Chapter Forty-Four: The Red Lady

  Su Tang returned to Miao Dao Pavilion and asked Mo Xiaobai to sort out all the materials related to the Cheng family. The Cheng family had a very high status in Changshan County, with great strength, he didn't think it was easy to push down the Cheng family, without grasping enough information, any decision would be child's play.

  Mo Xiaobai was very clever, as soon as he heard that Su Tang wanted the Cheng family's information, he vaguely understood Su Tang's intentions. He put the information on his desk and turned to leave, but his face showed a worried expression, wanting to say something, but still holding back.

  Su Tang slowly flipped through it, he wanted to understand the relationship between Cheng's family and Tie's family, Bai's family, Mu's family, as well as the personality, ability, habits and so on of each member of Cheng's family. The amount of information was very large.

  In the evening, Mo Xiaobai pushed open the door again and hastily said: "Sir, something has happened at the Cheng's place!"

  "What's going on?" Su Tang raised his head.

  "The Red Lady from Beijing arrived in Changshan County for a tour, and this afternoon she moved into the Cheng family home. The master of the Cheng family has decided to host a banquet two days later, and invitations have been widely sent out; we also received two invitation cards."

  "Red Lady?" Su Tang was taken aback, he had never heard of this person.

  "The Red Lady is from the Xia family of Upper Jing, which was once on par with the Xue family many years ago and was known as the 'Eastern Xue and Western Xia'. However, the Xia family's fortunes have declined over the years, with each generation being weaker than the last. The current head of the family, Xia Jinchang, has been cultivating for decades but still hasn't become a Grandmaster, it seems like the ancestral bloodline has been severed.

  People in Upper Jing often mock the Xia family, saying that after the disaster at the capital gates, they were taken over by others and now the people of the Xia family are not even the descendants of their original ancestors."

  Mo Xiaobai said: "Although the Xia family is almost a laughing stock in Upper Jing, a dead camel is still bigger than a horse. For our Changshan County, we absolutely cannot be careless. Sir, here is the information on that Red Lady."

  "You found the information so quickly?"

  "Sir, you have no idea how famous she is." Mo Xiaobai said with a smile.

  "Bring it over and let me take a look." Su Tang said.

  Su Tang flipped through a few pages and couldn't help but laugh out loud. Mo Xiaobai was right, that red madam was indeed too notorious, and the notoriety wasn't good either. She had a eccentric personality, did things her own way, and had done many things that made people want to hit her on the back of the head.

  According to the records, Hong Fu Ren's original name was Xia Hong Bing. In her maiden days, she was a refined and elegant lady with a gentle and delicate personality, good at understanding people's intentions, and extremely beautiful in appearance. However, her innate talent for cultivation was extremely poor. The Xia family spent astronomical resources on her, but the effect was astonishingly disappointing, and she only became a mid-tier warrior.

  Due to a coincidence, Xia Hongbing met the third young master of the Qi family. This third young master was an extraordinary person, extremely intelligent, knowledgeable, and eloquent, with excellent interpersonal skills. In the capital city, all the wealthy young men looked down on others, but they all considered the third young master of the Qi family as a close friend. However, the third young master of the Qi family also had his own weakness, which was even more miserable than Xia Hongbing's - he was completely unable to cultivate.

  The demeanor of the third young master of the Qi family moved Xia Hongbing's heart, perhaps due to their shared circumstances or perhaps she was truly enchanted. After just one meeting, Xia Hongbing had already made a vow to marry no one but him. Unfortunately, the third young master of the Qi family already had a fiancée and was about to get married soon.

  Xia Hongbing returned home and knelt down in front of the host, crying and begging, but Xia Jinchang looked down on the Qi family. The Qi family was just a small clan, not worthy of their social status, and besides, the third young master of the Qi family was unable to cultivate his abilities and was a waste. Xia Jinchang would never let his own granddaughter, Mingzhu, marry into such a family.

  However, Xia Hongbing had made up his mind and even attempted to take his own life several times. At the same time, Qi's third young master's fiancée was killed in a conflict with some wandering warriors on the street. Summer family head Xia Jinchang pitied his granddaughter and saw that Xia Hongbing's heart was determined. After hearing about the death of Qi's third young master's fiancée, the last obstacle had also been cleared, so he reluctantly agreed.

  The Qi family was overjoyed, seeing this as a great opportunity to rise up. The third young master of the Qi family was heartbroken for a while, but eventually couldn't resist his parents and brothers' repeated persuasion, so he silently accepted the family's arrangement.

  On the day of the wedding, Qi Jia San Shao Ye started out normally, but later on, for some unknown reason, he suddenly flipped out and slapped Xia Hong Bing twice in front of everyone. It turned out that Xia Hong Bing had ordered those wandering warriors to kill his fiancée.

  The wedding ceremony was interrupted and afterwards, the third young master of the Qi family left home and disappeared without a trace. Xia Hongbing, who had fainted on the spot, was carried back home and later became a woman who could be married by anyone, with an extreme personality, sometimes even inviting several strong men to have fun together. With the scandal at the wedding, Xia Hongbing had become the representative of shamelessness and debauchery in the entire city of Shangjing.

  But Xia Hongbing's most perverted place is that she can't bear to see others showing affection in front of her, whether it's by using beauty to seduce, money to buy, or violence to threaten, and who knows how many couples and lovers have been torn apart.

  After reading the materials, Su Tang had to dispel his thoughts. A woman with such unstable and abnormal emotions was unpredictable. As long as she was in Changshan County, there was no way to move against the Cheng family, otherwise it would bring disaster to Miao Dao Pavilion.

  Mo Xiaobai had been waiting by the side and saw Su Tang finish reading, then said: "Sir, how to deal with the things found in Zhao's house?"

  "What is it?" Su Tang asked.

  "There are three spiritual instruments and over a dozen martial manuals. Zhao Liangdang is just a low-ranking warrior, I don't understand why he would collect so many martial manuals... Zhao Baocheng really has placed the hopes of the Zhongxing family on that idiot's shoulders?" Mo Xiaobai said: "The rest are just some gold and silver jewelry, I reckon sir won't be interested. Oh right, the Zhao family's assets have also been transferred to our Miao Dao Pavilion, Zhao Liangdang has already signed the deed."

  "How was it handled before?"

  "Most of them were sold at auction." Mo Xiaobai said: "Master Da... oh no, Wen Ping and several others who made offerings have their own spiritual instruments and martial arts techniques, what's the use of those useless ones?"

  "Bring it here and let me see." Su Tang said.

  "Alright, sir."

  It wasn't long before Mo Xiaobai walked back, placing two long swords and a set of pale blue soft armor on the table. He then took out over ten books of varying sizes.

  Su Tang picked up a long sword, he had fully merged with other consciousness, so his mind would no longer give any hints about whether to refine or not, if he wanted to refine, as long as the thought was born, the program would start.

  Moreover, he could clearly sense the quality of the spiritual instruments. The two swords were not very good and were far inferior to Ye Kuang's. Of course, if he had already opened his third spiritual aperture, he would definitely refine one. Anyway, leaving it empty was also a waste.

  "Sword, take it away. Leave the soft armor for me." Su Tang said, the soft armor gave him a good feeling, prepare first, when to open the third spiritual orifice, can immediately refine.