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Behind the curtain, the graceful figure of the singer appears and disappears from time to time, and under the sound of wind music, there are the chatter of drinkers.There was only an arm's length between the drinking seat and the singing stage, and there was also the man from Meng Lang who leaned out, trying to touch the singer's body.

Chen Fan was very familiar with the unrestrained and enthusiastic atmosphere of Fanguan, and he was also familiar with the young man sitting in front of him, but he had no friendship with him on weekdays.Liu He's loose robes were loose, as if he had just come out of a gentle village. It was cold in winter, and he held a fan with an elephant handle in his hand, which was quite romantic.

Chen Fan smelled the scent of rose water on Liu Hesan's body, which was so charming and charming, it reminded him of a charming woman who had been tender with him, but he felt that it was against such a big man for a while.

"Recently a big event happened in the city, brother Chen must know the details." Liu He came over to take a seat and asked this question as soon as he opened his mouth, apparently to inquire about the news.

Chen Fan poured a glass of wine for Liu Hesan himself, and said slowly: "There are big things happening in the city every day, I don't know which one Brother Liu is asking about." He said, "Which one could it be? Of course it's Xia Qianshan's. Did the murderer catch it?"

I knew that he was here to ask about Xia Qianshan being shot. Everyone is talking about it these days. After all, the assassination of the heir of the Xia family is a top priority.

"It's still being captured. The murderer used a crossbow, probably a soldier." Chen Fan said casually, but he wasn't talking nonsense.It is not a secret that Xia Qianshan has a violent personality and often abuses his soldiers.Most of the soldiers are rogues, bold and reckless, and may hold hatred for this and wait for an opportunity to retaliate.

"It was rumored outside that his cousins ​​were behind the black hands. Commander Xia was old and sick, and was about to pick someone from his grandson to succeed him. At this critical juncture, 'bang', Xia Qianshan was hit by an arrow." Liu Hesan said He picked up two silver wine glasses and struck each other with a crisp sound.

"According to what Liu Langjun said, Xia Qianshan is still alive." Han Jiulang felt that his words were quite vivid, and he thought this person was interesting for a while.

Liu Hesan drank both glasses of wine, with the rim down, and said, "It's just a miss. If you didn't shoot to death, you could also be disabled." He had a good drinker, and asked Chen Fan to refill it for him.Looking at his smug face, Chen Fan had the idea that this guy was trying to annoy me on purpose.

Outsiders know that Chen Fan and Xia Qianshan have a good friendship and are good buddies, but as a maritime family, the Xia family needs to make friends.Before the sea-going ships entered Quanzhou Port, they had to go through the water village for interrogation, and the soldiers stationed in the water village were all soldiers of the Xia family.

"I have heard another rumor, which is related to Liu Langjun and Xia Qianshan."

The person who said this was Fei Chunjiang, the fourth person at the table. His father was the general officer (translator) on Chen Jiahai's boat.

Liu Hesan obviously didn't know him, so he looked him up.

"The day before yesterday, I heard from a drinker that Liu Langjun had a drink in a certain restaurant and had an argument with Xia Qianshan, and almost got into a fight because of a dancer. Some people also asked whether Liu Langjun would be angry afterwards, just... ..." Fei Chunjiang felt that if Liu Hesan's eyes could kill someone, he was probably already dead, so he shut up knowingly.

"Which alcoholic dares to spout blood, ask him to come face to face with me, and see if I don't slap his mouth!" Liu Hesan was annoyed, and raised his big hand to slap him.

"How can you take the rumors seriously, Chun Jiang, don't talk nonsense next time." Chen Fan reprimanded his friend and poured another glass of wine for Liu Hesan.

However, Liu Hesan seemed to have lost the interest in drinking, chatted some words, got up and raised his hands, and left with his servants.

When Liu He was far away, Fei Chunjiang said with a smile: "I'm talking nonsense, and he won't tell himself. There are too many people arguing with Xia Qianshan at the banquet."

Chen Fan was thoughtful, and replied: "I don't think he will be the one to attack."

Liu Hesan is frivolous, but not arrogant, knows how to measure, and definitely will not murder Xia Qianshan just because he is fighting for a woman.You must know that the Xia family holds the Zuo Yi army and guards one side, and even the Zhizhou wants to make the Xia family look a little bit better.

Everyone is guessing who abolished Xia Qianshan who was in the local crab shop. There are so many people who are suspected of being the murderer, and people who have grudges against the Xia family can fill a whole room.

"Da Fan, who is this person?" Han Jiulang didn't know Liu Hesan, and he felt that he was a dignitary in the city because of his attire.

Fei Chunjiang said: "Who else can it be, Liu Hesan, Liu Enshao's concubine."

"It turns out that he is Liu Enshao's son!" Han Jiulang suddenly realized, no wonder he had never seen him before.The Liu family and the Chen family are both maritime merchants, and the big bosses of the two families have private feuds, so naturally they don't have much contact with each other.

It seems that this Liu Hesan was so reckless that he actually asked his enemies for news.

"Drink, don't care Liu Enshao, Liu Zhaoen." Fei Chunjiang greeted his friends to drink, and grabbed a short wine slave, and asked him to call two singing girls to accompany the drink.He had a lot of disdain for a big man like Liu Enshao, and from what he said, Xia Qianshan obviously didn't think much of him either.

Chen Fan sipped his wine, looked at the two women brought by the wine slave, his eyes fell on their pretty faces, Han Jiulang hurriedly waved to the girls and showed his hospitality.Fei Chunjiang looked outside the gate of the museum, muttering: "It's so slow to pay that offence!"

Jiao Nala was a Xilan sea merchant, knowledgeable and knowledgeable, fluent in several languages, and lived in Fanfang for many years.

Chen Fan has nothing to do today, he invites some friends to drink in Fanguan, he is good at socializing.When ships enter the port and merchants disembark, they generally choose to settle in Fanguan. The small Fanguan is a gathering place for all kinds of information.

As the sun was setting, Chen Fan took the drunk Han Jiulang out of the fan hall, and bid farewell to Fei Chunjiang and Jiao Nare.

Chen Fan asked his followers to send Han Jiulang back to Han's house first, while he walked out along Fanfang, alone, not knowing what he was going to do.He drank no less than Han Jiulang, but he held a lot of alcohol and walked calmly.

With the setting sun on his body, he walked around the bustling shops and came to a tea house with persimmon lamps on it. The signboard of the tea house read: Pinxianglou.

The setting sun was like blood, reflected in Zhao Yousheng's eyes. He was standing on the pavilion of his house with his hands on the window lattice. He was looking at the stone pagoda of the Gulian Temple in the west of the city and the bustling post street. If he looked in another direction, he could still see Chen Yu's house roof.

It had been three days since he shot Xia Qianshan, and no one around Zhao Yousheng mentioned such a big matter.No one even linked this incident with Zhao Yousheng.

Most of the eldest sons live in a very small circle, they have no worries about food and clothing, and they often have singers and actors in their families. They close their own doors and enjoy singing and dancing.They are generally ignorant and don't care about what's going on outside, as if the sky is falling and it has nothing to do with them.

The city at dusk was covered with a layer of warm colors, looking comfortable, and Zhao Yousheng was also in a good mood.Every time he came up to the attic, he was looking for a place to meditate, after all, his younger brother was very noisy from the chime.

The bell of the ancient temple rang, loud and ethereal. Zhao Yousheng leaned against the window, folded his chest and lowered his head, as if he was asleep, but he was actually awake. He was reminiscing about the past, thinking of Chen Yu in his previous life.

Thinking of the later estrangement between the two, until Chen Yu boarded the boat to Mingzhou, leaving him with a leaving back. Looking at that back at that time, Zhao Yousheng had conflicting emotions in his heart, determined and reluctant, cold and sad.

There was a human voice downstairs, and it could be heard that it was the mother and You Qing who were talking, and the mother asked where is A Leftover?From Qing back to my elder brother, I was blowing air in the attic again.Mother said that it was so cold, what kind of wind was blowing, and quickly called him down.

Hearing the sound of bang bang footsteps, Zhao Youcheng raised his head with a smile on his face, so that Zhao Youqing ran up and saw his brother smiling at him, he was stunned for a moment, and patted his head in a daze.

In the next life, my mother is still alive, and I will live to see my younger brother grow up. His relatives and friends have not been lost, and those who will bring misfortune need to be removed one by one.

Standing in front of Pinxiang Building, Chen Fan looked up at the shops across the street. He was recalling the scene when he and Xia Qianshan came out of Pinxiang Building three days ago.It was just dark at that time, just like now, the persimmon lights in Pinxianglou were dazzlingly bright, he was not used to smelling the strong fragrance of a woman, so he stood far away from Xia Qianshan.He walked outside the eaves and looked up at the storefront across the street, just like at this time, what he entered was a small tea house signboard and a row of windows on the second floor of the tea house.

He has a good memory. He was recalling that when Xia Qianshan shot an arrow, the "click" of the trigger was not too far away. He was thinking, could it be shot from the opposite street?

The shooter needs to be invisible and has a good view. He is probably hiding above the shop across the street from Pinxiang Building. The location of this small tea house is very suitable.Chen Fan was naturally a little annoyed at the assailant, his family spent a lot of money on Xia Qianshan, and now that Xia Qianshan is disabled and cannot be the commander of the Zuo Yi Army, all that money was wasted.

But Chen Fan wasn't that angry. From an emotional point of view, even if Xia Qianshan was killed, he wouldn't feel the slightest bit sad.In the end, he was still curious about who did this and where it came from.

Although his footsteps were steady, Chen Fan was already five or six points drunk. He pushed open the door of the small tea house and saw that there was only the shopkeeper on the first floor. He asked drunkenly, "Is there a private room on the second floor?"

"Yes, guest officer, please go upstairs." The shopkeeper came out and pointed out the direction of the stairs, his attitude was not very enthusiastic.

Chen Fan had never been to such a shabby small tea house. He climbed up the narrow and steep stairs, and heard the shopkeeper calling the tea doctor to serve tea behind him.The first floor is simple, while the second floor is elegantly furnished. A waiter came to usher in a seat. He smelled the smell of alcohol on Chen Fan's body and saw him staggering up the stairs. He reached out his hand to help him, but Chen Fan raised his hand to refuse and walked away by himself. In the front, I checked the rooms one by one, and there were quite a few guests, all of whom looked like scholars, chatting while drinking tea, and some people held books and said nothing.

Chen Fan entered an empty room, opened the window, and was facing the gate of Pinxiang Building. There was a low couch under the window. It is not difficult to imagine that someone once sat here and watched the woman with heavy makeup opposite come out to solicit customers.

When Dr. Tea came up, Chen Fan asked him to get a hangover tea, and the rest of the tea fruits were not used.

The tea doctor had seen too many people coming and going, and knew that Chen Fan didn't seem like a person who would drink tea in a small tea house like them, he might be an official, so he waited carefully.

When the hangover tea was brought, Chen Fan took a sip or two, looked up to see Dr. Cha was still waiting, and asked, "At this time three days ago, was anyone drinking tea in this room?"

"Returning guest officer, yes, there are many guests at night, and soon several rooms are full of people." Dr. Cha said.

Chen Fan put down the tea bowl, stood up, looked out of the window, and asked, "Dr. Tea, have you ever seen someone bring a crossbow into and out of a tea house?"

Dr. Cha replied quickly: "The officials have also come to interrogate. It is true that there is no such person. If I see a small one, I will report it to the officials." He probably thought that Chen Fan was also a person who came to handle the case. Anxious to solve the case, I must have questioned this tea house, and more than once.

"Three days ago, what did the people who drank tea here look like? Did they come alone or with friends?" Chen Fan knew that these waiters who received guests had good memories and were good at identifying people.

Dr. Cha replied respectfully: "There are three people who are students from the state. They are called to serve tea several times a night. I saw that they were all discussing poetry."

Chen Fan thought it was impossible for him to be a student of the state school. These people could not use crossbows. This group of nerds who only read sage books couldn't compete with the Xia family, and the perpetrator was probably alone.

"Dr. Cha, do you remember who was alone in the room that night, carrying large items?"

Dr. Cha thought for a while, and replied: "There is such a person who came alone. He was drinking tea and reading in the next room that night. He didn't bring any big things with him. He only wore a thick windbreaker. I think his windbreaker is very good. I wonder which family's gentleman it is."

When Chen Fan heard this, he suddenly felt that this person was suspicious. He was the son of a sea merchant, and he knew that sea merchants would use various methods to carry them around in order to avoid taxation by the government for valuable goods. Similarly, the crossbow machine can be hidden in the wind robe when it is disassembled.He asked, "What kind of person is he? How old is he?"

Dr. Cha couldn't help but praised: "He is a scholar, he is sixteen or seventeen years old, tall and handsome."

"If we see him again, will Dr. Tea recognize him?"

"Still... can still recognize it."

In the end, Dr. Cha didn't understand the origin of Chen Fan. He refused Chen Fan's reward, which seemed to be a timid person.

Chen Fan left the tea house, walked on the road and thought, a handsome boy of sixteen or seventeen, tall and well-born, a figure popped into his mind.He felt that it was absurd and irrelevant, so he erased the figure again.

Someone who can play with the crossbow so smoothly is definitely not a scholar, and he has the courage to assassinate Xia Qianshan, and he will definitely not be a boy of sixteen or seventeen.

The author has something to say: You Sheng (shrugs): Don’t make wild guesses, it has nothing to do with me.