Nine swords

Ye Gucheng was galloping under the moonlight with the unconscious Gong Jiu in his arms, and suddenly felt distraught.For a moment, he seemed to be thinking a lot, but he didn't seem to think about anything. Under the speed of Ye Gucheng's full use of lightness kung fu, he came to the place Gong Jiu said in just a short time.

It is obvious from the name alone that Wanfang Pavilion is a brothel.At this time, the willow shoots on the moon, just when the Qinglou Chu Pavilion opened to receive customers, the sound of teasing, laughing and playing, and persuading people to drink spread far and wide throughout the streets and alleys.

Ye Gucheng glanced briefly at the bustling alley, then jumped sideways, detoured into the dark alley with no one in it, and the erratic figure like smoke disappeared into the melting night.

Opposite Wanfang Pavilion is a patch of dark, low and dilapidated one-story houses, which is in stark contrast to the bustling brothel Chu Pavilion.In these bungalows, there are some sneaky and abducted bastards, or some old and decrepit dark people.Prostitutes also run a lot of underground casinos, and there are many shady things in them... All in all, it is impossible for good people and good people to settle here, but the underworld giants don't bother to come here: it can be said that this piece of bungalow is This is the gray area between the underworld and the white way on the southeast boundary.

Ye Gucheng took Gong Jiu into one of the dilapidated yards. If there are so many yards here, why did he choose this yard?The reason is very simple, because the shape of the gate of this yard is exactly the same as the token in his hand.

After entering the courtyard, Ye Gucheng was locked on by several strong murderous intentions.However, his expression was as calm and indifferent as ever, he flipped his palm lightly, and in his palm lay the token given to him by Gong Jiu, those murderous intentions instantly disappeared without a trace.

A moment later, a middle-aged man in his 40s came out in a hurry, led Ye Gucheng into the room, and then into the secret room—this secret room was not grand at all, and it exuded a strong smell. The smell of medicine: This is a pharmacy, a very large pharmacy, perhaps there is no more complete medicine than here.The feeling of this pharmacy is: if people who cannot be rescued here, there is no hope elsewhere.

In the secret room, there were three people who looked like genius doctors, ghost doctors or strange doctors. They were immersed in the sea of ​​various medicinal materials and poisons, but at this moment they all stopped what they were doing and surrounded them.The middle-aged man before signaled Ye Gucheng to put Gong Jiu on the soft couch, and after he said "Thank you" to Ye Gucheng seriously, he didn't say much, but stood aside and stared at the doctor seriously They "showed their special abilities" to cure Gong Jiu.

Until then, Ye Gucheng breathed a sigh of relief.

Ye Gucheng breathed a sigh of relief, on the one hand, he was really worried about Gong Jiu's safety; on the other hand, it was for his own sake.Tonight can be regarded as thrilling, Ye Gucheng needs to figure it out.

In fact, it is not surprising that Aunt Gongsun will appear in the West Garden, and it is not surprising that she sells highly poisonous sugar-fried chestnuts-it is said that whenever she is in a bad mood or even idle, she likes to kill a few people to relieve her pain. relieve boredom.And there is a more reliable guess: That is, Aunt Gongsun may really want to deal with someone tonight, but she is unlucky and admits to the wrong person.

From Aunt Gongsun's words, Ye Gucheng can judge that Aunt Gongsun didn't recognize him at first, she only recognized his swordsmanship after fighting.She didn't know Gong Jiu either, but with the well-informed knowledge of the red shoes organization, Aunt Gongsun, who is the eldest sister, must have heard of the name of Young Master Jiu, so she was shocked by Gong Jiu's hidden threats.In addition, she thought that Gong Jiu hadn't been poisoned, so she had no choice but to run away—it's impossible for Aunt Gongsun who knew the identities of Gong Jiu and Ye Gucheng not to understand: Anyone in this world, if Gong Jiu and Ye Gucheng Ye Gucheng teamed up to hunt and kill, but there is only one dead end.

Therefore, this "unlucky" refers to both Gong Jiu and Aunt Gongsun—it is true that Gong Jiu was wronged for being poisoned for nothing, but will Aunt Gongsun who offended Gong Jiu for no reason feel better?Even if Aunt Gongsun managed to escape this time, what about the future?Ye Gucheng really can't understand how Gong Jiu will be revenged... As long as Gong Jiu doesn't die, then Aunt Gongsun's unlucky future can be predicted.

Generally speaking, everything is quite reasonable. The only thing that is a little strange is that Gong Jiu actually ate the highly poisonous sugar-fried chestnuts and got tricked... In fact, Ye Gucheng had never doubted Gong Jiu before. Yes, after all, Gong Jiu has done a lot of pretending to be pitiful, pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. It is normal for Ye Gucheng to have doubts.

But in the end, Ye Gucheng chose to believe in Gong Jiu.Although Gong Jiu often pretends to be crazy and foolish in front of him, but in all fairness, Gong Jiu has not really deceived Ye Gucheng so far.Even if it was to show weakness and pretend to be pitiful, to take the opportunity to tease and so on, Gong Jiu was really injured.

Although Gong Jiu is powerful, he is not a god. He may know the name of Aunt Gongsun, but it is impossible to predict that Aunt Gongsun will come to sell sugar-fried chestnuts: I can only say that Gong Jiu's luck is really bad. A date for a lover, a snack to eat, can be done like this, almost killed... Ye Gucheng really felt helpless, and a little dumbfounded.

However, at this moment, when he came to such a life-saving place, Ye Gucheng was no longer worried: he was still very confident in Gong Jiu's ability, although Aunt Gongsun's sugar-fried chestnuts were a big killer with almost no solution , but Gong Jiu itself can also be said to be the ultimate villain that is almost invincible... In fact, Ye Gucheng has become more and more superstitious: since Gong Jiu is the last villain "destined", then these people including Ye Gucheng himself The villains who "died in front" probably couldn't kill Gong Jiu—Ms. Gongsun's morality is obviously much shallower than Gong Jiu's.

Sure enough, after a series of "treatments" by the doctors, including stuffing soup with pills, sticking needles with fire, and even cutting flesh and bloodletting, Gong Jiu spat out a big mouthful of black blood. Immediately woke up leisurely.Ye Gucheng stood silently watching from the side, while silently thinking: Gong Jiu is really wonderful, even unsolvable sugar-fried chestnuts can’t poison him; what’s even more weird is the doctors he raised—that His facial expressions, his demeanor, his movements, it seemed that Gong Jiu was their "long-awaited" guinea pig...

As soon as Gong Jiufu opened his eyes, the middle-aged man who had been staring at the doctors hurriedly stepped forward to fend off the doctors who wanted to continue to use the knife to "do experiments", and said solemnly: "Please trouble everyone." The three The doctor looked at each other, finally heaved a sigh of regret, and reluctantly left the secret room.

Ye Gucheng, who has very keen hearing and is still standing by the door, seems to have heard such a conversation—"Didn't you agree not to wake him up so early? It's a pity, it's rare to have such a good opportunity..."" Oops, I was too excited, and I forgot it for a while, it's all because the poison is too strange, and his resilience is also very strange, how can I bear it?" "Okay, okay, it's all your fault , fine you to be in charge of dispensing a medicine to bring down that invincible guy, so that we can play again..."

"..." Ye Gucheng couldn't listen anymore, what kind of people are these people, it really is that people divide like groups and like like gather together!So he walked to the side of the soft couch and asked, "Are you okay?" Ye Gucheng even thought that after those people's "treatment", maybe Gong Jiu's body would lose several "parts".

Gong Jiu didn't know that Ye Gucheng was slandering him. Now he was lying on the couch with a miserable appearance of "destroyed", looking at Ye Gucheng pitifully, and said "with affection": "Ah Cheng, it's just a matter of time." After a while, I will never see you again..."

Ye Gucheng trembled almost imperceptibly, and said indifferently: "Who told you to eat indiscriminately."

Gong Jiu saw that Ye Gucheng not only did not comfort him, but also "blamed" him, she blinked in disappointment, and said aggrievedly: "I will listen to you from now on, and I dare not eat indiscriminately again..."

When Ye Gucheng heard the words, he suddenly had an inexplicable feeling of being in a kindergarten and being an old mother...

Seeing that the "interaction with love" between these two people finally came to an end, the middle-aged man who had been silently facing the set board took a step forward, and said in a flat, unwavering voice, "Master, everything about the southeast has been done as planned." Your arrangements have gone down, do you have any new orders?"

Gong Jiu put away that pitiful and aggrieved expression in an instant, and sneered fiercely: "Put the matter of the red shoes first, and try your best to find out their lair for me!"

The middle-aged man replied: "Yes." Then he glanced at Ye Gucheng.

This "hint" was too obvious, so Gong Jiu softened his tone and said, "Uncle Mu, if you have anything to say, just say it, there is nothing about me that needs to be avoided by City Lord Ye."

The middle-aged man, Uncle Mu, Gong Jiu's most trusted butler, sighed slightly, and said, "So that the young master can know that you have lost a lot of money during this period, and the cash flow is a bit tight." As a result, many plans cannot be carried out smoothly, I wonder if the young master has any regulations?"

Ye Gucheng's eyes twitched when he heard it, and he continued to pretend he didn't hear it with a cold face.On the other hand, Gong Jiu was slightly taken aback, and smiled in disbelief: "Uncle Mu, are you joking? I am clearly earning more and more money, so how can there be any losses that make my turnover difficult?"

Uncle Mu said calmly: "Master, you just don't know something. Although Huo Xiu's property has become ours these days, there are many internal and external troubles in Tsing Yi Building, and it will take time to integrate. Oil and water are squeezed out of it; the Emei faction is similar, Dugu Yihe died too hastily, and his inheritance has to be collected slowly, so instead of making money, we have to raise a group of people from the Emei faction. Zhuguangbaoqi Pavilion was originally the easiest to get started and earn money, but you gave it to City Lord Ye directly, young master; and our business with Baiyun City is almost no profit, and now we have to pay for an extra wharf that is basically doing business with Feixian Island. In addition, young master, you need a lot of money for a few big moves... So you still ask young master to punish me for a crime of being unfavorable, I really can't manage this bad debt."

Ye Gucheng put on a nonchalant expression, but secretly smiled and thought: This butler's words actually mean the same thing—Ah Jiu, you spent too much money on raising your lover!So it's really unnecessary to talk about being extravagant... But with Ye Gucheng's character, it's impossible for him to spit out the benefits of eating, so he still remained calm and waited. Looking at Gong Jiu's joke.

After hearing what Uncle Mu said, Gong Jiu seemed to have swallowed another fried chestnut. His face turned green and pale, and he was so choked that he couldn't speak for a long time. After a long time, he looked at him with a "heroic" expression. Looking at Uncle Mu, he said, "I see...the women in the red shoes are making a lot of money. You should hurry up and deal with them, and you'll get rich again after you're done."

Uncle Mu looked at Gong Jiu calmly, and said flatly: "Okay, young master. But please pay attention to daily expenses, young master. It's not good to always do it rashly."

Gong Jiu said dejectedly, "I see, Uncle Mu."

But Uncle Mu didn't finish his sentence, he continued: "What's more, young master, the residual poison in your body is still not cleared, so you must not be overjoyed or sad in the near future, otherwise I'm afraid you will spend a lot of money on soup and medicine."

Finally, Gong Jiu couldn't bear it any longer, and retorted: "Why am I still poisoned? Are those old fellows living on rice? Also, if I can't even pay for my soup and medicine, I will still pay for it." What do you want?!"

Uncle Mu said calmly: "Those doctors still want to continue to treat the young master, that's why you are still poisoned. As for the money for soup and medicine, it's a little bit to save a little. We are all thinking about the great cause of the young master."

Gong Jiu was so angry that he laughed and said: "If even I am poisoned and died, what is the cause?"

Uncle Mu said: "Please rest assured, young master, you are invincible. You have been seriously injured twice by City Lord Ye before, and you are fine. This little bit of poison will not kill you."

Gong Jiu finally spit out a mouthful of old blood, and lay down on the soft couch, staring at Uncle Mu with "sorrow and anger", almost speechless.

Uncle Mu finally nodded his head and said, "Very good, if you spit out this mouthful of blood, your residual poison will be cleared up, young master, and you don't need to spend money on the soup."

"..." Ye Gucheng suddenly felt that Gong Jiu was really pitiful, what is meant by "one thing is one thing", this butler really deserves to be the person who can be Gong Jiu's butler!But with this butler around, it might not be so easy for him to make Gong Jiu "take advantage of" in the future...

Seeing that Gong Jiu was hit so badly that he pulled up the blanket to cover his head, and "fainted" neatly, Ye Gucheng followed Uncle Mu out of the secret room full of medicine.

The house where the secret room is located is really dilapidated. Ye Gucheng, who is used to living a good life, naturally does not want to live here. He is thinking about where to live--in other words, Ye Gucheng's life is always difficult during this period of time. Gong Jiu had arranged everything properly, and at this moment he actually felt that he couldn't leave Gong Jiu.At this moment, Uncle Mu said, "Master Ye, may I take a step to speak?"

Ye Gucheng hesitated for a moment, and finally gave Uncle Mu this face—he saw that Uncle Mu was probably the number one person around Gong Jiu, and he should have been with Gong Jiu for many years and was deeply trusted. For the sake of Gong Jiu's money, Ye Gucheng couldn't ignore the big housekeeper.

But Ye Gucheng has made up his mind, no matter what the butler says, he just listens to it, if you want him to "sponsor" something, then don't even think about it...

However, to Ye Gucheng's surprise, what Uncle Mu said first was: "Just now I saw that the Lord Ye was worried about my son, so the Lord must have a deep affection for my son?"

Ye Gucheng remained silent: It is useless to play the emotional card...Emotions are emotions, and money is money. This must be clearly distinguished. He is not like Gong Jiu, who does everything based on his heart-although Ye Gucheng likes Gong very much. Jiu treats him like this, but if the order is changed... Ye Gucheng really doesn't like being taken advantage of at all.

Uncle Mu probably knew Ye Gucheng's character very well, so he didn't expect him to answer, but continued on his own: "I watched Young Master grow up, and he has never cared so much about anyone. He even revealed his true identity within a few days of meeting the city lord. I hope the city lord will not disappoint the young master's intentions. In fact, he is not as handsome as he appears on the surface, and he also has a lot of sad things... ..."

"What do you mean?" Ye Gucheng asked indifferently, thinking to himself: Isn't it just taking a jewelry pavilion, don't think of him as "scum", he is also very pampering Gong Jiu, okay... Gong Jiu is playing After being perverted so many times, he "only" seriously injured Gong Jiu twice, which is already rare!Can someone else tolerate Gong Jiu?Killed him long ago!

"Ah," Uncle Mu sighed, and said: "The city owner knows that you are clearly the son of Prince Taiping, so why do you want to wander outside and wander the rivers and lakes?" Without waiting for Ye Gucheng to respond, he said: "It is because of , Young Master witnessed a tragedy with his own eyes, he thought that the prince killed the princess, that’s why he left home with hatred, and he has been thinking about it for so many years... But in fact, what the young master saw with his own eyes is not necessarily the truth..."

Ye Gucheng's complexion changed slightly, and he said in a cold voice: "What is your purpose?" Ye Gucheng was really surprised—who on earth is this housekeeper who knows such a big secret? !Then why didn't he tell Gong Jiu?Did he have any plans after being by Gong Jiu's side for so many years?Why would you tell him this now?God, this world is really amazing: Even if Ye Gucheng knew the plot, there are still too many accidents...

Uncle Mu stared at Ye Gucheng, and said: "I only hope that the city lord can guide you to know the truth, so as to untie his knot... In fact, you have been using weird and unruly behaviors to cover up the pain in your heart. He has lived a real life these years. very bad."

Ye Gucheng wondered: "Since you know the truth, why didn't you tell him directly?" Isn't it strange why you have to make such a big circle?

Uncle Mu shook his head and said: "Young Master's temper is the most stubborn. Once he believes in people and things, he will not change. Even if I tell the truth, I will just be killed by Young Master directly. It will not help; Your weight in the young master's heart, the city lord, may persuade him to turn back."

"..." Ye Gucheng sincerely admires this butler, this world is indeed a hidden dragon and crouching tiger!

But Uncle Mu didn't finish his words, just heard him say: "Young Master wants to rebel, and he didn't hide this matter from the city lord. However, even if you are very clever, rebelling is still too dangerous. It's a little unexpected. There is no place to die... So I sincerely hope that the city lord can move all of your son's money to Feixian Island, without money, even if you want to rebel, you will not be able to."