Chapter 42: The Trap
Just when the auction was in full swing, Li Ling quietly went downstairs with the wind fly and entered a secret passage through an inconspicuous secret door.
"The auction is not over yet, I wonder where the two guests are going?" Just as the two of them walked forward in silence, a voice sounded from the front, and then Zhuo Qingying, who had a flat expression, appeared in front of the secret passage, just blocking the way of the two.
Li Ling didn't even raise his eyelids, and the wind fly beside him immediately stepped forward and said, "My master has something to deal with, so he needs to leave first." ”
"It turned out to be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Zhuo Qingying seemed to recognize the identity of the person who came, and said with a smile: "You can find out the mastermind behind the scenes just by looking at it, isn't Your Highness going to see the final result with your own eyes?"
Feng Yu quickly took over and said, "Didn't you arrange it a long time ago? Six hundred and one!"
Zhuo Qingying shrugged her shoulders noncommittally and said, "Having said that, none of the people who came this time were small characters, and maybe there would be some changes in the future." Presumably Your Highness doesn't want to have an accident, right?"
Before Feng Yu could speak, Li Ling had already said impatiently: "Steward Zhuo has something to say!"
"Okay, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is His Royal Highness the Prince, and I can see through the thoughts of the subordinates at a glance. Zhuo Qingying raised her eyebrows, glanced at Feng Yu disdainfully, and said as if she had a deep meaning, "It seems that the next goodbye will be changed in the next time." ”
Li Ling suddenly raised his head and smiled, looked directly into the other party's eyes, and said, "Steward Zhuo has encountered something difficult." But it doesn't hurt to say that. ”
Zhuo Qingying said with a smile: "Sure enough, the noble man has forgotten a lot, His Royal Highness seems to have forgotten the matter of promising to find the son of an old man for Zaixia." The portrait of that man was delivered to the mansion a few days ago, but His Highness didn't receive it?"
Hearing this, Feng Yu chuckled in his heart, and instantly remembered the kid who was beaten half to death before, and at that time he had already found that the appearance of that person was very similar to the portrait sent by Zhuo Qingying, but he didn't have time to tell Li Ling yet.
"What son of an old man?" Li Ling frowned and turned his head to look at the wind fly beside him.
Feng Yu had no choice but to lean into Li Ling's ear and tell him about the portrait, but he didn't dare to mention the matter in the woods, firstly, he was worried that Zhuo Qingying would hear it, and secondly, he was also thinking about his own life, if he let Li Ling know that the son of the old man was the 'waste' in his mouth, I don't know how many more incidents would arise. Don't talk about others, he will definitely be the first to be unlucky, which is called knowing and not reporting.
Zhuo Qingying didn't speak, just quietly watched the master and servant whispering, and a sneer appeared on her face.
After a while, Li Ling figured out what was going on, and frowned: "I really didn't know before this, but please rest assured, after I go back, I will order him to go down, as long as he really comes to Luoyang City, I promise that he will find someone within three days." ”
Zhuo Qingying stared at him for a long time, as if he wanted to see the clue from his face, but Li Ling really didn't know, so there was no flaw in his expression, but there seemed to be a dodge in the gaze of the wind fly beside him. So he nodded and said, "In that case, I won't delay Your Highness, please!" After speaking, he really turned sideways and moved out of the way.
Li Ling nodded, and walked forward without hesitation. The wind fly followed.
"Ahh
At the moment when the two sides passed by, a woman's scream came from the depths of another passage.
Li Ling Huo Ran turned his head to look at Zhuo Qingying, who also had a sudden change in face, and his direction changed and flew towards another fork in the road. However, he didn't run far away, and suddenly several ghost-faced people with blades appeared in front of him, all of them stopped in the middle of the road.
"Get out of the way!" Li Ling said in a deep voice, and then with a flick of his long sleeves, the surging internal force swept towards the ghost-faced man.
The ghost-faced man who can stay here will naturally not be a mediocre hand, and he was swept away by this strong internal force, and his body only shook a few times before he stood firm again, still silently blocking in the middle of the road.
"Steward Zhuo, what does this mean?" Li Ling said coldly.
Zhuo Qingying, who was stopped by the wind fly not far behind him, had returned to normal at this time, and said, "That is the place where Jing Weng rests, even I can't trespass." Your Highness, let's find another way. ”
"Don't pretend to be garlic!" Li Ling's silence disappeared as soon as he heard the scream, replaced by a face full of evil spirit, and said coldly, "Why is she here?" As he spoke, he flipped his palm and took out a small bell, although it looked extremely inconspicuous, it made the ghost-faced people on the other side show frightened eyes.
He said murderously: "If you don't get out of the way, you're welcome." He was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he simply came up with a killer idea.
"Soul Eater Bell!" Zhuo Qingying said angrily, "It turns out that you have already arranged for the backhand." "This Soul Eater Bell can be described as the nemesis of these ghost-faced people, and without these ghost-faced people, their next plan will not be implemented at all.
Li Ling sneered: "Why didn't Steward Zhuo arrange a backhand? Do you really think that this palace doesn't know that you have planted explosives in the hall?"
"Explosives?" This time it was Zhuo Qingying's turn to be shocked, and said incomprehensibly, "What explosives?"
Li Ling glanced at the wind fly, and the other party immediately added knowingly: "Steward Zhuo is afraid that he forgot the maid named Mingyin." Although your person looks very similar, but unfortunately the fake is fake, and even if you look like it, there will be flaws. And that girl was trained by the old man himself, how could she not tell the difference. ”
Zhuo Qingying was stunned and said, "What maid?" At this moment, Steward Zhuo was really at a loss, and secretly wondered in his heart, almost all the people in this auction were carefully selected by him, and none of them were named Mingyin at all, could it be that Jing Weng had other arrangements?
Just when he was puzzled, Jing Weng's voice sounded in his ears: "Bring them in!"
Zhuo Qingying waved his hand to make those ghost-faced people stand back, stepped forward with a dark face, and said, "There are still many doubts about this matter, if Your Highness doesn't mind, please follow me to see someone." Without looking at him, he strode forward and pushed open the stone door and walked in.
Li Ling followed without hesitation. Naturally, the wind flies followed.
Soon after, the three of them were standing in a dimly lit room, with a wizened figure sitting against the wall.
Zhuo Qingying said respectfully: "Jing Weng! they are here." ”
Jing Weng didn't look back, just said in a hoarse voice: "Well, go get busy with you!"
Zhuo Qingying hesitated for a moment, but still stubbornly said: "They said that there are explosives underground, I don't know if Jing Weng knows?"
Jing Weng snorted and said, "I know!"
Zhuo Qingying was a little speechless for a while, and didn't know how to ask the next sentence, so she finally retreated silently.
After he went out, Li Ling spoke: "Jing Weng's move can be different from the previous agreement, although this western suburb is inaccessible, but there are also occasional people who go into the mountains to hunt, if those explosives are detonated and innocent Jing Weng is injured, how can I explain to my father?"
"Why do you want to explain to him?" Jing Weng snorted and said, "It has made the old man unhappy, and even his cage has been destroyed." Little one, your broken bell will also deal with those things outside, which is not good for the old man. ”
Li Ling was shocked in his heart, stopped the movements in his hand, but said quietly on his face: "I have heard for a long time that the Wuji Immortal Palace is full of talents, and it is an aunt who sweeps the floor and cooks rice and knows some Xuanmen Taoism skills, I wonder if the rumors are true?"
"Hahahaha!" Jing Weng suddenly laughed and said, "It's a little interesting, I didn't expect Li Xiao, a despicable and shameless villain, to give birth to such a bold son." Interesting!" Shaking his head at this, he said to himself, "In this way, the old man really can't bear to kill you." Then his right hand moved slightly, as if to make a move.
Seeing this, Feng Yu was shocked, and hurriedly dodged to stop in front of Li Ling and shouted: "With me here, don't think about touching a single hair of my master." ”
Jing Weng didn't look back, just flicked his fingers, and a small pebble flew in.
The speed at which the pebbles flew was so fast that it was almost instantaneous. I only heard a crisp sound of 'click', and the wind fly was hit on the lip by a small stone before it had time to react, and a yellow tooth mixed with blood spit out in the pain of the heart.
Feng Yu looked at the teeth on the ground in disbelief, and then at the thin back, although the expression on his face was still not angry, but he really didn't dare to speak indiscriminately.
"This is just a lesson for you. Jing Weng said coldly, "I don't know self-love when I'm old, and I don't know what to do, but I want to be someone's lackey." Next time, the old man will lose more than just a front tooth. ”
Li Ling was also a little shocked by the other party's martial arts, he silently estimated it in his heart, and finally could reluctantly admit that if this stone was shot at him, he would not be able to avoid it.
Thinking of this, he spoke: "Since Jing Weng promised to wipe out those spies, it must have been arranged. I won't go into details. Speaking of this, he changed his words and said, "But the woman just now is the next friend, although I don't know where she offended Jing Weng, but I still ask Jing Weng to let her go for the sake of the five hundred boys and girls." ”
Jing Weng nodded and said, "That's how it should be!" After speaking, he twisted his head slightly, and said to a certain place, "Bring it out!"
A small door was pushed open from the inside, and the two ghost-faced people dragged out a woman whose hands and feet were chained, and without speaking, they walked up to Li Ling and threw her violently and turned around and walked back, and the woman suddenly let out a painful moan.
Only then did Li Ling find that her hands and feet were locked with iron chains, and the rough and cold iron chains had made deep blood marks on her hands and feet, probably because she had just been dragged along, and her white elbows were even more ground to blood.
He suddenly felt unbearable heartache, and he was about to get angry when he raised his sword eyebrows, and when he turned his head to catch a glimpse of Jing Weng's thin back, he forcibly suppressed his anger, and said in a deep voice: "She's just an innocent little girl, no matter how much she offends you, she shouldn't be treated like this, with all due respect, isn't it too much to do this?"
Jing Weng smiled and said: "The little girl can barely say it, just forget about being innocent." ”
Feng Yu wanted to step forward to check, but was pushed away by Li Ling, stepped forward and half picked up the other party's body, brushed away the long hair blocking her cheeks, and said with concern: "Zixi, do you think...... It's you!" he kicked at him, but he was so quick that he had already scratched his leg like lightning and rolled on the ground to avoid his kick.
Sharp nails cut through his trouser legs in an instant, leaving five deep scratches.