Cold night, lone star. In the corner of the alley, which was only separated by a wall from the backyard of the abandoned peach house, stood a middle-aged man with a grim appearance, holding an unsheathed long sword in his arms.

In the distance, the sound of the wheels of a carriage crashing against the stone floor was heard, interspersed with the sound of small footsteps. The middle-aged man raised his head, and there was a chilling light in his eyes.

"Who?" Someone in front of him shouted, and then someone drew his blade.

The middle-aged man lowered his head and remained motionless, but a heavy voice came out of his mouth as if it were beating a drum in someone else's heart: "Leave the things in the car, you can go." ”

"Arrogance!"

"Look for death!"

Someone over there scolded, and then two people rushed over with their knives, their bodies were quite flexible, and they seemed to be not weak.

A faint light passed by in the dark night, and the two men who rushed forward paused, and the slashing posture of the knife also stopped, and a cooing sound came out of their throats, but at last they could not speak, and they fell weakly, and the blade fell to the ground, and the sound was like the cough of death, which made the hearts of the people escorting the carriage feel a chill in their hearts.

At dawn, in the study of the Prime Minister's Palace, Dassan Kahlo sat in a chair with gloomy eyes, and two of his men knelt in front of him, their bodies trembling.

"How could something be lost? Can't so many people beat one person? Dassan Kahlo struggled to suppress the anger in her heart.

One of his subordinates pleaded guilty again and again: "The lowly is incompetent, the opponent is too high, the sword is incredibly fast, all the lowly subordinates are killed in battle, and they can't get close to him within three feet." ”

"The sword is incredibly fast? Isn't it like this? A silver light suddenly flew out of Dasan Kahlo's sleeve and circled around the neck of the man. It flew into his sleeve again. The whole process never took a second. And the man was already on the ground. Although the other subordinate looked like dirt, he did not flee, because he knew that no matter how he escaped, he could not escape the palm of his master's hand.

"I'm tired. Go down! Dasan suddenly closed his eyes and said. The rest of the men probably didn't expect to be so lucky, and barely believed their ears, and it took a long time for him to give in.

"You shouldn't have spared him." Behind Dassan Kahlo, a man in a black robe suddenly walked out.

Dassan Carlo didn't look back, but played with a jade cup on the table and said lightly. "Sometimes, fear can be emboldening and reborn. That's the kind of person he is, but some people aren't. ”

"I understand what you mean."

"It's good to understand. Go check who intercepted the car yesterday, and by the way, take a look at what tricks that old guy Singo is doing. ”

"Yes, do as you want."

Rick flipped through an invitation in his hand several times, but he couldn't understand why someone who had nothing to do with him or even had a grudge against him would invite him to a banquet that was said to be important. This invitation was sent at noon, and the names of two people were written in the closing column of the invitation: Marquis Jin and Aunt Jiu. Both of these men had left an impression on Rick's mind. Marquis Jin is the father of the arrogant girl who snapped up the Jade Pagoda with Rick, and Aunt Nine is the proprietress of the Mirror Flower Pavilion, which ranks ten among the top ten masters in the imperial capital and is known as the first golden cave in the imperial capital. The two of them teamed up to create an invitation that Rick didn't expect. What made him even more curious was why the invitation came to him.

"What do you think?" Rick asked, handing the invitation to Chriss, who was beside him.

"Go." Chrissy's answer was just one word.

Rick frowned and said, "Your Majesty is anxious to find the murderer who killed Miao Qi, I will definitely not be able to deal with it when I go to the Mirror Flower Pavilion at this time." ”

Chrissy shook her head and said, "Your Majesty's urging is not necessarily for you to find out the murderer in a short period of time, she is asking you to explore the way, otherwise she will not stop you from telling all the information about the Jade Red Mansion." ”

"You mean, that day His Majesty stopped me from going on, it was intentional? How is this possible? ”

"The fact is likely to be the case, the imperial capital has a huge and complex force, and it affects the whole body, and His Majesty also has concerns."

"Then we're not going to track down the murderer?"

"Check, we still have to check, but we must change the method and systematically investigate, we can no longer do it piecemeal, we must use our strength to fight."

"I don't understand."

"That is to say, for the time being, we cannot have a clear attitude towards one party, we must be left and right, and when the time is ripe, we can use the power of one party to weaken the other, which is to borrow strength."

Rick laughed and praised, "I didn't expect you, Chrissy, to be a brilliant strategist. I really underestimated you before. ”

Chrissy gave him a small white look and said softly, "When did you look at me?" ”

"Yes--yes--" Rick hugged her and knocked her nose to comfort her, "If I have any problems in the future, I will definitely find you, the Great Military Division." ”

Chrissy chuckled, probably thinking it would be a lot of fun. With so many women around this man, it would probably not be a problem even to form an "inner house council". Thinking of this, he couldn't help but glare at Rick resentfully, which made Rick inexplicable.

Rick was warming up with Chriss, when someone suddenly came down to report that two strange black chariots had appeared outside the backyard wall, and their owners had not been seen from morning until now. The next person felt a little weird, so he came to ask Shirek.

"Let's take a look." Rick hurried to the backyard with Chrissy. Passing by the back garden, I heard the delicate sound of perilla leaves in the distance.

Rick asked curiously, "What is she doing?" ”

Chrissy smiled, "I'm practicing my sword." You let Ada out, and you didn't allow her to leave, and she kept her promise to stay here. And putting all the energy on the perilla leaf is really unexpected. ”

As he spoke, Rick could already see Shiso Leaf practicing her sword in a wide pavilion in the back garden, and Ada, who supervised her. To Rick's surprise, there was a third party present, it was none other than Peach Blossom Hong, who had been living in the Duke's Palace, and today she wore a pink dress, with a red outer and white cape on her shoulders, in the cold breeze, she looked like a peach blossom that bloomed quietly.

Although Shiso Ye was practicing swords, she had no sword in her hand, only a three-foot-long bamboo strip. Her sword moves are also very strange, and there are only three styles to change between them: left slash, right slash, and forward stab. With both hands, repeat these three movements over and over again.

"Is this sword practice? Why are these three actions before and after? Rick asked, puzzled.

"Maybe this is the real Mahayana kendo." Chrissy half explained and half sighed, "I don't pay attention to the fancy and treacherous sword moves, but I want to be upright and neutral, and control the enemy in a dignified battle." ”

Rick looked at Shiso Ye's sword moves with understanding, and vaguely felt that there was a shadow of the sword technique made by Zang Yuan in those movements, and at that time he felt that Zang Yuan's sword moves were very neutral, but it was quite difficult to resist, because each of his moves had been tempered thousands of times. It's a pity that Zang Yuan also practiced treacherous swordsmanship, so his sword tricks never reached the Mahayana realm, otherwise Rick would have died under his sword that day.

"She's hard to come out, don't you want to go up and say hello to her?" Chrissy suddenly pointed to Peach Blossom Red from a distance and asked.

Rick shook his head and said, "No. Let's go see those strange carriages! ”

"You really don't want to?"

Chrissy kept asking questions, which made Rick feel quite strange, and soon he suddenly realized, so he replied, "Why do I suddenly smell a sour smell in the air?" ”

Chrissy blushed slightly, and said angrily: "You said I was jealous, don't even think about it." ”

"Really not jealous?" Rick asked, leaning over his face. Chrissy simply turned away. Rick didn't mind, took her jade hand and said, "Let's go see the carriage!" With that, whether Chrissy wanted it or not, pulled her on.

Outside the backyard of the Duke's Palace is a narrow alley, and on the other side of the alley is next to the wall of the side courtyard of another mansion. As a result, there was barely enough room for a horse-drawn carriage in the alley.

Two carriages were parked in the alley, the front one just a few meters from the backyard gate of the Duke's Palace.

"What's in there?" Rick called a waiting servant over and asked.

The subordinate shook his head and said, "The villain didn't dare to look at it." ”

Rick scolded "coward" and simply went to see for himself. Lifting the curtain, Rick was stunned by what was inside. The car was loaded with a large black iron box and locked. He looked at the rest of the carriage again, and it was the same. Rick gave Chrissy a quizzful look, apparently asking for her opinion.

Before Chrissy could speak, a breeze passed by her side, and Gyokuro swept by. She said anxiously, "Childe, let me open these boxes!" ”

Rick waved his hand and said, "You guys stand out of the way, it might be dangerous." ”

Chrissy and Gyokuro disagreed, and walked over at the same time, much to Rick's amusement and amusement. He said helplessly: "I don't know what is in these boxes yet, maybe there is no danger at all, you don't have to fight with me." ”

Chrissy disagreed, "We are all better than you, and I and Sister Gyokuro should open these boxes." ”

Yulu hurriedly nodded and said in agreement: "Sister Mei is right. ”

But Rick stubbornly shook his head and said, "No, I'm a man, you're a woman, this kind of thing should be done by men." ”

Chrissy and Gyokuro were about to object, but suddenly a dissatisfied voice came from the side of the carriage behind them: "Have you quarreled enough, if you have quarreled enough, let's come and see these interesting things!" ”

It was none other than Ao Ling'er, who had been in charge of spying on suspicious elements in the mansion lately, so she rarely appeared in front of Rick. I didn't expect to be interested in joining in the excitement today. She took advantage of the argument between the three of Rick and preemptively opened a few boxes. (To be continued......)

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