。 Shaoxing, Lufu, before the main hall.

By the time he got to the end, the beautiful woman's words had already begun to become staccatory. Half of the reason for this is because she is choking, and half because she can't hold it anymore.

She was poisoned, and at this moment, she was on the verge of death.

Mu Xiaojiu was a little unbearable, he knew that it was very likely that he would die in the next second. So after hesitating for a while, he finally asked, "You, do you still have any unfulfilled wishes?" ”

"The family property has been removed, and he is dead, what else do I want?" When the woman said this, she couldn't help but smile with a little self-deprecation, "It's just that I think it's a pity, my child didn't survive in the end......"

"Kid...... Child...... "The woman's eyes suddenly showed a light of hatred, "Lord Mu, I see that those people are very jealous of you, your martial arts should be very high." ”

Mu Xiaojiu suddenly understood, and said directly: "You want me to kill those people, don't worry, even if you don't say it, I will kill those people." ”

The woman immediately smiled, "So, thank you Mu-sama." It's just a pity that I've been imprisoned in the backyard for many years, and I don't know the identities of those people, otherwise maybe I would-have-"

The words stopped abruptly, Mu Xiaojiu was shocked, stepped forward to check the woman's pulse, and found that she was dead. And on the woman's face, the smile remained. I don't know why, Mu Xiaojiu always felt that smile was full of relief and relief.

Mu Xiaojiu sighed, gently closed the woman's eyes, and then whispered, "Don't worry, I will kill those people and pay tribute to you and your children." ”

The light rain in Shaoxing has been pouring down all day.

Mu Xiaojiu left the Lu Mansion and walked on the street, but he always felt that there was a big stone blocking his throat in his eyes, and he couldn't swallow it, and he couldn't spit it out, so he was so depressed there, and it was very uncomfortable.

The top priority now is to quickly find the heels of those martial arts people. First, in order to find out the relationship between them and Lu Junyu, Mu Xiaojiu always felt that they did not look like Lu Junyu's disciples; second, it is to recover the money that they have looted and looted by Lu Junyu over the years; Thirdly, this is also to fulfill the last wish of a beautiful woman.

Mu Xiaojiu had a hunch, although the clues revealed now told him that the owners of those restaurants and Qinglou were likely to be able to tell him some clues about those martial arts people, but this was not enough. Relying on these clues alone, he probably won't be able to find out the true identities of those people.

So before returning to Qiyulou, he first went to the post station and asked someone to send a letter to Mu Duan and Mu Yu in Hangzhou. After the matter was done, he walked towards the Qiyu Building.

"Your Excellency, you're back." As soon as I entered the Qiyu Building, the entire Qiyu Building was still very lively, and there was also a troupe from the Qiyu Building singing on the stage. And Wang Qihe was waiting at the door, on the one hand, to be vigilant, and on the other hand, to wait for Mu Xiaojiu to return.

Mu Xiaojiu nodded, and then asked, "After I left, did you continue to interrogate the shopkeeper of Qiyu Building?" ”

"Yes." Wang Qihe replied very simply: "The shopkeeper of Qiyu Building also gave some useful information. In addition, I also asked a few other shopkeepers to come over, and the information they gave was exactly the same as that given by the shopkeeper of Qiyulou, and it was obvious that they were all warned in the same way. ”

"Oh?" Mu Xiaojiu looked at Wang Qihe with a little doubt, "Let's hear it?" ”

Wang Qihe didn't speak immediately, but first sorted out his thoughts in his mind before he spoke: "My lord, that's the case. The treasurers were warned on a night in the autumn of Lu Junyu's third year in office, and although they can't remember the exact date, according to their confessions, the officials speculated that they were probably warned on the same day. ”

"And the way they were warned was exactly the same, they were all awakened by the sound of the window in the middle of the night, and then found that there was an extra letter at the head of the bed, which read, 'Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die', and the name is Lu Junyu's."

Mu Xiaojiu frowned, "You said the sound of the window?" What sound? ”

Wang Qihe replied: "Well, it's the kind of sound that the window is slammed on. ”

Mu Xiaojiu nodded, "Hey, in this way, it seems that the people who went to warn them should be good at light body kung fu." Going in and out of a room without waking people up when someone is sleeping in the room, and then banging on the window after leaving to wake people up......"

"That's right, sir." Wang Qihe also sighed a little, "I also specially asked, one of those shopkeepers is the kind of person who sleeps very lightly, and when he sleeps at night, as long as there is a little noise outside, he can wake him up, but he didn't even notice that there was a person in the room." After that, because of this incident, he didn't dare to sleep for several days. It can be seen that the person who shuttles through the room must be very good. ”

"Who is that person who is a particularly light sleeper you are talking about?" Mu Xiaojiu asked casually.

"Well, that person is the shopkeeper of the Listening Wine Workshop, if you want to interrogate him......"

"No need." Mu Xiaojiu waved his hand, "It's just a casual question." By the way, speaking of those martial arts people, do you have any information for me? ”

"Well, speaking of ......" Wang Qihe suddenly hesitated, and then gritted his teeth and said, "My lord, what those shopkeepers said does not match what I have learned. ”

"Huh?" Mu Xiaojiu was startled, looked at Wang Qihe, and said after a while: "It doesn't match? You mean......"

"That's right, sir." Wang Qihe nodded, "I have seen all the disciples under Lu Junyu, but there is no one in them who is very good. There are a few powerful martial arts, but the best one in light martial arts is at best between me and me, and I will never be able to settle down silently. And I asked those shopkeepers, many of them live on the second floor, just with the light skills of those customers under me and Lu Junyu, I am afraid that flying up to the second floor will make a lot of noise. So I'm wondering if the shopkeepers are lying—"

"Not necessarily." Mu Xiaojiu's face showed a somewhat playful smile, "It's likely that you didn't lie in this matter, Lu Junyu's disciples, are you sure you've seen them all?" ”

Wang Qihe was stunned by Mu Xiaojiu's question, "My lord, what do you mean......?"

"Lu Junyu is likely to have two groups of doormen, one group is in Ming, and it is really his doorman; A group of people in the dark are not so much his doormen as his masterminds. Tsk, our Lord Lu is really very capable. Mu Xiaojiu stopped when he said this, and after a while he said again: "There is basically no big danger now, you go and call those catchers and go back to the mansion directly." It's good to release these shopkeepers directly, don't look at it anymore, I guess they should have said everything they should say. ”

Although Wang Qihe didn't understand what Mu Xiaojiu's move was for, as a subordinate, he still chose to implement it very wisely. After all, the adult in front of him seems to have real talent and learning, not like the kind of rhetoric.

"By the way, early tomorrow morning, you go and bring the candidate you recommended to me to come to Qiyulou to find me, I want to see his ability."

"Yes, sir."

……

The light rain in Shaoxing City kept falling, and it fell like this until the evening.

Because of the rain, the moon did not show its trace in the sky, so it was dark in Shaoxing tonight. Not only was Shaoxing City pitch black, but Mu Xiaojiu's room was also pitch black.

Mu Xiaojiu didn't light the lamp and candle, but sat like this in the dark night.

After a long time, there was the sound of a gong beating a watchman outside the window. The gong sounded four times, and it was obvious that it was already the fourth watch, that is, the ugly time. At this time, except for the watchman and Mu Xiaojiu, I am afraid that most of the people in Shaoxing City have already fallen asleep.

Mu Xiaojiu didn't sleep because he was waiting, and now, what he was waiting for has come.

What he was waiting for was the sound of the gong beating the watchman, and what he was waiting for was the fourth watch.

Mu Xiaojiu stood up, put on the big hat again, then picked up the hat from the table and put it on his head, walked to the window, and gently pushed the window open. And as the window was pushed open, a cool air poured in directly from the window.

Mu Xiaojiu took a breath of fresh air a little greedily, and then directly turned over and jumped from the window. If someone was in this room at this time, then that person would definitely be shocked, because after Mu Xiaojiu's action, except for a little noise when he pushed the window open, there was no extra sound.

In Shaoxing City at the time of the ugly time, the streets were already empty, and there was no one left. Mu Xiaojiu was wearing a black hat and a hat on his head, walking in this night, he actually looked a little infiltrating, like a butcher on a rainy night.

It's just that Mu Xiaojiu didn't come out tonight to kill someone, but to ......

"One street, two streets, three streets...... That's it. Mu Xiaojiu raised his head and looked at the two-story building in the wall in front of him - inside the wall was the backyard of Tingxiang Wine Workshop, and the two-story building was the residence of the shopkeeper of Tingxiang Wine Workshop.

Mu Xiaojiu came out tonight to solve his doubts.

With Mu Xiaojiu's light skills, the last two-story building is simply on the ground. I saw that he didn't even use his strength, and as soon as he jumped up, he was already standing on the fence on the second floor.

Under the fence, there is a corridor, and on the left side of the corridor is the room of the shopkeeper and his wife, and on the right, the room of the son of the shopkeeper of the winery. These things, as early as today's daytime, before Wang Qihe left, he suddenly remembered it, and then asked Wang Qihe about it.

Of course, he didn't say it so bluntly at the time, but just asked Wang Qihe to introduce him to the layout of each shopkeeper's home.

Gently pushing open the door of the room on the left, Mu Xiaojiu walked in in a flash, and then gently closed the door again, and even the sound of opening and closing the door was almost inaudible during the whole process.

In the room, the shopkeeper of the wine shop and his wife were asleep in bed.

Mu Xiaojiu thought about it, didn't continue to control his footsteps, and just walked slowly to the edge of the bed. However, the small footsteps still did not wake up the shopkeeper of the wine shop.

Mu Xiaojiu raised his eyebrows, raised his hand and tapped lightly on the table.

The two men on the bed still didn't respond.

Mu Xiaojiu sighed faintly, and then suddenly slapped his palm on the table, directly slapping the entire table apart. Such a loud noise frightened the shopkeeper and his wife who listened to the wine shop were awakened at once, and even their children, who lived next door, were startled and woke up from their sleep.

As soon as the two who woke up saw Mu Xiaojiu, the shopkeeper was directly frightened and screamed, in contrast, the shopkeeper was a little calmer, and asked tremblingly: "Who is Your Excellency, who is Your Excellency, visiting late at night, I don't know what happened?" ”

Mu Xiaojiu smiled disdainfully, took out the envoy's sign from his arms and threw it on the bed, "Imperial envoy, Mu Xiaojiu." ”

Although I don't know what the official position of the imperial envoy is, the shopkeeper during the day has heard the name of Mu Xiao Jiumu. At this time, as soon as he heard Mu Xiaojiu's identity revealed, the shopkeeper's little heart was suddenly lifted, you know, during the day, this person cut off Lu Junyu's head without saying a word!

"Wood, wood, wood, wood, wood, you, you're in the middle of the night, what, how-"

After hearing that the whole mouth of the shopkeeper of Tingxiang Wine Shop had become unfavorable, Mu Xiaojiu didn't care, let alone answer, but slowly took out a fire fold, blew it twice, and then lit the candle in the room.

After the candle gradually filled the entire room, Mu Xiaojiu spoke: "Your son will come over soon, let's talk about it when he comes." ”

As he was talking, the door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and a teenager about ten years old walked in through the door, "Dad, mother, why are you-"

Before he finished speaking, the young man saw Mu Xiaojiu in the sight of his nervous parents, and then took a few steps back in shock, "Who are you!" ”

Mu Xiaojiu didn't seem to be smiling, and didn't answer the young man's words, but said directly: "Shopkeeper, now that your wife and children are here, I want to ask you, don't you wake up in the middle of the night if you make a little noise?" Then why are you sleeping like a dead pig when I'm already in the house? ”

Listening to the shopkeeper of the Xiangjiu Fang, his face changed suddenly, "I think, presumably the adult's light work is too high, and the foothold is silent, so the villain didn't notice it?" ”

"Huh." Mu Xiaojiu sneered, "Really? Then why did I knock on the table twice and make a noise, but you still didn't wake up? ”

"This ......" The shopkeeper of the Aromatic Wine Shop suddenly became speechless.

At this time, his wife did help: "This, Lord Qiyu, the shopkeeper of my family was taken by the officials of the yamen for questioning today, and he was restless, so he fell asleep to death." ”

"Tsk." Mu Xiaojiu narrowed his eyes slightly, "Really?" But how did I hear that the last time he was so nervous that he didn't sleep for days? ”