Under the cover of night, in another place in the main city of Yangzhou, there is the inn where Lu Jiao stayed.
Yuelai Restaurant.
The owner of Yuelai Restaurant opened his doors for business, but he didn't care who the guests were. As long as they gave him money, he would give them a place to stay.
The masked group of Lu Jiao disciples chose this largest inn located on the main road of Yangzhou City West Street as their base.
They were generous, and it seemed they were not short of money. When they came to Yuelai Restaurant, they booked all the private rooms on the second floor of Yuelai Restaurant as their temporary station.
The leader, Yankong, the second disciple of the head of the Lu Sect, told the shopkeeper that they lived upstairs, and no one else was allowed to come up without instructions.
The owner of Yuelai Restaurant obeyed his instructions to all the waiters in the store, and even specially found a waiter to guard the stairs to prevent customers from accidentally entering and disturbing his God of Wealth.
At night, the moon is in the middle of the sky, the stars hang down all around and the fields are bright. The lights of hundreds of houses are extinguished, and snoring can be heard from every house.
It's already midnight.
The side hall of Huatan Temple.
A group of men in black carefully left the temple and hurriedly took the secluded and uninhabited path.
After entering the city, they also stepped on the tiles and crossed the eaves, doing light skills and making very low noises. It looked like they were a group of people with good martial arts skills.
They quietly came to the roof of Yuelai Restaurant. One of the men in black hung upside down from the eaves of the corner building and meowed twice like a cat.
In the box in the corner, a man dressed as a Lu Jiao quietly opened the window.
"Come in quickly." The man made a greeting gesture and whispered.
This group of men in black descended from the tiled roof of the restaurant into the corner box on the second floor of Yuelai Restaurant.
In the inner room of the turret, candles and lamps were lit, and the lights in the room were slightly dim.
The men in black and several people from the Lu Sect were also gathered here.
They slowly pulled away the black cloth from their faces.
It was none other than the masters of various major sects in the south of the Yangtze River in Huatan Temple.
The men in black are like this, and so are the people from the Lu Sect.
Ruan Qingchou, the white-haired scholar who is famous in the world, Xu Dingshan, the leader of the Yushan Sword Sect, Lu Wei, the leader of the Luoyue Sect, Ge Ming, the leader of the Mingyi Sword Sect, Qingyi, the abbot of Tianxuan Temple...
The people of Lu Jiao are all fake. As for their purpose, it is very simple. In the name of giving gifts from Lu Jiao, the golden beads and several large boxes of property were exposed to Ji Ruge's sight. They waited here for Ji Ruge to come to her door. .
The people of the Lu Sect are composed of elders and disciples from several sects who rarely show up. Their large boxes of belongings were collected by merging the financial resources of several sects.
The gold in several large boxes is real, and the white jade carving base is also real, but the gold beads are fake.
It's just a round stone bead coated with a layer of gold paint.
They couldn't afford such big gold beads, which were round and honest. They were afraid that they wouldn't be able to find many in the entire Central Plains.
They sent people to exchange several boxes of gold with silver bills overnight from several major pawn shops in Yangzhou. The gold beads were forged by the owner of an antique shop. Several boxes of gold were used to set off the gold beads.
Ruan Qingchou stood among the crowd, pulled down the black cloth covering his face, and said to the crowd: "Master Kongxing must be the abbot of Huatan Temple to take care of the overall situation and avoid arousing suspicion. It has been hard for you all these days."
Xu Dingshan nodded and replied: "As long as we can catch the devil this time and avenge Brother Luo's death, it won't be a problem for us to endure it here for a few days."
Ruan Qingchou replied: "In that case, let's all take a rest early and wait until tomorrow when our people spread word around that people from the Lu Sect will stay at the Yuelai Restaurant and wait for Ji Ruge to take the bait."
After everyone heard this, they each took up residence in the large private rooms on the second floor of Yuelai Restaurant.
Ruan Qingchou expected that Ji Ruge was short of money, but he did not dare to conclude that Ji Ruge would come back to get the gold beads.
However, he had investigated the killer Ji Ruge and found that among the people he had killed in the past, there were mostly bad people and very few good people. However, under his covert investigation, he found that many of these 'good people' were hypocrites or had committed crimes. From Ke's past, he vaguely guessed that this famous murderer might be a chivalrous man who was short of money.
The reason for using the name of Lu Jiao to send gold beads to Huatan Temple is that Lu Jiao has always had a bad reputation in the Central Plains and is the common enemy of the Central Plains. Punishing rape and eradicating evil is a chivalrous act. In this way, Ji Ru The song is more likely to be sold.
Ruan Qingchou only told them that Ji Ruge was short of money, but did not tell them that Ji Ruge might be a chivalrous person.
Once Ji Ruge's reputation in the world was told, they wouldn't believe it.
Secondly, he just wanted to capture Ji Ruge and use Ji Ruge's seven-kill order to go to the seventh floor to find out the whereabouts of his wife Si Xiaoyi. As for a 'chivalrous man' who was already famous in the world, Life or death is not that important to him.
It must not be said that Ruan Qingchou is a scholar with a mysophobia on the surface, but in his heart, he is just an egoist, and the righteousness of the world is indeed not as important to him as the personal relationship between his children.
The gift of gold beads from Lu Jiao Huatan Temple was just a strategy devised by him and the heads of several major sects in the south of the Yangtze River, with the sole purpose of capturing Ji Ruge.
Ruan Qingchou arranged for Li Kun and his disciples to stay at Huatan Temple, and together with Abbot Kongxing and the disciples of An Ning Guan, they continued to investigate why Luo Congsheng went to the East Gate Tower. He was worried that Li Kun stayed on the second floor of Yuelai Restaurant and was young. If you lose your temper, your whereabouts will be exposed.
The stars are sparse and the moon is pale.
At this time, Xiaoyu was still sleeping soundly in Liushu's Tavern, smacking the hazelnuts in his mouth. In his dream, it was still the sunny days when he and Xiaofang were gathering cow grass hand in hand.
In the early morning, the sun covered the moon, and the gentle wind and gentle rain gradually fell.
March 22, Yangzhou city.
In the streets and alleys, the spring rain is still pattering. At the door of the restaurant, a poor boy sitting on the stone steps selling first-blooming apricot flowers, wrapped in a raincoat and bamboo hat, looks expectantly at the wealthy businessmen passing by.
Many Jianghu guests are talking about Lu Jiao occupying half of the restaurant in Yuelai Restaurant as a place to stay.
This matter has already reached Uncle Liu’s ears and also reached Xiaoyu’s ears.
Uncle Liu was still fishing in Xiyun Lake. The fish he wanted to catch appeared once, at the Dongcheng Gate Tower. It was already morning when he heard that Luo Congsheng of Anning Temple died at the Dongcheng Gate Tower.
He went to see the corpses. Judging from their temperature, they must have been killed at night. When he went there, it was already more than ten hours late, and the fish he wanted to catch were long gone.
The 'big fish' was not defended, but it attracted the attention of several sects of Huatan Temple. In the past few days, either monks passed by and glanced at him, or disciples wearing sect clothes passed by and glanced at him. Morning and evening Once, every day.
Because he caught the attention of the monks in Huatan Temple because of the fish he fished in the landscape trestle behind Huatan Temple.
Abbot Kongxing suspected that there was something wrong with the old man, so he ordered the monks to inquire about the old man's origins. He said that he came to Xiyun Lake a month ago and had been fishing in Xiyun Lake without interruption or leaving.
In the past few days, Uncle Liu did not go fishing at the Shanshui Inn behind Huatan Temple, just to prevent these people from disturbing him. Unexpectedly, these people became addicted to watching him.
Xiao Yu threw a few yuan coins to the Xinghua boy, picked up a branch of Xinghua, held it in her mouth, smelled the faint fragrance of the flowers, walked into Yuelai Restaurant...!
Of course it's not Yuelai Restaurant, but a street stall selling wontons with half a raincloth propped up next to Yuelai Restaurant. Xiaoyu is dressed in coarse cloth, and he doesn't look like a person who can spend money in Yuelai Restaurant.
He took off his coir raincoat and bamboo hat, ordered a bowl of wontons in clear soup from the stall, and ate happily.
