Chapter 119: Live like an ox or a horse in your next life

"Jiang Heng! Little Wukong!"

Jiang Li's voice was uttered with gritted teeth.

The two people who were hanging on Jiang Youning's legs were shocked at the same time when they heard the familiar voice.

"Fourth brother, is there something wrong with my ears? I seem to hear the voice of the Black-faced King Yan."

Little Wukong stopped sobbing and looked at Jiang Heng tremblingly.

It is true...

The sudden sound from behind him sounded a bit fatal, and he didn't dare to look back.

"I...I think I heard it, too."

The big and the small hugged Jiang Youning's legs tighter.

Jiang Li saw that the two men ignored him and dared to call him Black-faced King Yan in front of him. He moved his wrists without saying a word, and his joints made several crackling sounds.

The sound frightened the two people so much that their bodies trembled even more violently.

"Sixth...Sixth sister, please save them to the end, can you...can you save me and Fourth Brother again?

In the next life, my fourth brother and I will definitely work like cattle and horses to repay you for saving my life!"

Little Wukong tried to pull Jiang Youning's sleeve, and Jiang Heng also shook Jiang Youning's legs.

"Yes, yes, Sixth Sister, no...from now on you are my Sixth Sister, and I will repay you by working like a cow and a horse for you in my next life!!!"

“…”

Jiang Youning felt that if the corners of her mouth continued to twitch, she might have an epileptic seizure.

“Let go!”

Jiang Li grabbed the necks of the two men, one in each hand, as if they were holding a chicken.

"If you don't let go, I'd better cut off your hand altogether."

Jiang Heng and Xiao Wukong immediately let go of Jiang Youning's legs and allowed Jiang Li to lift them up.

"Sister, I think... you two are pretty weak right now. I can't save you. May you be the best for yourself~"

Jiang Youning raised the corner of his mouth into a brilliant smile.

Jiang Li's attention was just on the two kids, and only then did he notice that there were two small red spots on Jiang Youning's face that looked a bit like blood.

His face froze, he dropped the person on his hand to the ground, and pulled up Jiang Youning's arm.

"What's with the blood on your face? Are you hurt?"

As he said this, Jiang Li looked at the people who were tied up on the ground, not knowing whether they were dead or alive, and there was a murderous look in his eyes.

Oops.

I have an invisible cloak, but I forgot to wipe the blood off my face.

That little beggar was really something. He didn't even remind her after seeing it.

Jiang Youning chuckled and blinked wildly at Jiang Li:

"Third brother, this is not blood. This is... the makeup I put on before going out. How is it? Is it better than the one I designed for Sister Lin?"

"I walked all the way down the street, but I didn't expect to scare you. Third brother, you are so stupid!"

“…”

Jiang Li was silent.

Thinking of the strange-colored flower ornaments on Miss Lin and Princess Yongning’s foreheads, it seems... it’s not impossible that my sister could have done such an ugly makeup?

"It's so ugly, go back and wash it clean."

Jiang Li, who knew nothing about makeup, picked up two more on the ground, turned around and said to his men, "Throw them all into the Dali Temple and let Zhao Yi investigate whether they have done anything immoral. After signing their names, they will all go to jail."

After that, he left without looking back.

Seeing Jiang Li carrying the two people onto the carriage, Jiang Youning took out the mirror and took a look.

Fortunately, there wasn't much blood and I was able to successfully fool people.

She bought a pack of wet wipes from the system mall on the spot and quickly wiped the blood off her face.

Walking back to the carriage, Jiang Youning got on and asked Jiang Li to take her for a while before getting off again at the door of the tavern.

Seeing the little beggar, Jiang Youning called him into the tavern, treated him to a bowl of noodles in the backyard, and gave him one or two taels of silver.

"By the way, what's your name?"

"My name is Ah Qi." The little beggar slurped his noodles crazily. "But I used to have a nicer name called Gong Shang, but I haven't used it for a long time."

"Gong Shang..." Jiang Youning nodded, "Did your family members play music?"

"Mom said that Daddy used to be a musician in the palace, and he gave me my name. But later... Daddy had an accident in the palace, and Mom... passed away not long after."

When talking about this, Ah Qi was very calm.

Having struggled at the bottom of society and experienced too much viciousness in people's hearts, the sadness and grief in his heart had long been worn away.

"Then you have no other relatives?"

"I have an aunt, but my mother said that my aunt's family got lucky more than ten years ago. She didn't want to get entangled with poor relatives like us, so she and her family left the capital overnight."

Ah Qi continued to speak.

Jiang Youning nodded thoughtfully.

"How about we make a deal?"

Jiang Youning rolled his eyes.

Ah Qi nodded quickly.

"Miss, please tell me."

"The tavern will provide you with two meals a day. You will help me find out the news about the nobles in and outside the capital every day, especially the grudges between the rich and powerful or strange things. You will come to Jiang's house every day to tell me about them.

If any of the information is useful to me, I will reward you with one or two taels of silver.

If it is inconvenient for you to take too much, I can change it all into copper coins for you. When you need it in the future, you can come to Aunt Li to withdraw it. What do you think?"

"No problem! Don't worry, miss, I will try my best to find out for you!"

Ah Qi nodded heavily.

After a full meal.

He took the money Jiang Youning gave him and left the tavern through the back door happily.

~~~

Jiang Wanrong was not in the tavern during this period. When she came back, she saw Jiang Youning eating fruit and reading a storybook out of boredom.

"Ningning, why are you staying here? Why don't you go out for a walk?"

"I wandered around and caught two kids who had run away from home. I came here because I was bored."

Jiang Youning pursed his lips and smiled.

[Ah, seeing Chu Haoze get stabbed, I feel relieved, so it’s time for me to come back.]

"Sister, are you going out?"

"Well, I went to see an old friend."

Jiang Wanrong was a little surprised, but now she has managed to keep a calm face.

"Sister, come and sit down and have some tea."

[It seems that my sister hasn't made any progress in her investigation of the evil incense. My third brother has been very busy recently and probably won't be able to help much.

I don't know if Shadow Pavilion has any news about this. I'll go visit my good friend some other day and treat him to a meal. 】

"good."

Jiang Wanrong nodded and smiled, feeling warm in her heart.

The two chatted for a while, and Jiang Youning felt sleepy and simply fell asleep in the tavern.

When Jiang He came out of the palace, he saw Jiang Youning sleeping soundly with a pillow in his arms, and he couldn't help but smile.

"This girl... can really sleep."

Jiang He did not disturb her. He just sat down beside her and drank his tea quietly.

When he met the emperor, he met people from the Dali Temple.

Someone from there said that Zheng Wanba returned to Beijing early and attacked the seventh prince in prison.

And my sister...my sister also said that she wanted to go to the Dali Temple Prison, so did she go?

Jiang He looked at Jiang Youning carefully for several seconds.

At a certain moment, when his eyes fell on the barely perceptible drop of blood on her skirt, his heart tightened.