Three quarters of the hour. Inside the study of the garrison house.

The two people who had just been drunk at the banquet had disappeared without a trace of the alcohol on their bodies at this moment.

"Your Highness, today I saw that this island is full of strangeness, you can promise Ben Hou before you go, if it is not a critical moment, you will not take the initiative to reveal your identity. Now...... Alas, you are really reckless today. Liu Sheng sat at his desk and whispered.

"Liu Hou, this king has sent guards to surround the small courtyard from the inside out, even the roof has also sent people to guard it, if Liu Hou thinks anything, just say it, there are only you and I left here." King Han couldn't help but smile when he saw Liu Sheng's cautious appearance.

Seeing King Han's confident appearance, Liu Sheng was suddenly dumbfounded, the situation at this moment can not be easily explained in a few words, if he rashly spoke in the ear of King Han, he would definitely be displeased. There was silence for a long time. Liu Sheng suddenly thought about it: "Your Highness, how did you forget that our trip is for Your Majesty to search for the pearl medicine of immortality from the four seas. Ben Hou had caught a bead in the sea a few days ago, and he wanted to ask His Royal Highness to accompany Ben Hou to the outside of the house to admire it. ”

"Liu Hou, you are also a prince, why are you so stingy even looking at a bead, and you want this hall to accompany you to go outside to see it? Could it be that this pearl is a pearl of the night? ”

Liu Sheng saw that King Han didn't even listen to such an obvious hint in his heart, and he suddenly felt a big headache in his heart, I am afraid that at this moment his mind is all on the beauty that is about to be sent. Where do you remember the emperor's orders.

"Your Highness, the glimmer of the candles in this room is still so bright, Ben Hou is afraid that this treasure will be polluted by the vulgarity of this island. This bead is the royal supply to the emperor's longevity pearl, this Hou needs to be careful of the pearl essence leakage, this pearl since the accident has not yet absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon, come to Your Royal Highness you and this Hou go outside the house to see. As he spoke, Liu Sheng revealed half of the emerald item in his arms, and before King Han could react, he pulled him hard and walked towards the courtyard.

"Liu Hou, you ......" The earth shinobi who was lurking underground only heard this, and a heavy sound of the door closing came, and the sound of the wind sounding a door in the air, but the two of them couldn't hear clearly.

"Liu Hou, are you joking with this king? What kind of bead is this, it's clearly a jade. "When many people had the habit of wearing jade, the King of Han was deeply favored by Emperor Zhu Di, who would look at the jade jue that Liu Sheng was equipped with. At that moment, he asked angrily.

"Your Highness, Your Highness is slow to get angry, have you forgotten that he was guarding the banquet today, and he just kowtowed but didn't say a word?" Liu Sheng's eyes showed a different color, and he suddenly said to King Han sternly.

King Han saw Liu Sheng's face with a serious face through the moonlight, and when he heard the change in Liu Sheng's voice, he was surprised in his heart, and he had already forgotten about the trivial matter just now. I only heard him surprise and said: "Could it be that Liu Hou has insight into the reason?" ”

"Your Highness, after the official surnamed Najia withdrew this afternoon, Ben Hou has secretly sent someone to inspect the roof and confirm that no one is peeping on the roof. However, there were only three of us left in the room at that time, and as His Highness said at the time, Shi Lu could reply with peace of mind. But the division guard has repeatedly deducted your head dozens of times, but you don't dare to say a word, let me ask Your Highness, you are so talented and guess what makes him so cautious? ”

King Han heard Liu Sheng mention the situation in the afternoon banquet again, and secretly praised himself. Since landing on the island, he thought that he was careful step by step, but when he thought about today's events, it was still much worse than Liu Sheng, this person was rigorous, and he had already thought of checking the roof in advance. No wonder his father was the first person to choose in the investigation of the case. But why is this teacher so strange today, he didn't dare to answer in the house just now. Could it be that there is some mechanism in that house? But I didn't see Liu Sheng groping in the house. Shi Lu has been buckling his head, touching the ground with his forehead, touching the ground with his forehead, touching the ground, right.

"Liu Hou, could it be that there is a mechanism on the ground?"

"Your Highness is clever, Ben Hou had seen this kind of arrangement when he surrounded and suppressed the White Lotus Demon Maiden a few years ago, the Demon Maiden dug a secret passage from the ground before building a house, poured it with iron juice to shape it, and then built a wooden board or covered with a layer of soil on the iron sheet to support the foundation, and then built a house on it as usual to build a house, but the secret passage of the White Lotus Demon Maiden is for escape, and this place is probably used to listen to you and me."

As if he was in a hurry, Liu Sheng paused and continued: "This Chongming Island was the place where Taizu held the Korean Duke Li Shanchang, and the correspondence documents were issued to send ships to escort them, although this island is not far from the old capital ferry, with my Ming Dynasty's unique shipbuilding skills, it will take half a day to arrive." We waited until we saw not half of the messenger ship on the voyage today, and when we docked, we deliberately hurried so that the island was unprepared, but when Ben Hou disembarked, there was not a trace of sweat on the foreheads of the people on the island, so it can be seen that they did not wait for a long time, but calculated the approximate time before they began to wait for us. This is only one of them, His Royal Highness thinks about how arrogant and domineering the Dongying Ronin was when he landed in Qinghai back then, how could he send such a stunning beauty because of his small garrison. And the arrow beast in the forest, oh yes, there are no guards today, and the iron armor worn by the soldier ......" Liu Sheng is still shaking off the strangeness of the island one by one.

"No wonder Liu Hou has won the Sacred Heart, only this little half a day has seen many suspicious things at the first time, this king is willing to bow down, so according to Liu Hou's intentions, where to start now."

"His Royal Highness said seriously, on the eve of Benhou's departure, Nanjing Jinyi Wei commanded Brother Yiting to inform Benhou in a secret order that he had sent several people to sneak into the island a year ago, and would report the situation on the island to him every half month, but one of them did not reply for some reason a month ago. At the moment, it seems that something has happened. And most of these people on the island have been scared. In my opinion, since His Royal Highness has informed the division that the garrison will go hunting tomorrow, presumably he has begun to arrange things in the forest tonight, and we will take the opportunity to investigate tomorrow, but His Royal Highness can take care of his body tonight, maybe there will be some danger in the forest tomorrow, if these people dare to risk the big disapproval, even the prince dares to do it, then ....... ”

"Liu Hou, since we have found a lot of physical evidence, we will hunt on this island tomorrow, and after pretending to escape, we will directly order people to attack, and we still need to investigate something."

"Your Highness, you have forgotten that this island was originally a place for slaves, and there are still many officials and their families who have been exiled here in our court, and if they attack rashly, they may lose their names."

"Hmph, they are all slave pariahs, just like those who I and the sin slaves who are coming to Shilu, they are all things that are not a pity to die, and I have to die tens of thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty every year in wars. If these people have already been punished, what is the pity that they are dead? ”

"Your Highness, forgive Ben Hou for being rude, Your Majesty needs to do his best to protect the families of these officials before leaving, and you are also one of the candidates who can take advantage of my Ming Dynasty in the future. When Liu Sheng heard King Han's words, he felt a chill in his heart, but he still persuaded him.

"Okay, let's listen to Liu Hou's arrangement, tomorrow we will observe for another day, and we will talk about the attack in the evening, Liu Hou, the ten young men of this king are about to be sent, but do you want this king to send you one or two?" King Han had a smirk in his eyes.

When Liu Sheng heard King Han speak, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes, and he hurriedly refused: "Your Highness, Benhou has been deeply tired of these things in recent years, and he is no longer happy with this business, but His Highness still needs to take care of his body, and the criminal slaves on this island must be guarded against, by the way, I am afraid that there are also secret agents listening to the underground where you live today, and His Royal Highness still arranges a few guards in the house for safety." ”

King Han laughed and said: "After all, it's just a few sin slaves, what danger can there be at a young age, but there are Lao Hou Ye who is worried, and this king does not hide from Liu Hou, this king likes to arrange people to watch this king's opera in the room on weekdays." Speaking of Liu Hou. King Han lowered the tone he had just raised, "Why is it safe in this courtyard?" Is there no place for eavesdropping in the courtyard and under the ground? ”

"Your Highness, although there are also blue bricks paving in this courtyard, after all, there are still many flowers and trees, and the soil is soft. Iron plates are difficult to lay, and how could the person who arranged them think that someone would talk about such a confidential matter in the courtyard. Liu Sheng, who was confident, did not deliberately lower his voice.

Xu was a little angry when King Han deliberately lowered his words and was rejected by Liu Sheng just now, and the tone of Liu Sheng's speech at this time made King Han feel even more as if he was deliberately showing off. At this time, it was not good to have a stiff fight with him, but after all, there was a pimple in his heart, and after the two had finished talking, King Han replied lightly: "Then please ask Marquis Liu to go back to the house and rest." This king is going to have a good time. Then he ordered the guards not far behind him to bring the male maid in.

Liu Sheng heard the sudden change in the tone of the Han King, and thought that he was already hot in his heart, impatient, sighed in his heart, retreated, took a few steps back, turned around and walked out of the door.

Just as Liu Sheng was about to leave the door, several ignorant teenagers about 10 years old walked outside the door, and they saw that their faces were indeed red and white. But how could one of these teenagers be so familiar? Liu Sheng said secretly in his heart.

The door of the house where King Han lived slammed shut.

Liu Sheng walked towards the small courtyard where he lived, and after walking a few steps, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his mind, and he shouted loudly in his heart. turned around and went back to the courtyard of the Han King.

The door of the Han Wang's courtyard has been closed inside, and no matter how Liu Sheng's two entourages call the door, the people inside just say that the Han King has ordered no one to dare to disturb it late at night.

Liu Sheng was in a hurry, didn't this Han King still think that this island was his palace? Lian stepped forward to scold the gatekeeper soldiers, and after a while, the soldiers finally opened the door. Liu Sheng hurriedly entered it, only to hear the soldiers inside say that King Han was bathing. However, several young men had been bathed before they came, and they were waiting for King Han to be fortunate in the side room at this time. Liu Sheng was anxious and didn't return, so he opened the door directly and entered the side room, only to see a young man really following the crowd, and he was frowning at this time. This young man is Yu Han who was cut off by Mu Shan earlier.

Liu Sheng whispered a few words to a casual person and left him to explain to the King of Han, and hurriedly took the young man to his courtyard.

Oh my God, I almost made a big mistake for King Han. The person who was looking for a job was actually found by him in this strange place. Liu Sheng couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat when he thought of the scene Yu Han was about to face.

"Yu Han, you quickly tell me the information you know on the island......

It's time now. Inside a wooden house in Arashi-eup.

Mu Shan sat on the side of the low table, looked at Lan Yi and said, "You are in better health, I didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to come too, this is a little tricky." That division law was Zhu Gaoxu's legacy in the army in his early years, and he was afraid of him like a tiger, and he didn't expect Zhu Di to send Liu Sheng to come, and Liu Sheng was not easy to deal with. ”

Lan Yi gritted his teeth and said: "I can still hold on, Mu Shan, the situation at this moment is almost the same as you guessed before, but Zhu Gaoxu is on the island, I think the previous plan needs to be modified, if we follow the previous plan, we will kill him as an ordinary minister and then order someone to return to his life." But Zhu Gaoxu is Zhu Di's most favored son, and he has a lot of dealings with the emperor's courtiers, I am afraid that it is difficult for our people to be easily tolerated, and that Liu Sheng is also a very favored courtier, I am afraid it is not easy to change. ”

"Don't worry, I've rearranged the plan, but I don't know if I've ever sent someone to do what I just told you."

"I have ordered that Li Yunlan to select ten young men to sleep with him, I can't imagine that this royal prince doesn't love beauties and has such a good Longyang. It's disgusting. ”

Mu Shan smiled when he heard this: "Don't say these things in this royal family, even uncles and nieces also have a lot of filthy things, these are just the ** that only arose in the Yongle Year, among the Han people, it is the elegant things that only the literati and scholars do, that is, I Dongying also imitates, but you are not from my two countries, I am afraid that it is the first time I have seen it." Mu Shan picked up the teacup on the table and took a sip and looked at Lan Yi who was covering his right arm, and said with a heavy heart: "This time, I always feel that there always seems to be a pair of eyes staring at us, but I don't know if I have been too careful recently." But in the Ming Court, I always feel that it is not just as simple as going to sea to seek pearl medicine. We have to be careful. ”

"Yes, there are less than 100 people on a huge ship to search for pearl medicine?." Lan Yi said inexplicably.

At night, a strong smell of medicine spreads through the house. The two of them seemed to have something in their hearts, and they didn't say a word. Mushan drank tea one after another. In the faint light, only Lan Yi was still caressing his arm that had just cleaned his wounds.

As Kiyama retreated, the candlelight became dimmer and dimmer, and eventually both of them disappeared into the darkness, as if no one had ever appeared in the room.

Ugly moment.

On the forest path, Zhi Ning followed Mu Shan with a lantern to shuttle through the forest, the sky was hiding even the stars, and the faint light shone on the faces of the two people in the dark from time to time, revealing half of their dim faces.

After walking for about half an hour, the two walked to a dilapidated house guarded by several "guards". The houses were rudimentary, not even decently walled, except for a few adobe-fired houses, of which only one was now lit from the outside. Mu Shan raised his feet and leaned into the earthen house, and the "guards" on both sides were as if they hadn't seen it, and Zhi Ning hurriedly followed and entered the house.

When he entered the house, Zhi Ning looked left and right, the room was not big, there was only one living room, and there seemed to be a bedroom in it, and Shi Lu, who was still enjoying the dance in the banquet just now on the main seat of the living room, was sitting on the chair blankly and kept drinking the tea on the table.

Mu Shan, who is not happy to see color on weekdays, quickly stepped forward a few steps and snatched the teacup in Guo Ming's hand, and the sound of porcelain breaking came, and the cup was thrown to the ground by Mu Shan and broken.

I only listened to Mu Shan's sarcasm that was neither yin nor yang: "Master Shi, you think so distractedly, do you think that when you see King Han, you have some hope for survival?" ”

Shi Lu didn't answer, and waited for a while, but saw Guo Ming slowly raise his head as if he had just woken up from a dream, and when Zhi Ning looked closely, he saw Guo Ming's body trembling slightly, his face was pale, and the corners of his twitching mouth couldn't stop dripping with saliva on his lips. His eyes began to blur, and he said vaguely: "Wood ...... Mountain, I never thought that the King of Han would come here, can you listen to the soldier's announcement...... There is no name of the Han king. ”

"Oh? I said why is the teacher so calm, it turned out that the ant pill poison attacked, the master should not be in a hurry to tell me what happened at the banquet first, and then let me consider giving you a detoxification is not too late. ”

"Kiyama, you... What else do you need me to say, the roof... That... The hollowed-out iron plate in the ground is full of your people, and you still need it... What do I say? "The teacher said that he was interrupted and disconnected.

"It seems that you remember very well, if it weren't for your secret actions, we were going to write to the court to report me, and we wouldn't have used the earth technique to probe you, alas." Mu Shan seemed to recall the old days, sighed lightly, paused for a moment and said: "But after all, the roof and the ground can't fully know what happened on the table, especially that Liu Sheng is a master of martial arts, and ordinary ninjas can't spy on him at all." After he shot an arrow in the forest in the afternoon, I didn't arrange for a roof ninja to be scouted in order to prevent another startling snake. ”

"Then you... You're always listening... I can clear it today... But it's all about what you tell you to do... done. Guo Ming replied again intermittently.

"Forget it, Sansan, this is his one-day antidote, you go and give him half a pill first, I don't know when to ask when I talk like this." Saying this, Mu Shan took out a black pill from his bosom and handed it to Zhi Ning.

Zhi Ning immediately took half of the tea on the table and gave it to Guo Ming, and after about half a cup of tea, Guo Ming's face began to slowly return to bleeding.

"Sansan, you watch him tonight, as long as he dares to move, he will be killed, and then he will be given half a grain of your son." Mu Shan looked at Zhi Ning and commanded.

The sky gradually brightened, Shi Lu had just been taken away by Mu Shan, and Zhi Ning was lying on the table with a sudden panic coming from his chest, could it be that he was too tired after not sleeping all night? Zhi Ning said secretly in his heart.

Zhi Ning has been guarding the law all night, and Zhi Ning has not closed his eyes for half a moment in the night. Shi Cai thought in his heart when Shi Lu was sleeping, he had already understood what these people were trying to do with Mu Shan in the past few days, don't look at Mu Shan and the others, there are only a few hundred people, but if a group of young people are captured in a few years, this island will be able to form an army of 1,000 people in less than five years. And most of the juveniles who were taken from captivity were also assimilated. At this moment, Zhi Ning has secretly made up his mind in his heart, if he has the opportunity, he will definitely leave this island, but how to escape from this vast sea, and what should Eleven do? I don't know if Eleven has reached a safe place at this moment.

Everything that Zhi Ning thinks about is only one opportunity away.