Bu shook his head and ducked to the side, revealing the scene in the courtyard.

Shen Huai looked over and saw Qi Rin sitting on the side of the stone table, looking up at her.

The eyes of the two met in mid-air, and they looked at each other and smiled.

"Where do you want to go today?" Qi Rin looked down at Shen Huai and asked.

Shen Huai narrowed his eyes and smiled, "I'll take you to meet my people today." ”

Shen Huai deliberately bit the three words of my person, and then looked at Qi Rin with a playful look.

The expression on Qi Rin's face did not change in the slightest, and he leaned over slightly in response to Shen Huai's shallow smile, leaving a shallow mark on her cheek.

The smile on Shen Huai's face froze, and he stared at Qi Rin in disbelief.

Is this still the Qi Rin she knows?

Qi Rin looked at Shen Huai's rather cute little gesture and chuckled inaudibly.

After Shen Huai heard his laughter, the expression on his face gradually softened, and he squinted at him with a pretended to be sad, "The powder I just applied was rubbed off by you." ”

Qi Rin is a sincere person, and when he heard Shen Huai say this, he really believed it. Squatted down to check the makeup on Shen Huai's face.

Shu'er, who had been guarding behind the two, forced a smile and interjected, "Lord Wang, Miss, she doesn't usually apply grease and powder." ”

Only then did Qi Rin realize that he was being teased by Shen Huai.

He looked up at Shen Huai and saw her pursing her lips and smiling.

Shen Huai, who teased people, did not feel the slightest sense of guilt, and led people out after clearing his throat.

Qi Rin is a person who must repay his flaws, and in order to compensate for teasing him, he took Shen Huai's hand all the way.

Originally, after getting out of the carriage, Shen Huai thought that Qi Rin would let go of his hand. Who knew that this man not only did not let go of his hand, but grabbed it tighter.

Even though the hands of the two of them were clasped together under the wide sleeves of their robes, Shen Huai still felt a little uncomfortable, and his face burned with panic. He twitched his hand, trying to break free from Qi Rin's shackles.

Qi Rin didn't squint, held Shen Huai with one hand, and slowly walked forward at her speed.

In recent days, it has gradually regained spring, and the willow trees beside the river bank have also pulled out tender green shoots, and the passers-by are happy.

Because after a difficult winter, what remains will be a vibrant and prosperous scene.

Shu'er pushed the wheelchair behind Shen Huai, while Qi Rin and Shen Huai walked side by side with their hands crossed.

Bu Shao and Jing Yuan walked forward and backward with a cold scabbard in their arms.

Such a strange combination naturally attracted passers-by, coupled with the extraordinary appearance of the five people, there were many young ladies and sons who stopped for this.

Qi Rinsheng's face was cold, and he had a cold and difficult to approach look at strangers. Coupled with the fact that those men were still staring at Shen Huai, Qi Rin's expression became even more terrifying.

Shen Huai couldn't help but smile and tugged at Qi Rin's sleeve, signaling him to restrain himself and not to scare the children who passed by.

Qi Rin replied in a dull voice, and walked sideways in front of Shen Huai's left, blocking most of her face.

The five of them walked some way further.

On weekdays, when he walked here, Shen Huai could hear the sound of conversation from the Jiuyuan Chamber of Commerce from a distance, laughing and scolding.

But today, when they came closer, they heard nothing, not even a single figure.

Shen Huai involuntarily frowned and looked ahead.

Although Shu'er's mind was not as delicate as Shen Huai's, she also smelled an unusual meaning in the air.

Qiao Bai and Shu Shu used to laugh and play in front of the Chamber of Commerce, but now not only did they not hear the voices of the two of them, but they didn't even find sporadic conversations.

Several people quickened their steps and walked towards the front.

"Who are you?" Several officials dressed in official clothes held sharp knives and stopped the five people viciously.

"The case is being investigated inside, don't let idlers enter." A servant glanced at the five men from head to toe and added.

"Investigating the case?" Shen Huai frowned, "What kind of case are you investigating?"

Seeing that Shen Huai's clothes were extraordinary, several officials didn't dare to expel them easily, but they didn't want to tell the truth, so they only said perfunctorily: "There have been orders from above, the girl should not embarrass us."

Qi Rin frowned, and Jing Yuan stepped forward when he heard it, taking out Qi Rin's private seal.

Even if those officials are illiterate, they can also see the extraordinary identity of those officials from the private seals of that party.

He didn't say anything at the moment, and let everyone in.

When Shen Huai entered, he didn't see Qiao Bai and Shu Shu, only the mess in the room and some small people who were trembling and huddled together.

The more Shen Huai looked, the darker color between his eyebrows became more and more dignified.

The entire upper echelons of the Chamber of Commerce are gone.

"Go to the top floor." Shen Huai said in a low voice.

Qi Rin nodded and walked towards the top floor with Shen Huai.

Because of his private seal, almost no one present dared to come forward and follow him, so they went.

The Chamber of Commerce has a total of six layers, and the picture is also an auspicious number of six or six Shun.

But this is a perfunctory statement, in fact, the Chamber of Commerce is not just six layers, but seven layers.

Qi Rin took Shen Huai all the way to the top floor.

There were no books or other valuables on the top floor, only a pile of dusty debris.

Qi Rin raised his foot and kicked a worn bamboo basket away, covering his lips with his sleeve.

The bamboo basket rolled away, splashing up a layer of dust.

Qi Rin left Qi Rin behind, let Jingyuan and Buyao take care of her, and took the lead in clearing the road.

In the smoke and dust, Shen Huai saw Qi Rin's back getting farther and farther away.

After a while, Qi Rin came back in disgrace.

"There's a wall ahead, there's no road."

Shen Huai didn't speak, but let Qi Rin lead her over.

This seventh floor was originally planned and designed by her, but after many years, she has only gone up a handful of times.

Once when Shen Songze and Xu Jin died, she was panicked in her heart, so she came to that place to sit for the night.

And one more time...... It was after she dropped her leg.

Speaking of which, except for her, there are only two people left in the entire Chamber of Commerce, except for her, Qiao Bai and Shu Shu. Ordinary people who clean in the Chamber of Commerce will always think that the sixth floor is a place to store sundries, and over time, they will automatically ignore its existence.

Qi Rin led Shen Huai to the wall.

Shen Huai glanced at the miscellaneous items piled up around the circle and walked straight towards the wall.

Qi Rin followed her step by step.

This wall he had looked at, it was solid, there could be no compartment.

Shen Huai placed her hand on the wall and groped for it, and after a while, she touched a protrusion.

"Kala." With a soft sound, the ceiling above everyone's heads was lifted, and the heavy dust fluttered and sprinkled everyone.

Shen Huai was okay, because Qi Rin was by her side, raising her sleeves to block the falling dust for her.

Shu'er raised her face to look at the ceiling and ate a mouthful of soil.

There at the moment he was spitting in disgust.

Shen Huai glanced at everyone's disgraced appearance, touched his nose, and knew that she had asked Qiao Bai to pay attention to cleaning the sixth floor, but it was so dirty.

As the ceiling of the sixth floor was halfway opened, a coil of rope drooped.

Jing Yuan stepped forward and tugged, and after checking it, he climbed all the way up the rope.

In an instant, Jingyuan was standing on the seventh floor.

"Lord Wang." He called out to Qi Rin, "There's nothing up there." ”

Qi Rin bowed his head, took Shen Huai with one hand, and pulled the rope with the other. The tiptoe was light, and it didn't take long for it to go up.

Because the wheelchair was still on the sixth floor, Shen Huai could only temporarily live in Qi Rin's arms.

Shu'er was brought up by Buyao.

After all five of them had gained a foothold, Shen Huai shut down the mechanism.

With a few sounds, the lifted plank was tightly closed, leaving no gap.

"Come with me." Shen Huai shook his wheelchair and walked forward.

Surprisingly, the entire seventh floor is not only neater and cleaner than the sixth floor, but even larger and brighter than the sixth floor.

"I built this place as a place to rest, but I didn't even make a few trips." Shen Huai smiled self-deprecatingly.

Qi Rin's people didn't say anything, just clenched Shen Huai's hand.

Her hands became unusually cold as soon as winter came, and Qi Rin's was the opposite of her.

So Shen Huai likes to put his hand in his palm the most, but this is only when there is no one around.

The five of them walked around and found a lot of novelty and knick-knacks on the seventh floor, as well as half-embroidered handkerchiefs.

Shen Huai picked up the handkerchief, looked at it, and put it back.

This is Shushu's veil.

Walking and walking, seeing that he was about to come to an end, Shen Huai pulled Qi Rin to turn around and walked to the right.

There is a small hidden room on the right, and the color of the door panel is the same as that of the wall, and if you don't look closely, you really can't notice its existence.

"Wait!" Seeing that Jingyuan was about to pull the door panel open, Qi Rin shouted.

It's just too late, the door opens, and a sword with a cold light pierces through and stabs towards Jingyuan.

At this critical juncture, Jingyuan himself didn't react to the fact that a sword would suddenly appear from behind this door.

Qi Rin stepped forward and quickly grabbed Jing Yuan, dragging the person behind him.

Jing Yuan staggered a few steps before stabilizing his figure.

It all happened so quickly that no one in the room had time to react.

In the next second, Qi Rin reached out and dragged the sword-wielding man out.

The man was wearing a long smoky blue dress, and his posture was graceful, and he didn't look like a man who was used to swords.

The man tilted his head slightly, biting his lower lip and glaring at Qi Rin angrily.

At this moment, her hair slipped down, and Shen Huai and Shu'er, who were standing beside her, saw her face clearly.

"Shu Shu!"

"Sister Shushu!"

Gong Shushu heard a familiar voice and suddenly turned his head to look.

"Ah...... Acacia. Gong Shushu called out in disbelief.

Shen Huai rocked her wheelchair and stepped forward to free her from Qi Rin's hands.

"Shu Shu, why are you here, Qiao Bai?"

Gong Shushu threw the sword in his hand, held Shen Huai's hand tightly, and said quickly: "Early this morning, I don't know where a team of officers and soldiers came from, they smashed things when they saw them, and they also turned out the secret compartment where the account books were stored on the third floor. Qiao Bai, he noticed that something was wrong, so he escorted me to the seventh floor. ”

"What about the others?" Shen Huai asked.

Gong Shushu had tears in his eyes.