Mahogany tables and chairs glow with a warm sheen, smoke curls from the animal's head incense burner, and a screen rendering poppies separates the elegantly furnished small hall.

Outside the screen stood a tall, thin young man, dressed in a black kimono with a red edge, and a long sword hanging from his waist, giving people a cold and dangerous feeling.

The man heard the slight collision of the tea cup placed on the table from inside, and bowed down and said, "Altar master, this month, I still sent the people below to explore and buy in various large and small pharmacies, but they didn't find the rare medicinal materials they needed; There is a person who went to Baoningtang to sell the antidote pill, and the sable has captured it back to the main altar, it is said that he is a master who is good at preparing Gu poison, and he was once a witch doctor in the slang village. ”

"What a master, so many people have been caught, and it's all rubbish." A man in the screen said in a cold voice, "Xinrentang was copied by Ling Yi's people yesterday? ”

"Yes. His subordinates have punished Zhang De's negligence and ordered all his subordinates to be vigilant and take this as a warning to prevent similar things from happening again. The tall and thin man replied.

"This Ling Yi is a character." But the lord of the altar said, and heard no joy or anger. After a moment, he asked again, "How many little girls did Yong'an County get this month?" ”

"Returning to the altar master, his subordinates have never slackened, and the number of people who have gained is not less than half a hundred."

"Okay." The man's voice in the screen softened slightly, "But it's still not enough, let the bottom hold on." ”

The tall and thin man replied respectfully, "Yes, altar master." ”

"Isn't it determined that the seal on the golden hairpin last time is the mark of the Yue Di royal family after it is restored? Have you found out the source of the hairpin? ”

"The subordinates are incompetent, and the guy in the silver building only roughly remembers that it was brought by a man, and the rest have no impression. His subordinates are doing their best to find him. The tall and thin young man bowed his head and said humbly.

"Keep an eye on the pawnshops of the major silver buildings in Yong'an County, and if there is something like that, you can find it immediately. The Su family's vein will be poisonous, and the pharmacy or something has to be watched. You are also an old man in the Yuezhou Branch, don't know how to do it after saying everything! ”

"My subordinates have ordered me to go down."

"That's pretty much it. Also, the owner of the door has an order to step up the search for people who understand drugs and are good at medicine, remember to have real skills, and don't pull back any straw bales and waste materials, so that I will lose face in Yuezhou. The man seemed to be angry, "There are also people related to the Su clan who are secretly investigated, and they can't find out the people if they have clues, so what's the use of waiting?" ”

"If the subordinates are guilty, they will be strictly investigated and visited, and the merits will be remedied." The tall and thin man bent his waist even lower and said.

"Go ahead, let the red letter in."

The tall and thin man stepped back, walked out of the flower hall quickly, and said a few words to the short and sturdy middle-aged man standing under the door, and the man opened the curtain and entered. The tall and thin man turned to leave, and after a few steps, he met the two of them in the cloister. A chubby and amiable man in her thirties and a wrinkled, short, stiff and messy old woman.

The old woman had a toothless mouth, a dumb and strange laugh, and her voice was as ugly as that of a night owl: "Quack, five-step snake, have you gone to listen to the training again?" How many people have you lost this month? You simply poisoned the General's Mansion, and I can't stand it anymore. ”

"Do you think that the house is full of dead people?" The tall and thin man stopped, his eyes were gloomy, and he said coldly, "If that's the case, instead of chewing maggots and talking cool things here, it's better to bring the people from Jiaozhou County to rush over and destroy the General's Mansion and take credit." Or have you been trained too much by the Lord in the past few months, and your brain is broken? Do you want me to heal you? ”

The white fat man next to him saw that the old woman didn't take care of her own affairs, and went to provoke the five-step snake to humiliate herself, and said with a smile: "I got a recipe from the black widow/woman this morning, it's a bit interesting, this time Bai Shizhen found a rare talent." If the altar master knew that Yong'an County had such a person, Brother Snake could also grow his face. ”

The two of them snorted coldly and stopped talking, and turned their heads to look.

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The western sky is reflected red by the afterglow of the setting sun, and the flowing clouds are dyed with shades of crimson, inlaid with gilded edges, which looks extremely gorgeous. The ground was covered with the glow of the sunset.

Xiao Yucheng and Xiao Yu set the table in the courtyard, brought stools, and brought the dishes one after another. After a while, Xiao Pei also came out of the kitchen with dishes and chopsticks, and the three of them sat down at the table and began to eat dinner.

Dinner was very hearty, with jade wild vegetable cakes, soybean stewed pig's trotters, steamed hibiscus fish and vegetarian stir-fried shepherd's cabbage. It was rare to enter the city, and they sold a lot of silver, so the two of them bought pork legs and meat by the way and came back to add vegetables.

Xiao Pei looked at Xiao Yucheng and said, "Slow down, no one will rob you." You two buy so much at once, how can you eat it all? Carefully broken. ”

"Most of the ones I bought are bacon and dried tofu, which can be left for a while." Xiao Yu said, remembering it, he handed a small bag of silver to Xiao Pei, "This is twenty-five taels of silver, and in the future, the money in the family will be managed by Sister A, Yucheng, you have no opinion, right?" ”

"Nope." Xiao Yucheng said.

"Did Ah Yu earn this money, or did you keep it?" Xiao Pei refused. Xiao Yu shook his head: "I'm impatient to take care of the accounts, or let Yucheng be responsible." ”

"It's better for Sister A." Hearing this, Xiao Yucheng hurriedly waved his hand and said.

Xiao Pei was not at ease, so he took the money with a little hesitation, and said, "Then I'll take it first, and Ah Yu will say if you want to use the money." ”

The three of them continued to eat while talking about the things of their parents.

Xiao Yu thought of one thing and said, "Today, the General's Mansion raided that medicine shop seems to have a lot of medicinal materials, I don't know if I sell them or not?" If it's cheap, you can ask Hao Jun to help buy some. ”

"The General's Mansion raided the pharmacy? It's not because you're selling counterfeit medicines, are you? If this is the case, then the herbs will not be used. Xiao Pei said.

Xiao Yucheng told him about meeting Hao Jun in the city.

"How can those black-hearted thieves do some things that hurt heaven and reason, and they are not afraid of being thundered by retribution." Xiao Peixu remembered his own experience, and his face was a little unsightly.

Seeing this, Xiao Yu sighed in his heart, if he was afraid of being struck by lightning, how could there be bad people in this world?

Xiao Yucheng heard Hao Jun talk about the recent disappearance of the girl in the city this time, and knew that now those gangsters are becoming more and more unscrupulous, and the general's mansion is planning how to smash the nest to wipe it out, and everyone in the army in the mansion has no time to separate.

This poisonous sect is not the official name of this force, but because these people are good at using poison/medicine and are vicious, they use it for the convenience of talking, and it has become its fixed title after coming and going.

"How can such inhuman brutes be afraid of retribution?" Xiao Yucheng said angrily, "It's long been lawless." Yesterday, I heard Brother Hao Jun say that he knew more about the Great General's Mansion, this poisonous sect is extremely powerful, almost all over Kyushu, not only Yong'an County has such a thing, but there have also been many young girls in Jingchu who are adjacent to Yue Di Recently, there have been many girls who have suddenly disappeared at home. Even the capital has its own people, but it is not as bold as in Yuedi to break into the house late at night to arrest people, but to go to the street to abduct and deceive, if it were not for the fact that many girls in the capital have been abducted in the past six months, it is unusual, and the government has not suspected it. It is said that when the saint heard about this, Long Yan was furious and ordered a thorough investigation. ”

"Yuezhou has long started to investigate and suppress, but it has still not been eradicated, which shows its cunning. Speaking of which, there are so many girls who have been blatantly entered the house and robbed in Yuedi, and I don't know how many have been abducted in secret. Xiao Yu said, and couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.

Xiao Pei also shuddered: "What didn't the General's Mansion find?" ”

Brother Hao Jun mentioned that now Yong'an County has also implemented a curfew, and sent sergeants to patrol everywhere, and stepped up the inspection of guards entering and exiting the city gate, and strictly arrested suspicious people. In addition, there are teenage girls in the city. Several dens of the poison gate have also been eliminated, but their nests are well hidden and difficult to uproot. As mentioned before, the poison gate is insidious and cunning, and its whereabouts are secretive. ”

Xiao Yu asked: "When I was young, I never heard of such a villain, when did this poisonous door start to come out to harm people?" ”

"It's only been in the last one or two years that I've heard about it." Xiao Pei recalled, "At the beginning, the Chen family was also very panicked and took strict precautions every night, but the county town has always been fine, but there are occasional cases in remote townships and counties in the south, and gradually they don't care about it." But since the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Yong'an County disappeared in the middle of the night this year, such things have happened repeatedly in the city. ”

Saying that, Xiao Pei couldn't help but think of his poisoning again, shuddered, and said, "This poison door is terrible. ”

Xiao Yu nodded in agreement, and then fell into deep thought. This poisonous door broke into the house and robbed, and it was said that so many people were arrested to test poison and refine medicine, and they also picked young girls, which is really rampant and perverted. I don't know what kind of psychology it was to do such a heinous thing.