herself to kill them.

"Let's go. Since you don't want to kill the Wan family, then forget it." Chen Liu turned around and led the way, taking Qi Fang back to the inn.

Although Chen Liu disliked the Wan family, he didn't have a strong desire to kill. The world of Zongwu was rife with villains. In ancient times, eleven out of ten wealthy people were bad, essentially no good people existed. Even the most renowned philanthropists had their wealth illicitly sourced, often through acts of plunder and robbery. Could he possibly kill every wealthy person he saw? Even his mother-in-law, Li Qingluo, wasn't a good person, having murdered countless men.