"Masters, please come in!" Li Qing lowered his posture to the lowest level, and restrained the energy, blood and aura in his body as much as possible so as not to reveal his true martial arts cultivation. The leading detective held the saber on his waist and walked in step by step. He looked at the furnishings around him, then nodded with a chuckle and said: "Don't be nervous, Tiejiang Li. It's nothing serious. I just came here to ask you a few questions." This was within Li Qing's expectation. If there was really something major involving him, it would not be as simple as coming to the door for questioning. "If you have anything to ask, just ask the officials, I promise you will answer everything you know!" Li Qing promised. "During this period, do you often go to the pub next door?" Hearing this question, Li Qing probably knew why these people were here. He relaxed a little and replied without changing his face: "That's right. When I'm not busy, I like to go to the tavern." Have a couple of drinks.” The next moment, the policeman showed the reward posters posted everywhere in the city. "Then you should have seen this person before." Li Qing stared at him and said with certainty: "I've seen him before. I saw him several times when I went to the tavern. I didn't expect this person to be the Star-catching Thief. It was really unexpected!"
Seeing that Li Qing was very cooperative, the detective took advantage of the situation and asked: "Since we know it is him, why don't you go to the Prince's Mansion to provide clues? Do you mean you don't want the one hundred taels of silver?" "Don't tell me you haven't seen the wanted poster yet." All of a sudden, several detectives narrowed their eyes and stared at Li Qing's expression. "Masters, what a misunderstanding. I went to see the wanted poster this morning and found out that I had seen the person in the portrait. I was so happy at the time. Unfortunately, someone had already jumped out, and he was also a drunkard who often went to the tavern. guest." "The drinker rushed to the palace one step ahead of me. I didn't know as much information as that person, so I thought that no matter how big the palace was, the palace wouldn't pay a hundred taels for the same clues. I didn’t go.” A very reasonable explanation. In fact, this was Li Qing's true inner thought at the time. He didn't lack the one hundred taels of silver, and he didn't want to have too much contact with those Tianhuang nobles over this matter. "Haha, don't be nervous, we are just asking. In fact, apart from you, there are also a few people who drank in the tavern who did not go to the palace to provide clues about the Star-catching Thief." "Okay, tell me about the process you saw during the Star Reaching Thief, and focus on that person." Li Qing made a gesture of remembering and responded cooperatively: "That man likes to drink with a flask..." After some interrogation, Li Qing quickly took out a few broken pieces of silver. While saying that the official had worked hard, Li Qing stuffed the broken pieces of silver into the arms of several people. In this way, the several detectives left quite satisfied, without lingering or embarrassing Li Qing. Li Qing watched them leave, and his thoughts suddenly began to wander. ‘The search intensity was much greater than expected. What on earth did this star-catching thief do that made the palace so angry?’… After sighing, Li Qing planned to close the door of the shop and not go anywhere today to avoid getting into trouble. However, before I could close the door, another customer came over. This man was tall and burly, and even the strong Li Qing couldn't help but feel a sense of oppression in front of him, as if he was facing a giant. "Forging iron or buying weapons?" Li Qing glanced at the man and asked. "Did you hit this knife?" The strong man cherished his words like gold, and his face was always tense, as if everyone owed him hundreds of taels of silver.
Li Qing looked at the long knife in the strong man's hand and suddenly thought about it. Isn't this the knife he forged for Zhong Hui? How did it fall into the hands of this person... Speaking of which, since the Xiaocuiling incident ended, Zhong Hui has never come back to pay the final payment for the forged knife... Complaining in his heart, Li Qing replied: "I forged it. The man at Zhong Hui still owed me a balance but has not paid. How did this knife fall into your hands?" He didn't know the purpose of this strong man, but Li Qing was already slightly wary. Bang! The man threw the knife on the ground and said in a deep voice: "Brother Zhong is dead. Before he died, he asked me to bring the knife back. He said that he couldn't give me the remaining money. If I return the knife to you, it will be regarded as payment. "Tail money." Hearing this, Li Qing was slightly startled, then sighed softly and picked up the knife. "I see... It's such a pity. Brother Zhong was such a good person. He died like this. It's so inappropriate!" Li Qing was speaking from his heart. It had only been less than a month since he learned of the death of a familiar person. This world really knows how to eat people... "Thank you very much for this. May I ask your name?" The strong man replied succinctly: "Zhao Yuan!" "Look up to me for a long time!" Li Qing put the knife away and then clasped his fists. Zhao Yuan didn't speak, just stood there in silence for a while. The other party's attitude made Li Qing confused for a while. "Brother Zhao...is there anything else?" As soon as he said this, Zhao Yuancai nodded and replied: "You are good at shooting with knives. Can you also help me shoot a weapon?" It turned out that I was going to make weapons, but I had to ask before I said it. It was the first time I saw such an introverted person! "Of course, no problem. If you want any weapons, tell me your requirements." "Knife, big knife! A big knife over 300 jin!" Zhao Yuan said seriously: "How much taels of silver?" "If it's 300 jin...it'll cost at least 50 taels of silver." Li Qing thought for a while and gave a low but not outrageous price. Who would have thought that the next moment, Zhao Yuan took out two silver ingots from his arms and handed them to Li Qing. "When can you come to get the knife?" "Five days!" "Deal! You must make me a good knife!" After saying that, Zhao Yuan turned around and left, which made Li Qing doubt himself and wondered whether he should consider raising the price in the future. However, feeling the heaviness of the two silver ingots in his hands, Li Qing put this idea aside. At present, the business is still relatively cold, so there is no need to raise the price. If he makes two more weapons for others, his life span will be longer.
In this way, Li Qing, who accepted Zhao Yuan's order, temporarily put aside the plan to go to Xiaocuiling to hunt tigers. "Alas, I don't know what happened to Qi Kang. Xiaocuiling is in such a mess... Can he still survive?" After learning that so many people died in Xiaocuiling, Li Qing made up his mind to be more cautious in the future. There is no need to risk your life for some treasures and opportunities. Living a stable life is the best! ...
