18. Chapter XVIII

Seeing that Qi Guan Gu seemed to be very obediently agreed, Mu Lingyu raised his chin slightly in satisfaction, and then turned around and walked deeper into the alley.

And Qi Guan Gu saw that she didn't suspect it, but just stayed in place for a while, and with a slight touch of her toes, she quietly followed the figure in front of her.

He looked at the image of the girl's noble and arrogant handsome son, seemingly casual, but in fact strolling through the intricate alleys with a bamboo in his chest, and nodding to the people from time to time.

Qi Guan Gu frowned deeply, these people seemed to have some connection with each other, and there was a deep tacit understanding between each other's eye contact.

The interest in the man's heart couldn't help but be even heavier.

Mu Lingyu finally stopped in front of a mansion, and then knocked lightly on the door with three short and one long.

The door was soon opened, and the two seemed to be on the right track, and the porter looked respectful and bent slightly to welcome her in.

Qi Guan Gu couldn't help but be curious, and then easily sneaked in.

He looked around, it seemed to be an ordinary house, but the house didn't let the porter and the guests have any codes.

"Ninth sister, you're late~" The female voice that can make people's bones numb suddenly sounded, "But you should be punished~"

"Third sister, I'm still very busy, if there is something to say, can you say it quickly?" The cold and arrogant voice that sounded this time was obviously Miss Mu's.

Qi Guan Gu approached the room silently, then gently punctured the thin layer of paper film with his fingers, and bent down to look out.

I don't know how easy and familiar this series of smooth movements is, but at a glance, I know that it is often done.

There were several women sitting or standing in the room, all of whom looked beautiful with their own characteristics. I don't know why, Qi Guan Gu still saw the only one in men's clothes, heroic and charming, Miss Mu for the first time.

Qi Guan Gu was very sure that it wasn't because she was wearing men's clothes, but why did she always notice Mu Lingyu...... Maybe it's because Miss Mu is the most beautiful and dazzling woman among them?

"Ninth sister, don't be impatient." The gentle and steady woman sitting at the top spoke, and Guan Gu obviously noticed that the arrogance on Mu Lingyu's body had weakened slightly, and then she looked back at the woman with an expressionless face holding her arms.

"There is also the third sister, don't tease her sister if she has nothing to do, knowing that the ninth sister has a bad temper and can't be excited, she always wants to provoke her." The woman whispered reproachfully to the third sister Lin Kemei.

Lin Kemei covered her mouth and laughed twice, and secretly cast a wink at Mu Lingyu.

Mu Lingyu's phoenix eyes raised, and she suddenly glared back.

"Ninth sister, it seems that an outsider has entered your villa recently?" The eldest sister Situ Wei tapped her fingers lightly on the table and asked lightly.

"yes, I thought he was interesting, so I took him back." Mu Lingyu replied confidently, with a proud and provocative little face.

Situ Wei glanced at her amusedly, "It's good if you're happy." โ€

Mu Lingyu rolled her eyes unconvinced, "So, what's the matter that is in a hurry to call me now?" โ€

"It's nothing, it's just ......" Situ Wei looked at her gently, "I miss you." โ€

"Oh, eldest sister, I know you have a deep sisterhood, but we still have to get down to business." Seeing that the ninth sister was about to blow up, the second sister Xu Yinyin hurriedly laughed and cried, "You know the richest businessman, right?" โ€

Qi Guan Gu, who was listening calmly outside the door, suddenly frowned, Gongsun Win? He remembered that the man was not......

Mu Lingyu snorted coldly at Situ Wei, and her face softened towards the really gentle second sister, but her tone was extremely unpolite, "Who is that?" โ€

"You, you're really the same as Master Mu, you always don't care about things outside." The fifth sister lazily glanced at her ignorant sister, "The first rich merchant, Gongsun Ying, isn't it the person who just visited your villa three months ago?" Well...... It's also ugly, very distinctive, and it's easy to recognize. โ€

Mu Lingyu: "......"

"Do you remember what Gongsun Ying came to his uncle-in-law for?" Situ asked again.

Mu Lingyu thought about it carefully, and furrowed his heroic eyebrows, "Gongsun wins...... He seemed to be in trouble and had come to my dad for help. I remember that shortly after that, my father suddenly came out of the villa and said that there was something important. โ€

Situ Yan's voice suddenly became low, "He's dead." โ€

Mu Lingyu was stunned, and his eyes widened suddenly, dead?

"That's ...... daddy"

"That's what I'm going to say, we have actually always had a cooperative relationship with Gongsun Ying, and when the third sister met him for the last time, she found that he seemed to be hiding some secrets, and before she could investigate again, he had an accident."

Xu Yinyin's tone was heavy, "Then we found out that although the forces on his surface did not move, the forces that had contact with us in the shadows ...... But all of them were taken in by unknown people. โ€

"Two months ago, the owner of Mu Zhuang went out of the village, it seems that he wanted to find out the cause of his friend Gongsun Ying's death, but then he was hindered by unknown forces and was hunted down." Seeing that the ninth sister was about to get excited again, Xu Yinyin hurriedly reassured, "Of course Master Mu is fine now, but he can't appear openly anymore, so he has already hid under our arrangement." โ€

"This is what Master Mu Zhuang found in the group of killers who chased him."

Qi Guan Gu looked at the gentle woman in the room with a stern expression, and put a token on the table, and the pattern carved on the token was almost exactly the same as the token that one of the forces that had chased and killed him.

"Can I go see my father?" Mu Lingyu didn't think too much about it, just asked anxiously.

"I'm afraid not." Situ Wei shook her head and said comfortingly, "But don't worry, the owner of the village is safe now, and his aunt is taking care of him." โ€

"My mother?!" After being shocked, Mu Lingyu suddenly became happy, "Mother is finally willing to forgive Dad?" The two of them have always been childishly awkward, and each time they get into trouble, there is a cold war for a year and ten months, but this time it is a blessing in disguise to shorten the time. โ€

Situ Wei shrugged her shoulders and didn't say anything about the way her aunt and wife got along, just continued, "So...... We suspect that there seems to be some conspiracy hatched by that force, but we are in the shadows, and we really don't know how to guard against it. โ€

Mu Lingyu patted his chest confidently, "Don't worry, eldest sister, this matter will be left to me!" โ€

Situ Wei was silent for a moment, "I mean--let you stay in the villa honestly lately, and don't come out and be naughty at will." โ€

Mu Lingyu: "......"

Listening to the laughter coming from inside the room, even if he was thinking about the power of the official, he couldn't help but have a deep smile in his dark eyes.

I didn't expect that there was such an intelligence force in the shadows of Muyan Villa, and they were all led by women.

- But if you think of the sturdy lady Situ Ruyi, it seems that you can quickly understand it.

Qi Guan Gu couldn't help but recall the scene of the heroic and domineering woman in her red dress chasing her husband with a long whip in her hand, and a few drops of cold sweat couldn't help but flow from the back of her head.

But if Miss Mu ......

The man's eyes couldn't help but appear in front of the girl's long whip yesterday, the arrogant and seductive look of the girl throwing the long whip, and a certain part of the lower abdomen suddenly tightened, and he almost reacted again.

No, no, no, now I should be thinking about the conspiracy lurking beside me-how can Miss Mu's eyes be so exciting when she looks at people-Wait a minute, why do you think of this again, think about the identity of that group of killers, the token about that unique pattern--if it weren't for today's accident, he should be able to be "treated" by the eldest lady again in the morning, right?

Qi Guan Gu: "......"

Finding that he had come around again, the man scratched his hair in annoyance, and an impetuous feeling appeared in his heart.

"Okay, okay, I know, you're so annoying!"

There was a sudden movement of moving chairs in the room, and Qi Guan Gu suppressed the impulse in his heart, looked left and right, and jumped on the beam of the room on the side with a slight footstep.

As soon as the man flew up, the door was suddenly pulled open vigorously, and then Mu Lingyu's angry figure came out.

Qi Guan Gu suddenly thought that the girl had asked him to wait at the entrance of the alley, and his heart tightened, so he turned over and stepped on the eaves, and then made a few vertical leaps and rushed towards the entrance of the alley in a diameter route.

Simply, Qi Guan Gu still fell in front of the carriage before Mu Lingyu arrived, because of his deep internal strength, even if he used light skills for so long, his face was still not red and he was not panting, and Mu Lingyu naturally didn't notice that the man had actually just arrived here.

"Miss, are you okay?" Qi Guan Gu restrained his feelings, looked worried, and asked worriedly, "Seeing that your face is not very good, are you sick?" โ€

"It's nothing, let's go." Mu Lingyu quickly lowered his face again, coldly dropped such a sentence, and turned over into the carriage.

Qi Guan Gu knew what she was angry about, and couldn't help but shake her head a little funny, why did she think that such an awkward Mu girl was actually quite cute?

"So where are we going now?" He turned his head and asked softly, in a low voice.

"Didn't you say it, Chu Yi Pavilion!"

Soon, an impatient voice came from the curtain of the car, commanding and domineering.

Do you really want to go to Chu Yi Pavilion? Qi Guan Gu frowned, and he couldn't figure out what Mu Lingyu could do as a girl in a place like Qinglou.

Although I often go there......

"Why are you still standing still!" Mu Lingyu lifted the curtain, and clusters of flames burned in her bright black eyes, making her appear even brighter and more dazzling, "Are you stupid?" โ€

"Okay, let's go now." The corners of Guan Gu's lips flashed with a playful smile, and his face was full of cynicism, "I just didn't expect the eldest lady to be interested in that kind of place, so I was accidentally stunned for a moment." โ€

Mu Lingyu looked at him coldly, "What, why can't I be interested in Qinglou?" Is it normal that you men can only go? โ€

Qinglou this kind of love. Lust and joy field, of course, it is normal for men to go.

Qi Guan Gu thought so, but his face was very knowledgeable and did not show the slightest flaw, he touched his nose and shook his head good-naturedly.

"Then stop talking nonsense and go there now!" Mu Lingyu gave him a roll of the eyes, snorted coldly, threw down the curtain, and returned to his seat.

This girl looks angry, it's really like eating a cannonball, and she will blow up at one point.

Qi Guan Gu shook his head helplessly, and drove the carriage forward.

Chu Yi Pavilion is actually very close to Qingli Lane, just about a street away, so they soon arrived at this Qinglou.

Mu Lingyu jumped out of the carriage, sorted out his suits, and walked into the Chu Yi Pavilion with familiarity, leaving only Qi Guan Gu, who was waiting to arrange the carriage, standing in place a little dumbfounded.

Miss Mu, how do you feel very skilled?

"What are you doing there, why don't you come in quickly?" Soon, Mu Lingyu, who found that the man behind him had not followed, walked out again, holding his arms and looking at the unresponsive man with some disgust.

Qi Guan Gu came back to his senses and hurriedly chased after him.

"Young Master Mu, we are late in the Qing Dynasty, we have been waiting for you in the morning~" When the old bustard saw that it was a distinguished guest, a smile on his face immediately turned into a chrysanthemum, "I was still talking just now, why didn't you come yet, Young Master Mu!" โ€

Qi Guan Gu: "......" late Qing Dynasty, it won't be the famous Qing girl in Chu Yi Pavilion, right?

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Mu Lingyu's lips, and he casually threw her a silver tael, "Is she in the room in the late Qing Dynasty?" โ€

"Ouch, of course!" The old bustard picked up the silver with satisfaction, and smiled flatteringly, "We have always pretended to be Young Master Mu in our late Qing hearts, no, as soon as I saw the beginning of the month, I immediately dressed up in the morning, and waited for you in the room~"

So Qi Guan Gu looked at the girl who was dressed in heroic men's clothes, and looked at a room on the second floor and suddenly softened his eyes, and the gentle and soft look was like looking at the person he liked, which made the man unconsciously a little stunned.

He had been by her side for so long, and it seemed that he had never seen Miss Mu's tender appearance......

Qi Guan Gu suddenly felt a strange and inexplicable feeling in his heart, which made his heart a little sore.

"Official, do you go up with me, or yourself-" Mu Lingyu suddenly turned his head and cast a meaningful gaze on the old bustard, with a hintive look.

Qi Guan Gu didn't show his empathetic and amorous side this time, but just stubbornly rejected her later mentions, and then said, "I'd better follow you up." โ€

Mu Lingyu: "......"

He looked at the girl and glared at him helplessly, but he still compromised and took himself upstairs, and a little joy rose in his heart.

"Young Master Mu......" As soon as he pushed the door open, Qi Guan Gu heard a clear and beautiful voice with joy, and his heart moved, and he couldn't help but raise his eyes and carefully look at the elegant woman who greeted him.

If it was before, such a woman was indeed very much in line with his taste, but at this time, ......

Qi Guan Gu frowned, how do you think this girl from the late Qing Dynasty feels so awkward no matter how you look at it?

"Young Master Mu, ...... this?" As soon as he walked over, he saw the man who walked out from behind Mu Lingyu and was looking at him inquiringly, Wanqing couldn't help but be stunned, and his beautiful eyes looked at Mu Lingyu inquiringly with a little incredulity.

Mu Lingyu secretly twitched the man who was standing straight in front of him with his whip tail and couldn't look at people's eyes, and only after feeling his body tense up suddenly, did he raise his foot and kick him aside with a smile.

"Leave him alone, it's just the little guy I brought." Mu Lingyu casually introduced a sentence, and then looked at Wan Qing with a soft expression, "How are you doing lately, no one bullied you, right?" โ€

Late Qing stole a glance at a man with a not very good-looking face, such a gentle and uninhibited man like a noble son, just a small guy?

But soon, Wan Qing was attracted by the gentle whisper of the handsome young man, and blushed slightly, "How can there always be so many people who want to bully me, Young Master Mu is really ...... If you don't have a play, you have to ask that. โ€

In the end, he also brought a coquettish anger that can make people listen to the crispy bones.

In this regard, Mu Lingyu replied with a disapproving look, "That's good, I'm not afraid that someone will covet your beauty and have bad intentions?" โ€

"Young Master Mu...... Do you also think that the late Qing Dynasty is beautiful? โ€

Wan Qing hung her head shyly, but the corners of her lips couldn't help but smile with joy, and she was a little irritable when she saw Qi Guan Gu.

So the man watched the two silently and chatted for a long time, and then Mu Lingyu seemed to finally remember that there was another person in the room and looked up at him.

Qi Guan Gu immediately looked at her with blazing eyes.

Miss Mu inexplicably remembered the large dogs raised in the villa, whenever it was time to feed, they would always look at the owner like this, unconsciously with a slight flattery.

"Are you bored, then you-"

"Shall we leave?" Qi Guan Gu naturally took over the conversation, and looked forward to seeing her very "understandingly".

Mu Lingyu: "......" go out for a while.

In the end, Mu Lingyu still reluctantly compromised. She gently promised Wanqing that she would come to see her next month, and then in Wanqing's lost gaze, she left the Chu Yi Pavilion with Qi Guan Gu.

"Late Qing is actually the daughter of the housekeeper of Muyan Villa."

I don't know how long it took, Qi Guan Gu, who was driving the carriage, suddenly heard a cold voice from inside.

Qi Guan Gu was stunned.

Before he could react, Mu Lingyu had already lifted the curtain and sat beside him. The young man turned his head to look at her soft side face, and his heartstrings seemed to be suddenly tugged, bringing a little shock.

"Uncle Butler made a mistake and is gone." Mu Lingyu's chin rested on her bent knee, her eyes were a little confused, as if she was recalling something, "Wanqing was discovered by her mother, she felt that Wanqing was somewhat similar to the housekeeper's uncle between her eyebrows and eyes, so she deliberately checked under suspicion, and found that she was indeed a housekeeper and a father-daughter relationship." โ€

"She doesn't know anything. I wanted to see her, but I didn't know how to get there, so I came up with this method. Then it seemed to be a habit, and every month at the beginning of the month, I would come to see her. โ€

This girl really looks arrogant and domineering, but in fact, her heart is soft and messy. Qi Guan's eyebrows softened, he boldly stretched out his hand, and then tentatively approached the girl's shoulder gently.

Mu Lingyu turned his head and glanced at him, but he didn't stop him, but generously pressed his head on his shoulder, "Borrow me for a while, you can't look at people's eyes." โ€

Qi Guan Gu Zi didn't know how soft his expression was at this time, he carried the gentleness that seemed to be able to drip water, and his arm finally fell gently on the girl's shoulder.

"That's not your fault, you've done a good job." He whispered a low reassurance.

However, Miss Mu didn't play her cards according to common sense at all, not only did she not show a moving expression as he thought, but she also pushed him hard.

"Who said it was my fault, you think too much!" Mu Lingyu snorted coldly and said with a sneer.

Qi Guan Gu: "......"

The girl sat up, her dark phoenix eyes squinted at him arrogantly, and she counted in disgust, "Are you stupid thinking so much, don't you go quickly, don't you notice that the carriage has stopped?" โ€

That's also scared by your aunt and grandmother.

The official Gu Quan couldn't help but roll his eyes, and then reluctantly raised his horsewhip again.

"Speaking of which, I feel like I missed this morning's morning exercise." Mu Lingyu put his elbows on his knees, held his chin and said thoughtfully, "Official, have you waited for me in the morning exercise ground?" โ€

Qi Guan Gu's hand stiffened slightly as he held the horsewhip, and he felt that his palm began to get hot, and he was about to lose control of the long whip, and the tips of his ears began to turn red, and then spread to the earlobes, dyeing a large area of red.

"Hey, did you hear me?" Seeing that the man suddenly lowered his head and was silent, Mu Lingyu couldn't help but push him with his elbow and asked impatiently.

"Hmm, uh-huh......" Qi Guan Gu replied vaguely twice, and the words behind were much clearer, "Later, Miss Hongfei stopped me. โ€

"Oh, that's when I got a message out of the blue." Mu Lingyu's explanation was also very ambiguous, but the official Gu who followed the girl to know what had happened was indeed clear in his heart, "Just forget about that incident and continue tomorrow." โ€

Qi Guan's lips moved, not knowing whether he wanted to refuse or couldn't wait, and finally nodded invisibly.

"Speaking of which, Officer." The handsome girl dressed in men's clothes was silent for a moment, and suddenly looked at him seriously, "You say, if someone hides a very important secret that may be life-threatening, what will he do first?" โ€

Qi Guan Gu raised her eyebrows, and suddenly understood what she wanted to ask, "If it were an ordinary person, probably would try to hide in every possible way, right?" โ€

Mu Lingyu persistently asked, "Then if it's not an ordinary person, maybe that person still has some power, maybe it's rich?" โ€

The man thought for a few seconds, and then showed a calm and playful smile again, "Then naturally you have to recruit some more powerful friends or guards to protect your own safety." โ€

"So he found his father...... "The girl murmured thoughtfully, "but he didn't seem to agree?" It's impossible, if it's a father, it's impossible for a friend to be indifferent. โ€

"Maybe that person didn't explain the situation at all?" Qi Guan Gu didn't think so, he analyzed with a smile in his dark eyes, "Maybe he was too timid to say it, but he just vaguely asked the owner of Mu Zhuang to help him, and your father may not have heard what he meant, maybe he didn't have time, so he sent him out of the manor directly." "After all, Master Mu Zhuang is the kind of person who is upright and doesn't know how to be flexible.

Mu Lingyu thought about it as he imagined, and suddenly felt that this was really very possible......

"At that time, my father happened to be having an awkward relationship with my mother, and my father was the kind of person who didn't think much about it, so it was really possible that it was the truth if I didn't hear it!" Mu Lingyu, who firmly believed that his father was not the kind of person who would not be saved when he saw death, his eyes suddenly lit up, "That's why Dad will go out of the village to find out the truth after learning that Gongsun Ying died!" โ€

"Gongsun wins?" Qi Guan Gu deliberately showed a puzzled look on his face and tilted his head to look.

"It's the one who looks very ugly-" The girl remembered that he shouldn't know about it, and couldn't help but explain, and was afraid that the man would not have an impression of Gongsun Ying, so she specially stated what her appearance was, "It is said that Gongsun Ying, the richest businessman." โ€

"Isn't Gongsun Ying dead?"

Qi Guan Gu listened to the key points described by the girl, and couldn't help but laugh secretly in his heart, and then revealed to her that he also knew.

"How did you know he was dead?"

Sure enough, hearing the girl's questioning question, an uninhibited smile appeared on the corner of the man's lips, but he said modestly, "Although it is rumored that he is just missing, he is also a person with some power, and he has made a lot of friends in the rivers and lakes, so he knows some โ–กโ–ก." โ€

It's a pity that Mu Lingyu didn't care how graceful he looked at at him at all, but looked at him suspiciously with beautiful eyes, "Force, it won't be some kind of thief's business, right?" โ€

Qi Guan Gu: "......" actually forgot that there was still a suspicion of a little thief.

"Forget it, it's not the time to dwell on this." Just when Qi Guan Gu was worried about how to explain, Mu Lingyu suddenly changed the topic, "Do you know how he died?" โ€

"About two months ago on the night, he was hunted down by unknown forces, and finally died in the Lingyin Temple."

Qi Guan Gu was entangled for a while, but he still decisively threw away this black history, and then answered patiently for her.

"I have a friend who has some friendship with Gongsun Ying, and he asked me to investigate the cause of Gongsun Ying's death, but before I started to act, I was targeted by a group of men in black."

"The skills of those black-clothed people are comparable to the Tsing Yi Pavilion killers, and the only clue is that I unintentionally got this from them."

As he spoke, Qi Guan Gu took out a token wrapped in a white silk handkerchief from his arms, although the shape was a little different, but the unique pattern carved on it was exactly the same as the token Xu Yinyin took out.

"This is the same token that the second sister got." Obviously, Mu Lingyu also discovered this problem, but then he was immediately attracted by somewhere else, "Hey, whose handkerchief is it?" โ€

Gu Yuguang looked at it, and was suddenly stunned, and suddenly felt a little inexplicable panic in his heart. How could you forget this?

The handkerchief was given to him by a girl he had met in Pingshui before, and he didn't think much about it because he thought the style was quite chic, so he stuffed it into his arms, and then he was chased and killed, and then he wrapped the token with this handkerchief, and completely forgot about the handkerchief.

"This, this ......" the man stammered suddenly, not knowing how to explain it.

He couldn't tell why he was a little weak under the girl's questioning, and the previous tongue lotus couldn't be used at all, so he could only keep stuttering.

Mu Lingyu's eyes rolled and asked suspiciously, "It can't be stolen, right?" โ€

"Are you a pervert, steal everything." Seeing the man laughing awkwardly, she couldn't help but roll her eyes, and then quickly changed her face and praised, "But even the token can be stolen, and you have it." โ€

Qi Guan Gu: "......" It's best to remain silent at this time.

"It's a good thing it wasn't someone else, otherwise you'd have to check if that person has any purpose for you."

Then, immediately after that, the girl's casual words immediately made him grim.

"Why?"

"Huh? Because it's sprinkled with soul incense. Mu Lingyu shrugged, "But don't listen to the name is scary, it's actually a spice used to track, and my mother used to use this to locate my location." โ€

"So when I was a kid, I was always caught by her, all because of this fragrance." The girl murmured in a low voice of indignation.

"Used to track ......"

Countless thoughts instantly crossed through Qi Guan Gu's mind, and the picture of the beautiful girl in green when she took out her handkerchief came to mind. The reluctant expression she showed when she faced herself, her big tearful eyes and her delicate snow-white wrists.

"The slave family doesn't want the young man to be able to carry it with him all the time, but even if he can use it on the road for a few more days, and then look at it and think of the slave family, it's good."

He thought of the group of killers who were in hot pursuit after going out, no matter how he disguised and hid, he could be accurately found hiding, although at that time he only suspected that the group of forces had any special way to identify the disguise, if it was because of this handkerchief, it seemed to be easy to understand......

Qi Guan Gu's mind instantly crossed countless complicated pictures.

Gongsun Ying's death, a friend suddenly visited for help, and the handkerchief of the green-clothed girl who met in Pingshui was comparable to the unknown force of the killer of Tsing Yi Pavilion, Muyan Villa......

It seems that these trivial threads can be strung together immediately, but the most important point is missing. Qi Guan Gu frowned, what is it?

"Hey, Qi Guan Gu." Mu Lingyu, who didn't know what he was thinking, patted him on the shoulder with great interest, "Let's go and find out what temple Gongsun Ying, maybe we can find something!" โ€

"Lingyin Temple?" Qi Guan Gu was stunned, "We? โ€

Mu Lingyu was straightforward, "Yes, otherwise would you let me go alone?" Are you a big man still scared? โ€

Qi Guan Gu: "...... "I mean you shouldn't go, Miss!"