The night is getting thicker, the Gu Mansion is the same as before, Gu Shuo is not in the study tonight, but resting in the back garden, the two concubines are waiting on the side, there is a low sound of frogs in the pond, and there is a faint fragrance of flowers in the night breeze. Fastest updates

The two concubines are careful, the old man's anger is relatively big recently, except for the lady, everyone else in the family has been reprimanded, yesterday a kid was beaten ten boards, the family is now panicked, no one dares to touch the moldy head, Mrs. also has orders, these days to follow the master's will.

"Master, do you want to listen to music?"

Gu Shuo lay on his back, shook his head slightly, the concubine hesitated, and was about to continue to ask, Gu Shuo had already waved his hand, the concubine hesitated and got up, and retreated resentfully.

Gu Shuo was very annoyed in his heart, and the instructions in the palace arrived again, urging him to strengthen the reconnaissance of the Hundred Workshops, reminding him that the people of the Hundred Workshops were not immortals, they still had to eat and sleep, and they should pay attention to those workshops, and they should pay attention to those families with a lot of food, and the Hundred Workshops were likely to be related to them.

It seems that the palace suspects that the Baigongfang is a tool for a certain family to collect money, but there are so many families in Yangzhou, which one is the end?

Gu Shuo sighed heavily, he has joined the internal guard for so many years and experienced many winds and waves, but he has never felt so strong this time.

Death seemed to hang over him and the entire Gu Mansion.

The surface of the water reflected the moonlight, and a big black bird slid past the water, without attracting Gu Shuo's attention, still staring at the moon in the water and pondering, the moon in the water was like a small piece of cake that had been bitten off, and it was a bit like an apple.

Just thinking about it, he suddenly felt a little abnormal, looked up, and couldn't help but be surprised, there was a masked man in black sitting on the opposite side, the man in black stared at him silently, and the eyes outside the scarf were indifferent and lifeless.

"You, who are you?How did you get in?" Gu Shuo was shocked, his body couldn't help but tremble, it was not easy to get in this backyard, there were several secret sentinels hidden around the courtyard, but these dark whistles did not make any sound, and the man in black suddenly appeared in front of him.

The man in black didn't answer, Gu Shuo suddenly thought that this was his home, the man in black didn't seem to have so much malice, he slowly calmed down, and was about to speak, when the man in black stretched out his hand, there was a white jade plate on his palm, Gu Shuo's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly stood up.

"Your Excellency. Gu Shuo shouted in a low voice, and the man in black motioned for him to sit down.

Gu Shuo sat down honestly, the man in black put away the jade card, Gu Shuo picked up a teacup, carefully poured a cup of tea and put it in front of the man in black, if the concubine who had just left saw him like this, she would definitely think that she was too worried, it turned out that the old man's mood was not so bad.

"The letter from the palace has been received?" The voice of the man in black was very low, but in Gu Shuo's ears, it was very clear.

Gu Shuo nodded and replied respectfully: "Yes, the order has been passed down, and the adults are also here for the Hundred Workshops?"

The man in black did not answer, but put the jade card in front of Gu Shuo, Gu Shuo picked up the jade card and looked at it carefully, and then respectfully put the jade card back in front of the man in black, and the man in black put the jade card away.

"So far, have you found those clues?" asked the man in black, Gu Shuo was even more sure, this was sent by the palace to specifically target the people of the Hundred Workshops, so he was even more careful.

"Lord Hui, there are almost no now, these hundred workshops," Gu Shuo smiled bitterly: "The subordinates are incompetent, there are two clues, but the subordinates feel that they are not true, it seems that the other party deliberately released them." ”

"Intentionally released?" the man in black asked coldly, "You mean to say that the news of the palace's investigation of the Hundred Workshops has been leaked?"

"No, no," Gu Shuo hurriedly denied it, the fierce eyes of the man in black made him very frightened, he had been in the internal guard for a long time, and he knew the horror of the internal guard even more, and strands of sweat broke out on his back, quickly soaking his coat.

"Recently, the palace has been in a hurry, so the subordinates have gathered all their subordinates and hurried to investigate the hundred workshops. Gu Shuo explained.

"Who is that?" asked the man in black coldly.

Gu Shuo's heart trembled, and he hesitated: "My lord, they are also unintentional.....

"How do you know if they're unintentional?" the man in black retorted coldly, "Who is it?"

"One is Wei Jiang of Dantu, and the other is Wang Shan of Yongping. Gu Shuo replied helplessly.

The man in black snorted softly: "Give me the roster of your subordinates' internal guards, these two places are not close." ”

Gu Shuo hesitated: "My lord, this is a top secret ,...."

"I know it's top secret, just look at it and don't take it away," the man in black said lightly: "The rules, I understand." ”

Gu Shuo thought for a while and got up: "My lord, please come with me." ”

The man in black got up and walked with Gu Shuo to the front yard, passed through the two moon gates, and came to the study, and met a team of patrolling family members on the way, and the family members were surprised when they saw the man in black, but when they looked at Gu Shuo in front of them, they didn't dare to ask questions, so they could only watch the man in black follow Gu Shuo into the study.

Gu Shuo took it out from the dark compartment of the bookcase, the design of the dark compartment was very ingenious, and it was impossible to find it if he didn't look carefully.

The roster is very thin, only about a dozen pages, and dozens of names are written in small block letters, and each name has an address and professional specialty under it.

The man in black looked very carefully, thinking while watching, after cultivating to the great advance, his memory was immediately strong to a point that he couldn't believe before, he always said in his previous life that he would never forget, and now he can do it completely.

"Sixty-two. The man in black looked up at Gu Shuo, Gu Shuo nodded: "Three years ago, there were eighty-three people on this list, in the past, three years, our attention was on the Cao Gang and the Huainan King, especially during the period when the first emperor was seriously ill, the monitoring of the various vassal kings was the main task, as well as the various families, and the most important thing was to provoke the Jiangnan Society and the Cao Gang to fight, and the palace ordered us to support the Jiangnan Society, so during that time, we lost more than a dozen good hands." ”

"Didn't add anything?" asked the man in black.

"Adults don't know, the addition of the internal guard is very complicated," Gu Shuo explained: "First of all, we must select the target, and secondly, we must investigate his life experience; this is very important, there are many people who want to blend into the internal guard; these two alone will take a lot of time, and now, the gate valves are highly vigilant against the internal guard, and it is already very difficult to send people to infiltrate, and they can only develop the people inside, but this needs an opportunity." ”

The man in black didn't ask this question again, closed the booklet, thought for a while, and asked again: "Before I came, the ancestor asked me to tell you, this time I came, not because I don't believe you, but because this hundred workshops are too mysterious, and your identity must be kept secret, so it is not appropriate for you to come forward, I will preside over it, and I will leave after checking." ”

Gu Shuo stood respectfully on the side, not daring to be disrespectful, and when he heard the man in black explain, he hurriedly responded: "Don't dare to be humble." ”

"What are those two pieces of leaked news?" asked the man in black again.

"Yongping Wangshan reported that the Hundred Workshops cooperated with Yongping Maochang to produce new looms in Yongping, and his subordinates checked it, which was false news. Gu Shuo replied: "Wei Jiang reported that after Dantu discovered that the carriage of the owner of the Hundred Workshops had entered the Jiangnan Perak Hall, and he sent someone to find out, the news was also false. ”

"Jiangnan Thunderbolt Hall?" The man in black was slightly puzzled, as if he didn't know about this hall.

"Jiangnan Thunderbolt Hall is a small gang, it is a subordinate organization of the Jiangnan Society, the gang leader was born in the Heavenly Master Dao, and is famous for the Jiangnan martial arts with the thunderbolt palm, and it is said that there is a peak cultivation of martial artists. Gu Shuo said.

The man in black was noncommittal, Gu Shuo didn't dare to say more, and looked at him silently. After a while, the man in black asked, "No news from the others?"

Gu Shuo nodded heavily, stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back in black, looked at the night in the courtyard, and took a deep breath: "It is still necessary to strengthen it, let people pay attention to Xia Wu County, especially Wuhu, if the nest of the Baigongfang is in Jiangnan, Wuhu will be very suspicious." ”

"Yes, my lord, I'll do it right away. Gu Shuo hurriedly responded.

"Do you have any ideas?" asked Liu Han again.

"Other lowly duties can be said a little bit, but these hundred workshops, lowly positions really dare not talk nonsense, so as not to interfere with the judgment of adults. Gu Shuo replied.

"It's okay, just talk about it. Liu Han said casually.

"Eight years ago, the palace asked the hundred workshops to be checked, this hundred workshops are a business, but there are no shops, and the way of operation is different from ordinary businesses, so I didn't care about it at first, but the palace asked the ,....."

Before he could finish speaking, the man in black interrupted him: "What were you mainly investigating at that time?"

Gu Shuo took a deep breath: " At that time, Jiangnan, Runan, Jingzhou, there were a series of assassination cases, including many high-ranking officials of the imperial court, the gate lord clan, as well as the rivers and lakes Haoqiang, the palace was furious when they heard the news, and strictly ordered to investigate, because the case was the most in Jiangnan, the urging of the palace was also urgent, and all the lowly subordinates were mobilized, and soon, an assassination occurred in Jiankang, and the salt and iron envoy sent by the imperial court to Jiankang to patrol the salt was assassinated, however, this salt and iron envoy was a member of the Qin family, and now the younger brother of the head of the Qin family, there are seven or eight good hands around him, and the assassin left five corpses, and there should be several injuries. ”

The man in black didn't speak, listening quietly, Gu Shuo continued: "This assassination happened to be witnessed on the spot by one of my subordinates' internal guards, fortunately, this subordinate of mine is good at tracking and disguise, he followed an assassin, this person seems to be injured, although he was very careful, but he still exposed Xingzang, and finally, he followed to the mountains near Fuyi." ”

Listening to Gu Shuo's eloquent words, the man in black was very calm, and after he finished speaking, he nodded and praised: "This person is a talent, what is he doing now?"

"I died a long time ago, and I died the next year. ”

"Oh, that's the case, it's a pity, how did you die?" the man in black asked with a slight frown, very regretful.

"I don't know, our people only found his body. Gu Shuo was also very sorry.

"Have you checked?" the man in black asked again.

"I checked, but there was no clue. Gu Shuo sighed, this subordinate was very powerful: "I have seen the corpse, a sword sealed the throat, clean and neat, he didn't have time to react." ”

The man in black didn't say anything, sighed softly, and then asked, "What about later?"

Gu Shuo took a deep breath, felt his mouth a little dry, licked his lower lips, and then spoke.

"After this matter was resolved, I put my strength into the Hundred Workshop, and after more than half a year, I found a merchant who cooperated with them, and developed an inside line in the merchant's house, but I didn't find anything, and then I found some things one after another, but I never found their whereabouts, and I never found their guys, only a few merchants who cooperated with them. ”

"You're also in business and weren't invited to their auction. The man in black interjected.

Gu Shuo shook his head: "No, not only do I not have it, but the Lu family and the Yu family don't have it." ”

Gu Shuo said, and suddenly felt that this was indeed a problem, the Lu family's Yu family and his Gu family were also big businesses in Jiangnan, why had they never been invited to participate?

"You collect the information of the next two things, over the years, what are the merchants that Jiangnan has cooperated with the Hundred Workshops, this is one; Second, pay attention to the carriages of the Hundred Workshops and see if they will appear there?"

"Collect this?" Gu Shuo was a little surprised, and looked at the man in black in amazement, what is the use of these for Chabai Workshop?

The man in black didn't explain, turned and walked to the door, pulled the door open, and then suddenly disappeared.