Great Love for All Heavens Begins with Huang Yaoshi

Chapter 71 Should Be Just a Little Higher Than You (Please Read)

When Lu Xiaofeng heard this, he glanced at the white-haired young man in red and said to Hua Manlou with a look of confusion:

"Your younger brother is indeed a very interesting person."

"Xiao Ba, the Jianghu has been very busy recently. Not only were the Yan family in Guanzhong and the world's richest man killed, but the Emei Sect also suddenly got a new leader."

The young man in red turned his head to the fishing rod and replied perfunctorily:
"Why are you telling me all this? I'm not involved in the underworld. Those famous sects can change their leaders as they please. What does it have to do with me?"

"Don't you always like to listen to the gossip in the world?" Hua Manlou seemed a little surprised.

Zhuang Bu Ran replied lazily:

"I just listen to it for fun. My biggest pleasure right now is how many fish I can catch today and how big they are."

"You always find the greatest pleasure in the most boring things." Hua Manlou laughed dumbly.

Zhuang Bu Ran said indifferently:
"You are different. You feel that you can experience the greatest pleasure just by sitting quietly."

"I just came to tell you that if you can stay at home recently, it's best not to go out." Hua Manlou explained:
"Rumor has it that Dugu Yihe was severely injured and had no choice but to resign from his position as the head of Emei."

Zhuang Buyan raised his eyebrows:
"Oh, really? But what does this have to do with whether I go out or not?"

Lu Xiaofeng shook his head and sighed:

"It's just because someone said that a man in red beat the Emei Sect Leader so hard that he lost all his martial arts skills."

"I see. So you're afraid that if I go out, people might misunderstand me. Although there are many people who like to wear red clothes, we still have to be on guard. It's better to be safe than sorry." The young man in red nodded.
"It just so happens that I don't like going out. Besides my low martial arts skills, which can barely protect me, I'm also weak and sickly. I can't stand the wind. If the wind evil enters my body, it will be even more disastrous."

He changed the subject:
"Hua Qitong, you've been led astray by others and like to meddle in other people's affairs. Your brother now has almost lost the freedom to dress freely. Don't you have to investigate who is so audacious and reckless that he even dares to provoke the leader of a major sect?"

Without waiting for Hua Manlou to reply, Lu Xiaofeng was stunned and said:

"When he said the person who led you astray, was he talking about me?"

"It's good to know, no need to say it." Hua Manlou looked deeply at the young man in red with his dull eyes and asked inexplicably:

"Xiao Ba, how good are your martial arts skills?"

Zhuang Bu Ran chuckled and gestured casually with his hands:
"Probably only a little taller than you."

"Then I am relieved. If you go out, you will be able to protect yourself."

Hua Manlou seemed to feel the beautiful scenery of West Lake and smiled:
"We've been running around a lot lately and are pretty exhausted. We're planning to take a break at your place first. I hope you won't object to our welcome."

Zhuang Bu Ran said lazily:

"Didn't the person next to you say that the Jiangnan Hua family doesn't have much of anything except real estate? You can live there, they have plenty of houses anyway."

"Okay, we've been traveling a long way, so let's go back and freshen up. We'll have your fish feast tonight."

Hua Manlou finished speaking and told the boatman on the other side to row away. Zhuang Bu Ran, unconcerned by the sudden arrival of the two men, left without a second thought and returned to his fishing.

On the other side, on the boat.

"Although the Jinpeng treasure case is extremely strange, I have been able to figure out some clues from Dugu Yihe."

Lu Xiaofeng reviewed some of the things that happened during this period:

"After the fall of the Jinpeng Dynasty, the Imperial Treasury Chief Yan Liben, the then Minister of Works Shangguan Mu, and the Grand General Ping Duhe hid their identities and traveled north to the Central Plains, using the pseudonyms Yan Tieshan, Huo Xiu, and Dugu Yihe, waiting for the restoration of their country."

"But the Crown Prince Jinpeng who followed them to the Central Plains had no great ambitions. He was completely mesmerized by the glamorous world of the Central Plains and lost his will to restore his country."

"After that, Yan Tieshan, Huo Xiu, and Dugu Yihe each made their own way in the world, and naturally, they no longer had any thoughts of restoring their country."

"As for the person behind all this recent plotting, I'm afraid it's Huo Xiu. He's colluding with Huo Tianqing, Yan Tieshan's steward at the Guanzhong Jewelry Pavilion, and wants to use us to eliminate Yan Tieshan and Dugu Yihe in one fell swoop, and monopolize the treasures left by the Jinpeng Dynasty."

Hua Man Lou tells the story in a straightforward manner:
"Huo Xiu is your old friend, so he naturally knows that you have many friends. If there is anyone in the world who can ask Ximen Chuxue for help, it must be you. Then you can help him get rid of Yan Tieshan and Dugu Yihe."

"And Huo Xiu must have already found someone to take the blame for it, Huo Tianqing. He set up a series of traps to get Shangguan Feiyan into contact with Huo Tianqing, making everyone become pawns on his chessboard."

Lu Xiaofeng sighed softly:
"But he couldn't have predicted that there was someone with even higher chess skills who could directly overturn the chessboard."

"First, stop Dugu Yihe from going down the mountain, then destroy the Pearl Light Treasure Pavilion, and then find him, the mastermind behind this."

He looked puzzled:
"I still can't understand why Dugu Yihe refuses to reveal who killed him, and even refuses to reveal his appearance."

Hua Manlou's tone was heavy:
"So, when you saw the strange expressions on the faces of the Four Beauties of Emei, you started with them. Finally, you found a breakthrough with Ma Xiuzhen, saying that the person who injured her master was a blind man."

"She only wants to say this much. If she continues, she will completely disobey her master's orders." Lu Xiaofeng frowned.
"Didn't you also get a message from Shi Xiuxue that the person who seriously injured Dugu Yihe was wearing a red dress?"

"This is the key reason why you brought me here to find your younger brother without stopping. Just now, you were testing me by saying that a man in red had beaten the head of Emei and made him lose all his martial arts skills."

He patted Hua Manlou's shoulder:

"If you ask me, you're probably overthinking it. Maybe it's just a coincidence. Who says there can't be another blind master in red?"

"The most important thing is that Dugu Yihe was deposed, and Yan Tieshan and Huo Xiu were killed within two hours."

"One of them is in Shuzhong, and the other is in Guanzhong. They are thousands of miles apart. Unless they can fly, it is absolutely impossible for one person to do it."

"Besides, you've asked some of the Hua family's stewards, and they all said that your younger brother goes boating on the lake all day long and doesn't return until late at night."

"Furthermore, the distance between West Lake and Mount Emei is quite long and steep. Only gods who can ride on clouds and mist can travel a thousand miles in a short time. On the day the blind man in red went to Mount Emei, your steward swore that the Eighth Young Master was fishing in West Lake."

"Therefore, according to my guess, this blind man in red must belong to some organization. They are plotting to get the Golden Phoenix treasure, which is why they killed Huo Xiu and others."

"It seems that I was overthinking it." Hua Manlou smiled faintly.
"Just now, I didn't sense any murderous intent from him. His aura was as calm and relaxed as usual, like the clouds rolling and unrolling across the sky."

(End of this chapter)