[Lu Xiaofeng Sword III] The Emei faction is playing a big game of chess

The West Garden is a large garden in the west of the city.At dusk, the lanterns come on and the moon hangs high.In the flowers, under the shade of the trees, and among the pavilions and pavilions, lights like stars are lit up.The breeze comes slowly with a faint fragrance of flowers and wine.In the west garden, the tall Lianli tree stands silently in the center of the garden, its dense branches and leaves swaying in the evening wind.

The thick night has pulled out a layer of canopy in the sky, the scorching heat of the day has subsided, and the evening wind is mixed with traces of coolness, this is the right time to go for a walk after dinner.

The family on the path by the garden is just one of them going out for a walk.A man in his 40s looks plain and honest, holding his wife in one hand and a lively and lovely boy in the other.The clothes on his body are very ordinary, and his family conditions seem to be average. This is a very ordinary and very happy family.

The child who was holding his father's hand and looking around followed him for a while, and suddenly raised his hand and pointed, "Sugar fried chestnuts!" The couple looked in the direction of his finger, and they saw a shop selling candied fried chestnuts. The old woman with chestnuts was standing in the shade of a tree a few steps away, holding a basket in her hand, and was hawking.

The living conditions of this family are not too bad, and the children occasionally want to eat something.The father bought it with a wave of his hand.

The little boy was very happy with the delicious chestnuts fried in sugar. He picked up one and was about to push it away when he heard a voice calling him, "little brother."

This voice is very pleasant to hear, even better than the song he heard when he sneaked into the garden last time.He raised his head and looked over, then stared blankly.

A girl in a pink dress came from the opposite side, and the light from the branches of the trees shone all the way.The delicate hair ornaments in the black satin hair reflected the scattered light under the light, the soft hem of the clothes brushed the ground, a few strands of long hair were swept by the evening wind, and the girl walking slowly in the middle of the flower bush looked from a distance. Like a fairy walking down from a New Year picture.

The two couples were ordinary people, and they had never seen such a person before. They were all stunned for a while when they saw it, and they didn't react until she walked in front of them.

"This... girl... I don't know why you stopped us..." The man who was the head of the family stood up, rubbed his hands and said awkwardly.The young girl in front of her has picturesque features, three points of elegance and three points of extravagance in her actions, and her temperament is noble and Tsinghua University. At first glance, she is not a girl from an ordinary family.The brocade she wears is evenly colored and embroidered with exquisite patterns. A piece of cloth is worth a year's expenses of a previous family, not to mention the two long swords on her waist.Her demeanor is elegant and calm, like the noble daughter of a wealthy family, but she is a little more open and free than Miss Boudoir, so he didn't know whether to call her "Nvxia" or "Miss" for a while, so he had to call her in a compromised way. A girl.

As an ordinary person, the biggest person I've ever seen is just the magistrate of their county, and there are even fewer people in the world.Facing the opposite girl who looked like an ordinary person, the man who was the head of the family suddenly felt a little stressed.

The girl in pink smiled lightly, stretched out a slender and slender finger that looked like jade, pointed at the candied chestnuts in his hand, and said softly, "It's like this, just now my younger brother wanted to eat candied chestnuts. I’ve been wandering around here for a long time, but I can’t find any place for sale. I just came over when I saw the chestnuts on your side…” She pursed her lips and seemed a little embarrassed, her slender eyelashes trembled, “Can you I can't ask you to give it up and transfer it, I will pay you according to the original price..."

"This..." The middle-aged man froze for a moment, looked down at the beautiful sister in front of him with wide-open eyes, and saw the son who didn't even notice the chestnut in his hand rolled to the ground, he was a little confused, "This is, The kid is clamoring to buy it..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the girl across from him smiled and knelt down to look at the little boy who was staring at her. Then he stretched out his right hand. In the white palm was a clay figurine made out of her shape.

"Little brother, can I exchange this with you for chestnuts?"

The child's eyes lit up immediately when he saw the delicate clay figurine in her palm. He looked at the clay figurine helplessly, then at the chestnut in his father's hand, and finally stared at the beautiful sister opposite for a long time, and finally nodded with difficulty. , said in a sticky voice, "Okay."

The girl in pink couldn't help laughing, and the bright smile dazzled Xiao Zhengtai again. She patted his head and said softly, "Thank you."

After taking the chestnuts, Ye Zhiran asked the family where the old woman who sold chestnuts was located on the pretext that she was afraid that her younger brother would not have enough to eat.Before turning around to leave, she seemed to remember something, and turned her head to warn, "It seems that two people from the rivers and lakes met here to duel tonight. The sword has no eyes. If there is nothing wrong, you should go back early."

The two couples are ordinary people, and they will never meet any big shots in their lives. After hearing her words, they did not suspect him, and immediately returned with their children gratefully.

Ye Zhiran held the chestnuts and watched their figures disappear around the corner, and then walked in the direction they pointed before.With slender fingers, she picked up a chestnut fried in sugar, and looked at the bright moon in the sky for a while, and a sneer sounded in the air.

Ye Zhiran walked around the Lianli tree in the center of the West Garden for a few times, and finally found the old woman who sold sugar-fried chestnuts. It was a very old woman, her coarse clothes were covered with patches, and her back seemed to be pressed A big rock seemed to have broken her waist from the middle.She was still hawking sugar-fried chestnuts, her voice was as dry and rough as sandpaper.

Ye Zhiran walked over slowly, the moonlight shone on the old woman's face, her face was full of wrinkles, it looked like a piece of tissue paper that had been crumpled and then unfolded.

"How do you sell these chestnuts?"

Grandma Xiong paused for a while, then raised her head slowly, and a picturesque girl in a pink dress with two swords on her waist came into view in the dim field of vision.Her eyes flickered slightly, and she lowered her head again.

"Ten cents a catty, girl, can you buy a catty and try it? It's fragrant and ripe chestnuts fried in sugar."

Ye Zhiran raised her eyebrows, "It's very fragrant." She reached out and took a chestnut from the basket to play with, her voice was a little careless: "I want them all, how much is the total?"

The old woman stretched out her hand tremblingly to count, Ye Zhiran's lips curled up slightly, she paid the money, and took the basket.Before turning around to leave, she suddenly looked back at her, and said something meaningful.

"Grandma, you've lost a lot by selling chestnuts like this, right?"

A cold light flashed in Grandma Xiong's downcast eyes, and her voice was like torn cloth, she laughed and said, "With a kind-hearted person like the girl, the old woman can still make money."

"Really?" Ye Zhiran nodded noncommittally, and left with the basket.

The slender figure gradually walked away and disappeared into the night. Behind her, Grandma Xiong finally raised her head, and the stone that was pressing on her seemed to disappear suddenly.She stood up straight, looking at the direction in which the girl in pink disappeared, the corners of her lips were slightly curved.Against this face wrinkled like a ball of rags, it looked particularly frightening.

"This is not considered a shot at you, but you found it yourself!"

When Lu Xiaofeng came back, he saw Ye Zhiran sitting at the table peeling chestnuts.There was a pile of brown chestnut shells, and beside it was a bamboo basket full of chestnuts, with a pot of tea and two teacups beside the basket.

Lu Xiaofeng, who was almost entrapped by poisonous chestnuts just now, saw the chestnuts in her hand and asked nervously, "Where did they come from?"

Throwing the peeled chestnuts into her mouth, and taking another sip of tea with her head down, Ye Zhiran finally raised her eyes and glanced at him lazily, "I bought it."

"Where did you buy it?"

"I bought it from Grandma Xiong."

The man in Tsing Yi opened his eyes wide in an instant. His voice suddenly raised, "You know it's the sugar-fried chestnuts sold by Grandma Xiong, and you still eat it?!"

Ye Zhiran watched him staring at the chestnut in her hand, imagining how he rushed over and shook her neck and shouted "Spit it out!", silently shook twice, and moved the chair far away A little bit. Still calmly said, "I spent money to buy it back, why don't you eat it!"

While talking, she moved her fingers holding the chestnut. The brown chestnut shell was peeled off to reveal the creamy yellow flesh of the chestnut. She was just about to throw it into her mouth when she suddenly dodged sideways to avoid the oncoming stroke He pointed sharply at the wind, then bent over and "cracked", the chestnut shells on the table were smashed by the wind with the second finger.Seeing the broken chestnut shells rolling all over the table, the girl in pink instantly became angry.

"Lu Xiaofeng! Is your Lingxi Yizhi used to deal with sugar-fried chestnuts?"

"Put that chestnut down quickly! It will be poisoned!"

Ye Zhiran rolled her eyes, she really couldn't stand his fluctuating IQ, and said impatiently, "If I was going to be poisoned, I would have been poisoned to death long ago, can I still wait for you to come back and watch me eat?"

"..." Seems to be the same? Lu Xiaofeng was slightly taken aback.His gaze shifted from the chestnut in Ye Zhiran's hand to the teacup on the table, and he blinked.Then he calmly walked to the table and sat down, raised his hand and peeled two chestnuts.

"Zhiran, have a cup of tea."

"No!"

"Then are you going to watch me being poisoned to death by chestnuts? Sister, you are becoming more and more cruel!" The man in Tsing Yi shook his head and laughed.

Ye Zhiran snorted softly, but obediently poured him a cup of tea and handed it over, "Since you know the antidote is in the tea, you won't pour it yourself."

"not in the mood……"

"Then poison to death."

Casually knocking the half-peeled chestnuts on the table, Ye Zhiran looked up, "What's wrong? You're not in a good mood?"

Lu Xiaofeng took a deep breath and put down his teacup.He lowered his head to eat chestnuts, and after a while, he said calmly, "The Snake King is dead,"

Ye Zhiran paused for peeling chestnuts, then raised her head to look at him, "How did you die?"

"Strangled in the house by a red ribbon."

Seeing the man's calm but depressed expression, Ye Zhiran pondered for a moment, "You already know who killed him?"

Lu Xiaofeng raised his head and smiled, "Why do you ask that?"

"Come on!" Ye Zhiran rolled her eyes and said contemptuously, "If you can't find out who killed him, you will definitely not have such an expression now. It must have been vaguely guessed, but you don't want to go away Believe it, that’s why I’m depressed here!”

The smile on the corner of the man's lips couldn't help but widen a little, "You're so smart."

"That's right, you think everyone is as stupid as you!" Ye Zhiran cast a disdainful glance at him, with a cold and noble face.

The man in Tsing Yi looked at her and couldn't help laughing, and then laughed out loud.Clear laughter echoed throughout the room. Ye Zhiran ignored him, lowered her head to eat her own chestnuts, and only occasionally glanced in the direction of the open window, thinking that the location of this room is quite remote, and no one should come to say that they are in the middle of the night. Disturb the people?

After a while, the laughter gradually stopped, Ye Zhiran raised her head and poured a cup of tea, "You feel better?"

"Huh...it's much better than before..." Lu Xiaofeng took the teacup she handed over, and casually squeezed another piece of fried chestnuts.No one spoke again, and the room became quiet, only the sound of "crackling" chestnuts being peeled could be heard.

"You said that a person obviously already has a status and a reputation, and has retreated from a position of justice with a brilliance. Why would he take risks and do something that will ruin his reputation for the rest of his life? Woolen cloth?"

Ye Zhiran looked up at the man with downcast eyes peeling the chestnuts, and thought about it seriously, "Probably, in his eyes, these external things are worth it. Not everyone is like you, Lu Xiaofeng, who is rushed to give you Sending money, even if you have no money to use, you can find a casino to go in and go around, and you will have a lot of money for you to squander. In the eyes of most people, money is still very important. What's more, with that person's Conceited, I probably didn't take the heroes of the world seriously at all, and never thought that he would lose." At the end, she shook her head and said with emotion,

"So, it's really bad for people to be too conceited!"

Lu Xiaofeng couldn't help laughing seeing her shaking her head with infinite emotion, "Have you already guessed who it is?"

"You've already said that, why can't I figure it out? You think I'm just like you, with fluctuating IQs!"

The man in Tsing Yi shook his head helplessly, but did not open his mouth to refute.Ye Zhiran threw a chestnut into her mouth, then looked up at him, "Have you figured out what to do?"

Lu Xiaofeng took a deep breath and nodded.

"Then I can go and kill Aunt Gongsun?" She had been upset with that woman for a long time.If it hadn't been for Lu Xiaofeng to forcefully stop him, saying that she was the clue for him to solve the case, she would have started when she met her today!

"Not yet..." Lu Xiaofeng looked at her with a wry smile, "You hate her so much? Don't you dislike killing people?"

"I don't like killing people, but she's different." Ye Zhiran put down the chestnut in her hand and said seriously, "She's one of the two people I want to kill the most! I don't care about the others, these two people must die!"

Her voice was too decisive, Lu Xiaofeng's expression became serious, he pondered for a moment, "Who is the other person?"

"You want to know?" Ye Zhiran raised her eyebrows, and suddenly smiled strangely, "You just met today."

"Who?"

"The Prince of the South."

"..." If he didn't remember, the Nan Wang Shizi she mentioned is the apprentice of Ye Gucheng, right? The corners of Lu Xiaofeng's mouth collapsed, and he looked at the girl who was smiling at him and gave a dry laugh twice. "You are joking?"

"you guess?"

"...I guess you're just kidding!"

"Hmm..." The girl in pink nodded, "You guess again?"