Chapter 50 Extraneous problems
"It was supposed to be a good retreat, but it had to end in a hurry. I'm sorry to make Lord Luo laugh!"

In the evening, Lu Tingxiang led his men to personally escort Luo Tianjin and his party to the gate of the mansion. As the Lu family had encountered many misfortunes in one day, and Mo Cen was dead, and the whereabouts of the Jingfenghuayu Tu were unknown, the various sects that came to the meeting had no intention of staying any longer, and said goodbye to Lu Tingxiang after noon.

A birthday banquet turned into a funeral banquet. A group of people watched the huge golden birthday peaches in silence while eating a birthday banquet for a dead person. This strange scene was rare.

Luo Tianjin said, "Mr. Lu, please don't be so polite. Your mansion is being troubled by a villain now. If you need any help from me, please send someone to the Xianwang Mansion to find me. I will never refuse."

Si Kong Zhu smiled and replied, "Everyone in the Lu Mansion is deeply grateful to Lord Luo for his kindness. Lord Luo came here with high hopes, but left disappointed. It was all because of my poor hospitality. In the future, I will personally go to Luoyang City to apologize to Lord Luo."

"Mr. Zhu, you are too polite!" Luo Tianjin waved his hand and smiled, "We are fellow martial artists, so when one of us is in trouble, all sides will support us."

Lu Tingxiang nodded and said, "It is getting late now. Palace Master Luo and everyone else can go to Chunqiu Mansion to rest for one night and then set off for Luoyang early tomorrow morning. The Lu Mansion is not peaceful right now, so please forgive me for not trying to keep you here any longer, so as not to cause trouble to Palace Master Luo."

Luo Tianjin nodded gently, leaned close to Lu Tingxiang's ear, and whispered: "Today's incident must have been caused by someone colluding inside and outside. Mr. Lu, do you have anyone to suspect?"

"Tang Afu showed up at Sushui Pavilion yesterday, so I suspect the person who stole the map came from Jueqing Valley." Lu Tingxiang speculated bluntly, "And the people who secretly supported him in the mansion... hehe... except for the Xianwang Mansion, Jinjianwu, the six major sects and the four major families, the rest are all suspects. However, I can't make false statements without any evidence. I have to wait for everything to be investigated before I can make a conclusion."

Lu Tingxiang's words were not sincere. He was only concerned about Luo Tianjin's face, so he excluded these self-proclaimed and upright forces. In fact, the person Lu Tingxiang suspected the most was Luo Tianjin. It was not for anything else, but because there was suddenly a person named Liu Xunyi with unknown origins in the Xianwang Mansion today. This alone was enough to arouse suspicion.

Luo Tianjin did not say much about Lu Tingxiang's perfunctory words. He exchanged a few more words with Lu Tingxiang, Sikong Zhu and others, and then led his people away from Lu Mansion.

Among those who left with Luo Tianjin, Liu Xunyi was also among them. Ever since the sudden change in the Lu Mansion, Liu Xunyi had not been able to find a chance to talk to Luo Tianjin for most of the day. And Luo Tianjin seemed to have long forgotten about Liu Xunyi, not only did he not ask about him, he even never looked at him again.

"My dear brother, I didn't expect that after all the trouble, I would end up with nothing." The wounded Lin Fangda's face turned pale. With the support of Liu Xunyi, he slowly walked to the end of the crowd. "It's a pity that Mo Cen's family of three thought that they could live a stable life after retiring, but they still couldn't escape the bad luck. If they had known this earlier, they might as well not have retired and died so miserably."

Liu Xunyi seemed to still be immersed in the tragedy of Mo Cen's family. He answered nonchalantly, "In the end, Senior Mo still didn't get to retire from the martial arts world as he wished. His hands never reached the golden basin until his death. The most hateful thing is the man in black. Since he already got the map, why did he kill people to silence them? He even refused to let go of an innocent baby... How could he have the heart to kill such a young child?"

Lin Fangda smiled bitterly and said, "The man in black killed Mo Cen to prevent him from drawing another picture of the Wind and Rain from memory in the future, and killed his child to cut off the roots, so as to prevent Mo Cen's son from seeking revenge on him in the future."

"Evil villain!" Liu Xunyi said with disdain, "Since you dare to do such a thing, why should you be afraid of revenge? If you dare to do it but not take responsibility, what kind of man are you!"

Lin Fangda put his hand on Liu Xunyi's shoulder and whispered meaningfully, "My dear brother, not everyone in the martial arts world is honest and upright. Don't think they are too kind. You should know that truly kind people can't survive in the martial arts world. Sometimes you have to be ruthless. As for that man in black..."

"Lin Fangda!" Before Lin Fangda could finish his words, Luo Ningyu squeezed through the crowd and came to them, asking with concern, "How are you injured?"

"It's just a superficial wound, it's not a big deal!" When Lin Fangda saw Luo Ningyu cared about him, he immediately threw away the pain on his body and smiled innocently, "Ningyu, where does the Palace Master say we should go next?"

"The Jingfenghuayu Tu is gone, so we should go back to Luoyang City." Luo Ningyu replied, and then her beautiful eyes turned to look at Liu Xunyi and said, "Hey! Why did you suddenly show up in Lu Mansion today? And you pretended to be someone from our Xianwang Mansion. Do you have any bad intentions?"

Without waiting for Liu Xunyi to answer, Lin Fangda stepped in first and said, "That Ningyu... When we get to Chunqiu Mansion later, can you come with me to introduce Brother Liu to the Palace Master? Brother Liu is alone in the martial arts world, helpless and helpless. I want him to find a job in the Xianwang Mansion, so that we brothers can spend time together in the future."

"You want to go back to Luoyang with us?" Luo Ningyu's eyes flickered slightly, and it was hard to tell whether it was surprise or astonishment in her words, and there seemed to be a hint of joy mixed in.

"The premise is that Miss Luo is willing to take me in." Liu Xunyi smiled modestly.

"I might consider it. You performed very well today and your martial arts are not bad." Luo Ningyu looked Liu Xunyi up and down and pondered seriously, "You are not as useless as Lin Fangda, who is embarrassing." After saying that, Luo Ningyu playfully stuck out her tongue at Lin Fangda.

"Thank you Miss Luo for thinking so highly of me." Liu Xunyi responded, and then changed the subject and said with pretended worry, "But after I arrive at the Xianwang Mansion, Miss Luo, please don't let me chop wood or boil water."

Liu Xunyi's words startled Luo Ningyu and Lin Fangda at first, then the three of them laughed at the same time, and their relationship became closer than before. "Brother, when we get to Chunqiu Guangsha later, the mansion master will definitely ask about your background. You must answer truthfully. The mansion master doesn't like people playing tricks in front of him." Lin Fangda reminded them of everything he remembered. He kept giving them various instructions along the way from Lu Mansion. It seemed that Lin Fangda cared more about whether Liu Xunyi could successfully enter Xianwang Mansion than he did.

"Brother, don't worry..."

Just as Liu Xunyi, Lin Fangda and Luo Ningyu were chatting and laughing with each other, a dark shadow suddenly flashed past from the alley next to them. Liu Xunyi subconsciously stopped, frowned slightly, and looked thoughtful.

"Brother Xian, what's wrong with you?"

"Brother, Miss Luo, you go to Chunqiu Guangsha first. I suddenly remembered that I have something to do. I will leave first and I will go to Chunqiu Guangsha to find you later." Liu Xunyi explained hurriedly, and then without waiting for Lin Fangda to ask, he quickly chased towards the depths of the alley.

At this moment, it was already dark, and a swift figure was walking quickly on the dim street. This person was dressed for night travel, with a black scarf covering his face so that his features could not be seen clearly, revealing only a pair of piercing tiger eyes, which emitted a cold light like a wolf under the moonlight. This person walked through the streets and alleys, heading straight for the Jiangnan Lu Mansion.

The man in black carefully moved to the back wall of the Lu residence, and quickly and silently took down two Lu family guards who were patrolling there. His movements were agile, his attacks were precise, and his body movements were flexible, which clearly showed that he was quite skilled.

The man in black stood close to the wall, hiding himself in the inky black shadow. He looked up at the high wall of the Lu Mansion, as if he was thinking about something, and did not move for a long time.

The moonlight was hazy and the world was gloomy. The man in black seemed to melt into the darkness.

After pondering for a moment, the man in black seemed to have made up his mind. He trotted along the wall and came to the corner of the Lu Mansion's wall. He looked around and then kicked his feet and jumped up the high wall like a gecko. In mid-air, his hands and feet flipped and slapped on the wall, and his body climbed up steadily.

However, just as the man in black had just poked his head out of the high wall, he suddenly heard a soft "whoosh" sound coming from the night sky. In the dim moonlight, he saw a sharp arrow like a black lightning shooting straight towards his head.

"You bold thief, how dare you trespass into the Lu Mansion? You are seeking death!"

As roars came from the courtyard, more than a dozen figures suddenly appeared in the originally quiet backyard of the Lu Mansion. The torches that followed one after another instantly illuminated the world as bright as day.

The man in black had never expected that the Lu Mansion's defense would be so tight. Faced with the overwhelming rain of arrows, his pupils shrank in fear and his head subconsciously retracted under the wall. With a series of "bang bang bang" sounds, the tiles on the top of the wall were instantly shot to pieces by countless sharp arrows.

The man in black pushed the wall with his feet and quickly flipped backwards. Due to his nervousness, his footing was unstable when he landed and he staggered backwards several steps.

"That man is outside the back wall. You surround him from both sides and capture him alive!" Sikong Zhu's cold voice suddenly rang out deep in the Lu Mansion.

The man in black was shocked when he heard this. He looked around and saw many figures rushing towards him. In a hurry, he quickly drew the short knife from his waist and prepared to fight head-on with the Lu family guards.

"Come with me!"

Suddenly, a cold voice sounded from behind the man in black. The nervous man in black swung his sword without thinking, but the man dodged flexibly. Before the man in black could strike again, the man had already grabbed his wrist and said in a deep voice: "Don't move if you don't want to die! You dare to break into the Lu Mansion alone at night, but you don't know that there are so many masters in the mansion. If you fight hard, you will definitely die!"

"It's you?" The man in black suddenly saw the face of the person who came. It was Liu Xunyi who had been following him all the way.

Liu Xunyi stared at the man in black with a serious look. Suddenly, he pulled off the black scarf in front of the man in black with lightning speed. Suddenly, a big face covered with beard appeared under the moonlight.

It was Feng Tianba, the new commander of the Quanzhou camp who led his troops to besiege the Lu Mansion today!
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(End of this chapter)