When she heard the sound of panicked footsteps coming from not far away, Zhuang Mingyue subconsciously pulled Long Yuanxiu's sleeve, the two of them glanced at each other, Long Yuanxiu quickly eliminated the traces of the two people, and then picked up the person by the waist, turned over and walked out from the wall on the other side.

It wasn't until he left the City God Temple and came to a quiet corner that Zhuang Mingyue let out a long breath and landed on the ground safely.

"What just happened? It was a coincidence, and looking at the situation, the beggar must have died shortly before we came. ”

Although I couldn't see the beggar's condition at the time, I could tell from the smell of blood and the blood flowing at the door.

Long Yuanxiu frowned and said, "No, in fact, his death can bring us a message. That is, our every move now is seen by others, this person is in the dark, we are in the light, we will always be one step slower than him, since we can't get any clues from this beggar. ”

What Long Yuanxiu said, Zhuang Mingyue naturally understood, so she sighed a little helplessly and said: "Then what should we do now, now that everything is broken from here, I am afraid it will not be so easy to get information about this person." Maybe he will do it again this time. ”

Long Yuanxiu shook his head and said, "Don't be so pessimistic, in fact, things are far better than we imagined, and we can not only get information from this beggar."

Long Yuanxiu's words made Zhuang Mingyue and the second monk puzzled: "What do you mean?"

Looking at Zhuang Mingyue's rare confused appearance, Long Yuanxiu couldn't help laughing: "How can there be something that you can't figure out?" Have you forgotten who gave this thing to you? ”

After being reminded by Long Yuanxiu, Zhuang Mingyue immediately reacted, and said in surprise at that time: "You mean that in addition to finding clues on this beggar, there is also one person who can also be one of the ways we can get clues."

Long Yuanxiu nodded at this time, reached out and knocked her on the head: "Reacted so quickly?" Not bad. ”

Zhuang Mingyue wrinkled her nose at him dissatisfied, and then said: "But when I contacted this Zhaoyi before, she didn't seem to know what the other party came from, otherwise she wouldn't have had no end in sight, so she only gave me a note."

Long Yuanxiu shook his head: "She definitely doesn't know what the origin of the person behind her is, but we can let the person behind her take the initiative to come to her, and then pass this clue, and then touch the melon and touch the person behind it."

Zhuang Mingyue frowned, a little puzzled by Long Yuanxiu's proposal: "Didn't we already be told about this beggar today, has Zhaoyi's matter actually been exposed?" Then how can you be sure that he will go to Zhaoyi again? ”

Long Yuanxiu said confidently: "As long as Zhaoyi can still have something to ask you for, then this person will definitely go to him, in fact, no matter what the purpose is, I think it should be to catch your handle in the end, or to target you."

Listening to Long Yuanxiu's analysis, Zhuang Mingyue couldn't help frowning, although Long Yuanxiu's analysis was indeed reasonable, but let Zhuang Ming

Yue always had a faint uneasiness in her heart: "Maybe he didn't come to target me, but through me to deal with you, you don't have to."

Zhuang Mingyue's analysis is not unreasonable, Long Yuanxiu frowned, if it is only for himself, then the scope of selecting the mastermind behind the scenes can be narrowed down a lot.

It's just that if it is really aimed at himself, Zhuang Mingyue will inevitably be dragged down because of his own affairs, which will make Long Yuanxiu feel uneasy all the time.

The two of them stood in place, and they didn't speak again for a while, listening to the movement coming from inside the City God Temple in the distance, it was originally only because of Long Yuanxiu's earth-shattering kick that it attracted the attention of others, but it seemed that when it was discovered that the dead person was just a beggar, no one focused on it, but just hastily wrapped the person's body and threw it into the wilderness outside the city, which was a problem.

Soon, the movement from a distance immediately quieted down, and Zhuang Mingyue couldn't help but sigh.

In this quiet atmosphere, this movement was very obvious, attracting Long Yuanxiu's attention: "What's wrong?"

Zhuang Mingyue looked at the direction of the City God Temple before, and then said: "If it was not a beggar who died just now, but a figure with a head and a face, do you think this group of people would still be so hasty?"

Long Yuanxiu pinched Zhuang Mingyue's fleshy cheek and said, "If it was a figure with a head and a face who died just now, then it would be impossible for the two of us to get out as smoothly as tonight."

As soon as Long Yuanxiu said this, Zhuang Mingyue immediately quieted down.

Knowing what Zhuang Mingyue was thinking in his heart, Long Yuanxiu said a little helplessly: "Actually, I have a personal life, I can only say that I became a beggar, it was his own birth that was not good, and it was also his fate that was worried, instead of having time to sigh about his fate here, it is better to think about how to lure out the mastermind behind the scenes, he is in the dark and we are in the light, this is a very dangerous thing, if one day he really wants to attack you, we can't prevent it at all."

Long Yuanxiu's words were not unreasonable, and of course Zhuang Mingyue also understood: "I know what you mean, it's just a couple of sighs."

Long Yuanxiu stretched out his hand and rubbed her head, didn't say anything more, and took the person back.

"You have a good rest tonight, and then I'll let people pay attention to who has been in and out of the City God Temple."

Long Yuanxiu carefully admonished him before letting people rest.

Until the next morning.

When Zhuang Mingyue came to the courtyard, he saw that Long Yuanxiu was already standing in front of him, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"What's wrong?" It was rare to see Long Yuanxiu appear in the courtyard early in the morning, instead of being busy with his official business.

Hearing the movement behind him, Long Yuanxiu turned his head to look at her and said, "I asked people to check, the people who entered and exited the City God Temple yesterday ......"

Before Long Yuanxiu's words were finished, Zhuang Mingyue had already guessed the next words, so she took the initiative to pick up the words and said: "But the City God Temple is not so easy to investigate, because the flow of people is very large, and there are countless people who pass by every day to go to Shangxiang, if you go to investigate what suspicious people appear, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack."

Long Yuanxiu rubbed his eyebrows with a headache, these things that happened one after another recently really made him feel a little headache, and almost all of them were aimed at Zhuang Mingyue, which made him feel a little uneasy.

Zhuang Mingyue looked up at the sun, today's weather is not very good, gloomy, and there is no sun, occasionally when the wind blows, it brings up some biting chills.

Zhuang Mingyue looked at the person standing in front of him and suddenly stopped talking and asked, "How did the matter of the imperial examination system you prepared before?"

Long Yuanxiu nodded: "It's almost, everything is ready now, only the east wind is owed, and when the emperor's heat on this princess goes down, we can almost act."

Zhuang Mingyue nodded, and just as she was about to ask something more, a personal guard of Long Yuanxiu hurriedly ran in from outside.

"The master is in a hurry......

The guard whispered something in Long Yuanxiu's ear, and then quickly retreated, Zhuang Mingyue only saw Long Yuanxiu's expression suddenly became ugly.

Although she was a little worried, she was not sure if it was something she could know, so Zhuang Mingyue did not ask what happened at the first time.

"Do you remember the scholar from before?" Long Yuanxiu sighed, with some dissatisfaction in his tone.

Zhuang Mingyue didn't react at first when he asked him this, and quickly came back to her senses and said, "Do you mean the scholar when we met Chen Shen before?"

Long Yuanxiu nodded.

"What's wrong? He shouldn't be making some trouble again, right? ”

Hearing Zhuang Mingyue's question, although he was very reluctant to admit it, Long Yuanxiu still said: "We were preparing to hold a poetry conference in a teahouse with many literati and ink writers, so that everyone could talk freely inside, but I don't know why the news was leaked out in advance, and the scholar ran to the teahouse to make a big fuss, injured many people, and when he was finally arrested, he shouted loudly that he was the person of the great prince."

Long Yuanxiu finished the whole thing concisely, and Zhuang Mingyue was dumbfounded: "The people of the Great Prince?"

Long Yuanxiu nodded: "Obviously, this matter was planned by someone behind it, but in this case, what we originally wanted to hold in the name of the prince in the future, I'm afraid it won't go so well."

"It wasn't a big secret from the start......"

When Long Yuanxiu and Long Zhengning were tossing this matter, some people around them knew that they would hold something in the near future, but they didn't know the details.

"What about the scholar?"

Zhuang Mingyue asked.

Long Yuanxiu said: "He has already been arrested, but he has been calling the person who is the eldest prince, so the people who are locked up don't dare to do anything to him."

Hearing this, Zhuang Mingyue raised her eyebrows: "Since he said that he is the person of the eldest prince, why don't we use this name to expose him in front of everyone?"