Talking and laughing, in fact, Li Shu'er, Yang Yi, Wei Ergou and Liu Ruoxue were not easy in their hearts, this time they returned to Cangzhou City, they seemed to have a little ominous premonition in each other's hearts, but they were reluctant to confide in it, so as not to worry other people.

After dinner, Shen Ruchao came over to talk to Uncle Li for a while, and hurriedly left because he was going to patrol the city.

Seeing Uncle Li's tired face, Yang Yo, Wei Ergou and Liu Ruoxue knew that he had been worrying and working hard for the three of them this month, and the hardships he had paid were no less than the three of them, so they also walked out together, wanting Uncle Li to rest earlier.

The two thoughts in Li Shu'er's heart are wrestling with each other, holding each other, he is in turmoil, and he does not leave Yang Yi and them, after covering the door, a person sipping the wine in the gourd in front of the dim sheep's horn lamp and candle, looking sleepy and lonely.

Out of Uncle Li's room, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou sent Liu Ruoxue back to her room, the long night was long, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou had no intention of sleeping, and wanted to get tired of Liu Ruoxue's room for a while, but Liu Ruoxue glanced at the two of them with a smile, and closed the door.

After sitting in the room for a while, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were extremely idle, so they simply put on their clothes and went out, wandering around in the huge state office.

In the winter outdoors, there is always a cold air like fog and non-fog, and the arches and cornices of those towering houses are reflected in the misty moonlight, casting some strange shadows onto the snow, forming all kinds of strange black projections, which increasingly set off the unique gloomy feeling of the empty government in the cold night.

Yang Yi and Wei Ergou have always been bold, and the mana in their bodies has been increasing recently, and they are even more bold, so when they walked in the palace, the two of them were looking left and right, and they couldn't feel comfortable.

After walking for a while, the two masters followed the straight road of the archway and walked straight to the lobby. When they arrived at the lobby, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were not interested in the lobby where there were public cases, high-backed chairs and wooden frames, and drums, so they turned around and entered the second hall, where the trial furnishings were the same as the lobby, and they were also some public cases and public cases displayed on the sign holders, pen holders, inkstones, printing boxes, scrolls and other things, so they went directly to the third hall, it is said that this is the inner house where Shen Ruchao's family is located, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou should not have trespassed, but they saw that there were no lights and candles inside, and there was no trace of hustle and bustle. It is known that Shen Ruchao had sent his family away at the beginning of the siege of the Taiping army, and he stayed here, vowing to live and die with the city, and he was also one of the few bloody men among the princes of the Qing Dynasty.

Entering the three halls, as Yang Yi and Wei Ergou expected, there was no one inside, and it could be seen that Shen Ruchao was in the military affairs, and he usually did not rest in the three halls.

At this time, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou faintly heard the rumbling cannons and shouts of killing from the west, that is, at the main gate of Cangzhou City, and knew that those Taiping troops were attacking the Qing army guarding the city again, and they had the heart to see the excitement, but when they thought of the guns and guns, they finally suppressed their curiosity, and planned to go back to the room to sleep until dawn.

Out of the lobby, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were about to go back to the room, when they suddenly saw a few jackdaws flying from behind the blue brick and stone wall at the back of the lobby, and occasionally there were noisy people shouting and neighing, as if something was wrong. In front of and behind the car, there were dozens of big men wearing green crepe jackets, obliquely draped in karama coats, crooked hats, feet wearing cooked leather pewren shoes, and carrying fires/guns on their backs, holding torches in their hands, and guarding around the carriage one by one with their chests and belly protruding, not looking like good people.

After a while, out of the black lacquered door came an old man who was more than one meter tall and six or seven, and was emaciated, the old man was wearing a sheep hat, and the center of the hat also had a golden top, tied to four or two red tassels, because the hat was wide, he could not see the old man's head and face clearly, and only a white goatee could be vaguely seen flickering under the hat. Look at the feet of the old man, pedaling the old playful old with double-wrapped silk Zi Shi Na turning the bottom and three punches, lining a rice soup delicate spring silk jacket, wearing a black-headed crimson silk lambskin lack robe, a grass frost hanging mixed inside and outside fever horse coat, there is also a plate of gold thread Bodhi rosary hanging on the chest, another Han jade circle, tied to a three-inch tortoiseshell Hu comb, and the dress is three big characters: local tyrant!

The old man was followed by four men, those men were shaved bald with green beards and beards on a cold day, wearing a shiqing harahan sheepskin gown, fast boots, and a waist knife at his waist.

The old man went out of the door, his front feet raised, and a big man behind him quickly put a low stool on the ground, and the old man stepped on the stool to get into the carriage, and the four big men sat on both sides of the wheel, and one of the big men shook the reins, and the two horses that drove the car spread their manes and raised their hooves, and galloped away in the direction of the west.

Behind the car, the big men with loaded guns and guns followed closely at a trot, and they all disappeared into the dark night in an instant.

After those people left, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou on the wall looked at the gate of the black-painted courtyard again, and saw a twenty-three or four-year-old woman with her hair tied up in a bun, obliquely inserted a burnt gold-dotted emerald soft-winged butterfly white fungus digging, wearing a bleached silk machine yuan-color silk, double-rolled double gown, pipa placket gown, plus a Su Lan ticket cloth hanging braids from Wurong belt vest, tied a yuan-colored foreign cloth skirt The big-footed woman walked out, hung two blood-red silk lanterns around the gate, and subconsciously looked around, in the moonlight, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were shocked to see that the woman's eyes were as red as blood as the lantern on the door.

The woman looked around, perhaps feeling safe, so she locked the black-lacquered door with brass locks from the outside, and walked northward with three swaying steps, turning a bend in front of her, and the woman's figure disappeared without a trace.

Yang Yi and Wei Ergou lay on the wall and waited for a while, after making sure that the ghostly woman would not come back, the two brothers looked at each other, and as soon as their arms competed, they flipped out of the wall, and their toes touched the ground, and they fell silently on the snow outside the wall.

After falling on the snow, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou did not rush to check the ghostly courtyard, but looked at each other for a moment and asked, "Did you notice just now?" ”

In fact, this sentence Yang Yi and Wei Ergou asked each other is purely superfluous, the two of them just want to verify each other again, whether they were wrong, but from each other's suspicious eyes, they knew that they didn't look dazzled, and everything just now was true.

What's going on? It turned out that Yang Yi and Wei Ergou saw almost at the same time just now, and the four big men who followed behind the old man were very familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, those four big men turned out to be four of the men who had killed the girl and roasted it in Shanxi. At the beginning, Uncle Li pretended to be in a gang with them, deceived their trust, and followed them into the black shop for these guys to play and transfer-Xishen Inn, and then fought viciously with the Miao Jiang Gu Warrior, and almost lost his name.

It's just that how did those men appear in this inconspicuous courtyard house separated from the Cangzhou City Government by only one wall, and what evil deeds did they do here? Also, could it be that the rich and compelling old man is the old man Cui who specializes in receiving goods in Cangzhou City, as those men say?

In addition to this, who is the demon who has blood-red eyes and knows at a glance that she is not a human being, judging from the means by which she suddenly transforms into nothing, it is not an ordinary demon that can be compared, and it is not a simple character.

Thinking of this, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou suddenly felt that the blood-red lantern hanging was like a courtyard with two big eyes staring at a cannibal demon, which was full of attraction, which made the two of them itch in their hearts, and they couldn't wait to go in and find out right away.

Of course, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou both belong to the kind of masters who have high EQ and IQ, they naturally won't be brutal, but first pick up a few snow blocks from the snow and throw them into the courtyard, the snow blocks fall to the ground, and the courtyard is silent, at least it can be seen that there are no fierce beasts such as Tibetan mastiffs in the courtyard.

For the sake of insurance, Wei Ergou mentioned the anger of Neidan, dragged a green brick from the wall with his hand, and threw the fast brick along the wall of the courtyard to the ridge inside.

After waiting for a while, there was still silence inside, and now Yang Yi and Wei Ergou had the bottom in their hearts, and there was indeed no one in it.

After confirming that there was no one inside, Yang Yi and Wei Ergou were bold, and the two brothers looked around, and saw that there was neither a watch nor a patrol nearby, so they swayed towards the black gate of the courtyard, ready to visit the house at night.

Let's say that when Yang Yi and Wei Ergou approached the black lacquered gate of the courtyard step by step, the two lanterns hanging on both sides of the gate suddenly lit up, and then it was dark again.