Slender willows sway in the breeze

Chapter 15 Recording Symbols

"I know that debts are settled with death, but as a mother, the hatred in my heart cannot be easily erased. My love, I have disappointed you!"

Liu Shiyuan felt a pang of sympathy and was about to reach out to comfort him.

A cold laugh made him pause.

Liu Siqin was annoyed: "What are you laughing at in such a sarcastic way?"

What's so funny? Of course, it's that she's stupid for asking such a stupid question.

Liu Sijun couldn't be bothered with her.

"Qing'er, do it!"

Liu Shiyuan: "Should we still dig up the grave?"

"Father, since you've told me to handle this, then you'll do as I say. Qing'er, dig!"

As soon as Liu Sijun finished speaking, a deep pit appeared on Lingxiang's grave.

The yellow wooden coffin lay there intact, without a speck of dirt on it.

Li Qing jumped into the deep pit, stood beside the coffin, used her spiritual power to remove the nails, and pushed the coffin open.

Four years have passed, and the body has turned to bones. This makes a burial box next to it stand out, drawing almost everyone's attention.

Zhu Yingrong's throat went dry with nervousness.

There really were burial boxes.

Liu Sijun was not lying.

If Lixiang really did record their conversation with a recording device, then everything would be over.

The box was taken out by Li Qing using her spiritual power and delivered to Liu Shiyuan.

Liu Sijun said, "Let Father open it. With Father's cultivation level, he will definitely be able to sense whether this box has been touched recently."

Liu Shiyuan used his spiritual power to search.

This box has indeed not been opened for a long time.

There was no framing or false accusation.

Zhu Yingrong stared intently at the box, wishing it would explode like the coffin from before, destroying everything inside.

Liu Shiyuan stood next to Zhu Yingrong.

She looked tense and was breathing rapidly; how could she not sense it?

Even if there is a recording symbol, it has nothing to do with her.

What is she nervous about?
"Yuan Lang, this is ultimately a matter concerning our eldest son's branch. Why don't we go back first and deal with it then?"

"No!"

The old matriarch immediately declared, "This is a major event for the Liu family, regardless of whether it's the eldest or second branch. Open the box now and see if there's a recording talisman inside."

"Yes."

Liu Shiyuan had no choice but to open the box.

There wasn't much inside, so the red recording symbol stood out.

Because the owner who drew the talisman is dead, the spiritual power has dissipated, and the recording talisman looks somewhat old.

Everything proves that this talisman was not drawn recently.

The old matriarch's expression relaxed slightly upon seeing the talisman, and she looked at Zhu Yingrong with a deep gaze: "Aunt Zhu, if you admit to some things now, I can still consider your many years of managing the Liu family and give you a lighter punishment."

"Grandmother, what exactly do you want Auntie to admit to? Qin'er doesn't understand!"

"The person who drugged you four years ago was your aunt!"

"Did you understand what I meant?"

Liu Siqin, of course, did not believe it: "Nonsense! How could my aunt poison me? That's Nine-Turn Turtle Poison! If you're not careful, it can be fatal!"

"What a fine excuse, 'if you're not sure'." Liu Sijun sneered: "Father, back then I only had the third level of Qi Gathering cultivation, and I had no skill in alchemy whatsoever. Putting aside where I got the Nine-Turn Turtle Poison from, even if I really had malicious intentions, why would I only give my eldest sister such a small amount of poison, while hiding most of the remaining poison and waiting to be caught by you?"

Back then, Liu Shiyuan indeed failed to verify the origin of the Nine-Turn Tortoise Venom.

"Does Father still remember Master Li Dan? It's quite a coincidence that she requested to leave just two days after she cured my eldest sister's poison. No matter how much Father tried to persuade her to stay, she still insisted on leaving!"

"Father, do you know where Master Li Dan is now?"

Before Liu Shiyuan could ask, Liu Sijun gave the answer: "Dead."

"died?"

Liu Shiyuan was startled, and his gaze toward Zhu Yingrong changed slightly.

“My daughter investigated and found that Li Danshi died the day after leaving the mansion. The murderer was discovered before he could dispose of the body and had to abandon it and flee. It was only after a long search that his body was found.”

After he finished speaking, a surge of spiritual energy appeared, and a skeleton appeared on the ground.

Liu Shiyuan's attention, however, was on Liu Sijun.

In the entire Liu family, only the old matriarch and he possessed a jade pendant. She lived in a separate residence; where would she get the money to buy such an expensive item?
“Father, these are the remains of Master Li Dan. I specially summoned Master Lu Dan to examine Master Li Dan’s body.”

He can snatch people from the gates of hell, and he knows even better how to determine the cause of death from the remains.

"A pile of bones, who can prove that he is Master Li Dan?"

"Aunt Zhu asked an excellent question!"

Liu Sijun looked at the old lady: "Grandmother, if I remember correctly, Master Li has been supported by the Liu family since my grandfather was a child?"

The old lady nodded: "That's right. If you count the time, he stayed in the Liu family for a full seventy years. Your grandfather had no other brothers, and he respected Master Li as an elder brother."

"When my mother was alive, she told her granddaughter that when my father was twenty-four years old and had just completed his Foundation Establishment, he accidentally went into a state of demonic possession. My grandfather tried his best to use his spiritual power to guide him, but he could only save my father's life. However, without the Soothing Pill, his cultivation would have been difficult to advance any further."

On one hand, Grandfather Liu Tailin asked Master Li to find a way to refine the Shuluo Pill, and on the other hand, he asked someone to find a disciple of Yougu Palace to buy the pill.

As a result, he failed to buy the elixir, and while searching for medicinal herbs, Master Li was bitten in the back by a Fire Pig Demon, severing one side of his waist muscle and exposing the bone.

Fortunately, she was rescued by Yoo Tae-rim who arrived at the scene.

Despite his severe injuries, Master Li refined the Soothing Pill, and Liu Shiyuan's dantian was finally restored to its original state.

However, Li Danshi's illness worsened due to alchemy, and his cultivation level plummeted.

After that, no one in the Liu family mentioned it again.

She didn't hear it from the Chu family, but rather it was something that Master Lu Dan investigated during his two years at the Liu family.

After all, this was Liu Shiyuan's shameful affair, so how could the Liu family talk about it? They would rather everyone who knew the inside story keep quiet.

How could Liu Shiyuan, the person involved, possibly forget this?

"Father, please look at this skeleton. Are there any signs of serious injury around the lumbar spine?"

Liu Shiyuan looked displeased and reluctantly said, "Indeed."

Liu Sijun didn't care whether her scumbag father was happy or not: "Then please have Alchemist Lu examine whether this wound was left by the Fire Pig Demon."

Master Lu stepped forward, flipped his wrists, and formed a hand seal with his thumbs and middle fingers. Spiritual energy rippled from his fingertips, covering the white bones in front of him. Soon, he nodded and said, "Indeed, he was injured by the Fire Pig Demon."

"Alright, then please have Master Lu examine Master Li's cause of death again."

Zhu Yingrong clenched her fists under her sleeves, and despite the cold August weather, sweat dripped down her back.

All eyes were on Master Lu Dan.

He held a knife-like object in his right hand and probed it into the slightly cracked lumbar vertebrae of the corpse.

After taking it out, it had absorbed a purple-green powder.

Master Lu carefully shook it onto the white cloth and began to examine it closely.

About fifteen minutes later, Master Lu stood up and said, "Master Li died from poisoning!"

Liu Sijun: "Do you know what kind of poison it is?"

(End of this chapter)