The Legend of Swing Sword and Execution of Demons

Chapter 678
Before it was time for lunch, Mo Li had changed back into the attire he had before going out and appeared in front of everyone again.

An hour and a half was enough for her to find some clues from the Li Mansion and its surroundings.

As she said, it is not difficult to find out whether there is any connection between the Li family and the Red Clothes Sect.

Li En was originally from a mediocre family, how can he achieve the current splendid family background?
In this world, it is not easy to run a business without a background and feed a family.

But once the business is to be opened up, many joints need to be opened up. In short, it is to have a good relationship with black and white.

Interestingly, in the business field in Zhongzhou, the joints on the white road need to be dredged secretly, while the black road is just the opposite.

Moreover, most of the government officials only need yellow and white things to clear the way, but they are closely related to the cooperation with the forces of the rivers and lakes.

In this way, the Li Mansion, which not only runs rice shops, wineries, and tea gardens, but also deals in silk and cloth, must be guarded on the road.

The gang on this road is called the Linbei Gang.

The Linbei Gang had never joined the Kyushu, Four Seas and Two Leagues that were at their peak in the Spring and Autumn Period.

In fact, this third-rate small gang does not have enough strength to become a member of Kyushu Universal.

But it has been able to gain a firm foothold in southern Fujian for nearly [-] years.

Everyone in the local area is not well-known, but as long as they have been on the road, all of them will mention the name of the Linbei Gang.

Mo Li didn't dig too deep, so he found out that the line behind the Linbei Gang was controlled by the Red Clothes Teacher.

After the collapse of the Red Clothes Sect, the Linbei Gang did not show many signs of defeat.

However, the matter is confidential, I am afraid that only the middle and high-level members of the gang know the interests and interests between the gang and the Red Clothes Sect, and these people should now try to erase the traces of their contacts with the Red Clothes Sect.

However, if Yulinlong and Sha Qing come, even if the Lin Bei Gang no longer wants to have anything to do with the Red Clothes Sect, they will inevitably succumb to their oppression by force.

There are three things that Mo Li has yet to verify.

Did Yulin Dragon rendezvous with Sha Qing?
Did the two hook up with the Linbei Gang?

Are the two hiding in the Li Mansion?

The last two points can also be done together.

After these years of development, the Li Mansion has undoubtedly become a cash cow for the Linbei Gang.

Unless there are restaurants blooming everywhere like Zui Hongyan, no gang can give up fat like Li's mansion when it is not a time of life and death!

Mo Li has been able to confirm that the stalking method used on Yulin Long was discovered, and the reason why it was not removed may be that Yulin Long wanted to use tricks to lure them into the bait.

What's more, with Yulinlong's intelligence, if he can get on line with the Linbei gang first, then it is logical to let the Li family contribute.

If he hid in the Li Mansion first, the Lin Bei Gang would not be able to turn a blind eye.

Mo Li has done his best in the limited time.

To dig deep, it takes time.

For the rest of the day, if you don't sleep and rest to investigate, you will have plenty of time.

Second, it depends on luck.

Bad luck, maybe there will be no return.

Fortunately, the east is not bright, but the west is bright.

Mo Li worked so hard, the others didn't just stay in the inn and wait.

Bing Yi and Meng Fang took the five girls to walk around the town and got something.

The seven went to the Eight Treasures Ink Clay Branch and the Red Bean Embroidery Workshop that Xiaoan mentioned.

Both locations are operating in an orderly manner as usual.

The two stewards who were acquainted with Xiao An bluntly said that no one from above came to visit or received any secret messages recently.

The older manager of the inkpad workshop obviously sensed something unusual from the uninvited visit and inquiry from Xiao'an and others.

Pulling Xiao An aside, asking a few consecutive questions made Xiao An completely overwhelmed, and finally found out the truth behind it.

——Their big boss behind the scenes has collapsed.

The old steward who asked the answer himself was also kind, and reciprocated by telling Xiaoan what he had observed not long ago.

It turned out that after Li's mansion released the news of salt application, the old steward just happened to see three officials from the yamen heading to the east of the city together.

According to the old steward's thinking, they should go to Li's house to verify the authenticity of the salt news.

The Li Mansion wants to apply salt, but the yamen may not want to share the pie. After all, this matter is a big deal in the town, and the government has to be responsible for maintaining order in the town. excusable.

But when Xiao An relayed the news to Bing Yi and others, it immediately aroused everyone's vigilance.

Once the government intervenes, if they want to have evil thoughts about the Li family, it will not be just a matter of the world.

That is a blatant confrontation with the government!
At this time, Bing Yi suddenly realized why the matter of applying salt was not rushed for a while, but was made public in advance with great fanfare.

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"Jade Loach dares to stay in the town, it has nothing to fear!"

Meng Fangzi took a big mouthful of noodles, wet his beard and muttered.

From the bottom of my heart, I am dissatisfied with these calculating and dirty-hearted people.

"In the end, it is the intellect who can be entrusted with important tasks in the Red Clothes Sect. As long as you have enough resources, you can cause a lot of trouble."

Bing Yi swallowed a piece of duck meat and gave a fair evaluation.

In the noodle restaurant, eight people sat at two tables eating pasta and whispering frequently.

At the beginning, the topics of several people were mainly on the pasta and duck.

The water noodles in the noodle shop paired with salted duck meat should be a local snack. However, due to the impact of the salt cut off, the noodle soup is extremely bland, and even a little bit of salty and sweet taste can be tasted from the duck meat.

Later, the topic gradually turned to Yulin Dragon.

The eight of them didn't mind being heard by the owner of the noodle shop, the staff or other guests.

Since they entered Longxi Town, they have turned from the dark to the bright.

Regardless of whether it is the Linbei Gang or the Li Mansion, there are only a lot of eyeliners in the town.

The whereabouts of the eight people were probably exposed under the eyes of Yulin Long.

And Yulin Dragon is always hiding in the dark.

In this way, the eight people don't need to worry too much about their actions.

As long as you don't show your malice towards the Li family and Shi Yan in public, you won't attract the attention and hatred of ordinary people.

As long as you don't jump into the thunder pool of Li's mansion, you won't encounter any troubles.

But those eyeliners who are supposed to exist see what they see and hear what they hear, but it is difficult to give back information in a timely manner.

It's just because the higher the frequency of sending information to Yulinlong, the more likely it is to show one's feet, and the easier it is for the eight people to follow the clues to find out how to deal with it.

Therefore, in the eyes of the eight people, after Yulin Long sacrificed the trick of Li Fu's salt application, he probably would not send people to follow him before tomorrow, let alone make any superfluous actions. The loss outweighs the gain.

Tomorrow's application of salt is equivalent to a letter of war.

If everyone in Sanrenju dares to pick it up, they will come tomorrow to decide the outcome.

Before this, if the eight people hadn't made any aggressive moves, and Yulin Dragon couldn't kill the enemy, how could they care about how they thumped?

"So, in fact, we can't go to the place where everyone can go tomorrow, or it's useless to go."

After Meng Fang sucked up the noodles and drank the soup, he seemed to have an epiphany, and said a sentence that was not difficult for everyone to understand, although it was awkward.

That's right, tomorrow's Li's Mansion will become the center of Longxi Town, and it will be crowded with people at that time. They will have no chance to do anything there, and if they do, they will get even more bloody.

Mo Li, who still had half a bowl of noodles left, hesitated and said, "Perhaps the battlefield Yulin Dragon chose for us is not there."

Naturally, it refers to the Li Mansion.

"Damn it, we've been dragged in again." Meng Fang was angry and wanted to slap his chopsticks down, thinking that there were still many guests eating, and slapping the table would definitely scare others, so he stopped his momentum before putting down his chopsticks, and put down his chopsticks He crossed his arms and sulked, "This person is really dirty!"

Although Bing Yi was also bored, she was able to hold her breath and asked: "When Ah Li just went there, did you find any traces of a secret room there?"

Mo Li said: "The secret room is set up in a secret place, and it is difficult to gain anything without in-depth investigation, but the big family always has various considerations, so there is nothing wrong with setting up some secret rooms."

Bing Yi nodded and said: "That's right, it should be considered according to the fact that Yulin Long is hiding in the secret room."

At this time, a slightly hoarse voice timidly said: "If there is a secret room, will there be a secret passage?"

"Secret passages?"

Everyone was stunned when they heard the words, and then searched for the source of the voice, and found that it was Xiaoying, who was the least talkative.

Bing Yi agreed: "Yes, we can't miss the secret way."

Xiao An and Xiao Lian gave a thumbs up to their sisters from the dyeing workshop.

Mrs. Wan Teng, Meng Fang and Nangong Hanyu thought about the use of the secret way according to the words.

But Mo Li's mind wandered for a while, thinking about the scene when he first met the three girls in the dyeing workshop and the details of getting along with everyone in the past few days.

Xiao An was abducted into the private property of the Red Clothes School when she was still young, and she is also the most beautiful among the three.

Because of this, although I have stayed in three places similar to dyeing workshops and have mastered good skills, I have never been able to be "promoted" and transferred to the branch directly under the Hongyi branch. in charge.

Years of confinement made her learn to be submissive, but after encountering Bing Yi and others who regained her freedom, she seemed to worry about gains and losses, and she often behaved too cautiously.

Xiao Lian was the one with the most direct and simple thinking among the three girls. She was sold into a dyeing workshop with her own sister as an apprentice, but within two months, her younger sister, who was more lively and beautiful, was tortured to death.

Xiao Lian, who only learned of her sister's death many days later, has been silently waiting for the opportunity of revenge ever since.

Today, the murderer who killed her sister may die, but Xiao Lian can't let go of this hatred, she just wants to bring more remnants of the red-clothed sect to bury her sister.

Xiaoying was only abducted to the dyeing workshop a few months ago. In just a few months, with her ingenuity, she quickly became an apprentice from a handyman, and will become the next batch of dancers after the same batch of dancers are transferred away. Ji.

The days in the dyeing workshop were smooth sailing for Xiaoying, but after the arrival of Yulinlong, everything was broken.

Xiaoying was one of the six girls who were called into the quiet room on the first day after Yulinlong's arrival.

She suffered so much pain that day, but she still couldn't make a sound, and finally passed out from exhaustion, and was carried out of the quiet room by other sisters.

But everyone was frightened a lot. When going out, they accidentally fell down and accidentally bruised her forehead.

Even though Sha Qing kindly helped to apply the medicine, she was not healed properly, so the injury on her back has not healed yet, and her eyes are blurred due to the injury on her forehead.

Even so, Xiaoying considered herself lucky, because there were sisters who were out of breath after leaving the quiet room.

Since she is still alive by chance, she will avenge the revenge of the sisters!

Xiao An is meticulous but too shy.

Xiao Lian has a carefree personality, but she is very tolerant.

Only Xiaoying has been relatively dull.

Now that this sharp opinion suddenly appeared, Mo Li felt an indescribable feeling.

Too obtrusive?
No, Xiaoying should just talk less, and maybe have a keen insight.

Thinking of this, Mo Li's eyes involuntarily stopped on Xiaoying's face.

I didn't see anything unusual about the girl, but I could only think of her poor experience from the faded scar on her forehead.

And those slightly lifeless eyes...

Mo Li narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he could see an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

"I can't go to the Li residence."

"Secret way, secret way..."

Bing Yi's whisper beside him brought back Mo Li's divergent thoughts.

Mo Li shook his head lightly, trying to dismiss the unreasonable guesses, but a figure that shouldn't exist here appeared in his mind.

Bing Yi repeatedly chanted the two sets of key words in her heart, suddenly her eyes lit up!
He said firmly: "It seems that Yulin Dragon has prepared another place to welcome us."

Mrs. Wan Teng also followed her train of thought and said, "While leading the people in the town to gather in one place, at the same time fleeing in the opposite direction through secret passages, so as to get rid of us?"

Mo Li said: "It doesn't necessarily mean fleeing in the opposite direction, except going out to sea, no matter which way you flee, the risk of being caught up by us is not small."

Nangong Hanyu clapped his hands and said, "It's Qiaonan Wharf! Although Qiaonan Wharf is a small boat that can only go offshore, you can go north to Zhanggang, and when you get to Zhanggang, the jade loach can go away!"

Bing Yi confirmed the three women's conjectures, and then checked the gaps and made up for the omissions, saying: "But the South Bridge Wharf is on the other side of the river. If the secret road is dug across the river, it will no longer be a secret road. Everyone in the town must know about it!"

Mrs. Wan Teng said: "The secret road cannot be dug across the river, so the exit should be near the bridgehead?"

Bing Yi said: "The area around the bridgehead is wide, so we can't spread our hands apart."

Meng Fang listened to a few people talking to each other, and the mystery in front of him seemed to be cleared up. He relieved his depression, and said proudly: "Anyway, the jade loach always boards the boat at the South Bridge Pier, so we will be at the South Bridge Pier." The only way to wait for him!"

Nangong Hanyu shook his head again and again and said: "The area south of the bridge has complex terrain and many fruit forests. It is suitable for ambush. I'm afraid it's a self-inflicted trap."

Meng Fang waved his hand and said, "Don't be afraid! I'll cover you!"

Bing Yi denied: "It's really wrong."

Meng Fang dejectedly said: "Then what should I do?"

At this time, Xiaoying's timid and hoarse voice sounded again: "How about we just stay on the bridge?"

Meng Fang clapped his hands and applauded: "Xiaoying's idea is good, that loach has to cross the bridge if he wants to slip, so let's block him on the bridge!"

Everyone pondered for a while and found no better idea, so they agreed with this view, and the rest of the details will be referred back to the inn.

No one noticed that after Xiaoying spoke again, Mo Li fell into deep thought.

After a long time, the guess seemed to be self-consistent, and the corner of Mo Li's mouth curled up into an imperceptible smile!

(End of this chapter)