Chapter 218 Canglin Tournament (33)

After listening to Murong Ying’s lecture for half a day, Ji Bu naturally learned a lot about Wanxia House.

Such as Wanxia House and Banfang House, they depended on a certain special Kungfu to have a rapid rise of a few decades. Although they are stronger than other small schools easily, they were lack of foundation and giving people a sense of nouveau rich. The disciples were also good and bad, though there were chivalrous people, silly person like Wang Ao also existed.

The attitude of other Wulin people towards them can be seen from Lu Shan’s words and deeds… There is no worship, but there is respect. After all, they are not evils, and they are indeed powerful.

So, can the people from Wanxia House do the thing of poisoning?

Of course, not… With Gongsun Li’s idea, if he really wants to poison, he will not choose in this time and place. Also, he will not let a waiter become part of it.

In the daytime Wanxia House just made troubles with Breaking Sword Tea Shack, the whole thing happened in public l. If someone in Breaking Sword Tea Shack dies in the night, other Wulin people will throw suspects on Wanxia House for sure.

Even Gongsun Li and Shi Yanran want to kill them at this moment, but they dared not to do so. They must pray for the safety of Breaking Sword Tea Shack, and pray that nothing will happen to these five. If someone is missing or dead, the Wanxia House will take the condemn immediately.

At this point, we can see that the previous strategy of Feng Bujue was a good move. If he told the truth of Wang Ao’s death in the morning, proved that Shi Yanran killed people, Gongsun Li helped on her. It would turn out that nobody will believe him… Jianghu is a very realistic place, a nameless faceless people without any hard pieces of evidence can’t against Wanxia House.

So, Feng Bujue just made up the fact and used Gongsun Li’s guilty on this thing. Therefore they can’t have conflict with Breaking Sword Tea Shack, but had to help them to prove the “Fact”.

The situation is different now. If Feng tells others the truth about the death of Wang Ao, it is not necessarily a situation that no one believes him.

Therefore, Gongsun Li sent people to send this food and drink, and he really had no other meaning but just for flattering and testing,

A few small dishes are ordinary, but it’s already good enough for now. After all, it’s hard for place like the Canglin Hotel to contain a large number of delicacies from outside the town every day. It’s even nice to be able to have meat here.

While there’s still good wine in the inn. As long as there is a wine cellar, the wine can even save for decades years.

The inn-keeper apparently knew that all the people who would come to the Inn at this time will be Wulin people… And they love about good wines. They can eat worse, but wines must be good. So, the inn is well stocked with all kinds of wines.

Gongsun Li spent a lot of money to buy this small bottle of the “Disappearing of Enmity” to ask for Feng Bujue’s friendship. It’s not normal wine from the name. It’s an extraordinary good wine with unbelievable expensive price.

What is the “Disappearing of Enmity”? It means to drink a cup and let off the bad blood between people. This is nothing sort of the legendary brain-washing alcoholic drink like “Live and Die”. If Tang Sanzang knew this, he would certainly regret. Why do I have to travel to the west? Why don’t I go study how to make wine? [1]

Well, it’s a joke. No matter how good the wine is, deep hatred will never be solved. Most of all, it’s just a case of “you lent me a couple of bucks a few years ago” and “you stepped on my foot this morning”.

……. Anyway, Young Master Ji Bu looked at the food and drink in front of him, he had already believed about toxic food, so he would not eat.

As a player, he does not need to eat and drink. The food and drink weren’t beauty and he shall refuse them easily. So, he just put things there without moving.

“Eat ****” is also obviously impossible, because if he does not eat a bite, no one can prove that this table of wine is poisonous or not… Time slowly passed, there’s about an hour after the waiter brought the food and wine. The sky is all dark outside. Then there was another knock on the door.

“Who is that?” Young Master Ji Bu stood up again and went to the door, asked.

The man outside the door was slightly silent for two seconds. Then he said, “I’m Gongsun Li.”

“Shi Yanran.” After Gongsun Li finished, another woman’s voice came, but her tone sounded a little bad.

The short silence was due to the two of them exchanging glances outside the door when they heard Ji Bu’s answer.

Ji Bu did not open the door immediately, but asked: “It is dark, Why do you come and what could I do for you?

Gongsun Li replied, “Emmm… Would you please let us in before we talk?”

Ji Bu thought about it, he might not able to stop them if they really want to go inside. So, he opened the door, glanced over their faces and tried to be as calm as he could. He leaned over and said ”Please.”

As soon as they entered the door, Gongsun Li and Shi Yanran’s face changed. First of all, they saw the food and drink on the table were not even slightly moved. Second, after looking around the room, they realized that there was only Ji Bu in the room at the moment.

News in the inn spread quickly. Gongsun Li and Shi Yanran inquired about it naturally that the rest of the players left the inn during the day. But they did not get the reason why the other four are still out, leaving only this boy alone until night.

“I haven’t consulted the young man’s name…” Gongsun Li quickly changed into a kind face and made a bow.

“Jin Fugui.” Ji Bu replied with great annoyance that he had to use the name in the scenario again. But the two people opposite did not react much about the name.

Gongsun Li then said, “Ha-ha… I should call you Mr. Jin then.” His eyes glanced around the room again, as if afraid someone is hiding somewhere, “I don’t know if Lord Feng and other three…”

“Out on business.” Ji Bu returned directly.

“Oh, so…” Gongsun Li was thoughtful and his face looks dark. “By the way, about last night…”

“Everything is arranged by our leader.” Ji Bu interrupted again. “Whatever he said this morning is what he said, and I know nothing else.” He responded with this very well, and the implication was… You two don’t have to kill me. I have no intention of leaking.

But Gongsun Li was suspicious, and Shi Yanran’s motive for killing people was disgraceful. How could they take it off so easy?

Shi Yanran interjected at this time: “Mr. Jin, why you didn’t eat the food we sent you? Wait… Are you afraid we’ll poison you?”

Ji Bu was stunned and he can’t answer for a second. But suddenly, he had an idea and put on a high and cold style replied, “This little dish is really hard for me to eat.” He glanced at the bottle on the table. “It’s really good wine. But… Since the two have said that the wine is given tour leader, I dare not drink it before his return.”

Shi Yanan heard the words, looked at Gongsun Li. The latter slightly nodded, indicating that the words were trusted.

From Gongsun Li’s point of view, it was reasonable for the boy, surnamed Jin, to put his answer in this way. His fine, tender flesh looked like a toff, and though he was now dressed in ordinary, coarse linen, there was no fake temperament. He could say that it was a good wine without taking a drink, and his name was “Fugui”… The boy should be the young master of some rich merchant’s family. But somehow, such a person would go into Breaking Sword Tea Shack.

Shi Yanran’s thoughts were more simple. She will not go to the in-depth speculation about Ji Bu’s origin and so on. It’s the woman’s instinct told her that Ji Bu’s “hard to eat” was absolutely sincere. Even herself thought the stuff on the table were suck.

As for the second half of that sentence… “I dare not drink it before his return” is a lie, but it is very persuasive.

The impression Feng Bujue left to people can be described as “This is a horrible man.” in Amazing Detective Di Renjie. [2]

Almost all of the villains in the series have used this line to describe the ability of either Di renjie or Li Yuanfang. Of course, positive characters occasionally use this phrase to describe boss-level evil characters.

The word “horrible” in the play can basically be equated with three things: First, extremely intelligent; Second, extremely powerful; And third, insane. As long someone occupied one of those, he will probably be described like this. But Feng Bujue might be the one who has all three. He could be described as, “I’m so strong that I’m scared of myself.” [3]

“Ha-ha.” Gongsun Li laughed with extremely fake tone: “Please forgive my bad consideration, because I only know the name of Lord Feng but not the rest heroes in Breaking Sword Tea Shack.” As he spoke, he came to the table and said, “this wine is just a token of my regard. If Mr. Jin likes it, I will send another cup to you.” He took the flask and began pouring wine into three glasses. “We shall toast you a cup for forgiven.”

[1]I don’t really get it, but it’s a joke and obviously, it’s not from Journey to West. I wonder if it’s from the film Chinese Odyssey by Steven Crow.

[2]Di Renjie, a famous judge and detective in the Tang Dynasty. He was like Sherlock Homes in China, found internal crimes in the city —— And he is also the judge of the city. His story was well told in China into various version of books, movies. Li Yuanfang mentioned after is his best helper just like Watson. The Amazing Detective Di Renjie was one of the series movies.

[3]The reference came from the movie Kungfu by Steven Crow.