Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 419 The traitor
When the three of them arrived outside Xu's house, Tan Mazi did not rush to knock on the door. Instead, he first walked into a teahouse opposite and greeted the tea master there.

Dr. Tea glanced at Malu and Gu Qingyi and asked, "Who are these two..."

"Deputy Sect Leader Xu has Young Master Ma, his disciple outside, and Constable Gu from the Iron Armor Sect." Tan Mazi said.

Upon hearing this, Dr. Tea couldn't help but look at Malu a few more times, but he didn't ask any more questions and just waved his hand.

The next moment, Malu saw the street vendors selling candy figures, herbal tea, snacks, and toys, as well as the idle people playing chess on the roadside, all dispersed.

Tan Mazi explained, "After Deputy Sect Leader Xu was killed, we deployed some personnel outside his residence to protect his family.

"But there are too many beggars in the Beggars' Sect. I originally planned to take Madam Xu and Master Xu to Happy Forest tomorrow morning. But since they are here tonight, I will take them away after you, Detective Gu, have finished questioning them, so as to avoid any more trouble."

Malu asked casually, "Has the situation deteriorated to this point?"

Tan Mazi snorted coldly, "As early as three days ago, those beggars had already started to attack our properties. I just didn't expect them to be so bold as to send people to assassinate Deputy Sect Leader Xu.

"Alas, poor Deputy Sect Leader Xu was still negotiating with the Beggars' Sect before he was killed, hoping to resolve this dispute peacefully. I have long advised him that those beggars cannot be trusted, so it is better to have a good fight. Even if he dies, he will make his money back."

As Tan Mazi spoke, he walked forward and knocked on the door.

Ma Lu was surprised, "Just because of a lotus bowl, the two largest underworld forces in Qingzhou are going to fight each other."

"It's not just about the lotus bowl," Gu Qingyi said, "Not long after you left last time, an eight-bag elder named Han from the Beggars' Sect also died. I suspect it was the Tianlong Sect who did it."

"Hmm?" Malu suddenly perked up, "Where is it?"

"Where's what?"

"Where is the body?"

"The two detectives from the Iron Clothes Sect have already investigated and proved that the elder was indeed killed by the Shocking Soul Finger, which is the famous skill of Li Tianlong, the leader of the Tianlong Sect."

Gu Qingyi misunderstood and shook his head, "There shouldn't be any problem with their investigation. The Beggars' Sect also issued a hero order after that, saying they wanted to avenge Elder Han."

Malu didn't ask any more questions, otherwise Gu Qingyi and Tan Mazi would probably have become suspicious.

Anyway, since the corpse has already appeared, we can touch it at any time. It won't grow legs and run away. At most, it will be buried in the ground, which will make it easier to touch.

The conflict between the Beggars' Sect and the Tianlong Sect is not good for others, but it is definitely good for Malu.

After all, it is not easy to encounter the body of a master under normal circumstances. However, only a week after Malu left, two more masters died in Yuchang County.

If the Beggars' Sect and the Tianlong Sect went to war and blood flowed like a river, Malu thought that with his magical powers, wouldn't he be able to take advantage of the situation?

It’s quite exciting to think about it this way.

Just as the three were talking, the door of Xu's mansion opened a crack, revealing an eye.

The eye looked at Malu and Gu Qingyi with full vigilance, and only disappeared when it saw the vigilance in Tan Mazi's eyes.

"Master Tan, it's you."

The owner of the eye opened the door. He was a middle-aged man in his fifties. Judging from his attire, he should be the steward of the mansion.

Tan Mazi said, "We will soon go to avenge Deputy Sect Leader Xu. Before that, I will come to take Madam Xu and Young Master to a safe place." The steward looked embarrassed when he heard this, but he still invited the three people in.

"What's wrong?" asked Tan Mazi.

"Madam should be fine. She has already packed her things, but the young master is still outside."

"Hmm?" Tan Mazi frowned. "Didn't I tell you not to let Madam and Master go out? It's not safe outside now."

"I'm just a servant, how can I control the young master?" The steward was also helpless, "It was fine when the master was here, but now that the master is gone, the lady can't control him either."

"Why did he go out?" Tan Mazi's brows were getting tighter and tighter.

"Is he going to look for that Xiao Hong again? He just lost his father this morning, and he's going to listen to music in the afternoon? How can he be so unfilial? He's worse than an animal!"

Tan Mazi cursed loudly, but there was nothing he could do. Deputy Sect Leader Xu had a son in his old age and had always doted on his only son.

His son felt that practicing martial arts was too tiring, so Deputy Sect Leader Xu found a teacher for him to teach him how to read. However, after studying for a short while, he felt that writing was meaningless.

He angered the old master and left, and spent all his time eating, drinking, gambling and whoring with a group of bad friends. Some time ago, he became infatuated with a singing girl and has already spent seven or eight thousand taels of silver on her.

Deputy Sect Leader Xu therefore confined him to his home for a month, but he sneaked out again before the time was up and had a secret meeting with the singing girl named Xiaohong.

Tan Mazi was angry, but Master Xu was the only heir of the Xu family. If anything happened to him, he would not be able to face Deputy Master Xu even if he died.

So Tan Mazi simply told the steward the identities and purpose of Ma Lu and Gu Qingyi and left in a hurry, going to the teahouse opposite to gather people to look for Master Xu.

The steward took Malu and Gu Qingyi to the bedroom where Deputy Sect Leader Xu was killed.

According to the manager, nothing inside had been moved and remained in its original state.

While Gu Qingyi was looking around, she chatted with Malu about her discoveries this week.

She was not idle after Malu left, she also did a lot of work. And it was not quite the same as what Malu imagined, Gu Qingyi really found out a lot of things.

“I found the person who stole the Lotus Bowl. He is a disciple of the Beggars’ Sect’s Law Enforcement Hall.

"The law enforcement elder trusted that disciple very much, so he did not hide many important things from him. Moreover, he was very smart and replaced the lotus bowl in advance, thus clearing himself of suspicion."

"Then how did you find out?" Malu asked curiously.

"I thought of a case my uncle told me about before. In that case, the thief used a similar method to steal a white jade statue. It left a deep impression on me."

"Ah, is this okay?"

Ma Lu had to admit that Gu Qingyi's inspirational method of solving cases did have its merits.

Gu Qingyi continued, "The key point is the reason why the disciple stole the Lotus Bowl. He said that he lost a large sum of money to Happy Forest, and was forced by Happy Forest to steal the Lotus Bowl to pay off the debt."

"Hey, isn't Happy Forest a property of the Tianlongmen?"

"That's right. So the Beggars' Sect insisted that the Tianlong Sect had taken the Lotus Bowl and issued them an ultimatum, demanding that they return the Lotus Bowl within three days, otherwise they would go to war with the Tianlong Sect."

(End of this chapter)