Chapter 74: Uh, me?

Jin Jiuling endured the severe pain in his left leg and looked up at the surroundings, only to find that there was no one, only the horse he was riding had fallen to the ground, neighing constantly.

He took the opportunity to press his acupoints to stop the bleeding, and then probed the surrounding movements with incomparable vigilance. To prevent being plotted against again, he stayed in place until his face was pale and he was sweating profusely, only then realizing that he was playing a game of wits with the air.

He couldn't help but lower his head to look at his left foot, which had turned into a pile of broken bones and rotten flesh not far away, and his expression instantly turned incomparably gloomy.

Yangcheng, West Garden.

Inside an inn, a red-clothed youth was eating unhurriedly. The diners around peeked over from time to time out of curiosity; a blind person with an excellent appearance was truly too eye-catching.

At this time, a man and a woman walked over. The man was gentle and elegant, and the woman was quiet and dignified. It was Hua Manlou and Shi Xiuxue.

"Hua Little Eight, you have been in Yangcheng for more than a month. Is it that if I don't come to find you, you will never come to find me?"

Zhuang Buran replied lazily:

"I have long heard that you are a guest at the Pingnan Prince's Mansion. If I go, I am afraid I will offend people again, so I thought about waiting for the Baiyun City Lord to arrive at the Prince's Mansion before looking for you. And with the power of the Prince's Mansion, it is easy to find someone in the city. Since you can know my movements, why should I look for you so quickly?"

Hua Manlou and Shi Xiuxue sat down and heard the red-clothed youth say with a smile:

"Anyway, I am idle, so let's talk about the Embroidery Thief case, and why did that former number one constable in the world suddenly disappear?"

Hua Manlou said in an orderly manner:

"I went to meet Chang Mantian with Miss Shi, but unfortunately there were still no clues. However, Lu Xiaofeng found some clues from the red silk embroidered with black peonies left by the Embroidery Thief."

"And the Embroidery Thief didn't know why he suddenly stopped some time ago, but he appeared again in the last few days, and even embroidered forty or fifty blind people in the martial arts world."

"As for Jin Jiuling..."

He paused and sighed:

"After he went down Mount Jiuhua that day, he was ambushed by someone, not only suffering some skin injuries but also losing a leg."

"Hahaha, deserved it. This is definitely an interesting thing." Zhuang Buran laughed out loud:

"From the first time I came into contact with him, this person made me unable to help but feel disgusted. Meeting such a disaster is definitely deserved."

"Hua Little Eight, I don't know if you are lucky, or if others are unlucky." Hua Manlou said lightly:

"I vaguely remember that some of my cousins in the family sometimes were very unlucky, either breaking their heads or breaking their legs, and you were the same, gloating in the back."

Shi Xiuxue, who was on the side, heard this, and strange light floated in her eyes, and two words popped into her heart:

"Habitual bandit!"

The red-clothed youth corrected very seriously:

"This sentence is wrong. I am gloating openly and aboveboard, not gloating in the back."

"Then do you know that since you moved out of the house, they have never been unlucky again." Hua Manlou said meaningfully.

Zhuang Buran ate a bite of food and said:

"Luck, who can say for sure? Perhaps after a few years, they will start to have bad luck again, and from time to time there will be bloody disasters."

Hua Manlou sighed lightly:

"Little Eight, I am becoming more and more unfamiliar with you."

"Unfamiliar?" The red-clothed youth asked with slight doubt:

"It hasn't been long. My figure hasn't changed, and my clothes haven't changed. Where does the unfamiliarity come from?"

Hua Manlou said calmly:

"I am unfamiliar with your martial arts. My younger brother, who only wants to lie down all day, actually has high-level martial arts that no one notices. How can this not make people feel unfamiliar?"

"Let me think, you have only asked me about martial arts recently, and I answered truthfully. Before that, you didn't care about my practice at all." Zhuang Buran laughed dumbly:

"So, you feel unfamiliar, isn't it caused by yourself? But if you had paid a little attention all these years, where would there be any unfamiliarity?"

Hua Manlou's face showed a trace of strangeness:

"So, it's my problem?"

"Yes, isn't it all your problem?" The red-clothed youth nodded as a matter of course.

He changed the subject:

"What happened to that former number one constable in the world?"

"Since Jiang Zhongwei was injured by the Embroidery Thief, it is impossible for the Pingnan Prince's Mansion to let a blind person continue to be the mansion manager, so Jin Jiuling was hired as the new manager of the Prince's Mansion."

"But the Pingnan Prince's Mansion cannot let a lame person become the new manager, so Jin Jiuling found Lu Xiaofeng and asked him to take him to find Boss Zhu."

Zhuang Buran, after hearing Hua Manlou say this, immediately understood:

"Zhu Ting, known as the Master Craftsman, it is said that he is a descendant of Lu Ban, can make all kinds of hidden weapons and tools that people cannot imagine, and it is also rumored that his pair of skillful hands can make the chair he sits on walk by itself."

"And he is also Lu Xiaofeng's childhood friend. That former number one constable in the world has suffered this disaster, but instead, he has gained a blessing in disguise. I think he can get an iron foot that is invulnerable to swords and spears. It really makes people feel unhappy!"

Hua Manlou shook his head:

"Little Eight, you have no hatred or resentment with Jin Jiuling, why do you want to go against him?"

"You are wrong again. What is he? He is not worthy of going against me." The red-clothed youth's mouth curled into a playful look:

"After going to the Pingnan Prince's Mansion to see the Baiyun City Lord, I can take a look at this old friend of his."

"You don't go directly to the Prince's Mansion with me?" Hua Manlou was slightly surprised: "Ye Gucheng will arrive at the Pingnan Prince's Mansion in these few days."

Zhuang Buran said leisurely:

"No hurry. They say the moon on the fifteenth is round and round. Tonight I am going to enjoy the moon. Those passersby have no qualifications to disturb my interest."

"You really have your eyes on top of your head. It's one thing to say Jin Jiuling is a passerby, but you don't even put the world-famous Baiyun City Lord in your eyes." Hua Manlou's tone was full of distress:

"I regret bringing you out more and more, only feeling that I have released a giant beast that is out of tune with the entire martial arts world."

Shi Xiuxue heard these words, and her inner drama was full:

"My master is as famous as Ye Gucheng, and even he is not a match for one move. How could this person put Ye Gucheng in his eyes? Isn't he just a passerby?"

"And the word 'giant beast' is truly appropriate. With such inhuman martial arts..."

Just thinking of this, a voice with hidden laughter came to her ear:

"Miss Shi, you have been silent all along. Are you thinking of some rude things?"

Shi Xiuxue's face froze, and she laughed dryly:

"I just thought that Lu Xiaofeng would definitely try to break the law in order to investigate how the Embroidery Thief stole successfully from the heavily guarded Prince's Mansion."

"Hua Little Eight, I feel that Miss Shi seems to be a bit afraid of you." Hua Manlou interjected.

"I am a good-looking, harmless, blind little pitiful person. How could I make the dignified Emei high-ranking disciple Miss Shi feel afraid?"

The red-clothed youth frowned, looking weak and helpless:

"Miss Shi, if you meet Ye Gucheng in the Pingnan Prince's Mansion later, you should stand up to protect me, right?"

Shi Xiuxue got goosebumps and was stunned:

"Uh... me?"

"Nonsense, who said they were an extraordinary peerless swordsman." Hua Manlou immediately opened his mouth.

"I was just talking about it. You actually believed it." Zhuang Buran got up and put some broken silver on the table:

"To live up to your trust, I will go practice sword now."

The two saw the red-clothed youth leave and sighed at the same time. They all said that people's hearts are unpredictable, like stars flickering, making people hard to grasp, but who can see through that dark night sky.

Only feeling that someone's mind is like a deep and dark night.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 75 =====