- Xiao Kuang discussed the assignment of tasks with the thirty cavalry left by Li Gai at the "Cloud Stopping Station", and did not stop much, he personally led two teams of people, plus a post guard who was familiar with the environment, and went to Xingjia Village together.

Thirteen years ago, Lin Shan took the infant Mo Ye to Xingjia Village in seclusion, and he never stopped communicating with Kyoto during this period. Of course, most of his letterheads were sent to the palace and handed over to the emperor, but a few were sent to the small temple in the south of the city and handed over to Xiao Kuang. The content of the letter also mentioned once that he had great trust in Xiao Kuang, the senior brother of the same sect.

Before contacting the two teams of subordinates under Lin Shan's control, he chose to visit the house where he lived in Xingjia Village, which was a clear choice. Mo Ye's whereabouts have appeared around here, and if she is really back, there is a great possibility that she wants to go back to "home" to take a look. She has lived in Xingjia Village for ten years, and there are too many memories of her, and people are most likely to think of home and family when they are most helpless.

It's just that Xiao Kuang is a step slower to catch up after all.

Or to be more precise, the speed at which King Qingchuan sent out to rob people was too fast!

When Xiao Kuang and his party of fourteen people came to Xingjia Village, they saw dozens of houses clustered together, but it was terrifyingly quiet in broad daylight. Not only was there not a single villager on the path between the villages, but there was also no sound of chickens and dogs, and the doors of the houses were closed, and the whole village was as if it had died.

Xiao Kuang looked at the post guard beside him and said calmly: "Yuxian County includes the two major academies of the empire, and it is also the hometown of Yan Yizheng, if there is a war in this vicinity, it will not be concealed and reported, right?" ”

"Yes, yes......" The postman who followed and led the way nodded hurriedly.

After a previous conversation in the "Cloud Stop", this post man already knew that the monk with short hair in front of him was not only from Kyoto, but also had a deep friendship with the famous commander Li Gai, and this post man did not dare to be a little sloppy about this monk's problem.

Ponder the first words of the monk's mouth. It is not difficult to guess that he suspected that the village had been ransacked by the rogues. Although the "Cloud Stop" is only a post station for the accommodation of officials passing by on official business, it actually has the responsibility of the eyes and ears of the imperial court, and it is impossible to be unaware of the circulation of surrounding news. Something like the liquidation of a nearby village. It is even more impossible to be unnoticed.

"In this area of Yuxian County, the folk customs are simple, and there are many children of families, studying in the two academies, under the influence of etiquette, it has always been very peaceful......" This post guard just followed Xiao Kuang's words, but after speaking, he somehow hesitated.

A seven-year-old child can also see that the village in front of him is not normal.

"There was a smell of blood in the air." Xiao Kuang didn't ask the post guard again. His gaze shifted slightly, "Do you smell it?" ”

He asked about the dozen or so light cavalry, Li Gai left these dozen people and assigned special tasks, their strength should not be weak.

Xiao Kuang's words just fell. Immediately two hussars responded. Then one of them added: "The smell is very faint, if it is really a slaughter, the body should be well hidden." Master, the village is ambushed by the fear of air defense. ”

"Thanks for the reminder. I will find the way, and you will stay here. Xiao Kuang nodded, and after a little thought, he commanded: "Later, if you see someone coming out of it." Those who resist are shot directly, and those who do not resist are shot and wounded. ”

It is very likely that the killer changed the clothes of the villagers and dressed them up. And even if someone who doesn't resist comes out, this suspicion cannot be ruled out. Xiao Kuang asked to kill the latter, although it was a bit cruel, but it was necessary to do it without leakage. That's all there is to it. Once the news that they have chased this place leaks out, it will undoubtedly increase the difficulty of catching those killers who are rounding up Mo Ye.

After giving the order, Xiao Kuang jumped off the horse. Walk slowly towards the path between the houses in the village.

The roadway ambush is the most dangerous and variable. Xiao Kuang hopes that the people under his command who can be used will be used in the right places, such as scattered searches, and so on, the more people the better, instead of throwing themselves into the alleys, if there is really an ambush, it will cause worthless sacrifices.

As for him, he believes that with his martial arts, he can deal with it enough.

As he walked towards the village house, he reached into his arms, felt for a pair of black fabrics, and carefully put them on his hands.

The twelve horsemen who were standing not far behind him saw this scene, and their faces showed a slight surprise for a moment.

They recognized that Xiao Kuang took out a pair of special "gloves" made by the Commander's Mansion, whose function was to resist sharp weapons and cutting. Because the material of this glove is extremely rare, only a few people in the Commandery's Mansion have it. Although these twelve cavalrymen are still not sure what position Xiao Kuang is in the Commander's Mansion, as soon as this black glove comes out, it can at least further prove that he is indeed a person in the Commander's Mansion.

Originally, they were still a little suspicious, when will there be monks in the Commandery's Mansion? With the appearance of not growing hair, if they walk in the Commander's Palace, they will not be impressed at all...... Even this last bit of doubt was dispelled at this point.

As a result, they are more worried about Xiao Kuang, his "own person".

The mansion that Lin Shan built in Xingjia Village was vacant three years ago, so Xiao Kuang's search for the source of the bloody qi would automatically eliminate the empty mansion.

He came to a house at the entrance of the village, and his eyes stopped for a moment on the spring couplets on both sides of the gate that were only slightly weathered, and then he walked up the doorway, leaned close to the side of the door, and stretched out a palm to pat on the door.

With the strength contained in his palm, it was enough to break the horizontal wooden latch behind the door.

Then a scene that made him feel slightly surprised appeared, the gate of this family's small courtyard was not latched at all. There was no one in the courtyard, and the door of the main house was closed, and it seemed that the door should have been closed from the outside, not the intention of the occupants.

The possibility of slaughtering the village has increased by one more point.

Xiao Kuang walked in and looked around, and frowned slightly when he came out.

The smell of blood wafted outside, but this small courtyard was very clean, and the place where the corpses were hidden was not here.

Xiao Kuang walked out, then picked up two pieces of broken tiles on the ground, and flicked them to the gate of the courtyard of a neighboring family with a raised hand. Sure enough, as expected, the people in the courtyard were empty, and the inside was clean, and the courtyard gate was just hidden. He hesitated for a moment, did not enter the empty courtyard to check, but took a few steps, and then bounced open the courtyard door of another house by throwing stones from a distance of more than a dozen steps, and the result was still the same.

It's all empty.

Was all the bodies hidden in one place, or was it too late?

If the situation falls under the former at this time. Then the ambush is very likely, and it is very likely that the person preparing the ambush is in the house where the body is hidden.

If the situation belongs to the latter, then no matter how much you look for it, it will not help. Because people have been taken away.

Xiao Kuang squinted, and just when his thoughts were a little contradictory, as if with divine help, a gust of wind suddenly blew open the door of a house opposite the pond in the village.

The house did not have a monastery wall, to be specific, only half of the wall was built to keep out the wind, and a few bundles of chopping wood were piled up under the wall, which was not enough to block the view. As soon as the door opened, the scene inside the house was clear.

Although I look inside from the outside. It will be a little blurry because of the dim light, but Xiao Kuang's family cultivation is profound, and he has been exercising unremittingly for more than ten years, and his eyesight and ear power have long been elite beyond ordinary people. He was on the side of the pond. But I can see at a glance that there are a few people lying in the room.

In broad daylight, a village inhabited by dozens of families, but the doors of every house are closed, and there is a faint smell of blood in the air, this kind of scene is obviously not normal, and it is by no means as simple as alcoholism.

Xiao Kuang did not hesitate. Immediately, but instead of going there himself, he ordered the post man and four light cavalry to stay where they were, and sent the remaining eight light cavalry to the house whose gate had been swept open by the wind. After the mission was dispatched, he himself went in the opposite direction, and went to the long-vacant house where Lin Shan lived three years ago.

He first walked around the outer wall of the house. I found out that this house was made in imitation of the one in Kyoto. According to Hayashi's style, the interior of the house should be the same as the one in Kyoto. Then he returned to the door, and his eyes fell on it, where a large iron lock hung from it. The lock has begun to rust.

With the strength of his wrist, it was not impossible to pull out the lock directly and the iron ring embedded in the door. But he didn't do it after observing it for a while, but stretched out his fingers and groped for the still smooth door, and after touching it for a moment, he suddenly bent his fingers again and suddenly pulled hard.

"Click—"

After a soft sound, a small piece of the board suddenly fell from the originally flat door panel. Above the gate, there is also a boxy gap, and the area is slightly larger than a slap. On the inside of the notch, there was nothing like secret jewelry, only several round wheels stacked on top of each other, with jagged edges, snapping together but not moving.

Unlike the rusty iron locks, the few gears that were clearly metal in the gap in the door were still as smooth as new, faintly reflecting the figure standing in front of it.

"The Heart of the Machine."

Xiao Kuang's eyebrows moved, and he couldn't help but read out the four words, but the voice was so slight that only he could hear it.

Even though it was something he was familiar with, he couldn't help but feel surprised when he saw each other after many years.

After a moment, his mind calmed down, but his face showed a look of distress.

When the Beili School was passed down to the twenty-second generation, among the three disciples of the faction, at first, because Xiao Kuang was the earliest to join the school, martial arts, chess, cooking, planning, and arithmetic, these five items could be ranked in the best position in the school, surpassing his two junior disciples. But as time passed, the two disciples grew up quickly, and the differences and biases in the wisdom of the three disciples became more and more obvious.

Although Cen Chi, who is at the bottom of the line, has no talent for martial arts, and his cooking skills are equal to a waste, his talent is all used in arithmetic, and with this way to calculate the number of chess pieces, he can often fight a draw with Xiao Kuang. If it weren't for Cen Chi's lack of liking to play chess pieces, he would have practiced hard with his talent, and it would probably not be difficult to surpass Xiao Kuang in chess skills.

Lin Shan, who ranks second in seniority, has a somewhat eccentric talent, mainly reflected in the construction of fortifications and mechanical skills. Although his cooking skills can only be evaluated as starving immortals, he can be ranked in the middle of the four items of martial arts, chess skills, operation planning, and arithmetic, compared with the previous disciples of the Beili School. He is the only one who can have both four academics to such a level, and he is the only one in the five generations of the Beili School, so much so that the old man of Beili roughly designated him as the twenty-second generation heir of the Beili School more than ten years ago.

The palm-sized box embedded in the door in front of him is one of the proud works of Lin Shan's mechanical technique. The heart of the machine is the combination of more than a dozen parts of different shapes as the starting core of a set of mechanism systems, and the whole body is moved by a single trigger.

It's just that how could he leave such a complicated and expensive thing in this abandoned village and abandoned house?

Xiao Kuang seemed to think of something, his eyes lit up slightly, and then he sighed lightly.

"Senior brother, it seems that you have calculated everything, but I just hope that things can go as smoothly as you expected." Xiao Kuang muttered. Then he bent down and picked up the fallen square board on the ground and covered it back on the door.

He thought that he would not be able to break the ban on the mechanical heart, so he would not do it, but he quickly thought of another way to find out what was going on in the house. This may require him to take some risks. But compared to unlocking the ban on the heart of the machine, this method is much simpler and more straightforward.

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"Uncle, you suddenly had an idea, and you only regarded these tens of thousands of taels of gold as a game, did you take a fancy to the account of the younger generation in Yunxia Qianzhuang?"

"Do you think I have an opinion about Yunxia Qianzhuang?"

"Just like you just said, you are draining the Yunxia Money Village, you want to see how deep it is."

"Look at what you said, in layman's terms, the boss of Yunxia Qianzhuang is my brother-in-law, why should I treat him like this."

"Because...... Because you're likely to need a huge sum of money in the near future. Although the treasury has enough money to support this consumption, it may not be completely satisfied, so you are ready to find out about the Kyoto people's reserves. ”

In the Yuwu Teahouse in the Hengtai Pavilion block, Ruan Luo and Wang Chi's chatter originally started with some trivial things in life, but as they talked, they arched to a very sensitive topic. Then the voice stopped abruptly.

If it weren't for Ruan Luo's financial support for a secret research set up by Wang Chi on an overseas island, and because he inherited his father's grace, Wang Chi might not have had the patience to talk to him about this.

Ruan Luo, who suddenly stopped speaking, was silent for a long time before he said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, juniors shouldn't be pampered and arrogant. ”

"You're not arrogant." Wang Chi shook his head lightly and said, "You would ask this, it just belongs to the normal curiosity of an ordinary person. ”

Hearing Wang Chi say this, Ruan Luo knew it very well in his heart. An emperor would not be so patient with the curiosity of every ordinary person.

Maybe it's because it's too quiet in this teahouse, and I've been with this emperor for too long this afternoon, too easy-going, so I'm gradually taking a little light on the identity issues that should have been treated at a distance.

However, just when Ruan Luo was a little at a loss and didn't know how to continue drinking tea and chatting about something that should have been very easy, he listened to Wang Chi's slow words. actually took the initiative to talk about Wei Yunhuai's matter head-on!

"I almost forgot to ask you just now," Wang Chi suddenly spoke, "Regarding the connection between Wei Yunhuai and Yunxia Qianzhuang, it was Zhe'er who told you, right?" ”

"Yes......" Ruan Luo was slightly stunned, in fact, he almost forgot about it just now. Wang Chi may not know that he knows about it.

In just a moment of unpaid work, I missed this matter, you must know that this is the emperor's private and housework! Even if you know it in your heart, you should hide it tighter. But before Wang Chi could speak, he took the first step to pull this matter out!

The most sensitive part of this matter is that most of the aspects it involves will not be too glorious, so Wang Chi is likely to be very unhappy at this time.

After Ruan Luo hesitated to say a word, before he could consider an explanation, he heard Wang Chi then ask, "When did he tell you about this?" ”

"It was about four years ago, ......" only half of the words were spoken, Ruan Luo suddenly closed his voice and changed his mouth, "This is to blame on the juniors, during those days, it rained heavily in Bo County, and the juniors and the third highness were forced to stay in the house, and they couldn't go anywhere, so the juniors pestered him to ask the east and the west." ”

"Huh." Wang Chi smiled without joy on his face, and then said, "You think I don't understand the temper of the two of you?" If the two of you can only stay in the house and don't go out, it will definitely be Zhe'er's kid who can't stay there, and then pester you to ask questions...... He took the initiative to say it, right? ”

Ruan Luo didn't speak, just lowered his head slightly, and looked at Wang Chi at this time with some fear. What else does he have to say? Wang Chi, who didn't want to say it, helped him say it.

"I do have the idea of Zha Wei Yunhuai, but it's just a matter of thought at the moment." Wang Chi sighed softly. He called his deceased wife and brother by his name in front of Ruan Luo, a junior, as if the person he was talking about was just a bystander who had nothing to do with him," ...... Because Wei Yunhuai is not easy to check, I blame me for giving him too much benefit at the beginning. ”

Although Wang Chi said it lightly, as if he really just moved his thoughts, and did not really move on this matter, Ruan Luo could already feel from his words that Wei Yunhuai was already being targeted by him. Now that he already knows that Wei Yunhuai is difficult to check, it means that he has at least tried it. It's not as simple as moving your mind.

Wei Yunhuai is afraid that he will not be able to escape Wang Chidi's inventory, and when he will start settling accounts, it is only a matter of time.

Despite all the speculations in his heart, Ruan Luo, who has rediscovered the identity problem, still has to pretend to be confused on the surface. It seemed that he just followed Wang Chi's words and asked casually: "If this is the case, then what does it mean ......for you to do this today?" ”

"Just to give him a heads-up." Wang Chi raised two fingers and slowly grinded the lid of the white porcelain teacup, and said leisurely: "At the beginning, I finally tossed a reason that could convince the Ministry of Rites and the chief official of the Ministry of Rites, made him a marquis, and grinded in the household department for a few months, and approved him to enjoy the annual agricultural tax income of the capital of Jin for his own use. Although I didn't give him the right to fight, it was useless for him to ask for that thing, An Ansheng has been a marquis for decades, and he has endless glory and wealth, so he doesn't have to work hard. The officials below the second rank of the national dynasty had to be respectful when they saw him. However, even in such a good position, he refused to settle down. ”

Hearing him say this, Ruan Luo, who was pretending to be stunned, couldn't help but show a look of surprise. He was unpredictable for a while, and Hou Wei Yunhuai of Northern Jin was in such a superior environment. For what other reason can he refuse to settle down, why can the Hou Ye, who does not have military power in his hands, refuse to settle down? In what way would Wei Yunhuai act to make the emperor in Kyoto feel that this marquis was restless?

Although Ruan Luo's questions were only asked in his heart, in the next words of Wang Chi, he could already find a clear answer.

"Do you wonder what Wei Yunhuai's motive is for doing this now? I was also very confused, and even confused about this matter, is it really so cheap that people's hearts are sometimes so cheap? It's too light, and you get good things, but you don't know how to cherish them. Wang Chi buckled the lid of the white porcelain tea cup grinding with his fingertips. The strength of the attack is a little heavy, "Jindu has given him 10% of the annual agricultural tax revenue, and he is not satisfied, and he has to swallow another 10%. If he hadn't run a money bank, I really wouldn't have had any reason to pay attention to where he got such a large amount of money to be poured into a money-losing business. ”

Ruan Luo seemed to realize something. lost his voice: "A business that loses money? ”

"Hmm......" Wang Chi pondered for a moment, not knowing whether he was hesitating or thinking of something else, he suddenly raised his eyebrows slightly, and his eyes swept out of the door. He shouted to the two guards standing outside the door, "It's time! ”

Thirteen and Fourteen outside the door did not speak, but quickly exchanged fists and palms with the monarch in the house, and with a "snap", as if answering, and then they jumped up to the roof of the house like swordfish jumping out of the water. This action came too suddenly, so that the two attendants led by Ruan Luo, who were standing outside the door with them, were stunned for a while.

Soon, there was a "bang, pop" sound from the collision of fists and feet on the roof of the second floor. It seems that someone broke a few bones, and someone stepped on the roof tiles, showing that although the fight on the roof was controlled by the same rigorous style of action of both sides of the fight, so it was not very noisy, but the scene was not necessarily not intense, and even a little tragic.

Fortunately, Wang Chi and Ruan Luo were drinking tea on the first floor, and there was an attic between them and the roof, otherwise there would be no rotten leaves and ashes accumulated on the roof and falling down, disturbing Yaxing.

Despite this, the sound of fighting on the roof was still a little noisy on the first floor of the teahouse, which can be described as cold and bleak.

Ruan Luo already understood what was happening on the roof at this time. Because considering the identity of the middle-aged man who was sitting opposite him now, as well as the personal safety of the other party, the surprise on Ruan Luo's face was difficult to suppress.

Now how can he be in the mood to talk about the affairs of Yunxia Qianzhuang, even if the news of the collapse of Yunxia Qianzhuang comes now, it will be light for him, and he is only thinking about how to ensure Wang Chi's safety now.

Looking at Wang Chi himself, he was still calm as usual, but when he saw that Ruan Luo was about to get up, he flattened the palm of his right hand and said lightly: "They beat them, let's continue to talk about ours, it's just a few mice, just catch it." ”

As soon as his words fell, he heard two heavy sounds of "bang, bang", as if something soft had fallen from the roof!

The two attendants Ruan Luo took with him, Ah Ping and Ah Tong, did not follow the thirteenth and fourteenth guards of the Forbidden Palace to the room just now, and the two of them, who were still standing at the door, saw two black cloths gently floating down from the roof, and then two people fell down heavily.

Judging from the posture of the two of them, one on their backs and the other on their sides, almost in a straight line with their bodies, they were kicked down by the two guards of the Forbidden Palace who had just jumped on the roof.

In this unfathomable posture, he hit the neatly tiled natural cyan rock slab without any unloading action, and his life was not broken, and the bones should almost be scattered.

After the two men who fell to the roof hit the ground, a stream of blood erupted from their throats, and one of them fainted instantly. The other man could still struggle and twist his body a few times, but his neck and shoulders trembled like grass broken by the wind, and he was about to die.

Thirteen and Fourteen soon landed lightly from the roof, the soles of their feet just touching the ground. The two of them had already each taken out a small box from the cuffs of their tightly cut clothes, and with a twist of their fingers, they didn't know where to pull out a silk string from the box, quickly lengthened it, and wrapped the two men on the ground who only had half a life left, and threw them in a corner shadow.

Ah Ping and Ah Tong watched this scene blankly, and when Thirteen and Fourteen finished what they were doing and walked back with their hands tied on their backs, Ah Ping came back to his senses first, opened his eyes slightly and asked, "Who are they?" ”

Thirteen and Ah Ping had a few words of exchange before. After making eye contact with Fourteen, he explained, "We didn't recognize each other either." However, on the smooth road on the ground like theirs, they prefer to sneak up on the roof. Either eavesdropping or stealing your life. We will never be soft on dealing with such people. ”

Ah Tong, who was beside Ah Ping, saw that Thirteen didn't keep his mouth shut about it, so he couldn't help but ask: "Their faces are weirdly red, maybe they are foreign visitors......"

"Brother Atong is very careful." Fourteen, who was relatively few words by nature, suddenly spoke, "In order to keep them from chewing their tongues and the toxined dentures in their mouths, Thirteen and I slapped them thirty times each. That's how your face will be. ”

Both Ping and Tong stopped talking.

They listened to the thirteen pairs of partners fourteen discuss: "These two people's kung fu is much weaker than I imagined, it is likely that there will be a successor after them, we better save our energy, don't slap the face, just plug the medicine!" ”

"It's fine." Fourteen nodded in agreement.

The sound of the four attendants outside talking to the guards was heard clearly by the two masters in the teahouse.

Ruan Luo saw that the two thieves had been easily taken down by Wang Chi's guards. The beating was miserable, and his nervous mind had been relaxed a little, but he had already moved the idea of leaving here, thinking that this place was no longer safe.

However, just as he was about to open his mouth to ask Wang Chi to leave here, he heard Wang Chi say one step ahead of him: "Yunxia Qianzhuang's operation has actually been losing money all along. It was not as it was rumored that it took only a few years to rise from a nascent industry to the top of the three silver numbers in Kyoto. It was only a position that he had piled up with his own treasury, but few businessmen were willing to do so, unless the money he threw into it was not his own, so he would not feel distressed. ”

Wang Chi actually picked up the topic that he had just talked about halfway through.

At this time, Ruan Luo was calm and continued to listen, although Wang Chi's words could be regarded as a big inside story of the operation of Yunxia Money Bank, but compared to his personal safety issues, Ruan Luo only felt that the affairs of the money bank were not important.

After a little deliberation, Ruan Luo chose the most direct way, stood up, waved his hands and said, "Uncle, please go back to the palace." ”

"You don't think it's safe here?" Wang Chi finally didn't continue to talk about Yunxia Qianzhuang, his attention shifted back to his own affairs, but he seemed to say a nonsense.

Hearing this, Ruan Luo first looked at Wang Chi in surprise for a moment, and then he repeated what he had just said: "Uncle, please return to the palace as soon as possible." ”

Facing Ruan Luo's tone that was close to urging, Wang Chi just said indifferently: "The palace may not be safe. Compared with the "nonsense" meaning of his sentence just now, what he said at the moment is equivalent to a confused word.

Ruan Luo looked at Wang Chi, and the incomprehension in his eyes was even more than before.

And at this moment, before Ruan Luo could reiterate his will again, there was another sound of clothes shaking outside. The second group of uninvited guests came, and the two guards of the forbidden palace went up to the roof again, ready to continue to lift people.

The second group of thieves came four people, and their martial arts seemed to be better than the two who came before, and Thirteen and Fourteen fought with the four men on the roof for a long time, and the broken tiles fell from the slanting eaves like rain, and smashed to the ground in a mess. After a long time, the two guards of the forbidden palace on the roof finally kicked the four thieves down again.

The four of them were still tied up with the silk thread pulled out of the small box. Thrown together with the two unconscious thieves in the corner, when Thirteen and Fourteen walked back to the door on the first floor of the teahouse with their hands tied up again, Ah Ping and Ah Tong saw that a layer of fine sweat had oozed from their foreheads. It seems that this time against the thieves, although they still won. And it also ensured that his side was not damaged at all, but it was still quite large in terms of energy consumption.

Ah Tong looked at the shadow of the corner of the wall where six thieves were curled, and the six thieves were cleaned up badly by the two Praetorian Guards, but as the fourteenth said just now, the injuries of the four people who were kicked off the roof in the back were significantly lighter than the previous two, and the cheeks on both sides were no longer red as blood from thirty slaps, only revealing a strange pale caused by rare sunlight, and a trace of strange blood on the face caused by Yan Zhan's internal injuries.

However, their injuries were slightly lighter, so they did not fall into a deep coma like the two who arrived first. But looking at the four of them, their eyes were foggy, their heads couldn't hold their balance and they were shaking, and their state was not much better, obviously they were drugged by the two Praetorian Guards, which temporarily made them incapacitated.

Ah Tong still remembers, before the two Praetorian guards jumped on the roof for the second time. They had talked that it was too much effort to paralyze the thieves' suicide with a wild slap, so they had to switch to medicine.

It's just that Ah Tong is puzzled and surprised that if the thief wants to bite the poisonous fangs embedded in his mouth, or bite off the root of his tongue directly, he may only need to open and close his mouth in an instant, because this method is fast. Therefore, many dead soldiers in the Jianghu killers are accustomed to this trick. But what is it that can have a rapid effect beyond this speed?

However, although Ah Tong was shocked, this love did not last long, because he soon realized that the two masters of the internal guard were from the palace. It's the emperor's guard again, and the emperor will only take these two people with him when he leaves the palace, so of course the resources they can use are the best in the world.

In addition to the ecstasy that seems to attack faster than snake venom, the superior resources in this world also include the ordinary-looking one. But it contains a little tricky little wooden box.

Ah Tong's gaze finally fell on the silk thread that bound the six people, which was pulled out of a small box by the two guards of the Forbidden Palace. If it weren't for the boxy shape, with their method of pulling silk, it would be as if the box was a silkworm cocoon, and the filaments could be taken inexhaustibly.

And look at the filament carefully, although in the darkness of the corner, the filament is extremely thin and not easy to be caught by the naked eye, but as the thieves struggled and shook the thread in a chaotic mental confusion, there were a few moments for Ah Tong to see the faint light reflected by the filament like a spider web after the rain.

Ah Tong was a little worried, such a filament may be broken by the strength of six people, but when he saw that the silk string seemed to be tightened with the struggle of several thieves, and the silk string in several places had been cut through the fabric of the thief's clothes like a very thin sword edge because it was too tight, oozing blood, Ah Tong seemed to understand something, so he didn't have the mind to ask more.

With the special material of this silk string, it is not said to be broken, if it is not twisted with metal objects, there is a possibility of breaking, if this silk is directly wrapped around the human body, and then so brute force to earn, the string will not break, but people's hands and feet will be strangled out of the bones.

Just when Ah Tong was stunned and pondered in his heart about the string, he listened to the two guard masters talk again.

Thirteen still said to Fourteen in a consultative tone: "If we wait for six or eight, I'm afraid it won't be so easy for us to clean up." If you can't clean it up, you can only destroy it directly, and then shouldn't we be on the dagger? ”

"It's almost." Fourteen glanced in the direction of the interior on the first floor of the teahouse, then his gaze fell back to Thirteen's face, and said with a calm expression: "Six people should be able to ask something, and those who come again can clean it up, and if it can't be done, it can only be scrapped." ”

Thirteen nodded, and then the two of them lifted the hem of their robes, and pulled out two daggers from the reverse side of the cloth that seemed to be sewn with pieces of iron, one in each hand.

When Ah Ping and Ah Tong saw this scene, they couldn't help but look at each other: it turned out that there was always a faint sound of blunt armor hitting when these two people walked, and it was for this reason! Obviously, the clothes they were wearing were not as ordinary as the coarse cotton cloth seen on the surface, and most likely it was cotton cloth with iron sheets, which was the assembly that the guards around the emperor should have