Chapter 41. Qingji Delivers a Letter
"Sir, may I ask which method of delivery you would like to choose?"

Linhong Posthouse provides four types of mail delivery services for cultivators and wealthy families.

The first is to send letters by flying sword, which is the fastest and most expensive;
The second is Blue Bird Book Delivery, which is the second fastest and the second most expensive;
The third is to send letters by fish, which are sent by water to various riverside towns and all corners of the world;

The fourth is Qingji, who is a kind of monster who is good at running and can travel a thousand miles a day. His speed is not as fast as flying swords and blue birds, but it is much faster than ordinary horses.

Xu Qing chose Qingji to deliver the two letters, and Fatty Li helped pay the money.

"One letter was sent to Zhang's meat shop in Ningyang Town, Huai'an Prefecture, and one letter was sent to Xu's village near Ningyang Town and delivered to a man named Xu Daniu."

"By the way, if the other side has any message, please come back with it."

"Yes, sir." The receptionist patted the counter.

The next moment, a little man about four inches tall, wearing yellow clothes, a yellow crown, a yellow hat, and riding a pony appeared out of nowhere.

He took the two letters handed over by the waiter, put them behind his back, and then rode the horse under him, turning into a ray of yellow light and galloping away quickly.

"Let's go." Xu Qing watched the yellow light disappear from his sight and poked Fatty Li with his elbow. "It's a rare trip to Huai'an City. Take me to see this city."

"Okay, except for the Flower Street, you can go anywhere you want."

However, just as the two stepped out of Linhong Inn, a huge explosion suddenly came from the flower street next door, followed by noisy riots and screams.

Xu Qing and Fatty Li looked at each other, and with a flash of their bodies, they passed the distance between Linhong Inn and Huajie and landed on the rooftop of a five-story building in Huajie.

The two men looked down from a high place and quickly found the place where the explosion came from.

“That’s Acacia Tower.”

There are four big buildings in Huaian City's Flower Street, Linglong Building, Xiangsi Building, Mingyue Building and Xifeng Building. Even if Fatty Li has never been to Flower Street, he has heard of the reputation of these four buildings.

"There are cultivators guarding the four famous buildings in Huajie. Ordinary people don't dare to act there at will. Could it be that there are cultivators causing trouble?"

If there were evil spirits causing trouble, it would be impossible for these monks to just sit there and do nothing when they encountered them. However, since it was just a dispute between monks, there was no reason for them to get involved.

The government will handle it.

"Is that Liu Sanniang?"

Xu Qing's eyes were as sharp as torches.

From a distance of several hundred meters, through the large hole in Acacia Tower, one could clearly see Liu Sanniang lying in a corner of the room, her life or death unknown.

Moreover, the nostrils that had just been opened last night could vaguely smell a hint of evil spirit.

"Liu Sanniang? Where is she? Where is she?" Fatty Li put his hands on the pergola and looked into the distance.

"Go and have a look."

Since the accident just now endangered ordinary people, and they were barely familiar people, Xu Qing could not pretend that he didn't see it and turn around and leave.

Fatty Li quickly followed.

If it were somewhere else, he would definitely advise Xu Qing not to be so reckless, but now he was in Huai'an County. He was not only a local tyrant in the city, but also a disciple of Yuanfu Temple, the strongest sect nearby. He was not afraid at all.

The two soon arrived near Acacia Tower.

When Fatty Li was about to jump in from the hole on the upper floor, Xu Qing stopped him, picked up two yellow paper talismans in his hands, and used his human essence to light up the talisman core.

It is the amulet of Liu Ding and Liu Jia!
The talisman ignited without fire, and two golden lights covered Xu Qing and Fatty Li like thick armor.

Regardless of whether there is danger or not, it is always right to stack armor first!
Fatty Li looked at the thick golden light on his body.

He sighed again in his heart. He had seen talismans and spells that could generate protective golden light before, but he had never heard of a talisman made of yellow paper being able to generate such a thick golden light.

It's like it doesn't cost any money.

Could it be that Xu Qing is the illegitimate son of heaven?

I’m so envious!

If the Heaven could recognize him as his son, he would immediately run home and ask his parents to prepare for the next child. Xu Qing didn't know what was in Fatty Li's mind. After stacking his armor, he jumped into the gap of the Acacia Building.

As soon as he entered, he saw Liu Sanniang who was unconscious.

He hurried forward to check, and as soon as his hand touched Liu Sanniang's body, he felt a slight tingling sensation at his fingertips.

"Haoran Qi?"

Xu Qing felt it a little and found that Liu Sanniang was covered with a faint layer of noble energy. It should be this layer of noble energy that allowed her to survive the explosion just now.

"Is this the protective treasure that Cao Erlang left for Liu Sanniang?" A glimmer of understanding flashed in Xu Qing's eyes.

"Second Brother Cao is really good to her. He even gave her a copy of Confucian calligraphy." Fatty Li also came in at this time. Compared with Xu Qing, he was more familiar with Confucian practitioners.

You can tell at a glance that this is the effect of Confucian calligraphy.

Confucian calligraphy is similar to the talismans of the Fulu School, but it is more complicated and troublesome to make than talismans. It should be considered a kind of strange object between talismans and magic tools.

It is not easy for an ordinary Confucian practitioner to create a Confucian calligraphy copybook.

The fact that Cao Erlang was willing to give the Confucian calligraphy to Liu Sanniang for protection shows that he really valued Liu Sanniang.

"But this doesn't look like an accident." Fatty Li stroked his chin. "Just as the Cao family learned that someone was secretly plotting against their family, Liu Sanniang, who was related to Second Brother Cao, was attacked the next day."

"It's too much of a coincidence, isn't it?"

"Ah."

Xu Qing deeply felt the same way.

After realizing that Liu Sanniang was breathing normally and had simply fainted, he immediately turned his attention to the room.

Looking around, I saw that the room was in a mess. All the furniture and furnishings had been smashed into pieces, and there were many charred marks on the walls.

But apart from Liu Sanniang, there was no other person or monster in the room.

"Run away? Or hide?"

Xu Qing sniffed the yin and yang, observed all kinds of air, and listened carefully in all directions, but he found no trace of any monster appearing in this room.

It was as if the trace of evil spirit that I had sensed before was just an illusion.

"A monster that is good at hiding its form?" Xu Qing's eyes were thoughtful, and he muttered in his heart, "Why does this scene seem familiar?"

"Just like Cao Erlang and the unknown evil spirit before, I also sensed the ghost aura at the beginning, but found nothing when I looked for it later."

Xu Qing intended to release the divine image to investigate.

But at this moment, two people came running up from downstairs.

As soon as the two sides met, the person on the opposite side fixed his eyes and suddenly called out Fatty Li's name.

"Li Ping'an?"

Fatty Li and the visitor stared at each other.

"Why are you here?" they both asked in unison.

Hearing this, Xu Qing turned and looked at the person who came.

The ones who came were two constables dressed in white clothes and wearing swords at their waists.

The leader was a tall woman with delicate features. There was a sword-like heroic spirit between her eyebrows, and her behavior was quite decisive.

It was this woman who called out Fatty Li's name.

The other one was a muscular man with a rough face and a strong build. His height was comparable to Chen Ziming, almost two meters.

One person standing at the door blocked most of the passage.

(End of this chapter)