Volume 19: Legend of Lu Xiaofeng Chapter 505: Storm in the Capital
Capital city.
The prosperity of the capital city is indeed unmatched by any other place. Its grandeur, thousand-year history, ancient sites and wonders are rare to find in any other city. There is probably only one such city in the world.
The people here are also very impressive.
The most impressive Li Yanbei was just walking out of the twelfth of his thirty mansions.
It was early morning.
He strode along the foggy street, and anyone who saw him could not help but show a bit of respect and fear.
As early as ten years ago, when Su Weiyun was still competing with the Qinglong Society for wisdom and courage, he was already one of the most powerful people in the capital.
So he walked with great dignity, and regarded this place as his own territory. About ten feet behind him, there was a group of people following him, and they had to run to keep up with his pace. Among this group of people were the chief escorts and escorts of the three major escort agencies in the capital, the leaders of the "poles" in the east and west cities, and the big bosses and managers of money houses who were extremely successful in business.
They are all wealthy and successful middle-aged people, and no one is willing to walk out of their warm and comfortable home in the early morning and run on the streets in the cold wind.
But they had to make this trip every morning.
Because Li Yanbei was used to walking along his fixed route for half an hour at dawn; if this was his kingdom, then they were his right-hand men.
He walked especially carefully today because he had bet 600,000 taels of silver and all his territory with Lao Du in the south of the city.
This kind of gang organization may only be regarded as an ordinary local tyrant in other places, but it is different in the capital. With the emperor's aura, everyone can become a powerful person.
So the struggle here is very fierce, and Li Yanbei needs to be on guard against Du Tongxuan's secret attack in the south of the city at all times!
Just as Li Yanbei walked to the center of the market outside the door, the raid really happened!
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There have been many more attacks like this.
Everyone in the world originally thought that Ye Gucheng had a greater chance of winning. In the handicap of the past two days, it had even reached a two-to-one odds.
Since no one could find Ximen Chuxue's whereabouts after August 15th, everyone naturally thought that Ximen Chuxue was afraid of Ye Gucheng.
Although these heroes who placed the bets did not understand the psychology of peerless swordsmen like Ximen Chuxue and Ye Gucheng, this did not prevent them from using their own thinking to guess others.
But no matter how you speculate, it cannot change the fact that Ye Gucheng was suddenly poisoned by a handful of poisonous sand by Tang Tianyi, the eldest son of the "Tang Clan in Shu" the day before yesterday.
After hearing the news, those who bet on Ye Gucheng to win were of course so anxious that they wanted to hang themselves, and some even tried every means to ask the other party to cancel the bet.
——If the other party dies, the bet will of course be invalid.
So overnight, at least more than thirty people in the capital city died because of this, including "The Magnolia Lady", "The Scholar with the Holy Pen", "The King of Hell"... even Zhao Desheng, the guard of the West City Palace, who was known as "Iron Palm", was ambushed in the alley behind Tieshishi Hutong - just because he bet eight thousand taels of silver on Ximen Chuxue to win!
In the capital city, there was a turbulent situation. For a moment, everyone was in danger. Some were happy while others were sad.
Although the decisive battle between Ximen Chuxue and Ye Gucheng has not yet begun, it has already stirred up an enormous storm!
This news that shook the world and caused great changes was spread by the honest monk.
Everyone knows that honest monks never lie and only tell the truth, so everyone couldn't help but believe this news!
…
The honest monk was having dinner with Su Weiyun.
They were eating the most authentic crispy roast duck in Beijing. Su Weiyun was very happy, but the honest monk had a bitter face.
The honest monk was caught by Su Weiyun again.
Su Weiyun tore off a piece of duck skin and said with a smile: "You seem unhappy every time you see me?"
The honest monk quickly shook his head and said, "I dare not, I dare not!"
Su Weiyun asked: "Then why do you look so bitter?"
The honest monk was just chewing a vegetarian bun nearby. Upon hearing this, he clasped his hands together and said softly, "I saw another duck die, and I couldn't bear it."
Su Weiyun asked, "Oh? Then when you saw Ye Gucheng being injured, why didn't you feel sorry for him and use Shaolin's magical medicine to treat him? Don't you know that he will die in the final battle with Ximen Chuxue?"
The honest monk said: "It's just because the duck is a duck, and Ye Gucheng is a human."
Su Weiyun asked: "In your eyes, a duck's life is more valuable than a human's?"
The honest monk said seriously: "The duck should be saved because it is innocent; but few people are innocent."
Su Weiyun chewed on this truth carefully and said slowly: "It turns out that Ye Gucheng is not an innocent person."
The honest monk said: "It doesn't matter whether Ye Gucheng is an innocent person, but the monk is an innocent person."
Su Weiyun asked: "You? What's so innocent about you?"
The honest monk said, "I would never eat at a restaurant like this, but Su Shi forced me to come. I can't pay, so Su Shi has to pay the bill!"
As he spoke, he actually shrank his body, moved his feet slightly, and prepared to run away.
He ran so fast that he reached the stairs in the blink of an eye.
But just as he was about to go downstairs and blend into the crowd, he was grabbed by someone again in his tattered monk's robe.
The honest monk turned around and looked at Su Weiyun, trying to calmly ask: "Donor Su, is there anything else?"
Su Weiyun said: "There is one more question. If you answer it, I will let you go."
The honest monk said happily, "Okay, okay, benefactor, just ask. Monks are the most honest."
Su Weiyun said: "You don't even have money for food, where do you get the money to go to a brothel?"
There were still quite a few people walking around in the restaurant, and Su Weiyun and the honest monk were certainly eye-catching enough.
Seeing everyone looking at him, the honest monk hurriedly covered Su Weiyun's mouth and said, "Donor, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say anything you want. I didn't go to a brothel..."
Su Weiyun deliberately sighed: "Alas, everyone says that honest monks don't tell lies, but unexpectedly they are still not very honest."
The honest monk blushed and argued: "The monk went to the brothel..."
His voice became quieter and quieter until it was almost inaudible.
Su Weiyun knocked on his head again and said, "Unless you promise me one thing, I won't tell anyone about your visit to the brothel."
The honest monk lowered his head, looked up at Su Weiyun cautiously, and asked, "You speak first. The monk will decide whether to agree or not."
Su Weiyun said: "I heard that Ouyang Qing also returned to the capital."
The honest monk said, "Yes."
Su Weiyun asked: "Why don't you go find her?"
The honest monk asked back: "Why should I go to find her?"
Su Weiyun said slowly with a teasing tone: "What I mean is, if you go find her now, I want to go too!"
The honest monk showed a strange look in his eyes and said, "Do you also want to..."
Before he could finish his next words, Su Weiyun kicked him downstairs.
