Chapter Forty-Six: Hidden in the City
All the doubts returned to the Jianghu Inn again.
Mu Niangzi, a weak widow who looks extraordinary, who is her real identity? Why did she come to Xiangzhou City? What role does she play?
I looked at the ice silk handkerchief in my hand, and unconsciously remembered the dream not long ago, that beautiful and extremely real dream.
In the dream, Mrs. Mu was dressed in a white gauze skirt and a white gauze hat, in a sea of flowers, I just caught up with her and picked her hat...... And then...... I was ruthlessly woken up by my mother.
White Cloud Fairy!
Mu Niangzi also likes to wear white clothes, and her maiden name is Xian'er. For some reason, I have always had a feeling that Mu Niangzi has a more chivalrous temperament.
Didn't Xiao Mu ever suspect that there was something wrong with her? Why did Warm Heart later appear as the White Cloud Fairy, and he dispelled his doubts about Mu Niangzi?
"Hey, Brother Jianghu, look, is that the dragon catching head?"
I had just gone to the horse market to return the horse in a restless state, and I was thinking about my thoughts in a hurry, when Wang Jiajia grabbed my sleeve and pulled my soul back.
"Long Yuhan?" I glanced at my eyes, and it was.
"Let's go, we have to tell him about Sister Warm."
I was pulled by Wang Jiajia, and I quickly caught up with Long Yuhan, so I had to say hello awkwardly.
"Why are you still in the city?" Long Yuhan looked around nervously and pushed me into the alley around the corner.
"We sent Warm Heart out of the city, walked a mile away, and Warm Heart woke up. When she heard that you were going to take responsibility for her, she ran away in the direction of the city. We...... We don't know kung fu, how can we catch up with her? I bowed my head and preached, after all, I was a little embarrassed that I didn't do what I promised him.
"She's back in town again?" Long Yuhan's face became even more nervous: "Why is she so stupid?" ”
"Oh, Sister Warm Heart said, let's help her return the veil to you." Wang Jiajia said and patted my arm: "Brother Jianghu, where is the veil?" ”
"Oh, give." I took out the ice silk handkerchief from my arms and handed it over, carefully observing Long Yuhan's reaction.
Long Yuhan's eyes were a little dull, he slowly took the silk handkerchief, held it tightly in his hand, and a wry smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "She said, give me back the handkerchief?" Hehehe, it seems that I was really wrong. ”
"Dragon Catcher, are you okay?" I asked cautiously.
Long Yuhan let out a long sigh: "It's okay, I recognized the wrong person." Do you remember the story I told you?
That year, the five Tubo Xiaozuo were hunted down outside the West City, and my fat master had a total of 17 people who caught the brave and righteous, and my thin master lost a leg, and I was also hit by a poison dart.
At that time, thanks to the White Cloud Fairy, she used this silk handkerchief to tie it on my shoulder to stop the poisonous blood from attacking my heart, and also helped me take the poison with her mouth, which gave me the opportunity to wait for the antidote of Doctor Du and pick up a life.
It's been almost three years, and I will look at this silk handkerchief every day, thinking about her, and looking forward to her coming to Xiangzhou City again......
Unexpectedly, after waiting for so long, it was a person who was pretending to be her. And I, stupidly, let her poison the Qincha ......"
Wang Jiajia and I glanced at each other, and we knew that she was not the real Baiyun Fairy, so we weren't too surprised to hear Long Yuhan say this. It's just a top priority, is Qin Cha dead or alive?
"Chincha...... Really dead? I asked again.
"I don't know."
"Huh?" For Long Yuhan's answer, I was a little confused: "What do you mean I don't know?" Want me to ...... Post-mortem examination? ”
"The body is gone." Long Yuhan sighed, and was also a little helpless: "After I handed over my warm heart to you, I went back to the Assassin Mansion to ask Lei Assassin Shi for guilt, but I didn't find Qincha's body. ”
"Huh? Cheat...... Did you cheat the corpse? Wang Jiajia put her arms around me and looked flustered.
I shook off her hand: "What corpse?" Where are the ghosts in this world? Perhaps, Chin Cha is simply a fake death. At that time, I was warm-hearted and poisoned, and I must have panicked, so I shouldn't have done a careful autopsy. ”
Wang Jiajia shook her head: "But, didn't Xiao Mu also say that Qin Cha died?" ”
"What? Xiao Mu! Long Yuhan grabbed me by the collar: "When did you see Xiao Mu?" ”
When I saw that the matter had come to this, I said bluntly: "Just a quarter of an hour before you entrusted us to send warm hearts out of the city, Xiao Mu came to me and told us that Qin Cha had died, and let us listen to your orders. ”
"Heh, hehehe." Long Yuhan let go of his hand, laughed and took a few steps back, his face full of helplessness: "Xiao Mu...... Governors...... I...... Hehe, I've never seen anyone like this. ”
"Dragon Catcher, are you okay?"
"Hey, okay." Long Yuhan let out a long sigh, and finally calmed down again: "Don't worry about this, what should you do!" ”
"That'...... Governors? ”
"Haven't you heard? When Qin Cha made a county order in Yiling, the people called him a 'ghost county order', whether he was alive or dead, and what did it matter? Long Yuhan said, waving at us and blending into the flow of people.
"What does he mean is that Chincha is not dead?" Wang Jiajia looked at me excitedly.
I pointed to the bustling streets: "Look, how peaceful! If Chin Cha died, would there be such peace? Let's go, after working for a long time, I went to the Jianghu Inn to pick up the burden and go home. ”
Jianghu Inn, the place I am most anxious to go to now, I wonder if Mu Niangzi is still in the store at the moment?
I stepped through the door with trepidation, only to see that the living room was full, and it seemed that their business was doing well today.
"Rivers and lakes? Come and get the burden? You're on your own! Fauber glanced at me, and went back to entertaining the guests.
"Hey, okay." I took a few steps back, and before I knew it, I was entering the courtyard that led to the guest room. I saw that ropes were tied between the trees, and bedding and clothes were drying all over the courtyard. Five steps away from me is the corridor leading to the "Ground Number" room, and in the middle of the corridor is the staircase leading to the guest rooms on the second and third floors.
I couldn't help but look towards the third floor, and saw Mu Niangzi leaning against the guardrail, smiling at us.
"Brother Jianghu, look, is that Mu Niangzi?" Wang Jiajia also noticed her.
Mu Niangzi hooked her finger at us and went in the direction of Tianzi No. 1 room.
"Brother Jianghu, is Mrs. Mu asking us to find her?"
I was silent for a moment: "Go ahead." There are some things that still need to be asked. ”
We quickly went upstairs, the door of Tianzi No. 1 room was open, and when we came to the door, we saw Mu Niangzi wiping a sword with her back to us. The dark green scabbard is placed horizontally in the corner of the dresser, and the rubies on the scabbard are dazzling. And Mu Niangzi, she is still wearing a white dress at the moment, but there is an extra white gauze hat on her head, which adds a bit of mystery.
"White ...... White Cloud Fairy? Wang Jiajia swallowed her saliva, asked softly, and grabbed my sleeve involuntarily with one hand.
Mu Niangzi turned around, and the white veil on her hat fluttered slightly, while the piece used to cover her cheek fell to her right ear, which allowed us to clearly see her whole face.
She raised the sword in front of her eyes, examined it carefully, and seemed to feel that it had been cleaned, so she smiled with satisfaction, and saw that she had withdrawn the sword into its scabbard with a flick of her wrist.
"Li Jianghu, is that you? Looking for me? ”
"I ......" I nervously glanced at Wang Jiajia, and the two smiled awkwardly, not knowing how to answer for a while.
"Follow me warmly, you can rest assured." Mu Niangzi smiled and continued to wipe the scabbard with a handkerchief.
"Sister Warm Heart...... Where is it. ”
"She's wandering the streets at the moment. It's okay, let her adjust her emotions alone, and wait for tomorrow, I will accept her. ”
"You...... You are ......" I stared at the handkerchief in her hand, feeling that I had no confidence to speak.
"Hehe, I have a lot of nicknames, and I have a nickname called 'White Cloud Fairy', but I didn't expect that there would be people pretending to be." Mu Niangzi took two steps closer to me: "What? Is there a grievance that I need help with? Still is...... Picked up my handkerchief again? ”
"I ......"
"Oh, the dragon catcher ......" Wang Jiajia stood in front of me and smiled reluctantly: "The dragon catcher has a silk handkerchief in his hand, with ...... It's a lot like yours. ”
Mu Niangzi put down the sword and spread out the silk handkerchief in her hand: "This is made of ice silk, light and white, warm in winter and cool in summer, no different in spring and autumn, I like it more, when I was wandering around in Chang'an, I bought a few pieces, well, it seems to be three pieces."
One piece, the fifteenth winter month of the fourteenth year of Tianbao, was used to stop the bleeding of Long Yuhan, and he has not returned it to me until now; There is another piece, on the night of the fifth day of June this year, Tu Laosan covered his mouth and got dirty, and then you picked it up and stuffed it in the crack of the counter in the guest room; Only this last piece remains, which is occasionally used to rub the sword.
What, what's the problem? ”
"You're the White Cloud Fairy? Smear...... Tu Laosan was killed by you? I felt my voice tremble, and my feet unconsciously took a few steps back until they hit the wall.
"That's right, who let him not know whether he is alive or dead, and he dares to tease me on the street. If I don't kill him, who will I kill? I'm a woman, I always have to see unevenness on the road, draw a knife to help, if I don't do something, wouldn't it insult my identity. Mu Niangzi looked innocent, like a child telling a story.
"That'...... Warm...... Sister Warm Heart...... "Wang Jiajia held my arm with both hands, and her whole body trembled a little.
Mu Niangzi hid under the quilt with a sword in both hands, and then smiled at us slightly: "Qin Cha has investigated several big cases, and his reputation has been shocked, and he has brought his warm heart to Xiangzhou City. Warm Heart has been pretending to be me everywhere in the past few years, including the cases in the first few months, except for Tu Laosan, who did it all with Warm Heart, and I have long wanted to ask her to understand. ”
I swallowed: "Do you know the grievances of Warm Heart and Chincha? ”
"Of course. Because I made a mistake in the plan back then, it caused Su Xin's tragic death. In order to make up for the warmth, I not only let her out of the palace, but also secretly sent someone to escort her back to her hometown, but I didn't expect her to be really persistent, for more than three years, she has lived for a hatred. ”
"That'...... Long Yuhan ...... Actually, the person you want to find...... It's you? ”
"Yes." Mu Niangzi smiled slyly: "When I knew that Long Yuhan had been cherishing my silk handkerchief for the past few years, I was also moved, so I put down my figure, let go of a woman's face, and took the initiative to pursue him." However, he ruthlessly rejected me three times and twice, and not only that, but he also pushed me to his cousin Qin Yong.
It wasn't until he rejected my love in public that I realized that all he had been liking in the past few years was a woman named 'White Cloud Fairy', or it could be said that she was dressed in a white dress and a white gauze hat. ”
Wang Jiajia glanced at me: "You...... If you are a heroine, why do you ...... Why did you open such an inn? Why disguise yourself as an ordinary person? ”
Mu Niangzi gently combed the hair in front of Wang Jiajia's left face with her fingers, and the corners of her mouth lifted lightly: "Do you want to live carefree?" I also want! It's too tiring to be a woman, I just want to guard this inn and live an ordinary life. Big hidden in the city, you know? ”