Chapter 25: Jin Jiulian's Request

  Lu Xiaofeng and Si Kong Zhai Xing made a bet, betting on the number of somersaults in an hour. Si Kong Zhai Xing won with 680 somersaults in an hour, and Lu Xiaofeng helped Si Kong Zhai Xing dig 680 earthworms afterwards.

  Mudao Ren asked: "You really helped Si Kong Zhai Xing catch 680 earthworms."

  Lu Xiaofeng sighed and smiled bitterly: "In the first few days, there were many earthworms, but in the following days, it was even harder to find an earthworm than a bald man finding a wife."

  Kuso Boshi couldn't help but ask: "What does that King of Thieves want with so many earthworms?"

  Lu Xiaofeng said with hatred "He didn't want earthworms at all, he just wanted to see me dig for earthworms"

  Mu Dao Ren burst out laughing and said, "I never thought that Lu Xiao Feng would have a day like this, it's really exhilarating!"

  Lu Xiaofeng's eyes rolled around and he said "Are you also thinking of making a bet with me?"

  "What's the bet?"

  Lu Xiaofeng said "Gambling with wine."

  Mu Dao Ren said, "I won't fall for your trick. I've long since admitted defeat to wine. Drinking, I alone can't surpass you, swordsmanship I'm inferior to Sima Blowsnow and Ye Guicheng. But if you want to gamble with me, then let's gamble on Go."

  "You think I'd fall for that? Who doesn't know you're first in Go, second in poetry and wine, and third in swordsmanship?"

  Mokuyoujin said proudly: "Everyone thinks I'm the number one Go player, but that's not true. There is one thing that no one can surpass me."

  "What is that?"

  Mù Dào Rén said: "When eating, you want to make a bet, we'll just bet on eating."

  Lu Xiaofeng shook his head and said: "I originally wanted to gamble, but unfortunately I'm not a rice bucket."

  Mu Dao Ren shook his head and said: "I didn't expect the famous Lu Xiao Feng to admit defeat, it's really unbecoming."

  The Master of Bitter Melon said: "Recently, the one who has been making a big splash in Jianghu is no longer Lu Xiaofeng."

  Lu Xiaofeng asked: "If it's not me, then who else? Could it be you, Li Yunfei?"

  Li Yunfei smiled and said: "I've been at Jiangnan Flower House all this time, doing nothing."

  Lu Xiaofeng continued: "That is Baiyun City Master Ye Gu Cheng."

  Mu Dao Ren said: "No, Ye Gu Cheng has been very ill recently."

  Li Yunfei exclaimed: "He can also get sick? What disease?"

  Mu Dao Ren said: "Anyone who gets this lazy disease will never show off again, just like me."

  "Who is that?"

  "Bitter melon master said: 'A man who can embroider flowers.'"

  Lu Xiaofeng said: "What embroidered flower man, I know there are several men who can embroider flowers."

  Li Yunfei said: "You didn't write to me, telling me that a man who embroiders flowers has recently done dozens of big cases. He also blinded seventy or eighty people."

  Lu Xiaofeng said strangely: "I didn't write a letter to you, how did I know there was a blind person who could embroider? How can a blind person embroider?"

  Li Yunfei was puzzled, Lu Xiaofeng had clearly written a letter to himself, what's going on. Li Yunfei said: "It's just that recently a big thief has appeared, he has committed dozens of major cases recently. You sent me the letter, you told me to wait for you at Master Kuanggua's place."

  Lu Xiaofeng said: "No! What's going on?"

  "It was I who wrote to you under the name of Luk Siu Fung." At this moment, Kam Yuk Lin walked in and said: "This thing was done by me."

  Li Yunfei asked: "Why did you ask me to come to Master Bittergourd's place?"

  Jin Jiulian said: "Master Bitter Gourd is my senior brother. And Lu Xiaofeng will definitely come here. So I invited you in the name of Lu Xiaofeng."

  Lu Xiaofeng said: "What did you invite us here for this time?"

  Jin Jiuling said, "Recently you've been helping Si Kong pick stars and dig earthworms, so you don't know. Recently this embroidered man has made many big cases. The Six Panel Doors have asked me to take action."

  Li Yunfei said: "Isn't this enough? With you as the chief of the six-panel gate, the number one catcher in the world, what case can't be solved?"

  Lu Xiaofeng also followed up by saying: "Yes, you are known as the number one master of the Six Panels Gate in three hundred years, and no matter how big or small a case is, none have been left unsolved."

  Jin Jiuling said: "No matter how clever a person is, he will always encounter problems that he cannot solve one day."

  Li Yunfei asked: "You can't solve this case, so you want us to find it."

  Jin Jiuling said: "That's right, no matter what you have to help me with this case."

  Lu Xiaofeng said: "I didn't expect that Master Bitter Melon invited us to dinner just for the sake of this junior brother. But this case can be handed over to someone else by Jin Jiuying."

  Jin Jiuling said: "This is probably not going to work."

  "What's the reason?"

  Jin Jiuling said: "Because he embroidered several blind men we all know."

  "Who?" asked Luk Siu Fung.

  Jin Jiuling said: "Chang Mantian, Hua Yifan, Jiang Chongwei."

  "Jiang Zhongwei, Jiang Zhongwei of the Pingnan Wangfu." Lu Xiaofeng exclaimed.

  Jin Jiuling said: "Besides him, who else is Jiang Chongwei?"

  Lu Xiaofeng said: "After Jiang Zhongwei entered the Wang Mansion, he never interfered with Jianghu affairs again. How did he provoke that guy?"

  Jin Jiulian sighed and didn't speak, but the bitter melon master stood up and said: "It wasn't Jiang Chongwei who provoked that guy, it was the 180 catties of bright pearls in the Wang mansion."

  Lu Xiaofeng exclaimed: "He not only blinded Jiang Zhongwei but also stole 180 catties of bright pearls from the Wang Mansion."

  "Not only that, he also robbed Huayu Zhai's seventy volumes of valuable paintings worth a city. The 800,000 taels of silver from the Town Far Escort Bureau. A batch of red goods escorted by the Town East Escort Bureau. The 90,000 taels of gold leaves from the Jinsha River." Jin Jiuling sighed and continued: "It is said that this person did sixty or seventy big cases within a month, and all of them were done single-handedly by him alone. You can imagine how difficult it will be to crack this case."

  Li Yunfei said: "Jiang Chongwei and you are good friends, and the stolen is still from Pingnan Wangfu, so even if you don't want to care about it, you have to care, right?"

  Bitter Melon Master sighed and said: "I just don't know how Jin Jiuling chose this path in the first place."

  Lu Xiaofeng smiled and said: "If he doesn't become a constable, would he be like you and become a monk?"

  The Master of Bitter Melon said, "At least monks don't have so much trouble."

  Li Yunfei looked at Jin Jiuling and smiled: "Captain Jin, don't you have any clues?"

  Jin Jiuling smiled and said: "I still have a piece of embroidery." Jin Jiuling took out a pair of bright red satin, embroidered with a black peony.

  "What is this thing?"

  "This is what Embroidered Flower Thief embroidered in the treasure vault of the Wang Mansion."

  Li Yunfei asked: "He really embroidered flowers in the treasure house of the Wang Mansion."

  Jin Jiuling nodded and said, "That's right, when Jiang Chongwei went in, he was embroidering this peony inside."

  Lu Xiaofeng furrowed his brow and said: "The Wang Manor is heavily guarded, how did he get in?"

  Jin Jiuling bitterly smiled and said, "No one knows how he got in, nor can anyone guess?"

  Lu Xiaofeng said, "He didn't even leave a single clue?"

  "None."

  "What kind of person is he?"

  "Is a person with a big beard all over his face, and he's still wearing a thick cotton-padded jacket on a hot day."

  "His kung fu route number is what?"

  Jin Jiuling shook his head and said, "I don't know."

  Lu Xiaofeng said: "Even Lian Jiang and Chong Wei don't know."

  Jin Jiuling sighed and said, "Even a seasoned old hand like Lian Changtian couldn't see how he made his move. Let alone Jiang Chongwei?"

  Lu Xiaofeng said "Jiang Chongwei's Iron Palm hard skill, can be considered as the first in Southeast Asia."

  "But he didn't even have a chance to fight back."

  Lu Xiaofeng furrowed his brow and said: "How could such a formidable figure suddenly appear out of nowhere?"

  Li Yunfei asked: "Who in this world can enter the Pingnan King's mansion without being discovered by others."

  Jin Jiuling smiled and said: "Except for that embroidered flower thief, only one person can enter the Pingnan King's mansion at will."

  "Who is it?"

  Jin Jiuling said: "There is only one person, Si Kong Zhai Xing."

  Li Yunfei said: "That Embroidered Flower Great Thief won't be Si Kong Zhai Xing, he doesn't have such high martial arts skills."

  Jin Jiulian said: "I know, but he can find out how the Embroidered Flower Thief entered the Wangfu Treasury."

  Li Yunfei said: "Is this why you invited us here this time, just for this case?"

  "Alright! Considering we solved the Iron Shoe Thief case together last time, you must help me this time."

  Jin Jiuling looked at Lu Xiaofeng and Li Yunfei, making them both feel a bit uneasy. Finally, Li Yunfei nodded and said: "Alright, this time we'll help you with this favor."