Song Xi'er and the old Confucian who was captured with her were pierced through the body with a long knife on the board of the boat, and the body was tied to a large stone and sank into the Min River.

Although Shen Xi did not do it himself, he supervised the whole process in order to be safe.

After the people of the Carriage and Horse Gang had finished the matter, Shen Xi instructed Ma Jiu to clean the blood stains on the ship's board, while he himself and Yun Liu went into the cabin to rest.

After coming out and being busy for half the night, Shen Xi had a cold and kept coughing.

Yun Liu checked Shen Xi's pulse, personally boiled hot water, and asked Shen Xi to warm up with hot tea.

Xi'er sat next to him, propped his head and said, "When I went down the mountain, I seemed to hear that the people from the government had arrived, how did they find them?" ”

Shen Xi coughed twice and said disapprerovingly: "It's the official I found someone to report...... If it weren't for the government's arrival, it wouldn't be so easy for you to retreat down the mountain in peace. ”

Yun Liu said: "I heard Yu Niang say that the people from the official office notified the officers and soldiers of the left guard in Fuzhou, and they may have gone with them...... I wonder if it will be traced along the trail? ”

Shen Xi glanced at Xi'er: "Then it depends on whether you show flaws...... If the performance is good, even if the officers and soldiers capture Song Xi'er's people, they will only think that Song Xi'er is the one who robbed Song Xi'er, and they will not suspect anything else. ”

"Tomorrow morning, we will enter the city in batches, and if the city gate is strictly checked, we can enter the city in a few days. Anyway, the boats and convoys of our chamber of commerce are constantly coming and going, and it is still easy to piggyback a few people. ”

Then Shen Xi stopped talking and closed his eyes to rest. Yunliu didn't bother Shen Xi, and sat quietly next to him, only Xi'er couldn't stay idle and often went out to have a look.

An hour later, the ship docked to the shore, but it was not the Shimizu Ferry Wharf, because the ship docked at the wharf at night was easy to attract the government's investigation.

Still swinging ashore from a reed, through a grassy wilderness, facing a small hill. On the other side of the hill there is a small stream covered with trees.

Shen Xi came to the river ridge on the left side of the creek and instructed the men to dig a large pit under a cliff wall, and then wrapped the clothes of the Japanese people and the samurai saber they had carried before with oiled paper and put them into the pit. Then fill it with sand and gravel, and then bring some large stones from the river to build it up, and finally scatter some large and small stones on it, as if it naturally washed on it in a flood.

After the examination, I felt that there was no problem. Shen Xi asked everyone to change their clothes, and then let everyone disperse.

According to the previous plan, the brothers went to various contact points of the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce outside Fuzhou to rest in groups, and the whole was broken up.

Shen Xi took a carriage back to Fuzhou City. Ma Jiu and a brother from the chariot gang drove the car, carrying Shen Xi, Yunliu and Xi'er.

All the way is basically along the river, and when you arrive at Fuzhou City, you don't find an inn for a temporary rest. At this time, the sky was already dark, and Shen Xi decided not to stay outside the city and continue to move forward.

When the carriage came to the city gate, the city gate was already open normally.

Ma Jiu got out of the carriage and asked the chariot and horses to help the brothers drive Shen Xi and the others into the city, while he himself had to hide outside the city for a while and wait for the limelight to pass before returning to the city.

When he entered the city, he was not strictly inspected, and Shen Xi took the road out. Knowing that Shen Xi was a candidate who was rushing to take the exam, the city gate guards did not have any difficulties.

These days, it is not uncommon for candidates to come to Fuzhou every day. It's just that the officers and soldiers were surprised that Shen Xi took the township test at a young age, and the small colonel who led the team deliberately came over to get close to Shen Xi.

From this point, Shen Xi can basically judge that although the government captured Song Xi'er's group of subordinates yesterday and found a large number of missing people, it can be said that they have seized both stolen goods.

But. The government did not intend to publicize the matter, after all, so many people under its rule were looted and sold to the Japanese people, which can be regarded as a big scandal. Once the matter is big, the Yanguan Yushi will definitely keep an eye on it, and when the time comes, maybe the black gauze hats on many people's heads will not be guaranteed.

Moreover, the leaders of the local forces in Fuzhou who were captured this time have always had great resentment among the people, and they were previously intimidated by the pressure of the Dusi Yamen. All levels do not dare to enforce the law impartially, and now that the evidence of the crime is conclusive, there must also be a process of coordination between the three departments and yamen to see how they can avoid responsibility and maximize the credit.

At this time, the government at the prefectural and county levels paid more attention to how to settle the three sects and nine-stream forces in Fuzhou after Song Xi'er's disappearance, as for the pursuit of the Japanese Invaders, it was not the management authority of the local government, and the Fuzhou Zuowei side also had to see how the Dusi Yamen finally decided, after all, Song Xi'er was an eagle dog raised by Fang Guan, if Fang Guan's people colluded with the Japanese Kou were exposed, it would definitely cause an uproar, and there would also be a process of appeasement and compromise internally.

Shen Xi returned to the inn, Shopkeeper Yin was very surprised, I don't know why Shen Xi didn't come back last night, Shen Xi just stayed in his friend's room under the pretext of going to the city to attend the cultural meeting too late, Shopkeeper Yin did not suspect it, Shen Xi went upstairs and returned to his room, and fell asleep on the bed...... In addition to physical fatigue, he also had a kind of psychological sleepiness.

Although Song Xi'er and the old Confucian were not killed by Shen Xi himself, they were instructed by him to change from living people to corpses under his nose.

Reincarnated as a human being, although Shen Xi looked down on life and death, his personal experience of that bloody scene still made him difficult to let go of for a while.

Shen Xi slept deeply, and the fog that he hadn't dreamed of for a long time reappeared in his dreams. Only this time, it was not the lotus seed from before, but a beautiful lotus flower, and he felt that his state of mind suddenly became extremely peaceful, as if he was in a peaceful and peaceful Buddha light.

There was no darkness and fall, no destruction and replacement, surrounded by the colorful auspicious light emitted by the lotus flower, Shen Xi felt an unprecedented tranquility.

I don't know when, I felt a cool wind blowing on my body, and my whole body was extremely comfortable, Shen Xi suddenly woke up, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Yin Wen standing beside the bed, waving a banana fan to fan him, looking very hard.

Seeing Shen Xi wake up, Xiao Nizi had a smile on her face, and her hands were still fanning, but her own forehead was already covered with fine beads of sweat.

Shen Xi sat up, turned his head to look at the sky outside the window, it was already past noon, the sun was setting in the west, and he had slept for almost a day. Shen Xi looked at Yin Wen and asked, "When did you come over?" ”

Yin Wen is usually silent, but when Shen Xi asks her questions, she always answers seriously: "There are times when you come, when you come in...... The young master is sleeping and sweating profusely, so I will help you fan the wind and cool off. ”

"Thank you." Shen Xi Road.

"Hee ......"

Yin Wen was a little embarrassed and lowered his head embarrassedly.

Shen Xi tidied up his clothes, came to the desk and sat down, picked up the book and began to read it, but two scenes clearly appeared in his mind. One is the wail that Song Xi'er made before he died yesterday, and the lotus flower that emitted the light of Buddha in his sleep.

"Young master, are you hot? I want to fan myself for a while. Yin Wen moved a small bench over and just sat down. He asked with a bit of childishness.

Shen Xi shook his head: "I'm not hot, you can fan it yourself." ”

Yin Wenmei nodded with a smile, and took a banana fan to fan herself, and the sideburns on her forehead were blown up by the wind, fluttering and swinging. It looks very playful, just like a girl's state of mind.

Shen Xi looked at Yin Wen's innocent eyes, felt a sense of serenity, thinking that his hands were stained with blood yesterday, and he was embarrassed to face this innocence and kindness for a while.

But when you think about it, isn't everything you do to protect the people around you from being so innocent and not tainted by the world?

Thinking of this, Shen Xi's heart quickly returned to a calm state.

As long as the people around you are stable, you can live a peaceful life without being bullied. No matter how much you do, it's worth it! He can bear the bad and the evil alone, and leave the purest and true and beautiful things to the people he loves and cares about.

This is also his responsibility to live in this world!

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At sunset, it was time to leave, and Yin Wen began to become sullen.

At her age, she doesn't understand the relationship between men and women, but she just sees Shen Xi as a playmate who understands everything, full of affection. After all, the little girl is raised in the boudoir on weekdays, and except for her parents and relatives, she can't contact anyone outside at all. And her family is busy with making ends meet, or going to school, so they rarely play with her.

The girl's state of mind is the most innocent, and liking is liking. will not deliberately hide, when she followed behind her grandmother and walked out of the back door of the inn in three steps, Shen Xi stood in front of the window and looked at her back for a long time.

Before the night fell, Yu Niang came to visit. She wanted to know Shen Xi's next plan.

“…… As soon as Song Xi'er died, the Huaiyang Building was leaderless, and even Song Xi'er's right-hand man Shang Weiqi was arrested by the government, and it seems that the building will collapse! The younger sister of the Zi family is going through the channels of the government and the capital yamen, and wants to take over Song Xi'er's position. Now it seems that she has a good chance. ”

Yu Niang said these words, which means that she also feels that Zi Qian has bad intentions.

Shen Xi knew very well that Zi Qian and Yu Niang didn't trust each other very much, they were staring at each other very closely, and they couldn't escape each other's sight with every move. The reason why he reminded Yu Niang not to get close to Zi Qian was to make Zi Qian suspicious.

As expected, after Zi Qian found out that Yu Niang was avoiding her intentionally or unintentionally, she mistakenly thought that Yu Niang wanted to step on two boats and might have contact with Song Xi'er.

So, Zi Qian did not hesitate to be tempted by beauty, obtained information from Shang Weiqi, and found that Song Xi'er was preparing to do business with the Japanese Kou, and became more and more suspicious of whether Yu Niang was also involved, so she prepared to use the people of Fuzhou Zuowei to get the stolen goods alone.

Shen Xi shook his head and said, "She won't have a chance." ”

"Oh?" Yu Niang obviously didn't figure it out.

Why did Shen Xi repeatedly remind her not to leak the secret, she looked back and thought about it for a while, she understood, with Shen Xi's instructions, she tried not to see Zi Qian, worried that she would show a quarrel and live up to Shen Xi's trust. As a result, Zi Qian smelled some kind of crisis from Yu Niang's behavior, and then launched countermeasures against Song Xi'er.

Yu Niang still thinks that this is just Shen Xi wanting to add chips to the matter. She didn't expect that Zi Qian's jumping up and down would only backfire, and all this she did behind her back would only make Fang Guan think that in fact, Song Xi'er's disappearance was completely designed by Zi Qian.

Shen Xi said: "Yu Niang has a wide range of connections, so she should go and give gifts to Commander Fang at this time." ”

In a word, it is actually waking up Yu Niang.

Yu Niang was excited, and immediately thought about the whole thing carefully, and finally understood that in fact, what Shen Xi set up was a serial plan, on the one hand, she tried every means to get rid of Song Xi'er, and at the same time let Zi Qian take the initiative to jump out and carry the black cauldron, pointing to Zi Qian at the source of everything.

Zi Qian offended the Dusi Yamen, and she would definitely not be pleased, if Yu Niang could take the initiative to stick to the top at this time, she would not necessarily take Song Xi'er's position.

Yu Niang thought for a while and smiled lightly: "The slave family is no longer young, and they don't have much energy to get involved in the affairs of the rivers and lakes, the slave family just wants to have a peaceful birthday for a few days, and the scenery of those monopolists is still left to others." ”

What Shen Xi put forward was just an idea, and Yu Niang had the right to choose whether to accept it or not.

To gain Fang Guan's trust, not only to send a large amount of money, but also to commit to Fang Guan, as a woman who has just come out of the party, it is completely understandable that Yu Niang does not want to repeat the mistakes of the past.

Yu Niang's heart is still noble and arrogant, not as unscrupulous as Zi Qian.

Or maybe Yu Niang looks down on Fang Guan, recognizes her identity and experience, and disdains to be in the same stream with a commander who is about to step down.

Shen Xi said: "Since this is the case, it depends on how the local government divides the big cake of Huaiyang Building, and how much each family can share." At least I'm in the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, I just want to do a little business in peace. ”

Yu Niang pursed her lips and smiled, and glanced at Shen Xi, as if to say, you have worked hard to design such a play, how can you be willing to take a small piece of the pie?

Yu Niang said: "The slave family has let Xi'er's girl go to the city for temporary refuge, and the slave family will also leave Fuzhou for a few days, if Shen Gongzi wants to find the slave family for something, just tell Yunliu that she lives in the inn at the end of the street." ”

Shen Xi nodded, since Yu Niang chose to stay out of the matter and did not plan to fight for the territory and interests of Fuzhou, then she had to choose to avoid trouble, otherwise Zi Qian, who was gradually reminiscing, would definitely take revenge on her.

Yu Niang has a strong sense of self-preservation, and seeing that she is in a gap in this matter, she is not pleasing on several sides, so she simply came over to say hello to Shen Xi and left Fuzhou first.

She thought very simply, since Shen Xi could design to get rid of Song Xi'er, this was not the scheming and bearing that ordinary people could have, and looking back, the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce would definitely have a lot to do in Fuzhou. At that time, she will come back, as long as she is attached to the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce, then she can sit back and relax.

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PS: The first chapter is delivered!

This chapter is very difficult to write, and it took three or four hours to delete and rewrite, but after this brain-burning plot has passed, it will be much easier to write.

Well, today I hope to have four more chapters, temporarily restore the state, and start to gradually increase the intensity tomorrow, and return to the state of crazy driving again!

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