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    ?Ma Lu didn’t expect that Hong Xinghua from Wohu Gang would be involved.


    ??He wanted to ask a few more questions, but the big man was obviously discouraged. After saying the last words, he killed himself with a knife.


    ?Ma Lu was worried about Gu Qingyi''s safety. After the card game was over, he didn''t have time to touch the body, so he rushed into the dyeing workshop as fast as possible.


    ?But to his surprise, there was no fighting inside.


    ?Gu Qingyi has searched the dyeing shop, but cannot find the man with the birthmark under his ear.


    ?In addition, the whereabouts of the lotus bowl was not found. Only a piece of plowed land was found in the backyard. After digging it up, it was found that there were seven or eight corpses underneath. Judging from their clothes, it was inferred that they should be the original workers of the dyeing house.


    ??Gu Qingyi was a little disappointed, feeling that the fist he punched was empty again, but when he turned around, he saw Malu staring at the jujube tree in the yard in trance.


    "What are you thinking about?" Gu Qingyi suppressed the frustration in her heart and asked.


    "I''m thinking about the whereabouts of the lotus bowl." Ma Lu said.


    “Uh, are you just...standing there and thinking?”


    “Yeah.” Malu nodded.


    “Don’t think about it, even if you think about where the lotus bowl is, it’s too late.”


    ? Gu Qingyi raised his head and glanced at the sky. The sun was about to set completely, and the battle between the Beggar Clan and Tianlongmen was inevitable.


    But after she said this, she saw Ma Lu suddenly sprinting out of the dye house gate and heading straight for the pack horse outside the door.


    ??Gu Qingyi thought that Malu wanted to go somewhere else, but it turned out that Malu did not get on the horse. Instead, he circled around the pack horse and put his hand into the saddle bag under the saddle.


    When he took his hand out of the saddle bag, he already had an inconspicuous small bowl in his hand.


    ?Ma Lu raised the small bowl in front of his eyes and saw that there was indeed a small gap on the edge.


    “What are you doing with the bowl? Are you thirsty?”


    "No, I found the lotus bowl." Ma Lu said.


    "ah?"


    ?Gu Qingyi was stunned, and his first reaction was that Ma Lu was too stunned to investigate the case.


    It was really hard for them to look for bowls during this period, but it was not like any bowl they found would look like a lotus bowl.


    ?However, when Gu Qingyi took the bowl and looked at it carefully, he was a little dumbfounded, because the appearance of this bowl was indeed very similar to the stolen lotus bowl described by the Beggar Gang.


    ??Gu Qingyi even went back to her horse to get a picture scroll. She unfolded the picture scroll, and the lotus bowl on the painting was exactly the same as the one in her hand.


    The scroll was requested by her from Chu Qianyuan. It was painted by a skilled painter and is said to be indistinguishable from the original.


    “How did you find it?”


    ?Gu Qingyi was puzzled.


    She couldn''t figure out how Malu found this lotus bowl, which had been searched through every inch of Yuchang County in black and white but could not be found.


    "It''s a long story." Ma Lu said, "Let''s go to the Beggar Clan first to stop them from fighting with Tianlongmen. I will explain it to you on the way." "Okay."


    Seeing the hope of avoiding conflicts and preventing Yuchang County from becoming a river of blood, Gu Qingyi''s eyes flashed with joy and he immediately agreed.


    ?Ma Lu pedaled and mounted the pack horse, and while he and Gu Qingyi rushed to the main helm of the Beggar Clan, he said something shocking.


    “I didn’t find this lotus bowl, it was always in the saddle bag.”


    “Ah, but didn’t you borrow this packhorse from the Xingtong Escort Agency? Well, the one you borrowed from the Xingtong Escort Agency, and the Beggar Clan’s lotus bowl hadn’t been lost at that time, right?”


    "When I borrowed the horse, the Lotus Bowl was indeed still in Beggar''s Gang, but I once fostered the horse in a small village for about a week, and it was at that time that the Lotus Bowl of Beggar''s Gang was stolen. , and put it in my saddle bag."


    ?Ma Lu has now basically figured out the cause and effect of this matter. At the same time, he also understands what Han Guangzhong means by saying that the answer is right in front of him.


    ??However, this also made him more curious about Han Guangzhong''s identity. Who is this guy? Could it be that he knew that the lotus bowl was hidden in his saddle bag early on, so why didn''t he take it away?


    ?Ma Lu continued while thinking, "The people who did this are the same group of people we met in the dyeing shop before, well, but their leader doesn''t seem to be here.


    “This group of people pretended to be Happy Forest and forced the beggar gang disciple to steal the lotus bowl. When the disciple stole it, they hid the lotus bowl in the small village where I kept the horse.


    “Then let the news go to the people in Xinghua Village and ask the bandits in Xinghua Village to get it.”


    ? Gu Qingyi seemed to understand what he heard, and didn''t understand what this matter had to do with the bandits in Wohu Gang.


    Fortunately, Ma Lu quickly explained, “The purpose of the group who stole the Lotus Bowl was very simple, which was to intensify the conflict between the Beggar Gang and Tianlongmen, which caused the two largest martial arts forces in Qingzhou to go to war.


    “They pretended to be people from Happy Forest to lend money to the Beggar Clan disciple at first, because Happy Forest is an important industry of Tianlongmen. I guess the red apricot flowers in Xinghua Village have some relationship with Tianlongmen.


    "Well, maybe she is Li Tianlong''s mistress or something. Anyway, if the lotus bowl falls on her hand, it will be like a **** basin on Tianlongmen''s head, and she won''t be able to pick it off even if she wants to."


    “But doesn’t Hong Xinghua know that the Lotus Bowl is a hot potato? She is just a bandit leader in Crouching Hill. Where does she have the courage to provoke such a behemoth as the Beggar Gang?” Gu Qingyi asked.


    “There should be some special connection between Hongxinghua and Tianlongmen, which was deciphered by the group. The group pretended to be Tianlongmen and contacted her. Hongxinghua thought she was carrying out Li Tianlong’s order.”


    Ma Lu recalled the group of bandits he met that day. When they begged for mercy, they clearly mentioned that they were working for Tianlongmen and warned him not to be enemies of Tianlongmen.


    It''s just that at that time, Malu didn''t take their words to heart, and he didn''t expect that what they wanted to do was to get the lotus bowl.


    ?Of course, the group in the dyeing shop also did not expect that Ma Lu would intervene and rob the things halfway.


    ?Thinking about it afterwards, it’s not surprising that they hid things on the pack horses, because the price of any horse in this plane is not cheap, even the most common pack horses cost more than ten taels of silver each.


    The bandits on Wohu Gang are inseparable from horses. They will not let go of the horses in the village. This also ensures that they will take away the lotus bowl.


    ??It’s just that the group didn’t expect that the packhorse they picked had another owner.


    When Malu came over for the second time, he happened to run into the group of bandits from Xinghua Village. He beat those guys away and took away the packhorse that hid the lotus bowl.


    As for why Ma Lu was sure that the group of people he met came from Xinghua Village, it was very simple. Because the errand was not completed and someone died, which made Hongxinghua feel unlucky. Later, he asked for leave from monk Guangyin to perform rituals in the village. .


    After the ritual, the fake monk stayed in Xinghua Village and refused to leave.


    (End of this chapter)