There is no love without reason in the world, and there is no hate without reason.
"Have you ever offended Aunt Gongsun before?" Su Yang asked Lu Xiaofeng.
Lu Xiaofeng smiled bitterly and shook her head: "Not to mention offending Madam Gongsun, it's her face. It's the first time I've seen her today. So I didn't expect that she would kill her as soon as we met."
However, Su Yang knew that he and Lu Xiaofeng had offended this woman before, or in other words, someone from the Red Shoes organization: Shangguan Danfeng was a member of the Red Shoes.
But this is not enough reason for Aunt Gongsun to kill herself and Lu Xiaofeng. Moreover, if Aunt Gongsun wants to avenge Shangguan Danfeng, she can take advantage of her absence to attack Lu Xiaofeng alone. Lu Xiaofeng's whereabouts are not difficult to find.
Looking for her, and judging from her performance today, she didn't seem to know that she was Su Yang at the beginning.
"That's strange. No matter how you look at her going to Xiyuan today, it seems that she is not going on a date, but is specifically here to kill us, especially you."
Lu Xiaofeng took a deep breath: "If she is the mastermind behind the Embroidery Thief, then it is not surprising that she wants to kill me. She even left the letter from Ouyang Qing on purpose to lure us to the West Garden.
Then take action. In fact, if you hadn't seen the poison in the chestnuts, we would have been dead."
Su Yang pondered for a moment and said, "What do you think of her martial arts? It doesn't seem to be any weaker than Ximen Chuixue?"
Lu Xiaofeng's face was heavy, and he said slowly: "Her and Ximen Chuixue's martial arts are on different paths, but if they really start a fight, the outcome of the two of them will be 50-50 at most." He paused, and then said:
"What's more important is that her martial arts skills are agile and clever. She is the same type as the Embroidery Thief."
Now even Su Yang was a little undecided. In the original plot, Jin Jiuling was the embroidery thief, but now the embroidery thieves have become a group of people. Jiang Chongwei, Jiang Qingxia, Jin Jiuling, and even the people in the red shoes are the rest.
There are still a few suspects who have not been fully identified. Is it possible to kill them all?
After thinking for a while, he said, "Whether it is her or not, we must find her first."
Lu Xiaofeng asked: "How to find her? She was right in front of us just now and we couldn't catch up with her. Now she has disappeared without a trace. How can we find her instead?"
Su Yang pointed to a street in front of him and said, "Think about it, this city is so big. Why doesn't she go anywhere but runs here?"
"You mean she is the most familiar with this place?" Lu Xiaofeng's eyes lit up: "She lives nearby?"
"Even around here, we can't look for them one by one," Su Yang said.
Lu Xiaofeng said confidently: "As long as she is here, in this city, I will definitely be able to find her!"
"Why?"
"I thought I had a very good friend here. He is quite capable in this city." Lu Xiaofeng said.
"Snake King?" Su Yang asked.
Lu Xiaofeng smiled and said, "You seem to know everything."
"I'm afraid there aren't many people here who don't know about the Snake King. Just now in the West Garden and along the way to the teahouse, I heard at least seven or eight men mention this person in their chats," Su Yang said.
"It is said that not only does he have two thousand brothers who work hard for him, but he also has the best food in the whole city?"
"I promise you will like it."
"Then what are we waiting for?"
As soon as he left, Lu Xiaofeng and Su Yang made two turns. After passing through several streets, they came to a large group of shabby-looking residential buildings. However, they turned from the third corner of a small road and entered a very old street.
Narrow alley.
The alley is very dark, with mud still left on the ground after the cloudy rain. There are various shops on both sides, and the storefronts are also very narrow. The people coming in and out seem to be some shady people. These people accidentally
They can talk to each other a few words, all in Cantonese.
At this moment, there was an indescribable and wonderful fragrance that came to me with the wind.
The best food in the world is often not found in big hotels, but in small, remote places like this. Big hotels sell service and face, but small places like this sell unique features.
Walking in the direction where the scent came from, there was a small shop at the bottom of the alley. There was a big stove at the door, and a big pot of something was stewed on the stove. The aroma came from the pot. When I walked in, I saw that
There was something stewed in the pot, and the thick soup was bubbling outwards.
The place inside the shop was very dirty. The walls, tables and chairs were all blackened by the oil smoke, and even the words on the sign were so smoked that they could not be read.
This place didn't seem to buy anything else. As soon as they sat down, the waiter in the store spooned two large bowls of something like meat soup from the pot to them without asking. The meat soup was still steaming, and it was not only fragrant.
, the color is also very nice.
Lu Xiaofeng handed a spoon to Su Yang and said mysteriously: "Do you know what this thing is made of?"
"Snake King, Snake King, if the shop he opened doesn't sell snake soup, wouldn't he be selling dog meat on a sheep's head?" Su Yang took two bites, and it was indeed delicious. There were at least three or five different flavors mixed together in the meat soup.
As if she couldn't feel the heat, Lu Xiaofeng ate one bowl in a few mouthfuls and added another bowl. While the waiter was filling the soup, she asked with a smile: "Dishes like snake soup are available everywhere, how about you?"
Do you know why his food is so delicious?"
Su Yang took two more bites, tasted the food, and said: "The three or four most poisonous snakes were deboned, head and tail removed, and cut into shreds, plus civet skinned alive and black dog meat suffocated with water, and the big ones were fed with centipedes.
Rooster breast meat, maybe even cat meat is added as a flavoring. If this thing doesn't taste good, there won't be anything delicious in the world."
Lu Xiaofeng's eyes lit up: "Okay, okay, it's amazing that you can tell them apart like this. But you still haven't eaten anything?"
"What?" Su Yang asked curiously.
"Huohou!" Lu Xiaofeng said.
"The heat?"
"Yes, Huohou." Lu Xiaofeng pointed to the big pot outside the door and said leisurely: "Huohou cannot be eaten. It has been almost ten years since I first came here, and that pot has never been eaten in ten years.
If it's overcooked, the various bones added have been boiled and turned into pulp, so even if other places know how to make it, they can't make it."
Su Yang took a spoonful of snake soup and said calmly: "Ten years? How can you survive in a place where dragons and snakes mingle for ten years? The more you get mixed up, the better. The Snake King is really a capable person."
A capable person often not only has strength that exceeds that of ordinary people, but more importantly, he has a huge backer.
"Of course." Lu Xiaofeng nodded, and then made a very strange gesture to the guy.
The guy used to be aloof, such a rustic foreigner. He never liked it.
But after seeing Lu Xiaofeng's gesture, his attitude immediately changed and he immediately smiled. After the two said a few words in Cantonese, the clerk immediately turned around and walked out of the back door. After a while, he returned to the store and greeted him respectfully.
Lu Xiaofeng made a gesture of invitation.
Outside the back door is a narrower alley. The gutter stinks. There are flies everywhere. At the end of the alley, there is another narrow door.
I opened the door and walked in. It was a large courtyard. A dozen naked men were sitting and gambling in the courtyard. They were sweating all over the body while gambling. There were dozens of bamboo cages piled in the corner, some of which contained
There were venomous snakes and cobras with gold and silver rings. Some cages contained wild cats, wild dogs, and civet cats. A man was lifting a yellow dog out of the cage. He pressed it into a large water basin next to it and saw that it was alive.
The dog drowned.
The waiter took them into a small grocery store, walked up a very narrow staircase, came to a narrow door, and then turned around and left.
Pushing the door and entering the house, the inside and outside are completely different worlds. Everything in the house is of high value. The cup for drinking tea is carved from a whole piece of white jade, and the plate for holding candied fruits is from Persia.
Among the crystal plates that came and the paintings and calligraphy hanging on the wall, two were of Wu Daozi's figures, one was of Han Gan's horse herding, and there was also a banner that was actually the king's original work.
A man was leaning on a soft couch. On a hot day, the couch was actually covered with a thick layer of tiger skin, leaving only his face and hands exposed.
There is almost no flesh on these hands, and there is almost only a layer of skin covering the bones on the pale face.
"This is the Snake King..." Lu Xiaofeng introduced with a smile, but just halfway through his words, his voice stopped suddenly and he was stunned!
The Snake King was lying on the couch, with a bright red scarf tied around his neck, and his eyes protruding out of his sockets. He looked extremely ridiculous, like a clown on the stage.
He had actually been strangled to death on the soft couch! And along the way, the dozens of brothers guarding outside were not even aware of it!
His hands were still warm and his muscles were not completely relaxed, so he obviously died not long ago.
His sword had been taken out, but not unsheathed. It was placed on a table not far away. It was obvious that he was ready to use the sword, but he had no time to draw it.
Lu Xiaofeng slowly took off the red 'scarf' around Snake King's neck. It was a long silk satin.
Lu Xiaofeng said word by word: "This is the kind of silk and satin used on Aunt Gongsun's sword."
"Don't forget, her satin has been broken by you." Su Yang reminded.
Just as he spoke, Su Yang suddenly realized that he had fallen into a misunderstanding. In the original plot, Lu Xiaofeng indeed judged based on this point that it was not Aunt Gongsun who killed the Snake King, but Aunt Gongsun used two swords!
The two swords naturally have two ribbons, but Lu Xiaofeng only broke one of them in the West Garden!
Seeing that Su Yang suddenly stopped talking, Lu Xiaofeng said: "You must have understood that she has more than just one piece of silk! She is the only one who has the need to kill the Snake King. She must have guessed that we will come to the Snake King for help.
out of her place."
Looking at the ribbon in Lu Xiaofeng's hand, a chill suddenly came to her heart. She suddenly remembered that in the last stage of the original plot, during the conversation between Jin Jiuling and Aunt Gongsun, it was obvious that Jin Jiuling knew Aunt Gongsun very well.
Not only did he know that she was afraid of snakes, but he even knew her birthmark clearly!
A line gradually connected in my mind. On this line were Monk Honest, Jin Jiuling, Hong Shoes and Jiang Chongwei. Could it be that they were all members of the Qinglong Society? Even King Pingnan and Ye Gucheng had talked with the Qinglong Society.
After the embroidery theft incident, these people launched an internal fight and purge in order to cover up and distribute profits? (To be continued...)
ps: After finishing three chapters, the manuscript box is exhausted~~~~It seems that I will start preparing for the Christmas update~~~
