Chapter 070 Jin丨Exclusively published by Jiang Wenxue

Zhui Ming’s tone was cynical, but not very firm, as if he was joking with Pei Rui and teasing him on purpose.

Pei Rui: “Then I’ll go find someone else.”

Zhui Ming: “Who?”

Pei Rui thought for a moment and found that he didn’t know many people. After eliminating several options, there was only one option left: “A kind person.”

Zhui Ming straightened his upper body, reached out to get the wine from the base of the wall, bent one leg, and slapped the mud plug: “The kind person who helped you before?”

Pei Rui still looked incomprehensible and remained silent without answering.

Zhui Ming felt something was wrong: “Is it so difficult to answer?”

Xiao Mian was the adopted son of the Prince of Taiping and was loyal to the Prince of Taiping’s mansion. It was understandable that he didn’t want to reveal the news of the mansion.

Is it difficult to answer questions about kind-hearted people?

Could it be that this person has a special identity and has some shameful dealings with Xiao Mian?

Pei Rui said lightly: "Yeah." Zhui Ming

took a sip of wine: "Xiao Mian, I know you trust me, so you thought of me first when you needed help. I am very happy. It's just that the Taiping Palace and the Shenhou Palace have different positions. It's hard not to care about some of the things you revealed. If my questions make you embarrassed, you can just say it."

Pei Rui shook his head.

Zhui Ming sighed: "I really can't understand what you are thinking more and more."

After a while, Pei Rui said slowly: "It's not difficult, I just don't know how to say it."

Zhui Ming: "Why?"

Pei Rui: "I don't know either."

Pei Rui still had that cold look, but Zhui Ming felt that he seemed to be distracted and didn't know what he was thinking.

Zhui Ming felt the same powerlessness again when he asked Xiao Mian about the past of Wo Yun Tower. He stood up with the wine pot, put his arm around Pei Rui's shoulders, and took him to sit on the low couch next to the table.

Pei Rui smelled the alcohol on him and pushed him away with disgust.

Zhui Ming was unaware: "You came here late at night, you seem to be very anxious, but your expression and tone don't seem to be anxious at all."

Pei Rui: "I can't sleep, come and sleep here."

"So that's what you planned." Zhui Ming moved closer, "Then you can just find a place to sleep, why did you wake me up?"

Pei Rui: "Just to say hello."

Zhui Ming: "..."

Pei Rui stood up: "If everything is fine, I'll go to sleep, I have to go out of town to find a kind person tomorrow."

Zhui Ming: "Do you need me to come with you?"

Pei Rui: "Sure."

After answering Zhui Ming's doubts and reaching a consensus with him, Pei Rui went to sleep in his own place.

Zhui Ming leaned on the couch, no longer sleepy.

He didn't expect Pei Rui to agree so easily. It seems that the "kind person" Xiao Mian mentioned is not as shady as he thought.

He knew that Xiao Mian was very smart and had enough experience in the martial arts world, but for some reason, he couldn't help but worry about this child.

At first, he was afraid that he would be used by King Taiping to do things that went against his will. Later, he was worried that he would be misunderstood by his fellow apprentices in the Marquis' Mansion and that he would not get along well with the people from the Divine Capture Department. Now he is worried that he will be deceived and used by that "kind-hearted person".

Pei Rui is blind, so he can be fooled by a little disguise.

His sharpness should have been cultivated in the struggles in the martial arts world, and it is impossible that it existed at the beginning.

Imagine that the young and blind Xiao Mian was helped by someone when he was desperate. It is easy for him to be wary and trust the other person wholeheartedly.

The martial arts world is dangerous, and there are many people with ulterior motives.

No one would be kind to someone for no reason. If he did so, he must have some ulterior motive. Even if he had nothing, he would be very likely to be killed.

Zhui Ming took a few sips of wine and drank all the wine in the jar in one breath.

With such a taciturn brother, Zhui Ming had to worry about him.

-The

next morning, Pei Rui dressed neatly, hung a long sword on his waist, and came directly to Zhui Ming: "Let's go."

Zhui Ming was still in that slovenly look, wearing old clothes, his hair was not combed neatly, and he didn't even think about shaving the stubble on his chin. He came directly to Pei Rui: "Have you eaten? Did you go to the street to buy food?"

Pei Rui: "No, I have no money."

"Brother will treat you!" Zhui Ming said generously, "This month's salary will not be paid until the end of the month. If you are in a hurry to use the money, you can go and withdraw it in advance."

System: [It seems that Xiao Mian has never paid a bill. 】

Xue Chen:【Xiao Mian has never had any money. She used to eat from Lu Xiaofeng, then from my father, and now from the Shenhou Mansion. When she goes out, Zhui Ming provides meals and even clothes for her. She has never needed money.】

System:【Great, she has always been eating for free! Isn't Xie Heng the same? After being taken to the Nameless Island, all his food and drink were from your brother.】

Xue Chen:【Yes.】

System:【Only Xiao Liu has to beg for food. She is hungry for three days and nine meals. Xiao Liu is so miserable. She is having a hard time now. I don't know when she can return to Beijing to reunite with her uncle.】

Xue Chen:【I don't think I am pitiful.】

System:【I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about Xiao Liu.】

Xue Chen:【If you want to praise my acting skills, just say it directly. Why beat around the bush? 】

System: [……]

Pei Rui followed Zhui Ming out of the door, had breakfast in a shop outside, and went straight out of the city.

Zhui Ming looked around. The people on the street would subconsciously retreat when they saw Pei Rui. No one dared to stare at him. They should all be strangers who didn't know Pei Rui at all.

Pei Rui had good hearing, but he didn't know the way very well. He needed to rely on Zhui Ming's footsteps to judge the direction of walking. He had no intention of taking the initiative to lead the way.

When they were about to leave the city, Zhui Ming couldn't help asking: "Can we really find that kind person this way?"

Pei Rui shook his head.

Zhui Ming: "Do you have a special way of contacting each other?"

Pei Rui shook his head.

Zhui Ming: "Xiao Mian, we are walking aimlessly now? Without a specific goal, right?"

Pei Rui nodded.

Zhui Ming: "Did I ask too much last night and make you unhappy?"

Pei Rui shook his head.

Zhui Ming felt very tired: "Xiao Mian..."

Pei Rui raised his hand and held his shoulder: "Go to crowded places, don't go to remote places."

Zhui Ming did as he was told and led the way for him.

He hated to see Pei Rui's inconvenience in moving because of his lack of sight.

Pei Rui has always been sharp and strong, and the occasional vulnerability he showed would remind him of Xiao Tou.

Since meeting Pei Rui, Zhui Ming has thought of Xiao Tou less and less. The regrets he once had were not filled, but buried by deeper regrets.

Xiao Tou didn't know her brother was still alive, nor did she know that he missed her.

Xiao Mian and Xiao Tou had been separated for many years, and when they met again, they were already separated by life and death.

Every time Zhui Ming thought of him, he felt very uncomfortable.

The dead can't be made up, so of course he should be better to the living.

But Xiao Mian has lived in darkness since he was born. He has never seen the light, his hometown, and his family.

His appearance is so similar to Xiao Tou...

Pei Rui tilted his head slightly and turned his ear to him: "What are you thinking about?"

Zhui Ming came back to his senses and suppressed the complicated thoughts in his heart: "I think you look a lot like your sister."

Pei Rui asked curiously: "How similar?"

In fact, he has heard other people's descriptions of himself and Xiao Tou many times, but he has never seen what Xiao Tou looks like. Even if he heard more verbal descriptions, it couldn't satisfy his curiosity.

Xue Chen: [I really want to know what Xiao Tou looks like. Every time I see Xiao Mian's face, I remember that Zhui Ming always mistook him for Xiao Tou, which makes me think Zhui Ming's aesthetics is questionable.]

System: [Why? Xiao Mian is also very good-looking.]

Xue Chen: [He is good-looking, but he is a man. If Xiao Mian grew up to be like Xiao Liu, it would be understandable, but he is a cool guy, which is completely opposite to other people's description of Xiao Tou. I have never seen Xiao Tou. Every time I put Xiao Mian's face in

my mind, I feel that Zhui Ming's sexual orientation is not very straight.] System: [It's a bit difficult to fill in the blanks...]

If it was before he met Pei Rui, Zhui Ming would be happy that someone still remembered Xiao Tou.

But now, he himself has almost forgotten what Xiao Tou looks like. Every time he recalls Xiao Tou's face, the face that comes to his mind is Xiao Mian's.

Zhui Ming said: "You look a lot like her, but your temperament is slightly different. Xiao Tou is more gentle and petite, and has two dimples when she smiles. Her aura is not as strong and cold as yours."

Pei Rui seemed unable to understand: "Dimples?"

Xue Chen: [Turn around to see if Xiao Mian has dimples.]

System: [What if she does?]

Xue Chen: [Then find a chance to show Zhui Ming.]

System: [……] Zhui

Ming will be persecuted by you to the point of insanity!

Zhui Ming turned around and poked his cheek: "Right here, when someone smiles, there will be a little depression."

Pei Rui raised his hand and touched his face: "Can it hold wine?"

Zhui Ming smiled and said: "It's not that deep, it doesn't look like anything."

But Xiao Tou's dimples really made him intoxicated. Seeing the gentle Xiao Tou was more comfortable than drinking clear wine.

The two came to a tea shop in the suburbs.

The shop was not big, but it had food and drinks, everything you need. The capital was under the jurisdiction of Liufenbantang and Jinfengxiyulou. Almost all the people in the city belonged to Liufenbantang or Jinfengxiyulou.

Because these two forces are too large, few people from other forces dare to cause trouble in their territories, and the imperial court's control over the capital is also relatively strict. People like Fang Juxia who are strict with themselves even wear knife-carrying orders when entering the capital to legally carry controlled knives.

Other wanderers in the martial arts world are not as law-abiding as Fang Juxia, but they rarely fight in the capital. They are all honest and there is nothing special about them.

This teahouse is where they rest outside. It is located in a remote area and no one is in charge. These wanderers in the martial arts world have no restraint and often clash here.

When Zhui Ming brought Pei Rui over, there happened to be two people fighting. One of them was completely at a disadvantage and was beaten to the ground by another man. A group of people were watching the excitement from behind.

After Pei Rui appeared, the atmosphere gradually solidified. The people who were laughing and cursing behind him subconsciously kept silent and looked at him vigilantly.

Someone suddenly shouted, "It's the Xuan Yue Dao!"

Someone turned around and ran away.

The rest of the people had never heard of the name "Xuan Yue Dao", but the black-clothed boy's terrifying aura was obvious to all. Anyone could see that he was not someone to be messed with. They were afraid that he was some murderer who had killed people countless times, so they all ran away.

The man who beat the man hesitated, spat at the person on the ground, picked up his weapon and fled.

Zhui Ming saw that the man lying on the ground had been beaten black and blue, and his mouth was full of blood. He was about to go forward to show some concern, but he suddenly got up, touched the blood, and stared at Pei Rui: "Xuan Yue Dao, are you here to kill me?"

Pei Rui was silent and walked forward slowly.

Zhui Ming, who was standing by, could feel the huge pressure brought by Xiao Mian.

The man on the ground picked up the sword that was thrown beside him: "Xuan Yue Dao, I will fight you!"

Zhui Ming did not expect that the man would react like this: "Stop it!"

Pei Rui raised his sword and stabbed him in the heart. He made a knife flower and threw the blood on the blade into the soil. He tilted his ear slightly: "What's wrong?"

Zhui Ming sighed: "It's a pity for a life."

Pei Rui squatted down, touched the body, undressed him, took out the sundries inside, touched them one by one, but still couldn't tell what they were.

Zhui Ming: "Xiao Mian, what are you looking for?"

"Knockout drugs." Pei Rui was a little frustrated, "Cui Ming, can you help me see if there is any knockout drugs here?"

Zhui Ming walked over: "Didn't you say you would ask kind people for knockout drugs?"

Pei Rui touched the corpse: "This is the kind-hearted person."

Zhui Ming was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?"

Pei Rui's tone remained unchanged, and he said coldly: "This is the kind-hearted person."

Zhui Ming was incredulous: "Xiao Mian?"

System: [He seems to have different values ​​from Xiao Mian. ]

Xue Chen: [It doesn't matter, he will figure it out himself. ]

Zhui Ming did not move for a long time, so Pei Rui had to search by himself.

The corpse was beaten before death, and there was a lot of dirt on the body. The personal belongings also smelled of sweat and blood. Pei Rui put a few silver ingots aside, touched a few paper bags, and opened them one by one to check.

Some of the paper bags contained hard dry food, and there seemed to be some powder in another paper bag.

Pei Rui sniffed it, hesitated, stretched out his hand to take a sip, and was about to put it into his mouth when someone grabbed his wrist.

Zhui Ming said in a somewhat aggressive tone: "Do you know what this is? How dare you put it into your mouth!"

Pei Rui lowered his eyes: "I can't see."

Zhui Ming's emotions stagnated: "This powder is green, and it doesn't look like a good thing."

Pei Rui blinked his lifeless eyes: "What does green look like?"

Zhui Ming was speechless, looked at him for a while, and felt distressed for the boy again: "I'll teach you later, give it to me first, okay?"

Pei Rui said: "You take it, I will spill it."

Zhui Ming took the paper bag from the boy and wrapped the things carefully.

He put the things away, and when he looked up, he saw Pei Rui continued to grope, he couldn't see, and his hands were covered with blood.

Zhui Ming said helplessly, "Don't look for it anymore."

He held the boy's hand and tried to pull him up.

Pei Rui refused, "We haven't found the knockout drug yet." Zhui Ming

said, "I promised you, I'll help you find it when we get back, as much as you want, get up quickly."

Pei Rui stood up and shook his hand, but failed to get rid of the blood.

Zhui Ming grabbed his hand, took the wine gourd, poured out the wine and rinsed him clean.

Pei Rui half-closed his blind eyes, as if looking down at his hands: "I want the knockout drug to take it myself, so that I won't be disturbed."

Zhui Ming paused and didn't pursue the matter further: "This is not a long-term solution. If you can't sleep in the future, come to the old building. Anyway, I'm the only one guarding the old building, and it doesn't matter if you come in the middle of the night."

"I thought so too." Pei Rui said lightly, "I usually live in the old building, and when I go home on vacation, I take the knockout drug."

Zhui Ming: "..." What on earth is going on that requires him to take the knockout drug!

Pei Rui thought for a moment: "My hearing is better than many people's."

Zhui Ming nodded in agreement: "Yes."

Pei Rui: "When it's late at night and everyone is asleep, there will be fights."

Zhui Ming: "Fights?"

Pei Rui: "Every time they start, it's very late. That's when it's quietest. I can hear the noises clearly, and every time it's a man and a woman fighting in the house, it's very noisy."

System: [Didn't you say you want to protect your brother's privacy?]

Xue Chen: [Isn't this well protected? I didn't even mention the whip. With this statement, Zhui Ming heard that the noises that Xiao Mian heard every night might come from different people. The reason he was disturbed was that his hearing was too good, not that my family was too evil and would not lose face for the palace.]

As a normal adult man, Zhui Ming immediately understood what Pei Rui was talking about.

He looked at Pei Rui and thought that this child was only sixteen years old and had no one to teach him since he was young. No wonder he was so ignorant.

Zhui Ming hesitated to speak, not knowing how to explain to him, "Let's go back to the city first. I will send someone to collect the body of the deceased, and I have to send this green powder for inspection... Tell me, why do you call the deceased a kind person?"