Chapter 15: Misfortune
Bai Ya and Chen Ming quickly exchanged sect number plates with each other, and although the two were not completely sure of each other's identities for the time being, the atmosphere finally eased.
The two of them belong to Qingcheng and the other belong to the local sect, and it doesn't take a few days to verify their identities.
Generally speaking, it will not be an impostor.
"Senior Brother Bai, you sneaked into Zeng's mansion, but also for that Zeng Si?" Chen Ming startled Bai Ya as soon as he spoke.
"Zeng Si, yes, yes, this old man is really hateful, he has been hiding in Zeng Xian's mansion, so I can't find a chance to start. Bai Ya's eyes rolled, nodded again and again, and pretended to be depressed and said, "I don't know if Senior Brother Chen has any good way to lure him out of the mansion?"
The Panlong Sect is not a big sect, but it is the inheritance of Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, and it can be regarded as orthodox in the Daomen.
Since Chen Ming belonged to the Panlong Sect, he naturally wouldn't kill Zeng Xian. It's just that the Panlong faction is a small sect, and it is estimated that it will not deliberately protect Zeng Xian.
Maybe Zeng Xian is a good official in the eyes of the world, but the Xianwu Sect is a strategic force, and it generally does not get involved in officialdom struggles, even if Qingcheng only dares to play some side balls.
Just like Qingduguan sent Bai Ya to Langzhong, the request was to escort him secretly to ensure that Zeng Xian was not killed by those green forest masters, rather than directly eradicating Zeng Xian's opponents in the officialdom.
"Hehe, the four of them are old and fine, and they are very well disguised, if it weren't for the senior brother of the Tiangong Academy who inadvertently met this person half a year ago, I'm afraid that no one knows that the big owl of the three poisons and nine lords more than ten years ago is still alive in the world......"
"Three Poisons and Nine Lords......" Bai Ya read it silently, remembering the news firmly, and asked tentatively, "Senior Brother Chen, you want to arrest this person to do the meritorious mission of the sect, right?"
"Hehe, aren't you?" Chen Ming grinned, he was already fierce and vicious, and under this smile, he was simply Zhong Kui's reincarnation.
"This guy looks so cold!" Bai Ya twitched the corner of his eyes, and he didn't realize that he was not a handsome guy.
"This ...... Senior Brother Chen, since you and I are both for the same purpose, why don't we work together?" Bai Ya said softly, "Anyway, after we arrest someone, we can each take a token and go back to pay the errand, and it is not a violation to cooperate in private!"
"A gentleman's word ......" Chen Ming smiled and stretched out a palm.
"Whip the horse!" Bai Ya slapped his hand happily, and then asked cautiously, "It's just...... After Senior Brother Chen entered the mansion, did he feel that the situation in the mansion was a little ...... Complicated?"
"Yes, in addition to you and me, there seem to be several other Jianghu guests in Zengfu. Chen Ming hesitated for a moment, then nodded and replied, "You say, could they be hired by other local sects to find out the news?"
He would be lured out by Bai Ya so simply tonight, he originally thought that someone else was competing with him for the task. You must know that although this merit task was on the merit list of the Panlong Sect, it was originally discovered by the disciples of the Tiangong Academy.
Chen Ming can cooperate with Bai Ya to arrest Zeng Si, then the sect will treat Bai Ya as his personal relationship, but if the collaborator is a disciple of another local sect, then he will definitely be deducted points.
"Oh, Senior Brother Chen, how did you tell that the other people were Green Forest Martial Artists and not sect disciples?" Bai Ya's eyes lit up and he asked curiously.
"I don't know if it's green or not, but it's definitely not a local martial artist!" Chen Ming shrugged his shoulders and said noncommittally, "I don't know the senior brothers of Tiangong Academy, Liuren Taoist Temple, and Guanjia Taoist Temple, but the sect spies in the city must know it!"
Bai Ya suddenly understood, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice.
"Of the five martial artists in Zengfu, in addition to you and me and Zeng Si, there are still Ning Sangu and Kong Qing left. A cold light flashed in Bai Ya's eyes, and he said cautiously, "I can't see the identity of Ning Sangu, but there is a good chance that Kong Qing is that Zeng Si's helper......"
"Oh, why did Senior Brother Bai say that?" Chen Ming frowned slightly and asked curiously.
"Hehe, what do you think, that Kong Qing only came a month ago, and Akari's identity is Zeng Xian's nephew in the same year. If this disguised identity was not instructed by a traitor who was familiar with Zeng's mansion, how could Kong Qing pretend to be presentable, and even Zeng Xian couldn't see it?"
Bai Ya smiled meaningfully, "The other sect disciples have hired the Green Forest figure to help, and they can't find such a suitable identity, right?"
"Senior Brother Bai is reasonable, then what do you mean......" Chen Ming nodded noncommittally.
"Zeng Si is cunning and cunning, it is difficult to be lured out of the Zeng Mansion, why don't we test Kong Qing tomorrow night, the two of us will work together, and we will definitely be able to capture this person alive!" Bai Ya said with a smile, "If Kong Qing comes to Zeng Si to help him, he should be able to lead Zeng Si out of him." ”
"Okay, it's a word, let the junior brother make the first move tomorrow, and Senior Brother Bai can sweep the formation in secret!" Chen Ming tilted his head and thought about it, although he felt that something was wrong, he couldn't find the flaw in Bai Ya's words for a while, so he had to come down first.
Besides, he felt that as long as he waited for dawn and found a sect spy to verify the identity of the cliff, then this Qingcheng disciple should not harm him.
Bai Ya held back a smile and watched Chen Ming leave.
He originally thought that Chen Ming was a killer, but now that he knew that this kid was here for Zeng Si, he almost didn't think about it and made up his mind to use Chen Ming.
He also has no choice, no matter whether Zeng Si was a good person before or not, for his merit task, it is all on his own side. At least before Zeng Xian is safe, he can't let Zeng Si's combat power go wrong, let alone let Chen Ming arrest the old guy.
Bai Ya originally thought that Zeng Si had not revealed the identity of the warriors of the people in the mansion, and it was possible that he had also been bought by Zeng Xian's opponent.
Now it seems that the old guy should not know that someone wants to kill Zeng Xian, thinking that these warriors are all coming at him.
This is simple, since Zeng Si has no problem, then Ning Sangu and Kong Qing will at least have bad intentions. Compared with Ning Sangu, who had been in the mansion for more than a year, Bai Ya naturally set the next target on Kong Qing.
As for Kong Qing's fake identity, in Chen Ming's opinion, there is indeed only one reason for being a traitor, but Bai Ya knows this fake identity, and it may also be given by Zeng Xian's opponent. After all, the other party is also a person in the officialdom and knows Zeng Xian very well.
"I didn't sleep in the middle of the night, I'm so tired!"
After getting up in the morning, Bai Ya looked listless, and there was still some pain in his body.
These injuries are all acupuncture points and veins that were pinched by Chen Ming last night, in fact, Chen Ming's martial arts routine last night is the orthodox ~ combat method of hard martial artists.
Hard skills and body protection are combined with short fights, point points, grappling, corner counter, and sleeping skills...... This is the standard configuration of hard martial artists. It doesn't matter if you have sword intent or not, as long as you stick it, you will be determined, and the difficulty of a hard martial artist lies in this.
And White Cliff's current tactics that rely purely on the power of tiger claws and big mudras are actually flawed. Coupled with his poor physical skills, it is difficult to win quickly when he encounters a sect martial artist like Chen Ming who also has hard skills.
After last night's battle, Bai Ya immediately became vigilant.
"You must comprehend the Mingxuan realm as soon as possible, otherwise, it will be too much of a loss to fight against others. ”
It's not that he doesn't know that his martial arts are flawed, it's just that Liu Yu has always warned him and won't let him learn more other martial arts at this stage.
If you learn martial arts, you have to practice, and if you don't practice until you enter the hall, you will put it down, and your martial arts will regress quickly. Bai Ya's previous boning knife techniques have reached the realm of integration, but once they have been put down in the past few years, they have also regressed.
However, if you want to practice a martial art to enter the house, it is not an overnight thing, and even simple martial arts will take a year or two.
The more martial artists below the artistic conception practice, the fewer martial arts defects, but the later the time to enter the artistic conception.
Martial artists with high comprehension don't care, because they practice a martial art until they enter the hall, and the time is several times faster than that of ordinary martial artists. The geniuses of the sect practice martial arts, basically paying equal attention to quantity and quality, and they will not care about the head and tail.
However, a guy with average understanding like Bai Ya has no choice but to keep improving. Knowing that martial arts were flawed, he didn't dare to practice more, so he had to endure hard and wait until he was promoted to the artistic conception before practicing.
At that time, the true intent of martial arts was stable, and practicing a few more martial arts would not have too much impact.
"Brother Ya'er, come on, the master has something to call for!" was when Bai Ya was thinking wildly, someone behind him shouted to him.
"Oh, got it!" Bai Ya looked back and found that it was Zeng Xian's groom.
This person's name is Zeng Kun, who was originally a horseman, but was later seriously injured and retired, and was taken in by Zeng Xian as a groom. is also a servant, he is the highest status in the mansion except for Zeng Si, because he also works part-time as Zeng Xian's bodyguard.
It's just that although Zeng Kun was born in the military, his combat effectiveness is not worth mentioning in the eyes of martial artists, so Bai Ya did not count him in the ranks of martial artists.
"How could Zeng Xian summon me?"
Bai Ya felt a little puzzled, but he obviously thought too much. When he arrived in the front yard of the mansion, he found that the servants of the Zeng Mansion had basically come, and everyone was gathered in one place.
In front of all the servants, the handsome middle-aged man with a national character face and a handful of beautiful hair under his chin is Zeng Xian, the owner of Zeng's Mansion.
On his left hand stood a military general in armor, this person was nine feet tall, holding a steel helmet, eyes like copper bells, black charcoal head full of meat, full of evil spirits, at first glance it was simply Li Kui's reincarnation.
In addition to this black whirlwind, there were more than a dozen heavily armed soldiers scattered around the front yard of Zeng's mansion.
"Something happened?" Bai Ya was stunned for a moment, and found Chen Ming in the crowd, but the tall feet of the Panlong Sect shook his head at him slightly, indicating that he didn't know what was going on.
"You don't have to panic, this is Pang Dianjian from the government office! Something happened in the house last night, and the official asked Pang Dianzhen to come over and assist in the investigation of the case. ”
Zeng Xian's eyes were deep, his gaze swept over the servants, and he said in a calm tone, "Wait for Pang Dianjian to ask you some questions, just answer them truthfully!" Pang Dianzhen, please ......."
After Zeng Xian retreated, that Pang Dianjian really began to interrogate everyone, and as soon as a few questions were asked, all the servants were quickly surprised, and only then did they understand what was going on.
It turned out that just last night, Zeng Xian's twelve-year-old only son Zeng Cen and Zeng Si's granddaughter Zeng Hui all lost their traces.
PS: It's later!