Chapter 71: The Poor Dagger
Seeing this scene, Xiao Xiangzi couldn't help but admire Zhong Lifei.
In the past, they accompanied the gang leader Ling Xuzi, and I don't know how much effort it took to calm him down.
But today, Zhong Lifei only used a few riddles to coax Lingxuzi around, showing that he is a man of great wisdom.
At this moment, Zhong Lifei shrugged his shoulders, blinked and said, "Uncle Shi, today's guessing game is over here, I will come to play with you tomorrow, and you must not lose face again." ”
"Hmph, you wait." Lingxuzi replied angrily.
Zhong Lifei smiled and walked away with his apprentice.
However, by the next day, they had no more to see the Spiritual Void Son.
It's not that Lingxuzi doesn't want to see them, but at the third watch last night, this naughty gang leader used the excuse of going to the toilet and ran out of the Tianxian Gang without a trace.
After Tianjizi heard the news, he mobilized the whole gang of disciples to find his whereabouts, but the result was nothing.
A note was found in the Lingxu sub-room, which said that Zhong Lifei was too bullying, and he wanted to go out to avoid the limelight for a few days, so as not to be tricked by the other party and not be able to get off the stage.
When Chu Fan pushed open the door of the master's room and wanted to tell him the news, he was surprised to find that the master was not in the room.
Just as he was about to go out to look for it, Zhong Lifei walked in with a wicked smile.
"Master, where have you been?"
"Hehe, I just had a chat with an old friend." Zhongli Fei said as he closed the door.
"Oh, then you must have heard the news of the disappearance of the Lingxuzi gang leader."
Before Zhong Lifei could answer, someone outside the house said, "Is Master Zhongli here?" The deputy gang leader of Tianmian ordered me to come and deliver the sticker. ”
Send a sticker, what kind of post to send at this time?
Chu Fan said nervously: "Master, I heard from the people outside that the Tianxian Gang blamed you for stimulating their gang leader to run away, and at this time, Tianjizi sent a post, it must have been unkind!" ”
"What is there to be afraid of, with the current situation, he does not dare to attack us."
Zhong Li straightened his clothes and said lightly: "It's not too late to listen to their intentions before making plans." ”
Subsequently, he asked the Tianxian Gang disciples outside the house to come in for an interview.
The disciple respectfully handed over a big red sticker, and said, "The day after tomorrow is the sixtieth birthday of the deputy gang leader, I hope the two of you can go to the party." ”
"It's a great event."
Zhong Lifei smiled slightly and took the red sticker.
After reading the content, he nodded and said, "Please tell Brother Tianjizi, we will definitely participate then." ”
After this disciple left, Zhong Lifei's face immediately changed, and a pair of sword eyebrows twisted into a ball.
Finally, he sighed and said, "It's fast enough, it's finally time to see the poor dagger." ”
"Master, what do you mean by that?"
Chu Fan was stunned, not knowing why Zhong Lifei said a sentence that concealed a strong murderous intention.
Zhong Lifei said coldly: "The gang leader is missing, but Tianjizi is holding a banquet, don't you think it's strange?" ”
Chu Fan nodded and replied, "Yes, it seems that he wishes that Lingxuzi would die." At this time, aren't you afraid of other people's gossip? ”
"It's just a typical Hongmen banquet, it seems that Tianjizi was stimulated by me and couldn't stand it, and began to clean us up."
"It shouldn't be! We have helped Tianxian a lot, he wants to be unfavorable to us, and several elders will not agree! ”
"When his mother is older, you'll know all the answers."
Speaking of this, Zhong Lifei shook his head self-deprecatingly and asked his apprentice, "What do you think about the disappearance of Lingxuzi?" ”
"Uh...... To be honest, I'm a little worried. ”
"Huh?"
"I have a bad feeling that with the current condition of Lingxuzi, maybe he has been killed."
"Haha, you really know how to associate it!"
Immediately, Zhong Lifei lowered his voice and confided the truth: "Lingxuzi is very safe now, and there is nothing to do. ”
"How do you know that Lingxuzi is alive and well?"
Chu Fan, who was like a fallen cloud, suddenly woke up: "Could it be that the disappearance of Lingxuzi is the master's hand...... and feet?"
"That's right, it was because I saw that Lingxuzi was pretending to be crazy, so I cooperated with him in a play." Zhong Lifei said with a smile.
"What? You two are ......"
Just as he was about to say the word "acting", Chu Fan was stunned, remembering the scene when the master and Lingxuzi guessed the riddle.
If the first riddle is a normal brain teaser, then the last two are a little abnormal, not just teasing and teasing.
At that time, Zhong Lifei smiled evilly and said, Uncle Shi should not be in a hurry to answer, but think carefully to guess the riddle The sentence suddenly appeared in Chu Fan's mind.
This is a blatant hint, why didn't I notice it at the time?
Chu Fan immediately looked up at the master and said, "You are using riddles to send a message to Lingxuzi!" ”
"I finally saw it." A smile appeared on Zhong Lifei's lips.
"What does a cough and a gesture mean?"
Zhong Lifei smiled and explained the reason to his apprentice.
In the past, the Tianxian Gang was very strictly managed, and disciples were not allowed to go out to play without authorization.
Wang Quan and Lingxuzi are active by nature, and they always want to go out and relax after practicing every day.
In order to prevent being discovered and punished by the master, the two teenagers secretly researched two sets of secret codes to facilitate the transmission of information to each other in public without being discovered by others.
The code they used to connect was the coughing sound and gesture that Zhong Lifei had performed in the form of a guessing puzzle yesterday.
The cough sound indicates the number of days, one cough represents today, and two coughs represent tomorrow......
By analogy, a few coughs represent the number of days in the future.
The gesture represents the specific time, and the twelve hours of the day are represented by the left and right hands, and if it is the last hour, it is represented by the fist.
Hearing this, Chu Fan's eyes widened, and he said in a lost voice: "Your coughing sound and the three fingers of your right hand are hinting to Lingxuzi that you want him to leave the Tianxian Gang tonight?" ”
"That's right, so I infiltrated the Tianxian Gang in advance to pick up Lingxuzi."
"Master, you ......"
For a while, Chu Fan didn't know what to say.
But in the end, he asked without giving up: "Elder and Tianjizi haven't seen that the helper is pretending to be crazy and stupid for so many years, why can you find out that the helper is a normal person when you meet once?" ”
Zhong Lifei rubbed his temples, and then said, "Actually, it was Lingxuzi who tested me first, and I realized that there was something strange in it. ”
"Lingxuzi has tested you? How did I not know? Chu Fan was even more surprised.
"As the teacher said just now, there were a lot of rules in the Tianxian Gang at that time, and ordinary disciples had no chance to go out for a stroll, and it was even more impossible to know that there was a big parrot nest in the back mountain."
Chu Fan understood in an instant.
Lingxuzi used the parrot nest that only he and Wang Quan knew about to test the true identity of the master, and Zhong Lifei, who understood the meaning of the strings, naturally wanted to use code words to verify whether Lingxuzi was pretending to be crazy.
However, he still had questions lingering in his heart, so he asked again, "Why did Lingxuzi pretend to be crazy, and why did you help him escape from the Heavenly Sage Gang again?" ”
"This can be summed up as a problem, that is, there are people in the Tianxian Gang who want to harm Lingxuzi, and he has to pretend to be crazy to save his life."
Chu Fan frowned, and couldn't help asking, "This person is so bold, who is he?" ”
"My clever apprentice, don't you have an answer in your heart until now?"
"Heavenly Machine!" Chu Fan blurted out.
"That's right, it's the all-powerful deputy leader."
Zhong Lifei's voice was cold, with a hint of mockery.