The queen must start from the head

Chapter 91
The news of Mu Lian's return to the imperial city has been spreading for a few days.

Everyone in the imperial city knew that the only female saint in Northern Qi Kingdom had arrived in the imperial city, and she lived in the Sancai Bookstore on Shuyuan Street.

Every day, people ran to the door of the bookstore, waiting to see the appearance of the saint.Some bright-minded people even drew a lot of portraits after seeing Mu Lian's appearance, and sold them in the market, earning a lot of money.

The business of Sancai Bookstore is also booming day by day. Firstly, many people found out that there are a lot of new books in the bookstore. Everyone came to find out the novelty. Secondly, it was the news that the Prime Minister’s Mansion sent someone to invite Mu Lian to a banquet. I don’t know who passed it on. After going out, the scholars waited for the wind, naturally temporarily forgetting some of the words that the prime minister had said earlier.

In the bookstore, the front room and the backyard are separated by a formation arranged by Mu Lian, so I don't worry about anyone taking the opportunity to sneak into the backyard.The front room was crowded with people who came to read and buy books every day. He Ping and Guangming almost got cramps in their hands just from collecting money.For this reason, Mu Lian sent Zhou Jingshuang and Yue Yin to the front room to help relieve the pressure on these two people.

On this day, Mu Lian finished her training in the morning, took the land deed sent by the palace, and took Madam Rong to inspect the new sect's residence.As for the safety of the bookstore, she temporarily entrusted it to Qiu Qianxue and Master Bodhi.

In the whole bookstore, the only one who is most idle is Dahei who is nesting under the wall and basking in the sun.

Mu Lian took Madam Rong with her, and the two went out from the backyard. It didn't take long before they found their destination, the western suburbs of the imperial city.

Standing in front of a large desolate field that could not be seen at a glance, Mu Lian touched her chin curiously, "How can there be such a large piece of wasteland in this imperial city? Could it be that the people in the imperial capital are so lazy that even the land outside their houses Are they not reclaimed anymore?"

Coincidentally, an old farmer carrying a shoulder pole passed by the two of them and couldn't help laughing out loud when he heard Mu Lian talking to himself.

Mu Lian turned her head to look at him when she heard the sound, cupped her hands and said, "Dare to ask me, why are you laughing at me?"

Although the old farmer didn't know Mu Lian's status as a saint, but seeing her extraordinary bearing and an old nanny following behind her, he thought that the young woman in front of him must have a lot of background.

After putting down his shoulder pole, he said, "Girl, you are not a native of the imperial city, are you? We old imperial city people know the origin of the wasteland in the western suburbs. If you don't mind my old man's long-winded words, I will explain it to you."

Mu Lian said with a smile, "Then I'll be all ears."

"This matter started 40 years ago. At that time, this land was also a place where many people in the imperial city lived together. There were always thousands of households, and many high-ranking families lived in it. But there are One day, the daughter-in-law of a man named It hurt like a child. When his wife died, he was not at home, and when he came back, he found that she was gone. He searched everywhere for a long time, begging for help, and finally found out that his wife was entered into the house by a rogue, and then ...and then he committed suicide. Alas, it all comes down to fate!"

As the old farmer spoke, he seemed to remember his sad events, and his eyes turned red.

Mu Lian continued, "The death of the scholar's daughter-in-law has nothing to do with the fact that this place has become a barren grassland?"

"It has something to do with it," the old farmer continued, "on the night when the poor scholar found out the truth, someone saw him hacking the scoundrel to death with a knife and chopping him into pieces. Then, he took the bloody With a knife, he killed a big family in this area. No one knew why he wanted to kill that family. When he came out, the blood inside had risen to the threshold of that family. What happened after that was a bit mysterious Yes, I also heard from others."

"The scholar murdered and became red-eyed, and turned into a devil. God couldn't stand his crimes, and a fire fell from the sky to burn him to death, but the fire burned for three days and three nights. All the houses and the people and animals that did not escape were all burned. Later, people said that this land had suffered natural disasters and was unlucky, and no one wanted to live here, so the place became more and more desolate and became became what it is now.”

Fire from the sky?The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was interested. Mu Lian vaguely felt that there seemed to be some kind of secret connection between the fire here 40 years ago and the sky fire in Tianhai City.

"Then, did the scholar get burned to death?"

The old farmer shook his head, "No one knows about this. Some people say that he was burned to death, and some say that he escaped and disappeared afterwards. But..." The old farmer recalled for a while, "It seems that there are also people Said he had heard a lot of fighting in the fire. Well, it's been so long ago that I can't remember who said some of the words."

Seeing that she couldn't ask any more questions from the other party, Mu Lian thanked the other party.

At the right time, Nanny Rong took out a few pieces of silver from her sleeve and handed it to the old farmer, claiming that it was for his lost wages.The latter didn't expect that he would get such a large sum of money just by casually talking about past events that many people knew. He felt very happy and thanked Mu Lian and Nurse Rong behind her several times.Then, he picked up the pole again and wandered off to the West Market.

After the old farmer left, Mu Lian looked at the two-meter-high weeds in front of her. She turned her palm, and a holy power rose from her palm.

"Let's start, first clear this piece of land."

Royal capital Lin family.

Lin Zheng, the owner of the house, walked in the back garden of his house, admiring the large clusters of chrysanthemums that were competing to bloom.

"Patriarch, Mu Sheng is not in the bookstore today, he must be out." A young man in a moon white robe walked through the flower path, came behind Lin Zheng, and reported softly.

Lin Zheng was silent, he bent down and cut off a black chrysanthemum that was in full bloom, the faint fragrance of chrysanthemum came towards him, he squinted his eyes slightly and sniffed a few times and said, "As the saying goes, there are flowers that can be broken straight, and others Is that the case, too?"

These words seemed to be asking the person behind him, but also seemed to be talking to himself.

The young man behind him didn't dare to speak up on his own, but the hands in his sleeves couldn't help but clenched tightly.

Back then, he was the first person to receive a message from the Tianhai City Xin Falcon.Later, he learned that the letter said that an ordinary woman named Mu Lian had appeared in Tianhai City, and had made works of the master level.Can an ordinary woman become a master?At that time, many people in the government were dubious about the news.

The Patriarch sent the Second Young Master to investigate in Tianhai City, but no one knows what happened afterwards.I don't think how long it has passed, the woman who was never taken seriously in the past has suddenly turned into a high-ranking saint.When the world talks about her, they often don't call her by her name directly, but call her "Master".

"The banquet at the prime minister's mansion will be in four days. You go down and arrange it, and then send someone to invite the second son to accompany me."

"Yes, master."

In the East Garden of the Lin Mansion, Lin Jingwen, the second son of Lin Zheng, paced around the room alone after learning that his father was going to take him to the Prime Minister's Mansion for a banquet in four days.

The banquet at the prime minister's mansion was organized by Bi Ying to invite Na Mulian, so it would be normal for her family to be invited to accompany her.However, there is really a lot of enmity between his Lin family and this daughter Mu Lian.

Not counting such trivial matters as he sent someone to kill Lin Qi's family outside Tianhai City, and took away the other party's embroidery and gave it to the woman in the Embroidery Workshop. Besieging Luohuang Mountain wantonly, trying to plunder all of its sects, his Lin family was the main force at that time.At that time, someone even secretly pretended to be the name of his Lin family and bought a large number of killers to besiege the Tianxia Wushuang faction. However, it failed later, and the Lin family would probably be responsible for this.Next, in Zhennan City, Lin Tang Lin Hanlin, who was born in the Lin family, had all kinds of difficulties with Mu Lian. He wanted to cut off his future, and he didn't want a fire in the Gongyuan, but instead helped him become a saint.It was later that Lin Tang "accidentally" fell into the water and died. This matter is still unclear.Later, when the Sancai Bookstore was robbed, his Lin family also had a hand in it.

Counting Lin Jingwen's various behaviors, he really didn't know what his father was going to do by taking him to the prime minister's residence for a banquet.With Na Mulian's old style of behavior, it would be extremely difficult to persuade her to reconcile with the Lin family.

Although he didn't quite understand his father's intentions, he still wanted to go to this banquet.Before going, he should also make some preparations.

(End of this chapter)