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

Of course, there is another reason. The maids of Mantuo Villa have not taken away the treasure of Tianning Temple yet. If he kills Wan Zhenshan's family, it may alert the enemy and prevent the maids from getting the treasure and the "Shenzhao Jing" with him.

Chen Liu asked Qi Fang about her because he wanted to test her character. Although the original novel said Qi Fang was a kind-hearted girl, Chen Liu no longer dared to use the characters in the original novel to define the people in the Zongwu world, because too many people's personalities did not match the original novels. For example, the personalities of Wang Yuyan, Huang Rong, Zhong Ling, etc. were very different from the original novels, making him dare not trust the books anymore.

When Chen Liu returned to the inn, Wang Yuyan and Lianxing had already returned before him.

"Husband." Wang Yuyan pretended not to know Qi Fang. When she saw Qi Fang, she looked angry and said, "Is she the new woman you've set your sights on?"

"No, don't think too much." Chen Liu stepped forward and put his arms around Wang Yuyan's slender waist. He touched her delicate face with his lips and said, "I encountered an injustice, so I intervened."

Chen Liu told Wang Yuyan, Mu Nianci and the other girls about the Wan family's plot to frame Di Yun and trick Qi Fang, saying, "I think Di Yun and Qi Fang are good people, so I want to take Di Yun in as a guest official."

After finally using his reputation as a fortune teller to trick Wang Yuyan, Huang Rong, Mu Nianci and other girls into coming, Chen Liu immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

[The name of this divine fortune teller is quite useful, otherwise this matter would be really difficult to get away with.]

Wang Yuyan, Huang Rong and other girls pursed their lips and laughed in their hearts. They all knew that Chen Liu was lying to them, but they just didn't say it. It was quite interesting to watch their husband (Brother Chen Liu) acting.

After meeting Wang Yuyan, Huang Rong, Lianxing, and Mu Nianci, Qi Fang finally felt relieved. No wonder Chen Liu looked down on her; it turned out he already had so many beautiful wives, each more beautiful than her.

The next morning, the Wan family discovered Qi Fang was missing. Wan Gui was immediately distraught, fearing that Qi Fang had sensed something was wrong and fled, and he hurried to find his father. Wan Zhenshan was also alarmed, and while ordering his apprentice and servants to search for Qi Fang, he also sent a sum of money to Ling Tui Si, implicitly suggesting that Di Yun be killed. However, Ling Tui Si accepted the money and did not kill Di Yun.

Chapter 165 Offering = Thugs

There are many bad guys in Jin Yong's novels, such as the four notorious villains in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils, the Blood Knife Patriarch who raped, plundered and committed all kinds of evil, the ungrateful Qiu Qianchi, Yu Canghai who killed his entire family to steal the secret book, etc., but the worst one is not as evil as Ling Tui Si.

Ling Tui Si was originally the leader of the Longsha Gang in Lianghu, a bandit who specialized in arson, murder, and looting. After the Longsha Gang was destroyed by the Blood Knife Patriarch, he transformed himself into a Jinshi (a successful Jinshi) and even paid a large sum to become the prefect of Jingzhou Prefecture.

After learning the secret of Ding Dian's treasure, he even went so far as to tear his face off and imprison Ding Dian under the pretext of agreeing to his daughter's marriage, where he tortured him severely. In the end, in order to obtain the treasure, he even buried his daughter alive and sprinkled Jinbo Xunhua poison on her coffin, killing Ding Dian.

It is said that even a tiger will not eat its own cubs. Even someone as vicious as Ouyang Feng would risk his life for Ouyang Ke, but Ling Tui Si buried his own daughter alive. It can be said that Ling Tui Si's heart is more poisonous than the most vicious poison in the world.

It wasn't difficult to enter the Jingzhou prison, nor was it difficult to find Ding Dian. When Chen Liu found Ding Dian and Di Yun in the prison, Ding Dian sneered and whispered, "Another one."

"I'm not here to find you, but to find this silly boy." Chen Liu glanced at Ding Dian and smiled.

"Looking for this idiot?" Ding Dian turned to look at Di Yun and said coldly, "Do you think I believe you?"

"It doesn't matter whether you believe it or not!" Chen Liu said, "It's just that the secret you want to protect is not a secret to me at all. Hey, Di Yun!"

Not only was Di Yun beaten by the jailer today, but upon his return, he was beaten again by Ding Dian. He felt that life was completely dark. If it weren't for his junior sister supporting him, he would have wanted to die long ago. In the original novel, Di Yun committed suicide in despair after hearing that Qi Fang and Wan Gui had married, convincing Ding Dian that he wasn't an undercover agent sent by Ling Tui Si to gain his trust. Before Ding Dian believed Di Yun, he beat him up almost every day.

When Di Yun heard someone calling him, he looked up at Chen Liu in confusion and asked, "Who are you?"

"What do you mean?" Ding Dian asked when he saw that Chen Liu ignored him and turned to Di Yun.

Chen Liu ignored Ding Dian and said to Di Yun, "Your junior sister begged me to rescue you."

"Junior sister?" Di Yun was probably a little stunned by the beating, and it took him a while to come back to his senses.

"Playing tricks." Ding Dian thought that Chen Liu was invited by Ling Tui Si to act for him again, and curled his lips in disdain.

Chen Liu smiled slightly and lowered his voice, "The treasure you are guarding is in the south of the city, right?"

Ding Dian stood up suddenly, and with a shake of his shoulders, the iron chain on his scapula fell off his shoulders. He ignored the blood oozing from his shoulder, and with a flash of his body, he grabbed Chen Liu.

Ding Dian refused to give in because, besides wanting to see the chrysanthemums that Ling Shuanghua had placed there every day, he also didn't want the treasure that Mei Niansheng had entrusted to him to fall into the hands of treacherous people. But now that Chen Liu knew the location of the treasure, how could he not be anxious?

A figure flashed in from outside the prison door, raised his hand and slapped Ding Dian, forcing him back.

The person who came was none other than Wang Yuyan. Chen Liu didn't know if Ding Dian had mastered the Divine Illumination Sutra. If he had, surely he would have reached the Grandmaster level? Chen Liu couldn't defeat a Grandmaster right now, so he naturally had to bring Wang Yuyan along, just in case.

Ding Dian's body was slapped and flew backwards, his back hitting the wall of the cell. He spat out a mouthful of blood and couldn't help but feel a little horrified. He asked, "Who are you?"

"Calm down?" With Wang Yuyan by his side, Chen Liu wasn't afraid of Ding Dian. He said, "As for me, I'm known as the Divine Calculator, also known as Chen Banxian."

"A fortune teller? I don't know him." Ding Dian spat bloody saliva on the ground, further convincing him that Chen Liu was playing tricks. Even though he knew the treasure was south of the city, he felt Chen Liu had only guessed the approximate location and didn't know the exact location, or perhaps he was just randomly giving a direction to deceive him. However, upon hearing this, he coughed inwardly and couldn't help but reveal his whereabouts, letting him know that the treasure was south of the city.

"Junior sister? Junior sister! How is my junior sister?" Di Yun finally came back to his senses.

Chen Liu ignored Ding Dian and said to Di Yun, "Your sister asked me to rescue you. How about you become my family's servant?"

"Offering?" Di Yun was just an honest farmer and didn't know what offering was.

"That's a thug." Chen Liu explained, "If someone comes to cause trouble for my family, you help me beat him up. If I cause trouble for others, you help me beat him up. If someone comes to me to collect a debt, you help me beat him up. If I ask someone to collect a debt, you help me beat him up too. Simple, right?"

Wang Yuyan: ...

Ding Dian: ...

Can offering be explained in this way?

Di Yun opened his mouth slightly, speechless, and didn't know how to answer for a moment.

"Of course, there is a salary," Chen Liu said. "The salary increases according to your martial arts level. A first-rate master gets ten taels a month, a top master gets twenty taels a month, an innate master gets fifty taels a month, and a grandmaster gets a hundred taels a month. Since you're only a second-rate martial artist right now, I'll give you five taels a month. Do you want to do it?"

This price was roughly the typical hiring price for martial artists in this world. Of course, it was a bit lower for Xiantian and Grandmaster masters, but Di Yun's current cultivation level was already low. If he wanted him to reach a higher realm, he had to get him the Shenzhaojing. The Shenzhaojing wasn't something that could be valued in money. If he offered a technique that could at least reach the Grandmaster stage and recruited people, he'd definitely have plenty of people ready to help him out. After recruiting Di Yun, Chen Liu decided it would be best to have him practice the Shenzhaojing, as it was how he became a top-tier martial artist in the original novel.

Five taels, ten taels, twenty taels, fifty taels, a hundred taels? So much money! Di Yun was a little confused. He had never seen so much money before. To celebrate his uncle Wan's birthday, his master had sold the family's yellow ox, earning a few taels of silver to buy him a new set of clothes.

It was precisely because his master's clothes were precious that Lu Tong, who came to Wan's mansion to make trouble, splashed dung on them with a dung bucket. He was so angry that he started fighting with Lu Tong, and was then severely beaten by Wan Zhenshan's eight disciples.

If he worked as a thug for Chen Liu, he could earn a cow a month. If his cultivation reached the level of a top-tier master, wouldn't he be able to buy two large yellow cows a month? If he could break through to the Grandmaster stage, he could buy twenty cows a month. Di Yun's mind was now filled with cows.

"Oh, by the way, I will also be responsible for rescuing you and taking your junior sister away from the Wan family, so that you two lovers can finally become siblings... ahem, no, lovers can finally get married."

"Junior sister!" Di Yun immediately became restless when he thought of his junior sister.

"You don't know yet, right? The reason why you were framed by Wan Gui was because she fell in love with your junior sister. He wanted to kill you so that he could hug your junior sister to sleep." Chen Liu said with a smile.

Wang Yuyan suddenly felt that her husband was so evil.

"I'll do it." When Di Yun heard that Wan Gui framed him in order to get his junior sister, he stopped thinking and immediately jumped up and said excitedly.

Ding Dian: ...

Wang Yuyan: ...

Chapter 166 Ding Dian

"Ding Dian, how about we make a deal?" After resolving Di Yun's issue, Chen Liu said to Ding Dian.

"Dream on." Ding Dian sneered twice. The fox's tail was revealed. He said he was looking for a stupid boy, but wasn't the ultimate target him?

"I don't ask for your treasure, I just want the Divine Illumination Scripture." Chen Liu smiled slightly and said, "Give me the Divine Illumination Scripture, and I will help you bring Ling Shuanghua out and let you escape."

Ding Dian continued to sneer, saying that as long as he got the Shenzhaojing, as long as he was fooled, he would ask for the treasure.

"Actually, I know the treasure is in Tianning Temple." Chen Liu lowered his voice so low that only he, Ding Dian and Wang Yuyan could hear it.

Ding Dian stood up in shock again. This time he didn't have to guess, because the other person really knew where the treasure was.

"I know you have the ability to leave the prison, but you haven't left for so many years. Is it because you want to see the chrysanthemums that Ling Shuanghua placed on the window every day?" Chen Liu said.

"What?" Ding Dian stared at Chen Liu in even greater shock. Only he and Ling Shuanghua knew about this. Although they had never said it explicitly, it was a tacit understanding between them. Even Ling Tui Si was deceived by him, thinking that he could not leave the prison and was still under his control.

Chen Liu, determined to shock people, asked, "How long has it been since you last saw Ling Shuanghua? Three years? Four years? Five years? Did you know that Ling Shuanghua disfigured herself in order to avoid getting married?"

"What? Are you telling the truth?" Ding Dian has not yet truly refined the "Shenzhaojing", so he has not yet gone to see Ling Shuanghua and does not know that she has destroyed her own appearance.

"You'll know if you meet her yourself." Chen Liu said.

Ding Dian fell silent. To save Ding Dian's life, Ling Shuanghua was forced by his father to swear in front of her mother's spirit tablet that she would never see Ding Dian again. Ding Dian knew this, so he didn't go to see Ling Shuanghua.

"Are you worried that Ling Shuanghua swore in front of her mother's spirit tablet that she would never meet you again?" Chen Liu asked.

"You know about this too?" Ding Dian was really surprised this time.

Chen Liu said, "I know a lot of things, including that Ling Tui Si was originally the leader of the Lianghu Longsha Gang, that you once told Ling Shuanghua about the "Liancheng Jue", and that Ling Shuanghua will be buried alive by her father in the future."

"Who are you?" Ding Dian asked sternly.

"Didn't I tell you before?" Chen Liu complained, "My nickname is the Divine Calculator."

Ding Dian: ...

Ding Dian sneered, not believing it at all. In his opinion, Chen Liu was more like a charlatan, just knowing more things. And he came to see him after knowing the treasure, just for the "Shen Zhao Jing" passed down to him by Mei Niansheng.

"I can help you bring Ling Shuanghua out and let you take her away. I only want the Shenzhaojing. How about it?" Chen Liu said.

"Your martial arts skills should be pretty good, and..." Ding Dian looked at Wang Yuyan.

Chen Liu said: "She is my fiancée, Wang Yuyan."

"She's stronger than me, and you shouldn't be lacking in skills, so why do you need the Divine Illumination Sutra?"

"I don't need it, but my maids do! Our martial arts are not convenient for the maids to learn, so I had to find a good one for them. The Shenzhaojing is a good one."

Ding Dian fell silent again. He simply didn't believe what Chen Liu said. "Do you think someone would go to such great lengths just to find a technique for a maid?" He was even more convinced that this was another plot orchestrated by Ling Tui Si.

"I can help you bring Ling Shuanghua out and hand her over to you first, and then you can give me the Shen Zhao Jing, how about that?" Chen Liu said.

"Aren't you afraid that I won't give you the Divine Illumination Scripture when the time comes?" Ding Dian sneered twice.

"I believe in your character."

Ding Dian fell silent again.

"Damn it! I knew Ding Dian was a stubborn, stubborn man. If I want to convince him, I still have to rely on Ling Shuanghua." Chen Liu couldn't help but complain, "Luckily, I'm prepared. Rong'er, Wanqing, bring Ling Shuanghua in."

Huang Rong and Mu Wanqing, who had been waiting outside, immediately brought in Ling Shuanghua, who was wearing a veil and in tears.

"Shuang'er?" Ding Dian was stunned when he saw Ling Shuanghua, who was covered with a white veil.

"Junior sister!" Not only Ling Shuanghua came, but also Di Yun's junior sister Qi Fang. When Di Yun saw Qi Fang, he was also stunned.

"Senior Brother." Qi Fang was extremely excited and immediately ran forward and hugged Di Yun tightly.

"Brother Dian." Ling Shuanghua was also very excited to see Ding Dian.

Tonight, a man suddenly brought a few women into her house, pressed her father's acupoints, and said he would take her to see Ding Dian.

The man said that she would be buried alive by her father in the future, but Ling Shuanghua didn't believe it. However, the man told her many secrets that only she and Ding Dian knew. These secrets were just a tacit understanding between them, and it was impossible for anyone else to know them. However, the man knew them, which made her believe that the man was really able to predict the future.

Knowing she would be buried alive by her father, and that Ding Dian would be poisoned by the "Golden Waves of the Ten Flowers" he had smeared on her coffin, Ling Shuanghua could no longer sit still. Vows, no matter what, were less important than Ding Dian's life. Therefore, she decided to break her vows and follow Chen Liu, Wang Yuyan, and Huang Rong to see Ding Dian.

"I've brought her to you." Looking at the two couples hugging each other tightly, Chen Liu said with a smile, "How is it? Pretty nice, isn't it? I even activated all the acupuncture points of her father, Ling Tui Si. It will take at least six hours to undo the damage. I've also prepared a speedboat for you by the river, and a large box of gold and silver, enough for you to live comfortably for the rest of your lives. If you're willing, you can take her away now."

"You just give me Shuanghua like this, aren't you afraid that I won't give you the Shenzhaojing?" Ding Dian asked.

"If you don't want to give it to me, then don't give it to me." If Ding Dian was unwilling to give him the "Shen Zhao Jing", then forget it. Chen Liu would not kill Ding Dian and Ling Shuanghua just because Ding Dian refused to give him the "Shen Zhao Jing". He could only say that he had no chance with the "Shen Zhao Jing", so he had no choice but to look for the "Nine Yin Manuals".