Raise your legs and step into the study, the faint ink fragrance is refreshing, and the swords, guns and halberds in the yard do not match, look up, a vicissitudes of life, two white temples of the old man in purple bent down to stand behind the desk, left hand sleeve, right hand holding pen.

The pen hangs on the paper, three inches and does not move, like a sculpture.

"The grass people see Master Hou!" Xu Zhou bent down and folded his hands.

In the study, there was deathly silence.

Like ink, like water.

After a long time, Xu Zhou, who bent down, was bold, raised his head and glanced at Yunyanghou behind the desk.

"The grass people see the prince!"

This time, the voice couldn't help but increase a little.

Yunyang Hou is old, his ears are not good, and he may not be able to hear.

The room was still as silent as death, and no one answered.

Xu Zhou couldn't help frowning, and tried to shout twice: "Master Hou? Hou Ye? ”

Poof!

Yunyang Hou's body was weak, and he collapsed backwards on the chair, and the dog was leashed in an instant!

Xu Zhou was dumbfounded, and subconsciously wanted to step forward to check.

can be born with a cautious temperament, so he forcibly took back the leg that had stepped out.

"Come on, come on, Hou Ye dog...... Something happened! Xu Zhou shouted at the top of his voice.

……

……

A quarter of an hour later.

The courtyard outside the study of the Hou Mansion was lively and became a pot of porridge.

The hoarse roar of the man's voice and the soft and weak cry of the woman were intertwined and mixed together, and the noise was so painful that it made people's brains hurt. Several men in luxurious costumes roared to go in to find out, but in front of them were all Imperial City Divisions in black uniforms, and they lined up in a line, using their bodies as a wall, blocking the sons of Yunyang Hou from the study, and not allowing them to get closer.

"Impossible, impossible, my father is fine in the morning, you must have lied to us...... Let us in! ”

"Father, father...... Woooooooo One by one, the ladies covered their tears with handkerchiefs and wept and wept.

Seeing that he couldn't stop it, Zhu Lie stepped forward with his hands behind his back and roared: "If you dare to break in again, you will take it!" ”

Inside the study.

The scent of ink has dissipated.

Xu Zhou stood in place, his eyes indescribably confused.

He was ordered to stand still and not move until someone came to question him.

"Name?"

"Xu Zhou!"

"Address?"

"Ping'an County, Linhefang, Qingshui Street, No. 1."

"What?"

"Ping'an County, jailer."

"What are you doing here?"

"On the order of Wei Chengzuo, I came to fetch flowers and cold grass for use."

After Xu Zhou finished answering, he obviously saw that the other party frowned after hearing about "Hua Hancao".

He hurriedly explained: "Taking flowers and cold grass is used to study toxicity by Wei Yan's effect. ”

The man took a pen and wrote it down on a piece of paper, not missing a word.

After writing, he raised his head again and asked, "Why did you kill Yunyang Hou?" ”

"I didn't kill it!"

"It's not up to you to kill or not...... "The clerk is a little arrogant, maybe he is used to being superior on weekdays."

"Who else is in the house? Can you be involved in this murder? ”

Xu Zhou's face froze, and his eyebrows were like a sharp edge: "I said, I didn't murder, I ...... before I came in"

"Huh...... Did it make you talk too much? The pen glanced at Xu Zhou.

"What a big official!"

When the scribe heard this, he turned his head impatiently to look at it, and his face froze on the spot.

"Go to the criminal hall by yourself to get fifty boards, and after receiving the boards, roll up the cover and give it to Lao Tzu, where did you come from, and go back." Zhu Lie scolded.

The pen officer's lips trembled: "Envoy, I ...... me"

The young scribe didn't expect that he would be kicked out of the Imperial City Division by the Xuanwu envoy just by asking as usual, and if he went back, he would definitely be removed from the family.

"Get out!" Zhu Lie didn't want to listen to nonsense.

Seeing this, the scribe had no choice but to leave in disgrace, without even having a chance to say a word to defend himself.

After the scribe left, Zhu Lie changed his stern expression and looked at Xu Zhou with a smile, Xu Zhou hurriedly bowed his hand when he saw this: "See my lord!" ”

Zhu Lie nodded, and Yu Guang glanced at Qiu Ying on the side of the room and asked what to do next.

Qiu Ying made a gesture at random, and Zhu Lie immediately complied.

Qiu Ying just can't get used to the official authority of the young calligrapher, she has only been in retreat for half a year, and the atmosphere of the Imperial City Division is like this, after a long time, what can it be?

She wanted to stop it, but she didn't want to reveal her identity too soon.

It just so happened that Zhu Lie came in, and the task of disciplining his subordinates was naturally handed over to him.

"Ping'an County jailer, Xu Zhou, right?"

Xu Zhou nodded.

He didn't expect that this big man of the Imperial City Division would still remember his name.

The malice shown in the words of the scribe was also swept away with Zhu Lie's arrival.

It seems that the rumors on the market that "the Imperial City Division does not do personnel, and everyone is a shit person" is groundless and nonsense.

"My lord, I met the daughter of your mansion, and there, I said in my heart that I would send it to you in a while." Xu Zhou hurriedly pointed to Qiu Ying, who was spinning around in the room, and said.

At the moment, he had to seize the opportunity to hold his big thick legs.

Although the burly man in front of him looked fierce, he was one of the few good officials, and Xu Zhou had a good impression of him.

Zhu Liepi didn't smile, hehe, and patted Xu Zhou's shoulder: "Well, this kid in my family likes to run around since he was a child, fortunately with you, otherwise he would have nowhere to find ...... if he lost it."

Qiu Ying, who was observing around the room, stopped abruptly, and the corners of her mouth twitched.

Okay...... Zhu Tousan, he has a long ability!

Zhu Lie unconsciously turned in a direction and turned his back to Qiu Ying.

Out of sight, out of mind.

He looked at Xu Zhou and continued to ask, "Tell me, what happened after you came in?" What do you see? ”

Xu Zhou swallowed a breath and said something in his heart, this was a great opportunity to get rid of the suspicion of murder on his body, and he didn't dare to hide it in the slightest: "After coming in, I first smelled a faint scent of ink, which was a little special, not like ordinary ink. Then I saw Hou Ye standing behind the desk writing, I bent down as usual, and waited for a long time without hearing Hou Ye speak, so I raised the volume, but Hou Ye still didn't speak. After a few more breaths, Hou Ye's originally standing body suddenly softened and fell backwards on the chair. I realized that the situation was not good, so I hurriedly called for someone to come in and help. ”

To be honest, Xu Zhou is still confused.

How can people be so good that they are gone?

After listening to this, Zhu Lie pretended to touch his chin.

He went in and out of his left ear and out of his right ear, and he couldn't hear any difference, and he couldn't find the strangeness in the words.

However, these words are completely different when placed in Qiu Ying.

She noted two things:

First, why did Xu Zhou emphasize in the first sentence that he smelled a special scent of ink when he entered the house, was he reminding him?

Second, Yunyang Hou's body suddenly went limp and fell backwards, and if he was an ordinary person, he must have subconsciously stepped forward to check, but why did Xu Zhou stand so calmly in place and shout for help?

The information revealed by these two points is not simple, and Xu Zhou is even more not simple!

"What are you doing here?" Zhu Lie continued to ask.

Xu Zhou didn't lie, and he can't lie in this situation now, so he told the truth: "It was Wei Chengzuo who called me here, and Wei Chengzuo said that he wanted to study the poison of Huahan grass, so he asked me to come and ask for a pot with a token." ”

"Where's the token?"

Xu Zhou pointed to a jade plaque on the desk in the distance.

The jade plaque was still lying on the desk, and it was precisely because of this jade plaque that Yunyang Hou made an exception to summon Xu Zhou into the mansion.

"Who is Wei Chengzuo?"

The Marquis of Yunyang is a big man in the inner city, and he is the marquis of His Majesty, Wei Cheng is this person, and listening to Xu Zhou's words, he is an ordinary old man of the Ping'an County Ya. The two identities and status gaps are very large, and the characters who can't be beaten by the eight poles, why would the Marquis of Yunyang agree to Xu Zhou's entry into the mansion just because of a jade plate?

"He is my master, and he is the servant of Ping'an County.... Oh no! Xu Zhou paused suddenly.

When the people in the room heard this, they were stunned at the same time and looked at Xu Zhou.

There is a case!

Xu Zhou thought about it, looked at Zhu Lie, and said very seriously: "I suspect that my master's identity is definitely not as simple as it seems on the surface, I suggest that adults can check him carefully!" Check it out......"

If Wei Dao was present, he would have seen a line of words written on Xu Zhou's face:

"I promise that I want to deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors! Truly! ”