Chapter 46 Aftermath

Chapter 46 Aftermath

Chapter 46 Aftermath
Pei Yuan sighed, "When I surrounded and killed you, you should have understood that I have no intention of making things difficult for anyone."

Seeing that Bai Yujing didn't seem to appreciate it, Pei Yuan reminded him, "With my strength, it won't be difficult to subdue you when you are not prepared. We also brought a torture expert with us. I don't want to be your enemy, but I don't want you to fall into a situation where you can't live or die. I have done my best for you."

Perhaps it was because Pei Yuan was sincere, or perhaps it was because Mei Qinniang already believed it to some extent, a look of confusion appeared on Bai Yujing's beautiful face, and when she looked at Pei Yuan again, the resentment she had before was no longer there.

Bai Yujing immediately asked suspiciously, "Aren't you here to arrest me this time?"

Pei Yuan said honestly, "If we hadn't been so reluctant to spend money, we would be in bed now."

A look of contempt appeared on Bai Yujing's face.

Pei Yuan is quite frank.

He has experienced more embarrassing days than others, so he can face the embarrassing situation more calmly than others.

Many times, we put ourselves into painful mental exhaustion and are simply making things difficult for ourselves.

Pei Yuan was very willing to be the one who reached an understanding with him.

He treats himself better than anyone else. He understands how difficult it is for himself and never demands too much from himself.

Mei Qinniang actually admired Pei Yuan's naturalness.

"You can see clearly."

Pei Yuan saw that Mei Qinniang was not unable to communicate, so he boldly said, "The two of them and I are just ordinary people. We come here to work just to make a living. Did Miss Mei have any misunderstanding about this matter?"

Mei Qinniang sneered, "I didn't misunderstand. A hanged man deliberately tripped me up and led him here. I knew that there would be a day when you would find me, but I'm not afraid of anyone."

Pei Yuan asked in confusion, "Since you already knew that the people from the Evil Suppression Thousand Households would come looking for you, why didn't you leave earlier?"

Perhaps it was Pei Yuan's frankness that made Mei Qinnan trust him a little.

She said bitterly, "My Yin body is not yet complete, so I have to use the pure Yin body to nourish my soul. These two women have special physiques, which are very beneficial to me."

Bai Yujing was talking when he suddenly stopped talking and looked behind Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan reacted quickly. He slightly tilted the sword in his hand and immediately saw a vague shadow on the cold blade.

The strange thing was that Chen Toutie, who had been carefully guarding beside him, had no reaction at all.

Pei Yuan didn't care about Bai Yujing's threat for a moment and turned around abruptly.

There was nothing in front of him except Chen Toutie's astonished face and the dark depths of the flower boat.

At this moment, Pei Yuan suddenly felt a strong sense of suffocation on his neck. It felt like an icy chain was wrapped around his throat and dragging it hard.

Pei Yuan secretly cried out "Oh no!" and subconsciously tried to tear at the invisible restraints around his neck.

However, Pei Yuan's struggle only allowed him to breathe a few more breaths of fresh air, and then the invisible restraints suddenly tightened.

Chen Toutie looked at Pei Yuan's flushed face, as if he was fighting with someone he couldn't see. He was so nervous and helpless that he shouted, "Sir? What's wrong?!"

He shouted again in panic, "Cheng Lei Xiang! Cheng Lei Xiang!"

Cheng Leixiang had been chasing after Bai Yujing, but when he saw that they didn't fight, he stepped lightly and hid his figure, intending to launch a sneak attack on Bai Yujing at the critical moment.

Seeing that Pei Yuan had been hit by some trick, he didn't bother to hide and rushed over to protect Pei Yuan.

Pei Yuan had now recovered from the strange attack. He held the Bazhou Sword horizontally and chopped heavily in the direction of the invisible restraint.

Everyone heard a sinister laugh, and then seemed to hear the "rustling" sound of shaking chains.

Pei Yuan's knife strike missed, and then his neck was violently pulled, causing him to stagger and almost fall to the ground.

At this time, he also judged from the sound of the chain that the evil ghost was hiding far away from him. He knew that he could not hit the person, so he chopped the sharp Bazhou knife in his hand directly towards the imagined position of the chain.

With a "ding-dang" sound, the invisible chain that was dragging him down was cut off by the "Bazhou Sword"!

Pei Yuan's body relaxed and he was almost knocked down.

Chen Toutie and Cheng Leixiang hurriedly came over to help him, bewildered, "Sir, are you okay?"

Before they could finish their words, they seemed to be strangled by the throat, their eyes widened, their tongues stuck out, and their bodies seemed to go limp out of nowhere and they fell to the ground.

Pei Yuan saw the two men struggling and being dragged towards the side of the ship, so he immediately picked up the Bazhou knife and chopped forward randomly. After a while, he heard two faint "clang" sounds, and Chen Toutie and Cheng Leixiang suddenly fell to the ground, gasping violently.

Both of them looked terrified and asked with a stammer, "Sir, what's going on?"

Pei Yuan was so nervous that his palms were full of sweat, but fortunately, the Bazhou Sword had worked repeatedly just now, so he didn't get scared in front of his two younger brothers.

He growled, "Fire!"

Then, he held the Bazhou sword tightly with both hands and swung the sword slightly to the sides.

When the light was shone on one place, a blurry black shadow suddenly passed through the shiny blade of the knife, and no one knew where it went.

Pei Yuan quickly used his knife to look, but it had already disappeared without a trace.

Pei Yuan had no choice but to take pictures of the surrounding area one by one. Except for the time when he took the picture of Bai Yujing, there was a black spot on the shiny blade, and there was nothing unusual else.

Chen Toutie and Cheng Leixiang each took a fire starter and quickly blew out a flame.

Pei Yuan touched the magic ball grenade in his bag and said to the two, "Don't extinguish it without my order."

Bai Yujing kept looking at the reactions of the three people coldly.

Seeing Pei Yuan slowly let down his guard, he curled his lips and said, "It's not completely useless."

Just now, when Pei Yuan and the other two were busy dealing with the hanged ghost, Bai Yujing simply chose to watch instead of adding insult to injury.

I don’t know if it was because Pei Yuan’s words just now had an effect, or if my disgust for the hanged ghost exceeded my disgust for the Evil Suppression Thousand Households Office.

But the performance of the Bazhou sword obviously made Mei Qinniang even more fearful.

Pei Yuan stuck the Bazhou sword on the ground and asked Bai Yujing calmly, "Could it be that the one just now was the hanged ghost you mentioned?"

Bai Yujing said, "That's right! This old ghost has troubled me more than once. Unfortunately, I haven't completed my Yin body yet, so I can't do anything to him!"

Pei Yuan looked at Bai Yujing for a long time before saying, "You can't stay in Qinhuai River any longer."

Bai Yujing said with a sarcastic smile, "What? Are you going to attack me? Just with that knife?"

She held an embroidered spring sword in her hand, and her expression did not show any panic.

The commotion here had already attracted the attention of the surrounding ships.

When Bai Yujing was chasing Pei Yuan with a knife in his hand, the people watching were so frightened that they shouted and screamed everywhere.

At this moment, the entire boat was empty, and a dense circle formed in the distance, keeping an eye on the movements here. Pei Yuan stared at the dark shadow looming on Bai Yujing's body, knowing that the complexity of the situation was beyond his imagination. The most important thing now was to get out of here safely.

He swallowed twice and said to Bai Yujing, "I have no intention of harming you. We had a good relationship in the past. Now I will take my brothers away, and we will have nothing to do with each other in the future. How about that?"

As he spoke, he quickly slid through the system interface and found the item about debts of favor.

——Debt of Favor: Debts Receivable (1/1): You fulfilled Mei Qinniang’s dying wish and can now ask her for a favor.

Then he decisively chose to repay the debt of favor.

Bai Yujing looked at Pei Yuan, was stunned for a moment, and said, "Okay."

Pei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that his favor was effective.

Seeing Pei Yuan's relieved look, Bai Yujing couldn't help but sneer, "What a heartless man."

Pei Yuan turned a deaf ear and was now thinking about how to deal with the aftermath.

He thought for a moment and asked Bai Yujing, "Will your possession of the two women do any harm to them?"

Bai Yujing looked indifferent, "If he can run and jump, what else do you want?"

Pei Yuan said, "These two women have been implicated by you, and I'm afraid they can no longer stay on the Qinhuai River."

Just the fact that Bai Yujing acted like a spider spirit and wielded the Embroidered Spring Sword to kill Pei Yuan would probably have made him considered an alien.

What's more, this incident was not only seen by the men and women in the cabin, but also by so many guests on the Qinhuai River.

"Possessed by evil spirit" and "Chasing down the Jinyiwei with a knife". Just based on these two facts, I'm afraid no one would dare to mess with the two women again.

Bai Yujing also looked rather sullen.

She had finally found two women with strong Yin energy who could nourish her Yin body, but she didn't expect this matter to become so sensational.

Pei Yuan couldn't help but feel sympathy for these two women as he wondered what would happen to them in the future.

He immediately said, "I have a plan. We can send them to a Taoist temple outside the city to practice cultivation in the name of exorcising the evil spirits. If you have connections, you can go with us. You can protect them and continue to nourish their Yin bodies. You can leave this matter to me."

Pei Yuan still remembered Mei Qinnan's background.

The Plum Blossom Society she belongs to has a great background.

Mei Qinniang was able to revive from the dead and transform into a Yin body, perhaps due to the efforts of those people.

It can be said that it is easy to arrange a quiet Taoist temple for these two women.

Bai Yujing looked at Pei Yuan strangely, then smiled and said, "Aren't you just joining us in corruption by doing this?"

Pei Yuan felt that Bai Yujing seemed to have something else in mind.

He looked back at Cheng Leixiang and Chen Toutie. The two of them were holding a knife in one hand and a fire starter in the other, protecting Pei Yuan behind him, and neither of them said a word.

Pei Yuan thought for a moment and said, "I won't go along with anyone. I only stand on the side of my own interests."

Bai Yujing looked at Pei Yuan and smiled meaningfully.

As he laughed, his long legs went limp to the ground and his whole body collapsed soundlessly, as if it had been worn out.

Pei Yuan knew it was time to clean up the mess himself.

Just like he said before, he only stands on the side of interests.

Cleaning up the mess for Mei Qinniang certainly saved the Plum Blossom Society and the forces behind it a lot of trouble, but Pei Yuan also gained a lot!

First of all, what happened tonight must be explained!
The two sides had fought with swords on the Qinhuai River, which had already alarmed too many people. If there was no result afterwards, Pei Yuan and others would inevitably face questioning from Tan Tai Fang Tu and other related parties.

However, many details and behind-the-scenes causes and effects of this incident could not withstand repeated scrutiny by those scribes.

So things must be concluded tonight, and it must be concluded in Pei Yuan's hands.

Pei Yuan wrote the conclusion and commented on the opinions himself.

The only possible outcome could be a decisive victory for Pei Yuan and his threesome.

Secondly, Pei Yuan and his two companions could get a reward of 100 taels of silver from the owner of the Sun family if they could solve the evil incident on the ship. With such a large sum of money, the three of them could completely disappear for a while and would not have to worry about money in the short term.

Again, this incident could also bring the three of them considerable reputation. After the experience of killing evil spirits on the Qinhuai River, it would be easier for them to get a high price when they go out to cheat and deceive people.

Pei Yuan went forward and tried Bai Yujing's breathing. Seeing that her breathing was even, he knew that she was just exhausted, so he went up to pick her up, and whispered a few words to Chen Toutie and Cheng Leixiang.

The two of them were just behind Pei Yuan and knew the cause and effect of the matter.

After hearing Pei Yuan's simple mention, they understood his thoughts and said one by one, "What the lord said is what we saw with our own eyes."

Pei Yuan was very satisfied with their attitudes.

When the three returned to the cabin with knives, there was another round of screaming and chaos in the cabin. Someone saw Bai Yujing lying softly in Pei Yuan's arms, and then he bravely asked, "Sir, are you okay?"

Pei Yuan found the trembling Steward Sun in the crowd, and then he looked at everyone and said loudly, "The matter here has been resolved. There is no need to panic."

Manager Sun heard Pei Yuan's confident words and saw that Bai Yujing no longer looked as evil and fierce as before. He immediately said tremblingly, "Miss Yujing, what happened to her? My Lord won't kill her, will he?"

Pei Yuan said, "She and Qin Lingbo were indeed possessed by evil spirits. Fortunately, I discovered it and drove it away. However, the two still have strong ghost energy. It would be best to send them to a Taoist temple to purify their minds and cultivate themselves for a few years."

Manager Sun recalled the scene just now when Bai Yujing was holding the Embroidered Spring Knife, with her long legs bent like a spider, killing everyone in the room. He was so scared that he said hurriedly, "How dare we keep them here? Let them go."

Pei Yuan didn't care what Manager Sun thought.

Call him over with a hook.

After Manager Sun came over, Pei Yuan whispered, "There was also a hanged ghost who was driven away. That guy is not a good person. If your boss knows anyone from the Evil Suppression Unit, you should ask him to ask a few powerful ones to come and check on him from time to time. As for the short term, the hanged ghost should not dare to cause trouble."

When Manager Sun heard this, his face turned pale with fear. He then realized that the matter was not over yet, and immediately begged, "Don't bother two masters with one thing. Please help us, sir. Only then will we trust you."

Pei Yuan looked unhappy, "Your one hundred taels can only drive away the evil spirits that are harassing these girls. That hanged ghost is very fierce."

Manager Sun was enlightened tonight.

How could he dare to have any thoughts? He hurriedly said, "I can add money."

Pei Yuan evaded the question, "It's not about the money. He was injured by me, so he may not dare to come back for a long time. There's no need to do this."

Manager Sun said quickly, "Please stay on the boat for a few more days so that we can rest assured. After this, I will give you another gift."

(End of this chapter)