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The starlight was sparse, and it was not yet midnight, and the city of Hangzhou gradually quieted down. Search: \(?Complete?Book?God?Station) to read high-quality literature for free.

The waves of commotion caused by Qi Yuankang's rebellion had not yet dissipated, but the movements caused by the fleeing partisans and die-hard resisters had been suppressed to a very small extent. The lights in the city were dimmed to the darkest level, but occasionally soldiers would walk through the streets, and a very few people who had not yet returned home would rush back. Although the matter was quite big, the city had not yet begun to be under curfew at this time. In some places, soldiers would conduct searches, but it had not reached the point where no one dared to go out.

At the Four Seasons Study, the banquet had also ended. Wenren Buer, as the shopkeeper, was directing the few servants who remained to tidy up the shop. What people will be talking about tonight may not be the literary gathering held by Zhu Yanlin, but only the great battle between Ning Yi, Liu Jin, and Li Tianyou later. When the woman holding the box later went upstairs, Li Tianyou waved to a group of soldiers who were following him and left. This scene brought a lot of doubts to everyone, but when the woman then left with the box, the literary gathering in the building had already come to an end.

The doctors who followed began to treat Liu Jin, and also bandaged and treated Ning Yi. When several figures belonging to the Badao Camp came in to clean up the mess, everyone said goodbye to Zhu Yanlin with cupped hands. Since not many people in Hangzhou City had dealt with the Badao Camp, everyone was still a little unfamiliar with this group of people who came in. At most, they knew that the Badao Camp ran a business dealing in wood, but they couldn't build a relationship at this time. If one were to speculate, it would be that people from the Badao Camp had arrived, and Li Tianyou had suffered a loss without being able to speak about it, so he had no choice but to retreat bluntly.

If one had a deeper relationship or a higher status within the Fang La military system, one would think of some other things. For example, who exactly was the woman who came over and only showed her face once before leaving? For example, Zhu Yanlin, who went downstairs earlier, had an idea at the beginning that this woman who suddenly came over was very likely to be the rumored Liu Dabiao herself, but he was really unsure about this. Coincidentally, even Wenren Buer, who was watching from the sidelines, had once thought of this possibility. Afterwards, in a short period of time, he received many messages from the city.

The sudden news of the rebellion earlier was all thunder and no rain. It can only be said that whether the Participating Political Affairs Officer Qi Yuankang was sincerely rebelling or not, this time the plan to deal with him was first decided by the higher-ups, and Qi Yuankang was subsequently forced to make a final resistance. But what ultimately settled everything was the Badao Camp belonging to Liu Dabiao. Although there were only eight hundred people in the Badao Camp in Hangzhou City at this time, they belonged to one of the backbone forces under Fang La's command. It's just that the Badao Camp has always been low-key and not part of the central authorities, so it is difficult to estimate the weight of this army. It is conceivable that the plan to deal with Qi Yuankang was initially opposed by the Badao Camp, but in the end, Liu Dabiao was forced to agree to it. She first sent someone to send a poem to the area where Qi Yuankang was located. This poem coincided with the one written by the woman who later went upstairs, called *Xiao Ao Jiang Hu* (Smiling Proud Wanderer):

"Heroes emerge from our generation, once you enter the *jianghu*, time hurries by.
Great ambitions are discussed with smiles, it's better to be drunk in life.
Drawing swords and riding horses, wielding ghostly rain, white bones are like mountains, birds are startled and fly away.
The world is like a tide, people are like water, in vain we sigh, how many people return from the *jianghu*."

In the limited information about the Badao Camp that Wenren Buer had previously mastered, this woman named Liu Dabiao did not have such literary talent. It is unknown who wrote this poem, which made a judgment and sigh about Qi Yuankang's actions. Afterwards, Liu Dabiao led the most elite force of the Badao Camp to kill her way in, and after a fierce battle, personally beheaded Qi Yuankang. Everything after that was just the lingering aftermath.

And the Xuanwei Camp, as a participant in this matter, obviously received the news after Qi Yuankang's death. Below the Four Seasons Study, the surrounding soldiers would not have allowed the woman to go upstairs, but obviously, after the woman wrote this poem, a staff member of the Xuanwei Camp realized that something was wrong and quickly came up to inform Li Tianyou. Li Tianyou also left in anger because of this. This is the fact that Wenren Buer is now able to grasp. During this period, the woman's identity became one of the most concerning doubts tonight.

However, Wenren Buer was not thinking about this matter at this time. Whether the woman was Liu Dabiao or someone else putting on a show, there was not much meaning in thinking about it at this time. At this time, he was standing in the small damaged private room, carefully checking everything around him.

This matter has little meaning and doubt in the eyes of the onlookers Zhu Yanlin or the forty or fifty literati and courtesans, but for many people in the room who understand martial arts, it is almost an unsolvable mystery.

After Tang Kou was killed, whether it was the people from the Xuanwei Camp or the onlookers Wenren Buer, they were searching for any suspicious figures in the private room and even around the room at the first moment. Everyone was convinced that Ning Yi could not have killed the man named Tang Kou. In his style, the greatest possibility was that he had set up an ambush or arranged for helpers in this dark small private room, but although the Xuanwei Camp people reacted quickly, they did not find any suspicious traces.

Wenren Buer approached that side at the time, and he was actually playing this trick. He wanted to enter the small room and kill Tang Kou while everyone was not paying attention. But later, things happened too quickly, and he simply didn't have time. To put it another way, even if he thought of a way to come in at that time, and he was prepared while Tang Kou was not, he could have cut off Tang Kou's head with one knife, but he would definitely not have been able to escape from this room in such a short period of time.

So, who was the third person in this room at the time? If there might be one... who exactly was he?

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The night breeze blew, carrying the coolness of late autumn. Ning Yi walked on the street, evaluating everything that had happened before, so that his head could be a little clearer.

Tonight's battle, for him, was indeed a desperate gamble made without any certainty. As long as he took one wrong step, he might have lost his life. He had this kind of psychological preparation, but after doing it, he would still feel a huge sense of fatigue of surviving a disaster in his heart. Everything before was really like a dream. If he were to do it again, he really didn't know what it would turn into—although he thought so every time.

After the fight, several people from the Badao Manor also rushed over afterwards. These people were not high in status, and Ning Yi only knew one of them, who was a carpenter. The injuries he suffered were not very serious, but Liu Jin's condition was really bad. At the moment, he could only let the doctor treat him at a nearby clinic. After confirming that Liu Jin was not in danger of death, he prepared to take a walk home. Two people from the Badao Manor also followed along the way, so that they could protect his safety at this time.

In all fairness, Ning Yi was actually a little surprised by the appearance of these people. Seeing Li Tianyou leaving in such a straightforward manner, he was also a little suspicious at this time that the woman who only showed her face once was Liu Dabiao herself, who was not wearing a veil and was dressed in Han Chinese clothes. But if it was really Liu Dabiao, then those who followed her to clean up the aftermath should be one of the eight people who "pay back debts with money and lives for lives," even if they were not the personal guards of the Badao Camp. On the way, he also asked about it. However, the two who followed did not know the other party's identity either. They only said that someone took a token to find them, and they happened to be nearby, so they rushed over quickly.

"But that woman is really beautiful. If you say she is the Manor Lord herself, we would believe it."

"The back view looks really a bit like it..."

"If the Manor Lord hears us discussing her like this, we will be given a hard time..."

"I think it should be someone close to the Manor Lord, Mr. Ning has never met her?"

The two were talking beside him. Liu Dabiao had a lot of prestige in the hearts of the people in the manor, but she usually maintained a distance after all. Not many people below could see the veiled Manor Lord, let alone the unveiled one. As they were talking, a figure appeared on the road ahead, and the two immediately closed their mouths when they saw it.

At this time, it was still a bit far from the Willow Street where the Badao Manor was now located. This street seemed quiet, and the large and small shops and houses had already closed their doors, but at the side of the street not far away, the lights of a shop were still on. It was a small restaurant selling braised dishes such as pig ears. A shed was set up outside, and the woman who had appeared earlier was sitting with her back to this side at a dining table under the wooden shed. It seemed that she was eating, and the long wooden box used to store the Badao blade was placed on the side of the dining table.

"You...go back first." Ning Yi said softly to the two people beside him.

"But, if we leave, you alone..."

"That girl alone can scare Li Tianyou away. With her here, I should be fine... Besides, if she is really your Manor Lord, there is nothing wrong with you going up to see her like this. If you get reprimanded in the future, don't blame me."

Saying this, the two thought for a while, then nodded, bypassed the street from this side, just taking a secret glance at the woman's appearance as they passed by. Ning Yi went over from the back. In his heart, he temporarily felt that the woman in front of him might not be Liu Dabiao, but the figure did seem a bit similar, but the temperament was different at the moment.

"Dabiao?"

He said this, and sat down in the seat next to her. The woman was eating, and glanced at him. There was no expression of rejecting people from thousands of miles away, nor was there any particularly kind expression. She was beautiful, and seemed to have the temperament of a rich family's daughter. Her face even had a slight baby fat, but her skin did not appear rosy, but rather looked quite tired after a day of hard work. She swallowed the food in her mouth, and only heard her say: "Is the injury okay?"

"Not very serious, thank you." The bandage on his head made Ning Yi look like an Arab wearing a hat askew, but compared to Liu Jin, he was still able to run and jump after all. He had only suffered some skin trauma, and there were no signs of a concussion. As a fierce martial artist who claimed to be the Blood Hand Human Butcher, he didn't need to regard himself too preciously.

"Since you're okay, go back quickly. It's not peaceful tonight, you shouldn't stay here all the time."

"It looks like it should be fine now." The other party did not confirm her identity, Ning Yi could only look at the wooden box. It was indeed a box used to store Liu Dabiao's Badao blade, but in the Badao Manor, there was more than one such box after all. Looking at the woman's rather fair face, he tentatively asked: "Are you injured?"

The woman glanced at him, then said: "Then let's eat together."

There were only a few braised dishes on the table, but Ning Yi was also hungry anyway. He was also a bit curious about this woman, so he went to the shop owner to get a bowl and chopsticks and started eating. The two did not speak for a while, but after only a few bites, a carriage drove over not far away. Soon after, the person who came confirmed the suspicion in his heart.

Accompanied by eight or nine followers, the one who got out of the car at this time was Lou Jingzhi, whom he had met once in the Four Seasons Study. He got out of the car and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the girl under the shed, but frowned again when he saw Ning Yi. Then, he walked over.

"Liu... Dabiao. And this is Mr. Ning... May I sit down?" At first, he seemed to be a bit hesitant about the address, but finally he called her Liu Dabiao. As for Ning Yi, it was purely perfunctory. Ning Yi had seen that the girl did not have much intention to drive him away, so he stayed. At this time, he felt a slight headache.

Lou Jingzhi and Liu Dabiao have a marriage agreement...

It seemed that the young couple were meeting here, and it was a bit inappropriate for him to intervene.

He sighed in his heart, preparing to say goodbye, but after a while, what happened made him discover that everything was not as he thought.

"I remembered that I have something to do, I'll leave first."

Ning Yi was not a person who dragged his feet, and said, cupping his fists and rising. Beside him, Liu Dabiao raised her eyebrows and glanced at Lou Jingzhi: "You better not sit down." Then she said to Ning Yi, "Sit down, finish eating before you leave." Her voice to Ning Yi, however, was much softer.

Even after experiencing many things, Ning Yi still felt a bit bored when facing the situation in front of him. And on the opposite side, Lou Jingzhi glanced at him, then pulled out the bench beside him, sat down, and ignored Ning Yi.

"I... I knew about what happened tonight, I just happened to be passing by, knowing that you wouldn't be in a good mood, so I came to see..."

The night was peaceful, and the scholar's voice sounded, appearing quite gentle...

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