Jiu Zhang Ji: The Daily Life of the Reborn Daughter

Chapter 230: Raising My Brother

"Brother, I have something to tell you." Qiao Lili said.

"I have something to say to you too." Qiao Peng looked solemn.

"Lili, the last time I saw my mother was when I accompanied my father back to Beijing to report on his work. She sent my father and I to Shili Pavilion, called me aside, and spoke to me."

Qiao Lili looked up at Qiao Peng. She had a hunch that this must not be a good thing. If it was a good thing, her brother would have told her the first time he saw her, and would not have kept it until now. She just looked at her brother and waited for him to say it.

Qiao Peng closed his eyes for a moment, as if he had mustered up his courage, and said, "She said that if one day she left with you and didn't let me look for you, I, as the older brother, would be filial to my grandmother, protect my father, and raise my younger brother."

"She said to raise my brother. I was still young at the time and didn't think there was anything wrong with that. I just thought it was her advice to me. I begged her for a long time to take me with her. She kept touching my head and smiling, saying, 'You have your things to do and we have our things to do.'"

"She said I was a man and had to keep this secret. Actually, after I left the capital and went to the border, I was either training or fighting in the military camp. After a while, I forgot about it."

"Later, when my mother passed away, I thought of this sentence and cried and blamed her. My mother said she would take you away, but you were not even grown up yet. She didn't keep her word."

"Now think about what your mother said. She was talking about raising your brother. Maybe she sensed something at that time. She couldn't wait for your brother to grow up, so she took you away."

Qiao Lili never expected that her mother would say such words to her brother. At that time, she had just given birth to her younger brother Qiao Zhen. She had sensed the danger, but she did not leave because her mother could only take herself away and not her brother. She must have been thinking of taking care of her brother for a few more days until he grew up a little bit.

Unexpectedly, as she waited, danger occurred. The mother could not leave by herself, so she could only send a message to someone else to take her home. However, she could not take her daughter Qiao Lili with her. It was okay that she could not take herself with her, because if she left too, what would happen to her grandmother and Zhen'er?

Perhaps the person who could take her mother away was fully capable of taking her away as well, but her mother knew that she would never go with them. Without her mother's persuasion, she would not leave her grandmother and Zhen'er who needed her for her own safety.

"Now that I think about what my mother said, combined with what we've encountered, I really want to know what danger my mother is aware of. If she leaves, will this danger fall on you? What is there about you and my mother that is worthy of their concern? You are only a teenager."

Qiao Lili looked at her brother and said nothing.

She first took off the human skin mask on her face, and then tore off the bionic skin on her forehead, revealing the mark on her forehead that was dancing like a flame.

Qiao Peng's pupils instantly dilated, and he stared at Qiao Lili's forehead without blinking. Qiao Lili said to him, "Brother, mother also has a mark like this."

"What did you say?" The armrest of the chair in Qiao Peng's hand broke with a click, and his voice was filled with undisguised fear: "That Mie Yan, that Mie Yan..." It seemed that he had thought of it too.

When Yu Jingyan knew about the flame mark, he thought of extinguishing the flame. When Qiao Peng saw the flame mark, she also thought of extinguishing the flame. However, when she first heard the word extinguishing the flame from Lou Xinyue, she did not think of this mark at all. It may be that others can associate this mark with flames, but she herself has only seen this mark in a blurry bronze mirror, and has not seen it with her own eyes. She preconceived that this is a birthmark and did not think much about it.

It may also be that those involved are confused while those who are not involved can see things more clearly.

*

The bodies of the killers and guards who were killed last night had not been dealt with yet. Qiao Lili asked Liang Yuanming to disguise the bodies as those of their caravan that had been killed, and send them to the mass grave in the grove when it was getting dark. It happened that Doctor Feng had always wanted to go and see it, so he disguised him as a waiter in an inn, and they carried the bodies together.

Doctor Feng said that most of the corpses were poisoned by smoke, and only the female corpses had the poison that would kill off descendants. "The poison is very difficult to make and is very precious. I don't know where they got so many herbs from."

Doctor Feng rubbed his hands. If only he knew, he would dig it out thoroughly.

Of course, it is easier to kill someone who is intoxicated by smoke, and they will not scream and be heard, so the first choice of these innkeepers is to poison them first and then take action. The people behind the scenes also figured out their thoughts.

Since they were all people to be killed, then just using ordinary smoke would be enough. Wouldn't it be a bit redundant to use the infertility poison? This was something that puzzled Qiao Lili. Were they afraid that someone would get away with it? Would it be a permanent solution to the problem if they were poisoned with the infertility poison?

When Qiao Lili was lying in ambush at the mass grave, she had been thinking about this question, thinking that if she could divert her attention, the smell would not be so unbearable. When it was almost dawn, two people came. One of them was holding a torch and nagging while working, and the other one whispered and scolded him to shut up.

There were not many new corpses, only two female corpses. They finished their work quickly and left. Qiao Lili withdrew her thoughts and chased after them with Yu Jingyan.

*

At night, Qiao Peng led his men to surround the Mieyan Pavilion, which was fifty miles away from the town.

Since we can't find the mastermind behind the scenes, let's wipe out this den of killers first. Without the help of these killers, it will be much more difficult to kill people in the inn. The people who are killed will soon become citizens of Dayan, and they all have important things to do. It would be heartbreaking to see Qiao Lili die.

Moreover, these people suffered such a catastrophic disaster because of her. He didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of him. She would always try her best to protect him.

According to the information obtained, there are nearly two hundred assassins in the Mieyan Pavilion, and they are all very powerful. They had fought each other last night. Qiao Peng could easily beat three or five of them alone, and Xiao Wenchu ​​could also beat a few alone, but with more than thirty of them facing more than two hundred people, they still had no chance of winning.

But there is nothing to be afraid of, they have Dr. Feng and Liang Yuanming.

Xiang Dazhuang and Tang Chengmin captured a peddler who delivered vegetables to Mieyan Pavilion. Liang Yuanming took a look around and found that the peddler had a similar build to Xu Wei. He disguised Xu Wei as a vegetable peddler, took some three or four kinds of medicine from Doctor Feng, pushed the vegetable cart into Mieyan Pavilion.

Xu Wei took advantage of the chef's inspection of the food stall and used the excuse of going to the toilet to poison the water tank, well, wash basin, and rice bucket. The poison would take effect after two hours. If the poison took effect immediately after eating, then those who had not eaten would probably not eat anymore. To delay the onset of the poison, no one could go without water for half a day, so they could skip two meals in a row. Even if they did, it wouldn't be much, so they could just use it as a training for the thirty or so people.

Now that the three meals have been finished, if there is still one person standing in the Mieyan Pavilion at this moment, it means that Fengshen’s medical skills are not good enough.

A few quick figures threw out the rope hooks, climbed up the wall in a few swishes, sat on the wall and looked into the yard. It was pitch black and silent. There was not even a night watchman. Did they all lie down?

Several people climbed over the wall and opened the gate.

A group of people entered the Mieyan Pavilion, leaving behind someone to guard the gate.

"Who are you? How dare you break into the Mieyan Pavilion?" A loud shout was heard.