The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 395 Meeting
Xue Shangshuang was stunned, her eyes wide open, unable to utter a word. Tie Qiuyi finally came to her senses and was about to cry out in alarm, trembling.

“Li…Li…”

"Shhh."

Li Miao turned and smiled at him.

"Well!"

Tie Qiuyi suddenly raised her hand and tightly covered her mouth.

"Listen to me... Oh, I remember now, the night before I went to the Taishan Sect last year, you guys were drinking at Yan Xiaosheng's banquet, right?"

Tie Qiuyi covered her mouth and nodded vigorously, inwardly groaning.

Oh my God!

If you really want me dead, I'll do the splits myself, and you can punch me in the middle to make my death quicker, okay? How did I run into this devil again! I was lucky to survive last time, will I escape this time too?!

But then Li Miao asked with a smile.

"I quite enjoyed the stories you just told. Do you have any others? Even hearsay or vague ones are fine."

The two were both taken aback, but dared not ask any more questions. They simply nodded vigorously and recounted everything they could remember in one breath.

After they finished speaking, the two of them were both stunned.

How many?

The two of them heard about, witnessed, and sensed strange things from afar, plus the two things they had mentioned before, totaled a total of seven or eight!
The two were just guards, and not even very experienced ones. They were not allowed to enter many parts of the Yan residence, yet they had already witnessed this many times... This strange situation must have become rampant in the Yan residence!

"Big, big, big, big..."

Tie Qiuyi opened her mouth, but stammered. Xue Shangshuang took over the conversation: "Sir, what are your orders? We will go through fire and water, overcome all obstacles, and work tirelessly—"

"Alright, if you haven't been to school, stop spouting fancy words."

Li Miao waved his hand.

Where is Yan Song now?

The two pointed at the same time.

Looking back at Li Miao, he had already disappeared.

The two exchanged a glance, then collapsed to the ground with a thud. They first gasped for breath and shed tears, then patted their chests and shook their shoulders. Finally, they gritted their teeth, stood up, and ran recklessly out of the Yan residence, vowing that even if their own father died in Shuntian, they would never come to collect his body!

Meanwhile, on Li Miao's side...

When Zhu Zai came to see him during the day, the two had already decided that Yan Song had to die.

If the other party is using a diversionary tactic, with the emperor in the palace, Li Miao can return as soon as he makes a commotion; if they are trying to trap him... then if Li Miao wants to leave, no one in the world can stop him!

Since you dare to offer a bait of such importance as the current prime minister, I might as well swallow it whole!

Li Miao leaped over the eaves and flew towards Tie Qiuyi and Xue Shangshuangzhi, his eyes scanning the surroundings as he went, raising an eyebrow.

"really."

Just as one gains a thorough understanding of true qi and strength after mastering the Three Paths of Destiny, one can also discern abnormalities in someone's "nature" from a distance after mastering the Profound Insight.

With just a casual glance, he spotted four or five people with abnormal sexual behavior, and the closer he got to Yan Song's residence, the more people he saw.

"It seems that this Grand Secretary is the key to connecting civil officials with the Eastern Depot and Yingzhou."

As Li Miao passed by a doorway, he raised his hand and grabbed a maid who was dozing off at the doorway. The maid was about to scream when Li Miao's true energy silenced her.

The true energy penetrated into the meridians and was briefly examined.

Li Miao raised his hand and threw the unconscious maid onto the roof. He suddenly froze—and then there was a loud bang!
With incredible speed and momentum, Li Miao smashed into the room where Yan Song was! His fist slammed into the ground!
The ground shook, and the houses collapsed with a roar!
Countless luxurious and precious furniture and objects were blasted into dust, flying in all directions.

In that instant, Li Miao's gaze shifted to his side.

A dozen feet away, the flying fragments suddenly lost speed and stopped abruptly in mid-air, forming a plane a dozen feet wide.

Behind this plane, Yan Song stood with his hands behind his back, looking at Li Miao.

In front of him stood an old man.

An old man, frail and sparsely haired, with missing teeth and sunken cheeks, wore a worn-out robe that revealed his bony ribs. He stared at Li Miao with dim, yellowish eyes. Undoubtedly, his method of stopping the flying fragments was the same protective aura as Zheng Anqi's. Moreover, compared to Zheng Anqi's tangible robes, his invisible and intangible protective aura, undetectable even to Li Miao before it touched anything, was clearly far superior.

Furthermore, his aged appearance was not caused by the five signs of decay... but rather because he was truly nearing the end of his lifespan and on the verge of death.

His martial arts skills surpassed Zheng Anqi's, and his lifespan was nearing its end.

Only one person fits both criteria.

Lord of Yingzhou.

"An Qisheng?"

Li Miao stood up and clenched his fist.

"Ah."

The old man responded.

Li Miao laughed.

"I thought you had prepared some grand spectacle, but it turns out you just wanted to lure me here to fight to the death? Why go through all this trouble? You could have just ambushed me on my way back to the capital. Wouldn't that have been much more satisfying?"

The old man slowly uttered a single word.

"Do not."

Then there was no further news, as if he were truly like a candle flickering in the wind, with no energy left to say a few more words.

Seeing his expression, Li Miao lost interest in talking to him and turned her gaze to Yan Song, saying...

"Lord Yan, you deliberately leaked information to the Commander during the day to lure me here, didn't you? Now that I'm here, don't you have anything to say?"

Yan Song rolled up his sleeves and frowned as he looked at Li Miao.

"You're Li Miao?"

"So, Your Majesty's unusual behavior since last year, that old scoundrel Zhu Zai's sudden rise to power, and the palace eunuchs' sudden loss of power are all because of you?"

"So, what Liu Jin and Mr. Zheng told me is the truth. The turmoil in Da Shuo and the world over the past year is all because of you?"

His words and his gaze were filled with disdain.

"A martial artist of the fourth rank?"

As Yan Song spoke, Li Miao moved his feet slightly, and An Qisheng opposite him seemed to have foreseen it, moving his feet at the same time, as if the two of them were puppets being pulled by a thread.

Li Miao showed no sign of anything amiss, only smiling as he looked at Yan Song.

"Therefore, the reason why Grand Secretary Yan tricked me into coming here today is simply to confirm whether I, this military man who has caused turmoil in the world, really exist."

"Oh I see."

"It seems that neither Liu Jin nor Yingzhou has fully gained your trust, so there are only a few low-level clerks in Nanjing... Now that you've seen them, what do you think?"

Li Miao spread his arms wide and said with a smile.

"Want to try and kill this menace tonight?"

Neither An Qisheng nor Yan Song spoke.

But coming from outside the house was a chorus of sounds, as if they had been rehearsing for a long time, with men, women, and children all mixed together.

"Not today."

Li Miao looked in the direction of the sound.

Outside the house, seven or eight figures walked towards them. Judging from their clothes, there were cooks, guards, servants, and maids, but their faces all wore the same cold expression.

"Liu Jin".

Li Miao raised his hand and struck out with a palm, killing the men.

"Dead people shouldn't keep popping out."

(End of this chapter)