Chapter Three Hundred and Ten: The Secret of the Mountain Gate
"Well," Li Jing nodded and agreed very much with Pei Xingyan's statement, but then Li Jing said: "Anyway, the origin of this Yi Fan is unknown. We should check his details carefully."
Li Jing's suggestion was also approved by Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling. Wan He nodded, and then said: "In this case, I will ask Yang Gongqing to send someone to investigate this person's whereabouts in Dongdu, so as to With Yang Gongqing's current power in Luoyang, it shouldn't be difficult to detect a person's whereabouts, right?"
Now that the target has been set, Wan He immediately sent someone to notify Yang Gongqing outside the mansion, and Li Jing also returned to the military camp. After handling all this, Changsun Wuji and Fang Xuanling stood in the yard at the same time, raising their heads. Looking at the clouds in the sky, for some reason, both of them felt that a storm was about to come.
Let's talk about Yi Fan who came out of Liang Guogong's Mansion. After leaving the street where Liang Guogong's Mansion was located, he was walking on the street. It was still afternoon. As the eastern capital, Luoyang's streets were still very lively with people coming and going. , after wandering on the street for more than half an hour, Yi Fan suddenly turned around and glanced behind him.
And the moment Yi Fan turned around, behind him, several men dressed as ordinary people gathered together, seeming to be discussing something happily. Looking at those men, the corners of Yi Fan's mouth twitched slightly. Gou, however, continued to walk forward. As for the men who continued to follow, Yi Fan pretended not to know anything.
After walking around on the street again, Yi Fan came to an inn, raised his steps, and walked directly into the inn. When the waiter of the inn saw Yi Fan, he also greeted him warmly. Yi Fan was soon welcomed into the inn. The men who had been following Yi Fan saw him. They stood at the corner and hesitated for a moment, but did not follow him. After all, it would be too obvious. One of them glanced at Going to the inn, he whispered: "I heard that this inn is the property of the Duke's family. Dumb, aren't you familiar with the waiter of this inn? Go and find out."
The man who was called a mute was not a mute. They were all subordinates of Yang Gongqing in Luoyang City. The man was nicknamed the mute just because he was taciturn. The mute immediately nodded and pretended. Zuo walked into the inn casually and slowly. Not long after, the mute came out again and whispered to his companions: "Let me ask you clearly. When that person came to Luoyang a few days ago, he had already made a reservation here. After getting out of the room, I just went back to my room to rest. It seemed that I was too tired, so I asked the waiter not to bring food."
"Well," after hearing what the mute said, several other people also nodded. The order they received was to keep an eye on the target person. Since the target stayed in the inn, they had no choice but to guard the inn. The leader immediately ordered the other people to guard the front and back doors of the inn. As for the mute, he simply asked him to enter the inn again and stare at the door of the room where the target was. Not to mention, these gangsters under Yang Gongqing are really capable, and they can arrange such meticulous arrangements in such a short time.
But it's a pity that the target they want to focus on is not an ordinary person. Just as they were hiding in the corner opposite the inn to discuss, on the second floor of the inn, a corner window opened a little, revealing a pair of bright eyes. Behind the window, they saw the target person they were staring at, Yi Fan.
Seeing that the men quickly dispersed after discussing for a while, Yi Fan showed a smile on his lips, but he didn't care at all. He just gently lowered the window and sat back in the room. On the bed inside, he sat cross-legged like this, closing his eyes to rest. This sitting lasted for three hours. When he opened his eyes again, it was already night, because Yi Fan It was still daytime when he closed his eyes to rest, and no candles were lit in the room, so the room was already dark. But when Yi Fan opened his eyes, it was as if two bright lights suddenly lit up in the darkness. .
Yi Fan turned his head and glanced out the window. Seeing the night printed on the window paper, a smile appeared on Yi Fan's lips. He got off the bed and walked in the darkness without being affected at all. Fan bypassed the tables and chairs and went straight to the window. He quietly opened a gap again. He looked outside through this gap and saw that there were far fewer pedestrians on the street outside the inn. However, There are still many figures looming around the inn.
Seeing this, Yi Fan didn't care at all. He pushed the window open again, jumped up, and disappeared from the room in the blink of an eye. The men Yang Gongqing chose to monitor were indeed very responsible, but they After all, they were just ordinary people, but they never imagined that right above their heads, the target they wanted to monitor had disappeared.
Not long after, in a remote place in the south of Luoyang City, a figure walked out of an alley quickly. Under the moonlight, it was Yi Fan who had sneaked out of the inn before. Dressed like an ordinary person, Yi Fan slowly walked to the door of a seemingly simple house. He raised his head and glanced at the dilapidated door. With a faint smile on his face, Yi Fan took a step forward. , which directly knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" Not long after, a hoarse voice came from behind the gate. Listening to this voice, it sounded like an old man in his seventies or eighties, or a child of eleven or twelve years old. It was very strange. The weirdest thing is that the sound clearly came from behind the gate, but it had a feeling of being near and far, left and right.
If ordinary people heard this kind of sound, they would definitely feel dizzy, but Yi Fan had no effect on it at all. He just smiled faintly, lowered his voice, and said to the door: "My old friend from Wulaofeng in Lushan is here to visit. If you don’t open the door quickly, how long will it take?”
There was silence behind the door for a moment. Finally, the door creaked open, revealing a thin figure inside. After the shadow opened the door, he didn't say much. He just turned aside and made way for Yi Fan. Yi Fan was not polite and walked straight into the door. The moment Yi Fan walked in, the dilapidated door was immediately closed tightly.
Walking into the door, you will find a plainly decorated room. The inner room is blocked by a door curtain. There is only a table and four wooden chairs in the room. On the table, there is the only candlelight in the whole room. The wind flickered, making the room flicker with light and darkness. The thin figure who opened the door for Yi Fan slowly walked to the table, found a chair and sat down directly. His true face was revealed under the candlelight, but She is an old woman who looks to be sixty or seventy years old. This old woman has silver hair and is wrapped in a shabby gray cloth. The wrinkles on her face prove that she has been washed away by many years. She is wearing a very ordinary dress. A simple outer coat with several patches of different sizes on it.
Seeing the old woman sitting down, Yi Fan also smiled faintly, glanced at the inner room blocked by the curtain, and sat down with a smile. He just kept staring at the old woman for a long time, but the old woman He spoke first: "There is nothing to entertain in this room. I hope Zuo Shi doesn't take offense."
"How dare you, how dare you," Yi Fan chuckled after hearing the old woman's words and said, "I have heard for a long time that Elder Jiao's five-note art is extraordinary. I never thought that after so many years since Elder Jiao left the mountain gate, his five-note art has not deteriorated at all. It's really amazing. Admirable,”
The old woman raised her head slightly, and a gleam of light shone through the slits of her eyes that had been covered tightly by the wrinkles of her eyelids. Then she hummed in her hoarse voice: "Although I'm not at the mountain gate, I've heard that Zuo Shi is extremely talented. Man, not to mention Lao Shen’s Five-tone Kung Fu, Zuo Shi even learned 60% of the sect master’s secret skill, the Heavenly Qin Transformation Skill. Lao Shen’s little skill is really not worthy of Zuo Shi’s praise. Lao Shen worked as the sect master back then. I have been ordered to stay here in the Eastern Capital. I haven’t sent anyone here for decades, but I don’t know that the Zuo Envoy is coming to the Eastern Capital this time. However, if the master of the sect has any instructions, I would like to ask the Zuo Envoy to make it clear."
"Haha," Yi Fan kept his indifferent smile from beginning to end and said to the old woman: "I don't dare to take orders. Elder Jiao has worked hard for the mountain gate. Even the gate owner often talks about it. This time When I came to Dongdu, I was not following the order of the sect master. I just heard that when I was in Hebei before, the enemies of the mountain sect often appeared in Dongdu in the past few years, so I came here to check and see if I could find them. Find out what those enemies are planning,"
"Huh," after hearing Yi Fan's answer, the old woman immediately snorted and said: "Since that battle more than sixty years ago, our Tianyin Sect and Xiaoyao Sect have been hiding from the world for many years, and I have been here even more. I have been in Dongdu for so long, but I have never heard of any traces of those brats from Xiaoyaomen in Dongdu, but I don’t know where Zuo Shi learned about it.”
Although the old woman's words seemed to be asking, her tone was very strong. She was clearly angry that Yi Fan doubted herself. To this, Yi Fan still had no reaction and said with a smile: "This matter is only a slight." I just heard it, but I haven’t got any real evidence yet, so I didn’t report it to the Shanmen, but came to find out what happened first. The Xiaoyao Sect was very ambitious back then, and if it hadn’t been hindered by our Tianyin Sect, I’m afraid the world would have been a long time ago. It's a big mess. Now that Xiaoyao Sect is showing signs of reappearing, I have to be careful. If I have offended anything, please forgive me, Elder Jiao."