Chapter 104 Inquiry
Beneath every bustling city, there is some darkness and squalor lurking. It's like there are beggars in a place no matter how prosperous it is.
Nanguang City is indeed very prosperous, and the six major families have managed it in an orderly manner over the years. But that doesn't mean everyone here is doing well. Xu Wushuang was already relatively lucky, although he lost his parents, but he still left him some savings when his parents were alive, otherwise he would not have been able to cultivate to the cultivation of entering the Xuan.
There are many even more miserable people, most of these people only have Tongmai in cultivation, and because of one reason or another, they have long lost their enterprising spirit, and they are living with the mentality of living one day at a time. They didn't have a house, so they erected a few planks in a hole under the long bridge in the east of the city, and they had a simple bed.
They don't even have enough money to eat, and they live hungry and full.
It was impossible to go out of the city to hunt, they had seen too many monks of the Tongmai realm being slapped into pulp by demon beasts outside the city. So what do they live on? Begging, coolies, asking for news, as long as someone can give them a low-level spirit stone, can eat a full meal, they can do whatever they want.
Xu Wushuang is looking for these people, his thoughts coincide with Yi Yunfei, this matter is not a heroic thing. It's not like he imagined to sneak into Ji's house at the beginning, like Mr. Storyteller said, to ask the guards, and then get accurate information, and break it with one blow.
These people are all mud, no one can look down on them, and no one will be alert to them, although they can't really know everything about the Ji family, but they know better than anyone about some trivial things in the Ji family. The Ji family also needs subordinates, serving tea and pouring water, cleaning the courtyard, how can those pampered people in the Ji family do it?
Then they will recruit some people whose cultivation is mediocre and there is no threat, and these people under the Chengdong Bridge are the best choice. Those who successfully entered the Ji family always had an inexplicable sense of superiority, and they would often return to the long bridge to brag and show off with their former partners. Occasionally, when the Ji family is short of people, they will also pick some of these people.
In fact, almost all of the six major families do this, so as long as the core news is not involved, it can be found out from here. Yi Yunfei brought out a lot of spirit stones, and there was no big expense, he bought some cheap cooked food, and he talked nonsense with these people in Qiaoxiao, and soon, he got some useful news from these people.
The Ji family, after the incident at Tianji Gate, suddenly recruited more than a dozen idlers from under the long bridge. After these idlers entered the Ji family, what they did was nothing special, just like all the subordinates of the Ji family who boasted in front of them.
But there is one thing that is very strange, that is, many of the subordinates of the Ji family who often come to the bottom of the long bridge to brag and fart have not appeared since those days. Although everyone is not doing well, they always have a few friends who can talk to each other. So some people deliberately inquired, and through this group of new people who entered the Ji family, they wanted to find those people.
But in the entire Ji family, no one has ever seen those subordinates again. Even a few people who were too zealous to look for these people disappeared inexplicably.
Yi Yunfei and Xu Wushuang in the inn wrote down all the news they inquired about, and the two of them also felt that this matter was extraordinary. The life and death of those subordinates, except for a few people who were close to them, did not care about anyone else.
And once someone pays attention, they can quickly think that the disappearance of these people can only be dead!
Yi Yunfei and Xu Wushuang tried to change the word "missing" to "dead", and finally the line that appeared in front of them was: "In a few days, more than a dozen subordinates died, and the people who wanted to inquire about these people also died!"
Xu Wushuang looked at Yi Yunfei with some shock, and Yi Yunfei nodded lightly: "Something must have happened to the Ji family in those days. These subordinates were either killed in the battle, or they were wiped out!"
The night pearl on the roof glowed softly, like a clear moonlight, and Xu Shuangquan suddenly shivered. Yi Yunfei is better, but Xu Shuangquan empathizes, because he feels that if Yi Yunfei does not appear, he may become the same kind of person as those dead subordinates in the near future!
In order not to arouse the vigilance of the Ji family, Yi Yunfei and the others were very cautious, changed their clothes, and pretended to be like those idlers, waiting under the bridge to do work. On the first day, I learned about the disappearance of those people from the Ji family, but I didn't expect that on the second day, the news I got almost made Yi Yunfei determine the location of Ji Wuwu.
With such a huge family as the Ji family, it is extremely normal to have one or two forbidden places that do not allow people to get close. The subordinates already knew in their hearts from the time they entered the Ji family, where they could go, what places they could go after getting permission, and what places they couldn't go, and they had already made repeated orders.
And the news that Yi Yunfei got the next day happened to be about these forbidden places. And the news he got was that not long ago, the Ji family suddenly designated a side courtyard as a forbidden place. Except for a few disciples who occasionally sent some daily necessities to the courtyard, the others were not allowed to enter, not to mention approaching.
And the reason why the Ji family who revealed the news talked about this incident was that because he was close to this courtyard, he was fined twenty lashes, his buttocks were beaten with flesh and blood, and he was depressed, and he was carried over by a few friends who had made under the bridge in the past, and lay on the wooden bed he had slept on to recuperate.
"I just heard that there seemed to be some beast roaring in that yard, so I couldn't help but go over to take a look, but I didn't expect it to be unlucky!" The last sigh of the subordinate made Yi Yunfei's eyes light up even more.
He had seen Ji Wuwu, the guy who had become a human and not a ghost, and even when he spoke, he roared like a beast!
Things are almost certain, but Yi Yunfei still plans to enter the Ji family to investigate. If you don't see it with your own eyes, the results that you can speculate on the basis of these fragmentary pieces of information are likely to make mistakes after all.
Although he knew that under the detection of the true master's divine thoughts, it was meaningless to hide anything, but Yi Yunfei still chose a set of dark night clothes, although he could not completely draw the topographical drawings of the Ji family, but he could probably know the location of the side courtyard.
Perhaps the Ji family didn't want too many people to know about this side courtyard, so the location of this courtyard was also the northwesternmost corner of the huge manor near the Ji family. This is also good news for Yi Yunfei's infiltration. In this kind of side yard, the defensive force is naturally worse.
Looking at Yi Yunfei checking the equipment on his body, Xu Shuangquan said with some concern: "It's almost all confirmed, do you have to take risks?" Now as long as the news is released, there will naturally be several other people to verify it, even if the news is not accurate, others will not be able to find us, isn't it much safer?"
Yi Yunfei patted him on the shoulder with a smile and said, "I don't know how many years the six major families of Nanguang have been. But the relationship between them should still be relatively strong, otherwise they would not have lived together peacefully here for so many years!"
Although he didn't know what Yi Yunfei meant by this, Xu Shuangquan nodded subconsciously.
"Then even if we release the news, it is impossible for the other families to fence off that side courtyard first and directly ask the Ji family when they are unsure, right?" Yi Yunfei continued.
Xu Shuangquan shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Indeed, as you said, if it is a polite door-to-door visit, then the Ji family has enough time to send Ji Wuwu away and clear up all relationships!"
"So I'm going to find that side courtyard and confirm where Ji Wuwu is! If so, then when I come back, we will just make some noise in that side courtyard when the other houses come to the door! In this way, the Ji family has no possibility of denying it!" Yi Yunfei nodded and said.
Watching Yi Yunfei open the window and dodge away, Xu Shuangquan looked at the dark night sky and was silent for a long time! In fact, he had always been very apprehensive in his heart, and chose to follow Yi Yunfei, because he saw Yi Yunfei's potential. But provoking the Ji family, the danger contained in it also made him shudder!