Chapter 60, the truth is difficult to distinguish
[The seventy-first year of the Great Qiankang Dynasty, March 14, Youshi, Chang'an City Star Picking Tower, Sixth Floor Chenfeng Pavilion]
Song Jinhua heard that Li Ci compared him with Xu Ke, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, and said in his heart, How can I compare with my disease-free brother? He can be fortunate enough to enter the Divine King Pavilion and become the personal disciple of the master of the White Old Pavilion, how can I, Song Jinhua, have such an opportunity?
At this time, Kang Youren, who had been silent beside him for a long time, heard Li Xi's words, but suddenly asked: "The Xu Ke that the prince said is not the Tsing Yi Wei Baihu, whose family lives in Liquanfang in Chang'an City?"
Li Ci glanced at Kang Youren and didn't answer, Song Jinhua said: "You're right, he lives in Liquanfang, but at this time, he is no longer a hundred households, but has been promoted to a thousand households!"
"It turned out to be him!" Kang Youren said thoughtfully.
He suddenly recalled that in the Quanhu Lake of the Chu King's Mansion that day, the King of Chu once wanted to send someone to get rid of this "Xu Baihu", and at that time, in order to facilitate his work, the King of Chu also asked him to try to provide a hidden weapon.
"How...... Gongzi Kang, do you know Xu Ke?" asked Song Jinhua.
"Hmm...... It's not Kang who knows him, it's the King of Chu who knows him!" Kang Youren nodded and said.
"My eldest brother knows him too, what's going on?" Li Qiqi said.
So, Kang Youren told Li Ci all the information he knew, including the experience of Qin Jianxun, the secretary of the military department of the King of Chu, who sent the elite generals in the army as killers to assassinate Xu Ke late at night, and how he returned with a feather.
After listening to this, Li Xi pondered for a long time, and asked in the first sentence:
"Xiaokang, according to what you said, the eighteen killers sent by my eldest brother that night, all of them were strong martial arts in the army, plus your Kangmen's unique secret weapon 'Thunderbolt Lightning Bead'...... The other party is only a hundred households, why can't you help him?"
Kang Youren said: "I also feel puzzled, it stands to reason that my Kangmen's 'Thunderbolt Thunder Bead', the middle one is burned immediately, and he will never die, among the eighteen people, only one person needs to succeed, and this Xu Ke has no reason to survive." Moreover, I heard that none of the eighteen good players sent by Qin Jianxun that night came back alive, it seems that this Xu Ke's kung fu is really not weak!"
Li Ci kept tapping his fingers on the table, nodded and said:
"Hmm...... It's not simple, it's certainly not simple! It seems that this person is really not simple!"
Li Qi hurriedly said to Song Jinhua: "Jinhua, you hurry up and check that Xu Ke to see who this person is? Is there any monster hidden in the house?"
Kang Youren immediately asked: "Does the prince think that there are still any masters hidden in Xu Ke's mansion?"
"Otherwise!" Li Ci glanced at Kang Youren and said impatiently: "You don't think about it, with such a powerful secret weapon as your Kangmen, how can ordinary people dodge?! He must have a hidden master in his Xu Mansion! Moreover, this king can almost conclude that this master must not be an ordinary person, perhaps, he (she) is a monster!"
"Monster ......?" Kang Youren said with some doubts: "Now, there are rumors everywhere in Chang'an City, saying that there is a cat demon who is haunting young and strong men everywhere, and more than a dozen have been killed, is it ......?"
"Hehe!" Li Cidang said: "Xiaokang, what you said makes sense! There is a cat demon in Chang'an City, and there may also be a demon in Xu Ke's mansion, maybe the two are the same demon!"
Seeing that Song Jinhua was silent, Li Xi immediately said:
"Jinhua, this king knows that you have some friendship with that Xu Ke, I heard you say it before, and you have also been a colleague with him in the household department for a while. But ......" Li Ci's words turned, his face turned cold, and he suddenly said in a deep voice:
"Jinhua! You have to put yourself in the right position, you are the king's person! As the saying goes, 'The king worries about the death of his ministers'! What this king asks you to do, there is naturally a reason for this king! You can use your relationship with Xu Ke to go to his mansion to investigate it this time!"
Li Ci then turned his head and instructed Kang Youren:
"Xiaokang, you also go to investigate together! If necessary, you can find your friends on the rivers and lakes, openly and secretly, and give this king to investigate carefully, this king wants to know, what 'master' is hidden in this Xu Ke's mansion?!"
This time, Song Jinhua had no reason to shirk, he had to bow his hand with Kang Youren, and replied in unison:
"Subordinates obey!"
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At the same time, above their heads, in the "Dengyun Pavilion" on the seventh floor, "Murong Huan" and "Li Yi" were drinking wine and talking happily.
It's a pity that they are not really Murong Huan and Li Yi, otherwise, with the martial arts cultivation of the two of them, the secret conversation between the three people downstairs has already reached their ears.
Murong Yan and Li Qi stayed in the "Dengyun Pavilion" for nearly an hour, until they were full of food and drink, and then slowly went downstairs.
According to the rules of Zhao Wang Li Yi, he only nodded "um" when he ordered, and never reported the name of the dish, and all the dishes on it had to be done at the discretion of the hall, and when he was eating in the pavilion, no one was allowed to enter and disturb him. Therefore, today's fake Li Yi and fake Murong Huan sat in the "Dengyun Pavilion" for a long time and were not disturbed in the slightest.
The two women drank wine, enjoyed the scenery, ate and chatted freely, and both of them ate happily at today's dinner.
Of course, they didn't expect that there was a man running through the streets late at night, just to find the two of them quickly.
Murong Yan and Li Qi went downstairs leisurely, Li Qi looked into the aisle on the sixth floor, there was no quiet figure there, naturally, her starling Li Qi had already left with his subordinates......
The two of them got out of the Star Picking Tower and walked straight to the south of the city.
They hadn't seen the cat demon at all, and they didn't know where the cat demon was hiding, and they only did it inadvertently as they went all the way south.
After three moments, they had already walked to the vicinity of Yong'an Fang in the south of the city.
There is a house in Yong'an Fang, Chang'an City, which is the courtyard of King Zhao, and Li Yi, King of Zhao, gave it a name, called "Mei Xuezhai".
At this time, it was the right time, and the entire Chang'an City had completely fallen into darkness. Thousands of households were silent at this time, and there was not the slightest trace of people on the street.
What makes Li Qi feel even more strange is that even the soldiers and horses of the forbidden army patrolling the city have been greatly reduced, but those Tsing Yi guards have gradually increased, and the left team and the right team on the street are all Tsing Yi guards wearing soap suits.
Although Li Qi is now her third brother Li Yi's appearance, after all, her voice is different, and in order to avoid the trouble of inspection, she picked up some remote alleys all the way. Fortunately, the moonlight is bright tonight, and wherever the moonlight goes, although it is a remote alley, the vision of the two is not hindered.
When Li Qi and Murong Yan walked to the vicinity of Yong'an Fang, Murong Yan was already a little out of breath, and she walked for half an hour and night, and she didn't know the slightest martial arts, how could she resist such fatigue?
Seeing this, Li Qi couldn't help but regret a little in her heart, she didn't expect Murong Ya's body to be so delicate. She looked left and right, and immediately remembered, isn't this place near Mei Xuezhai?
So, Li Qi simply took Murong Yan and went straight to Meixuezhai. When he walked to the door of Mei Xuezhai, after Li Qi stepped forward and knocked on the door, Yiqing hurriedly ran over and opened the door.
When Yiqing saw the two of them at first glance, he couldn't help but exclaim:
"Brother Li Yi, Master Murong, why did you come to me?"
When Yi Qing was puzzled, she suddenly heard the voices of two young girls, laughing together, and she vaguely heard that one of them was the seventeenth princess who accompanied her every day.
"Sister Yiqing, it's me!hehehe......" Li Qi covered her mouth and smiled.
Yiqing immediately grabbed "Li Yi's" hand, pinched her face again, and said with a smile: "Dead girl, where did you learn this disguise technique, you actually pretend to be so like!"
It's just that Yi Qingming knew that this was Li Qi's face, and when her fingers really touched the face of "Li Yi", she couldn't help but blush, just because Murong Yan's disguise and makeup change technique was too realistic, if it weren't for the different voices, even Yi Qing couldn't tell the truth of the person in front of her.
"Li Yi" clapped his hands and laughed: "Sister Yiqing, how is it? You can't recognize me, can you? Guess again, who is this 'Murong Gongzi'?"
"Who is this ......?" Yiqing looked at the Murong Huan standing proudly in front of him, although he knew that he was pretending to be a person, but he really couldn't guess it.
"Sister Yiqing, can't you guess?" "Murong Huan" suddenly changed into a little woman's attitude, clapping his hands and laughing.
"Original...... It's Xiao Yan's sister!" Yiqing suddenly said.
At that moment, Yiqing led Murong Yan and Li Qi into the courtyard and sat in her inner room. The three girls were already of the same age, and when they sat together at this time, they were like sisters, chattering non-stop.
Before they knew it, they had been chatting for two quarters, until the time came, and Li Qi remembered that they had spent a lot of trouble and came out in disguise late at night to catch demons. At that moment, she pulled Murong Yan, and the two wanted to go out.
Yiqing heard that the two of them were actually coming to attract demons in disguise, and she couldn't cry or laugh in her heart. She knew Li Qi's princess temper, and if she was directly stopped from going out, Li Qi would naturally refuse. At that moment, she had to go out with the two girls.
The three women left Mei Xuezhai, stepped out of Yong'an Fang, and walked in the streets and alleys in the south of Chang'an City. It was late at night, and a huge full moon was hanging high in the middle of the sky overhead, and the moonlight was like mercury, illuminating the surrounding roof tiles in a snow-white color. At that time, there was silence in Chang'an City, and the three of them walked cautiously to the south, only to feel that the surrounding silence was terrifying, as if even the sound of moonlight falling on the ground could be faintly heard......
Suddenly, Yiqing, who was walking in front, stopped, she raised her hand and nodded forward, signaling the two behind her to pay attention to the front. The three of them saw that in a small alley in front of them, a woman's figure could be faintly seen, floating along. The woman, as if she was also twenty-eight years old, was slender and graceful, but her face was covered with a thin veil.
Li Qi couldn't bear it the most, and said busily: "In the middle of the night, how could a woman come out......?"
"Cat demon!" all three of them couldn't help but say in unison.
So, Yiqing led Li Qi and Murong Yan, and the three of them sped up their footsteps and tiptoed to follow the veiled woman forward.
The veiled girl, sometimes like a wind, sometimes like a drizzle, she walked slowly, sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes left and right, her body was erratic, and she looked like a ghost in such a quiet night. Murong Yan behind her couldn't help but be a little scared, if it weren't for Li Qi and Yiqing in front of her, she couldn't wait to turn around and run away!
In Murong Yan's heart, she couldn't help but think of Xu Ke. She said in her heart, if my brother is here, no matter what I met before, whether it is a demon or a ghost, I will not be so afraid.
At this time, if Xu Ke was really here, he would immediately be able to recognize that the veiled girl in front of him was the singer he rescued in the Deyue Tower that day......
Suddenly, Yi Qing saw that the veiled woman in front of her was getting faster and faster, as if she was about to abandon them in an instant, she was in a hurry, so she had to grab the right hand of "Murong Huan" behind her, and she raised her breath and walked quickly, so frightened that the mighty "Murong Gongzi" couldn't help but "ouch", her body shook, and she almost fell down.
Yiqing was in a hurry, forgetting that "Murong Huan" didn't know the slightest martial arts, she saw that "Murong Huan" was not on a stable footing, so she hurriedly helped each other, but it was just so late, and the woman in front of her who was covered with a light veil had disappeared.
"She's gone!" Quick!" Li Qi saw that the "cat demon" suddenly disappeared, and shouted: "Let's chase!"
"Sister Xiaoqi, be careful!" Yiqing didn't worry about Li Qi, so she hurriedly picked up "Murong Huan", followed Li Qi closely, and chased after her.
The three of them chased to the corner, and the whereabouts of the veiled woman were long gone, only a gust of wind suddenly swept to the ground, only to frighten Murong Yan and exclaimed:
"Ah...... There are ghosts!"
After the wind passed, the three of them looked at it intently, and sure enough, a figure suddenly appeared not far ahead.
At this time, the moonlight stretched the figure to a long time, and the black shadow swayed and came, and in such a silent night, it was really terrible to watch. At this moment, not only Murong Yan, but even Li Qi and Yiqing couldn't help but panic in their hearts......
"Could it be...... Are there really ghosts?"