Chasing the gods in Zongwudang

"Chestnuts, chestnuts, delicious fried chestnuts!"

In the west city of Jinling, beside a remote alley, an old lady with gray hair and stooped figure was yelling hard.

If it was daytime, someone might come to patronize her business, but now it is the third watch at night, and there is no one on the road, the old lady's yelling is just useless.

At this moment, two figures came from a distance.

After seeing Xue Bing with her dizzy ears and eyes, the old lady paused with her right hand, and then continued to yell.

"Sugar-fried chestnuts, delicious sugar-fried chestnuts, this hero, let's have some chestnuts!"

Lu Cheng stopped in front of the stall with Xue Bing on his back, reached out and patted Xue Bing's calf, "Not coming down yet!"

Xue Bing was unmoved, lying on Lu Cheng's back, and said lazily, "My internal strength hasn't recovered yet, so what are you going to do?"

"Please, I've been carrying you all the way, can't you let me take a break!" Lu Cheng complained, and then asked the old lady, "How do you sell your sugar-fried chestnuts?"

"Hero, my sugar-fried chestnuts cost twenty cents a catty. It's getting late, hero, just take care of my business and buy them all for me!"

Lu Cheng took out a purse from his cuff, counted twenty coins, put it on the stall, looked at the old lady's surprised eyes, and said, "I'm a poor man, please help me hold a catty!"

The old lady took the money, quickly filled a catty of sugar-fried chestnuts, put it in a bag, and handed it to Lu Cheng.

"Hero, this is your sugar-fried chestnut. Eat it while it's hot, it won't taste good when it's cold."

"Really! Then I'm going to have a good taste!" Lu Cheng said, taking out the fried chestnuts, and with a light twirl of his index finger and thumb, he pushed the fried chestnuts away.

"The craftsmanship is good, Xue Bing, come and try these fried chestnuts!" Lu Cheng said, and handed the chestnuts to Xue Bing.

"Bah, bah, I don't want to eat it!"

Others don't know, how can Xue Bing not know!

The old lady in front of her was one of the reincarnations of Gongsun Lan, the eldest sister of the red shoes, named Grandma Xiong.

Grandma Xiong is best at stir-frying chestnuts in sugar. Even if a first-class expert eats them, they will die in Jiuquan, and there will be no place to bury them.In addition to Grandma Xiong, Gongsun Lan has other incarnations, such as female butcher, peach blossom bee, five poisonous lady, ecstasy mother-in-law and so on.

Each incarnation is proficient in one skill, which can be added to the swordsmanship that she knew when she was [Aunt Gongsun]. This Gongsun Lan can be said to be an all-round character.

"Xue Bing, is this your lover?" Now that his identity was seen through, Gongsun Lan simply resumed his original voice.

It just feels weird to do that.

An old lady in her 80s and [-]s speaks in the voice of a young girl, which makes people feel particularly out of harmony.

"Sister, this is Lu Cheng. She's not my lover. As for why he carried me over, it's all due to that bastard Snake King. He drugged me. If Ah Cheng didn't arrive in time, I'll see you soon." It’s not the eldest sister anymore.” Xue Bing walked to Gongsun Lan’s side, took her arm with both hands, and said coquettishly.

"It's just fine if I don't see it." Gongsun Lan shook her arm, and found that Gongsun Lan's internal energy was blocked, and quickly withdrew most of her strength. "You go find a man to hang out with if you have nothing to do, you have already forgotten about me!"

"Elder sister!" Xue Bing looked at Gongsun Lan reluctantly, "Elder sister, I don't often hang out with men. You also know that my family is strictly controlled. If I hadn't been successful recently, I might still be here It's forbidden at home!"

Gongsun Lan quietly took Xue Bing's veins, and she was very proficient in poisons, so she quickly analyzed what kind of medicine Xue Bing had. "Sweat medicine plus drunk fairy powder, the former makes you unconscious, and the latter blocks your internal force perception, don't worry, it will recover on its own within twelve hours."

Hearing that she was fine, Xue Bing was overjoyed, "I knew the eldest sister was the most reliable."

"Okay, stop shooting flattery."

Gongsun Lan signaled Xue Bing to shut up, and looked at Lu Cheng, "What is your relationship with Xue Bing, why did she bring you here?"

"Eldest sister..." Xue Bing wanted to explain, but was stopped by Gongsun Lan. She glared at Xue Bing, "Seeing that you are drugged now, I won't beat you. If he can't explain why he came to me, Then don't blame me for not entertaining you well."

Lu Cheng cupped his fists and saluted, and said: "I don't have any direct relationship with Xue Bing, but Xue Bing has a good relationship with my righteous brother Lu Xiaofeng. After I rescued Xue Bing from the Snake King, I sent her to the elder sister. It is to ensure her safety, and the other is to inform the elder sister of a news."

"What news?" Gongsun Lan just asked this question, and then noticed that the surrounding environment was not right.

"This is not a place to talk, you come with me!"

As soon as the words fell, Gongsun Lan didn't even want the food stall, and walked towards the alley with Xue Bing in her arms, Lu Cheng quickly followed.Gongsun Lan walked through a few doors in front, then opened a broken door, walked in, and waited for Lu Cheng to follow before she closed the door.

After passing through the organs and tunnels, the three finally came to a brightly lit secret room.

"Okay, why did you come to me, just tell me directly!" Gongsun Lan said, putting Xue Bing aside.

It was also at this time that Lu Cheng saw that Gongsun Lan had removed the make-up of 'Grandma Xiong' and replaced it with a pretty woman's face.

If you have never seen Gongsun Lan, you will definitely think that this is her real face.

Because this face looked very real, Lu Cheng observed it with the purpose of finding fault, but he didn't find any flaws.

"Have you seen enough?" Gongsun Lan was sullen, and Lu Cheng's naked eyes made her very uncomfortable.

Lu Cheng nodded, "Enough is enough!"

"puff……"

Xue Bing next to him thought what the two of them would say, but after hearing this conversation, he couldn't help but burst out laughing.

Gongsun Lan gave Xue Bing a helpless look, and made a bill for Xue Bing in her heart, and decided to wait for her to recover before deciding to settle the matter together.As for now, let's get rid of Lu Cheng first.

"Tell me, why did you come here this time?"

Lu Cheng calmed down. He was just curious about Gongsun Lan's disguise technique just now. After knowing that his behavior was too reckless, of course he would not do it again.

"If I say that I came here to help Eldest Sister, I wonder if Eldest Sister will believe it."

Gongsun Lan brushed her long hair with her hand, and looked at Lu Cheng inexplicably, "Will you help me? Now you call me big sister. Where did you come from? You are not Xue Bing's lover!"

Lu Cheng shrugged, "Then what should I call you better, I can't call you 'you...you...you'!"

Now Lu Cheng is also very helpless. If he met Gongsun Lan for the first time, if he showed that he knew her name, it would definitely arouse Gongsun Lan's wariness, which would not be conducive to the future cooperation between the two.

"Forget it, you should still be called Big Sister!" Gongsun Lan thought for a while, and found that what Lu Cheng said really made a little sense.She doesn't want to divulge too much information to Lu Cheng now. As for her willingness to listen to Lu Cheng's intentions, it is for Xue Bing's sake.

If not, Lu Cheng would have been driven away by her long ago with the way Lu Cheng stared straight at her just now.

Seeing that Gongsun Lan was not sad about his words, Lu Cheng decided to open his cards directly, "Sister, do you know who this embroidered thief is?"

Gongsun Lan felt baffled by this question, "Who is this embroidered thief, and what does it have to do with me? You didn't come here to say that I am an embroidered thief!"

Lu Cheng shook his head and nodded again.

"The current eldest sister is naturally not an embroidery thief, but tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, the eldest sister will be."

"What do you mean?" Gongsun Lan's originally impatient expression changed instantly. She has been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and it is natural that she has her own ability to be able to thrive.Over the years, she has kept one principle in mind, that is, to avoid getting involved in public lawsuits.

It was also because of this principle that she was able to spend so many years in peace.Otherwise, her red shoes would have been investigated by Six Doors or Shenhou Mansion long ago.

When the water is clear, there are no fish.

The same is true for the Jianghu. When the Six Doors and the imperial court govern the Jianghu, as long as it is not a heinous case, or a case that affects ordinary people and threatens the Taoist government to manage one party, the principle of the Six Doors is the affairs of the Jianghu. , if anyone dies, the six doors will at most help collect the body.

The red shoes have done a lot of black and white things over the years, but they have never provoked the government, so they have been stable for so many years.

The case of the Embroidered Thief has already been heard in heaven and reached the ears of the emperor.Then this matter will definitely be handled strictly and seriously.No matter who the murderer in this case is, as long as he is found out, he will definitely investigate to the end and show no mercy.

Lu Cheng said: "Jin Jiuling has been investigating the case of the Embroidery Thief for more than a month, and now that he has brought Lu Xiaofeng here, he made up his mind to push this matter to Eldest Sister. As for the reason, please listen to me slowly."

Gongsun Lan narrowed her eyes slightly, her face turned blue, "Please tell me! If this matter is true, then you are my benefactor."

If it is false, then it is naturally an enemy.

Lu Cheng didn't seem to hear Gongsun Lan's implication. Sitting there, the old god asked, "Sister, how is Jin Jiuling's investigation skills?"

Gongsun Lan replied: "Although I really don't want to admit it, he is known as the No. 1 under the Six Doors' Catching Gods". His name in the Jianghu can be compared with the four famous arresters, regardless of strength or fame. A first-class existence in the rivers and lakes."

Lu Cheng continued: "He has been investigating the Embroidery Bandit case for more than a month, but he hasn't found any useful clues yet. Do you think it's possible, big sister?"

is it possible?

If it is an ordinary mediocre person, of course it is possible.

But if it was Jin Jiuling, it would be impossible.

Seeing that Gongsun Lan didn't intend to answer, Lu Cheng had no choice but to continue, "The reason why he hasn't found out is because the embroidered thief is him. The imperial court asked the embroidered thief to investigate the embroidered thief, not to mention a month, even a year." , three years, ten years, and I can't find any clues."

"How is this possible?" Xue Bing was in the midst of eating melons, when he suddenly heard Lu Cheng say that Jin Jiuling was an embroidered thief, he couldn't help but said, "He is the head of the six sects and the four gods, and he is powerful in both good and evil in the south of the Yangtze River. A person who can be an embroidered thief?"

"Xue Bing, shut up!" Gongsun Lan scolded, and then said to Lu Cheng, "Keep talking!"

Lu Cheng nodded slightly, "People in the world are always blinded by fame. Xue Bing was almost given to Jin Jiuling by the Snake King, and he thought he would be a good person. It is conceivable how other people would suspect that Jin Jiuling is an embroidered thief. "

Xue Bing gave Lu Cheng a vicious look. The word 'enjoy' in this sentence made her very unhappy.

Lu Cheng smiled at Xue Bing, "Now I somewhat understand why the embroidered thief blinded these people with embroidery. Because in his view, these people are all blind. He is standing there , These people can’t recognize him either. If that’s the case, let’s make them really blind, since their eyes are useless anyway.”

'Crack...'

Gongsun Lan clapped her hands, attracting Lu Cheng's attention.

"Your statement seems reasonable and reasonable to me. It's just that I don't know why Jin Jiuling chose me as the murderer."

Lu Cheng shook his head, "Every time the embroidered thief commits a crime, he will leave a handkerchief on the scene. The embroidery of this handkerchief requires decades of practice by a woman. So when Lu Xiaofeng sees this handkerchief, naturally I think this embroidering thief is a woman. It just so happens that there are very few women in the world who have high martial arts skills and are proficient in embroidery."

"So that's it!" Gongsun Lan's eyes were sharp, like an unsheathed sword, which set off her heroic appearance and high spirits.

"I just said that I'm sorry for the recent debt. It turns out that Jin Jiuling hooked up with her. As long as I become an embroidery thief, then Jin Jiuling can take all the wealth I have accumulated over the years. It's really a good plan. What a calculation!"

"Lu Cheng, right? I agree to join forces with you. Tell me what to do next?"

Lu Cheng smiled, "If you want to convict Jin Jiuling, you need evidence first. Eldest sister can find the person who prepared embroidered handkerchiefs for the embroidered thief. She should have stock there."

Gongsun Lan asked: "It's normal for a woman to have embroidery in her home. How can I tell which ones are used by the Embroidery Thief!"

"I know, I know!" Xue Bing answered without waiting for Lu Cheng to speak, "Those people think that the embroidery thief is embroidering, but he is actually removing stitches. So these embroidery will have some redundant, repetitive lines, and even There will still be needles stuck in it."

"okay, I get it!"

Gongsun Lan was very upset when she thought that her sisters had united with outsiders to deal with her.

"You two wait here, I'll go check it out first!" After speaking, Gongsun Lan got up and was about to leave.

"and many more!"

Lu Cheng opened his mouth to stop Gongsun Lan.

Gongsun Lan stopped and said coldly, "What's the matter?"

Lu Cheng said: "According to the time calculation, Lu Xiaofeng and Jin Jiuling should find out that the Snake King was killed. Now Lu Xiaofeng should be guided by Jin Jiuling to look for you. You are most likely to be noticed when you go out at this time."

Taking two deep breaths, Gongsun Lan suppressed the anxiety in her heart.

The sister's betrayal has disturbed her mind, and under normal circumstances, she would never be so impulsive.

"Then I'll go check it out in the morning. Anyway, it's about this time, and it's not too late!" Gongsun Lan said as she found a stool and sat down.

"Now I have another question. You have been in Jinling for less than ten hours. This Lu Xiaofeng has been chasing down the Embroidered Thief for so long, and he is still being manipulated by Jin Jiuling. How do you know this information?"

After being told by Gongsun Lan, Xue Bing joined in curiously.

"Yes, yes, Ah Cheng, I want to know too!"

Regarding this question, Lu Cheng had already done the courtyard before, and now when asked by Gongsun Lan, he didn't feel flustered at all, and replied: "All of this is due to the pursuit of life. When he sent me the task, he already put The corresponding information and clues have been analyzed with me, and it is only by standing on his shoulders that I can draw so many conclusions."