Chapter 37: The Hunchbacked Old Man on

Early the next morning, Zhao Renjie summoned everyone to the living room, and Ouyang Jiashen and Wu Huan and the five ghosts of hell were also brought over. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Zhao Renjie instructed Liu Yifei, Huang Zhutou, Xu Dayong and others to take the prisoners to the Linjiang County Yaxian to be taken into custody, and wrote a letter to the governor's yamen, requesting that someone be sent to temporarily manage the river. Everything was arranged, Zhao Renjie wrote a recital, and sent people to the capital for 800 miles to expedite it.

"My lord, what should I do with the Four Seas Inn?" Ying'er asked.

"Leave it to the care of the two door gods, I am sure they will not violate their conscience." Zhao Renjie said.

"Wu Huan and Ouyang Jiashen have a lot of blood debts, it is better to execute them first to make the people angry, I am worried that there will be changes later." Ying'er said.

"You're right, I'm keeping them for another purpose, they are like fish, as long as the fish are there, the big fish will be hooked sooner or later." Zhao Renjie then said his thoughts, Ying'er and Zhao Yu listened to it, and finally understood the mystery.

"The adult is really worthy of the champion, it turned out that he thought so far-reaching, Ying'er followed the adult and benefited a lot." Ying'er said sincerely.

"Of course Luo, my young master is a Wenqu star in the sky, and no one can compare." Zhao Yu said with a smile.

"Okay, you two don't want to be sycophants, hurry up and take care of it, and we'll leave immediately." Zhao Renjie said.

The three of them dressed up in cloth and walked out of the Four Seas Inn and Qingshui Town. Walked for a day without encountering any danger.

came to Lotus Leaf Town, forty miles away from Yangzhou, and it was just evening.

"Ying'er, it's not early, it's better to find an inn to stay overnight and leave early tomorrow morning." Zhao Renjie asked.

"You're an adult, and we listen to you." Ying'er said.

"Now that we are almost in Yangzhou, the closer we get to our destination, the more careful we have to be. Ouyang Jiashen said, the Four Seas Inn is just a small branch, the more you go to Yangzhou, the more dangerous it is, tonight, you have to cheer up, the prefect of Yangzhou has many eyeliners, we must be careful when we speak, and we must not expose our identities. Our actions are under the watchful eye of them, and just in case, we would better find an inconspicuous hotel to stay in, and modify it early tomorrow morning, so that there will be a lot less trouble. Zhao Renjie said.

Ying'er and Zhao Yu listened to it and felt that it made sense, and they unanimously agreed to Lord Zhao's proposal.

The three of them came to the town, looked around, and found an inconspicuous inn.

The shopkeeper of this inn is a hunchbacked old man, who is old and in good spirits.

There were two runners in the hunchbacked old man's shop, one in his thirties, tall, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but unfortunately he was a mute; There was also a man in his forties, with a thin build, a high nose bridge, and very small eyes, this man was a lame man who walked with a limp.

Zhao Renjie looked at the three people carefully, and felt very strange, the shopkeeper was a camel, but the two guys were dumb and lame, the three of them were all disabled, and they were located in the middle of nowhere, so the business of such an inn would definitely not be good.

"My lord, I followed Master to walk the rivers and lakes, and I have been to many inns, but I have never seen such an inn, such a boss and a guy, in my opinion, the three of them are a little strange." Ying'er whispered in Zhao Renjie's ear.

"Not bad! There must be a mystery in this. Just in case, everyone should pay attention to sleeping at night, and don't get caught in the smoke and miss a big event. Zhao Renjie whispered.

"Do you want to drink alcohol for the three guest officers? Our store has a superior daughter red. The hunchbacked old man walked over and asked with a smile on his face.

"Drinking is wrong, we never drink when we go out." Zhao Yu said.

"Also, wine is dispensable, so it's better not to drink it." The hunchbacked old man retreated, and after a while, the dumb man brought his meal.

Before eating, Ying'er first tested the poison with a silver needle, and when eating, the three of them were also very cautious and cautious in their speech, afraid that the wall would have ears. Every move of the three of them was clear to the hunchbacked old man.

When it came to sleeping at night, the three of them lived in one room. Zhao Renjie was reading under the lamp, Ying'er was standing by the side, and Zhao Yu was lying down to rest.

The three of them take turns on duty to be prepared.

Zhao Renjie chose a room facing the street, and he could see the movement on the street through the window.

The hunchbacked old man lived in the account room downstairs, and the two guys lived in the firewood room downstairs. Behind the firewood house is a stable for guests to board their horses.

It was nearly midnight, the street was quiet, and there was a dog barking in the distance, and Ying'er became alert. He came to the windowsill, opened it, and leaned on the windowsill to watch the movement outside. On the night of the beginning of the month, there was no moonlight in the second half of the night, only the stars blinking in their eyes. Although it is not dark, I can't see the outside scene clearly, and I can only judge all the changes outside by my sensitivity.

Ying'er watched quietly for a while, and found nothing unusual, and when he was about to close the window, he suddenly saw a dark shadow flashing downstairs.

"Who is it? What do you want to do in the middle of the night? I'd like to see if this man is a killer or a thief. Ying'er wondered.

The dark shadow came to the door of the store and disappeared.

"Zhao Yu, get up, there is someone downstairs." Ying'er woke up Zhao Yu softly.

Zhao Yu immediately got up and came to the windowsill to take a closer look.

"You keep a good watch in the house, I'll go and see what is going on." Ying'er jumped downstairs and chased in the direction where the black shadow disappeared.

He hid behind a big tree, looked around carefully, and suddenly heard a movement in the backyard stable, Ying'er immediately realized that someone must be beating the horse's idea, maybe stealing the horse, or putting medicine to poison the horse.

"Fortunately, I found out in time, and I must not let him succeed." Ying'er pondered and quietly touched the backyard, and sure enough, a black shadow was putting something in the hay, sneaky.

"Who! Hold it! Ying'er snorted.

The shadow ran away.

Ying'er pounced on it with an arrow step, and was about to catch the murderer, but she didn't expect to step on horse manure under her feet and fall.

The black shadow took the opportunity to hula away, and disappeared into the night in an instant.

Ying'er woke up the hunchbacked old man, who carried the lantern to the backyard stable to take a look at the hay, and found that there were arsenic, croton and other things in it, and immediately changed the hay, and apologized repeatedly.

Ying'er had no choice but to give up.

Back upstairs, Ying'er didn't dare to slack off, and immediately told Zhao Renjie about it. Zhao Renjie smiled and said, "Those who should come will always come, but with your toss, our identity is likely to be exposed." a"

"So—what's next?" Ying'er asked.

"It seems that the killers have noticed us, we have to leave as soon as possible, in my opinion, leave here before dawn, that time is the quietest time, and it is also the time when people sleep the most soundly, and it is impossible for the killers to stay awake all night." Zhao Renjie said.

"Your Excellency is right, let's take advantage of the pre-dawn darkness to get out of here." Ying'er said.

Zhao Yu agreed.

About five watches, the three of them led the horses out of the backyard, walking on the street, people with coins, horses picking bells, not daring to make a little movement.

After leaving the town, I walked five miles in one breath, and it was already dawn.

"My lord, do you think the killers will chase after you?" Zhao Yu asked.

"It's hard to say, it's just that we just said goodbye, I'm so sorry for the three disabled people, our food and accommodation fees haven't been settled yet." Zhao Renjie said.

"It's possible that we're overthinking. My lord, why don't you - I'll go back and say hello, check out by the way, and see how it goes," Zhao Yu said.

"It's not safe to go back now, and besides, you can't explain it clearly after you go back, so it's better for me to come to the door in person another day to apologize to him." Zhao Renjie said.

The three of them said as they walked, and when they came to Shilibao, they saw a few people sitting on horses in front of them to block the way.

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