Good luck with koi carp

Turning left and right in the maze-like alley, it was impossible to tell how Chi Li knew the route. Finally, she stood in front of a rather inconspicuous house that looked almost exactly the same as her neighbors. She raised her hand and said something on it. A few regular taps.

  Three fast, two slow, two fast, three slow.

  When the last knock on the door fell, the room was quiet for a while, and then there was a sound of footsteps approaching from far away. Then the door opened with a creak, and an ordinary old woman appeared behind the door.

  "Who is it?" Like an ordinary civilian who was suddenly disturbed, the old woman's expression and language were quite in place, making it difficult for people to recognize anything strange for a while.

  Chili also cooperated with the other party's performance and asked politely as a junior who came to visit for the first time: "Hello, aunt, is this Wang Dani's house?"

  "Hey, yes, little girl, do you have anything to do with my daughter?" Aunt Wang looked at the strange girl in front of her with doubtful eyes.

  "I am Wang Dani's friend. I have something to do with her. I wonder if she is at home?"

  "Yes, at home, my daughter, please wait, I'll call her."

  Aunt Wang didn't go away, she turned around and shouted into the room: "Da Nier, Da Nier, someone is looking for you!"

  "Hey, mother is here."

  Hearing the sound, a young girl with her head wrapped in coarse cloth and dressed in coarse cloth walked out of the house.

  She also held a dustpan filled with beans in her hand. Although her clothes were simple, she could not conceal her youthful and pretty aura. Her movements were quite refreshing, and she should be the type who can work quickly. .

  After the girl came out, she saw Chi Li standing at the door. It was like seeing a friend she hadn't seen for a long time. She couldn't help but take two quick steps to Chi Li with a happy face, took her hand and walked into the house: " Lili, why is it you, we haven’t seen each other for many years, how are you doing lately?"

  They called out Chili, or Xiaoli's nickname, just after they left the mouth. It was obviously a subtle display of their organization's intelligence capabilities, making customers more trustful in their intelligence capabilities.

  Chi Li could see the intention of the other party's move, so she didn't react much. Surprise or vigilance were not found on her face, which made Wang Dani, who was secretly observing her, quietly retract her gaze.

  Unfortunately, she met such a person who could express his emotions and anger again. She knew that she would not be able to collect any useful information from this customer's micro-expressions.

  As a member of the Wanwen Building, Wang Dani has long been accustomed to collecting all the subtle information in all aspects of life. She will not let go of even the smallest information. Who knows if there is something shocking hidden here?

  You must know that often a lot of valuable and important information is hidden in these minutiae.

  As people who buy and sell information, they naturally have to collect and integrate it all the time in order to get real information that can be exchanged for real money from customers. Otherwise, why would people give them money in vain?

  In order to be an information dealer for a long time, Wanwenlou only sells information without any influence from any party. This is the foundation of their foothold and the basis for their trust among Everbright customers. Any customer who buys information from them will be Purchase records will never be retained, not even paper records, which greatly protects the security of customers' personal information.

  For example, if two customers buy each other's information from Wanwenlou at the same time, they will never know that the other party has also purchased the other's information here. Wanwenlou only guarantees the accuracy of the information they sold. Sex and the protection of customer purchasing privacy, Wanwenlou does not care about the consequences of this, it is not within the scope of their business.

  Because of this, Chili dared to come to them in person to buy information.

  Now there are only three things she needs to confirm.

  After following Wang Dani's so-called boudoir, which was actually a closed intelligence trading room, Chi Li handed over three silver notes worth one hundred taels according to the quotation given by the other party.

  "First question, does Zhongli Mansion think his adopted daughter is still alive?"

  There are not many people with the surname Zhongli in the entire world, but that family is not given to them. However, the most famous family is only that one, and that family also happens to have an adopted daughter, and something happened to her just last year.

  "Dead." At this time, Wang Dani lived up to the previous impression and became a bit mysterious and serious. Her serious voice sounded a bit like an emotionless puppet.

  "A year ago, the Zhongli Mansion announced that their adopted daughter Chi Li accidentally fell off a cliff and died while going out for an outing. Her body was eaten by wild beasts, leaving only a few bones and tattered clothes. After confirming her identity, the Zhongli Mansion took her adopted daughter's body back for burial, and held a Funeral, the adopted daughter’s grave is now buried in the Chi family tomb.”

  Although they knew that the so-called "corpse" was not the real "corpse" of Xiaoli, both Chili and Xiaoli felt relieved when they heard that their tomb was buried in the Chi family cemetery.

  "Fortunately, I was buried back home. If I were buried in Zhongli's cemetery, I would definitely be sick to death." Xiaoli said.

  "Wake up, that's not you, it's just a wild boar bone left over from Orange." Chili silently reminded Xiaoli of this fact.

  "Oh." Xiaoli, who had just reacted, suddenly regretted: "It would be better to bury him in the Zhongli family cemetery. Think about it, after he dies, he finds that there is an extra wild boar in his cemetery. The Zhongli family ancestors will be angry and cheat. Yes, hahaha..."

  Ignoring Xiaoli's increasingly uncontrollable laughter in his mind, Chili asked the next question after getting the answer he wanted.

  "Who was the culprit behind the Chi family's massacre?"

  "It seems that the one hundred taels I quoted was a loss." Wang Dani sighed, but still did not ask for a price increase. She only continued to answer: "The Chi family was destroyed, and there were three culprits. The current leader of the martial arts alliance, Zhong Liyu, Sha Luo Mo Bai Changyin, the deputy sect leader, and He Fanyin, the master of Liuxiu Pavilion."

  "Are there actually three of us?" Xiaoli murmured absently.

  Before that, she and Chi Li both thought that there were only two parties plotting to murder the Chi family, but they didn't expect that there were three parties in total.

  She was actually not surprised by the appearance of the Demon Cult figure. The mysterious man who was secretive, but now that he thought about it carefully, his behavior had some traces of the Demon Cult. If he thought that person was not the Bai Changyin Wang Dani mentioned, then he must be It's his subordinates.

  But why the master of the Liuxiu Pavilion would also be involved was something Xiaoli couldn't understand. This was the question Chili asked next.

  "Why? Why do they want to destroy the Chi family?"

  "This is not a problem anymore." Wang Dani began to feel that this order was a bit of a loss. Unfortunately, her previous quotation was too low. According to the regulations in the building, she could not increase the price now, so she could only hold her nose and accept the loss. Buy and sell, continue to give Chi Li answers.

  "The reasons are different. Zhong Liyu and He Fanyin both want to obtain the Chi family's rumored magic secret book. They heard that the secret book can make people live longer and rejuvenate their youth when they are mastered. Its power is far beyond that of ordinary martial arts secret books. "

  "Zhong Liyu's martial arts talent is actually not very high. It was only because of an unexpected encounter that he was able to achieve the height and depth of martial arts he has now. However, due to his talent, his martial arts realm can only stop at this stage and cannot progress further. He is a person who is obsessed with martial arts and greedy for power, so he is very afraid that a rising star will catch up with him and take away his position as the leader of the martial arts league. Therefore, after accidentally learning that the Chi family has this technique, he asks the head of the Chi family When the proposed deal failed, he began to intend to kill people and seize the treasure."

  "Although He Fanyinmu also used that magical skill, the main purpose was to preserve her appearance. She is only thirty-five years old, and with her strong martial arts skills and the Liuxiu Pavilion's secret technique of Liuxin Jue, she could have maintained her appearance for a few years. She remained unchanged for ten years, but she didn't know what the disease was, and her appearance rapidly aged in a short period of time, turning into a sixty-year-old woman overnight. For this reason, He Fanyin secretly sought out many doctors, including all the doctors in the world, but nothing happened. Therefore, she couldn't accept this reality. After hearing that the Chi family had this technique, she wanted to take it away. She happened to catch up with Zhong Liyu and Bai Changyin teaming up to destroy the whole family of the Chi family, so she secretly got involved. One hand."

  "So, He Fanyin was also involved in the Chi family's extermination. In fact, Zhong Liyu and Bai Changyin may not know about it?" Chi Li guessed.

  Wang Dani smiled: "Guest, this is another question."

  Chi Li understood and gave another hundred taels of silver notes.

  Wang Dani, who took the banknote, gave an affirmative answer: "Yes."

  No wonder that when Xiaoli eavesdropped on the conversation between Zhong Liyu and the mysterious man, neither party revealed the existence of a third party in the massacre. It turned out that even they didn't know about He Fanyin's appearance.

  "What about Bai Changyin? Why did he want to destroy the entire Chi family?"

  The martial arts secrets of the righteous path are not of much use to the evil path. The martial arts of the two sides can be said to conflict with each other. Unless one party abolishes his original martial arts, he can then practice the other's martial arts. Otherwise, Bai Changyin will get Chi. The magic secrets of the family are useless, which shows that the Chi family has no temptation to him, so why would he attack the Chi family?
  
  This question can be classified into the previous three questions. Wang Dani did not ask for a price increase and continued: "Because of hatred, but also because of interests."

  Facing Chi Li's puzzled gaze, Wang Dani's smile suddenly contained a touch of sarcasm: "You should know that when the Chi family's head met Zhong Liyu, it was the head of the Chi family who saved Zhong Liyu's life. Did you know that he almost missed it? The person who took Zhong Liyu's life was actually Bai Changyin."

  Seeing the shock in Chi Li's eyes, Wang Dani knew that she didn't know the inside story, and the smile on her face couldn't help but grow deeper: "In order to save Zhong Liyu, the head of the Chi family severely injured Bai Chang Yin, which caused Bai Chang Yin to be in conflict with the current leader of the Demon Cult. When he was competing for the position of leader, he was at a disadvantage and had to settle for the position of deputy leader. Bai Changyin always remembered this hatred. He originally hated the head of the Chi family and Zhongliyu, but Zhongliyu later He has become the leader of the martial arts alliance and has great martial arts skills. If he can't beat him, he can only pick on the weak ones. Just when he was about to take revenge on the head of the Chi family, Zhong Liyu came to him and made some suggestions that we couldn't detect yet. The exchange of interests finally convinced Bai Changyin to join forces with him to destroy the Chi family."

  After walking out of the Wang family gate, Chili and Xiaoli couldn't calm down for a long time.

  They didn't know what kind of mood they were feeling at this time. There was some sadness, some anger, some hatred...but also some.

  Just as Chi Li expected, the extermination of the Chi family was, to put it bluntly, the most common battle between rivers and lakes, but common does not mean it is reasonable. As the victims, how could they let go of the fact that the whole family had been together for more than [-] years? Hatred of mouth and human life?
  
  Moreover, all of this is just derived from a martial arts secret book that has no shadow at all.

  Chili still remembers that after she asked for information about her enemy, she gave another hundred taels and asked the last question.

  "Chi family, do you really have that magical secret book?"

  "I don't know." Wang Dani reached out and pushed the one hundred silver notes back to Chi Li, shook her head and said, "We at Wanwen Tower haven't thoroughly investigated this news yet, so we won't accept the money for now. We will come back when we find out. Ask your guest for this reward."

  Therefore, it is actually a secret whether the Chi family has the magical secret book. Chi Li does not know about it, but according to Xiaoli's description, the head of the Zhongli family probably did not get what he wanted, otherwise his martial arts would have deteriorated over the years. It won't be stuck in place motionless.

  In other words, the legendary magical secret book either fell into the hands of He Fanyin or Bai Changyin, or it did not exist at all.

  Regardless of the former, if it is the latter, then there is another problem.

  Who spread the rumor that the Chi family owns the magical secret book?
  
  Does the Chi family know that they have this magical secret book?
  
  If everything is just a fabrication by a thoughtful person, just to spread rumors and frame the Chi family, then who is the real person behind the scenes? If this secret book is not fictitious but really exists, then where is it?

  Chili felt that the more she investigated, the more mysteries emerged, which gave her a headache. Under Xiaoli's worried words of concern, she raised her hand and rubbed her brows, and comforted the other person: "It's okay, don't worry. .”

  That's what he said, but the two people's senses were connected, so Xiaoli couldn't tell what she was feeling now.    
  However, in order to prevent Chi Li from having to worry about taking care of her mood while helping her investigate the truth about the murder of her family, she fell silent and did not disturb the other party again.

  I got a lot of news today, but also more doubts.

  Chi Li did not continue to ask questions at Wanwen Tower, but chose to leave and go back to the inn where he was staying to integrate all the news he got today and then analyze it.

  First of all, the most critical thing is of course the magical secret book that caused all the tragedies. Chi Li must confirm whether it is true before conducting subsequent investigations.

  The authenticity of the cheats cannot be determined whether there is a deeper behind-the-scenes mastermind, but it can be determined whether the Chi family's real role in this is a simple victim, or a victim who is guilty of the crime.

  No matter what happens, it has to have a cause.

  If the Chi family were pure victims, and this secret book did not actually exist in their family, then why would such rumors appear, and why would Zhong Liyu and the others even believe such rumors?

  Chi Li doesn't think that Zhong Liyu, who has been the leader of the martial arts alliance for more than ten years, is a fool. Naturally, neither does the master of Liuxiu Pavilion. Anyone who wants to let them hear this rumor must at least come up with something to make them believe the rumor. Evidence will do.

  Otherwise, people wouldn’t be fooled so easily.

  And if it is the victim of a crime involving a jade, then the question comes back to, where is the ‘wall’?
  
  There are three possibilities.

  Either the 'bi' is in the hands of the mastermind behind the scenes and is just used as a tool to instigate others to attack the Chi family, or the 'bi' is taken away by one of the three parties. This issue needs to be verified, or the 'bi' is actually there. A place that no one thought of and has not yet been found.

  But no matter which direction the speculation is, who is the mastermind behind the scenes, what is his connection with the Chi family, and why is he so deliberately trying to murder the Chi family?
  
  "Is there really such a mastermind behind this?" Xiaoli couldn't help but asked in a low voice after enduring it for a long time.

  "Not sure." Chi Li said: "But no matter what, the people who actually did it can be determined to be those three. If you want revenge, just focus on those three people. As for whether there is a mastermind behind the scenes, I will I’ll look for it, but it’s still unclear whether I can find it in the end.”

  "It doesn't matter." Xiaoli said, "I just want to kill those three people with my own hands."

  Xiaoli doesn't care what the mastermind is. Anyway, those three people are the ones who actually killed everyone in the Chi family, so she will mainly take revenge on these three people. As for Chili, if she finds the mastermind in the future, she will kill another one at most. , no difference.

  Chili, who clearly sensed Xiaoli's thoughts: "... It's good if you can think clearly."

  Next, Chi Li is going to collect evidence that three enemies have destroyed the whole Chi family. To take revenge, it is not just about killing people. If that is the case, with her current martial arts strength, it is not difficult to do it.

  Whether it is Chi Li or Xiao Li, what they want is to make all the crimes of their enemies public, and then kill them for revenge, so as to comfort the souls of the Chi family.

  When the enemy is unknown, it is very difficult to investigate the truth and find evidence, but when the target is clear, this is not a big problem. Just find a way to sneak into the enemy and find it.

  You can also hire people to help with the investigation.

  Naturally, you don’t have to think too much about hiring candidates. Wanwen Tower is the best choice.

  Chi Li is not short of money, what she is short of is people to help her do things.

  So a day later, she reappeared in that alley and in front of that house.

  The one who came to open the door was still Aunt Wang. She thought Chi Li was here to play with her daughter again, so she didn't stop her and let her in. She smiled kindly and told her daughter to entertain her friends well, and then she went to mend the house. The clothes are gone.

  Chi Li also found out later that the only real Wanwen Tower employee was Wang Dani. Her mother had no idea what she was doing. The only mother and daughter in the Wang family depended on each other. Maybe Wang Dani had noticed something, but she She chose to remain indifferent and not delve too deeply into what her daughter was doing.

  This is why Wang Dani feels comfortable placing the information trading point in her home, but it is difficult to say whether this is the real home of their mother and daughter.

  Chi Li had no intention of going into details when it came to other people's privacy. She only visited again to pay people to do things.

  "I want all the evidence of the Chi family's destruction. The more, the better. It doesn't matter how much it costs. What matters is that you can find tangible evidence and hand it over to me."

  Without too much nonsense, Chi Li directly put forward her request. Wang Dani also raised a palm in a formal manner: "The deposit is five thousand taels. If it is more, it will not be refunded. If it is less, it will be made up."

  Chi Li directly took out a five thousand tael silver note and handed it to the other party. After completing the transaction, she left here. After returning to the inn to get her luggage, she led the horse directly out of the city and rode all the way to Jinling.

  There is the location of Zhongli Mansion and the place where Xiaoli grew up from the age of seven.

  Also located in this city are the Liuxiu Pavilion and the former Chi Family, while the Shaluo Demon Sect is located in Suhang, not far from Jinling.

  From the capital to Jinling, the land route is naturally far less convenient than the waterway. However, nearly half of the water transportation in this dynasty was occupied by Jianghu forces, and the imperial court only occupied about [-]% of it. Of the more than half occupied by Jianghu forces, there were Thirty percent is controlled by the Shaluo Demon Cult, [-]% is controlled by the Zhongli Mansion, and the remaining [-]% is scattered among other small forces or businessmen.

  Because of this, the Shaluo Demon Cult is very rich, so rich that many righteous people and the imperial court are jealous. Unfortunately, their power is too huge, and they are intricately involved in the imperial court, so that for so many years, the righteous people have been unable to do anything. Destroy the Shaluo Demon Cult.

  Also under the leadership of the Shaluo Demon Cult, other demon sects, large and small, emerged together, forming a competitive force with the righteous way, and even had a faint tendency to overwhelm them.

  At the beginning, many righteous forces were counting on the leader of the Wulin Alliance to lead them in eradicating the demon sect in order to promote the righteous path. Who would have thought that Zhong Liyu had been sitting on the position of leader of the Wulin Alliance for so long that he was not even on the edge of the Shaluo Demon Sect. It can shake half a point, which has caused many righteous forces to be secretly dissatisfied with this martial arts leader.

  Therefore, on the eve of the new martial arts conference, many knights from various factions expressed their intention to compete with the leader of the martial arts alliance.

  From here, it can be seen that Zhong Liyu's position as the leader of the martial arts alliance is becoming increasingly unstable.

  As for his status being shaken, there were actually signs of it more than ten years ago. Otherwise, he would not have focused on the Chi family's secret book in order to seek a breakthrough in martial arts. Unfortunately, the secret book was not obtained after all. Fortunately, he did not get the secret book. He promptly put the blame for the massacre of the Chi family on the Demon Cult, diverting everyone's attention, and organized several battles between the Righteous Way and the Demon Cult in a decent manner, which not only consolidated his position, but also suppressed some dissatisfied people. sound.

  After all, many people who were dissatisfied with him died at the hands of the Demon Cult, so the dead people naturally have no way to speak anymore.

  "In addition to the Chi family, Zhong Liyu has done a lot of bad things in the years he has been the leader of the martial arts alliance."

  In line with the concept of working for money, Wanwen Tower continuously handed over all kinds of evidence they investigated to Chili. In order to ensure that they got value for money, the evidence given was not only The evil deeds Zhong Liyu and others committed when the Chi family was wiped out, as well as the various conspiracies he had secretly carried out in the years since he became the leader of the martial arts alliance.

  If after seeing this, Chi Li didn't realize that she was being taken advantage of, then she was stupid.

  But use is use. Seeing that the other party did give her what she wanted, Chili didn't care too much.

  Anyway, no matter whether it is beneficial or not, her ultimate goal is to kill all the enemies of the Chi family, including Zhongliyu. However, Zhongliyu, a martial arts leader with a good reputation outside, actually attracts the hatred of many people. ah.

  Even Wanwen Tower, an organization that claims to never get involved in Jianghu affairs, is no longer willing to see him sitting in the position of leader of the martial arts alliance. For this reason, it has worked very hard to collect evidence of his crimes.

  In comparison, the investigation of Bai Changyin and He Fanyin was much slower, but there was no progress at all.

  At least they found out that Bai Changyin maintained long-term cooperation with Zhongliyu after the Chi family incident. The two parties colluded secretly. Not only did they help each other kill people in their own forces who were dissatisfied with them and eradicate dissidents, Zhongliyu even intended to support Bai Chang Yin came to power and became the new leader of the Demon Cult.

  It's a pity that the current leader of the Demon Cult is not a simple character. It will not be easy to overthrow him like this.

  As for He Fanyin, it's not bad. She has been hiding in seclusion these years. She only occasionally comes out with her face to guide her disciples. She has never done anything harmful to the world, but the crimes she has committed will not be reduced by half, no. If you don’t retaliate, the time has not come yet.

  The new martial arts conference will be held next spring.

  At that time, anyone who has an idea for the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance can participate, and the election method is also very simple. A direct competition in martial arts, whoever has the strongest force will be the new leader of the martial arts alliance.

  People from all walks of life have been recruited and are coming to Jinling from all directions.

  Every martial arts conference is hosted by the old martial arts leader, which means the replacement of the old with the new. Regardless of whether Zhongliyu wants to give up his position as the leader of the martial arts conference, when the time comes, he has to hold his nose to prepare for the martial arts conference, and he has to organize every martial arts conference. The knights who came to participate in the martial arts were treated well.

  It can be said that he has contributed money and efforts, but in the end he may not be able to continue to be the leader of the martial arts alliance.

  Chi Li didn't know the benefits of being the leader of the martial arts alliance at first, which made Zhong Liyu willing to do so many unscrupulous evil things just to keep this position.

  It wasn't until she later heard from others that the leader of the Wulin Alliance, in addition to having the power to regulate all the forces of the righteous path, could also own [-]% of the water transportation of the dynasty, and she suddenly understood.

  It turns out that in addition to rights, there are also huge benefits.

  "In fact, the Zhongli family was originally just a middle-class family in the world, not much different from the Chi family in terms of power. The reason why it was able to develop into a top-notch family, on par with all the famous sects, was because of the influence that Zhongli Yu, the leader of the martial arts alliance, brought to the family. Huge benefits.”

  After all, she grew up in Zhongli's family, so Xiaoli knew the history of Zhongli's family quite well.

"Originally, the [-]% of the income from water transportation was the funds given to the leader by the Wulin Alliance to manage the affairs of the alliance. If there are some righteous matters that require money, they have to come from here, including the convening of every Wulin Conference. , so in fact, the martial arts conference is not organized by the alliance leader, but by the martial arts alliance. The alliance leader only manages it. However, everyone also acquiesces that the alliance leader and the forces behind him can get some benefits from water transportation. As the current martial arts alliance leader Therefore, during the years when Zhongli Yu was the leader of the martial arts alliance, the Zhongli family benefited a lot from it."

How great the benefits of water transportation are can be seen from the fact that the imperial court can support half of the country's operating funds by relying on only four of them.

Being the leader of the martial arts alliance is equivalent to getting a quarter of the domestic fiscal revenue. With such a huge benefit, it is no wonder that Zhong Liyu has always dominated the position of the leader of the martial arts alliance and refused to give up. (End of chapter)