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Chapter 97 When It Rains, There Are Always Many Stories

"Well, have you found the murderer?" Du Ruo asked.

Xue Hongyi's ears and temples were still dripping with water droplets, and the coir raincoat was covered with water droplets and fell on the floor. She turned around slowly, shaking off more water droplets, looked at Du Ruo, and said, "As you expected, The murderer really killed people according to the list, we made preparations in advance, the murderer failed in the assassination and fell into our ambush, but I was careless and let the murderer escape!"

Du Ruo frowned slightly, and said, "Is this murderer so skilled in martial arts? You even ran away with Xue Butou yourself?"

Xue Hongyi nodded, and said: "This man's martial arts are indeed very high, and his sword skills are very fierce. He killed seven or eight of us in an ambush. I was careless. I didn't expect the murderer to be so ruthless. I cut off an arm and escaped!"

"Have your arm chopped off?" Du Ruo pulled the cloak and said, "Then follow the bloodstains and you should be able to find it!"

"The rain was so heavy that the bloodstains were not clear at all, and even the bloodstains disappeared after we got here. We have no choice but to search from house to house," Xue Hongyi said.

"Oh, so that's the case." Du Ruo nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Then, Hunter Xue is busy, so I won't bother you any more."

"En." Xue Hongyi nodded.

Not long after Du Ruo returned, the inn became quiet again, and the police who searched left without success. As for whether Xue Hongyi caught the murderer tonight, Du Ruo didn't know.

It rained heavily that night for a long, long time.

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In the early morning of the next day, the rain was much lighter, but it was still rainy. After Du Ruo came out of the room, he heard many people in the lobby downstairs discussing what happened last night. Stuff just went out the door.

Heitou went out to check last night, Su Ruyu was still in Wangjiang Tower on the Qinhuai River.

If what Su Ruyu gave was really an ordinary peace talisman, Du Ruo would accept it as well, but what Su Ruyu gave was 50 taels of silver, so he really couldn't accept it.

Fifty taels of silver is really not a small amount, enough for ordinary people to use for many years. Du Ruo decided to return it to Su Ruyu based on the principle of not being rewarded for no merit. , He is indeed not yet short of money, and it is not good to owe a favor for no reason.

There are still water curtains flowing on the corners of the eaves, the sky is gray in the morning, the clouds are very low pressure, the city is gray, and there are not even a few weeds on the roadside.There are fewer people on the road, because the rain came too fast, and all the people on the road have taken shelter from the rain, and there are not even a few vendors along the street.

An oil-paper umbrella, raindrops fell on it, splashed, tick-tock, Du Ruo, dressed in moon white clothes, walked slowly on the street.

It was still very early, and Du Ruo didn't disturb Heitou's rest when he came back late last night. It just so happened that he had been studying his homework from morning to night for the past few days, and he was indeed a little tired, so he took this opportunity to take a rest.

As Xue Hongyi reminded him, he carried Tang Dao on his back.

It was really too early, and it was raining heavily, and few people could be seen on the street. Turning around the street, it was rainy and foggy, and a lot of water flowed down from the gray walls from the eaves, and slowly flowed to the ground. There are two bun shops that have opened, but there are no customers.

On the other hand, under the eaves of a closed shop on the side of the street, there was a young man in a blue cloth gown squatting and eating buns. This man looked very decadent, his hair was disheveled, and his clothes were dirty. A broken bowl was placed on the eaves. Corner, followed by water, drinking water while eating buns.

If Du Ruo hadn't seen a few books in the exposed corner of the man's burden and held a book in his hand, he would have looked at it from time to time, and he would have suspected that this man was a beggar.

The man lowered his head, his long hair covered his face, and he couldn't see clearly. However, Du Ruo had an inexplicable sense of familiarity, but he couldn't remember that he had known such a person before.

Under the eaves of the umbrella, Du Ruo looked at the man for a while, sighed, gently took out some broken silver from her bosom, held it in her hand, and then continued to walk forward, the few broken silver fell on the ground, smashed out A few water flowers.

He didn't look back, just went straight forward.

If a young man is begging, he will not have the slightest sympathy, but if a young man with self-motivation is down, he is willing to do something with little effort while protecting the dignity of the other party.

On the street, there is a lot of mist.

The young man who was eating steamed buns suddenly raised his head, looked at the few pieces of broken silver on the street, then looked at Du Ruo who had gone away, rubbed his nose, took a bite of steamed buns, then put the book into the bag, Picking up the broken bowl at the corner of the eaves, took a sip of water, ate the last bit of steamed buns, and added fingers, propped up the old oil-paper umbrella beside him, and walked into the rain.

Picking up all the broken silver on the ground and putting it into the bag on his back, the young man looked at Du Ruo who could vaguely see a moon-white figure in the street, and said softly: "It's the second time we met. , for the sake of this piece of money, I will save your life!"

A gust of wind blew away the messy hair of the young man in blue, revealing a slumped face, very similar to the woman on the scroll that Du Ruo picked up in Gusu City.

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Floating light, a breeze, ripples on the ground, in a small alley, on the bluestone board, the water waves are slightly chaotic.There was a reflection on the water, but it wasn't clear. Du Ruo stood quietly holding an oil-paper umbrella.

"What a bad decision."

The eaves of the umbrella blocked Du Ruo's face, making it difficult for people to see what he looked like.There was a little smile on the corner of his mouth, not deep or shallow, kind of gentle, kind of frank, kind of indifferent, and kind of refined.

This smile is rare and intoxicating.

Of course, Du Ruo wouldn't have been able to show such a smile if there wasn't the person blocking the way in front of him.

A masked man in front had only one arm, the left arm seemed to have been broken not long ago, and the broken sleeve was still stained with blood. Don't care about wet clothes.

"Do you know, actually, I didn't come out today, but I suddenly wanted to see a girl, and I found an excuse to say that I was paying back the money, and then I persuaded myself, put down the book, and came alone, you said I was Not very unlucky." Du Ruo raised the umbrella slightly, showing a smiling face, elegant and unparalleled.

The masked man nodded and said: "You are very unlucky, you won't meet me earlier or later, earlier, I didn't decide to kill you, later, I shouldn't be able to kill you, but It's just that you came at this time."

(End of this chapter)