Chapter 57: Falling into Darkness (Part II)
After Meng Yan followed Hu Mei to kill King Mu and leave the prison, they came to a brothel called "Chunxiangyuan" not far from the location of the prison, and their target at the moment was the other mastermind behind the murder who helped plot the case against King Jin.
In a pink room filled with various flowers and plants on the second floor of Chunxiangyuan, a middle-aged man with a stubble on his face is sleeping soundly on the bed with a woman in his arms. It didn't take long for him to get up in a daze and prepare to go to the latrine, at this moment, Meng Yan pushed open the door with a large knife with a silver light that he had taken away from the cell and walked into the room lightly, and then he walked slowly towards the middle-aged man who was wearing shoes and clothes by the bed.
The middle-aged man quickly noticed a shadow on the ground that was slowly approaching him, and he suddenly looked up in horror to see a masked man with a blade in his hand staring at him with a frown.
"You...... Who are you? What do you want to do? The man's eyes widened and he asked in a panicked tone, and at the same time, the female companion beside him was also awakened by his voice, and when the woman saw Meng Yan in a night robe, she was suddenly too frightened to make a sound.
"Xiahou Xu, today is the death date of your old thief, prepare to die!" Meng Yan decided not to reveal his identity as he did to King Mu, but to get rid of another villain with whom he had a blood feud as soon as possible.
However, to Meng Yan's surprise, Xiahou Xu did not sit still like King Mu and wait to be killed, but quickly pulled out the same big knife from under the table in the room and attacked Meng Yan. Seeing this, Meng Yan quickly dodged sideways, and then the two of them began to fight together in the room, and Meng Yan, who had lost all his martial arts and relied only on brute force to fight with his opponent, could hardly take advantage of Xiahou Xu.
When Xiahou Xu gradually occupied the upper spot in the hand, Hu Mei, who originally didn't want to take the lead at Meng Yan's request, suddenly broke a window and jumped into the house, and then she easily beat Xiahou Xu with two palms and fell to the ground with blood.
"It's really useless, I really don't know what the Lingquan Cave Master has taken a fancy to you!" Tiger Mei said with contempt to Meng Yan, who was half-squatting beside him in embarrassment.
"Ahem, I didn't expect your kid to have a hard idea as a helper, and I'm angry!" Xiahou Xu slowly stood up unconvinced, just when Meng Yan and Hu Mei thought that he still wanted to resist stubbornly, Xiahou Xu suddenly threw a few teacups at the two and was about to escape through the window.
Tiger Charm quickly threw a short hidden blade at Xiahou Xu, who was stepping on the edge of the window, Xiahou Xu screamed after being hit by the sword in his back and fell from the second-floor window into the grass downstairs to be uncertain, this cry also alarmed several catchers who were patrolling to the vicinity of Chunxiang Courtyard in an instant.
Meng Yan immediately took advantage of the situation to rush to the lawn downstairs to prepare to let Xiahou Xu completely lose his breath, but when he arrived, Xiahou Xu, who was lying on the lawn, had already disappeared.
Meng Yan was so angry that he slammed his fist on the ground with his fist, and at the same time, his expression became hideous and distorted because of his anger. Subsequently, he was reminded by the Tiger Charm to leave the vicinity of Chunxiangyuan with him before the catcher arrived.
When the two rode to a place some distance from Chunxiangyuan, Meng Yan was still a little excited, he refused to leave Chengdu and insisted on finding Xiahou Xu to avenge his parents. At this moment, Tiger Mei reminded Meng Yan that it was the help of the Lingquan Cave Mansion that enabled him to have such an opportunity to easily find and slash the enemy, and in the face of such kindness, he should immediately go back with him to thank the cave master. As for Xiahou Xu, Tiger Charm promised Meng Yan that since the people from the Lingquan Cave Mansion had found him for the first time, they would find him a second time sooner or later, so that Meng Yan didn't have to worry too much about being run away without a trace by him.
After a journey of more than an hour, Tiger Mei took Meng Yan, who was silent along the way, and returned to Shenyue Mountain smoothly. And after arriving at the hall of the cave mansion, Meng Yan made a move that surprised everyone present. I saw him walk in front of the Lingquan Cave Lord with a long beard with a serious expression, and then he suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to the Lingquan Cave Master.
"Hey, what does Meng Gongzi mean by this?" The Lingquan Cave Master was also shocked by Meng Yan's sudden kneeling, because in his original thoughts, facing Meng Yan, who had always had a sense of arrogance hidden in his heart, he might need more time to finally convince Meng Yan to stay in the Lingquan Cave Mansion.
"The predecessors helped me to avenge this blood sea of deep revenge, the great kindness is hard to say, if there is a need for Meng in the Lingquan Cave Mansion in the future, I will do my best to die in the future!" Meng Yan thanked the Lingquan Cave Master word by word and said.
"Oh, good, good! Meng Gongzi is really a cheerful person. It's just that the person Meng Gongzi is going to serve is not just me, but also this one. The Lingquan Cave Master said to Meng Yan with a malicious smile, and then he stretched out his hand to his right side and made a gesture of respectfully inviting someone, and the faint lights in the hall gradually reflected the cold face of Wang Xiao, the great master of the Wind Thunder Hall.
"You are?" For the current Meng Yan, Wang Xiao, who has never met him before, is just a strange face he has never seen.
"Hehe, Meng Yan, the son of King Jin, this seat is looking forward to you wanting to wear it!" The lord of Lingquan Cave respectfully greeted Wang Xiao to the throne in the hall, and Wang Xiao's eyes were fixed on Meng Yan's body throughout the whole process, "It's a rare opportunity to introduce yourself to a person you admire, this surname is Wang Mingxiao, the lord of the Fenglei Hall in Yuzhou." ”
"Wind Thunder Hall, it's you again, how long are you people going to torture me before you give up!" As soon as Meng Yan heard the three words of Wind Thunder Hall, his mood immediately became a little excited.
"Hey, Master Meng, how can you be so rude to Wang Da Boss, you must know that the news of King Mu and Xiahou Xu was sent to us by Wang Da Dang. Without his help, how could you have stabbed your enemies so easily? The Lingquan Cave Lord hurriedly defended Wang Xiao on the side.
"What? This...... What exactly do you want to play? Although Meng Yan was secretly a little surprised in his heart, he was still as wary of the people of the Wind Thunder Hall as before.
"Heh, don't worry, Meng Gongzi, I'm not the same fool named Bailichen who chased and killed you before, I just have good intentions for you." Wang Xiao said in a very gentle tone, trying to do his best to eliminate Meng Yan's inexplicable hostility towards him.
Although there was still a lot of uneasiness in his heart, Meng Yannian still forcibly suppressed the anger that was surging in his heart for the sake of Wang Xiao helping him get rid of the enemy.
"So, I dare to ask the king, what do you want from me after all your efforts to help me a lot?"
"It seems that the people of the Meng family are not all stupid talents, no wonder I like you so much to inherit my position as the head of the Wind Thunder Hall, haha!"
Although Meng Yan heard it a little foggy, he then rejected Wang Xiao's proposal very categorically. At this time, the Lingquan Cave Master stood up and reminded Meng Yan of what he had said when he knelt down before, and told Meng Yan that serving the Wind Thunder Hall was serving the Lingquan Cave Mansion.
Recalling the promise he had made before, Meng Yan felt extremely embarrassed at this time. But for him, who has always attached great importance to commitments, after experiencing extreme inner struggle, he still gritted his teeth and told Wang Xiao that he was willing to play for Fengleitang in the future.
"Haha, okay, I've been waiting for this day for a long time, come, Brother Meng, please get up!" Wang Xiao happily walked down the steps and helped Meng Yan, who was half-kneeling on the ground.
"It just so happens that I have a small matter here to bother Brother Meng to run for me, after all, except for Brother Meng, I don't feel at ease that others will do this for me!" After Wang Xiao finished speaking, he beckoned a subordinate behind him, and then the subordinate escorted a crying young girl to Wang Xiao's side.
"Brother Meng, I wonder if I can send you to the Qingbo Teahouse at the foot of Shenyue Mountain? According to my subordinates, her family is waiting for her there, and I can't bear to let a little girl suffer with us men! Wang Xiao's expression suddenly became a little kind.
Although it was obvious in his mind that the truth would never be as simple as Wang Xiao said, Meng Yan reluctantly did not raise any objections to this, and soon he reluctantly obeyed Wang Xiao's arrangement to take the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl down the mountain. Along the way, Meng Yan tried to ask something from the little girl's mouth, but no matter how he asked, the little girl just wouldn't speak, or she couldn't speak.
Meng Yan followed the instructions of passers-by and circled around to find the Qingbo Teahouse hidden in a dense forest, which was inaccessible, a dirt and stone path was overgrown with weeds, and even the teahouse's signboard was crumbling in the wind.
Meng Yan walked in with the girls, and the proprietress who received them mysteriously took them into the inner room as soon as she heard that they were from the Lingquan Cave Mansion, and at this time, a middle-aged man in the inner room also got up and walked in front of them.
The two claimed to be the little girl's parents, and with a very unfriendly attitude, they asked Meng Yan to leave the teahouse immediately. Meng Yan, who had no choice but to walk out of the teahouse, felt that something was wrong the more he thought about it, he guessed that Fengleitang was still secretly selling girls, and the various strange expressions of the middle-aged men and women in the teahouse also made him feel more and more numb in his scalp the more he thought about it.
Originally, the huge curiosity made Meng Yan want to secretly observe the situation of this teahouse, but in order to avoid making Wang Xiao suspicious, Meng Yan decided to go back to the Lingquan Cave Mansion to report to Wang Xiao for the time being, and then find an opportunity to come to find out the truth here.
When Meng Yan quickly returned to the entrance of the Lingquan Cave Mansion with a nervous mood, he found that there was not even a single figure in the cave at this moment. It wasn't long before he wandered alone in the cave as if he had unknowingly inhaled some mysterious gas, and soon he fell to the ground groggily after his eyes blurred.
When Meng Yan opened his eyes again, he found himself lying naked on a huge stone bed, and at the same time, a trace of pain came from the part of his lower body. He struggled to get up and look, and found that his lower body was covered with a white cloth, and there was a large pool of blood on the white cloth.
"As I promised you, you can now pursue the heart of the person you love without any worries." Wang Xiao said loudly to Meng Yan, who had not yet figured out the situation in the house, through the wooden door of the stone room.
"So, can there really be such a wonderful magic in this world that can allow me to reshape my human body?" Ignoring the faint tingling sensation that remained in his lower body, Meng Yan was a little overjoyed and vigorously lifted the white cloth and looked up, and then he lay on the bed because of the extreme excitement and excitement at the moment, and couldn't stop crying, and tears instantly soaked the pillow towel in his ears. This is the ultimate catharsis after suffering and humiliation, and it is also the extreme joy and joy that a miracle happened to you.
Just as Wang Xiao heard Meng Yan's intermittent cry from the house and sighed lightly and was about to leave, Meng Yan said in a voice that only Wang Xiao could hear: "The kindness of the predecessors today is like a reinvention for Meng, and the predecessors will not give up, and Meng Yan is willing to serve the seniors in the future...... Dogs and horses work, no complaints. ”