But after much deliberation, she felt that the good people were the most reliable. At least they did some well-known good deeds.
So, she took Xiaoshi and Axiu to look for famous benevolent people along the coast of Qi State.
This time she no longer pretended to be Li Cangyue, the ice and snow girl. She and Axiu dressed up as a pair of visiting sisters, and painted Azhen into a yellow bird again.
In the first city, she inquired about a good man from Qi Dashan. It is said that he donates porridge and money every year, and also helps many villagers get rich.
Yu Qingyao excitedly ran to the vicinity of Qi's house. Mr. Qi Dashan was walking on the street with two servants. He looked like a kind-hearted old man. People on the street greeted him warmly and friendlyly when they saw him.
Yu Qingyao nodded secretly, thinking that this person might be what she was looking for.
Axiu knew her friend's plan was to find someone with meritorious deeds to help her survive the catastrophe. She looked at Qi Dashan and said happily, "He looks like a good man."
Ah Zhen said frankly: "Not necessarily, maybe he is a guy with a beastly face."
Yu Qingyao smiled and said: "What you said makes sense, wait for me to try him."
She followed Mr. Qi Dashan until a small alley, but there was no one around.
Yu Qingyao leaped over and easily knocked out Qi Dashan and his servants. She quietly dragged Qi Dashan to an empty hut.
After tying him up and blindfolding him, Yu Qingyao woke him up.
Qi Dashan was terrified when he found out that he had been kidnapped.
Yu Qingyao put the sharp Qingyun sword on his neck, and said in a mournful voice: "The surname is Qi, didn't you expect it? It's been ten years, and the little girl back then came back to seek revenge on you."
When Qi Dashan heard this, he said in fear: "Are you a girl from Wang Laoer's family? Listen to me, what happened back then was not what you thought."
After hearing his words, Yu Qingyao lost interest in listening any more.
She slapped the hypocritical guy unconscious with one palm, and turned around to find the next good person.
Ah Zhen asked in surprise: "Master, why don't you keep asking?"
Yu Qingyao said uninterestedly: "If I cheat him casually, he will have someone to suspect. It can be seen that he is not a good person. What's the use of asking?"
Ah Zhen was stunned.
Axiu asked worriedly: "Then what should we do now?"
Yu Qingyao said: "Go ahead and look for it!"
She continued to search. When she heard of any good people, she went to have a look.
Some good people, Yu Qingyao can tell something is wrong at a glance, either their eyes are not right, their hearts are sinister, or they are surrounded by Kong Wu's powerful gangsters, they are not kind. Use the qi-watching technique to see that black smoke is coming out of all of them.
Even after searching for seven days, she couldn't find anyone with real merit. Yu Qingyao was discouraged, and Axiu was also very disturbed.
On the eighth day, Yu Qingyao was annoyed and let Ah Zhen eat a hypocrite.
After Ah Zhen finished eating, she said, "Master, I don't think the people you've found are good. To be honest, I think they don't do as many good deeds as you do."
Yu Qingyao was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What did you just say?"
Ah Zhen was puzzled and said, "I said you have done much more good deeds than them."
Yu Qingyao never thought that she was a good person. After hearing what A Zhen said, she also felt that it seemed to be the case. When it comes to doing good deeds, people in this world may not be able to find people who do more good deeds than her.
Thinking about it carefully, although Yu Qingyao killed a lot of people, I'm afraid I can't find any innocent people. She really didn't do anything terribly bad.
Even if she cheated someone of some property, it was forced on her. She just accepted it half-pushed and half-heartedly, and never asked anyone for it.
She has saved many people, but she can't even count them.
"Am I considered a kind person?" Yu Qingyao asked unconfidently.
Ah Zhen said: "If you don't count your witch-like thoughts, just in terms of behavior, I have never seen a kinder person than you."
Axiu said from the side: "Well, Ah Yue is a very nice person."
Yu Qingyao said unsurely: "That's the way it is said, God may not see it like you do."
Ah Zhen said: "Master, you might as well find a Taoist and ask him to look at you with the qi-watching technique."
Yu Qingyao clapped her hands and said, "Ah Zhen, you have a good idea, and it's not in vain that I let you read so many books."
Ah Zhen's face turned dark immediately, can I not mention the matter of studying? Don't you know that I hate reading the most? I am a big demon of my generation, forced to hold this collection of poems and read poems every day, it is really shameful.
Yu Qingyao found a small monastery and invited a deacon surnamed Zhou to come out.
When Deacon Zhou saw her, he asked reservedly, "What do you want?"
Yu Qingyao offered a hundred dollars, and said with a guilty conscience: "I ask you to look at me with the qi technique, and then tell me what you see?"
Deacon Zhou was very surprised. To be honest, it is rare for Taoists to look at each other with the Qi Watching technique, because it is impolite to peep at others. It is used a lot for mortals, and it is also used when meeting suspicious people to distinguish between good and evil and ghosts.
He has never heard of paying someone to use the qi-watching technique to look at his affairs.
Generally speaking, many Taoists, especially the Daoist sects, are taboo about others looking at themselves with qi-watching techniques. Usually, they will wear some concealed instruments to prevent others from peeping.
When Yu Qingyao was in Luoyi, Ji Chongde gave her two such artifacts. Later, I also got a few pieces in Chu State and Wu State. Today, she deliberately removed this magic weapon.
Deacon Zhou was a little curious, so he took the money again, and looked at her with the power of hopefulness. After seeing it, he was stunned. He had never seen a person with a thick golden light on his head.
He knew that golden light meant merit, and he couldn't imagine what this girl had done.
When he looked at Yu Qingyao again, he couldn't help showing awe in his eyes. With a dry smile, he returned the one hundred dollars to her, and said, "Miss Yu is very blessed, I admire you, you should take this money back!"
Yu Qingyao was stunned for a moment and asked, "What did you see?"
"Good merit! I don't know how much merit there is! I have never seen a person like you." Deacon Zhou said respectfully.
He didn't even dare to accept Yu Qingyao's money, thinking that for such a trivial matter, accepting money from such a person with immeasurable merit would shorten his life.
Seeing his attitude, Yu Qingyao felt that she really underestimated what she had done.
She smiled and said, "You take the money, it's what I agreed when I asked you."
Deacon Zhou refused to accept, so Yu Qingyao had no choice but to give up.
Yu Qingyao was worried, and invited two deacons from other Taoist academies, and finally she was sure that she was really a person of great merit.
Yu Qingyao decided to protect Axiu by herself, and bet on whether God would let Axiu go in her face.
When Yu Qingyao was looking for a good person on the east coast, Kong Shangjing searched all the way along Jiping Daoyuan to the valley where Deacon Yu died, and finally came to a result. At that time, Deacon Yu and others were chasing Li Cangyue who was out.
As for why Deacon Yu pursued Li Cangyue, Kong Shangjing knew it well, and was quite disdainful about it, but he couldn't say anything.
He originally wanted to call Li Cangyue to come over and ask if Deacon Yu caught up with her that day, if he said anything, and if she saw anything.
(end of this chapter)