auspicious time has come

Chapter 71
"It's just an ordinary tattoo. There is no history worth mentioning." Cheng Ping said as calmly as possible: "It's just a tattoo done on a whim when I was young."

"Really." Heng Yu looked at him: "But this tattoo, I have seen exactly the same—"

Cheng Ping's eyes changed slightly, and he asked in a concentrated voice, "When, where, and who?"

"I'm the one asking Uncle Ping a question right now." The girl reminded softly.

Cheng Ping's expression was serious: "This is the question you said before, and you wanted me to answer—"

Heng Yu nodded lightly: "Exactly, I just wanted to ask, but since Uncle Ping is leaving Yingzhou, I have to plan for a long time."

Cheng Ping looked at her steadily.

Therefore, what she did on a whim and willful, what her dandyism turned back on her word...it was all fake!

It was simply to make him let go of his guard so that he could sign that paper contract with her!
He should have thought about it a long time ago, a person who can find sister Yuan just by deducing the portrait must be a thoughtful person, and how can he really be just a simple dandy!
It's just that he would never have thought that a lady from the capital's official family would actually come here for the tattoo on his body...

But the official lady, after all, is just an official lady, even if she has some tricks, she takes it for granted——

Cheng Ping sneered.

"Miss Ji, do you really think that just a mere deed of selling oneself can trap me and let me know everything?"

Did she ever think that selling the body contract would not be able to restrain him, and it might even drive him into a hurry and bring her the disaster of killing her...

"Of course I don't think so. The so-called contract of sale is just to let Uncle Ping have a name to stay with me." The girl looked at him, her black and clear eyes were full of trust: "I value nature It’s Uncle Ping’s kindness and gratitude, he is kind and righteous, and he will do what he says.”

"..." This seems to be more and more naive but full of sense of moral kidnapping, which makes Cheng Ping's face uncomfortable for a moment.

However, the murderous aura that had just surfaced was immediately dissipated...

He was not born a wicked person, and what he was facing at this time was another weak girl who was kind to him——

And it can be seen from this that this little girl knows how to handle people's hearts!
But this is so unusual...

"Miss Ji's kindness, I will definitely repay you. But regarding this tattoo, Cheng, an ordinary warrior, really has nothing to say."

Heng Yu sighed: "Sure enough, it still doesn't make sense..."

Cheng Ping frowned slightly - really?
"Fortunately, I have the foresight." The girl praised herself happily, and said, "I added something to Uncle Ping's tea earlier——"

what? !

Cheng Ping's face tightened, and he looked at the empty tea bowl that he had just drank down in one gulp.

"You...poisoned the tea?" He suddenly raised his eyes to look at the girl, his eyes were murderous and cold.

"Don't be afraid, as long as you take the antidote for this poison on time every month, your life will be safe." The girl said kindly, "Peace is the most important thing in everything, and I don't want to hurt Uncle Ping's life."

Cheng Ping was so angry that his teeth were chattering—what valued peace at all!
Just now he felt that the person in front of him was weak... He was probably not a fool, who had a huge misunderstanding of the word "weakness"!
At this moment, he suddenly felt an unspeakable cramping pain in his abdomen.

The poison that needs to be suppressed by taking antidote every month...

In addition to being angry, Cheng Ping felt a long-lost fear in his heart, and subconsciously blurted out and asked in a low voice: "What is the relationship between you and the Dark Moon Tower!"

Hengyu's eyes flickered slightly: "It turns out that this tattoo is from the 'Dark Moon Tower'..."

She looked at Cheng Ping with a gloomy face, "According to this, anyone with this tattoo is a killer in the Dark Moon Tower?"

Cheng Ping stared at her closely.

The girl thought about it and continued: "But you have been staying at Meng's house since more than [-] years ago. Even if you left Yingzhou, it was all to find the whereabouts of Lady Jiayuan—so, you probably Have you already left the Dark Moon Building, or... defected?"

After thinking about it, he said again: "But you joined the army before and have been fighting under the command of the Northern Army. How and when did you join the killer organization? After thinking about it, it seems that there is only one possibility, that is After you and Mrs. Jiayuan’s father were injured on the battlefield, they were not captured by the enemy, but fell into the hands of the Dark Moon Building, and they took the initiative or were forced to join them in order to survive—”

Therefore, after the news of Uncle Meng's death on the battlefield was reported for the first time, the answer should lie in the years when he "disappeared" in front of people.

These are her guesses based on the secret investigation of Cheng Ping and the old events that Aunt Meng talked about that day.

Cheng Ping didn't say a word, but his heart was already filled with turbulent waves.

At this moment, he no longer dared to treat the girl in front of him with slight contempt.

Heng Yu roughly got the answer from his reaction, and said slowly at this time: "These are not important to me, and I don't intend to ask more about the past between you and Uncle Meng's family. I just want to know one thing, behind your back— — No, who is the owner of the Dark Moon Building? Or, who is the owner of the Dark Moon Building behind the scenes?"

Cheng Ping clenched his ten fingers: "...Why do you want to investigate this matter?"

At this time, a group of gray clouds in the sky slowly covered the golden sun, and the sky and the earth were gloomy, and the study room was also a little dark.

In the darkness, Cheng Ping could not clearly see the expression on the girl's eyes when she lowered her eyes, but her voice was low but clear, and she said word by word: "Because I must avenge myself."

revenge?

"This is the real purpose of your coming to Yingzhou..." He looked at Hengyu, and realized later: "You have already found out that the clue of the tattoo is on me, so you approached the Meng family and agreed to find it for the eldest lady. Female……"

From the time she came to Yingzhou, she has been doing it every step of the way!

"That's not all." Hengyu said truthfully: "It's true to be close deliberately, but to help find Lady Jiayuan, I wanted to do my best because I felt the same way—at first I was not sure about this matter, and I didn't know how to use it. I asked Uncle Ping for a reward for this matter. Speaking of which, Uncle Ping knelt down in front of me on his own initiative and promised to repay me that day."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "According to this, it seems that I have forged a good relationship with pure kindness, and made Uncle Ping voluntarily repay the favor by inadvertently inserting willows... I think this should be convincing people with virtue, what I did Huatan, right?"

"..." Cheng Ping's expression changed when he heard this, and he couldn't bear it anymore and said: "In the past, peace was the most important thing, and later, virtue was the most important thing... If Cheng hadn't been poisoned by this poison, I'm afraid he would really believe Miss Ji. Bullshit!"

"What are you talking about..." Heng Yu sighed: "In fact, even if Uncle Ping is unwilling to cooperate and solve my doubts for me, I should definitely not force it, let alone poison—"

Cheng Ping: ...So she also knew that what she was doing was not a human thing?
"But I always have to worry about my own life... After all, Uncle Ping heard my secret today. If Uncle Ping is allowed to leave now, the purpose of my trip to Yingzhou will be revealed, and it may be a catastrophe. Therefore, this time Poisoning is really a last resort."

What a last resort...

Cheng Ping secretly took a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down.

But he couldn't bear the shameless man and said: "Since Uncle Ping has heard my secret, it should be fair to exchange his own secret, isn't it?"

What kind of nonsense is this?
What does it mean to hear her secret - did he want to hear it on his own initiative!
Cheng Ping was about to grind his teeth until he couldn't bear it anymore, and stood up abruptly.

After writing the desk, Heng Yu also got up from the chair.

The girl's figure was slim, and her tone was more frank: "In the end, I just want to find an enemy. Since Uncle Ping has already left the Dark Moon Tower, it has nothing to do with this matter. You and I are not enemies."

Cheng Ping looked at her, and the girl's eyes turned red at some point.

Cheng Ping loosened his clenched fist a little.

Yes, he and she are not enemies.

only……

"I don't want to look back on the old things, and I don't want to be involved in trouble again."

"Don't worry, Uncle Ping, since I know how hard it is to keep a secret, I will definitely keep it for Uncle Ping. I've always been very good at keeping secrets—"

He is very good at deceiving people, right?

For example, his eyes are red at this time, so he might be acting again!
Acting both hard and soft, unscrupulous, full of nonsense...

Besides, he is very good at keeping secrets, and it is clearly a threat between the lines!

Even though Cheng Ping was dissatisfied, he could clearly see the situation in front of him.

At the moment, it is obviously beyond his control whether to get involved in the incident again...

Besides, her life is still in her hands!
Cheng Ping gritted his teeth bitterly, and finally sat back and said with a straight face: "I don't know much, so I may not be able to help you."

"Even if it is a small thing, I am still grateful." After writing the case, Heng Yu raised his hand and saluted him deeply.

Cheng Ping's face softened a little before he knew it, and after a while, he finally spoke.

"...Your conjecture just now is roughly correct. It's just that Brother Meng and I were indeed captured by the Khitan people, and were forced into the Dark Moon Tower because of this."

Heng Yu also sat back slowly, and couldn't help being slightly startled when he heard the words: "Is the owner of the Dark Moon Tower a Khitan? And is it related to the Khitan army?"

She hardly ever thought of the possibility.

"It was true in the past, but that was more than 20 years ago—" Cheng Ping said: "As far as I know, the previous owner of the Dark Moon Tower was a member of the Khitan royal family, the second son of the former Khitan Khan The so-called Dark Moon Tower is the dead man he secretly raised... Later, the Khitan prince died in a strange way, and the Dark Moon Tower had no owner, so it was divided into two factions to fight each other for power..."

Cheng Ping recalled that period of the past: "At that time, the building was in chaos. Brother Meng and I took advantage of this opportunity to steal the antidote that can cure the poison in our body, and we were able to escape."

But in the process of risking and stealing the medicine, Brother Meng was seriously injured in order to save him. In addition, he was tortured and suffered in the building for several years.

Thinking of the past, Cheng Ping's tone was also heavy: "After escaping, brother Meng and I were afraid of causing trouble again, so we never mentioned this old incident to anyone."

Heng Yu frowned slightly: "That is to say, since then, the Dark Moon Tower has changed hands? Who were the leaders of the two factions competing for power at that time?"

This happened more than 20 years ago, and what happened to Ah Weng was eight years ago...

So what she wants to find out is who later took over the power of Dark Moon Building.

"Brother Meng and I escaped, and the outcome of the contest between the two parties was decided. The person who gained power was originally the deputy landlord in the building. The Khitan prince of Yuelou died at the hands of this person..."

After Cheng Ping said, he also stated everything he knew: "At that time, Brother Meng and I pretended to join this person's camp, so we were able to secretly steal the antidote, and it was at that time that I heard some sporadic things from this person's confidant. News. After drinking once, he once heard the confidant reveal that Tao is the deputy landlord who has secretly invested in Sheng Ren. He doesn't seem to know who it is. He only knows that the other party is a high-ranking person in the Da Sheng Dynasty..."

Hengyu's eyes finally stirred up waves.

A high-ranking and powerful person in the Dasheng Dynasty!

She clasped her fingers tightly and asked, "This happened 23 years ago, right?"

Cheng Ping made some calculations, looked at her, and nodded: "That's right."

Faces flashed across Heng Yu's mind.

23 years ago, someone who could be called a high-ranking and powerful person...

When she first learned about this, her thoughts were too complicated for a while, and now she closed her eyes and calmed down: "Did Uncle Ping get any other clues after that?"

"After escaping from the dead and leaving the Dark Moon Building, I wanted to avoid the eyes and ears of the building, so I never tried to find out what happened after that."

Cheng Ping said that, paused for a moment, and said again: "However... this time on the way back to Yingzhou, I vaguely noticed traces of their activities—"

Heng Yu suddenly raised his eyes to look at him: "How did Uncle Ping find out?"

"I stumbled across the secret codes they used to communicate secretly. Although it has changed slightly from 23 years ago, it is not difficult to distinguish."

Hengyu's hands were covered with cold sweat.

She wasn't afraid, but she finally found out what she had been investigating for many years!

For many years, the only clue she had was the tattoo pattern, and the most feared thing was that this tiny clue would also disconnect and disappear... But now it can be seen that even after many years, this organization still exists and is even active!

If temporarily ignoring the possibility of this killer organization changing hands again, then, for so many years, she has been in the open and the other party is in the dark—even her every move is within the sight of the other party.

It's not that she hasn't imagined this possibility, so all these years she has only been secretly investigating the tattoo, and there has never been any suspicion of the truth of A Weng's death on the surface of the family... The reason for being so cautious is that It's because I don't know who the real enemy is, and I'm afraid of scaring the snake when I don't know how to guard against it, and I'm afraid that the big revenge will not be reported and the truth will cause trouble again.

Looking at it now, it is right to be cautious—those eyes, perhaps, have been watching them for eight years, and even want to wait for an opportunity...

This time these people reappeared in Beidi, so it's hard to say whether they came for other things or for her——

"This group of people are vicious and ruthless. They are very comparable. It's better not to provoke them." Seeing the girl's overly calm expression at this time, Cheng Ping somehow regretted telling the story.

"I must avenge this revenge, and besides—" the girl drooped her eyes, raised her hand to grind the ink, her movements were unhurried, and her voice was the same: "Eight years ago, they killed me, Aunt. Eight years later, I can't Let them have a chance to hurt my family again. Poisonous snakes hide in the dark, and turning a blind eye is deceiving yourself and waiting to die.

Therefore, they must die. "

(End of this chapter)