Zhao Wuwu took Shen Yan to prepare to greet the officials at the gate of Xiping Mansion, but saw Zhou Yong wandering anxiously at the gate of the mansion, and he hurriedly ran up as soon as he saw Zhao Wuwu.

"Boss, you're back! I came back from a patrol with my brothers and ran to Nan'an Mansion to look for you, and they said you were gone. You go and see Lord Cao, he sneaked back about half an hour ago, and I don't know what to do in the house......"

Zhou Yong stopped suddenly as he spoke, he looked around, and after making sure that there were no outsiders, he leaned into Zhao Wuwu's ear and whispered, "I don't think he wants to escape, right?"

This Cao Pan can't do things, and running away has always been first-class.

Zhao Wuwu bet that he didn't dare to walk from the front door generously, so he went straight to the back door to stop him, and they hid on the edge of the rockery in the back garden, planning to catch turtles in an urn.

Sure enough, after a stick of incense, I saw Cao Fuyin cautiously poking his head out of the front yard.

After he made sure that there was no one in the backyard, he dragged his big bags and small bags to the back door calmly, and said triumphantly as he walked: "If you want Lord Ben's head, you can't!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Shen Yan suddenly appear and block the way.

"Master Cao, where are you going?"

Cao Fuyin was frightened by this move, and he hesitated for a long time before he said: "It's not that the old mother at home is seriously ill and wants to go back to visit quickly!"

Cao Fuyin moved his steps backwards as he spoke, but he bumped into Zhou Yong, he turned around and saw another shake, and the gold and silver utensils in the baggage instantly fell to the ground.

"Cao Fuyin is really filial, since there is a big event in the family, why don't you tell us?

Zhao Wuwu put his hands around his chest, and walked out from behind the rockery slowly as he spoke.

Cao Pan saw that there were people in front of him, left and right, and knew that there was no way out, so he could only say in a low voice: "Oh, I am really helpless, there are old and young people in the family, and now the case has not been solved in the slightest, and the official family is about to make me head in a different place!"

Zhao Wuwu looked at him and said with a serious face: "Do you know that once you go out of the city, those secret sentinels that Feng Ke has set up at the city gate can shoot you into a sieve." So whether you want to die today or die in five days, you choose!"

Cao Pan leaned down to pick up everything on the ground, sighed and walked back to his room.

This Shen Cong'an and Lu Jingyi asked the presiding officer of the temple in Changqing Temple, and they didn't find anything abnormal, what caught their attention was the little monk who was cleaning in the courtyard, who loved to glance at them from time to time, but always turned his head away when they looked at each other.

Shen Cong'an felt that he had something to say, but when he asked the little monk, he refused to say anything. After he took a group of people to pretend to leave, he lurked in the nearby woods to ambush, and the group was so moving today, maybe there would be snakes that couldn't bear to get out of the hole at night!

Sure enough, not long after dark, they saw someone sneaking out of the temple, and they quickly went up to surround the man, and found that this person was the little monk sweeping the floor during the day.

"Tell me, what do you want to explain? You snuck out in the middle of the night, didn't you want to tell us you were going for a walk?"

When the little monk saw this situation, he was so frightened that he knelt down and begged for mercy.

"My lord, spare my life, those who died really have nothing to do with me. I was just greedy for a little money, and a Taoist priest told me to pay more attention to the female benefactors who came to offer incense, especially young and beautiful women. All I had to do was tell him every day what I had overheard and what I had heard, and then point out to him who it was, so that he could stop them on their way back and make more money for the fortune-tellers. How do you know how it was just right for those women to die?"

As soon as Lu Jingyi heard the words of the Taoist, she hurriedly asked: "Is the Taoist priest you are talking about a person named Liu Ming, he has a thin face and a black mole on his neck." ”

The little monk thought for a long time.

"I don't know the name, but he seems to have a mole on his neck. ”

Shen Congyan was still a little confused.

"Brother Lu said this, is it because he knows this person?"

Lu Jingyi nodded in response, he touched his beard and said indifferently: "What a coincidence, it seems that this Liu Ming is not small!"

The moonlight tonight was a little brighter than usual, and the moonlight poured down like a waterfall, gilding Shangqiu City with a layer of silver light.

A masked man took advantage of the moonlight to climb into the high walls of the Shangguan Mansion, he seemed to be very familiar with the terrain here, and he was able to evade the patrolling guards every time, and he approached the woman's inner courtyard step by step, and walked to the man's house.

Ding ding, three knocks on the window to warn, there was a sound of brisk footsteps inside, and then someone carefully opened the window.

"You're here!"

The woman's stunning face was reflected in the moonlight, and her soft voice hit him word by word, and the man rolled over the window and hugged her tightly into his arms.

He just wanted time to stay in this moment, because it was only in this silent night that they could meet for a short time. But he knew that the night club would fade, and the day would eventually come, so he could only hold her tightly now. Thinking so, his strength couldn't help but tighten by three points.

"I heard my father say that the emperor was angry in the palace today, because two selected show girls were killed, which caused the draft to enter the palace to be postponed. ”

She visibly felt his body freeze, and his evasive gaze said it all.

Her heart, which had been a little joyful, gradually sank as he didn't say a word.

"How could you, why are you so bothered, are you really just for me to kill other people's innocent people?"

He smiled, but there was a bitterness in the smile.

"Do you want me to ...... Did you just watch you being sent to the palace?"

She reached out and brushed his face and whispered, "You know what the outcome will be if I don't go, so no matter how hard you struggle, the outcome will not change." I just beg you to stop hurting innocent people for me. ”

As soon as she finished speaking, the tingling sensation in her heart made her lean down.

It started again, and there seemed to be 10,000 ants swimming and gnawing in her body, and the bone-eating pain was about to swallow her reason inch by inch.

The man looked at her in pain, and was almost mad with anxiety.

"Where's the medicine, where is the medicine?!"

He rummaged through the boxes on the table, and finally found the only one in a small box to serve her.

She frowned and drifted off to sleep as the drug took effect.

The man picked her up, gently put her on the bed, and carefully pinched the quilt for her.

"Ah Ran, even if I sacrifice others to fight for you for a few more days, I am willing. Now that I've found a way to bring you back an antidote, I'm sure to get rid of the poison in your body once and for all. ”

The man got up and kissed her lightly on the forehead, he wasn't sure if tonight's parting would be a goodbye forever.

He remained silent until it was about to dawn before he got up and left.