A knife in love

Chapter 965

Hearing what Yuanjue said, Li Qiufeng breathed a sigh of relief.He said to Yuanjue: "It's not too late. Master, it's best to leave the county today. Right now, the city is not at peace. After you go out of the city, you only take the official road. Every day, you go on the road after sunrise and rest before sunset. And it's dark Before, I only rested in the big town, absolutely not camping in the wild."

Seeing that Li Qiufeng spoke more and more solemnly, Yuanjue became suspicious.It's just that she knew that even if she asked the reason, Li Qiufeng would not tell her, so she nodded.Seeing that Yuan Jue agreed, Li Qiufeng said: "This junior will leave now. After this matter is over, if there is another chance, this junior should go to Taiyuan, Shanxi to meet the master."

After Li Qiufeng left Ziyang Temple, he went straight back to Chenghuang Temple.Along the way, I saw pedestrians coming and going, which was much more lively than the previous few days.Many people have already hung lanterns in front of their houses.Although most of these lanterns are simple and simple, they add a lot of joy to the street.

When Li Qiufeng walked to the gate of the Town God's Temple, he saw that not only tall poles had been erected on the open space, but dozens of desks and small wooden houses had also been built.There are various pastries on the table, as well as windmills and rattles that children love.Some cabins are hung with various silks and satins, while others are filled with boots, shoes and cloth socks.

Li Qiufeng didn't expect that he had only been away for more than an hour, and the open space turned into such a shape, and he was secretly surprised.

When he returned to the yard, he saw that Miao Zhu was talking to several men, and there were three carts parked beside him, each with two or three large wooden barrels and several large wooden boxes.When Li Qiufeng saw these large carts, he was taken aback, as if he had seen them somewhere before, which was a little strange, so he couldn't help but take a second look.The Miao Zhu turned his head just in time, and the eyes of the two happened to meet.He was startled for a moment, then walked over with a smile on his face, and said, "Master, take a look at this yard, is it completely different from yesterday?"

Li Qiufeng nodded, and said: "Not only is the courtyard different, but even the open space outside the courtyard has shelves, tables and wooden cabins. I have only been away for more than an hour, and I hardly recognize it."

Miao Zhu said with a smile: "Wait another two days to see, I'm sure you will be surprised. When the Lantern Festival is on the day, more than half of the people in the city will come to our Town God's Temple to see the lanterns. If you come later, I'm afraid it will be crowded." They can't squeeze in."

Li Qiufeng said: "At first I didn't believe that the Lantern Festival would have such a scale, but now I believe it." When he said this, he saw the men pushing the three-hanging cart to the right of the yard, so he wished the temple said, "Is there wine in the casks on those wagons?"

Miao Zhu shook his head and said, "This is the Town God's Temple, not a tavern. How can we prepare so much wine? The barrels are filled with lamp oil, and the wooden boxes are filled with candles. They are all prepared for the Lantern Festival. The villain and You said, some of the colored lanterns sent to our Town God’s Temple use candles, and some use oil lamps. In previous years, most of the candles and lamp oil had to be prepared by the owners of the lanterns. You have to spend money to buy them. This year, the yamen not only has enough candles and lamp oil, but you can use them on the Lantern Festival without spending any money. This year, some high-ranking officials came to our Xiuwu City, and we ordinary people are considered lucky.”

Li Qiufeng said: "These lamp oils add up to more than a dozen barrels. How can so much lamp oil be used for the Lantern Festival? I'm afraid that all the people in Xiuwu County can't use them all together. Is the Yamen making a fuss over a molehill?"

Miao Zhu chuckled and said, "Master, you don't know the dirty things here. The more lamp oil the yamen buys, the more oil and water the people who do this will get."

When Miao Zhu said this, he looked around secretly, and saw that there was no suspicious person around the two of them, so he lowered his voice and said to Li Qiufeng: "These lamp oils were bought at Liji Oil Shop in the north of the city, and the villain just listened to the oil. The shopkeeper Li said that the guys in the yamen who handled this matter can get at least 50 taels of silver this time."

Li Qiufeng was taken aback, and said, "So much money? It's unlikely."

Miao Zhu curled his lips, and said in his mouth: "Master, which of those guys in the yamen is not a vampire? They take half of the oil money issued by the yamen. When they go to the oil shop to buy oil, they will take another sum from the oil shop manager. .Together, I’m afraid 50 taels is not enough.”

When Miao Zhu said this, he paused for a while, and then said: "However, I heard from the shopkeeper Li that this year the yamen sent to buy oil is a raw melon egg, born with a stinky face, talking and doing things rudely. Fortunately, the yamen Xu The book office followed him to the oil workshop, and shopkeeper Li gave Xu Shuban an extra three taels of silver to settle the deal. Just now that kid also came with shopkeeper Li, his mother, with a hostile expression on his face, as if we owe him Ten taels of silver. This kid has been around the temple, not satisfied with this or that. His grandma, this bastard is just a small follower of the county magistrate, and he is even more difficult to serve than the magistrate!"

Li Qiufeng's heart trembled, and he said, "Master Xiancheng's servant? Is this person surnamed Yu?"

Miao Zhu was startled, frowned and thought for a while, and then said: "It seems so. The villain just heard shopkeeper Li talking to this kid, and he seemed to call him Mr. Yu. Damn, calling him Mr. Yu is for him Gold on his face! This little animal is a soil turtle that crawled out of some ravine. After washing its neck, it came to the city to pretend to be a rich man. Pooh!"

Li Qiufeng naturally knew that the servant of the county magistrate that Miao Zhu said was Yu Chengsi.Since I arrived in Xiuwu County, although I have met Yu Fan many times, I have only met Yu Chengsi twice.One of them was outside the gate of the Town God's Temple. At that time, Yu Chengsi and his men were pushing a large cart, which seemed to be about to transport something into the temple.

When Li Qiufeng thought of the cart, a flash of light flashed in his mind, and he couldn't help turning his head to look to the right side of the yard.At this time, those men had already pushed the three-hung cart under the courtyard wall, and were trying to lift a large wooden barrel from the cart.Li Qiufeng was terrified, and recalled the night when he met Yu Chengsi in front of the temple gate.

"I see!"

Li Qiufeng couldn't help crying out, which startled Miao Zhu.He asked blankly, "Master, what do you mean by that?"

Only then did Li Qiufeng realize that he had lost his composure. Hearing Miao Zhu's question, Li Qiufeng shook his head and said, "It's nothing, I thought of something else."

He spoke a few more words with Miao Zhu, and then returned to the wing room in the backyard.After closing the door tightly, Li Qiufeng walked back and forth excitedly in the room, thinking to himself that master and servant Yu Fan had been manipulating everything behind his back.I hadn't doubted these two people before, and it wasn't until Yu Fan found him and had an in-depth talk that he became suspicious of him.And that night, he rescued the police officers from the Tolerance Office of the Chasi Yamen, and thwarted someone's plot to blame the Huashan faction.Yu Fan suddenly appeared and helped him obviously, but secretly let go of the killer who shot and killed the Tolerance police, which confirmed Li Qiufeng's suspicion of him.But just now when Miao Zhu talked about Yu Chengsi's purchase and delivery of lamp oil, Li Qiufeng had an idea and finally figured out the conspiracy of the two masters and servants.

On that day, Yin Tutou placed Li Qiufeng in the Town God's Temple. Yu Fan didn't know about it at the beginning, but after Li Qiufeng met Yu Chengsi in front of the temple gate and brought people to the Town God's Temple, Yu Fan found Li Qiufeng. He was asked to move out of the Town God's Temple, and then there was an unpleasant conversation between the two of them.Thinking about it now, master and servant Yu Fan had long thought of using the Town God's Temple as a layout, but he didn't expect that Li Qiufeng would live in the temple.After Yu Chengsi went back, he naturally told Yu Fan about it.The two tried to drive Li Qiufeng out of the Chenghuang Temple.Later, Li Qiufeng dragged on and did not leave, and there were constant turmoil in Xiuwu County. Although Yu Fan urged Li Qiufeng to leave the Town God's Temple several times, but Li Qiufeng did not leave, Yu Fan had nothing to do with him.

That night, he shot and killed the person in charge of the Chasi Yamen, presumably it was Yu Chengsi.Li Qiufeng fought against him, which made him throw his long sword, and was about to draw out his soft whip to fight Li Qiufeng to the death.Yu Fan, who had been watching all the time, knew that once Yu Chengsi showed his soft whip, Li Qiufeng would immediately guess his identity, so he jumped out in a hurry. On the surface, he wanted to help Li Qiufeng besiege Yu Chengsi , but secretly let Chengsi go.From this point of view, the purpose of Yu Fan's master and servant is to blame the Huashan faction, forcing Huashan, Kunlun, Emei, Qingcheng and other famous sects to leave Xiuwu County.And this conspiracy coincides with the Japanese pirates.Ji Dingzhong and the others wanted to use Huashan and other sects to deal with the Japanese pirates, so naturally they would not send people to intercept and kill them according to the tolerance of the Chasi Yamen, so as to blame the Huashan sect and force the major martial arts sects to leave Xiuwu County.

In other words, Yu Fan's master and servant are the undercover agents sent by the Japanese pirates to Xiuwu County to preside over the grand plan!

(End of this chapter)