Chapter 113 Scene Fourteen ? Caged Bird Pond Fish? Six
Chapter 113 Scene 14 Caged Bird Pond Fish Six
"Miss Yue'er, you can't make such groundless accusations. Now everyone in Jingshu City is a confidant carefully selected by Lord Kunjie, and there is absolutely no possibility of rebellion!"
The old lady in front of her shook her head firmly, as if she thought the girl's conjecture was nonsense. But Ning Yue had no intention of letting it go:
"Actually, my mother-in-law must have some suspicions in her heart, otherwise why would the corners of her eyes be twitching just now? Are you planning to let those executives die inexplicably like this?"
Her words finally made the other party a little shaken: "Indeed, if the cripple is allowed to continue to wander in the city, it will always be a big hidden danger for us. But yesterday, the lady met the cripple by pure chance. , and now it is absolutely impossible for him to show up in the farmhouse again, and it is not easy to continue the investigation."
"What if you use me as bait to lure him out? I am the only person who has seen the cripple twice and is still alive. What if-"
Seeing that the other party relented, Ning Yue immediately frowned and thought about countermeasures. However, when Granny Cen heard that the girl actually wanted to use herself as bait, her expression immediately changed:
"No, I will never allow you, Miss, to take risks again!"
"Mother-in-law, I know you are worried about me, but you have to listen to what I have to say first. The lame man warned me last night not to meddle in other people's business, but if he learns that I not only refuse to listen, but also intensify my pursuit of him. If you let him go, you will definitely be able to force him to show up again. There is indeed a risk in doing so, but as long as you make proper arrangements in advance and set up a situation where you are invited to enter the urn, no matter how fierce the villain is, he may not be able to hurt me."
Ning Yue also understood that it was very risky to act like this, but she had already made a plan in her heart:
As long as the identity of the lame man can be found out as soon as possible, he may be able to follow the clues and find out the mole. If this is successful, he will do Kun Jie a big favor, and then he may be able to persuade the other party to send some people to help him find out. The whereabouts of Jiang Yan and Qi Ziyin were lost.
The old lady looked at this girl who was trying so hard to convince her with some surprise. After hesitating for a long time, she nodded in agreement: "Then what are you going to do, young lady?"
Seeing the other party's promise, Ning Yue finally showed a smile on her face and continued to describe her plan:
"It is said that the cunning rabbit has three burrows. The barn I went to last night should be the place where the cripple used to destroy the corpse after killing someone. Now he must have another place to hide in the city. So, I only need to find a skilled painter in the city to paint If you trace the cripple's appearance and ask passers-by, the news will definitely reach their ears."
"Although this move is possible, it is of great importance, so I'd better inform Master Kunjie. If something goes wrong, it's better to make another plan."
Hearing what the old woman said, the red-haired girl suddenly shook her head:
"No. You can't tell the whole plan to a third person, let alone handle it in the usual way. If the news leaks out in advance and alerts the snake, it will be difficult to deceive him."
Granny Cen still looked a little worried, but she knew that what Ning Yue said was true. To be on the safe side, she specially arranged for four girls who had been trusted by her since she opened the dyeing shop in Mulu City to be sent to her. After more than a month of long preparation, everything was finally ready, just waiting for the prey to take the bait.
Now, it's the late spring season when spring flowers are blooming again, and everything is ready for the trap carefully laid by the girl and the old woman. The trap is set in a teahouse next to the official road in the north of the city. There are many merchants here, and it happens to be located in the ruins of the lame man. On the only road leading from the corpse's village to Jingshu City, big and small things can easily spread like wildfire. After Granny Cen used her own means to secretly acquire the teahouse, she arranged for Ning Yue and the girls to stay here. , under the guise of selling tea and singing songs, he went to the teahouses with the cripple's portrait every day to inquire about the news.
There had just been a spring rain that day, and the road was muddy and difficult to navigate. Not a single person was seen all day long. The red-haired girl sat boredly on the stone steps in front of the tea house, staring sideways at the few birds that fell next to her. The sparrow hiding from the rain is in a daze.
The portrait of the cripple was held between her fingers at this moment. The girl deliberately averted her eyes - because the painting on the paper was so lifelike that every time she saw it, she would still feel a strong sense of fear in her heart.
I have been lingering in the teahouse for many days, but no one in the nearby villages or merchants in the city has ever seen the cripple.
At first, this made Ning Yue feel a little disappointed, thinking repeatedly about where her plan went wrong. However, gradually, the store began to receive strange threats from time to time, such as the yellow dog guarding the door was killed, and the dog's blood was The door was painted all over. Or in the middle of the night, someone was found standing in the forest outside the teahouse, observing what was going on inside the house from a distance. One time, a fire suddenly broke out in the backyard while selling tea, burning nearly a month's inventory, but nothing happened afterwards. Unable to find a source of fire, it must have been deliberately set...
Only then did the girl realize that the news had indeed reached the lame man's ears. And all she could do now was to wait patiently for the man who would show up at some unknown time.
"Is this store still open for business today?"
A voice suddenly interrupted Ning Yue's thoughts. She raised her head and saw a young man dressed as a scholar carrying a book box and standing in front of her holding an oil-paper umbrella.
The girl was secretly frightened and blamed herself for being too careless. If the lame man happened to be here, he might have taken her own life. However, her face did not show much uneasiness. She stood up and shot at him. A gift:
"What do you want to drink, sir? We have Maofeng from Qinglan Mountain, melon slices from Mingshui, as well as fine Guannan black tea and Yunzhi white tea."
"The portrait the girl is holding is looking for the person in the painting?"
"Sir, have you seen this person before?"
"Please, miss, please make me a pot of black tea for Xiaosheng. It's not easy to travel on a rainy day. I'm very thirsty. It's time to get rid of the coldness on my body, so I can talk easily."
The visitor did not continue to answer the girl's question, but walked into the teahouse, found a seat in the middle and sat down.
This was the first time since the teahouse opened that someone had taken the initiative to ask about the cripple. Ning Yue suddenly became nervous - although the other person was not the cripple, there was an indescribable weirdness in his behavior. She was not at all surprised. Not daring to be rude, he bowed again, turned around and ordered someone to prepare tea-making utensils.
But the scholar in front of her waved her hand, smiled and said to her:
"I have a gracious request, Xiaosheng. I would like to trouble the girl to make tea for me personally."
"I don't know much about making tea--"
The red-haired girl didn't know what kind of medicine the other party was selling in the gourd, but she had already concluded that the other party did not just come to the teahouse to rest. Unexpectedly, before she finished speaking, the scholar laughed:
"Girl, don't be afraid. Xiaosheng only has this small request. If you can make a pot of tea yourself today, Xiaosheng will tell you the whereabouts of the cripple in the painting, how about it?"
"Sir, have you really seen the person in the painting?"
In this way, the girl could finally be sure that the other person knew something. Otherwise, how could an ordinary person casually guess that the person in the painting had a lame leg just based on his face? Even if the lameness was faked.
The scholar smiled again as he spoke, but a sly light flashed in his eyes: "The young man said that as long as the girl is willing to make a pot of tea for me with her own hands, I will tell you everything I know."
Seeing that the other party didn't seem to do anything out of the ordinary except for showing off, Ning Yue, who was eager to know the whereabouts of the cripple, had no choice but to nod and agree.
Boiling water was poured into the pot, and the fragrance of tea overflowed. The tea set was moved several times in the girl's hands, washing the tea, brewing, dividing the tea into pots, and serving the tea. She had learned this procedure in detail every day.
"Mr. Unknown, where did you meet this person?" Ning Yue respectfully handed the teacup to the other party, but did not put it down. Instead, she asked about the lame man again.
"The girl is so impatient. She must either love or hate the person in the painting deeply?"
The scholar did not reach out to take the tea cup, but raised his head and stared directly at the red-haired girl in front of him, as if he was deliberately making things difficult. However, this time, the girl did not say another word to him, and raised her hand directly. Then he threw the cup of scalding tea on the other person’s face:
"You secretly used illusions, do you really think others can't see it?"
But she didn't expect that the tea would pass right through the other person's face, and fall to the ground with a splash, turning into a puddle of dark brown water. And the scholar's shadow also became blurry, Then it transformed into a white light, and disappeared without a trace from Ning Yue in the blink of an eye, leaving only the voice still echoing in the teahouse:
"Hahaha, the chief priest's daughter is really extraordinary. Not only is she skilled in tea making, but she can also see through my illusions!"
She never thought that the other party had already figured out her identity. This made Ning Yue feel frightened. She tried hard to calm down her mood, but there was a heavy snort in her nose:
"I felt strange the moment you walked in. There was so much mud and water on the road outside, but there wasn't even a speck of mud on your lapels or shoes. Why don't you show up soon!"
"I would like to advise you, girl, not to investigate this matter any further, otherwise it will be of no benefit to anyone..."
The scholar's voice became weaker and weaker, and soon he could no longer hear it. Ning Yue suddenly thought of something, and immediately stood up and searched in every corner of the room. Finally, she found the place where Phantom had been sitting just now. Under the futon, I found something black.
It is a black crystal the size of a thumb cap. However, it is not as dense and opaque as the commonly seen obsidian, but has a translucent appearance. When you look carefully, you can still find flickering in it. There is a looming light like breathing in and out.
"This is - Xuangui!"
The girl couldn't help but exclaimed, watching helplessly as the mysterious rose gradually lost its luster and turned into a grey-black powder in her palm. Only then did she suddenly realize that what the other party had done was actually It is a high-level spell known as the Floating Shadow Curse. And this spell is a part of the Xi that only the chief priests of the clan are qualified to practice!
"That lame man - could he be sent by his father? Is it true that he was behind everything from beginning to end?"
There was a buzz in the girl's head, and she suddenly felt difficulty breathing, and her eyes turned black. She didn't understand how her father and Kun Jie got to such a point of incompatibility today. She also didn't understand why they were so incompatible with each other.
She must put the other party to death and fight to the death, even to the point of threatening to harm her own daughter. She does not understand even more, for what reason, her father would not hesitate to betray the secrets of the entire clan!
"Get out of here if you can!"
The red-haired girl finally couldn't hold it any longer and led the girls in the teahouse straight out of the door. But she stood in the rain and looked around, but she couldn't see a single figure.
"The Floating Shadow Curse can only be cast at close range. No matter whether the caster is the cripple or not, he should not have gone far now! I must catch up and find out whether he was sent by my father!"
As she spoke, she wiped off the rain on her face and chanted silently in her mouth. This was what Granny Cen had taught her not long ago, the method of locating the location of the caster based on the remaining spiritual power after casting. After a while, she
Pointing to the top of a not-so-high hill at the end of the road, he rushed to the girls behind him who were already armed and shouted loudly:
"The other party is right there! Remember, you must leave them alive!"
The muddy mountain road greatly slowed down the speed of the group's progress. It took half an hour for Ning Yue and his group to board the hill. There was a flat field reclaimed by man, and a dilapidated thatched grass stood in a corner of the field.
The door of the small house is not tightly closed, and the furnishings can be vaguely seen. It is obvious that someone came in and out not long ago.
The young girl immediately signaled the girls to slow down their steps and surrounded the hut from both sides. But before they could get close, they saw someone pushing the door open and walking out of the house. Who could it be if it wasn't the cripple?
When the other party saw someone outside the door, he was visibly startled. Then he recognized Ning Yue, but as if he didn't expect that she would find her here, he cursed with a look of astonishment on his face:
"Damn it, you actually came here anyway?"
"I cast an illusion to provoke you in the teahouse. If we don't come to visit you again, wouldn't we be so sorry for your hard work? Let me ask you, are you under the instruction of Feng Weishu, the chief priest of Cangliu City, to come to Lu?
Someone who assassinated a traitor who disagreed with him? Did you reveal the secret of Xiu Xi to the people on earth under his instruction?!"
The red-haired girl asked loudly. She originally thought that at this point, the cripple would no longer hide for her father. Unexpectedly, when the other party heard this, his expression changed drastically, and he cursed angrily:
"Ah! That high priest killed eighteen members of my family. Even if I cut him alive with my own hands, I can't forgive him. How could I obey his orders?!"
"You are not honest even when you are about to die!"
Ning Yue thought about what happened that night in the farmhouse again, and was finally overwhelmed by the anger in her chest. She raised her voice and continued to shout, "I'm not afraid of your harsh words today! Since you refused to say anything, I tied him back and handed him over to the police."
Mother-in-law is frustrated!"
But before she finished speaking, she suddenly saw an expression of enlightenment on the face of the cripple across from her. Immediately, he reached out and pulled out two curved bone-cutting knives from his waist, and rushed towards the girl.
It’s like a battle between trapped beasts!
But after all, there was only one cripple. Before he could bully him, the girls beside Ning Yue had already gathered around him. After all, he was a master trained by Granny Cen, and they subdued him to death in just a few rounds. He was pinned to the ground. The red-haired girl stepped forward and wanted to continue to persuade him to let go. Unexpectedly, the lame man suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed, his words full of unwillingness and indignation:
"Sure enough, walking at night for a long time is bound to bump into ghosts. I didn't expect that the same thing would happen to me! You are really the person who sent me to kill me. It's a pity that I was soft-hearted that night in the farmhouse. It could take your life! But I didn’t expect that the daughter of the high priest would be subdued and work for her enemy!”
"What does it mean to sacrifice one's life for the enemy? Who is the person you are talking about? Could it be that you - were actually sent by Qi Shouyu?!"
Ning Yue suddenly realized that there seemed to be a hidden meaning in the whole matter, and she wanted to continue asking for more details. However, before the lame man could speak, she suddenly heard the sound of a bowstring coming from behind, and an arrow "swished" past. She was on her side, aiming at the heart of the man who had no power to fight back!
The lame man died before he could make a sound. At the same time, a huge group of men and horses also appeared on the hill. The leader of the group, with a thin face, was none other than Kun Jie himself. He held a long bow in his hand, and he just That fatal arrow was shot by him himself!
"Miss Yue'er is frightened! Please forgive me for being late. If I had listened to you earlier, I wouldn't have put you in danger today. Now that the damn murderer is dead, please follow me back to the city. !”
"Oh, why are you in such a hurry to kill him!"
The girl saw that the person she had finally caught died like this, and all the clues she knew about the mole were completely lost. She complained on the spot with great loss.
"Don't cry, don't cry. It's all Cen's fault. The fight between the rebel party and the chief priest has always been a life-and-death battle. From the beginning, you should not have been allowed to speak for yourself and take risks without permission. I have already reprimanded her, Yue My dear, it’s better to go back to the city first, and I will take care of the rest.”
Kun Jie tried his best to comfort the girl. Ning Yue also knew very well that now that the only witness was dead, it was in vain to stay here, so she had no choice but to walk towards Jingshu City dejectedly under the escort of the other party...
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