Chapter 872 Coincidence is a flaw
Li You said: "The battle between the Tang Dynasty and Japan is coming soon. Yin Guanghao and the others were worried that I would come to a complex place like Beili at this time, so they specially reminded me. Therefore, when I smelled the powder on their bodies, which was the same as the powder on Kyumiko, I couldn't help but be alert."
Murong Bo asked, "It still makes sense. With this alone, can you conclude that they are assassins?"
Li You said: "Of course there is no doubt about this. Because I had doubts about them, after careful analysis, I found that there were many doubts about them.
First of all, I was going to go to the Kingdom of the Japanese, and then they appeared, which was a coincidence in time. Of course, during this period, there were many people coming to Chang'an from other places. This alone does not mean that they are questionable. However, this is at least a coincidence.
Secondly, they came to Chang'an and entered Xinyage, and deliberately gained reputation by making things difficult for customers. This is certainly a type of marketing method, but they are innocent servants after all, and their purpose is to make money. Such a difficult for customers is somewhat contrary to the original intention of the geisha. If you think about it carefully, it seems that they have ulterior motives.
Of course, they did it right, and it can also be regarded as a coincidence.
Again, Lao Pei and Murong are celebrities from Beili. Even if they don’t go out, the madam will tell them the identities of their two brothers.
After I began to doubt Xiaoyue, I sent Baihu to the madam to inquire and confirmed that Tuoba Zilan knew the identities of the two brothers."
The two brothers have noble identities, elegant demeanor, and generous actions. Such guests will deliberately make friends even if they are picky.
Li You's words made Pei Dilan and Murong Bo very proud, with a look of pride on their faces.
Pei Dilan said: "I'm also a little curious. Brother Murong and I have never been rejected by anyone. I didn't expect that I would hit a nail here."
Murong Bo also said, "I understand a little now that this Zi Lan lady did it deliberately."
Hamid nodded and said, "So that's the case. They deliberately made things difficult for you two, probably to attract Lao Li to come out.
You two are famous and live in Lao Li's mansion. There are many people who know that you are Lao Li's friends. Especially in fireworks places like Beili, geisha care more about the identity of the guests in order to find a backer and gain something.
It would be a bit unreasonable for them to do this."
Hamid used to do business in Chang'an, and he inevitably accompanied officials or merchants to come to Beili for socializing. He knew the mentality of geishas very well.
Pei Dilan was extremely smart. He said, "That's right. They pretended not to know our identities and deliberately made things difficult for us because they knew our identities and knew that Lao Li was our friend. Moreover, Lao Li's poetry is famous all over the world. They calculated that after we were rejected, they would invite Lao Li, the reinforcement officer.
Their target is indeed Lao Li."
Hearing everyone's conversation, Tuoba Zilan's face began to turn pale.
Li You said: "What brothers said makes sense, but in fact, it's not just these coincidences.
Zilan's wife said she liked wisteria. I said that wisteria was a favorite thing Tuoba Gui, the Emperor of the Great Wei Kingdom, and therefore, a lot of wisteria was planted in Pingcheng, the capital of that year, which is now in the clouds. She said at that time that she was born in Yunzhong, and later went to Youzhou, and was vague and did not continue to talk about this issue.
This shows that she didn't understand Yunzhong, so she probably had never been to Yunzhong at all. She was not sure whether there were really many wisterias there. In order to prevent too much words, she deliberately avoided this issue.
In fact, the so-called Emperor Daowu Tuoba Gui prefers wisteria because I am free to make it. The clouds are bitter and cold outside the border, and there is no wisteria at all."
Murong Bo smiled and said, "Li You, you are really a ghost."
Pei Dilan said: "It seems that her identity as the so-called Great Wei noble is also fake. She deliberately said that the identity of a Great Wei noble is just because she doesn't want people to associate her with the Japanese."
"However, the traces of deliberateness she did was a little too heavy," Hamid said.
These three are emperors, one is Khan, and the other is also a princely identity. Each of them has extremely high wisdom. They just didn't think about this. Once they have doubts, it is difficult to hide them.
Li You said: "You are all right. Tuoba Zilan's identity must be fake. Naturally, she is not from a noble family of the Wei Dynasty. However, her pretending to be such an identity also makes her smart.
First of all, in order to maintain the family and their reputation, the innocent prostitutes usually hide their names and stay away from their hometowns. Especially the children of nobles like the Tuoba clan should be kept incognito in order to avoid insulting the reputation of their ancestors.
However, the fake Tuoba Zilan did not have such concerns, because this was not her own surname. Her pseudonym was Tuoba Zilan, and she wanted to divert our attention, and the second was that she appeared with the noble surname, which could arouse the curiosity of the guests and quickly open up the situation in Beili."
Li You made a lot of sense. In theory, Li You and others were all top aristocrats, and they would not take the so-called aristocrats into consideration. However, a noble woman appeared in a fireworks place, which aroused people's curiosity and gave people a vague desire to conquer. Pei Dilan and Murong Bo were also attracted by the surname of the noble Tuoba Zilan at the beginning.
Li You continued: "If you want to say that the name Tuoba Zilan is fake, but her aristocratic identity should be real.
If I was not mistaken, this Zilan lady must have been a nobleman or even a royal family from the Japanese sub-country."
Hearing this, everyone's eyes looked at Tuoba Zilan. Sure enough, Tuoba Zilan's body trembled slightly, and her face became paler. It seemed that Li You's guess was not wrong.
Hamid nodded and said, "No wonder, when I first met this girl, I felt that she had a unique temperament, calmness and aloofness, and an innate arrogance, which was obviously different from those ordinary priests."
Pei Dilan and Murong Bo also had this feeling. Otherwise, they would have never seen any kind of woman, but they had an inexplicable affection for this fireworks woman.
This feeling is very subtle. In the past, the noble women around them were all humble and deliberately welcomed them. From the perspective of Li You, the woman in front of them was their enemy. Therefore, she was hostile to them in her bones, so she could show her contempt for them and make them feel a different sense of excitement.
Li You believed that Tuoba Zilan was born into a famous family in the Japanese sub-country, and now it is easy to explain - Li You was going to attack the Japanese sub-country, and the Japanese sub-country sent aristocratic women to assassinate Li You, which is normal.
At this time, Hamid asked, "Old Li, there is one thing I don't know. Why didn't she poison it at the beginning, and we've used the wine and food, so there's no problem. How did you know she started poisoning it?"
"Yes, Li You. She had a chance at the beginning, why did she get poisoned later?" Murong Bo asked.
Chapter completed!