It's the end of winter, Qiu Jingxuan has long been closed, and there is a faint fragrance of tea wafting out of the place where there should be no one, and even the figure can be seen floating in the box on the corner of the second floor, but in this kind of remote place, it is cold time, but no one will find this anomaly.

After a while, I saw a horse appear on the official road, the person on the horse was Shu Heng, soon he arrived at the door of Qiu Jingxuan, he quickly got off the horse and knocked three times at the door, and immediately someone opened the door for him, and the person who came to open the door was Qiu Jingxuan's shopkeeper, seeing Shu Heng immediately respectfully welcomed him in, as soon as Shu Heng entered, the shopkeeper quickly closed the door.

"Master Hou, the prince has been waiting for a long time."

Hearing this, Shu Heng nodded and went up the stairs, while the shopkeeper consciously stayed downstairs.

Shu Heng pushed open the door and saw Xu Yifan sitting helplessly at the table playing with the teacup, and when he saw Shu Heng coming in, he said with a dissatisfied face: "Shu Heng, how can I say that I am also helping you do things, can't you come early!" ”

Shu Heng pulled out a chair at random and sat on it, ignoring Xu Yifan's complaints at all, and asked directly, "Have you found someone?" ”

Xu Yifan shrugged his nose indignantly before saying, "Did you find it?" Look what you say! With such a young master, I am also working in the yamen, and I still have the ability to find two people. ”

Shu Heng raised his eyebrows: "What about that person?" ”

Xu Yifan rolled his eyes and touched the bridge of his nose: "That, in the morgue of the Yamen." As soon as he finished speaking, Xu Yifan hurriedly added, "It's not that I'm not doing things well, it's that you gave me too few clues, and when I found that person, I pretended to say that he had been dead for two or three days." ”

Shu Heng lowered his eyes, three days ago, wasn't it the day after Chen Yushi joined him, he obviously used the fastest way to pry open Chen Yushi's mouth, but he didn't expect it to be late, sure enough, the other party was ruthless enough, and he would kill people as soon as he used it, but fortunately, Chen Yushi was an official of the imperial court, and they didn't dare to move for the time being.

"I'd like to check it out." After pondering for a moment, Shu Heng said.

Xu Yifan smiled and said, "I have already checked for you, there is nothing on those two people, and they are all stabbed throats." Speaking of this, Xu Yifan looked at Shu Heng with unprecedented seriousness in his eyes, "Your opponent this time is not simple, you must not be careless." ”

Shu Heng nodded, thinking about what to do next.

Seeing this, Xu Yifan suddenly took out two picture scrolls: "Don't be embarrassed, I asked you to describe the appearance of the two of them, take these two picture scrolls, you should be useful." ”

Shu Heng took the scroll, thanked him and turned around and walked out of the house, Xu Yifan saw this and shouted: "Eh, I did you such a big favor, didn't you even give me a thank you gift?" I've coveted your twenty-year-old daughter for a long time. ”

"Don't even think about it." A cold voice came from the hallway.

When Xu Yifan left later, he couldn't help but complain to the shopkeeper: "Your master is also a little ruthless, and he will tear down the bridge when he crosses the river, and he doesn't want to think that I gave up the warm quilt to help him find people everywhere on this cold day, and in the end he didn't even have a thank you gift." ”

Xu Yifan is not the first time to come here, the shopkeeper also understands his temper, knows that he is just talking verbally, not really complaining about Shu Heng, after helping Xu Yifan into the carriage, the shopkeeper slowly took out a jar of wine, handed it to Xu Yifan's groom, and said: "This is the wine that the master ordered me to hand over to the son, it is the daughter of twenty years." ”

As soon as Xu Yifan heard this, he hurriedly asked the groom to hand it to him, and as soon as he opened it, the aroma of the wine overflowed, Xu Yifan showed a bright smile, it seems that Shu Heng is still very interesting.

After Shu Heng returned to the Zhongyi Marquis Mansion, he did not go back to the Evergreen Hall, but went directly to the study and called Shu Qing.

"Take the portraits of those two people and check if they have been in and out of the gambling house recently." As soon as Shu Qing arrived, Shu Heng commanded.

Shu Qing took the scroll, hesitated a little, and asked, "Why only investigate these places, and don't you need to check other places?" ”

"No need." Shu Heng replied affirmatively, "People who can be easily bought and are not easy to find out if something happens, except for the ruffians and hooligans, I can't think of any other possibilities, if you want to check the clues of the ruffians and hooligans, naturally go to this kind of place to check, and the clues will come the fastest." ”

Shu Qing nodded approvingly and withdrew.

After Shu Qing left, Shu Heng also returned to the Evergreen Hall, but was told by Ning Xi that Ning Xi was invited into the palace by the Queen Mother, Shu Heng frowned, not at ease, and turned around and walked out of the Evergreen Hall.

And at this moment, Ning Xi, who was summoned to the palace by the Queen Mother, was following behind the palace maid who led the way, and the more he walked, the more strange he felt in his heart, and finally couldn't help asking: "You are on the wrong path, this is not the way to Yanshou Palace." ”

The palace maid turned around and smiled slightly, and explained: "This is a shortcut, the queen mother is anxious to see you, so the slave maid will take you this road." ”

Hearing this, Ning Xi nodded with a smile, as if believing the palace maid's words, the palace maid turned behind her and breathed a sigh of relief faintly. Unexpectedly, before she had walked a few steps, she heard Ning Xi screaming behind her, and the palace maid hurriedly turned around to look, but saw Ning Xi looking at her feet with a sad face.

"County Lord, what's wrong?" The palace maid hurriedly asked.

Ning Xi replied a little embarrassedly: "Just now you said that the Queen Mother was in a hurry to see me, so I wanted to walk faster, but I accidentally sprained my foot, and it seems that I can't walk." ”

The palace maid bit her lip and seemed to be in a hurry: "Then what should I do." Then he asked a little tentatively, "County Lord, can't you really go, the slave means, can you still hold on for a while?" ”

Ning Xi shook his head and said, "Don't be afraid, I'll let Erui explain the situation on my side to the Queen Mother, and I won't let the Queen Mother punish you." ”

"No, no." As soon as Ning Xi's words fell, the palace maid hurriedly refused, and after speaking, seeing Ning Xi staring at her strangely, she hurriedly explained: "What the slave means is that there is no need to trouble the sisters for this kind of trivial matter, just go and report to the queen mother." ”

Ning Xi retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "Thank you for your hard work, go quickly." ”

The palace maid smiled reluctantly and left a little reluctantly.

As soon as the palace maid walked away, Shu Qing said: "This palace maid is really strange. Erui nodded in agreement.

Ning Xi instructed Erui: "If you go to the Empress Dowager's palace, you will say that I have broken my foot and can't go to her old man's house to say goodbye, and I will go to the palace next time to apologize to her old man." ”

Erui twisted her eyebrows: "Don't you need to talk about this palace maid today?" ”

"No need, just tell the Queen Mother this, she will understand, you go quickly, I will wait for you at the palace gate."

Erui bowed her head and hurriedly walked towards Yanshou Palace, Ning Xi and Shu Qing also rushed to the palace gate, but after walking for a while, the corner of Ning Xi's eyes twitched: "Shu Qing, do you know where this is?" ”

Shu Qing was stunned: "This is the first time that the slave maid has entered the palace, so naturally I don't know." ”

Knowing that this was the case, Ning Xi buried her head in annoyance, she shouldn't have chosen to take her into the palace because Shu Qing knew martial arts, if it was now that Tanqing or Cuiluo were by her side, at least they wouldn't get lost.

Seeing Ning Xi's sad face, Shu Qing asked uncertainly, "Madam, are you lost?" ”

Ning Xi sighed: "I said no, do you believe it?" ”

Shu Qing thought about it very seriously, and then shook his head.

"Find your way." Ning Xi's mood was a little sluggish, she looked around, her eyes slowly brightened, how to look at it, how did she feel that this road was a little familiar, she seemed to have been here, Ning Xi couldn't help but look at it seriously, the same desolate palace, the same road overgrown with weeds, and the same palace people could not be seen everywhere, Ning Xi swallowed her saliva, she was sure that she had really been here, wasn't this the place where she met a ghost last time? Why is she so unlucky, she can come to such a remote place twice by mistake Ning Xi hurriedly turned around, and while walking in the opposite direction, she silently thought in her heart that she would not meet again this time, never again.

It's a pity that the sky doesn't fulfill people's wishes, Ning Xi thought like this, and a voice sounded behind him: "Girl, please stop." ”

When Ning Xi heard this, goosebumps rose, and the pace under her feet couldn't help but speed up, however, Ning Xi forgot that she was not the only one this time, and she also had a heartless Shu Qing by her side.

Shu Qing saw that Ning Xi was walking faster and faster, thinking that Ning Xi hadn't heard someone calling her, so she couldn't help grabbing Ning Xi's sleeve: "Madam, someone is calling us." ”

The corners of Ning Xi's mouth twitched: "You must have heard it wrong, where is the person from here, let's get out of here quickly." ”

"Girl, please wait a minute." As soon as Ning Xi's words fell, a voice sounded behind him, Shu Qing looked at it, I just said that someone was telling us to stare at Ning Xi.

The green tendons on Ning Xi's forehead jumped, and he gritted his teeth and said, "It's really no one!" We all heard it wrong. ”

Shu Qing naturally didn't know what Ning Xi was afraid of, so he dragged Ning Xi back: "Madam, aren't we lost, it's good to ask for directions." ”

Soon Ning Xi was dragged by Shu Qing to the door of a palace, Shu Qing turned his head to look at Ning Xi, but saw Ning Xi's eyes closed, Shu Qing frowned: "Madam, why do you close your eyes." ”

Ning Xi still closed his eyes and said, "Shu Qing, there is nothing strange in front of you." ”

Shu Qing looked around and returned: "No." ”

Ning Xi put her mind at ease, and was about to open her eyes, when she heard a familiar laughter, which was the voice that had been calling her before, Ning Xi couldn't help but grab Shu Qing's hand: "Didn't you say that there was nothing strange?" ”

Shu Qing nodded: "There really is nothing strange." "The man standing in front of me isn't something strange.

"What's the laughter just now?"

As soon as Ning Xi's voice fell, the previous laughter was louder, Ning Xi only felt a chill down her spine, she shouldn't have really touched anything filthy.

"Don't be afraid, girl, I'm not a wronged soul, I'm a person who lives in the Anran Palace."

The voice sounded again just now, hearing this, Ning Xi struggled for a moment, and then slowly opened her eyes, and saw a woman standing in front of her, dressed in a plain shirt, delicate-looking, and slightly short, who looked about the same age as Shu's mother, she was standing at the door of a palace, because there was a large vat at the door, blocking her body, Ning Xi would mistakenly believe that something filthy was doing. (.)