Chapter 488: Night Trial Thief
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This person is the person in the wanted portrait that Zheng Xiang is holding in his hand today, are you a ground mouse?" Lu Yifan suddenly stretched out his hand and pointed at the ground mouse sitting on the ground with a gloomy face, and suddenly said, "Why are you ......" Lu Yifan's words suddenly flashed with a touch of epiphany in his eyes, he hurriedly turned his head to look at Yulou, and asked suspiciously, "Yulou, just now you said that he is the old man with strange words and deeds we met in the lobby at noon today?"
"Not bad!" Yulou nodded and chuckled, "When it comes to disguise techniques, this person's level is a little worse than mine, so as soon as I saw that old man this afternoon, I already recognized him as the prisoner Zheng Xiang wanted to want, the ground mouse!"
"Hmph! It's really inevitable to encounter ghosts after walking too much at night!" The real person with the eyes of the thief and the mouse looks even uglier than the portrait, and a pair of mouse eyes that keep dripping and rolling in the eye sockets are also in response to his nickname "ground mouse", as soon as he saw that he couldn't escape, the ground mouse simply paralyzed to the ground and did not hurry to go, while rubbing the ankle with his hand and complaining, "My ground mouse has never missed in the Golden Gate Pass for so many years, but I didn't expect to meet a knowledgeable person here today! I'm planting it today, so let's talk about it as you want!"
"I should ask you this!" Lu Yifan was made to laugh and cry by the appearance of the ground mouse, and asked with interest, "What are you sneaking into our room in the middle of the night?"
"I'm a thief, what do you think I want to do when I sneak into the room of the two of you big men in the middle of the night?" The ground mouse looked back at Lu Yifan with a knowing disdainful gaze, and said bluntly, "Of course it's stealing, is it possible to rob the two of you?" After that, the mouse turned his head and ignored Lu Yifan, like a dead pig who was not afraid of boiling water. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hearing the words of the ground mouse, Lu Yifan and Yulou couldn't help but smile helplessly. Yulou was quite polite, I saw him pour a new cup of tea and slowly hand it to the ground mouse, and said with a light smile: "You think too much, we are just doing business, we can't kill you or scrape you, those things are not done by our businessmen!"
"Then let me go! It's a big deal that I won't steal you for a few days when you live here!" As soon as the ground mouse heard Yulou's words, he suddenly became proud, only to see him take the teacup of Yulou with one hand, and when Lu Yifan and Yulou met him, he unceremoniously drank a cup of tea in two sips, and wiped his mouth quite satisfied after drinking, and said with a wicked smile, "Since you are businessmen who do your duty, then we don't interfere with the river water in the well water, I don't think you want to do much, right?"
"That's right, it's just that you are a wanted criminal in the Border Guard Mansion, if we just let you go like this, then if you are tracked down, we will be guilty of the same crime as you!" Yu Lou pretended to be worried, and said that he actually looked at Lu Yifan with a righteous face, and asked in an uncertain tone, "In my opinion, why don't we tie him up and send him to the Border Guard Mansion?"
"I have no opinion!" Lu Yifan knew that the ghosts of Yulou had many ideas, so he did not object, but cooperated with Yulou to act, "Maybe you can get some bounties......"
"Don't don't don't ......" As soon as the ground mouse who was still playing tricks just now heard this, his face immediately changed, and then he wiped the corners of his mouth with his big hand and stood up suddenly, he walked directly to the table and said to Lu Yifan, "You don't know the rules here, but I know!" If you kidnap me and send me to the Frontier Guard Mansion, not only will you not get the slightest reward in the end, but you will have to stay as a witness, Zhu Wushou is notoriously insatiable, maybe he will take the opportunity to extort you when he sees that you are doing business, and it will be too much to lose! Even if he is not greedy for your money, if you want to convict me, you will have to be tried and sentenced, right? And you are the one who caught me, and you will definitely stay and testify, and if this is delayed, it will take a month or two before and after, will you delay your business?" The ground mouse's brain turned quickly, and he saw that his two mouse eyes were spinning back and forth, and his mouth had already said a large set of words in an orderly manner, "Don't you still have to rush to the spiritual realm to deliver goods? If this delays the delivery time, won't this business be yellow? For my little thief to delay your big business, this is too unworthy!"
"This ......" Hearing the words of the ground mouse, Lu Yifan and Yulou pretended to hesitate and hesitated
"That's it, don't you just think it's easy to let me go, but I'll just pay you some money!" Seeing that there was a joke in the matter, the ground mouse hurriedly smiled and complimented, "Although I don't have any money, but all the rich people live in this Golden Gate Station, whose money do you like? Or which treasure you like on someone, just open your mouth, I promise to catch it!"
"The people who come and go to the hotel are all businessmen, and we don't lack the things that businessmen have!" Yulou said in a dilemma, "But since you have said this, then we still have something we haven't seen and want to see!"
"Something you haven't seen before?" Hearing Yulou's words, the ground mouse couldn't help but be stunned, and then a not very good premonition came to his heart, only to see the ground mouse cautiously asked Xiang Yulou, "What is it?"
"I heard that you stole something from Zhu Wushou, the governor of the Southern Frontier Guard Mansion, I'm curious about what it is?" Yu Lou looked at the ground mouse meaningfully, and smiled mysteriously.
"It's just...... It's just some antique calligraphy and paintings, you can sell them if you have money, what's not there to see before......"
"That's not right!" Looking at the mouse's spitting appearance, Lu Yifan could see his cover-up at a glance, and questioned at the moment, "If it was really some ordinary antique calligraphy and painting, Zhu Wushou would have wanted you everywhere with such fanfare? And he also convicted you of the death penalty early? You have been a thief for so many years, you know better than anyone what the crime of stealing is." Although you stole something from the Governor of the Border Guard Mansion this time, you will not be guilty of death, unless you ......" Lu Yifan couldn't help but sneer when he said this, "Unless you steal something that is not a pity to die!"
"I ...... You ......"
"It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it!" Yulou waved his hand helplessly and said, "It's a big deal to send you to see the official!"
"Gollum!"
Hearing Yulou's words, the ground rat's mouth couldn't help but swallow a mouthful of spit with difficulty. His face was blue and white for a while, obviously very flustered.
"Bang, bang!"
At this moment, Lu Yifan's room was suddenly knocked, and then only Mu Dan's voice was heard slowly: "Yifan, they are back!"
"Mu Dan, come in!" Lu Yifan said loudly, as his words fell, the door was quietly pushed open, and then I saw Mu Dan walking in quickly with Lan Chen, Yin Xi and Jiang Yi, who had already changed their clothes.
"Who is?" Seeing the ground mouse standing in the room with a sad face, Lan Chen and the three couldn't help but be stunned at the same time.
"Come, let me introduce! This is the famous Golden Gate thief, the ground mouse!" Yulou jokingly introduced to Lan Chen and the others, "That is the prisoner who is wanted all over the world with a portrait of Zheng Xiangqi today!"
"Is he a thief?" Yin Xi looked the ground mouse up and down with disdain, and then stretched out his thick arm and dragged the ground mouse's collar back and forth a few times, and after seeing that the ground mouse was indeed weak, Yin Xi's face was even more surprised, "Just this thing that can't even stand? Golden Gate thief?" Yin Xi said and couldn't help but sneer.
"Yin Xi, don't underestimate him! If it weren't for Yulou's precautions, I'm afraid our property would have fallen into the hands of this person long ago tonight!" Lu Yifan explained lightly, and as soon as he heard Lu Yifan's words, Lan Chen's faces immediately changed, and Yin Xi raised his arm violently upward, and lifted the body of the ground mouse into the air with a fierce face, and asked in a fierce voice, "Dog, dare to steal something here, see if I don't break your ten fingers!" As he spoke, Yin Xi wanted to reach out and grab the hand of the ground mouse, and the pale mouse squeaked in fright.
"Don't worry
Lu Yifan waved his hand to signal Yin Xi to put down the ground mouse, and said with a smile in his mouth, "This thief hasn't thought about whether to be friends with us yet! If he doesn't want to, it's not too late for you to do it again!
"Hmph!" Yin Xi glared at the ground mouse viciously again after hearing this, and then threw the short ground mouse to the ground with a big push, and the pain of the ground mouse wailed again.
"Yifan!" Lan Chen had already walked between Lu Yifan and Yulou, leaned forward and whispered, "Lao Jiu is dead!"
"En!" Lu Yifan and Yulou both looked unfazed, and after hearing Lan Chen's words, their faces did not change in the slightest, and they still looked like they were smiling calmly.
"And I found one more thing after fighting Lao Jiu!" "After Lan Chen saw Lu Yifan nodding slightly, he opened his mouth again and said, "Lao Jiu's kung fu is not like the way of the sect, but more like ......" Lan Chen's words At this point, he also deliberately glanced at the ground mouse that was trembling because he was frightened by Yin Xi, and then lowered his voice a few points again, "His routines are strong and powerful, there are many means, but there are almost no indiscriminate moves, the exercises are simple and the soul method is pure, this style of play is more like being born in ...... Academy!"
"Click!"
As soon as Lan Chen said this, Lu Yifan's right hand, which was still leisurely playing with the teacup with his hand, couldn't help but tighten, and subconsciously pinched the teacup into countless tiny cracks.
"Ahem!" seemed to realize Lu Yifan's gaffe, Yulou couldn't help coughing lightly twice, as if reminding Lu Yifan, and Lu Yifan instantly put away the shocked look on his face, and replaced it with the calm just now.
In fact, what Lan Chen's words meant Lu Yifan was very clear, for the Holy Domain, the academy and the sect were tantamount to one in the court and the other in the opposition, and the other was cultivating usable talents for the emperor and the court. And the other is to train successors for the sect leader and the sect. Although this statement cannot be absolute, most of the ten cultivators in the Holy Domain can't get out of this way. That is to say, although Lao Jiu is dressed as a wild man, his kung fu has inherited the first-class of the academy without impurities, which means that Lao Jiu has been mixed in the circle of the academy for more than ten years after leaving the academy, otherwise the moves and routines will never remain so pure, let alone be so easy to recognize. In other words, Lao Jiu's true identity is inseparable from the court! And he has always boasted that he is messing around in the area of Kinmen Pass in southern Xinjiang, and there is only one Southern Xinjiang Frontier Guard Mansion related to the court in this area, so even a fool can guess that Lao Jiu must have a very close relationship with the Southern Xinjiang Border Guard Mansion, and even more so, Lao Jiu himself may be a person from the Southern Xinjiang Border Guard Mansion.
Lao Jiu's identity was suspicious, but it was not enough to cause such a big reaction from Lu Yifan, and the real reason why Lu Yifan couldn't help but be stunned was the scene in the post hall today. Zheng Xiang, who was the governor of the Frontier Guard Mansion, not only did he not look like a colleague or acquaintance after seeing Lao Jiu, but on the contrary, he also put on a posture of being an official and a thief, but if Lao Jiu was really a person from the Frontier Guard Mansion, then how could Zheng Xiang not know him? How could he behave so incompatibly as him? Unless there was some secret hidden in it! Lu Yifan thought about it again that not long after Zheng Xiang went upstairs today, Lao Jiu also went upstairs on the grounds of anger. Therefore, he couldn't help but boldly speculate that in fact, Zheng Xiang and Lao Jiu were very likely to know each other, and even not only knew each other, but also worked for the Border Guard Mansion!
It was only at this moment that Lu Yifan really figured out the inexplicable words of Yulou just now, if everything was really as he speculated, Zheng Xiang and Lao Jiu knew each other, then the Golden Gate Thief Mouse in front of him was undoubtedly the key to confirming this speculation. With the fact that he had been here for so many years and had made such a resounding name, it was impossible for these secrets to be hidden from his thief's eyes. Thinking of this, Lu Yifan couldn't help but glance sideways at the still peaceful Yulou, and a touch of admiration flashed in his eyes, and another doubt that had been hidden in his heart became more and more intense: Yulou has such a good eye and heart, who is he?
"Ground mouse, let me ask you, do you recognize the 'Ninth Master' who argued with us in the lobby today?" Lu Yifan asked in a deep voice.
"The Ninth Master is a tyrant in Jinmen Pass, not to mention bullying men and women, and openly collecting money for the purchase of goods to and from caravans, who in Kinmen Pass doesn't know his name?" Under Yin Xi's angry eyes, the ground mouse could only answer honestly, "He sees that you are new here, so he wants to bully and bully you, if it weren't for the shopkeeper of Half the Sky to speak for you, and later Lord Zheng brought people to arrive in time, I'm afraid that this matter will not be so easy to end today."
Speaking of which, your luck is really good, but I don't know if you can survive the fifteenth year of junior high school!"
"What do you mean by that?" Yulou asked curiously.
"Lord Zheng has already taken people away tonight. If Ming'er doesn't have Master Zheng to protect you, what if the Ninth Master makes trouble for you again?"
"Hmph, you better think about what you should do first!" Yin Xi shouted, "Don't say what happens tomorrow, you ground rat may not be able to survive tonight!"
"Don't, don't...... This time, I really looked away, I don't know if you are all masters, you adults don't care about villains, can't you?" The ground mouse seemed to be frightened by the strength of the other party, and his attitude was much more sincere than just now.
"In my opinion, it's better to chop off his two hands and throw him out!" Jiang Yi sneered and proposed, "This can be regarded as removing a harm for Jinmen Pass!"
"This can't be done!" After hearing this, the ground mouse hurriedly hid his hands behind him, and begged again and again with an aggrieved face, "This is my guy who eats, and I will have to starve to death without my hands! Please, I really only stole some antique calligraphy and paintings from Zhu Wushou, if you really want me to go back and give them all to you!"
"Are you familiar with the Southern Frontier Guard Mansion?" Lu Yifan asked in a condensed voice again, "You can enter and leave the Border Guard Mansion freely, and you can also sneak into Zhu Wushou's study to steal things, presumably your relationship must be good! To be honest, were you once a guest of the Frontier Guard Mansion?" Lu Yifan stared at the eyes of the ground mouse when he said this, as long as there was a slight abnormality in the eyes of the ground mouse, he could detect it immediately.
"I ...... How can I, a thief, have anything to do with the governor of the border guards?" said the ground mouse with an aggrieved face, "How did you say this......
"What about the Ninth Master?" Lu Yifan's tone sank suddenly, and he asked sharply, "Does the Ninth Master have anything to do with the Border Guard Mansion?"
"Hiss!" As soon as Lu Yifan's words came out, the face of the ground mouse changed suddenly, and a thick look of shock instantly appeared between his eyebrows. However, he disguised it very quickly, and almost in the blink of an eye, he returned to his previous innocent appearance. It's just that no matter how quickly he covered up, he still couldn't escape Lu Yifan's eyes.
"How do I know this......"
"If you dare to lie to me, I guarantee that you will be worse off than dead!" Lu Yifan said in a deep voice with a cold light in his eyes. And hearing Lu Yifan's words, Yin Xi also raised his foot and stepped directly on the head of the ground mouse, and at the same time, he also pulled out the Wuji knife with a 'poof', taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the ground mouse, the cold tip of the knife was suddenly inserted between the five fingers of the ground mouse's right hand, Yin Xi threatened with a hideous face: "Now start talking, if you say a wrong word, or stammer, I will cut off one of your fingers, and after cutting off the fingers, I will cut off your toes, and after cutting off the toes, I will cut off your mouse head!" Under the double threat of Lu Yifan and Yin Xi, the ground mouse was so frightened that his lips turned white, and he could clearly feel that today's posture definitely didn't look like he was joking with him.
"I ......"
"I've been scared for so long, I should have made enough trouble, right? What do you want him to say? Why don't you just ask the old lady?"
Just as the ground mouse trembled its lips and opened its mouth, a soft voice mixed with a bit of anger in the banter quietly entered the room from outside the door. Then, before Lu Yifan could respond, the closed door was suddenly pushed open, and then a charming half of the sky appeared in front of everyone in the room.
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