West Garden, as the name suggests, is located in the west of the city and is a large garden.
It is now past dusk. In the flowers, under the shade of trees, and in the pavilions and pavilions, lights like stars have been lit. The evening breeze carries the fragrance of flowers and wine. The full moon is like a mirror, hanging in the sky.
On the treetops, the trees are connected trees, tall red kapok trees, two connected to form one, just like lovers hugging each other.
There is a lotus pond several acres in size in the west garden. There are dozens of tables along the wooden path beside the lotus pond. Now there are many people sitting there, from all walks of life, men, women, old and young.
Lu Xiaofeng chose an empty table near the lotus pond and sat down, looked around, frowned and asked, "Do you know what Ouyang Qing looks like?"
"I don't know." Su Yang shook his head.
Lu Xiaofeng asked again: "Then do you know what the person she is interacting with looks like?"
"I don't know either." Su Yang still shook his head. He didn't even know who wanted to contact her, let alone the appearance of the contact person.
Lu Xiaofeng spread her hands and asked, "Then what are we doing here? Could it be that when we see two women together, we just go up and strike up a conversation and ask them if they are Ouyang Qing?"
"If you are willing to strike up a conversation, I'm sure at least half of the girls here will be willing to tell you the truth."
Su Yang smiled and said: "Actually, as far as I know, the people of the Red Shoes Organization have a special characteristic, that is, no matter what clothes they wear, the shoes on their feet are red embroidered shoes. So we only need to find women wearing red shoes.
"
"Why?" Lu Xiaofeng felt very strange.
"Women are inherently beautiful when they wear red shoes. Women are willing to do anything to be beautiful. Isn't this reason enough?" Su Yang said with a smile.
"Sometimes it's really hard for me to understand how women think." Lu Xiaofeng shrugged.
While chatting with Lu Xiaofeng, Su Yang suddenly thought of the pair of red embroidered shoes under Ouyang's love bed.
Since they all wear red shoes no matter what they wear, why is there a pair under the bed? Could it be that Ouyang Qing went out naked this time?
Under what circumstances would a woman go out naked? Or does she have several pairs of these shoes?
But Lu Xiaofeng was thinking about how to find a woman wearing red shoes.
"Are we going to get under every girl's skirt and take a look?" he asked.
"Why not?" Su Yang said with a smile: "Anyway, the women in the Red Shoes organization may be very beautiful. When we see a beautiful girl, we crawl under his skirt. There is a reason to investigate the case. Many people usually
You can do the bad things you don’t dare to do, don’t want to do, or can’t shamefully do, but you can do them with confidence.”
At this moment, Su Yang suddenly closed his mouth and tightened his eyes.
Wherever he looked, an old woman walked out from under the shadow of a tree.
A very old woman, wearing a green dress full of patches. It was like a big stone was pressing on her back, as if her waist had been broken in the middle.
When she walked, she seemed to be bending over and looking for something on the ground. The light shone on her face, which was full of wrinkles. It looked like a piece of tissue paper that had been crumpled into a ball and then unfolded.
How could I meet her like this!
“Roasted chestnuts with sugar”
She was also carrying a large bamboo basket in her hand, covered with a thick piece of cotton cloth. As she walked in the West Garden, she was selling: "Roasted chestnuts with sugar that have just been put on the market. Roasted chestnuts with sugar that are fragrant and hot.
It’s only ten cents a pound.”
Lu Xiaofeng also heard the cries and looked back.
This sight made him feel very uncomfortable. A lonely and poor old woman, in her twilight years, still came out to sell her roasted chestnuts with her almost completely hoarse voice.
He was a very sympathetic person, so he waved to the old woman: "Old lady, come here and I'll buy two kilograms."
The chestnuts are indeed fragrant and hot. And they are just on the market.
"You said ten cents a pound?"
The old woman nodded, still bent over, as if she had been looking at Lu Xiaofeng's feet, because her waist could no longer straighten up at all.
But Lu Xiaofeng shook his head and said: "Ten cents per catty is definitely not enough! Such good chestnuts cost at least ten taels of silver per catty. I won't buy them for a penny less."
The old woman smiled, causing the wrinkles on her face to deepen.
"Ten taels of silver per catty. If you are willing to sell it, I will buy two catties."
The old woman said: "Of course I am willing to sell it. I am also willing to sell it for twenty taels and one catty."
Lu Xiaofeng smiled and said, "But I also have something I need you to do me a favor with."
The old woman smiled bitterly and said, "Of course that's good, but what else can an old woman like me do to help you?"
Lu Xiaofeng smiled and said: "Your waist is already bent and you always seem to be looking for something on the ground, so I want you to find something for me."
"What are you looking for?"
Lu Xiaofeng said: "Find a woman wearing red shoes, with an owl embroidered on the red shoes."
The old woman also laughed. There was nothing more appropriate than asking her to do such a thing. Even if she got under other people's skirts, others would not be suspicious.
She took the twenty taels of silver and her eyes narrowed with a smile: "Uncle, just wait here. I will come back and tell you when I find it."
Lu Xiaofeng said: "If you can find it, I will buy you five kilograms of chestnuts when you come back."
The old woman left happily.
Lu Xiaofeng was even happier, not only happy, but also proud.
Su Yang remained silent until the old woman walked away, then he smiled and said: "Only a smart person like you can come up with such a smart idea."
Lu Xiaofeng's eyebrows danced: "Of course, many people say that I am a genius. I think this is quite right."
As he spoke, he peeled a chestnut. The chestnut was still hot, hot and fragrant.
"But you have forgotten one thing, genius is always short-lived." Su Yang said.
Lu Xiaofeng had already brought the chestnut to her mouth, but she stopped when she heard Su Yang's words and said, "Do you know how to read faces? Do I look like someone who will die early?"
"I can't read faces, I can only recognize poison." Su Yang said.
"Poison. Where is the poison?" Lu Xiaofeng smelled the chestnut in his hand, shook his head in disbelief: "You mean this chestnut?"
He continued: "Why does a lonely old woman sell poisonous chestnuts? And we are not the only ones here. If someone else buys her chestnuts, wouldn't they also be poisoned to death? Is she sick and likes to watch them?
People being poisoned to death? There is absolutely no benefit in that."
"But besides you, have you seen anyone else buy her chestnuts?" Su Yang asked.
Lu Xiaofeng was stunned. He was not a careless person. He had been watching the old woman from the corner of his eye since she left. But she hawked her chestnuts all the way, and no one bought her chestnuts.
Is it because the old woman is so old that she is disgusting? So except for a kind-hearted person like Lu Xiaofeng, no one else is willing to take food from her hand?
Su Yang pushed aside a chestnut on the table, lightly crushed it into powder, and sprinkled it into the lotus pond beside the table.
Several golden carps immediately floated up in the pond. They rushed to grab the chestnut powder. After a while, they ate all the broken chestnuts floating on the water.
Then all these fish had white bellies, and soon, their bellies began to rot at a speed visible to the naked eye. In less than a cup of tea, several carp turned into skeletons.
The black skeleton slowly sank to the bottom of the water and soon disappeared from view, as if nothing had happened.
Lu Xiaofeng's face turned green. If Su Yang hadn't reminded him, it wouldn't be the fish with the skeleton now. It would be him.
"You, how did you tell?"
Su Yang said mysteriously: "I got a strange book. The book introduces poison in detail. To be honest, I am now considered a poison user."
Lu Xiaofeng rolled her eyes at him and asked: "Since she wants to poison us, she must have a purpose. Is she the real embroidery thief?"
Not far away, an old woman has staggered over. Although she walks in an old-fashioned way, her steps are still very light. The skirt she wears is very long, dragging to the ground and covering her feet. Of course, it also covers her feet.
shoes.
There were already a lot of chestnut shells on the table, but Lu Xiaofeng and Su Yang were still sitting there with smiles on their faces. The old woman was not surprised at all, not even the slightest change in her expression. She was really able to keep her composure.
Doesn't she know that chestnuts are poisonous?
She narrowed her eyes and smiled and said: "There seems to be no woman wearing red shoes here, but there are two wearing purple shoes and yellow shoes."
Su Yang also smiled and said: "There is also a man wearing red shoes, I have found him."
The old woman said: "Uncle, have you found it? Where is it?"
Lu Xiaofeng hummed: "Right here, it's you!"
The old woman looked at them in surprise: "Is it me? How can an old woman like me wear a pair of red shoes?"
Su Yang said: "Not only is it red, but it also has an owl embroidered on it."
The old woman suddenly laughed, and her voice changed completely. If you closed your eyes and didn't look at her, the voice would be that of a girl.
Her laughter was like a silver bell, more beautiful than a silver bell: "You didn't eat my roasted chestnuts?"
"No." Su Yang and Lu Xiaofeng said in unison.
"Why don't you eat such delicious roasted chestnuts?"
Su Yang smiled and said: "There are a few things in the world that are absolutely untouchable."
"What?"
"Grandma Xiong's sugar-roasted chestnuts, the butcher's butcher's knife, the Peach Blossom Bee's lover's sting, and the Five Poison Lady's peach blossom poison. But the most troublesome thing is the owl with red shoes. It is said that I want to see this owl.
It's harder than trying to see these women's belly buttons."
The old woman shook her head and sighed: "Yes, it is said that everyone who has seen it will die. But you two have seen it."
"We haven't seen it yet." Lu Xiaofeng said, looking at the old woman's skirt.
The old woman shook her head: "You saw it, you must have seen it, it was in Ouyang's room."
"Just because of this, you want to poison us? I'm afraid it's not that simple, right?" Lu Xiaofeng sneered.
The old woman sneered and stopped talking.
Her sword is the answer.
A pair of daggers were in her basket, tied with bright red satin.
Just when Su Yang saw the pair of daggers, the light of the sword flashed, and the sword edge had reached the throats of him and Lu Xiaofeng.
What a quick move, what a quick sword!
Lu Xiaofeng didn't dare to take it because he was afraid that the sword's edge would be poisonous, but he could hide.
His man suddenly slipped out like a swimming fish. Not only did he react quickly, he also moved faster.
Su Yang's upper body didn't move, and his whole body, together with the chair under his butt, slid back more than a foot.
Although the old woman's sword was fast, she miscalculated a little. No matter how fast her two swords were, she was only one person.
So she chased Lu Xiaofeng without hesitation.
No matter where Lu Xiaofeng's people went, the flashing sword light immediately followed them. Her swordsmanship seemed to be different from any other school in the world. She was holding the red section on the hilt, and the red ribbon moved the dagger.
It's far more flexible than using it with your hands, and its moves change so quickly. It's even more incredible.
The sword light was like a startling rainbow sparking lightning. The leaves were destroyed by the cold sword energy, and they fell down. In an instant, they were crushed by the sword light. Even the bright moon of Fifteen seemed to be forced to lose by this cold sword energy.
Got brilliance.
Lu Xiaofeng originally thought that Ximen Chuixue and Ye Gucheng were already the fastest swordsmen in the world, but he never thought that there was such a person in the world.
He was even ready to escape because he never thought he could take Ximen Chuixue's sword, so he could not take these two swords either.
Fortunately, there is a bloody sword behind the old woman. (To be continued...)
ps: The manuscript box spits out the first chapter~~
