"Master Lu, why don't you leave?" Meixian Cheng pushed Lu Jishou and asked.

Ji Shou came back to his senses and hurriedly apologized to everyone behind him. And he went into the house, and sat down in the east seat, and led the people into their seats.

Chen Tongpao instructed his subordinates to go to the east study to get wine, and Meixian Cheng talked to the idlers, and accidentally glanced at Lu Jishou, and saw him leaning on the table, motionless, as if thoughtful.

Meixian Cheng smiled, then tilted his head and asked Chen Tongpao: "I don't know which girl the adult married?" ”

Comrade Chen replied unhurriedly: "This county has never bothered to make much noise on this matter, so no one in the city knows. When the time comes to worship in the hall, how about you take a look at it? ”

"Chen Xianling didn't know where to learn this, but he whetted our appetite!" The idlers laughed, but Lu and Mei looked at each other, unhappy.

"Ladies and gentlemen, here comes the wine!" The old servant came up with two jugs of wine, and when the idlers saw it, they pushed and shoved, and scrambled to pass the wine cups, but a few of them could not squeeze through, so they had to stand far behind, smelling the smell of wine, and swallowing dryly. The old servant told them not to fight any more, and poured wine in turn, and everyone returned to their seats happily.

After several rounds of drinking, a few idlers suddenly talked about swords, saying that the blades cast by that family were good and the blades cast by that family were bad, and they talked with great interest.

"Brother Ren can appreciate the treasure knife, and the official has a dagger, which can be seen with a discerning eye?" When Chen Tongpao said this, he squinted at Meixian Cheng.

Everyone looked at Mei Xiancheng, and Mei Xiancheng smiled and took out the dagger from his arms: "This knife was given to me by Chen Zhixian." This is really a good weapon, not only extremely sharp, sharpened like clay, and the style is exquisite, I don't know if you can evaluate the top grade? ”

The guest brought the dagger and saw that the scabbard was inlaid with large and small green jade, which was lustrous and transparent; When I opened it, the knife surface was like a mirror, and it was indeed smooth to the touch. He applauded the sycophants of the county magistrates, and only asserted that this was the supreme product, a treasure in the world, which made the hall laugh.

At this time, seeing that the dishes were ready, after pushing the cup and changing the lamp, they each raised their chopsticks and ate them.

After a while, Chen Tongpao suddenly put down the wine, and said that he still needed to be entertained in front of him, and it was not appropriate to drink more, so he asked the servant to carry the night light and go out of the house.

Mei Xiancheng twisted his fingers uneasily, looked left and right, and suddenly saw Lu Jishou's face flushed, and came over to toast him.

He hurriedly raised his glass and persuaded: "Master Lu, there is something important to do, don't drink anymore." ”

Lu Gongzi squinted his eyes slightly and said with a smile: "County Cheng, don't worry." It's just that why hasn't your poor person arrived yet? ”

Meixian Cheng suddenly changed color: "You found that...... The female prisoner? ”

"Found it," Lu Jishou glanced into the aisle, "I'm hiding there, I don't think she will go out for a while." Your soldier ......"

Speaking of this, a few soldiers with knives and guns came out of the curtain and walked straight to Meixian Cheng's side, which made the idlers a little panicked.

"You don't have to think about it," Mei Xiancheng explained, "but because of the big wedding, there are many people and I am afraid that there will be a shortage of people, so I specially dispatched people from the yamen to help out." This is Chen County's personal order, sit down, sit down. ”

The soldier leaned into Meixian Cheng's ear: "There are more than 20 people arranged inside and out, if Lu Gongzi succeeds, we can go down with one drum!" ”

Meixian Cheng looked at Lu Jishou, who nodded confidently.

"Let's go down."

Meixian Cheng picked up chopsticks and continued to drink and eat meat with the idlers; But after this episode, the surrounding guests seemed uncomfortable and couldn't stop whispering.

Just as Master Mei's face was as pale as ashes, the old slave came with a smile on his face again: "Meixian Cheng, Chen County Order has something to call you." ”

"I'm going to ...... now" Mei Xiancheng's mind drifted out of the clouds, and he was about to hold the table and leave the table, but his hands were empty, and he pounced and turned over the wine cup. He was suddenly frightened and stood there in a daze.

"It's nothing, it's nothing, the county lord." The old slave didn't know what to do, so he hurriedly dragged Meixian Cheng away.

The whole house was silent. After a while, one of the guests picked up the wine cup, and several people went to wipe the wine that had been spilled on the ground.

Lu Jishou took this opportunity to run to the door while he was in chaos, turned around and closed the door, and entered the aisle.

He stumbled along, and there was no lamp in the hallway, and it was unusually dim, and he let the cold wind whistle through the window.

But at this moment, Lu Gongzi is even more afraid of the wine, straightens his waist, and goes straight forward.

He scratched the door of the east study, exhaled, secretly happy in his heart, quietly opened a crack in the door, and a pair of eyes poked over, and saw that there was no light inside, and there was a small mirror box standing there.

This must be the place where the girls dress. Jishou thought about it, and while lifting his left foot in, he didn't touch anything; He stretched out his right foot again, but he couldn't kick anything. He was relieved, and boldly pushed the door open, and the wooden door creaked.

Jishou's quiet footsteps echoed in the room. Unless it is haunted, there can be no other sound.

But somewhere it sounded dryly.

He began to feel sweaty and shivering. He turned his head slightly, but a bright white light came out of the back of his head. Then there was a sharp pain in his neck, and he screamed loudly.

The person behind him had already thrown the dagger in a panic, but when he saw that Jishou was still rolling on the ground, he picked it up again and stabbed him in the neck once or twice...... There was no movement.

Leng Ping leaned against the wall, his body trembling constantly. After being stunned for a while, he crawled out of the panic slightly, hurriedly threw the dagger into a pool of blood, and left through the east gate.

"What about Gongzi Lu?"

"We didn't see it."

"You're going to look for it in the East Study?"

"I'll look for it."

The old slave held a lantern in one hand and opened the door with the other, and saw Lu Jishou just falling in front.

"Haha, Childe drank too much," said the old minion as he leaned closer to look, "It's all full of vomit—"

The lantern in his hand instantly fell to the ground and fell next to Lu Jishou's body; The old minion fainted all at once.

"Someone's killed!"

Meixian Cheng just came out of the small relief, ran all the way to the edge of the council hall, stood on the grass and looked ahead, and saw a few idlers holding sticks, and the housekeeper led the way and rushed towards him.

"Butler, how is this ......?"

Before he finished speaking, he was hugged by the housekeeper, and the guests suddenly gathered in a heap and pressed Meixian Cheng's arms and legs.

"You still want to run?!" The housekeeper dusted off his clothes, his face was also white, and he stood up and scolded, "You are a county and a local official, why do you want to kill good people?" Say! ”

Mei Xiancheng was dumbfounded by this messy situation, and couldn't spit out words for a long time.

"You called those officers and soldiers, it turned out that you wanted to murder Lu Gongzi!" The guests shouted.

"What's going on here?" Fellow Chen also came, and when he heard the idlers come up, he lost his color:

"The worship hall doesn't care in advance, and today Taizhou will try this case overnight!"