"Oh." He Wen Gu suddenly realized, but still said with disdain: "That woman still has such bad taste. Last time she knocked my buddy out and disguised herself to steal something, but she ended up being exposed even through her human skin mask."
...In fact, few people in the underworld wear those things well. Most of them just want to cover their faces. At night, it's dark and it's not very clear. Only during the day will they ask someone to spruce it up a little.
"I'm just a petty thief with limited skills!" Han Chengyu raised his voice a little, then lowered it under the gazes of the two men: "...but I wouldn't do anything like that to kill people."
Han Chengyu has a baby face and looks like a meat bun, angry but not daring to speak.
"It's not your turn." Xu Shiqing nodded slightly: "Of course I will do it."
He Wen Gu's eyebrows twitched. "Why are you here? Once we've investigated this matter thoroughly and given the evidence to the Jinyiwei, we can just let them handle it."
He said, "Don't get involved in the affairs of the court. You'll only get yourself into trouble for nothing."
Isn’t Liu Xiangsheng a living example?
It was not a good idea to talk about this matter in front of Han Chengyu, so they both knew about it and changed the subject.
"Do you have any news about the martial arts competition to recruit a bride a month ago?" He Wengu asked Han Chengyu, "Especially regarding the eldest daughter of the Wen family."
"That day was pretty normal." The young man thought for a moment and said, "As for Wen Cairou...she's actually quite nice. If you ask me, it's just that she stole some salt...I'm quite curious how she managed to take so much salt away."
You can tell at first glance that he doesn't like reading very much.
He Wen Gu was choked with laughter by the words "stealing some salt".
Han Chengyu stayed in Suzhou and Hangzhou for a long time. According to him, after leaving his master, he was determined to become the best thief in the world and practiced martial arts every day. Unfortunately, he was caught stealing for the first time.
He Wen Gu was speechless: "Can't you pick something simpler to steal?" He actually chose the Wen family. There are many people from the underworld in the wealthy families of Suzhou and Hangzhou.
He knew Han Chengyu wasn't short of money, and that he always returned stolen items the next day, never breaking the rules. This was the rule Hua Xuanlan had taught him, so when he spoke of this incident, he didn't express disdain like other people in the martial arts world.
"...That's just youthful recklessness." Han Chengyu said timidly: "Anyway, Wen Cairou let me go."
His tone became a little excited: "She even asked me to teach her martial arts!"
Xu Shiqing raised his eyebrows slightly. Judging from his expression, it seemed that the Red Luan Star of Hua Xuanlan's disciple was moved.
"Before that day, Miss Wen didn't show any abnormalities? It's impossible for her to not feel anything strange when so much salt disappeared..." He Wengu frowned. "The Wen family has several ports. I'm afraid this was a premeditated action, carried out in batches and sections."
The official ship wouldn't have been anchored for long, and the discovery of so much less salt during the final inspection proved that the theft wasn't just happening at this ferry—those were several boxes of official salt! Converted to silver, it would be worth more than 100,000 taels!
But it broke out in Suzhou and Hangzhou, so we can only say that someone was pushing it behind the scenes.
What role did Wen Cairou play in it?
"No." Han Chengyu frowned and said, "She usually likes to listen to stories about the underworld. Her father is very strict and only lets her out when he says he wants to give out porridge and accumulate good deeds. Even so, she can only go out a few times a year."
“…She’s always happy when she comes back.”
He said with a bit of sadness: "There's going to be a martial arts competition to find a husband, and she's staying at home. How could she possibly leave the Wen family to make plans?"
"Why did she leave without telling me..."
Xu Shiqing and He Wen Gu didn't say anything. People like them who had been in the underworld for a long time actually had an inexplicable premonition.
That means Wen Cairou might have met with an accident.
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Han Chengyu didn't say anything. He Wengu was disturbed from sleeping and was in a hurry to ask people to arrange things for the next day.
What he meant was to cooperate with the Embroidered Uniform Guard. There was nothing wrong with Liu Wuyu himself, but there might be someone who wanted Jianmen to intervene and muddy the waters.
The current situation is to find the whereabouts of the official salt as soon as possible, and secondly, to find out the truth about Wen Cairou and the letter. As for the junior apprentice brother in the dungeon, He Wengu will keep an eye on him.
Xu Shiqing was naturally relieved, so he took Han Chengyu and headed towards the official ship under supervision at the ferry.
"How are we going to sneak in?" Han Chengyu was a little excited.
Xu Shiqing learned from He Wen Gu how to disguise himself, wearing a black suit that covered his face tightly.
He took off the long sword from his back and left the broken sword at Shili Pavilion.
"Someone will help us." Xu Shiqing led him across a forest, and then Lin Hanchen, who was dressed as a guard, met up with Lu Jingwen.
"You only have half an hour." Lu Jingwen said, "The rest is our business."
"Who is guarding inside?" Xu Shiqing asked.
"The leader of the Three Musketeers of Jiangnan, Song Zhihe."
Lin Hanchen said in a deep voice: "The creator of the Jinling massacre three years ago, I never thought that he would be accepted by the Jiangnan prefect."
At this moment, the official ship was hundreds of meters away and the specific situation could not be seen clearly.
"I will kill him." Xu Shiqing nodded and said coldly: "Accordingly, you must create momentum earlier than them-
Jianmen has no intention of competing with the imperial court; we are just a Jianghu sect."
Lu Jingwen nodded. They had already started talking about it, but it would take a few days to see the expected results.
As for whether Xu Shiqing would pull off a scheme to gain something for nothing, they weren't worried. Putting aside the fact that Zhehua Sword Immortal always kept his word, even taking a step back, the other party's junior sister was a member of the Jinyiwei, a fourth-rank deputy! It made no sense for Xu Shiqing to try to trick them.
Han Chengyu quietly reduced his presence.
He was afraid that he knew too much and would be killed to silence him.
However, something unexpected happened.
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"Long time no see."
The man stood at the other end of the deck, smiling.
"Ziyun, I miss you so much since we last met in Jinling."
Xu Shiqing frowned: "Xie Chongyue, did you kill everyone?"
"Honey Loves Lemons: No! You know me, I don't like killing people!"
021 [……]
Xie Chongyue, my host doesn't have so little trust in him.
You looked really embarrassed when you sent the message in a hurry.
"Lemon loves honey: I know."
Xu Shiqing's cold reply was a rare instance of consistency between his words and deeds, and it was particularly appropriate for the occasion.
The scene was tense.
Han Chengyu was about to cry.
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