In Xuanyang City in the early morning, the first snow has not disappeared, and there are pedestrians wearing thick robes and big coats everywhere.

Xue Junwei and Yunni drove on the road in a carriage, because the study building named Scarlet Jue was built in a manor five miles away from the imperial capital.

As for why, Yunni explained: it has been built there since ancient times. In addition to this, she also told a rumor.

It is said that it is not only a business of borrowing rare books and rare books, but in fact, it is also a mysterious organization that neither temples nor rivers and lakes dare to provoke, this organization existed at the beginning of the founding of the Great Entropy country, and it is a business of human life.

In a nutshell, it is a certain kind of interest group engaged in taking commissions. As for what kind of commissions they are, this is self-evident.

As we all know, the rumors are true.

So Xue Jun was worried and decided to explore the second business of the scarlet business.

Came to the manor where the scarlet is located, it is indeed worthy of the study building where the scholar lingers, with the guide doorman entering, only to see the courtyard of the falling snow getting deeper, outside the long flower corridor, there are pavilions everywhere, Bihu rockery.

"Distinguished guests, there are a lot of books in the scarlet collection, the manor has built a total of four nine-story library buildings, and next to each book building is built thirty-two small building warm pavilions and small hall canteens, there are talented and beautiful people chanting poems as a place to do it, and there is also a house for guests to study quietly, I don't know which place you are going to?"

After listening to the doorman's introduction, Xue Junwu did not answer in a hurry, but asked casually: "Four library buildings, then you really have all kinds of books here?" ”

The doorman looked back and smiled, with the same official smile as ever: "You can't say that there are all kinds of books, but there are only books in the world, and you can see them here." Of course, you are a noble guest with the red jade order, which is a unique book and can be borrowed at will. ”

While the two were talking, Yunni suddenly stopped and looked up at a deep courtyard on the opposite side of the Bihu Lake. Elsewhere, there is only a jungle of trees covered with silver snow and a narrow forest path.

Xue Junwu noticed something unusual, and also stopped, and asked Yunni: "What's wrong there?" ”

Yunni shook her head: "It's nothing, the slave maid feels very familiar, I've been there with the concubine before... Perhaps. ”

"So where is that over there?" Xue Jun turned his head and asked the doorman worriedly.

The doorman did not shy away from it at all: "That is the place of the Scarlet Master's house, there are nine red jade palaces in front of it, and any guest can only enter if they stop." ”

"The Ruby Order doesn't work?"

"No, I can't. It requires the permission of the owner's family, or an exclusive token. ”

"Oh." Xue Jun replied lightly, but he already had an answer in his heart, because the jade pendant was an exclusive token.

After walking a little further, the master and servant followed the doorman to the library and picked up more than 20 rare books, and were invited into a quiet attic.

Xue Junwu sat in front of the bookcase with the incense burner, his face was full of scrutiny and study, but his heart was already full of thoughts.

From the one-sided words learned from Yunni's mouth, it can be inferred that the place where the princess's biological mother frequented was the place behind the garden. As long as you enter there, you can find the relics left by the princess's biological mother with the jade pendant token.

But then again, the dignified concubine is second only to the queen in the harem, and she has a deep friendship with the queen, what is it that can't be handed over to her daughter in person?

Treasure? Secret method? Or is it something that can't be known to anyone about the secrets of the palace?

All of this should be possible, but it must be something of great value.

Thinking of this, Xue Jun's curiosity became even greater. But he is very calm, after all, if you want to achieve great things, forbearance is the most critical part of success.

... ...

Swish!

Under the sky, the mist is dark.

With a swift sound, Crimson's flying arrows tore through the air like meteors, piercing directly through the throat of a man in black who was two hundred paces away.

When half of the arrow sank into a snow-covered locust tree, and the black-clothed man whose neck was broken with a bloody hole also fell down, and after a slight twitch or two on the ground, there was no movement.

"Yun'er, you're killing again."

On a martial arts training platform with all kinds of weapons and a radius of about dozens of steps, a handsome young man who looked about twenty years old and wearing a crimson brocade robe put away his longbow and turned to look at a lady in gorgeous clothes who was slowly walking on the stage, with a calm expression.

This young man's surname is Scarlet, and his single name is a cloud character, and he is the young master of this Scarlet Trick.

And the noble lady that the young man is looking at is her mother, and she is also the acting head of the entire family.

"Mother! They are all thieves who want to steal treasures, and they should have died yesterday, but the children are kind-hearted, and let them live one more night. ”

After speaking, Scarlet Cloud lowered his head, tried the bow in his hand again, and pulled out a few full moons with three fingers casually: "It's just hateful, it's really not interesting to have a few thieves in your hand, like a knife cutting dead meat, a sword cutting dead wood, it's very boring." ”

The noble lady in gorgeous clothes frowned and said loudly: "The Scarlet family was born in the rivers and lakes, but lived in the imperial court. Now under the governance of His Majesty, the people are peaceful, the country is rich, and the people in the rivers and lakes do not dare to easily hurt people, let alone us? Just a thief, if you catch it in the future, you will be sent to the official. ”

"It's...," Scarlet Cloud's face was a little unwilling, but helpless.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Entropy, assisting the Entropy Taizu to destroy the countries, the unification of Dou, Lin, and Nalan were awarded the edict by the Taizu because of their meritorious achievements, and their descendants were specially ordered to enter the dynasty and participate in politics for generations.

These three dignitaries are well known to everyone in the entropy country, but there are also things that the world does not know.

The bamboo family and the scarlet family are the two unknown families.

The ancestor of the Zhu family is Taizu's personal guard, and he has protected Taizu with his life countless times. After the establishment of the Entropy State, in order to balance the deep-rooted Jianghu sects of various countries left over from the troubled times of the Warring States, the royal family exiled the Zhu clan for sin on the surface, but secretly supported the Zhu family to enter the rivers and lakes, and established an evil sect called "Shifang Temple" in Shifang County.

He also ordered them to hunt down outstanding disciples of various sects as their ancestral training for generations.

So far, all sects and factions in the rivers and lakes have paid attention to this evil sect that does whatever they want and harms the geniuses of all sects and factions for generations.

And the Scarlet family, although it is a family of merchants with various industries all over the country, but it has belonged to the Luo royal family for generations, in addition to being assassinated, it is also doing the shady business of keeping other people's finances and asking for people's lives.

It's just that even Scarlet Yun himself doesn't know that this history he learned as the next head of the Scarlet family, and in his generation, the Scarlet family actually stopped all assassination and life-seeking business, leaving him with no place to perform his martial arts.

As soon as he thought of this, Scarlet Cloud's heart was uncomfortable, since this was the case, why bother to let all the children of the Scarlet family learn the art of assassination, it was better to learn the way of wealth.

While thinking, Scarlet Cloud was interrupted by her mother's voice.

"Yun'er, do something for your mother."

"What?" Scarlet Cloud raised her gaze again to look at her mother.

I saw a lady dressed in a gorgeous costume take out a dragon-shaped jade pendant from her sleeve, and she was in excellent condition. "This jade pendant is the spare key of the Qiangong Secret Vault Tianzi No. 33 Custody Hall, today my mother saw the main key, but not the main one, you go to the Nine Palaces of the Secret Vault and wait, if the key holder wants to open the secret vault, then ask him about the origin of the key."

Scarlet Cloud was puzzled and asked, "Mother, hasn't the Scarlet family always only recognized tokens and not people?" Why do you want your child to make sure that the person is the right one? ”

"You just have to touch it, and don't harm people's lives." Hearing this, the noble lady did not reply, but instructed lightly.

"Okay, boy, just wait." Scarlet Cloud knew that his mother didn't want to say it, so he didn't ask much, and after bowing, he walked towards the Nine Palaces of the Secret Vault.