Gu Long's World: Starting with the Legend of Chu Liuxiang

Chapter 152 Failed Attempt to Steal a Chicken

Qixia Temple is located in the bamboo forest on the hillside. When Jiang Fengyue and his party arrived in their carriage, the temple gate was wide open, but the carriage could not go up the mountain.

Lu Xiaofeng had no choice but to carry Sikong Zhaixing out of the carriage and walk step by step through the bamboo forest. Sikong Zhaixing's pulse was still beating and his breathing had not stopped. Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help but marvel at how he had managed to survive until now; it was truly a miracle.

Jiang Fengyue did not expose Sikong Zhaixing's disguise along the way, but occasionally teased this king of thieves.

As they drew closer to Qixia Nunnery, Lu Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief and murmured, "You really are lucky."

Just then, Sikong Zhaixing's body suddenly moved, as if he could hear what Lu Xiaofeng was saying.

Lu Xiaofeng was overjoyed and quickly asked, "You're awake? How are you feeling?"

Sikong Zhaixing suddenly opened her eyes and exclaimed, "I'm starving!"

Lu Xiaofeng was puzzled as to why Sikong Zhaixing could suddenly speak. He hadn't yet realized that Sikong Zhaixing had been faking it all along. After a moment of surprise, he asked, "Why are you hungry?"

Sikong Zhaixing sneered, "These past two days you've all gotten out of the carriage to eat and drink to your hearts' content, leaving me alone in the carriage to sneak around eating cold sesame cakes. How could I not be hungry?"

He then turned his gaze to Jiang Fengyue and said viciously, "You are even more despicable. It's one thing to eat and drink well during the rest period, but when you get on the carriage, you still have to wave a big chicken leg in front of me."

Lu Xiaofeng then realized that Sikong Zhaixing was no longer the half-dead woman she had been before. She had been pretending to be poisoned all along, probably just to deceive his feelings. His expression instantly turned ugly.

Ignoring what Sikong Zhaixing said, he forcefully threw Sikong Zhaixing to the ground.

Before Sikong Zhaixingren even landed on the ground, he suddenly leaped into the air, doing seven or eight somersaults in mid-air before landing lightly.

After all, he had practiced somersaults diligently after making a bet with Lu Xiaofeng, and now it seems that there is probably no one in the martial arts world who can do somersaults better than him.

Sikong Zhaixing was still smug, laughing loudly as he looked at Lu Xiaofeng.

Lu Xiaofeng sighed. He was furious at being fooled by Sikong Zhaixing several times in a row. He said, "I should have let you die there rather than believe your nonsense."

Sikong Zhaixing laughed and said, "Good people don't live long. I'm afraid I won't even live to be a hundred."

Jiang Fengyue shook her head and said, "You refuse to let me detoxify you because you're not actually poisoned. Those pungent poisonous smells are just a kind of fragrance that smells like poison."

He always knew that Sikong Zhaixing would not die, so he was neither in a hurry nor exposed her, since he had originally planned to come to Qixia Temple to take a look.

Sikong Zhaixing sneered, "How could poison possibly kill an old fox like me? You might be able to tell, but Lu Xiaofeng will definitely fall for it."

Lu Xiaofeng gave a wry smile, pondered for a moment, and said, "You deliberately pretended to be poisoned, just to buy time so I would bring you here?"

Sikong Zhaixing laughed and said, "If I didn't use this method, how could I send out that red satin?"

Lu Xiaofeng exclaimed in surprise, "But you haven't moved an inch the entire way. Even when we got off to eat, we didn't see you leave the carriage. How could you possibly have delivered the goods?"

Sikong Zhaixing laughed loudly, "Of course I have a way—"

Jiang Fengyue suddenly interrupted him, saying, "Of course you have a way. Xue Bing disappeared back then, probably to deliver that red satin for you."

Sikong Zhaixing smiled and said, "Not bad."

Jiang Fengyue smiled and said, "It's just a pity that if I can take something from you once, I can only take it a second time."

Sikong Zhaixing's expression changed slightly, and she said, "What did you say—"

Jiang Fengyue took out a red satin from her bosom. The black peonies embroidered on it were lifelike, clearly the same one that the Embroidered Thief had originally worn.

Lu Xiaofeng laughed at this moment. He was laughing because Sikong Zhaixing had tried to steal a chicken but lost his own rice instead. He had gone to so much trouble, only to send out a fake red satin that he had prepared himself.

Amid the laughter, a man's voice suddenly came from inside the mountain gate, asking, "Is the person here Lu Xiaofeng?"

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There was a small courtyard inside the gate. As soon as Jiang Fengyue and the other two entered, they saw a man carrying a bamboo chair and sitting under a poplar tree.

The man had high cheekbones and a straight nose, just like Dugu Yihe, the leader of the Emei Sword Sect. Anyone could tell that he was very dignified and powerful. It was just a pity that his once bright eyes had now become two dark, empty holes.

"Check-in!"

"Jiang Chongwei successfully checked in and gained three years of internal energy."

Jiang Fengyue sighed inwardly. Jiang Chongwei was originally the steward of the Pingnan Prince's Mansion, but unfortunately, he was blinded by the embroidery thief, and the Pingnan Prince's Mansion lost an eighteen-hu pearl as a result.

Upon seeing Jiang Chongwei, Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help but exclaim in surprise, "What are you doing here?"

Jiang Chongwei smiled and said, "If I'm not here, where would I be?"

Lu Xiaofeng said, "The Prince of Pingnan's residence—"

Jiang Chongwei shook his head, interrupting Lu Xiaofeng, and said, "I am just a blind man now. The Pingnan Prince's Mansion will not let a blind man be the steward. Even if they don't kick me out, I will not have the face to stay there."

This is something that would make anyone feel very sad. Jiang Chongwei, such a talented and promising person, ended up like this because of an undeserved disaster.

Lu Xiaofeng stared coldly at Sikong Zhaixing and asked, "Do you know him? Do you know anything about him?"

Sikong Zhaixing sighed and nodded. Even the King of Thieves would be moved by such a situation. Lu Xiaofeng coldly said, "If that's the case, then quickly tell me who that person is?"

Sikong Zhaixing asked, "That person? Who is it?"

Lu Xiaofeng said, "The person who embroidered the flowers is the same person who sent you to steal my things."

Sikong Zhaixing smiled wryly and said, "You think they are the same person?"

Lu Xiaofeng nodded.

Sikong Zhaixing said, "If the item originally belonged to him, why would he have asked me to steal it?"

Jiang Fengyue laughed and said, "Perhaps there is some secret above, or perhaps he wants to use this piece of red satin to frame someone."

Upon hearing this, Sikong Zhaixing's expression turned pained.

Lu Xiaofeng said, "I know you owe him a favor, but if you have any humanity, you shouldn't keep hiding it for him."

Sikong Zhaixing sighed. Although he was not a good person and rarely spoke of morality, he would never betray a friend.

He suddenly pointed in a direction and said, "Okay, I'll tell you, that's her!"

Jiang Fengyue and Lu Xiaofeng looked in that direction at the same time and saw a female Taoist nun walking out of the temple with her head down.