Chapter 276: The Tavern Murder Case
Chapter 276: The Tavern Murder Case (Part )
The matches in the stove were burning with crackling sounds, mixed with the sound of the spatulas hitting each other.
Two figures were busy standing in front of the stove, turning around from time to time to look at the person sitting alone in the front hall.
Lao Denuo whispered: "Little Junior Sister, good and evil cannot coexist, you must stay calm!"
Yue Lingshan blushed slightly and said in a cold voice: "Second Brother, don't talk nonsense. I have nothing to do with him since that night at Feifeng Bridge."
Laudeno put down the shovel in his hand and looked at her: "Is that true?"
Yue Lingshan said unhappily, "What else can I do? Good and evil cannot coexist. I wish I could kill him now."
"That's good, that's good. This person is very powerful in martial arts and it's hard to kill him openly. I think we can't be too strict with the rules of the martial arts world when dealing with a master of the Demon Sect. We have to use some tricks."
Yue Lingshan asked hurriedly: "What are you going to do?"
Lao Denuo laughed softly and said, "Hehe, I carry a pack of poison with me, called 'Yan Wang Jiao'. Once you take it, no matter how strong he is, he will bleed from all seven orifices in a moment, and his soul will return to the underworld."
Yue Lingshan subconsciously said: "Absolutely not!"
Lao Denuo asked, "Why is it useless? Junior Sister, didn't you say it doesn't matter?"
Yue Lingshan said solemnly, "I am not doing this for personal reasons. I... I don't have any personal feelings for him, but Huashan is a reputable and upright sect. My father is known as the 'Gentleman Sword' in the martial arts world. Even if he is exterminating evildoers and demons, he should do it in an upright manner. If he uses such a despicable method as poisoning, wouldn't it ruin our reputation if it gets out?"
Unexpectedly, Lao Denuo did not insist. He thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay, then, I'll listen to you, Junior Sister."
Yue Lingshan was a little surprised, but she finally felt relieved.
It is difficult to kill a martial arts master with profound internal strength immediately unless he uses a strange poison. If the opponent fights desperately, Laodenuo will not be able to withstand it.
Besides, Laudeno couldn't predict the future, and he didn't have any suitable poison on him. The so-called "King of Hell's call" was just a name he had heard in the underworld before.
He just said that for testing.
In order to see Yue Lingshan's true attitude towards Zhang Yu, he had many cards in his hand. As a secret spy of the Songshan Sect, the more secrets he knew about everyone in the Huashan Sect, the better he could respond accordingly.
Take the bond between Zhang Yue as an example. In Huashan Sect, Lao Denuo knows it better than anyone else. However, he has been helping Yue Lingshan hide the secret, and even hopes that their old love will rekindle. Only in this way will the secret become more valuable.
Whether it is for him or for the Songshan School.
“I have to make this happen!”
The daughter of the leader of Huashan Sect fell in love with a man from the Demon Sect. The Gentleman Sword, the fatal weakness, was in the hands of the Zuo Sect Leader. He could throw it out at the critical moment without worrying that the leader would disagree with the merger of the Five Mountains Sects. Otherwise, he would either kill his own relatives for the sake of justice or end up in disgrace.
"All right."
The crispy, golden and crunchy peanuts are served in a round plate.
The pair of bear paws were soaked in boiling water, and the thick skin on the surface gradually became soft. After a while, the hair could be peeled off to reveal the crispy, elastic and thick paw flesh inside.
During this time, Laudeno had already prepared three side dishes.
"Junior sister, take these dishes over first. I'll go to the market outside the city to buy some spices and will be back soon."
There was a drizzle on the official road just now, and then it stopped.
The straw hat was placed on another bench.
Zhang Yu sat at the table, drank five or six glasses of wine alone, and looked out.
There are all kinds of people on the official road. There are gray-haired old men pushing heavy carts, rushing to the city, and their sweat for months and half a year may only be exchanged for a few dimes; there are nobles wearing fine clothes and riding horses, with many wives and concubines, as if they had accumulated virtue in their previous lives and were prosperous without any hard work; there are scholars in simple clothes bidding farewell to their families and going out to seek fame; there are white flags and thin coffins, whose souls return to their hometown after their deaths thousands of miles away.
"There is no food on the table, but we can still get drunk together in the fickle world."
"There is wine in the cup, life and death are like clouds, so just rest for a moment."
Although he was a southerner in his previous life, born in Hunan, grew up in Fujian, and studied in Jiangxi, his friends and subordinates in this life are all in the north. Returning here, he felt somewhat strange in a foreign land.
However, it is always a happy thing to meet old friends in a foreign land.
Seeing the young girl in green carrying a wooden tray and putting down three plates of side dishes, the dishes knocked on the table, making a 'dong dong dong' sound, and a few peanuts spilled out. It was not intentional on her part, but it was her first time doing this, so her movements were inevitably a little stiff.
"The food is ready!"
Zhang Yu looked at the ugly face with a smile and called out to her.
"Can't you be gentler?"
"If we run a shop like this, there won't be any repeat customers. I'm afraid we'll starve to death."
The girl in green glared at Zhang Yu, then remembered her current identity, and quickly restrained her expression and became a little more polite.
"Enjoy your meal, sir." Zhang Yu picked up a peanut and chuckled, "She is so... pretty, but she doesn't know how to do business. She can't save enough for a dowry. How can she find a good family to marry in the future? She will probably be lonely for the rest of her life."
Anger appeared on Yue Lingshan's face, but she still held it back and said stiffly, "Sir, enjoy your meal!"
"I'm alone in a foreign land, drinking alone, and I'm so bored. Girl, would you like to sit with me for a while?"
"Enjoy your meal, sir. I don't drink!"
"It's okay if you don't drink, just sit down."
Yue Lingshan lowered her voice and said, "Sir, please help yourself. We don't provide this service."
"Boom!"
A large piece of silver fell on the table, weighing at least one ounce, which was more than the price of the simple food and wine on the table.
Zhang Yu smiled and said, "Is it not okay if I pay the money?"
Yue Lingshan was furious to see how reckless he was, even provoking an ugly wine seller like her.
Zhang Yu looked up at her, frowned deliberately and asked, "Even though the money was delivered to your door, you refused to take it. Are you not a businessman? Is this a... shady shop?"
She snorted coldly and snatched the dime: "Ten sentences, one ounce of silver."
Zhang Yu nodded: "This is a fair business."
Yue Lingshan became even angrier. She stared at the face that always had a faint smile on it and wanted to raise the food plate in her hand and hit him.
"Girl, please sit down."
Yue Lingshan finally held back, sat down on the bench and looked outside the door.
He knew she didn't drink, but he still poured her a glass and handed it to her.
Neither of them spoke anymore. Zhang Yu was still minding his own business, tasting the not-so-expensive village-brewed Bamboo Leaf Green, but he felt a rare sense of peace, which was very precious to a man of the world who was used to wandering and the uncertainty of life and death.
During this time, the white-haired old man who went out to the grass market to sell spices came back to the store and saw the two of them sitting together. He didn't say much, but when he arrived at the kitchen, a smile appeared on his face, indicating that it was as he expected.
After a while, Yue Lingshan asked again.
"Why are not you talking?"
Zhang Yu put down his wine glass and chuckled, "I would like to talk, but it's too expensive, so I have to speak slowly."
Yue Lingshan could not help but chuckle and subconsciously covered her teeth with her hands. This unintentional display of childishness was originally very touching, but at this moment, with her ugly face, it was a little difficult to look at.
Zhang Yu didn't take it seriously and felt everything was the same as before.
Yue Lingshan suddenly asked, "Do you really have to eat those bear paws?"
"what happened?"
"A bear like that must have lived in the mountains for at least several decades. You killed it just to satisfy your appetite. Isn't that against the harmony of nature? I heard from... the storyteller that doing so would shorten your lifespan."
Zhang Yu shook his head and said, "It was the one who tried to kill me first. God is often blind and he shouldn't be so harsh to me."
"Then who knows..."
They talked on and off, but mostly just sat there in silence.
But Yue Lingshan still thought that Zhang Yu didn't recognize her.
There seemed to be only a thin veil between the two of them.
The sun in the sky moved out from behind the clouds again, only to be tinged with a layer of golden edges, and gradually set in the west.
Just at this time, there were shouts and the sound of horse hooves on the official road, and a group of people were coming from Lengcui Mountain.
"Could it be today?"
Zhang Yu put on his hat and stood up.
Yue Lingshan asked: "What do you mean today? Are you leaving now?"
Zhang Yu saw a trace of disappointment flashing across her brows and said with a smile, "I haven't eaten the delicacies yet. I just don't like noise. Please help me bring the wine and food to the inner room."
Yue Lingshan was delighted. Seeing the group of people on the official road coming towards the wine shop, she chuckled and said, "I think you must have done something wrong, or you have met an enemy."
(End of this chapter)