Ao Zongheng sat on the bed where Hirajiki intended to sleep. As soon as he closed the window, he looked back and saw arrogance.

Of course, he didn't know Ao, and he couldn't imagine how this man had come into his room and still sat on his bed.

Before he could fully react, let alone think about how to deal with this man who suddenly appeared, the other party spoke first.

"Don't be surprised, you can take me as if you were here to rob, take me your ring badge, hand over a thousand polin silver, and I'll leave." ”

Ping Jimu couldn't believe his ears, my chief magic advisor of a dignified and powerful family, was robbed in his own home?

Although Hirajiki is a new Master Ling, he is already thirty-three years old. In the case of a green-collar mage, he is not young, so many of the problems of a young mage are no longer in him, such as impulsiveness, irritability, and contempt for enemies.

The guy in front of him was masked, and he couldn't see his expression, but looking at his eyes, there was no joke, let alone the eyes of a madman. So Ping Jimu can be sure that the masked man in front of him, who seems to be unprepared for battle, is definitely not easy to deal with.

So as soon as he makes a move, he can't leave room for it.

Without warning, Hirajiki suddenly pushed open the window behind him that had just been closed by himself and jumped out of the window.

He didn't run away, but he wanted to distance himself from the other party - although the area of this separate room was not small, but the distance from the window to the bedside, that is, between him and Aozong, was only ten steps, and this distance was not enough for him to finish the spell smoothly, so he had to get out of this situation first, and clean up the other party at a safe distance.

I have to say that being able to think of this kind of response in such a short period of time in this situation, with this brain and decisiveness, Ping Jimu is already stronger than many mages who lack actual combat experience.

This is undoubtedly a good calculation, but unfortunately no matter how good the calculation is, execution is the key.

Hiraki's plan failed from the start.

He didn't fall into the snow as he had imagined, it should be said that he didn't fall into the snow in the position he had envisioned.

He was inserted into the snow with his head upside down, with his head upside down, not with his hands. The snow on this field wasn't too deep to reach his nose.

"Would you rather be the first mage to be suffocated by the snow than give up that little badge and money? "Pingjimu had just fallen into the snow, and Ao Zongheng had already come to his side. It gives the illusion that he's been waiting here for Hirayoshiki to fall.

Hirajiki didn't speak, he was completely in shock, no, in fear.

He had never seen anything like this, his body was completely uncontrollable, he unconventionally spun in the air and plunged into the snow, and the rest of his limbs remained in an impossible handstand until now. But the other party's understatement attitude, it seems that everything has nothing to do with him, but in this snowy night, who else can there be if it is not the masked man in front of him?

Under the tension, the person's breathing naturally became rapid, and the hot air erupted from Hirayoshi's nostrils, and the snow above the nostrils melted by the heat, pouring into Hirayoshiki's nasal cavity in the form of snow water, and the violent and uncontrollable coughing woke Hirayoshiki from fear at the same time, it also became his new ordeal.

On the thirty-third day of the month of death, fire two.

Everyone in the ring area should have gotten up, right?, Ao Zongheng changed his clothes, and then untied the acupoint of Pingjimu, who was thrown by him in the guest room, and quietly left.

The taste of stuffing his head in the snow and pouring snow water into his nose must be uncomfortable, especially for the mage who has a good life and is rare to endure hardships, Ping Jimu, who has no power to resist, can only obediently agree. However, as a punishment for the robbery "uncooperative", Ao Zongheng took all the cash in the room, and threw Ping Jimu to the guest room, where he slept for the night - he wanted to leave immediately, but the whole city was asleep, and even if he went out, he couldn't ask for news.

Until he left, Ao Zongheng didn't know the identity of Hirajimu, nor did he know his name, and the only thing he knew about him was that he knew that this person was a mage.

Ao's initial goal was to find a mage, although he may not help the poor, but if he wants to rob, he must rob the rich, and those mages who cause the abnormal density of the air around them due to the gathering of elements are as dazzling as a light in the darkness for Aozong, easy to find.

However, those mages who fell asleep, the abnormal air density was gone, after all, there were few people like Aozhuo, who were even sleeping and exercising. Therefore, Ao Zongheng found Ping Jimu, purely because he was the first mage that Ao Zongheng had met who had not yet slept and had an abnormal air density and was relatively obvious.

That's all.

Ao Zongheng left the matter behind when he left the house of Pingjimu, and with this ring badge, he can pass unhindered from the second ring to the fifth ring road, which is enough.

Arrogant didn't think of entering the first ring or even the imperial capital, since the battle of the royal capital of Loren Magaga, he learned a lesson that if it is not necessary, stay away from the national capital. In other Sakai, it is rare to see a character who can cause trouble for Aozhong, but in the capital of a country, such a character can be said to be everywhere, and there is no telling how many robed mages there are in one legal department alone, let alone the eunuch and the eunuch, these two resources alone are much stronger than the mouthless and royal magic advisors of the Loren Magaga Kingdom. If it wasn't necessary, Proud didn't want to get entangled with these guys.

Although it is said that the first and second rings are aristocratic residential areas, in fact, the first ring is a little better, and there are not many real aristocratic seals in the second ring.

According to the provisions of the Imperial "Noble Fiefdom Law", military generals and above, political deputy secretaries and above, can set up a residence in the imperial capital without separate permission. Hmm? How does this statement seem to be wrong-the regimental generals, deputy secretaries and Sakai ministers are the lowest threshold of the imperial aristocracy, and the Sakai fiefs are all outside the imperial capital, so the lowest nobles in the imperial capital are the regimental generals and deputy secretaries, and even if they all set up the imperial capital, then who else lives in the so-called aristocratic districts of the first and second rings?

Of course, there is, and the above-mentioned officials and nobles are all on active duty, but what about those who have retired at an age? Although they do not hold power or participate in politics, their status is still there, and they are still nobles. Therefore, according to the "Law of the Noble Fiefdom": all the meritorious nobles who were allowed to stay in the imperial capital after retiring were moved from the imperial capital to live in the first and second rings outside the imperial capital.

Therefore, the nobles in the first and second rings are almost all retired nobles, and in this comparison, this Shernashak family is particularly special - they can move to the imperial capital, but they still live in the second ring.

Le Weima didn't know the hidden secret, because he was promoted to the regimental general one step earlier, and after moving to the imperial capital, the two families had little contact. And Ao Zongheng is not curious about this, and this is still good news for him - in the second ring area, many people should know about this Shernashak family, and it is convenient to inquire.

But what Ao Zongheng didn't expect was that he finally found a restaurant that opened in the morning market, and as soon as the guy heard that he was looking for the Shernashak family mansion in the West Second Ring Road, he immediately stared at him with a very strange expression, and even didn't know how to speak, and walked back to the kitchen quickly.

When a similar reaction was met at the second restaurant, Ao Zongheng realized that something troublesome had happened to the Schernashak family to keep them silent. After all, he was able to open a restaurant in the Second Ring District to do business, and the boss behind it, even if he was not a noble official, was also a very influential figure in the imperial capital, and he was very sensitive to these things in the officialdom, and he definitely didn't want his business to be implicated.

It's hard to find a family's mansion in the completely unfamiliar West Ring without the locals to guide you, but luckily there's a way for the adults to get into trouble, and the kids don't have to worry about that.

Proud is now standing in front of the mansion of the Shernashak family. No, it should be said that it is in front of the door of the former mansion.

The mansion, which encloses several surrounding buildings within a courtyard wall, is no longer inhabited.

"Where have the people of the Shernashak family gone?" Proud found a maid near the mansion and shook a handful of silver polin in front of her.

The maid looked at Ao's face for a while, as if she wanted to confirm whether the person in front of her was a foreigner, and hesitated again and again, and scanned around nervously twice before softly inviting Aozong to a deserted street corner, taking a silver polin from his hand, and rubbing it excitedly and repeatedly.

"They were caught. ”

There was a sulk in his chest - why is it that every Shernashak family I found is in trouble! But this is only suitable for holding in the stomach, so he handed out another silver coin and asked, "Who was caught?"

"It is said to be from the Ministry of Prison and Law. ”

Of course, they have the power to arrest and raid the nobles and their families, but every time they make a move, they must follow the emperor's decree, and they don't need the cooperation of others at all.

"Why were you caught?"

"It's like it's corruption, but I don't know very well. The maid quickly took the silver coin and stuffed it into her waist pocket.

Corruption and fraud, no matter what world you go to, I am afraid that this kind of crime is indispensable, but many times, it is just a crime on the scene. Is this Shernashak family really corrupt and corrupt? Or is it because of other reasons that the whole family was arrested?

It's hard to ask this kind of question clearly from the mouth of a maid, so Ao Zongheng simply changed the question.

"When was their family arrested, is anyone still alive, and where are they being held?"

These were three questions, so he took out three silver coins in one go.