Chapter 18

There's a saying, "Good or bad, it's all you." Of course, if you want to be more profound and meaningful, it would be "Success and failure, both are due to Xiao He." This is very true, and it's exactly what Wu Fan wants to say to his own child bride. Because he touched her large chest, Wu Fan had the luck to draw a fierce general, Hu Che'er, worth 330,000 evil points in the system. But also because of her ferocity, she scared him away!

Even now, Wu Fan still can't quite react, how to describe it... It's like a Husky stupidly waiting for the pot to be opened for dinner, suddenly a little wild cat comes out, and the Husky is beaten up and howling, running away from home! That's the situation, more or less.

The position of a hundred-household leader that was almost in his hands is gone, the free top-notch bodyguard is nowhere to be found, and he still has the knife wound left by Guo Ye from dawn. Under the scorching sun, he must pretend to be mighty and patrol the streets. Anyone would find it unbearable! But this is the Eagle-Soaring Guard, this is the duty of the Eagle-Soaring Guard, the "patrol" in "guarding, patrolling, and capturing." You have to do it whether you want to or not.

Sighing deeply, Wu Fan raised his Fan Yang hat a bit higher, gazing at the bustling market that stretched as far as the eye could see, his expression gloomy.

Grinning and grimacing, Wu Fan turned his head to take a break, entered a cool tea shop, ordered a bowl of cool tea, and prepared to rest for a while.

The cool tea, made from licorice, jujubes, maltose, and other ingredients, was brownish-red in color, with a sweet and bitter taste, very suitable for cooling down and relieving heat. Wu Fan drank half a bowl in one go, pulled at the collar of his Eagle-Soaring uniform, took a long breath, and closed his eyes in comfort, sighing in relief. Then, a sentence from the next table made him... completely chilled.

"You really are quite at leisure!"

A very familiar voice came from behind Wu Fan.

Wu Fan swallowed hard, his neck stiff like a wooden joint, almost making a creaking sound as he turned his head to look back.

"From now on, don't call me Holy Maiden, call me... call me Yu Xiang, the rain in 'rain.'"

When Wu Fan finally turned his head completely, he indeed saw the scar-faced Holy Maiden dressed as a man! His pale face twisted for a long time, and he sighed to the sky!

"What's the rhythm? Didn't we agree to meet once a month?"

Lowering his voice, Wu Fan showed a very agitated look and said, "Are you crazy! Don't you see where we are? This is Luoyang! The Eastern Capital of the Empire! Not Southern Liang! You can't do whatever you want!"

The scar-faced Holy Maiden, or Yu Xiang, slowly sipped the cool tea and said, "Eastern Capital? Maybe it will soon be the Imperial Capital!"

"What?"

Wu Fan didn't hear clearly and couldn't help but ask.

Yu Xiang shook her head and said, "Nothing, I just want you to investigate something..."

Wu Fan interrupted her, speaking hurriedly, "Didn't we agree to meet once a month to exchange the antidote and information? What do you mean by this? If you keep doing this, I'll be used up and finished, right? Rather than that, I'd rather take you down with me! Anyway, I'm just a lowly life, not as noble as you, the Holy Maiden!"

The more he spoke, the more agitated Wu Fan became, his face looking very fierce. He had no choice; he had to warn her and show some strength, otherwise, she would really treat him like her piggy bank, taking whatever she wanted.

Yu Xiang stared into Wu Fan's eyes for a long time and found them filled with ferocity. She then said calmly, "This time is different, just this once. After that, we'll continue according to our agreement."

"Really? If there's a first time, there will probably be a second, right?"

Wu Fan kept some thoughts to himself but understood that he must find a way to get information from her about what poison he was given, then detoxify through the system, and finally eliminate her and her group. Otherwise, his life would be entangled with these Maitreya Sect devils forever!

Taking a deep breath, Wu Fan said impatiently, as if resigning himself to his fate, "Speak then! What is it?"

Yu Xiang pondered for a moment and said, "Three days from now, a big figure will come from Chang'an to Luoyang. According to his status, your Eagle-Soaring Guard will probably revolve around him. I want you to gather information about him, anything, the more detailed the better."

Wu Fan rolled his eyes and licked his lips, saying, "A person you call a big figure must not be simple. Asking me to do this... ha ha! If one day I can detoxify, I'll definitely kill all of you, especially you! You must be the first to go!"

Yu Xiang smiled and said, "You won't be able to detoxify, because this poison is...," she suddenly stopped and looked at Wu Fan's eyes filled with hidden hope, saying, "I won't tell you! Hehehehe~~~ Want to compete with me? Learn more! Remember! That person will arrive in three days, and you will definitely be assigned to him. Then... every day at this time, come and see me."

She casually threw a few copper coins and was about to leave.

"Wait!"

Wu Fan suddenly called her softly, rubbing his hands, his face full of flattery, as if hinting at something, far from the look of wanting to eat her earlier.

Yu Xiang was silent for a long time, slowly counting out six large coins from her money bag, painfully handing them to Wu Fan, and said, "Spend it wisely!"

Wu Fan: "...", can you have a bit of the awareness of a villain? There are great benefits!

Seeing Wu Fan's unsatisfied look, Yu Xiang decided to ignore it, quickly put away her money bag, put on her Fan Yang hat, and disappeared from Wu Fan's sight in a blink.

"Ah—!"

"In this world, there's actually a woman more stingy than Tong Rui!"

Another long sigh, Wu Fan drank the cool tea in the bowl in one go, jingled the six copper coins in his hand, threw them on the table, and continued his patrol.

But Wu Fan's leisure didn't last long. The head of the hundred-household office, Qian Rui, ran over with a complex expression to inform Wu Fan to gather his team and return to the hundred-household office immediately.

Qian Rui's complex expression had two reasons: one was because Wu Fan killed Guo Ye, and the other was... the new hundred-household leader wasn't him!

"Who?"

Walking quickly with Qian Rui, Wu Fan couldn't help but exclaim when he heard the name Qian Rui mentioned.

Qian Rui sighed deeply and repeated what he had just said to Wu Fan, "The new hundred-household leader appointed by the commander is Zhong Xiu."

Wu Fan instantly frowned and said, "That scoundrel isn't a hundred-household leader in another office? What's going on?"

"Because of you!" Qian Rui glanced at Wu Fan, with many complaints in his heart but said, "Who knows! Sigh! Hurry up! That guy has a bad temper!"

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