Shen Qing followed Li Yi and watched him walk for a long time with his worn fishing rod and fishing line before arriving at the river not far from the village.
He found a place to sit down and started casting bait to fish, completely ignoring Shen Qing behind him.
Shen Qing looked around.
The riverbank was covered with withered, yellow weeds, rustling in the breeze. Some of the dead grass had fallen to the ground, while others still stood upright. The trees in the distance had mostly lost their leaves, leaving only dry, barren trees. Perhaps even when the weather warmed up, they wouldn't grow new leaves.
Shen Qing returned her gaze to Li Yi. She had just noticed that his hands were wrapped in cloth strips and he smelled of medicine. After thinking for a moment, she walked over to his side.
“Ka-ka-ka…”
Li Yi opened his eyes and glanced sideways at Shen Qing, who was cracking a handful of melon seeds from somewhere, with an expressionless face.
"Do you want to eat? I didn't bring much." Shen Qing smiled at Li Yi in a friendly manner.
Li Yi turned his head and did not answer.
"Can you catch fish in this small, broken river?"
"certainly."
Chen Qing continued to crack melon seeds beside him. Li Yi took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
"You can catch fish with your eyes closed?" Shen Qing couldn't sit still for a moment, "You won't waste my time, will you?"
"You can leave if you don't want to buy."
"Of course I will. I have plenty of time."
After Shen Qing finished eating the melon seeds, he hummed a little tune again.
The amazing thing is that under these conditions, fish actually took the bait.
Li Yi put the fish in the basket and walked aside to reel in the fishing line.
Shen Qing's eyes flickered slightly, and he bent down and poked the fish in the basket with a branch, "Wow, this fish is just average..."
Li Yi saw Shen Qing bending down and his eyes changed. He swung out the fishing line with both hands and wrapped it around her neck. “Of course this fish is ordinary, but you are a big fish…”
Shen Qing covered his neck in pain, "You, what do you want to do?"
"What to do? Sell your body, of course, to make money!"
"Corpses...making money?"
"Yes, wait until tomorrow I send your body to Lord Black Robe, then we will make a fortune! A fresh body is worth one thousand taels!" Li Yi's men are getting stronger and stronger. Seeing Shen Qing's painful appearance, his expression is getting more and more ferocious. "Lord Black Robe is worthy of being from the north. He is generous, unlike the people of Dongli!"
Just when Li Yi was still imagining what it would be like to get 1,000 taels of silver, Shen Qing's painful eyes narrowed, and with a force of his hand, he crushed his hand bones and broke free.
She pulled the fishing line with her backhand, wrapped up his hands and feet, and threw them on the ground.
Then, Shen Qing clapped his hands and touched the bloodstain on his neck.
"Old Li, you're pretty ruthless. You've killed a lot of people recently, haven't you?" Shen Qing raised his foot and placed it on his broken hand. "It's wrapped with cloth. Is it because you often strangle people with fishing line?"
"Who are you?"
"I am the helmsman of the Dongli Kingdom." She had an arrogant smile on her face.
Li Yi sneered disdainfully, "Are you delusional? You, and you're at the helm?"
At most, he is just a simple-minded and brainless young man in the underworld who claims to punish evil and promote good.
"Hmph, tell me, where did the black-robed master you mentioned ask you to send the body to?"
"I won't tell you even if I die!"
If he told him, Black Robe would kill him!
"Really?" Shen Qing pulled up his collar and looked into his eyes. "Tell me, where should the body be sent?"
Li Yi looked into Chen Qing's eyes, and his vision gradually became blurred. He could hear the chirping of countless insects and birds, the gentle breeze and the sound of the river. His heart was beating, and he began to think uncontrollably about the man in black robes.
"When and where did Black Robe tell you to send the person?"
"Tomorrow at 11:00 PM, in the wasteland five kilometers northwest, he told me to place the body in a large pit in the center of the wasteland."
"Then what?"
"Then someone would come and take the body and leave the money."
"Have you seen the man in black robe's face?" Shen Qing asked with a frown, his tone full of anticipation.
"No, no." Li Yi suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted.
"Useless thing." Shen Qing threw him to the ground in disgust, "Come here, send him to the yamen and ask him how many lives he has on his hands."
"I obey your orders."
The wasteland five kilometers northwest...
Shen Qing sighed, and when he turned to leave, he suddenly noticed the fish in the basket. Don’t say it, it was really fat.
Shen Qing took the fish back to the village and ordered people to cook fish soup.
…
Jiang Zhuo ordered Bai Xian to be released, and the next day someone sneaked into Bai's house with the intention of assassinating him.
The assassin was captured by Chunye and tied up and brought to the Prime Minister's Mansion, Jiang Zhuo's yard in the middle of the night.
"Go call Jiang Zhuo." Chun Ye held the assassin in his hand while communicating with Chang Feng.
"Are you sick? What are you doing looking for the young master in the middle of the night?"
"I caught the assassin!" Chun Ye pointed at the man in black behind him. "Didn't Jiang Zhuo tell me to bring the man to him immediately after I caught him?"
"...Can't you lock him up first?"
"I don't even have a decent home in the capital, where can I be imprisoned?"
Changfeng was really speechless. How could there be someone like Chunye in the world?
"Changfeng." Jiang Zhuo walked out wearing a cloak. He didn't tie his hair up and walked out with an expressionless face.
"Hahaha, you look like a ghost now." Chun Ye pointed at Jiang Zhuo and laughed.
"If you keep talking, I'll turn you into a ghost."
Chunye pursed his lips and suppressed his laughter.
"Did you catch him?"
Chunye nodded and pulled the assassin in front of Jiang Zhuo. He pointed upwards with both hands and rubbed his fingers together, not knowing what he was gesturing.
"What are you gesturing?"
Chun Ye widened his eyes and pointed at Jiang Zhuo, then pointed at his own mouth.
Didn’t you say you couldn’t let me speak?
Jiang Zhuo took a deep breath and said, "Speak."
"This man was once Fengsheng's killer, but was later bought by someone, Shangguan Qian."
Shangguan Qian is Shangguan Xi's cousin.
Jiang Zhuo's eyes trembled slightly as he looked at the man in black in front of him.
"Changfeng, take him away first and find someone to interrogate him. Don't let him die."
"yes."
Chunye yawned and walked towards Jiang Zhuo's room, but he grabbed her belt.
"What do you want to do?"
"I'm going to sleep!" Chun Ye answered as a matter of course, "It's so late, aren't you going to sleep?"
"This is my room."
"So what? They're all men."
Jiang Zhuo narrowed his eyes, looked at Chun Ye's face, and felt a little itchy.
Doesn't he have any sense of boundaries?
"Bang!" Jiang Zhuo closed the door and locked it from the inside before he went to bed to sleep with peace of mind.
"Jiang Zhuo?" Chun Ye came in through the window, walked skillfully to his cabinet, and took out a quilt from it. "I'll sleep in the outer hall. It's too cold outside. Don't be so stingy."
Jiang Zhuo gritted his teeth, stood up, put on his clothes and left.
Hearing this, Chun Ye stood up from the couch and said, "If you don't sleep, then I have to sleep on the bed?"
Jiang Zhuo didn't come back, so Chun Ye happily walked to the bed with the quilt in her arms and lay down, and fell asleep in a short while.
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