[Mo Dao Zu Shi Fanfiction] I Raise A Ying in Yiling

Lady Yan, who was speaking eloquently, was interrupted by Wei Chaoyan's voice. She glared at Wei Chaoyan, who had broken her promise and interrupted, and took a deep breath to continue recounting the intelligence she had gathered.

"According to our scouts near Lotus Pier, a year after Zezang and his wife died, the only son of the Yiling Inn owner went to the Yunmeng Jiang Clan to deliver a message. However, before he could finish speaking to the gatekeeper that he was there to deliver a message for Zezang and his wife, he was encountered by Madam Yu, who had just returned from a night hunt. Upon hearing that he was there to deliver a message for Zezang and his wife, Yu Ziyuan flew into a rage and struck the innkeeper's son with a purple whip. Although it wasn't very powerful, the power of a first-grade spiritual weapon was enough to hurt him. Therefore, this time, his trip to Yunmeng not only failed to deliver the message to Jiang Fengmian but also failed to receive any reward from the immortals. Instead, he was struck by Yu Ziyuan's purple lightning and seriously injured. The innkeeper's family therefore took their anger out on Wei Ying, and the innkeeper's wife hated Wei Ying even more. If the innkeeper and his only son hadn't been reasonable people who, despite their anger towards Wei Ying, knew they weren't in the wrong and stopped the innkeeper's wife from taking advantage of his misfortune, Wei Ying's life would probably have been even more difficult."

"As for whether Jiang Fengmian knew about this news, our people can't find out. However, there is a high probability that the gatekeeper's disciple was afraid of being punished by Yu Ziyuan and did not report it. After Yu Ziyuan hit the person, she forgot about it and did not mention it to Jiang Fengmian. Therefore, we guess he did not know."

"But don't let this make you feel any favorably toward him. Although Jiang Fengmian doesn't know the exact location of Zezang and his wife's deaths, if he truly considered Wei Changze a brother as he claimed, he would have done everything in his power to find them after receiving news of their deaths and the leaving behind a young child. After all, he's the largest cultivation force in the Yunmeng area, with a vast and powerful family. He could have sent disciples out to search, sought help from other families, and offered hefty rewards to rogue cultivators and mortals. If he had any will to do it, he wouldn't have gone a year without finding a single clue. Don't say he has his shrewish wife, Yu Ziyuan, interfering. As the head of a sect, what can Yu Ziyuan do if he insists on finding her? Besides, finding someone doesn't require him, the sect leader, to search himself. He can just give the order and countless people will help him. In the end, it's all just empty talk about finding someone; in reality, the actual search is practically nonexistent!" As she spoke, Yan Niangzi couldn't help but curl her lip in disdain.

"As for the news of Zezang and his wife's death, according to my investigation, it was revealed by the eldest son of the Wang family, who had entered the Qishan Wen clan, when he was drunk and let it slip. Considering the strange beast he found a year ago, we can know that he must know some of the reasons and locations of Zezang's death. It is highly likely that this strange beast took advantage of the couple's misfortune."

"And the biggest obstacle to fulfilling your request is that tyrant Wang, who has powerful backers!" Lady Yan concluded.

Wei Chaoyan knew that this was the real key point. If they couldn't come up with a good way to avoid Wang Eba and thus attract the attention of his brother who had entered the immortal sect, Lady Yan and the others wouldn't act rashly. If this stalemate continued, they wouldn't suffer any losses, and only Wei Ying would suffer.

Wei Chaoyan frowned, her mind frantically searching through the novels she had read before, trying to find a good solution (don't laugh, because in her previous life she was just a well-behaved student who hadn't yet entered society, and in this situation she could only turn to the novels she had read before).

Seeing Wei Chaoyan looking so worried she was about to pull her hair out, Yan Niangzi couldn't help but comfort her, "Don't worry, we'll think of a solution slowly. The child is currently being helped by Doctor Wen and Granny Yang in town. Although he may be having some hardships, his life is not in danger."

"Not in a hurry? How could that be?" Wei Chaoyan glanced at Lady Yan, who was comforting her, and remained silent. She knew that if the people currently caring for Wei Ying didn't encounter any misfortune or abandon him in the coming years, Wei Ying's life as a wanderer in the later years of the original story wouldn't have been so tragic. Since Wei Ying was reduced to eating rotten vegetable leaves on the street in the dead of winter at the age of nine, wearing only thin clothes, it meant that something must have happened in the future. Therefore, she needed to think of a solution quickly; she couldn't bear to see Wei Ying suffer so much more.

After racking her brains, Wei Chaoyan couldn't come up with a good solution, her mind blank and her intelligence insufficient. Just as she was anxiously looking up, she saw Lady Yan leisurely sipping her tea, looking completely at ease.

Knowing that she must already have a plan, and that she wasn't saying it outright just because she had a wicked sense of humor and wanted to see him make a fool of himself, Wei Chaoyan said somewhat angrily, "Aunt Yan, just say what you have to say. Why do you have to say things like this to make me anxious?"

Seeing that Wei Chaoyan was a little angry, Lady Yan put away her annoying attitude and continued nonchalantly, "Since Wang the bully is an obstacle that cannot be touched or hurt, let's find a way to move him away from where he is. Once he leaves Yiling Town, the master will be gone, and the remaining lackeys will be easy to deal with."

Wei Chaoyan's eyes lit up, and she leaned closer to Yan Niangzi with a smile, "Aunt Yan, what do you mean?"

"I've already arranged for someone to stir up trouble among his confidants: have his trusted subordinates urge him to seek refuge with his brother. He could then act with impunity wherever his brother serves, and who knows, maybe one day he'll curry favor with other immortals and even gain entry into the immortal realm himself—that would be a meteoric rise! Do you think that bully Wang will be tempted?" Lady Yan sneered.

“He will definitely be tempted and will be eager to go to his brother,” Wei Chaoyan said confidently.

"Once this hot potato is gone, I'll have someone transfer the servants who handled all this at Wang's mansion. Then no one will be watching the child anymore. You can then use the pretext of repaying a debt of gratitude to have Officer Wei, who has some connections with your father, register the child under your father's name as an adopted son. Wouldn't that make it a natural and logical way to bring him home?"

Hearing what Madam Yan said, Wei Chaoyan was overjoyed and quickly asked, "Aunt Yan, how long will it take?"

"It'll be in the next few days, don't rush. Just stay home quietly for the next few days. Once I've finished, I'll bring the child to your house first, and then you can go to the county government office to find Constable Wei and pull some strings to get the paperwork done." Madam Yan said, somewhat annoyed by Wei Chaoyan's impatient manner, as if she couldn't wait to see the child that very night.

Wei Chaoyan smiled sheepishly and continued, "After Aunt Yan brings Wei Ying back, I'll find a time to take your people to find the things. You need to prepare the people and things." As she spoke, she got up and took a piece of white paper covered with writing from a small drawer on the dressing table by the bed and handed it to Lady Yan. "These are the things you'll need on the road. Remember to prepare them and don't forget anything. Going to collect that herb needs to be done within a specific time to reduce the danger and increase the success rate. So I'll come to the cloth shop to find you at the specified time."

"Good, that's great!" Madam Yan said happily as she took the white paper. "I will do my best to handle your matter, don't worry!" After saying that, she left the Wei residence.

Watching Lady Yan's departing figure, Wei Chaoyan smiled and thought, "Aying, wait, your older sister is coming to save you!"