The Legend of the Condor Heroes: From Being Expelled from Peach Blossom Island

Chapter 250 Searching for the Unfaithful Man

At Yunlai Inn, room number four, Wu Chengyu didn't enter through the main entrance. Instead, he used his lightness skill to reach the window of the room and sensed that there was only one person inside. His breathing and heartbeat were steady, and Old Man Liang was still sleeping peacefully.

He didn't go in immediately. He first observed the situation of the entire inn. It was around four in the morning, and the sky was just beginning to lighten. Most of the people in the inn were asleep, except for two waiters who were getting up to boil water and chop wood, complaining.

In addition, there are three rooms around Old Man Liang's room, each with two people, and at least one of them is not sleeping but is keeping a watchful eye on the direction of Old Man Liang's room.

One room's door faces Old Man Liang's door directly, another is at the corner of the stairs, and the third is next to Old Man Liang's room. The windows of the two rooms are only two meters apart when they are open, so if Old Man Liang escapes through the window, they can immediately follow.

The people in these three rooms are all skilled in martial arts, dressed smartly, and each has a short knife within half a meter of them, which they can easily grab.

They had been guarding Old Man Liang here for who knows how many days, and they had hidden him very well. It was quite remarkable that the old man could still sleep so soundly.

Besides questioning Heshi Lie Liangping, Wu Chengyu also inquired about the situation of the Criminal Investigation Department. Number One was a capable subordinate of Heshi Lie Liangping and was extremely familiar with the Criminal Investigation Department.

As he said, the spies who were specifically responsible for surveillance and capture carried specially made short knives with shallow wolfhound heads carved on the hilts, making them difficult to spot if not known beforehand.

The weather was hot, and all the skylights in the rooms were open. Wu Chengyu sneaked into one of the rooms through the skylight and instantly subdued the people in the room by striking their pressure points from a distance. After checking the markings on their knives, he found that there were indeed wolfhound heads. After confirming their identities, Wu Chengyu immediately snapped the necks of the two men.

He then sneaked into the remaining two rooms one by one. With his excellent lightness skill and ability to strike pressure points from a distance, it was easy for Wu Chengyu to ambush these guys whose martial arts skills were not very high.

Next, Wu Chengyu naturally confirmed the identity and broke the neck. Afterward, he observed the entire inn again to make sure there were no other suspicious people before leaving the room and quietly sneaking into room number four, where Old Man Liang was.

Old Liang was fast asleep when he suddenly heard someone singing softly beside him. It sounded like a woman's voice, the sound faint and intermittent, like a sob: "I'm waiting for you to come back, I'm waiting for you to come back... My love, why haven't you come back yet?"

Old Liang woke up instantly, covered in cold sweat. He jumped out of bed, his hands twitching as if ready to fight. Being an old and shrewd man, his first reaction wasn't that it was a ghost, but that he had been exposed. But when he saw who was in the room, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Wu Chengyu was not using any disguise techniques at the moment. He was looking at Old Man Liang with a half-smile, and Old Man Liang immediately recognized him.

The old man lowered his defensive stance, but showed no joy at seeing his old friend. Instead, he pointed at Wu Chengyu's nose and muttered curses under his breath.

"You, Wu Chengyu, come here late at night to tease this old man. You're really being ridiculous and disrespectful."

Furthermore, how dare you appear before me? You ran away from your marriage that day, showing no manly responsibility whatsoever, leaving my head of the family heartbroken. Do you even deserve to be the righteous elder brother of my righteous army, or to be called the unparalleled leader of the Nine Provinces?

"I've been holding this in for so long, and now that I finally see you, I'm going to give you a good scolding."

Wu Chengyu remained calm. Old Man Liang was essentially a member of his future wife's family. He admitted that he had been a bit of a jerk for running away from the wedding, so it wouldn't hurt to let him scold him a few times. Unfortunately, Old Man Liang had no understanding of the art of language and kept repeating the same few phrases without any originality.

So Wu Chengyu wasn't going to let him keep cursing: "Uncle Liang, we'll handle things between Chunyu and me. I'll definitely marry her in the future, but not now. I'll give you an explanation in the future."

"You'd better take care of yourself first. Do you realize that if I hadn't come today, you would have brought disaster upon the rebels?"

Upon hearing this, Old Man Liang immediately stopped cursing. He didn't doubt Wu Chengyu's words, but was pondering where he had slipped up. After a moment, he suddenly looked up and said, "This is bad. There must be something wrong with that Hu Qing. His timing was a bit too coincidental; I should have realized it sooner." Hindsight is always 20/20, and Wu Chengyu believed that if he hadn't come tonight, Old Man Liang wouldn't have suspected Hu Qing.

"It's dangerous here, we need to leave immediately," Old Liang said as he packed his bags.

"Don't worry, Hu Qing is already dead. I've also taken care of the six spies in the three rooms next to yours. You're not in danger for the time being."

"Tell me first, what brings you to Chang'an?"

"I'm here to receive a batch of supplies."

"Does Hu Qing know the specifics?"

"He doesn't know that I actually received the supplies outside Chang'an City and immediately transported them directly from outside the city. These supplies were not escorted by our people. They had to be transferred many times before reaching our headquarters. This route has always been very safe and involves some other forces, so the Jin Kingdom's spies couldn't find out."

I entered Chang'an on the second day and stayed there for three days before meeting Hu Qing. I only told him about receiving supplies; I didn't say anything else.

Wu Chengyu nodded. According to Number One's words, Old Man Liang's secret was only discovered by Hu Qing by chance after he entered Chang'an City, so the matter of transporting supplies should not have been exposed.

"But you also said a lot of things, including that there are many people in the rebel army who are good at training troops. They immediately suspected Yue Fei's army and even prepared to send people to Jiangnan. Don't worry, I've already taken care of them."

Old Liang blushed slightly after hearing this, his face showing embarrassment: "I had a few drinks that day and accidentally said a bit too much, but I didn't say anything important."

"For these spies, a few casual words reveal enough information. If the descendants of Yue Fei's army who remain in the Song Kingdom suffer a calamity because of you, how would you, Uncle Liang, bear it?"

“You’re right. I can’t shake the habit of talking too much. When I get back to the chief and accept my punishment, I’ll talk to her and ask for a different job. I’ll stay in the Qinling Mountains and never come out again.”

Wu Chengyu nodded. This was certainly the best arrangement. Old Liang's loyalty was beyond doubt, but Wu Chengyu knew about his talkativeness as soon as he first met him.

The job he's doing now appears to be external liaison, but it could attract the attention of spies at any time. He's lucky to have survived this long.

"So, now that you've received and sent the supplies away, why are you still staying in Chang'an? This place is one of the main bases of the Jin Kingdom's spies."

And your knife, though modified, wasn't completely altered; Hu Qing spotted the flaw in it.

At this point, Old Man Liang immediately perked up. He rolled his eyes and said to Wu Chengyu with some disdain.

"Why wouldn't I leave? It's all for you. The chief sent me to Chang'an to find out about you, but you're a heartless bastard."

(End of this chapter)