Chapter 9: The Old Man's Explanation
My head hurts, it's like being hit hard by a sledgehammer. Who is it, who dares to hit me!
Who the hell is it!
Chu Ziyan covered his eyes, Chu Ziyan finally woke up, but it seemed that his current situation was not very good. Around him, two people, one on the left and one on the right, laughing and compassionate, all looked at him with a gaze called ferocious.
"What are you guys doing?" Chu Ziyan stepped back, only to find that he was lying on the bed, and this was still the room where the old man was. It seemed that he had already come out of the Cuiyuan Pavilion, and when he thought of this, there was another pain in the top of his head. Chu Ziyan finally remembered that someone was attacking him from behind.
Chu Ziyan immediately pointed at the two people in front of him, "Which of you is beating me behind my back!"
"It's me!"
Neither Laughing Tianlang nor Compassion spoke, but was someone else. Chu Ziyan raised his eyes and looked over, and was suddenly startled. The old man didn't know when he stood in front of Chu Ziyan's eyes, and walked over with a flying knife in his left hand, looking at the flying knife spinning on the old man's fingertips, Chu Ziyan felt that his only choice now was to pass out quickly.
"Stop!" Chu Ziyan paused at the approaching old man, asking the old man to keep a distance of five feet from him, "Old man, I have done what you asked, please let me go!"
The old man turned the flying knife, and with a brush, a shadow rushed towards Chu Ziyan, who was so anxious that he yelled "Don't kill me" while drilling in the other direction of the bed.
"I didn't want to kill you, just give you a gift. The old man's voice finally rang out.
Chu Ziyan opened his eyes and looked at it, what fell on him was not a flying knife, but a portrait carved with a flying knife, picked it up and looked at it carefully, it was the old man's own sculpture that day, it looked vivid. Chu Ziyan held the statue in his hand, quite proud in his heart, looked at the old man and said, "Don't think that if you give me a gift, I will forgive you." If you don't let me go, I'll hate you all the same. ”
"Yo, the kid has a big temper. The old man's hand turned slightly, and the flying knife was nailed to the wall against Chu Ziyan's face. Chu Ziyan hadn't reacted yet, and looked at it in a daze.
"You, you don't keep your word. ”
Looking at Chu Ziyan's expression, the old man laughed, "I'm just helping you fight a fly, as for being so excited?"
Chu Ziyan turned his head and saw a small fly nailed to the wall, it turned out that the old man was playing tricks on himself, and he couldn't help but be angry in his heart, but when he saw such a flying knife stunt, he sighed in his heart that he couldn't escape.
Chu Ziyan decided to let go of the way, and raised his voice: "Okay, what are you going to do, just say it, although I, Chu Ziyan, am not a good man who stands up to the sky." But he's not a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death!"
Seeing that Chu Ziyan's mood was finally stabilized, the old man looked at Xiao Tianlang with a smile, meaning to let her tell Chu Ziyan everything about the matter. Xiao Tianlang sat down and finally began to speak. This matter still has to start with the death of the thief back then, the laughing Tianlang and the compassionate father and the old man are the brothers of the thief. The accidental and tragic death of the thief at the beginning, the two of them, like Xue Yingying, have been investigating the murderer who killed the thief all these years.
"Are you saying that you suspect that it was Xue Yingying who killed him?" Chu Ziyan looked at Xiao Tianlang intently, this was not a pleasant guess.
"Not bad. Xiao Tianlang affirmed that their father died early, leaving the map that the thief had left him to the two brothers, but at the same time he also handed over the matter to the two brothers.
Chu Ziyan finally understood the reason why the two followed Gongzixin, but he still asked suspiciously, "Why Xue Yingying?"
"I'll answer that matter. The old man pulled out a chair and sat down straight, "Because there were not many people who knew the whereabouts of the thief at the beginning, and most of them were close relatives." I found out that he had sent messages to me, his father, Xue Yingying and a few other people at that time. ”
"So you suspect it's Xue Yingying, but I heard that he's a thief," Chu Ziyan said in a circle, "Lover." ”
That's why she is even more suspicious, and she has been in trouble since ancient times. The old man said firmly. Looking at the old man's stubborn expression, Chu Ziyan felt that it was very likely that the old man was jealous that his brother could get such a beautiful woman.
"But what does that have to do with the painting you asked me to take?" Chu Ziyan asked.
Xiao Tianlang looked at Chu Ziyan strangely, "Don't you know the news that has been uploaded by the rivers and lakes recently?"
"What's the news?"
Xue Yingying was the last person to see the thief, and when she was collecting the thief's body, she found a painting. Rumor has it that the painting contains clues to the person who killed him in the first place. ”
"Clues?"
Xiao Tianlang nodded. Chu Ziyan thought about it for a long time, and always felt that this was a little unreliable, but he still accepted the statements of several people, got up from the bed, and patted his buttocks, "According to what you say, this is completely your business, and it has nothing to do with my half money." Is it time to let me go. ”
With that, Chu Ziyan prepared to leave. The old man gave a look at Compassion, and a cry of compassion blocked in front of Chu Ziyan. The old man looked at Chu Ziyan and said, "It had nothing to do with you before, but now it has." ”
"What do you mean?" Chu Ziyan said.
"We have said what we should have said, and we have done what we should have done, do you still want to pretend to be stupid?" The old man showed a fierce look, and Chu Ziyan's heart was shocked again, and he didn't look like he was joking.
Chu Ziyan asked weakly, "What are you talking about?"
"Hmph!" the old man didn't know where to take out a roll of white paper and threw it in front of Chu Ziyan's eyes, "You can see it yourself!"
Look, what to see, Chu Ziyan didn't find anything except seeing a blank space, Chu Ziyan swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said: "The quality of this white paper is not bad." ”
Syllable!
The old man threw the roll of paper on the ground, looked at Chu Ziyan and sneered again: "What is your intention in handing over the fake painting to us? Isn't it that Xue Yingying has bought it?"
Chu Ziyan's head buzzed, and it also turned blank. Cold sweat flowed from his head, this painting was fake, this painting turned out to be fake. But I don't know, this must not fall on my head, God forbid. But this time God didn't favor him anymore.
"Whether you want to paint or you want to die, you choose. ”
After this sentence, the three of them stood on the opposite side of Chu Ziyan in an instant, but Chu Ziyan felt that there was nothing more aggrieved in his life than now. What's going on?,Anyway, it's not a porcelain.。
Suddenly, knock knock!
Someone knocked on the door, and the old man was stunned for a moment, signaling Laughing Tianlang and Compassion to be quiet. There was a heavy knock on the door again, and the old man looked at the two again, and they both shook their heads and waved their hands, indicating that they had nothing to do with him. Keeping the two of them on guard, the old man took off the carving knife stuck in the wall and walked slowly to the door.
"Who?" asked the old man
"Flying knives kill people and hurt people mercilessly. Don't old friends plan to meet?" a voice came from outside the door, the voice was crisp and ethereal, like the moon in the sky.
The old man put away the knife, turned around and looked at Xiao Tianlang and the two people, and motioned for them to take Chu Ziyan to a small cubicle inside, and at the same time let the two of them hide inside. After the three of them had hidden, the old man opened the door.
"Shibo, long time no see! I heard Miss Yingying say that you are here, so I came to take a look. ”
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