The servants quickly prepared the water for bathing.
Although the conditions in Snow City were difficult, Mr. Zhu II still put a screen in the room to make it more elegant. Li Sui was standing behind the screen taking off his clothes, his posture was so casual and graceful. Zhu Yanyin sat on the bed, watching him very seriously through the thin gauze screen, and thought it was really so tempting, he must have done it on purpose.
So I immediately stood up and went to see.
Li Sui sat back in the tub and flicked a string of tiny water droplets on his face: "What would you call this behavior in a book?"
Zhu Yanyin replied that everyone has a love for beauty, it is not vulgar, but elegant.
Li Sui smiled and stretched out his hand: "Come here."
Zhu Yanyin brought a small stool and sat beside him, helping him to put up his wet hair: "What's that smell? It's so fishy."
"Blood bag." Li Sui said, "If you think the smell is bad, go to the bed and wait for me."
Zhu Yanyin was reluctant to give up this picture of a beautiful woman bathing, so he took out a bottle of flower oil from the cabinet and poured it into the bathtub: "It smells good."
Li Sui held his breath in the spring flower field in the yard: "Yeah."
Zhu Yanyin urged: "Tell me what happened tonight."
Li Sui said: "Wan Zhuyun performed well."
His long sword was also fake, using the same principle as the sword-swallowing technique used by the circus troupe, just to make Yuan Yeyue believe more firmly that the person who came to rescue him was seriously injured.
Li Sui and Zhu Yanyin only told Wan Zhuyun about this plan. Zhu Yanyin was worried at first, wondering if the righteous middle-aged man could act perfectly. But now it sounds like it's okay, and he is worthy of being the leader of the martial arts world.
Now at least it is confirmed that the previous inference is correct, Yuan Yexing and An are indeed the same person. Before Li Sui went north, he had already checked the martial arts routines of many guardians of the Burning Fire Hall. An's martial arts are very similar to Chi Tian, and Li Sui and Chi Tian are from the same school, so it is not difficult to imitate 80% of it.
When Wan Zhuyun first heard the two's plan, he was a little confused: "Why don't you wait for An to come, but pretend to be An?"
Li Sui said: "An will not come, and Chi Tian will not come either. These two people are extremely cold and indifferent, and have no mercy on Yuan Yeyue."
Zhu Yanyin helped to explain that the reason why we tortured Yuan Yeyue severely and said we would spread the news was not to let An or anyone else come to save her, but to let Yuan Yeyue think that we are trying every possible way to let An come to save her.
This statement was a bit confusing. Wan Zhuyun thought about it for a moment and said, "So the one you have been dealing with is actually Yuan Yeyue."
Zhu Yanyin nodded: "Yes."
Wan Zhuyun raised another question: "Yuan Yeyue is the great guardian of the Burning Fire Palace. If we can find a way out from her, it will be twice as effective with half the effort. But Palace Master Li just said that An was extremely indifferent to her, so why does she think that he will come to save her?"
Zhu Yanyin replied that she was still thinking about her brother. If a person has fantasies, he will do everything he can to convince himself to accept all the impossible things, just to get closer to that beautiful imagination. So as long as An is Yuanyexing, then our plan will succeed.
Wan Zhuyun quickly agreed to the plan.
Facts have also proved that the brains of scholars are indeed very useful, and the big devil's kung fu is also very amazing. With a black mask on, and with the help of the dim and illusory light in the courtyard, he managed to scare Yuan Yeyue into a crazy lunatic.
The effect of a whole bottle of flower oil is quite amazing. Li Sui lay on the bed and felt that he might lose his sense of smell within a month. Zhu Yanyin liked this smell very much. He lay in the other's arms and smelled it from time to time. It smells so good, you seductive handsome devil.
Li Sui pinched the back of his neck and said, "Do you still want to go with me to interrogate Yuan Yeyue tomorrow morning?"
Zhu Yanyin nodded immediately and thought about it.
"Then why don't you sleep?"
I can't bear to sleep, you smell so good. Zhu Yanyin continued to touch him randomly, trying to stir up trouble, but was tightly wrapped in a blanket by Li Sui: "Sleep!"
Zhu Yanyin: “…”
I was forced to sleep, and I didn't get a good rest the whole night. I always felt that someone was touching my butt again. So the next morning, Mr. Zhu kept staring at Li Sui with a very suspicious look, "You are so hypocritical. You let me sleep all the time, but you secretly touched me. Isn't it good for us to be awake and happy together?"
Li Sui waved his hand in front of him: "What's wrong with you?"
Zhu Yanyin ate the bun and sneered in a very cold and arrogant manner.
Li Sui: “?”
On the other side, Yuan Yeyue had been tied up tightly with chains by the shadow guards. She had been struggling hysterically for the whole night. At this moment, she was slumped in a chair with a dirty head and a messy face. Her eyes were like fish that had been dead in the market for a long time.
Li Sui pushed open the door.
Zhu Yanyin followed him cautiously. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still startled by Yuan Yeyue in the room.
Hearing the noise, Yuan Yeyue's cloudy eyes lighted up again, and her voice was hoarse than the coarsest sandpaper: "Axing, you killed Axing!"
Li Sui said casually: "Yes, your brother is dead."
"Impossible!" Yuan Yeyue interrupted fiercely, "He won't die! He escaped!"
"You should be thankful that it wasn't me who came last night." Li Sui said, "But it doesn't matter if he escapes. He was poisoned by the Seven Butterfly Powder. Even if he returns to the Burning Fire Palace, no one can save him. He won't survive more than half a month."
"impossible!"
Yuan Yeyue stared at Li Sui, her face showing wildly fluctuating emotions: anger, murderous intent that almost roared out of her chest, fear, self-blame, worry and anxiety. All these things mixed together made her almost crazy. A fire wrapped in poison corroded all her rationality and burned out the light in her eyes.
"Please." She finally gave in, her bloodstained lips trembling.
Li Sui still looked at him coldly.
Yuan Yeyue was limp all over. "Give him the antidote. He won't go back to the Burning Fire Palace. Save him. As long as you can save him and let me see Ah Xing alive, I'll say anything."
Li Sui asked: "Where are they?"
Yuan Yeyue's voice suddenly rose: "You swear first, swear that you won't kill him!"
Li Sui said, "His life or death does not depend on me, but on you. If you delay for a moment, your brother will suffer a moment more from the poison gnawing at his heart. Six full hours have passed since last night."
Yuan Yeyue squeezed the chair leaving bloody marks.
Li Sui stood up and walked out with Zhu Yanyin.
"In Lin Xuefeng!"
Yuan Yeyue stared at the backs of the two men and repeated sharply: "He is at the top of Lin Xue Peak. If you don't save him, I will kill you!"
…
Lin Xuefeng.
Wan Zhuyun looked at the map: "It is located north of the Burning Fire Palace, the terrain is not low."
"It is the highest and most dangerous peak in the entire snowfield." Li Sui said, "When I was a child, I followed my master up there once or twice. Even in the middle of summer, the top of the peak was covered with ice and snow, and it was freezing cold."
Zhu Yanyin felt cold just by listening to it. How could anyone be willing to live in such a ghost place? But then he thought, the killers and hidden masters in the novels also liked to choose strange places to live, as if only in this way could they appear different from others. It was just suffering out of vanity, so why bother
Li Sui said: "I'll go up and take a look."
Zhu Yanyin immediately asked: "Are you alone?" and hinted at Wan Zhuyun with his eyes frantically.
Leader Wan: “…”
He was willing to go in person, but he had the responsibility of the Wulin Alliance on his shoulders. If the Burning Fire Palace suddenly attacked while he and Li Sui were away, wouldn't it be a dereliction of duty? So he said, "Why not let Young Master Zhao of the Famous Sword Sect lead the people and go to Linxue Peak with Palace Master Li."
Zhu Yanyin still trusted Zhao Mingchuan, so he asked Li Sui, "Is it okay?"
Li Sui nodded: "It's up to you."
He actually didn't need help, but Jiangnan Rich Man felt that you needed it, so he forced him to bring a large pendant.
Zhao Mingchuan was flattered: "Me?"
Zhu Yanyin patted his shoulder and said earnestly in Lan Xishan's style: "Only a few people know about this matter. Brother Mingchuan, you must not hold us back."
Zhao Mingchuan clasped his hands together and said, "It is my duty!"
…
That night, Li Sui and Zhao Mingchuan arrived at the mountain range where Lin Xuefeng was, one after the other.
Compared to the city, it is several times colder here. Zhao Mingchuan took off his cloak and was about to turn around to say a few words, but the cold Palace Master Li had already disappeared. With such light skills, it is possible to pretend to be a ghost in the palace in the middle of the night. Young Master Zhao hurried to catch up. His skills were not bad, but compared to Li Suilai, they were obviously several times worse. Even if he tried his best, he was so tired that he saw stars when he finally climbed to the top.
Li Sui stood in the snow, a thick layer of snow already piled up on his shoulders.
Zhao Mingchuan was flattered. He didn't expect that he could achieve the achievement of "being waited for in the snow by the Palace Master of Wanren Palace". He couldn't even finish his words. After a long while, he uttered: "Palace Master Li, I... am really embarrassed."
Li Sui was already very impatient. He had no interest in this person at all and didn't even want to look at him. The only reason he was willing to stand and wait was because of Zhu Yanyin's words, "You have to take care of Brother Ming Chuan." So he just sneered coldly and continued walking forward.
Zhao Mingchuan did not dare to be careless. He followed him quietly, his hand always holding the hilt of the sword.
There was indeed a small stone house built in the sheltered place. A thick layer of snow covered the roof, and the doors and windows were sealed with ice blades.
Li Sui stood outside the house for a moment.
Zhao Mingchuan also pricked up his ears to listen. There was silence all around, only the howling of the wind in the forest.
"It seems... no one?" he asked tentatively.
Li Sui said: "Yes."
So Young Master Zhao achieved the achievement of "starting a conversation with Palace Master Li", which was a peak achievement.
Since no one was in the house, there was no need to be cautious. Zhao Mingchuan inserted the dagger into the crack of the door and turned it around, easily prying open the rusty lock. He then took out the tinderbox from his bosom and briefly illuminated the surroundings.
There is a bed, a table, and perhaps some pots and pans in the kitchen next door, but they are all broken and old, and don't look like anyone lives there.
Li Sui frowned slightly, and his fingertips brushed the dust on the table. According to Yuan Yeyue, when Yuan Yexing was not on a mission, he would live here in seclusion, and no one wanted to see him. But now it seemed obvious that the owner of the house had not been back for at least two or three years.
Zhao Mingchuan flipped the mattress again and shook his head, saying, "The quilt is full of holes, probably bitten by wild animals in the spring. There is also a rat nest in the corner. Who can live in such a place?"
"Light up this place a little bit." Li Sui ordered, "Maybe we can find something."