81,81 The oriole is behind again(1/3)
Shortly after Liu Su was sent back to Yuelian Pavilion, Yuelian Pavilion's ship weighed anchor and left the dock of Kaifeng Mansion. The ship went south along the canal, and when it got dark, the ship had already left Kaifeng.
Yuelian Pavilion will only do business when it is docked. When on the way, except for the boatmen, the girls on the ship are all resting.
The boat was also very lively at night. We had dinner together, and the girls in the building were chatting and playing cards in twos and threes.
Shen Yuelian took good care of Liu Su.
As the night got deeper, Shen Yuelian got up and covered Liu Su with a quilt, turned off the lights, closed the door, and went back to her room to sleep.
The moonlight shone on the calm river, and the boat sailed slowly by. In silence, a small boat sailed over and passed Yuelian Pavilion.
A black shadow quietly jumped from the boat onto the deck of Yuelian Pavilion, jumped up in two, and went up to the third floor and arrived at the door of Liu Su's room.
After staying at the door for a while, as if to confirm that the people in the room were asleep, the man in black gently opened the door and ducked into the house.
The room was dark, and Liu Su was already fast asleep on the bed.
After the man in black entered the room, he tiptoed to the bedside. He first opened the bed curtain and took a look, confirming that the person sleeping in the bed was indeed Liu Su.
Putting down the bed curtain, the man in black took out a handful of licorice rolls from his arms, and then took out the fire folds to light them.
As the licorice rolls burned, a thin layer of mist filled the room, along with a faint scent of orchid.
The licorice roll was quickly burned to ashes, and the man in black sat down beside the bed, meditating on the spot, and silently recited his thoughts.
After a while, Liu Su sat up slowly on the bed, opened his eyes slightly, and stared blankly ahead, as if he hadn't woken up yet.
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At the same time, on the deck of Yuelian Pavilion, behind the two large cabinets where goods were stacked, Lin Yehuo poked his head out and took a look upstairs.
"How's it going?" Zhao Pu put his hands in his sleeves and stood behind him, looking curiously.
"Who knows, there's no movement." Lin Yehuo said, raising his hand and waving in the direction of the roof on the other side.
On the roof, Bai Yutang also leaned out half of his body and waved to them.
Huo Feng fluttered his sleeves and spread his hands, what do you mean - how's it going?
The fifth master didn't know what Lin Yehuo meant. Looking down from the roof, he felt like a red moth.
He also spread his hands and Wu Ye said - I don't know what you want to do.
Zhao Pu saw it and asked Lin Yehuo, "What does he mean?"
Lin Yehuo spread his hands like Bai Yutang, felt it, and said, "I guess it means it's not difficult, right?"
"So was it the sinking water that went in just now?" Zhao Pu asked.
"The figure looks very similar, and he has been in there for a while." Lin Yehuo touched his chin, "Since I didn't find that it was Zhan Zhao and not Liu Su who was in the room, does that mean he has been tricked?"
Zhao Pu nodded, feeling that it made sense, and the two continued to wait and see.
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In the room, after a lot of fussing, the man in black breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Liu Su sitting up.
The man in black stood up, opened the bed curtain, and said to Liu Su, "Ziwu Lane."
On the roof, the Fifth Master listened to the movements in the room... There was actually no Liu Su in Liu Su's room. In fact, there was no one from Yuelian Pavilion in Yuelian Pavilion. Ximen Yao had previously put all the people in Yuelian Pavilion according to Zhan Zhao's instructions.
The people have been transferred, and even the boatmen sailing the boat at this time are the boatmen from Xingkong Island.
In Liu Su's room, Zhan Zhao was sitting on the bed, leaning against Xiao Wu and looking at the man in black.
When the door was pushed open just now, the man in black walked in and stood still in the room.
The man in black originally had his face covered, but Zhan Zhao had just asked Shark to tear off his mask... an old monk with a somewhat sinister appearance. According to Lin Yehuo's description... this person should be Shen Shui.
Shen Shui didn't know that from the moment he collapsed into the Yuelian Pavilion, he had fallen under Zhan Zhao's illusion.
As the saying goes, the mantis stalks the cicada before the oriole follows. Zhan Zhao and the others had already guessed that Shen Shui's use of Kaifeng Mansion to destroy the Wuzi Sect was not out of justice, but for other purposes.
What is he planning? All the people related to this case are either dead or arrested, and the only one left is Liu Su. So no need to ask, the key lies in Liu Su.
Zhan Zhao not only wanted to catch Shen Shui, but also wanted to find out from Shen Shui the secrets left behind by the Five Sons Cult. This kind of evil thing can only be eradicated. Otherwise, even if there is a little remnant left behind, one day in the future
It will resurrect.
Shen Shui stepped into the illusion without knowing it. He thought everything was going well and "went ahead" according to his plan.
Zhan Zhao was too lazy to move. He leaned against Xiao Wu who was napping and instructed Shark to take out the licorice roll from Shen Shui's arms.
After smelling it, there is a smell of bluegrass and medicinal herbs.
In the past, a series of people controlled by illusions had varying degrees of poisoning symptoms. Gongsun and a group of old men and women from the Demon Palace had been studying herbs in the yard for a long time.
Although Zhan Zhao was not knowledgeable in pharmacology, he could still tell the difference in taste. Several of the herbs Gongsun and the others had researched were very similar to those in this licorice roll, and they smelled and tasted similar.
Shen Shui, who thought he had control over Liu Su, said something beyond Zhan Zhao's expectation, "Ziwu Lane."
Scratching his head, Zhan Zhao was confused - is there something wrong with this monk? What's the use of talking about Ziwu Lane to Liu Su?
On the roof, Bai Yutang, who was observing the whole process through Shark, was also confused - Ziwu Lane?
Shen Shui asked twice, but saw that "Liu Su" had no response and seemed a little anxious. After thinking about it, he asked again word by word, "Zi, Wu, Xiang... Ling..."
Zhan Zhao, who was leaning against Xiao Wu with a confused look on his face, suddenly sat up. Even Bai Yutang was stunned for a moment. Both of them remembered something.
Wei Xin had previously confessed that the Purple Gold Buddha Statue, the most precious treasure of the Wuzi Sect, was hidden in a place with five characters. Before the death of the founder of the Wuzi Sect, he told the five sub-sect leaders respectively about the five characters. Among them, Wei Xin knew the name of the place.
The word is "ridge".
The two of them suddenly realized that the three words "Ziwu Xiang" were not connected together at all, but were separated! "Zi, Wu, Xiang, Ling" were four characters, and Liu Su knew the fifth character!
As long as you put together five characters, the place name will come out!
Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, who finally figured out the whole story, were dumbfounded. It turned out to be this... But how did Liu Su know the fourth word?
In order to ensure that his guess was correct, Zhan Zhao decided to try sinking into the water.
Shen Shui was anxious when "Liu Su", who had no reaction at first, suddenly turned around and said one word to him, "Stupid".
Shen Shui was overjoyed when he saw Liu Su speaking, "Stupid?"
Liu Su confirmed it again, "Stupid."
"Ziwu Xiangling?" Shen Shui frowned and thought, "Where? Ziwuxiangling? Ziwuxiangxiang? Xiangziwuziling..."
Shen Shui arranged and combined the five characters over and over again, muttering something in his mouth and wondering what kind of place name it was.
On the roof, Bai Yutang was amused, thinking that the cat was wilted.
Shen Shui muttered and thought about the possibilities, but in the end he couldn't figure out what the name of the place was. He couldn't help but ask Liu Su, "Are you sure you are stupid?"
Liu Su looked at him, suddenly laughed, and nodded, "No? You idiot!"
Shen Shui was stunned for a moment... He felt that the sound seemed wrong. When he looked carefully, a layer of mist appeared in front of his eyes. Then, Liu Su on the bed gradually became blurry. He shook his head and looked carefully, and saw that he was lying on the bed.
He was holding a huge black tiger, and Zhan Zhao was leaning on the black tiger and smiling at him.
Shen Shui felt his head buzzing and knew he had been tricked, so he turned around and ran away.
But when he went out and looked up, on the roof, Bai Yutang was looking down at him with a Yunzhong knife.
He jumped up, and as soon as he landed on the deck, there was a "coo" at his feet, and a circle of flames burned around him.
Shen Shui's clothes were burned, so he quickly dusted them off, but the fire couldn't be extinguished with his internal strength, and he grinned because it was so hot.
While he was jumping around in the fire ring, Lin Yehuo and Zhao Pu strolled over outside the fire ring.
The Ninth Prince yawned, thinking that he had been caught and could go home and sleep.
"Master." Lin Yehuo teased Shen Shui, "If I don't tell you, why don't you turn back? I've let you go twice and you haven't learned it yet!"
While they were talking, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang also came down. The four of them easily captured Shen Shui alive, and Yuelian Pavilion also turned around and returned to Kaifeng Mansion.
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At dawn, all the prisoners involved in the case were brought to justice. Mr. Bao ascended to the lobby and began to interrogate the case.
This case was so involved that it caused a sensation in the entire city of Kaifeng, and even Zhao Zhen came to hear the trial.
Due to the complexity of the case, Mr. Bao spent the whole morning listing the crimes of the Wuzi Cult one by one. Zhao Pu's spies went to the northwest to investigate, identifying all the villages that were massacred that year, and found many witnesses.
The list of people killed by the cult lasted more than ten pages.
Zhao Zhen slapped the table when he heard this, "Kill them all! Kill them all! I'm so angry!"
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Leaving the court to judge who should be killed, Zhan Zhao and the others ran to Yuelian Pavilion again.
Everyone found Liu Su and asked her if she knew what the fifth word was.
Liu Su was confused when asked, "What is the fifth word?"
Zhan Zhao explained to her what Shen Shui wanted to investigate. Liu Su tilted her head and tried to recall it, but still shook her head.
While they were chatting, Lin Yehuo came over. He had just returned from hearing the trial. Shen Shui confessed that when the leader said five words to the five sub-leaders, he asked the five people to enter the room one by one. There was a person in the room at that time.
The little girl who served the leader and helped bring tea and water was probably Liu Su.
Everyone looked at Liu Su—did you serve the leader back then?
To be continued...