The Eastern Sea Fisher Girl 5

Thanks to Li Lianhua, Wen Qiushui's reputation for devoted love was known far and wide, throughout the villages along the Eastern Sea.

Perhaps at first, many people thought Wen Qiushui was foolish to set her heart on someone from a different world. But ten years had passed, and fewer people looked down on her. More admired and pitied her for her devoted love.

One day, Wen Qiushui had just returned from gathering pearls in the sea when she saw several friends she got along well with looking at her as though they wanted to say something but hesitated.

Finally, Chuncai, her closest friend, spoke up to console her. Chuncai had married her childhood sweetheart from the same village and was living well. "A Shui, that Divine Physician Li's name is becoming more and more famous in the martial world. You should... you should give up on him."

Wen Qiushui was already quite familiar with those expressions. Whenever news of some astonishing deed Li Lianhua had performed in the martial world reached the village, everyone wore that same look.

Her expression unchanged, Wen Qiushui nodded and walked away.

Chuncai watched her retreating figure and said pityingly, "What a shame."

Wen Qiushui was indeed in a good mood. She didn't know what great deed Li Lianhua had done this time, but after so much quiet, she felt the urge to move. It was time to go out and take a look around.

She tilted her head and thought for a moment. Where should she go this time? Why not Jade City? She could buy some fine jade materials, so she would have what she needed to carve high-level talismans. She could also learn to carve and add another craft to her skills.

She set off as soon as she made up her mind. After giving some of her perishable ingredients to the villagers and storing the rest in the Chaos Pearl, Wen Qiushui packed a bundle and left without a care under the villagers' pitying gazes.

As for whether it was unsafe for a woman to travel alone, after returning from her first trip, she had begun practicing a set of punches every day. She said she had learned it from a heroine who had saved her when she ran into danger on her travels. When the village children came to learn, she taught them without holding anything back. As a result, she became even better liked in the village, and there was also an explanation for how she could give local bullies and ruffians a sound thrashing.

Her earnings from gathering pearls at sea kept improving, and she occasionally found a top-grade pearl, but hardly anyone found it suspicious. After all, someone who had learned a little martial arts from the martial world was bound to be different.

When Wen Qiushui arrived at Xiaomian Inn outside Jade City, she cursed her bad luck inwardly. Li Lianhua, whom she hadn't seen in several years, was also at Xiaomian Inn.

Li Lianhua was exceptionally clever, and he had met the fisher girl Wen Daya before. She didn't know whether he would discover her identity. Wen Qiushui had counted on no one recognizing a village girl and had only worn a mask as a disguise. Now that she had run into Li Lianhua, whom she had met a few times, she didn't know if she could fool him.

After all, a mask alone couldn't make someone familiar with her lose his memory and fail to recognize her.

Sure enough, Li Lianhua stared at Wen Qiushui several times. Only when she glared at him did he look away and go back to eating his watermelon.

By the time Wen Qiushui's meal arrived, Fang Duobing had also come to Xiaomian Inn. As soon as he arrived, he fired a string of questions at Li Lianhua.

Wen Qiushui ate her beef noodles as she watched the commotion.

It seemed Fang Duobing and Li Lianhua's fates were deeply intertwined. No matter how different Li Lianhua's circumstances were, they still managed to meet.

Xiaomian Inn was lively that night. Besides the loud and boisterous Fang Duobing, there was also the ill-tempered Second Miss Yu. Wen Qiushui had no idea what game they were playing, but it was all ghostly tricks and make-believe.

Wen Qiushui had just finished her noodles and was about to get a room for the night when her ears twitched. She glanced at a room on the second floor. A thief had run into a murderer—a classic case of the wicked preying on the wicked.

Li Lianhua noticed Wen Qiushui's gaze and hurriedly demanded of Fang Duobing, "Where has your servant gone?!"

Before Fang Duobing could answer, a startled cry drew him to Li Lianhua's room on the second floor.

Wen Qiushui was in no hurry to book a room anymore. She simply ordered a pot of tea and drank it while watching the commotion.

The Jade Household was arrogant indeed. Because the Second Miss had died, they wanted to take everyone at the inn back to the city lord's residence for interrogation, without caring who was innocent or guilty.

Wen Qiushui looked at the darkened spots between their brows and thought that they were going to die anyway, so she wasn't in a hurry to send them on their way.

And so, like an anonymous passerby, Wen Qiushui was taken along with the others to Jade City's prison.

It was rather interesting, except that Fang Duobing was truly too noisy. Wen Qiushui really couldn't help wanting to give him some poison.

Just as Wen Qiushui was itching to act, the lord of Jade City returned and demanded to look into the cause of her younger sister's death.

Standing among the crowd, Wen Qiushui looked at the blood covering the ground and nodded in satisfaction. Sure enough, they'll die soon.

Before Wen Qiushui could decide whether to leave, she heard Yu Hongzhu arrogantly declare that they would all be buried with her younger sister.

Wen Qiushui really couldn't hold it in and burst out laughing.

Yu Hongzhu looked at Wen Qiushui with a sinister expression and asked, "Is it funny?"

Wen Qiushui laughed several more times before answering, "Of course it's funny. You think a mere Jade City is worthy of having me buried with someone? You seem to care a great deal for your sister. Why don't you go keep her company?"

Before Yu Hongzhu could answer, Wen Qiushui was already standing behind her. A thin red line of blood appeared on Yu Hongzhu's neck, and her eyes remained full of surprise and disbelief until she died.

Surprise also flashed in Li Lianhua's eyes. What a fast Movement Method. What a fast sword.

Fang Duobing was startled at first by Wen Qiushui attacking over a disagreement. Once he recovered, he drew his sword and pointed it at her. "It was only a few words of argument. Why take a life over it? Miss, you treat human lives like weeds. You'd better come with me to the Hundred Rivers Courtyard."

Wen Qiushui sneered. "The Hundred Rivers Courtyard thinks it's worthy of judging me? Besides, anyone may kill a remnant of the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance. Why shouldn't I kill her?"

Fang Duobing didn't believe her. "You say she was with the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance, and that makes it true? What proof do you have?"

Wen Qiushui hadn't had much contact with Fang Duobing in her previous life, and she hadn't expected him to be so naive. After exchanging only a few words with him, she had already run out of patience. She flicked the blood from her sword. "Do you think I'm afraid of your Heavenly Secret Manor or the Hundred Rivers Courtyard? If you still want to keep your little life, hurry up and get to the bottom of this. Otherwise, if I'm in a bad mood, I'll go on a killing spree."

Fang Duobing wanted to say more, but Li Lianhua stopped him. He could tell the young woman wasn't making empty boasts. Even Li Xiangyi in his prime might not have been able to defeat her.

"Look at her mask. She's the Ethereal Immortal, the current number one under heaven. Do you really want to anger her and make her go on a killing spree?"

Fang Duobing swallowed the words he had been about to say and exclaimed, "She's the Ethereal Immortal who leaves no survivors? I heard the Hundred Rivers Courtyard once crossed her, and she killed until they didn't dare say another word."

When Li Lianhua nodded, Fang Duobing had no choice but to rein in his restless sense of justice and pester Li Lianhua into investigating Yu Hongzhu instead.

With the Hundred Rivers Courtyard's experience as a warning, this Ethereal Immortal truly did what she said. One moment of displeasure, and she would come knocking to kill.

Fang Duobing could be fearless, but he still had to think of his family.