"What do you mean?" Gao Xiaotian frowned in confusion.
The Confucian scholar smiled and said: "What I mean is, of course, Zhong Yiyi is hiding in Miaoyinfang. As for those two men, they have quite a lot of backgrounds. I haven't investigated their backgrounds yet, but I can be sure that they also came to find Zhong Yiyi.
.If you think about it carefully, Ye Qinglan came back with Zhong Yiyi, which means that the two men who broke into Miaoyinfang and Ye Qinglan were also together."
"I heard a few days ago that Xue Songtao, the younger brother of Xue Haiya, the owner of Tianjian Tower in Jiannan Road, died in Mianzhou. Tiance Mansion should also know about this."
Gao Xiaotian nodded: "I know, so what?"
"Ye Qinglan was in Mianzhou at that time." The Confucian scholar said solemnly, "According to my investigation, Ye Qinglan was meeting with the prefect of Mianzhou at that time. There was another person who killed Xue Songtao, but that person was the same as Ye Qinglan.
"
Gao Xiaotian said: "It's not surprising that a young man like Ye Qinglan has several experts protecting him."
The Confucian scholar said: "Ye Qinglan is a high-ranking third-grade man, but the archer next to him is still a middle-ranked second-grade man. Does such a person still need protection from others?"
"What do you mean?" Gao Xiaotian said displeased, "I don't have time to listen to your excuses. There are many things going on in Tiance Mansion. If nothing happens, Mr. Qi will go back first."
"Hahaha, don't be impatient, Commander Gao." Mr. Qi stroked his beard and said with a smile, "I want to remind Commander Gao, be careful about that woman Zhong Yiyi jumping over the wall and looking for someone to kill you."
"Kill me?" Gao Xiaotian laughed loudly, "I understand what you mean. Do you think that if those people are capable of killing Xue Songtao, then they are capable of killing me? What a joke! Who is Xue Songtao? A wine bag and rice bag.
!I can crush him to death with one finger. Looking at the world, the only ones who can enter my Gao Xiaotian's eyes now are those in the top ten on the martial arts review list. This also excludes the woman Lu Qingdai and the old man Meng Dongting.
.”
"Commander Gao, don't be careless. The art of war has it that arrogant soldiers will be defeated. It is not a good habit to underestimate the enemy." Mr. Qi said slowly, "No matter how invincible you are, Commander Gao, if you are not prepared, a three-year-old child can use a chopstick."
Even if they can stab you to death, do you dare to say that you will not be assassinated?"
Gao Xiaotian said: "Humph, if they really had this ability, and if Zhong Yiyi Tie Jingyao really had the courage, they would have done it long ago, why wait until now? They are just like Li Xian, extremely pedantic. This is exactly what I
The place where I look down on them the most.”
"If you didn't do it before, it doesn't mean you won't do it now." Mr. Qi said, "Besides, what if the person who comes to kill you does this specifically?"
Gao Xiaotian's expression became serious: "Tushenglou?"
"maybe."
"Tang Qinghuai of Tushenglou is currently in the East China Sea, and I don't know what he is doing. Unless he comes here personally to assassinate me, I really don't like other people."
"Then...where is the Blood Clothes Hall?"
Gao Xiaotian stopped talking.
"As far as I know, when Li Xian died in Chang'an, Xu Wei of Chang'an had captured two disciples of the Blood Clothes Hall, and those in charge of the interrogation were Li Xian's two disciples, Lu Da and Tie Jingyao. After that,
This matter just went unsolved, the two Blood Clothes Hall disciples died, and no one continued to investigate."
"Do we have any reason to infer that during the time when Li Xian was killed, his three apprentices had contact with people from the Blood Clothes Hall?"
"Although Lu Da and the others are at odds with me, they are not indifferent to right from wrong. They don't know what kind of organization the Blood Clothes Hall is, so they won't collude with the Blood Clothes Hall to kill me."
"It's hard to paint the skin of a tiger, but you know the person but not the heart." Mr. Qi stood up and prepared to leave, "Commander Gao, Qi will give you a piece of advice. As for Tie Jingyao and the other three, they should stay away from their hatred for you."
It’s far away from the Blood Clothes Hall. If you die, it will be of benefit to everyone and no harm.”
Mr. Qi left, and Gao Xiaotian sat alone in the room. For a long time, murderous intent surged in his heart.
"He's right, I can't sit still and wait for death."
"Li Xian, you saved my life forty years ago, and I sold my life to Tiance Mansion for forty years. Our accounts have been settled, and no one owes anyone. Now that you are dead, your
three apprentices, and
I don’t have such a deep friendship.”
"I killed them, you can't blame me."
…
As he wished, Li Xin'an met Ye Qinglan and Zhou Bian after a long separation at the Ye Family Bank.
After a few people exchanged greetings, Li Xin'an asked about the situation inside Tiance Mansion. Unfortunately, Ye Qinglan and Zhou Bian had been locked in the dungeon. When they were taken out of the dungeon, their faces were covered with black cloth and they saw nothing."
Li Xin'an said that he had promised Zhong Yiyi to kill Gao Xiaotian, but the only problem now was that they could not enter Tiance Mansion.
If you can't even get in, how can you talk about killing people? Do you want Gao Xiaotian to take the initiative to show up?
Zhou Bian said: "Are there no spies from the Xueyitang in Tiance Mansion?"
Li Xin'an smiled bitterly and said: "Although the Blood Clothes Hall is powerful, it is not that powerful. We don't dare to send people to sneak into Tiance Mansion. Once they are found out, we are afraid that even the ancestral graves will be taken away."
"Then there's only one way." Xiao Xuangan said, "Contact Lu Da and Tie Jingyao. We don't have any of our own, so we'll find a way to turn them into our own."
"Lu Da and Tie Jingyao couldn't protect themselves." Zhou Bian said, "When we were locked in the dungeon, the cells next door were all filled with Li Xian's old men. Moreover, Tie Jingyao was seriously injured while covering Zhong Yiyi's escape that day.
, there has been no news from Lu Da since he returned to Luoyang. No one can be found, how can I contact him?"
Li Xin'an sighed: "Is it really impossible to get rid of this hard bone of Tiance Mansion?"
After deliberation for a long time, they finally couldn't come up with one, two, three, or four. They had no choice but to return to Hutang first.
After going out for a day, Hutang seemed even more deserted when I came back. In the hot evening, the cicadas were chirping noisily, and everyone was upset.
As before, Lu Qingdai was still waiting for them.
When Ye Qinglan saw Lu Qingdai, her eyes widened.
"Brother Li, this sister is..."
"Don't mess with her." Li Xin'an glared at Ye Qinglan, "I don't even dare to provoke her. Be careful about your life."
Lu Qingdai heard their whispers and couldn't help but sneered - "Don't you dare? Have you provoked too many people?"
Ye Qinglan stuck out his tongue: "Is this the Hall Master of Tiger Hall?"
"No, a friend."
Lu Qingdai returned to her room after seeing them returning safely. Li Xin'an led the three of them into the lobby. Surprisingly, Tang Ying was still here.
"Miss Tang?" Li Xin'an said in shock, "Didn't you leave?"
"Do you really want me to leave?" Tang Ying said sadly.
"Uh... not really. It's just that it's a little inappropriate for you to stay here."
"I have nowhere else to go." Tang Ying said in a low voice, "Six of the seven halls of the Tusheng Tower in Luoyang were found by the Tiance Mansion, and the last one was destroyed by you. Now, I
I can only use five of my men, so I have asked them to travel all night long to get back to Tushenglou."
"Then why don't you leave?" Li Xin'an asked.
"I...I have no one I can trust anymore." Tang Ying said, "I don't know what to do. My senior brother is dead. I can't avenge him, and I don't dare to go back to see my master..."
"I understand." Li Xin'an sighed and patted Tang Ying on the shoulder, "Before we leave Luoyang, you can stay here so that you can keep company with others."
At the dinner table in the evening, the atmosphere seemed a bit subtle.
Li Xin'an was sitting on the main seat. Yang Chong was supposed to be sitting on his right hand side, but Lu Qingdai was sitting there. Directly opposite Lu Qingdai was Tang Ying.
Li Xin'an didn't know why Lu Qingdai came out to have dinner with everyone for the first time. She had obviously been hiding in her room before and wouldn't come out.
Everyone has their own thoughts during this dinner. Some people are thinking about how to kill Gao Xiaotian, some are thinking about what to do in the future of Hutang, and some are thinking about what are these two women doing tit for tat?
Li Xin'an looked left and right. On one side was the sad Tang Ying, and on the other was the frosty Lu Qingdai. He looked like he had small red bumps on his back.
, feeling uncomfortable all over.
Looking at Lu Qingdai's untouched bowls and chopsticks, Li Xin'an secretly cursed: "If you don't want to eat, why are you out here? Don't waste food."
"I'm full, please use it slowly." Yang Chong was the first to stand up and leave.
"Well, Hall Master Yang, I have to go back to the Ye Family Bank first. Can you find someone to take me?" Ye Qinglan followed closely behind.
Xiao Xuangan and Zhou Bian had no good excuse to leave the table for a while, so they could only sit there awkwardly.
Finally, Tang Ying broke the silence.
"If everyone has eaten, I will put away the dishes and wash them."
"Ah, okay." Li Xin'an smiled, "Sorry to trouble you."
Lu Qingdai glanced at Tang Ying's retreating back, and asked intentionally or unintentionally: "Are you planning to let her stay here?"
"She has no place to go, so she should stay here for the time being." Li Xin'an said, "Tang Ying has been severely stimulated and will need some time to recover."
"Don't forget what you are going to do." Lu Qingdai said, "I said, don't take the initiative to provoke Gao Xiaotian, you can't afford to offend him. Now that you have found your man, you only need to wait for Murong to give birth.
Just let people take their turns."
Li Xin'an said: "But I promised Miss Zhong and Gao Xiaotian that I would definitely kill her."
"You have no chance of winning against Gao Xiaotian like this." Lu Qingdai gritted her silver teeth, "You are going to die."
"If you can't even kill Gao Xiaotian, how can you kill An Lushan?" Li Xin'an said, "Speaking of which, I haven't seriously assassinated anyone for a long time, so this time I think I'm practicing in advance."
"What an idiot!" Lu Qingdai gave Li Xin'an a hard look, picked up the bowls and chopsticks, and walked to visit.
"What are you doing?" Li Xin'an asked.
"do the washing up."
…
The next day, Zhang Quan brought back someone.
It was an old man with unkempt hair and a stench all over his body, like a corpse fished out of a stinking ditch.
Li Xin'an didn't understand why Zhang Quan would bring such a person back, but the moment he saw Zhang Quan, he seemed to understand.
Half of Zhang Quan's face was swollen, one of his eyes was frighteningly purple, and his speech was slurred.
He looked at the old man with fear on his face.
"Your Excellency did this?" Li Xin'an cupped her hands and asked with a frown. "
"It's from ***," the old man replied calmly.
"Who is your Excellency?"
Since Zhang Quan was able to bring this old man into the Tiger Hall, it means that this man is not an enemy of the Blood Clothes Hall. Otherwise, Zhang Quan would rather die than leak the information about the Tiger Hall.
"My descendants, Song Yuandao from Tiance Mansion, are here to ask to see Hall Master Li!"
Li Xin'an was shocked when he heard this, Song Yuandao said, that was Li Xian's junior brother!
Under the great leadership of the Tiance Mansion, there are three commanders each, namely Xu Wei from Chang'an, Song Yuandao from Luoyang, and Gao Xiaotian. I heard that there has been no news about Song Yuandao since he came back from Chang'an. Why is he like this now?