Chapter 408 The Destined One
Gu Banxian's given name was Qing. He seemed to have expected that he would be caught tonight, so he quietly hid in the vegetable cellar of his neighbor's house, making it difficult for Xiao Da to find him.
The old man was stubborn and Xiao Da couldn't persuade him no matter how hard he tried. He could only tie him up and bring him back to report first.
But he came back a step too late, Xiao Jingfan and his group had already left chasing the shadow bug.
Xiao Da originally wanted to lock Gu Qing up first, but when Gu Qing heard that the person who wanted to see him was the emperor, his face changed drastically, but it didn't seem like he was simply afraid or terrified.
Xiao Da thought for a moment and decided to take him along to chase the others. After a long and arduous chase, they finally caught up. However, Gu Qing was thrown quite hard by the horse, and once he was untied, he fell to the ground, dazed and unable to get up.
Feng Jing stood aside with his arms folded, glancing at him sideways: "Sir, do you still remember me?"
Gu Qing turned a deaf ear and tried to get away with it by pretending to be dead. He did not have the aura of an otherworldly master that Feng Jing had when he first met him.
Chen Xing smacked his lips. "Doctor Feng, you've been wandering the world for so many years, but you were actually deceived by such a rotten old man."
"I never lie." Gu Qing raised his head angrily and glared at the disrespectful little girl. "In Xuanmen, it's a matter of mutual consent. The money and goods have been paid. How can you say it's a lie?"
Everyone: “…”
Shameless!
So shameless!
Feng Jing started to take out the medicine powder, and was about to teach the old man a profound lesson, so he asked Lu Fei to quickly take it away.
Lu Fei whispered, "Your Majesty hasn't asked any questions yet. It won't be too late to take revenge after he has done so."
Feng Jing humphed, and for the emperor's sake, he reluctantly took the powder back.
Xiao Jingfan gestured to Chen Xing to help the old man up, and said in a very gentle tone: "Don't be afraid, old sir. I asked someone to invite you here, not to harm you, but just to ask you to help me solve my doubts."
Hearing the self-proclaimed "I," Gu Qing's legs softened. If Chen Xing hadn't held on tightly, he would have sat back down. He pointed a trembling finger at the young man on the horse, his voice trembling, "You, you, you are the emperor?"
"How dare you!" Zhou Yuande shouted, glaring at his hand. "Don't be rude!"
The old man was so scared that he quickly retracted his hand and gave Xiao Jingfan a dry grin. His fat, round face looked like the surface of a pond wrinkled by the wind, and he looked inexplicably pitiful.
Xiao Jingfan sighed lightly. This so-called half-immortal was far from what he had imagined, and he couldn't help but feel disappointed.
"Who gave this to you, sir?" He took out the red brocade bag and motioned the old man to look at it.
Gu Qing stared for a long time, his lips trembling, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.
Seeing this hesitation, Feng Jing couldn't help but interrupt: "Have you forgotten what you gave me so quickly?"
"I haven't forgotten, I haven't forgotten." Gu Qing waved his hands repeatedly, his eyes rolling around, "A young man gave it to me. He also gave me a hundred taels of silver and asked me to pass it on to someone who is destined to receive it."
Xiao Jingfan: "What destined person?"
Gu Qing: "The young man didn't tell me anything, just told me to wait at Baxian Bridge."
"You didn't say anything?" Feng Jing looked at him suspiciously. "What if it was given to the wrong person?"
"I won't give it to the wrong person." Gu Qing glanced at him. "That young man said that the destined person would come to me for fortune-telling and asked me to give the lucky bag to the one who looked the most foolish. He also said that the destined person would help me avert a disaster."
Feng Jing took the initiative to ask him for a fortune-telling. He was quite naive and had saved his life. Everything about his fortune fit the bill.
Chen Xing stared at him: "Are you the fortune teller or is that young man the fortune teller?" Why does it sound like the young man the old man was talking about is more like a charlatan than this old man?
Others felt the same way.
Xiao Jingfan asked: "What does the young man look like?"
"He looks like a human being," Gu Qing muttered. Suddenly remembering that it was the emperor who asked him the question, he hurriedly added, "He's about twenty years old, fair-skinned, and has a scholarly air. He must be a scholar."
This description completely matched the scholar in Xiao Jingfan's memory. He hurriedly asked, "What else did he say to you?"
Gu Qing's eyes flickered, but before he could utter a lie, he felt a chill on his neck. A sharp steel knife was placed against it. Lu Fei's face was stern and dark: "You must not conceal anything in front of His Majesty, or you will be punished for deceiving the emperor."
"No, I dare not." Gu Qing shuddered, raised his hand and carefully pushed the knife out, bent down to take off his boots, and took out a stack of papers from the boots.
The air was immediately filled with the sour smell of feet.
Chen Xing covered his nose in disgust and glared at the old man: "Put it on quickly!"
Gu Qing felt very aggrieved by her yelling, but seeing that she looked fierce and like she was going to hit someone, he had no choice but to put the stack of papers on the ground and bend down to put on his boots.
Xiao Jingfan winked at his chief eunuch.
Zhou Yuande went over immediately, picked up the stack of papers with his sleeves wrapped around his hands, held it aside and shook it to disperse the smell, pinched his nose with his other hand and turned his head away to avoid being suffocated by the smell.
Everyone took a step back in tacit understanding and held their breath.
Xiao Jingfan could see ink on the paper and asked the old man, "What's written on it?"
Gu Qing shook his head: "I don't know."
Feng Jing didn't believe it: "You stepped into the shoe and didn't even look at it?"
Gu Qing's face twitched. Under the stares of the crowd, he had to admit that even a demigod like him couldn't understand the contents of the paper. To save face, he added, "It should have something to do with the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams."
Hearing this, a guess flashed through Xiao Jingfan's mind, and he ordered Zhou Yuande to bring the paper over.
Zhou Yuande was very disgusted with these papers. Your Majesty is worth millions of gold, how could he touch such dirty things?
He couldn't help but glare at the old man several times.
Why hide it on the soles of your shoes? Don’t you know you have athlete’s foot?
Gu Qing was wronged.
People tend to forget things when they get older, so isn't he worried that he might lose it if he put it somewhere?
He is a man of his word and cannot let down the one hundred taels of silver.
Zhou Yuande walked up to Xiao Jingfan holding the stack of papers. Xiao Jingfan glanced at the old man's feet, and his hand holding the reins moved twice. He hesitated for a long time, but he really couldn't stretch out his hand to take it, as he felt his hand would rot.
So, Eunuch Zhou, who was not afraid of hard work, fatigue or dirt, diligently held up the pictures one by one for his majesty to see.
Xiao Jingfan tilted his head to read the contents on the paper, and Huang Qian took the soldier's torch to light the way for him.
Although everyone despised the old man's smelly feet, they couldn't resist their curiosity and leaned over to take a look. Chen Xing held a precious orb in his hand, emitting a brilliant light that illuminated the contents of the paper for everyone to see more clearly.
There are ten pieces of paper in total, and each piece of paper is a formation diagram, which are linked together.
The person who drew the picture was very careful. He not only marked the key points of the formation with a cinnabar pen, but also wrote down the method of breaking the formation. Even the locations of the mechanisms were clearly marked.
Huang Qian stared at the first formation diagram and said in surprise, "This formation seems to be the same as the one on the mountainside of Qianchi Cliff. Even the mechanisms inside are exactly the same."
"Sure enough." Xiao Jingfan's eyes curved, his eyelashes like a fan. That scholar was helping them.
While everyone was concentrating on looking at the formation diagram, Xiao Da was in charge of watching Gu Qing.
Seeing the old man's face full of panic and fear, Xiao Da was worried that the old man would be frightened to the point of having a mental disorder. What if the master still needed this old man?
He took the initiative to talk to Gu Qing: "Why did you hide in the vegetable cellar?"
Perhaps knowing he couldn't escape, Gu Qing reversed his previous uncooperative attitude and answered truthfully: "Someone wants to kill me."
(End of this chapter)
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