【When Wuling was young, in the east of the golden city, a white horse with a silver saddle rode in the spring breeze.
Wherever the fallen flowers are trampled, I laugh into the orchid wine shop. 】
Speaking of Orchid Winery, the first thing that comes to mind is of course the poem "Youth's Journey" by the poet Li Bai. In just four sentences, it describes the magnificence and enthusiasm of that era in a fascinating way.
But Lin Sui'an couldn't laugh at all now.
Orchid Restaurant is not big. In the center is a half-meter-high round platform, surrounded by brightly colored Persian carpets. The guests sit casually on the carpet, sitting in a very bold and unrestrained manner. Everyone has a small table in front of them. Wearing strange-shaped silver wine vessels, they drank wine while talking and laughing loudly.
The musicians sat around the high platform holding Qiuci pipa, strumming the harp, and beating the leather drum, playing rhythmic music. The graceful Orchid whirled like the wind with the music, wearing a red gauze skirt and The elegant scarf turned into a swirling storm, setting off waves of cheers.
It was indeed very exotic, but - Lin Sui'an rubbed his temples, the smell here was really too strong.
The carpet looks very bright from a distance, but if you look closer, you can clearly see that the gaps in the carpet are filled with messy debris, and it also exudes a strange smell. Some of the guests are wearing shoes, some are taking off their shoes, and they are sweating. The smell of feet, carpet, and the spices on Hu Ji's body merged into an indescribable smell - to use a metaphor, it's like a combination of body odor in the subway mixed with leek boxes and high-end perfume. , How can one be so nauseous?
In this kind of flavor, he can write poems that have been passed down for thousands of years. This poet and literary giant is indeed not something ordinary people can be. Lin Sui'an thought.
Although it is called Hu Ji Wine Shop, the boss is a Tang Dynasty man. He wears Hu clothes and a felt hat. He strives to be consistent with the style of the entire wine shop. When he saw Mu Zhong and Zhu Da, his face almost burst with laughter.
"Leader of the Sixth Team, Lieutenant Zhu County, the wine that just arrived today is not very strong. I'd like to give you two a pot, and it will be charged to my account." He looked at Lin Sui'an again, "This little lady wants to any drinks?"
The boss's tone was as natural as a modern waiter asking "What would you like to order?" It seems that it is common for women to visit wine shops in this world.
Mu Zhong handed over Su Chengxian's portrait, "Have you seen this person today?"
The boss stared at the portrait, his smile gradually faded, and he whispered, "Who is the first person the Sixth Team is looking for?"
Mu Zhong: "Don't ask any more questions."
"Yes, yes," the boss nodded and bowed, "to be honest, this person happened to stay here last night."
Zhu Dachang: "What?!"
Lin Sui'an was also shocked. If Su Cheng had stayed at Hu Ji's Restaurant last night, he would have had a sufficient alibi. Wouldn't that mean that she had become the biggest suspect again?
"Is this person still here?" Mu Zhong asked.
"Here," the boss hurriedly led the way, "this person drank too much and slept in the Orchid House last night. He is not awake yet. He is in the backyard. Please follow me, leader of the Sixth Team."
Passing through the lobby of the wine shop, you will find the backyard of the wine shop through a small door. There is a circle of crooked small wooden buildings built around it. Some are two stories, some are three stories, and some are one and a half stories. The rooms are in uneven locations, high and low. The wooden stairs winding around it give the illusion of a labyrinth.
"Leader of the Sixth Team, I'll ask someone to come down in a moment." The boss ran up a flight of stairs with his robe in his hand, got into a small door, and slammed the door.
At this moment, the hair on Lin Sui'an's back suddenly stood up, and her body's early warning system activated without warning - it was dangerous here!
Almost at the same time, Mu Zhong's expression changed drastically, he turned around and ran away, "No, let's go!"
Before he finished speaking, several loud bangs were heard, and several wooden doors upstairs were blasted and cracked by thick smoke at the same time. More than ten masked men jumped down with their swords rolled up in the smoke, and the sharp light of the swords was hidden in the smoke. Bright and striking.
Lin Sui'an almost reflexively pulled out Qian Jing from her waist, stepped back half a step with her toes, and rushed into the smoke with her whole body. Her brain didn't know how to deal with it yet, but her body had already determined the direction, and she held the knife in her hand. With a swing of her arm, there were two crisp sounds, and Qian Jing hit other weapons. The enemy was very close to her, and there were more than one. Lin Sui'an suddenly sank down and leaned over, and Qian Jing spun in circles in his palm, as if cutting wheat. He held the handle of the knife against the ground and swept quickly. The wind of the knife tore open several cracks in the smoke. Several feet could be seen in the cracks. Wherever the knife passed, blood splashed, followed by several screams and heavy objects. The sound of the earth.
The smoke faded and his vision recovered. Only then did Lin Sui'an see clearly four masked men lying around him. Blood was pouring from his ankles, and they were twitching and letting out suppressed screams.
A sentence suddenly popped up in Lin Sui'an's mind: [Dai Zhan Ruo Sheng Chu]
What's this? !
Lin Sui'an was stunned, and two more masked men came to kill him. This time, there was no smoke and dust. Lin Sui'an could see very clearly. They were all strong men, wearing Hu clothes, and their eyes were exposed above the mask. They are all black, not barbarians, but Tang people.
Two blades, one on the left and one on the right, carried the fishy wind and struck at Lin Sui'an's neck at the same time, forming a huge pair of scissors in the air. The speed was astonishingly fast, and they were about to cut off Lin Sui'an's thin neck. The body suddenly leaned back, bending the waist to an incredible arc, narrowly avoiding it, pushing with one hand on the ground, and the whole body rebounded. The two masked men used the old moves at the right time, and Qian Jing followed the trend and turned forward. , a stream of plasma spurted out from the wrist of the masked man on the right, and he screamed and fell to the ground. Lin Sui'an backhanded him and struck again, and the Qianjing green blade cut out with a sharp sound.
[The knife cuts the soup again. 】
Another sentence suddenly came into his mind. Lin Sui'an was excited. With a flick of his wrist, the blade of the blade was raised a centimeter. However, the blade did not stop and it still slashed diagonally towards the abdomen of the masked man on the left.
"Tsk—" Plasma sprayed half of Lin Sui'an's body and face, and the masked man fell to the ground, clutching his abdomen and screaming.
Lin Sui'an froze. If she had not raised the blade just a centimeter, the knife would have split the man in half on the spot.
Just one centimeter away and she would kill someone!
Blood fell down his forehead and onto his eyelashes, staining his vision half red and half pale. Lin Sui'an's heart was beating fast, and the hand holding the knife couldn't stop trembling. Zhu Dachang's scream for help could be heard in his ears.
"Ahhhh! Duke Mu, help me! Lady Lin, help me!"
Zhu Dachang was being chased and hacked by two masked men, and his escape was like rolling and crawling in a dangerous situation. The two bad guys who were originally following him were fighting hand-to-hand with several masked men and couldn't take care of themselves. Mu Zhong's condition was not better either. Wherever they go, one man fights five masked men alone, every step of the way is startling. Everyone is outnumbered and their lives are hanging by a thread.
She wants to save people!
Lin Sui'an tightened his grip on the handle of the knife and ran out on tiptoe. The fear of almost killing someone just now turned into a strange trembling feeling. There seemed to be hundreds of long knives buzzing in his head, which made his internal organs tremble. The wind penetrated into her ears and disappeared again. The scene in her eyes became extremely slow and even colored with a strange black and white tone.
The flying Qianjing cut off the knife in front of her, and the blood plasma bloomed like a black lotus. Her body jumped up, and the Qianjing green blade swept across the sparkling lake like a thin leaf, and the water splashes bloomed.
Zhu Dachang sat slumped in a pool of blood, trembling all over. The two criminals looked pale, and Mu Zhong stared in shock.
They couldn't believe their eyes. In the blink of an eye, the woman in front of them was covered in fishy wind. The light moved with the knife, and the knife burst into blood. When the masked man fell to the ground, a rain of blood poured down from the sky. , the woman's body was covered in blood, her eyes were dark, as if she was possessed by a ghost.
Suddenly, the woman's eyes moved, and the ghostly murderous intention disappeared.
Everyone swallowed their saliva and realized that they were already sweating all over their clothes, but they didn't know that the "ghost" in their eyes - Lin Sui'an himself was very scared.
She seemed to have lost consciousness just now, but she didn't seem to have lost consciousness. She had memory, and she knew what she had done, but her body, limbs, and muscles seemed to be occupied by another thing. It was not until she defeated all her opponents that she regained her body. Control.
The disgusting bloody smell poured into his nose, and the color in his vision changed from black and white to bright red. Lin Sui'an stared blankly at the masked men on the ground. His five senses gradually returned to his body, and their wailing sounds entered his ears bit by bit. Pan - they still have voices and are still alive - Lin Sui'an put away Qianjing tremblingly and stared at his palms, blood dripping along the palm lines.
The trembling feeling from the previous stabbing still remained in her body, and Lin Sui'an couldn't even tell whether her trembling was due to excitement or fear.
This body of hers...seems...bloodthirsty?
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A quarter of an hour later, Lin Sui'an saw the people from the Mu family's caravan branch. They were all capable young men of seventeen or eighteen years old. They were wearing uniform ginger gowns and the same type of Mu Zhong's forehead smear. They were controlling with extremely high efficiency. When they arrived at Hu Ji's Restaurant, a certain Zhu County Lieutenant was not even qualified to interrupt, which fully demonstrated the Mu family's caravan's extremely high control over Dongshi.
Soon, they discovered a lot of smuggled items in the wooden building in the backyard of Hu Ji Restaurant. As for what the smuggled items were, Lin Sui'an was not qualified to know. He could only deduce the ins and outs from the sporadic conversations between Mu Zhong and his men. . This Orchid Wine Shop is a hidden stronghold for smuggling caravans. They are all desperadoes. When they suddenly saw Mu Zhong visiting, they thought the stronghold was exposed, so they became murderous. I have to say that the owner of this wine shop is quite capable. There were many secret passages in the strange wooden building, like a small maze. Several teams of people were sent out but they could not find the real exit. The boss had already escaped.
To make matters worse, Hu Ji in the wine shop said that she had never met Su Chengxian, so the boss's excuse was just a lie to trick Mu Zhong into a trap.
"Thanks to Mrs. Lin for rescuing me, otherwise Mu might have been in trouble this time." Mu Zhong thanked Lin Sui'an solemnly, then clasped his fists towards Zhu Dachang and said, "Lieutenant Zhu, this time it is Mu's caravan that is involved." You guys."
"It's just a small battle. I, Mr. Zhu, have never seen big winds and waves, so it doesn't matter." Zhu Dachang's legs were still shaking when he spoke, and Lin Nili behind him looked away in horror.
Mu Zhong coughed dryly and looked at Lin Sui'an again: "Ms. Lin's sword skills are very sharp and rare in the world. I wonder where she learned from her?"
Lin Sui'an: "..."
Who knows where I learned this ghost sword technique from? She originally thought that she got the kung fu for no reason and was lucky, but now it seems that this sword skill is quite evil. Could it be some evil skill like the "Sunflower Book"?
When Mu Zhong saw that Lin Sui'an didn't answer, he quickly changed his words and said, "Ms. Lin, please don't misunderstand. It's not that Mu covets the secrets of the noble sect. It's just that I have been doing business for many years and have never seen sword skills like Mrs. Lin's. I was just curious for a moment." . I, Mu Zhong, owe you my life. From now on, Mrs. Lin’s affairs will be my business.”
Never seen similar knife skills? Lin Sui'an asked, are the original owner's family some unborn experts? Damn it, it seems even less like a serious person.
"Yes, yes, yes, Madam Lin, don't worry. If you save my life, I, Mr. Zhu, will definitely catch the real culprit and clear your name." Zhu Dachang also said, "Since Su Cheng is not in Dongshi, then he must be hiding in the East City." There will be clues somewhere in the city as long as we search door to door!"
Lin Sui'an didn't think so. Since the owner of the wine shop can disappear without a trace, it means that Nanpu County is by no means monolithic. There is no guarantee that there are no evil ways in Su City...
"Head of the Sixth Team, we have found the exit of an underground tunnel!" A clerk ran over and said, "The exit leads directly to the underground tunnel. We have sent someone with good water skills to explore it."
"Okay!" Mu Zhong was overjoyed, "Let brothers be careful." He then said to Zhu Dachang, "Zhu County Lieutenant, do you have the underground waterway map of Nanpu County?"
Zhu Da seemed to be stunned, looking straight at Mu Zhong for a while, and suddenly shouted, "The sewer! The sewer leads directly to the Xichun River that surrounds the city!"
Wouldn't that be the best escape route? !
Lin Sui'an: "Where is the exit?!"
"There are seven sewage canals in the city with six outlets. The two largest culverts are on Liren Street and Xilu Street, running east-west, and the other three running north-south, all intersecting..." Zhu Da often walked around with his head in his hands, " It's autumn now, and the water level of the Xichun River is low, so the flow direction should be from north to south, from west to east..."
"So much nonsense!" Mu Zhong stood up impatiently, "I'll go check it out!"
"Caught! Caught!" A noise came from the backyard, "Caught the owner of the wine shop!"
I saw four or five waiters carrying a dripping man in. He was dressed in a felt hat. It turned out to be the owner of the registered wine shop who had escaped. His face was livid at this time and he had already died.
"There's another one! Drag it out!" Amid the commotion, a second corpse was carried over. This corpse's condition was much more tragic than that of the owner of the wine shop. The left side of his face, which was soaked and turned white, was lifted up like a peeled pig skin. It was rolled up, with smelly water sizzling under the skin, and the right half of the face still had complete facial features.
Zhu Dachang vomited, and Mu Zhong covered his nose.
Lin Sui'an's pupils shrank sharply.
The body is that of Su Chengxian.
