The night dome was dark, and a crescent moon was hidden in the clouds.

On the second watch, the Nanyuan Kagura Hou Mansion was full of lights.

Wan Li and Lei Huan faced the flower drinking hall, pushing the cup and changing the lamp in front of the table of the four legs and eight immortals of the abducted dragon, talking and laughing.

In the hall, the apricot red water sleeves flew in the air, and the four dancers were dressed in exotic costumes, with a flat and smooth lower abdomen exposed between the sequined wrap chest and the long skirt, and they were frequently shaking their soft and boneless waists to perform hard, and their figures were graceful.

The flower hall is fragrant and charming, and the orchestral silk and bamboo around it are endless.

Drinking another glass of wine, Wan Li's fair cheeks were slightly flushed, his eyes were squinted, and the luster under his eyes was slightly drunk:

"This time, Wu Yong did not do well, and almost caused the Shenhou Mansion to steal chickens and rice. Fortunately, Dao Chang, you took into account the overall situation and endured the pain, so you didn't let Dongchang and the imperial court catch any tricks for Wanjia. ”

Lei Huan raised his glass with a solemn expression:

"It's also Wu Yong's own incompetence, and it is the destiny of heaven to end up like this, and he has nothing to do with others."

Wan Li nodded, and looked at Lei Huan with a light look in his eyes:

"In the future, the Taoist will serve my family, and Benhou will naturally not be able to treat you badly. Thinking of coming to quell the rebellion in the Hidden Mountain, the Taoist chief has contributed a lot behind his back, and he will be rewarded for meritorious deeds in the Golden Palace, and Benhou will think more about the Taoist chief. ”

Lei Huan said with a smile:

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, people who are poor and don't practice are not greedy for yellow and white things, and it is their responsibility to share your worries and solve problems for Master Hou, but it's just ......"

Lei Huan suddenly dropped the cup, his slightly drooping face was obscure, as if he wanted to speak and stopped.

Seeing this, Wan Li waved his hand and retreated from the dancing girl, leaned forward and asked Lei Huan:

"What's so difficult about the Taoist chief, but it's okay to talk about it."

Lei Huan shook his head slowly, his long eyebrows twisted:

"Gu Di is Hongzun's most proud disciple, his martial arts attainments are unfathomable, and he is used to captivating people's souls with the sound of the flute, how could he be captured and killed by Dongchang so easily this time?"

"Gu flute?"

Wan Li repeated, his expression puzzled.

Lei Huan hurriedly explained:

"Master Hou doesn't know that the rebel leader hidden in the Imperial Mausoleum of Yinshan this time is 'Gu Di'. This person was adopted by Hongzun since he was a child, because he was unique in music, so he was able to pass on the flute skills of sound killing by Hongzun. And this person's background is mysterious, the mask never leaves his face, and ordinary people don't know his true face and name, 'Gu Di' is still the name given to him by Hongzun. ”

Wan Li lightly flicked the wine glass with two fingers, pondered carefully along with Lei Huan's words, and said to himself in a deep voice:

"It is true that as the Taoist chief said, no one has ever seen Gu Di's true face, and the corpse that Leng Qingtang brought into the palace that day, there is no evidence to prove that he is Gu Di himself......"

Lei Huan answered:

"There's another thing that I still can't figure out. At that time, the black array of the Swift Tower was broken, and the poor road found a silver needle of Hongzun's palm flute from the tower, which was the key to open the Kunhuang Underground Palace, which was extremely important.

Since Hongzun intended to pass it on to his beloved disciple Gu Di, how did Tu Duxue, the secret guard of the East Factory, gain Gu Di's trust in just half a year, so that he could give such an important thing to her? This...... It's really hard to explain it! ”

"It does ......"

Wan Li's eyes widened in surprise, his eyes were shocked like torches, and he was silent for a while before he spoke faintly:

"Leng Qingtang has always done things without leakage, and the emperor believes in him the most, but right now, Ben Hou really can't think of any reason to let Leng Qingtang do something that deceives the monarch?"

Lei Huan's eyebrows burned, and he suddenly became impatient:

"Master Hou, regardless of the truth or falsity of Gu Di's death, where is Hongzun's palm flute now? When Tu Duxue left the Swift Tower, he was found by the Admiral of Xichang, is the flute still in the hands of the Ming Governor? ”

Wan Li's eyes turned left and right in a hurry, and he raised his hand to assert:

"Xichang Admiral Minglan is a person in the palace of the imperial concubine, and he will never deliberately hide anything from Niangniang and Benhou. The things that the Taoist chief cares about should be in the hands of Leng Qingtang in Dongchang, if it weren't for the fact that the former Japanese Hou went to the eldest sister's palace to see someone, he wouldn't know that there was indeed a problem between Leng Qingtang and the secret guard Tu Duxue! ”

Lei Huan was shocked, and the sharp falcon's eyes were shining:

"What? It's actually in ......."

Wan Li waved his hand on the opposite side, and the sword eyebrows of the knife cut rose, full of confidence:

"Don't be impatient, don't be impatient, there is that person in Yongning Palace, I am not afraid that the commander of the Dongchang will not return to the palm of the hand, then the treasure map and the secret key are complete, and the emperor can go to Kunhuang in person to explore the underground palace to find treasures."

Lei Huan's tense facial muscles relaxed slightly, and he raised his hand to stroke his forehead:

"That's very good...... In addition, Poor Dao fought with a person in the Swift Tower that day, because the person's facial features were blocked by a golden mask, and Poor Dao did not see his face, but took advantage of the lack of mood of the person to get a clue to find the identity of that person. ”

With that, Lei Huan took out a page of rice paper from the wide sleeve pocket of his robe and unfolded it.

On the paper is a portrait of a general, with clear facial features and a long spear in his armour.

Lei Huan handed the portrait to Wan Li and said:

"This is the portrait that the poor road found in the state of mind of the person who broke the formation, and then painted it according to the memory. Master Hou, do you recognize this person? ”

Wan Li took the portrait and only glanced at it, and his stunned and slightly frightened eyes locked on a certain point on the painting, and exclaimed:

"This man...... Could it be him? ”

At the same time, the East Factory——

Hearing the rumors outside, Leng Qingtang's expression froze, and his warm fingertips touched Gu Yunxi's smooth cheeks, and he smiled helplessly:

"I'll go to the West Courtyard to take a look, you've been too tired for the past two days, let's rest first."

"I'll go with you!"

Gu Yunxi didn't think about it, and stood up from the chair.

She knew that Wu Yong was the common name of Daoist Wu, and she also knew that Dongchang had already sent secret guards to Nanyuan to squat in order to get him as an important witness.

It was that day when Wanli wanted to kill Wu Yong with poisonous wine, the secret guards of the East Factory secretly exchanged the poisoned wine with fake death medicine and wine, so as to retrieve Wu Yong's life from the mass grave.

Leng Qingtang had no way to take the stubborn girl, and seeing that she was in a good mental state, he nodded and agreed.

The lights were turned on in front of the guards, and the three of them went all the way to the east wing of the west courtyard and pushed the door in.

The fire in the room was dim, and Shi Lei, the head of the seven stops in the small room, was sitting at the table, with a solemn face, and his subordinates stood at the head of the bed.

Seeing the overseer and the cloud girl coming, Shi Lei got up and saluted the overseer with Fanwei.

Leng Qingtang's gloomy eyes glanced at the bedside and asked:

"When a person wakes up, what can he explain?"

Shi Lei smiled lightly and turned his head, the tails of his eyes were tilted up, and his eyes followed the overseer's gaze:

"When I woke up, I woke up, and when I found out that the person was now in the East Factory, I immediately stood up and didn't say a word."

Leng Qingtang's eyebrows were disdainful, and he walked from one wall to the other and said:

"It's good to stand up to the corpse, there is a way to make the corpse speak."

Gu Yunxi followed the overseer to the bedside, and saw that the person lying upright on the bed was covered with his hair scattered, and his face and body were dirty. distinguishing the facial features, there is no doubt that it is Wu Daoshi.

At this moment, he closed his eyes and pursed his lips, his calm facial expression was a little stiff, obviously trying his best to suppress the panic in his heart, it was really funny and ridiculous.

Gu Yunxi blinked, looked at Fan Wei and asked:

"You really can't wake up?"

Fan Wei replied: "The dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, but he can bear it, and he has no reaction when he scratches his armpits and soles of his feet." ”

Gu Yunxi laughed, rubbed his nose and looked at Leng Qingtang, turned around and sat on the edge of the bed.

Stretched out his hand and pushed the sloppy man on the bed, and called:

"Hey, wake up. Wu Yong, you get up. ”

The person in the bed can indeed pretend to be dead, neither breathing nor opening his eyes.

Gu Yunxi tilted his head to take a look, immediately raised his hand, and his two fingers fell down sharply, towards Wu Yong's right waist.

The person on the bed immediately opened his eyes and mouth, the whites of his eyes protruded in his round eyes, and he laughed loudly like a demonic barrier, rolling back and forth on the bed, struggling.

"Oh, let me go...... It's so numb, itchy......"

Wu Yong laughed and shouted uncontrollably while rolling, and immediately shouted:

"Oh my mother, I bite my tongue! Please, unlock the acupuncture points for the poor path......"

It was almost an hour, Gu Yunxi got up, his eyes were blazing at Wu Yong, and his two fingers quickly hit his lower back.

Wu Yong immediately returned to his normal state, his crazy body no longer had any strength, and his limbs were crawling on the bed, "snorting, snorting" and panting for a long time, before recovering his strength and slowly moving his hands, wiping the secretions oozing from his nose and mouth.

Gu Yunxi smiled coldly and raised his voice:

"Wu Yong, look up at me, do you still recognize me?"

Wu Daoshi was panting, sweating profusely and sticking to the strands of dirty hair, a pair of small soybeans had a dazzle in their eyes, and he slowly raised his head to look at Gu Yunxi weakly, and was stunned for a moment, then showed a look of surprise:

"You, you're not...... The eldest aunt in the palace? ”

Gu Yunxi hooked his lips:

"Hehe, you have some memory."

Daoist Wu suddenly realized, and his index finger trembled towards Gu Yunxi:

"You're really working hard for Dongchang!"

"What about you?"

Gu Yunxi's expression was calm, and he took over the conversation:

"Do you remember who you've been working for all these years? For whom was born and died, and what fate did it end, and where was it finally found by our East Factory? ”

The speed of the questioning was not hurried or slow, and the words were sonorous.

Wu Yong raised his eyes to look at the girl with a cold face, and then quickly lowered his head, already suppressed by her awe-inspiring momentum, he just shrank at the head of the bed, his eyebrows embarrassed.

Leng Qingtang took the opportunity to take a step forward and said in a rambling voice:

"Wu Yong, you should understand that this governor has sent seven detachments to lurk in the Kagura Marquis Mansion day and night for several days. If it weren't for Shi Block's timely action to exchange Wanli's poisonous wine, you would have been dead by now, and the corpse would be fed to wild dogs on the mass grave! ”

Daoist Wu's body trembled and he was silent.

Gu Yunxi crossed his waist with one hand and continued to beat:

"You have worked for the Wanjia family for more than ten years, and single-handedly plotted the demonic words of the imperial concubine to frame Concubine Yu and the imperial heir, but you didn't expect that you would end up with a rabbit and a dog, right?"

The dark light in Daoist Wu's lowered eyes flashed for a long time, as if he was entangled and speculated. After another moment, he opened his mouth slightly, and his voice was as small as a mosquito flapping its wings:

"You, you saved the poor road, it's nothing more than that I know too many things in the Wanjia, Yu Dongchang...... There is still use value. ”

"Indeed!"

Leng Qingtang's eyebrows were raised, his lips were sparse and smiling, and his phoenix eyes locked on Wu Yong's dejected and depressed face, and his eyes were dark and lukewarm:

"The Governor also behaves differently from all manners, and the Governor takes advantage of you, but the Governor says that he will let you go, and he will not hurt your life again."

Daoist Wu raised his head slowly, and the brilliance in his eyes was bright, as if he had captured a glimmer of hope for survival. It's just that at this moment, his vigilance is still there, and his mouth is tightly closed and he still refuses to speak.

Gu Yunxi narrowed his eyes, his pink lips moved, and his chin raised slightly, adding:

"Wu Yong, you have to think clearly, this is your last chance. You are already in Dongchang, and you are a criminal who is wanted to be arrested by the emperor's dictation, whether you can save yourself depends on your performance! ”

After a moment of silence, Daoist Wu slowly straightened up, sat cross-legged on the bed and patted the bed board with his hand, and said with a wry expression:

"That's it, Zuo is just that he turned his face and didn't recognize people, and Lei Huan crossed the river and demolished the bridge. Since they have been unkind to me, blame me for being unjust to them. ”

Leng Qingtang and Gu Yunxi looked at each other and smiled, and turned to stare at Daoist Wu.

At this time, a guard moved to sit on a chair, Leng Qingtang sat down in a robe, and Zhengse interrogated:

"Say, how did you run for him for ten years of working for Wanjia, where did the silver flow into, and how much did you get?"

Daoist Wu was shocked when he heard this, his wet forehead once again revealed dense sweat, and he kept waving his hand at Leng Qingtang, and his demeanor was humble:

"Wanjia ordered the Li family to start by ship, and the trading on the Ming Road involves silk, pearls, ceramics, and tea.

Today's Dayi, the east, west, north and south trade prosperity of no less than 20, in the north of Hebei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huiyuan area is famous, its chamber of commerce a total of 11 households, six chambers of commerce have already been bought by 10,000 households, the remaining five by Wanli with violent coercion, big drop in the price of goods, goods and other shameless means, or to attract or coerce merchants to leave the meeting, and finally swallowed the disobedient. ”

Leng Qingtang heard this interjection:

"Four years ago, Elder Qiu of the Ezhou Mingtai Chamber of Commerce fell violently, and he was also the black hand of the Wanli faction, right?"

"Yes, yes!"

Daoist Wu echoed and nodded like pounding garlic:

"Elder Qiu is a rigid person, that year Wan Li tried every means to catch his line, wanted to use his way to develop the power of the Salt Gang, and specialized in selling official salt privately to collect money for thousands of families, but who knew that Elder Qiu refused.

Wan Li became angry and murderous, and then straightened the puppet elder. ”

Leng Qingtang fiddled with the wrench ring in his hand with two fingers, and when he listened carefully, he looked sideways slightly, his eyes were ethereal as if he had no roots, and he gently fell to Shi Lei, who was writing hard in front of the bookcase, intentionally or unintentionally.

Gu Yunxi's light eyes flashed, and he made a straight face at Daoist Wu, and asked in a hard voice:

"According to you, Wan Li earns a lot of silver taels a year. However, the accounts in Jinsheng's pawnshop with your 'Wu Laiye' as the signature of the East Factory have been carefully checked, and it is only about four million taels per year. said, where did the rest of the silver go, did he Wanli have other stolen goods?! ”

Daoist Wu's watery whole body suddenly stood still as if he had been fixed, the black pupils in his deep eyes shrank suddenly, and a trace of aggressive light flashed, so fast that it was impossible to catch.

He shook his head suddenly, smiled at Gu Yunxi, and said flatteringly:

"No, no, please believe in the poor way, now that I have been reduced to such a field, I will answer truthfully whatever you ask, and there is no deception. The Jinsheng pawnshop is indeed the only nest point of Wanjia, for many years, Wan Li has collected a steady stream of money and silver from the south and north of the Dayi Tiannanhaibei, and some of them are gathered in the Jinsheng pawnshop, in addition to the Wan's squandering is used to dot the palace......"

"How much money is left, and where is it going?!"

Leng Qingtang clenched his fists slightly, and his eyes burst out with sharp eyes.

The truth that Dongchang has been searching for for several years is in front of you, and as long as you take one more step, it is within reach.