Chapter 294: No Matter How Hard You Try

"Ling Xiao was chosen!"

Seeing the command arrow cannon mixed in with the noisy fireworks over the Nanfeng Pavilion, Xie Zhuoning laughed, "Good boy, you really do well!"

After the task is accomplished, I must reward him well.

Murong Yan at the side took out a hollow copper cage, inside which a bee was flying around, "The jade bee is also moving."

He had obtained this jade bee by chance from a foreigner. It was only interested in a flower called lily of the valley. As the name suggests, it could find the flower even if it was a hundred miles away just by smelling its scent.

After the news reached Daye, someone extracted the pollen from the Jade Bee Vinegar and specially trained the Jade Bees, turning them into a tracking artifact.

Xie Zhuoning reached out to take the copper cage, opened it, and released the jade bee. "Sir, you go back first. Xia Ju, Cong Ming Jueding and I will go after them."

Knowing that he had no martial arts skills and would only be a hindrance if he followed, Murong Yan nodded and said, "Be careful."

"Okay, got it."

Xie Zhuoning and Xia Ju led the group to find the direction the jade bee flew away and immediately chased after it.

In the carriage, Ling Xiao was blindfolded, and he staggered all the way out of Nanfeng Pavilion, not knowing where he was going.

He couldn't hold it in any longer and finally spoke, "Girl, where are we going?"

The woman's voice was lazy, and even her smile was charming. "Of course, go to where you should go."

Ling Xiao: “…”

This answer is worse than no answer at all.

After a pause, he asked, "Where should I go then?"

The laughter seemed softer and more charming, but the words that came out were like a poisonous snake crawling across the spine, "If you say one more word, we will change our route and send you to hell~ How about that?"

Ling Xiao's body stiffened, and he became silent for an instant.

After driving for about an hour, the carriage finally stopped.

Ling Xiao was taken off the carriage and into a secluded mountain villa.

As soon as she entered the room, she heard hurried footsteps. Someone trotted over and reported to the woman, "Miss Hongyue, someone is about to die in Furong Pavilion again."

Yan Hongyue sneered, "They didn't know how to control their strength, and they had to do it with her. These ancestors are really more difficult to please than the other."

After she finished speaking, she looked back at Ling Xiao and said to him, "Forget it, send this newcomer to be trained first, I will go and take a look myself."

"yes."

Two maids led Ling Xiao to the other end. He could clearly feel that in this place, even the maids were skilled in martial arts.

His sharp ears had been paying attention to the movements around him. When he heard no other sounds, he immediately took off the cloth covering his eyes, attacked with lightning speed, knocked out the two maids beside him, and then dragged them into the bushes nearby.

It was not until this moment that he finally saw the original appearance of the manor.

The manor has everything from exotic flowers to rockery and small bridges, and is elegantly decorated, as if it were the backyard of a wealthy family.

The only difference is that there are many corridors, connected to each other, leading to different places in all directions.

He rubbed the back of his head, puzzled, "Where should I go?"

Unable to make up his mind, he simply selected his troops and chose a route.

"I want to see what kind of hell this place is!"

After walking along the corridor for a long distance, he vaguely heard human voices. His expression suddenly froze, and he immediately sneaked past quietly.

At the end of the corridor is a small courtyard with a separate entrance.

In the yard, a woman in thin clothes, covered with bruises from being beaten, was crawling out.

Behind her, a man walked over quickly, hugged her tightly from behind, and begged bitterly, "Please don't leave, okay? I love you so much, why don't you love me? Why do you want to leave me? Please look at me... just look at me..."

The man's face was so familiar that Ling Xiao's heart trembled and he was so shocked that he couldn't recover for a long time.

How could it be him?!

The woman slowly raised her head and glanced at the man, her pupils bloodshot and filled with hatred.

"Bah..." She spat blood foam on his face, "Don't even think about it!"

The man's eyes suddenly became dangerous.

He grabbed her hair and pulled her head back, causing the woman to scream in pain.

The more he listened, the more excited he became. "Who do you think you are? You're just a lowly bastard, a jerk!"

"Bang--"

The woman's head was hit hard on the ground.

The man stood up, picked up the bloody whip, and whipped the woman again.

"Say it, say you love me!"

"If you just say one thing, I won't hit you. Just say it!"

Ling Xiao's head was full of question marks: "???"

No, this person is mentally ill!

Who courts like this?

If you don't love me, I will beat you to death?

Just when he couldn't bear it anymore and wanted to take action, a pleasant silver bell sounded in his ears.

A woman in red with a red veil on her face walked in gracefully, "Master Huo, calm down and let the doctor bandage Mei Niang first. If you continue to beat her, she will really die."

Ling Xiao recognized the woman in red at once from the slightly upturned and charming voice. She was none other than the Red Moon girl.

Lord Huo's ferocious face seemed to have regained some rationality, and he raised his hand to signal the doctor to treat him.

Two maids came forward and carried the girl into the house, and the doctor followed closely behind.

Strong liquor could heal the wound, and even a man might not be able to withstand it, but Mei Niang gritted her teeth and didn't make a sound.

Seeing this, Lord Huo snorted coldly, "You are really stubborn."

Hong Yue smiled and said, "If I am not stubborn, how can I gain the favor of Lord Huo?"

Ugh!

When Ling Xiao heard this, he was so angry that he wanted to curse.

Who would want to be treated with such kindness when someone would beat you half to death at any time?

Perhaps he was out of breath and for a moment he couldn't control his breathing, which suddenly became heavier.

Yan Hongyue glanced over immediately and asked, "Who?"

After saying this, he winked at the maid and immediately went closer to take a closer look.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Ling Xiao quickly turned over along the blind corner and climbed into the house through the side window.

Inside the house, the doctor was applying medicine to the girl named Mei Niang.

"Look at you, there is no place on your body without scars. Why don't you just go along with him and avoid all this physical pain?"

Mei Niang sneered, "Go along with him? Those who go along with him are dead! He just wants people to abandon him and trample on him, just like the person who abandoned and trampled on him in the past. Only in this way can he vent the anger and perverted emotions in his heart!"

The more she goes against him, the happier he will be. He will torture her ruthlessly and will be more reluctant to let her die.

If she died, where could we find someone like her who was that man's plaything?

"If you are suffering like this, why don't you just die? If you want, I will give you poison."

She has suffered so much over the years that even the doctors can hardly bear it anymore.

But Mei Niang shook her head and refused firmly, "My sister is still waiting for me, she is still waiting for me to go out and rescue her. I said that I would never abandon her..."

As she spoke, she lowered her head and tightly grasped a handkerchief.

There were two mandarin ducks embroidered on the handkerchief, swimming in the water with their necks intertwined, as if they were coming to life.

Ling Xiao’s eyes widened instantly—double-pattern cloud embroidery!

What does it mean to "search high and low for something in vain, yet finally find it without any effort"?

Qingyue's sister, whom they had been looking for, was right in front of him!