Chapter 442: The Charlatan Xiao Meng
Made up your mind? Meng Qi was a little confused and didn't understand what decision made Jiang Zhiwei sad, but since she said we would talk about it after the mission was over, she didn't evade and could face it honestly, there was no need for him to ask now, so as not to ruin her mood and let the team The main combat power of the army could not be used to its full level, resulting in the failure of the entire army and the annihilation of the entire army.
"Okay, if there are difficulties, we will go through fire and water." Meng Qi nodded, and went back to the left-behind mansion with Jiang Zhiwei. As the person in charge of the patrol in the outer mansion, no one could find him after he disappeared for a while, so they probably thought he was The inspection went elsewhere.
The next night, Meng Qi took Ruan Yushu on a tour, helping them one by one to familiarize themselves with the terrain of the left-behind mansion.
Zuo Hanfeng's mansion is very large, with winding corridors in many places, lotus ponds reflecting the moon, and towering rockeries. Walking there is like walking through the mountains and rivers.
In the cool breeze, Meng Qi looked at Ruan Yushu, who looked like an ordinary girl next to him. Her cheeks moved slightly, as if she was chewing something.
"Have you noticed that Zhiwei has been preoccupied recently?" He knew that after the trip to Jiangdong, the relationship between the two women became good, almost like best friends.
Ruan Yushu's mouth stopped moving and he swallowed: "She didn't mention it, and I didn't ask."
She has always adhered to the principle of respecting the wishes of others. No matter how good the friendship is, she will not pry into privacy and will naturally say what she wants to say.
"She said she would tell us after the mission is over, so it shouldn't be anything too extraordinary." Meng Qi comforted himself, "She is about to become one with heaven and man. Could it be that she is entangled in her own choice of path?"
"Maybe it's something happening in the Xijian Pavilion, such as giving up some worldly rights and focusing on practicing swordsmanship."
Ruan Yushu said nothing and turned his head to look at Meng Qi. Among the "ordinary" facial features, those eyes were dark and bright, cold and deep, and evocative.
When Meng Qi felt a little uncomfortable, she said calmly: "It's possible."
"Well, there's no point in making random guesses." Meng Qi sensed Ruan Yushu's meaning and took two deep breaths to calm down.
At this time, the sound of the piano came faintly, sad and lingering, almost like a flute.
Meng Qi followed the sound and saw the three-story building in the inner palace, surrounded by parasol trees outside, as if a phoenix was falling.
"Hey, it sounds like Miss Zuo has something girlish to worry about." In front of Ruan Yushu, Meng Qi did not use the derogatory word Fa Chun.
Ruan Yushu paused, listened attentively, and finally said for a while: "The sound of the piano is sincere, it seems to come from the heart, and it doesn't seem to be fake."
"Well, does she really have someone she longs for?" Meng Qi just said it casually, but he never expected to get the approval of the "qin music expert" Ruan Yushu.
Ruan Yushu looked at the lotus pond reflecting the bright moon, thinking as he said: "The sound of the piano sounds sweet and sad, with a lot of hesitation and struggle. Maybe I have fallen in love with someone I shouldn't like..."
"Can you hear this?" Meng Qi asked in astonishment.
"The words in your mouth may be deceiving, but the music that pours out when you are alone will not deceive your heart." Ruan Yushu is as cold as the moon.
"That's it..." Meng Qi chose to believe in the "professionals" and at the same time muttered to himself, wondering what kind of music you would play when you are alone.
He always had an out-of-the-box thinking, so he began to arrange things behind Zuo Yiqian's back: "Could it be that he fell in love with a poor scholar or an ordinary soldier, but was rejected by Liu Bei? He wanted to elope with her, but was afraid of the troubled times outside?"
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"Or fall in love with your enemy and fall in love and kill each other?"
Thanks to watching TV series in his previous life, he knows too many sad and bloody scenes. The words spread infinitely, and Ruan Yushu, who had always been silent when he heard this, couldn't help but twitch the corners of his eyes.
"Enemy..." Meng Qi was suddenly startled and repeated what he just said. His eyes met with Ruan Yushu's, and they both saw the surprise in the other's eyes.
"Could it be that Du Huai was injured?" Meng Qi's voice unconsciously became lower.
Ruan Yushu said "hmm" and seemed to think it was possible.
"Seal the city, all the local snakes are under control, but we still can't find Du Huai Shang, who is seriously injured and affected by the witchcraft. This is simply unbelievable. It's dark under the lamp, it's dark under the lamp. Could it be that Du Huai Shang is related to us? Same, hiding in the left-behind residence..." The more Meng Qi thought about it, the closer he felt to the truth of the matter.
"But this is the enemy who killed his father..." As the legitimate daughter of a wealthy family, Ruan Yushu, a girl who had just turned eighteen, found it incomprehensible and rarely showed a confused expression.
Meng Qi thoughtfully said: "Perhaps when she fell in love, she didn't know the identity of the other party, and it was her father who took the initiative to attack the Red Army, and Du Huaishang was not present, so he was not the one who commanded and took action..."
"I have to go and spy." Meng Qi has always been a man of action. Since he felt that there was something wrong with Zuo Yiqian, he immediately prepared to sneak into the inner palace and climb up the embroidery building.
Ruan Yushu nodded slightly: "I will meet you outside."
Meng Qi had figured out the terrain of the mansion clearly in the past few days, and after briefly judging the current location, he turned into a phantom, walked directly on the lotus leaves, walked through the water, and then quietly climbed over the courtyard wall.
"Midnight, girl's boudoir..." Ruan Yushu muttered in a low voice, seeming to think of some special "occupation".
Following the music of the piano, Meng Qi walked ghostly between the guards, and it didn't take long before he arrived under the embroidered tower.
He knew that there must be a nun-level master beside Zuo Yiqian, and the slightest movement here would arouse Zuo Hanfeng's attention, so he carefully walked around to the shadow corner, pressed his body against the outer wall, and climbed up silently like a gecko. OK.
The small building was shrouded in darkness, with only a dim light coming from one room, mixed with the sound of a piano, like a spring water flowing eastward.
Meng Qi stopped by the window, like a piece of paper stuck to the window, his mind was like a mirror, reflecting everything in the room.
Zuo Yiqian sat behind the desk, her mind wandering, playing the piano casually, just as Ruan Yushu said, her mood seemed sweet and sad.
She drove the nanny next to her to the warm room to rest, not wanting to show her thoughts to others, and stayed alone in the spacious room.
Meng Qi did not make a move, because he felt that Zuo Yiqian had a good secret treasure, which was quite threatening to him, and it would definitely make a big noise and attract Zuo Hanfeng and Yin Lenghui.
He stuck outside, waiting patiently to see if Zuo Yiqian would do anything unusual.
After playing the piano for a long time, Zuo Yiqian sighed faintly, stood up, called the maid in, and helped her undress.
Meng Qi did not want to look at anything inappropriate, so he withdrew his senses and waited for a while. He found that Zuo Yiqian had gone to bed, and the two maids were sleeping in the outer room. In this way, she could no longer do anything secretive, so Meng Qi quietly slid down and returned by a long way.
"Nothing unusual..." He frowned slightly and looked at Ruan Yushu.
"How is her mood?" Ruan Yushu asked the point directly.
Meng Qi described it in detail: "... She must have emotional troubles, but if we focus our attention on her, and finally find that it is a girl's heart that has nothing to do with Du Huaishang, isn't it a waste of time?"
"Anyway, this is the only clue at the moment." Ruan Yushu said coldly.
"That's right." Meng Qi nodded slightly.
Ruan Yushu was telling the truth. Originally, Meng Qi and others planned to find an opportunity to assassinate Zuo Hanfeng, but he always lived in the inner courtyard and didn't know what he was doing. Only Yin Lenghui could get close to him, and even Jiang Shenghong could only report from a distance outside the room, which made it difficult for Meng Qi and others who could not enter the inner courtyard openly to find a good opportunity to act.
Another day passed, Meng Qi and Zhao Heng were inspecting the outer palace, and suddenly saw Jiang Shenghong passing by in a hurry, with a gloomy look and anger in his eyebrows and eyes.
"Commander, what happened?" Meng Qi greeted him with "concern."
Jiang Shenghong slowly exhaled: "Yin Lenghui brought his own leader into the palace, and the master who stayed behind was very happy and welcomed him with open shoes."
The strangers were getting more and more trusted, and they came one after another, which made him feel a great sense of crisis.
"Leader?" Meng Qi said half-truthfully,
The closed-eye leader who could communicate with the "ancestor" also entered the palace?
Not to mention whether there might be other secrets hidden in this matter, the increase in the number of masters alone made the plans of himself and others difficult!
Yin Lenghui is good at calculating in the half-step exterior scene. Even if he is not as good as the Queen Mother of the West, he may be able to beat Jiang Zhiwei in a one-on-one fight. In addition, his witchcraft is strange, so he can at least entangle two people on his side. The leader of the Closed Eyes Sect is about the same strength as him, so it is not easy. Moreover, as a reincarnation, he may have hidden treasures. Just dealing with them and Lan Die will be a bit difficult for his team, not to mention Zuo Hanfeng, who is still a strong man at the exterior scene level.
Even if the tiger is lured away from the mountain, it may only take one of them away.
"Yes, I didn't expect that Yin Lenghui's leader is also in Daning, mysterious and sneaky!" Jiang Shenghong gritted his teeth.
Meng Qi didn't wrap the white cloth strips anymore, and his face was full of scars. He said ferociously: "This kind of sect must have ulterior motives and ulterior motives. We can't let the adults who stay behind suffer. We have to find out what they want to do."
"Yeah." Jiang Shenghong nodded gloomily, tacitly allowing Meng Qi to secretly investigate Yin Lenghui and others.
After Jiang Shenghong left, Meng Qi paced with his hands behind his back, and whispered in secret: "We can't wait any longer. The longer we delay, the more uncertain Zuo Hanfeng will be."
"Two people will separate to lure the tiger away from the mountain, and three people will assassinate Zuo Hanfeng?" Zhao Heng was calm and composed, with a sense of superiority.
"First, 'force' Zuo Yiqian to see if Du Huaishang can be found. He is also an outsider. As long as we find a way to cure him, things will go much more smoothly." Meng Qi did not act rashly because of the tense situation.
"How to force?" Zhao Heng was quite puzzled.
Meng Qi pondered and said: "When Zuo Yiqian goes out to wander around..."
The next day, Zuo Yiqian, who had been bored for a long time, left the house with her nanny and maid.
Meng Qi said to Qi Zhengyan beside him: "Brother Qi, please take advantage of the embroidery building being empty now and hide inside in advance to check if there are any secret passages and secret doors. When Zuo Yiqian comes back, you can spy on her actions."
"Okay." Qi Zhengyan did not refuse.
Meng Qi looked at his serious expressionless face and suddenly laughed: "You can't just enter the boudoir of a lady, Brother Qi, you have to control yourself."
Qi Zhengyan's eyes twitched, and he turned and left.
Meng Qi turned around with a smile, went to the dark, quickly sneaked out of the mansion, changed his clothes, and then put ointment on his face to cover the scar.
Zuo Yiqian wandered aimlessly on the most prosperous street in Daning, picking up small ornaments from time to time and putting them down blankly. Several maids knew that the lady was in a bad mood, so they didn't dare to speak, and could only follow closely with the nanny.
Suddenly, Zuo Yiqian's eyes blurred and she saw a "middle-aged man" with a dog-skin plaster on his face appeared in front of her. He was holding a bamboo pole with a white cloth hanging on it, with the following words written on the front and back:
"Calculate life and death, but not yourself, and make accurate predictions."
"Calculate marriage and fate, but not the heart, and a word will come true."
Zuo Yiqian was about to tell the nanny to drive away the quack, but suddenly saw the other party glance at her and shook his head repeatedly: "Poor, poor, your heart is so delicate, but you gave it to the wrong person."
Zuo Yiqian was struck by lightning and stood there in a daze. When she came to her senses, she saw the middle-aged man with the dog-skin plaster shaking his head and leaving.
“Sir, sir, wait a minute!” she blurted out.