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Chapter 46.1

“You’ve seen too few people.” Priestess Jing Yuan’s tone was cold. “If you do not have a killing order, then leave. When you want to kill someone, do it according to the old rules, write the name, time, and place, put it in the lantern candlestick, and hang it up.”

“Liu Ze, the owner of the Zhaofu Restaurant on Xiping Street, and his wife, Zhao Jiahua.” Young Master Min handed over a piece of paper with a map of the Liu Residence and the Zhaofu Restaurant with the names of Liu Ze and Zhao Jiahua as well as their physical features.

Priestess Jing Yuan took the paper, opened it, and after looking at it, she asked, “When?”

“Three days later. Do it on the night of the eighteenth. I will make sure they stay in the house.”

“Okay.” Priestess Jing Yuan was steadfast, not asking about the relationship between these two and Young Master Min, not asking about the reason for killing them, and not even asking about the price. She folded the paper, put it in her sleeve, and asked, “Is there more?”

“No more.” Young Master Min pursed his lips. Two is still not enough, or what?

“Then you should go. After this matter is complete, I will put up the lantern.” After saying this, Priestess Jing Yuan carried a bucket of water and turned to leave.

“Wait, I still have something to ask you.”

“I only care about killing people. I don’t talk to them.” Priestess Jing Yuan had already walked to the door.

Young Master Min shouted behind her, “Just one question.”

Priestess Jing Yuan stopped and turned around to look at him.

“Last time when you went out to divine fortunes for people, you were to ask about someone in passing. A twelve or thirteen years old girl, beautiful, surnamed An, from Zhonglan City, have you ever seen her?”

“No.”

“No one has talked about her? She left home on the 15th of October. Has anyone mentioned seeing her after that date?”

“No.”

Young Master Min frowned and was about to say something else, but Priestess Jing Yuan said coldly: “It is already three questions. No.” After saying this, she turned around and went back to the temple.

Young Master Min watched her disappear behind the door and listened to the sound of a latch being dropped. After some time, he turned his head and looked at the date tree again. His face turned cold. After contemplating for a moment, he lifted his feet and went down the hill.

Priestess Jing Yuan entered the temple, latched the door, put the bucket down, cleaned her hands at the well in the backyard, and then went back behind the door without a sound. She listened sideways for a while, then pulled the latch to open the door and went out to have a look. There was no one outside.

Priestess Jing Yuan returned to the backyard without hurry, bolted the door, and then came to a small side yard door sandwiched between the backyard and the front yard. This small yard stored miscellaneous items and had a lock on the door. Priestess Jing Yuan unlocked it and went in.

There was a small table in the yard with a plate of winter dates placed on it. A 12- or 13-year-old girl with a beautiful face was nibbling on the dates, and when she heard the movement, she turned her head to look and smiled happily, calling sweetly, “Priestess.”

Meanwhile, when An Ruochen sat in her room, she suddenly thought of her fourth sister. She remembered the last time she and An Ruofang met, when An Ruofang told her that she would return to get her after she grew up.

An Ruochen covered her eyes to suppress the tears. She was thinking about Zhao Jiahua. How could she think of her fourth sister? Perhaps it was the memory of Liu Yin’s poor appearance standing alone and abandoned by the roadside, or it was the memory of Zhao Jiahua saying that although she admired her, she could not yet fully trust her. But she stressed that she should remember every word she said.

An Ruochen took out the case record and re-read it. Zhao Jiahua may not have spoken to her only. Looking at it this way, she was suddenly enlightened.

The case record stated that after Zhao Jiahua heard the maids report that her daughter had gone missing, she took her maids to search the Zhaofu Restaurant and the Jubao Gambling House, but couldn’t find anything. Then, she decided to report to the authorities.

The Jubao Gambling House?