Du Rong looked at me and didn't speak.

Under the pressure of Du Rong's eyes, I decisively chose to admit defeat and confessed, "That day, when I said goodbye to the Scarlet Cherry Blossom Forest, Gu Yuancheng and I sent Jia Xin back to the Governor's Mansion, and when I was in the carriage, Jia Xin gave me a road map to go to the pawnshop of life and death, and said the name of a medicinal herb, called 'Ning Zhi'." ”

Du Rong looked at me in shock and asked, "Could it be that there are only three famous medicines left in the world, Ning Zhi?" ”

I nodded, "Yes, absolutely." ”

"So Gu Yuancheng and you took out a condensation branch in order to test this pawnshop of life and death?" Du Rong was stunned.

"I didn't take it anyway." I said it didn't matter.

"That's it, that's it." Du Rong sometimes really doesn't know what I think, when he is stingy, he even has to care about the thread, and when he is generous, he throws money and jewelry casually, such as dung, "Since that Jia Xin told you this, did you still say anything else?" For example, why the name 'Ningzhi'? And why do I say it to you? Why didn't Jia Chun come forward in person? Also, even if the condensation branch is a rare and precious medicinal material in the world, it cannot be worth five million taels anyway, and five million taels may be worth something else. The two are so coincidental that there must be some connection between them. ”

I shook my head helplessly, "Although Jia Xin is still young, his tone is extremely tight, and Gu Yuancheng and I are not easy to use, so I didn't ask anything." ”

Du Rong lowered his head and pondered for a while, then asked, "Do you know that anyone in the Governor's Mansion is sick?" Or Jia Chun's relatives and friends, who are very seriously ill and need the flavor of medicinal herbs such as condensation branches? ”

I still shook my head, "I also thought about this, but I sent someone to check Jia Chun's mansion, Jia Chun's mother, wife, and children, none of them showed signs of serious illness, and Jia Chun had no relatives or friends at all." ”

Du Rong frowned and stood up, "That's weird......"

"What did Jia Chun do before? Why did Jia Xin mention the condensation branch? How did the money embezzled in Jiangnan get to the pawnshop of life and death? I muttered alone.

Silence remained in the wings.

"Suppose that there was indeed a person in the Doge's Mansion who was seriously ill, and that man was in dire need of the only three branches left in the world." What about this condensation branch, one is in the palace of Qinguo, the other is in the palace of Qiguo, and only one is still missing......"

Du Rong's eyes widened, and he seemed to understand something.

"Are you saying that Jia Chun actually took off the branch that was missing, and now he needs the branch, knowing that the pawnshop of life and death has it, he plans to redeem it, but he didn't expect to be grabbed by them and blackmailed, so Jia Chun asked his subordinates to increase taxes privately, and all the money obtained was moved into the pocket of the pawnshop of life and death?"

I nodded.

"That's not necessarily the truth." Du Rong said, "Although the truth makes sense, there are too many loopholes, for example, with Jia Chun's wrist, he can completely seal the pawnshop of life and death and take away the condensation branch, but why didn't he?" Why did the pawnshop of life and death think that Jia Chun would be obediently at the mercy of them because of a condensation branch? And the biggest loophole in this is that there are no seriously ill people in the Governor's Mansion at all, and Jia Chun has no reason to need condensation. ”

"What if there is?" I looked at Du Rong, "What if there is, but they hide it?" ”

Du Rong looked at me, and something flashed in his eyes.

"If there is, then we'll find out, but before we do, we have another thing to do."

"What?" I wondered.

Du Rong didn't say anything, just said, "Go downstairs." Then he went downstairs first.

Is there any "trick" in this to fix me?

Pouting, I followed.

This one, followed to the edge of a huge lake.

"This is Qiyuan Lake, the largest lake in the south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time the most beautiful." Du Rong stood by the blue lake and looked at me and smiled lightly.

Qiyuan Lake is really big, so big that at a glance, it is boundless. The clear water of the lake floats with countless ripples in the breeze, and it is the setting sun at this time, and the soft glow splashes along the lake from the end of the sky, and the layers of ripples from far and near, flashing different colors of glow.

Du Rong stood in front of this lake, and a little smile came out of his eyes, as if it was connected to Qiyuan Lake, which made me stunned.

"Little Green Branch?" Du Rong shook his hand in front of my eyes. Yunnan

I snapped back to my senses and coughed dryly, and I disguised my gender and opened my eyes.

Du Rong pretended not to understand why I was stunned, and pulled me to a small attic by the lake. It wasn't until I got into the attic that I asked, "You brought me here, but what's the matter?" Say, I'll listen. ”

Du Rong looked at me inexplicably, "Why do you ask?" ”

"Because," I smiled, "nothing to do, nothing to do, either a traitor or a thief." ”

"Really?" Du Rong tasted the dim sum brought up by Xiao Er.

"Don't beat around the bush, or I won't listen." I took a bite of the pastry from his hand.

"Okay, okay." Du Rong straightened his color and said, "The previous Shangyuan Festival, you spent it in Tuzhou in vain, and this year, are you willing to come to my Qizhou City and see the Shangyuan Scene of my Qizhou City?" ”

I was surprised, "That's it?" ”

Du Rong nodded, "That's it." ”

"Okay, I'm bored anyway, I'm bored by myself, I can just have some fun with you, and I can also take this opportunity to meet Master and Master." I readily agreed.

"You won't break your promise this time, will you?" Du Rong looked at me suspiciously.

Seeing that he doubted my personality so much, I was instantly angry.

"Du Rong, do you know what it means to be a soldier but not to be humiliated? Do you say I'm going to break my word, or 'again'? ”

Du Rong was unmoved in the face of my accusation, and said lightly, "In the White Crane Academy, did you make an agreement with me to give me the first place in the White Crane Academy once?" ”

"Like, there seems to be such a thing." I'm a little weak-hearted, and even my voice is a lot quieter.

"As a result, you have continuously contracted all the first places in the White Crane Academy except for the martial arts class, and I have been in the second place until I left the academy." Du Rongpi looked at me with a smile.

Not to be outdone, I quibbled, "That's the master's problem, I handed in all the blank papers!" ”

"And then you accidentally spilled ink on my and Hewei's rolls?"

"This ...... Accident, absolute accident. "I'm sure.

"One night, you said that you wanted me to accompany you to clean up a few classmates who laughed at you during the day, and asked me to wait for you in the yard first, and then go in together after you went in to find out the news, but I blew in the cold wind all night, but you talked and laughed with those classmates all night." Du Rong squinted.

"I didn't mean to, that day the master arrested me when I just climbed over the wall and entered, and he punished me for having to let those people understand all the meanings of the "Treatise on Strategy" before dawn, and I didn't know that they all bowed to the pigs, and it took a night to barely remember all the meanings." I hurriedly explained.

Du Rong didn't listen to me at all, and asked with a smile, "Xiao Qingzhi, have you ever been punished for cleaning the toilet in the White Crane Academy?" ”

I looked at his meaningful eyes, hesitated, and nodded slowly.

"You told me that you helped me compile the entire bibliography of the Book Pavilion, and I came to clean the latrine for you for a month, and what was the result?"

I didn't dare to look up at Du Rong, so I picked up the tea and drank it pretendedly, as if I hadn't heard the question he asked me.

Du Rong sneered, "As a result, I cleaned the toilet for you for a month, but you didn't even write a page of the catalog of the library, and I was also punished by the master for cleaning the toilet for a month." ”

"What an accident!" I want to cry without tears" It's Jiang Hewei, he has to pull me to accompany him to practice martial arts, saying that I am too weak, I am too thin, I am too ...... I couldn't beat him, and he dragged me away from the library every morning, and when I went back in the evening, I was paralyzed on the bed, and it hurt to move, so the book matter was delayed. ”

"And what about that incident three years ago? How do you explain that? Du Rong seemed to be a little angry this time, "We said that after we came out of the White Crane Academy, we would travel the mountains and rivers together, but you became a staff member in the emperor's palace in a blink of an eye." ”

I stiffened, bowed my head and didn't speak.

Du Rong took a deep breath to calm his emotions.