Chapter 74

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Mu Yi didn’t like trouble . It was unavoidable at times while one was living . He knew he had to work because he had obtained certain resources from the Su Clan . There were always advantages and disadvantages as well as cause and effect .

Mu Yi was a bit annoyed . He had intended to save Su Jinlun and then to go back to the mountain . He wanted to meditate in seclusion . He didn’t plan to leave the mountain again before reaching the second difficulty .

However, Gu Yaosen asked him for a favor while he was visiting the yamen . He wanted his help with something . Gu Yaosen had been married to Peng Songlai for a few years already, but she hadn’t gotten pregnant . They had seen many doctors but none of the treatments worked .

There were three ways to be unfilial . Not giving birth to a son was the worst . If a woman couldn’t have children in the past, her husband’s family would give her up . Sometimes it would be worse than that .

Gu Yaosen loved his wife . He didn’t want to get rid of her . He didn’t even want to have concubines because of he loved her so much . He knew that he needed to find a solution, otherwise, his clan would start to cause trouble .

He thought Mu Yi couldn’t help at first . Mu Yi wasn’t a doctor and he couldn’t heal people . Gu Yaosen had heard of a sorcerer . This sorcerer could help a couple have children . People said that he was very good at it .

Gu Yaosen wasn’t worried and wanted to try . His wife kept refusing to see him . So when Mu Yi came, Gu Yaosen was happy . He just asked Mu Yi to go and assess whether the sorcerer was really able to help people or not?

Mu Yi was a person of unusual ability . Gu Yaosen expected him to understand those kinds of things . Mu Yi, when he was traveling with the old man, had seen all sorts of dishonest dealings .

Some people pretended that they could communicate with Guanyin, the Patroness of Fertility . Some even took advantage of the couple’s situation to have sex with the women . Most of them couldn’t talk about what they did . They had to struggle while accepting insults and humiliation . Their reputations were always at stake .

Gu Yaosen and his wife asked Mu Yi to help . They promised him a favor in exchange . Mu Yi had hesitated, but finally accepted . He had asked Gu Yaosen to help him fix a weapon and he had accepted .

Mu Yi used the weapon as an excuse, but it wasn’t as if such people were easy to find . If Gu Yaosen could find someone to help him fix a weapon, Mu Yi wouldn’t mind helping him find the fertility sorcerer .

Mu Yi wanted to save Su Jinlun first though . Qi Da took Mu Yi to the base of Little Frost Mountain . Qi Da told him that Qiu Yuetong’s father had founded Little Frost’s fortified village . In the beginning, governmental authorities had surrounded the fortified village a few times . Once the old man died they had stopped .

The old brigand chief wasn’t wild and unreasonable . He hadn’t offended anyone while he was leading . After the war, many people had seized places and made themselves the leader . It was normal and nobody could do anything about it .

The two groups from the Forbidden City were terrified and ran away . The Qing Dynasty was on the verge of collapse at that time . The end of the dynasty caused a state of great confusion everywhere in the country even the old Taoist Priest was affected .

Li Hu was a kid under the old brigand chief . He had saved him, recruited him, and treated him as his own child . None of that meant that he intended to make him the leader of the fortified village .

He hadn’t thought that the most indifferent woman of the clan would defeat him and all the other men of the clan . She was a great martial artist . The old man started to see her value .

Half a year later, the old man passed away . The circumstances of his death weren’t clear but before he died, he handed the commandment of the clan over to his daughter . He also made Li Hu the second chief .

Nobody knew why he had done that . Qiu Yuetong quickly took up her role after her father’s death . Li Hu wasn’t happy about the situation . He didn’t want to be controlled by a woman .

Per Qi Da, the second chief Li Hu asked Qiu Yuetong to marry him . Many elders of the clan were happy . They also didn’t like having a female chief . Plus, Li Hu was the old man’s adopted son . The best thing that could happen for him and the clan was for him to marry Qiu Yuetong . They would both be able to support their comrades this way .

Qiu Yuetong had a request before she would accept . Li Hu would have to give her one million liang of silver, she’d accept the proposal and marry him . She would even let him lead the clan . Many years had passed since the clan’s establishment . They didn’t lack food and clothes . They didn’t have any surplus, but at most they had a hundred thousand liang of silver .

Little Frost’s fortified village didn’t earn money by buying and selling things . They mostly earned money by making people pay a toll for using the roads around them . They all understood what it meant to drain the pond to get all the fish . It was impossible to rely on toll fees to obtain a million liang of silver .

Nobody thought Li Hu could satisfy the request . Many people thought that Qiu Yuetong was making things difficult for Li Hu because she knew he wouldn’t be able to acquire such a sum .

Li Hu had been very discreet in the following days . Sometimes people had seen him with people who weren’t from the village . They assumed they were there to help him . Some people even said he was soon going to become the first brigand chief .

He couldn’t become the brigand chief by force . His only option was to obtain a million liang of silver . The news that seven wealthy families were robbed spread soon after and then everything came to light .

Gu Yaosen knew from the beginning who had done it . He kept pretending he didn’t because he wanted Xie Miao to take care of the case . What his goal was, even he wasn’t sure .

If the situation hadn’t gotten stranger after that, he wouldn’t have even needed Mu Yi’s help . In the end he had no choice, otherwise, they would have never understood the rest of the case . Things had happened differently than he expected . Many investigators from the yamen were killed .

Other people would have broken under the pressure . When Mu Yi found out about everything he didn’t mind at all, actually, and couldn’t help but admire him . He was curious about Little Frost’s fortified village and Chief Qiu anyway .

Some good news had spread in the city . The two chiefs of Little Frost’s fortified village weren’t close . Mu Yi had less pressure since they weren’t .

He had only managed to make one five thunders charm by the time morning came, even though he had made many charms . He had more evil spirit slaying charms though . They would be enough against ordinary people .

Little Frost’s fortified village wouldn’t care about what they would need to do to deal with him . Mu Yi also had the Ghost King Banner with Nian Nuer inside though . He just needed to wait until it got dark and then he would go up the mountain to save Su Jinlun .