Chapter 93: Are You the Person with the Great Nose

When Fang Jie got back to Beckon of the Red Sleeve on the night of the second day, Da Quan told him that Heng Gun had died, his corpse was taken away by the royal guards, and the killer still wasn’t found.

After a moment of silence, Fang Jie tore a strip of white cloth from his inner shirt and tied it around his arm. It was a tradition that close friends and families of the dead would wear white mourning cloth around their arms in remembrance.

“I have rented a shop one street to the west of Beckon of the Red Sleeve. I have paid the rent when I came back from Smooth Spring Garden. Sister Xiaoyao, you guys can move over now and wait for me there. I’m going to get Heng Gun’s corpse back.”

After saying that, Fang Jie turned around and walked out of Beckon of the Red Sleeve.

“I’m going with you!” Qi Lin chased after him and said with his hoarse voice, “The person who killed Heng Gun is going to kill you as well. We will be worried if you go alone.”

Fang Jie paused his steps and turned around while saying to Qi Lin, “There is a coffin shop on the left side of the street if you walk left for about one hour. Brother Qi Lin, please go and buy a coffin. I think the owner already closed the shop for the day, but you can think of a way to buy one. Remember, walk on the big streets and don’t take alleyways.”

Qi Lin froze for a second, hesitated, and nodded. “If the shop is closed, I will smash open the door.”

Fang Jie nodded before speaking to Da Quan and Mu Xiaoyao, “Let’s move out first; we can’t bring more trouble to Beckon of the Red Sleeve. We all attract trouble. Ms. Xi has helped us enough, and we might not be able to repay the gratitude. The more we owe others, the worse it feels. Even if we couldn’t repay the gratitude, we shouldn’t cause more trouble for others.”

Da Quan and Mu Xiaoyao both nodded.

“Someone must follow you,” Chen Qingshan who had been silent suddenly said firmly.

“I will go.” Mu Xiaoyao slowly walked to Fang Jie’s side before whispering into his ear, “Although I don’t know why you want to go alone, you must have your reasons. I was planning to follow you quietly, so I didn’t speak up. I’m not as smart as her. She just said…”

Fang Jie shook his head and signaled Mu Xiaoyao not to continue. He said with a smile, “I knew before I came back.”

Mu Xiaoyao nodded and walked out of Beckon of the Red Sleeve behind Fang Jie.

On the third floor of Beckon of the Red Sleeve, Xi Huamei frowned as she watched Fang Jie walk out of the building. Xi Zhuxin who was standing beside her also frowned. After a moment of silence, she cussed with slight anger, “Is he an idiot?”

Xi Huamei was surprised and asked Xi Zhuxin, “Don’t you always dislike this Fang Jie?”

“Yeah, I still dislike him, because he is an idiot.” Xi Zhuxin turned around and walked back to her room without looking back, but Xi Huamei felt like Xi Zhuxin’s tone was different this time even though she couldn’t pinpoint where.

Xi Huamei shook her head and murmured, “You should be living a better life. If His Majesty learns that you are performing the Dance of Flowing Flower and Water Sleeves, would he instantly order the royal guards to lock this building?”

However, she then thought about what the man in cyan told her before he left, and she couldn’t do anything but sigh.

Fang Jie and Mu Xiaoyao walked out of Beckon of the Red Sleeve and saw that a bun shop was still open.

Fang Jie stopped by and bought ten buns.

“You haven’t eaten anything, right?” Fang Jie asked, and Mu Xiaoyao nodded. She could drink liquor instead of eating food, but she hadn’t drunk anything today since she was feeling anxious.

Fang Jie asked the owner of the bun shop to pack the buns into two bags. He got six, and he gave Mu Xiaoyao four.

“These are vegetable buns,” Fang Jie said lightly as he put one into his mouth. Although these buns weren’t big, it was hard to eat one in one go. The stuffing was made of egg and mushroom, and it had a good taste.

After eating three, Fang Jie said to Mu Xiaoyao with a troubled expression, “I will only have strength after eating. Before I came back, Mr. Zhuo came to me and told me something about you. He said that drinking too much liquor might be the reason why your sensing ability hasn’t progressed over the years, making you slower. If I knew about this, I wouldn’t have bought so much liquor for you.”

Mu Xiaoyao followed Fang Jie and bit into one bun.

“Does it taste bad for you?” Fang Jie asked.

“No.”

“Then finish all the buns,” Fang Jie said as he stuffed the last bun into his mouth, and he touched the rusty saber by his waist subconsciously.

Mu Xiaoyao tried to copy his action, but her mouth was small and couldn’t chew the entire bun.

Fang Jie took out a handkerchief and gently wiped the juice from the bun that was flowing down her chin.

“You’ve walked with me for 365 steps since we came out of Beckon of the Red Sleeve. It is enough.”

“Not enough!” Mu Xiaoyao shook her head and said after swallowing the bun with difficulty.

“The shop that I rented is close by, and there is a shop selling hot noodle soup beside it. That shop’s business is good, so the hot noodle soup must be tasty. How about we go and eat there tomorrow morning?”

Mu Xiaoyao nodded and said firmly, “I won’t go!”

“You must go,” Fang Jie said after wiping Mu Xiaoyao’s lips for her. Then, he folded the handkerchief and passed it to her before saying, “Look.”

Mu Xiaoyao was surprised, and Fang Jie already walked away. Mu Xiaoyao hesitated for a moment and ended up not following. She walked to the shop that Fang Jie rented while eating the buns. Then, she wiped her lips smoothly, and she saw a line of words on the handkerchief when she opened it.

[Mr. Zhuo is around. I don’t trust the government. If anything happens, go find the crippled old man.]

Although the words didn’t flow smoothly, a ton of information was conveyed.

Mu Xiaoyao’s pupils contracted as she instantly understood Fang Jie. She couldn’t help but speed up, and the red silk ribbon that was hiding in her sleeves was eager to move.

In a hidden place, someone smiled lightly and said to Mr. Zhuo, “He is going alone; he truly trusts you.”

Zhuo shook his head and didn’t speak. He thought to himself, “If he truly trusts me, he wouldn’t go alone.”

…

After eating those six buns, Fang Jie felt warm inside. He had a big appetite, so six buns weren’t enough; he might still be hungry after eating 12 buns. He didn’t buy more not because he was cheap; he thought that eating too much would slow him down.

Fang Jie walked forward on the big street at a measured pace, and fewer and fewer pedestrians could be seen. Many shops already closed.

After getting to an alleyway, Fang Jie hesitated for a moment before walking in.

It was quiet and dark in the alleyway, and Fang Jie lowered his body and dashed forward like a fast rabbit.

When he got deep into this alleyway and turned into another alleyway, several black figures appeared behind him. The person in the lead was in a black cloak that covered his head, and he made a hand gesture at Fang Jie’s direction. Seeing this, a few men in black behind him instantly dashed forward.

On the roof of a residential building, a few masked men were stopped by their leader. The leader pointed at the men in black in the alleyway and said with a smile, “Those people are helping us. Let’s wait and see.”

After those men in black dashed into the alleyway, they showed their weapons right away. The bright sabers reflected the moonlight, looking chilly.

The man in the black cloak grinned coldly and murmured, “Since you are seeking death, don’t blame us.”

When the men in black chased into the second alleyway, they suddenly stopped and even took a step back subconsciously.

Fang Jie was standing there quietly with his rusty saber.

“Attack!”

A man in black roared and dashed forward first. With his saber raised, he chopped at Fang Jie’s head.

Instead of backing away, Fang Jie stood a step forward, and the rusty saber in his right hand slashed upward. Before he collided into this man in black, the rusty saber already cut open this man’s throat, and blood sprayed out.

When Fang Jie passed by this opponent, the latter’s saber was still raised high in the air.

The second man in black was surprised. He was surprised that his peer who was a top-tier level 2 master got his throat slit by someone in a flash.

Before the mission, their leader said that this young man was a wastrel who couldn’t cultivate, so he was surprised that this wastrel’s saber strike was so fast and lethal.

While this man was surprised, Fang Jie’s saber already got to him. He didn’t even see which angle Fang Jie’s saber attacked. He only raised his saber subconsciously, wanting to block, but his opponent’s saber already got to him.

It was the same right-handed strike with the reverse-grip.

Fang Jie practiced One Saber Strike with his left hand for a day, but he was somehow extremely smooth with this saber technique by using his right hand. The blade already appeared at a strange angle and slit the throat of the second man in black.

The blood gushed out like a fountain, creating a temporary blood flower under the moonlight.

“Let’s attack together!” The other five men in black charged forward together, wanting to kill Fang Jie at the same time.

Like a slippery fish, Fang Jie got past these five men and poked the tip of his saber into the heart of an enemy from the back.

Puff! The saber pierced into that man’s body without resistance.

Fang Jie quickly retreated a few steps, and that man in black who was injured was pulled back as well.

The other four men in black slowly approached Fang Jie again, meanwhile Fang Jie pulled his rusty saber out of that man in black’s back.

Fang Jie was slow in doing that, and the blade of the saber that appeared like a chainsaw created bone-chilling grinding noises when it was pulled out of that man’s body.

Bam! Fang Jie kicked that man in black forward, and he also dashed forward alongside this corpse.

A man in black dodged the corpse that was flying toward him, but Fang Jie got next to him before he could move again. The rusty saber pierced into his heart, and he felt the saber twisting in his body. He felt like he even heard his heart shattering.

“Wastrel!”

The leader of the masked men who were all crawling on the roof cursed and said while pointing at Fang Jie, “Go down and help. It doesn’t matter who they are; we have the same objective of killing Fang Jie.”

The masked men around him quickly stood up and leaped down like owls.

The leader of those men in black was angered, and he dashed out of his hiding spot in the dark and appeared behind Fang Jie. He pulled out the flexible sword that he hid in his black cloak and pierced at Fang Jie’s heart from the back. He was standing in the shadow, and the big cloak covered his body. When he didn’t move, no one discovered his existence.

The flexible sword already reached Fang Jie’s back, and it seemed like Fang Jie had no idea.

Just as the sword tip pressed onto Fang Jie’s back, this man in the black cloak suddenly froze and didn’t move forward. In the next moment, he did something that surprised everyone.

This man pulled back his sword and pierced the heart of one of his subordinates. Then, he slit the throat of a masked man.

When his wide black cloak opened, he looked like a giant bat. He was too fast for others to react, and he moved and turned in the alleyway, looking like a bat that was flying by.

Fang Jie was killing his enemies in the front, and this man killed those behind Fang Jie. Like a well-coordinated duo, they killed extremely fast.

In less than a minute, all the men behind Fang Jie were killed by this man in the black cloak, and the rest were killed by Fang Jie.

After killing the last enemy, Fang Jie looked back at the man in the black cloak.

Fang Jie then wiped off the sweat on his forehead and said sulkily while looking at a rooftop, “Can’t you arrive earlier? I’m in no mood to play thrilling games.”

No one knew when another figure appeared beside the leader of the masked men on the roof.

This newcomer was in regular clothes, and he sat on the rooftop while one of his hands rested on that masked man’s shoulder. That masked man was already shaking in fear.

“Drop your sword,” the man in regular clothes said lightly, and the man in the black cloak inside the alleyway dropped his flexible sword without hesitation.

After doing all this, the newcomer said to Fang Jie in disappointment, “The person who we are after isn’t here.”

Fang Jie didn’t reply. Instead, he dashed out of the alleyway like a leopard that found its prey. He didn’t even see who the man in the black cloak that wanted to kill him was.

Seeing Fang Jie dashing away like a maniac, Mr. Zhuo’s expression changed.

“Arrest all of them.” After saying that, Mr. Zhuo chased after Fang Jie.

…

This was a general store, and the previous owner moved away. Many useless things were everywhere, making this place seem messy.

Da Quan looked around and shook his head while saying, “You two should go upstairs and rest. I will clean up. Although I hate doing these chores, it seems like no one else will clean this place up.”

Chen Qingshan who was in a wheelchair and Mu Xiaoyao who was standing on the side both knew that Da Quan had a strange habit. Even though he was a messy man, he was lazy like an aristocrat. He never washed clothes and cooked, let alone cleaning up.

Like a real aristocrat, he would never do things that he felt like would lower his status.

It was hard to tell where Da Quan learned this habit, but his stubbornness in this area was frustrating.

However, it seemed like he broke free of all his bad habits today.

Just as Da Quan picked up a groom and was about to sweep the floor, someone suddenly asked outside the door.

“Excuse me, are you the person with the great nose?”

Da Quan raised his head and saw a man in white. Perhaps it was too dark, it was hard to see this person’s face. However, Da Quan felt like a layer of mist surrounded this person’s face, and it was hard to see his facial features.

In this quiet night, this man in white stood at the door, looking like a blooming white lotus.