Shu Qingwan's subordinates were very nimble, but after three o'clock in the morning, they brought Yun Yan's body.

Before dawn, Shu Qingwan and Lianyi got up, and just like that, wearing the stars and the moon, took the assassin leader and Yunyan's bones to the market where the wooden sword was made.

When they arrived at the bazaar, some bright colors had just begun to bloom in the sky, and the roosters around the bazaar were scrambling to crow, as if they were afraid that they would be the last one to crow and lose face among the chickens.

Today should still not be the day to go to the market. Although there are a few passers-by on the street, the atmosphere is still very deserted.

The surrounding furnishings and buildings have not changed much for several years. Shu Qingwan led the crowd into the street. Based on his memory, he quickly found the small iron shop where she made wooden swords.

That's right, the father who adopted them mentioned by the leader of the assassins was the iron master who taught Shu Qingwan how to make wooden swords.

She thanked Master Yu Cast Iron at the beginning, and once said that if she had the opportunity in the future, she would definitely repay him.

But at that time, she never thought that she would repay in this way, and she never thought that the daughter who was about the same size as her as the cast iron master said was actually Yunyan who was forced to jump into the well by them and Zhong Qiqi.

When she followed the assassin leader's information to find the cast iron master, it would be too late.

Walking to the door, Shu Qingwan took the lead to get off the horse, walked to the closed wooden door next to the stove, and knocked on it.

After a while, there was some light inside, and then a middle-aged man's thick voice came: "Who, what's the matter so early?"

Shu Qingwan moved her lips, but she didn't make a sound, she just raised her hand and tapped again.

Lian Yi noticed the hesitation in Shu Qingwan's expression and movements, walked behind Shu Qingwan, and stood with her as if to comfort her.

The knock on the door echoed through the wooden door for a while, and soon there was a slight sound of footsteps, and then the door "squeaked" and opened from the inside, revealing a face with some traces of time but not too old.

The cast iron master who opened the door was still dressed plainly, and he looked not much different from the ordinary villagers who made a living, but there were some fortitude in his eyes that were different from those of the working villagers.

His gaze first turned around Lianyi in doubt, and then jumped to Shu Qingwan's face: "You are..."

Before Shu Qingwan could answer, the cast iron master thought of it first: "Oh, it's you, little girl, I didn't expect you to be a big girl."

Shu Qingwan said "Mmm", with a bit of guilt in his tone: "Long time no see."

"I came today to return them to you." Shu Qingwan said, motioning the subordinates behind to help the people out of the carriage, "I'm really sorry, this is the way to say goodbye to you."

The smile on the corner of the cast iron master's mouth gradually disappeared, looking at the jar that Shu Qingwan took from his subordinates, he asked, "This is it?"

Shu Qingwan pursed her lips slightly, but still answered truthfully: "Your daughter."

The cast iron master took the jar awkwardly, looked at the leader of the assassin who was helped out of the carriage behind him and lost a leg, and his face became a little ugly: "What's going on?"

Shu Qingwan said guiltily: "I'm really sorry for you, because I have a different plan from Pei's family. I didn't know their relationship with you until I hurt them."

"I promised to repay you at the beginning, I'm sorry, I didn't try my best to do it."

After Shu Qingwan finished speaking, he told Master Cast Iron the truth about what had happened with Yunyan and the leader of the assassins, and finally persuaded him: "Now, your son is leaving our hands alive. If Pei Yanfeng finds out, he will definitely not let it go."

"You should take your son and leave Fuyan City while the weather is bright and early."

Holding Yunyan's skeleton, the cast iron master cast his eyes on the leader of the assassins standing next to the carriage, paused for a moment, and walked in the direction of the leader of the assassins, bypassing Shu Qingwan.

He looked at the leader of the assassins who lowered his head in shame, and said in a cold voice, "You betrayed the master?"

The leader of the assassins didn't answer a word, and his head was lowered even lower.

The cast iron master held Yunyan's bone jar with one hand, and pulled out the saber held by the masked leader with the other hand: "How did I teach you when I was a child, that you would do such a traitorous thing?"

"I said at the beginning that I asked you brothers and sisters not to participate in family disputes, but you just ignored it. Now that you have the protection of the master's family, you have done such a thing that violates loyalty."

When Shu Qingwan's subordinates saw the cast iron master drawing his sword, they all clenched the hilt in their hands vigilantly. Fortunately, Shu Qingwan signaled them not to be impulsive, and withdrew their hands one after another.

"Father, I'm sorry." The leader of the assassins still didn't raise his head, he just replied dully.

The cast iron master raised the sword in his hand: "Then don't blame father, we have to give the Pei family an explanation."

After the sound fell, the sword in Master Cast Iron's hand swung twice violently like lightning, and when everyone's hearts were tightened after being shocked by Master Cast Iron's action, what fell with the sound was a large black hair.

Everyone took a closer look and found that what the cast iron master cut off was not the head of the leader of the assassins, but the hair of the leader of the assassins.

At this time, the remaining hair on the assassin leader's head was less than three inches long, and the long black hair that reached his waist was cut so close to his scalp.

Just when everyone was in a daze, the cast iron master waved his hand and threw the sword that was originally held in the cast iron master's hand, but within a short time, it returned to the masked leader's scabbard.

Following the sound of "唰", everyone came back to their senses.

Lian Yi suddenly sighed in his heart, with this person's speed and skill, if he was the one who came to assassinate him, then she would not be able to escape so many times, maybe she has reunited with Ruan Linyi in the bottom now.

Before the emotion on her side dissipated, she saw the leader of the assassins touch her short hair, and immediately her face turned pale, her hands and feet went limp, and she fell directly to the ground.

It took him a long time to recover, and said in a trembling voice, "Thank you, father, for showing mercy."

The cast iron master raised his eyes and looked at the brighter and brighter sky in the distance: "Your parents are innocent, and now I shaved off your hair, which is considered your atonement."

"From this moment on, the past is past."

The ancients cherished their hair as much as their own life, and losing their hair was a capital punishment, which was a more serious insult than quartering a body by five horses.

Looking at the assassin leader who was clutching a handful of short hair on the ground and in pain, Lian Yi didn't know whether to be thankful that he had recovered his life, or to sympathize with him for losing his greatest faith.

There was a moment of silence in the air, and the cast iron master turned around again, lowered his head slightly and said to Shu Qingwan: "Thank you for letting me spare my son, and for investigating the matter of his mother for him."

"You don't blame them for their affairs, and don't blame yourself. From the time they voluntarily follow Mr. Pei, they must be mentally prepared, and they may end up like this."

"The current situation is also the result of their own choices."

"Thank you for your understanding." Shu Qingwan said, and took out a large bag of silver from his body and handed it to the cast iron master, "It's dawn, you should leave early before Pei Yanfeng's people find out."

"It's a little care, I hope you don't feel disgusted."

Seeing the unresolved shame in Shu Qingwan's eyes, Lian Yi also took out all the bank notes on his body and handed them over together: "There are these, let's take them together, it may be a long journey, and it will cost money There are many places."

The cast iron master hesitated for a moment, without too much refusal: "Then I thank the ladies."

Lian Yi was slightly surprised for a moment, but she didn't expect that she was wearing men's clothing and speaking a male voice, and this man knew she was a girl just by looking at her.

Following Shu Qingwan's actions, she put the money into the arms of the cast iron master, then smiled slightly, and heard Shu Qingwan say again: "You guys should use this carriage first, otherwise it will be too slow, and it will be easily caught by Pei Yanfeng." Catch up."

The cast iron master thanked Shu Qingwan again. After helping the assassin leader into the carriage with the masked leader, he hesitated for a while, then turned around and asked, "The one next to you is the one you wanted to give the gift back then."

Shu Qingwan didn't hesitate, and answered "Yes" naturally.

The cast iron master's long-lost smile finally came back: "Sure enough, he is still so straightforward, very similar to your mother."

"You know my mother?" Shu Qingwan was a little surprised.

"I know, you and her are carved out of the same mold." The smile of the cast iron master deepened, as if recalling some good memories in the past, "Speaking of knowing each other, it was a long time ago. When she was a child... ...If I had been as brave as you back then, maybe everything...that's all, it's all in the past, so I won't mention it."

The cast iron master paused for a moment, seemingly hesitant, but still asked: "She is at Shu's house, but is she doing well?"

Shu Qingwan shook her head: "My mother passed away after giving birth to me in the second year of her marriage to my father."

"Are you... dead?" There was a little surprise in the cast iron master's eyes, but it turned into a daze in a moment, "It turns out that he is dead, I thought..."

"It was my fault, my fault, that's all...it's over."

The cast iron master talked to himself for a while, then stepped on a low stool and climbed into the carriage, without any gold and silver in the house, just drove away with Yunyan's bones and mutilated son.

But she didn't know if it was Lian Yi's illusion, but she actually felt that the back of the cast iron master climbing into the carriage was inexplicably old.

In the next few days, Lian Yi and Shu Qingwan handed in all the evidence they could provide, and the assassin who was taken away by the masked man before Lian Yi also gave it to Li Shaoheng. locked in a prison.

It is a pity that these deeds of Li Shaoheng did not drag the Li family into trouble.

In order to clear the relationship, the Li family abandoned their pawns to secure the car in a timely manner, and spent most of the family's property to get through the relationship. In the end, they were able to keep the whole family, and only Li Shaoheng was arrested.

However, the Li family also lost a lot because of this, and most of the shops in Fuyan City were sold out, officially withdrawing from the competition of the imperial merchants.

Before Li Shaoheng's sentence came down, Lian Yi and Shu Qingwan decided to go to the prison to meet Li Shaoheng for a while, to see if they could figure out something about Pei Yanfeng and the boss behind the scenes.

Shu Qingwan bribed the prison guards, brought some food, and took a disguised jumpsuit, and easily passed the prison's checkpoints.

The jailer brought them to the vicinity of Li Shaoheng's cell, and before leaving, he said: "You guys try to hurry up, Li Shaoheng is a serious criminal, you can't delay too long."

When the jailer heard Shu Qingwan's words "I know, thank you", he weighed the silver ingot in his hand and happily walked away.

When the jailer walked away, Lian Yi and Shu Qingwan approached the cell pretending to be concerned.

When Li Shaoheng heard the movement, he stood up with a "huh". He walked halfway and found that the two people standing outside were Shu Qingwan and Lianyi. He paused for a moment, and approached with a sneer: "Yo? This is not Shu Qingwan. Miss and Mr. Ruan? What brought you here?"

Lian Yi and Shu Qingwan looked at each other, did not answer Li Shaoheng's words, just squatted down to take out the pastry from the food box, and handed it to the cell.

Sure enough, they guessed right, Li Shaoheng and Pei Yanfeng had already had a rift, and Pei Yanfeng did not tell Li Shaoheng the identity of the woman in the jumpsuit.

And during this period of time, I don't know if Pei Yanfeng was seriously injured or what, not only gave up all the rights in his hands to Pei Yanyi, but on the surface, as agreed with Shu Qingwan, he didn't take any action against Lianyi.

Shu Qingwan even asked Pei Yanyi about Pei Yanfeng's abnormality in private, but they didn't get any useful clues.

Originally, this kind of harmony was perfect for Lian Yi and Shu Qingwan. After all, the two of them had been tossing for so long and had injuries on their bodies. But I never thought of it.

Li Shaoheng looked at the three or four plates of cakes brought in, and sneered: "You don't think I will eat what you brought, do you?"

"Don't waste your energy in vain. No matter what you do while eating, I won't move. I will get out of here sooner or later."

The visit was almost done, Lian Yi clapped his hands and stood up: "You still want to go out? Are you going to run away from the Li Manor who wants to get rid of the relationship, or the people like Pei Yanfeng who have already broken off cooperation with you?"

"You...!" Li Shaoheng uttered angrily, then calmed down again, "Ruan Linyi, don't be too complacent! I'll make you pay the price sooner or later!"

Lian Yi smiled leisurely: "When will it be sooner or later? Tonight or tomorrow morning, please tell me clearly, I will wait."

"You don't know, do you? You've been thinking of Pei Yanfeng who came to save you. He used you from the very beginning. Now that you're worthless, you think he'll take the risk of being suspected and come here to save you? "

"Hmph! He will definitely find a way to save me..." Li Shaoheng said, then suddenly stopped talking, and changed the subject, "If you try to trick me, I won't fall for it."

Even if Li Shaoheng didn't finish his sentence, the beginning of this sentence is enough to prove that Li Shaoheng may have a handle on Pei Yanfeng just as Lian Yi and Shu Qingwan guessed.

Moreover, Li Shaoheng's clothes are fairly clean, and the prison is considered dry and tidy. It seems that there is not even a shortage of food. It can be seen that someone is indeed taking money for him, but I don't know if there is Pei Yanfeng among the people who are helping to manage it.

Seeing that Li Shaoheng had calmed down again, Lianyi continued to provoke him: "That maid of Zhong Qiqi, Yunyan, is actually yours, right?"

Li Shaoheng hesitated for a few seconds, but still provocatively admitted boldly: "Yes, she is mine, how about it?"

"Nothing." Lian Yi shrugged his shoulders slightly, and said casually, "I just want to tell you, do you not know that she is Pei Yanfeng's person?"

Li Shaoheng's expression finally showed a crack, and it took a long time to cover it up: "Yes... so what?"

Sure enough, Li Shaoheng didn't know about it either.

Lian Yi thought about it, and pretended to be surprised: "Oh, so you and Pei Yanfeng have such a good relationship, knowing that you are being used by the other party, you are willing to do so. I really admire you."

"Pei Yanfeng is also very good at playing tricks. He puts people in your place first, and then asks you to give them to him, and he gives them to Zhong Qiqi. In this way, even if something happens in the future, he has nothing to suspect. Everyone, look up Only to find you."

Li Shaoheng's face was ugly to the naked eye: "It's none of your business! I'm happy."

Li Shaoheng never thought that Yunyan would be placed by Pei Yanfeng.

Speaking of meeting Yunyan, it was already a few years ago. At that time, he went out to patrol the store and met a group of blind robbers who were about to rob him halfway.

During the fight between the two parties, seeing the bandit's knife was about to hit him, Yunyan flew out from nowhere and blocked the knife for him. In order to save him, he even injured his arm.

He asked why Yunyan rescued him, Yunyan only said that she went to the city to look for relatives, but she couldn't find them, and was going back to live in the countryside, but when he was robbed by robbers, she drew her sword to help him without thinking too much.

Later, he naturally accepted Yun Yan as a housemaid, but later, when Yun Yan heard that he was looking for a woman to put Pei Yanfeng in the Zhongfu, she volunteered and said she was willing to go through fire and water for him.

Even though he was a little bit reluctant to part with this new love, but for the sake of this matter being safer, he had no choice but to part with it.

Now others actually tell him that this woman who has been working hard for him, is loyal and not jealous, and even knows that he likes Shu Qingwan, who came to inform him after Shu Qingwan was drunk, was actually Pei Yanfeng's spy who planted in him , How could he not float.

He suddenly thought with a bit of apprehension, if Yunyan was intentionally installed by Pei Yanfeng, then their first encounter was also intentional?

Before Li Shaoheng could figure it out, he heard Lian Yi say, "What? You don't believe me? Then the next time you meet Pei Yanfeng, just ask him directly. You will know if I lied to you if you ask him. It fell into my hands, and I have evidence about Yunyan."

Seeing that Li Shaoheng pretended not to hear her words, Lian Yi deliberately joked and continued: "Would you like to wear a green hat? I heard that Yun Yan seemed to be your roommate before, but she actually likes Pei Yanfeng oh."

She didn't believe that there was no man who didn't care about being cuckolded, and it was in a feudal society where men were superior to women.

Lian Yi continued to poke a knife at Li Shaoheng's heart: "Before Yun Yan died, no matter how hard I tried to extract a confession, she was unwilling to say anything wrong with Pei Yanfeng, but she said a lot about yours."

"For example, during the Flower Appreciation Conference, you asked her to find an opportunity to push me into the river."

"Also, deliberately looking for opportunities for Zhong Qiqi to tarnish my reputation, and there is..."

"You fart!" Li Shaoheng was finally fooled, he roared angrily, his face was completely ashen, "what is she, Yunyan! She is just a random girl in my house, a broken shoe that I don't want to play with, after her Whoever picks it up, whoever I like, I don't care!"

"Ruan Linyi, don't fucking speak sarcastic remarks in front of me. How do you think you can be better? Aren't you still being played around by Pei Yanfeng?"

"Do you think Pei Yanfeng doesn't know how much you care about Shu Qingwan?"

"And Shu Qingwan, while you were perfunctory with Pei Yanfeng, you secretly communicated with Ruan Lin about the song. Do you think Pei Yanfeng was really kept in the dark by you? You're so fucking naive!"

Li Shaoheng finished mocking, then smiled playfully, and continued: "Just this time, Shu Qingwan, do you know why I deliberately called your brother and sister to the Li residence before assassinating Ruan Linyi?"

"That's what Pei Yanfeng told me. He asked me to hold you back on purpose so that Ruan Linyi has no support."

"Now that I'm like this, I'm not afraid to tell you. In the past, what I said about cooperating with you to assassinate Ruan Linyi was all fake, and it was all to perfunctory you. We have already settled it, haha... "

Sure enough, it turned out to be pretty much the same as she had imagined.

Sure enough, the villains have been pretending to be confused and disintegrating their relationship, but in fact the villains have long known about their relationship.

Lian Yi thought about it and asked: "Since you have cooperated so harmoniously, why do you disagree about this assassination?"

"Where do we disagree?" Li Shaoheng hopped to deny it as if his tail had been stepped on, "Our goal has always been the same, we are all going to kill you!"

"Okay." Li Shaoheng didn't want to admit it, so Lian Yi had to change the subject to check the doubts in her heart: "You just said that Pei Yanfeng asked you to dismiss Miss Shu, so that said, A Qian Nasan who we caught earlier Personally, in fact, you sent it to your door on purpose, deliberately used it to confess to Shu Qingyan and mislead me, right?"

"Are you trying to separate the two of us so that we can be broken down one by one, so you deliberately let them separate me and Ms. Shu, deliberately misunderstood me, and then made Ms. Shu have to stand with you because of Shu Qingyan?"

Li Shaoheng proudly said: "Yes, that's right, but you were really fooled, hahaha..."

"You don't know, I saw the two of you quarreling because of this matter, don't mention how happy you are, hahaha..."

Lian Yi felt a little uncomfortable when he thought that he misunderstood Shu Qingwan and slapped Shu Qingwan because of the words of the three assassins.

But this is not the time for her to be sentimental, she should take advantage of Li Shaoheng's unpreparedness and come up with more content.

"Yeah, I'm really stupid." Lian Yi matched Li Shaoheng's emotions, sighed in pretended disappointment, and asked again: "But in fact, you have started to think of ways to separate me and Ms. Shu earlier, right? ?”

"Not to mention the time I chased the assassin to Yu Yangzhuang, that is, the time I got married. In fact, those three people did it on purpose, right? After they saw Shu Qingwan, they deliberately evacuated quickly. In fact, they wanted me to be suspicious. Yes or no?"

"But unfortunately, I didn't think about it at all, so I wasn't fooled."

"So after the latter three people are arrested, even if I don't force a confession, they will deliberately tell about the two times I got married, right?"

The reason Lian Yi was able to guess the matter so thoroughly was because after she reconciled with Shu Qingwan, she recalled the scenes at that time countless times, only to realize that the assassin at that time was too fluent in her answers.

It was obviously a question she asked on the spur of the moment, but the assassin didn't panic at all, and he answered it decently.

In contrast to the other abrupt questions she asked, the assassin's answers were not sensitive enough, and the two of them slowly followed those scenes, gradually figuring out the intentions of Pei Yanfeng and the others.

Li Shaoheng saw that Lian Yi had guessed the ins and outs right now, and was a little embarrassed for a while, so he put on a disdainful expression and didn't answer.

Seeing that Li Shaoheng had acquiesced, Lian Yi asked her and Shu Qingwan's most perplexing question: "But I have a question. It stands to reason that the night of my marriage is the best time to assassinate. On that day they Now that you're here, why don't you come in and assassinate?"

Li Shaoheng held back for a while, and finally because of his dissatisfaction with Pei Yanfeng, he poured out the truth: "Who knows what kind of madness Pei Yanfeng went that day!"

"Originally we had made good arrangements, but later the follower reported that they saw Shu Qingwan slipping into your room, and Pei Yanfeng suddenly said to change the time, and I don't know why he went crazy!"

It seems that in this matter, the three assassins did not lie much at the time.

Pei Yanfeng probably really liked Shu Qingwan because he was afraid that she would die in the new house, and Shu Qingwan would be involved afterwards, so he stopped in time.

Lian Yi thought about it, and had an idea, and explained: "You don't know, but I do."

Li Shaoheng squinted at Lianyi, and said in disbelief, "What do you know?"

"Didn't you see it?" Lian Yi pretended to be surprised, "Don't you know that Pei Yanfeng also likes Shu Qingwan?"

"The reason why he dealt with me was not only the conflict of interests, but also because Ms. Shu liked me, why? Didn't he tell you?"

Seeing the surprise on Li Shaoheng's expression, Lian Yi hurriedly made up the knife: "It turns out that he kept this matter from you, so you're in trouble, look, if you say you get rid of me successfully, he will later fight for his own sake." Occupying Miss Shu, will you tolerate someone who has a crush on Miss Shu?"

"Also, you can put his Yunyan to sleep. Do you think he won't come back and punish you after he finishes cleaning me up?"

Seeing Li Shaoheng's increasingly solemn expression, Lian Yi came up with an idea: "Mr. Li, why don't we cooperate? Since Pei Yanfeng played tricks on you and me, and now you disagree, why don't we punish him together, and then Escape from birth?"

"You tell me what you know, how about I write you a letter of understanding and try to sentence you?"

Li Shaoheng thought for a moment, and suddenly his eyes sharpened, but the solemnity on his face did not dissipate: "Ruan Linyi, don't be alarmist! We have long been at odds with each other, who the hell wants to cooperate with you."

"Pei Yanfeng won't just watch me stay in prison, he will definitely find a way to save me."

Li Shaoheng wasn't fooled, and Lian Yi didn't intend to waste his time talking. Although he didn't get much information about Pei Yanfeng, she had already planted seeds of estrangement in Li Shaoheng's heart invisibly.

It will be a matter of time before they germinate in the future and counterattack Pei Yanfeng.

Looking at the jailer who had been gesturing to them frequently in the distance, Lian Yi picked up the food box on the ground, approached and whispered, "Sure, then think about it, and contact me if you need it."

"We are all businessmen, and we all understand that as long as the interests are in place, there will be no permanent enemies."

Li Shaoheng ignored Lian Yi, but his expression didn't show much resistance, but he still didn't move the pastries on the ground, he just turned around and sat down on the haystack inside with a sullen face.

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