After Du Tongxuan left, Lu Xiaofeng raised a question. Lao Du had silk in his hands, but his feet were on his body. No one could guarantee that he would come on the day of the competition.
"Lao Du is a smart man."
Su Yang said: "This bet involves not only Li Yanbei's wealth and life, but also his. Li Yanbei knows the advantages and avoids the disadvantages. He will not understand this principle. If he doesn't come, then once we can
He will not survive if he comes out of the Forbidden City alive."
Su Yang took a sip of tea and said leisurely: "When I give him silk, it's actually no different from a gangster saying harsh words to scare people. It means that I've got my sights on you, you dare to try something random. Du Tongxuan and Li Yanbei are both the biggest in the capital."
Of course they understand this kind of thing. If he doesn't come, but someone else does, this person deserves our focus on 'taking care of' him."
Gu Qingfeng was taken care of by them once.
Now Su Yang is thinking about something else. It seems to be stable outside the imperial city, but what about inside the city?
Several dead people in the original plot, Mr. Sun, who played the role of wise man, Zhang Yingfeng, one of the three elites in the Emei family, and the famous prostitute Ouyang Qing, they discovered a huge secret, which was about the palace.
However, due to his previous visit to the ancient dragon world, several plots have changed and these people have not appeared yet.
If none of them show up, it means that the conspiracy within the palace has changed and is completely unpredictable.
Just as I was thinking about it, suddenly someone on the street outside the door shouted: "Killing! Killing!"
Su Yang was stunned, is he here?
People in the capital love to watch the excitement and are very courageous. After hearing about the murder, instead of being afraid, they swarmed over.
A man and a horse walked out of the crowd.
This man's face was full of sorrow and anger, and he was leading a white horse. There was another person on the white horse, a dead man.
The man leading the horse has a sword hanging on his waist. The hilt of the sword is densely wrapped with a layer of soft silk, so that when the hand is held on it, it is easier to use force, and it can also absorb the tension in the palm of the hand.
Khan. Only those who really know how to use a sword know how to use this method.
The man suddenly stopped when he reached the door of the teahouse, turned around and walked into the teahouse. His eyes swept around the teahouse, and finally fell on Su Yang and Lu Xiaofeng.
"Master Su, Master Lu?"
Lu Xiaofeng said: "Who is your Excellency?"
The man said: "I'm Yan Renying, and the one coming up soon is my senior brother Zhang Yingfeng."
The master of Emei, Dugu Yihe, may not be as good as Ximen Chuixue in swordsmanship. All of his disciples, Sanying Sixiu, are top-notch masters. During the battle between the Great Jinpeng Dynasty, Dugu Yihe and Ximen Chuixue faked their death in a sword duel, and were finally exposed.
He had killed Huo Xiu, so everyone in the Emei faction also regarded Su Yang and others as friends. After Yan Renying discovered the body of his senior brother, the first thing he thought of was to ask Su Yang and Lu Xiaofeng for help.
"Where is your master?" Su Yang asked unexpectedly: "He didn't come to this duel?" Originally, Su Yang was planning to give Dugu Yihe a piece of silk. Dugu Yihe was an outstanding martial artist. With him in the palace, if chaos breaks out, it will be even more difficult.
Deal with it with confidence.
"Master went outside the customs on urgent matters. This time only a few of our senior brothers came."
In this decisive battle at the top of the Forbidden City, Dugu Yihe, as a swordsman, originally wanted to come to watch the battle no matter what, but he had to go out due to urgent matters, so several of his disciples came to the capital and entered.
After leaving the city, several senior brothers had nothing to do for the time being and went to play in the capital respectively. Two days later, when they met at the agreed place, Yan Renying discovered the body of the senior brother.
Yan Renying picked up his cold body from the horse. There were almost no injuries on the body, except for a little blood on the throat, which was left by the tip of the sword.
A very sharp and terrifying sword.
Yan Renying suddenly asked: "Can you two tell who killed him by the sword?"
Lu Xiaofeng could see that there might be only one person in the world who could use such a sharp and terrifying sword. Not even Ye Gucheng could. His sword would never kill someone so cleanly.
This is probably the real reason why Yan Renying came to find Su Yang and Lu Xiaofeng. Yan Renying couldn't find Ximen Chuixue, and even if he found it, there would be nothing he could do. However, Su Yang, Lu Xiaofeng and Ximen Chuixue were friends.
Yan Renying stared at the sword marks on his junior brother's throat and murmured: "Ximen Chuixue...only Ximen Chuixue..."
"But why did Ximen Chuixue want to kill him?" Su Yang asked: "There is no hatred between him and Ximen Chuixue. On the contrary, several of your junior sisters have lived in Wanmei Villa for a period of time, so they can be regarded as friends."
"This is exactly why I came to see you two." Yan Renying said.
Su Yang searched for Zhang Yingfeng's body for a while, but did not find the clay figures in the original plot. In the original plot, Zhang Yingfeng broke the conspiracy and made clay figures of everyone present in his sleeves before dying, but now there are no clay figures.
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"My senior brother loves to gamble. Before we parted, he told me that he was going to a casino outside the imperial city to play some games," Yan Renying said.
"Let's go to the casino and have a look. Maybe we can get some clues." Lu Xiaofeng said.
Su Yang thought for a while, then took out a piece of silk and handed it to Yan Renying. Four of the six pieces of silk had been given away, and there were two left, just one for each of himself and Lu Xiaofeng.
.........
The casino is located just below the Imperial City, a small hut made of wooden planks and adobe bricks, poor and simple.
On both sides of the street, there are small restaurants that have been blackened by oil smoke, small teahouses that are as noisy as chicken coops, and small grocery stores filled with eggs and soy sauce.
The wind was filled with the stench of cigarette smoke, wine, salted fish and moldy tofu, as well as all kinds of strange odors that were hard to describe. That was where the eunuch's relatives lived, the eunuchs in the imperial city.
It's not easy for you guys to go out once. Usually when you have free time, you go to that place to spend your time, so there are all kinds of heretical things there.
Through Li Yanbei's relationship, a eunuch named Xiao Anzi led Su Yang and Lu Xiaofeng to this casino.
"You two are very lucky today. Manager Wang will be here. As soon as Manager Wang arrives, Brother Ma Liu's gambling game will begin. You two can have a good time." Xiao Anzi winked.
"Who is Brother Ma Liu?" Lu Xiaofeng asked.
Xiao Anzi covered her mouth and giggled: "Of course Brother Ma Liu is the owner of the casino, and he is also the most popular person here, because he is a real man."
"Who is Manager Wang?" Lu Xiaofeng asked.
"Mr. Wang is the ancestor of all our eunuchs, the eunuch in charge of the ceremonial department, and the chief eunuch."
Manager Wang is an old eunuch. His clothes are more elegant than other eunuchs. When he talks, he always waves his orchid hands. He looks like an old woman. He always has a weird smile on his face.
The casino was originally in a mess. When General Manager Wang came, everyone greeted him respectfully. General Manager Wang nodded, and the whole room suddenly became lively again.
The gambling game has already begun. It is noisy, smoky and smelly. Nine out of ten people gambling around the table are eunuchs. They are throwing dice while picking their ears and pinching their feet. After squeezing, they sniff.
No matter how hard you pinch it, you will grab a handful here and there and touch a handful here and there.
The banker was, of course, Brother Ma Liu, standing there proudly with his chest puffed out, every pockmark glowing red, and the oily gaming table was quickly crowded with people.
Xiao Anzi opened the way for Su Yang and others in the crowd: "Guys, get out of the way and move to the side. I have two good brothers who also want to play a few tricks!"
Among this group of people, Su Yang and Lu Xiaofeng were obviously different. As soon as Brother Ma Liu saw them, his eyes widened and were full of hostility, just like a rooster who suddenly discovered that there was another rooster in his nest.
The rooster broke in.
He looked them up and down several times with a pair of triangular eyes, and then said coldly: "What do you want to play? Play with the big one or the small one? Play with the real thing or the fake one?"
The eunuchs laughed together, and their laughter sounded like a group of little hens. Lu Xiaofeng's laughter made chicken skin crawl all over her body.
Xiao Anzi rushed to say: "Of course, play big, the bigger the better!" The rules in the casino are that he brought the people. If Ma Liu loses, it is because Ma Liu is not good at his craftsmanship. It is none of his business. If Ma Liu loses, it is none of his business.
If six of them win, they will share the dividends with them.
"Want to play big?" Brother Ma Liu asked: "How much gambling capital do you have?"
Su Yang doesn't carry much money with him, but Lu Xiaofeng is different. His life is better than most people, so he is better at spending money than most people. It is said that he often carries a stack of banknotes with him every time.
Zhangdu has five thousand taels.
"Is this enough?" He casually took out a wrinkled banknote from his body and threw it on the table.
Everyone laughed again. The banknote looked like a piece of papyrus. A little eunuch picked up the banknote with two fingers and opened it. His eyes suddenly went straight: "Ten thousand taels."
This straw-like banknote was actually worth 10,000 taels, and it was issued by the "Four Daheng" in Dongsi Archway, so it was guaranteed to be fully honored.
Seeing this banknote, Brother Ma Liu lost half of his prestige and anger. He forced a smile and said: "How can you find such a big banknote?"
"No need to look for it." Su Yang said calmly: "We just bet once and see whether we win or lose."
"A bet of ten thousand taels?" Brother Ma Liu's face began to sweat, and every pockmark was sweating.
The total amount of money on the table is not enough for a dime of this bank note.
Brother Ma Liu hesitated, looked at the several hundred taels of silver in front of him, and said nonchalantly: "We don't bet on such a big thing here!"
Lu Xiaofeng said: "I also know that I don't have enough money to gamble, so if you lose, I only need a few words from you."
"What if you lose?"
"I lose, these ten thousand taels are yours!"
Brother Ma Liu's eyes shone again and he immediately asked: "What do you want me to say?"
Lu Xiaofeng stared at it and said word by word: "How did Zhang Yingfeng die?" (To be continued.)
