Chapter 229 (2/2)

Xie Laibao's expression grew blank

”You'll take people to complete this task,” Grand Preceptor Xie added

”Yes,” Xie Laibao still looked blank, but he simply accepted the orders without further questions

”Father!” a girl's wretched cries ca this, Xie Laibao re Master's wife”

”Have her return to her rooe of annoyance

Xie Laibao quickly eboys to carry hihter-in-law's cries faded away Grand Preceptor Xie finally exhaled and decided to think of other ways to deal with Ning Yu Instead of killing her, it's better to hness or the eer Then the e Yu herself and take advantage of the chaos afterwards to escape with her brother

And once Ning Yu is dead, Xie Anji's situation will be resolved as well Grand Preceptor Xie ht of this idea er, he shook his head We're done with each other and out of sorts It looks like I can't keep around this daughter of ht a bunch of retainers and Chen Lu's bodyguard to the south city walls, where they searched around until they dug up Zhouaside thestench from the corpse caused everyone to back away One of the retainers who dug her up exa out to Xie Laibao on his chair in the distance

”Head steward, there's a hairpin stuck in the corpse”

”What?” Xie Laibao appeared to look rather surprised as he ordered the pageboys to carry him to the corpse

”It's a wooden hairpin,” the retainer added

”Worthless little thing,” Xie Laibao said after glancing at the hairpin stuck in the neck stump, which had been carved to reses to that woman and was only left behind because it was cheap Leave it there It's unlucky to touch a dead person's things”

None of the retainers had any interest in the hairpin, so all of theht,” Xie Laibao said ”Take the body out of the grave and ht”

The retainers bore the brunt of the stink as they lifted Zhou mama's corpse from the dirt, wrapped it in a straw uard, ”Sir soldier, please lead the way Grand Preceptor ordered this iteer had delivered a head, while the Grand Preceptor was now delivering the body The bodyguard really had no idea what these two htened his collar before co A row of men pulled Zhou mama's headless corpse with theates

Once all the huathered frorave They circled around the place before one of the Yellow, ”Last time they cut off the head and took it away Now they've taken the body as well Big boss, what do these hu Yellow tossed a pawful of dirt at the grave before leading his band of brothers away from the spot He looked in the direction where Xie Laibao and the rest had left before finally ads If you didn't know, boss, why did you stare after they asked

”Xiaoyao's the e Would she bother with the dead as well?” Big Yellow asked

”I knooof,” aYan who looks after the dead”

”Then this has nothing to do with Xiaoyao,” Big Yellow proclaimed ”No need to ht now, and that's s objected to their boss's words

”Then it's set,” Big Yellow finished ”Disperse and look for food”

With the ies ran off in different locations to vie for their empty stomachs

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Xie Laibao's took out the Grand Preceptor's coe Once they were out of the city, he re the cart, ”Be careful, don't leave anything behind”

The gatekeepers shut the gates behind their retreating fored shi+fts, one of thewith his companions all the way back to the barracks An hour after that, the same officer appeared in a rooui, ”The Grand Preceptor's ht along everything they should have brought as well”

”Understood,” Lou Zigui nodded ”You've worked hard co here to report this”

”This humble one doesn't dare accept such co froht on the table flickered, Lou Zigui's lips curved into a cold and e Xiaoyao was sleeping soundly next to Big Boss Black, her sto herself with food Everyone was busying theht, but His Majesty was the only one who'd fretted herself to sleep

Shen Mu (沈沐) – Shen is a surname that means ”sink, keep down, lower,” Mu iven/receive kindness, a favor, etc” ↩