Chapter 1103 Substitute
Xiao Xixi had already gotten used to Yu Jiu's sarcasm, so when she heard him say this, she didn't think much about it. She just thought that his bad habit had struck again, so she responded bluntly.
"Isn't it common knowledge that I like him?"
Yu Jiu looked at her steadily for a moment.
Just when Xiao Xixi thought he would say something, he just chuckled.
The smile was very strange, like self-mockery, but also like disdain.
Xiao Xixi was too lazy to pay attention to him anymore.
She pulled out the knife from her sleeve, with bloodstains still on the blade.
This is the blood of Master Tianyan.
Xiao Xixi didn't know what she was thinking of, and suddenly she stretched out her finger and gently wiped the blade.
There was a little blood on my fingertips.
She stared at the snow on her fingertips for a while, and suddenly asked, as if she had thought of something.
"Do you know what the birth date of Tianyan Zhenren is?"
Yu Jiu did not answer but asked: "Do you think that with his suspicious personality, he would tell others such an important thing?"
He looked at the woman in front of him suspiciously: "Why are you asking this?"
Xiao Xixi: "I want to tell his fortune."
Yu Jiu felt puzzled: "He's already dead, why are you still telling fortunes for him?"
Xiao Xixi: "I always feel that he won't die so easily. I want to tell his fortune to see if he is really dead."
When fortune-telling for others, it is best to have that person's birth date and time. If not, blood will do.
Xiao Xixi closed her eyes and quickly calculated a fortune in her mind.
After a moment she slowly opened her eyes.
Yu Jiu asked, "How?"
Xiao Xixi: "From the hexagram, the owner of the blood is indeed dead."
Yu Jiu breathed a sigh of relief and sneered, "Don't be suspicious."
Xiao Xixi: "But according to my calculations, the owner of this blood is not the real Tianyan Zhenren."
Yu Jiu’s smile froze.
He opened his eyes wide in disbelief: "You mean, the Tianyan Zhenren you just killed was a fake?"
…
On the other side of the county government office, the study door was pushed open from the inside.
Taoist master Tianyan, dressed in a gray and white Taoist robe, walked out slowly.
He still had white hair and beard, and a thin body. His face was quite pale due to his injuries, and his grey pupils were slightly cloudy. He held a silver whisk in his hand, and had the air of an immortal, with the temperament of a hermit.
A middle-aged man had been waiting outside the door.
His name is Luo Da. He is the oldest of the children adopted by Master Tianyan and also the most loyal to Master Tianyan.
At the same time, he was the only one who knew that Master Tianyan had a substitute.
Zhenren Tianyan was not only suspicious, but also extremely cautious. Not only did he dig several secret passages in Youmen County in case of emergency, he also prepared a substitute in advance.
The stand-in was one of his many adopted sons.
The stand-in never shows up in public. Even Luo Dadu only knows the existence of such a stand-in but has never seen the stand-in's true face.
In fact, the substitute does not look similar to Master Tianyan. The two people's appearances can even be said to be poles apart, but this is not a problem because Master Tianyan has a lot of transformation insects in his hands.
All he needs to do is give his substitute the transformation poison in advance, and he can transform into the appearance of Tian Yan Zhenren.
Coupled with long-term training and adjustment, the stand-in's words, deeds, and style of dealing with people have become almost identical to Tian Yan Zhenren.
Even someone as smart as Yu Jiu couldn't tell the real one between them.
When he saw the real Master Tianyan appear, Luo Da immediately knelt down to greet him.
"Greetings, Master!"
Master Tianyan coughed twice gently.
Immediately, a little boy came forward and put a gray-white crane cloak on him.
He asked hoarsely, "My substitute is dead?"
Luo Da answered truthfully.
"Yes, your double has been killed by the Imperial Concubine and Yu Jiu. The two of them fled into the back garden. The terrain of the back garden is quite complicated. Our people are searching for them everywhere."
Taoist Tianyan coughed twice again.
Luo Da said worriedly: "Your injury..."
Tian Yan Zhenren took a deep breath, suppressed the discomfort in his body, and said in a hoarse voice: "It's okay, you just evacuate everyone from the back garden."
Luo Da was puzzled: "Why? Are we ignoring Yu Jiu and the Imperial Concubine?"
Tian Yan Zhenren: "Xiao Jiu is a very clever kid. It's hard to find him using ordinary methods. Besides, we don't have that much time to waste on the two of them right now."
When he mentioned Yu Jiu, he didn't seem angry at all, and his tone was even full of tolerance, just like a kind elder tolerating a child who had made a mistake.
But Luo Da knew that the Sect Master hated betrayal the most. Now Yu Jiu dared to help outsiders deal with the Sect Master and even killed the substitute that the Sect Master had carefully trained. The Sect Master must have been cruel to Yu Jiu.
As long as Yu Jiu is caught, the sect leader will make him live a life worse than death.
Luo Xiao asked cautiously.
"According to your advice, how can we capture these two in the shortest possible time?"
Tian Yan Zhenren smiled and said, "Go set a fire and burn the entire back garden. If they don't want to be burned to death, they have no choice but to get out of the back garden."
Luo Da suddenly realized: "I understand, I will do it right away!"
…
Inside the cave.
Yu Jiu has already stood up.
He tore off two pieces of cloth from his clothes and wrapped them around his injured hands to stop them from bleeding.
Xiao Xixi lay at the entrance of the cave and stuck her head out to look outside.
Not a single person was seen.
The whole back garden was unusually quiet.
Yu Jiu looked serious, no longer careless at all.
Based on his understanding of Master Tianyan, Master Tianyan would not easily put himself in danger. In other words, the "Master Tianyan" who easily exposed himself to him and Xiao Xixi was most likely just a substitute.
No wonder Master Tianyan, knowing full well that there was something fishy about his whereabouts for the past half month, did not investigate further and remained with him with confidence and boldness.
It turns out that Zhenren Tianyan was just a substitute.
They killed a double.
The real Taoist Tian Yan is still hiding in the dark. Maybe he has already come up with some vicious plan and is preparing to kill them both.
If Yu Jiu and Xiao Xixi continue to hide here, they will probably be caught in a trap.
They had to leave this place as soon as possible.
After making sure that there was no one outside, Xiao Xixi and Yu Jiu left the cave, trying to find an exit that few people knew about.
The strange thing was that they didn't see anyone from Tianmen along the way.
The whole back garden was unspeakably quiet.
The quieter it was, the more uneasy Xiao Xixi felt.
At this moment.
A choking smell of smoke penetrated their nostrils.
Both of them couldn't help coughing.
When I looked up again, a raging fire had already started not far away.
It was already dark at this time, and flames shot up into the sky, dancing wildly in the cold wind. The fire spread rapidly, and the firelight almost turned the night into day.
(End of this chapter)
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