Chapter 54: Scholar Yang Linqing
"do not move!"
Cao Jinxing moved very quickly. He stretched out his hand in mid-air and grabbed Huang Fangling. With his other hand, he quickly summoned Xuepo and stabbed the sword into the cliff!
laugh!
The two of them were hanging on the cliff.
Beneath me is a mighty river rushing by.
"It was really dangerous..."
Only then did Cao Jinxing heave a sigh of relief. A thin layer of sweat appeared on his forehead. He thought to himself, "We almost had to salvage her body..."
This person was able to refine the Creation Pill, and he died just like that. What a pity.
“…”
Huang Fangling looked at him stupidly.
The figure that pounced out ruthlessly stabbed into her heart like a knife, leaving a mark.
Cao Jinxing didn't pay attention to her gaze. His internal energy was over-consumed. After taking a breath, he performed "Three Folds of Cloud Dragon" and turned around to carry Huang Fangling back to the edge of the cliff.
The leader is dead.
The head and body were separated, and the eyes were wide open!
Cao Jinxing looked around and confirmed that there was no one else, then let her go: "You should take care of your breathing."
"Thank you for saving my life, sir."
Huang Fangling bowed.
"No need to be so polite."
Cao Jinxing said, "I heard from Shopkeeper Xie that Miss Huang is an expert in alchemy and her skills in alchemy are extremely advanced. I love collecting medicine for injuries. If there is an opportunity in the future, I hope we can cooperate."
He doesn't play the trick of doing good deeds without leaving a name. After working so hard on the rescue, it's not too much to ask for a small request. It's not like he's getting it for free.
"good."
Huang Fangling smiled and agreed without hesitation: "In the future, every time Fangling makes a furnace, I will leave a portion for you..."
"That's not necessary , just trade at par."
Cao Jinxing looked at her for a second longer and felt that this woman's attitude was a bit... After thinking about it carefully, he understood that it was probably the influence of the suspension bridge effect.
Cao Jinxing burst out laughing.
He doesn't believe in love at first sight, and believes that time will tell.
If she could fall in love with him at first sight, she could also fall in love with others at first sight. Having seen the bloody stories in later life, he lacked loyalty.
In comparison, it is obviously more worthwhile to invest in Fourteen, as it can not only kill enemies, but also warm the bed, and will never backstab you.
let it go.
"Miss!"
The chief and deputy chief of the Ghost Guards finally arrived with a large army. When they saw the young lady falling off the cliff from afar , their hearts almost stopped. If they took the young lady's body back, they were afraid that the master would skin them alive.
Fortunately!
The two men hurriedly stepped forward and knelt on one knee, saying to Huang Fangling in unison: "We, your subordinates, have failed in our duty and put the young lady in danger. We..."
Huang Fangling waved.
Her temperament changed, and her frail body suddenly exuded the power of a superior, causing the two ghost guard leaders to stop talking and the twelve ghost guards behind them to break out in cold sweats.
oh?
Cao Jinxing raised his eyebrows, thinking it was a delicate water lotus, but unexpectedly it was a hidden queen of flowers.
"Let's talk about this when we get back to the family."
Huang Fangling knew whether there was a traitor and who the traitor might be, but now was not the time to discuss this topic.
"May I ask your name, sir?"
Huang Fangling looked at him deeply.
"Northern Pacification Division, Cao Jinxing."
Cao Jinxing said, "I have something important to do. Let's talk about the elixir later. Miss Huang, we'll see you later."
He disappeared in a flash.
"Cao...respectfully...go..."
Huang Fangling muttered to himself, looking at his back and smiling. The fourteen people in front of him were instantly silent.
…
Cao Jinxing returned to the ghost market and got rid of Xie An, who had been thanking him for a long time. He took Zhang Chengfeng to buy a flute.
"Brother, who do you think was responsible for this incident with the Huang family?" Zhang Chengfeng couldn't help but ask on the way.
"The other two."
Cao Jinxing said his previous speculation: "I just don't know if it's the Chen family or the Wu family... Which of these two families is involved in the elixir?"
“Both.”
Zhang Chengfeng said: "Although the three families in the Ghost Market have their own focuses, they are all the same in terms of buying and selling natural treasures, magic weapons, and elixirs. After all, they are the most profitable businesses. However, the Huang family is good at medicine; the Wu family has a well-informed ear and eyes, and is also involved in selling information; the Chen family is good at casting mechanical weapons. Judging from the Tianleizi alone, the Chen family is more suspicious."
"I don't think so."
Cao Jinxing sneered: "Does the Chen family have any connection with the Kunlun Sect?"
"yes."
Zhang Chengfeng said: "The head of the Chen family, Chen Zuhai, learned from Taoist Tianling of the Kunlun Sect and has mastered the Kunlun Light Splitting Sword Technique to a great extent."
Cao Jinxing: "Don't you think it's too coincidental? Originally, there were three families in a stalemate. If the eldest daughter of the Huang family died, and the Chen family suffered a counterattack from the Huang family, who would benefit in the end?"
"That's what Big Brother said."
Zhang Chengfeng nodded and said, "I think the Huang family should be able to guess it. But if the Chen family is doing the opposite to avoid suspicion, it is also possible."
“That’s true.”
Cao Jinxing nodded: "For the Huang family, the other two families are both suspects, it's just a matter of who has more and who has less, but it's none of our business. Where are you taking me? There's no need to go to a big store for Dizi, so as to avoid running into any mess again."
"Ha ha."
Zhang Chengfeng smiled, "Don't worry, this is just a small stall , but it's very famous. His products are from famous flute makers in Huainan, and there are many antiques. You can take a good look, brother. Last time, someone bought a jade flute from the Tang Dynasty from him, and someone offered 800 taels to buy it."
Babysitting...
Can jade flutes be “collected”?
Cao Jinxing's eye twitched.
The flute stall was in the southwest corner of the ghost market. The stall owner was a man dressed like a scholar in a blue gown. He was lying on a recliner, reading a book by the light of a lamp.
From the back, it is "The Analects of Confucius".
But it was actually "New Stories by the Lamplight"... a banned book during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty. The descriptions in it were very erotic, and the scholars blushed and felt anxious after reading it.
"stop looking."
Zhang Chengfeng knocked on the table and said with a smile: "You have read it so many times, I guess you have memorized it. Come on, help my brother pick out a flute."
"Zhang Chengfeng?"
Yang Linqing sat up after hearing the voice, and when he saw Cao Jinxing, especially the Feiyu suit, his face changed drastically: "You...are here to pick a flute...nothing else..."
He quietly hid the book under the table.
Cao Jinxing smiled and said, "Don't worry, it's just the flute. It has nothing to do with you reading the banned book."
Yang Linqing: “…”
