The Xu family.

After Xu Sheng returned home, he stopped as soon as he entered the door, he opened his hands, and his wife and maid hurriedly went over to help him take off his coat and robe.

The fire in this room is very strong, and the cold outside is like two worlds.

The maid brewed the tea for Xu Sheng, and then stepped aside.

Madame asked eagerly, "What did General Wubei say?" ”

Xu Sheng waved his hand to signal the maids to go out, and when he and his wife were left in the room, he shook his head and said, "I really didn't expect that it would not be so easy to deal with a wild boy." ”

He sat down and took a sip of hot tea.

"The relationship between this wild boy and Xiahou Zhuo is indeed too close, and General Wubei also knows it, and that wild boy just went to Yanshan with Prince Yu a few days ago, and he has only been back for a few days."

His wife was stunned and seemed to be a little dissatisfied.

"General Wubei has taken a lot of benefits from us, how can he not even help with this little favor? When the old man drove Tang away, it was easy. ”

In these words, on the surface, it sounds like General Wubei is not close to people, but in fact, he is complaining that his husband has not done things well, in her opinion, to deal with a wild boy with no way to come from a humble background, isn't it just a gesture?

"You know what."

Hearing the meaning of his wife's words, Xu Sheng's face was a little ugly.

He looked at his wife and said, "General Wubei said a few things, and I don't know if he doesn't say it...... The first thing, Xiahou Zhuo gave a group of people in the Tsing Yi array to Li Qi, which was considered to have given him a group of bodyguards to escort him, and those people in the Tsing Yi array were all murderers. ”

"The second thing, Prince Yu does attach great importance to Li Qi, which is put aside first, and the most important thing is that Prince Wu cares about Li Qi's master very much, Prince Wu believes in the set of fortune-telling things, and Li Qi's master should have deceived Prince Wu."

"The third thing...... The people of General Wubei's Mansion were put into the city because of negligence, and some mountain bandits made trouble in the city and killed a lot of people. ”

After hearing this, the lady sighed: "A wild boy, why is he so good?" ”

Xu Sheng said: "But General Wubei gave me a wake-up call...... He said that if he wanted to suppress Li Qi, why should he be in a hurry? ”

Madame asked curiously: "But didn't the master say before, the longer it drags on, the more likely it is that Li Qi will be valued by Prince Yu, and it will be even more difficult to do it." ”

"I thought the same thing, but after General Wubei reminded me, I think he has some truth."

Xu Sheng looked at his wife and said, "What he means is that both Lin'er and Li Qi still have to study in the academy anyway, and there are still a few years to finish their studies, and there is an opportunity to get rid of him in these years, so why bother to get rid of him at this time?" ”

"The most important thing is that General Wubei said that when the academy is closed, Dean Gao will recommend talents, and the first one will really recommend Li Qi? This is in response to the saying on the rivers and lakes, people can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes......"

He smiled and said, "No matter how good Li Qi's grades are, when he recommends talents, Dean Gao will rank Li Qi behind." ”

Xu Sheng took a sip of tea and continued: "With General Wubei's reminder, I thought of another way, if I am not in a hurry to get rid of the people who are being favored, then what is the best way?" ”

He took the lid and wiped it on the teacup, wiping off the floating tea leaves.

"That is to slowly make Prince Yu disgusted with him."

Xu Sheng said: "I think of a way to slowly make this person's reputation more and more stinky, it is best that one day in the future, the prince will forget this person, and it just so happens that the prince is not in Jizhou City......"

Madame snorted: "Listen to the master." ”

Outside the door, Xu Qinglin, who was just about to come in, happened to hear these words, he was silent for a while and then turned around and left, without entering the house again.

Back in his room, the more Xu Qinglin thought about it, the more he felt that he was angry, if his grades were worse than Li Qi, his self-esteem could be tolerated, but Gao Xining and Li Qi had a close relationship, which made him feel more and more unacceptable the more he thought about it.

You can't think too much about this kind of thing, the more you think about it, the more dirty it will become, and the more dirty it is, the more angry you will become.

Speaking of which, he is not a person who is not so open-minded, otherwise, what is the difference between him and Sun Rugong?

It's just because of Gao Xining's affairs that his jealousy has begun to make him unrecognizable.

Hearing what his parents said just now, it probably meant that General Wubei's Mansion didn't plan to help, and without the help of General Wubei's Mansion, his father would not be able to charge Li Qi with fornicating with the rebels.

"Finished material."

Xu Qinglin suddenly shouted out of the door.

There are four scholars who are serving him closely, and they are also his personal guards, and the names of the four people have a character in their names, Chengcai, Achievement, Chenglin, and Chengxiang.

The age difference between these four scholars is about five or six years, the oldest is almost twenty, and the youngest Cheng Xiang is three years older than Xu Qinglin.

Cheng Cai heard his son-in-law's shout and hurriedly pushed the door in, leaned over and said, "What does the son command?" ”

Xu Qinglin said: "Close the door, I have something very important for you to do." ”

Chengcai closed the door, approached Xu Qinglin and leaned over and said, "Childe just commands." ”

Xu Qinglin asked, "I heard you say last time, you seem to know some people in the dark path?" ”

Chengcai hurriedly lowered his voice and replied, "Yes, who is Childe going to deal with?" ”

"Li Qi."

Xu Qinglin said: "You go to contact someone, that guy has good martial arts, it's best to find some masters, clean hands and feet, don't bother me." ”

Chengcai asked, "Master...... Does the lord know about this? ”

Xu Qinglin glanced at him, and wanted to scold a few words, but suddenly smiled and said: "Chengcai, didn't you say before that you want to join the company in the future?" I'll help you talk to your father when you go back, you go to Prince Yu's Mansion to do things first, which can be regarded as a front stop for me, and when I get there, I can take care of it. ”

Chengcai's face suddenly became happy, and a clever person like him naturally understood what Childe meant.

"I know a fellow villager who works in Yijitang, does Childe know what Yijitang does?"

Xu Qinglin said: "Isn't it a chess hall?" ”

Cheng Cai's voice was lower, and he almost whispered in Xu Qinglin's ear: "Childe, almost all the killers in Jizhou City have to find work in their own hall, especially when the rebels turn the city upside down, their jobs are even more difficult to find, after all, there are not many people in the city who need them." ”

"In the past, if you kill someone, you will have to pay dozens of taels at the worst, but now you can kill someone and give them ten taels of silver, and if the person you kill is not easy to deal with, you can hire a good killer with fifty hundred taels."

He said in a well-informed tone: "Two hundred taels, you can hire the best killer." ”

Xu Qinglin got up, opened the drawer, took out a few silver tickets from it and handed them over: "This is one thousand taels, I don't care how many people you hire to come, I want to know that Li Qi is dead as soon as possible." ”

Chengcai took the silver ticket and leaned over and said, "Don't worry, son, I'm going to see my fellow countryman." ”

Ichijido is indeed a chess hall.

The people in Jizhou City all know that those old gentlemen in their own hall are close to the saints.

Originally, when the rebellion was not so serious, there would often be chess players from all over the Great Chu who would challenge Yitang, but no one could win the chess.

About six or seven years ago, Dean Gao also went to visit, and talked with one of the old men in Yiji Hall for two and a half hours, and finally admitted defeat.

Four years ago, there was a chess master from the capital, and the first thing he did after arriving in Jizhou City was to go to Yijitang, this person's identity in the court can be called prominent, so he came in disguise, he loves to play chess the most, and is known as the first chess in Dachu, but he only played a draw in Yijitang.

This is also the only draw since the establishment of Yijitang.

The world only knows that there are a few undefeated old chess players in Yijitang, but they don't know that Yijitang is also a terrifying force that controls almost the entire Northern Secret Path Killer.

Even when the Jizhou Mansion was looking for a killer, he also found it from his own hall.

Yao Wuxian, the killer who has now joined Prince Yu's disciples, is one of the killers in Yitang.

If you really want to ask what the oldest profession in the world is, killers should be counted as one of them.

One of the countrymen who became a fellow in Yitang was very shrewd, so he was quite appreciated, and he had just come into contact with the killer business the year before.

He and Chengcai boasted when they drank in private, if this kind of thing is not bragging, it is really difficult to hold back.

Chengcai didn't dare to enter Yiyitang, he always felt that the place looked gloomy from the outside, he found out his fellow villager Liu Ying, and then found a teahouse to talk.

"This is eight hundred taels of silver tickets."

Chengcai pushed the silver ticket over, lowered his voice and said, "Don't ask who the patron is, these eight hundred taels of silver cost a person's life, is it enough?" ”

Cheng Cai said with a smile: "Now the market price, eight hundred taels, is enough for the lives of dozens of people, if it is a big person, it is naturally another matter." ”

"It's not a big man, it's just a disciple of the Four-Page Academy, who studied in Jiazitang and is named Li Qi."

"That won't cost eight hundred taels."

"This man has extraordinary martial arts, although he is not very old, but he is very tricky."

Cheng Cai said: "You must find a master, an absolute master, if you can't kill it with one blow, this may be very involved, and I will have a big deal at that time." ”

Liu Ying nodded: "Two hundred taels can hire a top master, I will hire two for you, and the remaining four hundred taels, I will not hide it from you, I will keep two hundred taels for myself, and the other two hundred taels, find four more helpers for the two of them, if the six killers can't kill a disciple of the academy, then what else is there to mix?" ”

Chengcai nodded: "I don't care how much you deduct from it, things must be done." ”

"Don't worry."

Liu Ying got up and said, "I'll go and arrange it for you now." ”

Not long after, Liu Ying returned to Yijitang, although he had been able to get in touch with the killer's business, but after all, he was a young man, and he naturally couldn't talk to the higher-ups, so he could only find his superior, that is, Wang Deng, the steward of Yijitang.

After Liu Ying knocked on the door, she cautiously entered Wang Deng's room, accompanied by a smiling face, and put the silver ticket of six hundred quantities of silver on the table.

"Uncle Wang, I just took over a business, there is a son from a big man's family, he bid six hundred taels, to hire two top killers, four second-class killers, to kill a disciple of the Four Pages Academy, the target name is Li Qi, about thirteen years old."

"Huh?"

Wang Dengleng paused: "Six hundred taels to kill a disciple of the academy?" Is it tricky? ”

"It is said that the martial arts are good, and it has something to do with Prince Yu's Mansion, so it seems like an accident."

"Got it, you get out."

Wang Deng waved his hand, and Liu Ying hurriedly bowed and retreated.

After a while, Wang Deng took the silver ticket to the backyard and asked to see an old chess player, he said respectfully outside the door, and then entered the door with great humility.

"Mr. Yu, I took over a business, and someone offered four hundred taels to hire a top-level killer and several second-class killers, and the goal was to kill the disciple of the Four Pages Academy, named Li Qi."

The old man nodded and said, "You go to the distribution hall and let them pick people, and the silver ticket will be credited to the account." ”

"Yes."

Wang Deng bowed down and turned to go out.