The main culprit had been found, but the biggest problem now was that there was no evidence. Li Yue and Lu Xiaofeng discussed for a while and decided to take advantage of the other party's second attempt to poison them.
The entire caravan was staying in the inn. Most of them were bedridden, while the rest were busy taking care of them and the caravan. The Waiter, the innkeeper, and the doctor were also in the inn, so it could be said that the inn was packed to the brim.
It was very difficult to poison them in front of so many people.
Either the main culprit had accomplices in the inn, or... the other party had taken advantage of the dead of night when everyone was resting to do something.
As for how to continue to make the poisoned people bedridden, the simplest method was to poison the patient's food.
The two asked the doctor and found out that the caravan's condition had changed recently, so they decided to take action today.
In order to avoid alerting the enemy, Li Yue asked Lu Xiaofeng to leave as soon as the morning inspection was over. The two of them pretended to sigh helplessly. It was obvious that they were very troubled by the current situation and couldn't find a solution.
At night, Li Yue found an excuse to force the servant girl next to her to rest. She also sealed the servant girl's acupuncture points while she leaned on the soft couch by the window.
Less than an hour later, the inn was completely dark. Lu Xiaofeng silently pushed open the window and sat on the windowsill with a smile in his eyes. He looked at Li Yue, who looked even more lovely and moving under the moonlight. He could not help but wring his hands and sigh.
"Ai, Li Yue, you're not a woman. You're really wasting God's gift."
"Shut up, Dandan. If you keep talking, I'll lift up my skirt and scare you to death!"
Li Yue didn't want to pay attention to Lu Xiaofeng, this idiot who still didn't believe that he was a woman. She quietly climbed onto the roof and the two of them hid on the roof beam in the kitchen.
The two of them were lucky. Not long after they arrived, a sneaky shadow appeared at the kitchen door. That person tiptoed to the stove where the medicine was boiling. Just as he was about to add something into the pot, he was pressed to the ground by Lu Xiaofeng. At the same time, Li Yue took out a match.
Under the firelight was a slightly familiar face, but this was not the first person to be poisoned. Lu Xiaofeng said, "This is bad." He sealed the person's acupoints and kicked him into the pile of firewood, then rushed into the guest room with Li Yue.
The first person who was poisoned in the guest room was nowhere to be seen.
When they turned to the kitchen again, the people in the kitchen were gone.
The situation was now clear. The culprit was a gang.
With heavy thoughts, the two of them slowly walked to the door of Li Yue's room. Suddenly, Lu Xiaofeng stopped in his tracks, as if he was carefully listening to something. Finally, he gave Li Yue a look and carefully pushed open the closed wooden door.
The room was no different from when Li Yue left. The two maidservants were both sleeping on the bed. Because Xiao Qing was still poisoned, she frowned even as she slept. Xiao Cui's breathing was steady and her eyes were slightly closed. It was clear that her acupoints had not been unsealed.
Li Yue laughed at Lu Xiaofeng. She was about to unseal Xiao Cui's acupoints, but just as she reached out her hand, she withdrew it. Then she awkwardly whispered to Lu Xiaofeng, "It's over.
"It's over. My skills are not good enough. I forgot what acupoints I hit before."
Hearing this, Lu Xiaofeng burst out laughing. "Hey, this kind of tender and protective thing for the fairer sex is obviously left to me."
The red-cloaked man leisurely walked to the side of Xiao Cui's bed. His hands were as fast as lightning. In a flash, he sealed all the acupoints of "Xiao Cui" on the bed.
Li Yue's face darkened. She coldly shouted at "Xiao Cui", "Who are you? Where is Xiao Cui?"
"Xiao Cui" was infatuated with Li Yue's pretty face. She cracked a funny smile, and then "she" winked at Lu Xiaofeng, but the voice that came out of her mouth was a man's voice:
"Xiao Ji!
Lu Xiao Ji!
It's me!
Quick, let go of me. "
Li Yue looked at Lu Xiaofeng. The latter held his forehead with a headache and unsealed the acupoints of "Xiao Cui",
"Monkey Spirit, why are you here?"
"Didn't I hear that you know a great beauty? I was curious, so I came to take a look. You have such a good life!
Hey, beauty, don't worry, your Xiao Cui is fine. She is under the bed. "
As soon as the other party's voice fell, Li Yue was stunned for a moment. She quickly squatted down, lifted the sheet, and carried the real Xiao Cui out.
"Xiao Cui" jumped out of the window when no one was paying attention. Lu Xiaofeng did not chase after her. He thought for a moment and turned to Li Yue,
"This monkey spirit is full of nonsense, but her skills are very good.
Check carefully and see if there is anything missing. "
Li Yue nodded and checked the room. After a while, she came out with a strange expression on her face, holding an empty box. Seeing this, Lu Xiaofeng raised his eyebrows.
"You … Are you missing something important?"
Li Yue nodded. Lu Xiaofeng's face instantly sank,
"Road guide?
Land deed?
Document?
Or what? "
"I'm missing a secret manual."
"What!!!"
"You don't need to know. Let me tell you, that's … I wrote it for fun on the way. Yes, it's the 'Sunflower Manual' that I mentioned to you before."
"Then … If the person who got the book really practiced it … Wouldn't it be …"
"I think the person who stole the book might be more unlucky."
"Why?"
"Because the person who stole the book would definitely not practice it himself, but hand it over to the boss. Even if the boss did not practice it himself, he would let his trusted subordinates try it first.
The point is, in the secret manual, not only did I write on the first page, 'If you want to practice this skill, you must first castrate yourself', I also wrote on the last page, 'If you don't castrate yourself, you can still succeed'. Think about the consequences. "
Great Swordsman Lu, who had wandered the world for many years and was used to seeing all sorts of strange things in the world, opened his mouth wide at this moment, as if he had just swallowed an egg. After a while, he smacked his mouth and silently lit a candle for the troublemaker in his heart.
Everyone in the world of martial arts knew that Wonderful Monk No Flower and Bandit Commander Chu Liuxiang were good friends who appreciated each other. However, to No Flower, their friendship was not as important as the gravel in his eyes. Chu Liuxiang was just a troublemaker.
Chu Liuxiang did indeed treat No Flower as a friend, but so what?
He could not win against him in a fight, and he could not win against him in an argument. He even faked his death and was seen through at a glance. It was so annoying, okay?
I only wanted to use him as a stepping stone to unify the world of martial arts. For that, I did not hesitate to learn the zither, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, and became proficient in various Buddhist concepts. I even personally learned how to cook vegetarian dishes, all for the sake of gaining his favor.
In the end, we had a falling out. That bastard didn't show any mercy at all. He drove me from the Central Plains to the Western Regions and destroyed my and my mother's base camp. He also forced me to go to the Central Plains to serve my mother's orders. This was simply unbearable.
Thinking of this, No Flower, who was disguised as an ordinary Jianghu swordsman in a roadside stall, almost broke the wooden table in front of him with his palm. He silently recited the Great Compassion Mantra and forced himself to calm down before picking up the vegetarian noodles on the table.
Just as he picked up the noodles with his chopsticks, No Flower heard the discussion of the Jianghu people at the next table. At first, they were talking about some unimportant gossip, but for some reason, they suddenly mentioned Chu Liuxiang.
No Flower was just curious about Chu Liuxiang's new behavior when the Jianghu people suddenly said his name and said that he was gay. They were chasing Chu Liuxiang relentlessly.
Simple!
Straight!
Let!
Him!
Mother!
Of!
Bullshit!
It was obviously Chu Liuxiang who shamelessly ruined his plans, okay?
Great Swordsman, I only like women, okay?
Great Swordsman, I am so experienced that I can write the Joy Sutra. If I say it out loud, you will be scared to death, okay?
This bunch of Central Plains people are simply brainless!
But wait, how did the Jianghu people know that he had entered the Central Plains?
Could it be that his disguise had long been seen through?
No Flower pondered for a moment and unconsciously broke his chopsticks. He silently put down the residue in his hand and left the roadside stall without hesitation. He flashed into an inn.
An hour later, the person who opened the door was not the plain-looking Jianghu swordsman who had entered before, but a young lady with a face full of pockmarks.
Seeing that no one on the street dared to look directly at him, No Flower secretly sneered.
Haha, stupid Central Plains people.
However, the Jianghu gossip did not die down just because No Flower had changed into women's clothing. On the contrary, as No Flower headed north, the ridiculous rumors about him and Chu Liuxiang intensified.
When he reached Dingzhou, No Flower entered the teahouse and heard the storyteller telling a story. The main characters of the story were him and Chu Liuxiang. The general plot was that he was greatly provoked by Chu Liuxiang's preference for women and not men. In anger, he brandished his knife and castrated himself to practice the Dark Arts. He completely became a woman and clung to Chu Liuxiang. The Jianghu people in the teahouse couldn't help but click their tongues when they heard it.
This time, the Great Compassion Mantra was no longer effective. If it weren't for the Surangama Mantra forcefully calling back his reason, No Flower would have drawn his knife and washed the entire teahouse with blood.
Trash of the Central Plains martial arts world!
Why aren't you done yet?
No Flower silently chanted a Buddhist mantra to maintain his calm. He quietly retreated from the lively teahouse. He hadn't gone far when he vaguely felt that someone was following him. When he deliberately entered an empty alley, the person who was following him appeared.
No Flower pronounced the other person's name word by word.
"Chu Liuxiang, it's you again."
Chu Liuxiang was not the only one who came. Two of the Bandit Commander's best friends had also come.
The three of them formed a triangle. On the surface, they sealed off all of No Flower's paths of retreat. Chu Liuxiang stood directly across from No Flower.
The blue-clothed man gently waved his fan. His voice was full of melancholy.
"No Flower, you are indeed still alive."
The pockmarked woman didn't say a word. She only stared coldly at the blue-clothed man. It was as if she wanted nothing more than to cut him open.
Behind the two, the man with the stubble and the man in the embroidered robe kept exchanging glances. It was as if they were secretly communicating something.
Chu Liuxiang ignored the mockery in Ji Bingyan and Hu Tiehua's eyes. He closed his fan with a bang and asked No Flower in an incomparably solemn tone.
"No Flower, since we are friends, can you answer my last question?"
No Flower secretly thought of an escape route. He sneered at Chu Liuxiang and said, "What else do you want to ask now?"
The blue-clothed man sighed. His eyes were full of apology.
"I understand.
I'm sorry, No Flower. My heart belongs to someone else. I really can't accept you. "
No Flower stood in the same place for a moment. When he came back to his senses, his anger had already rushed to the top of his head. He didn't care about anything else. He used all his strength to directly hit Chu Liuxiang's chest. At the same time, he shouted angrily.