one step closer to the end

The shopkeeper looked around vigilantly, and the bearded man said: "Send two strangers to lure them away, and let Mr. Gu go to meet Zhao Wang. You must ignore the commander and let Zhao Wang know about our department. All obey his instructions, Xiao Qi and I will keep an eye on Jing Qing!"

"The third house in Liyuan Lane, Tsing Yi long gown, melon skin hat..."

The shopkeeper took off his courage and ran away. The bearded man picked up the burden and walked forward. Xiao Qi followed behind with a few scrolls. A young man came out of a family of three.

"Needles and threads! Candles and matches! It's a coincidence..."

The bearded man yelled proficiently, and only looked at Jing Qing in front of him from the corner of his eye. Unexpectedly, Jing Qing was walking towards the two of them, but the bearded man's heart tightened, and his brow twitched unconsciously.

Jing Qing is a military officer of the Mausoleum Guard. She should be strong and straight in her 20s, but now she seems to have been squeezed dry by a woman. Her eye sockets are blue and sunken, her waist is bent, her neck is stretched forward, like Like a hunchbacked old eunuch, his eyes are even more slack.

"Shop!"

Jing Qing suddenly looked at the bearded man, stopped and asked in a hoarse voice: "Do you have dog skin plaster, medicinal wine for back pain is also fine!"

"Uh~ no! Villains don't sell medicine..."

The bearded man instinctively shook his head, lowered his head and wanted to leave, but Jing Qing grabbed his burden and stared at him with straight eyes, cold sweat broke out on the bearded man's head, and said with a stiff smile: "Young master! The villain really doesn't sell medicinal wine!"

"Walking around the streets, have you ever seen an actor in Tsing Yi dressed as Qin Xianglian..."

Jing Qing let go of his burden, and the bearded man said in surprise, "You should go to the theater to find Qing Yi. There are no opera actors walking around in costumes. Isn't this breaking the rules? The villain has never seen it before!"

Jing Qing left without saying anything. Xiao Qi hid in the alley not far away, and walked out very naturally to follow him. After a while, the bearded man also followed him, changed into a long gown, and put on a He wore a Confucian hat, and his beard was also cut into a mustache.

"My lord! Jing Qing has entered the Ma Mansion..."

Xiao Qi hurriedly ran over from the front, pulled his beard and said in a low voice: "Master Ma celebrated his birthday and invited the Hu's troupe to sing a big opera. When the boy heard the sound of singing, he jumped into the wall. I was guarded." Front and rear doors, shall we wait or go in?"

"Send someone outside to meet the prince, let's sneak in and have a look, that kid is looking for an actor who sings in Tsing Yi..."

The bearded man walked forward without hesitation, and Xiao Qi followed after arranging his subordinates. The two of them offered a gift money and flicked a few words, then walked into the Ma's mansion. The Ma's house has a special house in the backyard The stage was already full of guests, and it was very lively.

"Damn it! Where did you go, don't lose me..."

The bearded man looked around anxiously, the two of them watched for a long time but didn't find Jing Qing, so they had to sneak around to observe behind the stage, just in time to hear a child crying heartbreakingly in the middle courtyard, and no one seemed to be coaxing her , the two slipped suspiciously towards the middle courtyard.

"Someone fainted..."

Xiao Qi suddenly pulled his beard, only to see two women passed out in the main room, and the child was crying loudly in the side room, the two of them tiptoed around to the back of the house, and looked at the two sides of the rear window to peek inside , suddenly saw Jing Qing standing alone by the cradle, her waist hooked and motionless.

"Hehehe..."

Jing Qing suddenly noticed a strange laugh, grabbed the baby in the cradle with one hand, lifted his head in the air, but he was still hunched over, shivering in pain, as if a heavy burden was on his neck of.

"Boom~"

A muffled thunder suddenly exploded in the air, and big raindrops fell instantly, but the eyes of the two people outside the window suddenly popped out, and there was an extra woman on Jing Qing's back out of thin air, wearing a bright red phoenix robe, with disheveled hair, riding on the He stared at the little baby on his neck.

"Puff~"

As soon as Xiao Qi's legs softened, he knelt down on the ground in fright. The woman in red turned her head suddenly, revealing a pair of blood-red eyes from between her loose hair, and stared at them fiercely. He ran away, but a phantom suddenly appeared in front of him.

"what!!!"

The two senior Jinyi guards screamed in terror, and ran back while rolling and crawling. Who would have thought that when they turned their heads, they bumped into Jing Qing. The female ghost sat on his neck and smiled sinisterly. Stumbling on the ground, he instinctively pulled out the dagger.

"I fought with you..."

Xiao Qi frantically jumped up and stabbed Jing Qing, and the bearded man also jumped up hysterically, but Xiao Qi suddenly felt a stabbing pain, and he was stabbed several times in the back, he immediately screamed and hugged Jing Qing fell to the ground.

"Hmm~"

Xiao Qi looked at Jing Qing in horror, Jing Qing's chest had already been pierced by him, and he was spitting out blood like him, but there was a smile on his face as if he was relieved, and said vaguely: "Okay, so comfortable Ah, I can finally lie down!"

"Big, big man!"

Xiao Qi turned over tremblingly, and saw that the bearded man was standing behind him holding a knife, staring at him with a green face, but he was so frightened that he trembled all over again, and the female ghost in red was riding on him. On the neck of the bearded man, he was staring at him with a ghostly smile.

"Liu... Piao Piao..."

Xiaoqi kicked his legs and swallowed his breath, the bearded man trembled like a cramp, the red ghost held his cheek, as if saying something in his ear, the bearded man leaned against the wall Nodded, stooped and walked out.

"what!!!"

A scream came from the front, and a servant girl found the bloody beard and the bloody sharp knife in his hand. The servant girl immediately ran out, and the guests were all startled. The thugs rushed out one after another.

"Catch him now!"

The guards rushed forward with their sticks to fight, but they fought together, and the guests didn't know what they saw, but they exploded all of a sudden, the women crawled all over the ground in fright, and the men punched each other, The entire backyard was in complete chaos.

"Hehehe..."

The female ghost in red was riding on the neck of the bearded man, and walked out like no one else was there. Many guests turned a blind eye to them, and they were all fighting for their lives. After bumping into each other, they struggled desperately.

"Liu Piaopiao!"

suddenly!

A loud shout sounded from the front, only to see Zhao Guanren appearing alone at the gate of the courtyard, standing on the steps with his hands behind his back and glaring, the bearded man stopped immediately, and Liu Piaopiao also raised his head sadly, A strange low cry came from his throat.

"Bad concubine! If you don't kneel down when you see the master, do you want to turn the world upside down..."

Zhao Guanren was wearing a bright red dragon robe. He untied the belt around his waist and pointed at her. Liu Piaopiao's legs were clamped suddenly, and the bearded man took two steps back. He had a ferocious look on his face.

"You fucking dare to yell, are you looking for smoke, get out of here..."

Zhao Guanren walked forward aggressively. Liu Piaopiao's awe of him had already been carved into his bones, and the bearded man knelt down on the ground suddenly, begging in an extremely painful voice: "My lord, my lord! Help me, I will control you." Can't help myself!"

"Liu Piaopiao! Master, I counted to three, rolled down and knelt..."

Zhao Guanren waved the belt across the air, and Liu Piaopiao roared in fright, and hid behind the big bearded man suddenly, holding his head in both hands and roaring again and again, anxiously wanting to say something.

"You have shit in your mouth, speak clearly..."

Zhao Guanren walked up to her and pointed at her with a belt. Liu Piaopiao repeated something in a very vague voice. Zhao Guanren narrowed his eyes and said, "You are looking for a child, right? If you can't find you, give me one. I'm not good enough." What about you, come out and kneel to me!"

"Woo~"

Liu Piaopiao wailed like weeping, and shook his head tremblingly at him, Zhao Guanren put his hands behind his back and said, "Okay! You bastard is addicted to stealing men, and you only think about your bastard. Well, the king will fulfill you today, your child will be behind!"

Zhao Guanren raised his left hand and pointed forward, Liu Piaopiao looked back subconsciously, who knew that a soul knife suddenly appeared in Zhao Guanren's hand, and slashed at her head, but who knew that he slashed on the ground, Big Beard and Liu Piaopiao disappeared out of thin air.

"Oops! Phantom..."

Zhao Guanren looked forward in shock, and saw that the real Liu Piaopiao was hiding in the crowd, the bearded man was still held in front of her body, but Liu Piaopiao let out a piercing scream, jumped up and swung his claws left and right, Then he jumped out very quickly towards the rear.

"Stop her quickly, don't let her run away..."

Zhao Guanren yelled in a hurry, but the noisy backyard blocked his voice. Liu Piaopiao's speed was as fast as lightning, and he disappeared outside the courtyard in the blink of an eye. The people who were scratched by her also started to twitch suddenly. The beard crawled all over the ground.

"Damn it! It's really poisonous..."

Zhao Guanren didn't care about chasing and killing Liu Piaopiao, and quickly chopped several infected people to the ground, but a woman jumped up from the ground, her eyes had already turned black, and she rushed towards him frantically.

"Pfft~"

Zhao Guanren slashed her in half, and the guests who had recovered to normal screamed again, he hurried to the door and shouted: "Seal the courtyard, don't let them out, let the epidemic prevention team come in to clean up the corpse poison, Jin Yiwei come here for me! "

"My lord! It's okay to be humble, I'm wearing inner armor..."

The bearded man crawled over with a pale face. This guy actually wore a soft armor inside, but Liu Piaopiao's sharp claws were so sharp that he almost scratched through his soft armor.

"Why did Liu Piaopiao come here, and how did you meet her..."

Zhao Guanren hurriedly pulled him up, and the bearded man said tremblingly: "We found Jing Qing, he was looking for an actor who sang in Tsing Yi, and he said it was Qin Xianglian's dress. When I was fascinated just now, Liu Piaopiao seemed to be Tell me to find the actor, it is estimated that her child has been arrested by that person!"

"Quick! Gather all the theater troupes in the city and let them come to see me..."

Chapter 0636 Liu Piaopiao's Secret

"I did send someone to kill Liu Piaopiao, but who knew she would have died long ago..."

Sitting in the tea room of the bedroom, the queen mother held Zhao Guanren's hand and said, "I originally wanted Liu Piaopiao to give birth to the child and give it to a rich family to adopt, and then let her be buried with Ye Zimei. After all, I am also a mother." , it is impossible to hurt an innocent child!"

Zhao Guanren frowned and said, "Didn't your people see the child at that time, where is Liu Piaopiao's maid?"

"The three maidservants were all killed, and none of them survived..."

The queen mother said: "At that time, Liu Piaopiao was already stiff, and she was hanging on the beam with her lower body exposed. There was a pile of placenta left on the ground, and the child was missing. She must have been forced to death, but I don't bother to explain it. I didn't intend to let her live anyway!"

"This is troublesome..."

Zhao Guanren said: "Liu Piaopiao is looking for her child everywhere. It may be done by an actor dressed as Qin Xianglian. Although she hasn't started killing for the time being, my previous knife has angered her. If she finds the child again If she dies, she may go completely berserk!"

"Actor? Qin Xianglian..."

The Queen Mother said thoughtfully: "I heard that Ye Zimei summoned Liu Piaopiao for the first time, it was in the wing room of Meikai Theater, Ye Zimei met her in the wing room on the spot, and "The Case of Guillotine Beauty" It's Ye Zimei's favorite play, you can ask Deputy Commander Jin Yiwei Niu about this!"

"By the way! Why did I forget the surname Niu..."

Zhao Guanren said thoughtfully: "Liu Piaopiao hasn't been back to China for a long time, so she doesn't have any enemies, but as soon as she came back, she was put to sleep by the surnamed Niu, and the child in her belly might be the surnamed Niu." , in order to protect his child, the surname Niu is very likely to kill Liu Piaopiao!"

"Oh, you are so worried..."

The queen mother thumped him coquettishly, and said: "You are busy all the time when you come back, and you can't take care of visiting the palace. You don't even take a look at your own kind. Your little Diji is so beautiful. Her eyes are so beautiful. Especially like you!"

"Thank you! My good girl..."

Zhao Guanren smiled and kissed her, and hurried to wash his hands. When he ran into the bedroom, the Queen Mother had already picked up the baby and nursed it. They look like Yongningsheng's twins.

"My mother's genes are really strong, my children are all like her..."

Zhao Guanren looked at the child happily, but the Empress Dowager said with a half-smile: "You have deceived Guan'er quite a bit. He is too young to see it, but I can tell it at a glance. Yongning is actually giving birth to your son." , Thanks to me for treating her as a good daughter-in-law!"

"I don't want to do such immoral things either, but God doesn't want to let the Ye family go..."

Zhao Guanren sat down and told about the "God's Scourge", spread his hands and said, "Liu Piaopiao is one of the God's Scourges, if you don't change the dynasty of the Ji Kingdom, and then kill nine out of ten of the Ye family, there will be endless disasters. Add up the immoral things you have done, and you haven’t done more than a year here!”

"Anyway, you are not allowed to kill Guan'er, I am your woman, and you are his stepfather..."

The queen mother said: "I can do whatever you want with the other surnamed Ye. I have seen through the Ye family long ago. I felt a little guilty when Ye Zimei died. Who knew that he had been deceiving me all the time. He didn't kill Liu Piaopiao at all. Liu Piaopiao's corpse Change is the retribution of their family!"

"There are more than 1 family members, I am really going to be a butcher..."

Zhao Guanren leaned over and kissed the little girl, and said: "Yongning is not stupid, she also sees that your girl is my seed, anyway, you two sisters should work it out together, let the little emperor obediently give up earlier, I don't want to kill you!" Flowing like a river will do no one any good!"

"Hmph~ You're so wicked, a good mother-in-law and daughter-in-law become sisters..."

The queen mother kicked him, and said with blushing cheeks: "Brother! Let's stay with my sister tonight. I haven't seen you for half a year. Let my sister take good care of you!"

"Dozens of theater troupes are waiting for me. I'm busy tonight. Take my daughter to rest..."

Zhao Guanren got up and kissed her. As soon as he walked out, he saw Yongning. Yongning smiled and held a cup of milk for him to drink. Zhao Guanren reacted when he was bored, smacked his lips and said, "Don't starve our two sons, I see The Empress Dowager doesn't have much food left!"

"Oh~"

Yong Ning said with a smirk: "I don't dare to starve your son even if I'm hungry. I already hired a nanny, but you will be my son after drinking my milk. You have to call me mother from now on, haha~"

"I think life in the palace is too boring, you just have to fart..."

Zhao Guanren walked out of the harem with a face full of disgust, and asked someone to notify the deputy commander of Jin Yiwei, and rushed back to the Ma Mansion where the accident happened.

"My lord! The class masters of all classes are here, and the humble official has already passed the preliminary interrogation..."

Qianhu with a beard came up to welcome him and said: "There are nine theater troupes who will sing "The Case of Guillotine Beauty" after the year. Excluding the five with bad dates, there are still four. Among them, four are in Tsing Yi, two men and two women, but all of them Claiming to never go out in outfits is a taboo thing after all!"

"Ok!"

Zhao Guanren took an oil lamp and sat in the gazebo, and asked, "Is there any Tsing Yi from Mei Kai Theater? It is said that Ye Zimei likes to listen to "The Case of Gui Mei" very much!"

""The Case of the Beauty" is so badly sung over and over again that no one wants to listen to it anymore..."

The bearded man followed in and said, "Meikai Theater hasn't performed "The Case of Gui Mei" for nearly a year, but since the murderer is wearing a suit and going out, the place where he will take the stage must be not far from Meihua Mountain. See, the second is to go back quickly, and you can have proof of your absence!"

"Where are the rest of the shows..."

Zhao Guanren threw a cigarette to him, and the other party was flattered and said, "It's quite a distance from Plum Blossom Mountain, and I don't have the conditions to go and return quickly. Either someone is lying, or it's a small theater troupe raised in a private house. I have already sent people to Plum Blossom Mountain." Visit nearby, I believe there will be a response soon!"

"Not bad! Your brain is very useful..."

Zhao Guanren asked, "Where does Deputy Commander Niu live and what kind of person is he, but it's okay to say!"

"Deputy Commander Niu lives in the middle of Tongyou Street, one south and one north of Meihua Mountain..."

The big bearded man bent down and said: "Lord Niu is good at digging camps. Before the first emperor came to the throne, he was a princeling, and now he hugs King Qin's thigh tightly. Liu Piaopiao worked under him before, and Liu Piaopiao was lucky to be the first emperor. I'm afraid it was him too." I heard that he found a lot of actors for the late emperor!"

"Your Highness! Deputy Commander Niu has arrived..."

A dragon guard suddenly ran over to report, only to see a middle-aged boy with a thin skin and tender flesh, ran over and knelt down to salute, his flattering face looked like a very small person.

"Go out and wait..."

Zhao Guanren waved the bearded man to go out, and said, "Lord Niu! Regarding Liu Piaopiao, do you have anything you want to tell me?"

"My lord! I'm not familiar with Liu Piaopiao in this humble position, it's just an ordinary relationship between superiors and subordinates..."