At a certain time, the night in the capital is pitch black, and the sultry weather makes Zhizhi non-stop, and it is even more irritable and difficult to sleep. Small families in the south of the city either waved their fans in the courtyard to cool off, or they woke up from the heat and cursed and took a bath with well water again. At this moment, a dark shadow hurried through the alley, running on the dark and uneven path, and soon came to the outside of an ordinary-looking house in Anle Fang. After the black shadow knocked on the back door in a rhythm of three long and two short, he came to the courtyard wall next to him, and jumped into the courtyard with ease like a ghost in a few steps. A few heads appeared in the backyard wall for dozens of breaths, and they carefully scanned left and right, and only disappeared after confirming that no one was there.

The shadow entered the backyard and scurried along the path, sometimes through the garden, sometimes through the corridor, always catching the gap created by the crossing of the patrolmen. A moment later, the shadow came to the study, illuminated by a dozen arm-thick candles, and hesitated before knocking on the door.

A majestic and deep voice came from the study, "Come in." ”

The black shadow leaned over and pushed the door into the study, looking down at the ground. At first glance, the black shadow's body was thin and shriveled, as if it had been dried by the sun, and the black night clothes he wore on his body looked like it was on a half-cut bamboo pole. The dark shadow grew thinner in the light of the bright candlelight. Two feet away from the desk, the man in black knelt on the ground with a plop and said without raising his head: "Master, the slave has something to report." ”

A rather sturdy middle-aged man turned his back to the black shadow, looking at the bookshelves in front of him that filled half of the large study, and after a while, he said slowly: "If there is anything important, let's talk about it." ”

"According to the latest news, several of the minions' previous subordinates in Qingping County, Anlu Mansion have been pulled out according to the master's orders, and the rudder of Anlu Mansion and Qingzhou Mansion has also been taken away, and the losses are heavy."

"What do you say! If you spoil my big thing, you are not sorry to die! The middle-aged man who was as steady as Mount Tai just now changed his face after hearing this, and he was as angry as a bullfight, and he picked up the celadon pen holder at hand and smashed it viciously.

The man in black who was kneeling not far away did not dodge, and suffered this blow stubbornly, and the pen holder smashed on his body and fell at his feet. "Yes, damn it! Damn the minions! ”

The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, suppressed the anger in his heart, waved his hand and said, "Okay, stop being coy." If I wanted your life, you would have died twenty-five years ago. Say, what the hell is going on? I'd rather see how such a stealthy pawn could have been easily eaten ten years ago. ”

"Master, a month and a half ago, the rudder of Anlu Mansion was attacked by someone, and nineteen assassins were killed in one night. After the slave learned about it, he urgently sent a few powerful subordinates to check, but he had not received the news, and then the Qingping County Commander had a conflict with another chess piece laid by the slave, which led to the intervention of Sun Yongcheng, the imperial historian who was looking for him in Shandong Province, and was finally arrested for corruption and bribery. ”

The middle-aged man sat down and rubbed his temples and said, "How could it be so coincidental?" The imperial history of Shandong Province generally stays in the capital city and will not easily go to the county. Did someone lead Sun Yongcheng to Qingping County? ”

"The slave was also suspicious, and later the investigation found out that it was because the chess pieces arranged by his subordinates wanted to move down Qingping County and ordered Li Wei, so he asked the family to go to Sun Yongcheng who was looking for him in Qingzhou Mansion to complain, how did he know that Li Weiwei had sent someone to intercept and kill him in advance, and Li Weiwei was betrayed by his subordinates before he was taken by Sun Yongcheng."

"What a bunch of idiots! Li Weiwei can't support the wall with mud, which really ruined my mind. And then? ”

The black shadow lowered his head and said: "After the slave found out that Li Weiwei was arrested, he used the way his master told me to contact Zhou Wudao, the prefect of Anlu Mansion, and asked him to act mainly to protect himself. How do you know that Li Weiwei actually wants to blackmail Zhou Wudao to rescue him, otherwise he will confess it, and Zhou Wudao is also a rabbit who is anxious to bite people and let people go to the rudder of Qingzhou Mansion to find an assassin to kill Li Weiwei. When the servant learned about it, he felt that he could use this as a handle to make the prefect Zhou Wudao obedient in the future, so he instructed the assassin of the Qingzhou Mansion to do what Zhou Wudao requested. In the next few days, there was no news from the Qingzhou Mansion Rudder, and the servants sent spies to check on it to learn that the assassin of the Qingzhou Mansion Rudder had been killed, and Zhou Wudao was also arrested because of Li's only confession and is now on trial. ”

The middle-aged man calmed down and thought about it, always feeling that something was wrong, and then asked: "You mean that the people who were at the helm of Qingzhou Mansion went to assassinate Li Weiwei at that time, but they didn't succeed?" ”

The middle-aged man replied, "The master is very right! Somehow, the people who split the rudder of Qingzhou Mansion went to kill Li Wei and missed, but he was killed. It stands to reason that this should not be the case, and the minions don't know which gang in the rivers and lakes will have such ability. ”

"Well, have you paid attention to the recent changes in the Department of Espionage?"

"The host means ......"

"Quite possibly. The Blood Hand Alliance has so many moves in the rivers and lakes, it is difficult not to be targeted by the Espionage Division. The spies planted in the six doors of the Criminal Department once reported that an old catcher had noticed the existence of the Blood Hand Alliance. If it weren't for the fact that he had an accident when he went out to investigate the case, the matter of the Blood Hand Alliance might have been known to the Criminal Department. In the next few days, you will send some more people to Anlu Mansion in Qingzhou Mansion to investigate the situation, and send people to keep an eye on the movements of the Spy Intelligence Division. ”

"Yes, the slave knows."

The middle-aged man picked up a copy of "Spring and Autumn Dew" in his hand, and said in a flat and slow tone: "Well, you have been a little slacking off recently, and I don't want this to happen again in the future." If you don't want to do it, I'm sure there are a lot of people who want to play the role of Blood Bodhisattva. ”

The man in black knelt on the ground in a cold sweat, kowtowed again and again, and said in fear: "The slave doesn't dare!" The minions must do their best not to let anything like this happen again. ”

The middle-aged man didn't raise his eyelids, as if there was a dead dog kneeling not far away, and said directly: "Go down." Give me a detailed reply in a few days. ”

The man in black trembled and stood up, and withdrew from the study with his shriveled body bowed, clenching his fists again at the thought of his son, who had been detained.

The middle-aged man stood up and found a copy of "Pipe" on the shelf, and said casually: "I originally wanted the Tian family to thoroughly control the silk business in Qingping County under the care of Li Weiwei, and then gradually expand on the basis of the canal, so that I can obtain enough money for my use." Now that Tian's family has been destroyed and Li is only arrested, what does Mr. think will happen in the future? ”

The wall next to the desk was pushed open, and a man wearing a half-metal mask laughed a few times and said, "The old man didn't agree to start with the place, not only because it was too slow, but also because it was difficult to control. Next, you might as well follow the old man's previous suggestion and start with the most trusted spy department of the emperor today to infiltrate. As long as you master the Espionage Division, everything that follows is not up to you. ”

The middle-aged man shook his head and said with a smile: "Okay, everything is up to Mr." I've been getting people into the Spy Division before, and it looks like I'm going to step up my efforts. ”