Dong Huiying left the Sky Blue Building just like she had arrived, by scaling the wall. Afterwards, she strolled down the main street and took stock of the various shops in Taihang Town.
There was a vast array of shop types with grain stores being the most common, followed by cloth stores, jewelers, and assorted other businesses. When she passed by the He Grain Store and noticed the closed for business sign hanging outside, her eyes flickered.
The matters of Sky Blue Building have co to a temporary close, yet, it was not enough, far from enough!
She took a deep breath, then turned and dashed into the Cloth Store, erging with several bolts of satin hoisted on her shoulders.
Before she and Liang Zhichen parted ways, they had agreed to deal with their respective matters and then et at the Stove King Temple outside of town.
When Dong Huiying arrived, there was no one there; Liang Zhichen must have been delayed. So she found a spot, sat down, propped her chin in her hands, and waited patiently.
At the sa ti, Liang Zhichen was walking through the town, his gaze dark.
He had previously sent Haoming to inquire about Pei Yu’s circumstances and then had Haoming send a ssage to Shen Qiu Yang in Jun City.
He had grown sowhat clearer in his mind that aside from the parts about Baobao in his dreams, the other aspects could very well beco reality.
Unconsciously, he found himself standing at the vegetable market entrance.
At this mont, he suddenly struggled to distinguish dream from reality. He stood there in the tangible sunlight of the real world, yet his consciousness seed to be dragged back to the overcast, rainy day in his dream.
The sa vegetable market entrance, it was here that upon learning the news and rushing over, he saw Shujun laying on the stretcher, covered with a white cloth.
In the dream, after Shu Yu had passed away, Shujun left the brothel. He probably wanted to clear his mind with a walk, not anticipating that it would an parting in life and death.
In the dream, the weather was gloomy, he lifted the white cloth on the stretcher only to see that the cinnabar mark on his younger brother’s forehead had been gouged out brutally, his entire face slashed, even the eyelids had been cut off, and the eyes gouged out, leaving only two gaping, hollow sockets.
The body was transported back by Su Lang from afar, and by the ti it reached Taihang Town, it was already mostly decayed. Sansan had loved cleanliness in life, yet his death was so wretched. Not only was he nearly naked, but had also been reduced to a decaying skeletal corpse. His limbs had been mangled before death, many bones throughout his body had been broken, and his internal organs had been removed. His body carried a stench of rotten death that, if he were alive, would have made him despise himself.
Later, Liang Zhichen learned that Su Lang had discovered Sansan in The Outside, where he had been stripped bare, hung up on the city wall for public display. To take Sansan’s body back, Su Lang had lost quite a few n, even Su Lang himself had been seriously injured. Sansan had ended up in that condition reportedly because he provoked the illegitimate son of the Tribal Leader of the Tribe of the Outside.
And this illegitimate son was an odd one, who had once married into the He Mansion and clung to his younger brother as a child, becoming Pei Yu, who used to follow Sansan around like a shadow.
Late, his younger brother took on a mission in the black market, his fate unknown since. In search of his brother, he left ho temporarily and just then Pei Yu, enraged by Su Lang’s corpse snatching, led the barbarians from The Outside to attack Taihang Town. Su Lang covered for Yue Ning and Yixuan as they retreated. Along the way, Yue Ning lost his temper and rashly confronted Pei Yu, only to be knocked off a cliff by Pei Yu’s n, his body shattered to pieces. By the ti Liang Zhichen heard the news and rushed back, Black Wind Camp had suffered greatly, Su Lang had lost an arm, and although Yue Ning’s body was recovered from the foot of the cliff, Yixuan had vanished without a trace.
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