Li Miao looked at Mei Qinghe and said calmly, "I've brought the person."
"But I won't kill him directly, treating it as a favor to you."
"You two, tell me about the grudges and grievances between you, let me hear it."
Mei Qinghe, looking at the pleading Zhao Dehua at this moment, had her thoughts completely disrupted.
To say about the grudges and grievances between Mei Qinghe and Zhao Dehua, it's actually an old story.
When Mei Qinghe was young, her family was merchants, not considered very wealthy, but they were well-off.
Fifteen years ago, when Mei Qinghe was five years old, her mother wanted to take her back to their hometown to visit relatives.
As mentioned before, traveling in ancient times wasn't as convenient as it is today, not to mention Mei Qinghe's mother, a weak woman, taking a five or six-year-old child.
So Mei Qinghe's father found the local Tiger Might Escort Agency. At that time, Zhao Dehua, who was unknown in the Tiger Might Escort Agency, took the escort mission to escort Mei Qinghe and her mother back to their hometown.
This was originally a simple task. Mei Qinghe's mother didn't bring much property, and they weren't traveling through any dangerous areas. Logically, nothing should have gone wrong.
But, misfortune is unpredictable.
At that time, there was a great bandit in the Imperial City who was being pursued by the Embroidered Uniform Guard. He fled to the Qi Lu Region and happened to meet Zhao Dehua and his party.
He took a fancy to Mei Qinghe's mother and demanded that Zhao Dehua hand her over.
Zhao Dehua was still a young man at that time, and although his Martial Arts wasn't good, he was full of enthusiasm.
Knowing he couldn't win, he still held his sword to protect Mei Qinghe and her mother, trying to delay the bandit for a while so they could leave first.
It's just that he overestimated himself.
Almost in an instant, Zhao Dehua's sword was knocked away, and his face was stepped on, filled with dirt in his mouth and nose.
The bandit toyed with him, using a sword to make small cuts on his body, dislocating and reassembling his limbs' Joints, and using acupoint techniques to squeeze his Acupoints.
He poured insects into his Ears, making him listen to the sound of the insects crawling on his Eardrums.
The young Zhao Dehua finally understood that the so-called Code of the Jianghu couldn't make him strong. In the bandit's eyes, he was just a fool who knew a little bit of Martial Arts and didn't know what was good for him.
He thought that the Chivalry he possessed was destroyed by the bandit in less than half a day.
He was afraid.
He began to beg for mercy.
He began to curse Mei Qinghe's mother for why she had asked him to escort them, why she resisted, and why she couldn't obey the bandit.
He even began to hate Mei Qinghe's mother, why she couldn't sacrifice herself and had to involve him in suffering.
He hated more and more.
The bandit told him to hold down Mei Qinghe's mother, and he did.
The bandit told him to abuse Mei Qinghe's mother together, and he did.
He began to vent this inexplicable hatred on Mei Qinghe's mother.
Until Mei Qinghe's mother died.
When everything was over, the bandit, satisfied, tossed Zhao Dehua a Claw Technique Secret Manual and turned to leave.
Everything that happened at that time was seen by Mei Qinghe, who was only five years old.
Zhao Dehua wanted to kill Mei Qinghe to Kill to Silence, to cover up everything that had happened here.
But he still had a shred of conscience at that time and couldn't bring himself to do it. He thought that a five-year-old child wouldn't survive in this wilderness, so he took all the dry rations, left Mei Qinghe alone in the mountains, and returned to the Tiger Might Escort Agency.
Mei Qinghe's father reported to the authorities, but the Tiger Might Escort Agency used their connections to suppress it. He then spent all his family's Property to find Mei Qinghe, gradually losing contact, and should have died on the road.
The bandit was later caught and killed by the Embroidered Uniform Guard.
From then on, Zhao Dehua stopped practicing swordsmanship. Relying on the Claw Technique Secret Manual given to him by the bandit, he gradually became the Beam of the Tiger Might Escort Agency.
Zhao Dehua was kind to others, polite to the People of the Jianghu, and also fair in his dealings. The Tiger Might Escort Agency also flourished under his leadership, gradually developing and growing stronger.
Zhao Dehua thought that everything was in the past. His daughter had good Aptitude and was now making some progress in her studies. In a few years, she would take over from him, and he could stay at home and enjoy his old age, and the Petty Struggles in the Jianghu would no longer have anything to do with him.
He thought that the events of fifteen years ago were over, and he thought he had forgotten Mei Qinghe's mother.
Until this moment, he saw Mei Qinghe's face clearly.
Mei Qinghe looked very much like her mother, and he recognized that face at a glance.
Zhao Dehua's face was covered in cold sweat, his hands trembled involuntarily, and his Ears were buzzing, as if there were insects crawling on his Eardrums, making a rustling sound.
That face, which had appeared countless times in his dreams with the young Zhao Dehua, questioning him, mocking him, and insulting him, finally appeared before him again.
That beautiful face was now under the moonlight, looking at him with hatred.
And the Zhao Dehua of fifteen years ago seemed to have returned to him.
Zhao Dehua fell to the ground with a thud, constantly kowtowing towards Mei Qinghe.
“Madam Mei, Madam Mei, I was wrong, I was wrong!”
“Rest in peace, rest in peace, please, rest in peace!”
“It's because my Martial Arts wasn't good, I couldn't beat him, I just didn't want to die, I had no choice!”
Mei Qinghe looked at Zhao Dehua and slowly walked towards him.
Zhao Dehua, seeing Mei Qinghe approaching, suddenly fell backward, using his Limbs to crawl backward.
“Don't! Don't come over!”
“Madam Mei, don't look for me, go find him, he forced me!”
“I also wanted to protect you, I let you go, but you were too slow! It's not my fault!”
“I didn't want to do those things to you either, but he forced me!”
Zhao Dehua crawled to the edge of the wall, with nowhere to retreat, and he began to shed tears.
“He tortured me, it hurt so much! He cut me all over, he's not human, it's his fault!”
“He put insects in my Ears, those insects crawled in my Ears!”
He slammed his head on the ground and kept digging into his Ears with his fingers.
“Come out! Come out!” as if there were still insects in his Ears.
Mei Qinghe saw that Zhao Dehua seemed to have suddenly gone mad, turned her head, and looked at Li Miao, who was standing to the side with his Arms crossed, leaning against the wall.
Li Miao, after listening to the story Mei Qinghe told and what Zhao Dehua said, had roughly figured out the source of the two people's Grudges and Grievances.
He smiled and took out a packet of medicine powder from his arms and threw it on the ground.
“I said, you can't win against him.”
“Your Martial Arts is indeed better than his. He's Second-rate, and you're barely First-rate. If you use a sword, he wouldn't last thirty rounds against you.”
“But if you go to find him tonight, the thing he prepared will be used on you.”
In the Jianghu, besides fighting on the Arena, Martial Arts is often not the final factor in determining Victory or defeat.
Traps, Incense Smoke, poison, Hidden Arrow, each one can take the life of a master.
Zhao Dehua was ambushed by Mei Qinghe Last night, how could he not be prepared tonight? He had already set up a Trap in the room, just waiting for Mei Qinghe to come to him.
He also prepared a poison to confuse the mind, intending to use it on Mei Qinghe, so that she would reveal her Foundation and why she had a Grudge with him, so he could prepare a countermeasure.
But it was used on himself by Li Miao.
Li Miao said calmly, "I'm not a knight-errant, but at least I hope the people under me have some Bottom Line."
“You are loyal to the Huashan Sect, that's good. But if it's only loyalty, I'm not very interested.”
“It just so happens that he prepared this Thing, so let him tell the truth, and I can listen to the right and wrong.”
“Now I understand almost everything.”
“How you want to take revenge, you can handle it yourself.”