Chu Yiyi said: "In the past twenty years, there are only a handful of Shaolin disciples who have passed the trial of the eighteen bronze formations of the 'Muren Lane', and according to the information we have found in the 'Thousand Flowers Workshop', there are only eight people. Among these eight people, there are only two lay disciples, one is the 'Six Provinces Boxing King' Fang Changsheng, and the other is named Sima Zhufeng. ”

Hua Bushi said: "Sima Chafeng, is it the swordsman Sima White Ape who used the Thirty-six Roads 'White Ape Sword Technique' to cross the south of the Yangtze River fifteen years ago?"

Chu Yiyi was stunned when he heard this, and said: "The name Sima Zhufeng was still known by many people ten years ago, but now there are not many people who have heard of it. ”

Hua Bushi said: "Xiao Ke is quite interested in the battle examples of masters on the rivers and lakes, and he happened to collect the deeds of this Mr. Sima. It turned out that Mr. Ma Da was the Jiangnan swordsman of the past, which was really unexpected. ”

Ma Feng, is to remove two words from the name Sima Zhufeng, the former swordsman pseudonym Ma Feng, it is indeed very likely, and he is a disciple of Shaolin, with the "Great Returning Pill" and other Buddhist holy medicines, and Shaolin Temple has a great relationship, it is not surprising.

Hua Bushi said again: "However, even if Mr. Ma Da is the Sima Chafeng in the past, how can Mrs. Yiyi think that the treasure of Whale Swallowing Island is really something?"

Chu Yiyi said: "There is a reason in this, and Sima Zhufeng is just the identity of Mr. Ma in the past. ”

Hua Bushi's expression moved, and he said, "Could it be that Mr. Ma Da has another identity?"

Chu Yiyi said: "Not bad." Sima Zhufeng had withdrawn from the rivers and lakes more than ten years ago and was nowhere to be found, but four or five years ago, in the South China Sea, there was a sect called 'Wanjintang', and the owner of the sect was named Sima Wanjin, and his appearance was very similar to Sima Zhufeng in the past. ”

Hua Bushi said: "What kind of sect is 'Wanjintang', Xiao Ke has never heard of it. ”

Chu Yiyi said: "'Wanjintang' is unknown in the rivers and lakes, and the son will not hear of it, in fact, it is not appropriate to call it the Jianghu sect, because this hall does not occupy territory, and there is no fixed industry, but there are a few cargo ships, often moored at various wharves along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong, purchasing goods from local merchants. It's just that 'Wanjintang' is only doing business, and there is no conflict with people in the rivers and lakes, and this Sima Hall master has never fought with anyone, so no one knows how his martial arts are. ”

Hua Bushi said: "In this way, this so-called 'Wanjintang' is just a chamber of commerce that trades and purchases goods on the coast, and it is rare for 'Qianhuafang' to know so much about such an organization." ”

Chu Yiyi said: "'Qianhuafang' has always only collected intelligence information from various gangs, and will know the origin of 'Wanjintang' and Sima Wanjin, just because he is one of the important customers of this fang. ”

She glanced at Hua Bushi with beautiful eyes, and said: "The rules of the 'Thousand Flowers Fang' and the customer's transaction, the son knows, just because the person who contacts the 'Thousand Flowers Fang' and the 'Wanjintang' is not Yiyi, although the concubine is the main person in the workshop, she has only heard people talk about it, but she has never seen Sima Wanjin himself." It wasn't until she saw the branding on her arm and guessed his identity in the past that the concubine thought of this Mr. Ma Da, who turned out to be Sima Wanjin, the hall master of the 'Wanjin Hall'. ”

Hua Bushi said: "I see. But I don't know what kind of deal Sima Wanjin made with your fang, can Madame tell me?"

Chu Yiyi said: "This Sima Hall Master has not made many transactions with this fang, only five or six times, but the things he purchased are all antique treasures of extremely high value, and the sum of the silver taels he spent on these transactions has reached more than three million. ”

Hua Bushi realized something and said: "Such a rich customer, no wonder your fang will go out of your way to investigate his identity and origin." ”

Chu Yiyi said: "In addition to finding out that Sima Wanjin is very likely to be the Jiangnan swordsman Sima Zhufeng in the past, we have also sent people to investigate the daily business of 'Wanjintang', they mainly buy silk and porcelain in the coastal markets of Fujian and Guangdong, but the amount is very huge, and there are hundreds of thousands of taels of transactions every month. When I found out about this information before, I only thought that they were giant merchants who traded goods, so I didn't pay much attention to them, but now that I think about it, it is a little unusual. ”

Hua Bushi said: "But because they spend too much money?"

Chu Yiyi said: "That's right. Even the richest people in the Ming Dynasty, the owners of the largest merchants in Zhejiang and Suzhou, are not often spent millions of taels of silver like this. Sima chased the wind from Shaolin in the past, and roamed the rivers and lakes, although he was strong in martial arts, and once won the name of the swordsman in the south of the Yangtze River, but he was by no means a rich man. ”

Hua Bushi said: "Sima Wanjin must have gotten rich for a reason, so Madame thinks that he must have obtained the treasure of Whale Swallowing Island, right?"

Chu Yiyi said: "If he only has hundreds of thousands of millions of taels of silver, or it can be said that he has earned from business, the total transaction between the 'Wanjintang' and the merchants along the coast in the past few years has reached at least 10 million silver. ”

Hearing this, Hua Bushi also had to admit that Chu Yiyi's speculation was extremely reasonable, tens of millions of taels of silver, even the Ming Imperial Court was afraid that there was not so much money in the treasury, and there was no business in this world that could earn so much wealth in a few years. And considering the recent events together, I am afraid that only the treasure of the legendary Whale Swallowing Island was obtained by Sima Chafeng can solve this secret.

Hua Bushi nodded and said, "Hearing what Madame said, Xiao Ke also believes in the existence of the treasure of Whale Devouring Island, and now that he has the opportunity, he must not let it go." It's just that it's not easy for us to win the 'Panlong Jue', we have to make careful calculations, and now the black and white of the Guangdong realm have been involved, and there is another mysterious shili, we don't know where it came from, I'm afraid it's even more difficult to deal with. ”

Chu Yiyi said: "The mysterious shili that Childe said, but is it the one who assassinated Mr. Martha?"

Hua Bushi said: "Exactly." Today's plan to feint on Nanquanzhuang is already very clever, and how the murderer can sneak into the ancestral hall of the ancient family without being discovered, and stab Mr. Ma Da to death, Hua Bushi is even more puzzled. ”

Chu Yiyi said: "Meng Huan has already inspected the entire ancestral hall, and there is indeed no secret passage among them. ”

She frowned slightly, and said, "The murderer wants to avoid the guards outside the door and sneak in, unless he can be invisible to the demon magic, or he can fly to the sky." ”

Hua Bushi said: "How can there be any invisible demon magic in this world, let alone the so-called ability to fly in the ground." The people outside the village came to attack the village, and they retreated without attacking at all, so the murderer should have been lurking in the village for a long time, perhaps a figure in the four major sects. ”

Chu Yiyi's eyes turned and said, "Could it be that Mr. Ma Da was killed by the four major factions in Guangdong, and they only did this to frame Miss Hongzhu and force Gongzi to tell the clues of 'Panlong Jue'?"

Hua Bushi shook his head and said, "Not necessarily. The four major factions have made an agreement with Mr. Martha, and it seems that there is no need to kill him at all, not to mention that Wu Zhengdao didn't know that I had a clue about 'Pan Long Jue'. ”

He pondered for a moment and said, "In any case, when Mr. Martha was killed, Hongzhu was indeed in the ancestral hall, maybe she can know something." ”

Chu Yiyi said: "Yes, when the murderer killed someone, Miss Hongzhu was on one side, she will definitely see and hear about it, why don't you ask her?"

Hua Bushi said: "Xiao Ke already had this plan. It was only for fear that she would not be able to trust me, so I hesitated to ask my wife to go with me. ”

Chu Yiyi stared at the face of the eldest young master, and after a while, he suddenly smiled lightly and said, "You couple are really strange, sometimes they seem to be a pair of enemies. I don't want to worry about this kind of thing, I have told Childe everything I know, so I will go back to the room to rest, Childe wants to find Miss Hongzhu, or go by yourself!"

As she spoke, she withdrew the jade hand held by Hua Bushi, stood up, and said, "There is Lao Gongzi, Yiyi has taken his leave first!"

Hua Bushi hurriedly got up and returned the salute, Chu Yiyi walked to the door, opened the door, but suddenly looked back and said: "In fact, the charm of Hua Gongzi is not inferior to that Duyun Gongzi, and it can also make many women in the world fall in love, why is Gongzi so unconfident?"

Hua Bushi knew that she was ridiculing herself, and said in her mouth: "Madame said that she was joking, although Hua Bushi is not talented, he still has a little self-knowledge, where can there be a woman who likes an incompetent and mediocre person like me." ”

Chu Yiyi said: "Yiyi is not joking, for example, that Yi Ruoying girl likes her son very much." ”

She said that others were fine, and the purple-clothed beauty Yi Ruoying mentioned had rejected Hua Bushi in person the day before yesterday, although the eldest young master was thick-skinned, he was inevitably embarrassed, and said: "Miss Ruoying didn't take it to heart at all, and Hua Bushi also knew it." ”

Chu Yiyi said with a straight face: "You are wrong, although Miss Ruoying rejected the son on the surface, she has a lot of affection for the son in her heart!"

Hua Bushi couldn't help but be stunned when he heard her affirmation, and said, "How can you see it?"

Chu Yiyi said: "At noon in the ancestral hall of the ancient family, Miss Ruoying first defended her son, and Hua Gongzi also heard it, and then when Yuan Gongyi wanted to make a move on her son, she almost stopped her and helped her son resist the enemy!"

Hua Bushi frowned and said, "How can there be such a thing? She must have wanted to capture Hua Bushi first, it is true." ”

Chu Yiyi said: "At that time, Childe's attention was all on Mr. Martha's corpse, I don't think I noticed it, Miss Ruoying was holding a purple sword and gold ring, and she had already raised her true qi, but her eyes were looking at Yuan Gongyi, not Childe, Yiyi was standing aside, but she could see it clearly, she would not be mistaken!"

She smiled lightly and said, "The girl's thoughts, the son should think about it more!"