Chapter 75
Although they had just arrived, it wasn’t difficult for them to inquire about an event witnessed by hundreds of people, which, in a sense, had no confidentiality. Li Fufeng and his two companions quickly learned the details of the incident.
About ten days ago, the Xu family’s merchant association in the city reported that their young lady had left a note and run away, her whereabouts unknown.
This young lady, who had some martial arts skills, was dissatisfied with the arranged marriage her family had set for her. Taking advantage of her elders’ absence on a business trip, she sent away the servants and secretly slipped out of the house, leaving the city. By the time the city lord’s people discovered this, she had already left the city.
Less than a day after she left the city, the young lady who had departed with her head held high returned looking disheveled – her bundle was lost, and her clothes were covered in blood stains.
As soon as she arrived, the young lady frantically explained the reason for her disheveled state. “I… I killed someone!” she cried out, grabbing a random passerby, her voice filled with panic, fear, terror, and confusion.
It must be said that the scene shocked quite a few people at the time, and even made it to the news section of the “Martial Arts Gazette – Daliang City Edition.”
Although this was a world where martial arts were widespread, the existence of the Twelve Cities meant that this world still operated according to a set of rules, and one couldn’t just kill people at will. Upon hearing the news, the city lord immediately sent people to follow the still-shaken young lady out of the city.
Then, they found three people lying in the woods.
Two of them, a man and a woman, seemed to be just asleep, breathing normally. The other person looked much worse, covered in blood, their face swollen beyond recognition. Even covered in blood, the golden hair was still eye-catching to everyone.