Chapter 59

"Alright, Senior Sister Qin Shuang, you rest well. I'm leaving now." Bu Zheng supported Qin Shuang into her room and was about to leave, but Qin Shuang wouldn't let him go so easily.

"Bu Zheng, where were you on the second day of the second month, two months ago?" Qin Shuang asked straightforwardly.

"Second day of the second month? That was payday. It was my first time receiving my wages, so I went to the Salary Hall and the Contribution Hall..." Bu Zheng answered without hesitation, not hiding anything and even mentioning places Qin Shuang didn't want to know about.

"Payday... Did you go up the Qingyun Path that day?" Qin Shuang asked.

"Qingyun Path? Oh, you mean that chain. I went there, and there were quite a few people that day. I don't know what they were up to. I was in a hurry to get my wages, so I didn't stop to watch." Bu Zheng replied.

"..." Qin Shuang confirmed that the guy who had intruded that day was indeed Bu Zheng, but she got a speechless answer. Bu Zheng had just intruded, not knowing what he had done. What made her even more speechless was that he didn't even know the name of his movement technique.

"What's it called? I don't know. I learned it by watching my two wives fight, and then I practiced it casually. I realized I'm not cut out for it, and the more I practiced, the less it seemed like it... hehe..."

"..."

Not cut out for it? If you're not cut out for it, what about us?

"What are they called? I don't know, I never asked..."

"..."

Qin Shuang was speechless. She now almost knew Bu Zheng's entire life story from their conversation, gradually uncovering his background. She had initially suspected that Bu Zheng had other motives, like her, and tried to test him. However, Bu Zheng said whatever came to mind, making it unnecessary to test him; she could just ask directly.

From Bu Zheng's life story, it was simple and unremarkable. This made her suspect that Bu Zheng was deliberately misleading her, but it didn't seem like it. Could it be that the story about his two wives was true?

Bu Zheng's life had only one extraordinary point, but this was too extraordinary to believe. Even Qin Shuang found it impossible. How could a girl stronger than her parents appear here and become his wife? And how could he learn a lightness technique just by watching them fight once? Wasn't that just a joke?

The only possibility was that Bu Zheng was lying. Although she believed Bu Zheng wasn't lying, it could be that he didn't know it was a lie, and some circumstances led him to think this way.

In fact, Bu Zheng did lie a bit, but it wasn't really a lie. He believed it to be true, but it wasn't. Some of the things he said were colored by his own thoughts.

For example, when Bu Zheng talked about Ling Aoxue and Murong Qing, he said they agreed to marry him. In reality, they didn't agree; he just assumed their silence was consent.

This discrepancy was what Qin Shuang most suspected. Finally, there was Bu Zheng's movement technique. He said he learned it by watching, which was impossible. If watching was enough to learn, everyone would just watch others fight instead of striving to practice martial arts. Especially since what he watched was a high-level technique, even higher than what she had learned, making it even more impossible.

She guessed that Bu Zheng must have had a fortuitous encounter that allowed him to learn such a high-level technique. This encounter could have been finding a secret manual or meeting a master. Given that he couldn't read, it was more likely that a master had taught him.

The master might not want to be known, so he didn't let Bu Zheng reveal his existence, making Bu Zheng fabricate a story or using some method to make Bu Zheng believe the story.

Anyway, she didn't believe that Bu Zheng had such two wives. She would rather believe that a hermit master passed by and taught him the technique on a whim, or even something stranger. She just didn't believe what Bu Zheng said because it was too strange.

Now, she was certain of one thing: either Bu Zheng was lying about everything, or he was lying about the movement technique. She almost believed it was the latter. It was almost impossible for someone to lie about their entire life. A simple check would reveal the truth. If Bu Zheng really grew up in that small village, he couldn't have anything extraordinary.

This could be verified by asking people from his village. In the Qingyun Sword Sect, at least two people knew Bu Zheng's background: Xiuying and Bu Yunfei.

Bu Zheng had already mentioned Xiuying, his only friend. How could he not have mentioned her? As for Bu Yunfei, he hadn't mentioned him because Bu Yunfei had told him not to say he knew him in the sect.

Bu Zheng was simple-minded. Since Bu Yunfei said so, he wouldn't tell anyone, regardless of the reason. However, if Qin Shuang wanted to investigate, she would definitely find out about Bu Yunfei.

"By the way, I haven't asked you, how did you fall from up there?" Qin Shuang asked casually. She was curious, but not very interested. This was just a way to change the topic, or to end it, as she needed to rest to recover for the next day.

"I went to gather herbs. This blue amber, I was looking for it, and I found it on the mountaintop. Then I saw a blue flash and went to check. It turned out to be a blue sapphire. Finally, the ground exploded, and I fell down." Bu Zheng took out the blue amber, not hiding anything.

For Bu Zheng, his purpose was public. Besides, this thing wasn't very valuable. As long as he gathered it himself, it wasn't too valuable.

As for the blue sapphire, it was a worldly thing. Given that Senior Sister Qin Shuang came from a prestigious family, she wouldn't be interested in the blue sapphire in his hand.

"This is quite pretty." Qin Shuang looked at it, not recognizing it. It must not be very important, or she would have remembered it.

"Right, it can be used to refine good pills." Bu Zheng nodded, looking at the blue amber with anticipation, as if he could already see the successful refinement of the pill.

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