Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Assassins
Yue Ziran frowned and walked out of the room, just in time to see Xiao San climbing upstairs in a panic.
"What's going on?" Yue Ziran asked.
Seeing Yue Ziran, Xiao San seemed to be a lot more steady, he held on to the wooden fence, took a breath and said, "Shopkeeper, Third Brother Liu has been detained by officers and soldiers, and now they are searching for Sister-in-law Qu downstairs." ”
"What?" Yue Ziran was surprised, and Huang Rong in the room hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"
"Oh," Yue Ziran was afraid that she would be worried, and said, "Sister-in-law Qu is sick, you rest first, and I'll take a look." With that, he and Xiao San walked downstairs.
"Who did you listen to?" Yue Ziran asked.
Xiao San pointed in the direction of Liu Laosan's butcher shop and said, "The third brother's home has been sealed by officers and soldiers. ”
At this time, Ma Dutou walked upstairs with a few brothers, saw Yuezi and then blinked his right eye first, and then commanded: "You guys are all carefully searched downstairs, and the other few go upstairs with me to search." ”
More than a dozen soldiers downstairs answered, and began to carefully check the drinkers in the store. Yu Qiaogeng, who was drinking, raised his head, there was some doubt in his eyes, and when he looked at Yue Ziran, he pointed at those soldiers imperceptibly, and asked Yue Ziran if these soldiers were coming at him. Yue Ziran shook his head, signaling that he didn't get into any trouble, and he didn't act rashly. After getting Yue Ziran's reply, Yu Qiao Gengcai raised the wine jar again and drank it with taste, looking at the soldiers beside him as if they were nothing.
Ma Du led a few of his brothers and Yue Ziran back upstairs before turning around and instructing, "It's enough to be like this." ”
"Don't worry, boss. In the shopkeeper Yue, we have a sense of proportion. The brothers behind replied softly, and then shouted loudly. Ma Dutou pulled Yue Ziran to an unmanned guest room, and only after making sure that no one was paying attention to this side did he speak, "Where's Sister-in-law Qu?"
Yue Ziran shook his head and asked, "What's the matter?"
Ma Dutou poured a cup of herbal tea and drank it all before saying, "Don't mention it, the palace guards showed an assassin when they were patrolling last night, and I heard that they were a butcher in our area, so they asked me to identify someone this morning." When I looked over, it was Liu Laosan, who often drank with you. Later, I heard from the Forbidden Army that there was also a very tall female Assassin who was injured but escaped. However, they soon found out her identity, and now they are searching for Sister-in-law Qu all over the city. ”
Yue Ziran frowned and said, "Strange, how could Sister-in-law Qu and Third Brother Liu go to the palace?"
"Who knows. Ma Dutou waved his hand and said in a low voice: "Sister-in-law Qu is familiar with you, I thought it would be hidden from you, but looking at your doubts now, it doesn't seem to be a fake." Hurry up and find Sister-in-law Qu and arrange her out of the city, don't be caught and punished. When I went to the prison this morning to identify people, Liu Laosan had already been tortured to the point of being inhuman. ”
Yue Ziran nodded in understanding, and arched his hand: "Thank you Ma Dutou." ”
Ma Dutou knocked on his chest and said, "What's polite, who are the two of us." Okay, I'll go first, this matter has alarmed the privy envoy, if you save Sister-in-law Qu, you must be careful. ”
Yue Ziran nodded to signal that he could save it, and Ma Dutou stopped talking too much, and after going out, he also pretended to be a bit of a gesture before collecting his troops and leading the team away.
After Yue Ziran went downstairs, he sat on the seat and thought for a while, then took out some steamed buns from the inner hall and handed them to a beggar with three sacks hanging outside the door. The beggar nodded in understanding, and when Yue Ziran entered the tavern, he opened his mouth to eat half a steamed bun, grabbed a few more in his hand, and distributed the rest to the other beggars before turning around and leaving.
"Nothing, right?" asked Yu Qiaogeng, who walked over to him.
Yue Ziran shook his head, and just said, "There is a friend who has some problems, but I can still solve this little thing." ”
Yu Qiaogeng didn't say much, took another sip of wine, and praised: "This wine is really damn good, and I also took this altar away." As for the money, I can't get much money for a day of firewood. ”
Yue Ziran raised his eyebrows and said, "I naturally know that you are here to rub wine." By the way, will you cure a woman's abdominal pain during menstruation?"
Yu Qiao Geng lifted the wine jar and said with a smile: "Then you really look down on the old fish, I still have a cure for ordinary diseases, and I have no problem with the girl's disease, let's go, let me know when you need the old fish." ”
Yue Ziran nodded, and after thinking about it for a while, he still couldn't understand why Sister-in-law Qu and Liu Laosan sneaked into the palace, so he could only shake his head, pick up the carving knife and wood on the table, and go upstairs to take care of Huang Rong.
One of the advantages of beggars helping disciples all over the world is that it is much faster to find people than the imperial court. At dusk that day, Yue Ziran already knew the location of Sister-in-law Qu.
However, after learning that the environment in which Sister-in-law Qu is now is quite safe, Yue Ziran did not rush to verify the doubts in his heart, but after breakfast the next day, he carried a sword and leisurely went to the street, walked through a few long streets, browsed a few markets, went to the Su Causeway, and crossed the West Lake until mid-morning, when he stopped at a teahouse on the bustling street on the west side of the West Lake.
The teahouse is very simple, but it is not sluggish in winter, and there are many customers in the teahouse, such as merchants, passing travelers, coolies returning from labor, and a poor and sour talent who is stepping on a stool, holding a folding fan in his left hand, and telling a story with words in his mouth.
If it weren't for the news of the beggar gang to be true, Yue Ziran would never have imagined that there would be another mystery here.
Yue Ziran entered the teahouse and knocked on the table of the proprietress of the teahouse with a dog-beating stick. The proprietress raised her head and said with a smile: "Guest officer, what do you drink?"
Yue Ziran shook his head and said in a low voice, "I'm looking for Sister-in-law Qu." ”
The smile on the proprietress stagnated for a moment, then bloomed again, and said, "What Sister-in-law Qu, we only have Sister-in-law Tiger here, no Sister-in-law Qu, have you found the wrong place?"
"Sue her, I'm Yue Ziran. Sister-in-law Qu will naturally meet me. Yue Ziran continued.
The proprietress glanced left and right, and said with a wry smile: "Guest officer, I really don't know the person you are talking about, or I will ask you about our master." As he spoke, he stepped back, stayed away from Yuezi, and then laughed dryly, opened the curtain and went in.
Yue Ziran was not idle, and said to the eight-character nonsense book Xiucai who had stopped to look at him: "Romance of the Three Kingdoms? ”
The storyteller hugged his fists and said with a smile: "Guest officer, it's over." After that, ignoring the urging of a few guests listening to the book, he walked up to Yue Ziran and asked, "The guest official is from the east of the city? As he spoke, he took a few steps closer, and the merchant and a few coolies who were walking at his feet also inadvertently approached Yue Ziran at this time.
Yue Ziran played with a dog beating stick in his hand and said with a smile: "I wrote your Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and you have to remember to pay the royalty when you talk about it in the future." ”
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