- It was only after that person's rebuke that she finally woke up completely from her illusions and confusion.

"I'm ......," Qiang bit her lip. Whispered: "I overheard it." ”

After digging out a stack of papers from the drawer of the desk and placing it on the table, Cen Chi raised his head and glanced at Xiao Qiang, noticing that her fingers were twisted a little nervously, he eased his tone, and said: "In the Prime Minister's Mansion, there are many news that you are not suitable to listen to, even if you are unintentional. Fortunately, what you have just heard is irrelevant, and if there is a situation like today, you must remind yourself to avoid it immediately. ”

"Yes." Xiao Qiang hurriedly responded. She felt that there was a sense of care in Cen Chi's words. Whether he intended it or not. She'll be happy to hear it, too. So at the end, she said thank you again: "Thank you, sir." ”

Cen Chi didn't say anything more, only took the pen and ink on the table, and grabbed a few blank pieces of paper. The mess is about to go out.

Seeing this, Xiao Qiang couldn't help but ask, "Sir, do you want the maid to help?" ”

Cen Chi, who had already walked to the door, was stunned, and after thinking about it, he said: "I may be very busy in the afternoon, it is a matter entrusted by Shi Gongzi, you prepare some refreshments, and then rest!" ”

"Yes." Xiao Qiang lowered her head in response, and when she raised her head again, Cen Chi was gone.

Walking to the desk to clean up the desktop that had been messed up by Cen Chi just now, Xiao Qiang's chaotic mood gradually calmed down, but her mood also showed a large blank space like the cleaned desktop.

Mr. Shum is humble and polite to everyone he treats, but in this humility, why is there not a distance everywhere?

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Cen Chi returned to the stone table in the courtyard, first put the pen and ink on the ground next to the stone bench, and then put the written or blank paper in his hand on the table, and quickly found two pieces of paper that Shi Xin gave him yesterday.

Shi Xin picked up a piece of paper. Looking at the few holes in the first line of words, he said with doubts in his eyes: "Brother Cen, what's going on?" ”

Cen Chi smiled embarrassedly. said: "I patronized the text last night and was careless. Forget that this is not a copy sample. ”

"I'm not sorry for that." Shi Xin waved his hand and said, "It seems that you should have made a discovery, but this kind of discovery ...... It's a bit confusing. ”

"The method of encrypting the content on this piece of paper is called 'repetition', that is, it is necessary to cover it with a piece of paper to cover the superfluous words that obstruct people's eyes, and the real content will be revealed." Cen Chi said, took a blank piece of paper and folded it.

Shi Xin often communicated with Cen Chi about this matter, and had a certain tacit understanding with him in language, and he vaguely understood what Cen Chi meant in his heart. So just wait quietly for his next demonstration.

Cen Chi folded the white paper horizontally and vertically several times, and when he spread the paper again, a dense small grid separated by creases appeared on the paper.

Cen Chi took the pen that was placed on the ground at his feet, dipped it in ink, and before lifting the pen, he explained: "The hole in the first line of words was made when I tested it, in fact, the missing words are the content of the solution." Next, I draw dots on a blank piece of paper, and then hollow out the dots to make a laminated paper. You can force out what you really want to express in this copy. ”

Shi Xin didn't speak, just smiled and nodded.

But when Cen Chi finished the covering, he didn't do what he just said. Dig the ink dots on the paper into holes, but after the ink has dried, fold the paper in half, and then hand it to Shi Xin.

Seeing Shi Xin's puzzled expression, without waiting for him to ask, Cen Chi explained: "From the first sentence that I derived, it can be seen that this is a secret letter that I am not suitable to know, so please go back and read it yourself!" ”

Shi Xin hesitated for a moment, and finally didn't say anything more. It can be regarded as a tacit acquiescence to Cen Chi's statement.

Next, Cen Chi explained to him the contents of the second piece of paper. All the time. Shi Xin only accepts the results of decryption, and never asks about the process of decryption. And Cen Chi never asked about the content of the secret text, but only stripped away the layer of encryption that disturbed people's discrimination outside the secret text.

It wasn't until these things were all over that Shi Xin opened the paper bag he brought and poured out the manuscript paper in the bag.

Cen Chi scooped one with his hand, and after looking at it a few times, he opened his mouth and said, "This is a copy." ”

After taking three pieces of paper in a row and comparing them closely, he said again: "The person who made this picture, if he is not a naughty boy, is an extremely powerful person." ”

When Shi Xin heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "Is it difficult to solve?" ”

"It's a bit of trouble." Cen Chi put down the three manuscript papers in his hand and took two more, and after some comparison, he shook his head slightly and said softly, "It will take some time." ”

Shi Xin's eyes moved. The last time Cen Chi said this, it was a long time ago, but these two times had one thing in common, that is, what Cen Chi was concentrating on was the handwriting of that person.

He's really hard to deal with!

Shi Xin was a little distracted, and suddenly heard Cen Chi call him, and then he suddenly came back to his senses.

Cen Chi stared into his eyes, and only after a moment did he speak: "Shi Gongzi, since this matter has made you so worried, why have you kept dragging it out and not telling me?" Yesterday in the small temple, if it weren't for the two thieves who broke in and ran into the guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion, I'm afraid that I wouldn't have known that there were people in the Mansion protecting me along the way, so I vaguely knew that there was trouble in the Mansion, so I came back to take a look. ”

"I know you don't like to be followed, but if you don't let people follow you, I'm worried about your safety." Shi Xin apologized, paused and then said: "In the end, it's because my approach is a little inappropriate, I'm afraid that you will be unhappy if you know." ”

Cen Chi was stunned, and after being silent for a long time, he didn't mention this matter again, but said with a very serious expression: "As long as the materials are complete, this problem will be solved in the next one, and it will be limited to three days." ”

Giving your strength unreservedly is the most convincing reward.

"I know you can do it." Shi Xin's eyes were a little warm, "But if you really encounter difficulties, don't force yourself too much, and come back slowly." ”

"Hmm." Cen Chi set out the papers on the table with his hands, and after dividing all the papers into two stacks of blank and written words, he said slowly, "Now I need to find a quiet place to stay." I can't chat with Shi Gongzi for the time being, I'm sorry. ”

"Then you're busy!" Shi Xin stood up with a smile and raised his arm in the direction of the door to make a "please" motion.

Cen Chi arched his hand towards Shi Xin. Then he rolled up the paper on the table and the pen and ink on the floor, and walked briskly towards the house.

Cen Chi hurried back to the house. Almost knocked off the tray held in Xiao Qiang's hand, who was walking out.

Xiao Qiang said with some panic: "Mr. Cen, what's wrong with you?" ”

Cen Chi noticed the refreshments on the tray, and quickly remembered that this was what he had just told Xiao Qiang to do, so he paused and said: "I'm going back to the study, Shi Gongzi is also going back, you can just put the refreshments in the hall, if there's nothing to do, go back and rest." ”

"Oh." Xiao Qiang looked at the figure that had disappeared into the study. I was puzzled. However, she also saw what Cen Chi was holding in his hand, and she could probably guess what he was going to be busy for, so she also knew very well that with her identity, she shouldn't ask more about what to do.

After Cen Chi returned to the study, he casually put the stack of papers in his arms on the ground, put the pen and ink on the table, and finally pushed the desk to a corner of the study, and the floor of the study was suddenly empty.

He sat on the floor, using the floor as a table, and quickly picked out six pieces of paper poured out of the paper bag and put them together. Then he stared.

I don't know how long it took for Cen Chi to have a new expression on his face. A smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and he moved his lips. said in a slight voice: "Senior brother, these are really your handiwork. ”

But soon, the smile on his lips disappeared again. Lying on his back on the ground, he sighed and said, "But what should I do?" Help you or help myself, it makes me embarrassed! ”

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After Shi Yi returned to Dongfeng Tower, he went back to his room to rest. The reason why he rested early was not only because the livelihood of Dongfeng Tower reached its peak in the first half of the night, and he was inconvenient to appear too often, but also because he was prepared to act at night.

Yin Shi Xu. Shi Yi, who had been sleeping lightly, suddenly woke up. He woke up from a sleep, but the whole Dongfeng Building arrived at this time every day. It's the quietest.

Guests can drink and have fun in Dongfeng Building, and they can indulge the depression in their hearts. Shouting and singing loudly, the girls in the Dongfeng Building will accompany each other carefully, and it is inevitable to be taken advantage of by rubbing oil, but staying overnight is never allowed.

Halfway through, the guests were sent back by their own servants more than an hour ago, or sent by the guards of the Dongfeng Tower. In short, this kind of timely clearance regulations, Dongfeng Building has been implemented for several years, and all regular customers can understand and agree. There are pros and cons to this kind of regulation, but reasonable people who are not playthings can see from this kind of regulation that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Shi Yi walked out of his room in the dark, and outside the house was the courtyard behind Dongfeng Building.

In order to prevent fires at night, the lights throughout the building have been extinguished. The bamboo building in the large pool in the backyard is not lit by the Oiran, but because it is hollowed out, the hanging light yarn and tassels gently ripple in the night breeze, and can also show a little bit of elegance in the moonlight.

At this time, Dongfeng Tower only has a permanent lamp at the gate and the back door, which is fixed to the gate by a solid metal lampshade, emitting a faint light.

For Shi Yi, it is better to have this little light. Pure moonlight is more conducive to his vision at night. Shi Yi took out a cow tendon rope slingshot from his arms, glanced at the ever-bright light at the back door, squeezed his eyebrows, and then turned, and shot out stones almost straight in one direction above his head.

The pebbles that shot out quickly fell back,

Then another stone fell, but behind this stone, there was a rope.

Seeing that the stone tied to the rope fell, Shi Yi did not immediately step forward to pick it up, but took a few steps back and shrank in the shadow of the corner.

After listening quietly for a moment, and making sure that no Wu Wei in the building had noticed it, he quickly dodged out. Untying the stone tied to one end of the rope and putting it into his arms along with the slingshot, Shi Yi turned into a snake along the vine, and climbed up with the rope against the relatively flat wall at the back of the Dongfeng Tower.

Climbing to the height of the third floor, Shi Yi rested for a moment on the branch tied to the other end of the rope. When his breath was even, he put the coiled rope into the bird's nest on the branch where there were no birds and no eggs, and he had just shot a hole with a slingshot, and then he gathered the strength of his legs, jumped up to the window sill on the third floor opposite, and slid down the house.

Although Shi Yi usually practiced it, this behavior of jumping out of the window was still very dangerous. So in fact, along with this time, he only skipped twice at this height.

On the third floor is the soft storage room of the Dongfeng Building, where there is no storage of food and supplies, and it is not used for business, but there are a lot of ledgers. However, what Shi Yi wanted to see was not the running accounts of these daily activities, but the old account books placed in the small attic on the top of the third floor, which few people knew.

Shi Yi only came to this place alone twice, and this place is actually not open to the public, and there are more or less bans on the people in the building. For this point, since Shi Yi entered here for the first time, accidentally found the small attic, and looked at a few old account books, he could somewhat understand some of the reasons.

If the first time was unintentional, and the second time he entered the small attic tonight, Shi Yi went straight to the goal.

Squatting in the attic, Shi Yi quickly flipped through more than a dozen old account books. It's a pity that I didn't find a few words beyond the numbers like I did when I first came here.

When the paper book that had been left for too long was turned over again, in the narrow space of the attic, the musty fine dust churned, irritating Shi Yi's mouth and nose, making him want to sneeze. Putting down the account book, rubbing his nose, and when the dust in the attic had settled down a little, Shi Yi scooped up the account book again, and suddenly found that the account book in his hand had an extra sharp corner of a piece of paper on the cover.

After a closer look, it was found that it was not the cutting and binding of the account book, but that the double-layer thickened cover of the account book had been cut open and put into a piece of paper in the interlayer. After many years, the cover of the account book that was sealed twice was loosened, and in Shi Yi's rude rummaging just now, a piece of paper fell out of the corner of the cover interlayer.

Without hesitation, Shi Yi pulled out the piece of paper and spread it out on the palm of his hand.

The piece of paper was not big, it should have been cut out of a large piece of white paper, otherwise it would not have been hidden in the cover of the account book, and no one would have noticed it for so long.

The small piece of paper was densely written with three paragraphs, the lines were thin, and the strokes were a little stiff, as if they were not written by a brush. However, when Shi Yi saw the font on the paper, the surprise in his eyes only appeared for a moment, and he was immediately overwhelmed by a strange look of joy, but soon, this joy was covered by a blank with loneliness.

After squatting in place like a dead stone for a long time, Shi Yi's gaze moved away from the time of payment in the lower right corner of the paper, and he let out a long sigh in a calm voice.

Collecting his mood, he looked back again-

(To be continued)