Qin Xiaohua, as the chief shopkeeper of Shantang, one of the most powerful people in the world, is naturally not something anyone who wants to see it, if it weren't for Xia Sheng, I'm afraid he would have been blasted out a long time ago.

What's more, the reasons given by Xia Sheng are sufficient.

Someone is going to kill him tonight.

And judging from the four bloody human heads on the ground, it is clear that this assassination is over.

Luoyang City is not only at the foot of the Son of Heaven, but also the place where the main hall of the Qin Family Benevolence Hall is located, someone is killing people here, and it is the Qin family's distinguished guests who are killed, and they haven't even received any news?

This matter was very serious, so serious that Fourth Master Qin even ignored Xia Sheng's direct name to the head of the family.

Qin Siye is not Wei Xian, he knows very well how heavy Xia Sheng's weight is in the Shantang, or to put it more bluntly, if it weren't for Xia Sheng, he wouldn't be able to sit in this position as the treasurer of the main hall.

Therefore, for Xia Sheng's request, Qin Siye's response was very decisive.

"Please also ask Xia Gongzi to stay here for a while, and I will go to inform the head of the family. ”

Xia Sheng nodded, watched Fourth Master Qin leave the inner hall, and then sat on the rattan chair, falling into deep thought.

Time passed so silently, and after half an hour, Xia Sheng raised his head again and looked at the figure that suddenly appeared in front of him.

There was an extra old man in the room.

His back was slightly bowed, his face was covered with deep brown spots, and he held a black jade cane in his hand, which was radiating radiant warmth.

The ancestor of the Qin family, Qin Xiaohua, appeared without warning.

In this regard, Xia Sheng did not seem too surprised, after all, with Qin Xiaohua's current realm, it was natural to be able to do things that ordinary people could not reach.

Equally. Qin Xiaohua didn't show the slightest surprise at Xia Sheng's calm performance, although this was only the second time he had seen Xia Sheng, but in fact, he had heard of this name a long time ago.

Earlier than the Qin family.

Even earlier than Qin Yan and Kang Wuwei returned to Beijing.

But no matter what, this meeting with Qin Xiaohua. It was the first time that Xia Sheng had the opportunity to talk to the most powerful person in the Qin family alone, and such an opportunity was rare, especially for Xia Sheng today, it was even more precious.

But who would have thought that the first person to speak was Qin Xiaohua.

There was no greeting and politeness, and there was no half-nonsense, but four words were asked directly.

"Who's going to kill you?"

In this regard, Xia Sheng's answer was also very simple. He stretched out his hand, pointed to the four heads on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "These four people, two are from the Pei family and two are from the Tianxing Academy, in addition, the prince also sent a cronie to take my life, but he escaped. ”

Hear the words. Qin Xiaohua's incomparably clear eyes quietly crossed a trace of waves, and asked rhetorically, "You mean." The prince, the Pei family, and the Tianxing Academy, they unite and want to kill you?"

Xia Sheng shook his head: "I'm afraid it's not all, in addition to these five people, there are two mysterious killers who ambushed me in the dark tonight, but unfortunately they didn't show up until the end." So I don't know exactly where they came from. ”

Qin Xiaohua hooked her body, looked directly into Xia Sheng's eyes, and then smiled faintly, revealing an incomparably white mouthful of teeth.

It is like a night of spring breeze, and thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom.

"Something interesting. ”

He didn't ask Xia Sheng how he escaped under the siege of these people. didn't ask why these people killed Xia Sheng, but asked a more direct question.

"What do you want Shantang to do?"

Xia Sheng seemed very satisfied with Qin Xiaohua's attitude, but he did not immediately answer Qin Xiaohua's question, but raised another question.

"Before that, I want to know, in this world, is there still a covenant of saints?"

"Oh?" Qin Xiaohua looked at Xia Sheng's gaze and couldn't help but have two more deep meanings, and said with a smile: "It seems that you know a lot of things." ”

Xia Sheng was silent and did not answer.

So Qin Xiaohua nodded slightly: "If you want to ask, will Pei Xu personally do it to you, I can tell you with certainty, no." ”

"That's good. Xia Sheng's eyes immediately flashed with a touch of anger, and he said in a deep voice: "Since this is the case, then I hope that in the future, Shantang can help me resist the Pei family's secret small actions as much as possible." ”

Qin Xiaohua promised: "I will hand over this matter to Qin Tai." ”

Xia Sheng slowly exhaled a turbid breath, and then continued: "In addition, I also hope that Shantang can help me verify three things. ”

"Tell me about it. ”

"First, I want to know if Hu Shuo has colluded with the Heavenly Star Academy. ”

Hearing this, the smile on Qin Xiaohua's face became a little kinder, and she spoke, "I'm very pleased that you can grasp the key to the matter so quickly." ”

For Qin Xiaohua's praise, Xia Sheng just shook his head lightly and said calmly: "I had doubts as early as a month ago, and the reason why Hu Shuo would drive me out of the mountain gate by all means is probably far more than one Zhong Weiwei. ”

After a pause, Xia Sheng continued to analyze: "It is not unusual for the news of my departure from the mountain tonight to be known by the Pei family and the prince, after all, Pei Yuanji has a wide range of contacts in the academy, and even if I can hide the matter of going down the mountain, I will definitely not be able to hide it from the two disciples guarding the mountain." But why did the Heavenly Star Academy receive the news? I think about it, the most likely one is Hu Shuo......"

Qin Xiaohua was noncommittal about this and asked, "What about two other things?"

"Second, I want Shantang to investigate whether the Xu family has anything to do with tonight's attack!"

Qin Xiaohua frowned rarely, and then sighed: "The location of the incident is indeed too close to the Zhenguo Mansion, and the speed at which the Xu family arrived at Osmanthus Lane is too slow. ”

Through Qin Xiaohua's words, Xia Sheng knew at least one thing, that is, in the half hour he was waiting in the inner hall, Shantang had already received the news of the Osmanthus Lane case.

So he simply nodded neatly: "The soldiers of the Zhenguo Mansion are all from the Zhenguo Army, and they are by no means comparable to the private soldiers of other mansions, and the response speed to emergencies should never be so slow, so this matter is unreasonable." ”

Qin Xiaohua was silent, obviously the difficulty of this matter was much more difficult than that of Cha Hu Shuo, and the forces that needed to be involved in it were too wide, even if it was a good hall, it had to be properly handled.

But in the end, Qin Xiaohua still gave her own promise: "I will do my best." ”

For Xia Sheng, such a sentence is enough.

So he said the third thing he wanted Seondo to help investigate.

"There are only two places that can leak my whereabouts tonight, one is the Spring and Autumn Academy, and the other is the Shan Hall, as I said before, in the whole matter, there have always been two killers who have not shown up, and these two people definitely do not belong to the three forces I mentioned, so where did they learn about my departure from the academy? I think, there is only one possibility......

"I suspect that there are spies in the good hall!"

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