"I don't know how to ride a horse." Xue Yao looked at the white horse in front of her with a sincere face, and said to the person behind her, "I can help you lead the horse."
As soon as the words left his mouth, the tip of the knife on his back increased its force, and the little thief threatened behind him, "Can you not ride a horse with this look of a male gentleman? Don't talk nonsense, get on the horse!"
"I really don't know how to ride a horse, gentlemen usually ride in carriages, have you seen anything?" Xue Yao pushed forward to alleviate the tip of the blade behind him, trying to stall for time.
Why hasn't Lu Qian chased him out yet? Is this going to a foreign country to buy him sour plum juice?
"Any more nagging and I'll take your corpse back to claim credit." The little furry thief was in a hurry.
"You take the body of the Sword Saint disciple back, is it looking for death or inviting credit, you have to think ...... about it" Xue Yao did not finish his words, he felt that the tip of the knife behind him was about to pierce his clothes, so he immediately shut up and obediently got on the horse.
The little furry thief followed close behind, mounted his horse, sat behind him, and beat his horse as he sped off toward the south.
Xue Yao felt that she was getting farther and farther away from Lu Qian, and the hope in her heart was getting dimmer and dimmer.
After a period of silence and feeling that the little thief behind him had stabilized a bit, Xue Yao began to chant again, "Why did you arrest me? It was your gang master who personally released me, you will be punished by the gang master for treating me like this."
This little thief was the one who had stolen the boat passengers' belongings on the shore last time, and it was only then that Xue Yao was able to identify him.
When he had just sat down at the table and suddenly had a knife pressed against his back by the person behind him, Xue Yao thought that it was an assassin from the Xuan Night's faction that had caught up with him.
But now he felt otherwise.
If it was an assassin sent by Xuan Ye, he couldn't just arrest him alone and stop, or at least threaten Lu Qian to go back with him.
As a matter of fact, it was impossible to notify the minions from all over the place so quickly when such a big thing happened in the gang.
Even if they had been notified, it's unlikely that just one person would have come alone to make the arrest.
That's why Xue Yao thought that this little brat had captured him, not under instructions from his superiors, but on his own initiative.
"One look at this sorry state of yours, I knew you escaped by stealth." The little hairy thief sneered, "I told you to mind your own fucking business, and now you're still not planted in my hands!"
"What idle matters have I meddled in? You're not afraid of falling into the hands of the Sword Saint if you meddle in the Sword Saint's disciple's business?" Xue Yao held onto the Sword Saint's thigh and wouldn't let go, counting on scaring this little thief back to the shore.
"Not meddling? You and your little master chased me five miles last time, I worked hard all morning for money, all to your little master to pull out, you really are a nobleman who forgets too much ah?" The little thief gritted his teeth.
On that day, he had stolen quite a lot of silver taels in the morning, and had been ready to call it quits, when that murderous Sword Saint disciple caught him, and all the stolen silver taels were searched away by that group of boatmen.
"You're the one who's expensive and forgetful, brother." Xue Yao said, "It's not like I'm the one chasing you."
The little furry thief snorted coldly, "Didn't your mom tell you that persimmons have to pick the soft ones?"
"I'm actually a banana, not a persimmon." Xue Yao said, "If you pinch it indiscriminately, it will rot, and if the Sword Saint is going to be heartbroken, he definitely won't let go of the person who pinched me."
"Don't be poor with me!" The little furry thief didn't eat this.
*
Lu Qian sat in his original seat and waited obediently.
The pear juice in her hand is yellow and rusty, but Yao Yao still hasn't come back.
The surrounding air currents never appeared to be different, and it was possible to determine that there were no Xuan Night Sect assassins in this store; if there were, they would have used Yao Yao to blackmail His Highness, and it would be impossible to take Yao Yao away alone.
So Yao Yao must have gone somewhere and will be back on her own in a while.
After waiting from morning until noon, when the snow pear juice fermented with bubbles and sourness, Lu Qian finally put down the tea bowl and stood up.
Seeing this, the store boy immediately came over and attentively reminded the customer not to leave anything behind, but actually came to remind Lu Qian to settle the bill.
Lu Qian looked at the shopkeeper with an expressionless face and waved his sleeve, signaling that he had no money.
"The silver tickets are all on Yao Yao." When His Highness left the palace, he surrendered all the money to the young companion.
The shopkeeper's smile froze for a moment, then he smiled again and asked, "What does the guest mean by that? I can't understand."
*
"Eldest Miss, the person has been captured!" The hall master entered the door to report.
Azhu was shocked and immediately stood up, "So fast? Quickly bring it here!"
The little thief outside the door did not allow anyone to touch the hostage he had recaptured, and single-handedly escorted Xue Yao into the main hall, looking at the gang leader's daughter with a pandering face, waiting for a reward.
"Why are you alone? Where are the Sword Saint disciples?" Azhu asked Xue Yao in a split second.
Xue Yao used his afterglow to see the people in the room and realized that the two boys were standing just to the left of the eunuch's chair, their gazes staring grimly at themselves.
"I was going to bring him back with me, but this little brother wouldn't let me." Xue Yao nudged towards the little furry thief behind him.
The little thief stepped forward to explain: ''Big Miss! That sword saint disciple's martial arts is extremely strong, I'm weak, I can only find the opportunity to catch this guy first. The two of them have a great friendship, with him in hand, I'm not afraid that the Sword Saint disciple won't come to the door to send him to his death!"
Azhu waved her hand to let the small furry thieves dodge away and walked up to stare at Xue Yao with a resentful gaze, "Where is my father now?"
Is your father not dead? Xue Yao thought to himself.
In that case, the man who wanted to exchange the Heart Technique with him really wasn't the real gang master?
It seemed that Lu Qian's guess was accurate.
So, who was the man who died?
"Miss Azhu, we have not met your father." Xue Yao raised his hand and pointed to the two boys next to the eunuch chair, "That night when we heard that the master of the gang had summoned us, we followed the guide to this place, and we were taken into a room by those two little brothers, and then led into a secret passageway, and we saw a man dressed in ......"
"What a bunch of nonsense!" A boy stepped forward to interrupt Xue Yao, "Eldest Miss, it was the two of them who trespassed into the secret room, stole our sect's secret treasures, killed the elders, and robbed the gang master!"
Azhu said angrily, ''Luckily I thought you were a decent person! The good disciple handed over by the Sword Saint has done such a scandalous thing as killing and stealing things! If you dare to touch half of my father's hair, we will exterminate your whole family, and see how the Sword Saint has the face to do it for a villain like you!"
"Miss Azhu calm down." Xue Yao gazed calmly at the sixteen year old girl in front of him, who was overwhelmed by anger and fear, and gently reminded, "Think carefully about the whole thing, we didn't even know where your sect was, how could we have known that there was an underground secret room here? If we really knew that there was a secret room here, how could we easily kill the elders of your sect and take away the powerful master of Xuan Night Sect? If we were capable of doing so, would we still be sitting around waiting for Swordsman Gu Qingyuan to exchange us for freedom?"
"The two of them are pretending that they don't know martial arts!" The boy stepped forward and said to Ah Zhu, "The gang master and the elders also thought that the two of them didn't know superior kung fu, that's why they took it lightly and let the shadow guards keep a hand on them in the outer courtyard, but they didn't expect that the two of them would suddenly strike out and sneak up on them!"
Xue Yao sneered at the boy, "So, we killed and robbed people, killed the Elder, and took the Gang Leader, but we are good enough to keep you two alive to identify us? Does that make sense?"
The boy choked on his words and blanched as he said, "You guys are saving your hands, aren't you trying to frame me?"
Pearl's mind was a mess at the moment.
From last night's incident to now, she has always felt that there is something strange, but she can't find a clue, at this moment, after listening to Xue Yao's words, she seems to have clarified the direction a little bit, but still can't figure it out, "If my father wasn't captured by you guys, where is he now?"
"I really don't know." Xue Yao looked sincere and quickly told Ah Zhu all about the events of last night.
"Bloodshed!" The two boys stood out together and accused, "No wonder he didn't kill us, he's intentionally creating a trap to put the shit on our heads and clear his own name."
Xue Yao turned his head to the two boys, ''If we want to clear our names, why did we only leave you two alive?
You're not the master's retainers, are you? The man who pretended to be the Master last night?
Then may I ask you, where is the master's valet?
There are two of us, it's already a problem to take the master of the gang, it's impossible to escape with the master's servant, if we can't take them away, why don't we just kill them? May I ask where the body of the master's servant is?
There should only be one corpse in the secret room, the man who pretended to be the master of the gang, the fatal concealed weapon in the center of the corpse's eyebrow came from your hands, you received the disciples of the Sword Saint, why did you put a fatal toxin on the concealed weapon? It is impossible for us to know in advance that a small silver needle in your hand can kill someone, right? If we really wanted to kill someone, we would have at least broken his neck after taking away your silver needle, right? The truth is that we didn't realize that the silver needle was deadly enough!"
"Sure enough, you guys have thought of all the plans before you made your move!" The boy flatly accused Xue Yao and his duo of plotting to kill people and take the gang leader captive.
Ah Zhu frowned and stared at Xue Yao, the dead elder was extremely close to her father, although she shouldn't have turned her elbow outwards, she always felt that Xue Yao's words were very reasonable.
Xue Yao turned back to Azhu: "Please bear with me if I say something unpleasant - since we are disciples of the Sword Sage, do we need to steal your school's secret manuals without any regard for its reputation? I'm afraid we won't be able to finish learning the Sword Sage's life's work in this lifetime, but we're still wasting our efforts to steal your school's secret manuals, aren't we full of shit? Whether it's us who want to steal your school's secret manuals, or that senior pretending to be a gang master who wants to exchange your school's secret manuals for the Sword Saint's Taiji Heart Technique, the girl should think about it carefully."
"Bloody mouth! Our master would be able to look at your crappy heart technique?" The boy argued with an aggrieved face.
Azhu frowned and stared at Xue Yao, silent for a moment, and spoke with a gloomy expression, "Tie them up."
Xue Yao's heart sank, but then he heard Ah Zhu say, "Tie up the Zhaofu duo for trial."
Immediately someone stepped forward to take hold of the two boys.
"Missy! We are innocent! This treacherous villain had already thought of a cunning plan to frame us for murder!"
Ah Zhu ignored the boy and looked at Xue Yao with a heavy expression as she continued, "Don't try to pull any tricks, I won't let you off the hook, tell that companion of yours to tie his hands immediately, and as long as there's no word from my father, the two of you won't be able to get out of this situation."
Xue Yao blandly replied back, "Since this matter has already involved me, I can't possibly rest until I prove my innocence, or else the reputation of this murder and robbery will be spread, how can I face Senior Sword Saint and Senior Brother? Don't worry Miss Azhu, your father's whereabouts, I will definitely do my best to find out."
Pearl was shaken by his firm demeanor, and her gaze rose uncertainly.
"Since the two of them said that we both killed and robbed people, that means that the secret book is missing?" Xue Yao said, "But when we escaped, we didn't take that secret book with us, may I ask if the girl has searched those two attendants?"
The two boys who were tied up immediately clamored, "Thieves shouting to catch thieves! You come and search us instead! If you do, we'll die for our sins!"
Hearing this, Xue Yao guessed that the secret book was either stolen by someone else, or the two boys had already moved the loot after stealing it.
The latter is more likely.
Xue Yao said to Ah Zhu, "If it wasn't stolen by the two of them, then I guess the secret book should still be in the secret room, can you allow me to go and explore the secret room once more, perhaps I can find clues to the disappearance of the gang master."
"Eldest Miss, this person is as skillful as a tongue, we can't trust him lightly." An elder stepped forward to remind Ah Zhu.
Aju asked, "Then what do you think should be done with him?"
The elder narrowed his eyes and said sinisterly, "Hand him over to the old man for interrogation, and guarantee that he will obediently confess within two days."
"Miss Azhu!" Xue Yao had a strong desire to survive: "Beating me to death won't solve the problem, now that the master is in danger without any news, why don't you let me find out as soon as possible to save the master? Besides, I really don't know anything about this matter, even if your sect tortures and beats me, you won't be able to get any useful information from me, and it will delay the best time to find him!"
"How do you want to find out?" Pearl asked him.
Xue Yao pointed at the two boys, "I want them to come with me to the secret room to confront me face to face."