The day before Lu Xiaofeng drank a lot of wine, but he wasn't very intoxicated. When he woke up, he was still in good spirits. He lifted the quilt and straightened up. There were brand new clothes in front of the bed. Zhong Yanqiu probably didn't have such thoughtfulness. , I think it was probably bought for him by the guy named Liu Zi.

The aroma of morning tea came in through the crack of the door. He could distinguish the smell of shrimp dumplings, wontons, big skirt wings of Dasanyuan, and boiled conch slices of Nanyuan. Panic.

The six children were waiting outside the door, but Zhong Yanqiu was nowhere to be seen. Lu Xiaofeng wiped his face with a wet handkerchief and asked, "Where is Mr. Zhong?"

"Mr. left last night." Liu Zi said with a smile, and took out a letter from his arms, "Let me give this to you before leaving."

Lu Xiaofeng opened the envelope with half a shrimp dumpling in his mouth, and there was about seven or eight pages of letter paper inside. Zhong Yanqiu obviously wrote in a hurry, the handwriting was flying and flowing, almost completely connected, and the ink was intermittent in some places , The typo was drawn hastily, and the handwriting on seven or eight pieces of letter paper was completed overnight without any sense of stagnation, and it became more and more urgent as it got to the back.

It was written in such a hurry, so naturally there was no scene. The opening of the article was straight to the point. After reading two lines, Lu Xiaofeng's expression froze. Letters come.

At this time, Zhong Yanqiu was on the official road to the capital from the southeast.

The horse he was riding was a good horse, and there was no one in a million. As soon as he went out last night, someone led the horse and waited at the door. Gong Jiu stood aside with a cold face, and what he said was not very good as usual. Nice to hear.

"With your speed, everyone in Su Mengzhen will be buried in the capital."

Zhong Yanqiu took a deep look at him, took the reins and got on the horse, saying: "Be careful of that little girl you keep."

It was late at night, and the city gate was closed tightly, but the officers and soldiers at the gate, Gong Jiu, had already made arrangements, and opened a small gate for Zhong Yanqiu from a distance, and Zhong Yanqiu rushed out without stopping.

Running all the way through the starry night, Zhong Yanqiu had already arrived at the second city when the dawn was about to dawn, the gates of the city were open and there were no people on the road, and the road from the south of the city to the north of the city was unimpeded.

Zhong Yanqiu didn't bring any money, and he didn't need to. He didn't get off his horse at all along the way. With his cultivation base, his needs for food and drink have been reduced to a minimum. He almost swallowed the water bag he brought with him when he left Wuyang City. No drink, no sleep, no sleep, no rest, day and night, even the horses were so exhausted that they changed several horses on the road, relying entirely on internal strength to keep them from falling down.

Of course, this has side effects. His whole body is glowing red as if being roasted by fire, his skin is peeling off layer by layer, his lips are dry and cracked, his eyes are red, and the blood vessels in his eyeballs are ruptured, making him, his whole body look like The dried fish dehydrated on the fire was almost wrinkled, and the dusty green robes looked like dried prunes. Because of several heavy rains on the road, there were deep spots and shallow spots with water stains.

Only his eyes were dimly dizzy and dimly black, without a trace of tiredness or shaken color, so calm that he seemed unable to feel the pain of his body, his brain was still very calm and clear, without any confusion, even if he It has been several days without closing his eyes and resting for half a second, but his thinking is still clear and accurate, directing his body to complete the top priority instructions meticulously.

Go to the capital.

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Wuyang City has been very lively recently.

Jiang Chongwei, the chief manager of the Nanwang Mansion, was blinded and kicked out of the mansion, but the new chief manager was not the original deputy manager, but a man named Huo Tianqing.

He used to be the chief manager of Zhuguangbaoqi Pavilion, but he didn't know why he suddenly resigned to Nanwang's mansion a few days ago.

Since he entered the Southern Prince's Mansion, he hasn't done much else. It seems that he doesn't have the attitude of a new official taking office. The only thing that has caused a lot of criticism is that he took the beloved concubine of the Southern Prince, who was the one who passed his birthday a few days ago, The ranking of positions is extremely high, and if there is something rare and good, they will always stick to the first choice over there, and sometimes they will even deceive the top and bottom to skip Nan Wang and his son.

But I don’t know why Nan Wang and his son turned a blind eye to his behavior, and even endured the rumors in the mansion that Nan Wang’s hat was a little green, and only killed the servants who spread gossip. He lightly fined Mr. Huo for one month's monthly payment and then withdrew it.

Some people say that it's because Mr. Huo is from an extraordinary background. Compared with Mr. Jiang Chongwei, Mr. Jiang, Mr. Huo is the old man of that old man, and his seniority is very high in the Jianghu. Right now, the house is being patronized by thieves and all the trees and trees are popular. Panicked, it is the time when you need the help of a master with unique skills.

These rumors are not groundless. Since Director Huo took office, several face-to-face guard leaders have been replaced intermittently in the mansion. All of them are full of reckless arrogance, and some even have scars on their faces and look like ghosts. Called several little maids to see it and was so scared that they couldn't sleep at night.

However, the substitution will inevitably cause defensive adjustments and frictions, and then create loopholes that can be exploited. However, Nanwang has no time to take care of so much. As the news of Ye Gucheng's invitation to Ximen Chuuxue spread, his plan We have reached the final juncture, and we can no longer look forward and backward, so we can only bite the bullet and go all the way to the end.

If you succeed, you will be king; if you lose, you will die.

Huo Tianqing was the same as every day during this time, patrolling the Nanwang Mansion with golden armored guards, and he also had keys hanging on his waist. Each of the dozens of keys led to a secret place in the Nanwang Mansion, but he There was no movement of the key when walking.

Bypassing the yard in front, it was time to change shifts, and the person who changed shifts with him was already waiting, and the moonlight shone on that person's face, even Huo Tianqing couldn't help being shocked at first glance.

——That can no longer be regarded as a face, the left side of this face was cut off in half by someone, the shriveled and contracted wound pulled half of his face crookedly, half of his nose was gone There was nothing left but a gasping hole, a deep black hole for the right eye, a huge cross was cut on the forehead, and a pair of hands were severed at the wrist, containing an iron hook and a huge iron ball.

Running into such a person in the dark night is just like bumping into that haunting ghost, which scares people out of their wits.

But Huo Tianqing knew that this person was not ugly in the past, on the contrary, he was very handsome, so handsome that people called him "Jade Faced Lord".

He and that person confirmed the change of cards at the waist, and the golden armored guard behind him went back to the residence to rest, while Huo Tianqing stretched himself, turned and walked in the direction he just came from - that was the backyard of the Nanwang Mansion, Inside lived the concubine Ji of Nan Wang.

He seemed to have remembered something beautiful, and a gentle smile hung on the corner of his lips.

No matter who sees him, it can be seen at a glance that this man is enjoying the sweetness of love, and he is deeply stuck in the mud.

He didn't even notice that there was a figure following him.

Huo Tianqing passed through the hanging flower door, opened the locked second door with the key at his waist, and walked to a courtyard in a detour, but he didn't go to the main courtyard, but went around to the side room. Being thrown into his arms by a woman, the woman called him a friend in a tender voice, and the two dragged them into the room.

Not long after, a man's panting and a woman's moaning could be heard in the room.

The figure hid by the door and listened for a while before leaving quietly.

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"Huo Tianqing didn't leave until it was almost dawn." A girl dressed as a maid said, "That woman is a maid brought by Mrs. Lan. I heard they call her Shangguan Feiyan in private."

Lu Xiaofeng nodded, and scratched another line on the letter paper in his hand: "It seems that the Nanwang Mansion has hired a rich man this time."

This is the stronghold of Jinfengdriyulou in Wuyang City, and the little maid is the secret work of Jinfengdriyulou placed in Nanwang Mansion.

"What are you writing and drawing these days?" Lu Xiaofeng's friend in the Golden Wind and Rain Building asked, looking curiously at the letter paper in Lu Xiaofeng's hand.

"Hey!" Lu Xiaofeng folded the letter paper together, pretending to be profound, "The secrets of heaven must not be revealed, do you understand?"

He really didn't lie, what he held in his hand was the so-called secret, the secret that Mr. Zhong revealed to him.

Zhong Yanqiu said in the letter that he had something to do and had to leave. On August [-]th in the capital, they would probably see each other again. He had already investigated the matter of the Nanwang Mansion and wrote it down in the letter. Do you believe it or not? It's up to Lu Xiaofeng herself.

——Nanwang controls the entire southeast port and shipping, using this to coerce Ye Gucheng, the lord of Baiyun City, to make an appointment with Ximen Chuixue, planning to use this as a pretense to assassinate the emperor on August [-]th and provide him with financial support It was Lu Xiaofeng's old friend Huo Xiu, the richest man in the world, who talked about how these two seemingly incompatible forces got mixed up...

Huo Xiu's confidante, Shangguan Feiyan, is a new member of an organization called "Red Shoes", and Nan Wang's concubine, Mrs. Lan, is the leader of the red shoes, Aunt Gongsun.

The name Gongsun Da Niang is not well-known in the Jianghu, but many of her aliases, female butcher, peach blossom bee, ecstasy mother-in-law, five poisonous lady, are all well-known villains in the Jianghu. Yuan Zhiye pretended to be a poor old woman to sell sugar-fried chestnuts, one chestnut could poison thirty people to death.

Gongmen has been investigating this case for a long time, calling him Grandma Xiong.

Of course, this Red Shoes organization is not limited to these two people. Zhong Yanqiu did not write who the other members were, but mentioned that they would meet in Nanhai City on the tenth day of July, and he also included the place where they agreed to meet.

As for Huo Tianqing, he was just a servant under the skirt of Shangguan Feiyan, who was fascinated by beauty and ignored everything, and devoted himself wholeheartedly to planning for his sweetheart.

Lu Xiaofeng flipped through the seven or eight pieces of letter paper again, and sighed deeply. The more he investigated, the more he would be able to confirm the authenticity of this letter. Lied to him in such a matter of life and death.

As for how Zhong Yanqiu knew so many things overnight...

In fact, as long as Zhong Yanqiu is willing, the whole Wuyang City, and even the ghosts in the southeast are his eyes and ears. Exorcising ghosts and controlling ghosts is one of the basic skills of a psychic medium. matter,

It's just that most ghosts don't want to meet people, let alone communicate with living people. Unless they take the initiative to speak, it's hard to get any useful information out of their mouths, and Zhong Yanqiu has no intention of changing their lives.

But that's only in normal times, and only on the premise that Zhong Yanqiu is willing to respect their characters. As a psychic, Zhong Yanqiu never lacks the means to make them submit obediently, and he also has his own way to let them honestly tell what they know. The news spit out one by one.

When Lu Xiaofeng was distressed over there, Zhong Yanqiu had already arrived in the capital, he didn't stop and even sped up a little bit, and rushed straight into the Golden Wind and Rain Tower.

He didn't dare to slow down, because once he slowed down, he would never have the courage to step in again.

There were so many masters in the Golden Wind and Rain Tower, but no one came to stop him, so he ran to the innermost and core place familiarly.

Zhong Yanqiu stumbled and pushed open the door and walked into the room. The people in the room seemed to have expected him to come, put down the books in their hands and smiled, shining brightly under the twilight.

"I'm home."

"Su Mengzhen." Zhong Yanqiu's voice was dry and hoarse, like a broken gong rubbed extremely harshly, "I regret it."

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