- After focusing on this loyal servant of the Song family, Mo Ye paused slightly, and then continued: "The two people who accompanied the butler into the living room behind the butler are both the chief shopkeepers of the shops under the name of Brother Ruan, and the shopkeepers of Jingxi Buzhuang Bi and the shopkeepers of Jingzheng Grain Store. ”

Shi Yi liked Mo Ye's temperament to answer all questions, smiled slightly, and nodded. Of course, he also knew that Mo Ye didn't just pick people and speak so bluntly, most of them were still because he was the person she had known for the longest time in Kyoto, and the medium of Dongfeng Tower.

In fact, he only needs Mo Ye to mention his name, and he doesn't need to introduce it more, just because the butler is dressed in a completely different way from the businessman, which is too plain, and it is impressive. However, Mo Ye mentioned a few more words, which still had a certain impact on the people who were listening. At this time, Shi Yi could not only remember the clothing characteristics of the old housekeeper of the Song Mansion, but also had some curiosity and respect for his experience.

can spend half of his life serving a fixed position, if it is not to get by, if it is not a plan, then it can only be really loyal to the Lord. Observing the old housekeeper's dress and bearing, and listening to Mo Ye relay his life, Shi Yi felt that this old housekeeper of the Song Mansion belonged to a third party.

In the era in which Shi Yi lived in his last life, he was loyal and consistent like this, and it was not an embroidered pillow that was mixed with middle age, but a subordinate or servant who really had some practical ability to do things, and he had seen a few. But based on the number of people he has visually inspected, the rate of such talents appearing is extremely low.

If you use "rare things are precious" to describe the encounter at this time, Shi Yi has a trace of respect for the old housekeeper of the Song Mansion.

When Mo Ye finished introducing Shi Yi to the three middle-aged men who had entered the living room with boxes, Ruan Luo had already entered, and the three of her side were almost at the door.

At this moment, Mo Ye's footsteps slowed down slightly, and he slowly said: "Buzhuang and Rice Shop are the two largest businesses under Brother Ruan's name, and the daily entry and exit accounts are also lively and complicated, and they are generally only after the store closes every day. will settle the accounts in total. Today I came at noon, and it seems that I was brought by the butler. During the period when Brother Ruan was recuperating from his injuries, it was extremely important for these three people to stay in place on the side of the shop. Now that they're here together, it seems that the reason is not small. ”

Clothing, food, housing and transportation have been the four major priorities of people's livelihood since ancient times. In Shi Yi's previous life, it was not very common to see clothing and fabrics under the control of the state, and the strictest control in that era was real estate development. In this life, in addition to the main grain, there is still the Nanzhao Imperial Court to supervise the price and hoarding for retail, and the second is the most strictly controlled silk cloth business.

In this era, there was no chemical industry, and it was impossible to refine and produce plastics, chemical fibers, and other items that Yan zhòng participated in life in the previous life, and all kinds of daily utensils were mainly clay pottery. This is relatively easy to solve. But the main composition of cloth comes from cotton wool and silk, which involves cotton fields and mulberry fields, which is not a trivial matter. The fields are occupied, but neither the mulberry fields nor the cotton fields can be directly converted into grain, and this agricultural field is not carefully managed. It's going to be a big problem.

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Although Xiao Song's way of practicing medicine is not recognized by the medical community, he himself is a little picky, in order to avoid trouble, he will not lightly treat others, but as long as he can find his patients through an intermediary, he will not turn his eyes to death and die. In any case, he has obligations and bottom lines as a healer.

So a few days ago. When the heavily poisoned man in white was brought to the medicine house by a sloppily dressed coachman, Xiao Chung immediately began to treat him, and he did his best to save his life without reservation. At that time, Xiao Chung had actually begun to doubt the identity of the man in white as the one who committed the crime in the Xiahe County Guard's Mansion.

Even if the two arrived at the medicine house without a sharp weapon. And the one who needed to be treated was poisoned by snakes, not sword wounds, but perhaps because he often dealt with people from rivers and lakes with complicated ways to earn a good reward for healing his injuries, he naturally trained Xiao Song's observation and vigilance, and he saw the man in white for the first time. It's as if I have the sensitive intuition of a woman, so I think so.

As soon as this thought is opened, the pathways in the brain suddenly become extremely smooth.

Thinking back to what happened in the medicine house a few days ago, ignoring the sloppy coachman and only observing the man in white, Xiao Song remembered that although the man's physique was abnormally weak due to poisoning, even if he later saved his life after his own treatment, he often fell into a coma intermittently, but it seemed that it affected part of his own control over himself, so that he naturally revealed a certain temperament of "Keqing".

Xiao Chung remembered the saying that came from Xiahe County, that "Keqing" had been friends with the county guard for several years, although now everyone is watching this matter, most people can be sure that it is just a killer's disguise, in order to gain the trust of the county guard, paralyze the vigilance of the county guard's guards, and get the best time to cut off the head of the county guard and take away the reward, and can quietly retreat, but this disguise has lasted for a few years, and it will more or less reverse affect part of the person's style of acting!

In addition, the man in white also showed a very careful sense of precaution in the process of receiving treatment. After living in the medicine house for a few days, he rarely said anything when he was sober, and he never mentioned half a word about his identity, and almost used the medicine house and the owner of the medicine house, Xiao Song, as a tool and a dead thing, and did not communicate. But the look in this person's eyes was unusually clear, and he glanced at the body with a staring eye on the tip of a needle, which was a hunting look.

Xiao Chung still remembered the man's gaze when he woke up for the first time from a coma, as if he had never been unconscious, the first moment he opened his eyelids, the pupils shot a faintly sharp light, and the focus of his gaze was also different from ordinary people, all the eyebrows, nose bridge, neck and other most lethal parts of the human head.

If it is said that in the past few days that this person has lived in Yaolu, most of the time the temperament revealed is still a kind of indifferent peace and respect, which is relatively close to the good image of a high-ranking guest, then the moment he just woke up, he obviously revealed the true colors of a professional killer.

Overlapping the two is indirectly equivalent to identifying this person's identity, but Xiao Chung has no intention of going to the government to report the case, first, he is not completely sure about the matter, and second, doing more harm than good to him.

Xiao Chung wasn't sure if the government's bounty was higher than the reward he received for curing the man in white, and he wasn't sure if he would spend the bounty from the government in the future if he went to the government to report the crime. The people he had treated before this were so complex, and how many of them were murders, and none of them had ever caused him to break his personal rule of only treating people without asking them. Otherwise, no one would want to be a middleman who would help him connect with his livelihood and help him hide his whereabouts.

There are various laws and laws in human society, and of course there are heroes and heroes who are selfless and fearless and ignore these binding forces, but Xiao Chung is obviously not this kind of person.

So even if he was very sure that the man in white was the killer who committed the crime in Xiahe County, he was an extremely dangerous person. But he still sees it as a wounded person who needs to be treated, treats it as best he can, and then receives a payment, and that's it.

And today, two people and a horse suddenly came to the door of the medicine house, and these two uninvited guests were able to find this place without the introduction of the middleman, which really made Xiao Chung feel a kind of unkind vigilance, and because of the dark horse they brought, Xiao Chung thought about another question while re-identifying the man in white.

Perhaps it was for a purpose of expressing public condemnation. Along with the news of the assassination of the county keeper, there was also some lace news of the county guard's mansion. Some of the deeds of how the county guard appreciated and valued the white-clothed guest secretary before his death spread, and the most ironic and the most repeated words of ordinary people was the fact that the county guard gave the white-clothed guest a black horse.

This black horse belongs to the ranks of famous horses in the south, and its posture and foot strength are actually inferior to those of the northwestern horses. But it is the favorite of the literati, because this kind of horse will recognize people, and once it is determined that the owner is very loyal. Lord County Keeper spent a lot of money to buy this horse and give it to the white-clothed guest in the house, which can be described as a profound meaning, but Lord County Keeper would never have imagined that the person he trusted so much would cut off his head and ride this horse in a few years.

People know people, and most of them know faces or voices. However, this kind of recognition is definitely not comparable to that of animals that are very sensitive to smells, so the killer who killed the county keeper should not hesitate to kill the black horse, otherwise this horse is likely to become the strongest threat to reveal his whereabouts. It is precisely because of this consideration that Xiao Chung was in a very strange mood at the moment he recognized this dark horse.

The horse was still alive, and had been brought to the medicine house by two other people.

But it must disappear after all, so it's better to slaughter it yourself!

Xiao Chung was very skeptical. The two people who came with the horse were able to find this place without the contact of the intermediary of the guò medicine house, and it was very likely that they were official visitors. He had already heard that there were several special groups under the emperor's hands, and at the beginning of the unification, the emperor used these groups of people as sharp blades in the shadows. Identified and killed several bad ministers who wanted to rebel. Later, in order to forcefully curb the mutual assassination of officials, these groups also played a powerful role.

In short, although the groups of people under the emperor are rumored to be extremely low-key, they are definitely good at visiting people and investigating cases, and they are a sharp sword that the emperor hides in his sleeve and never shows his handle.

Although these people have not been openly established in the administration of officials until now, it cannot be ruled out that they can temporarily participate in the investigation of cases in accordance with the emperor's dictation.

If this kind of person is eyeing the case of the murder of the county keeper of Xiahe County, as long as there is a trace of clues, it is very likely that he will do something to see the moon. And if Xiao Chung at this moment still holds on to yesterday's plan and is ready to abandon the knife and settle in Kyoto, he can completely avoid getting involved in this matter when he quickly thinks through something after seeing the dark horse.

But who told him to suddenly change his mind at this point?

If he wants to continue to be a charlatan in the future, he must dissociate himself from this matter. If he is entangled in this matter, even if he can finally get rid of the investigation of the government, it is likely that no one will be willing to be an intermediary for him in the future, and this matter will ruin his reputation.

So now he had to do something, not to help anyone, not to keep himself neutral, but to isolate himself from the matter completely.

This thing seems to be very simple, Xiao Chung has not done it before, but considering that the two parties he has to face today are not easy to mess with, one is the most powerful killer organization in the rivers and lakes, and the other is the killer weapon that the current emperor has collected in his sleeve, his hand to sharpen the knife can't help but start to tremble a little, I don't know if he is afraid, or because this knife has not been used for a long time, it is a little difficult to sharpen.

The sound of sharpening the knife lasted for a long time, and the more than one-foot-long bone cutting knife had completely sharpened off the rust on the knife body, and it was as smooth as a mirror, revealing the true color of high-quality iron. Xiao Chung glanced at the blade of the knife and felt satisfied, so he changed a whetstone and began to focus on sharpening the blade.

Generally speaking, a butcher should carry a complete set of knives when performing slaughter, and he should have different bloodletting, shaving, cutting and cutting bones. Xiao Chung was a good butcher before practicing medicine, of course he understands these common senses, but it is precisely because he is proficient in this way that he will not be satisfied with the status quo, think of pioneering and innovating, and have his current skills. Now he can slaughter an animal with a knife, and he can slaughter and cook a horse into a pile of meat pieces that he can't tell what kind of animal it is, but the set of knives that cut and treat the skin of a living person is extremely complete and delicate.

The set of knives used to heal the wounds was varied and exquisitely crafted, and as a healer, he was responsible for the patients he treated, and he could not desecrate the work, and the points of treatment that had been tried and determined could not be changed lightly because of his own preferences. And the slaughtering knife has now been reduced to a single one, which is not only because he doesn't like trouble, but also because he is confident in his slaughtering skills.

It's just that the workload of this matter today is a bit heavy, and he must be prepared to attack with a fine weapon, so as not to make a mistake with the curling blade.

Because he had been sharpening his knife for too long, the two daughters, who were used to taking a nap in the afternoon, were finally so noisy that they couldn't sleep, and walked out of the bedroom together, following the sound of rough sand grinding on the ear drums to Xiao Song's side.

The two little girls, one tall and one short, who did not look much like each other in terms of their faces, stared at their father in unison, the younger daughter looked at her father with a blank look, and the older daughter looked at the black horse in the yard that was not tied to the reins but stood obediently.

Xiao Chung nominally has two daughters, but in fact the eldest daughter is not his own. When his wife gave birth to her little daughter, Xiao Chung was still serving a prison sentence in the county government prison because he had treated a wounded person.

When Xiao Chung came out of the cell, his wife was already sick and dying under the double pressure of the neighbor's rumors and accusations and the family's hardship. Even if Xiao Chung immediately began to recuperate for his wife after being released from prison, he could not keep her alive for a few more months.