Chapter 309 Such a grand display
"That's not all!"
Someone said mysteriously, "I heard that when this second young lady returned, she not only had several carriages full of luggage, but also a large group of guards, making quite a grand entrance."
A bystander asked curiously, "Is it really that big of a spectacle?"
People in the martial arts world are not concerned with formalities. Except when they need to move to another place to settle down for a period of time, they usually travel light and travel simply.
Let alone staying for ten days or so, even if you stay for half a month or a month, it's all done with just one package.
Those who are a little more particular will carry at most two or three packages, and a little more money.
The mysterious person added, "Furthermore, she always travels by carriage, and she always uses her feet to pedal. She's so particular that anyone who didn't know better would think she was some kind of noblewoman."
The insider looked at him with disdain: "You don't know, her footstools seem to be made of mahogany."
Rosewood was very valuable in that era, and only the very wealthy and powerful could afford it.
Those around them marveled, "Second Master Jiang really dotes on this newly found daughter!"
Yu Zhiyi had already walked far away and could no longer hear these discussions.
Jiang, the leader of the alliance, was still not in the dining room.
Jiang Liushuang was also absent.
He hasn't come back since he left home this morning.
Lin Jingxuan looked at the woman in front of her, and the more she looked, the more surprised she became: "What did Jin'er do in Shengjing before?"
Jiang, the leader of the alliance, has already sent people to investigate this niece's background, but they have only been gone for two days and will not be back anytime soon.
The second brother was unusually tight-lipped. After bringing her back, he treated her as a member of the Jiang family and never mentioned her past.
Yu Zhiyi said, "Like everyone else, I eat three meals a day and then close the door to rest."
"If what Auntie wants to know is about making a living, then fortune telling can be considered a kind of business."
After realizing that the Yu family intended to distance themselves from her, she tried to find a way to survive in order to prevent them from kicking her out. She didn't want to be forced to beg for a living after being driven out.
Fortunately, the skills her master taught her were very useful. She initially used the pseudonym "Knowing Heaven's Will" to tell fortunes under the overpass.
Business was definitely bad at first, after all, she was just a child, too young and inexperienced to convince people.
Until a local ruffian, wanting to tease him, came to have his fortune told.
That local ruffian was orphaned and grew up in his uncle's house.
The uncle's family was very good at putting on an act. They treated him very well when they were outside, but they would harass him relentlessly when they came home. The thug lived a miserable life in the uncle's family.
Unfortunately, when he told outsiders that his uncle's family had treated him badly, no one believed him.
The constant torment had taken a heavy toll on the thugs' physical and mental health.
As the saying goes, either you erupt in silence or you perish in silence.
That thug belonged to the former category.
One day, he encountered a group of hooligans when he entered the city.
He saw them bullying people and extorting protection money. Coincidentally, the person they were extorting protection money from was his uncle.
When his uncle was at home, he would beat him up at the slightest disagreement, but outside he wouldn't dare utter a sound.
Looking at his uncle's cowardly appearance, the thug suddenly felt a strange mix of emotions.
One day later, when his uncle attacked him again, he grabbed a stick and beat his uncle up.
When other family members tried to help, he beat them all to the ground, not even sparing his fourteen-year-old cousin.
A family should always be together, all together.
He would never forget that his cousin had repeatedly pretended to be innocent and virtuous in front of his uncle and aunt, framing him.
As for the reason...
My cousin once said that she just liked to watch him being beaten until he couldn't resist.
The local bully already had a bad reputation in the village, and his uncle's family often smeared his image, saying that he was lazy and good-for-nothing at home, and that he often bullied his younger siblings and talked back to his elders.
His reputation worsened after the thugs got involved.
Originally, the local thug would have cared about what the villagers thought and would have tried his best to explain that what the uncle's family said was not true, hoping that the villagers would not misunderstand him.
But after that day, he didn't care anymore.
On the contrary, when someone comes to seek justice for his uncle's family and scolds him, he will turn around and scold the other party.
If there are those who act arrogantly because of their age, he will beat them until they cry for their parents.
He didn't lay a hand on the older people, but instead beat up their younger relatives.
While this atrocity was terrifying, it was undeniably effective.
From then on, no one dared to utter a word of complaint in front of him anymore.
Later, the thugs carved out a territory in the town, not only gathering a large number of followers but also driving the original thugs out of the town and becoming the new local bullies.
Despite his bad reputation, he lives a good life.
This man is a very contradictory person. On the one hand, he is addicted to the pleasure of using violence to gain power; on the other hand, he still has a shred of conscience.
So when he saw Yu Zhiyi, a girl of about ten years old, running out and relying on "scamming and deception" to survive, he seemed to see his own childhood self who was young and helpless.
The teasing and taunting also served as a way to get Yu Zhiyi to stop.
After all, whether a pretty young girl would get into trouble because of her looks is another matter, but she's definitely likely to get beaten up.
Yu Zhiyi recounted his past experiences.
She was the first person to conclude that her uncle and aunt were evil people.
In those years, he explained to outsiders more than once, but no one listened.
Later, when he had power, he became too lazy to explain.
Just when he thought he had let go of the past, a young girl saw through his past grievances and suffering at a glance.
Later on, there was no story of the local thugs being reformed.
This first "fate" ended with Yu Zhiyi calculating that the thug's wife was having a good time with his enemy.
The thugs were skeptical, but they still took their men home to catch the adulterers in the act.
Then, they successfully caught the adulterers in the act.
Yu Zhiyi became famous overnight, and the reputation of the Fairy of Heavenly Will gradually spread among the common people.
Apart from Hongluan and Lady Wu'an, no one knew that she was the Fairy of Heavenly Will.
Lin Jingxuan could tell that she had no intention of going on to elaborate, so she wisely refrained from asking further.
Jiang Siying frowned, somewhat dissatisfied, but didn't say anything more.
Lin Jingxuan then asked, "Will the things Jin'er dealt with on the Heavenly Ladder today really affect the fortunes of the Martial Alliance?"
Yu Zhiyi replied, "Yes."
Jiang Siying put down her chopsticks, which made a crisp sound as they landed on the bowl: "That's enough! We are the Martial Arts Alliance, not some evil sect. It's normal for martial artists to bump into each other, get injured, and bleed. Stop using these tricks of charlatans to attract attention."
“These words are fine to say at home, but now there are distinguished guests all over the mountain, so there’s no need to embarrass ourselves.”
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