Chapter 30: The Feast of the Hung Gate
In the early morning, after Qi Lu finished eating the breakfast prepared by Ding Xiaolan, he said to Lao Wu: "You should go back today, I have something very important to explain to you."
"I'm afraid it's not okay, I'm just here and I'm going to leave the situation here, can you deal with it?"
Qi Lu said: "Just go and go back quickly."
"Then what do you want me to do?"
Qi Lu took out the medicine bottle that Pei Liping had discarded in the trash can and said, "You go to a professional to test what the ingredients of this residual potion are."
Lao Wu looked at the little liquid in the bottle and asked Qi Lu: "Where did the bottle come from?"
"Pei Liping has been drinking this thing to his wife, I suspect that something should not be added to it"
"Okay, then I'll go later," Lao Wu said after taking the medicine bottle
"Go and go back quickly, and when the results of this test come out, I will take action against Pei Liping, solve him, and I will pursue Ye Xuanzhi's case," Qi Lu was afraid that the night would be long and he would have too many dreams
"Hey, wait," Ding Xiaolan saw that Lao Wu was leaving, and asked with concern: "I'm afraid it will take a few days to come, you should bring a piece of clothing, and there is a change of coat on the road."
"No need," Lao Wu said with a smile: "The provincial capital is less than two hundred kilometers away from here, I will go directly to the provincial capital by car, and if I take a plane quickly, I will come back in less than two days." After speaking, he hurriedly went out without any luggage
Qi Lu chatted with Ding Xiaolan in the house for a while, and then heard a knock on the door outside the house
"This old Wu must have forgotten to bring something," Qi Lu stepped forward and opened the door, and was stunned, but it was not Lao Wu standing outside the door, but Pei Liping with a smile on his face
"It turned out to be Mr. Pei, is there something wrong with coming here so early," Qi Lu secretly glanced at Ding Xiaolan and invited Pei Liping into the house
"Master Qi has only been in this city for a few days, and he was framed and put into the bureau, I am very sorry not to go, today happens to be my business is not busy, I want to invite you to dinner"
Hearing Pei Liping invite himself, Qi Lu couldn't help but be stunned in his heart, thinking that I am not ready to deal with you here, so you will invite me to dinner first, it seems that there is no good banquet, you are trying to disadvantage me
He pondered for a while and politely declined: "Mr. Pei, look at what you said, I was interrogated by the police, and I was careless, do I want to blame you, I still have some things with Xiaoding during the day today, so it's better to get together another day."
Pei Liping said diligently: "You have helped me a lot, how can I do my best to be a landlord, and besides, I can't delay much time even if I have a meal," Seeing that Qi Lu still had doubts, Pei Liping said again: "If you don't have time at noon, you can't come to my house for a light meal at night, it's really not okay to have a supper together."
"We really have something," Ding Xiaolan didn't have any good feelings for Pei Liping after experiencing Cheng Qiang's incident, she hurriedly excused herself, but before she could finish her refusal, she heard Qi Lu say with a smile: "It's rare that Mr. Pei is so enthusiastic, so I'm respectful, it's better to obey my fate, I'll come to your house for dinner at night, and I'll get drunk and rest."
"Okay," Pei Liping smiled so hard that his eyes were squeezed into a slit, he looked into the room and asked Qi Lu: "Your colleague, let him come with him at night, there are many people and lively."
"He's gone."
"Gone" Pei Liping had a suspicious face, "When will you come back?"
Qi Lu pretended to be relaxed and said: "Last night, the boss of the company called him to go back to the unit, so he took the first bus back in the morning."
"Oh, that's it," Pei Liping frowned and said, "That's a pity, there is one less wine companion at night, but Master Qi, you must not be absent."
"Okay, no problem," the two were polite to each other, and it wasn't until Pei Liping said goodbye and left, Qi Lu closed the door lightly, and immediately put the laptop computer left by Lao Wu on the table, connected the data cable, and then turned on the computer to operate
"You really want to go to Pei Liping's house for dinner at night," Ding Xiaolan asked
"Of course you go with me, too"
"In this extraordinary period, you dare to go to his house, and you are not afraid of what he is doing, besides, if you really want to go to dinner, you have to wait for Lao Wu to come back," Ding Xiaolan saw Qi Lu Road, expressionless, and said worriedly: "Why don't I go and help you push off this meal, lest he put something in the meal, we won't be able to eat and walk around."
"You are to the point," Qi Lu had already opened the folder on the computer, Ding Xiaolan looked down and found that it was full of information about Gu
"You also know that Pei Liping has bad intentions," Ding Xiaolan laughed
"This dinner in the evening is a Hongmen banquet," Qi Lu turned back to Ding Xiaolan and said, "Can I not prepare first, and if I don't do it, I will become the second Su Ling or Cheng Qiang's wife."
"You still want to go knowing that there is danger"
"Beauty, have you thought about it," Qi Lu lit a cigarette and said with a stern expression: "We went to find Cheng Qiang today, Pei Liping seems to have known about it, if he is really a murderer, he will definitely mess up, and it is not impossible to take risks in a hurry to get rid of us."
Ding Xiaolan looked at Qi Lu strangely and wondered if he had taken the wrong medicine, you can guess why do you want to go if people have murderous intentions, aren't you afraid of death
Qi Lu saw Ding Xiaolan's eyebrows twitch unconsciously, knowing that she was scared in her heart, so he said with a more confident attitude: "This kind of time is also the time when he is most likely to show his flaws, I don't want to miss this great opportunity, even if he plots against me, my spell is higher than his, I don't know how many grades he can help, how can I hum, just with his little charm Gu technique, I just need to prepare and keep it, he won't take me at all."
Qi Lu then put his mouth in Ding Xiaolan's ear and whispered a lot of words to her, listening to it, Ding Xiaolan also smiled, and even praised him for being thoughtful
The night soon came, and Lin Qi Lu and Ding Xiaolan also came to Pei Liping's house as promised
"Oh, it's just a light meal, Master Qi, why are you still carrying a gift?"
Qi Lu handed Pei Liping the gift he had just bought, and saw him push back again and again
"It's not a gift, it's a drink to drink when we eat."
"Look, I'm still afraid that I won't drink alcohol, so I'll drink my Moutai later," Pei Liping smiled and welcomed the two of them into the house
said that it was a light meal, but Pei Liping got a table of dishes, and there was a mandarin duck hot pot in the middle
Qi Lu couldn't help frowning, "Mr. Pei, is there more of this dish, just the three of us can't finish a few meals."
"It's okay, there's nothing to eat, don't you want to be happy," Pei Liping pulled Qi Lu to sit on the table
Qi Lu looked at everything in the room with cold eyes, especially in all directions of the roof, and he looked very carefully
It turned out that he was harming people in the house, no matter what method he used, he would definitely place some kind of grass ghost guide in the house, just now he was observing whether Pei Liping had placed a grass ghost guide in secret, as long as there was this thing, Qi Lu could conclude that Pei Liping had bad intentions, and naturally he would take precautions in advance
The grass ghost can stabilize the action of the unhatched Gu, so that the Gu person can easily control, and the placement angle of the grass ghost can be used to allow the Gu poison to enter the Gu person's body smoothly, and the position of the grass ghost guide is above the Gu person's head is the best, so that the Gu is easy to quietly enter the victim's body from multiple angles without being discovered
Therefore, Qi Lu is focusing on the roof, which is also based on this reason, but it turns out that his worries are too much, and there is no change in Pei Liping's dining room and the last time he came to his house, if you really want to say anything, it is the table and these dishes
After the three of them sat down, Pei Liping first asked Ding Xiaolan what drink she was drinking, then took out a few bottles of herbal tea from the refrigerator and put them in front of her, and then he was busy opening Moutai and preparing to pour wine for Qi Lu
Qi Lu hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop Pei Liping's hand pouring wine, and said with a smile: "Mr. Pei, I can't drink wine that is too high, it's better to drink the bar I brought."
"It's okay"
Taking advantage of Pei Liping's leaning over to open the gift brought by Qi Lu, Qi Lu quickly took out a sharp bamboo stick from his arms and used it to test each dish
It is not an ordinary bamboo stick, its material is taken from the Xiangfei bamboo of Jiuzhi Mountain, legend has it that this bamboo is the tears of the two wives of Da Shun, Empress E and Nuying, can remove all kinds of anger
This bamboo stick was a special gift from an old Taoist priest who was good at exorcising evil spirits when Lao Wu passed by Hunan before
After Lao Wu came back, he put it in a mixture of cinnabar and ghost car blood and soaked it for 7749 days, and he fiddled with the bamboo sticks like this, not only to detect poison, but also to identify hidden Gu objects
Qi Lu established Kunlun, so Hou Lao Wu took into account that he often dealt with evil things, so he gave him a bamboo stick for self-defense, Qi Lu saw that it was easy to carry, so he always carried it on his body in case of accidents, and he didn't have any chance to use this thing before, but he didn't expect it to come in handy today
After all, food is the most commonly used method for Gu people, although Qi Lu didn't see the grass ghost today, he still didn't dare to take it lightly, in case he was subjected to Pei Liping's way
Ding Xiaolan saw that Pei Liping had already dismantled the wine, and hurriedly covered her face with her hands, and privately hinted to Qi Lu with her eyes that she would put away the bamboo sticks, so as not to show Pei Liping a flaw
Seeing this, Qi Lu hurriedly took back the bamboo stick in his hand, and then pretended to be casual and looked at the wine in Pei Liping's hand
This is a bottle of 38 degrees Jiannan Chun, Pei Liping first poured himself a full cup, and then poured it full for Qi Lu
"Mr. Pei, where is the bathroom?" Qi Lu asked knowingly
"Oh on the right"
Qi Lu stood up, locked the door after entering the bathroom, and carefully checked the bamboo stick in his hand against the light, but found that it was not unusual, and it did not change color, and he couldn't help but wonder and thought to himself: Could it be that I live the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, Pei Liping really just invited me to a meal, and it didn't hurt my heart
Qi Lu sat back to his seat nervously, and saw Pei Liping raise his wine glass and said to himself: "Although you and I have first met, we are also like-minded people with similar interests, so I will do it first as respect."
Seeing Pei Liping raising his head and drinking not a drop of the wine in the cup into his mouth, Qi Lu secretly scolded in his heart, who is the same person as you, I don't have your hypocrisy, he hesitated and drained the glass of wine in his hand
The two of them toasted each other with their own hearts, and the atmosphere in the dining room seemed a little tense