Universe Infinite Canteen

Malu didn't expect that Hongxinghua from Wohu Gang would be involved.

He wanted to ask a few more questions, but the big man was obviously frustrated, and 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 inferred that they should be the original workers of the dyeing house.

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 in trance.

"What are you thinking about?" Gu Qingyi suppressed the frustration in his heart and asked.

"I'm thinking about the whereabouts of the lotus bowl." Ma Lu said.

"Uh, are you just... standing there thinking about it?"

"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 set completely, and the battle between the Beggar Clan and Tianlongmen was inevitable.

But after she said this, she saw Ma Lu suddenly sprinting out of the dye house's gate and heading straight for the packhorse outside.

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.

And when he took his hand out of the saddle bag, there was already an inconspicuous small bowl in his hand.

Malu raised the small bowl to his eyes and saw that there was indeed a small gap on the edge.

"What are you doing with the bowl? Are you thirsty?"

"No, I found the lotus bowl." Ma Lu said.

"ah?"

Gu Qingyi was stunned, and his first reaction was that Ma Lu was too stunned to investigate the case.

It was really hard for them to look for bowls during this period, but it wasn't like every bowl they found looked 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 went back to her horse to get a scroll. She unfolded the scroll and found that the lotus bowl on the painting 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, which had been searched through every inch of land in Yuchang County but could not be found.

"This matter is a long story." Ma Lu said, "Let's go to the Beggar Clan first to prevent them from fighting with the Tianlongmen. I will explain it to you on the way."

"good."

Seeing the hope of avoiding conflicts and preventing Yuchang County from becoming a river of blood, Gu Qingyi's eyes flashed with joy and he immediately agreed.

Malu pedaled and mounted the pack horse, and while he and Gu Qingyi rushed to the Beggar Clan's main helm, he said something shocking.

"I didn't find this lotus bowl. It was always in the saddle bag."

"Ah, but this packhorse wasn't the one you borrowed from the Xingtong Escort Agency...well, the one you borrowed. And the Beggar Clan's lotus bowl hadn't been lost at that time, right?"

"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 put it in my saddle bag."

Ma Lu has now basically figured out the cause and effect of this matter. At the same time, he 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?

While thinking about it, Malu continued, "The people who did this are the same group of people we met in the dyeing shop before, well, but their leader doesn't seem to be here.

"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, but didn't understand what this matter had to do with the bandits in Crouching Hill.

Fortunately, Malu 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, which caused the two largest martial arts forces in Qingzhou to go to war.

"They pretended to be from Happy Forest to lend money to the Beggar Clan disciple at first, because Happy Forest is an important industry of Tianlongmen. I guess the red apricot flowers in Xinghua Village and Tianlongmen should have some 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 won't be able to pick it off even if she wants to."

"But doesn't Hong Xinghua know that the Lotus Bowl is a hot potato? She is just a bandit leader in Wohu Gang. Where does she have the courage to provoke a behemoth like the Beggar Gang?" Gu Qingyi asked.

"Hong Xinghua should have some special way of contact with Tianlongmen, which was deciphered by that group of people. That group of people contacted her pretending to be Tianlongmen. Hong Xinghua thought she was carrying out Li Tianlong's orders."

Ma Lu recalled the group of robbers he met that day. When they begged for mercy, they clearly mentioned that they were working for Tianlongmen and warned him not to be enemies with Tianlongmen.

But at that time, Ma Lu didn't take their words to heart, and he didn't expect that what they were going to do was to take the lotus bowl.

Of course, the group in the dyeing workshop also didn't expect that the things would be robbed by Ma Lu halfway.

Afterwards, it's not surprising that they hid the things on the packhorse, because no matter what kind of horse is cheap in this plane, even the most ordinary packhorse costs more than ten taels of silver.

And the robbers on Wohugang can't do without horses. They will definitely not let go of the horses in the village, which can also ensure that they will definitely take away the lotus bowl.

But the group didn't expect that the packhorse they chose had another owner.

When Malu came the second time, he happened to run into the bandits from Xinghua Village. He beat them away and took away the packhorse that hid the lotus bowl.

As for why Malu was sure that the group of people he met came from Xinghua Village, it was very simple. Because the mission was not completed and someone died, Hong Xinghua felt unlucky. After that, he asked Guangyin, a fake monk, to perform a ritual in the village.

After the ritual, the fake monk stayed in Xinghua Village and refused to leave.