Chapter 472: Close before your eyes
Ma Lu didn’t expect that Hong Xinghua from Wohu Gang would be involved.
He wanted to ask a few more questions, but the big man was obviously discouraged. After saying the last words, he killed himself with a knife.
Ma Lu was worried about Gu Qingyi's safety. After the card game was over, he didn't have time to touch the body, so he rushed into the dyeing workshop as fast as possible.
But to his surprise, there was no fighting inside.
Gu Qingyi had already searched the dyeing shop, but could not find the man with the birthmark under his ear.
In addition, the whereabouts of the lotus bowl was not found. Only a piece of plowed land was found in the backyard. After digging it up, it was found that there were seven or eight corpses underneath. Judging from their clothes, it was speculated that they should be from the original dyeing workshop. Worker.
Gu Qingyi was a little disappointed, feeling that his fist was empty again, but when he turned around, he saw Malu staring at the jujube tree in the yard, lost in thought.
"What are you thinking about?" Gu Qingyi suppressed the frustration in his heart and asked.
"I'm thinking about the whereabouts of that lotus bowl." Malu said.
"Uh, are you just...standing there and thinking?"
"Yeah." Malu nodded.
"Don't think about it. Even if you think about where the lotus bowl is, it's too late."
Gu Qingyi raised his head and glanced at the sky. The sun was about to completely set. The war between the dragon gates is inevitable.
But after she said this, she saw Ma Lu suddenly rush out of the door of the dye house and went straight to the pack horse outside the door.
Gu Qingyi thought that Malu wanted to go somewhere else, but it turned out that Malu did not get on the horse. Instead, he circled around the pack horse and put his hand into the saddle bag under the saddle.
When he took his hand out of the saddle bag, there was already an inconspicuous small bowl in his hand.
Ma Lu raised the small bowl in front of his eyes and saw that there was indeed a small gap on the edge.
"Why did you take the bowl out? Are you thirsty?"
"No, I found the lotus bowl." Malu said.
"Huh?"
Gu Qingyi was stunned. His first reaction was that Ma Lu was already crazy about investigating the case.
It was indeed hard for them to look for bowls during this period, but it was not like any bowl they found would look like a lotus bowl.
However, when Gu Qingyi took the bowl, he looked at it carefully and was a little dumbfounded, because the appearance of this bowl was indeed very similar to the stolen lotus bowl described by the Beggar Gang.
Gu Qingyi even returned to her horse to get a picture scroll. She unfolded the picture scroll, and the lotus bowl on the picture was exactly the same as the one in her hand.
That scroll was requested by her from Chu Qianyuan. It was painted by an expert painter and is said to be exactly the same as the original.
“How did you find it?”
Gu Qingyi was puzzled.
She couldn't figure out how Malu found this lotus bowl that could not be found after searching every inch of land in Yuchang County in black and white.
"This matter is a long story." Ma Lu said, "Let's go to the Beggar Clan first to stop them from fighting with Tianlongmen. I will explain it to you on the way." "Okay."
Seeing the hope that conflicts could be avoided and Yuchang County would not turn into a river of blood, Gu Qingyi's eyes flashed with joy and he immediately agreed.
Ma Lu pedaled and mounted the pack horse, and while he and Gu Qingyi rushed to the helm of the Beggar Clan, he said something shocking.
“I didn’t find this lotus bowl, it was always in the saddle bag.”
“Ah, but this packhorse is not the one you borrowed from the Xingtong Escort Agency... Well, that one was borrowed from Have you arrived, and the Beggar Clan’s lotus bowl hasn’t been lost yet?”
"When I borrowed the horse, the Lotus Bowl was indeed still in Beggar's Gang, but I once fostered the horse in a small village for about a week, and it was at that time that the Lotus Bowl of Beggar's Gang was stolen. , and then put it in my saddle bag."
Ma Lu has now basically figured out the cause and effect of this matter, and also understands what Han Guangzhong means by saying that the answer is right in front of him.
But this also made him more curious about Han Guangzhong's identity. Who is this guy? Could it be that he knew the lotus bowl was hidden in his saddle bag early on, so why didn't he take it away?
Ma Lu continued as he thought, "The people who did this are the same group of people we met in the dyeing shop before, well, but their leader seems to be absent.
" This group of people pretended to be Happy Forest and forced the Beggar Clan disciple to steal the lotus bowl. After the disciple stole it, they hid the lotus bowl in the small village where I kept the horse.
"Then let the news go to the people in Xinghua Village and ask the bandits in Xinghua Village to get it."
Gu Qingyi seemed to understand what he heard, but he didn't understand how this matter had anything to do with the bandits in Crouching Hill. What relationship.
Fortunately, Ma Lu quickly explained, "The purpose of the group who stole the Lotus Bowl was very simple, which was to intensify the conflict between the Beggar Gang and Tianlongmen. This made the two largest martial arts forces in Qingzhou Start the war.
"They pretended to be from Happy Forest to lend money to the Beggar Clan disciples because Happy Forest is an important industry of Tianlongmen. I guess the Hongxinghua and Tianlongmen of Xinghua Village should also have it. some kind of relationship.
"Well, maybe it's Li Tianlong's mistress or something. Anyway, if the lotus bowl falls on her hand, it will be like a shit basin on Tianlongmen's head, and she can't pick it off even if she wants to. Down.”
"But doesn't Hongxinghua know that the Lotus Bowl is a hot potato? She is just a bandit leader in Crouching Gang. Where does she have the courage to provoke a behemoth like the Beggar Clan?" Gu Qingyi asked.
“There should be some special contact information between Hongxinghua and Tianlongmen, which was deciphered by the group. The group pretended to be Tianlongmen and contacted her. Hongxinghua thought she was executing "Li Tianlong's order."
Ma Lu recalled the group of bandits he encountered that day. When they begged for mercy, they clearly mentioned that they were working for Tianlongmen and warned him not to be enemies of Tianlongmen.
But at that time, Malu didn't take their words to heart, and he didn't expect that what they wanted to do was to get the lotus bowl.
Of course, the group in the dyeing workshop also did not expect that Ma Lu would have a hand in the things and have them robbed halfway.
After thinking about it, it was not surprising that they hid things on the pack horses, because the price of any horse in this plane was not cheap, even the most common pack horses cost more than ten taels of silver each.
The bandits in Wohu Gang are inseparable from horses. They will not let go of the horses in the village. This also ensures that they will definitely take away the lotus bowl.
It’s just that the group didn’t expect that the packhorse they picked had another owner.
When Malu came over for the second time, he happened to run into the group of bandits from Xinghua Village. He beat those guys away and took away the packhorse that hid the lotus bowl.
As for why Malu was sure that the group of people he met were from Xinghua Village, it was very simple. Because the errand was not completed and someone died, which made Hongxinghua feel unlucky. Later, she went to ask for leave from Monk Guang. Yin went to the village to perform rituals.
After the ritual, the fake monk stayed in Xinghua Village and refused to leave.
(End of this chapter)