Half an hour later, Zhong Ruoxi turned back and knocked on the door again. When Li Qing opened the door, she saw that she had already carried a thick folder in her hand, and beckoned to him: "Accompany me to meet her." ”

The corners of Li Qing's mouth twitched, and he hurriedly retreated: "It's okay for you to go by yourself, why do you let me go with me to suffer splint gas..."

Zhong Ruoxi's beautiful eyes glared: "Are you leaving?"

"Okay, okay, let's go. Li Qing snorted, "Let me see what you can come up with to level Gu Yue." ”

"It must be something you didn't expect. Zhong Ruoxi replied faintly, and the two of them walked through the corridor and came to the door at the end.

Li Qing raised his hand and knocked on the door, and a thick man's voice immediately came from inside: "Which one?"

"Pretending to really want to..."A smile appeared on the corner of Li Qing's mouth, and he suddenly noticed that Zhong Ruoxi was staring at him coldly, and immediately smiled and coughed lightly: "It's me." ”

"Oh, wait a minute. This time, it was replaced by Gu Yue's sweet and pleasant voice.

Immediately after the door opened, Gu Yue, who had removed the mask, was pulling a strand of her long hair with her hand, obviously planning to tie it up. When her eyes fell on Zhong Ruoxi, her delicate cheeks, which were originally full of smiles, instantly turned cold: "You didn't say that there are others." ”

"You didn't ask me if I had anyone else. Li Qing cleared his throat with an embarrassed expression, turned his head and looked behind him, "Let's go in and talk." ”

Glancing at Zhong Ruoxi, Gu Yue dodged out of the way and let Li Qing and Zhong Ruoxi into the house.

"She wants to talk to you. Li Qing raised his hand and pulled Gu Yue's soft hair, and found that Zhong Ruoxi was staring at him again, so he hurriedly withdrew his hand, pretending to be careless and turning to the window, looking down through the dusty windowpane.

Gu Yue simply brushed her hair back, then put the rubber band that tied her hair on her wrist, and looked Zhong Ruoxi up and down with cold eyes: "I have nothing to talk to you about." ”

"I know you're impatient, so I'll just get straight to the point. Zhong Ruoxi threw the folder on the table, and then sat on the shabby sofa in the room, "I need your help in this operation." ”

"I'm not interested, please go back. Gu Yuejing said to herself, then turned around and planned to open the door to send Zhong Ruoxi out.

"You can ask for anything, and I'll accommodate you. Zhong Ruoxi suddenly spoke.

"Oh?" The jade hand that went to grab the doorknob was retracted, and Gu Yue turned around and asked with a smile, "Does it include your life?"

A smile appeared at the corner of Zhong Ruoxi's mouth: "This won't work." ”

The jade hand held the cheek, Gu Yue stared at Zhong Ruoxi and blinked: "Then how about letting me shave your face?" Anyway, you don't make a living by laughing, so you shouldn't care." ”

Zhong Ruoxi shook his head lightly: "No." ”

Gu Yue stretched out another jade finger and pointed to the ground: "Then you kneel down and beg me?"

"No, it doesn't. ”

The smile on her cheeks disappeared, and Gu Yue said coldly: "This can't be done, that's not possible, what else do you say to meet all my requirements?" Zhong Ruoxi, you better get out." ”

Pursing her lips, Zhong Ruoxi unhurriedly unfolded the folder and pushed it to Gu Yue: "You might as well take a look at this." ”

Gu Yue didn't pick it up, just glanced at it lightly: "What?"

Breathing a sigh of relief, Zhong Ruoxi stretched out his jade hand against his smooth forehead: "I know very well what you people are doing in Longxi, here in me, there is an unimaginable intelligence network, and nothing can escape my eyes." ”

"As early as more than 150 years ago, a group organized by the non-governmental institute carried out a carpet in-depth excavation of Longxi, although it caused a large number of casualties in the process, but it was not all for nothing. At that time, there was a wealthy merchant in the coastal area, who started with shipping and silver banking, and his name was Wan Jianru. Ten thousand families have been doing business for generations, and they are as rich as the country, but there are always some things in this world that money can't buy, such as life..."Zhong Ruoxi suddenly raised his head and stared at Gu Yue coldly, "When Wan Wanru was fifty-three years old, he was suffering from an incurable disease, and he sought medical treatment in many ways without success, so he hit the idea of asking for immortals. He heard that there was a fairy tower in the forest of Longxi's Mangmang Mountain, and the sky and rain appeared, and mortals could ask the immortals to solve the art of immortality, so as to turn into immortals. ”

Li Qing raised his eyebrows, walked back from the window, glanced at Gu Yue, who was expressionless, and then pulled over a chair and sat down.

Zhong Ruoxi sighed: "However, at that time, Wan Wanru was already terminally ill, and Longxi was poor and bad, and it was a long time, and he couldn't reach it in person." So he picked dozens of sailors from his own ship, transferred a group of debt collectors from Yinzhuang, and bought a group of stragglers from the military and political yamen at that time. The sailors of the Wan family were steady and down-to-earth, the ruffians who collected debts were lively and capable of playing scoundrels, and the soldiers were experienced and could wield knives and guns. The three parties get together, supervise each other, and complement each other, which can be regarded as seamless. These three people got together, and gradually Confucianism allowed them to go deep into Longxi to find the traces of the Immortal Tower. It is said that Wan Jianru pinned all his hopes on the fairy tower back then, and did not hesitate to give nearly half of the family property to these three people. As the saying goes, money can make ghosts grind, and under the temptation of wealth, a total of more than 400 people from the three parties went to Longxi. ”

Zhong Ruoxi suddenly fell silent, looked at Li Qing and Gu Yue carefully, and spoke again: "A year later, this group of people finally came back, but compared to when they left, there were only more than ten people left. ”

Li Qing's face changed, and he couldn't help asking, "What about Wan Wanru? It's been more than a year, so he should be dead, right?"

"Wan Jianru died half a year ago, and it was Wan Yuanlin, the son of the Wan family, who inherited the family business. At that time, the remaining dozen or so people, led by a sailor surnamed Li, presented the things he found in Longxi to Wan Yuanlin, hoping that he would fulfill the promise of his father, Wan Jianru. Zhong Ruoxi paused slightly, "That's a batch of bronze boxes that no one has ever seen." ”

Li Qing's face turned blue in an instant.

Zhong Ruoxi blinked her beautiful eyes a little proudly when she saw Li Qing's changes: "Because a batch of worthless bronze boxes, but you have to pay nearly half of the family property, Wan Yuanlin naturally won't agree." He ordered a bronze box to be cut open in public, and the liquid that flowed from it emitted a foul smell. ”

Leaning over to pick up the folder from the table, Zhong Ruoxi unfolded one of the pages and read: "It is rumored that this smell spreads for miles and is disgusting, and everyone covers their noses and crosses the alley, making it difficult to eat. ”

Raising the folder in his hand, Zhong Ruoxi raised his eyebrows: "This description may be exaggerated, but you must have seen it, so there is no need for me to describe it more." In short, Wan Yuanlin was immediately furious, thinking that what these people brought back from Longxi was all the remnants of witchcraft, and it was far from his father's last wish, so he directly refused to fulfill his promise, and punished more than ten people with forty rods and drove them out of the ten thousand homes. ”

"The trip to Longxi, nine deaths, finally came back alive, but in the end in exchange for a good fight, these more than ten people are naturally resentful. However, the only advantage is that they have honed their courage in the extremely harsh environment of Longxi. Therefore, after the injury was healed, these more than ten people gathered together again and took advantage of the dark and windy night of a month to loot thousands of homes. Wan Yuanlin, the head of the Wan family at the time, was cut out by thieves, and his head was also taken off and inserted in front of Wan Jianru's spirit card. Even the infant children of Wan Wan were hacked to death with knives. Overnight, more than 80 people up and down the direct line of the ten thousand families were killed, and the large merchants who had lasted for hundreds of years declined. ”

"Wanjia has always done good deeds in the coastal area, and when Wan Yuanlin went out of the funeral, many people rushed to see him off, and the sound of crying resounded throughout the city, and the long queue stretched for several miles. Until decades have passed since this incident, there are still local old people who burn paper to pay tribute on Wan Yuanlin's death day. The corners of Zhong Ruoxi's mouth flashed into a smile that was almost mocking, "Those more than ten thieves looted a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry from Wanjia, and then scattered and fled after sharing the spoils. The government posted a notice to arrest the arrested and arrested person at the entrance of the vegetable market, and everyone applauded and ate the meat cut off by the tortured. At that time, Luoshui had a show of talent, and later ascended to the Jinshi and the first, the palace examination also made a poem with the title of this matter, the emperor commented on the happy words, so that the posthumous Wanyuan Lin Xinyi Marquis, gave a gold plaque, and glorified the clan court. ”

Li Qing's eyelids jumped: "More than a dozen people have been caught?"

Zhong Ruoxi stared at Li Qing for a while, and then asked with a smile, "Li Qing, do you really not know?" or are you pretending to be stupid?"

Li Qing looked dazed: "What do you mean by this?"

With a sneer, Zhong Ruoxi stretched out three jade fingers at Li Qing: "In the same group of criminals, three people escaped, as if they disappeared from then on, and there was no more news." ”

Li Qing tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Then you just say that if someone escapes, it's over, this kind of thing is all from you, how can I know?"

Zhong Ruoxi stared at Li Qing without blinking, and suddenly slowly spoke: "If these three people don't escape, how can there be you." ”

Li Qing's heart was shocked, and his eyes widened suddenly: "Zhong Ruoxi, what do you mean by this!"

Raising his hand and rubbing his temples, Zhong Ruoxi said lightly: "Li Qing, what did your ancestors do?"

"Shipping. ”

"What about the Chen family?"

"Well, the Chen family has never been in business, relying on lending, money laundering and gambling bank. ”

The smile on the corner of Zhong Ruoxi's lips slowly expanded, and finally asked, "What about the Qi family?"

"The Qi family was born in the military and politics, this has..."

Li Qing suddenly paused, his face changed from blue to purple, and then from purple to white.

He picked dozens of sailors from his own ship, transferred a group of debt collectors from Yinzhuang, and bought a group of stragglers from the military and political yamen at that time. The sailors of the Wan family were steady and down-to-earth, the ruffians who collected debts were lively and capable of playing scoundrels, and the soldiers were experienced and could wield knives and guns. The three parties get together, supervise each other, and complement each other, which can be regarded as seamless. ”

Zhong Ruoxi's previous words echoed in Li Qing's heart over and over again, sailors, money villages, and troops?