Early the next morning, a wooden flatbed truck entered Xilin City from outside the north gate that had just opened. The person who pushed the cart was a donor who had been delivering water to the Confucian Academy for generations, named Wang Ning. He squinted his eyelids and yawned, pushing a water wheel carrying two large wooden barrels, and stopped at the small door of the backyard of the academy. After stopping, he first shook his sore shoulders and arms, then took out a white stone from his pocket, drew two white marks on the wall, and then straightened his clothes, piled up a kind smile, and knocked on the door twice very politely.

After knocking over and over again for ten rounds, Wang Ning finally couldn't hold it back. He gently pushed the door panel, and found that the two back doors were just hidden and unlocked, so he dared to lean in half of his body and enter:

"Mr. Xu? The villain is Mito Wang Ning, who sent someone out to catch the water? Mr. Xu ......? ”

Wang Ning whispered the name of the chief steward while carefully moving his steps. Although the famous hall of this Confucian Academy is not magnificent, it is actually a quiet and elegant giant manor. Every morning, the 3,000 disciples in the academy gather in the Wen Temple to conduct morning homework under the leadership of the teacher. The sound of reading aloud has been in this Xilin City for thousands of years.

However, after sneaking into the academy today, Wang Ning did not hear the familiar sound of morning reading. After his unsuccessful private search, he carefully clinged to the root of the wall and walked outside the Wen Temple. He wanted to lure out one of the gentlemen in the house with his eyes, and quickly finished his errand, and then had to go out of the city to fetch water, and then send it off to another big family; But his gaze had just penetrated into the hall from the side wall, and the center of gravity under his feet immediately fell backwards, and his body naturally rolled backwards down the steps......

This temple of literature, which was just renovated and expanded last year, is now enough to accommodate 3,000 disciples who are studying in the same hall. On the north wall of the Wensheng Palace, there is a huge portrait of the Confucian saint master, and the solemn demeanor of the ancestor is not lacking in love and respect.

But when he entered the Wen Temple in Wang Ning's eyes, it was completely different from the past; The 3,000 disciples were all dressed in white student robes and knelt neatly on their seats; And the morning teacher who sat in the center of the circle was also wearing a black robe and sitting upright on a Taishi chair, but he could no longer preach and solve the doubts of his students......

The three thousand and one teachers and students in the entire Wen Temple are now all gone! And in front of the huge portrait of the Confucian sage, there was a Jingguan made of countless heads stacked neatly!

Wang Ning, who has been honest since his ancestors, has never seen such a cruel and tyrannical bloody scene, only one glance, and he immediately fell into extreme fear, and even his throat tightened nervously and quickly, and he couldn't make any sound anymore! He finally knew where the fishy sweetness in the backyard came from; I finally know why the sound of reading aloud, which has become a routine, stopped!

He immediately turned his head and didn't dare to look again, barely got up and couldn't stop trembling, and ran out of the back door of the academy the same way. Probably due to nervousness and fear, he ran directly back to the safe harbor in his heart - home, and even the guy who ate - the wooden cart - completely forgot in the back alley of the Confucian Academy.

After Wang Ning returned home, he immediately started a high fever, and he was worried that the water wheel he left behind would cause a disaster that would kill his family. However, after his mother-in-law went out to collect the wind, Wang Ning finally put his mind at ease and fell asleep groggyly.

It turned out that the entire Xilin Mansion Yamen, including more than 1,200 people including the city defense battalion, was slaughtered overnight; And under the fair and honest plaque in the lobby, there is also a line of blood letters:

Murderer, Shen Gui is also!

Late yesterday night, Shen Gui, who crashed out of the second floor of the restaurant, immediately contacted Lu Fang and Qi Yan who had already sneaked into the city with their unique insect chirping and bird calls. He did not tell the two about his meeting with Song Xingzhou, but still acted according to the original plan - infiltrated the yamen of Xilin Mansion and retrieved the bodies of Fu Yi and the two Winter Solstice brothers; By the way, I interrogated the newly succeeded Governor Kong, and tried to find out some inside information.

Flying eaves and walls, sliding doors and picking locks, it is simply easy for Qi Yan! Even if you give him a straw stick, there is no lock in the world that can stop him! And although Lu Fang was a court official, he should have stayed out of the matter; But he almost died in Xilin City, and now that he escaped alive, of course, he also wants to see what kind of fame he is doing behind the back of the imperial court, this pilgrimage place for students all over the world!

According to Yuan Delin's previous confession, Qi Yan had secretly taken out the account book from his home. However, this Yuan Xiaosan is also a wonderful person, and the three of them opened it and found that his black account was not complete at all! The records are just some unnamed figures, that is to say, the account he handed over in exchange for a life, on its own, has no value at all. But fortunately, what this kid said is not all nonsense, because the accounts are true, but they are incomplete; As long as the three of them get the half of the account details in the hands of the bookkeeper, they can see the clues from them together.

The distribution of Yamen buildings in Huayu Continent is all the same, and Qi Yan, who often stamps his own road guides, is naturally more familiar with the road. After only a few ups and downs, he found the address of Mr. Yamen Bookkeeper in the case room. In line with the idea of not startling the snake, the three of them first confirmed the new prefect Kong who was "substituted", and now he was reading at night in the study, and then immediately changed his route and went straight to the house of the cunning rabbit and the three caves.

Xilin City was not big, and after turning a few streets, everyone came to a large mansion located in the west of the city. Although Lu Fang is a fast catcher, he is still in the internship period after all; Considering that everyone is now in the tiger's den, they naturally dare not make a mistake; So he left the novice outside to watch the wind, while Shen Gui and Qi Yan climbed in from the front and back courtyard walls respectively, and went straight to the roof of the main house to meet.

At present, when the sky is over, the ordinary people in Xilin City have already turned off the lights and gone to bed; However, the main house in the bookkeeper's house is still brightly lit. Fortunately, there are some deep mansions in the west of the city, and the neighbors are all rich and powerful, and every household has not yet rested, so it is not particularly abrupt.

After Shen Gui and Qi Yan exchanged a look, they each lifted a piece of roof tiles and looked inside the house at the same time.

This main house is a common layout with three rooms; The furnishing style in the main hall is completely different from the elegant simplicity of the courtyard wall and gate! Everywhere you look, there is a golden splendor, and even the illuminated candlesticks are shining with gold! Such a luxurious and wealthy life almost blinded the eyes of the two people in the room! These two little masters can all be regarded as people who have seen the world! But none of them expected that the living standard of a mere bookkeeper at the entrance of the yamen, an ordinary official who did not even have an official body, had climbed to this point!

Of course, in terms of aesthetics and taste, there is still room for improvement.

Shen Gui is worthy of being the demon star who "opened the eyes of the sky" in the mouth of Jiang Hanke! His eyes narrowed, and he quickly detached himself from the golden light, and simply did not look at it; But when he turned his gaze to the inner room, he wanted to pull out his eyes even more!

The bookkeeper who cooperated with Yuan Xiaosan was naked at this time; Looking at his age, his skin has long been loose and stacked together, and it looks as if he is a Shar Pei dog! But this master seemed to know what the word shame was, and was lying on the silver fox fur carpet on the ground! By the side of this old dog, there were eight young women, each of whom was covered with green silk, and they were obviously all big girls who had not yet left the cabinet; On either side of the door of the inner room, there were two old women with meaty faces, each with grease and powder on their faces, and with a flattering smile, the powder fell down, and they kept directing the girls, opening their mouths and closing their mouths to say all meat......

In the right hand of the bookkeeper, he is holding a finely shaped smoking gun; And a big girl who looks like an aries next to her is now kneeling on the blanket and burning smoke bubbles for him!

Qi Yan was also shocked by the dazzling scars on the skin of these girls, and his anger instantly exploded, and he arched directly to the Baihui acupoint on the top of his head! He was just about to lift the tile and enter the room to kill the demons, but suddenly he was forcibly stopped by Shen Gui with his eyes; Immediately, after the two whispered, Qi Yan, who gritted his teeth, quickly jumped to the roofs of the other mansions.

Almost a quarter of an hour later, Qi Yan burst into tears, his lower lip was unconsciously bitten by him, and his chest couldn't stop rising and falling, constantly making a mouth shape to Shen Gui.

Beast.

Shen Gui sighed, waved his hand at him again, and quickly climbed down the roof, inserted the crack in the door with the thunder sword, and quickly cut off the latch; When he was in the door and outside the door, he waved his hand and cut the throats of the two old women who were holding horsewhips and heard the sound, and then strode into the inner room.

At this moment, the bookkeeper was resting on his jade-like knees, his eyes opened a gap slightly, and he first spit out a cloud of mist leisurely, and then looked at the uninvited guest who was holding a sharp blade and was full of anger, and said in a slow and flirtatious tone:

"How do you remember, I didn't call Xianggong tonight? Pretty handsome guy, did you go to the wrong door? ”

Shen Gui, who was molested by a bad old man, didn't say a word, walked up and grabbed the loosely stacked skin on his neck, opened the bow left and right and slapped ten times! If it weren't for the fear that he would choke to death by the broken teeth that rolled down his throat, Shen Guizhen had the heart to communicate with him! However, what surprised Shen Gui the most was that his uninvited guest was holding a bloody steel knife and grabbed the lifeless beating of the old man in the bookkeeper, but the women next to him were like clay wood carvings, just staring at the battle that was taking place in the house in a daze, with no joy or sadness in his eyes, no curiosity, and no hope.

Only numbness.