Inside the rockery cave, it was dark, damp and cold, and there was even the sound of water dripping from melting snow.
"Miss Lu..." Xu Zun bent down and made a discordant voice, "What do you mean?"
Xu Zun bent over because the cave was too short.
The reason why Xu Zun made a discordant sound was because a sword was pressed against his throat.
Although he knew that the sword had not yet been sharpened, this feeling was still not normal.
"Xu Zun, the new comer from Tangzhou," Lu Mingyue's beautiful face was reflected in the dim candlelight, "it's you who ruined my plan and actually dared to come and see me!
“I endured so many days in this cold and damp cave, and all my hard work in the end was in vain!
"All this is thanks to you! Hum..."
"Miss Lu," Xu Zun said without raising his eyes, "don't you think your plan won't work at all?"
"Nonsense!" Miss Lu said angrily, "Do you know what my plan is?"
"This seems to be no longer a secret, right?" Xu Zun said lightly, "Don't you just want to use your disappearance to create a sensation, so as to urge the government to investigate the case of Lu Xiaofeng's family's disappearance, and by the way, to investigate the 17 cases of missing beautiful girls?
And expose it?”
"Oh?" Lu Mingyue was slightly startled, "You are really not a simple person. Since you know that I have good intentions, why do you want to disrupt my plan?"
"I just said," Xu Zun lowered his head, "your plan won't work at all! Do you know that Lu Xiaofeng's bookstore has been burned down?"
"Ah? What did you say!?" Lu Mingyue was shocked. She quickly withdrew her sword and asked urgently, "The Lu family bookstore was burned down? Who did it?"
"So..." Xu Zun spread his hands and said, "You are strategizing in the rockery, but you can't win outside the Marquis Mansion. You don't even know who your opponent is. Do you think your plan is still feasible?"
"you……"
Lu Mingyue used the weak candlelight to take a good look at Xu Zun.
"If my guess is correct," Xu Zun took out the blue book and said, "Did you send someone to leave this book to us on purpose?"
"Oh?" Lu Mingyue opened it and looked at Xu Zun more curiously, "You...you actually went to Qinglan Academy?"
"I was able to find you yesterday, but I had to wait until tonight," Xu Zun said, "just to see if I could help you figure it out. But unfortunately, the matter has gone far beyond me.
imagination!
"Whether it's the 17 cases of missing beautiful girls or the disappearance of Lu Xiaofeng's entire family, these are by no means ordinary cases!"
"Oh...so awesome!"
This time, Lu Mingyue was completely impressed, and when she looked at Xu Zun, there was already a sense of recognition in her eyes.
"You actually know everything," Lu Mingyue looked at Xu Zun in surprise, "You are indeed different from those incompetent people. No wonder you can be sentenced in Tangzhou."
"Okay," Xu Zun pointed outside, "Now, can we go outside to talk?"
"Hey, hey, hey?" Lu Mingyue grabbed Xu Zun's arm and said, "No, I don't like those people outside messing around with this matter, let's just have a good talk here!"
"Alas!" Xu Zun sighed and reminded, "Miss Lu, you are the daughter of the Hou family. If we talk for too long, people outside will definitely be worried!"
"So what if you don't worry?" Lu Mingyue said nonchalantly, "Are you still afraid of what you will do to me?"
"..." Xu Zun was speechless and did not answer the question.
"Don't worry about them, I will use this to talk to anyone who dares to come in!" As he said that, Lu Mingyue raised the shining sword and waved it in the air a few times.
hehe……
Xu Zun laughed in his heart, this little girl does have quite a personality.
"Well," Xu Zun said, "in this case, let's hurry up and tell me what's going on, right?"
"What's going on?" Lu Mingyue blinked her big, beautiful eyes, "Don't you know everything?"
"Then I have to listen to you again," Xu Zun said, "What if there are discrepancies?"
"Okay, okay..." Lu Mingyue sat down on a stone pier and said, "All this started when Xiaofeng disappeared.
"Three months ago, she and her family suddenly disappeared. We have such a good relationship, if she left normally, there is no reason not to leave me a letter.
"So, I suspected that there was a big problem with her disappearance, so I asked people to search for her, but after searching for a long time, there was still no trace.
"I didn't give up, and sent people to search again and again, and then I suddenly realized that something was wrong. I didn't expect that in the past three years, there had been more than ten cases of missing girls in Shangyuan City, and the government did not investigate any of them!
"In desperation, I had no choice but to make myself a missing person and use my identity to see if the government would still stand by and watch?
"My purpose is to draw out these cases and make them think that I am one of them. I hope they will thoroughly investigate Shangyuan City and find the Xiaofeng family and the missing girls!"
"Oh..." Xu Zun nodded silently and praised, "Miss Lu is attentive, it's really rare, rare!
"However, I don't understand. Since you are the daughter of the Marquis, why don't you let the Marquis come forward and let the government find these missing persons?
"Have you... reported the crime?"
"You don't know this. Although my father is a marquis," Lu Mingyue said, "a marquis also has the same difficulties as a marquis.
"It's taboo for officials to solve cases, mobilize military camps, etc. My father can only use his connections and contacts to slowly search.
"As for reporting the case to the official," Lu Mingyue said, "after Xiaofeng's family disappeared, I entrusted the housekeeper to report the case, but in the end it was nothing, and it didn't attract their attention at all.
"Of course, these are all within my expectations. The officials really can't believe it. There are so many missing people, but they haven't found any of them. They are really incompetent.
"Rather than begging them, it would be more practical to entrust Daozhang Wei and let his friends in the world help..."
oh……
Xu Zun listened carefully, but there were many question marks in his mind.
He felt more and more that the disappearance of these beautiful girls was getting more and more strange.
There seems to be some kind of huge power controlling the situation behind the scenes, making it impossible to peek into its secrets.
"How is it," Lu Mingyue said to Xu Zun, "Now that I have told you everything I know, what do you think?"
"Me?" Xu Zun said with a smile, "My mission has been completed, what else do you have in mind?"
"As a punishment in Tangzhou," Lu Mingyue said sternly, "you must be responsible for the disappearance of the girl in Shangyuan City!"
"What?" Xu Zun was surprised, "Did Miss Lu give me an order?"
"You..." Lu Mingyue looked at Xu Zun with bright eyes and said, "Let's do this, if you can help me find Xiaofeng, I will give you a reward!"
"I am from Tangzhou," Xu Zun said with a faint smile, "Do you think I will be short of money?"
"Then what do you want?" Lu Mingyue looked sullen, "I think you are so smart, so I'll give you a chance and you won't know how to flatter me."
"Ha ha……"
Xu Zun laughed out loud. Miss Lu was still a little girl after all, and she couldn't tell that he was joking with her.
"Hey, why are you laughing?" Lu Mingyue shouted, "If you have any conditions, just ask for them!"
"Okay! This is what you said," Xu Zun pointed at the beautiful Miss Lu and continued to tease her, "If I can help you find Lu Xiaofeng, then you have to come with me...hehehe..."
Xu Zun smiled like a big bad wolf.
"Okay!" Unexpectedly, before Xu Zun could finish his sentence, Miss Lu actually clapped her hands and agreed, "Then it's up to you! As long as you can solve the case, I will become a brother and sister with different surnames!!!"
I go……
Xu Zun was almost stunned. When he saw a hint of cunning in the corner of Lu Mingyue's eyes, he realized that this Miss Lu was not only smart, but also had an unusually high emotional intelligence...
