On a large round bed, more than a dozen women wearing bandeau tops and light veils are formed in two or three circles inside and out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Half-lying in the center of the info is the intoxicated old Cao.

These dozen or so scantily clad women, some pinched Lao Cao's shoulders and knocked his legs on the back, some kept pouring wine into his mouth to feed grapes, and a few couldn't squeeze in, at first they wanted to "serve" Ding Yu, but Ding Yu hurriedly refused, saying that he was just here to listen and see, and the only one who really "did things" was the old drunkard lying on the bed.

Several Qinglou women glanced at Ding Yu with regretful and strange eyes, and then came back to Lao Cao's side.

Lao Cao sat up from the pile of fat powder with difficulty, pushed away the grapes handed to his mouth, swallowed the wine in his mouth, cleared his throat, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, let's not be in a hurry to make love first, my lord, I like to inquire about some rumors in the rivers and lakes, among you, who will tell the lord about a recent rumor in the rivers and lakes, if you say it well, the lord will reward her with ten taels of silver!"

When the girls heard this, they were still a little skeptical, and Xiao Lanjiao, who fed the grapes to Lao Cao, said in a coquettish voice: "Master, the slave knows a rumor that a good man died late at night, are you willing to listen to it?"

Lao Cao waved his hand: "But it's okay to talk about it!"

Xiaolan said: "The slave's cousin lives in the west of the city, and on the night of the sixth day of the first month of this month, he went home drunk, and when he walked to the mouth of an alley near his home, he suddenly heard a muffled snort coming out of the alley, and then the nearby dogs barked wildly. He didn't pay attention at the time and went straight home. It wasn't until the next day that I heard that someone had been stabbed to death in that alley last night, and it was said that he had been stabbed in the back of the heart and died on the spot. And the person who died seems to be a good man with a name and a surname on the rivers and lakes, what is called 'stepping on the snow without a trace', and what is in vain. ”

Ding Yu felt a pang in his heart, he had also heard of this person's name, it was said that he was a lone thief, especially good at light skills, and he was besieged by a large number of enemies several times, and he got out with light skills, but he didn't expect to die in Gusu City.

Xiaolan continued: "When my cousin heard this, he was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat. Master, you think, the muffled snort he heard at that time must have been the sound of being stabbed to death in vain, in case he was curious at that time and walked into the alley to see what was going on, wouldn't he have been stabbed to death by the murderer!"

Lao Cao clapped his hands and praised: "This rumor is well-said, the master has a reward!" As he spoke, he took out a silver ticket of ten taels and stuffed it into Xiaolan's hand, and touched a few handfuls by the way.

Seeing that they could get real money by telling a joke, the women searched their stomachs one after another, and told the rumors they had heard about the rivers and lakes recently, most of which were about the martial arts people who were killed nearby;

In addition, there are a few people, but they said that there are a few treasure maps in the Jiangnan martial arts recently, and I heard that as long as you get together these treasure maps, you can find countless gold and silver treasures. At first, few people believed it, but for some reason, the more it spread, the more true it became, many martial arts people fought for these remnant pictures, and finally it seemed that several martial arts factions stood up and decided to decide the ownership of the treasure map through a competition.

Hearing this, Ding Yu, who had been silent, suddenly asked, "How many remnants are there?"

The women shook their heads and said, "We don't know about this, some say four or five, some say five or six, and some say dozen." ”

Ding Yu asked again: "Among you, do any of you know that there is a place called Swallow Dock on the edge of Taihu Lake?"

This time, all the women said they didn't know.

Ding Yu nodded, stood up, and said, "I want to ask, I've finished asking." Lao Cao, you continue. Then he turned and opened the door and left.

As soon as he walked out of Baihualou, Lao Cao chased him out from behind. Ding Yu was surprised and said, "Why is Lao Cao so fast? Could it be that he is old and no longer majestic?"

Lao Cao's face turned dark, and he said angrily: "What nonsense! Lao Cao, I don't fall with a golden gun, and I don't have to fight ten girls at night, and I am majestic! It's just that our purpose this time is to investigate the news, and now it's just the beginning, how can we delay the business for fun!"

Hearing this, an ominous premonition rose in Ding Yu's heart, "It's just the beginning?

"That's right! My old Cao is so meticulous in doing things!"

So, the meticulous old Cao led Ding Yu to patronize the second Qinglou, repeated what he had done before, and spent more than three hundred taels of silver tickets again, and came up with an almost unanimous answer.

Ding Yu highly suspected that the old drunkard was looking for him to "check the news" with him, not to find someone to pay the high prostitution fee for him. He didn't care about the hundreds of taels of silver, the problem was that he didn't want to watch a reality show with a monotonous plot and a head and no end repeatedly.

Originally, Lao Cao wanted to go to the third room, but when he saw Ding Yu's almost unbearable face, he dispelled his thoughts. He laughed and said, "Ding Yu, your Dharma cultivation is still a little worse. As the saying goes, emptiness is not different color, color is not different from emptiness. Although Lao Cao and I are ordinary people, in order to visit an important piece of news, I also visited eighteen green buildings in a row without changing my face! Come on, this is to use the remaining silver tickets, you are good at collecting it. ”

Ding Yu looked at the silver tickets stained with inexplicable liquid, the green tendons on his forehead flared up, and it took a lot of effort to resist the urge to beat the old drunkard violently, gritted his teeth and said: "No need, Lao Cao, you have just 'contributed' a lot, these silver tickets can be kept to buy medicinal herbs to replenish the kidneys!"

Lao Cao said with a smile: "Little Lao'er has a strong waist, so he can't buy any medicinal materials to replenish his kidneys." But I can't say that these **** still have to visit, I'll take this silver ticket first. Without further ado, what did you notice from the news you just got?"

Seeing that the old drunkard was talking about the topic, Ding Yu also calmed down and said, "There is indeed something wrong." I think Chang Tianshu didn't tell me the truth completely, etc., this ring match may not be just a league competition. ”

"Yes," Lao Cao agreed, "The old man thinks so too." This is not a place to talk, why don't we find a quiet place?"

The two found a quiet restaurant, opened a private room, and after ordering some drinks and dishes at random, they told the running hall not to come in and disturb them, and then they continued the topic just now.

Lao Cao said: "Chang Tianshu told us that the reason for holding the alliance competition is that since Jiangnan was merged into the Song Dynasty, the old and new forces on the official side have alternated, resulting in more and more chaos in the Jiangnan martial arts, so the Jiangnan Martial Arts League should be established to establish a new order in the martial arts."

When I first heard that, I was a little puzzled. Jiangnan has been merged into Song Tu for seven or eight years, even if there will be chaos when it is initially merged, but after so many years, with the strength of the Zhao official family, how can it tolerate the more and more chaotic Jiangnan martial arts?

Earlier, in the Qinglou, those women said that there were frequent martial arts people dying on the streets, which was actually a matter of the last month or so. Another recent incident is the outflow of treasure remnants. Of course, it may be a coincidence that the two are so close in time. But those women also said that there were several major sects that were trying to decide the ownership of the treasure map through a martial arts competition, and it happened that at this time, it was also the Jiangnan Martial Arts League's alliance competition. Could this be a coincidence? The old man didn't believe it. (To be continued.) )