C12 The Scheme of the Master and Disciple

In front of the execution platform, everyone was still watching the fire. From time to time, they would point at Qingwei, who had been replaced in the fire.

The blue-robed aunt said, "Is she dead? Why is there no sound? She was screaming so miserably just now."

The grey-robed uncle said, "She's a demon. Look at her age, she shouldn't be able to withstand the fire. She looks like a fish spirit, so she can't withstand the fire."

Yuli looked at the bonfire in front of him that still had no intention of extinguishing. Before he came here, he had already thought that Yun Yan would not sit idly by. After they left the country government, Yun Yan had disappeared. When Yuli was casting the spell, he had changed it to a simple spell.

Actually, he didn't want to see Qingwei being punished by everyone. After all, this matter was not easy to explain. He had no choice but to give everyone an explanation, so he made up a play that no one could not believe. The more realistic the act, the more people would believe it. From now on, the haze of the Headless Corpse Case would slowly dissipate with time.

The fire was finally gradually extinguished under everyone's gaze. Yuli slowly walked forward and turned the fire into a small piece of wood. He changed it into the size of a fish eye and showed it in front of everyone, "Fellow villagers, now that the fish spirit has been eliminated, you can rest assured."

Everyone looked at the thing that was burned into the size of a fish eye and pointed at it.

The grey-robed uncle exclaimed, "I heard that demons have inner cores. Could this be the inner core of a demon?"

Yuli smiled and did not answer. He thought, "If the demon's inner core was so easily revealed in front of mortals, then their hundreds of years of cultivation wouldn't have been for nothing."

Yuli turned around and said to the country government, "I took this inner core, and I believe that you are not willing to stay by my side, right?"

The lord of the country government was about to say something, but after hearing Yuli's words, he could only shut his mouth and nodded, "Master, you are so powerful. This … Uh, we don't need it. Just take it."

Yuli cupped his hands towards the lord of the country government and bowed. Then, he passed through the crowd and left the bustling city.

The matter had finally been resolved. The guilty Yun Yan was currently busy preparing lunch in the kitchen. When he saw Yuli return, Yun Yan quickly ran out and shouted, "Master, the food will be ready soon. You must be tired. Have a rest first."

As he spoke, Yun Yan took Yuli's favorite teacup and poured a cup of hot tea for him. Yuli was about to say something when Yun Yan suddenly thought of something and patted his head, "Aiya, it's bad. The dishes are still in the pot."

The corner of Yuli's mouth raised into a smile. He was looking forward to Yun Yan's performance in front of him today. The usually quick-witted Yun Yan had cooked a few dishes for the entire morning. Yuli's stomach was already growling from hunger, and Yun Yan had only finished the last dish and walked out of the kitchen.

Yuli pretended to be strict and said, "She left?"

Yun Yan bit her chopsticks and was thinking about how to explain everything to her master in detail when she suddenly asked, "Oh, she left."

Yuli said, "You're really bold, you dare to save the criminal in front of everyone."

Yun Yan smiled and said coquettishly, "Master, it's not her fault at all. Why do you want her to bear such a result alone? Besides, didn't you say that saving a life is better than building a seven-storied pagoda? If I save her today, wouldn't I have accumulated a lot of merits?"

Yuli said again, "Aren't you afraid that your magic won't work anymore, or that you can't even undo my magic and can't save her?"

Yun Yan continued to laugh and said, "Didn't I save her? It can be seen that Master's original intention was to save her too. I was just following Master's instructions."

Yuli bent her finger and knocked on Yun Yan's head, "You're the clever one."

Yun Yan held the chopsticks in his hand and said with a flattering smile, "Master, if I didn't do anything today, you would have saved Qingwei, right?"

Yuli pretended to be calm as she picked up a piece of vegetarian dish and placed it in her mouth. She slowly chewed and then nodded and said, "Mmm, the taste of the dish is not bad."

Yun Yan said again, "Master, don't you think so?"

Yuli picked up another piece of tofu and placed it in her mouth, "Mmm, Qiyue doesn't seem to have appeared for some time. I wonder what he's been doing recently."

Seeing that her master purposely changed the topic and no longer mentioned Qingwei, Yun Yan could only lower her head and dig into the rice in the bowl.

However, she heard a sound from the door of the small courtyard, followed by the sound of light footsteps, "Yo, it's been a few days since we last met, why do you miss me?"

The person who came was Qiyue in red. No matter when he appeared, he always gave people a feeling of urgency. The red clothes were especially dazzling under the sunlight. Qiyue sat beside Yun Yan and looked at the dishes on the table. He shook his head and said, "Why, you guys have changed to vegetarian today. Tofu, vegetables, cabbage, potatoes …"

Yun Yan glanced at Qiyue, picked up the bowl, turned around and continued to dig into the rice.

Qiyue smiled and said, "Yo, what's wrong? I just said that you are making vegetarian dishes today, how did I offend you?"

Yun Yan slammed the bowl onto the table and said coldly, "Master, I'm done eating." Then he turned around and left.

Yuli slowly picked up the dishes on the plate and slowly chewed them. Qiyue smiled as she walked to the kitchen and took another set of chopsticks. She sat down and ate with Yuli.

"What happened to her?" Qiyue asked.

Yuli smiled and replied, "She was holding something in her heart and was just worrying about how to vent it out. It just so happened that you came."

Qiyue asked in puzzlement, "What happened?"

Yuli sighed, put down the chopsticks, and told Qiyue everything that had happened recently. Qiyue ate while listening to the story.

Only then did he know why Yuli, who had always been a vegetarian, had started to eat all the vegetarian dishes. "So that's the reason. So you don't even eat meat for a small koi?"

Yuli nodded and said, "Yan felt that the small koi was her friend. It was indeed inappropriate to eat her friend's family."

Qiyue continued, "Then, will you eat vegetarian with her in the future?"

Yuli had a worried look on her face. She picked up her chopsticks and picked up a few more times on the plate. "My sweet and sour fish, my steamed fish, my boiled fish … I probably won't be able to see them for a long time."

Seeing Yuli's worried face, Qiyue laughed out loud. "I thought you had made up your mind just like her. Seeing how serious you were just now, it really gave me a scare. In the end, you were just pretending in front of the skylark."

Yuli said, "That small koi has just left. Yan is indeed a little lonely here. To be able to meet a girl who is about the same age as her, she must have treated that small koi as a friend."

Then, Yuli looked at Yun Yan, who was making a lot of noise in the kitchen, and said, "If you have nothing to do recently, you can stay here for a few days. With so many people around, she won't have time to think about those unhappy things."

Qiyue thought for a moment and nodded. "That's good."