I use my daughter's body to cut down the rivers and lakes

Chapter 377 Doubt

This time when she returned to the Liu Mansion, Liu Qi naturally would not live in that remote little courtyard again. She, Zhou Mi and Liu Shijiu moved into the courtyard where Zhou had lived in the past.

When Zhou and Liu Zongxun were newlyweds, she had finally fulfilled her long-cherished wish and put a lot of thought into this courtyard. In addition, the Zhou family was at its peak at the time, so the decorations in the room were all very valuable. Even after Zhang Cheng took over, he was reluctant to make too many changes, so the room was no different from the past.

"She probably never expected that the house on which she spent countless efforts would end up being given to a servant for nothing." Zhou Mi sat down in the main hall of the backyard and joked with a smile.

"It's not like he got it for nothing." Liu Qi, who had just stepped over the threshold and entered the main hall, said expressionlessly, "He traded his life for a few months of enjoyment. I think he should be the one who suffers the loss."

Zhou Mi raised her eyes and smiled at Liu Qi, then looked around and said slowly: "Little Liu Qi, not everyone in this world can exchange their lives for these. The furniture in this room alone is enough to buy a hundred maids."

Liu Qi's face remained calm: "When did your Majesty become so compassionate?"

"When the country prospers, the people suffer; when the country perishes, the people suffer." Zhou Mi couldn't help but sigh, "To be honest, I didn't expect the situation to turn out like this. I thought that after Wei Yang's death, with Xiao Qifeng in charge of the capital, even if there were some minor disturbances, they wouldn't turn the world upside down."

Liu Qi walked over to Zhou Mi and sat down, then he said thoughtfully, "The general and the King of Donghai are both top martial artists, but they are not the same kind of people at all. You want Xiao Qifeng to replace Zhou Weiyang to shock the world, but in the end, not only will you fail to achieve your goal, but you may even harm Xiao Qifeng."

Zhou Mi frowned slightly: "Have you met him?"

Liu Qi nodded and said, "I had a meal with him in the palace a few days ago. Although he didn't do anything, I could feel that his heart was a little shaken."

"Wavefall?" Zhou Mi's eyes darkened. "I heard on the way to Beijing that he had sent all the concubines out of the harem. If it weren't for Empress Xu threatening to die, I'm afraid even the Empress would have married someone else."

Liu Qi slowly turned his head and looked into Zhou Mi's eyes, and said slowly: "Doesn't this mean that his heart has begun to waver?"

Zhou Mi frowned, with confusion in his eyes.

Seeing Zhou Mi's puzzled expression, Liu Qi immediately turned his head and looked forward, and asked in a deep voice: "If I were Xiao Qifeng, do you think I would do this?"

Zhou Mi's eyes lit up, and he understood instantly: "You can't!"

"You don't even care about the life and death of the Xu family, not to mention the concubines in the harem who you have never even met." Zhou Mi smiled faintly, "So in your opinion, Xiao Qifeng's actions are a sign that his heart is beginning to waver."

"I hope I'm wrong." Liu Qi's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said solemnly, "If it's really as I expected, then it means that the current situation is specially prepared for Xiao Qifeng. They are putting a mountain on the sea for Xiao Qifeng, a mountain that Xiao Qifeng dare not easily submerge!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Qi turned his head and looked at Zhou Mi, then stretched out his hand to her and opened his palm: "Where is the imperial seal?"

Zhou Mi was still immersed in Liu Qi's words. When she saw Liu Qi suddenly change the subject and mention the imperial seal, she was stunned for a moment, then she subconsciously replied, "In the box I brought, I had originally planned to follow Master Jiang's suggestion and give the imperial seal to Xiao Qifeng for safekeeping."

Liu Qi's eyes flickered slightly: "Did Jiang Xuanyun really say that?"

Zhou Mi glanced at Liu Qi with a puzzled look: "Are you doubting Master Jiang?"

Liu Qi said calmly: "I still doubt you, Madam. After all, how can anyone in this world live for two hundred years like you and still look like a 28-year-old?"

Liu Qi's voice became lower and lower as he spoke. He examined Zhou Mi's face thoroughly, and finally couldn't help asking in a deep voice, "You look... younger than before!"

Zhou Mi couldn't help but touch her rosy cheeks after hearing this, and then smiled softly: "I don't know whether it is a blessing or a curse. I always feel that the strange poison in my body has become more active, but it is completely different from the previous poisonous situation..."

Zhou Mi raised her hand and gently stroked her heart as she spoke, then whispered, "It's as if my body has merged with it, but I can still clearly feel its presence!"

While Zhou Mi was speaking, Liu Qi was looking at her intently.

After entering Zhiwei, nothing related to the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth could escape her eyes. No matter what panacea or poison there was in this world, its essence was a different manifestation of the Yuan Qi of Heaven and Earth.

But the result still disappointed Liu Qi.

She did not notice anything unusual in Zhou Mi. In fact, if Liu Qi had not witnessed the poison in Zhou Mi's body taking effect many times with her own eyes, she would have even doubted whether there was really a strange poison in Zhou Mi's body.

Zhou Mi also noticed Liu Qi's scrutiny, so he asked curiously, "Did you see anything?"

Liu Qi shook his head, and then told her that he had encountered someone in Sihai Villa who tried to assassinate him with the same strange poison.

When Zhou Mi learned that the strange poison had reappeared in the martial arts world, her pair of beautiful eyes suddenly showed a sharp light: "In other words, the person who poisoned me back then has descendants or successors?"

"So who poisoned you back then?" Liu Qi asked.

The gleam in Zhou Mi's eyes disappeared instantly, and then he spread his hands helplessly: "If I had known that when Zhou Weiyang was alive, I would have taken revenge on him long ago, why wait until now."

Thumb, thump, thump...

Just when Liu Qi was about to say something, footsteps were heard outside the door.

She immediately turned her head and saw Xu Qinghuai walking in.

"Little sister, people from the Six Gates are here!" Xu Qinghuai's eyes met Liu Qi's. He had just entered the room and had not yet stood still when he spoke.

Liu Qi raised his eyebrows and said, "Just send away the Six Gates. Why bother me?"

Xu Qinghuai heard the impatience in Liu Qi's words, and immediately said with a smile: "Don't be angry, little sister. The people from the Six Gates are not here to accuse you. Their Chief Constable Lin is waiting outside the door and said he wants to see you."

Lin Shengchuan.

What is he here for?
Liu Qi thought about it, then told Zhou Mi to take care of the injured Liu Shijiu, and then he got up and left the main hall and went to the front yard.

At this time, Lin Shengchuan, who was standing on the steps outside the gate, couldn't help but pull his clothes together, thinking that the wind was getting stronger and stronger.

"Captain Lin, Miss Liu lets you in." Finally, a man dressed as a Qingcheng disciple opened the door and said to Lin Shengchuan.

Lin Shengchuan's face suddenly lit up with joy, and then he quickly stepped into the mansion.

When he arrived at the reception hall in the front yard, he saw the woman sitting upright in the hall before he even entered, and he suddenly felt a little flustered.

"Captain Lin, what are you so nervous about?"

Lin Shengchuan had just stepped over the threshold when he heard a cold voice. He couldn't help but shudder and quickly stood still. Then he bowed to the woman in the hall in front of him and said loudly, "Lin Shengchuan greets Miss Liu."

Liu Qi gently stroked the armrest of the chair with his left hand, staring at the back of his hand the whole time, and whispered, "Captain Lin, there is no need to be polite. Liu Qi still wants to know what you were so nervous about just now?"

"Haha..." Lin Shengchuan laughed dryly, "Miss Liu, you are joking. I..."

"Lin Shengchuan!" Liu Qi suddenly raised his head, his cold eyes fell on Lin Shengchuan's face, and then he interrupted him, "What on earth were you so nervous about just now?"

An invisible pressure made Lin Shengchuan's body tremble, and the smile on his face froze instantly.

Gudong!

His Adam's apple rolled, Lin Shengchuan took a deep breath, restrained his expression, and then said in a solemn voice: "Yesterday, a bloody incident occurred in a charity home in South City. More than 20 orphans in the home were beheaded, and the broken necks of each corpse were covered with a thin layer of white frost, without even a trace of blood spilling out."

As soon as the words fell, Lin Shengchuan felt the invisible power pressing on him fade away a little. He couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief, but then he heard Liu Qi's voice: "Nancheng, the Orphanage, are you sure the dead are all children?"

Lin Shengchuan nodded heavily immediately: "They are all homeless orphans adopted by the orphanage. The oldest is only fourteen years old, and the youngest is only...six years old!"

……

"I am now living in the orphanage near the wall in the south city. If you want to find me, just find a beggar on the street in the south city, give him some food, and ask him to take you to see King Gu, and he will naturally take you to see me."

……

Liu Qi suddenly recalled what Gu Liancheng said before he left a few days ago.

Can't it be such a coincidence?
Liu Qi immediately asked, "But the orphanage near the south city wall?" Lin Shengchuan was startled, then nodded woodenly, "Yes, you..."

Liu Qi caught the shock in Lin Shengchuan's eyes, and then his eyes narrowed: "Do you suspect that I did it?"

Whoosh!
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Shengchuan saw Liu Qi suddenly stand up, and then his figure disappeared like a ghost. He blinked in horror, but between his closed and opened eyes, a beautiful figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

Click!

Lin Shengchuan clenched his hands hanging at his sides into fists and subconsciously tried to raise his arms.

But no matter how he urged his internal energy to flow into his arms, his arms seemed to be welded shut and he couldn't move at all.

"Ah!" Finally, Lin Shengchuan couldn't help but let out a long roar to the sky under the endless pressure around him. The true energy condensed in his body collapsed in an instant. His clothes fluttered, and with a "boom", countless energy rushed out from his sleeves and trouser legs.

Da da……

flutter!
Lin Shengchuan staggered back two steps, and finally his legs went weak and he fell to one knee.

He looked up suddenly, his pale face full of horror.

"Just based on the suspicion you had towards me just now, it's not unfair to kill you." Liu Qi walked forward slowly and stood where Lin Shengchuan had just stood, then looked down at Lin Shengchuan with disdainful eyes.

Lin Shengchuan suddenly looked bitter: "Actually, I didn't want to come, but I thought of the appearance of those children..."

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then opened them. The shock in his eyes had dissipated, replaced by a strong determination: "Liu Qi, did those children really not die at your hands?"

"Nonsense!" Liu Qi shouted coldly, "Killing a few homeless children is of no use to me. I might as well go to Liushenmen to get your dog head!"

Lin Shengchuan's eyes trembled, and he wanted to say something, but Liu Qi shouted "Get lost" and he was held back.

After watching Lin Shengchuan leave with a dejected look on his face, Liu Qi stood at the door of the reception hall and pondered for a moment. Then, when Xu Qinghuai approached, he said softly, "I'm going to go out for a while. I'll leave the mansion to you."

Xu Qinghuai paused when he heard this, nodded subconsciously, then looked up and found that Liu Qi in front of him had disappeared.

He stood there for a while, then touched his head in confusion, apparently not used to his sister's decisiveness.

……

South city, Salesian Home.

The two constables, wearing thick cloaks, huddled at the gate in the cold wind.

They didn't notice at all that a beautiful figure suddenly appeared in the courtyard just behind them, separated by a door.

Liu Qi looked around, and as her nose wrinkled slightly, her eyes looked towards the side room.

Liu Qi quietly pushed open the door of the wing room, and glanced at the clean and tidy floor in the wing room. He already felt a few wisps of extremely yin and pure breath lingering on the ground.

The real murderer is about to be revealed!

Gu Jiu!

No wonder Lin Shengchuan misunderstood that it was his own doing.

If Liu Qi guessed correctly, the martial arts that Gu Jiu used when he rescued Fu Zhuocheng in Tianhong Tower that day should have come from the Taiyin lineage in the seventh heaven.

She remembered it very clearly. It was broad daylight with the sun high in the sky, but with the appearance of Gu Jiu, the whole room was completely engulfed by a strange darkness, which corresponded exactly to Taiyin.

Yi Mu Qi is also an extremely yin force. Lin Shengchuan has not yet reached the peak, so it is naturally difficult for him to distinguish the difference between the two. In addition, the thin white frost on the wounds of the corpse easily makes people think of Liu Qi's murderous intent.

It seems that Gu Liancheng has found Gu Jiu.

wrong!

It should be said that Gu Jiu found Gu Liancheng.

Although Gu Liancheng tried his best to deny that they were master and disciple in front of Liu Qi, Liu Qi could see that the relationship between them was not simple.

Gu Liancheng also personally admitted that it was Gu Jiu who injured him in Jiangnan, but he did not seem to want to pay for blood with blood. Instead, after learning that Gu Jiu had offended Liu Qi, he subconsciously wanted to protect Gu Jiu's peace.

Could it be an illicit love affair between master and disciple?
As soon as the vulgar thought arose, Liu Qi put it behind his mind because Gu Liancheng did not show any strange feelings when mentioning Gu Jiu.

That's it!

It's all the Beggars' Gang's private affairs.

Liu Qi, who had already understood the situation, decided not to stay any longer and immediately turned around and left the orphanage.

She did not return to the Liu Mansion immediately, but wandered around the south city. Finally, at the door of a brothel, she found a few shivering little beggars who were asking for blessings from the patrons entering and leaving the brothel.

Most of the patrons told them to get out in disgust, but a few were generous enough to take out a string of copper coins from their pockets and throw them directly on the ground, which immediately caused a scramble. The patrons who were throwing the money laughed at the children, both adults and children, who were sticking their butts out on the ground to grab the money.

Liu Qi stood on the roof opposite and watched for a while. It seemed that the group of little beggars had saved enough money. They left the brothel door in a group and soon came to a steamed bun shop on the nearby street. A slightly older child was pushed out and stretched out his hand to the wary steamed bun shop owner, revealing the copper coins on his palm.

"Haha!" The boss sneered, then pointed at the copper coins in the beggar's hand with disdain, "Thirteen copper coins are only enough to buy thirteen steamed buns."

"What did you say?" A short beggar jumped out and said angrily, "One copper coin buys two steamed buns. Thirteen copper coins can obviously buy twenty-six steamed buns!"

"That's last year's price!" the boss said disdainfully. "Besides, in this horrible weather, I'm the only one selling fresh steamed buns in all the streets around here."

"Buy if you want, get out if you don't want!" The boss rudely drove the beggars away, "There are only thirteen, one more, no!"

call out!
"Ouch!" The boss suddenly covered his face and screamed, and hot blood instantly gushed out from between his fingers.

"Who! Who is it!" The boss covered his face, wailing, jumping and roaring.

Soon, a graceful figure walked out slowly from the wind, and the boss was stunned when he saw the person.

"Here are ten taels of silver, enough to buy all your buns and steamed buns." Liu Qi walked closer and said lightly.

The boss seemed to realize something when he heard it. He lowered his eyes and saw the silver ingot fallen at his feet. There was blood stain on the silver ingot. The boss instantly realized that it was this silver ingot that had just hit him.

"Money, I can add more." Liu Qi's voice drifted into the boss's ears again with the cold wind, "But... I'm afraid you won't be able to give me your life."

The boss suddenly felt a tremor in his heart, and realized that the woman in front of him was not someone to be trifled with. So he quickly picked up the silver and ran away without caring about his bun stall.

Liu Qi watched the boss disappear around the corner, then slowly turned his head and said to the beggars with dull eyes, "What are you still standing there for?"

"Alas!"

After a brief silence, cheers echoed in the streets.

Just when these little beggars finished eating the steaming meat buns and were about to move away with the remaining steamers, they suddenly found that the kind-hearted big sister was standing in front of them.

"Are you full?" Liu Qi asked softly.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, and then continued, "When you are full, take me to see King Gu."

(End of this chapter)