Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?-Chapter 76 - Sending Warmth to the Disliked_1

Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Sending Warmth to the Disliked_1

Chapter 76: Chapter 76: Sending Warmth to the Disliked_1

“How come it’s you?”

Li Xuan looked curiously at the arriving Ma Chenggong, “Doesn’t the Colonel have a day off? I see you rarely have spare time.”

Ma Chenggong’s eyes became complicated immediately, with an expression of having too much to say.

Jiang Hanyun explained the reason, “His wife is on duty these days, so he simply stayed in Zhuque Hall.”

Li Xuan’s eyes were immediately filled with sympathy for Ma Chenggong. As someone who had experienced the modern workplace, he understood Ma Chenggong’s difficulties and pain.

At this moment, Jiang Hanyun ordered again: “Old Ma, you go outside to take statements, and bring back all the people from the House of Night who may be involved in the case to Zhuque Hall. Li Xuan stays to investigate the scene to see if there are other useful clues.”

Ma Chenggong couldn’t help but tug at the corner of his lips, knowing that this fellow Li Xuan was clearly stepping on him for promotion. In Jiang Hanyun’s eyes, this guy has clearly become her first choice in terms of crime scene investigation.

Nevertheless, Ma Chenggong readily complied and left without dragging his feet. He was not one who was jealous, the skills and potential displayed by Li Xuan over the past ten days were impressive and left him looking forward.

The case of Xue Wuya that uplifted Mingyou City two days ago was Li Xuan’s doing.

Furthermore, he had made a significant oversight just now in his hurry to help – he forgot to order his troops to cordon off the House of Night.

Think about it, two remnants of the Maitreya Teaching were hiding in this well, how could no one from the House of Night be involved?

So he was eager to get out of the well at this point, trying to make up for this oversight.

Li Xuan was carefully investigating inside the stone chamber, searching inch by inch. Jiang Hanyun also released her Four-Tailed Spirit Fox to search the scene together.

But everything here had been thoroughly destroyed by her and the black-clothed woman’s lightning fire.

In the end, the two of them could only bring back the two suspects, along with a group of suspects from the House of Night, to Zhuque Hall. Just as they had just stepped through the main gate, they were summoned to the main hall of Zhuque Hall, in front of the Fumo Zongguan.

“The Sutra of Maitreya’s Descent and the full and mini-version Emperor Ming’s Birth Sutra?”

The white-haired blind elder on the hall fell into thought. “In other words, this blood sacrifice case is likely to be manipulated by the Maitreya Teaching behind the scenes?”

Jiang Hanyun knelt on the hall and answered uncertainly, “That’s the situation I saw at the scene. As for the truth, it depends on the results of the interrogation.”

Just then, Lei Yun, the Zhihuishi of Huoya City, strode in, “Zongguan sir, Xue Wuya has confessed, he is a remnant of the Maitreya Teaching.”

He looked at Jiang Hanyun and Li Xuan with cold, dissatisfied eyes, then continued his report. “The mastermind is himself, he was reportedly planning to cultivate the Drought Demon in Nanjing City, but failed at the last minute because he encountered Xiaowei Jiang, who should not have been in Nan City at the time.”

“It seems that they sensed the two men Mingyou City captured.”

The old man scoffed coldly, looking ready to explode. “To cultivate a Drought Demon in Nanjing City, what audacity they have! Pass on my order, from today, imprison this Xue Wuya in the bottom layer of the Zhenyao Tower.”

Jiang Hanyun, however, had a thought and asked Lei Yun, “The Evil Corpse aura I sensed before and after was different, did Xue Wuya give an explanation?”

“He doesn’t know,” Lei Yun answered indifferently, “But not long ago, during the blood sacrifice, they injected some Tengshe blood into the corpse of the Evil Corpse, hence the changes.”

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Jiang Hanyun was taken aback for a moment, then relieved.

Li Xuan, however, frowned slightly, thinking that this explanation made sense. The blood sacrifice case and the Xue Wuya case can now be considered clear.

But he still didn’t understand, what did the red-dressed ghost woman behind him have to do with this case?

And what about the two women he saw through the memory of the dead in that underground dark river? They could astral project, it can’t be the two they captured today.

“The case is finally resolved, all the criminals have been brought to justice, it’s a great relief.”

The old man in the hall looked at the two of them somewhat humorously. “I should be happy that you are so diligent, even spending your off-duty time on public affairs, tirelessly pursuing the criminals. But I think you youngsters really don’t have to spend all your time and energy on public affairs. Occasionally, you should stop and enjoy the view along the way. Otherwise, when you reach my age, you’ll inevitably regret it. Some sceneries can only be appreciated at your age.”

Li Xuan thought that the Zongguan sir made a lot of sense, and it would be great if he could be gracious enough to extend their leave.

Unfortunately, the white-haired old man simply credited them with another ‘merit’ and had them sent away.

And just before they parted, Jiang Hanyun kindly reminded him, “You can listen to what the director said, but you’d better not take it seriously. This old man, for all his fine words, he still insists on overtime work, I’ve never seen him give extra leave. He would be elated if we can all give him servitude in the yamen every single day. So, rest well in your spare time, the Middle Ghost Festival is coming up, and we’re going to be busy again.”

Li Xuan wondered, hadn’t the Xue Wuya case just concluded? Zhuque Hall would have a lot of people available. Could they still have to suffer a harsh life?

But as he thought back through the original owner’s memories, he found that last year during the Middle Ghost Festival, the Liudao Division was also quite busy.

“The Middle Ghost Festival has a peak of Yin power, the ghost gate is wide open, and groups of ghosts rove at night.”

Jiang Hanyun explained the cause: “It may not necessarily cause trouble, but we can’t be unprepared. Every time there was a war in the past, during the Middle Ghost Festival, countless evil spirits were uncontrolled, killing countless people. The Yin power in recent years has become extraordinarily strong, and in the past few days, Jinling City has also experienced many spiritual calamities, so——”

Li Xuan had already understood the implications. Hence, their Mingyou City still needed to patrol the streets.

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Although Jiang Hanyun advised Li Xuan to rest more, as a result, Li Xuan still got up early the next day.

This time, he was not practicing martial arts, but following through on the promise he made to Master Chenghuang two days ago. He had to take the money he had promised for Tianao’s gold body and use it to bring warmth to the city’s orphans, widows, and disabled.

Li Xuan couldn’t do this alone, so he had the housekeeper prepare some rice and sewn clothes to exchange for money early in the morning. A team of servants were also readied for him.

The Earl Chengyi naturally supported this fully. After hearing about it two days ago, he was relieved and specifically ordered the housekeeper to fully cooperate with the mansion.

Li Xuan originally planned to set up stalls at the four city gates of Nanjing and provide porridge for a few days, but this idea was stopped by his housekeeper.

“No use, second son, I guess there won’t be many people coming for the porridge. Nowadays, all the beggars in the city have been spoiled by the Demoness Zidie. They can earn money by lying down, why would they come for porridge? Plus, the ones that the second son wants to assist are widowers, orphans and the disabled, who have a hard time moving and can’t squeeze through the beggars.”

Li Xuan thought that was right, so he decided to deliver the items to their door instead.

Early in the morning, Li Xuan and his group pushed over twenty carts filled with goods out of the door, then started to distribute them along the streets of Nan City. The housekeeper’s method was to first find the head of each local district (under the community system, one hundred and ten households make up a neighborhood), ask them to identify the residences of widows and orphans, and then send the rice and clothes over.

Li Xuan naturally could not possibly knock on every door. Otherwise, he could spend five or six days and still not finish this task. Therefore, they had to rely on the servants from Earl Chengyi’s mansion to deliver most of these — the ones selected carefully by the housekeeper were industrious, trustworthy, and clean.

Li Xuan was only personally responsible for a small part of it, but the feedback from the recipients of his charity wasn’t great. One could even say they shunned him.

“Tsk! Just these bits of things, and you dare call this charity?”

“Put the stuff there, and no need to see you out.”

“The fabric of these clothes is mediocre, and a bit too big. Is there only this twenty jin of rice? And it’s even brown rice——”

“Can’t you give us money instead? What am I supposed to do with these?”

They had barely completed their work in Nan City, and Li Xuan’s personal attendant Li Dalu was already furious.

“These people, we are giving them things and they aren’t even grateful? They nitpick at everything and find faults here and there. Young Master, this is just spending money to bring yourself trouble. It would have been simpler and easier to give them money directly.”

Li Xuan shot him a cold glance before continuing to walk forward: “Enough talk, hurry up and keep up! Before the Hour of Wu, we have to get this street done.”

When he was first assigned this task by Master Chenghuang, he approached it with an attitude of just getting by. But as he made his rounds, his mood gradually grew heavy and he became more serious about it.

Despite being gradually emerging from its earlier decline under the rule of virtuous ministers and enlightened emperor, the common people of the Jin Dynasty were still struggling. Besides, given the level of agricultural production in ancient dynasties, even during so-called prosperous times, the lives of common people weren’t necessarily much better.

And for the orphans, widows, and disabled who lost their means of support and couldn’t make a living, it was as if they were living in hell.

Along their way, they did endure a lot of anger, but those cold words and fault-finding people still made up only a minority. Moreover, the status of many of them as orphans, widows and disabled was doubtful, and their living conditions were mostly quite good.

The vast majority of those who were genuinely in need were discerning and grateful, even tearfully attached to them.

Hence when they encountered people who were particularly impoverished, Li Xuan would leave some extra silver in addition to the original gift. The money was not much, but it could slightly improve their situation.

In his last life, his parents only provided for his daily expenses and left everything else to him. After he went to college, he had to be self-reliant and even came up with the medicine fees himself.

Li Xuan knew the taste of hardship and had met many benefactors. He was willing to extend a helping hand to others when he could afford it, passing on the flame given to him by these benefactors.