It was almost midnight, the autumn moon was like frost, Ling Li beat his horse through the deserted moonlight on a street, and ran straight towards Xicheng.

Seeing that he was going out so late, Cao Zhong was not at ease, so he led a horse and quietly followed him all the way.

"What are you doing here?" Ling Li ran for a while, turned his horse's head sharply, and faced Cao Zhong head-on.

Cao Zhong hurriedly stopped his horse and said cautiously: "The villain is worried about the safety of His Royal Highness, and now that you have won a big victory over Xili, you are afraid that there will be a thief-hearted spy in Xili to retaliate......"

"Alright, you can follow if you want." Ling Li didn't say anything more, turned his horse's head and continued to walk towards Xicheng.

The streets are bustling and noisy during the day, but gradually fall silent after nightfall. Ling Li followed his memory, looked along the street, and after turning a pink wall, he finally saw the inn called "Yuelai". A red lantern hangs on the first floor of the inn, and the open door indicates that it is not yet full.

As soon as Ling Li got off the horse at the door of the inn, a shopkeeper greeted him with a smile, "Two guest officers, are you going to stay in the hotel?" ”

"Eat something." Ling Li handed the reins to Cao Zhong and walked into the inn.

"Lucky for you, guest officer, our chef hasn't left yet. Please, I'll recommend you the seasonal new dishes of our inn......"

Ling Li did not follow his guidance to the lobby, but walked towards the second floor.

"Guest officer, do you want to sit on the second floor?" The shopkeeper seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then trotted forward to follow, "Guest officer, slow down, the lights have been turned off upstairs, I'll go to the front to give you the lights." ”

There is a shopkeeper who is busy holding the lamp in front, and the lanterns and floor candle stands hanging on the second floor are gradually lit up.

There were four private rooms on the second floor, Ling Li walked in one by one, stood in front of the window and watched, and then sat down in the third room by the window.

Cao Zhong went to the backyard to tie up the horse, and followed, habitually standing beside him and bowing his head to obey orders.

"You sit too." Ling Li pointed to the opposite position.

"Your Highness, this, how can this work?" Cao Zhong said with an awkward expression.

"You're afraid the Assassins won't know who I am, right?" Ling Li glanced at him.

Cao Zhong was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly walked to sit down opposite.

"Did you bring any money?" Ling Li asked.

"Oh, yes, yes." Cao Zhong hurriedly took off the purse containing the money from his waist and handed it to Ling Li.

The shopkeeper quickly came in with tea, and while he quickly mixed the tea and poured the water, he asked enthusiastically: "What do the two guest officers want to eat?" ”

"Little brother, arrange a few dishes at will, your chef is good at it." Ling Li took out a gold leaf from his purse and put it on the corner of the table, "I want to inquire about someone." ”

Cao Zhong held the teacup, glanced at the golden leaf, and then raised his eyes to look at Ling Li with a painful expression.

"Guest officer, you said, as long as you have been to our inn, let alone a person, even a cat, I remember it clearly." The shopkeeper's eyes fell on the gold leaf, and his face was wrinkled with laughter.

"At the end of the day, there is a girl with a veil who has come here, do you have any impression?"

Inquire about a girl?!

Cao Zhong almost choked on a sip of tea. He has been with Ling Li for so many years, and it is the first time that he has seen his master come out in the middle of the night to look for flowers and ask willows.

"At the end of the day, with a veil?" The shopkeeper thought for a while, and immediately nodded: "Oh, there is." I have the impression that the girl came very early, and as soon as she entered the door, she went directly to the second floor like you, the guest officer, and booked this private room, saying that she was waiting to see the triumphant ...... of General Zhenxi."

Ling Li's eyes lit up suddenly, "And then?" ”

"And then?" Shopkeeper scratched the back of her head, "Then she ordered a pot of Yishan tea and waited here until General Zhenxi's chariot left, and then she left." ”

"Did you pay attention to her accent?"

"Accent? Just our eternal accent. ”

"I, I mean, how does her voice sound?"

"Sounds good."

"What's a good way to do it?" Ling Li chased after him.

Cao Zhong looked at Ling Li and showed an expression that he couldn't bear to look at directly: Your Highness, you are also the famous general of Zhenxi in the South Vietnamese Dynasty, and you ran out in the middle of the night, this idiot looked like a girl to inquire, no wonder he refused to let Captain Chen and them follow......

The shopkeeper frowned and said, "How can I say this, that girl's voice is crisp and pleasant, it's like, it's like a silver spoon touching a porcelain soup bowl......"

Ling Li's eyes dimmed a little, but he still asked, "That girl, is there anything that impresses the little brother?" ”

"Impressed? Oh, that girl must be a young lady from a large family, and like you, the guest officer, she was very generous, she asked for a pot of tea without ordering a meal, but when she left, she left a silver ingot. ”

A silver ingot?! The corners of Cao Zhong's lips twitched. No wonder this girl attracts His Royal Highness, she is a master who doesn't understand the market! But if it is not a meal, the private rooms in the inn and wine store are not charged separately; As for things like inquiring about people, a few copper plates were done, and a silver ingot was actually found!

"You said that girl ordered Yishan tea? Do you also have Yishan tea in your store? Ling Li seemed to remember something and asked again.

"Yes. Guest officer, you don't know, after the Zhenxi General Jinyintan became famous in the first war, there were many Yishan people in Yongding City, I heard that Concubine Chen Niangniang is a Yishan person, and the Zhenxi General loves to drink Yishan tea. However, the Yishan tea in our inn is the best, and the tea garden of the house that provides us with tea is next to the old house of General Zhenxi's uncle......"

"Is the tea that General Zhenxi drinks good tea?" Ling Li was a little disappointed.

"Whether it's good tea or not, we don't know. But as long as it is related to General Zhenxi, there is also a business anyway. Not to mention anything else, Tianxianglou's "Zhenxi General's Wind and Snow Night Attack Map" was a mess, and my mother also asked me to queue up and buy two and post them on the door of my house......"

Ling Li had a black line on his face when he heard this, he had become a door god who drove away evil spirits and avoided evil spirits?!

"Okay, little brother, go arrange the meal first, we're hungry." Cao Zhong saw that Ling Li's face had changed, and hurriedly asked the shopkeeper to go down.

"So I'm so popular in Yongding?!" Ling Li snorted.

"But isn't it, I heard that the common people who took the initiative to arrest the assassin for His Highness today have robbed the Yamen chamen of his job one after another......" Cao Zhong smiled, "By the way, Your Highness doesn't know, the last time it was rumored that His Highness was attacked and killed, and the people in the city were full of righteous indignation, blocking the Xihua Gate all the way, and I heard that there was a girl who looked at the coffin and fainted crying......"

"Crying and fainting?" Ling Li felt a little ridiculous, crying and fainting at the news of the death of an irrelevant stranger, this girl was afraid that she was a fool!

"Isn't it? Madame also heard about this, and said with a smile that she wanted to inquire whose girl it was, and since she was so in love with His Highness, she should marry His Highness home......"

When she returned to Beijing and was assassinated, Dong Yuejiao could laugh? Ling Li turned his head to look at the dark night outside the window, thinking of the pair of eyes that were full of words in the firelight of Xiangji Temple, and thinking of the one in Rouge Zhou. The wanton plundering of the night, the bottom of my heart is inexplicably irritable. The girl who was here by Bai Rili reminded him of the mysterious woman named Chu Qing.