Luo Wei and Yin Xiu leaned against a corner of the city wall, looking at each other in silence.
Neither of them had the habit of smoking, so they just stood there, not knowing how to pass the time.
"So, Count Nicholas wants us to go to Berlin, find his daughter, and let her inherit the family title?" Luo Wei asked Yin Xiu again.
"That's exactly what he said."
Yin Xiu nodded, "You heard it right."
"Of course I know I heard it right, but I'm just afraid he might be wrong."
Luo Wei was puzzled. With so many people present, Count Nicholas insisted on passing the title to his daughter who was not present. What did it mean?
Besides, his illness has not been going on for just one or two days. If he had such a plan, shouldn't he have called back all the core members of the family from all directions?
What if he is already terminally ill and his daughter is still in Berlin and hasn’t come back?
“He’s not wrong.”
Yin Xiu put his hands in his pockets. "Although he is dying, his mind is still clear. He is right. He wants us to go to Bailing to find his daughter."
“That’s the condition, isn’t it?”
Luo Wei scratched his face. "As long as the woman named Laura Fona returns to Dunling to inherit the title, the Nicholas family will not turn to the Red Emperor. Is that what he promised?"
"It's more than that."
Yin Xiu smiled and said, "If I find Laura Fountain, the Nicholas family will help us deal with the Red Emperor."
"Hmm? I thought it would be enough just the two of us. We just haven't found the Red Emperor yet."
"Do you think the two of us are the wind and clouds?"
Yin Xiu glanced at him and said, "When you are out there, it's always three men for one hero. There are only two of us. How many men does the Red Emperor have? You might as well let me fight the Red Emperor alone."
"I would like him to do so, but others may not be so open."
Luo Wei sighed and said, "After all, that bastard is very secretive and evasive."
"That's why we need you, the Sherlock Holmes from West Kowloon, to find his whereabouts."
Yin Xiu patted his shoulder, "Yong Tan, I have confidence in you."
"Now that you've said that, how can I refuse you?" Luo Wei said with a smile.
While the two were talking, Joseph walked up to the city wall in silence.
At this time, Yin Xiu glanced at the ancient castle under their feet and saw a hurry. The women had covered their faces with the black veils on their heads.
"Count Nicholas has passed away." Joseph's face was heavy.
"Condolences."
Yin Xiu responded and said nothing more.
Because he and Luo Wei have nothing to do with the entire Nicholas family, so he doesn't know what to say.
He didn't say anything, but Joseph said, "The carriage to Berlin is ready for you two. Shall we set off now?"
"So fast?"
Luo Wei was a little surprised, but what surprised him was not the speed at which the carriages and horses were prepared, but Joseph's attitude.
Joseph was also one of Count Nicholas's many children. He had heard before that Count Nicholas had as many as eleven children.
With most people dead, Joseph should have been a strong contender for the succession.
However, the Count passed the position of the leader of the bloodline to Laura Founa, who was not present at all, with just one sentence. Even an outsider like Rowe couldn't help but feel strange.
"Now is not the time to think about unimportant things."
Joseph still looked calm, "The Nicholas family is almost gone, so who will inherit the position of count now, what does it matter?"
"You mean, you don't actually plan to give up?" Yin Xiu asked him.
"Of course."
Joseph glanced at him and said, "But that's for later. The most important thing right now is to bring Laura Fonnna, my sister, back. We need her to inherit the position of count."
"If you do this, everyone will save trouble."
Yin Xiu smiled and said, "Where is the carriage?"
"Behind that door."
Joseph pointed in a direction, "It's a very secret place, no one else will know about it."
"secret?"
Yin Xiu shook his head. "Generally speaking, when a person talks about something secret, no matter what the matter is or where it is, it will no longer be associated with this word."
"You mean, someone has already discovered it?"
"Maybe they're targeting us, but it doesn't matter."
Yin Xiu and Luo Wei walked down the stairs, "Because these are all things that are bound to happen. The difference is just a little later or earlier, that's all."
Joseph thought about what Yin Xiu meant by this, and when he looked up again, they had already passed through the door and were walking behind it.
For him, this was truly the longest night in his hundreds of years of life, because he experienced too many things and met two strange Oriental people.
However, for Yin Xiu, the night is not over yet.
The coachman got off the carriage, welcomed Yin Xiu and Luo Wei, and said to them respectfully, "Gentlemen, let's go to Boling now, okay?"
“The sooner the better,” Yin Xiu nodded, “I hope we’ll be in Berlin as soon as the sun rises.”
"Sir, it's not that fast, but if everything goes well, we can have breakfast on the steamer in the morning."
"Do you guys have breakfast too?" Luo Wei suddenly asked.
"Well……"
The driver suddenly paused, and after a long while he said awkwardly, "I only eat one meal every three days, and occasionally have a small dessert once a week, such as jelly, pudding, etc."
"It's probably the same as when we eat Maoxuewang, pig blood cake and so on." Luo Wei explained in a low voice.
"If you say that, I won't want to eat these things in the future." Yin Xiu shook his head.
The groom obviously had no idea what Rowe was talking about, but he still found it interesting. To him, these two visitors from the Far East were the most interesting guests he had seen in a hundred years.
As soon as he whipped the whip, the two camels and horses began to run with a grunt, pulling the carriage.
"By the way, gentlemen, there is a bottle of gin under the cushion on the right. If you want to have a good dream, it should help you."
"It's raining, is there such a good thing as handing over an umbrella?"
Just as Yin Xiu was about to bend down to take it, he suddenly remembered something and asked cautiously, "Did you add anything to it? Like jelly, pudding or something like that?"
"Only gin, sir."
The groom replied, "Real Dunlinger Gin, nothing else."
"I can rest assured that."
Despite what he said, when Yoon Soo took out the bottle of clear gin from under the seat, he still checked to make sure the groom hadn't added anything to it.
"Is it okay to drink when you're so nervous?" Luo Wei asked.
Yin Xiu took out two cups from somewhere and said, "It's when you're nervous like this that you should have a drink to celebrate."
"Celebrating what?"
"Of course, to celebrate that we are about to find the Red Emperor."
Yin Xiu poured two glasses of wine, drank the contents of his glass in one gulp, and exhaled a breath of white air.
"It smells like grass rolled in horse manure."
Yoon Soo stuck out his tongue.
Luo Wei took a sip and frowned. "What should we do?"
"What do you mean?"
As if addicted, Luo Wei took another bite and his face became even uglier.
"I mean, those people who keep following us like flies, shouldn't we take care of them first?"
"Let them be."
Yin Xiu glanced outside through the gap in the car window.
The night was dark, and on both sides the woods kept receding as the sight went on. In winter, all the leaves on the trees had fallen off, making the trees look like corpses with bared fangs and claws.
Among these intertwined and complexly positioned branches, something was flying and jumping, following Yin Xiu and his carriage from a distance, traveling at high speed while trying to hide its shape as much as possible.
"Yin Xiu, is this also part of your plan?"
Luo Wei seemed to be thinking about something. "Because you said that there is no need to act secretly, because no matter how secretive you are, you will be discovered in the end. So this is actually part of your plan, because you have already calculated it."
[If this was really my plan, I would have already stepped my boot on the Red Emperor's face by now.]
Yin Xiu smiled, "After all, I know Zi Wei Dou Shu, so what can't I predict?"
"It seems so."
Luo Wei believed it and drank the wine in the glass in one gulp. Then his facial features became twisted.
"This wine is like someone left a pine branch in a paint bucket for a month. I took one sip and my throat felt like it was going to break."
"Then you have understood the meaning of this wine."
Yin Xiu raised the bottle in his hand and asked, "More?"
"not too much."
Luo Wei handed over the cup.
……
"I feel like there are green ants floating in it. Drinking it will kill you."
Liu Banxian frowned and showed the wine in the glass to Ren Qi.
Ren Qi ignored him and drank the wine in his hand. Then he asked, "We have been waiting in the town for three days. The peach blossoms are about to bloom. Why hasn't the person you are waiting for come yet?"
After a pause, he continued, "Could he be dead?"
"I bother!"
Liu Banxian spat, "He's still alive even if you die. How can the most famous monk in the entire southern border die so easily?"
"Big monk? I definitely don't know him."
Ren Qi shook his head, continued drinking, and threw another peanut into his mouth. "This wine should be drunk hot. Drinking it cold is like a mouse that has been dead in the soil for a week."
"Why don't you let the guys burn you?"
Liu Banxian stared at the floating particles in the wine, not knowing whether to drink it or not.
"Because cold wine refreshes the mind, but hot wine makes one sleepy."
Ren Qi looked around with a cold look in his eyes, "This time, there are only two of us. If one of us makes a mistake, only the other can cover it up. If both of us make a mistake, we will die without a burial place."
"If I hadn't known that the imperial court had sent people to hunt me down, I would have thought of staying in Hong Kong Island, or going to Malaysia with Brother Yin as a vacation."
"Vacation?"
Ren Qi glanced at him and said, "We don't have the leisure time to do that right now. If you don't do it, the court will do it."
"Why didn't they do it before? Why did they have to wait until we came and captured the Green Emperor before they took action?" Liu Banxian was puzzled.
"Because the imperial court is a cheap bone, and it won't budge unless it's beaten."
Ren Qi said coldly: "If you don't whip them to hurt them, these princes and ministers will be forever immersed in their beautiful dreams and can't be awakened.
But if you really wake it up, the power and speed of the court will surprise and scare everyone."
"I know that too, which is why I came here in such a hurry, isn't it?"
"is it?"
Ren Qi looked at him and felt that even Liu Banxian himself would not believe this statement.
"Whatever happens, if we really find the Black Emperor, what should we do?"
"Two ways."
Liu Banxian held up two fingers and said, "Let's write a letter and ask Brother Yin to come here and let him subdue the Black Emperor.
Or, we can tie up the Black Emperor's driver and take him back to Hong Kong Island."
“Neither of these is safe.”
Ren Qi denied him, "You wrote a letter to Malaysia. Not to mention whether the ship might encounter heavy rain or wind, it might take a month to arrive. Even if it was delivered, by the time Yin Xiu came from Malaysia, summer would be almost here, so how could it be in time?
Even if you tie him up and bring him back to Hong Kong Island, can someone who can become the Dragon Emperor's driver be tied up with just a few hemp ropes?"
"How about changing it to an iron chain?" Liu Banxian was also thinking seriously.
"Don't bother."
Ren Qi sneered, "Don't I have a sword? Once we catch the driver of the Black Emperor, we can chop off his hands and feet, put a tube in his mouth and feed him some soup every day to make sure he still has a breath left, right?"
Liu Banxian subconsciously touched his arm and said in horror: "Fortunately, I don't have any Green Emperor's Seed or Black Emperor's Seed on me, otherwise I would be worse off dead if I fell into your hands."
It seemed that Ren Qi's suggestion just now was not a joke, but something he had seriously considered.
Just when Liu Banxian was about to say something, a little monk walked in and approached the counter.
"Master, we don't have vegetarian food here, please go to another place!" the shopkeeper complained.
"I'm not here to beg for alms."
Although his face was pale, the little monk still maintained his attitude, neither humble nor arrogant.
"Is there a donor named Liu Andy living here?"
"How should I know? With such a weird name? An opera singer?"
The shopkeeper flipped through the book, then looked up and shouted, "Liu Andy, Liu Andy, are you there? Someone is looking for you!"
"it's here!"
Liu Banxian raised his hand, "I am Liu Andy!"
"When did you start calling yourself this?" Ren Qi asked curiously.
"Stage name, stage name."
Liu Banxian grinned, "These days, if you want to get involved, you have to have an alias to protect yourself."
The monk saw Liu Banxian raising his hand, and trotted over, saluted him with both hands, and said, "Are you Mr. Liu?"
"It's me, absolutely."
Liu Banxian asked happily: "Master, are you the disciple of Master Lekong?"
"That's right."
The monk's eyes lit up, and he was obviously happy that he had completed his mission.
"My master is at the Thousand Buddhas Temple in Zuzhi, waiting for you for a long time." (End of this chapter)
