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Chapitre 26

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Li You laughed and said, "Aunt Wang of Baoyue Tower misses Miss Liu very much. Miss was just looking for her. Why don't we accompany you to see her?"

The beautiful woman blushed.

"That's right, I am Liu Yanyan, so what!"

Seeing that she couldn't get away with it, she simply stopped arguing. She put her hands on her hips, raised her eyebrows, glared at the two of them, and shouted, "Go back and tell your damn wife that she can't even control her husband. It's not like I'm the one pestering him when that Zhang guy comes looking for me. Besides, humph, he used the excuse of wanting to marry me to play with me for a year or two. It's his luck that I haven't settled accounts with him yet. He deserves to die! These things have nothing to do with me. If you bother me again, don't blame me for being impolite!"

The two were stunned.

Liu Yanyan vented her anger and seemed quite smug: "This old lady isn't easily intimidated. Zhang Mingchu is dead now, and your Zhang family members are nothing but amateurs. Humph, what can she do to me?"

She rattled off such a long string of words in one breath, leaving the two of them both speechless with amusement and exasperation.

Li You muttered, "I came back to catch rabbits, but I didn't expect to have such a fussy old lady in the process."

Despite her young age, she had already learned to threaten people and was so shrewish. She was indeed the kind of woman a courtesan should be. She must be Liu Yanyan. Moreover, judging from her words, she didn't seem to be satisfied with Zhang Mingchu and didn't have any feelings for him. There was no question of love turning into hate.

The two exchanged a glance.

He Bi said coldly, "We were not instructed by Madam Zhang."

As expected, Liu Yanyan was somewhat surprised, and her anger subsided considerably, but she still looked at them suspiciously: "Then who are you, and what do you want with me?"

Li You smiled and asked, "Does Miss Liu know the details of Zhang Daxia's death?"

Liu Yanyan was stunned for a moment, then her eyes widened immediately: "He's dead, so what? Why are you looking for me?"

Li You shook his head: "Miss Liu, please don't misunderstand. We just heard that Master Zhang and you have a very good relationship, and that you even wrote him a letter, so we came here specifically to bother you..."

"You suspect I killed him?" Liu Yanyan sneered, interrupting him. "So what if it was me, or it wasn't? That thing lied to me for so long, he deserved to die!"

Li You smiled bitterly.

Liu Yanyan refused to listen to them anymore and pointed at the door, shouting, "Hey, get out of here! It's getting dark, aren't you two men afraid of what people will say if you stay here?"

He Bi said coldly, "You didn't answer the questions we asked."

"Who are you? I won't tell you, so what can you do to me!" Liu Yanyan shouted, raising her head. "What kind of men are you, bullying a weak woman like me!"

She was yelling and jumping around, but in the end, she claimed that others had bullied her.

Li You suppressed a laugh and murmured, "If anyone dares to bully a weak woman like you, I will definitely beat them up and avenge you."

Liu Yanyan blushed and stomped her foot angrily: "Fine, if you like to wait, then wait slowly. This grandma is going back to her room to rest."

Seeing how willful she is, I'm afraid nothing I say will work now.

He Bi frowned.

Li You glanced at the sky and sighed, “We have no ill intentions toward you, young lady. If you insist on not telling us, we will not force you. However, not only us, but the Zhang family is also suspicious of you. This hiding and running is not a long-term solution.”

"None of your business!" Liu Yanyan glared. "Anyway, I don't know anything, so just get out of here!"

Li You smiled slightly.

"We're staying at the Sui Xin Inn," a magnetic voice said, full of gentleness and kindness, instantly inspiring trust. "You must be a kind person, young lady. How could you bear to let so many innocent people die such tragic deaths? If the murderer is found, you can clear your name. Wouldn't that be better?"

Liu Yanyan stared at him blankly for a moment, then finally pouted, turned her face away, and stopped talking.

After a while.

When she turned around again, the person was gone.

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It was already dusk outside the window. Perhaps due to the weather, the city of Nanjing was shrouded in a gloomy and somber atmosphere tonight, and the daytime liveliness had faded considerably.

He Bi sat in the chair, motionless.

"She doesn't know martial arts."

“That’s right,” Li You nodded, “but someone witnessed her hitting someone that day.”

Yang Nianqing did not question their insight and judgment, but pondered and said, "If she doesn't know martial arts, she naturally wouldn't know the Ten Thousand Poison Blood Palm, and she is definitely not the murderer, but she has been with Zhang Mingchu for so long, so she might know some clues."

Li You said, "I have already told her that we live here."

Yang Nianqing shook her head again: "What if she insists on not telling us?"

At this very moment—7a

The door suddenly opened, and a person walked in.

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With a gentle smile always in her phoenix eyes, Nangong Xue straightened her clothes slightly, sat down, and winked at everyone, saying, "I just took a walk on the street. Guess who I ran into?"

He Bi was taken aback when he saw him suddenly become playful.

Li You picked up his teacup and said without thinking, "Mr. Chrysanthemum."

Nangong Xue was stunned at first, then shook her head and smiled wryly, "It's rare for me to tell a riddle, but I didn't expect you to guess it right away."

"For Brother Nangong to be so interested, it must be something unexpected, and someone unexpected," Li You said with a smile. "In autumn and winter, why is Mr. Chrysanthemum not tending to his chrysanthemums at his Leisure Residence, but instead coming to Jinling?"

"He was invited to make a medical visit to Prefect Wu's residence."

"What?" Li You immediately put down his teacup, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world. "He actually makes house calls?"

Seeing his surprise, Nangong Xue smiled: "To be honest, I didn't expect him to agree at first either."

Li You was stunned for a long time, then smiled bitterly: "To be honest, I still don't believe it."

Nangong Xue actually blinked, a rare occurrence, and a playful expression appeared on his handsome face: "But then I heard something, and it didn't surprise me at all."

"What is it?" This time, the two asked in unison.

"Prefect Wu persuaded him with a pot of 'Spring Wave Green'."

Upon hearing this, Li You immediately leaned back in his chair, his long, slender eyes full of smiles: "So that's how it is. I only guessed it was a rare chrysanthemum, but I never expected it to be this one. It is said that there are only three pots of 'Spring Wave Green', no wonder he was tempted by it."

That's Qiu Bailu, the "Chrysanthemum Gentleman," the stingy fellow who kicked out his friend who had come all this way to visit, leaving him hungry. Yang Nianqing couldn't help but scoff, "He has such excellent medical skills, yet you still have to give him gifts and beg him to save people..."

Li You shook his head: "Even if we send him something, he might not be willing to help."

“He’s still the same old him. If it weren’t for that pot of chrysanthemums, he definitely wouldn’t have come,” Nangong Xue said with a smile. “He only said that he didn’t want that rare ‘Spring Wave Green’ to fall into the Wu family’s residence and be tainted by the atmosphere of officialdom.”

"What a hypocrite!" Yang Nianqing rolled her eyes.

Li You looked at her: "Do you know how the Nanshan Formation came about?"

"You grew them yourself?"

Nangong Xue smiled: "That's for the medicine."

"Medicine money?"

With a look of pity and compassion in her noble and gentle phoenix eyes, Nangong Xue sighed softly, "Whenever poor people fall ill but have no money to see a doctor, he tells them to plant some chrysanthemums to pay for their medicine."

Li You also laughed and said, "Since he became famous at the age of fifteen, those chrysanthemums are now enough to form a magnificent array of Nanshan formations."

Yang Nianqing was stunned.

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"I was so engrossed in talking about these things that I forgot about the important matter!" Nangong Xue suddenly remembered something and said regretfully, "Just now when I was going upstairs, I vaguely saw Miss Liu Yanyan. I guess she didn't trust us and came to test us on purpose?"

He Bi immediately frowned and asked, "Where is she?"

Nangong Xue said, "As soon as she saw me, she darted into the street corner to hide."

After a long pause, he shook his head, a look of doubt on his face: "Strange, as you all probably know, she actually has no martial arts skills, but just now..."

He paused here, seemingly hesitant.

Li You looked at him: "How is it?"

He sighed: "When she dodged just now, from a distance, it looked like the movements of a martial artist. It's really puzzling, and I'm starting to doubt my own eyes."

Have you practiced?

The three of them were dumbfounded.

Although Nangong Xue couldn't practice martial arts, no one in the martial arts world would doubt his judgment. But what about Liu Yanyan? Was her martial arts skill intermittent, or was she truly possessed, as the madam Wang said?

He Bi suddenly stood up: "Let's go take a look."

Volume One: Why Find a Reason for a Night Visitor?

Updated on Shuxiang Chinese Website: 2008-02-26 10:50:37 Word Count: 5386

Lao Liu Lane was a quiet place to begin with. As soon as you entered the lane, the noise of the night market outside immediately subsided, and the air became calm. Not far away, a lantern hung in front of a house, and the dim light cast long shadows of four people, making the place seem even more deserted.

As she reached the courtyard gate, Nangong Xue raised her hand to knock, but then froze.

The courtyard gate was ajar.

Light shone brightly from the slightly ajar door, indicating that the person inside was still awake. But why wouldn't a woman's house be locked at night?

Nangong Xue hesitated for a moment, then knocked on the door a few times and called out loudly, "I wonder if Miss Liu is at home?"

No one answered.

He couldn't help but turn to look at the three of them and shake his head—this Liu Yanyan was clever enough; could it be that she knew they were coming and did this on purpose? Breaking into a woman's place at night—even the most shameless men would never do such a thing.

Immediately, all six pairs of eyes turned to Yang Nianqing.

Looking at the half-open door in front of her, Yang Nianqing couldn't help but shudder. It wasn't that she was afraid of Liu Yanyan, but ever since she entered this alley, she had felt that something was very wrong, though she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

With a heavy heart, she was about to reach out and push the door open—

On the ground, the figure suddenly began to sway, and a thin breeze seemed to seep through the crack in the door, carrying a faint smell of fish.

"not good!"