Chapter Twenty-Three: A Sword
Hua Zhiyu was discussing something with Shopkeeper He outside the house, while Li Ling was squatting in front of Zhou Xiaoguo, and the two of them stared at each other.
Zhou Xiaoguo is very well-behaved, Yin Yin lost her only relative, and lost her brother who has been dependent on her for all these years, but she didn't cry and make a fuss, she just accepted this fact calmly, and her calm appearance didn't look like a six or seven-year-old child at all.
Li Ling felt very sorry for her, Zhou Xiaoguo's eyes were like stray cats on the side of the road, and he cowered when he looked at people, but he was a little strong. Li Ling wanted to step forward and give her a big hug, but Xiaoguo was a little detached from him, and just hugged the patched cloth tiger without saying a word.
After Hua Zhiyu finished chatting with Shopkeeper He, she walked in and glanced at Zhou Xiaoguo, her maternal instinct as a woman made her feel very sorry for this little girl. After thinking about it for a while, he took off a jade bracelet from his wrist and leaned over it on Zhou Xiaoguo's hand.
"The ex-boyfriend sent it, the high-end goods, I sent it to you. Hua Zhiyu touched Zhou Xiaoguo's head with a warm smile.
Li Ling smiled strangely: "Uncle Shi, do you still have an ex-ex-boyfriend?"
Hua Zhiyu stood up and glared at Li Ling, so frightened that he hurriedly shut down: "Take your little junior sister, let's go back to Chunyangmen." ”
Approaching noon, there was a hot scene in the Yuelai Inn, and the tempting aroma of the meal came to the nostrils, which made people can't help but sigh and move their index fingers. The lobby is very lively, there are many diners and travelers, and a few juniors are busy while serving food while attracting guests to their seats.
The news of Zhou Xiaoping's death has not been announced to the public, this is an inn after all, if the guests know that there is a death here, the future business will definitely be greatly affected.
On the roof of the Yuelai Inn, Su Yinxue stood with a long sword in the wind. Liu Qingyun stood aside, her eyes closed, as if she was feeling something.
"There is indeed a faint fluctuation of spiritual power. Liu Qingyun suddenly opened her eyes and said to Su Yinxue.
Su Yinxue's good-looking brows furrowed: "But why would a monk take the lives of ordinary people? ”
Liu Qingyun tilted her head and thought for a while and asked, "Can you quietly bring the account book?"
Su Yinxue nodded slightly, then disappeared in place, and when she reappeared in the next second, she was holding a thick book bound with thread in her hand.
At the same time, an exclamation from the bookkeeper came from the inn.
Liu Qingyun smiled helplessly: "I remember that I said that I would ...... quietly"
"Trouble. Su Yinxue glanced at him, and cherished the words like gold.
"There is only one inn in Daoxiang Town, and the first death happened here, so I suspect that the murderer is likely to live in the inn. After speaking, Liu Qingyun opened the account book and checked the check-in records of the past few days.
After a while, she pointed to a record in the ledger and said, "Look, this person stayed in the upper room of the Yuelai Inn two days ago, but he never went downstairs. ”
Su Yinxue asked, "How do you know that it hasn't gone downstairs?"
"It lives in the upper room, and the price includes three meals a day and hot bathing, but the bookkeeper's mark shows that it has never been used. Liu Qingyun closed the ledger and analyzed, "All in all, there is suspicion." ”
Su Yinxue nodded, didn't speak, just silently drew her sword, the sword light was as clear as autumn water, and as cold as the remnant snow in early spring.
"Wait, return the ledger first," Liu Qingyun handed the ledger to Su Yinxue, "Remember, quietly!"
"Undress. Hua Zhiyu rolled up his sleeves and stood crossed, staring at Li Ling aggressively.
Li Ling clutched his chest, like a little girl who was about to be violated, and his tone trembled a little: "Uncle Shi, Xiaoguo is also here, it's not good for you to be like this......"
Zhou Xiaoguo, who was sitting on the small bench and playing with the cloth tiger, raised his eyes to look at him, put on an expression that was about me, and continued to fiddle with her "big white".
That's right, Da Bai, the name she gave to the cloth tiger.
Hua Zhiyu pointed to the steaming wooden barrel and rolled his eyes at Li Ling: "Take off your clothes and go in, do you want to become a waste?"
Li Ling scratched his head, he just watched Hua Zhiyu throw a lot of shimmering elixir into the wooden barrel, and knew that this was a medicinal bath specially prepared for him, but ......
"I'm shy. When Li Ling said this, he raised his head and chested his abdomen, gritted his teeth and puffed out his cheeks, looking heroic and heroic when he was generous.
Hua Zhiyu sighed: "It's like who is so rare that you can go in and soak for an hour, and I'll take Xiaoguo to take a bath." After speaking, he took Zhou Xiaoguo and exited the room.
When Li Ling saw her leave, he immediately stripped himself naked, in fact, he had already begun to feel a faint pain in his body, just like hundreds of ants were biting him in his body.
Just about to enter the barrel, Hua Zhiyu took Zhou Xiaoguo back again.
The three pairs of eyes looked at each other, and after a while, Hua Zhiyu covered Xiaoguo's eyes and shouted angrily: "Why are you taking off so fast!
Li Ling hurriedly got into the barrel with a look of grievance: "Uncle Shi, why are you back again?"
Hua Zhiyu angrily threw a medicine bottle to Li Ling: "Soak while eating!" After speaking, he took Xiaoguo and left without looking back.
As soon as Li Ling caught the medicine bottle, he suddenly felt a hot pain in his skin, which provoked him to jump out of the barrel at once, and his body was as red as a boiled prawn: "I'll go!
The water temperature is so hot that it seems to be boiling Li Ling as a Tang monk!
"Scalding you big-headed ghost!" Hua Zhiyu shouted angrily outside the door, "I told you to soak while eating!"
Li Ling was stunned, pulled out the small stopper at the mouth of the medicine bottle, and poured out a small light blue pill, dripping with water vapor. Swallowing it in disbelief, and then soaking it in the wooden barrel, the water temperature was indeed not hot, and the medicinal power in the water and the pills he took repaired his damaged spiritual veins together, and it was as comfortable as soaking in a jacuzzi.
After soaking for about an hour, the medicinal power in the medicinal bath had been exhausted, but Li Ling fell asleep in the wooden barrel without heart or lungs.
"This kid has really grown up," a lazy voice spoke in a daze, and a cold finger was pinching his face, "before the yin was a little bigger." ”
"Now we all know that we are shy. Hua Zhiyu said with a chuckle.
"Don't pretend to be asleep when you wake up. The lazy voice said, and the force of pinching his face was a little stronger.
Li Ling opened his eyes helplessly, he had indeed woken up, but considering that he was sitting naked in the barrel, it was a little embarrassing to wake up now.
"I do know that I'm shy. The owner of the lazy voice wore a long black dress, embroidered with gilded mysterious lines, and a warm hosta was inserted in the bun. Wearing heavy makeup, her face is as graceful and elegant as Yang Yuhuan, and her eyebrows and eyes are smiling and revealing a bit of self-inflicted disaster on the country and the people, but her expression is so lazy and misanthropic, as if she can handle the destruction of the world calmly and applaud to celebrate.
Tang Tang, of unknown age, is the head of the Chunyang Sect and Li Ling's master.
"Division...... Master?" Li Ling said tentatively.
"It seems that his cultivation has just been taken away, and his brain is still there. Tang Tang squinted and looked at Li Ling with a smile and said.
"Don't worry, your apprentice is fine. Hua Zhiyu nodded and said.
Tang Tang said "um" and said, "Put on your clothes and don't catch a cold." After speaking, he turned around and followed Hua Zhiyu out of the door.
Under the pine tree outside the small courtyard, Tang Tang pinched the slender cigarette stick, hid his eyes behind the curling green mist, and said with a sneer: "I really don't take my pure yang gate in my eyes more and more." ”
Hua Zhiyu stood behind her and said, "You mean the person who took away Ling'er's cultivation?"
Tang Tang snorted coldly: "What's more." I guessed that it wouldn't be good for the Lingyun Hall to summon me to participate in the Immortal Yuan Conference, and those pheasant sects really set their sights on the Dao system in my hands. ”
"What do they say?" Hua Zhiyu's face was gloomy.
"They said that after two years, the disciples of the Pure Yang Sect must obtain a ranking in the Immortal Yun Trial, otherwise they will have to hand over the Dao system. Tang Tang took a puff of dry tobacco and said coldly.
"Could this matter be related to this nightmare mystery case?" Hua Zhiyu said after thinking for a moment.
"No, they will only use this kind of small means on the dark side to force me to hand over the Dao system," Tang Tang shook his head, "Directly attack my people and borrow the courage of the two of them!"
Liu Qingyun and Su Yinxue stood outside the door, one left and one right, and the others in the inn had already evacuated in advance.
If it is really an evil cultivator, I am afraid that a big war will inevitably occur, and if ordinary people still stay here, the aftermath of the fight will not be able to bear it.
Liu Qingyun clasped a few silver needles in her hand and nodded at Su Yinxue.
The door fell apart in an instant, Su Yinxue shot extremely fast, and the sword light was like a toppled river, lake and sea, with an extreme sense of oppression!
The head of the sect commented that Su Yinxue was the only one among the disciples of recent generations who had comprehended the true meaning of the Pure Yang Gate Taixu Sword Classic!
But the sword light stopped abruptly, because Su Yinxue saw an acquaintance, who was Wang Huan, the chef of Yuelai Inn. But his eyes were closed, his face pale, and he was choked by the throat by a man in the shadows and carried it in his hands.
"I expected you to come for revenge," the figure spoke, and it was actually a woman's voice, "a hostage has been specially prepared in advance, you are the right way, you should stop." ”
"Demon woman!" Liu Qingyun scolded angrily, "Let the people go!"
The person in the shadows smiled coquettishly: "Little sister, are you stupid for me?"
"Why do you want to kill people?" asked Su Yinxue in a cold voice.
The figure took two steps forward and walked into the sun, the purple dress outlined a seductive figure, charming and natural, with a tear mole in the corner of the eye, with a bit of bewitching atmosphere, but there was some pity for me. The slender fingers pinched the two-hundred-pound Chef Wang, looking a little disobedient.
"I'm injured," the woman didn't shy away from showing Liu Qingyun and Su Yinxue the wound on her abdomen, "so I need the boy's life force to heal." ”
The woman said that it was a good time, as if murder was a matter of course for her.
"With so many healing methods, do you have to kill people?" Liu Qingyun stared at the woman, her face unkind.
"The others are too troublesome," the woman smiled sewitchingly, "I hate trouble, and it's still convenient to kill." ”
"And ......" The woman suddenly let go of Chef Wang and threw it on the ground, and a momentum suddenly burst out, and a dark green flame appeared around her.
"Why do you think you can be my opponent?"
The woman's eyes are full of indifference, no wonder she has a lot of time, no wonder she hates trouble, because she has no fear!
She casually threw away the hostages, because she didn't need them, and after a short conversation she had already established one thing.
The two little girls in front of her are not her opponents at all!