Fairy, don't try to mess with my filial piety

Chu Wuji bowed and said, "Thank you, Constable!"

Several constables took Li Shouer away. When they were escorting her out of the gate, this shrew was still thinking of launching a mass offensive, but she had no new words. She just kept saying things like "Officials and businessmen are colluding!" and "Bullying an honest and decent woman!"

The detectives were previously concerned about the impact and were reluctant to respond, for fear of being seen as biased towards Li Liangxin's family.

Now that the truth has come to light, this shrew still dares to talk nonsense. She is just asking for trouble.

The escorting constable raised his scabbard and slapped Li Shouer so hard that several of his teeth flew out. "If you keep lying and telling nonsense to the government, I will increase your punishment!"

The people on the street, who used to be able to empathize with Lee Seoul, now realize that their sympathy has been deceived. They pick up rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs and throw them at Lee Seoul's face. Those who are slow and fail to grab the rotten eggs can only spit on him.

The detectives were all worried that they would be affected, so they stepped away and waited for the people to vent their anger.

"Still being honest and doing your duty, yours, Grandma!!"

"What nonsense! I almost thought the Li family had done something sinister and this was their retribution."

The streets in the west of the city have almost become a rotten egg prop competition.

The female guard wanted to leave, but found that more people were rushing towards this side. As a last resort, she could only lead the horse to the side of the road, carry Princess Yaoer over the courtyard wall, and enter the Li family's house to take shelter temporarily.

Chu Wuzhi was also waiting for the crowd to disperse. He had to ride a horse to buy some wine later to pay back Uncle Kong.

"Now that the case is settled, I'll probably just be working in the government office in name only for the next few days, and then spend every day at home with my mother..."

He was thinking about the follow-up plan when he suddenly found someone looking at him from the side.

Chu Wuzhi turned his head and saw that it was a little girl. She was very young and her face was still round, but her beauty was just beginning to develop. She would definitely be a beauty when she grew up.

Her clothes were not flashy, but the material was very expensive. She was followed by a maid as a guard. Chu Wuji judged that she must be a girl from a wealthy family.

They are rich but not of high status. People like them don't need to be treated with too much respect. They are on the same level as ordinary people like Chu Wuji.

"Little girl, you're staring at me, is there something wrong?"

Wen Yaoer has been raised under the protection of her elders since she was a child. Now she doesn't know how to talk to strangers, especially since Chu Wuzhi's tone is a bit rude and nonchalant, unlike the gentle voices others use to talk to her.

Seeing that Princess Yao'er was silent, the female guard thought that she was intimidated by Chu Wuji's attitude of "if you have something to say, talk about it, if not, get out", so she spoke on her behalf:

"My young lady wants to know how you, brother, know the details of this cat spirit and how you searched the beams and the earth pit as soon as you entered the house."

"This is Lu Ban's technique. I didn't react to it yesterday, but after I went back and thought about it, I recognized this trick."

Chu Wuji didn't want anyone to disturb his godmother, so he said that he had heard about it when he was traveling before, and also introduced some information about Lu Ban's technique.

Wen Yaoer felt her eyes were opened. She mustered up the courage to ask, "Can I see the bodies of those cats?"

Chu Wuji subconsciously wanted to reply, "This is not my home. I won't stop you if you ask me what I'm doing." However, he realized that the girl must have meant to ask if there was any danger and if he could come closer to take a look.

"Yes, if you want to see it, then hurry up. We need to burn the cat corpse and completely eliminate the remaining remnants of Lu Ban's magic, so that the cat spirit won't roam around and cause trouble."

The gentle and pretty girl then came over and squatted down. She looked at the cat's corpse on the ground, her lips tightly pursed, her eyebrows drooped, and she looked depressed and sad.

"This cow cat has white paws, a sign of a species that walks through the snow in search of plum blossoms. The kittens are hairless and haven't even been born yet, yet the woman has gutted them and used them as a Luban technique, just to harass Li Liangxin's family..."

"They died for no apparent reason and were mistaken for ghosts, terrifying the people nearby for so long. It's clear that Li Seoul's inner self is the most terrifying!"

The time was almost up, and the crowd on the street began to disperse. Chu Wuzhi began to burn the cat's corpse. The little girl stood by and watched without saying a word.

Chu Wuji was not familiar with the master and servant, so he rode away without saying a word.

The female guard took the girl's hand and went into the palace together to escort her to the Empress. The girl told her aunt, the Empress, about her experience of this trip.

Chapter 12 Shou Tu

Queen's bedroom,

There is a small incense burner on the coffee table, and the faint fragrance of incense is intertwined with the fragrance of tea wafting from the tea bowl.

A plump and graceful lady in palace dress was resting on a soft couch with stacked mats, wearing an elegant phoenix crown on her head. It was autumn, and the weather was clear and crisp, but the house was warm. The lady was not wearing a skirt, but only a strapless dress, presenting the proud snow-white and delicate scenery of the northern hemisphere.

The mist of incense obscured her face. Suddenly, the Persian cat in the house jumped playfully, dispersing the smoke, and the beautiful woman's noble face became clear.

Her eyebrows and eyes are like apricots, graceful and elegant, exuding the noble beauty of a mother.

This person was Queen Wen. She gently stroked the Persian cat and asked in confusion:

"Why hasn't Xiaoyao arrived yet? Is she bored and tired of playing in the palace?"

The beautiful woman actually didn't like cats very much. It wasn't that she hated them, but she just didn't like them very much. She kept a valuable Persian cat in her bedroom just to attract the little girl from her mother's family.

"Empress, Princess Yao'er is here." The maid came in quickly to report.

Soon, Wen Yaoer sat down next to Aunt Queen, holding the Persian cat and explaining the reason why she was late today.

Queen Wen suddenly realized it. She rubbed the girl's hair helplessly and said:

"Why haven't I seen you for so long? It turns out you were seduced by a cat spirit. That cat spirit sounds like a ghost. What does it look like?"

The girl sighed and described the cat spirit's appearance.

Empress Wen couldn't help but frown upon hearing this. "Yao'er, isn't this cat spirit a bit too shocking? It appears and disappears mysteriously, scaring people and pouncing on them?"

Being in a high position, the queen also had a sense of majesty in her temperament. She silently glanced at the female guard Si Que, asking with her eyes whether Xiao Yao'er was frightened.

The girl leaned her head against the Queen Aunt's bosom, using her big breasts as a soft pillow, and happily recounted the interesting stories of the west city.

"...At first, everyone thought that Li Liangxin's family had made some dirty money and was seeking revenge. Later, they discovered that it was actually a case of repaying kindness with enmity. Just because he took some hard-earned money, Li Liangxin was hated by Mrs. Li from the same village."

"...Li Liangxin's family is pitiful, and so is the cat in the can. She was pregnant, but she died from something like this."

"...And that constable brother is so amazing! Just like the people described, he remained calm and just reached out and caught the person!"

After listening to the little girl's sharing, Queen Wen understood better why she was attracted to the west of the city. She wanted to see such exciting and interesting things with her own eyes.

It's not a big deal, but there are indeed some twists and turns in it.

Now I can only listen to it but cannot see it with my own eyes, which is a bit disappointing.

The beautiful woman's attention fell on the constable the girl mentioned. She asked curiously, "Si Que, are the constables in the yamen so skilled at catching monsters now?"

The female guard reported, "That wasn't a constable from the yamen, but Chu Wuji, an apprentice from the martial arts academy. He defeated Yu Hualong's sword fighting champion a while ago."

Queen Wen had no impression of the name at first, but when she heard that Yu Hualong was beaten, she immediately remembered.

Empress Wen seldom paid attention to the martial arts competitions in her country.

When she was young, she still had a bit of girlish heart and admired the heroes in the legends. But when she grew up, the martial arts competitions she saw changed in nature, like a show on the stage, and her fantasy faded.

She couldn't judge anything. In the past, fighting was prevalent in the Lihuo Kingdom, and all kinds of fights and attacks occurred one after another.

In the last few years of his life, the late emperor managed to keep a clear head and introduced a series of measures to control the people in the martial arts world.

The original intention must have been to consolidate the rule and maintain public order.

As a result, after many years, the martial arts competition became a show, and selecting a hero was like selecting a star actress on the stage. This was unexpected.

The government will not rectify this. If the trend of fighting resurfaces, they will be the ones who have a headache.

Therefore, Queen Wen did not pay attention to the champions of the martial arts competition selected later.

"Who is this Chu Wuji? From what Xiao Yaoer has described, he doesn't seem like one of those fancy tricks."

Just based on the fact that Chu Wuzhi beat up the Shangshu's son-in-law, someone will definitely investigate his background.

The female guard, Si Que, said, "An orphan and a widowed mother from out of town, they've lived in the capital for over five years. Their family runs a medical clinic. Chu Wuji explained during a meal with his fellow students at the martial arts academy that he joined the academy to learn martial arts because his mother was ill, and he wanted to see if he could get better medicinal herbs through a martial arts competition, or perhaps even hire an imperial physician."

So that's how it is. His skills were not acquired in a martial arts academy at all. How could a young man with such great skills appear?

Queen Wen roughly understood the situation and murmured:

"He's looking for medicine for his mother, so he's going to participate in that show-off competition. It's well-intentioned, but it's unfair to the child's skills... But, he's going to the government office to help with something, so he must be being given a hard time, right?"

Si Que had never paid attention to this aspect and shook his head: "I don't know the situation here."

"That's probably the case. This kid is a bit of a noob. If he resolves the matter so quickly, won't that just give others a chance to find new trivial matters to harass him?"

Princess Yao'er wrinkled her nose and said, "Aunt, please help that brother!"

Queen Wen smiled lightly, nodded, and made arrangements: "If the child is really being bullied, Si Que, you go and arrange for him to do some trivial things, and say that it is my order to protect him for a while. If he is not being bullied, you don't have to pay any attention to it."

Although Chu Wuzhi is the central figure in the cat spirit incident, Queen Wen will not pay too much attention to it. She holds a high position and has heard of too many strange people among the folk.

Chu Wuji was not the first strange person she had heard of, and he would not be the last in the future.

If Xiao Yaoer hadn't spoken up for her, Queen Wen wouldn't have asked to help him.

*

Chu Wuzhi brought two jars of good wine back to the yamen, but found that Mr. Kong was not there and had been given half a day off.

He put the wine on Uncle Kong's seat and went straight home.

After returning home, Chu Wuji happily talked about today's achievements with his godmother.

"An old man in the family is like a treasure! Mom, the Lu Ban technique you talked about yesterday was a great help!"

Ok?

There is an old person in the family...who is old?

Ning Xianzhi rolled her eyes at Chu Wuji in her heart, knowing that he wanted to express his knowledgeability, but his choice of words was not very good.

However, this child was adopted by a snake demon since he was young, and he never received proper education in a private school. It is understandable that he cannot speak occasionally.

"It's good that the matter is resolved."

"Mom, I'm confused. Why does this Luban spell book, like a confession, even include the name of the person who cast the spell?"

"So this is a little trick. It's clearly a shady move, but you have to reveal your identity."

Ning Xianzhi hid some of the inside story and didn't tell it to Chu Wuji, so that he wouldn't think that she had recovered a lot of memories.

This Lu Ban technique is actually a few scraps of magic spells passed down by practitioners in the mountains. They were afraid that these craftsmen would abuse it, so they set up that spell book.

If something gets really bad someday and someone abuses Lu Ban's magic, we can just check the curse book to find out what happened and who did it.

Chu Wuji stretched himself, feeling happy and relaxed. He definitely felt a sense of accomplishment after finishing a case. He said:

"I won't be out and about these days, so I can make you some hard-core dishes. What would you like to eat?"

Ning Xianzhi nodded secretly and admired the child even more.

I didn't come down the mountain to recruit disciples for him, but meeting him was a surprise of fate, and I can indeed recruit him to come up the mountain!

"Wu Ji, you have such a bright future ahead of you. You shouldn't waste your time on me. Why don't you find a good master for you sometime?"

"No, I'll be wherever Mom is. How is this a waste of time?"

"..."

Chapter 13: Kowtow and Admit Mistakes

Ning Xianzhi found that this was indeed a problem. He had vaguely guessed this before, but he didn't expect that he was really unwilling to leave the remains of the snake demon.

Putting aside the fact that Bai Sujin is a snake demon, this body has no soul in it and is no different from a female corpse. The child can't really stay by the corpse forever, right?

Do I have to watch this corpse rot before I face reality?

Ning Xianzhi has been thinking about the situation of the snake's remains for some time. The mysterious pill that Bai Sujin left behind for Chu Wuji to help feed was probably used to maintain the body's qi and blood.

Under the powerful blood-invigorating effect of the mysterious elixir, this remains was able to maintain life and breathing naturally for a long time after losing its soul, and it looked like it was unconscious to outsiders.

Once the effect of the elixir stops, within a few months, the remains will begin to decay and rot.

If this could make Chu Wuzhi give up, that would be fine. But I'm afraid that before that, this body would attract evil spirits to possess it, causing danger.

Now Ning Xianzhi was "living" in this body, practicing her internal energy to heal her wounds, which could barely be considered as helping to activate the body's qi and blood circulation.

It seems that I really need to find an opportunity to reveal the true form of the snake demon and let this child see Bai Sujin's true face. Maybe he will wake up.

It's strange,

On the first day we met, the child mentioned taking a bath every once in a while, but why didn’t he mention it later?

At night, the moon is bright and the stars are sparse, and the autumn wind is refreshing.

The mother and son were drinking tea in the open-air courtyard. Chu Wuzhi was helping the woman soak her feet. There was a white moon in the sky, and another white moon was reflected in the hot water basin.

The silver glow fell on the delicate and tender feet of the woman, making them sparkle and shine. They were flawless white, and the hot mist was hazy on them, covering them like a dream, worthy of the description of "jade feet".