Travel through troubled times and escape famine with the system

Chapter 373 The Witch Must Die

When he first came into the city, Lu You raised a large flag with the word "Lu" on it at the door to welcome his uncle and aunt's family.

It was also there that Lu You unconsciously used the Word Keeping Dice to summon the black panther for the first time.

Although she used the storage space to perform a magic trick to cover it up, that scene still left a deep impression on too many people.

Among the onlookers, there happened to be an old man who was selling calligraphy and paintings.

The old man also set up a stall at the west gate and wrote tablets for the dead soldiers who defended the city for free.

And when he heard about the immortal witch with a black panther, he immediately drew Lu You from his memory and showed it to the soldiers of the Yanzhou army.

The soldiers of the Yanzhou Army were also interested at this time, so they took Lu You's portrait to ask the captured Jin soldiers.

This time, everything fits together!

There is a very interesting joke on the Internet in the 21st century.

It’s called: Gossip drives social progress.

As one of the basic needs of human society.

In just two days, people in Qingzhou City began to come in an endless stream to ask for Lu You's portrait, preparing to take it home to worship the Leopard God!

The old man selling paintings combined the exaggerated stories told by the Jin soldiers and actually started his own secondary creation.

Originally, the painting he drew was just a frontal portrait of Lu You, similar to the wanted poster posted in the government office.

But as the client became more picky, the old man began to paint a full-body armored portrait of Lu You.

He holds a knife in his right hand and a Jin soldier's head in his left hand, with a ferocious black panther under his feet. He looks very majestic.

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“How many people have seen this painting?”

Wen family, Wu Quanwen held his forehead with his hand and asked weakly while looking at the portrait of Lu You on the table.

In front of him, a fat man in a brocade robe kept wiping the sweat from his forehead.

"I asked the old man Xu who sells calligraphy and paintings. He has already painted more than 80 pieces in the past two days."

"As for the number of copies made by others in private, it is impossible to quantify them, but a preliminary estimate is that they must have exceeded 150."

Wu Quanwen leaned back in his chair, hesitating to speak: "This old man draws really fast!"

"Of course." The fat man in brocade robe said with a smile: "The old man has been selling calligraphy and paintings for more than 20 years, and his writing is very fast..."

"roll!"

Wu Quanwen shouted angrily, scaring the fat man so much that he quickly turned around and ran out.

In this battle to defend the city, almost all the core members of the Hidden Dragon Guards in Qingzhou City were killed, and the intelligence network of the Hidden Dragon Guards in Qingzhou was almost shut down.

Now that such a big thing has happened, it took two days for the information to be delivered to him. How could Wu Quanwen not be angry?

On the side, Wen Chengjie looked at the portrait carefully.

"They look about 70% like him."

As Wen Chengjie was speaking, he saw the fat man coming back.

"Your Highness, there is one more thing. I was too nervous just now and forgot to mention it."

"Speak!" Wu Quanwen said coldly.

"There is another version of the rumor in the city, saying that Guard Wen is the messenger of the Leopard Goddess."

amount……

Wen Chengjie looked at the fat man in confusion: "Why would you say that?"

"Someone orally said that on the night when the Jin warriors were being wiped out, they saw with their own eyes that Guardsman Wen led the black panther to climb walls and fight with the Jin warriors."

After saying this, the fat man bowed respectfully to the two of them, then turned and ran away.

Wen Chengjie in the room looked at Lu You on the table with a twitching mouth.

"If my guess is correct, this Luyo is extremely skilled in disguise, right?"

Wu Quanwen frowned upon hearing this: "It can't be considered a disguise, it should be called a method of transformation."

"I saw with my own eyes that she used a double to transform herself into Hui Lantu. The inexplicable retreat of the Jin soldiers was caused by her."

Wen Chengjie closed his eyes when he heard this, then nodded slightly.

"That's right."

"The guard I assigned to the East Gate was named Guo Jun. The order I gave him that night was that anyone who approached the East Gate, except me, would be killed without mercy."

"I asked him about the situation yesterday, and he said that I personally sent my brother Wen Chengbo, a man and a woman, and three black panthers out of the city. It must have been Lu You who did it."

Wu Quanwen smiled bitterly when he heard this. He really couldn't figure out Lu You.

He didn't understand, since Lu You could transform into Wen Chengjie and open the east gate, why didn't they leave together.

"Do you think there really is an immortal sect in this world?" Wu Quanwen asked Wen Chengjie.

Wen Chengjie thought about it carefully, then shook his head slightly.

"I don't know. Lu You's method is too strange. I have never heard of such a method before."

"Your Highness, do you want to recruit this person?"

After this battle, whether Wen Chengjie was willing or not, he was firmly tied to Wu Quanwen's faction.

So when he was thinking about the problem, he also began to consider Wu Quanwen.

After all, one day, several princes will definitely compete for the throne, and if Lu You can be recruited under his command, it will definitely be of great use to him in the future.

Wu Quanwen sighed helplessly upon hearing this.

"In the end, I cut off Hui Lantu's head and took away Lu You's military merit, just to downplay her existence as much as possible."

"But I didn't expect that just two days later, this girl was rumored to be a leopard god witch. This matter can't be covered up anymore."

Wen Chengjie understood what Wu Quan and Wen Huazhong meant.

The third prince not only wanted to recruit Lu You under his command, but also wanted to train him into an unexpected trump card.

But now, Lu You has been exposed to everyone's sight.

Not to mention other things, but in the Yanzhou army, there are countless hidden agents and confidants planted by the other two princes.

It is foreseeable that Lu You's name will be known throughout the Wu Kingdom in a short time.

"Your Highness, we can't hide it anymore, but we still have a way, which is to let her die."

"Let her die?" Wu Quanwen looked at Wen Chengjie in confusion: "What do you mean?"

Wen Chengjie looked at the portrait of Lu You on the table and spoke after pondering for a moment.

"I have a rough idea of ​​Lu You's personality. Although she sometimes behaves out of the ordinary, she is generally very sensible."

"This girl is very cautious and would not like to be the target of public criticism. If the name and portrait of the Leopard Goddess and Demoness spread throughout Wu State, she would definitely be very worried about being targeted."

"So, now as long as we spread the word that she is dead, she will definitely cooperate secretly."

"We will arrange for someone to find a corpse that looks like the portrait and change the corpse into Lu You's clothes. We will hold a funeral for her and let the people of Qingzhou City pay tribute to her."

"With the testimony of hundreds of thousands of Qingzhou civilians and more than 80,000 Yanzhou soldiers, it can be confirmed that Lu You is dead."

"When the time comes, there should be fewer obstacles when you send people to look for her."

Wu Quanwen's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"What you said makes sense, let's do it."

"By the way, you have many confidants in Qingzhou Prefecture. Find some trustworthy people to look for your brother and his friends."

"Lu You's younger brother Lu Yi must be well protected."

Having said that, Wu Quanwen looked at Wen Chengjie curiously.

"By the way, I remember Mr. Guan said that Lu You seems to have more than one brother, right?"

"There is another one who got lost, his name is Lu Ming..." Wen Chengjie answered casually, then turned around and ran to the sorted memorials for merit nearby and started searching frantically.

"The third shield leader of the Qingzhou Army's Wind Chasing Battalion, Lu Ming..."

"This is why Lu You came back!"