The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 29 The Pu family

Xiao Si fed the centipede his own blood. Now the centipede was breathing out but not in, and was dying.

The poisonous insect is connected to the mind of the person performing the sacrifice and is now severely damaged, causing the person performing the sacrifice to also suffer backlash.

These poisonous insects crawling around in the yard are because their owner is mentally traumatized and unable to control them, so they crawl out.

These poisonous insects have not yet been trained into poisonous insects. They should be spare materials. They do not have the ferocity of poisonous insects, so they just run around in the yard and do not hurt anyone in the yard.

As soon as Li Miao landed, he smelled a smell of blood, hidden among a group of women who were crowded together.

The poisonous insect did not hurt anyone, so the blood was naturally vomited out by the owner of the insect due to mental trauma.

Li Miao looked at a pretty and pale-faced woman among the group of women.

She was now holding a handkerchief over her mouth, as if she were nauseated by some poisonous insect.

A group of women were frightened by the poisonous insects and screamed from time to time. They huddled together, and the yard was in chaos. The woman hid among them and was not conspicuous, but she didn't want to leak out a trace of blood, which was smelled by Li Miao.

At this moment, everyone in the courtyard was frightened by Li Miao's powerful palms and stood there in a daze, not daring to move. When they heard Li Miao call out the name of the Jinyiwei, they were even more frightened than when they saw the poisonous insects crawling all over the ground.

Although the Jinyiwei rarely handled cases involving ordinary people, in Dashuo, the so-called public opinion was still dominated by three groups of people: officials, scholars, and people from the underworld.

In the views of these three groups of people, the Jinyiwei are undoubtedly synonymous with cruelty, tyranny, and coldness.

Therefore, among the people, even though almost no one has seen them, the name of the Jinyiwei still carries considerable weight.

After Li Miao finished speaking, he stared straight at the group of women.

At this time, the group of women were being stared at by Li Miao, as if their throats were being strangled, and the chattering sounds also stopped.

After a while, a few people on the periphery walked away tremblingly. Seeing that Li Miao did not react, the others also scattered.

The pale-faced woman standing still was revealed.

"Ai……"

She sighed softly and put down the handkerchief covering her mouth.

The handkerchief was bright red, and there were some residual blood stains at the corners of the mouth, making the pretty face look enchanting and charming.

"Still, I was a step too slow and couldn't dodge it."

She took a few steps forward and bowed to Li Miao.

"My name is Ge Pu, nice to meet you, sir."

Li Miao looked her up and down, without saying a word, he raised his hand and slapped her from a distance.

When he used his palms to kill poisonous insects, he deliberately controlled the power and dispersed the strength, killing the insects without hurting people.

This palm now is different.

He struck out with a palm, the true energy surged, making a sharp sound of wind, and hit Ge Pu's chest from a distance of more than ten steps.

puff--!
In response, Ge Pu flew backwards, blood spurting out of her mouth. She hit the wall hard and fell to the ground.

"Ahem... Ugh—"

She opened her mouth to speak, and another mouthful of blood gushed out. It took her a long while to come to her senses and speak reluctantly.

"My Lord, what a good trick..."

"I have never heard of such a skill in my many years in the Central Plains..."

"But... the commander is here in person?..."

After being hit by Li Miao from a distance, Ge Pu was still able to speak, but there was a pool of black pus and blood on her chest, which gave off a fishy smell, and some limbs of poisonous insects fell out of her clothes.

She used the poisonous insect she raised to block Li Miao's palm strike, but was still severely injured. And judging from Li Miao's nonchalant look, it was obvious that the palm strike just now was just a casual one, without using all his strength.

"You know a lot. I'm not such a high-ranking official. I'm just a fifth-rank officer."

Li Miao looked her up and down. "I originally thought she was some foolish country woman who accidentally learned the method of refining a Gu insect. She didn't know the seriousness of the matter and killed people recklessly in an attempt to rob the Wu Mansion of its wealth."

"But your face looks different from that of a woman from the Central Plains... Ge Pu... Are you from one of the twelve branches of the Miao ethnic group?"

“It turns out he has a solid foundation.”

"Since you know Jinyiwei and you are not without a master, how can you have the courage to kill people and make Gu in Pingshanwei?"

Li Miao's palm strike was done with great force, meant to injure her but not kill her.

The Miao area's witchcraft is strange and difficult to defend against, and is different from the Central Plains martial arts. No matter how high your martial arts are, there will inevitably be omissions.

Li Miao would not let her stand and talk. After all, she had killed a person, so he simply made her kneel down first and then questioned her.

Of course, they won't really kill him with one blow. In case some accomplices or organizations are missed, trouble will inevitably arise in the future.

"How can I put it... I can only say that I was confused for a moment."

Ge Pu sighed.

"I thought that few people in the Central Plains knew about the art of witchcraft. Even if I did something a little excessive for a few days, it would only be regarded as gossip."

"Even if someone dies, it won't be reported to the Royal Guards for a while."

"That day, that thief came and acted like a ghost. I was very happy for a while, thinking that he was a helper sent by God. With him making such a fuss, we can delay it for a while longer."

"Who knew you would come so quickly..."

"It was my own wishful thinking..."

She had a sad look on her face at this moment, and with her beautiful face, she looked a bit pitiful like Xishi holding her heart.

Wu Yuanwai, who was standing at the door of the main room in a daze, saw her miserable state and couldn't help but speak in a low voice: "Ping... Ping'er..."

"you……"

As a result, he was glared at by Li Miao and swallowed his words back. He looked straight at Ge Pu with eyes full of pity.

Mr. Wu was not stupid. After listening to the conversation between Li Miao and Ge Pu, he had a rough idea of the current situation.

But to be honest, compared to the shock brought by the fact that the culprit of the deaths during this period was his concubine of many years, it was the pitiful appearance of Ge Pu at this time that made him feel more distressed.

This is not surprising. No matter how good Mr. Wu's reputation is in Pingshanwei and how kind he looks, he is still a real feudal landlord.

He would not turn a blind eye to the lives of the old guard, the master, or the coroner, but to say that he really cared about them was just a joke.

Li Miao didn't care about Wu Yuanwai's feelings. He just looked at Ge Pu and said, "What are your plans? What are your goals? Do you have any accomplices? Tell me."

"Don't try to make up some nonsense to fool me. I have been in the Jinyiwei for twenty years, and I have interrogated at least eight hundred people."

"Tell me a lie and I'll cut off one of your limbs. If you tell me a lie again, I'll cut it off again."

"Don't think about holding on. Even if I'm left with only a human stick, I still have plenty of ways to make you speak."

At this moment, the dull and lazy expression on Li Miao's face disappeared, and he looked at Ge Pu coldly.

He never claimed to be a good person, and he always acted according to his own will. But he would not hesitate to use his power to kill such a beast, even if it was a beast that killed its own kind.

It would be too much of a compliment to her to be humane about such things.

Ge Pu had been in a leisurely state of mind, but when Li Miao glanced at her, she shuddered involuntarily.

(End of this chapter)