Chapter 105.

Release Date: 2024-09-06 23:23:43
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It was indeed a change of weather.

It started with sporadic raindrops falling, and after a while it got bigger and bigger.

Jiang Ran and his party rippled slightly, packing all the surrounding corpses onto the crates.

One cart was not enough, and Jiang Ran did make enough preparations.

It took three whole crates to pack up all the bodies of the Heartless Ghost House, as well as the famous bodies of the Left Road Zhuang.

This is not a good thing for others.

But for Jiang Ran, this is a life-saving medicine.

Although this, most of them are not killed by Jiang Ran ……

But the system never said that it had to be him who killed them before they could be taken to the reward, did it?

At least it didn’t say that in the past, first bring it over to try is.

There is another section ……

The young banker is still not seen today.

I don’t know if he is still in the valley of the living.

Jiang Ran also did not go to find.

After all, the situation within this Past Life Valley was not suitable for exploration.

Now that it was raining, it was doubly difficult.

Moreover, the further into the Valley of Life, the heavier the fog, turn back to find no one, and then trapped in it, then the loss would not be worth it.

After thinking it over, he made other plans.

Then decided to lead the crowd back.

It was just that this rain was getting heavier and heavier.

Jiang Ran, Li Tianxin and Ghost 13, each pushed a cart.

Now it was fine for the time being, but if they waited for a while, the road would be slippery, and the carts would not be easy to push.

If one or two corpses were lost, wouldn’t that be a pity?

Liu Wenshan, on the other hand, was being supported by Ye Shockfang and Shi Miao.

Although his body was far from the level where he had to be carried to walk, but to walk another twenty miles in the rain was still a bit difficult for him.

Therefore, a group of people first left the valley of the living, and then decided to find a place to avoid the rain before.

It wasn’t hard to find a place to shelter from the rain.

Not far from the Valley of the Living Dead, there was a cave.

It was the result of Jiang Ran’s two-day trek.

At that time, Jiang Ran also found a bear here.

He originally had no intention of killing, and had business to do, so he shook it off.

Who would have thought that this bear would not know how to die, and went deep into the valley of the living to find Jiang Ran, to see that it was caught in it, could not find a way out, and was attacked by the miasma and suffered a great deal of pain.

Jiang Ran was unable to bear the pain, and helped him out.

Now he wanted to find a shelter from the rain, and this cave was just right.

He led the crowd to the cave with ease.

Only this cave is not spacious, three carts can not be put in, can only be placed outside to find a place to hide.

After that, the crowd walked into the cave.

The smell inside is not good.

After all, it was a cramped place and occupied by wild animals, so it was filled with all kinds of strange odors.

Jiang Ran led the crowd to sit down, and after a few people looked at each other for a while, Li Tianxin was the first to speak:

“You’ve been working on this for the past two days?”

These words were naturally asked of Jiang Ran.

Jiang Ran nodded gently:

“Earlier, I asked Lord Chang and knew that there were three locations that were quite treacherous, so I personally explored them.

“However, of these three places mentioned by Lord Chang, only the Valley of the Future Life is the most suitable, occupying a natural geographical advantage.

“As for the haunted village, just a legend, I waited there for a night, not to mention the ghosts …… pretending to be ghosts are not.

“As for the Yinlong slope …… that below is actually an ancient tomb.

“That place has soft soil, and there are organs and traps under the feet, and then there are ground rats digging holes, and some people pass by from above, and the soil can’t bear their weight, so they fall in.”

“Under the Yinlong slope …… is an ancient tomb?”

Liu Wenshan listened with surprise:

“This matter I don’t even know.”

“Can you know what dynasty it is from?”

Li Tianxin was also interested: “Why don’t we go for a walk in two days?”

“Just go yourself if you want to.”

Jiang Ran laughed, “But that place has long been scavenged. Moreover, that technique is more than just gopher, plowing the ground as it were, wherever it passes, not an inch of grass grows.”

Li Tianxin’s heart stirred, “Could it be the government?”

“Nine times out of ten there’s no mistaking it.”

Jiang Ran said, “The former county magistrate once went to investigate the Yinlong Slope, yet the specifics were not mentioned in a word, and he favored not letting anyone set foot on the Yinlong Slope for half a step ……”

“I see.”

Li Tianxin suddenly realized: “This is afraid of people to find out ah, pity …… pity ah.”

All of his face was indeed a color of regret.

It seemed to be very disappointed that he couldn’t go digging up graves.

Ye Alarming Frost looked at this and that, but she didn’t know, when did Jiang Ran make so many friends?

Jiang Ran glanced at her, and then remembered that he hadn’t introduced her yet, and that’s when he pointed at Li Tianxin and Ghost 13, and introduced them to her.

And when she heard the words ‘Ghost Thirteen’, her face suddenly changed.

After a slight contemplation, she asked softly:

“What happened to the Heartless Ghost Mansion ……?”

Ghost 13 frowned slightly, now that he already knew about the Red Maple Leaf Family.

Knowing what that group of demons and ghosts that had left the Heartless Ghost Mansion had done ……

Facing Ye Shockfang, the bitter master’s inquiry, he hesitated for a long time before saying:

“Regarding the situation inside the mansion, I really can’t disclose it.

“This is an iron rule ……

“However, the Red Maple Leaf Family’s matter, after I leave, I will report to the Mansion Lord one by one.

“I believe that the House Lord will definitely give you an explanation.”

The words had been said to this point, Ye Shockfrost did not continue to pursue the matter.

If it was before today, naturally, she would not have stopped so easily.

However, now she already knows from Tong Wanli’s mouth, the heartless ghost mansion side of the chaos of the heavenly que has long been calculated, not to mention is also a conspiracy.

If so, this time the matter of Heartless Ghost Mansion is also a victim.

Even if you can blame them for their laxity in guarding, but other than that, it won’t help.

What to say now is just a waste of time.

In the final analysis, the reason why the Red Maple Leaf family had this great difficulty, the one to blame is Tong Wanli.

Tong Wanli is dead and his head was chopped off by Jiang Ran.

That was the end of the matter.

Thinking of this, her heart suddenly felt a bit empty, and for a moment she didn’t know what to do.

It so happened that Jiang Ran’s gaze fell on her at that moment, so he asked:

“Frost, what are your future plans?”

Ye Jingfang glanced at Jiang Ran and suddenly smiled:

“I want to stay by your side.”

At these words, everyone, including Shi Miao, looked at Jiang Ran.

Li Tianxin’s eyes narrowed, rolling back and forth between Jiang Ran and Ye Qingshuang’s body with an unknown meaning.

Jiang Ran, on the other hand, was also stunned:

“Why?”

“To repay my favor.”

Ye Jingfang spoke softly:

“Big brother Jiang, you helped me out of my predicament twice, if it wasn’t for you, I would have already died an unknown number of times.

“Now you’ve even helped me plan and set up a scheme to avenge my blood feud.

“Tong Wanli died, I can also be considered to my parents, to the Ye family died in vain people have an explanation.

“This great kindness is not to be repaid, willing to always follow your side, give you tea and water, serving food, clothing, housing and transportation to repay this favor.”

“Eldest Miss Ye’s clear understanding of grudges is admirable.”

Without waiting for Jiang Ran to speak, Li Tianxin’s side had already raised an eyebrow:

“However, you have always been well-dressed and come from a noble background.

“You’re afraid that you can’t even take care of yourself, right? How can you take care of others?”

“En?”

Ye Alarming Frost gave Li Tianxin a strange look:

“Why did Brother Li make such a remark? The things in this world, before one touches them, naturally no one will.

“But won’t always be able to learn, I have the heart to learn, where there is a reason not to learn?”

Li Tianxin was silent for a moment, realizing that it was not good for him to refute this.

Then she looked at Jiang Ran:

“You can’t bear to let such a delicate big girl serve you?”

“None of your business.”

Jiang Ran gave him a blank look.

“……”

Li Tianxin had the urge to pull out his sword and kill someone.

But after disliking Li Tianxin, Jiang Ran looked at Ye Qingshan:

“Have you really thought about it?”

“En.”

Ye Wingshuang glanced at Jiang Ran:

“Or big brother Jiang, you’re not willing to take me in?”

“That’s too much to say.”

Jiang Ran shook his head:

“Saying anything about repaying kindness, I would think that it’s unnecessary, however, if it’s a companion traveling the rivers and lakes together …… this is more than I can ask for.”

“Good.”

Ye Jingfang also didn’t dwell on repaying the favor or not, hearing Jiang Ran say this immediately nodded his head:

“Then we’ll travel the Jianghu together as companions!”

After saying this, he did not forget to look at Li Tianxin:

“Look, big brother Jiang doesn’t even need me to serve, it seems I don’t need to learn more.”

“……”

There was one more person that Li Tianxin drew his sword and wanted to kill.

Finally skimmed his mouth:

“None of my business ……”

Then he hugged his sword and shrunk to the side, twisting his head to look at the raindrops outside the cave.

Liu Wenshan looked at Li Tianxin, and then at Ye Jinshang, with a few moments of confusion on his face.

Finally, he shook his head and did not seek to understand, but simply said:

“It is naturally good for you guys to travel the rivers and lakes together in company …… However, before that, you should still go back to the Red Maple Leaf family.”

Ye Shockfang glanced at Jiang Ran, seeking his opinion.

Jiang Ran mused for a moment afterward:

“I have to go to another location tomorrow, so I’ll give you an answer when I return.”

He was going to ask the Fragrant Forest.

The clue to ask Xianglin was too obvious, it was clear that there was a problem, and it was most likely an invitation to enter the jar.

Since it was an invitation, Jiang Ran had no reason not to go.

Not only does he have to go, he also has to let the young master of the manor also go.

Only, after this encounter in the Valley of the Living Dead, it is estimated that this person will no longer believe in perennial.

When the time comes, it is not possible to say will have to spend a lot of money again.

After that, there is not much to do, is Jiang Ran asked Ghost Thirteen, asked the Heartless Ghost House of this group of people are surnames, there is no bounty in the body.

Ghost 13 was really familiar with the origins of this group of people.

With a casual remark, hints appeared one after another on Jiang Ran’s side.

Only, some of these people have bounties on their bodies, while some don’t ……

Of these eight people from the Heartless Ghost House, there were a total of four people who had bounties hanging on them.

They were Bao Jing 5,000 taels, Liao Cheng Feng 5,500 taels, Zeng Quan Li 4,000 taels, and Guan Zisheng 2,000 taels.

Baojing and Liao Chengfeng naturally need not be mentioned, Zeng Quanli is the wax face, is also the day the tiger leaping Jian little old man.

As for Guan Zisheng, Jiang Ran had only met him once.

It was the unlucky one who had been thrown out from the mist straight ahead earlier and had his head chopped off by Jiang Ran’s knife.

And apart from them, there were many fewer famous ones on the Left Dao Zhuang side.

Together, there were a total of six people.

The reward was not much, the highest was only 700 taels, so it could be seen that there was no climate.

Rather, it is Jin Sanding and that Wu Niangzi, these two people are not too simple, but the problem is that …… at that time, they were sent flying by the precious mirror with a punch, and the Yang Yue Erjun appeared to attract the attention of all the people in the field.

Jiang Ran and Ye Jingshang went to find Tong Wanli first, and with no one noticing these two people, they unexpectedly gave a head start and ran away.

Jiang Ran thought about this and felt that he should still scold Li Tianxin for being such a pitiful bastard.

Let him properly guard there, but he followed behind himself.

Well, even so, Jiang Ran’s harvest this trip is not small.

It was far better than the one at the Cangzhou Prefecture Heroes’ Meeting.

Also worth mentioning was the Yang Yue Er Jun.

These two did not have a bounty on them.

At least the people present hadn’t heard of this matter ……

Jiang Ran had expected this and wasn’t really discouraged when he heard about it because he still had a Sword Catching Order.

The Golden Cicada Dynasty also had a Sword Execution Division.

It was not unlikely that these two people would be within the Sword Enforcement Division, on the top of the list.

Regardless of whether this thought was right or not, anyway, holding on to the thought of what if, turning back to find someone from the Sword Execution Division to inquire about it was.

In this way, the three crates will not have to be pushed back.

If you directly cut off the heads of these ten people, one cart will be pulled back, and if you really can’t, one person will carry two heads, which is also completely enough.

Only this latter proposal was refuted by Li Tianxin.

In addition to Ye Qingshang, all disagreed, Jiang Ran had no choice but to call it quits.

Of course, since Li Tianxin was so active, Jiang Ran couldn’t help but show something, so the cart job was given to him.

There was nothing to say after that, the rain continued to fall all night.

The people finally managed to build a fire to keep warm, even though Jiang Ran and the others were all highly skilled in martial arts, Liu Wenshan was in the end a weak scholar.

He has just recovered from a serious illness, and then dry rely on such a night, most likely not wait for dawn will die.

The next morning, the rain stopped.

Taking advantage of the crowd did not wake up, Jiang Ran could not bear to see Tong Wanli and a group of no reward in the body, so fed the beasts.

So he simply started a fire and set them all on fire.

Only after Liu Wenshan woke up did the crowd get back on the road.

When they reached the entrance of the Valley of the Living, Jiang Ran paid special attention to the traces on the ground.

He found that there was a set of footprints that were heading out, and it shouldn’t have been too long.

It was probably that Young Master of the Manor.

He should have sought shelter from the rain in the Valley of the Living World, and after the rain stopped this morning, he walked in front of Jiang Ran’s group.

Jiang Ran decided to go ahead after a little thought.

The young lord of the manor had suffered such a big loss here, he might go back and directly seek revenge on Changnian.

Even if Jiang Ran hadn’t promised Dao Wu Ming to protect Chang Nian, but in the past few days in Penma County, Chang Nian had obeyed him, so he shouldn’t be victimized by the young master of the manor because of this.

Immediately greeted the crowd and elaborated on the original story.

Li Tianxin and Ye Jingshang spoke at the same time, intending to act with him.

In the end, Jiang Ran nodded to Ye Jingshang and instructed Li Tianxin to push the cart …… well and take his head to make up for it if he lost a head.

Only then did Li Tianxin give up.

Past Life Valley is really not too far from Penma County, less than twenty miles away, almost in the twinkling of an eye was left behind by the two people.

After entering the county, the two people didn’t hesitate for a second and went directly to the county office.

When they arrived, Jiang Ran put down his heart.

The county office was as calm as ever, if something had happened all year round, it would never be like this.

The two of them didn’t go in from the front, but circled around a bit, from one side of the wall tumbled into the county office, after which Jiang Ran brought Ye Jingshuang to find Chang Nian’s study in a light way.

Listening from outside the door, inside were two voices.

Jiang Ran frowned slightly, gently knocked on the door, and soon the door of the study was opened from inside.

What appeared before Jiang Ran was a familiar face:

“Dao Wu Ming?”

“Brother Jiang.”

When Dao Wu Ming saw Jiang Ran, it was as if he had seen a relative, and he said cheerfully:

“I knew that Brother Jiang was not a heartless person, I didn’t expect that after you rejected me, you would still come to protect Chang Nian.

“When I think of this, this heart of mine is a moment of shame.”

Jiang Ran’s mood was a bit complicated when he saw him:

“You’re done with your business?”

“That’s right, between the days of the conversion, Little Sheng ran several hundred miles back and forth one after another, and the matter is finally settled.”

Dao Wu Ming said here, stretching out his arm as a guide:

“Brother Jiang inside please.”

As he spoke, he glanced at Ye Shockfang again faintly:

“Isn’t this the Red Maple Leaf Family’s Miss Ye?”

Ye Jingshuang was frowning since she heard Jiang Ran’s address to Dao Wuming, and when she heard Dao Wuming speak, she was suddenly blessed:

“You are the Nameless Scholar?”

“I am.”

Dao Wu Ming clasped his fist: “The girl has heard of the little student?”

“…… I saw you when I was a child.”

Ye Shocking Frost said softly, “When you came to the Ye family to visit the family ancestor, you met senior, looking at your appearance today, I think that the Unheard of Dao Qi has been practiced?”

“How can Unheard Dao Qi …… be practiced so easily?

“Nowadays it’s just a slight experience.”

Dao Wu Ming smiled:

“As the saying goes, one can die in the evening after hearing the Tao, this Unheard of Taoism Qi, preferring to go against the grain.

“Speaking is a …… I do not see the Tao, death does not see me.

“Is really difficult for people tight, simply is not reasonable martial arts.

“The side of the little boy since childhood reading, the most understanding of reason.

“At that time, when I visited your grandfather, it was also for this unheard of Taoist qi.

“Now that I think about it, more than ten years have passed since then.

“In the blink of an eye, the Ye Clan’s eldest young lady is already this elegant ah.”

“The Unheard Dao Qi is a Confucian mastery, and has its own profound truths within it.”

Ye Jingshang laughed:

“Senior being able to cultivate it is truly admirable.”

Jiang Ran only realized at this point why this martial art was called Unheard of Taoism Qi.

The fight turned out to be such a machiavellian.

“Alright, don’t gossip in front of the door.”

Dao Wu Ming laughed:

“Come in and talk.”

Jiang Ran casually asked as he walked inside:

“Has anyone come to see Lord Chang?”

Chang Nian then glanced at Dao Wu Ming.

He then heard Dao Wu Ming laugh:

“You laid out the killings in Prancing Horse Town, and what Chang Nian did has been exposed, so naturally someone will come over to seek revenge on him.

“But don’t worry, that young master of the manor has already left when he saw me here.

“Whether this go can come back or not, is still in between.”

“Gone where?”

Jiang Ran asked and then suddenly realized:

“He went to Ask the Fragrant Forest?”

“Exactly.”

Dao Wu Ming smiled, “Gone for about half an hour.”

Jiang Ran turned around and walked away.

Dao Wu Ming froze:

“Where are you going?”

“None of your business.”

Jiang Ran didn’t look back.

Ye Qingshuang, on the other hand, hurriedly cuddled with Dao Wuming before he hurriedly turned around and chased after him.

Dao Wu Ming couldn’t help but smile slightly as he watched the two people hurry away, one after the other:

“It’s good to be young.”

As he spoke he took out a booklet from his bosom and handed it to Chang Nian:

“This booklet, give it to him when he returns.”

“Yes.”

Chang Nian hurriedly stood up and received it with both hands in a respectful manner.

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