Lin Wanwan looked at Su Jingqian quietly, her eyes as clear as water showing no waves or ripples. It seemed that she did not have the difficult emotions of facing an old friend after a long separation. She was as calm as if she were facing an old friend. Like a stranger, indifferent and calm.
"You came to Nanling, went through such a big detour and gave me the Blood Clothes Pavilion, and then insisted on staying with me. What do you mean?"
Under Su Jingqian's slightly probing gaze, she raised her eyebrows slightly and said, "During the day, didn't you pretend that you didn't know me and sing on stage with me? I thought you didn't want to acknowledge this debt."
Su Jingqian looked at her with a little smile in his eyes, "Who made up a name first and pretended not to know it? Besides, I didn't intend to let you stay in the first place, so whether you want to sing an opera or show off your cards, I'll do it. I can cooperate with you."
Her thick and curly long eyelashes trembled slightly like butterfly wings. When her eyes dropped, one could not see the emotions in her eyes. Only the slowly rising arc of her red lips looked charming and charming at first glance. , but upon closer inspection, there is a hint of bitterness.
"The King of Dongchen is still as cold and heartless as he was six years ago. I came to look for my old friends, but are they going to reject me thousands of miles away again?"
He was almost stunned for a moment, and his eyes gradually darkened. As his eyes flickered, they revealed all kinds of indescribable complex colors, like the changeable weather in summer, sometimes with clear skies and sometimes with dark clouds.
Just as the two of them were silent, the noise from the alley in the distance broke the silence.
The two of them turned their eyes and tacitly used Qinggong to skim across several rooftops, arrived around the alley, and hid themselves in a tree.
"Little lady, let's see where you can run."
A dandy-looking young man, followed by three strong men, was forcing a panicked woman from the entrance of the alley into the alley.
Following the pressing pace of several people, the woman was soon forced to a blind corner in the alley, with no way to retreat. She trembled uneasily, and when she saw the man approaching, she bent her knees, knelt down on the ground, and kowtowed to the man desperately: "Please... please, let me go..."
The man stared at the woman obscenely and smiled maliciously: "Okay, if you serve me well tonight, I will let you go. How about that?"
The woman shook her head vigorously, tears looming on her face, her voice trembling slightly, "No... please, please let me go!"
"No? It's a blessing for me to like you. Don't be shameless!" The man seemed to have no patience. He frowned and waved, and three strong men behind him immediately surrounded him.
"Help...um..." Before the woman could shout "help", her mouth was immediately covered by a strong man. She stared at them in fear and struggled desperately.
Lin Wanwan narrowed her beautiful eyes and glanced sideways at Su Jingqian. She saw a faint smile on his face, staring at her meaningfully, as if he wanted to find out something from her expression. , a trace of suspicion flashed in her eyes, and her expression returned to calm in an instant.
The two strong men lifted the woman up from the ground like a chicken, and were about to restrain her hands and tie her up. Unexpectedly, the woman's hands were like loaches, easily evading their capture. Just when they were about to become angry and wanted to knock her out, the woman raised her wrist slightly and unleashed several fast and fierce blows. The three strong men fell to the ground one after another before they could react.
The handsome man who gave the order widened his eyes. He couldn't believe what was happening in front of him. When he recovered from the shock, the woman's red lips curled slightly and she slipped out a sharp knife from her sleeve. dagger. She held the dagger horizontally and quickly moved around, moving from in front of the man to behind him, standing tall with her back to him.
The man behind him stood there blankly, and a strong smell of blood spread in the air. The next moment, the man suddenly fell to the ground with his eyes wide open in fear, and the bright red blood on his neck surged out like spring water.
"His skills are quite good."
There was a calm smile on Su Jingqian's lips, and that calm and strategizing look made Lin Wanwan feel on guard. She looked at him warily. Did he already know that there was something wrong with this woman? What on earth is he planning?
"Who?!" The woman seemed to have heard something and shouted alertly.
She glanced at the big tree where Su Jingqian and Lin Wanwan were hiding. She clenched the dagger in her hand and quietly leaned over step by step. When she came to the front, she waved the dagger in her hand and a cold light quickly flashed across the tree. A crow flapped its wings and flew out.
The woman looked at the empty branch in confusion, frowned, turned around and glanced at the body on the ground, then went back to search for something on the man's body. Then something like a letter was found, and she became vigilant again. She glanced around and was about to put it into her arms when suddenly a man in black fell from the sky and slapped her head. The woman dodged in panic and the letter in her hand was snatched away by the man in black.
The woman came back to her senses and noticed that her palms were empty. Murderous intent was evident in her eyes. The cold light of the dagger in her sleeves reappeared. She rushed forward and started fighting with the man in black.
Su Jingqian and Lin Wanwan were standing on the roof not far away, side by side. Their faces were calm, like two onlookers watching from the sidelines. However, the subtleties that flashed in their eyes showed that they had different thoughts.
Su Jingqian looked at her deeply and said with a smile, "Which one of them do you think will win?"
Lin Wanwan stared calmly at the two figures fighting fiercely in the alley, and couldn't help but taunt her with a hint of ridicule, "It's just a cicada and a praying mantis, it doesn't matter who wins?"
Su Jingqian stretched lazily and said, "Let's go back."
Lin Wanwan looked sideways at his handsome profile, a little surprised, "You won't do anything?"
Su Jingqian smiled faintly, his slender eyelashes cast a faint shadow under his eyes, his eyes were looming and unfathomable, "Since it is an oriole, naturally you have to be patient enough to wait for more cicadas and mantises to appear and bite each other. Only after both sides have suffered losses can we have an opportunity to take action.”
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Under the banyan tree in the courtyard, Lin Wanwan stared intently at Su Jingqian who was sitting opposite, her slightly scrutinizing eyes revealing a deep sense of inquiry.
"What do you want to ask?" Su Jingqian lowered his eyes and fiddled with the ring on his finger, with a lazy look. He didn't even raise his eyes, but he already guessed what she was thinking.
"Do you know who they are?" Lin Wanwan did not beat around the bush with him.
Su Jingqian still looked careless, but there was a smile in his eyes, "Isn't it the same for you? Otherwise, with the benevolence and righteousness of the Beiluo sect, when the woman was forced by the dandy just now, How could you be indifferent?"
"Her acting skills were too poor. While her whole body was shaking, her legs didn't move at all. This is an instinctive reaction caused by martial arts practitioners who have been struggling all year round. Since she knows martial arts, why should I take action?"
"Since you can observe this, you should also see the dagger in her hand. It is caused by the unique cold iron in Xijing."
Lin Wanwan lowered her eyes and smiled, "So the spies from West Jing were searching for something on a playboy in the middle of the night? It's really puzzling."
Su Jingqian suddenly raised his eyes and narrowed his eyes slightly when he looked at her. A cold light seemed to appear in his eyes, but disappeared again in an instant, "How do you know she is a spy?"
"Deliberately hiding in a blind alley late at night, which is convenient for taking people's lives. She is either a spy or a killer. If she is a killer, she should leave immediately after killing the person, but she stood there and was very vigilant. If she hadn't noticed that there was someone on our side There was movement, she probably found what she wanted on the body."
Lin Wanwan's eyes slowly moved back to Su Jingqian's face, staring sharply into his eyes, and raised her eyebrows slightly, "So, you deliberately made a noise to let her find us, thereby delaying When the man in black comes to compete with her, one is West Jing and the other is Beiming. The king of Dongchen has such a clever plan to compete with snipe and clam."
