Fu Canglu

Chapter 310 A Fire in Winter
"Is there not a single dude in Hongxiulou?"

"Yes, my lord!"

Yan Xiaoqi had never investigated such a case.

It was as if everyone knew that Sen Luodao would come, so they all made preparations in advance.

There are no gamblers in the gambling house, and there are no clients in the brothel.

This is something even more absurd than the unification of the Northern Wei Dynasty within a year.

So every gambling house, every brothel, all the confessions they get come from those trembling shopkeepers, as well as the trembling fireworks girls.

Not a single suspicious character.

not even one.

The underground of this Thunder City is much cleaner than the snow-covered ground.

Simply pure and impeccable.

This is a very funny thing.

But it's actually a terrible thing.

Yan Xiaoqi laughed, and said softly: "No wonder you were so kind and spared the lives of those soldiers. It turned out that the ground had been washed clean and waited for me to step on it."

The female Yan Wang entered the Hongxiu Building with an indifferent expression.

The answer was as expected.

Every prostitute, every one.

The answers given are extremely concise.

"No."

Only the most concise answer has no loopholes.

Yan Xiaoqi smiled softly, left Hongxiu Tower, and walked in Thunder City. The wind and snow were very heavy, and the female Yan Wang didn't use any external force, and let the heavy snow fall on her body, covering the formed spider webs.

She looked in the direction of the City Lord's Mansion, and in the vast night, there was a red-robed woman holding a lantern, standing in front of the City Lord's Mansion, with an expressionless face, looking at herself.

The female Hades muttered the woman's name several times: "Liu Confucian scholar"

He finally smiled and shook his head.

Sen Luodao's spies around him came back from an investigation.

"Report to my lord!"

"The 72 inns have all been checked, and there are no suspicious persons!"

"All the casinos have been checked, and there are no suspicious persons!"

"All brothels have been checked, and there are no suspicious persons!"

"The gatekeeper nobles in Thunder City knocked on doors from door to door, and those young and old masters all denied having any contact with strangers."

Yan Xiaoqi nodded thoughtfully, looked again at the woman in the red robe with a hazy face in the distance, and understood why Liu Rushi was able to spend his days quietly huddled in the city lord's mansion.

It turned out that the entire Thunder City had already been twisted into a single rope by her.

Whether it is the surface or underground, under the high pressure of Sen Luodao, they are all standing on the same front.

What the City Lord Liu did was to gently push people's hearts.

Yan Xiaoqi knew that the follow-up of her trip to Thunder City was destined to be fruitless.

She also knew that the two people she wanted to check were probably huddled in an unknown corner.

Manpower is sometimes exhausted.

There are things Mori can't do.

She can kill a thousand by mistake and never let one go.

But there is no way to face a whole silent city.

Yan Xiaoqi sighed softly, smoothed her hair, and looked around.

With the closed doors and even the candles in the lanterns extinguished, Thunder City fell into dead silence and deep sleep at this time.

She knew that behind those windows, there were many sleepless eyes staring at her.

Yan Xiaoqi saw that the figure standing on the city lord's mansion had already left.

"Let's go."

The female Hades said softly, "I'm going back."

"My lord, don't we want to go door-to-door and check?"

Logically speaking, Sen Luodao does have this power.

Yan Xiaoqi shook his head: "It's pointless."

The woman in the cobweb black robe got on her horse and calmly left the city gate first.

The snow is majestic.

Mori Dao came very suddenly, and went even more decisively.

"You still can't bear it after all?"

".Yes."

"But you're much smarter than I thought."

"Of course I won't be so stupid as to go directly to your mansion and knock on the door."

The fourth day after Mori Michi left.

Xiao Buyi's injuries were almost healed, and there was no problem in going on his way normally.

Yi Xiao thought for a long time, and finally found Liu Rushi.

"There are many ways to find someone." His Highness took a sip of tea and said solemnly, "There are even more ways to find the Lord of Thunder City."

"for example?"

The man behind the screen smiled.

"For example. Just knock on the door of your city lord's mansion." Yi Xiao lowered his eyebrows and smiled, and said, "In this case, if you are seen by the eyeliner left by Sen Luodao, you should be labeled as a 'rebellious Wei' , was sent to the Western Regions by the men of the Cao family."

"Or... come directly to the Red Sleeve Building." His Highness paused slightly, and said mockingly: "Yan Xiaoqi of Sen Luo Dao braved the wind and snow to enter the city that night, but finally found nothing. He focused on the brothels and gambling houses in Thunder City. These should now be It's all your place."

The person behind the screen hummed lightly, smiled without saying a word.

"This is indeed an incredible thing." Yi Xiao thought for a while, and said sincerely: "The power in your hands is greater than I imagined."

"You don't really think that I do nothing but drink every day like the outside said?"

A white jade crisp hand was stretched out from behind the screen, the index finger and thumb were twitched slightly, and a ball of blazing Yuanli flames sprang out. The owner of the crisp hand smiled and said: "Actually, besides these, I also practice in normal times."

Yi Xiao took a deep breath: "Miss Liu, I want to leave the city."

The flame of the crisp hand was extinguished.

Liu Rushi gave a slender and soft hum, and asked, "Why didn't you come to me before?"

Yi Xiao didn't speak.

"I am in Hongxiu Tower every day, and the song I play is the song "Feng Xi Ming". I don't believe you don't know that I am here." Liu Rushi said lightly: "Or did you say that you were afraid before?"

His Highness thought for a moment, then nodded.

He was indeed afraid.

I'm afraid it's all a game.

Liu Rushi was personally dispatched to Thunder City by Xuan Shangyu, and became a city lord of the 37th city by airborne. Who knows what the purple-robed master is planning?
When the door opened, Yi Xiao once thought in a trance, is this inviting you into the urn, or is it a nostalgia for old love?

He believed in the latter more.

But the former has to be speculated with the worst malice.

Liu Rushi knocked on the table behind the screen with his own hands, making two crisp sounds.

She cleared her throat, and the syllables she spit out were still crisp.

"If you believe me, the servant of the Ministry of Punishment will pass by Lei Ting tomorrow, and you can leave after opening the city for half a day." Liu Rushi said calmly: "I don't guarantee whether there are Sen Luo Dao's ambushes outside the city, but I can put my own I will lend you the city owner's carriage."

Yi Xiao's expression was complicated: "Then what should you do?"

Liu Rushi smiled indifferently: "When I let you enter the city, you were already being watched by Sen Luodao. Are you afraid of these troubles?"

His Highness remained silent.

Liu Rushi said softly: "The heavy snow hasn't stopped yet."

The meaning of this sentence could not be more obvious.

This storm is still sweeping through the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Yi Xiao wants to leave Thunder City calmly, tomorrow is definitely not a good time.

The longer he stays here, the more suspicious Liu Rushi becomes.

Sen Luodao is just suspicious now.

When they come to Thunder City again after checking the northern city, Yi Xiao will face a real crisis.

You can hide for a while, but you can't hide for a lifetime.

Yi Xiao looked up with a complex expression, looking at the woman behind the screen.

At that time, I'm afraid it will implicate the kindly rescued Miss Liu.

Liu Rushi calmly said: "Tomorrow at noon, I will open the city gate and let the execution department enter the city. You hide in the carriage, and no one will doubt your identity on the road. You will leave on your own after a hundred miles. There is no need to worry about other things. After this journey, Whether you can return to Qiliang alive or not has nothing to do with me."

Yi Xiao took a deep breath and said seriously, "Thank you Miss Liu."

The woman behind the screen just waved her hand.

But he didn't even smile.

Yan Xiaoqi has been waiting outside Thunder City for five days.

The female Hades complexion is quite indifferent.

She was sitting alone on a black horse, her black robe half-clothed with cobwebs fluttered, and her black hair was curled up in the north to cover her sight, forcing her to tuck her hair back with her hands.

Yan Xiaoqi thought distraughtly, if His Majesty hadn't said that he liked his long hair, he would have cut off these things that were in the way.

"The people from the Ministry of Punishment are almost here."

There was a message from a well-hidden spy behind him.

Yan Xiaoqi squinted his eyes, and saw clearly the line of teams looming in the wind and snow.

The servant of the Ministry of Punishment has already exiled these prisoners, and today he will lead these empty shackles back to Thunder City, and then rest.

I waited for five days for this moment.

Sen Luodao chased people, playing a game of cat and mouse.

If the mouse hides in the hole, let's see if he can hold his breath.

If you can't, and show your head uncontrollably, then there is only one word.

dead word.

The heavy gate of Thunder City hovered open, and the sentencing department entered the city.

In the wind and snow, there was a small black spot, and it couldn't wait for all the troops from the Ministry of Justice to enter the city, so it rushed out of Thunder City against the general direction.

That was Liu Rushi's exclusive compartment of the City Lord's Mansion.

The two red-maned steeds leading in front of the carriage were full of energy, trampling the wind and snow, and their horseshoes were brisk, dragging the carriage very quickly.

It's just that the carriage seems a little heavy, and it doesn't look like there is only one person living there.

Yan Xiaoqi sneered, narrowed his eyes and stared at the carriage, and slowly took the reins.

Those two were very cunning mice.

It's a pity that Sen Luodao is a more cunning cat.

She followed the two mice with great interest, and followed them for dozens of miles.

The female Yama's tailing skills are quite clever, and this carriage didn't notice it at all.

She followed for about seventy or eighty miles, and the carriage was about to enter a snowy forest with steep mountains.

Yan Xiaoqi's face was indifferent, she lowered her body, accelerated her speed, and the black horse on her crotch rushed forward like a frightened horse, revealing her figure in an instant, and when she passed by the carriage in an instant, the female Yan Wang lightly pressed her palm on the edge of the carriage.

In an instant, the two red-maned steeds hit the ground with their front hooves, kneeling and smashing to the ground!

Yan Xiaoqi, who escaped with no expression on his face, came to the roof of the carriage.

She stood up slowly.

It's like a catty falling.

The two steeds neighed in grief and anger, struggled frantically, unable to get up.

The female Yama narrowed her eyes and lowered her head.

The carriage vibrated slightly.

A woman came out of the carriage.

Liu Rushi, who was wearing a wine jug tied around his waist in a red robe, walked out of the carriage slowly with a stack of thick and yellowed scrolls in his arms, raised his head to look at the female Hades who was stepping on the roof of the carriage, and asked with a smile, "Your Highness, why are you so unreasonable today?" If you have leisure time, you have been with the city lord for so long, and you are afraid that the city lord will be assassinated?"

Yan Xiaoqi's expression was rather ugly.

She stomped her feet slightly, and the whole carriage was torn apart.

A carriage full of ancient Chinese and old books was revealed, and was instantly torn apart by Hades' aura.

It was snowing heavily.

And scrolls.

Liu Rushi rubbed his index finger and thumb, held up a scroll, lighted a fire with difficulty, ignited it, and then used the fire to start a fire.

Books were burned on the spot.

Liu Rushi rubbed his face, let out a breath, and squatted down, not caring at all that the books in the carriage were torn apart by the air machine.

Because these are meant to be burned.

It's just that she said with a sad face: "Your Highness, it doesn't matter if you ruin my book. I just wanted to find a remote place to experience the pleasure of burning the piano and cooking the crane, but this carriage is destroyed, and you have to send me back." of."

Yan Xiaoqi's complexion was frosty.

She looked at the fire rising from the snow.

A fire in winter.

Yan Xiaoqi lowered his eyebrows, knowing that he had fallen into a trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain, the two mice should have already left here, and it would be too late to rush back.

It's just that Yan Xiaoqi couldn't figure out what this woman was planning after running so far with a car full of books.
Liu Rushi smiled and looked at His Royal Highness who ran for nothing, and said softly: "It's just for fun."

(End of this chapter)