Chapter 65: Murder
In addition to being surprised, hope ignited in Duan Hongzhu's eyes.
"Boldness is boldness, but it is not impossible...... "In her heart, a voice shouted.
All along, they didn't think about resisting, but they had seen the miserable death of the gang after the ban was launched, and they were frightened.
Lou Xue was still playing haha round, but Ding Ruoyu's face was calm, not like casual nonsense at all.
She brushed off the shackles on the feet of the red candle and said, "Zhu Gan's broken foot also needs to be continued by my uncle's hand." ”
"Little apprentice, don't you know that walking in the rivers and lakes is the most taboo to meddle in the affairs of other gangs?" Lou Xue dragged her to the door.
"But we have to be involved in these things." Ding Ruoyu stared at her without dodging and said, "Even if we don't care about anything, as long as Lu Xianda is with us, even if we return to Yanguo, they won't stop there." ”
After so many years, didn't the Yellow Cliff Gang still send Zhu Gan, Duan Hongzhu and others to find them? When Lou Xue thought about it, she suddenly felt that there was no need to persuade her.
The two returned to the house, pulled a red candle and sat down cross-legged around the square table, and Ding Ruoyu refilled the tea for them: "I don't have much experience in the rivers and lakes, I only know how to kill." When your ban is lifted, if you can use me, just say it in advance. ”
After talking for a while, they came to Zhu Gan and Lu Xianda's room and whispered their plans. Zhu Gan's feet can't move, like fish on the case, even if he doesn't agree, there is little room for resistance. What's more, he has always looked forward to a red candle.
It was Lu Xianda, who stared at him strangely, rubbing his sparse beard and was silent for a long time. Just when the remaining four thought that he had made another mistake in his strange temper, he muttered, "Helper...... You can hurt him, but don't kill him......"
Lou Xue was so angry that she slapped the table and interrupted him: "You don't look at what you have become by him, and you are still thinking about interceding for him?" ”
"No, it's not...... Big girl, what are you fierce? Lu Xianda jumped up from the ground, took a few steps back and leaned against the side of the bed, "I mean spare his life, so that he can be drugged into a puppet...... The puppets transformed by such masters can be met but not sought. ”
It turned out that it was this idea, and Lou Xue breathed a long sigh of relief.
Several people hired a carriage again, still Lao Lu, Zhu Gan and Mrs. Lu sat in the car, and the three women followed behind on horseback, returning all the way in the direction they came, and in a few days they left the snow-covered north and came to the city south of Yuguo.
Ding Ruoyu found that with such a big country, there is no place that is not cold. As early as in the north, Lou Xue found that she was afraid of the cold, so she also drove her to the car, but she didn't expect that in the south, the temperature did not rise much, and the ground should be frozen or there was thick ice everywhere, and she slipped and fell if she didn't pay attention.
They came to a small city to rest, saying that it would not be long before they would enter the country of Yan. The carriage stopped on the side of the road, Ding Ruoyu got out of the car and looked, it was really a coincidence, they came to the inn of the cattle shopkeeper who had fought with each other before.
The difference is that at this moment the two sides have shaken hands and made peace, and they have become allies.
Duan Hongzhu helped Zhu Qian, Lu Xianda hugged his wife, and followed the little bartender to the guest room first. Lou Xue took Ding Ruoyu to the shopkeeper to ask for some wine and food, the boat and car were tiring, and their group did not stop to eat from morning to afternoon, and they were already hungry. The proprietress responded enthusiastically, saying that she was ready to be sent to their room.
The shopkeeper Niu was making calculations, and suddenly glanced at Ding Ruoyu a few times, and said with a smile: "Little girl, it's you!" ”
Ding Ruoyu nodded politely in response, as well-behaved as a lady who stayed at home.
It's just that when he flipped through the registered account books again, the shopkeeper smacked his lips and said to himself: "How did you become a gang with that group of South Vietnamese?" ”
"Do your business, why do you care so much!" Lou Xue patted a silver ingot to seal his mouth, and his hand was so strong that he once again embedded the silver into the counter that the cow shopkeeper had just changed.
Do these Jianghu women love this kind of behavior? Lao Niu was happy and scared, this time he didn't plan to buy a new counter, as long as these Jianghu people still came to live in his store, this counter might always be full of potholes.
Three adjoining rooms for exactly six people. The master and apprentice lived in one room, Duan Hongzhu went to take care of Mrs. Lu, and Lou Xue secretly told Lu Xianda not to completely relax his vigilance against Zhu Gan.
After finishing the meal, it was still early, Lou Xue was about to take Ding Ruoyu to take a walk on the street, but just went downstairs, but saw five or six white-clothed teenagers walking into the store.
They happened to know each other in the lead, so Lou Xue walked over quickly, greeting with a mask-like hypocritical smile on her face: "What kind of wind blew Zong Xiaogongzi here?" ”
Zong Mingze bowed his hand, and said with a smile: "Sister Lou, don't come unharmed." ”
Then he still went to do his own business, asked the disciples to take two portraits, and asked the shopkeeper if he had seen the person in the painting.
Ding Ruoyu hurriedly took a look, and the people on the painting were Zhu Qian and Duan Hongzhu.
The shopkeeper was about to answer, but was interrupted by Lou Xue in a loud voice.
"What's wrong with the two of them?" Her voice was too loud to ask, attracting the attention of many people in the hall.
Zong Xiaogongzi also seemed to be frightened, and the smile on his face froze slightly for a moment. He shook the folding fan in his hand and clicked on the humanity in the painting: "These two are the murderers who killed several of my junior brothers and sisters in the Qinglong Pavilion." ”
"Are you sure?" After Lou Xue heard this, she was shocked.
"Seven corpses, either from Gu poison or from puppetry." Zong Xiaogongzi's next words explain all this very well.
Ordinary righteous sects, people who see the Blue Dragon Pavilion will behave well, and most of the dark forces will also take a detour to avoid head-to-head confrontation. Only some vicious gangs, unscrupulous, causing chaos everywhere, killing whoever is unhappy, will not take into account the forces behind the other party.
"These two people belong to the Yellow Cliff Gang, and this gang has always been despised by righteous people." Zong Mingze inserted the folding fan back into his belt and said, "It's natural that they can do such things." ”
What he said seemed to be reasonable, and Lou Xue couldn't refute it. Although she still wanted to find some excuse to excuse the people upstairs, she couldn't organize the language at all for a while.
"It's not them." Ding Ruoyu said softly beside him.
Her sense of presence was too weak, and Zong Mingze didn't realize until this moment that she was already standing next to the two of them. Hearing this, I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows.
"The timing is not right." Ding Ruoyu asked the shopkeeper for the account book, turned to the page where they registered for the stay, pointed to Wen Shou's name and said, "They lived here for a few days, and Duan Hongzhu and the others left the next day." We met in the snowfields of a small village in northern Xinjiang, and at that time we were still wondering how they could follow so closely, but it also showed that Duan Hongzhu and the others could not delay before, they had no time to kill. ”
The shopkeeper testified on the side: "That's right, those white-clothed knights did live for several days, as if they were saying that they wanted to do something in the city......
"Shopkeeper, stay in the hotel." Zong Mingze was afraid that he would say something that he shouldn't say, so he hurriedly took out the silver money and said.
The door of a room on the second floor opened a small crack, and Duan Hongzhu hid there to peek when he heard the sound. Fighting alone, what is the young master of the Qinglong Pavilion, in her eyes is not enough. However, there are many people on the other side, and Zhu Gan is useless, so the master and apprentice can watch from the wall, in case they turn around to deal with her, it will be over.
She was thinking about how to slip away, when she heard Ding Ruoyu help them clarify, and a hanging heart was also relaxed. Looking down again, the little boy stretched out his hand and pointed to the guest room next to her and asked the shopkeeper, "Is that room empty?" ”
"Empty, empty." The shopkeeper of the cow saw the money openly, and the service was also extremely attentive, seeing that he was interested, he hurriedly found the key and sent him to the guest room.
The entire second floor was crowded with these two waves of people.
The room where Ding Ruoyu lived with Lou Xue was between Zhu Qian and Duan Hongzhu, and it was also for the convenience of walking around each other. Now, on the right side of Duan Hongzhu, there are Zong Xiaogongzi and the others, surrounded like an iron bucket. Fortunately, they had agreed to go to Xiyan Country at this moment, and they could only take one step at a time to deal with those people in the Qinglong Pavilion.
"It looks like our trip is going to be delayed again." Zong Mingze is not a small person who is easy to dismiss, Lou Xue sighed, and her face was full of sorrow.
"What kind of holiday does Master have with him?" Ding Ruoyu was keenly aware that things were not simple.
Lou Xue met her concerned eyes, her demeanor was elegant and calm, her smile was shallow and detached, and suddenly the shelves were up.
"What feast shall I have with him? You have too many ghost eyes, children, wash and sleep early. As she spoke, she seemed to be suddenly tired, and turned to lean against the head of the bed.
Ding Ruoyu could see at a glance that she was lying. She knew that there were some things she couldn't ask about, so she went downstairs and asked for some hot water, which changed the uncomfortable atmosphere as she pleased.
When he introduced Zong Xiaogongzi in Caihualou that day, Lou Xue didn't say a few good words about him, and his attitude was also unclear to Ding Ruoyu.
When she returned to her room, she saw that Zong Xiaogongzi had knocked on the door of Duan Hongzhu's room, talked to her about the murder in the corridor, and asked her if she knew anything.
After listening to him describe the death of Wen Shou and the others in detail, Duan Hongzhu's face changed greatly.
Seeing Ding Ruoyu coming over, she smiled bitterly and said, "Little sister, I'm afraid I won't have the life to go to Yanguo with you." ”
"What do you mean?" Ding Ruoyu stepped forward to support her crumbling body.
"I knew that the helper wouldn't trust us so easily and let us do something to our former friends......" She leaned half of her body on Ding Ruoyu in pain, and grabbed the corners of her clothes tightly, "He also sent others to spy on us, maybe...... He himself was involved. ”
"Wen Shou's way of death, that look, except for the help master...... I can't think of anyone else! Fang Cai was still speculating, and after thinking about it again, she changed to a near-certain statement.
Seeing that Ding Ruoyu hadn't opened the door for a long time, Lou Xue also walked out, so she heard her say to Zong Mingze: "We know that the young master of the sect is eager for revenge, but he still has a reluctant request...... Human life is at stake, I wonder if the young master can go to the Yan country with us first? After the fact, we will go to the Yellow Cliff Gang to take revenge. ”
"You're afraid of him, but I'm not afraid, why wait until you're done?" Zong Mingze smiled and said slowly, "You say this, do you want to use our senior brothers as cheap bodyguards?" ”