The most famous Qinglou Changzi Huayuan Pavilion in Gusu, as well as this antique shop called Unbelievable, are the intelligence contact points of the Ming Palace.

Fang Junhe wandered around the willow alleys of Huajie all day long with the image of a wandering prodigal, and as soon as he entered Gusu, he plunged into Huayuan Pavilion. Mu Dianke is a woman, it is inconvenient to enter and exit the Qinglou, and if there is a secret task to be handed over to Fang Jun and executed, he will be notified through these pre-arranged contact points.

The wax-sealed scroll is written with dense musical notes, which is a set of code words created by Fang Junhe on the basis of the guqin score. Except for Mu Dianke and his personal maid Baoqin, no one knows it, so there is no need to worry about the leakage of information.

Mu Dian can be sophisticated in the world, and he is not very accessible. At least compared to Xu Younan and Fang Junhe, who are very skilled, they are much inferior. Therefore, when he went to Chuzhou, Mu Dianke chose to take Xu Younan with him.

Life is sparse, there are thousands of problems, with Xu Younan to help plan and deal with it, she can save a lot of things.

A small matter like sending money to the Kindergarten is a blink of an eyelid for Xu Younan. But taking the opportunity to ridicule Mu Dianke is inevitable.

Mu Dian didn't want to be idle, so he had to give up the near and far and let Fang Junhe do it.

There is another consideration for this. It was because Jin Yanchen couldn't get used to Fang Jun and He for a long time, and he suppressed it intentionally or unintentionally, causing the people in the Ming Palace to be contemptuous of Fang Jun He. Give him a little more opportunity to show his face, so as to keep his due status and prestige as a lord in the Ming Palace.

Mu Dianke pretended to compare, and finally chose the clay vase that sacrificed grains in the Han Dynasty.

I didn't think there would be this one before I went out, and Mu Dian didn't have much money to bring. Fortunately, there was a fish's eye embedded in the bag containing the money, and Mu Dianke didn't bother to go to the pawnshop to exchange money back and forth, so at the instigation of the boss, he used the money bag as cash to pay for the clay pot.

There are many kinds of intelligence points in the Ming Palace.

A stronghold like Huayuan Pavilion for collecting intelligence, the entire field belongs to the Ming Palace, and everyone from the boss to the kitchen servant is their own people.

As for a stronghold like Wuqi, which is only responsible for the transmission of information, the Ming Palace does not take it as its own, but just arranges a few clever guys in the store to take turns to arrange shifts to ensure that there are no more people at critical times. Once exposed, quickly transferred, the damage is not significant.

The boss is not from the Ming Palace, and naturally he doesn't know Mu Dianke. When he slaughtered a stupid and generous fat sheep, he was very happy. As soon as he was happy, he forgot his form, his eyes were full of color, and his expression seemed to say: Is this girl stupid?

Mu Dian was a little displeased, and was about to take out a dagger to scare the fat man, when he suddenly felt a gaze behind him, and turned around, only to see Li Xiaoxiao wearing a red dress, holding an ink oil paper umbrella with fish and lotus leaves, standing outside the store.

Thousands of rain lines fluttered and swept under the umbrella, densely woven into a net. After the rain and fog, the face was still as usual, bright and clear.

The pomegranate red dress fluttered in the wind, and the scene that should have been bleak and cold and rainy gave birth to a different kind of vitality because of that touch of red. Vibrant, warm, and delightful.

Li Xiaoxiao walked towards Mu Dianke with an umbrella.

"Fourth Miss."

"Miss Lai."

Li Xiao smiled and said: "I really have a fate with Miss Four, and I can always meet you unexpectedly on the street." Fourth Miss, can you lend me this clay pot to see? ”

This is a strange request, but it is not excessive. Mu Dianke stretched out his hand and handed over the jar of sacrificed grains.

Li Xiao smiled and said, "The person that Miss Fourth likes is really different from ordinary women. I've seen a lot of jars like this in Grandpa Chang's academy, but I'm a layman, and I can't see any similarities or differences. ”

Mu Dianke smiled lightly: "I also look at the edge of my eyes and buy it casually." The collection of Mr. Chang is a fine product and cannot be compared. ”

Li Xiao smiled and said: "With the ability of the fourth young lady, how can it be mortal?" ”

Mu Dianke smiled lightly, which was a response.

Li Xiaoxiao handed the jar back to Mu Dianke and said, "I have a question, I have been holding it in my heart for a long time. When I went to Yunjiazhuang to give that set of stone dolls, did the fourth lady recognize that it was ambergris jade, and guessed that it was given by my eldest brother? ”

Mu Dian didn't expect her to be so straightforward, her smile condensed slightly, and she quickly returned to normal, and said, "Please also ask Miss Li to convey my gratitude to Chang Gongzi on my behalf." ”

smiled as before, but his eyes were a little dark.

Li Xiaoxiao is not good at observing words and feelings, but she is a woman, a woman is slender and sensitive, and she understands women's minds best.

Li Xiaoxiao was caught off guard by the intention to hit Mu Dian, and asked, "Do you have my eldest brother in your heart?" ”

This time, Mu Dian was on guard, his expression was calm and unmoving, his eyelashes drooped, his expression was a little indifferent, and he said lightly: "Miss Li's words are inappropriate." ”

In the eyes of people who don't know the inside story, Mu Dianke is still Jin Yanchen's fiancée. Asking a woman who is engaged to marry if she likes another man can be quite offensive.

Li Xiaoxiao listened to her words, looked a little embarrassed, and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I lost my words for a while, and I didn't mean to offend the fourth miss." ”

Mu Dianke said: "It's okay. "I panicked for no reason. I feel a little ironic again.

I didn't expect that she had been a shield for Jin Yanchen for so long, and one day she would use him as a shield.

The atmosphere inevitably cooled down. Li Xiaoxiao saw that Mu Dianke was silent for a long time, and when she was displeased, she said: "There is still something at home, so I will take the first step." The fourth lady took her leave. ”

"Miss Li, walk slowly."

Outside, the rain was getting heavier, and the rain falling from the cornice pulled out a curtain of beaded raindrops outside the door. When the wind blows, the curtain rises and falls, and the rain is cold.

From the cornice fell a fist-sized gray shadow, mixed in the water curtain, as the water falls, thin and unfolded, like light smoke, like a fog, hidden in the white water vapor, very imperceptible.

Mu Dianke kept lowering his eyes because of his gloomy mood, and when he looked up and noticed something unusual, Li Xiaoxiao had already walked out with an umbrella.

Mu Dianke shouted, "Be careful! The bamboo hat in his right hand was thrown out, like a rapidly spinning top, turning back and forth, holding the large scattered white shadow, and quickly buckling it to the ground.

Mu Dianke flew forward, hugged Li Xiaoxiao and fell back, and in a hurry, he hit the shelf at the door. The shelves where the antique jade artifacts were placed fell one after another, and the ground was filled with the sound of clanging and clattering.

But it was still too late.

Small pouches began to appear on Li Xiaoxiao's neck, like sand dunes rushing all over the ground, constantly changing positions. It seems that there is a living creature flowing under the skin, and it may break through the flesh at any time.

Although the number is not much, because the speed is too fast, at a glance, the neck is full of bulging packets, dense, very terrifying.

Mu Dian could recognize that it was a smoke insect Gu. Under normal circumstances, smoke insects are as small as dust and are not easy to identify. Once inside the human body, it will immediately suck blood and swell, becoming as large as a bee worm, and frantically devouring the host's flesh and blood.

But I don't know why, after these smoke insects entered Li Xiaoxiao's body, they didn't rush to eat her body, but had the intention of escaping.

Outside the door, innocent pedestrians were already screaming. Grabbing his body with both hands, he rolled desperately on the ground.

Li Xiaoxiao was also in pain, sweating and trembling, and reached out to grab her neck.

Mu Dianke was quick and grabbed her with both hands. A hand knife went down and slashed at Li Xiaoxiao's neck, Li Xiaoxiao stopped struggling and fainted.

The hat buckled on the ground was arched upward by the force below, and occasionally there was a line of seam at the edge, and countless smoke insects spilled out.

There are many people coming and going on the street, and many people who are watching the excitement come around here.

Mu Dian was in a hurry, and he was vigorous. Grabbing a bronze jar in the corner of the wall with both hands, there was a sound on his waist and back when he lifted it, and it seemed to be broken.

However, the vat was called for her to lift it after all.

Mu Dian could bear the pain, lifted the bronze jar and smashed it out of the door, accurately covering the gray light mist that had just rushed out of the hat and was about to scatter.

Turning back to the house, he carried Li Xiaoxiao and ran wildly in the direction of Chongde Hall.