The night was deeper, and the moon had turned to the corner of the night sky. There was a cold wind blowing on the street, and even the husband wanted to be lazy at this time, and there was indeed no husband on the street tonight. It's good to sleep on a winter night, and the people on the street can't wait for the husband's bangzi to be silent.

Hu Hao stopped on the street, and the people before and after him said that, he thought for a long time - at the beginning of the year, the shopkeeper Yu did have the idea of letting him give half of his lake area to the Yellow Lion Club to do boat business, but he rejected it after he proposed it. The two waters divided by the Black Wolf Gang, where the two big rivers are the main freight routes in the south, in addition to the freight of the official family, this Dongting generation also belongs to its own business has the most momentum. The Yellow Lion Club has always coveted these two financial routes, but the three gangs are the chambers of commerce of the alliance, and the three parties have sworn a poisonous oath when they swore an oath, and they must not use tricks or tricks to expand in the territory of the alliance gangs;

"You wait for the three of you to be strong in martial arts, I'll go with you, and you will kill you halfway, I can't parry-" Hu Hao said.

Pu Mu said: "It's easy to say, I'll go with you, and they stay here, how about it?"

Hu Hao was suspicious and said, "Lead the way ahead——"

There was no sound in the streets.

At noon, cargo ships were unloading cargo at the wharf in Jingxiang Prefecture, and there were no passenger ships moored here because the wharf was not carrying passengers. On the stone bridge by the pier, the three of them watched the boats and boatmen on the pier, and they had been here for two days, and had visited all the boats.

"All the prefectures and counties in Jingxiang have made secret visits, and these boats are all legitimate business, and they will close the boats at night, and there is nothing abnormal. I think they made an unsuccessful interception attempt, and now they are hiding from the limelight-" Poplar said.

Wang Yu said: "Jingxiang has been investigated all over the place, and there is nothing abnormal in Yueyang City, this Yellow Lion will think that it is consuming with us, and when we are gone, they will reappear in the rivers and lakes." They can afford it, but we may not be able to afford it. We will ask the emperor to thoroughly investigate this case, and all eight of them have left the capital, and if nothing is found this time, it will take a lot of time, and the court and the outside will have objections to our eight commanders. ”

"I made a secret visit for two days, got up early and greedy for darkness, but I still didn't gain anything at all, and the enemy was in the dark and I was in the dark. This yellow lion will hide so deeply, and it doesn't show the limelight at all. Guo Yu said.

At this time, a group of people passed by the stone bridge, and Bai Yang and the others turned their backs to them, but they felt a little strange, this group of people seemed to be a little different - Bai Yang and the others turned their heads and only saw the backs of this group of people. The three of them felt that there was a group of people with strange breathing behind them, and they felt that these people had practiced the internal strength and mental method, and they heard an abnormality in the breathing method, and when they turned around, they saw the backs of a group of women, all wearing black cotton fur coats, and walked quickly across the stone bridge.

In the past two days, the three of them have traveled all over Jingxiang counties, and they have never seen this kind of martial arts practitioners, although Jingxiang counties also have martial arts and Jianghu sects, but most of them are cultivators or martial artists, and they have never seen such a woman - in addition to the breathing method of this group of women, the three of them also found that the light skills of this group of women do not seem to be low.

Afraid of being discovered, the three of them immediately turned their heads to look at the dock and pretended to be chatting. Bai Yang glanced at it, and felt that the group of women had gone away, so he whispered, "Keep up—"

I saw that the group of women had crossed the stone bridge, walked about 200 steps, and then turned into a street. There was a side door of a mansion next to the alley, and the group of women entered the house through the side door in turn.

The three of them arrived at the door when they were young, and said, "Bangyan and the ...... In what year did the imperial court order the list of the people? How could these women who knew martial arts come here?"

Guo Yu said: "It's still daytime at this time, they have entered the door, how should I deal with it?"

Wang Yu said: "Since it is the Bangyan Mansion, even if this group of women has bad intentions, they may not be unfavorable to us during the day." If you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger, I think I'll just knock on the door and enter—" After that, he knocked on the door, and when the door opened, there was a small guy inside.

The little guy said, "Who are you, why don't you knock on the front door and knock on the side door of my house?"

"I'm a friend of your master, and I came to visit today, I don't want to go the wrong way, and I'm bothering my brother to report. Poplar said.

The little guy looked at the three of them, and saw that the three of them were neatly dressed and had an extraordinary atmosphere, although the clothes they wore were not made of precious brocade, but the kind of temperament they wore on them was much better than that of some sons and brothers who wore precious brocade. And listening to the words of the poplar, I felt that the voice was full of energy, and I thought that I was definitely not an idle person. The little servant said, "Wait a minute, I'll go and inform you—" With that, he closed the door and ran to the mansion.

After a while, the little servant and some other subordinates came to open the door to greet them, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, please come in, and the master is waiting for you in the living room—"

The three of them all saluted in return, and then entered the mansion one after another, and under the guidance of the little servants, they walked from the corridor next to the back wing, passed through a moon gate, and arrived in the back garden, and walked about thirty steps, and then entered the living room.

There was a man in a brocade robe sitting in the living room, the man was about the age of a weak crown, slightly fat, with a jade belt around his waist and a dark green jade pendant.

The man said to the servants, "You go out and wait, go and tell the kitchen, and hold a banquet today to entertain all the officials—"

"Yes, master. The little guys replied to the order, and they all retreated.

The man immediately got up and said to the three people: "Three officials, please sit down quickly-as soon as I saw the three of them in the teahouse that day, I always wanted to know them, but the three of them were uncertain. Today, the little maid told me that there were three guests who came to visit, and the appearance and dress depicted by the little maid were no different from those seen below. I guess you're three of the new eight Commanders, right?"

The three of them were full of doubts, and they had never seen this person in front of them. This person's words made them all confused, Guo Yu said: "I don't know what day the prince is talking about the teahouse?"

"It's a teahouse with storytellers in the city—" the man said.

Guo Yu remembered that there was indeed a rich boy listening to a book in the teahouse that day, and this person was obsessed with listening to it, thinking that it was him. "Your Excellency is the son who listened to Mo Zhai and Gong Yiban talk about martial arts that day?" asked Guo Yu.

The man said, "It's down there—"

Bai Yang immediately stood up and said, "I came here to ask Childe about something, and I ask Childe to forgive me for the recklessness of the three of us." Here's my son's name?"

The man said, "Under the mirror." ”

This surname reminded the three of them of the consul in the Five Lakes and Three Gangs, and Wang Yu immediately asked: "Your Excellency is the son of the shopkeeper in this Dongting Five Lakes Three Gangs?"

The man got up and smiled, shook his head, and sighed, "The three commanders have really seen people, and that person is indeed the father of the family, but I want to know how the three of them know?"

Bai Yang informed Yu Jing of the fact that he had just met the strange women and followed them to the side door. Yu Jing stroked his palm and smiled: "Good, good, good—all this is a coincidence, so that I have to meet three more commanders." ”

"It's fate, it's not. Guo Yu said, "If it weren't for Ling Zun, I'm afraid the prince wouldn't know what to wait for——"

Yu Jing nodded and said, "My father said that when I went to Wudang to mourn Xiao Taiyi, I met eight commanders. ”

Bai Yang had doubts in his heart, he didn't know whether the words that the person in front of him said were true or false - when the shopkeeper was in the mourning hall that day, he only saw Pu Mu and the other four people, and then he only visited Long Xiangtian alone, and the three of them stayed to drag the suspected official, and he and the other two had never seen the shopkeeper Yu at the funeral. And the eight people completely met with the shopkeeper Yu before they were intercepted by the shopkeeper Yu and others when they were swimming in the lake. Poplar naturally knew that there were only two reasons for this, one was that the person in front of him lied and did not mention the killing that day, and the other was that he was completely unaware and only listened to his father's words.

Guo Yu and Wang Yu also had this idea, but they still needed to explore the person in front of them, so Guo Yu asked: "May I also ask Gongzi, how do you know that I am waiting to come to this Jingxiang land?"

Yu Jing said: "What my father said, after you finish your condolences, you will be allowed by the emperor to come and visit the land of Jingxiang and Yueyang for a few days. In Xia Pingsheng, I love to make friends with the heroes of the rivers and lakes, the Fan head of the Yellow Lion Club, the Hu gang leader of the Black Wolf Gang, and of course, the Xiahou owner of the Iron Leopard Village, I have a very good personal relationship with them. In addition, I also have a lot of friendship with several masters of Shaolin and several Taoist masters of Wudang, and I heard that you are the emperor's newly crowned commanders, and I know that you are all good hands in the court and rivers and lakes before, so I want to make friends with you. I wanted to send someone to find you, but my father said, I have to send my subordinates at home to find you, saying that you are a secret line this time, and it is inconvenient to know with the rest of the people, so I went out by myself, hoping to see you, that day in the teahouse to see three Qi Yu extraordinary, and some of his subordinates said that the three seemed to have practiced martial arts, I wanted to know you directly that day, but I knew that I was fascinated by listening to the book, and the story was not over, and you were gone. ”

The three of them heard that this person's understanding of them and the rest of the Ouchi leaders came from their father, and from what the shopkeeper said, they also knew that the shopkeeper knew everything about their plan to explore the land of Jingxiang and Yueyang. As for the person in front of them, the three of them also have a rough judgment, but they need to be further probed - they will not easily determine a person at any time.

Guo Yu said with a smile: "I want to come to Gongzi and he is also a man of temperament, and he is married to a hero." In this way, I, Guo Yu, would like to be a friend of Gongzi—but I also want to ask Gongzi, who are those women from?"

"They are the subordinates of the owner of Xiahou Village of Iron Leopard Village, and when they heard that the owner of Xiahou Village was seriously ill, they came to get some medicine to cure the disease, took the medicine and left. Yu Jingdao.

The three of them gradually let down their wariness of the mirror, and his words were natural and unflustered, and it was clear from his words that his father was not honest with him. However, the three of them thought of the fact that Long Xiangtian had beaten the poisonous insect into Xiahou Xue's mouth that day, and then threw her into the water—could it be that Xiahou Xue still had her life? If so, then the medicine that came to take it would be the antidote to the poisonous insects.

Bai Yang smiled: "I think that the son is not only talented to learn, but also knows a little about medicine?"

Yu Jing sighed: "I originally wanted to practice medicine, but my father asked me to take the test for fame and get an official position." My father's fate was difficult, so I took the imperial examination, but I also won the list and got the prefect of this Jingxiang state, but I am really not good at officialdom, and my term of office has not yet reached two years, so I hung up the official seal and returned to this Bangyan mansion to study some medicine. My father knew that I was not good at officialdom, so he asked me to return home and take care of the family's business by the way. ”

Guo Yu concluded at this time that the person in front of him had nothing to do with their interception and killing-Yu Jing knew everything about the three people's questions, and many details were said again and again, even the reason for his good medicine was so detailed, if he knew that the three people in front of him were pretending to visit for the interception and killing, he would not be so indifferent. If you talk too much, you will lose, people will only say so many things when they are unprepared, even if they know the situation in advance, it is even more difficult to disguise like this, at least in front of the three of them.

At this time, the three of them had no questions, and they chatted with Yu Jing about irrelevant words. The maids came to ask where the food was, and Yu Jing said: "It's cold in winter, so it's good to pass it here-"

The winter night came earlier and earlier, and the meal was finished, and there was no light left in the sky.

"Little brother, I salute all my brothers—" Yu Jing said.

The four of them pushed the cup and changed the lamp for a long time, and Bai Yang thought that he needed to find out the details of the three gangs at this time, although the shopkeeper had something to hide from the mirror meeting, but the best opportunity at the moment, the more clues he found, the faster he could complete the task.

"Can Ling Zun live in the same mansion as Gongzi?" asked Bai Yang.

Yu Jing said: "My father doesn't live with me. Although my mother often came to visit, my father did not visit me very much, and only taught me to go to the house a few times a month to ask for my parents' peace, so I would visit Xiangyang City several times a month. I just went to Xiangyang City a few days ago, and now I'm back. ”

Guo Yu said: "Childe is doing some business for the shopkeeper, why do you meet so little with the shopkeeper?"

"Hey, it's really ugly and can't be publicized. My father always wanted to make me the new manager of his waterway business, but I never wanted to, so I pretended to excuse myself, and I knew that I was only made an official to ensure that his waterway business would be more prosperous. Because of the big business of the father, the large ships allowed to transport official materials in the laws of the imperial court have been built in the ship. If you win the right to transport the goods of the official family, the family's business will be bigger. But why did you want me to be this official? The waterway business in Dongting was the only one that my father and several uncles co-founded by the Chamber of Commerce, and if the government was racing boats, I was the only one who could do it, so I really didn't know why I was asked to be an official? But my father was so focused on this that I couldn't afford to argue with my father, so I came to the old mansion in this small town. Yu Jingdao.

The three of them knew more and more about this person's innocence, and they thought of the shopkeeper so simply. Guo Yu said: "This Five Lakes Three Gang and Ling Zun are friends? When Ling Zun went to Wudang to mourn, he took the Five Lakes Three Gang with him. I don't know ......."

Yu Jing said: "Brother Guo doesn't know, these five lakes and three gangs are the sects of the rivers and lakes, and they are allies who do waterway business together with my father's chamber of commerce, and there are their boats in the five lakes. Originally, these days were the peak season for shipping, and some materials from the south were transported to the north, but the shipping business of Fan and Hu Gangmaster was much less these days, and I don't know why it ......."

In this way, the three of them took the opportunity to chat, and chatted with Yu Jing at the wine table about a lot of words about the Five Lakes and Three Gangs, and naturally chatted about some poems and songs, anecdotes, and anecdotes; the three of them were much smarter than Yu Jing, and they did not tell Yu Jing any of their experiences in the past few days or in the palace, and Yu Jing naturally only asked for some martial arts. The most related things between the three of them and the palace are only selected by Ouchi, and of course, the three of them just talked nonsense like a joke.

After the banquet, the three of them went to the guest room to rest, and the lights in Bangyan Mansion were turned off, so it was quiet into the night.

In the guest room, the three of them whispered and talked -

"Thinking about it, Yu Jing really doesn't know what is going on between his father and me, he is so comfortable at the wine table, he doesn't look like he is pretending at all. Poplar said.

Guo Yu said: "I also feel the same way, our whereabouts have been hidden in the past few days, even if the sunset is detected by him, no one has followed us after that, this is just a coincidence with him." If his father hadn't told him about us and the others, he wouldn't have known that we were the three of them. And if he intends to calculate us and others, he can design to arrest him when he enters the mansion, why don't he do it for a long time, so as not to have too many dreams at night?"

"Listen to what he said, the antidote to the poisonous insect, I think he has it. It's better to let him go to the Dragon Mother Temple with me, and also tell him what the true face of this Five Lakes Three Gangs and his father's Chamber of Commerce is. Wang Yu said.

The other two were silent, and after a while, Guo Yu spoke: "He doesn't know anything about this, I want to ......"

Poplar said: "Even his father didn't tell him about these things, thinking that his father didn't want him to get involved, and kept coaxing him." Just imagine, people like the shopkeeper can't bear to bring him into these things, how can we do this?"

Wang Yu said: "If the two of you hesitate, then I am afraid that we will fall into passivity again." His father didn't let him know about this, was it because his father wanted to protect him, or did his father leave a way for himself? I know what his father made him an official? There is such a father in the world, and we still need to think about this kind of person?"

"Parents in the world, even if they are heinous, will never let their children repeat the mistakes of the past, and if they are involved, his life will not be saved. And he is so naïve, and he has no martial arts to defend himself, and now the matter of the three gangs is not clear, if that corpse is involved in gang infighting or inter-gang struggle, and he and we are involved in it, he will definitely be more than lucky. Guo Yu said.

Wang Yu's steps became hurried, and he said, "If it is really a fight between gangs, is he really safe here? ”

Bai Yang thought for a long time before he said: "You don't have to fight with each other, what Brother Guo and I mean is more for the sake of Yu Jing." This man is open-minded, honest and talented, and we don't want him to get involved in disputes for no reason. But now the case is urgent, the poisonous insect is the key to solving the case, we will design tomorrow to ask about the poisonous insect and leave, as if nothing has ever happened here. ”

There was no sound in the room.

The night is getting more and more solemn, and the night sky before dawn is the darkest ink, in the Dragon Mother Temple.

Hu Hao was surprised: "This is the Dragon Mother Temple built by my Black Wolf Gang, you are really powerful-"

"Gang Master Hu, this temple must be a place to hide black money such as yours. The Hu Gang Master kept saying that he didn't know, and now that there is Guan Yin and this corpse in this secret room, what is the explanation of the Hu Gang Master?"

Hu Hao said: "This temple is indeed built by my Black Wolf Gang, and the money from the money village is not in the right way to be put here, but at the beginning of this year, the Chamber of Commerce handed over the debt collection messenger to the Iron Leopard Village, and this temple has long since stopped hiding money." The corpse had been decomposing for some time, and I couldn't tell if it was a priest in my gang other than the iron plate. So saying, he closed the straw curtain that covered the corpse.

Pu Mu said: "In this way, the Hu gang leader probably needs to think about it, why is this happening?"

Hu Hao didn't reply, glanced back at the dragon mother statue, and glanced around a few times. "You are so profound, I don't know what kind of death caused this corpse?" Hu Hao said.

Duan Gan said treacherously: "I have invited two batches of servants to come here, this person has suffered a heavy palm on his chest before his death, and the tail vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, and spine have all been damaged, among which the tail vertebrae are the heaviest, and there are stabs on the waist and back, and the stabbing is very deep. ”

"May I also ask Gang Leader Hu, how many people know about this organ?" Pu Mu asked.

Hu Hao said: "Except for the people in my help, no one knows." ”

"In that case, this person is probably a disciple of the gang. Pu Mu said.