As night fell, the small county town of Lang County gradually quieted down. The sun rises and the sun sets, and with the sound of the closed-door drum, the day's work of the people of Lang County has come to an end, and the flow of people on the street has begun to decrease.

As the night deepened little by little, the moon was dark and the wind was high, Liu Yu also asked all the people under his command to change into night clothes and prepare for a sneak attack. Liu Yue thought very simply, since Master Wuding was here for her apprentice, not Su Zhe, the king of Chu, then he might as well be a favor, take her apprentice south, get the Book of Heaven by the way, and see what the Book of Heaven is by the way. Regarding the development of history, whether it is a mysterious pretense or a real thing.

Liu Yu changed into a night suit and faced the bronze mirror, almost not recognizing himself. At this time, Liu Liniang seemed to be wearing work clothes, everything seemed so natural, obviously Liu Liniang used to wear night clothes was commonplace.

Liu Yu looked at Liu Liniang, Liu Liniang smiled, Liu Yu stepped forward and hugged Liu Liniang's waist and smiled: "Liniang wears this dress, it seems that your waist is thinner." ”

Liu Liniang glanced at him and said, "It's important to get down to business." ”

Liu Yu and Liu Liniang came out, and everyone was ready, waiting in the courtyard. Lian Husheng stepped forward and said: "The people in charge, the people in the inn have been stunned, and if we leave like this, no one will notice our whereabouts." ”

Liu Yu is now trying to do everything in detail, and said: "Go and check again, don't miss the net, it will not end well if you alarm the government." ”

Lian Husheng took his life and left. The young man stood to the side, his whole body trembling a little and said, "You guys...... Is it the king of the mountain? ”

"Boy, don't you dare to cooperate with us?"

The young man swallowed and said, "This ......"

"Not cooperative. Not only will we not give you money. will also ......" Liu Yu made a "kill" gesture. The boy was even more frightened.

Soon, Lian Husheng came out with someone and reported the situation, and checked after the inn and there was no condition.

"Let's go."

Liu Yu gave an order, and the group went out directly from the back alley and left in the night.

The boy led the way in front, and the group followed behind, and he was unfamiliar with life. In order to prevent the young man from slipping, Liu Yu also asked Qu Zhu to find people from Lang County in the army to follow him. In this way, the teenager can be detected deliberately taking the wrong way.

The young man was on the road, walking slower and slower, Liu Yu stepped forward and pushed him and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The young man said with a look of jealousy: "It's here." ”

Liu Yu looked around, it was just an ordinary alley, and this alley was obviously a little deserted, after nightfall, there were no lights in the surrounding places for a mile or two, which showed its poverty. Ordinary people. At night, there are no candles, but there are some people who work. At night, they will still be lit by tung oil lamps and do some manual work, otherwise they will feel that they are not good at life when they sleep in the long nightlight.

The young man pointed to a large abandoned mansion not far away and said, "It's inside." It was originally an official office, but a few years ago, somehow moved away, and then the surrounding people almost moved away, some people said that the surrounding area was haunted, and on the fifteenth day of the new year, people around would come to burn incense and worship, and the two women, one old and one young, were in the ghost house. ”

Liu Yu took advantage of the night to look at the mansion, even the courtyard walls were almost damaged, if it was just abandoned, it would definitely not be like this in two years. What is it that makes this place so deserted so quickly?

Liu Yu gestured and asked the guards to pass over in batches, approaching the house from all directions, forming a situation of encirclement. Liu Yue knew that Liu Liniang's junior sister was not easy to mess with, and she couldn't do it for a while, so Liu Yue would also use a "ruthless move" in a timely manner, that is, to subdue it directly with a musket.

"Twelve less, one later...... Can the slave family subdue the junior sister by hand? Liu Liniang walked over and asked.

"How does your martial arts compare with your junior sister?"

Liu Liniang smiled confidently and said: "Senior sister, she has mixed hearts, and she has learned some strange and obscene skills, and in terms of martial arts, she is not as good as the slave family." ”

"I'll try it later, I don't want you to get hurt."

Liu Yu touched the two short guns pinned to his waist, and then touched the bullet bag, feeling a little confident. He met Liu Liniang's junior sister purely by mistake this time, and if even Mrs. Wuding was present for a while, Liu Yu really didn't know what to do. Anyway, he was going to get the Book of Heaven in his hands first, and he didn't plan to return it until he understood it thoroughly.

Liu Yu and Liu Liniang also went to the back of the mansion with the guards, and vaguely saw that there seemed to be a fire beating in the house, Liu Yu guessed that it was the hiding place of Liu Liniang's sister.

Liu Yu hid behind the ruins and broken tiles, looked inside, turned his head to look at Liu Liniang and asked, "Liniang, what is your junior sister's name?" ”

"Little girl." Liu Liniang said, "Her real name is only known to her and her master." The slave family is the Miao family, she is the Han family in Nanzhao, and the younger sister has been abandoned since she was a child......"

Liu Yu pondered the name "Little Girl", and it was really difficult to connect with the old woman who was old. A woman in her prime has to pretend to be old and scary, she must have a strange ugly appearance.

Liu Yu carefully identified the direction of some fires, it should be in a small house in the courtyard, Liu Yu was about to order someone to be taken up, but Liu Liniang pulled Liu Yu's shirt and said, "Let the slave family come in person." ”

Liu Yue remembered that he had just promised Liu Liniang to solve the problem of the division with his own hands, nodded, and ran into the courtyard with Liu Liniang and a group of guards, and when he arrived around the small house, Liu Yu did not plan to go in, just because the wall was damaged, and there were some leaks in some places, and some light came out, and Liu Yu could also look in from the leaks and observe the situation inside.

I saw an old woman sitting against the wall in the dilapidated room like a firewood house, the old woman was holding a cane in one hand, and covering her mouth with the other hand and coughing constantly, as if she was about to die of a serious illness. In front of the fire on one side, a young girl was boiling a decoction. This old man and young man are the old man and the young man Liu Yu met on the way to Mingzhou City to collect grain two years ago. It's just that they appeared separately at the time.

Liu Yu pointed to the old woman inside, and then looked at Liu Liniang with an inquiring eye. Liu Liniang nodded, which also proves that the old woman is indeed Liu Liniang's junior sister. Liu Yu pointed to the girl on the side again, and Liu Liniang shook her head to say that she didn't know.

It seems that this girl was after Liu Liniang's junior sister stole the book of heaven and left the division. The apprentice who was only accepted. So Liu Liniang, the "uncle", didn't know the existence of Lu Dao's nephew.

Liu Yu made an encouraging gesture to Liu Liniang. Then pat your chest. It probably means: "I'll see you later, but I can't do it, and I." ”

Liu Liniang was about to do it, but she heard the old woman inside ask in a rough voice, "The fish soup hasn't been boiled yet?" How do you drug a teacher? ”

The girl couldn't spit out her words and said, "Just ...... Good. ”

Liu Yu suddenly remembered that when he first saw the girl, he felt that she was not fluent in Mandarin, and her nonfluency was different from Wu Shuo's stammering, which should be a beginner in Chinese. Because there are not many words, it will make the speech slurred.

"Go out of the river and get a basin of water, and wipe your face for the teacher."

"Yes." The girl answered, got up and went out.

Although the girl's martial arts skills were good that day, even ordinary thieves admired her very much, but in front of this old woman, she was just a good girl, and she didn't even dare to say anything serious. When the girl went out, the old woman suddenly came to the fire and opened the lid of the soup pot on the fire. Add some "powder" to it.

Liu Yu and Liu Liniang glanced at each other, and they both saw the question in each other's eyes. This pot of fish soup is eaten by their master and apprentice. Why did this old woman take the drug?

The old woman sprinkled the powder into the fish broth, stirred it with a spoon, and then with a grim smile on her face, she retreated into the corner and continued to cough half-dead. Obviously, her sickness is also faked, and her apprentice does not know the way.

Soon, the girl came in with a basin of water from outside, and placed it in front of the old woman, and she was about to soak the towel to wipe the old woman's face, but the old woman snatched the cloth from her hand and shouted, "The teacher is not dead yet, come by yourself!" ”

"Oh." The girl trembled and retreated to the fire, and continued to add firewood to make soup.

The old woman took a towel and soaked it in water, but she didn't wipe it on her face, obviously she had "makeup" on her face, and if she was wiped with water, it would reveal her filling. She was holding a towel, suddenly covering her mouth and coughing again.

"Master, soup...... It's boiled. The girl rapped.

"You drink it first, and come over after wiping your face for the teacher."

"Hmm." The girl took a bowl of fish soup in a bowl, and did not even dare to give herself some meat, apparently leaving all the fish for the old woman to eat. She sat on the side, blowing the hot soup, but she couldn't wait to pour the soup into her mouth, which was a look of hunger.

Liu Yu thought to himself, this old woman is so vicious, not only did she treat her apprentice badly, did not let her eat enough, but also drugged her apprentice. Did she want to poison her apprentice to death?

Originally, Liu Liniang wanted to go in and take her junior sister and solve the problem of the teacher, but now that she sees this situation, she is not in a hurry. Like Liu Yu, she also wanted to know what tricks her junior sister was going to do.

Inside, the girl drank the fish soup and felt that she was not full, so she asked, "Master, I ...... Drink again...... All right? ”

"Hmm. Ahem, drink a little more and eat some fish. ”

"Thank you...... Master. ”

When the girl heard that she could eat fish, she went up and scooped herself half a bowl of soup with a spoon, but she also scooped out a little fish at the end. Her face was very tense with a look of caution, and she wanted to eat meat, but she did not dare to scoop out too much at once, so as not to displease the old woman.

From this point it can be seen that the girl was full of fear of this old woman.

When the girl took it late, she squatted aside and ate about the same, when suddenly her head seemed to shake, and then the bowl fell to the ground with a bang, and her body fell. I don't know if I'm dead or faint.

"Ahem." The old woman looked at her apprentice and sneered, "Let you eat my fish!" ”

Liu Yu felt a chill in his heart, this old woman wouldn't be going to attack her apprentice because she drank soup and ate fish, right? This old woman is so possessive, it's hard to imagine what will happen if she offends this old woman. At the beginning, the old woman used him to "trap" Liu Liniang, obviously she hated Liu Liniang, but Liu Liniang once said that she had a good relationship with her junior sister, how could it be so life-and-death?

The old woman stood up, walked up to the apprentice, but ignored it, went to the door, and suddenly put her hand in her mouth and blew a long whistle. The whistle was so loud that it could have been heard far away.

After blowing the whistle, the old woman returned to the corner and sat down, as if waiting for someone.

Not long after, the sound of footsteps came, and Liu Yu realized that there was not only this pair of masters and apprentices in this deserted house, but also other people. Soon, two men appeared at the door of the room, and as soon as these two men appeared, Liu Yu and Liu Liniang showed surprise on their faces, because although the clothes on their bodies were shabby, they also wore the signs of the Three Puritans.

Two men came in. Ignore the old woman. All eyes were on the girl lying on the ground. One of them rubbed his hands. said with a lewd face: "Grandma Gu, you really give face." Then we brothers, you're welcome. ”

said that he was in a hurry, but the accent was not Guanzhong, it should be the accent of the Jiangnan generation. Liu Yu was thinking about where the two people came from, when the two men lifted the girl up, one of them was on his back, and he was about to leave.

Only then did Liu Yu know what to do. It turned out that the old woman was a prostitute and gave her apprentices to these two men to warm the bed.

Liu Yu thought to himself, Senior Sister Liu Liniang is really not an ordinary person, she doesn't even care about her apprentice, this is simply cold-blooded, fortunately, she didn't anger this old woman at the beginning, and let her kill it with a sword.

The old woman coughed and said, "Go, go, remember to wash this girl and send it back at dawn." The old body is unwell and will not be sent. ”

A man smiled and said, "Grandma Gu is recuperating well." Our brothers won't forget you, let's go! ”

Talking. The two men hurriedly left with the girl. When their footsteps were far away, Liu Yu gestured to the people behind him, asking them to take a detour to follow them, so as not to be discovered and hidden.

After the two men left, the old woman finally restrained the sick look on her face before, and took out a thing from her back, which was used to pretend to be rickets. Liu Yue saw it clearly, it seemed to be a burden. The old woman opened the bag and took the nightdress from it.

Only then did Liu Yu realize that the old woman wanted to use her apprentice as bait, and Liu Yu still couldn't figure out what she was going to do.

"Twelve less, let's not do it first, follow her to see the situation." Liu Liniang approached Liu Yu and whispered in her ear.

Liu Yu nodded in agreement.

Inside, the old woman had already changed into a night dress, and where was the old woman who was hunched over and aged just now. The slender figure is no worse than Liu Liniang, and her posture is comparable to that of a track and field athlete. It's just because in order to avoid the trouble of makeup afterwards, the old woman's makeup on her face was not removed. In this way, an old woman with a wrinkled face is slimmer than a girl, which looks very weird.

The old woman picked up the crutches and pulled them from the head of the crutches, and since she drew a sword out, it turned out that her crutches were a cover-up, and there were soldiers hidden in the wood. The sword seemed to be very soft, and it was directly inserted into the belt by the old woman, and Liu Yu realized that the belt on the old woman's body, which looked lame, was the scabbard of a special soft sword.

When the old woman was ready, she came out of the house and looked at the sky, but she had no plan to chase it. Clearly, she knew where her apprentice would be taken. She didn't need to rush to track it down.

"After today, the whole world will be mine!" The old woman suddenly changed into a thick accent, like a man, and sighed.

Liu Yu frowned, what did she mean by this? What does it mean that after today, even the world is hers? Could it be that she already knew that she was coming, and was ready to kill herself, and then go to a certain dynasty to usurp the throne?

This is obviously not logical, Liu Liniang, the junior sister, does not stick to the law, it can be said that it is extremely harmful and vicious, she said this, it must have another deep meaning. Liu Yu thought again, could it be that today's incident has something to do with Su Zhe, the king of Chu, she is going to kill Su Zhe, and then pretend to be Su Zhe to seek the world?

This is obviously not wrong, because with Su Zhe's current strength, he has not yet reached the ability to seek the world. It won't be said that after an overnight, the world will be hers.

Liu Yu didn't have a definite answer in his heart, but he had an idea. In any case, if you kill this old woman in a while, it will be a hundred.

After a while, the old woman estimated that the time was almost up, and began to fly the eaves and walk in one direction.

Seeing her skills, Liu Yue was secretly jealous, and there was obviously no chance of winning this competition with her. He thought to himself that it would be better not to take people in person for a while, otherwise it would be very dangerous if he showed up.

If you track it like this, even if you can catch up, it's hard not to be exposed. Even Liu Liniang is not confident that she can track it down and hide it from being discovered. Fortunately, the group of people sent by Liu Yu before had already marked the direction of tracking the two men in a special way, so that Liu Yu also saved the trouble of tracking the old woman and followed the sign directly.

The road is not far, from the old woman's house where the apprentice was stunned, to the place where the two men are, the distance is only a hundred zhang, but it is not far from the courtyard, and it is separated by a street.

When he arrived at the location, Liu Yu realized that the place where the two men entered was still a deserted mansion. Liu Yu thought to himself, there are so many abandoned houses in Lang County, is there any shocking secret hidden in it? Could Su Zhe be here?

When I arrived at the mansion, I couldn't find the specific location for a while. A few guards hiding in the shadows came out, and they had just followed the two men.

"When the heads of the house entered the courtyard, they flashed, and when they came out again, they were gone. I can't even see the light of the fire...... "The guard came up to say goodbye.

Liu Yu couldn't help frowning, if this was the case, there was only one explanation, that is, the place where the two men were hiding was not on the ground, but underground, because the guards didn't dare to chase too closely, so they would get into a certain cellar and suddenly disappear.

"There's a man in black coming from behind, have you noticed?" Liu Yu asked.

Several guards glanced at each other and shook their heads to indicate that they didn't know what to do.

The old woman's whereabouts are extremely secretive, and she is dressed in night clothes, and she is flying on the wall, so it is normal not to be noticed. Now I can only hope that the old woman is "clumsy" and does not find the guards hiding in the shadows.

Liu Yu was about to send someone in to look for it, when suddenly there was a fire from the far side of the street, as if someone was coming.

Liu Yu waved his hand and asked the guards to hide first. And he and Liu Liniang hid in the dark first.

The firelight approached, and Liu Yue saw clearly that it was a four-person sedan chair, except for the sedan chair itself, there was a person in front of him holding a torch to illuminate and lead the way. The sedan chair is very ordinary, but looking at the sedan chair man's exertion, he knows that there are people in the sedan chair.

"Here we are."

In front of the house, the sedan chair fell to the ground, and the person leading the way in front said to the people inside.

A person got down from the sedan chair, and before the firelight, I could see that this was a middle-aged man, dressed in ordinary clothes, how dare I look around, and my face was obviously puzzled. Obviously, he didn't understand that he had come to such a deserted place, and he should have come to see someone.

Qu Zhu approached Liu Yu's side and said in a low voice: "In charge, this is the county lieutenant of Lang County, Tang Shan." (To be continued......)