Chapter 131: The Oppressive Force of the Top Rookie

“Eh, according to what you say, now you're acting as a little maid at my place, and your master knows about it, right?” Lu Xingzhou suddenly asked.

Pei Chuyun came back to herself, seeming to smile yet not smile: “Why, are you afraid? Knowing that I have someone backing me, bullying me will result in a beating, you know?”

“I'm not bullying you anyway, so what's there to be afraid of? But will your master really let you keep playing around here?”

“She just thinks I'm trying to reel you in; this is nothing new for our sect…” Pei Chuyun said leisurely: “How I specifically go about it, she might not care that much… However…”

“What?”

“She talked about the past with me, and there might be a bit of a warning in her words.” Pei Chuyun turned over, hugging Lu Xingzhou's neck, her eyes curving with a smile: “After all, my mother was left pregnant without being married. Don't you think I might feel a bit of a warning after hearing about it?”

Lu Xingzhou immediately said: “I might not be as much of a scoundrel as father-in-law.”

Pei Chuyun spat: “Who is your father-in-law?”

Saying this, her eyes flowed with emotion, and she giggled: “However, what you originally had a good chance of getting is now much more difficult.”

Lu Xingzhou leaned his ear in and said: “Was there really a chance originally?”

“No, no.” Pei Chuyun, as if afraid of being tickled, shrunk her neck back and said coyly: “As soon as you came back, you're like a pig in heat!”

Lu Xingzhou didn't know whether to laugh or cry: “Clearly, you're the one bringing up this topic all the time, and I'm just going along with what you want, and you blame me.”

Pei Chuyun hummed twice and leaned into his embrace without moving.

Before he came back, her heart was unsettled, and her mind was filled with chaotic emotions. In a few words, everything vanished like smoke, leaving only complete peace.

It seemed as long as he was there, she could feel at ease. As for those messy things, having him was enough.

It was really annoying. Clearly, I'm strong enough to beat him up, so why do I feel this way…

Pei Qingyan's attitude was temporarily unclear, but her master's attitude was very obvious, and she didn't hesitate to speak frankly: she just wanted her to become the nail that Yaonu Hehuanzong inserted into the Pei family, and she didn't give her sufficient trust, requiring her to prove herself.

Although this is the natural way of getting along in the Demonic sect, she had grown up in the sect for eighteen years, and it didn't give her a sense of belonging or dependence compared to Lu Xingzhou, whom she had only known for a short time. This inevitably made the literary young demoness sigh in her heart.

It was really ridiculous… She still joked about threatening him by saying she had "someone backing her," but heaven knew that the person backing her was actually him, vaguely.

Well, he was hugging her from behind.

Pei Chuyun adjusted her posture comfortably and mumbled: “I'm tired, hold me and sleep.”

“It's the middle of the afternoon…”

“Is an afternoon nap not allowed?”

“Okay, okay, okay.” Lu Xingzhou gently lifted her and placed her on the bed. He didn't lie down himself, but sat at the edge of the bed, gently stroking the tips of her hair: “Rest well, I'll just read a book next to you.”

Pei Chuyun held his hand and didn't let go, her voice still a little uneasy: “Pei… His attitude has been absent-minded since he saw me yesterday. I'm sure he's started investigating in secret. If nothing goes wrong, he'll come to the door in these two days.”

Lu Xingzhou knew that Pei Chuyun still longed for kinship deep down, especially under the naked relationship of interests in the Demonic sect. She wanted to know if her father's side would be a little better.

Like a helpless little kitten suddenly facing change… She didn't need any answers, just company.

Lu Xingzhou rubbed her small hand and showed a relaxed smile: “Follow your heart. Even if someone in the Pei family is unfavorable to you, Pei Qingyan should protect you. Remember our principle, as long as we muddle through enough, then we are invincible.”

Pei Chuyun said: “What about your matters?”

“Hmm? What matters of mine?”

“You went out today and came back so late. Do you have any matters?”

“Me… I'm waiting for the He family to invite me to dinner, or even invite me to the garden.”

Pei Chuyun stared with wide eyes: “You also want to recognize kin?”

“Wrong.” Lu Xingzhou smiled slightly: “I want to kill people.”

Pei Chuyun finally found a sense of her own existence: “I'll help you.”

Lu Xingzhou pinched her nose: “Of course, you're my little maid at home. If the young master wants to kill people, won't you hand over the knife?”

Pei Chuyun indignantly grabbed his hand and didn't retort. Instead, she hugged his arm and closed her eyes: “The little maid wants to sleep, no talking allowed.”

Lu Xingzhou helplessly looked at his arm being hugged by her, unable to pull it out.

A Nuo sighed in her own room.

So why build this three-room courtyard in the first place? One room was always empty. Wouldn't it have been fine to just open two rooms? How much money would that have saved?

In the afternoon, the Zhen Mo Si was solemn in each department.

The only daughter of the First Vice Chief Capturer, Sheng Qingfeng, and the main official of the capital's Jidao Si, Sheng Yuanyao, was stabbed and injured while going to the garden early in the morning.

According to eyewitnesses, if a person in a wheelchair hadn't descended from the sky, she would have been stabbed to death.

The culprit was the main offender in the murder case in the capital's suburbs last month, which Sheng Yuanyao had been investigating recently. He was Ye Wufeng, a soul envoy of Yan Luo Dian. This was a naked revenge attack.

At the same time, in the garden were also the young master of Prime Minister Pei's family, Pei Yu, as well as the young masters and daughters of more than ten big and small families in the capital. This not only smeared the Zhen Mo Si's face but also seriously provoked the security of the capital of Great Qian. Prime Minister Pei personally inquired, and the old chief who had not handled affairs for a long time, only drank tea and waited for retirement, was furious and rarely threw a cup.

Vice Chief Capturer Sheng's face was even darker as he called in the relevant subordinates one by one and scolded them for a full half hour, then personally took up this task.

With his level, he rarely personally took charge of cases below the third rank… The first person in charge of this case was indeed Sheng Yuanyao, who was now lying in bed. As a father, he had to find the people behind the scenes.

However, it wasn't easy to find the people behind the scenes.

Originally, the Zhen Mo Si had a vague judgment about the location of Yan Luo Dian's base in the capital. After all, Yan Luo Dian was always taking on business, and even if the wind system was fine, unchanged words were easy to find flaws in. The Zhen Mo Si had been watching, and already had a bit of a grasp.

In terms of revenge, Sheng Qingfeng had full confidence in finding and eliminating this base within a day, at least on the surface, to create momentum and not lose face for the Zhen Mo Si.

As a result, his daughter, lying in bed, muffled and said, let the other people of Yan Luo Dian go… The reason was still very reasonable. She said that Ye Wufeng might not be at Yan Luo Dian's base, and blind strikes would cause too much movement, making it easy for Ye Wufeng to escape. Her enemy was Ye Wufeng and no one else. Hitting the sesame and losing the watermelon wouldn't be a waste…

Since she said that, it wasn't good to take big actions. How easy was it to accurately target and capture Ye Wufeng? Heaven knew where Ye Wufeng was at this time, perhaps he had left the capital early. Would the Zhen Mo Si still have to suffer this silent loss?

Sheng Qingfeng paced back and forth, instructing: “You first go and disguise yourselves as customers, stating that you want a soul envoy to come out and kill someone. See how the people of Yan Luo Dian respond.”

A subordinate said: “Who should be the target?”

“Screen the targets a bit, find someone who won't provoke Yan Luo Dian and who Ye Wufeng would be interested in making a move on…”

“Adult, based on all aspects of information, there is a certain possibility that Lu Xingzhou is a former judge of Yan Luo Dian. Should we just choose him as the target? How about we talk to him first?”

Sheng Qingfeng: “…Don't choose him. In case of a mistake, someone will cause trouble for me.”

Subordinate: “?”

“Furthermore, the matter of Lu Xingzhou possibly being a judge should be kept quiet for now. Don't randomly guess things that are not yet confirmed, it's unfavorable to a person's reputation. This is a new Dan Master who is being assessed for the Dan Academy, don't casually slander him. On another level, even if he was once a judge, he isn't anymore. If he really enters the Dan Academy, it's abandoning the dark and turning to the light, and it shouldn't be mentioned again.”

“Yes.”

“Go and screen some other people to select. There are so many people available in the capital, and you only thought of Lu Xingzhou? How about going to find Pei Yu? Didn't he give the old man an explanation for this matter?”

“Report!” A subordinate ran in breathlessly from outside the door: “Something else has happened!”

Sheng Qingfeng frowned: “What are you panicking about? Speak slowly.”

“Chu Qingchen said he was going to an appointment and left the Pei family to drink afternoon tea at a teahouse… Just as he reached the teahouse door, he was ambushed by Ye Wufeng, who had been waiting for a long time, and his throat was sealed with a single sword strike. Then Ye Wufeng left a sentence, ‘Ye is just ahead, see how you wait,' and fled far away without a trace.”

Inside the Zhen Mo Si's main hall, the atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

Everyone was secretly looking at Sheng Qingfeng's face, which was as black as the bottom of a pot.

Too arrogant… Teahouse, this is killing people in the city! This is the capital! Under the feet of the Son of Heaven!

Yan Luo Dian was only arrogant before because Yan Jun was arrogant. Who would have thought that the newcomers would also learn from Yan Jun and be just as arrogant!

“Truly narrow-minded, an eye for an eye.” After a while, someone whispered: “These words are in response to Chu Qingchen's words earlier, right?”

“Chu Qingchen is at least from a famous family, a four-star upper level, ranked seventh among the newcomers. How could he be so easily defeated, unable to take even one move?”

“First is first after all… And it was an assassination.”

Sheng Qingfeng said coldly: “Who was Chu Qingchen going to meet?”

“I heard…” The subordinate hesitated and said: “I heard it was Ho Jin.”

“Bastard!” Sheng Qingfeng slammed the table, shattering it: “What is the Ho family doing!”

The crowd did not answer. Actually, this could not necessarily prove that the Ho family colluded with Ye Wufeng. It was normal for the Ho family to want to befriend the seventh-ranked newcomer. The message being leaked and learned by Ye Wufeng, who then ambushed him in advance, was not uncommon.

It had to be said that Ye Wufeng had created a strong sense of oppression.

The number one on the newcomer list was indeed extraordinary… With this one action, those who had offended him dared not easily go out. It seemed that Ye Wufeng's actions were also deliberately showing power, a bit like proving that Yan Luo Dian could be stronger even without a judge?

If there were no high-level powerful people making a move, it would be impossible for young people like Sheng Yuanyao to deal with them, and the current messy scene of dead and injured seemed understandable.

Sheng Qingfeng laughed in extreme anger: “He's just a newcomer first, not the world's first! Even if Yan Jun himself came, he wouldn't dare to be so arrogant! Executive Chen!”

The subordinate quickly saluted: “Here.”

“First, take people to arrange a distant point and watch the area suspected of being Yan Luo Dian's station. As long as there is the slightest trace of Ye Wufeng, immediately send a message.”

“Yes.”

“Immediately proceed with the disguise as a customer, focusing on Pei Yu.”

“Yes.”

Sheng Qingfeng pulled at his collar, scolding loudly: “What newcomer first, just a rat generation. If he didn't rely on sneak attacks, his frontal ability might not be comparable to Princess Chao Huang.”

The subordinates all did not answer. Perhaps the words were right, but the person himself cultivated the way of assassination…

“Did Chu Qingchen hang?” In the inn, Lu Xingzhou also heard the exclamations and discussions outside, and whispered to himself: “No one listens to advice.”

Pei Chuyun, who woke up from her afternoon nap, leaned lazily against the head of the bed and yawned: “Why don't you say that your Yan Luo Dian's assassination method is disgusting?”

“Assassination method…” Lu Xingzhou sighed: “It sounds very disgusting… But it also means that as long as we can create a situation where he has to confront us head-on, his threat can be weakened by half.”

Pei Chuyun's eyes flickered: “Do you have another ghost idea?”

As soon as the words fell, there was a knock on the door outside the courtyard: “Is Young Master Lu here?”

A Nuo opened the door and asked: “Who is it?”

A person who looked like a servant compensated with a smile: “I am the follower of Young Master Ho Jin… Young Master Ho Jin invites the esteemed teacher to the Yan Yu Lou again to chat. He said that he offended you a few days ago and wants to apologize to the esteemed teacher. Looking at our shared family connection, let's clear up the past grudges.”

Lu Xingzhou seemed to smile yet not smile: “Didn't he just come?”

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