In the third watch of the night, accompanied by a piercing man's scream, the candlelight in the courtyard of the Marquis of Zhongyong, no matter how big or small, was lit up in an instant.

"Assassin! There are assassins! ”

"Catch the Assassin!"

"Ahh

……

Several women's screams and screams that broke the sky came from Qinglan Courtyard, making the light rain and silent dark night lively.

Chi Linglong was wearing a coat and was held in the arms of Jiang's mother, who was trembling. Although he was lucky enough to escape, the horror in his eyes did not dissipate after a long time. The "thump" of her heartbeat, the loud sound, reached her ears like a drum.

Chi Linglong couldn't control the coldness on her body, and shrank her body into Jiang's mother's arms.

She's so scared!

Although she expected that Mu Changyao would come to assassinate her, she had been taking all kinds of precautions for three consecutive nights, but when she remembered that she was lying stiffly on the bed, holding her breath, carefully pulling the mechanism of the sleeve arrow on her wrist, and really shooting a man in black by surprise, she was still scared half to death by a stream of hot blood that splashed on her face like a spring water from the man's chest.

In her previous life and present life, she was not an out-of-the-ordinary girl, and the education she received since she was a child was also everyone's aristocratic lady education. She has played with guns, ridden horses, shot arrows, and even learned a few kung fu tricks during the rebellious period, but those were innocuous little punches and kicks learned in the club. This is the first time she has really hurt people and almost killed someone......

Outside, there was a crackling sound of knives and guns, accompanied by the painful groans of the assassins. Moaning and wailing, in just a short moment, the five assassins dressed as black-clad masked men were surrounded by the secret guards who came to the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion.

Just when the five assassins were still fighting the trapped beasts, trying to break out of the formation, an old man dressed in ink, thin and thin, but with eyes as sharp as an eagle vulture, stepped in from outside the Qinglan Courtyard.

This is the big butler of the Zhongyong Hou Mansion, in the entire Hou Mansion, he only obeys the orders of Chi Zhongyuan, and his status in the Hou Mansion is not that the master is better than the master, and even the status of the concubine like Chi Mingzhen is much higher than Uncle Wu.

Uncle Wu walked more than three feet away from Chi Linglong, first saluted Chi Linglong respectfully, and called "Five Girls". Where did Chi Linglong dare to accept his salute, she quickly got up and avoided it, and then respectfully replied to Uncle Wu, "Uncle Wu." ”

Wu Botan accepted Chi Linglong's salute frankly, and then comforted Chi Linglong and said: "The girl should go back to the inner room first, this face is bloody, and the girl will inevitably have nightmares at night when she sees it." ”

He also said to Jiang's mother and others: "It's cold in the autumn night, and it's raining again today, Dr. Zhu only said that the girl's body needs to be well recuperated, so you wait and help the girl go back to the room first." ”

Mother Jiang, Biyun Biyue and others were naturally busy. Biyue remembered that in her panic, she really forgot that the girl was unwell now, and she couldn't care about anything else, so she hurriedly asked Liu Zhenniang to accompany her to the small kitchen to cook a bowl of ginger soup for the girl. Jiang's mother and Biyun accompanied Chi Linglong back to the inner room.

Fang just sat down at the round table, and a cup of tea was stuffed into her hand by Jiang's mother, and Chi Linglong heard Wu Bogang's stern low voice from the courtyard, "No one is left!" ”

With a tremor in his hand, the warm tea poured out, wetting his clothes. Jiang's mother complained that she didn't wait for the girl to take the tea before letting go, but Chi Linglong laughed stiffly twice, and then under the service of Jiang's mother and Biyun, she hurriedly went back to the inner room to change clothes.

The smell of blood in the courtyard spread to the inner room one by one, and Jiang's mother was pale in face, but she still tried to make a calm posture. She told Biyun to close the window for a while, and then asked the little maid to re-serve tea to Chi Linglong, as if she was busy and her hands were not idle, she could isolate the shrill men's wails in Qinglan Courtyard.

Time passed quickly, and before Biyue could cook the ginger soup, the entire Qinglan Courtyard returned to a deathly silence.

Chi Linglong calmed down and listened carefully, but she only heard the sound of a light rain outside, and there was no other movement.

"Aunt, girl, Steward Wu asks to see you." Chi Linglong was in a trance, and another little girl with some horror and crying sounded outside.

Chi Linglong came back to her senses, and hurriedly ordered, "Quickly invite Uncle Wu to come in and have tea." Then he hurriedly packed his bags and went to the outer room.

After another salute, Chi Linglong sat down first, and then invited Uncle Wu to sit down on the chair opposite.

Bo didn't postpone it, and after sitting down, he asked Chi Linglong directly: "I came in a hurry, but I forgot to ask the girl, the old slave heard the little girl in the courtyard say that it was the girl who discovered the assassin first tonight, I don't know if the girl was injured this time?" Do I need a doctor? ”

Chi Linglong hurriedly shook her head and said, "No." ”

Uncle Wu nodded with satisfaction, but his eyes seemed to be sharper.

Chi Linglong naturally knew what Uncle Wu was suspicious of, although he didn't say it explicitly, but Chi Linglong saw a few messages from Uncle Wu's eyes.

He was questioning her, since those assassins were coming at her, and she was a helpless little girl, when she faced the assassins, it would be good to be the first to find out, if she could get out of the assassins unharmed, this was obviously a bit unreasonable, how did she do it?

Chi Linglong was apprehensive in her heart, but she still tried her best to make a clear conscience on her face.

She waved all the girls in the house out, leaving only Mother Jiang and Biyun to serve beside her, and when the room was quiet again, Chi Linglong said again: "Uncle Wu knows, I have been having nightmares for the past two nights, and I can't sleep well." When I woke up for the first time tonight, it was just a watch day, and it was raining outside; When I woke up the second time, it was just after the second watch, and I was thinking about getting up at night......"

At this point, Chi Linglong's face turned red, she was a girl, and she was really embarrassed to say the word "wake up at night" in front of a foreign man.

However, Uncle Wu is an elder in the end, and he is a veritable "manager", Chi Linglong finally pursed her lips shyly, and honestly explained to Uncle Wu: "Who knows, I heard the footsteps." In my house, there are usually only two people who keep vigil at night, and I don't like the rest of the maids to come in. But tonight, the footsteps are unfamiliar to me, and they are heavy, and they don't sound like a woman's footsteps. I was afraid in my heart, worried that there would be bad people, and I didn't dare to act rashly, so I just ......"

Speaking of this, Chi Linglong's face was blue for a while, white for a while, and her lips were no longer bloody, and she looked frightened.

She glanced at Uncle Wu, who was still silent on his face, and took off the bracelet on her right wrist with a ruthless heart. personally demonstrated it in front of Uncle Wu, from a bracelet to a sleeve arrow, and from a useless jewelry to a surprise killing weapon.

Seeing Uncle Wu's face, a look of shock and incredulity finally flashed, and then returned to normal, Chi Linglong breathed a sigh of relief invisibly, put the bracelet on the round table, pushed it in front of Uncle Wu, and said, "This, this is what my aunt left me." Me, this is the first time I've used ......"

Knowing that it was the scene after the assassin broke in, there was no need for Chi Linglong to explain anything, everyone could make up for it by themselves.

Wu Bo didn't ask anything more.

For those assassins who came to assassinate her for no reason, Wu Bo wanted to say something, but in the end, he just snorted his lips twice, and didn't say anything, just nodded at Chi Linglong, took Chi Linglong's bracelet, and said to Chi Linglong, "In this way, I won't disturb the girl's rest." …… Today's matter, the girl doesn't have to worry, the old man will report it all to the Hou Ye and hand it over to the Hou Ye to deal with. As for the girl's bracelet, the old slave is afraid that he will have to borrow it first. ”

Chi Linglong was naturally busy. After Uncle Wu said goodbye and left, Jiang's mother and Biyun's stiff bodies instantly relaxed.

At this moment, Biyue came over with ginger soup, and several people drank a bowl of ginger soup by themselves, and Chi Linglong fell asleep under the service of Jiang's mother and others.

And privately thought that Mu Changyao had been solved, Mu Changyao no longer had the ability to design her Chi Linglong, and fell asleep in a moment, completely unaware that Uncle Wu, who left from Qinglan Courtyard, did not wait until the next day to visit her cheap father, but after leaving Qinglan Courtyard, he went straight to Qingyun Hall.

The night rain was dripping, and there was no movement in the dark night except for these sounds.

Qingyuntang is quiet, no matter whether it is a festival or a funeral in the Hou Mansion, since seven years ago, it is a dead silence that the flames can't burn.

In Qingyun Hall, in a study room in the middle, there was a strange sound of the rain hitting the plantains.

Wu Bo bowed his waist and saluted the man who was facing the window, leaving him only with a thin and straight back.

He bowed his head respectfully and reported what had happened in the Qinglan Courtyard.

His demeanor was respectful and solemn, and his face was condensed without the slightest fluctuation, however, listening to the familiar and unfamiliar sound of rain hitting plantains outside the window, Wu Bo couldn't help but feel an indescribable bitterness in his heart.

The banana tree that grew under the study window was planted nine years ago, and it was planted by Aunt Ning, who had passed away for a long time......

The study room is full of bleak smell, the layout is old and simple, and everything here has not been changed since Aunt Ning passed away......

Uncle Wu once saddened the lonely life that Hou Ye was living like an ascetic, but every time he faced those numb and cold eyes without the slightest emotion, no matter how many heartfelt words he had, he couldn't say anything in his throat.

Finally, with a slight sigh in his heart, Wu Bo finally said again, "The old slave suspects, that assassin ,...... It was sent by the third prince of the Anguo Mansion. ”

Placing the five palm-sized black tokens collected from the assassin on the small table beside him, Wu Bo said again: "The old slave is not sure if the fifth girl has a grudge against the third prince Mu in private, but based on the old slave's observation, the fifth girl is afraid that she already knows that the third prince will come to harm her,...... And I also prepared myself......"

As he spoke, he put out his reasoning and evidence one by one.

Uncle Wu said unhurriedly, but every reason he explained was clear and logical, and in a word, it went straight to the point.

If Chi Linglong knew that after Uncle Wu left Qinglan Courtyard, she would have said such a thing to her cheap father, refreshing the lower limit of her knowledge in her cheap father's heart, and she would have been nervous and unable to sleep.

She also thought that her coy attitude could not be said to completely fool Uncle Wu, at least it would make Uncle Wu dispel her doubts about her a little bit.

Who knows, what a qiē does is nothing but useless work.

Chi Linglong only knew that Wu Bo was Chi Zhongyuan's deputy general, and he came to the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion after being injured. What she didn't know was that although Uncle Wu had a good kung fu, his skills such as investigation and tracking and torture interrogation were the most feared.

also tried to play haha in front of a 30-year veteran, trying to get by, Chi Linglong was simply whimsical.

After Wu Bo took a stick of incense, he came out of Qingyun Hall.

There was still no sound in the study of Qingyuntang, and the tall and thin figure like an elegant scribe also stood facing the window, never moving a little bit, not making a second movement, and not saying a word.

His lonely back seemed to have dissolved with the whole night.

The rain in the sky fell in a hurry, from small to large, it was still dripping before, like the gentle lingering of the south of the Yangtze River in June, but then it was pouring rain, raging and violent, as if it was about to wash away, all the blood and filth in this world.

A thunderclap fell, and the entire sky was illuminated as bright as day. The lightning that pierced the night, from east to west, made Chi Zhongyuan's bloodless face, which was white and cold, extremely clear in the night.

However, his eyes were still cold, his lips were still tight, and the breath on his body was dead and silent from beginning to end, he seemed to be a person without feelings and thoughts, even if the thunder was rolling at the moment, it could not pull him back to reality......

It's just that, no matter what Chi Zhongyuan is thinking at the moment, his current deputy general, Wang Qing, after listening to Wu Bo Fangcai's report, is full of waves in his heart.

Wang Qing felt that Qinglan Courtyard was really a good place to live.

First of all, the prince of Qin visited many times, and now the Anguo Mansion has even sent assassins?!

Tsk, really think they're deaf and blind, don't you know what they're playing with?

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Oh, when the tiger is asleep, he is still a tiger, and the breath of a nap can spray people to death. Three, the two weird kittens are still trying to turn the world upside down? Tsk, have you asked the snake if you want to! R1152