startled autumn

Ning Banque knew that he couldn't hold back, and Han Bi had already cheated him out of the truth. In this case, he no longer hid his head and showed his tail, and directly admitted: "I really want to cooperate with you."

Han Bi sighed: "It's a pity that I changed my mind. To cooperate with you, it is better to find Lu Zheliu. It seems that he is smarter than you."

"Mr. Han, you just want to bargain. If you think I'm not sincere enough, just put it bluntly. I'm not a businessman, and I don't like to beat around the bush." ​​Ning Banque said coldly.

Han Bi: "I'll ask you three questions."

Ning Banque: "Ask."

"First question, why do you recognize Lu Zheliu as your master?"

"In order to survive." Ning Banque couldn't help but close his eyes tiredly when he said this, "Only by living can we take revenge."

You Ming interjected, "What kind of revenge?"

Ning Banque opened his eyes and smiled at his master, "Is this the second question?"

You Ming reprimanded lightly: "I am your master, I want to ask you a question, do you dare not answer?" The palm against his leg bone tightened suddenly, the warning was obvious.

Ning Banque knew that You Ming was very good at splitting muscles and bones, so he really didn't dare to refute at this time, so he could only bow his head and answer: "I was born in Fengzhou, my father's name was Ning Zhongyuan, and he was the captain of Fengzhou. Suicide, the imperial court ignored it, in desperation, our family left Fengzhou and moved back to our ancestral home.”

Han Bi mused, "Fengzhou is located in the northwest, and the captain is in charge of the local garrison. It is not a trivial matter that he committed suicide without reason. It's a pity that the relatives of the Song family were in power at that time, and the court was chaotic. Your Majesty may not be able to take care of it."

Ning Banque smiled lightly and shook his head, which seemed to be a kind of mockery: "The next step is that blessings never come together, and misfortunes never come singly."

When Ning Banque was six years old, another disaster happened to the Ning family, this time, it was a massacre.

The eight members of the Ning family were all killed by the gangster's knife, except Ning Banque who escaped by hiding in the rice vat.

Han Bi sighed, "This story seems familiar. I'm afraid there must be a person named 'Fang Hezi' among those killers."

Ning Banque glanced at him strangely, he thought Han Bi was almost like a monster in his eyes now.

Back then, Ning Banque carefully hid in the rice vat. Even though he knew it was not safe, he still held his breath until the lid of the rice vat on his head was suddenly opened, and he was instantly scared and lost. The soul went away, but the next moment, Ning Banque subconsciously took out a small knife, and blocked it fiercely in front of him.

He took a closer look, only to find that the person who opened the lid was a white-clothed young man with elegant features. He smiled at him, then closed the lid again as if nothing had happened, and yelled out : "Let's go, there's no one here."

Ning Banque huddled in the rice vat, his hand holding the knife trembled, and his clothes were already soaked in cold sweat.

When You Ming heard this, even though it was an old story, it still shocked him, and sighed: "Because he saved you, you recognize him as the master?"

"How is it possible?" Ning Banque smiled slightly, "I'm not as big-hearted as Bai Yan, and I can regard the people who killed my whole family as redemption."

After nightfall, Lu Zheliu returned to Ning's house and took away Ning Banque who was still hiding in the rice vat, "Do you want revenge? I can help you."

Ning Banque asked, "Why?"

Lu Zheliu smiled and said, "Because you want to kill me, I know you are unwilling."

Ning Banque didn't understand.

Although Lu Zheliu touched his head, he did not treat him as a child in his words: "If you were too scared to resist, I would kill you on the spot, after all, weak people have no need to live. "

Ning Banque held back his tears and said angrily, "My enemy is clearly you!"

"It was my 'father' who wanted to kill your whole family, and I was just following orders." Lu Zheliu smiled softly, "Ning Zhongyuan also died at his hands, if you don't want to avenge your father, then I will send you down now , to have a family reunion."

Hearing this, Shen Zhiqiu also understood that Lu Zheliu used both kindness and power, first promised Ning Banque the benefit of helping him take revenge, and then threatened to kill him if he didn't do so. Ning Banque was only six years old at the time and had no hands He had no choice but to submit obediently.

Ning Banque said in a low voice: "Lu Zheliu hates his father very much."

Lu Zheliu's father was the mysterious and unknown owner of Kuting.

"Why?" Han Bi asked.

Ning Banque replied without thinking, "I don't know."

"Answer honestly." Shen Zhiqiu warned solemnly.

Ning Banque rolled his eyes angrily, and snorted coldly: "I'm not you, I won't talk to him when nothing happens, why does he hate his father, how do I know?"

Shen Zhiqiu's unlucky love history was often used by him to personally attack him. The number of times, even an honest person like Shen Zhiqiu would inevitably get angry, and said flatly: "I don't like Lu Zheliu anymore."

Ning Banque smiled and said, "Oh, did you like him before? Shen Zhiqiu, I can't tell, so you are so bold."

Shen Zhiqiu: "Han Bi told me."

Ning Banque said in admiration: "Mr. Han, I can't even see it. So you are so generous."

This time, even Han Bi seemed to have been shot in the air, so he could only put on a handsome face, and said solemnly: "Let's get to the point, what do you know about Lu Zheliu and Master Kuting?"

"I have never seen the real face of the owner of Kuting, and he rarely comes to Kuting in person, but he has set very strict rules, and if he fails to meet his requirements, he will be punished, all day and all night Kneeling on the ground in the yard is considered light, even if you swing a wrong sword or say a wrong sentence, you will get a whip on your back." Ning Banque's tone was calm, "Especially after leaving Yancheng, The owner of Kuting became more and more strict with Lu Zheliu, saying that he lived in seclusion, but actually kept him under guard for ten years. During that time, I saw with my own eyes that Lu Zheliu... almost collapsed."

Han Bi spent this time trying to find a correspondence with what Bai Yan said in the handbook, and suddenly realized that this should be what Bai Yan said, when Lu Zheliu knew that he was not the real Fang Hezi, and was very sad.

Han Bi: "One last question."

Ning Banque said helplessly: "Mr. Han, do you think I can't count? How many are these?"

Han Bi smiled and said, "Buy three and get one free, it's very reasonable."

Ning Banque held back his curse words, took a deep breath and said, "Ask."

Han Bi: "Why did you go to Yancheng?"

"After I was rescued by Lu Zheliu, he first arranged for me to wander around with a family. I knew they were looking for information about a person," Ning Banque recalled carefully, and replied softly, "Until we arrived at Yancheng settled down there, and I knew they had found someone."

Han Bi already had a guess in his mind, but he still asked, "Is the person you are looking for Shen Jianxing?"

When Shen Zhiqiu heard his father's name suddenly, he couldn't help pricking up his ears, and looked at Han Bi suspiciously, trying to wait for an answer.

Ning Banque did not disappoint him: "It is the Lord of Yan City, Shen Jianxing."

"So that's how it is." You Ming frowned, and questioned him in a deep voice, "No wonder your family didn't object when I wanted to take you away. Que Er, you are so young, you can tell lies so well."

Back then when You Ming saw Ning Banque fainted from hunger on the street, he picked him up, thinking that he was being abused by his family, and the two of them had a close relationship, so You Ming spent money to buy Ning Banque back home. He became an apprentice, but thinking about it now, it turned out to be all fake.

"No, Master, I didn't lie." Ning Banque subconsciously held You Ming's cuff and explained in a low voice, "They really treated me badly. Before I met you, I didn't even know how to write the three characters Ning Banque."

You Mingyu said with regret: "Why didn't you confess to me earlier?"

Ning Banque: "How do I confess? Saying that I have been lying to you all this time, I started to deliberately collect information about Shen Jianxing when I was at Youjia? When Lu Zheliu came to Yancheng, I knew he had bad intentions, but still Want to conspire with him? Master, if you knew this, would you still recognize me as an apprentice?"

"Why not?" You Ming stared at him without blinking, "Que Er, in your heart, is your teacher such a cold and heartless person?"

Ning Banque: "You are."

You Ming: "..."

Ning Banque laughed and said, "You wanted to break my leg just now."

You Ming sighed, thinking how could I bear it.

Shen Zhiqiu stood aside, silent for a long time, as if he was sorting out his thoughts, or in a daze. After a while, he suddenly woke up and asked Ning Banque, "What is Lu Zheliu coming to Yancheng for?"

Ning Banque shook his head.

"He got a lot of information about Yancheng from me, and later he came to Yancheng and became friends with you. At that time, I watched from afar and was shocked." Ning Banque once again said the past in a slow voice. Come on, "I was very young at that time. It's not that I didn't think about living a good life with Master from now on. Unfortunately, I have done too many mistakes. I don't know how to make up for it. I can only make mistakes."

At that time, Lu Zheliu only asked him one sentence: "Now you, how can you live a stable life? Even if I am alone, it is easy to take You Ming's life."

A person like Ning Banque, who harbors blood and deep hatred, has too much involuntary control. He dreams back at midnight and thinks of the tragic death of the Ning family's relatives. The bloody faces all turned into the appearance of You Ming in the end.

The blue sky, the yellow spring, the endless hell, he went alone.

"Master, I come to see you once in a while, and I feel that the future will not be too bad." Ning Banque smiled.

Seeing the deep affection between master and apprentice, Han Bi couldn't help sighing softly in Shen Zhiqiu's ear: "Shen Zhiqiu, you should learn from others."

Shen Zhiqiu was very touched at first, but when he heard Han Bi's words, he frowned in confusion: "Huh?"

"'I look at you once in a while, and I think the future won't be too bad', look at him, but you can coax You Ming into submission with just one sentence." Han Bi complained sadly, "You know how to be with you all day long." I said, we are friends."

Shen Zhiqiu, won't your conscience hurt?

Shen Zhiqiu, who really has no conscience, looked at him blankly: "What's wrong with my friend?"

Han Bi said softly: "If you're a friend, naturally you can't be too close." After finishing speaking, he hintedly rubbed his lower lip with his fingertips.

Shen Zhiqiu remembered that sudden light kiss, and asked with a suppressed voice: "So it can't be... like this?"

He couldn't say anything, but pouted his mouth out, making a "chirp" expression, but his eyes were full of pure doubts, without any ambiguity.

If there were no outsiders here, Han Bi might have to teach him what is "intimacy above friends" on the spot, and in the end he had to endure and endure. Shen Zhiqiu's routine is so deep that it is difficult for people to deal with it easily. Han Bi can only be tough. Thinking: "If you are a friend, of course you can't do this, so..."

You might as well just nod.

"I understand." Shen Zhiqiu suddenly realized.

Han Bi's back tightened, and he was rarely at a loss: "What do you understand?"

"I thought it was all men, it didn't matter, but now I know it's really not allowed." Shen Zhiqiu sighed, "No wonder the senior brother wanted to break your leg that day, luckily I stopped it."

Han Bi: "..."

Shen Zhiqiu solemnly warned: "We must pay more attention in the future."

For the first time in Han Bi's life, he wished he was dumb.

You Ming at the other end had already unlocked the acupuncture points for Ning Banque, and helped him up. Ning Banque sat on the ground for a long time, his clothes were all dirty, You Ming habitually patted the dust off his clothes, Seeing this, Ning Banque felt that all the past was vivid in his mind.

After tidying up, Ning Banque raised his eyes and said loudly, "Mr. Han."

"Do you have anything else to do?" Han Bi talked to Shen Zhiqiu, but glanced lazily.

Ning Banque had something to say in his throat, so he choked on it, and said angrily: "Since I have said a lot today, why don't you buy three and get two free, and send you another message."

"Are you going to say that you took advantage of Misty Rain to assassinate the court official, and then blamed Mo Yi?" Han Bi restrained his frivolity, and frowned slightly, showing a bit of dignity, "Or, the person who blamed him , will fall on Shen Zhiqiu's head again?"

"Mr. Han really knows everything." Ning Banque knew that he couldn't hide anything from him, so he could only laugh at himself, "I did a lot of wrong things for revenge, but if it wasn't like this, I wouldn't be able to gain Master Kuting's trust. It is also impossible to find out his true identity, but unfortunately, I am only one step away from my goal, and I have already become an abandoned child."

Han Bi asked, "What is your latest mission?"

"Assassinate Wei Dezheng."

"The reason?"

"Prevent him from returning to Beijing from Liaodong."

"Just to prevent him from returning to the capital?" Han Bi pondered for a moment, then a flash of inspiration flashed, "Wei Dezheng is the censor, and he must have been ordered by the emperor to secretly go to Liaodong. hatred."

After Shen Zhiqiu heard this, he only felt that it was contradictory, so he asked suspiciously: "Master of Kuting intends to kill Wei Dezheng to silence him. Doesn't this mean that the person Wei Dezheng testifies is related to Master of Kuting?"

"On the surface, it is indeed so." Han Bi looked at Ning Banque, "Please explain the situation at that time carefully."

Ning Banque told the story of him leading people to surround Wei Dezheng. He thought it was a mantis catching cicadas, but unexpectedly, the oriole was behind, and was finally caught on the spot by the guards of the capital who were like heavenly soldiers. After some time, he finally escaped by luck.

"I can't think of any other reason for such a well-timed arrest, except that someone informed the Jingcheng Wei." Ning Banque said coldly, "The most strange thing is that all the others fled to Zhujian Valley, knowing that there was someone behind. What's the difference between tracking down and exposing the truth for nothing? Seeing that something was wrong, I left the team alone and came to look for Master."

"Sword Forging Valley?"

Ning Banque smiled strangely at Shen Zhiqiu, "That's right, 'Mo Yi''s Sword Forging Valley."

Shen Zhiqiu was startled and said, "Where did Mo Yi come from? Sword Forging Valley?!"

"Everyone inside is wearing Mo Yi's clothes, using Mo Yi's martial arts, and even the sword in his hand is engraved with the word Mo Yi. If you say they don't belong to Mo Yi, who will believe it?" Ning Ban Que sighed softly.

Han Bi felt tired all of a sudden: "It seems that the owner of the Kuting Pavilion also has a grudge against Mo Yi."

Ning Banque suddenly remembered something, and said: "When Wei Dezheng was at a critical moment, he mistook us as people sent by the crown prince."

"So, the evidence he brought back from Liaodong is inextricably related to the crown prince." Han Bi speculated.

Wei Dezheng went to Liaodong secretly under the emperor's order, and now he hastily returned to Beijing overnight, and he must have important documents. In the eyes of the emperor, he must have thought that the prince had a guilty conscience and wanted to kill people to silence him, and by the way, destroy all the evidence against him.

After that, the killer fled to Zhujian Valley and framed Mo Yi by the way, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

However, Ning Banque saw that something was wrong, and he didn't want to be treated as a victim by the owner of Kuting, so he left alone.

It's a beautiful story, but it doesn't make sense.

Han Bi: "What do you mean, your subordinates received the task order to 'frame Mo Yi', but the task you received was to 'assassinate Wei Dezheng'? Even your subordinates know that the capital guards will come , and prepared to retreat to Sword Forging Valley, but you, as the leader, don't know it? Ning Banque, you are too innocent to say that you are too innocent."

Ning Banque was silent for a while, then sighed helplessly: "Mr. Han, I really don't like talking to you. If you are too smart, you will have no friends."

Han Bi shrugged: "Who told you to trouble Shen Zhiqiu all day long? No matter how lazy I am, I can't beat the pressure of the world."

Ning Banque: "If it weren't for Mr. Han's green eyes on him, I wouldn't do anything unnecessary."

Han Bi: "Stop talking nonsense."

Seeing that his expression was calm and his tone was firm, Ning Banque could only sneer and said in the end, "It seems that our friends are doomed to fail. That's right, the task I received is indeed a combination of both."

"Master Kuting deliberately disclosed information to the Jingcheng Guards in order to let the Jingcheng Guards save Wei Dezheng, and you also purposely played Misty Rain in front of my brother in order to lock the real culprit behind the suspicious case in the capital on the Prince." Han Bi speculated step by step, "The defeat of Zhujian Valley is unreasonable. If I were the master of Kuting, I should arrange the way for you to retreat, lest someone fall into the hands of the capital guards and say things that shouldn't be said... Unless, he didn't even think about letting you get away unscathed, but wanted to make you a dead soldier, and then connect Mo Yi and the crown prince."

"After the incident was defeated, you deliberately brought the others back to Sword Forging Valley, and waited for the capital guards to track them down. You want them to think that this case was done by Mo Yi in private, right?" Han Bi asked.

"By the way, if this matter is explained in detail, it should be done by Shen Zhiqiu of Mo Yi in private. After all, during the four months I was in Zhujian Valley, I taught the life of Yan Yu, a disciple in the valley, with the second disciple of Master Yijian. Name." Ning Banque smiled slightly at Shen Zhiqiu: "Now you have dozens of disciples."

Shen Zhiqiu asked blankly, "Why is it me again?"

"If you want to blame, blame Lu Zheliu for caring too much about you. I said that I should use the name of Xiao Shaoling, but he refused. He just wanted me to call myself Shen Zhiqiu." It can be regarded as a precautionary measure, if Shen Zhiqiu had nothing to do with it, Mr. Han might still be watching from the sidelines."

Although Shen Zhiqiu had a good temper, he couldn't help but said angrily: "Han Bi has nothing to do with my enmity with him."

Hearing this, Han Bi smiled reassuringly at Shen Zhiqiu who was full of shame: "Now everyone knows that your big and small things can't get around me, which is not bad."

Ning Banque: "Right now, the rest of the people in Zhujian Valley may have fallen into the hands of the Jingchengwei. Mr. Han, have you ever thought about how they would grit their teeth and not speak when they found out that I was not caught?" Or should we just drag 'Shen Zhiqiu' into the quagmire together?"

Han Bihan said, "What do you want?"

"To prove Shen Zhiqiu's innocence, I have a way."

"Exchange terms?"

"My father, Ning Zhongyuan, was accused of being underpaid by the Air Force during his tenure, so he committed suicide in fear of crime." Ning Banque didn't dare to look at You Ming's angry face, and gritted his teeth at Han Bi, "It's simple, I want you to do it for me." My father overturned the case and cleared up the grievances."

Han Bi: "I'm just a grassroots person, so I can't do it."

Ning Banque smiled and said, "Your father is Prime Minister Han."

Han Bi asked, "Isn't Lu Zheliu willing to help you reverse the case?"

Lu Zheliu hated the owner of Kuting, and secretly rescued Bai Yan and Ning Banque, or even more children, when he was cutting grass and roots, and they formed a natural alliance to resist his father together, and waited until the wings became more mature. , will naturally erupt.

"I don't know." Ning Banque shook his head blankly, "I waited for two years, three years, five years, or even ten years, and I didn't even know the true identity of my enemy... For so many years, I suspected Lu Zhe Liu's thinking has changed."