The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 28 You Ziang

Li Miao could roughly guess what the Plum Blossom Thief had experienced back then.

He has a poor foundation and average martial arts skills, which can be seen from the first time Li Miao met him.

The masters of the martial arts world usually become famous in their twenties, because the best age to start practicing martial arts is around ten years old. After more than ten years of hard training, they should have achieved something by their twenties and start to travel the world.

Some people have excellent aptitude, sufficient materials for practicing martial arts, inherited advanced martial arts skills, and work hard, such as Wang Hai and Mei Qinghe, who have become top-notch masters in the martial arts world in their early twenties.

And this Plum Blossom Thief, who was in his twenties, couldn't even block a sword strike from the twenty-year-old Li Miao. He was probably only a second- or third-rate fighter.

But his understanding must be very good, so good that he could establish his own school.

When practicing internal skills, the slightest mistake may lead to going astray. The fact that he was able to create such a high level of internal skills by deliberately leaving hands and feet on the back of his neck was already beyond the imagination of most people in the martial arts world.

He should have worked hard to learn martial arts, but was limited by his bones and could not achieve anything. He was defeated by Li Miao with a sword, and he was disheartened, knowing that he could never become a true master.

So he came up with this plan.

Under the pursuit of the Jinyiwei, he managed to solve a few cases and left behind the name of "Plum Blossom Thief".

But after all, his martial arts skills were not good enough to avoid the pursuit of the Jinyiwei, so he disappeared temporarily and began to create this internal skill.

He probably wanted to hone his internal skills before committing crimes, making a name for himself and spreading his skills.

With his famous name attracting people, there will definitely be people who will learn his martial arts and inherit the name of "Plum Blossom Thief", and his plan will be successful.

Unfortunately, he died.

The Jinyiwei didn't even come for him back then, but discovered him by accident when they were searching the city.

The birthmark on the back of his neck was so obvious that he was recognized at a glance.

Then he died.

Li Miao had seen his body in Shuntian Prefecture. His neck was cut off with a knife, and there were no other external injuries on his body. He died quickly and cleanly.

He couldn't even put up any decent resistance against the Jinyiwei.

No matter how well you plan, in the end you will end up with nothing but dust.

His reputation as the "Plum Blossom Thief" was only heard of in a few places. Once he died, no one would take him seriously anymore.

His martial arts skills were spread out and scattered, and his fighting style disappeared. Only his internal strength and lightness skills were obtained by You Ziang, who could barely be considered half of his successor. As a result, it has now fallen into Li Miao's hands.

When Li Miao thought of this, he transferred his true energy into You Ziang's body, directly destroying his internal strength.

"senior!!!"

You Ziang shouted in fear: "I have no grudge against you in the past or today, why do you want to destroy my martial arts!?"

"You'd better not cultivate your inner strength. What falls from the sky is only a weight, not a pie in the sky."

"I have fulfilled other people's plans for nothing, and I still have to bear the consequences."

Li Miao put his hand on the back of You Ziang's neck, pushing the acupoints to activate blood circulation, and dissolving the plum blossom-shaped blood stasis on the back of his neck.

He has only been practicing the Plum Blossom Thief's internal skills for five years, so the blood stasis is not yet solid and can be easily resolved.

"If one of my men saw you, he would kill you with anger."

"You don't have a master to teach you, but you can still practice Qinggong to this level by learning from this book. You are a natural talent."

"Come with me. I will send someone to take you to Shuntian Prefecture to verify your past."

"If you really haven't hurt anyone, I'll give you some royal food after you've been punished."

"What do you think?"

What else can You Ziang say?

His internal strength had been destroyed and he had become an ordinary person. His life and death were in the hands of Li Miao, so he had no right to bargain.

He could only lower his head and remain silent, allowing Li Miao to do what he wanted. After Li Miao dissolved his blood clots, he reached out and grabbed his clothes, lifted them up in his hands, and flew into the air, returning to the Wu residence.

When he fell from the eaves, he just heard Xiao Si's words.

"This female Gu has an owner."

When Wang Hai saw Li Miao returning with a droopy-headed man in his hand, he knew that the "ghost" issue had been resolved, and the only problem left was the "insect".

"Qianhu."

Li Miao nodded: "I heard it, how come this insect went crazy and killed people?"

Xiao Si walked up to Li Miao and stretched out her hand for Li Miao to look at the centipede wrapped around her wrist.

"Master, I am a human Gu. If a wild Gu worm eats my blood, it will die in a short time."

“But it dies very slowly.”

"If it was an ownerless poisonous insect, it would kill people according to its own instincts and would not consciously sacrifice itself. The fact that it has survived until now means that it has eaten all the flesh and blood, and someone has specially refined it according to the method."

"Based on what happened before, this person might be from the Wu Mansion."

Li Miao folded his arms and pondered for a while.

He asked Xu Siyuan to inform the people in Wu's house to move out, because he was afraid that there were too many people in the house and he couldn't take care of them all. The remaining servants lived together, and with the martial arts of the four of them, nothing would happen.

Xiao Si also used some tricks to lure the poisonous insect to them.

But now that the poisonous insect has been caught, a new owner has appeared.

Killing people in Pingshanwei so recklessly to make poisonous insects, do you want to die? Or do you have some grudge that makes you want to do such a crazy thing even at the cost of your life?
Li Miao thought of this and said to the three people, "Go and call up the remaining servants in the mansion and gather them together."

"Xiao Si, check to see if the master is among these servants."

"I'll go check on Mr. Wu."

After saying that, he jumped onto the roof and headed towards the property where Mr. Wu would live tonight.

He had intentionally asked the servants in the mansion during the day and found out the approximate location.

Li Miao was galloping on the roof when he heard crying, shouting and cursing coming from a small courtyard in the distance.

"That's it."

Li Miao dodged and landed on the roof of the courtyard, and saw that the courtyard was in chaos.

The ground was full of poisonous insects, crawling around like headless flies. The people in the house were smashing and throwing various tools on the ground, shouting in surprise.

Some of the female members of the family were so frightened by the scene that they collapsed and sat on the ground, trembling.

Standing at the door of the main room was a middle-aged man in his forties with a big belly and a kind face. He should be Mr. Wu himself, and he was directing his men to kill poisonous insects.

Li Miao jumped off the roof and landed in the middle of the yard.

He gathered his true energy, formed his fingers into a palm, and struck the ground.

Bang!
There was a loud noise, dust flew up, and poisonous insects in that direction were beaten to death one after another on the ground, leaving a foul stench all over the ground. The servant who was beating the poisonous insects was startled and fell to the ground, but he was unharmed.

Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
With just four or five palm strikes, all the poisonous insects in the yard were killed.

Li Miao turned his head and looked at a group of women who were huddled together and shivering, and spoke in a loud voice.

"Stop pretending. Can you be so scared that you vomit blood?"

"I want to see what kind of evil person dares to kill people in the Central Plains."

"You really don't take the Jinyiwei seriously."

(End of this chapter)