Chapter 165.1
When Gu Jiao walked out of her patient’s home, Xiao Liulang hadn"t arrived yet.
Just across the street was a shop selling sweet soup and candied haws. This was where she saw Gu Yan and Gu Changqing last time.
The candied haws, which the two had bought back then, looked pretty and clean, and there were many kinds as well.
Gu Jiao walked over and said, "Boss, give me three sticks of candied haws, one stick of candied oranges and one stick of candied yams."
Candied yams were Little Jing Kong’s favorite; they were round, smooth and waxy, and no need to spit out any seeds.
The boss said with a smile, "Alright, girl, that would be a hundred wen in total."
Prices in the capital were really high.
In the county town, a stick of candied haws cost only three or four wen. Meanwhile, the roadside stalls in the capital sold them at ten wen, not to mention this shop where prices were doubled again.
But the candied haws in the capital were quite large, and it was also near the end of the year. Considering this, Gu Jiao also had no complaints.
She paid the money, wrapped the candied haws in paper and put them in her back basket.
Gu Jiao thought it would be a good idea to wait here for Xiao Liulang, but just as she thought of this, she noticed that someone was watching her.
Gu Jiao had led a very dangerous life in her previous life. If she was incapable of sensing that she was being monitored, she would have died 800 times already.
Gu Jiao turned her head. The other party obviously didn"t expect Gu Jiao"s intuition to be so sensitive that he had no time to hide his actions; he could only sink quickly into the crowd.
Gu Jiao thought the other party was really gone and paid him no more attention. Xiao Liulang could be here at any moment, and she didn"t want to miss him.
Unexpectedly, the other party hadn’t given up yet. After a while, he pushed open the window on the second floor of an inn, pulled the bow in his hands and aimed an arrow at Gu Jiao.
Now he was even using a bow and arrow.
It seemed that he was really determined to court death huh.
Gu Jiao told the owner of the candied haws shop, "Boss, if a good-looking young man finds me later, the most-good looking one, please ask him to wait for me here."
The most good-looking one?
The boss was a little stupefied.
Girl, your statement sounds a little arrogant, don’t you think?
He had been running a shop here for more than twenty years, and he had seen even the imperial relatives. What ‘most good-looking one’? Could that person look even better than the imperial family?
The lineage of the State of Zhao’s imperial household was quite good. First of all, the Emperor’s attractiveness index was very high, and the imperial consorts and concubines who married into the imperial palace were all great beauties. Could the princes and princesses born to them not look good?
The boss didn"t take her words too seriously, just remembering that someone would eventually come to find her later, and he should relay her message to him.
Gu Jiao entered the nearby inn.
“Miss, are you here to have a meal or lodge?" A waiter greeted her.
Gu Jiao ignored him and stepped onto the second floor.
This inn had a slightly complex interior design, with multiple curves and turns.
But Gu Jiao had an excellent sense of s.p.a.ce and instantly figured out that the room where she saw the man just now was the third room on the left along the east corridor.
Gu Jiao entered the room.
However, the man was quick enough to climb onto the roof through the window.
Gu Jiao leaned her upper body out of the window and looked up. Then she grabbed the window frame with one hand and flipped up onto the roof.
This time she finally got a good look at the other party.
It was a man.
He was clad in all black.
In the midst of chasing him, Gu Jiao suddenly upturned a roof tile with her toe, raised her leg, and kicked the tile toward the other party.
The man didn"t expect Gu Jiao to use such a trick while chasing after people. He couldn"t dodge in time and was knocked down on the roof by the tremendous impact of the tile.
Gu Jiao heard a loud crash, like something made of iron hitting the roof tiles.
It came from the man"s face.
The man was wearing an iron mask!
Gu Jiao had a guess who he was.
The number one thief in the capital—— Fei Shuang.
Gu Jiao narrowed her eyes, and caught up to him in two or three steps.
Seeing that it was too late for him to get up and run, the man promptly glanced around, rolled his body to the edge of the roof and let himself fall.
Humph.
He had some brains.
He was more than better than those straw bags in the martial arts school.
It had already been a long time since Gu Jiao met an opponent who could force her to make another move. She hooked up her lips wickedly.
Below was the courtyard of a music house.
Gu Jiao leapt down.
The sound of stringed and woodwind instruments from within the music house masked the sound of the other party’s footsteps and breathing. It was difficult for ordinary people to determine the specific location of the man, but Gu Jiao was the best agent of the organization who was capable of accurately identifying footsteps from among a hundred or so different sounds.
As she pa.s.sed a cubicle with a draped curtain, she suddenly extended her hand and pulled a shadow out of the cubicle, slamming the figure to the ground!
With a stuffy groan, the man only felt that his brain nearly came loose.
Just what was the origin of this girl? Her skills seemed to have improved a lot in a short time!
But after all, he wasn’t a vegetarian. He was just careless, but now he wouldn’t be.
He sprinkled a packet of medicinal powder and fled into the side corridor under the cover of the powder.
In Gu Jiao’s previous life, people who could escape from her grasp again and again were very few in number. It looked like she hadn’t recovered to her previous strength yet.
Gu Jiao chased him all the way into a dark bas.e.m.e.nt.
But the man seemed to disappear out of thin air.
Strange.
Where was the man?
Also, wasn"t this a music house?
Why was there such a wide bas.e.m.e.nt here?
Maybe a storage——
In the middle of her thinking, the sound of footsteps came from the direction of the entrance. Gu Jiao swiftly moved and hid behind a large cabinet.