Out of the courtyard gate, taking advantage of the fact that there was no one on the road, Gu Shenwei ran to the stone house where he used to live in small steps, and he wanted to find Lao Zhang, who fed the horses, to complete the "trick" that he had already thought of.

Lao Zhang was not in the house, he stayed in the stable, as usual, taking care of a few mounts of the Eighth Young Master, and he didn't say a few words in the months he lived with the young man, but now with the horses, it was like a party chatting with old friends, chatting endlessly, and he didn't even see Huan Nu coming over.

Gu Shenwei looked at this old man who was closer to cattle than people, and realized more and more that this person was incompatible with Jinpeng Castle.

"Ahem. ”

Lao Zhang turned around, and his originally peaceful and amiable face immediately became gloomy and stagnant, as if he had changed his mask in an instant.

"I'd like to ask you a favor. ”

Lao Zhang didn't speak, he didn't even say hello, Gu Shenwei had to speak first.

"I can't help. ”

Lao Zhang's refusal was simple and direct, and then he began to get busy, indicating that the whole thing was over.

Gu Shenwei didn't leave, he couldn't find a second person to help, in this stone fort, he didn't have a real friend, and when Lao Zhang finished adding forage, wiping the horse's body, and collecting horse manure, he could no longer pretend to have work to do, he spoke again, "I want to see the eighth young master." ”

"The host is not here. ”

"I'm going to expose a conspiracy to the Eighth Young Master, and this conspiracy is happening right next to him. ”

Lao Zhang stood up abruptly and walked in front of Huan Nu in two steps, "I don't know what a conspiracy is, and I'm not interested in understanding, if you want to see the master, just take a step and walk over, don't talk to me." ”

Gu Shenwei looked directly at Lao Zhang's gaze, knowing that this old man was cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and had a strong sense of sympathy, "Without your help, I wouldn't have survived tonight." ”

Gu Shenwei exaggerated a little, but it was not a lie, he guessed that the Six Killing Hall should soon find out that the wooden knife had been transferred, and he was the biggest suspect.

"Anyone will die, and it's normal to die early in this stone castle. ”

Lao Zhang said angrily, turned around and picked up a handful of forage, and found that the manger was still full, so he had to throw it back to the same place, turned around again, and saw that Huan Nu was still standing in place, and couldn't help but be more angry, "Get out, get far away, I just feed the horses, regardless of personnel, I want to see the master, go to the outer academy, and keep going south, just at the gate of the stone castle." ”

"I can't let people see me going to see the Eighth Young Master. ”

Lao Zhang sneered, he had said enough to this young man, beyond the bounds of what should be, but he still couldn't help but sarcastically say, "What do you mean, you want the master to come and see you?"

Gu Shenwei nodded.

He wanted to hide people's eyes, but it was not Xue Niang who was guarded against, because the big-headed god was a well-behaved and willful daughter, and it was probably difficult for Xue Niang to buy people's hearts in the castle, and he was guarding against the opponent of the Eight Young Masters, such as Mr. Guo.

This is important.

Lao Zhang's expression was surprised at first, and then slowly turned to anger, feeling that the young man was obviously entertaining himself, "You wait patiently, there are so many minions in the stone castle, the master can't 'see' me, when he comes to 'see' me, I will send you a message." ”

"The conspiracy I want to expose is against the Eighth Young Master himself. ”

Gu Shenwei lied a little again, but how could he turn Xue Niang into Shangguan Fu's enemy, which was also very important.

Huan Nu looked very serious, not like an evil spirit, not like he was drunk, if Lao Zhang still had a little exposed emotion, it was his infinite loyalty to his master, therefore, he took this young man a little seriously, "The master will come back at dinner, and I will find a chance to talk to the master when I go to lead the horse." ”

"I can't wait for the evening, it's going to have to be now, maybe it's a little late. ”

Gu Shenwei imagined the chaos in the Six Killings Hall when they found that the wooden knives were fake, and the scene where the killers were looking for bold minions everywhere.

Lao Zhang's heart is full of contradictions, he is loyal to his master, but he is unwilling to participate in any conspiracy, even if it is a meritorious service, he is unwilling, not to mention, he does not particularly believe in Huan Nu.

Huan Nu is a strange teenager in his eyes, he has a lot of worries, and he shows scary eyes from time to time, which is both sympathetic and disgusting, in short, he is by no means a good slave.

Lao Zhang seemed to have made his last decision, returned to the stable, and picked up the fresh grass he threw down again, but turned around, let go again, walked to Huan Nu, and said viciously: "You'd better not lie to me, or I'll feed you to the horses, and they will eat you to the point that there is no left." ”

There were six horses in the stable, and they snorted together.

Gu Shenwei returned to the small stone house and waited, according to his observation, the relationship between Lao Zhang and the Eighth Young Master was beyond that of ordinary masters and servants, and Lao Zhang's posture of stepping forward after accepting the promise confirmed that his observation was correct. Using this alone time, he went through the whole plan in his head again.

With his own strength, he is not the opponent of Xue Niang in any case, and whistleblowing is the only way out, but the choice of the whistleblower is very delicate.

Under normal circumstances, people who know the secret will try their best to arrest Xue Niang, torture them, and force them to question the mastermind behind the scenes, and the first thing Xue Niang confessed was probably Huan Nu's life experience.

There is only one person who may kill Xue Niang directly without interrogation, and that is the Eighth Young Master Shangguan Fu: he is at a low point in his life, desperately hoping to regroup in front of his father, and never wants to catch fire in the backyard again, the death of the killer Han Shiqi has already made him embarrassed, and if there is trouble among the people brought by his wife, it will only show his incompetence even more.

Gu Shenwei stood in the perspective of the Eighth Young Master, put himself in his shoes, and felt that he would kill Xue Niang immediately, and he would not know it.

The loopholes in this plan are not small, Shangguan Nu may be meritorious, and he will ask Xue Niang about the truth, or he may directly kill the minions who know after killing Xue Niang.

There is no foolproof plan, Gu Shenwei thought to himself, this is the only way in a desperate situation, although there is a lot of fog ahead, it is better than another path that is bound to lead to death.

Against Xue Niang, his only advantage is that he is not afraid of death, and he is not afraid of going crazy, which is probably something that Xue Niang will never understand.

The Eighth Young Master Shangguan stood quietly at the door, as if he had stopped there for a long time, showing the necessary qualities of a killer, he did not show displeasure because he had come to "see" a minion in person, nor did he show his urgency to hear about a conspiracy.

Gu Shenwei knelt on his knees, overcoming the lingering fear in his heart, this fear was the truest emotion that came out of his heart when he saw the enemy who slaughtered the whole family, he said everything, and revealed the conspiracy of the Snow Lady, and even the hiding place of the wooden knife of the Six Killing Hall was truthfully explained, but he just concealed the handle that he fell in the hands of the Snow Niang.

Shangguan Nu was still silent, seemingly more interested in the minion himself, and stared at him for a long time, "You didn't expose Xue Niang at the beginning, and now you betrayed her again." ”

Gu Shenwei knew that his answer was very important, and he had to be very careful with the wording, "Ask the eighth young master for forgiveness, the little slave was very scared at first, Xue Niang was strong in martial arts, and threatened to kill the little slave, but the little slave thought about it and finally understood that although the little slave was brought by the young grandmother to marry, but when he entered Jinpeng Castle, the real master was only the eighth young master, and of course he should only think about the interests of the master, so the little slave did not feel that it was a betrayal of Xue Niang, because she wanted to harm the eighth young master, and she was the betrayer." ”

Shangguan Nu sneered softly, this minion's kung fu is really poor, but there are indeed a few words that hit his heart, "My interests?"

"Xue Niang is obviously a slave of the Eighth Young Master, but she doesn't care about the impact of what she does on the Eighth Young Master......"

Gu Shenwei finally knew that it was enough to stop, and saying too much would cause Shangguan to be angry and dissatisfied.

Shangguan Nu's only remaining left hand habitually pressed on the handle of the knife, since his right hand was cut off by his father, he cherished this hand that could only hold the knife, and he had a peculiar feeling, every time he saw this inconspicuous teenager, he would always have a sense of tension and hostility, which was not obvious, but it could provoke him to kill people.

Make good use of reason and abandon emotion, this is also one of the necessary qualities of a killer, Shangguan angrily suppressed the faintly unformed **, he once cut off the palms of several of his subordinates in a fit of anger, and remembered afterwards what a stupid act it was, even more stupid than killing the wrong person, almost equivalent to cutting off the other palm.

"Wait here. ”

Gu Shenwei stayed in the small stone house and waited for a long time, during which Lao Zhang did not show up once, determined to get as far away from the "conspiracy" as possible.

He even wondered if his plan had failed, he originally thought that he had a good chance of killing with a knife now looked ridiculously naïve, Shangguan Nu could secretly interrogate Xue Niang and kill her after finding out all the truth.

Shangguan came back in the evening, and at this time, Gu Shenwei's heart had been hanging for too long, and it seemed that it would not beat, and his chest and abdomen were full of an indescribable feeling of falling, so that he could not feel hungry without eating a grain of rice all day.

Shangguan Nu brought back the wooden knife, threw it to the minion, and only said one sentence, "At the second watch, take it to see Xue Niang." ”

Gu Shenwei was left alone in the stone house, holding a wooden knife in his hand, and he was sure that this was the wooden knife of the Six Killing Hall that he had brought out by stealing beams and changing pillars.

He walked to the door, looked through the crack in the door to make sure there were no watchers nearby, listened with his ears to the wall, and there was no suspicious sound, so he lit a small oil lamp and looked carefully at the wooden knife in his hand.

This wooden knife has no peculiarities, except that it has no blade, and its appearance is almost exactly the same as the real Jinpeng Fort narrow knife, with a total length of two feet and five inches, which is slightly shorter than Gu's single knife, and more than an inch wide, and it is even narrower than a bizarre, and the blade is straight, like an elongated dagger or a shortened sword.

The handle is wrapped with red silk thread and looks very new, which is probably the only difference.

The handle of the knife, which is often held in the hand, is more or less blackened due to sweat, and this wooden knife, which hides secrets, seems to have never been used.

Shangguan Nu wanted to use it as bait, which was not in Gu Shenwei's plan, but it gave him a great opportunity to explore the secret.

A glimpse of the fake knife when Xue Niang got the fake knife has already revealed that the secret is the hilt.

Gu Shenwei carefully unfastened the knot, opened the silk thread in a circle, and thought to himself, the secret inside was better worth the risk.