The next day, the group continued on their way.
The scenery along the way from the East China Sea to Jiangnan is pretty good.
It was the rainy season at this time, as the south of the Yangtze River was a water town, and the autumn rain had been falling for several days. The carriage wanted to be safe and comfortable while traveling, so Gu Xiaotian slowed down his pace a lot. These days are a rare free time. I passed several small towns along the way, all of which were peaceful scenes. Previously, all matters in Jiangnan were handled by Fan Miao. Now I see that the arrogant elder sister is really capable. . The townspeople also heard that Gu Xiaotian was from the Heaven and Earth Alliance, so they were naturally grateful and offered them good food and drinks, which made them feel nourished for several days. .
For this reason, Xiao Yinyin muttered with dissatisfaction: "Didn't you say that there are many demons in Jiangnan? How come we walked all the way, let alone bad people, not even a bandit was seen!"
Gu Xiaotian just smiled at this and comforted Xiao Yinyin not to worry, there would always be a time for her to kill the demon.
Niu Kuiping has gradually become more talkative in the past few days, and he is no longer the dull-headed person he used to be.
Naturally, Hao Hao was there as a moderator. He made a lot of jokes with Niu Kuiping along the way. Even when no one was around, he often talked obscenely with Niu Kuiping. When it came to Jiangnan, he came to treat the guests, allowing Niu Kuiping to grow into A real man.
It's just that Niu Kuiping is still young after all, so he is a little shy about this kind of topic, but naturally he still has interest.
Hao Hao laughed at this and joked: "In this regard, you are much more mature than my junior brother."
After traveling not many miles, we arrived at the purpose of our trip, Jiangling City.
After the group entered the city and settled everything, they started walking around the streets of Jiangling City.
The area south of the Yangtze River is the most popular. Perhaps because all the demons here have been wiped out, the fireworks here are much more prosperous than in other places.
Once on the street, Gu Xiaotian was not idle, holding Leng Qingqiu's portrait and asking around.
Finally, in front of a small stall, a stall owner recognized her and replied: "This girl just came here a few days ago. Not to mention that the girl is really pretty. I also took a few glances from a distance. But he was leaving quite anxiously, as if he was going to do something big."
Gu Xiaotian asked: "Is there anyone else around her?"
The stall owner thought about it carefully, nodded and said: "Some, some, they were wearing black hats so they couldn't see their faces clearly. The two of them said something in front of the small restaurant, and then they left separately."
As he said that, he pointed to the small noodle shop at the end of the street.
After Gu Xiaotian thanked him, he came to the small noodle shop and asked the owner. He didn't have much impression about it. There were countless people passing through here every day, so he didn't have much impression.
The clues were cut off at this moment.
Gu Xiaotian was not too discouraged, at least he caught some clues.
And who is the mysterious person next to Leng Qingqiu?
After these days of separation, it is still unclear what Leng Qingqiu did.
As soon as he left the noodle shop, Gu Xiaotian met an old acquaintance.
"Sister Fan!" Gu Xiaotian happily went up to say hello.
This old acquaintance was Fan Miao. When Fan Miao heard someone calling her like this, she turned around and saw Gu Xiaotian waving with a smile. Naturally, she also smiled lightly, but she still walked over and slapped Gu Xiaotian. On the head, "Who are you calling eldest sister?!"
Gu Xiaotian looked like he was in pain and said with a smile: "Senior Fan, I didn't expect you to be here."
Fan Miao said: "This area of Jiangnan is under my jurisdiction, but you, why did you come to Jiangnan if you didn't go to Beihuang?"
Gu Xiaotian then explained the purpose of this trip one by one.
After hearing this, Fan Miao nodded repeatedly, "I understand, I will send someone to keep an eye on it these days."
While talking, Xiao Yinyin came over and started shouting when she saw Fan Miao. She asked happily: "Nvxia Fan, you once killed a villager with a knife. Is it true?"
Fan Miao ignored Xiao Yinyin's remarks, but turned around and asked, "Who is this silly girl?"
Gu Xiaotian said awkwardly: "The daughter of Head Xiao of Qingling Cave."
Fan Miao snorted coldly, "Xiao Juanyun, that slave girl, can still let her daughter run around. Wasn't she abducted by your kid?"
Gu Xiaotian shook his head repeatedly and said that he was wronged.
Xiao Yinyin still looked excited. After all, this was her idol. Who could remain rational after meeting her idol.
Fan Miao waved her hand, "Go back and wait for news. If my people can't find any trace of your senior sister, maybe your senior sister is no longer in Jiangnan."
Gu Xiaotian cupped his hands and said, "Excuse me, Senior Fan."
He has been in Jiangling City for five full days. During these days, Gu Xiaotian did not put the eggs in the same basket, and he was also patrolling for traces of Leng Qingqiu.
It's just that his strength is relatively weak, and he is not a professional spy. Apart from the information he asked about when he went to the city on the first day, he has not found any useful information these days.
As for Fan Miao, there has been no news for the past five days.
Originally, Gu Xiaotian planned to pay her a visit in person, but later he felt that it was inappropriate. The couple had no obligation to complete the matter. In addition, Sister Fan had a temper. If she urged her behind her back, there was no doubt that she would kill Gu Xiaotian on the spot. The curse is so bloody.
For this reason, Gu Xiaotian could only wait slowly.
Fortunately, on this day, Fan Miao finally came.
Fan Miao walked into Gu Xiaotian's room with a knife and slapped a wanted poster on the table.
Gu Xiaotian leaned over and took a look, slightly opening his mouth, somewhat in disbelief.
The portrait on the wanted poster is clearly his senior sister, Leng Qingqiu.
Fan Miao sat on the chair, crossed her legs and said, "This wanted order was issued by the official uniform of Jiangling City today. By the way, take a look at the reward."
Gu Xiaotian took a closer look and saw that the senior sister's wanted warrant had a bounty of up to 30,000 taels.
Since then, numerous arrest warrants have been issued.
But the bounty on an ordinary wanted warrant is only a hundred taels of silver, usually for robbers and bandits, and only casual cultivators are willing to earn this kind of money.
At higher levels, some bosses and the like only have a few thousand taels.
Statistics have been done on the number of wanted orders issued for tens of thousands taels, but they are only twenty.
And now Leng Qingqiu is the twenty-first person.
Fan Miao mocked, "Sister, you are really capable. I'm a little excited after seeing this 30,000 tael bounty."
Gu Xiaotian was speechless.
He just asked: "What on earth did my senior sister do?"
Fan Miaole said, "You still don't know?"
Gu Xiaotian shook his head.
Fan Miao said: "Yesterday, the entire residence of the deputy city lord of Jiangling City was completely wiped out. Even the deputy city lord was not spared in the end. There was only one servant who stayed vigil for a while last night and was lazy. According to what the boy said, there were only two people at that time, one was the man in black wearing a bamboo hat, and the other was you, senior sister."
Gu Xiaotian was shocked.
He couldn't believe it.
Why would senior sister kill the deputy city lord of Jiangling City?
Fan Miao continued: "This matter is no longer the same. If you dare to mess around in the territory under my jurisdiction, you will have to pay a price."
Gu Xiaotian said with some reluctance: "Senior Fan, can you... let my senior sister go for once? She may have some reasons."
Fan Miao looked at Gu Xiaotian coldly and said softly: "The reason? No matter how many difficulties she had, she still killed someone in the end."
Gu Xiaotian knew that he was being unreasonable.
This matter seems to have been finalized. The senior sister killed the deputy city lord. No matter how you say it, it is an unchangeable fact.
Fan Miao didn't know what happened, but in her eyes, killing someone was killing someone, and no matter who it was, they should pay the price.
She has never betrayed anyone. In her own words, even if her father rebels, she will do it.
Fan Miao stood up and said, "This
My people will continue to investigate in the next few days. As long as she is still in Jiangnan, she will not be able to escape. "
After saying that, Fan Miao opened the door and left without waiting for Gu Xiaotian to plead.
Outside the door, three pairs of ears were lying against the wall. As soon as Fan Miao opened the door, all three of them fell down and squatted down. Fan Miao just glanced at them and said nothing.
Xiao Yinyin asked: "Fan Nuxia, do you really want to arrest that Senior Sister Leng?"
Fan Miao nodded.
Xiao Yinyin pouted and said, "Senior Sister Leng should be a good person, you shouldn't arrest her."
Fan Miao asked: "But she killed someone, shouldn't I arrest her?"
Xiao Yinyin shook his head and said, "You didn't see it with your own eyes, how do you know she must have killed him?"
This question really bothered Fan Miao.
But soon, Fan Miao took out the wanted order and said, "If she didn't kill someone, could it be that this wanted order was fake and someone wanted to frame her intentionally?"
Xiao Yinyin said: "Maybe that's the case."
Fan Miao snorted coldly.
How ridiculous.
She was still a little girl after all, so Fan Miao didn't argue with Xiao Yinyin, but just left silently.
After entering the room, Gu Xiaotian sat on his seat and rubbed his head. It seemed that the news was too big for him, or that the result was unacceptable to him, so he was in trouble.
Hao Hao went downstairs to get two jars of wine, returned to the room, sat silently next to Gu Xiaotian, filled the wine, without saying a word, just poured wine into his mouth.
The jar of wine quickly reached the bottom, and Hao Hao seemed not to have finished his enjoyment yet, so he asked Niu Kuiping to fetch a few jars.
The aroma of wine filled the room, and soon Hao Hao's face turned red, and he hiccupped with wine, but he still shook his head vigorously and drank heavily.
Gu Xiaotian finally couldn't stand it any longer, so he suppressed the wine and said, "Senior brother, please stop drinking."
Hao Hao smiled and said, "Junior brother, do you know what kind of wine I just drank?"
"Suffering from alcohol?"
"It's a farewell drink."
Hao Hao pointed to the wine jars, "The first jar is for the master, the second jar is for the senior sister, the third jar and the fourth jar are for you and me."
Gu Xiaotian asked: "Why do you want to drink this farewell wine?"
Hao Hao looked out the window and murmured: "This battle is faster than I thought. If you drink it earlier, there will be no regrets... Junior brother, you chose the road yourself. Since you have chosen to take this road , you just have to be prepared.”
Gu Xiaotian shook his head and said, "Brother, there must be a misunderstanding here."
Hao Hao smiled bitterly and said: "Misunderstanding... Even if it is a misunderstanding, so what, senior sister appeared in the deputy city lord's mansion that night, even if there are ten thousand mouths, she can't explain it clearly!"
Hao Hao stood up unsteadily, put his sword on his waist, staggered to the door of the room, suddenly turned around and said, "I'm going to get to know my senior sister, what about you?"
Twenty miles west of Jiangling City, there is an inconspicuous cabin.
Leng Qingqiu was standing in front of the wooden house with a cold face, asking the people in the wooden house, "Why did you kill so many people?"
The people in the wooden house were lighting firewood at this time, and said casually: "If I don't kill them, how can I go in and get things?"
Leng Qingqiu said angrily: "You promised me!"
The person in the wooden house smiled slightly, covered the cooking thing, and turned to look at Leng Qingqiu, "I promised you to kill less people, but I never promised you not to kill people."
Leng Qingqiu didn't say anything, just turned around silently and said softly: "I'm going back now."
The people in the wooden house did not stop him. Instead, they stood up, walked to the door, and made a gesture of invitation.
It's just that Leng Qingqiu's footsteps remained in place.
In fact, Leng Qingqiu also knew the current situation.
That night, the only boy who survived was actually saved by her, but it was precisely because of this that she was wanted.
But even if she said something like this, do others have to believe it?
The person in the wooden house smiled and said, "Actually, you are very aware of your current situation."
Leng Qingqiu was speechless.
The person in the wooden house continued: "In this case, do you still want to continue walking?"
Leng Qingqiu turned around, suddenly drew his sword, and put it on his neck.
The people in the wooden house looked calm, just watching Leng Qingqiu quietly.
The two of them stayed in this posture for a long time.
The person in the wooden house deliberately brought his neck closer and said with a smile: "What? You don't dare to do it?"
Leng Qingqiu gritted his teeth and said, "You think I don't dare?"
The people in the cabin laughed it off.
"Don't force me..."
"Let it go, your mind is already messed up."
"I really will kill you."
The people in the wooden house just smiled and shook their heads, took a few steps back, and left the sword.
In the end, Leng Qingqiu just silently put down his sword, pursed his lips, and looked painful. He just covered his head and slowly squatted down, sobbing softly.
The people in the wooden house were like elders. They walked up to Leng Qingqiu, patted her on the head, and said slowly: "My child... this is the world. Sometimes I want to choose to be a good person, but the world won't let me. If I am a good person, I can only be a bad person."
