Chapter 377: Exploring Qi Mansion at Night
Sima Mei stuffed a piece of muffin cake into his hand and said with a smile: "What are you, eat quickly, I'll take you to see the doctor after practicing the sword, look at you, why is there no blood at all, what's going on?" Liu Xing said: "I'm fine, I'm fine, I don't need to go to the doctor, thank you, senior sister." A series of words showed Liu Xing's panic. Sima Mei said: "Little junior brother, if you don't look at the doctor, you won't look at the doctor, the senior sister is in a panic, can you talk to the senior sister after practicing the sword?" When Liu Xing heard this, he was so frightened that he almost dropped the muffin cake in his hand to the ground, and hurriedly said: "Senior sister, we have a rule, after practicing the sword, you must go back to the dormitory to do your homework, and you can't move around. ”
Xuan Ling said on the side: "Senior Brother Liu is right, we can't go after class." Sima Mei asked, "When will the training camp end?" Xuan Ling said: "There are still ten days left." Sima Mei thought to herself: "If you ask Senior Brother Liu here, he will definitely not speak, and he will not say anything if he asks him out alone, but look at his face, his body is not as good as before, I don't know what means Qi Liren has used against him, and he has made a big boy who is jumping around like a broken willow." ”
Just thinking about it, suddenly a string of familiar laughter drilled into his ears: "Miss Sima, what kind of wind blows you here?" The disciples around him all turned around and shouted: "Qi Zhangmen!" The person who came was Qi Liren, the head of Shushan, he was twenty-seven or eighteen years old, standing proudly on the cliff, with an angular face handsome and abnormal, a hair raised in the wind, and a pair of slender peach blossom eyes under a pair of sword eyebrows, blurred and deep, making people fall into it if they were not careful, with a tall nose, moderately thick lips, and a dizzying smile. If she saw him in the past, Sima Mei would have to run to him with a coquette, but now that she saw it, she felt that this person's face was indescribably hateful and hateful, and she said lightly at the moment: "It's you who is in charge of Qi, what's the matter, do I have to let the wind blow when I come here?"
A glimmer of light flashed in Qi Liren's eyes, and he said with a smile: "Why does Miss Sima talk like this, you can go there if you like to go to this Shushan, who can control you, haha." Sima Mei said: "The beautiful words are so nice, why can't I go back when I have a home?" Qi Liren raised the corners of his mouth, showed an evil smile, and said: "Miss wants to come back, that's welcome at any time, when did you say that you won't go home?"
How intoxicating this smile used to be, but now Sima Mei felt that there were countless evils hidden under this smile at a glance, and she didn't want to talk to him more, so she walked to the edge of the cliff and raised her eyes to look at the snow-capped mountains not far away. Qi Liren looked at his former lover, only to see that she was thinner and haggard than before, her thin body stood quietly, as if she would be blown by the mountain wind at any time, and her plain white dress was illuminated by the golden light of the setting sun, like a layer of gold powder, exuding a holy light, like a dream.
Qi Liren sighed, and after pointing out the flaws in the sword array, he led all the juniors and disciples down the cliff. After everyone walked away, Li Yihang came out of the forest and said to Sima Mei: "He is Qi Liren, he looks so charming, no wonder you can't look down on others anymore." Sima Mei retracted her eyes and said, "Everyone said that the two of us were a pair made in heaven, but I didn't expect him to change his mind for that little goblin, and then kill my father." ”
Li Yihang asked: "Is that little junior sister very beautiful? Is it more attractive than you?" Sima Mei turned to look at him, shook her head and said, "When you see her, make your own judgment." After a while, he continued: "I just saw that Senior Brother Liu was in a very bad state, his face was black, his eyes were blank, and he was faintly covered with a layer of yin qi, and I felt that he would be in danger. Li Yihang said: "Senior Brother Liu has obvious dodging intentions towards you, thinking that Qi Liren has already forced him to ask him because of his dreams, and you have made a special trip to find him today, I am afraid that Qi Liren will poison him immediately, we have to find a way immediately." ”
But Liu Xing is under the supervision of all the junior brothers and brothers, how can he be found alone, as for Qi Liren to kill Liu Xing, it is just a guess by the two, if he is forcibly kidnapped, the movement caused must not be small, Shu Mountain is not big, and there is no place to hide, this plan is definitely not feasible.
The two of them frowned, relatively speechless. In the end, Sima Mei said: "If Qi Liren kills Senior Brother Liu and kills his mouth, then he will sit on the rumors of killing my father, forgive him for not being so bold, let's go back to the cloud first, and then find a way slowly." ”
The two returned to the hut, Sima Mei taught Li Yihang a few sets of shallow Shushan fist and foot kung fu, Li Yihang's martial arts have been superb, and then learn what new kung fu and new moves are very fast, he is not satisfied with the kung fu of these three-legged cats, and said: "Miss Sima, why don't you teach me some tricks, and when I go out, I have to play tricks on others." Sima Mei said: "Your conscience is very bad, our Shushan faction has strict rules, spells must not be passed on to outsiders, I can't help you with this, in addition, in fact, I don't know spells, and I am not qualified to learn it." ”
The two chatted for a while, and then went to sleep. On the second day, before Li Yihang got up, Sima Mei had already come back from outside, her face was full of grief and indignation, and she said, "Senior Brother Liu is dead!" Li Yihang was taken aback, jumped up from the bed, and asked, "How did you die?" Sima Mei said: "I heard from my senior brother, he hanged himself. Li Yihang said: "Whether it is suicide or homicide, Qi Liren can't escape the responsibility of the mastermind behind the scenes, you went to find Senior Brother Liu yesterday, obviously he has become suspicious and wary of you, we can no longer go to your Uncle Luo openly, otherwise it will arouse his vigilance, and our actions will be monitored everywhere." ”
From Sima Mei's mouth, I learned that the Shushan faction is now divided into three major factions, one faction of Qi Liren, one faction of Luo Shenyang, and a small number of neutral people, one of the two elders in the sect supports one faction, and there are a total of twenty-six brothers of the same generation as Sima Yingchuan, some support Qi Liren, some support Luo Shenyang, and some are not offended on both sides, and it is not about themselves to hang outsiders. Qi Liren is the head of the Shushan faction, and his power is even greater, and there is absolutely no chance of winning if he fights with him at the moment, so he can only secretly dig up his wall and destroy his foundation.
Li Yihang discussed with Sima Mei, now that Liu Xing "committed suicide", only Zhao Yuanyuan may know the inside story of Sima Yingchuan's killing, and he wants to visit her tonight. Sima Mei said: "The two are now a gang, and on October 25 on the 20th, the two will get married, and it is absolutely impossible to find out the information from her mouth." Li Yihang said: "No matter what, I also want to see this woman who robbed you of Langjun." Sima Mei didn't have a better way, so she wanted to go with him, Li Yihang waved his hand and said: "According to your current skills, entering and leaving the Qi Mansion is very dangerous, it is better for me to go alone." Sima Mei couldn't compete with him, so she explained to him the structure and layout of her original apartment, and drew sketches to deepen his impression.
After everything was ready, when night fell, Li Yihang was dressed in black, and slipped out of the back door, Shu Mountain is a paradise-like existence, and there is the obstruction of the ghost valley, there has never been a criminal case on the mountain, and there are very few people on duty to keep vigil, Li Yihang carefully paid attention to many parties, and soon came to the outside of Qi Liren's residence, which is where the head of the house lives, and the scale is indeed much larger than Luo Zaoyang's house. This time Li Yihang did not dare to squat under the window, but jumped on the roof with light skills, lying on the ridge, and listened to the movement in the room.
After a long time, he didn't hear any movement, Li Yihang couldn't bear it, looked up at the sky, tonight the stars and moon were gone, so he had the courage to gently uncover the tiles and look under the house, but found that there was no one in the house. After a long while, two women finally pushed the door in, and in the dim candlelight, they could see that the woman in front was slim, but they couldn't see what they looked like. The person behind the woman was a maid, so she only listened to her: "Miss, you go to bed early, don't think about Liu Xing's affairs anymore." The woman said, "Well, you go out." ”
The woman sat in front of the dressing table without saying a word, not knowing what she was thinking, Li Yihang secretly thought: "Is she thinking about Liu Xing, Liu Xing is dead, it is a good thing for them, she should be happy, is he worried that Qi Liren will attack her?"
At the second watch, the door was opened, and the person who walked in was the Qi Liren he had seen during the day, he saw that the little junior sister Zhao Yuanyuan was still sitting in a daze, he was stunned, and said: "Little junior sister, why don't you sleep?" Zhao Yuanyuan said: "Senior Brother Qi, you are back, I can't sleep." Qi Lidao: "Why can't you sleep, are you thinking about Liu Xing's death?"
Zhao Yuanyuan nodded slowly, and said: "Senior brother, why do you say that Senior Brother Liu can't think of committing suicide?" Qi Lidao: "What a good place, Senior Brother Liu has been in a trance for more than ten days, and he always makes mistakes when rehearsing the sword formation, for which I also criticized him several times and asked him what was going on, but he always shook his head and said that he was fine, but unexpectedly, unexpectedly, alas!"
After being silent for a while, Zhao Yuanyuan said: "I heard that Senior Sister Sima went up to Tongyuan Cliff to see him yesterday, I don't know if this matter has anything to do with his death?" Qi Lidao: "Don't think nonsense, Senior Sister Sima just took some snacks and went up the cliff for all the senior brothers to eat, not specifically to find Senior Brother Liu, I don't think there is anything related between the two." Zhao Yuanyuan said: "I don't think this is like the style of my senior sister, I take snacks for them for no reason, there must be a purpose." ”
Qi Liren sighed and said, "Then what purpose do you say she will have?" Zhao Yuanyuan said: "Recently, rumors have been circulating in the faction, saying that you are not, I wonder if Senior Sister She wants to inquire about the truth from Senior Brother Liu?" Qi Liren said: "These things that are not true, do you actually believe them?" Zhao Yuanyuan stood up, threw himself into her arms, and said, "Husband, how dare I doubt you, it's just that not long after the rumors came out, Senior Brother Liu committed suicide, and others, others don't know what to think." Qi Liren held her shoulders and said in a low voice: "Silly pig, I am standing up straight, others can think whatever they like, how can we manage it?"
Zhao Yuanyuan said: "I don't care what others think, but Senior Sister has become suspicious of us, so we have to guard against it." Qi Liren laughed in a low voice: "Sima Mei only has a good skin, but her brain is made of mud, she is a straw bale character, she is not worried, don't worry." Zhao Yuanyuan said: "I'm not worried about her, but I'm worried that she will get involved with the third uncle, which will be very bad for us." ”
Qi Liren helped her sit on the bed and said: "Your senior sister has a lump of elm, her brain is not civilized, she has greatly offended several senior uncles in order to help me win the position of the head of the family, the two sides are tense, water and fire are incompatible, how can you come together with the third uncle, you are too worried." After speaking, he kissed Zhao Yuanyuan, and the two kissed for a while, Zhao Yuanyuan pushed him away and said, "But I heard that she went to the third uncle's house yesterday." Qi Liren was stunned and asked, "What did she do when she went to Luo Shenyang's house?"
Zhao Yuanyuan shook his head and said: "What are you going to do, I don't know, but the matter is very mysterious, the third uncle sent all the subordinates away, and I didn't hear anything." Qi Liren stood up, paced back and forth in the room a few times, and muttered: "This can't underestimate her, what's the matter with this stupid girl, why did her head suddenly change her sex, and she went to Luo's house and sent snacks?" Zhao Yuanyuan said: "I heard that there is also a stout woman who went to Luo's house with her." ”
Qi Lidao: "Stout woman, who is that, how can there be such a person?" Zhao Yuanyuan said: "Uncle Hu doesn't know either, and said that they went to the secret room in the end." Li Yihang secretly scolded in his heart: "Oops, this Wang Ba actually planted eyeliner in Luofu's house, how come even Luo Shenyang and Miss don't know, this is very troublesome." ”
Qi Liren's face was full of anger, and he said: "Sima Mei is so bold, she dares to bring outsiders into the mountain, hehe, now I'm afraid I won't find your handle, see how I clean you up." The tone was cold and vicious, as if the feelings of more than ten years had never remained in his heart. Zhao Yuanyuan said: "Husband, let's not startle the snakes first, as if we don't know anything, just secretly monitor them, just pay attention to them from time to time, if they have any rebellious actions, after the evidence is conclusive, we will take the opportunity to wipe them all out and never suffer in the future." ”
Li Yihang thought again: "Wasp's tail needle, the most poisonous woman's heart, this sentence to describe you Zhao Yuanyuan, that can't be wrong." “
Qi Lidao: "Madame is scheming, from tomorrow, I will send someone to secretly stare at Sima Mei, you must tell Uncle Hu to be very careful, and never show any traces of it, I will make an appointment with all the people, arrange everything, just wait for them to Putou, and wait for me to cut the grass and eradicate the roots of the blood stained Shu Mountain!"
The two talked for a while, then untied their clothes and blew out the lights and went to bed, Li Yihang didn't know what Qi Liren's martial arts were, so he didn't dare to leave immediately, and lay quietly motionless.
After a while, the sound of men and women coming from the room was unexpectedly happy, unrestrained, and swaying. Sighs, moans came in bursts, drilled into Li Yihang's ears, the voice was thick and flattering, and occasionally mixed with the sound of panting and calling for help, until Li Yihang's face was red and red, and the fever did not go away, and he wanted to listen to it, but where could he be?
Yihang tried to calm himself down, carefully put the tiles back in place, pretended to make a few cat meows, walked gently to the ridge, and when Zhao Yuanyuan screamed the loudest, he jumped to the ground and hurriedly left. Back in the hut, Li Yihang's face had not yet receded, Sima Mei was quite strange when she saw it, and asked, "Have you been caught chasing, why are you blushing like this?" Li Yihang calmed down and said: "No, how can I let others find out, Miss, who is Uncle Hu?" Sima Mei said: "Why are you still called Miss Other, is our relationship so strange?" Li Yihang listened to the coquettish voice, saw the extremely beautiful face, smelled the special fragrance emitted by her body, the spring outside was strong, it was the moment of the good night, and his heart couldn't help but swing, and secretly screamed: "Oops, you must hold back, hold back." ”
Suddenly, there was a "snap", Li Yihang slapped him in the face, Sima Mei was taken aback and said, "What's the matter?" Li Yihang said: "It's so itchy, mosquitoes bite me." Sima Mei said: "Liar, there have never been mosquitoes in Shushan." Li Yihang said: "It's so magical, there are no mosquitoes, it must be dog fleas." Sima Mei looked at him strangely and said, "There won't be these little things on Shu Mountain." Li Yihang shouted: "Oops, will there be cats on Shu Mountain?"
Sima Mei said: "There are cats and dogs." Li Yihang patted his chest, softened, and said, "It's dangerous." Sima Mei said: "What, did you pretend to be a cat or a dog just now?" Li Yihang praised: "Miss Mei is so smart, you can guess it, and the Qi Li people also say that you are an elm pimple." Sima Mei said: "He said well, in front of him, my head was like a mush, he said anything, never had his own opinions, very messy." Li Yihang said: "That's because you love him too much and rely on him too much, and now you are getting out of his whirlpool and having your own ideas and opinions, which is a great thing." ”
Sima Mei said: "Don't talk about this, have you found anything?" Li Yihang repeated what he heard, of course he didn't say anything about Hehuan. Sima Mei said: "Alas, even I don't know that Uncle Hu is the eyeliner of Qi Liren, this stinky thief has long left a hand on me, but I hate him with all my heart." Yihang, you go and inform the third uncle right now, arrest this old servant, and beat him for questioning. Li Yihang nodded and said, "Someone will come to monitor you tomorrow, I can't come in and out of here often, then we will act when the opportunity comes, don't go to the third uncle's house without my instructions." ”
He didn't know what Uncle Hu was, he didn't dare to ask the servant for directions, he found the largest room after entering Luo's mansion, jumped on the roof, uncovered the tiles, threw a stone into it, there was immediate movement in the room, lit a candle, Li Yihang recognized that the person was Luo Shenyang, and shouted: "Third uncle." Jumping out of the house, Luo Shenyang had already knocked on the door and invited him in.
Li Yihang said: "Third Uncle, I'm really sorry to come to disturb you so late." Luo Shenyang squinted a pair of loose eyes and said, "Why do you still say this, sit down quickly, what have you heard?"
Li Yihang repeated it again, Luo Shenyang listened, stood there stunned for a while, obviously not convinced, and said: "It's really hateful, this Qi Li person is really capable, he bought the old servant who has been with my family for more than 50 years, no wonder I am restrained by him everywhere, if I suspect the traitor, I will never suspect Uncle Hu's head, Li Gongzi, you wait here, I will arrest the old beast to settle the account." ”
Li Yihang grabbed him and said, "Uncle Luo, don't worry, don't worry, Uncle Tiger is a good chess piece in our hands, don't mess around." Luo Shenyang said: "Do you want to make a plan?" Li Yihang said: "That's right, didn't Qi Liren say that he wanted to wipe us out, we can set up a bureau, through Uncle Hu, lure him into the bait, and kill him by surprise." ”
Luo Shenyang sat down, thought for a moment and said: "I really didn't know that the situation was so urgent, I was still taking one step at a time, but I didn't know that the enemy had put the big knife on my neck, thanks to Li Shaoxia's timely appearance." Li Yihang said: "It's not the time to talk about this, Uncle Luo, did you invite someone to come over to discuss yesterday?" Luo Shenyang said: "Please, but I didn't discuss anything substantial." ”
Li Yihang said: "It doesn't matter, as long as we let Uncle Hu pass on the information and let Qi Liren know that we have something to do, let's wait for the opportunity to appear." If there is no good opportunity, create a good opportunity. It is inconvenient for me to go around now, so I ask Uncle Luo to arrange a secret place for me to live. Luo Shenyang said: "There are many places to live, please rest assured that Li Gongzi." ”
On the second night, Li Yihang and Luo Shenyang quietly went out with hoes, came to Liu Xing's burial place, dug out Liu Xing's thin coffin, opened the coffin board, Luo Shenyang took a closer look at the corpse, and said: "Liu Xing hanged himself, but look at his red spots, obviously he was poisoned by mercury and other poisons, it must be Qi Liren who drugged his food, causing him to be in a trance, and then cast a small spell, which can make him walk into the magic barrier, and then hang himself." Li Yihang nodded to him, returned to the house, and said: "Qi Liren killed people, Sima was undoubtedly killed by him, how should we expose the hypocrisy of this traitor?"
Luo Shenyang said: "This matter is not in a hurry, I will invite everyone again tomorrow, talk about this matter, and discuss how to deal with it." Li Yihang said: "Okay, you don't have to avoid Uncle Hu at this meeting, as long as you don't let him hear the content of the discussion, and also, you send henchmen to keep an eye on Uncle Hu to see how he informed Yue Yuanyuan, maybe he is not the only spy in your family." ”
Luo Shenyang became more and more frightened by what he said, and felt that few people could trust him. Li Yihang asked him: "Do you have any eyeliner on Qi Liren's side?" Luo Shenyang shook his head, Li Yihang said: "Alas, you don't even do this most basic thing, no wonder you can't fight them, don't talk about it yet, call everyone to the secret room tomorrow to see what result can be discussed." ”
On the morning of the second day, Luo Shenyang brought back bad news that Sima Mei was arrested by Qi Liren and placed under house arrest. Li Yihang was taken aback and said: "Didn't that bastard say that he wanted to catch them all, why did he startle the snake in advance, could it be that the situation has changed?" Luo Shenyang's fourth junior brother Feng Lan said: "I'm afraid that Qi Liren is afraid that we will be the first to attack, and he himself is not ready, so he first arrested the young lady as a hostage." Li Yihang said: "He arrested Miss Sima, it is nothing more than saying that she took outsiders into the mountain without permission, the third or fourth uncle, you boldly went to ask him for someone, Qi Liren has no evidence, and he can't bring out the matter of Uncle Hu, he doesn't dare not let people go." Luo Shenyang said: "In this way, the contradiction will be made public, and I don't know if it is beneficial for us to get him down?" Miss Sima will not be in danger of life for the time being, I think we might as well wait for a few days and see what he does." Feng Lan also said: "It's not appropriate to turn your face with him first, let's wait and see what happens." Li Yihang saw that both of them had this attitude, and there was no way, so he said: "Okay, we can't have differences at the moment, I'll go over to find out about Miss Sima in the evening." ”
Luo Shenyang said: "Li Shaoxia also participates in this afternoon's meeting, you are an outsider, you may see the problem more clearly than us." Li Yihang nodded in agreement.
In the afternoon, more than a dozen people came, even Luo Shenyang's uncle Qingfengzi also came, Luo Shenyang asked Uncle Hu to invite the guests into the secret room one by one, then closed the door and sent people to guard outside.
He first introduced Li Yihang to everyone, and after Li Yihang greeted each senior, he said: "Uncle Qingfeng, senior brothers and sisters, I believe everyone has also heard about the suicide of his disciple Liu Xing, I called everyone to come this time for this matter, I went to check Liu Xing's body with Li Shaoxia last night, and found that he had chronic poisoning, and the poison of mercury was poisonous, what do you think?" In this way, it is very likely that the head of Sima was killed by Qi Liren, Qi Liren killed him in order to protect himself, and he couldn't take into account the gossip of others, it seems that he wants to jump over the wall in a hurry, everyone should be careful. Qingfengzi's eldest apprentice Shi Zhi said: "Master is right, after Miss Sima looked for Liu Xing once, Qi Liren couldn't wait, and instead of slowly poisoning Liu Xing, he directly performed a spell to make him hang himself, Sima Zhao's heart is known to passers-by." ”
Luo Shenyang said: "Senior Brother Shi is right, now Miss Sima is being detained by him under the pretext of bringing outsiders into the mountain, do you have any way to deal with it?" A junior brother named Bai Xunji said: "Senior Brother Luo, I think we should prepare in advance, as soon as he has any trouble, let's do it immediately, and strike first." Everyone nodded and applauded. After discussing for a long time, but he didn't come up with any good ideas, they all responded passively, and they didn't even agree on how to contact the code, Li Yihang couldn't help but be a little anxious, and said: "Seniors, we don't have a system to deal with it, and the temporary combination is fighting separately. ”
When everyone heard his words, although they were unhappy, they had to admit that everyone calmed down, and Qingfengzi said: "I don't know what Li Shaoxia's opinion is?" 1.