Bitter Vegetables Kindled Fire, Thousand Blades Bled

With a clatter, the Peddler set down his cart and stood at the factory entrance, looking at Shi Gongxing's corpse.

The Strange Monsters stood nearby, not daring to speak. The Peddler asked, "Did he die on his own turf?"

Roe Deer had been the first to discover the corpse, and he did not know how to answer. "Lord Peddler, we found the corpse right here. We don't know where he died."

The Peddler asked again, "Had he gone anywhere else before this?"

Roe Deer answered, "He had, but we don't know where he went."

"Who does know?"

The Strange Monsters looked at one another, then finally all turned toward a woman who looked strikingly like a sheep.

The woman was clever and beautiful, knew a bit of Work Method, and had been deeply favored by Shi Gongxing. The Strange Monsters said that during the day, they studied Work Method together at the machine tools, and at night, they studied Work Method together on the bed.

Sheep Woman was terrified. Her eyes reddened as she said, "Master Shi left with a man named He Jiaqing. Before he left, he told me he was going to Soda Kiln."

He Jiaqing?

This really has to be investigated. The Peddler pushed his cart away.

If Shi Gongxing had died at Soda Kiln, the Peddler should not interfere. Soda Kiln was no longer Shi Gongxing's turf.

If Shi Gongxing had died at Feng Daiku's hands, the Peddler should interfere even less. Feng Daiku had not reached the cultivation of Above the Clouds.

But if Shi Gongxing had died on this new land, and had been killed by a cultivator Above the Clouds, then the Peddler could not tolerate it.

Bitter Vegetable Manor, White Food Hall. He Jiaqing sat by the wall, wolfing down rice. He