Volume 1: Swan Goose Chapter 180: Where to Plant Cymbidium in the Spring Breeze (2)
While pouring tea for Lu Ning, the guy asked, "Jiao Laoba probably hasn't gotten up yet, so I'll call the girl now. But I don't know what the girl's name is. How good is the little one to tell him?"
Lu Ning took the tea, rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Lu, the surname of Duangui, is a friend of Qiao Laoba."
"Oh, OK, I'll call him now!" The guy nodded frequently and immediately turned around and ran to the backyard.
After a while, a man with dark skin, protruding eyes and slightly hunched back walked out sleepily.
When Lu Ning saw the visitor, he quickly put down the teacup and bowed, "I guess you are Qiao Laoba?"
Lu Ning's delicate and tender voice made Qiao Laoba suddenly awake.
He suddenly stood up, looked at Lu Ning in a daze, and asked, "Who are you? Do we know me?"
Lu Ning smiled slightly, raised his hand and pointed to the seat beside him, and said softly: "Jiao Laoba, please sit first, I have something to say to you."
Qiao Laoba scratched his scalp, not knowing what the visitor was going to do, but when he thought about it carefully, he simply walked over and sat aside.
Lu Ning poured a cup of tea for him and greeted him, "I heard that you left the horse gang and just arrived at the Dahongmi Restaurant, right?"
Hearing the word "horse gang", he clearly saw that Qiao Laoba shook his hands and asked in a deep voice: "What are you asking about this? Who are you?"
Lu Ning looked at him and smiled, and said calmly: "My name is Lu Ning, and I am the young leader of the horse gang."
With a "bang", the teacup in Qiao Laoba's hand fell to the ground, and his face changed drastically.
Then, he suddenly stood up, looked at Lu Ning in surprise, and said with a stuttering voice: "I...I don't know any horse gang, you...you have found the wrong person." After that, he took a step and wanted to leave.
"Wait!" Lu Ning quickly looked and grabbed him, "Don't be afraid, I won't hurt you! I'll leave after asking a few questions, and I'll guarantee that no one will know about this!"
Qiao Laoba frowned, obviously still very resistant, but he was afraid of offending the horse gang.
After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, shook Lu Ning's hand away, and said proudly: "What do you want to ask? Let me tell you in advance that I haven't stayed in the horse gang for a long time and my position is not high, so I don't know what I don't know.
, I won’t talk nonsense!”
Lu Ning smiled faintly and said, "Don't worry, the question I asked is related to you. Tell me first why you left the horse gang? Was you dismissed or left on your own initiative?"
Qiao Laoba said angrily: "What else can I do? I left after I was unhappy with it!"
Lu Ning raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled, "Unhappy? Isn't it because you discovered some secret or offended someone to leave?"
Qiao Laoba was shocked, but deliberately pretended to be stupid: "I don't understand what you said! I just don't get used to it, so I want to change my career. Is there anything wrong?"
Seeing that he refused to say more, Lu Ning asked in another question: "Then why didn't you leave Lingzhou after you left the horse gang? Did anyone from the horse gang or someone else threaten you?"
Qiao Laoba frowned and said coldly: "I was born in Lingzhou and grew up in Lingzhou. Why should I leave here? I am just a little person. What's the benefit of threatening me!"
After hearing Qiao Laoba's words inconsistent with his preface, Lu Ning understood that he must be hiding something.
After thinking about it, she decided to go straight to the point: "Listen, I came to Lingzhou specifically to investigate the Lingzhou semicolon. I heard some rumors in the world and learned that Lingzhou semicolon not only has an ulterior motive with the Lingzhou yamen.
Human secrets. If you know something, please tell me with confidence. If you can’t trust me, you should trust the old gang leader.”
Qiao Laoba stood there for a long time before turning around and bowed to Lu Ning: "Young master, I know you are a good person! Since you know there is something wrong with this, please forgive me and I can't explain it to you. I...I
I will be a father soon and I don’t want my child to become an orphan as soon as I am born. Please forgive me!”
As he said that, he bowed deeply.
Lu Ning frowned and said disappointedly: "Can't you reveal anything? If you want, I'm willing to help you escape to another place, and make sure that others can't find you, let you
We can live with peace of mind—"
"No!" Qiao Laoba said firmly: "I can't leave Lingzhou, and I can't let my family live a life of escape. Young gang leader, no matter what you say, I won't say anything!"
After saying that, he lowered his head deeply.
Lu Ning sighed, and in desperation, he had to take out the darts and arrows and asked, "Okay, since you are so persistent, I respect you and will no longer force you. Tell me, can you know these two things?"
Qiao Laoba picked up two things curiously and looked at them, shook his head: "They are all weapons made of ordinary materials, and I can't tell if there is anything special."
Lu Ning was extremely disappointed. She put away two weapons and bowed to him: "Okay, although I still have nothing to gain, I'd better thank you. Then take care of yourself, I'll leave!"
As he said that, he turned around and walked out.
But after taking two steps, Lu Ning suddenly turned around and looked at Qiao Laoba calmly: "Qiao Laoba, it's not to be hiding, those who left the horse gang were originally three people stayed in Lingzhou. But every time I went to a place
, Someone silenced in advance. I really hope you can be safe. If you want to say something or need my help, come to me and I will definitely help you!"
Qiao Laoba was moved, and was silent for a moment, and bowed to her: "Young Master, thank you for your kindness! But, to say, you don't like to listen to it. In fact, you can't save anyone. Listen to the advice and leave Lingzhou!
Don't worry about the matter here anymore! Otherwise, in the end, I'm afraid that the next person to be silenced will be you!"
Lu Ning was slightly stunned, his heart was mixed, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Thank you for your reminder, take care of me!"
After saying that, he left Dahong Rice Shop without looking back.
She returned to the horse gang in a daze and happened to meet Elder Yun leading his brothers to count the goods in the yard.
Seeing Lu Ning coming back from outside, Elder Yun rolled his eyes and hurriedly greeted him, bowing and bowing: "Yeah, the young master went out so early?"
Lu Ning knew that he was testing him, so he smiled: "Yesterday, Hu-gongzi left without saying a word. I went out to search, but I couldn't find it after searching for him after searching. Has he been back?"
Before Elder Yun answered, the gatekeeper came over and bowed, "Young Master, Mr. Hu left last night and has not come back yet."
Lu Ning was shocked and asked quickly, "When he left yesterday, did he say where did he go?"
The gatekeeper pondered for a moment and said, "I remembered that before Mr. Hu Qi went out last night, he asked us where the natural scenery was good. He said he wanted to go and take a walk. We recommended Fengming Mountain to him and asked.
Why did he go out so late? But he didn't say anything and left just by saying it."
"Fengming Mountain?" Lu Ning frowned, turned his head and pondered, and ordered: "Elder Yun, take a few brothers to find each inn and restaurant in the city. I will ride my horse to Fengming Mountain by myself
Look for it! If it's dark and I haven't returned yet, you can bring people up the mountain to find me!"
Elder Yun asked worriedly, "Young Gang Master, Fengming Mountain is not small, and there are wild animals on some hillsides. Are you the only ones to go? This is too dangerous, so why not send more brothers to accompany you
Well, we can take care of each other!"
Lu Ning refused, "Now the people in the gang are going to Lord Xia to help, and look for Niu Xiaoyi, so they can't allocate so many people. You might as well send a few people to the town to ask, I'll be one in the mountains.
It's enough for people!"
In fact, she was worried that Hu Qi would leave the horse gang because she was worried that Hu Qi had really discovered something. If so many people were asked to look for her, she was worried that someone would kill someone to silence her in the name of finding someone.
Elder Yun stopped insisting and bowed, "Yes, I'll make arrangements now! Be careful on the way to the young master!"
Not daring to stay for a long time, Lu Ning quickly turned around and went out, floating on his body, clamped his legs, and the snow-eeled horse flew over the four hooves, and led her to rush towards Fengming Mountain.
Along the way, she held the reins tightly, worried about Hu Qi, fearing that something really happened to him.
At the same time, she was a little regretful. Why didn't she enlighten him at that time and leave him behind! If something really happened to him, she would be blamed!
The Edelweiss horse ran wildly, but in just a moment, it reached the foot of Fengming Mountain.
Fengming Mountain Up the Mountain
Steep valleys are deep, rapids are stacked with waterfalls, and green mountains are green.
Lu Ning tied up the edelixir horse and went up the stream on the north side of the foothills. Along the way, the plum trees and bamboos and ancient spruce pine trees gradually became better. The mountains are cool and quiet, and they are two different worlds from the Lingzhou City outside.
Lu Ning used her sword to overcome all obstacles and shouted Hu Qi's name loudly. But no one in the mountains answered her except for her own echoes and howlings of birds and beasts all over the mountain.
After running around the mountains for half a day, Lu Ning finally stopped, gasped, drew his sword and looked around.
She was a little unwilling to give up, and raised her breath again, shouting, "Young Master Hu, where are you? Come out quickly! Don't get angry anymore, can you go back with me?"
The shouts startled a group of birds, rushing past the mountains, but no one answered.
Lu Ning took a breath, raised his voice again, and shouted loudly: "Young Master Hu, can you come out and talk?"
There were only a few wild wolf howls faintly from a distance in my ears, scaring away the rabbit eating grass, but no one answered her.
Lu Ning walked forward panting again. As soon as she walked into the Nanping, a gust of wind blew, and a few whimpers came out of the mountains, with extremely low and extremely thin sounds of flutes.
The sound of the flute is high and low, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, like crying and complaining, like emptiness and illusion. It seems that there is endless hearts and endless love.
Lu Ning was originally happy when she heard the sound of the flute. But after listening carefully, she found that this was not the sound of Hu Qi's jade flute, and she was shocked again: Could it be that there is someone else in the deep mountains?
Without even thinking too much, Lu Ning followed the sound and stumbled all the way to search for the past.
As I climbed up the hillside, I suddenly heard the sound of the flute gradually sounding, and the whirlpooling was whirling and the scenery in front of me suddenly became clear:
A delicate and transparent octagonal pavilion is embedded among the ancient spruce pine trees. The clear spring is gurgling under the pavilion, and a small bluestone bridge is built on the clear stream.
A man in a green robe could be seen vaguely in the pavilion, standing tall under the pavilion, playing the flute. Looking at his figure and back, although this person was not Hu Qi, he had a look that was hard to distinguish from him.
Lu Ning stood in the hidden place and did not approach it rashly. The clear and gentle flute sound gradually lowered, and then there was a gentle sigh.