Chapter 369: The Wolf Lord (2)
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That woman turned out to be Shangguan Mi'er of the Fire Phoenix Legion, and her coarse cloth thorn skirt could not hide her natural beauty, but she was a little less noble and more of a small jasper. As soon as she recognized Ling Hujue, her face changed slightly, and she moved lightly and sat down at a table next to her. His face was condensed, his eyebrows were slightly frowned, and he was obviously thinking about something.
Ling Hujue's expression also became natural, turned his face sideways, and thought deeply without saying a word: Why did she come here?
In this world, although it is not uncommon for a lone woman to go to a restaurant, Shangguan Mi'er's Xiuyan still attracted the amazing and greedy eyes of some diners in the restaurant, and King Li and the wild wolf also glanced at each other, and smiled at each other without making a sound.
A cousin went up to serve, but was rejected by Shangguan Mi'er and others on the grounds that he had already waited, and coughed lightly. Ling Fox's heartstrings moved, pursed the corners of his lips, and indifferently sent a glance.
Shangguan Mi'er noticed out of the corner of her eye that Ling Hu Jue had moved his gaze, his hand was dipped in tea, and he quickly paddled on the table, then snorted coldly, stood up, and hurried downstairs.
Ling Hu Jue's mind turned, and before the muttering cousin went to clean up, he took an arrow step and came to the table where Shangguan Mi'er had just sat down, with three water words on it: Follow me. After flicking the sleeves of his robe, Ling Hu Jue returned to his original seat and said in a low voice: "Two big brothers, I have something to do when I go out." Before he finished speaking, he rushed downstairs like a gust of wind, leaving King Li and the wild wolf sitting in a daze, like the second monk, confused.
Out of the restaurant, Ling Hu Jue just saw Shangguan Mi'er's figure disappearing into a horizontal alley twenty steps away, she obviously saw Ling Hu Jue coming down, and then she walked into the alley. Without hesitation. Ling Hu Jue let go of his footsteps and hurriedly chased after him. It's a dead end seven or eight feet wide. Both sides are full of the back wall of the house, in a back door like a moon hole, Shangguan Mi'er stood quietly, I haven't seen her for more than a year, her arrogance and pungency have obviously been restrained a lot, at a glance, there is also a sense of ability!
Raising her head, Shangguan Mi'er stared at Ling Hu Jue with a pair of autumn water-like eyes. After a while, she said quietly: "Linghu Jue, we meet again." β
Rubbing his hands in some embarrassment, Ling Hu Jue smiled bitterly: "I'm sorry, it was indeed me who shot hard back then." β
Shangguan Mi'er was stunned, obviously surprised by this sudden apology, remembering that back then, Linghu Jue was not like this, staring at Linghu Jue's sincere apologetic gaze, she faintly felt that Linghu Jue had changed.
Yes. Linghu is absolutely changing, the experience of more than a year. Let him become mature and think about problems from multiple perspectives. In the case of Oka, he now thought that he felt that he had gone too far, so he freely admitted that it was not in his consideration how much understanding he could get.
Closing her eyes, the two strings of beads fell under her ears and shook gently, Shangguan Mi'er sighed, her eyes were worried, and she said in a low voice: "I also learned a little bit about what happened later, okay, don't mention it, tell me the purpose of your visit this time, right?"
Stunned for a moment, Ling Hu Jue said suspiciously: "Purpose, what purpose?"
There was a hint of confusion on Shangguan Mi'er's beautiful and heroic face, and she said, "You're not here for food?"
With a raised eyebrow, Ling Hu said incomprehensibly: "Grain?"
From Ling Hujue's expression, Shangguan Mi'er couldn't see a trace of fakeness, she hesitated for a moment, since Ling Hujue sacrificed her life to save her that night, coupled with a series of falcon divisions' actions, she had completely changed her opinion on Ling Hujue. So, he bit his lower lip and said: "Recently, there has been a shortage of food in the empire, and the rise in prices has affected the foundation of the empire, and I thought you were also here for this matter." β
His face tightened, and Ling Hu Jue said in a low voice: "What's going on, you tell me in detail." "He is a little nervous, most of the grain in Crow City has always been purchased from the empire's merchant groups, if the food is tight and the price of food rises, it will have a great impact on the Falcon Division and Crow City.
Her face was also solemn, and Shangguan Mi'er said solemnly: "Originally, we didn't pay attention to this matter, the empire has had frequent wars in the past year, and it is reasonable that the price of grain has risen slightly." However, when we were collecting military rations recently, we discovered a problem that aroused our vigilance: There was a merchant group called "Yanyue", as early as half a year ago, they used the method of paying in advance to purchase grain in the empire, and as soon as the autumn grain was put on the market, they hoarded it and secretly transferred it. β
Linghu's heart jumped, food is the foundation of people's livelihood, if there is a problem, it is more terrible than a war. So, with a gloomy face, he said, "The empire didn't take any measures?"
Shangguan Mi'er's expression changed again and again, and she bit her lip and said: "This year, the political situation and the war situation have been ups and downs, who else cares about this? Moreover, that merchant group is very secretive, and the area where they buy grain is very widely distributed, if it weren't for General Stuart's quick decision and investigation throughout the empire, no trace of them can be found." After saying that, she looked at Ling Hu Jue with very strange eyes, because she remembered that after this incident, General Stuart's first suspicion was Ling Hu Jue, suspecting that he was secretly manipulating.
Ling Fox's eyebrows became more and more gloomy, and his intuition told him that this was definitely not an ordinary merchant group's means of profiteering, so he groaned slightly, and said quietly: "Have you found out the background of that merchant group?"
Shangguan Mi'er half-raised her face, her expression was gloomy, but it contained incomparable perseverance, and said slowly: "Of course, after finding this merchant group, we followed this line to investigate, the other party was very alert, and what we found was only some middlemen who made the difference, and finally we found a clue in the dark line of Geya City, saying that this merchant group may be related to a lady of Marquis Lei. β
Marquis de Renault. Ling Hu Jue was shocked when he heard this name, isn't this the enemy husband of Sister Xiaoyue? He remembered those conversations with Sister Xiaoyue's Lady Yanzi at that time, and his handsome face reflected an unprecedented solemnity, and he said with a loss: "Then what does this have to do with you coming here?"
There was a touch of fortitude in her eyes, and Shangguan Mi'er said: "We followed this clue and found that the last place where this marquise and most of the grain appeared was this town, and we sent three groups of spies to collect clues, but all of them were missing." Thereupon. General Stuart sent me and some of his guards. β
Linghu definitely understood. The reason why Shangguan Mi'er acted sneakily and asked him to come here was obviously to treat him as someone who came to investigate the matter. After pacing back and forth for a few steps, Ling Hu Jue said solemnly: "Is that marquise called Madame Swallow?"
Slightly surprised, Shangguan Mi'er said, "How do you know?"
After thinking about it for a while, Ling Hu Jue felt that it was still necessary to tell SΓΉ Stutt some news, and said solemnly: "That Marquis of Renault may be a spy, as for Madame Swallow, this person has something to do with me." When I see him, things will be clear. β
Shangguan Mi'er was even more stunned, a little unsure of the meaning of Ling Hu's words, and said puzzledly: "What do you have to do with that Lady Swallow?"
Linghu Jue talked about the relationship between Xiaoyue and Lady Swallow, and emphasized Lady Swallow's intentions, in case Stuart did something unfavorable to her.
Nodding with great trust, Shangguan Mi'er said: "General Stuart also suspects that there is something wrong with this Marquis of Renault, and has already started to investigate." β
Ling Hu Jue shook his head a little dazedly, and said with a puzzled look in his eyes: "How could such a large amount of grain suddenly disappear, and why did they transport the grain here?"
Shangguan Mi'er lowered her head and neck slightly. After a moment's hesitation, he said, "They may have used special equipment to transport food, and. This place is only thousands of miles away from the sand fox camp of the Liulai Empire. β
It was clear what Shangguan Mi'er meant, and it was clear that Stuart had suspected that this incident was planned by the Liulai Empire behind it. Bowing slightly, Ling Hu Jue said in a deep voice: "Very likely, it seems that some tribes can't hold it back?"
Without thinking through the true meaning of Ling Hu's words, Shangguan Mi'er said in confusion: "Then should we continue to investigate?" Since Mrs. Yanzi is the person who makes Ling Hu Jue, there is little point in investigating further.
Thinking about it, Ling Hu did not answer immediately, and Shangguan Mi'er's beautiful face with a touch of anxiety gradually expanded in his pupils. Suddenly, the sword eyebrows in the sideburns were raised, and Ling Hu said: "Since the other party has already noticed it, if you don't check, it will arouse suspicion, so pretend, but you must be careful." I'm going to go to Madame Swallow and ask what's going on, and I'll get back to you when I'm done. β
Shangguan Mi'er was surprised and delighted, looked at Ling Hujue for a long time, and then said with a little gratitude: "Thank you." β
Ling Hu Jue waved his hand, hesitated for a moment and said, "Shangguan Ruoyu is your sister?"
The small nose and wings kept buzzing, and Shangguan Mi'er said in surprise and shock: "Do you know Sister Ruoyu?"
Ling Hu Jue nodded and said slowly, "Can you tell me about her situation?"
After a little hesitation, Shangguan Mi'er said in embarrassment: "To be honest, Sister Ruoyu and I have only met a few times, although we have talked about it, but I don't know it, I only know that she is the niece of her stepmother, and she seems to be cultivating in a certain sect, which is very powerful." When she said the last few words, her eyes faintly revealed admiration, and it was also that for her, a high-ranking commander, the knighthood was definitely the pinnacle of unattainable.
It seems that this Shangguan Ruoyu is very mysterious. Ling Hu Jue secretly paid, his eyes stared at the clouds in the distant sky, and he faintly felt that the appearance of those two killers was related to Shangguan Ruoyu.
A pedestrian entered the alley, Shangguan Mi'er nodded to Linghu Jue, and hurriedly walked out of the alley. Linghu Jue also pondered and walked slowly!
In the restaurant, the dishes on the table were also moved, but the wine was drunk a lot, and the table was full of empty tin pots. King Li and the wolf drank each other, and their faces were slightly reddened. Is it any wonder that the old brother has such a good relationship with them? Ling Hu Jue secretly paid a smile, sat down again, and put his thoughts on the side for the time being.
Putting down the wine glass, the wild wolf looked at Ling Hujue interestingly, and said in a suppressed voice, "What's the matter?
With a free and easy smile, Ling Hu Jue raised his chopsticks to pick up the vegetables, took a sip of wine, and said, "Two big brothers, have you inquired about the place?"
Seeing that Linghu never wanted to mention what happened just now, the wild wolf didn't ask much, and after smiling heartily, he said in a low voice: "What's so difficult about this? I showed the map to those cousins, and I knew that I thought that this Qingyun Peak was taken by the Sword King himself." β
"That's good, come, I salute the two brothers. The three of them pushed the cups, and the time passed in a harmonious atmosphere...... (To be continued......)