"Who are you?" Xia Fanxing looked at the four strange men who opened the door of the secret room and walked in. One of them wears a hood. The one who was closing the door was the oldest of them. Except for this old man, the other three were in tattered clothes. Xia Fanxing subconsciously protected Li Wan behind him.

And Elder Lotte, who was tied hand and foot behind them, turned red and angry when he saw the four people who walked in easily. However, he had something stuffed in his mouth and couldn't scream.

After the old man closed the door, the four of them suddenly knelt down and saluted Li Wan, shouting in unison, "See His Royal Highness King Rong, the grass people deserve death, please punish His Highness!"

Li Wan and Xia Fanxing were blinded. Li Wan made a flat gesture, but they insisted on kneeling on the ground and couldn't get up. Only one man at the head ripped off the hood of the hooded man kneeling beside him, Xia Fanxing looked at it and was taken aback, this person is the yellow green snake of the Qingtian Gang?!

"Your Highness forgives your sins. The man at the head saluted, stood up, and walked over to the elder. The Elder's eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe what was happening in front of him. A knife suddenly fell out of the man's cuff and fell at the feet of Elder Lotte.

Xia Fanxing frowned deeply and wanted to go up to stop him, but Li Wan patted him on the shoulder and whispered in his ear, "Let them settle their personal affairs." ”

Xia Fanxing sighed, looking at the faint smile on the corner of Li Wan's mouth, and the worry about him in his heart became heavier and heavier.

The man picked up the knife and pressed Elder Lotte to his mouth with one hand. A knife pierced his shoe, pierced his foot, and jerked to the left. Elder Lotte's expression was already extremely painful, this man was probably also a monk, and he pressed his mouth with one hand, and the elder couldn't scream at all.

This time it is estimated that the hamstrings of Elder Lotte have been chopped up. Soon, the man drew his knife and stabbed him in the neck, stood up, and kicked the bloody, deadly elder into a corner.

After doing all this, he returned to his original position and knelt down. Li Wan said with great interest, "Let's talk about it, what's the matter with a few of you?"

The yellow green snake kneeling on the side stood up and bowed. The other three were on their knees, their heads hanging low. In Xia Fanxing's surprised gaze, Huang Qingsnake told these people, including his own intentions, and this thing that surprised the two of them extremely much.

"Damn! Fuck! you still have the face to come to me!" After Li Wan heard what Huang Qingsnake said, he jumped like thunder, stepped forward, and smashed a hard punch in the face of the man in charge. His expression was immediately distorted by pain, and Li Wan forgot that he still had a wound on his right hand. Just now, the subdued Elder Lotte faintly tore the scar, and now he hit someone with this hand, which naturally hurts so much.

"Your Highness is angry!" Xia Fanxing hurriedly stepped forward to pull him away. God knows what Li Wan, who is so angry, will do. Blood flowed from the corner of the man's mouth after being punched, wiped it clean with his sleeve, and still knelt on the ground, without a word of defense.

When Huang Qingsnake saw this scene, he couldn't believe that this was the person who had always been rumored to be beaten by His Royal Highness King Rong. And the person who easily opened the door of the secret room was, according to Huang Qingsnake's words, the elder in charge of the finances of the Lotte Society. It seemed that when he saw his disciple being beaten, he was quite unwilling, and muttered, "Your Highness, your anger is really a little..."

"Elder, don't blame Your Highness, you are willing to be ......punished," the man hurriedly spoke.

Li Wan leaned against the wall panting, covering his head with his left hand. After a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "This king has become like this, it's not because of you! I have become more and more unable to control my emotions.... Xia Fanxing, what should I do!"

Li Wan roared, slamming his left hand against the wall. Xia Fanxing hurriedly spoke out to comfort him, and explained to them the use of Qingyan Pill by the people of the Sea Cultivation Dao in order to save Li Wan's life.

After hearing this, the three people except the yellow and green snake turned red, and under the leadership of the elder, they kowtowed three times on the ground. The man at the head spoke out rather shyly, "Your Highness, we have listened to the nonsense of Ji Wen and his forces, and we have harmed you...... No, it's our own fault! He just wants us to lure you out of the city to the wasteland. It was because we and the elders were so greedy that we even planned to kidnap the two adults in exchange for spirit stone resources from the Golden Dao Elder and the imperial court......"

"Since Huang Daoyou and this Xia guard have an intersection, we asked him to testify for us. This matter has nothing to do with him or the Blue Sky Gang......"

"The three of us masters and apprentices are willing to receive all the punishments of His Highness!"

Except for Huang Qingsnake, the three people are all disciples of the Lotte Club. On the night of the assassination, Ji Wen originally asked the Lotte disciple next to Chonghai to lead Li Wan and the others to the deserted outskirts of the city, give them a dismount, or plan to pull them into the gang. At the same time, Huang Qingsnake also clearly told them that Ji Wen was the mastermind behind the mysterious organization, and the full name of this organization was called the Heavenly Lack Sect!

After receiving this task, the Lotte disciple who was killed by Jin Qifa changed his mind because of the influence of rumors, and discussed with his master and brothers, including the three people kneeling in front of him, and several Lotte disciples who participated in the plot, all of whom had been imprisoned by Ji Wen in a fit of rage. They planned to kidnap Li Wan and exchange it for ransom from Jin Qifa and the Liyang Yamen, so that they could get the cultivation resources that they couldn't earn in ten lifetimes, and then run away and fly away!

As soon as night fell, these seven or eight disciples of their Lotte Club plotted to kill or use medicine to stun Ji Wen who had originally arranged in that dark alley, and planned to take Li Wan step by step to the five disciples of his sect outside the city, where they would pick up the disciples who had successfully kidnapped Li Wan. And that drunk fat man is also a member of the Lotte Club. The Qi Condensing Cultivator who used the sword array was a former disciple of the Weaving Cloud Sect, and now he was a loose cultivator. He volunteered to join the operation. And in advance, a kind of sword formation in the Weaving Star Sword Art was laid out here, and it was blessed by a kind of elixir stored by the Lotte Club, which had a good effect.

But none of them expected that Li Wan would also have a monk with him who had a foundation building cultivation and a good magic weapon! The brothers who took the lead fled to death, and the disciples behind could only run away. Only the elders are waiting for an opportunity in the Rakuten Club.

In just the past few days, Ji Wen has used a lot of secret forces, including the newly recruited Lotte Society, and even some Heavenly Lack Sect believers in the outer city to arrest them. Five or six disciples involved in this matter have been caught and tortured in prison, and they have no choice, their legs and feet are about to break, and they cannot escape from Ji Wen's search, so they can only return to this place and confess everything to Li Wan, hoping to use him to bring down Ji Wen. There's really no way around it.

After a few days of vicious pursuit and escape, the two Lotte Club disciples looked haggard and their legs were shaking. This is also the reason why the man cut his hamstrings alive when he vented his anger at Elder Lotte just now.

"Does he know about this?" Li Wan calmed down and asked.

"Back to His Highness, the grass people don't have much contact with the Weaving Cloud Temple, and the former disciple of the Weaving Cloud Sect only came to join the gang because he thought it was profitable, and the sword formation was laid out by himself, so it may not have much to do with the head of the sea path. And Huang Daoyou also mentioned just now that those who know the situation know that the second largest gang in Jiuli, Xuanmoguan, has long been under the control of Jiwen, while Zhiyunguan has never had a clear attitude, and their relationship may not be good with Jiwen. ”

"Nope. Your Highness, in the eyes of the minister, the chief of the sea must know about this matter. The dead monk of the Weaving Cloud Temple should have been the one he sent to the Jiwen mission. And he, like you, was moved when he saw that it was profitable. Your Highness, have you forgotten, that day in the main hall of Seed Sea, he heard the expression of the person killed by Jin Daochang? He obviously didn't expect that everyone would betray him because of interests! And what he was going to do was actually on Ji Wen's order!" Xia Fanxing immediately explained, he always felt that there was a ghost in the heart of this person in Seed Sea. Although his above speculations may not all be correct, at least in the general direction of the Weaving Cloud View, he feels that he will not be wrong.

"Don't believe too much in the position of planting the sea! People's Zhiyun Guan Liyang is the first, and everything we do here, we must find out the thoughts and positions of the boss. ”

Li Wan nodded, agreeing with Xia Fanxing's words. He walked over to the ledger, looked at the half page carefully, and sighed. I'll just say it once. ”

"You guys, you want this king to protect you and bring down Ji Wen, right?" Li Wan glanced at the yellow green snake standing aside, and said, "Which of the people involved in this matter today can escape? The four of you are now in the same boat!"

Huang Qingsnake opened his mouth in embarrassment, and the elder spoke, "The four of us still hope to work in the same boat with His Highness." ”

Xia Fanxing stared at the account book in Li Wan's hand, and suddenly passed a word to Li Wan's ear. He raised his head and said with a smile on his face, "The hands and feet of this account are also made by a few of you, right?"

"Your Highness is wise. Time is of the essence and this strategy must be pursued. Led by the elders, the four of them bowed in unison.

"Just wanted to wait for us to fight this guy. Li Wan pointed to the corpse on the side, "Then we will be better able to trust your words." You're pretty good... Tut-tut, secretly sneaking into the Lotte Club, this page is almost unrecognizable. Such a wonderful play. Kill this guy in front of me, we can't disbelieve you!"

After that, Li Wan smiled as if he was self-deprecating, and read the contents of this half page.....

"I don't know what the situation is on this half page. However, there is something that everyone can read. It's about your Lotte Club, the materials that were lost by the theft ten days ago, right? You have stolen them. And the second half is full of gold and silver treasures, silk brocade and so on. I really don't understand what these things are for. ”

"Elder Finance, you should know what is written on this whole page, right? I don't know if Huang Daoyou told you, he has already told me about the theft case handled by Jiwen, and your Lotte Club has entered his control, just like Xuanmo Temple. And what he wants to control you is nothing more than to support his actions and develop believers in the Heavenly Shortage Sect throughout the country, without exposing his purpose. We all know this, and what is missing is evidence. ”

Xia Fanxing said. The elder stepped closer and pulled out a piece of paper, no, half a piece of paper, from his waist. Xia Fanxing and Li Wan both had satisfied smiles on their faces. The elder carefully pasted the remaining half of the paper to the half of the ledger. He took a step back and said in a regretful tone, "This is the biggest evidence that can be found so far." Givin is a man who acts extremely carefully, leaving few traces in his actions. Some time ago, it was not easy to leave such evidence. But that alone can't bring him down. At that time, the person who recorded this account was another accounting elder. ”

The other half of the paper recorded the day after the theft.

"Giwen Changshi"

"Funeral expenses for thirteen prisoners," here and the blurred handwriting on the other half of the paper, read it on, and the whole page reads—"The consolation money for the prisoners' families, and all the expenses necessary for the hanging, shall be borne by the Lotte Club." The yamen returned all stolen items to the Lotte Club. ”

All the prisoners' expenses should be paid by the Lotte Club? This means that Jiwen is using this to threaten the Lotte Club? After all, it is also his natural lack of people who steal things, and the people he caught return all the stolen things to the Lotte Club, and the rest of the expenses, Ji Wen asks the Lotte Club to pay. It can be understood that Ji Wen executed thirteen believers of this religion for the sake of the affairs of the Lotte Club, which belongs to his loss and needs to be compensated by the Lotte Club?

Xia Fanxing thought as he muttered, "Great evidence... An explanation will make sense. However, this is not enough. The weight of this evidence does not directly discern Geven's crime. ”

"In addition, Changshi and Lotte will make an agreement in the drunken moon building, and the two sides will give gifts to each other, with a total expenditure of 1,000 taels of silver and ...... of silk."

It's hard enough to make an agreement. In the eyes of an insider, who doesn't know what this agreement means?

However, they sighed again - the content of the whole paper is still not strong enough!

Li Wan raised his head, pointed to the door, and said to the four of them, "Dispose of the body, go to the inn on the side of that alley, find Jin Daochang, and tell him that I asked you to find him, so let's rest over there first." The two of us still have a few things to attend to. ”

The four of them bowed slightly, and slowly walked towards the corpse......