twin moon

第113章 No.14幕 笼鸟池鱼 六

"Miss Yue'er, this kind of groundless accusation cannot be made nonsense. Now Jingshu City is full of confidantes carefully selected by Lord Kunjie, and there is absolutely no possibility of rebellion!"

The old woman in front of her shook her head resolutely, as if she thought that the girl's conjecture was nonsense.But Ning Yue didn't intend to let it go:

"Actually, my mother-in-law also has some doubts in her heart. Otherwise, why would the corners of Cai's eyes keep twitching just now? Could it be that you plan to let those gangsters die without knowing why?"

Her words finally shook the other party a little: "Indeed, if we allow that cripple to continue wandering in the city, it will always be a big hidden danger for us. But it was purely a coincidence that Miss met the cripple yesterday. , and now it is absolutely impossible for him to show up in the farmhouse again, so 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 lame man twice and is alive. If—"

Seeing the other party let go, Ning Yue immediately frowned and thought about countermeasures.However, when Granny Cen heard that the girl was going to use her as a bait, her complexion immediately changed:

"No, I will never allow you to take risks again, miss!"

"Mother-in-law, I know you are worried about me, but let me finish what I have to say first. The cripple warned me last night not to meddle in other people's business, but if he finds out that I not only don't listen, but also chase after me even harder. If I let him go, he will definitely be able to force him to show up again. Doing so will indeed be risky, but as long as the arrangements are made in advance and a situation is set up to invite you into the urn, no matter how fierce the villain is, it may not be able to hurt me."

Ning Yue also understands that acting like this is very risky, but she has already made a plan in her heart:

As long as the identity of the cripple can be found out as soon as possible, perhaps the inner ghost can be found out by following the clues.And if this matter is successful, it will be a big favor to Kun Jie, and maybe he can persuade the other party to send some people to help him find out the whereabouts of Jiang Yan and Qi Ziyin.

The old mama looked at the girl who was trying to persuade her in amazement, hesitated for a while, and then nodded in agreement: "Then what do you plan to do, Miss?"

Seeing that the other party agreed, Ning Yue finally showed a smile on her face, and continued to describe her plan:
"It's said that the barn I went to last night should be the place where the lame man used to destroy the corpse after killing someone. Now he must have another place to hide in the city. So, just find a handy painter in the city and draw Describe the appearance of the crippled man, ask passers-by, and the news will surely reach the ears of the other party.”

"Although this is possible, the matter is of great importance. I'd better report to Master Kunjie. If something goes wrong, we can make another plan."

Hearing what the old woman said, the red-haired girl suddenly shook her head:
"No. You can't tell the third person the plan of the whole thing, and you can't do it in the usual way. If you leak the news in advance and startle the snake, it will be difficult to have a chance to trick him into it."

Granny Cen still seemed a little worried, but she also knew that what Ning Yue said was right.To be on the safe side, she specially arranged for four girls whom she had trusted since she opened the dyeing workshop in Mulu City to be her servants.After more than half a month of long preparations, everything is finally ready, just waiting for the prey to take the bait.

Right now, it's the late spring season when the flowers are blooming again, and the situation carefully laid out by the girl and the mother is ready.The trap was set in a teahouse next to the official road in the north of the city.There are a lot of businessmen coming and going here, and it happens to be on the only way from the village where the crippled man ruined his body to Jingshu City, so things big and small can easily spread like wildfire.After Granny Cen used her own means to sell the teahouse secretly, she arranged for Ning Yue and the girls to stay here. Under the guise of selling tea and singing songs every day, she took a portrait of the cripple to inquire about news among the teahouses.

A spring rain had just fallen that day, the road was muddy and difficult to walk, and there was no one in sight all day.The red-haired girl was sitting bored on the stone steps in front of the teahouse, staring sideways at a few sparrows that had landed beside her to hide from the rain.

The portrait of the cripple was now in her fingers.The girl deliberately avoided her eyes—because the paintings on the paper were so realistic that every time she saw them, she would still feel a strong sense of fear in her heart.

He has been lingering in the teahouse for many days, but no one in the nearby villages or merchants in the city has ever seen the lame man.

At first, Ning Yue couldn't help but feel a little bit disappointed, thinking over and over where her plan had slipped.Gradually, however, the store began to receive strange threats from time to time, such as the yellow dog who guarded the door was killed, and the dog's blood was smeared all over the door.Or in the middle of the night, someone is found standing in the forest outside the teahouse, observing the movement inside the house from a distance.Another time, a fire broke out in the backyard while selling tea, and burned nearly a month's worth of stock. Afterwards, however, no source of the fire could be found. Someone must have set the fire on purpose...

Only then did the girl realize that the news had indeed reached the cripple's ears.And what I can do right now is to wait patiently, waiting for the other party who will show up at some point.

"Is this store still in 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 bookcase, standing in front of her at some point holding an oil-paper umbrella.

The girl was startled secretly, and blamed herself for being too careless, if it happened to be the cripple who came, she might have already taken her own life.However, she didn't show much anxiety on her face, she stood up and gave the other party a salute:
"What do you want to drink, sir? We have Maofeng from Qinglan Mountain, melon slices from Mingshui, and the best Guannan black tea and Yunzhi white tea."

"The portrait in the girl's hand, is she looking for the person in the painting?"

"Sir, have you seen this man?"

"Miss, please make Xiaosheng a pot of black tea. It's not easy to travel in rainy days. I'm very thirsty, and it's just time to get rid of the cold on my body, so I can talk."

The person who came did not continue to answer the girl's question, but walked into the teahouse, found a middle seat and sat down.

This was the first time since the teahouse opened that someone asked about the cripple.Ning Yue suddenly became nervous—although the other party was not the cripple, there was an unspeakable weirdness in his behavior.She didn't dare to be abrupt at all, and saluted again, then ordered people to prepare tea-making utensils when she turned around.

But the scholar in front of him waved his hand and said to her with a smile:
"Xiaosheng has an unfeeling request, and wants to trouble the girl to make tea for me."

"The thing about making tea—I don't really understand—"

The red-haired girl didn't know what kind of medicine the other party was selling in the gourd, but she already concluded that the other party didn't just come to the teahouse to rest.Unexpectedly, before she finished speaking, the scholar laughed loudly:
"Don't be afraid, girl. Xiaosheng only has such a small request. If you can make a pot of tea yourself today, Xiaosheng will tell you to draw the whereabouts of this cripple, how about it?"

"Sir, have you really seen the person in the painting?"

In this way, the girl can finally be sure that the other party really knows something.Otherwise, how could ordinary people casually guess that the person in the painting has a lame leg just based on his appearance?Even if the lameness is its disguise.

The scholar smiled again as he spoke, but a sly light flashed in his eyes: "Xiaosheng said, as long as the girl is willing to make a pot of tea for me with her own hands, I will know everything and say everything."

Seeing that the other party didn't seem to be doing anything out of the ordinary except that he liked to show off, Ning Yue, who was eager to know the whereabouts of the lame man, had no choice but to agree.

Boiling water into the pot, tea overflowing.The tea set was moved several times in the girl's hands, washing, brewing, dividing and serving the tea.After hearing and seeing it every day, she has learned this procedure in a good way.

"Where did Mr. Unknown meet this person?" Ning Yue respectfully handed the tea cup to the other party, but did not put it down, but asked about the lame man again.

"The girl is so impatient, she must either love or hate the person in the painting?"

The scholar did not reach out to pick up the teacup, but raised his head and stared straight at the red-haired girl in front of him, as if deliberately making things difficult.However, this time, the girl didn't say another word to him, she just raised her hand and poured the cup of hot tea on the other person's face:
"Secretly using illusion, do you really think others can't see it!"

It's just that she didn't expect that the tea passed straight through the other person's face, splashed on the ground with a bang, and turned into a puddle of dark brown water.And the scholar's shadow also became blurred, and then turned into a white light, and disappeared from Ning Yue's eyes in a blink of an eye, leaving only the voice still echoing in the teahouse:

"Hahaha, the daughter of the chief priest is really extraordinary. Not only is she exquisite in tea art, but she can also see through my illusion!"

Unexpectedly, the other party has already figured out his identity.This made Ning Yue feel terrified. She tried her best to calm down, but she hummed heavily in her nose:
"I've been wondering since you entered the door. There's so much muddy water on the road outside, but there's not even a single spot of mud on your lapel corners and on the upper of your shoes. Show up soon!"

"I would like to advise the girl, don't 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.But Ning Yue suddenly thought of something, and immediately got up and searched in every corner of the house.Finally, she found a black object under the futon that Phantom had been sitting on just now.

It was a black crystal the size of a thumb.However, it is not as dense and opaque as obsidian that can be seen normally, but presents a translucent appearance.When you look carefully, you can also find that there is a faint light flashing like breathing.

"This is - Xuan Gui!"

The girl couldn't help but exclaimed, and watched helplessly as the mysterious rose gradually lost its luster, and turned into a handful of gray-black powder in her palm.It wasn't until this moment that she suddenly realized that what the other party used was actually a high-level spell called the Floating Shadow Curse.And this kind of incantation is just a part of the curse that only the great priests of the clan are qualified to practice!

"That cripple—couldn't it be that his father sent him? Could it be that he was the one who directed everything behind the scenes from the beginning to the end?"

There was a buzzing sound in the girl's head, she suddenly felt difficult to breathe, and her eyes turned black.She didn't understand why her father and Kun Jie had come to such an incompatibility today.She also didn't understand why they had to put each other to death, fighting to the death, even to the point of threatening to hurt their own daughter.She didn't even understand why her father would betray the secrets of the whole clan!
"Get out if you have the ability!"

The red-haired girl finally couldn't bear it anymore, and led the girls in the teahouse straight out the door.But she stood in the rain and looked around, how could she see half a figure?

"The Floating Shadow Curse can only be cast at close range, no matter whether the caster is the lame man or not, he shouldn't be far away now! I must catch up and ask if he was sent by my father!"

As she spoke, she vigorously wiped off the rain on her face, and began to chant silently in her mouth.This is what Granny Cen taught her not long ago, the method of locating the caster by following the remaining spiritual power after casting the spell.After a while, she pointed to the top of a not-so-high hill at the end of the road, and shouted to the girls who were already fully armed behind her:
"The other party is there! Remember, you must stay alive!"

The muddy mountain road greatly slowed down the group's forward speed. After half an hour, Ning Yue and his party just boarded the hill.There is a flat field reclaimed artificially, and there is a dilapidated thatched hut standing on the side of the field.The door of the house was not closed tightly, and the furnishings could be vaguely seen. It was obvious that someone had entered and exited here not long ago.

The girl immediately signaled the girls to lighten their steps, and surrounded the hut from both sides.But before they got close, a person came out from the house, pushing the door open, who could it be if it wasn't the cripple?

Seeing someone outside the door, the other party was obviously taken aback.Then he recognized Ning Yue, but as if he hadn't expected that she would find this place, he cursed with a face full of astonishment:
"Damn it, you still found it?"

"I used illusion to provoke you in the teahouse. If we don't come here again, wouldn't we be too sorry for your painstaking efforts? Let me ask you, whether you were ordered by the priest of Cangliu City, Feng Weishu, to come to Lu Assassinated the rebels who disagreed with him? Did you reveal the secret of the secret to the people on the ground under his hint?!"

The red-haired girl asked loudly.Originally, she thought that, having reached this point, the cripple would no longer hide it for her father.Unexpectedly, when the other party heard this, his face changed drastically, and he cursed angrily:
"Ah bah! The great priest killed eighteen people in my family. Even if I killed him alive, I couldn't forgive him. How could he obey his orders?!"

"It's not honest to die!"

Ning Yue recalled what happened in the farmhouse that night, and was finally dazzled by the anger in her chest. She raised her voice and continued to shout, "I'm not afraid that you will be stubborn today! Since you refused to say anything, you tied it back and handed it over to you." Mother-in-law's hair!"

But before she finished speaking, she suddenly saw an expression of enlightenment on the face of the cripple opposite.Immediately, he stretched out his hand and pulled out two curved boning knives from the back of his waist, and rushed towards the girl, as if he was going to fight a trapped beast!
But there was only one lame man after all.Before he could bully him, the girls beside Ning Yue had joined forces to surround him.After all, he was trained by Grandma Cen, she subdued him in just a few rounds, and pinned him firmly to the ground.The red-haired girl stepped forward, still wanting to persuade her to let go with good words.Unexpectedly, the cripple suddenly looked up to the sky and sighed, his words were full of unwillingness and indignation:
"It's true that after a long walk at night, you will bump into ghosts. I never thought that the same thing would happen to me! You are really the ones sent by that person to kill me. It's a pity that I was softhearted in the farmhouse that night. It can end your life! It’s just that I didn’t expect that the daughter of the great priest would be subdued and work for my enemy!”

"What does it mean to work for the enemy? Who is the person you mentioned? Could it be that you—— were sent by Qi Shouyu?!"

Ning Yue suddenly realized that there seemed to be something else hidden about the whole matter, so she hurriedly wanted to continue to ask for clarification.However, before the cripple could open his mouth, he suddenly heard the sound of a bowstring behind him, and a feathered arrow "swish" past 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 group of powerful troops also appeared on the hill.The leader with a thin face was Kunjie himself.He held a longbow in his hand, and he shot that deadly arrow just now with his own hands!

"Miss Yue'er was shocked! Please forgive me for being late. If I had listened to your words earlier, I wouldn't have put you in danger today. Now that the damn murderer is dead, you can go back to the city with me." !"

"Oh, why are you in such a hurry to kill him!"

The girl saw that the person she had managed to catch died like this, and all the clues she knew about the inner ghost were completely lost because of this, and she complained extremely disappointed on the spot.

"Don't cry, don't cry, it's all Granny Cen's fault. The struggle between the rebel party and the priest has always been a life-and-death struggle. From the very beginning, you shouldn't be allowed to talk to yourself and take risks without authorization. This seat has already reprimanded her, Yue Miss Er should go back to the city first, and I will handle the follow-up matters."

Kunjie tried his best to comfort the girl.Ning Yue is also very clear that the only witness is now dead, and it is useless to stay here, so she can only walk towards Jingshu City dejectedly under the escort of the other party...

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