Cloud of the Qing Dynasty

Zhang Chi and Yizheng changed rooms, had dinner with the people from Shangqing Palace, fetched water and took a shower before returning to their room.

As soon as she entered the room, she saw Bao Qiqiao rummaging through his luggage with her back turned to him. When she heard the voice, Bao Qiqiao suddenly turned her head and gave him a guilty look, but then she straightened her back and made a gesture. A righteous attitude.

"Hey, miss." Zhang Chi smiled, "Is your foot injury better? If you are looking for medicine, you should tell me, I have all kinds of poison in my luggage, but Don't eat it indiscriminately."

"Stop pretending to me." Bao Qiqiao sat down on the table unceremoniously, with one foot on the stool to create a condescending visual effect, "Even if you helped me, I wouldn't believe that you are what you are Nice guy."

"Miss, where did you say that?" Zhang Chi smiled helplessly, "Can I still be a bad person?"

"I don't know who you are, but you are definitely not someone who asks questions." Bao Qiqiao said, "When I asked you before, if you kept a low profile, it would be fine if you just said you were a 'sparrow' or a 'pigeon' Well, I just want to say that you are the 'Ye Xiao' who inquires, I know all the people of the 'Ye Xiao' level, and even if I don't know them, at least I know their names, but I have never heard of you."

Zhang Chi said calmly: "Miss, you are absolutely right. There are many new 'night owls' joining every year. How can you guarantee that you know every new joiner?"

"I thought so too, so although I had doubts at the time, I didn't expose you right away, but tried to contact 'Osprey'—don't tell me you don't know who 'Osprey' is."

"I know." Zhang Chi smiled wryly.

"Since you know it, you should have heard of this rule. Only those who have been inspected by the 'Osprey' for more than three years are eligible to become the 'Night Owl' who inquired, but the 'Osprey' doesn't know who you are either. "Bao Qiqiao folded her arms and crossed her legs and said, "Bao Inquiry often has 'Ye Xiao's' silenced or disappeared. You must have obtained Ye Xiao's number plate by some means and lied that you are the person who came to Bao Inquire Liar, am I right?"

"...you'd better ask your father." Zhang Chi helped his forehead helplessly.

"You knew that I ran away from home, yet you still told me to ask my father?!" Bao Qiqiao angrily slammed the table down.

Zhang Chi looked at her in surprise and said, "Huh? Missy ran away from home?"

Bao Qiqiao, who accidentally slipped her mouth, froze for a moment, and said even more angrily: "Don't try to change the subject, who are you, and what ulterior purpose does the person pretending to be Bao inquire about? Just tell everyone your secret, and what will people in Qing Palace do to you."

"...I'm really the one who inquires. If you don't believe me, you can ask your father. I have nothing else to say." Zhang Chi took out the sign of Bao inquiring from his pocket and threw it to Bao Qiqiao, "You are here to find this. Well, if you said earlier that you wanted to see it, I would give it to you directly, so is there any need for you to come here and do the work of the gentleman on the beam?"

Bao Qiqiao didn't have time to quarrel with him, so she took it and turned it over to see that each Yexiao brand had a different number at the bottom, knowing the number would tell who Zhang Chi's brand was stolen from, maybe It can also take advantage of the opportunity to find out the whereabouts of a missing "Night Owl"-if such a major event is accomplished, who will dare to say that she is incapable of being the heir to Baoqian in the future.

Under the signboard, the number "[-]" is engraved in engraving.

Bao Qiqiao's expression changed: "How come? Where did you get this from?"

"If you want to know, ask your father." Zhang Chi stretched out his hand, "Okay, return the sign to me."

"I won't return it! This is what Bao inquired about, and you're not the one who inquired about it, why should I give it to you!" Bao Qiqiao acted like a rogue, holding the sign tightly and staring fiercely at Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi didn't say anything, just stretched out his foot to hook the leg of the stool she was stepping on, and Bao Qiqiao just leaned forward in order to strengthen her momentum, and her weight fell on the foot that was stepping on the stool. Balanced, with a scream, the whole person jumped forward and fell down.

Zhang Chi grabbed her wrist, pulled back Bao Qiqiaosheng who had almost fallen to the ground, and snatched back the iron plate in the confusion.

"You...!" Bao Qiqiao managed to stand firm, turning her head and glaring at Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi's back was facing the lights, and his face was a little blurry for a while, but his cold eyes were looking at Bao Qiqiao, making her suddenly feel like a little rabbit being watched by a hungry wolf.

Fear exploded from every pore of her body.

Bao Qiqiao couldn't help trembling, she wanted to call out for help, but the words she said were as weak as mosquitoes: "You...what are you doing, I'm calling someone..."

"If I really want to do something, will I give you a chance to call someone?" Zhang Chi smiled. The terrifying aura at that moment just now seemed to be Bao Qiqiao's illusion. Patting Bao Qiqiao on the head, "If you don't have the strength, don't be unreasonable like others. Also, the next time you threaten someone, think about your own safety first, and don't act so rashly."

Bao Qiqiao couldn't say anything, and ran out like a frightened little rabbit as soon as she was released.

Looking at the back of her running away, Zhang Chi smiled helplessly and shook his head.

He didn't know that Mu Liuyun had already returned to the next door to him and was meditating and practicing, and he also heard the matter clearly from the beginning to the end.

Mu Liuyun's posture did not change, but he opened his eyes and remained silent for a while.

No wonder Senior Brother Tianhe would say to him, "Among the upright and kind people have their own selfishness to some extent, you can make friends, but you can't trust them all."

Everyone has their own secrets that they don't want others to know, even among friends there is no reason why they must tell everything. If Zhang Chi has something inconvenient to tell him, Mu Liuyun can understand, but it is still unavoidable. Doubts arose in the bottom of my heart, what was Zhang Chi's intentional concealment for?

***

Bao Qiqiao rushed to Shangguanling like a rabbit, and as soon as she arrived at the door, she heard Yi furious in Shangguanling's room: "You are messing around! It's fine to come to watch the martial arts conference without authorization, and you want to worship under the Shangqing Palace? Dad The purpose of teaching you martial arts is to make you at least able to protect yourself, not to let you participate in this river and lake fight!"

"What's wrong with people wanting to learn martial arts well?" Shangguan Ling said weakly, "If my martial arts were better, I wouldn't be bullied today."

"Learning martial arts is back to learning martial arts. Dad can teach you anything, but don't even think about joining the Shangqing Palace!" Yizheng said angrily.

"But, Dad can only teach orally. I can't practice high-quality martial arts by myself." Shangguan Ling was a little unwilling, "Daddy is also a member of Shangqing Palace, why can't I join Shangqing Palace?"

Yizheng patted the table angrily and scolded: "Have you ever thought about what it means to join a gang? Do you think it's just a matter of picking water on the mountain and practicing kung fu every day? They teach you martial arts because once the sect needs Do you know that you have to kill people for them?! Do you remember how your father’s leg was crippled? When the Shangqing Palace fought with the Giant Eagle Gang, the opponent cheated, and more than a dozen people were lost in the battle of the Shangqing Palace. Dad was lucky enough to lose half of his leg, but Dad's two juniors were both seventeen or eighteen years old. They died when they went down the mountain for the first time to fight with others. Parents raised them so big that only loess was left in the end. One day, you still treat the fight in the rivers and lakes as a joke on the martial arts arena?"

Shangguanling stopped talking, and Yizheng snorted angrily: "Think about it yourself."

As she spoke, she came out with her stiff right leg and opened the door. Bao Qiqiao was stunned outside the door, and said, "Hello, Uncle Shangguan."

Yi Zheng reluctantly put away some of his anger: "You also help me persuade this shameless child, a little girl who dares not kill a chicken, and wants to join a gang, hmph, it's because I'm too used to her."

When Bao Qiqiao entered the room, Shangguan Ling sobbed with red eyes and said, "I...he just wants to learn martial arts..."

Bao Qiqiao completely forgot what she was here for, and comforted her for a long time with patting and coaxing, before Shangguanling wiped away her tears, and was about to go out as soon as she drew her sword.

Bao Qiqiao hurriedly stopped her: "What are you doing?"

"Kill the chicken!" Shangguan Ling said murderously.

"Where are you going to find chickens to kill in such a big night?"

"...That's right, I'll kill it tomorrow." Shangguan Ling withdrew his sword, "Anyway, I must go to Shangqing Palace!"

"Yes, I support you!"

Shangguan Ling finally thought of something else: "By the way, why did you come to see me?"

Bao Qiqiao finally got down to business: "Let me tell you, there is definitely something wrong with that Zhang Chi! I went to his room to look for his number plate just now, but he found it, and he showed me the number plate himself. The number turned out to be [-]! You probably don’t know that I originally had an older brother. In the early years, my father wanted to train him, so he let him go out to inquire about news as an ordinary ‘Night Owl’. Who knew this? When he went there, he was killed, and his body was destroyed, leaving no bones, only his number plate was recovered, and [-] is my brother's number plate!"

Shangguan Ling said suspiciously: "Since the number plate has been retrieved before, it means that he didn't get it from your brother."

"The problem is that after my father retrieved the number plate, he never gave it to anyone else. How did it get into his hands? There is no doubt that it was either fake or he stole it!" Bao Qiqiao said impatiently, "He pretended to be an inquiring person and approached the Shangqing Palace. There must be some kind of conspiracy. You must warn your father and the others quickly, so as not to be harmed by this guy with ulterior motives."

"Yes, I see." Shangguan Ling nodded solemnly.

***

Early the next morning, Zhang Chi called Mu Liuyun to have breakfast together, and saw Yin Ci from a distance bringing a few servants and Tie Wei with food boxes, but he did not send them to the canteen, but kidnapped them. Into the side yard.

Zhang Chi looked over curiously, and saw that they had brought a yellow dog and some chickens and ducks, and fed some of each food to the animals.

Seeing Zhang Chi and Mu Liuyun, Yin Ci greeted with a smile: "You two got up really early."

"It's still Manager Yin who wakes up early." Zhang Chi said, "Does Manager Yin need to come in person for such a trivial matter as delivering meals?"

Mu Liuyun also found it a bit strange. Zhang Chi told him that Qin Wuqi had four most trusted and capable generals around him, namely Jiang Shi, Yin Ci, Xu Changge, and Fu Jinglei. "Poems and songs", Yin Ci's status is not at all like someone who needs to run errands to deliver meals.