Ma'am help, the general is in trouble again

Chapter 68 Mysterious Master Li (two chapters in one)

No matter how you think about it, Yuan Sui and Yin Xiao feel that this speculation is ridiculous.

But now they are a bit stuck, trying to refute her "nonsense", but apart from a few dry and guilty reprimands, they can't speak out like her.

In this atmosphere of continuous silence that would explode at the slightest touch, Yuan Sui and Yin Xiao were about to fight it out, and when they planned to say that they couldn't win with their mouths, and then use force to overwhelm others, someone broke the deadlock with a voice.

"I taught it."

Who?
Obviously, this voice did not belong to those who were arguing and arguing, and it was completely unfamiliar to Zheng Quchi.

She turned her head and passed Yin Xiao, who followed Yuan, and saw a man in blue shirt walking slowly.

His hair is tied up with a green hairpin, and he has no other decorations, but the fabric on his body is soft and shiny like silk, and is covered with a fox fur. The warm white light shines on it, and a faint halo seems to linger around him. cold smoke.

The man suddenly slammed into her eyes like this, and she felt a coldness seemed to be infected from his clothes to his eyebrows, noble and cold.

Zheng Quchi also knows that there are differences between people, but the person in front of him is obviously different from the people present.

Mainly depends on the temperament.

But what about his aura?

Probably, they are mud legs working, and the other party seems to come to order the mud legs...

Zheng Quchi: "..." I was completely overwhelmed by the adjectives in my mind.

However, no matter how good his temperament is, he can't stand his overly "plump" attire.

Although it was winter, no one walking outside was dressed so exaggeratedly like him.

He was fully armed from head to toe, wearing a hat, gloves, neckerchief, and fur-integrated boots, and wrapped himself tightly in every place where the wind would leak.

This is the same as when southerners go to the north for the winter, they wish they could put on a quilt when they go out.

Yuan Sui and Yin Xiao turned around, their expressions changed several times.

"Li, Master Li?"

After seeing the bandaged wound on his head, and hearing the not-unfamiliar address of "Master Li", Zheng Quchi finally recognized him.

Isn't this man the man she dug out from under the rock?
It's just that his face was either blood or ashes at that time, she didn't take a close look at his appearance at all, until now.

"Master Li."

Mu Ke was stunned for a moment, then quickly concealed his expression, and stepped forward to salute.

"You haven't recovered from your injury, why are you here?"

Zheng Quchi has always found it very strange, who is this "Master Li", didn't the county say that Jixia Academy only invited two master craftsmen, Yuan Sui and Yin Xiao?
Then this mysterious "Master Li" must have something special about this project, but he can make the arrogant Yuan follower respect Yin Xiao and the others, and he has something special about this project. What's the point?

His face was clear and composed, and he just nodded politely to the greetings from Yuan Sui and others. Only when he looked at Zheng Quchi, his eyes softened a little: "Sang Xuanqing, is that your name?"

Zheng Quchi was called out in public, so he raised his eyes to look at him. This man looked like a good man with five courts and three eyes, but her sixth sense always told her not to take it lightly.

"Yes, I met Master Li." She replied with a high degree of consistency with the others.

Seeing her like this, Master Li seemed to be taken aback for a moment.

"You saved me, so you don't have to be so reserved in front of me." His tone was more gentle now.

Just now he had seen her fight for reason, with such a fresh and confident expression, shining brightly, instead of the false politeness and taciturnity she is now.

"Courtesy cannot be discarded." She lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, but now she became more polite.

It's not that she doesn't know how to pretend, it's just that sometimes she is too lazy to maintain the reservedness of a scholar. After all, her career choice is to deal with a group of rough craftsmen. She says "please" and shuts "thank you". .

But in order not to get involved with this troublesome person, she decided to pretend to the end and keep a safe distance.

Master Li: "..."

He seemed to say "I taught them" just now.

Danger!

I'm afraid this person is setting up some kind of trap, but she broke through the trap, right?Zheng Quchi made a decisive decision and said, "It's almost lunch break, I have to go to work, so I'll leave first."

After she finished speaking, she was as nimble as a rabbit, she took a few steps back with her head down, and then she was about to run.

But he didn't expect Master Li to be like a sticky candy, leaving the crowd behind him and quickly following him.

She snorted, ready to speed up.

Don't underestimate the super physical strength exercised by the working people.

But at the next moment, Master Li's unhurried words made her speed up and her feet sink.

"Sang Xuanqing, I know you are a woman—"

She turned around suddenly, with a look of shock on her face, seeing that there was no one around, she rushed up and covered his mouth tightly, and dragged him to a place where there was no one around.

She showed a fierce look: "What are you chasing me for? What are you talking about? What are you going to do?"

Asked three times in a row, the tone was urgent and low, squeezed out between gritted teeth.

Master Li pulled her hand down, saw her eyes glowing with fire, revealing her true disposition under false politeness, she was finally satisfied.

"Do you understand city defense works?" he asked.

Zheng Quchi withdrew his hand rudely, and bared his teeth at him like a dog in a poor alley: "What do you want to do? You don't want me to tell them that you deliberately lead them to failure, do you? The right choice, but combined it is the worst kind of choice."

Master Li admitted that he did not violate it: "Yes."

I thought Master Li would deny or not answer, but I didn't expect him to be so honest.

This sincere attitude caused her to get stuck in the full manuscript she had prepared.

"why?"

"Naturally, I don't want to let the city defense works in Fu County go smoothly."

Zheng Quchi was completely stunned by his frankness.

This person... Could it be that he ate something and told the truth, but he had to answer truthfully whenever others asked him?
She stared at him suspiciously, and continued to ask tentatively, "Why?"

But Master Li really seemed that no matter what she wanted to know, he could give her the exact answer without hesitation.

"Because of Yu Wensheng."

"Why... no, why do you answer me honestly when I ask you?" Zheng Quchi couldn't understand.

It's not necessary to say that he lied in front of her on purpose. She is not an important person, so he just doesn't answer if he doesn't want to answer, so why bother to make up a set of rhetoric to convince her?
Master Li's next answer surprised Zheng Quchi again.

"Because I know, you won't expose me."

ha?
When Zheng Quchi heard this, the rebellion in his body was triggered: "Why do you think so?"

"Because I happened to know a big secret of yours before I told you this deadly secret." Master Li replied.

Zheng Quchi suddenly realized, yes, he said just now that he knew she was a woman...

Zheng Quchi didn't expect to save a person with good intentions, but accidentally exposed her identity as a woman.

She had only had close contact with him once before, so without thinking, she could guess that he must have been discovered when he was saving someone.

At that time, the situation was urgent and chaotic. She didn't know how he was sure, but even if she knew that she would be discovered, she didn't have time to think about it so much.

Even if she hesitated a little bit or ran a step slower, she might not be able to live well until now.

"I'm a small person, it doesn't matter whether I'm male or female, but you bet me to shut up with such a big secret, are you reckless?" Zheng Quchi was already seriously considering how to sell him.

"You have no real evidence, even if you report it, if I don't admit it, you will be the one who suffers." Master Li said very sincerely.

Zheng Quchi: "..."

He made a good point and she was speechless.

At this moment, from the corner of her eye, she saw that when he was straightening his sleeves, a corner of his undershirt was exposed, where a word seemed to be vaguely embroidered with purple thread.

Like a symbol, like a badge... She hadn't seen it before, but in the blink of an eye, she suddenly remembered a sentence Shan Bian once said to her.

She blurted out: "Are you a disciple of Gongshu?"

Master Li's expression froze suddenly, but he didn't show any hostility, he only asked: "Why do you say that?"

Not denying it... is equivalent to acquiescing.

Zheng Quchi slandered, because I saw the secret emblem embroidered on the corner of your underwear, it was hidden deep enough, if I had just talked with him, I might not have found it.

Speaking of the public loser, she immediately thought of the confrontation between the Mo family and the public loser. She was not sure how big the enmity was, but it was definitely not going to get better, so she came up with a risky idea.

Her attitude changed, and she asked Master Li and Yan Yuesheng: "Master Li, can you do me a favor?"

Master Li observed her calmly, and replied with a pleasant voice: "What's the matter?"

Seeing that he remained calm no matter whether she exposed his conspiracy or revealed his identity, she couldn't help but speculate about the depth of this city.

But no matter what, the stronger he is, the more he can help her now.

She lowered her face, looked sad, and showed her true inner feelings without pretending: "Recently, I have been threatened by people. I don't know who they are, but they forced me..."

Therefore, Zheng Quchi told Master Li in a very eloquent and emotional manner, the meaning is probably that an innocent craftsman (she) was coerced and killed by dark forces (mainly a group of people including Master Qu).

If she doesn't follow, she will be karma, but she is struggling in her heart, and she doesn't want to kill innocent people, so she asks him for help.

As for what she was threatened with, she just vaguely said it, without going into details.

And after Master Li listened to her words, Mo Mo's eyes were as quiet as before, and he did not question the truth, but responded straight away: "I will help you check the other party's details, you don't have to worry."

Zheng Quchi was secretly delighted when he heard this.

She imagined that when he finds out that this matter is related to the Mohist family, the two of them would bite dogs, preferably the gang of criminals who endangered the city defense project, and they would eventually be discovered by Yu Wensheng together, and they would be taken to the county prison to eat in prison.

Zheng Quchi is now planning to part ways with these evil elements and draw a clean line.

Before, she thought about directly reporting to Yuwen Sheng.

But she was not sure if Yuwen Sheng knew that she was not only a secret agent of Julu Kingdom, but also a second-five son sent by the Mohist family, would he think that her "professional ability" was too strong, and would distrust her, and then he would be in love with her? Remove her together after the Yin trouble is eliminated.

Zheng Quchi saw that he should be straightforward, so he decided to spread the matter out and say: "I did save you before, but I never thought of asking you to pay back, this time you come to me, if you think If you owe me this favor and insist on repaying this favor, then this matter is over, and we will not default on it from now on."

Master Li still had no expression on his face, as if he had put on a solid fake face, but his eyes were turbulent, and Bai Quan was frozen.

He didn't respond to her words, but asked another question: "Why did you pretend to be a man to repair the city wall?"

This question is easy to answer: "Money."

Li Shi also believed it, because he had investigated some things about her.

"If it's for money... I heard that you are good at carpentry, and the earthenware you made is also remarkable. Just in the early spring of February, the Jichun Craftsman's Guild in Julu Kingdom will be held every three years. Why don't you go to participate with me? ?” Master Li has already started to find another way of life for her.

He knew that Fu County was about to fall into danger, and that there would be eggs under the overwhelmed nest, so he was arranging a retreat for her in advance, at least one of her, and he wanted to protect her.

The name sounds pretty cool.

"What?"

"Jichun Craftsmanship Union, it is held every three years, and all seven countries will participate. The participants are all skilled craftsmen from all over the world. There is no grade level. As long as the works are selected, they will be rewarded accordingly."

"How much?" she asked subconsciously.

Julu Country, when this country is mentioned, it reminds her of Moye, and thinking of Moye reminds her of his love and hatred with "Sang Xuanqing", so even if she knows that this kind of competition organized by the guild has something More authoritative and beneficial, but also somewhat reluctant.

"Primary candidate, one gold."

The primary candidates all have a gold? !

"So many?" She dropped her jaw in shock.

"The primary candidates will get one gold, and the winners in the rematch, and even the final winners, will get the construction value of a city."

[-]. A city? !
The poor can't hear this, and when they hear this, tears of longing will flow from the corners of their mouths.

"I, I want to participate!"

She took a "hissy" breath, and with a wave of her hand, all previous worries were dispelled.

She thought to herself, compared with making money, what kind of love and hatred can't be wiped away with a smile?
"However, who is organizing this?" The Julu Kingdom, could it be Mo Ye?

Master Li looked into her eyes, and said a name: "Public defeat is as good as it gets."

Zheng Quchi didn't react for a moment: "Who are you talking about?"

"Have you heard of him?"

Not only had she heard of it, but she was "fortunate" to see it once.

But he was wrapped up like a big white bear, so he couldn't see his face.

She discovered that the current powerful people attach great importance to their personal privacy.

Just like Yu Wensheng, she has seen him so many times so far, but he has been wearing a fierce mask all the time, and she doesn't know what kind of murderous and unblinking appearance he looks underneath.

"I've heard of it, but I haven't seen it." She added with an intention to cover up.

"Well, what do you think of him?" Master Li was a little concerned about her opinion.

"What do you think?" Zheng Quchi pondered for a while, and finally replied very pertinently: "Rich, very rich."

Master Li: "..."

He asked himself, the biggest advantage in him should not be rich.

Or in her eyes, she only sees the advantage of Gongshu being rich if he organizes the "Jichun Craftsmanship Guild"?
(End of this chapter)