Wait a minute, heroine

On the branches under the moon, Wutong Street is bustling with traffic, and men and women out for fun can be seen everywhere.

Ye Jingtang was dressed as a normal ranger, with a bamboo hat on his head. He looked like an outsider who had never seen the market before, looking around at the buildings along the street.

Wutong Street is the most prosperous street in the capital and is famous for its erotic scene. However, not all brothels are located on the several-mile-long street. The largest number are luxury shops, as well as restaurants and teahouses used for normal entertainment. Young ladies and ladies who come here to hang out at night also There are many, but they won’t stop at the entrance of the two major brothels in the center.

The owner of Longyin Tower has a large business in Beijing. He owns more than one shop, and there is another Sifangzhai on the street. The chef he hired has been in the family for generations. He is respected as the chef by the busy people, and he can also be said to be a cooking immortal. , a common vinegar fish in Jiangzhou, has become one of the eight major dishes in Yunzhou. Serving guests at Sifangzhai is similar to serving wine at Jinpinglou. It is considered a fixed treatment in the capital, and you usually have to queue up for a seat. , whether you can eat it all depends on luck.

Ye Jingtang strolled on the street, and soon arrived in front of Sifangzhai. It could be seen that there was a lot of commotion in the building, but there were two people dressed as waiters standing at the door. Every time a diner came to the door, they would say something with a smile. sentence:

"I'm sorry to you guests, but Sifangzhai was hired by the prince of Liang Guogong's mansion today. Please come back tomorrow..."

Seeing this, Ye Jingtang did not approach the door. Instead, he walked around twice to make sure there were no suspicious birds or beasts on the eaves, then he quietly disappeared into the darkness of a side alley, then flew up and hung upside down on the three-story building. Under the eaves of a high-rise building, I found an empty private room, entered it through the window, came to the door and looked into the hall.

"Master Li is very talented in literature..."

"Come, let's toast Mr. Li..."

…

In the center of the three-story building is the lobby. There is a screen wall at the entrance to block the scene inside. There are eight large tables inside, filled with delicacies from all over the world. The people sitting around them are all young people, 80% of them are young men from wealthy families, and 20% of them are young people. A young lady from a well-born family.

Because there were female guests present, the atmosphere in the hall was much more serious. Mr. Liu, who took away the swords in the Night Terror Hall, was still in the Longyin Tower yesterday, but today he changed into a scholar's robe, and his demeanor was steady, gentle and elegant. He looked like a shy scholar who had never even touched a girl's hand since he was a child.

Ye Jingtang looked at the table in the center of the hall, and saw six men and one woman sitting on it, including his stupid cousin Wang Chihu.

Although Wang Chihu is only the general banner of Hei Yamen, his background is amazing. One of his two cousins ​​has been crowned emperor and the other king. His father is still in command of the Yazhou Army. Looking at the whole capital, there are few people with greater backgrounds than him. Judging from the seats, he can sit The one on the right must be the feudal prince.

Ye Jingtang looked carefully and saw that the person on the right was a young man in his thirties. He was tall and handsome, with a gentle and easy-going face. He gave people a sense of cynical leisure. This person also led the female guests. When it was her turn to toast, she stood up from the table. Judging from the name, it is undoubtedly Dongfang Shuoyue.

Ye Jingtang carefully observed Dongfang Shuoyue's speech and behavior. Although it was not as bad as the rumors, it could not be said to be anything special. There was no air of superiority between the cups and the cups. He looked like a normal young man, and Fang Shijie was not present. between.

After Ye Jingtang secretly watched for two-quarters of an hour, the people below had been drinking for three times and still found nothing unusual. Instead, their attention was attracted by several conversations outside the Sifangzhai:

"I'm sorry to you girls, Sifangzhai was arrested by Liang Guogong's Mansion today..."

"Huh? What a pity. Forget it and leave. Let's go to the next one..."

"Sister Xiuhe, is Liang Guogong's mansion very powerful?"

"That's natural. Liang Guogong is a great hero in the founding of the country..."

…

Ye Jingtang recognized who the three girls were talking, and there was surprise in his eyes. He quietly jumped out of the window and came to the eaves to check the street.

The bustling street outside Sifangzhai Gate was full of cars and horses. Several servants followed slowly with small carriages, and in front were three beautifully dressed girls.

Zhe Yunli was wearing an underskirt and holding a round fan. She looked like a scholarly young lady from a nearby wealthy family who went shopping. She looked elegant and elegant without any hint of charlatanism. Ping'er, who was dressed as a maid, followed behind her because it was her first time on Wutong Street. I was really surprised by the prosperity of this place, and I asked here and there along the way.

Xiuhe walked in front and led the way, explaining various issues along the way. When leaving Sifangzhai, he glanced at the carriages and horses parked on the side of Sifangzhai, and then took the two girls into Xianzhifang next door.

When Ye Jingtang saw this scene, he knew that it was Xiao Xiuhe who was smart and capable. Following his instructions, he was inquiring about Prince Yan's movements. Wandering around by himself asking questions would definitely arouse people's suspicion, so he sent Yunli and Ping to the house. I also took my son with me and went shopping.

Ye Jingtang watched here for a long time and didn't see anything strange. After thinking about it, he walked lightly and looked in the corridor between the two tall buildings.

Xianzhifang mainly sells jewelry and rouge and gouache. The products are mainly pure and smart, and are very popular among young ladies from rich families who have not yet left the palace. All the shops are for girls.

At this time, in the shop hall, three girls were standing outside the counter, with a tray in front of them and several open rouge boxes inside. The proprietress may have recognized Xiuhe and personally greeted her at the counter while they were communicating:

"The girl is a rare visitor. She hasn't been here for half a month..."

"I'm busy at home and have no choice. I was planning to go to Sifangzhai for dinner, but I didn't expect that I was booked... I heard that Prince Yan is also at Sifangzhai?"

"Yes, I still have a top brand from Longyin Tower with me. I just bought a few pieces of jewelry here. I was really generous."

"Yeah……"

After a few words between the two, the proprietress noticed that Zhe Yunli was picking out her lipstick and asked again:

"How old is the girl?"

"sixteen."

"Oh~ I'm just the right age now. Look at this one. The color is rich but not strong, bright but not flattering..."

"Eh~ Is this a bit too sexy? Sister Xiuhe, what do you think?"

"I think it's quite appropriate."

"Girl, you can try it first. My shop has been open for 20 years. It's expensive, but I never make any shady money. If the makeup doesn't look good, I won't even take your money..."

…

Luo Ning's makeup was always light, and she was very strict with the young Zheyunli. Zheyunli would never have dared to buy this kind of alluring vermilion lipstick before.

But now that he is sixteen years old, Zhe Yunli really likes it in his heart. After several people recommended it, he still pulled the rouge flower piece from the box and sucked it in front of the bronze mirror.

As the lips parted, the originally very light lips became visibly more delicate and charming to the naked eye, so that the whole face became a bit brighter.

"Eh~"

"The lady is so pretty."

"The colors really match each other, the boss lady has a good eye..."

Zhe Yunli was obviously not used to it, and his face turned red. He bit his lower lip and looked at the mirror carefully, but he faintly noticed that something was wrong - outside the window on the side, he could see a familiar figure wearing a bamboo hat standing in the mirror. She seemed to be looking at her in the mirror and snickering.

Shocking cousin?

Zhe Yunli was stunned for a moment, then looked back, only to see that the window in the distance was empty and there was no one there.

Zhe Yunli didn't think she would hallucinate about a man. After exchanging a few words with the two of them, while Xiuhe was picking out her rouge, she quietly walked out of the door and came to the side aisle.

The corridor was empty. After a quick glance, Zhe Yunli walked along the corridor to the back alley and looked around. He thought Ye Jingtang was playing hide and seek with her, so he wanted to shout.

But as soon as she opened her mouth, she noticed a familiar dark shadow emerging from the cornices. It landed in front of her in the blink of an eye. He covered her mouth and dragged her directly into the dark alley.

? !

Zhe Yunli, who was dressed as Miss Jiaojiao, was holding her waist with one hand and covering her mouth. Her eyes suddenly opened a little wider, but she did not struggle. Instead, she held her breath and made no more noise. She leaned against the man's chest and listened.

Hoof-clack, hoof-clack...

There was the sound of horse hooves in the back alley from far to near, trotting towards Sifangzhai, and slowed down when they were about to arrive.

Zhe Yunli blinked and understood that Ye Jingtang was probably squatting. He raised his eyes slightly to see what Ye Jingtang's reaction would be, whether he was going to move his gloves and sacks or not.

Ye Jingtang had just seen the horse approaching. At this time, he covered Yunli's mouth, frowned and listened carefully. He found that the horse man had arrived behind Sifangzhai, and a boy from the restaurant came out to greet him:

"Mr. Fang, please come."

"Master Li's birthday party has started?"

"Not long after it started..."

…

The person who spoke was Fang Shijie. The conversation was normal and he didn't notice any movement around the corner. Ye Jingtang secretly breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his eyes to signal to be silent.

Zhe Yunli had been suffocating in the capital for several months and was almost suffocated to death. When encountering this kind of drama between the enemy and the enemy, it can be said that his eyes were burning. He waited until the footsteps began to sound from the back alley and gradually faded away, then he blinked. Then, together with Night Terror Hall, they poked their heads up and down from the corner.

There was no one in the back alley, and only the waiters from the restaurant were left behind the wall to feed the horses in the stables.

Night Jingtang found out that Fang Shijie had left Prince Yan late at night and was nowhere to be found. Naturally, he was suspicious. He wanted Yunli to go back, so he went to eavesdrop. But before he could speak, he heard Xiao Yunli in his arms whisper:

"It seems to be Fang Shijie."

"Huh?" Ye Jingtang was stunned and looked down at Xiao Yunli: "How do you know?"

Zhe Yunli's eyes were full of pride: "I've been wandering around the capital for half a year, do you think I'm wandering outside every day? I even know how many people there are in the black office and when the shifts change every day, let alone this kind of superficial Character. Fang Shijie is the bodyguard of Crown Prince Yan. Crown Prince Yan is here, so if this old man named Fang is not him, who else can he be?

"I came to Wutong Street and saw him once on the road. I heard that this man turned out to be a Yanzhou ranger, nicknamed 'Half-Zhiqing'. He was good at swordsmanship and boxing, and had extremely high martial arts skills. Moreover, at the age of sixty, he still has a sword that has not aged. I have an outhouse in Liujiao Hutong in the south of the city. I go there every few days, for half an hour at a time, and I rub my waist when I go out..."

? ?

There was a strange look in Ye Jingtang's eyes: "Who did you listen to?

"I heard it from the idle man in the teahouse. As the saying goes, there is no smoke without fire. This old man may have really raised a small child outside. Is Cousin Jing helping the outside? Come on, let me show you the way."

"What kind of outer room are you grabbing?"

Ye Jingtang shook his head secretly, came to the middle of the aisle, pressed against the wall, and listened carefully to the movement in the hall behind the wall. He found that Fang Shijie had taken a seat directly in the dining room. He was talking only in a casual manner, and it seemed unlikely that he was conspiring loudly.

Zhe Yunli was obviously a little curious. He did not go back to the shop directly. Instead, he quietly hung on the wall, looked at the horses in the yard, and then looked at Ye Jingtang.

Seeing this, Ye Jingtang came over again and looked into the courtyard from the wall:

"What's wrong?"

Zhe Yunli's feet were dangling in the air, and he hung himself on the wall, as high as the Night Terror Hall. His eyes pointed at the horses eating fodder in the stable:

"The horse didn't sweat much and didn't run very far, but there was mud on the hooves and it hit the horse's belly. It looks like it ran on a muddy road. It's sunny in the capital these days, and there aren't such bad roads in the capital. There are rivers and embankments nearby, and there are not many places where horses can go down. Let’s go to the river and search along it, and we may find horse hoof prints.”

Ye Jingtang's eyes were quite surprised, and he looked at Ma Hoof seriously:

"Today the empress went to Yutan Villa upstream. There are more than ten miles of control along the way. Ships will be strictly inspected when they dock, but there are no restrictions on the downstream. For convenience, merchant ships of all sizes went to the downstream to dock. If the port can't be squeezed in, they have to go Stop by the riverside...if you are going to the riverside to do something, you are more likely to come back from the lower reaches."

Zhe Yunli showed an admiring look of "Heroes cherish heroes" and pulled Ye Jingtang's sleeves:

"Then let's go quickly. Any place that can turn into mud must be flooded. I didn't find it before the tide came in at midnight. When the water level comes up, everything will be submerged."

Ye Jingtang saw that Xiao Yunli was quite smart, so he didn't say anything. He asked her to say hello, and then quickly set off, heading out of the city together...

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Jiang'an Pier outside the city.

As Yang Guan returned to his hometown to buy real estate, the Qinglian Gang disbanded, and today's Jiang'an Pier has been acquired by other local gangsters in the city.

And as Ye Jingtang has become the leader of swordsmen, this group of town gangsters who once had business ideas on Dyefang Street also know that they have offended the wrong person. Recently, they are all as cowardly as Sun Tzu. Not to mention taking care of business, they don't even care about people. He knew where he was hiding, and only relied on a group of younger brothers to maintain order.

The wharf is a place where three religions and nine streams gather. Without anyone to support the scene, it is naturally a mess. It coincides with the upstream control and downstream ship arrival surge. The Jiang'an Wharf directly talks about the state of being unable to get out from the inside and unable to get in from the outside. Late at night Incoming ships can only temporarily park on the riverside, waiting for the port to be dredged and enter the port to unload their cargo.

The moon was bright and the stars were thin. A large ship came from the upper reaches and docked alone near the river beach two miles away from the pier. Most of the guests on the ship had disembarked and entered Beijing on foot, but the cargo on the ship could not be unloaded. For this reason There are still some people walking around on the boat, looking at the movement on the dock.

In a courtyard by the river used to escape the summer heat, the young master in green clothes stood on the observation tower, looking at the afterglow of the lights of the capital from a distance.

In a teahouse at the back of the house, several figures were sitting in it. Among them, an old man in a brocade robe wearing a cloak sat cross-legged in the middle of the upper table.

On the right is the muscular Teng Tianyou, and Zhong Sunyan is sitting on the left. There is a golden bowl on the small table in front of him. It has a lid and the edge is sealed with a wax seal. The surface of the lid is quite delicate and has an ancient emblem engraved on it.

Zhong Sunyan always behaved casually, but now his face showed seriousness. He did not dare to touch the golden bowl. He just looked at it carefully and sighed:

"Back then, the Northwest Royal Court asked various wizards to study the dragon-prisoning miasma in order to restrict the people who had practiced the Minglongtu. However, the result was that the Minglongtu was even more mysterious and forcibly reshaped the body. It was not poisonous at all and could only serve as a short-term restriction. , just ignore it after practicing the bathing in fire diagram. But ordinary people who don't have the dragon diagram next to them will suffer a big disaster. No matter how good their martial arts skills are, they will be transformed into cripples on the spot if they are exposed to the dragon miasma. If they can't get rid of it, they will die every day. Suffering from thousands of ants eating your heart is worse than being killed directly..."

Teng Tianyou was also from Beiliang. He had heard of the notorious reputation of Prisoner of the Dragon Miasma and thought about it.

"Master Xuanji and Ye Jingtang are both diehard loyalists of the imperial court. It stands to reason that they have practiced the jade bone diagram hidden in the palace. If this thing is of no use to them..."

The old man in brocade robes sitting on top responded calmly:

"The overbearing power of Prisoner Dragon Miasma is to destroy the fundamentals of people and make their bodies disintegrate on their own. After practicing the Jade Bone Diagram, you won't be able to hurt the bones, but the skin and flesh will still slowly rot away. Even if you practice the three diagrams of muscles, bones and skin, the poison will It is always on the body, and the body is constantly being damaged and healed, which is a continuous consumption of energy and energy. No matter how high the martial arts is, it is difficult to exert much strength."

Teng Tianyou asked again: "As long as this thing comes into contact with the empress, she will definitely die?"

The old man in brocade robes thought for a while and shook his head: "This thing should not have any effect on the Empress. It can only be used to deal with Master Xuanji or Ye Jingtang. There is only one dose of poison. As for how to make the tiger leave the mountain and how to use the poison, you can think for yourself. Method."

Teng Tianyou frowned, looked at each other with Zhong Sunyan, said nothing more, and seriously thought about the specific plan...

Brother, if you are interested, you can take a look~