Martial Arts Song

Chapter 248 Setting up a trap
Two hours later.

"Red River" Bund.

A ferry slowly floated towards the shore.

At the stern of the ferry, the boatman was controlling the direction of the boat with oars, while at the bow, a young man in short casual clothes was looking at the gradually approaching scenery of the West City in front of him with great interest.

"Is this the West City of Hu Hai? It's completely different from what you see from the other side when you look at it from up close!"

After saying that, the young man turned around and looked at another young man in a suit sitting in the boat awning, and said dissatisfiedly: "West City is so prosperous here, why didn't you bring me here to see it earlier!"

The young man in the boat just glanced at him and said, "A rickshaw here starts at 30 yuan, and a bowl of noodles costs 10 to 20 yuan. Do you have the money to come here?"

The young man standing at the bow fell silent upon hearing this.

The two young men were none other than Chen Qing and Xuan Feng who had crossed the river.

The person standing at the bow was naturally Xuanfeng, who had never been to West City.

After boarding the boat, he had been standing at the bow, looking at West City with the extraordinary vision of a "divine transformation" master, and he was still very interested until the ferry was about to dock.

Chen Qing, on the other hand, had little interest in these things and just sat in the boat awning.

"You mean, my day's wages are only enough to buy a bowl of noodles here?"

After a moment's silence, Xuanfeng looked at Chen Qing and asked blankly.

Seeing him like this, Chen Qing said, "Don't worry, I will cover all the expenses for helping me. You don't have to spend any money. After all, we are brothers."

"…Should I thank you again?"

Xuanfeng said with a slight twitch of his lips.

"You don't have to be so polite."

Chen Qing said calmly: "Your Tiger Step has shown some results. If you continue to practice, you will soon reach the limit of the human body, right? It's time to consider the Limit Breaking Method."

Hearing this, Xuan Feng's slightly twitching mouth immediately opened into a kind smile, and he said, "Junior brother, you brought me to West City where things are so expensive, and you also gave me such a huge sum of 20 yuan a day. I am really flattered. I suggest that I only pay off the debt of 10 yuan this time."

"How can that be possible? Wouldn't that make me a black-hearted boss? We agreed on twenty, so it's twenty!"

Chen Qing said with a serious face.

As the two chatted and laughed, the ferry finally docked.

When the boat was about to dock, the boatman who was ferrying people at the stern came from the stern to the bow and took out the rope.

When the boatman tied the ferry to the pile on the shore, Chen Qing also stood up from the awning, paid the fare, took Xuanfeng off the boat, and then walked to the shore through the common road.

"What are you doing here?"

Because they were carrying Xuanfeng, who was wearing shorts, the two were stopped by the security team on the shore and asked about their purpose of coming to Xicheng.

In response, Chen Qing, who was wearing a suit, replied calmly: "We came here to buy things. This is my shop assistant. We have too many things and need his help to move them."

After hearing this, the Xilu people from the security team who were blocking the road didn't say anything else. They waved their hands and let Chen Qing and the other person pass.

“Is this the white man from the Westland?”

After the two of them reached the shore and walked away for a distance, Xuanfeng looked back curiously at the security team guarding the road and said.

"Ah."

Chen Qing glanced at him, hummed lightly, and said, "This area was rented to these white people from the Western Continent by the Emperor of the Ning Dynasty during the Ning Dynasty. It is not easy to take it back later, so we can only do this for the time being. Didn't Master You teach you this?"

"No."

Xuan Feng shook his head and said, "Master only taught us how to read and write, and the knowledge of cultivation. He didn't teach us anything else. Even these white people in the Western Continent I only knew about from other brothers who had gone out."

"That's it."

Chen Qing nodded, and then didn't talk any more about it. Instead, he stood on the side of the road and waved to stop a rickshaw.

Xuan Feng did not continue the topic. After seeing him wave to stop a car, he asked, "What are we going to do next?"

This time, Chen Qing did not evade the question and said, "I'll take you to make a set of clothes first."

"make clothes?"

Xuanfeng frowned slightly when he heard this, not understanding what was going on.

Chen Qing explained: "This is also included in what I want you to do. When we get there, you just need to follow my instructions."

"Ok."

After hearing this, Xuanfeng did not ask any more questions.

Soon, a rickshaw stopped in front of the two men.

The young driver glanced at the two of them and asked, "Where are you two going?"

Chen Qing smiled and asked the driver, "Have you heard of 'Master Wen', who is famous for making clothes in the concession?"

According to the information provided by Qi Yi, Xiang Wansheng's clothes were all made by "Master Wen", a very famous tailor in the concession, and "Master Wen" knew the address of Xiang Wansheng's home.

Therefore, Chen Qing's plan was to start with this "Master Wen" and find out the address of Xiang Wansheng's home first.

If it was before, when he was alone, he would definitely not start from this aspect.

Since he wanted to get the guest's address from this kind of person, he could only resort to threats, and the other party was a celebrity in the International Settlement in West City, so threatening him would cause trouble later on.

What's more, the other party is likely to have bodyguards around him.

But now, things are different with Xuanfeng, the "divine transformation" master, joining him.

"Master Wen is so famous, he must know."

After hearing Chen Qing's question, the young driver nodded and said, "You want to ask Master Wen to make clothes for you? But don't blame me for not reminding you in advance. You need to make an appointment to ask Master Wen to make clothes for you. Even those celebrities and high-ranking officials have to make an appointment. You can't just go there and get your clothes made."

After hearing this, Chen Qing smiled and said, "It's okay, just take us there. If we can't find Master Wen, we can ask his disciples to do it."

"Well, since you said so, please get in the car."

The young driver nodded upon hearing this.

Afterwards, Chen Qing and Xuan Feng boarded a rickshaw and, pulled by a young driver, came to the shop of "Master Wen", who was very famous in the concession.

"Master Wen's" shop was located on a place called "Danyang Road" in the International Settlement.

The shop is not big, it is just an ordinary store and has no name.

However, the decoration style is very exquisite. The doors and windows are made of mahogany and inlaid with transparent glass, so you can see inside from the outside. Whether it is the walls or the floors, they are almost all in the luxurious warm tones of mahogany style.

"This is Master Wen's shop. Even though it's not big, the things inside are very valuable!"

After the young coachman stopped the car, he turned around and said to Chen Qing and Xuan Feng in the car.

In response, Chen Qing and Xuan Feng did not say anything.

After paying the fare and waiting for the rickshaw to leave, Chen Qing said to Xuan Huan, "After we go in, I'll tell you. You just need to provoke the people inside to express their emotions."

"it is good."

Xuanfeng nodded after hearing this.

Then, the two of them pushed the door open and walked into the store. The bell above the door rang.

Two young men immediately walked out from the depths of the store, where there were many silk jackets, floral cheongsams, and suits and dresses hanging.

One of them saw Chen Qing and the other two and said with a smile, "Excuse me, Master is out making clothes for a customer and is not in the store for the time being. In addition, we need to make an appointment to make clothes in our store. Do you have an appointment?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Qing was stunned at first, then he smiled.

"Master Wen" is not here, and there are only these two people who look like apprentices, which is just perfect.

He was also worried that the "Master Wen" had expert bodyguards around him, or that he had a lifelong love for making clothes and was an ordinary person who "held the Tao" and whose "spirit" was relatively healthy and difficult to be bewitched.

Since they are not in the store, it is convenient for them to seduce these inexperienced apprentices in the store...

More than twenty minutes later.

Chen Qing and Xuan Feng walked out of the store.

Unlike the two people who came out before, Xuanfeng had already changed into a gray suit, and he had asked the store to put his previous short casual clothes into a canvas bag.

And Chen Qing also got the result he wanted.

In the shop of this "Master Wen", once a customer's number is waiting, he will personally come to the customer's home to take their measurements and then come back to make the clothes.

Then, when the clothes are finished, the apprentices will deliver them to the customers.

Therefore, the store basically has the addresses of many customers.

With Chen Qing's rhetoric and the purchase of clothes, and Xuanfeng's instigation of the two apprentices' desire to talk, it was effortless to see the customer book and find Xiang Wansheng's home address on it.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that it is easy to get the address, but difficult to break through the layers of obstacles at the other party's house.

Celebrities who "stay at sea" have basically been followed by reporters or people with ulterior motives, and their addresses are known.

But knowing the address is useless.

The places where celebrities usually live are either heavily guarded or they have their own bodyguards, so ordinary people can't do anything even if they know about it.

Although Chen Qing's strength allows him to do something, he does not want to get involved in any affairs between the Central Government officials or the Liuying Consulate this time.

Otherwise, he could have completed the mission alone without having to go through the trouble of looking for Xuanfeng to join him.

Therefore, knowing Xiang Wansheng’s address is just the first step.

"What are we going to do next?"

Xuan Feng walked out of the store, feeling a little uncomfortable, shaking his arms and lifting his legs, and asked.

The clothes he bought were not custom-made, but ready-made ones for display in the store. They just happened to fit his body shape, so he bought them.

The reason why he looked so uncomfortable was not because his clothes did not fit him well, but because he had never worn a suit before and was not used to it.

"We need to observe for a few days."

After hearing Xuan Feng's question, Chen Qing narrowed his eyes and said, "I'll take you to have some fun in Xicheng in the next few days."

"real or fake?"

Xuan Feng looked at Chen Qing suspiciously, "You are so good..."

When he said this, Chen Qing looked over, so he immediately smiled and changed his words: "Very good! Junior brother, you are still good to me!"

Chen Qing was too lazy to pay attention to Xuan Feng's doubts and said, "Let's go. I'll take you to eat something first, and then I'll take you to see the world in the evening."

Afterwards, he took Xuanfeng to eat something.

After leaving the Chen family's rented yard at noon, the two men first went to "Sanlin" to find gang members of the local "Sanbei Gang" to test their abilities, and then took a ferry from "Sanlin" to "Sanyang".

In addition, I came here to buy clothes and asked for the address of Xiang Wansheng's home.

This series of processes took nearly three hours.

It's almost three o'clock in the afternoon.

After Chen Qing and Xuanfeng finished their meal, it was almost four o'clock.

Then the two of them strolled around the concession area, bought some things, and then found a hotel and booked two rooms to rest.

As we wandered along, night soon fell.

After it got completely dark that day, Chen Qing brought Xuanfeng to the Paramount dance hall.

However, he did bring Xuanfeng here to play that night, aiming to let Xuanfeng get familiar with the "Paramount", and he had no intention of doing anything else.

Just when the party was about to end and Xiang Wansheng, his bodyguard Bian Longtao and his confidant Yang Zhan came to collect today's accounts, he asked Xuanfeng to take note of the appearance of the three people.

Then, after these three people took away the revenue of "Paramount" tonight, he used the powerful physique of a "Jingbian" master to follow them for a while and found out the addresses of two of them, Bian Longtao and Yang Zhan.

the next day.

During the day, Chen Qing used the help of Bian Longtao and Yang Zhan to find out many of the places where Xiang Wansheng usually went.

In the next few days, Chen Qing took Xuanfeng with him and secretly observed the three people.

With his physique as a master of "Jingbian" and Xuanfeng's keen five senses as a master of "Shenbian", the whereabouts and conversations of these three people in recent days were almost all exposed to the two of them.

In addition, Chen Qing also took Xuanfeng to observe the bodyguard Bian Longtao and Yang Zhan, Xiang Wansheng's confidant, alone.

Then, he discovered that the bodyguard, Bian Longtao, really didn't know that Xiang Wansheng had slept with his wife.

After collecting the bills every night, Xiang Wansheng would give the money to Bian Longtao to watch over the counting and record it in the account. In Bian Longtao's opinion, this was probably a sign of Xiang Wansheng's high regard for him.

But in fact, Xiang Wansheng took advantage of the opportunity when the other party was watching and counting the income to have a tryst with the other party's wife.

The reason for choosing this time period is that there is a name that can stop Bian Longtao during this time period.

The second reason was that Bian Longtao’s wife had just coaxed the child to sleep.

In addition to these, Chen Qing also discovered that Yang Zhan, his confidant, seemed to have some different thoughts!
This person was mainly responsible for helping Xiang Wansheng deal with the human snakehead business. When Chen Qing was observing him alone, although he did not go to the "Gangqiao" wharf in Dongcheng, he went to secretly meet a "Liuying" person.

It’s a pity that when the two of them talked, they only spoke the language of “Ryuying”.

However, neither Chen Qing nor Xuanfeng understood Ryuying language. Even with the keen hearing of a "divine transformation" master, he could hear the conversation between the two. Xuanfeng also reproduced the pronunciation almost perfectly for Chen Qing, but Chen Qing still could not understand what they were saying.

However, the other party's behavior made Chen Qing realize that the other party had ulterior motives.

After summarizing all these situations, a plan that would allow him to extricate himself from this mission gradually took shape in his mind.

When the time came to April 26th, it was the fifth day that Chen Qing brought Xuanfeng to Xicheng.

at dusk.

As night falls, the entire West City of "Hu Hai" becomes bustling with lights and music.

Chen Qing brought Xuanfeng to the "Paramount" dance hall again.

But this time is different from the previous few days.

This time, he came to set up a trap!

(End of this chapter)