Catching Monsters

Chapter 226 Wu Mansion
At noon, the embarrassed Jiang Yun and Linglong supported each other and walked on the side of the official road.

The two of them limped along, and after walking for a while, Linglong would stop, and faint red blood stains would appear on the surface of her skin.

This is the blood of the blood demon that remains in her body.

"We have to find a place to meditate as soon as possible." Linglong said weakly, looking at Jiang Yun.

Jiang Yun's situation was not much better. After all, he had to withstand a palm strike from the Blood Demon. If it were not for his strong willpower, Jiang Yun would have lay down long ago, unwilling to move.

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On the official road ahead, more than ten yamen runners appeared, riding fast horses and galloping on the official road. After seeing Jiang Yun and Linglong, they stopped the carriage.

"Where are you from?" The leading bailiff, who was in his thirties, had a slight thought in his mind. The order came from above to search for a young man and woman, and these two people seemed to meet the criteria.

Then he dismounted, waved his hand, and the men following behind him looked at Jiang Yun and the others with unfriendly eyes.

Jiang Yun frowned tightly. In his and Linglong's current state, it was a bit difficult for them to walk. If they started fighting with these yamen runners, they would probably not be their match.

"Speak, are you mute?" The leading bailiff drew the sword from his waist and scolded loudly.

At this moment, the sound of a carriage was heard behind him.

The two looked behind them and saw a convoy of ten people.

"Miss, there are two more victims ahead, surrounded by government officials." The coachman stopped the carriage and said to the carriage behind him.

The curtain of the carriage slowly opened, revealing a fair-skinned girl with pretty features, wearing a green brocade dress.

She sat inside and looked at Jiang Yun and Linglong. She sighed slightly, then jumped off the carriage and walked over.

"Sir, what happened?"

The guard saw that the young lady was not dressed like an ordinary person, so he said politely, "We have been ordered to search for two fugitives. The identities of these two people seem to match."

The young lady smiled and said, "Your Excellency has misunderstood. They are servants of our Wu Mansion."

As she said this, the young lady looked back and saw the driver sighing. The young lady's kind-hearted nature came back again.

But he still walked over, took out a bag of silver, which contained ten taels of silver, and stuffed it into the runner's hand.

The yamen runner weighed the silver in his hand, then smiled and waved his hand: "That's a misunderstanding. Let's go and block the official road."

After mounting their horses, a group of yamen runners continued riding towards blocking the road out of Tiankang Prefecture.

After the group of people left, Miss Wu asked someone to fetch some water and two pieces of bread from the carriage and handed them to Jiang Yun and Linglong: "Eat quickly. The situation in Tiankang Mansion is not peaceful right now. It's not safe for the two of you to walk on the official road like this."

Hearing this, Jiang Yun clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, Miss Wu. My brother and I are from other places, but we didn't expect to meet the disaster victims who robbed us of our money and injured us."

Looking at the two people's embarrassed appearance, Miss Wu did not doubt Jiang Yun's words.

After all, famine was rampant in Tiankang Prefecture, and there were reports of victims stealing food and money, and even killing people and eating their flesh.

Miss Wu said, "If you have nowhere to go, you two can stay at my Wu Mansion for a few days."

Jiang Yun nodded and said, "Then I would like to thank Miss Wu."

"Since you two are injured, take the carriage."

The carriage was not very big, and could barely fit Jiang Yun and Linglong. Miss Wu actually went to the back and sat in the grain carriage.

Then, the coachman waved his whip and the convoy moved slowly.

Jiang Yun finally breathed a sigh of relief, then his face darkened and he said, "It seems that Master Wu Yue is indeed in collusion with the Tiankang Prefecture government. As soon as we escaped, the government sent people to search for us."

"Master, how are you?" Jiang Yun asked.

"The blood demon's devil blood is suppressing my tendons and veins." Linglong took a deep breath and said slowly: "I'm afraid it will take more than ten days for me to eliminate this devil blood."

Jiang Yun estimated that it would take three days for the injuries in his body to heal completely.

At least during these three days, you cannot be discovered by the government.

In addition, we have to find a way to notify the Jinyiwei Yamen.

With his own strength, it is impossible to rescue Xu Xiaogang and Leng Liuer from the Blood Demon.

The gap in strength is too great.

We have to ask the court to send stronger masters.

Originally, according to Jiang Yun's plan, he was going to rush to the capital and send a message by official pigeon...

But now it seems that this road is no longer feasible.

If we rush to the government, we would probably fall into a trap.

The carriage took about an hour to arrive at Wu's house.

The Wu Mansion was built outside the city of Tiankang Prefecture and was a standard large manor.

On the way here, Jiang Yun also made some inquiries. He found out that this Miss Wu's name was Wu Qing, and the Wu family was a major producer of Shu brocade in the local area.

The convoy returned to the back door of the Wu Mansion, and the servants helped carry the grain into the granary at the back door.

Wu Qingze came to the carriage, asked Jiang Yun and Linglong to get off, and led them into the backyard.

There is a large courtyard in the backyard with more than a dozen rooms, all of which are occupied by servants.

But at this time, there were still many victims in the yard.

"I took in a lot of disaster victims along the way, so I'm a bit short of housing." Wu Qing looked at the two of them and said, "I can only ask you two siblings to share a room for the time being."

Wu Qing led the two to the door of a room and said, "Food is distributed in the mansion every day. I have other things to do. If you have any questions, you can ask the servants in the mansion."

It is obvious that Wu Qing is kind-hearted and took in more than just one disaster victim.

"Thank you, Miss Wu." Jiang Yun nodded and smiled slightly.

After watching Wu Qing turn around and leave, Jiang Yun and Linglong went into the house to rest.

Linglong quickly came to the bed, sat down cross-legged, and removed the evil blood from her body.

But Jiang Yun doesn't need to go through so much trouble, he just needs to rest.

He had just sat down on the chair and was about to take a rest when he suddenly heard the voices of several disaster victims talking in the next room.

"Miss Wu brought two more people here just now." "Miss Wu is kindhearted and pretty, but she has been eating worse and worse lately, and her porridge is getting thinner and thinner."

"When I first came here, I had white flour steamed buns every day, but now I can only eat steamed buns every other day."

"Miss Wu is taking in more and more people, so of course we have less and less to eat."

"Ms. Wu is so confused. Why are you taking in so many people?"

Listening to the conversation next door, Jiang Yun couldn't help but shook his head slightly, closed his eyes, and rested quietly.

By the evening, all the victims, including Jiang Yun and Linglong, came out of their houses and servants were distributing porridge.

All the victims received a bowl of porridge and some pickles.

Jiang Yun took two bowls, brought them back and placed them in front of Linglong: "Master, eat something first."

"After we finish eating, I'll see if I can go meet Miss Wu. They are in the Shu brocade business, so they should have carrier pigeons."

Linglong then opened her eyes, drank the porridge, and said, "Just contact Feng Yu and ask him to come over. That old eunuch can deal with the blood demon."

Hearing this, Jiang Yun nodded.

After eating, Linglong closed her eyes and continued to remove the evil blood from her body.

Jiang Yun walked out of the room and saw the servants cleaning up the porridge bucket outside, so he stepped forward and said, "Excuse me, can I see Miss Wu?"

The servant looked Jiang Yun up and down and asked in confusion, "What do you want to do with the young lady?"

"I have something I want to ask Miss Wu."

"My young lady has a lot of things to do and doesn't have the time to meet you." The servant was obviously a little impatient.

Although the Wu family is wealthy and powerful, the drought has lasted for a long time. There are so many mouths to feed in the mansion, and most of the people in the nearby villages are also named Wu.

Everyone needs help.

The young lady is kind-hearted and has taken in so many disaster victims.

They all have mouths and need to eat, so naturally, the amount of food in the mouths of the Wu mansion’s servants’ mouths became less.

Jiang Yun was not angry. The other party's reaction was normal. He took out a tael of silver from his arms and handed it to the servant: "Thank you for your help."

In this world, nothing is difficult as long as you have money.

Sure enough, the servant who received the silver put it away calmly and said, "Come with me, but I can't guarantee whether the young lady will see you or not."

Following the servant, they soon arrived at a courtyard where an office was located.

On the way, Jiang Yun also learned from the servant that Miss Wu Qing was not a lady from a wealthy family in the traditional sense.

The Wu family had very poor business in the past few years. Later, Miss Wu Qing took over the family business, and then the business flourished.

Arriving at the study, the servant knocked on the door and entered the room.

Wu Qing was holding an abacus, tapping it and calculating, with a frown on his handsome face. Food was too expensive in the market nowadays.

The Wu Mansion has been running short of money during this period. If the disaster situation does not improve, the Wu Mansion will soon be unable to make ends meet.

"Miss, there is a disaster victim who wants to see you." The servant said respectfully. After that, seeing Wu Qing was busy, he quickly changed the topic and said, "If you are busy, I will let him go back."

After the servant finished speaking, he turned around and left.

"Wait." Wu Qing raised his head and looked outside the house: "Let him in."

"Yes." The servant breathed a sigh of relief and waved for Jiang Yun to enter the house.

After Jiang Yun entered the room, Wu Qing stopped what he was doing, asked the servant to pour a glass of water, and then asked, "What's the matter?"

Jiang Yun nodded and said, "Miss Wu..."

Before she finished speaking, suddenly, another servant ran in with a panicked look on his face and said, "Miss, something bad has happened. A group of bandits has come. There are fifty or sixty of them, all with weapons."

"The leader, who calls himself Huang Si, asked us to hand over half of the food."

Wu Qing frowned and said, "Send someone to notify the authorities."

"The butler has sent someone away."

Wu Qing glanced at Jiang Yun and said, "Sorry, I have to take care of something."

After saying that, he hurried towards the gate of Wu Mansion. Jiang Yun frowned, thought for a while, and quickly followed him.

At this moment, more than fifty people were standing at the gate of Wu Mansion, all holding shining swords in their hands. Each of them looked ferocious and obviously not good people.

Outside the gate of Wu's mansion, there were more than twenty servants standing, holding knives, forks, sticks and clubs, confronting the group of bandits.

The gate of the Wu Mansion opened, and Wu Qing led several servants out. She looked at the other group of bandits with a calm expression and asked, "Who is the leader?"

In front of the bandits stood a forty-year-old man with a scar on his face. He grinned and said, "My name is Huang Si, and you are Wu Qing?"

"They say Miss Wu Qing is kindhearted and has adopted fifty or sixty disaster victims."

"Ms. Wu, what's the point of raising such a group of disaster victims? Why don't you give the food to me, Huang Si? We promise not to rob your Wu Mansion again."

Wu Qing frowned and asked, "How much food do you want?"

Huang Si laughed: "Look at what Miss Wu said, how much more food do we need? So many of us brothers have come down the mountain, but we are starving. Miss Wu asked the mansion to prepare a delicious meal. We brothers went in and ate our fill, then left."

Wu Qing frowned tightly. They definitely couldn't be allowed into the mansion.

Once this group of people go in, who knows what will happen.

Huang Si's eyes flashed coldly: "If Miss Wu doesn't agree, then the brothers will rob it themselves."

These bandits are all extremely strong and sturdy. If a fight really breaks out, how would these servants be able to fight back at all?
At this moment, a token was suddenly thrown at Huang Si's feet.

Huang Si looked down, picked it up and took a look: "What is this?"

Jiang Yun walked out of the gate and took a deep breath, then said in a deep voice: "You don't even recognize the Jinyiwei token?"

(End of this chapter)