Seven Chapters of Facial Paralysis

Early the next morning, Tang Wuxun and Hua Manlou arrived at the south gate of Jinling City, and met Jin Jiuling who had been waiting there for a long time.

But as soon as Jin Jiuling saw them, he showed an apologetic smile, "Sorry, I can't accompany you to find Jiang Chongwei."

"What's going on?" Hua Manlou asked in confusion.

"I just received the transfer order last night. Dongnan Wang temporarily asked me to investigate this matter and act as the chief of his palace temporarily, so we have to divide into two groups again," Jin Jiuling said with a wry smile, "I will go to the palace to find clues. I trouble you two to find Jiang Chongwei and Chang Mantian."

"Is Jiang Chongwei not in the palace now?" Hua Manlou asked, suddenly understood, and couldn't help but sighed, "Yes, he has suffered such injuries now, so naturally he can no longer be the head of the palace."

"That's right," Jin Jiuling nodded, and said helplessly, "He's in a place called Bixia Temple." He told them the exact route, and left in a hurry.

A few days later, Hua Manlou and Tang Wuxun found Bixia Temple.

This is a small nunnery located in the purple bamboo forest on the mountain. The mountain gate is open, and there is a small courtyard inside the gate. The courtyard gate is partially hidden. From the crack of the gate, you can see a bamboo chair under the poplar tree in the courtyard. , sitting on a chair with a pale face, his facial features are extremely majestic, but his eyes are covered with gauze, this person is of course Jiang Chongwei.

"Guests outside the door, please come in." Jiang Chongwei said.

Although Huamanlou couldn't see him, he could recognize his voice, but his voice was not as powerful as before, but rather weak.

He stepped in with a heavy expression and sighed, "Are you okay?"

"Hua Man Lou?" Jiang Chongwei smiled miserably, "How did you get here? Who is the other guest?"

Hua Manlou walked gently to the stone chair beside him and sat down, and said, "This is my friend Tang Shijiu, we are here to see you."

"Did Jin Jiuling tell you that I was here?" Jiang Chongwei asked, "Did he ask you to help him investigate the case?"

"That's right," Hua Manlou seemed sad, "Although I don't want to remind you of sad things, I still want to ask you, how much do you remember about that day?"

Jiang Chongwei sighed, "I've said everything I can say..."

"What else can't be said?" Tang Wuxun asked suddenly.

Jiang Chongwei was silent for a while, and said: "Apart from what I told Jin Jiuling, there is nothing else to say, even if there is, I won't say it."

"Why?" Tang Wuxun frowned.

"Hua Manlou is my friend, I will not let my friend die," Jiang Chongwei said slowly, "That man's martial arts are too terrifying, even if you find him, you will definitely not be his match." Remembering something terrible, the hands on the arm of the chair trembled.

Hua Manlou was silent for a while, then said: "Don't worry, Lu Xiaofeng is also investigating this matter, don't you think the two of us plus Lu Xiaofeng and Jin Jiuling can't defeat an embroidery thief? My friend's martial arts are not weaker than mine. "

Jiang Chongwei sighed and said, "I've said everything I remember."

"Didn't any details be overlooked?" Tang Wuxun felt that this person was really not straightforward.

"Details?" Jiang Chongwei pondered for a while, then suddenly said, "I don't know if it counts or not. I remembered that he was wearing a pair of red embroidered shoes that day."

"Red embroidered shoes? Could it be a woman?" Hua Manlou rested his chin in thought, "Is the beard just a cover? The only woman in the Jianghu who is good at using needles as hidden weapons... seems to be only Xue Shenzhen..."

Jiang Chongwei shook his head, "Xue Shenzhen has a lot of money, why do such a thing? Besides, she is already an old woman who is about to die. Are those treasures stolen for her granddaughter?"

He smiled wryly, and said: "You guys should leave this matter alone... I'm already disheartened now."

Hua Manlou was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "I am also blind."

Without waiting for Jiang Chongwei to say anything, he continued: "I am also blind, but you can see that I have been living a good life."

Jiang Chongwei was stunned for a moment, and suddenly laughed loudly: "Yes, you are also blind, but you always live well!"

Huamanlou smiled quietly, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and said softly, "I can't see, but I can still hear the sound of the wind blowing through the bamboo forest, and the calls of returning birds at dusk. Smell the fragrance of bamboo leaves blown by the wind, I still have hands and feet, I can go where I want to go, do what I want to do, you see, people don’t rely on their eyes to live.”

Sitting aside, Tang Wuxun looked at the smile on his face, only felt that the smile looked extremely dazzling, and couldn't help reaching out to shake his hand.

He turned his head and showed a bright smile to Tang Wuxun, Tang Wuxun suddenly felt his heart beat a few beats faster.

Jiang Chongwei said in a low voice: "Hua Man Lou, did I ever tell you that you are a great person?"

"You said it now." Hua Manlou smiled.

When they left Bixia Temple, the sun was about to set.

"Where are we going next?" Tang Wuxun asked.

"Go to Chang Mantian." Hua Manlou seemed to be in a good mood, "Ah Xun, do you think I'm good?"

Tang Wuxun nodded decisively, "You are fine."

Hua Manlou raised the corners of his mouth happily.

Chang Mantian was not as miserable as Jiang Chongwei. Instead of driving him away, the Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, his old employer, gave him very good care, so he was more open-minded than Jiang Chongwei.

He is also familiar with Huamanlou, so when Huamanlou told him that after encountering such a thing, people can still have the courage to live, he happily invited Huamanlou to have a drink, and then told Huamanlou Manlou: "Originally I couldn't think about it, but when I remembered that I had a friend named Hua Manlou who lived well without eyes, I thought about it."

His good brother, the Chief Escort of Zhenyuan Escort Bureau, laughed: "He was still wondering when Hua Manlou would come to see him a few days ago, because he knew that Hua Manlou was always trying to keep others alive. , he also knows that you will definitely tell him these things."

Hua Manlou also laughed.

In the end, Chang Mantian told them that the embroidered thief he saw that day was also wearing a pair of red embroidered shoes on his feet.

Finally, they decided to go to the Southeast Palace to tell Jin Jiuling the news.

The Southeast Palace is located in Wuyang City, Lingnan. Many kapok trees are planted in this city. The flowering period of kapok trees has passed, and now is the time when the fruits are ripe and full of catkins.

Huamanlou accidentally inhaled a bit of cotton wool from the kapok tree, and even sneezed several times. After that, his nose was always itchy, so he had to rub his nose from time to time, and it turned red, as if he had caught a cold.

Tang Wuxun had no choice but to drag him to find an inn to rest temporarily.

"Don't bother, I'm not so delicate!" He protested, "Ah Xun, do you treat me like a child?"

Tang Wuxun dragged him into the inn with big strides, and said in a deep voice, "Let's have lunch first."

"Oh." He had no choice but to answer honestly. For some reason, every time A Xun spoke to him in this tone, he didn't want to refuse.

After lunch, they went to the Southeast Palace in the city to meet Jin Jiuling and told him about the red shoes.

Jin Jiuling pondered for a long time before saying, "I'll have someone check it out. Why don't you two stay in Yangcheng first and wait for Lu Xiaofeng to join us? There are still many good attractions in Yangcheng, and there are many delicious foods in the streets and alleys."

The two had no objections, but before that, Jin Jiuling still invited them to the treasure house in the palace—that is, the scene of the crime—to have a look.

"I really don't understand how the embroidered thief got in and locked himself in," Jin Jiuling said with a wry smile, "When Jiang Chongwei came to open the door, the door was locked from the outside, but when he went in, The Embroidery Thief has already embroidered the handkerchief inside. Mr. Tang, you are a master of tricks, do you know of any way to do it?"

"Of course." Tang Wuxun said without any hesitation, "As long as he has a key and an internal response, the internal response can let him in and lock the door from the outside. Why do you think so complicatedly?"

Jin Jiuling was stunned.

It took a long time before he suddenly realized that he tapped his palm, "That's right! The cases committed by the embroidered thief before were done by himself, so everyone always thought he was a lone thief, but they never thought that the guards of the palace are so strict, no matter how powerful he is It shouldn’t be possible for one person to succeed!”

He started to turn around and mutter to himself: "The key is in Jiang Chongwei's hand, and he could still use the key to open the door that day, that is to say, someone must have copied a key when Jiang Chongwei didn't notice it, and someone who can do this , it can only be someone very close to Jiang Chongwei..."

He clenched his fists at Tang Wuxun happily, "Young master Tang really awakened the dreamer! Another day when I have time, I will take you to visit Yangcheng! Come on, I will send you out of the mansion first, and then I will ask someone to check Jiang Chongwei's side people!"

Tang Wuxun and Hua Manlou returned to the inn where they stayed. In the next few days, after Hua Manlou asked the waiter at the inn, he took Tang Wuxun to visit Yangcheng with great interest. He asked the waiter of the inn how many problems he had, but he could always find delicious Yangcheng specialties in some small street shops.

After a few days like this, Lu Xiaofeng finally came.