It was late at night, the city gate had already been closed, and it was curfew time in the city, Shen Nanwu took out his waist card and drank open the city gate.

'Jingguo Mansion' is the largest of the six houses in the capital of Wu Jingguo, the Admiral of the Governor's Mansion, and it is also the place where he settles the most in addition to the palace, 'Jingguo Mansion' occupies dozens of acres of land, with seven sets of courtyards, hundreds of houses of all sizes, it is not only the residence of Wu Jingguo, but also the place where the 'rootless party' people gather to discuss matters, in recent years, countless martial arts heroes have thrown themselves under the banner of the 'rootless party', and most of them are placed in the side courtyard of this 'Jingguo Mansion', so that they can be called at any time to investigate, assassinate, blame and other things, and these martial arts people are also proud of this, and they often show it everywhere.

'Jingguo Mansion' was originally the mansion of the former Hubu Shangshu, a door of seven into, symmetrical left and right, nine turns of the cloister, the stone paving street, a treasure building in the middle of the courtyard is dedicated to the collection of famous calligraphy and landscape paintings, five halls of nine frames, carved beams and painted buildings, the courtyard is mostly outlined with plain colors, simplicity with luxury, luxury with elegance, after the failure of the party struggle, Wu Jingguo occupies the courtyard, many times of modification and expansion, change the treasure building to the meeting hall, the rarity in the building is all sold, the courtyard is built in the new courtyard, the house is also painted in bright colors, the exterior wall is painted vermilion, the original flower gallery flower stand in the courtyard is removed, and the pond is dug to raise fish, and the result is particularly cold last winterThe freshly dug pond was frozen to a solid knot, the fallen leaves flew on it, and all the goldfish raised in the pond were frozen to death. Shen Nanwu escorted Liang Xie over the bell and drum tower, came to the 'Siping Street' to the east and walked for a moment, suddenly saw the lights in front of him, a majestic mansion appeared on the side of the road, the courtyard wall of vermilion paint almost extends from this intersection to the next intersection, the main gate is high and wide and the two gates are like a mountain gate, the three golden characters on the plaque on the door head 'Jingguofu' are illuminated by the dark night lights and the 'Jiaotu Gold Shop' on the door reflect each other, Ye Ye is bright, the two 'Jinyi' stone statues in front of the door weigh more than 1,000 catties, and they are guarded on both sides of the main gate on the left and right......

In the middle of the night, Shen Nanwu didn't dare to go to the main gate, turned to the west gate and stopped, and one of the four guards greeted him and asked, "Lord Shen, is there something wrong?"

Shen Nanwu said: "Is the governor here?"

The guard glanced at Liang Xie who was tied up behind him, and replied: "The governor of the mansion is not here, Zheng Qianhu is in the mansion today, this will sit in the council hall with Master Li, if Lord Shen has something, the villain can inform Zheng Qianhu for you to know." ”

Shen Nanwu said: "Qianhu, what is he doing here?" Without waiting for the guard to answer, he asked again: "Is Master Liu here?" ”

The guard bowed and said, "Please wait, Lord Shen." Turning around and entering through the west side door, there was not much time, the guard turned around and said, "Master Liu is invited." ”

As he spoke, he led Shen Nanwu and his entourage into the side door,

When they came to the second courtyard, the guard knocked on the door, and someone inside answered, "Come in." The guards pushed open the door, Shen Nanwu was the first to enter, the two fans followed closely with Liang Xie, Yu Qibai walked last, and the guards waited for them all to enter before closing the door and turning to go out.

"Lord Shen is looking for the old man late at night, what's the matter?" a man in his fifties who looked like a master let Shen Nanwu and the others into the wing room and asked.

Shen Nanwu said: "A few days ago, someone assassinated the governor alone, and he was arrested by Yu and Yu, this person is the apprentice of Sun Ming and Sun Lao, and he does not dare to make assertions, so he came to consult Master Liu." ”

Master Liu glanced at it and nodded, "Well, let's wait outside first." Immediately called two guards to watch Liang Xie, turned around and closed the door, and said: "Although these martial arts people can't make the climate, there are many things that our people are inconvenient to do, and we can still use them, so if you can take care of their faces, try to take care of them." ”

Shen Nanwu said: "What the master said is that the governor is not here to ask you to give me an idea." ”

Master Liu smiled and said: "Lord Shen has been promoted, the old man is just an idler who eats and drinks, no official and no character, how can he compare to your well-trained, shrewd and capable? Where do you have any good ideas for Lord Shen?"

Shen Nanwu said: "Master said that he laughed, who doesn't know that half of the scenery of the Inner Governor's Mansion can have today's scenery is due to the talent of the Governor, and the other half is the credit of the master's planning." ”

Master Liu's smile was even brighter, but he said humbly: "Speaking of plotting, Master Li is ten times more than me......"

Shen Nanwu was stunned, and he didn't know how to interface for a while.

Liang Xie didn't know what these people would do with him, but he vaguely sounded as if they were passing the buck to each other, presumably the master had a noble status in Wu Jingguo, and no one wanted to offend, so his hanging heart was slightly relaxed.

Shen Nanwu is obviously asking for instructions, but in fact, he is pushing the hot potato into the hands of this Master Liu, no matter how Master Liu disposes of Liang Xie, Shen Nanwu only has the credit of catching the assassin, if the master who killed Liang Xie is looking for him, he can put the responsibility on Master Liu, if Liang Xie is released, Wu Jingguo will also have his own Master Liu top cylinder. For Wu Jingguo, a good master determines whether his status can be taken to the next level, and there are many catchers like Shen Nanwu, and the status of the master is naturally far more important than a small catcher, in other words, even if the master does something wrong, as long as it is not a big deal, Wu Jingguo will not blame, but it is difficult to say if Shen Nanwu makes his own claims.

Yu Qibai saw that the conversation between the two was at a stalemate, and immediately took out a fist-sized cloth bag from his arms, and a faint fragrance spread, Yu Qibai took a step forward and said: "Lord Shen heard that Master Liu has always had a heart disease, so he tried to get some good medicinal materials, and it happened that a friend from the next a few days ago came from 'Xiezhou' and brought some agarwood, please take a look, can you still make it?"

Master Liu took it, the cloth bag 'pulled', it seemed that there were still several layers of paper wrapped in the cloth bag, he didn't look at it, put it on the table behind him, and said with a smile: "Both of them are the future pillars of the imperial court, it's hard to remember the old ......" He glanced at Shen Nanwu and Yu Qibai, smiled slightly, and said: "Actually, how to deal with it, the two of you already know it, but ...... Hehe, forget it, since you can afford to be old, let's come up with an idea. ”

Shen Nanwu couldn't help but be shocked when he saw through his thoughts, and Yu Qibai hurriedly said: "Master's idea must be clever. ”

Master Liu said: "Sun Ming is the junior brother of the mad knife, many martial arts people took refuge in us because of him, this is also planned by Master Li when he invited him, these martial arts people have indeed played a big role in the past few years, if it were not for them, the 'Guyu Party' would not have fallen so quickly......

Yu Qibai said: "What the master said is, fortunately, we didn't dare to specialize. ”

Master Liu smiled again: "Now that the overall situation has been decided, these martial arts recklessness have tasted the sweetness from it, although they came for Sun Ming at the beginning, but now they will not go because of Sun Ming, so no matter how the two deal with this person, whether they offend Sun Ming or not, it will not affect the overall situation, but the size of the credit is inevitably a little different, and the credit is slightly careless or robbed by others." ”

Shen Nanwu didn't go to ask Zheng Qianhu for advice, and immediately said: "Please also ask the master to make it clear." ”

Master Liu said: "In the past few years, there have been no less than 100 people who have assassinated the governor of the mansion, and there have been three groups of people who have assassinated the governor in the last month alone, what credit do you have for catching one?" Shen Nanwu was stunned, Master Liu ignored him, and continued: "Only digging out the mastermind behind him can be called a great achievement, but there are hundreds of households on top of you, and there are thousands of households, if they go to interrogate, the credit will be robbed by them in vain, and it will be Lord Shen's turn to reward a few taels of silver at most." ”

Shen Nanwu had already thought of this section, and immediately asked, "According to the master's opinion, what should I do with my humble position?"

The master glanced at Yu Qibai, Shen Nanwu understood, and hurriedly explained: "Master, please rest assured, Yu Zhukuai is his own person." The master nodded and lowered his voice and said: "The strength of the 'Marquis of Hidden Prefecture' Zhong Yu is unpredictable, the city government is extremely deep, and the governor has not been able to find out his attitude when he sends people to recruit him several times, if Zhong Yu sends assassins to assassinate the governor, and after being arrested and defeated, he commits suicide by taking poison, what do you say the governor will do?"

"This ......" Shen Nanwu was shocked, according to Master Liu's approach, the 'Inner Governor's Mansion' can take the opportunity to find an excuse to get rid of the 'Hou of Hidden Prefecture', and Sun Ming's master as an assassin is naturally a spy sent by Zhong Yu, in this way, the 'Inner Governor's Mansion' can remove the hidden danger of 'Hou of Hidden Prefecture', Shen Nanwu and Master Liu are indispensable for their great achievements, as for Sun Ming's sacrifice is naturally insignificant compared to the 'Hou of Hidden Zhou', he never imagined that the master would come up with such a poisonous plan, and he didn't dare to answer for a while.

The master said: "Zhong Yu's status in the court is not low, and there are also people in the 'Inner Governor's Mansion' to help him speak, and it is common for Lord Shen to have scruples, forget it, this matter is over, the old man didn't say anything, and Lord Shen didn't hear anything." ”

Shen Nanwu hesitated and looked at Yu Qibai, Yu Qibai's face was expressionless, not showing the slightest clue, Master Liu seemed to be smiling, staring at the two of them......

Liang Xie was tied up in the courtyard and stood for a long time, although he vaguely heard something, but how did he know that at this time, only Shen Nanwu nodded, and his master and apprentice would kill in an instant.