Li Xihua can ride a horse will be light, one night from Zhenjiang to Jiangning without difficulty, Wu Yuanming and his family and Kong Xingyu family do not have this ability, September 12 from Zhenjiang, September 14 night only arrived at the Jiangning suburbs of the swallow rock, this swallow rock because the stone peak abrupt river, three sides of the sky, if the swallow wings want to fly and get the name. Because it was getting late, even if they arrived at Jiangning City, they couldn't enter the city, and in desperation, Wu Yuanming and Kong Xingyu's family had to temporarily dock at the Hongji Temple Wharf near Yanziji, and spent the night on the boat waiting for dawn.

The river is surging, the bright moon is in the sky, the river surface is sparkling, the river sails are dotted, in the face of such a beautiful scenery, it is the time for couples to mix oil in the honey before the moon, and Wu Yuanming is of course - of course, he is very unhappy! There is no other reason, because Wu Yuanming, in line with the principle of creating an opportunity to ease the relationship with Mu Wangfu, wanted to call Mu Meng on the deck in the middle of the night to contact his feelings, but he didn't want Mu Meng to excuse himself to rest in the middle of the night, and he didn't want to be alone with Wu Yuanming. But at this moment, the gentle voice of the eldest lady of the Confucian Mansion sounded behind her again, "Wu Gongzi, what are you thinking about again?" ”

"No, just look at the night view." Wu Yuanming reacted quickly this time, turned around quickly, and bowed deeply to Miss Kong, who was standing silently behind him. Miss Kong's face was still covered with a thin veil, seeing that Wu Yuanming was so nervous, the veil on Miss Kong's face trembled slightly, and she seemed to be smiling on the veil, Miss Kong said with a smile: "The bright moon and flowing water, the ancient temples in the deep mountains, are indeed beautiful, in this case, why don't Wu Gongzi invite those two girls to come up and enjoy the scenery together?" ”

"Invited, they want to rest, kick me out of the cabin." Wu Yuanming replied with a wry smile. Miss Nakong covered her lips slightly, and said with a smile: "Those two young ladies really don't understand the amorous style, such a beautiful day, they even refuse to admire the moon with their lovers?" disappointed Wu Gongzi's kindness. ”

"They and I are just ordinary friends, not a couple." Wu Yuanming hurriedly explained. Miss Kong whispered "oh" and lowered her head shyly, Wu Yuanming wanted to say a few polite words to her, but found that he couldn't find a word in front of this elegant and quiet Miss Kongfu, and couldn't help but shut his mouth. And that Miss Kong didn't speak anymore, just lowered her head in the light moonlight, stood quietly and solemnly, her body was so hazy that it was like not eating fireworks in the world, as if her whole body was filled with fairy energy, in front of such a simple and refined girl, Wu Yuanming could only look at this girl who looked like an empty valley orchid as he did that day, and was so nervous that he didn't even dare to come out.

After being cold for a long time, Miss Kong suddenly said softly: "Wu Gongzi, I've known each other for a long time, and you haven't asked my name yet." Could it be that in the eyes of Wu Gongzi, there is no place for a little girl? Wu Yuanming was stunned at first, and then said nervously: "Really...... I'm so sorry I haven't had a chance to ask you questions, Miss...... No, please. Speaking of this, Wu Yuanming finally regained some calm, and quickly asked, "Dare to be famous for Miss Kong?" How old is it? Have you ever been married...... No...... This issue is cancelled. ”

"Confucian women can't be named according to the genealogy, the little girl has a single name, and she will be nineteen years old in six days." Kong Yuan gently answered Wu Yuanming's question, and said softly in a mosquito-like voice: "There is no one who has been married yet." Wu Yuanming nodded nervously, but he couldn't find a word to talk to this Kong Yuan. However, Kong Yuan took the initiative to point to the Hongji Temple on the mountain, and said shyly: "Wu Gongzi, now is the second watch, the little girl wants to take a tour in front of the Hongji Temple, I don't know if Wu Gongzi is willing to travel with the little girl?" ”

"Good ......." Wu Yuanming had already agreed, but he changed his words: "It's not good, it's late at night, it's not safe to go up the mountain, and Miss Kong, you are a girl's house, and it's even more inconvenient to walk up the mountain at night with a young man like me. Besides, even if others don't know, your mother and brother will find out, and it's a problem. ”

"Thank you Wu Gongzi for being thoughtful, it was Kong Yuan's rudeness, the wind was strong at night, Wu Gongzi rested early, and the little girl said goodbye first." Kong Yuan was quite dissatisfied with Wu Yuanming's performance, and left in a slightly angry manner. But as soon as her people entered the cabin, Mu Meng, who was supposed to be resting in the cabin, got out of the cabin and said to Wu Yuanming sourly: "When did you become so honest?" The girl invited you to visit the famous places together, but you still refused? Are you really the lascivious little traitor you used to be? ”

"I've always been so honest." Wu Yuanming didn't have to be nervous in front of Mu Meng, he pulled Mu Meng into his arms, held her tender face and kissed her wildly. Mu Meng struggled in shame at first, but after finding that she couldn't get away, she had to obediently snuggle in Wu Yuanming's arms and let Wu Yuanming kiss and caress her. After a long time, Wu Yuanming, who had had enough of the addiction to mouths and hands, finally let go of Mu Meng, pulled her to the bow of the boat together, and said with a smile: "Since we met, it seems that the two of us are alone for the first time." ”

"What's it to be alone? Isn't it for you to be thin and thin? Mu Meng was disgusted, but the whole person leaned on Wu Yuanming's chest, and held down Wu Yuanming's hands swimming wildly on her. Wu Yuanming rarely had the opportunity to make love with Mu Meng, of course he would not let go of this opportunity, he broke free of Mu Meng's hand three times and two times, and rubbed it indiscriminately when he got into Mu Meng's underwear, Mu Meng was ashamed and angry, and held Wu Yuanming's hand and complained: "Where did you run solemnly just now?" Why are you so scoundrel in front of me? I kiss and touch at every turn, what do you think of me? ”

"Because I'm going to marry you, of course I'm going to kiss you." Wu Yuanming smiled hippie, grabbed the bud on Mu Meng's chest and rubbed it gently. Mu Meng was even more ashamed, and bit Wu Yuanming the shoulder, biting Wu Yuanming wow wow wow and was forced to let go, Mu Meng jumped up again, ran to the side of the boat, and said with a pretty face: "If you mess around again, don't think about me giving you a good face in the future, and besides, I don't plan to marry you." Don't forget, I am Mu Tianying's daughter, my family and your family have a grudge against my father, and it is impossible for us to be together! ”

"As long as the kung fu is deep, the iron rod is sharpened into a needle." Wu Yuanming didn't know how much he had suffered because he was Wu Sangui's son, such a small setback had long been unable to defeat Wu Yuanming, and he was still full of hippie smiles, "I have helped you Mu Wangfu so many times, and I have saved all the third-generation disciples of your Mu Wangfu, I have done so many good things, even if you are hard-hearted, you should be moved by me." Marry me as a daughter-in-law, so decided. ”

"You saved all the third-generation disciples of our Mu Wangfu? Where did you save them? Mu Meng was taken aback and hurriedly asked Wu Yuanming. Wu Yuanming recounted what he met in Hangzhou - of course, he concealed his indecent teasing of Bai Xinsong, and took the opportunity to approach Mu Meng, and when he finished speaking, Wu Yuanming had already come to Mu Meng again, his mouth almost to Mu Meng's ear, and vigorously sniffed Mu Meng's body fragrance. And Mu Meng was so frightened when she heard it, she didn't notice Wu Yuanming's movements at all, and only after a while did she breathe a sigh of relief and muttered: "White girls, they are really too risky and careless, if we hadn't met you, our Mu Wangfu would be dead." ”

"Brother Wu, thank you." Mu Meng turned her head to thank Wu Yuanming, but it wasn't until this moment that Mu Meng found that Wu Yuanming had unconsciously stood at a distance from his nose, and Wu Yuanming also opened his lips and made a kissing motion, Mu Meng shyly pushed Wu Yuanming, "Get out, stinky scoundrel, I want to ...... again." Mu Meng couldn't scold anymore when she scolded here, because she and Wu Yuanming were standing on the side of the boat, and she pushed this one too hard, pushing Wu Yuanming down the river.

"Help, I don't know how to water!" Wu Yuanming was churning in the water with a scream of teeth and claws, looking like he might drown at any time. Mu Meng was shocked and didn't think much about it, and jumped into the river, but it wasn't until she fell into the water that Mu Meng remembered a very important thing - "Help!" I don't know how to water either! ”

"It turns out that you don't know how to water, but fortunately I can. Luckily, the water isn't deep, and at most it will only reach your neck. Wu Yuanming smiled treacherously and hugged Mu Meng's slender waist from behind, lifted Mu Meng out of the water, and helped her stand still in the water. And Mu Meng calmed down, first breathed a sigh of relief, and then threw herself into Wu Yuanming's arms and waved a powder fist and beat him indiscriminately, "Villain, it turns out that you know water, you still lie to me, you bully me, bully me!" Wu Yuanming smiled, "The bullying is still behind." As he spoke, Wu Yuanming picked up Mu Meng's face again and kissed her on the cherry lips, Mu Meng would no longer refuse, but hugged Wu Yuanming's neck very obediently, and took the initiative to offer a fragrant kiss......

"Before, I was just suspicious, but now I'm sure you have me in your heart. You knew you didn't know how to water, and you jumped into the river to save me. Tell me, will you marry me? Wu Yuanming let go of Mu Meng, stared at Mu Meng's eyes and said affectionately. Mu Mengqiao's face was flushed, and she nodded lightly after a while, Wu Yuanming was overjoyed, and hurriedly hugged Mu Meng and kissed her. But at this moment, Mu Meng suddenly pushed Wu Yuanming away again, and Wu Yuanming asked, "What's wrong?" Do you regret it again? ”

"No, I think it's a little weird under my feet." Mu Meng shook her head and replied. Wu Yuanming was also very curious, first let Mu Meng stand in the shallow water, and then he went into the water to explore the position where Mu Meng was originally standing, and Wu Yuanming immediately found that something was wrong, it turned out that the water was a hemp bag, soft but very heavy to the touch, Wu Yuanming hurriedly got out of the water and commanded Mu Meng: "Meng Meng, there is a hemp bag in the water, you quickly get on the boat and call Wu Lu and the golden knife, and let them carry this sack ashore together." Also, call Zhu Fangdan. ”

"Okay." Mu Meng did as Wu Yuanming ordered, and in a moment, Wu Lu, Jin Dao, Li Yuliang, Zhu Fangdan and others all got off the boat, and under Wu Lu and the Golden Dao Gang, Wu Yuanming quickly dragged the hemp bag ashore and cut the tether on the sack with a knife, just as Wu Yuanming guessed, there was indeed a dead body and a few big stones in the sack. Mu Meng had already taken a lantern from the boat and examined the dead body by the candlelight in the lantern, and Zhu Fangdan quickly came to the conclusion, "Shizi, this person doesn't have much river water in his belly, and he should have been thrown into the water after death." Four ribs on his left back were broken, and there were no wounds in other positions, so it is possible that he was attacked from behind by a master of the inner family, and his heart was shattered and he died. The time of death should be this evening, no earlier than this afternoon. ”

"Can you tell who he is?" Wu Yuanming asked Wu Lu and Jin Dao to turn the corpse over, carefully identify the appearance of the dead corpse, and at the same time grope in the clothes of the corpse, hoping to find any clues from him. Li Yuliang's eyes were sharp, and he pointed to the dead corpse's right hand and said, "His hand is clenched very tightly, it seems that there is something?" Wu Yuanming, Wu Lu and the others hurriedly pulled the dead corpse's clenched right hand, because the dead corpse had already appeared stiff, Wu Yuanming and Wu Lu cut off the fingers of the dead corpse before opening his palm, and what appeared in the palm of the dead corpse was a lock of thick black beard. At the same time, Zhu Fangdan also discovered, "Shizi, the soles of both feet of this corpse are tattooed with words, the left foot is the word 'repeated', and the right foot is the word 'Qingming'." ”

"Heaven and Earth Society!" Wu Yuanming, Mu Meng and Li Yuliang screamed at the same time. At the same time, a picture appeared in Wu Yuanming's mind, a bearded man approached the Heaven and Earth Congregation from behind, and suddenly slashed the back of the Heaven and Earth Congregation with a palm, and the Heaven and Earth Congregation reflexively grabbed a handful before dying, just grabbed the bearded man's face, and grabbed a lock of his beard! At this time, Mu Meng exclaimed again: "I remember, I have seen this person in Luoma Lake, it seems that his name is Ma Chaoxing, he is the deputy of the helmsman Chen Jinnan, and he often serves the helmsman Chen, and the helmsman Chen conveys orders to his subordinates who are not in front of him, and he is sent to deliver letters." ”

"I seem to have an impression of him as well." Li Yuliang groaned: "That time in Shandong, that ...... Let me go to the tea bowl of the Confucian Temple to poison it, Chen Jinnan was poisoned by mistake, it was this person who protected Chen Jinnan to fight his way out of the encirclement, and he was quite skilled, killing and injuring many Qing soldiers. Speaking of this, Li Yuliang hesitated a little, "This person's skills are not below me, but he was beaten to death from behind, and the martial arts of the person who killed him were unimaginable." Among the people I know, I'm afraid that only Hu Gongshan and Chen Jinnan have this ability, and maybe Huangfu Baozhu also has such ability. ”

"But if someone he knows sneaks up from behind without warning, there are more people who can kill him than there can be - there are quite a few in the Heaven and Earth Society." Wu Yuanming said gloomily. Mu Meng was taken aback, and said suspiciously: "You mean to say that this person was killed by a traitor in the Heaven and Earth Society?" Is this possible? ”

"How could it not be? Don't forget that Bai Lingsong in your Mu Wangfu, and I killed that little ghost in Hangzhou Bottle Kiln Collection. Wu Yuanming sneered, and then ordered: "Search carefully, since this person is Chen Jinnan's messenger, maybe he still has Chen Jinnan's secret letter on him." ”

"Stupid, the murderer killed him, won't he search for Chen Jinnan's secret letter?" Li Yuliang glanced at Wu Yuanming and said angrily. Wu Yuanming glanced at her, "I don't know who is stupid?" Did I say yes? Besides, since it is a secret messenger, and what he does is a murderous thing, the secret letter he carries will definitely be very tightly hidden, and the murderer may not be able to be found and taken away immediately. And the time of his death was between the afternoon and the evening, there is Hongji Temple on this mountain, and the murderer is not afraid to be seen by the monks in the temple after killing him? Why don't you throw him into the river and destroy his body immediately? ”

Wu Yuanming's prediction almost fell short, and after repeated and careful searching, Wu Yuanming and the others still found nothing, but Zhu Fangdan once again exerted his true character as a miracle doctor at this time, with the faint light of the lantern, Zhu Fangdan actually found that there was a strong thin thread tied to the teeth of the dead corpse, and when he carefully pulled the thin thread, Zhu Fangdan quickly pulled out a small wax ball from the person's esophagus. Zhu Fangdan was surprised: "This person's endurance is so strong, he actually swallowed the wax ball into his stomach, although it does not affect drinking water, eating and talking, it is still very uncomfortable." ”

Pinch open the wax ball, sealed in the wax is a thin five-inch square silk, the silk is full of fly-headed small letters, but Chen Jinnan personally wrote, the letter is written to a leader of the Heaven and Earth Association undercover in the Qing court, Chen Jinnan ordered the leader to investigate whether the Qing soldiers in Changzhou and Suzhou near Jiangning have troop movements, if it is found that the Qing troops are transferred to Jiangning Mansion, you can give up the task of undercover in the Qing army, be sure to send the news to Jiangning Mansion before September 18; If there is no special transfer, then the undercover agent does not have to risk revealing his identity, and he does not need to contact Jiangning and Chen Jinnan.

"Chen Jinnan also sniffed out that something was wrong, so he sent someone to investigate whether there was any change in the Qing army." Wu Yuanming carefully folded the thin silk, and said hatefully: "It's a pity that this messenger was robbed and killed halfway, it seems that the Tartars have already mastered some information through the traitors of the Heaven and Earth Society, and know that Chen Jinnan is suspicious of their plan of the third prince of Zhu, so he used the traitors of the Heaven and Earth Society to kill Chen Jinnan's messenger, cut off Chen Jinnan's channel to obtain information, so that Chen Jinnan could not make a formal response, and sabotaged the Tartars' plan to wipe out the anti-Qing literati in Jiangnan." ”

"So what are we going to do?" Mu Meng asked. Wu Yuanming replied casually: "Then it goes without saying, as soon as we enter the city tomorrow, we will try to contact Chen Jinnan, inform him of these news, and join forces with him to sabotage the Tartars' plan." Having said that, Wu Yuanming was still a little worried in his heart, his father's infamy was put there, and the reasonable Chen Jinnan was better to speak, but how to persuade other people from the Heaven and Earth Society and other anti-Qing forces to join forces with him? Especially Mu Shenbao's group, they all know their true identities......