378 Prime Minister's Office

Seeing Su Mu step out of the bookstore, Jiang Long hurriedly said, "If Brother Su doesn't agree, don't blame us for being polite." โ€

After that, he was stunned for a moment, and then his heart suffocated, and even his breathing was broken, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead.

The two brothers were also panicked, and scolded the eighteenth generation of the eldest brother's ancestor in their hearts, no matter how anxious you are, you can't be hard in front of him, isn't this a burden for everyone to find death.

Sure enough, Su Mu paused, subconsciously put his fingers into his sleeve, firmly pressed the handle of the dagger, his expression was still peaceful, and he smiled: "Only friends are welcome, it is obvious that we are not friends." Since you've opened your mouth, it won't look good for me to back down any longer, so I'll just follow the rules of the road-"

"Brother Su!"

Without waiting for Su Mu to finish speaking, the river dragon knelt on the ground with a plop, sweat flowed into his eyes, and there was a burst of sourness, he didn't care about wiping it, and hurriedly said: "I didn't mean that, I mean if you don't agree, our brothers will stay here and not leave, it's so polite, you must not misunderstand." โ€

Su Mu remained vigilant, took a step back, raised one hand with one hand, and said, "I'm just a bookstore owner, what do others think when you kneel here? Don't disturb my business, get up." โ€

"Our eldest brother is a rough man and can't speak, don't mind Brother Su. Tongtian Leopard explained with a smile.

Su Mu walked into the bookstore, sat on the bamboo chair, crossed Erlang's legs with a big grin, and said with a smile: "I will explain it in one sentence, Zhong Liangfu is very fat, but I don't want to slaughter, I don't wash my hands and don't do it, I don't talk about playing, I don't do it, you are looking for the wrong person." โ€

Tongtian Leopard's eyes signaled to the turning Jianglong, who wanted to speak, to shut up, and stepped forward and said, "We found out one thing before we came. Maybe Brother Su is interested in hearing about it. โ€

Su Mu poured a cup of tea. There is no courtesy for them. He poured himself a drink and said, "You say." โ€

Tongtian Leopard is the most scheming of the three, knowing Su Mu's temperament, he doesn't do anything to foreshadow, and said bluntly: "You have a childhood sweetheart friend called Little Tears." โ€

Su Mu nodded and smiled: "Yes, she likes to cry." โ€

Suddenly, his brows tightened. Standing up steeply, with a cold glint in his eyes, he said slowly, "She's in your hands?"

Tongtian Leopard also found that the sentence just now was very similar to the beginning of the threat of kidnapping, and quickly explained: "Brother Gu misunderstood again, we didn't dare to tie up your friend after eating the leopard's guts, but I learned some bad news about her a few days ago, so I came to report it to Brother Su." โ€

Su Mu was a little worried, but his face was calm as usual, and said, "We also met last month, she worked as a maid in Zhong Liangfu's mansion. In two more years, she can be redeemed, and the people in the Prime Minister's Mansion are very good to her. What could be bad?"

"She's dead. โ€

In order to avoid another misunderstanding, Tongtian Leopard no longer proceeded step by step, and directly clarified the main point: "Someone found her body in a mass grave, and her lower body was half gnawed by wolves, for fear that the corpse would rot, we kept it in a cellar, and the Su brothers could go to see it at any time." โ€

He took out a package, put it in front of Su Mu, and said with a comforting expression: "This was taken from her." โ€

The package contained two red hair cards, a blue handkerchief, and a bracelet that looked like a fake but was actually very valuable, all of which he had given her, and she recognized it at a glance.

The red silk in his eyes loomed, and the killing intent rose sharply, staring at the Tongtian Leopard and said coldly: "If you kill her and pull me into the gang, I will make you want to die and you can't die." โ€

They didn't kill the little tear man, but in the face of Su Mu's murderous gaze, the three of them had a clammy back and swore that they had nothing to do with it.

There was a regular customer in the casino, who was a steward of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Su Mu called him to the bookstore, and learned from him that Xiao Tear Man was going to hit the board ten times and be fined one year's salary because he knocked over a valuable teacup of Zhong Liangfu, but Zhong Liangfu saw that she was handsome, and wanted to accept her as the nineteenth aunt, so he asked her to enter the room that night, but she didn't obey, bit Zhong Liangfu's arm, provoked him to be angry, and ordered the slave to defile first, and then beat her to death.

Su Mu listened to it as if he had been struck by lightning, like a stone, and he didn't come to his senses for a long time.

The steward and Su Mu meet all day long, and they are acquaintances, but he has never taken Su Mu in his eyes, in his opinion, he is just a little fart child who sells books, and the little tearful man in the love mansion is his friend, but he feels that there is no need to sue him.

"You know she's my best friend, why didn't you sue me when she died?"

The steward lost money today and was depressed, and when he heard Su Mu questioning, he waved his fist and said: "Which green onion are you, it's worth Lao Tzu to come and explain to you if it's a big fart?"

He spat on Su Mu's body fiercely, turned around and continued to bet.

Su Mu walked over expressionlessly, as fast as lightning, he cut a small hole in his throat, a very small one, and the depth of the grasp just cut the brittle bone of the throat, and the vocal voice and the respiratory tract broke together, but he didn't die immediately, he couldn't shout, he spasmed all over, feeling the breath of life coming out of the throat, and every time the air inhaled in would cut the wound on the throat like a sharp blade. Great pain and fear swept through the body, and the torture was worse than death.

Su Mu tied his hands behind his back and said, "Whoever dares to save him or kill him within half an hour will end up like him." โ€

The steward was even more desperate when he heard this, which showed that he had to endure at least half an hour's torment, and that he really wanted to die immediately.

The three of them had been standing beside them, looking at each other with secretly happy expressions. It was Su Muneng who was so angry, and this matter was done.

The three of them invited Su Mu again while the iron was hot, but Su Mu refused, saying, "I want to act on my own, and I'll go tomorrow night." I can't wait that many days. โ€

Under the persuasion of Pan Jianglong, he reluctantly agreed, and allowed him half of the robbery.

Su Mu snorted disdainfully and said, "Do you think the young master has no money?"

After speaking, he cursed in his heart: "Lao Tzu really has no money, he used to be young, and he was coaxed by a few bosses in the game of fire to only care about killing people, and it was too late to wake up when he washed his hands, otherwise how could he hold back and open a small bookstore here." โ€

This is completely inconsistent with his previous ideals, which were to build a big house in his hometown, raise a few lions and tigers, move out and scare the wolf dogs in the village who always scare children...... Then he took the little tearman over.

But the little tear man is gone.

He silently looked at the noisy crowd in front of the bookstore, and suddenly felt very lonely. Most of the joy of life is lost at once. It's a terrible feeling.

He doesn't like emptiness. There has to be something to fill in. Only to kill Zhong Liangfu.

He came to the cold cellar.

Lighting the lamp, he saw her lying in the corner of the wall.

He held the little tearful man in his arms, took her hand and said, "The old man said that good people will go to heaven when they die, and bad people will go to hell, I am not afraid of you and I am not afraid of my death, but I am afraid that I will not be able to enter heaven after death." If there is someone in heaven who is kind to you and can protect you. You don't have to wait for me. โ€

The dim light reflected on his face, and he looked dull like never before.

At the same time, the three of them were discussing in a dimly lit room, and it was not until the second half of the night that they confirmed that nothing had been missed.

The palace was heavily guarded, and even if they gathered hundreds of brothers, they could not guarantee that they would be able to escape.

They need someone like Su Mu who is ruthless, has superb martial arts, and has a strong person who kills the Quartet with one sword, and can fight his way out at a critical time.

Zhong Liangfu, the former prime minister of the dynasty, loved to collect antiques all his life, and there were dozens of rare pieces given by the emperor in his home.

It was his 80th birthday. On this day, half of the antiques in his home will be on display. plus the congratulatory gifts sent by the courtiers to celebrate their birthdays, they are worth at least tens of millions of taels of silver.

In the evening, there will be a thank-you banquet, which is also the climax of the exhibition, when three rare treasures will be auctioned live from Zhong Liangfu's tight basement, and all the proceeds will be donated to the national treasury to show Zhong Liangfu's loyalty to the country throughout his life.

Since there was no invitation, they could enter the mansion with more than ten people at most, and there were more than 100 people outside, under the strict defense of Xinyang City, this was the largest number of people they could accumulate in half a year.

It is precisely because of the auction that the restrictions on guests in the house are slightly relaxed, and any famous businessman can participate.

It was at this time that Su Mu and the four of them came in with a few businessmen.

Many merchants also came for this important event, so many merchants still came in the evening.

Before entering the mansion, the four of them were dressed in disguise, Gu Xiaoshu changed his eyebrows, pasted a few moles on his face, and glued two hairs.

The reason why Su Mu agreed to turn over Jianglong was because he not only wanted Zhong Liangfu's life, but also wanted him to lose his money, so that his descendants could no longer be as lascivious and squandered as him.

The maid led the guests to the back garden, Su Mu was very familiar with this kind of environment, many of the corrupt officials he killed had such a back garden in their homes, but this one was relatively large.

The garden is full of people with status, either big officials or giant businessmen, and the maids in the house are very thoughtful and careful.

Su Mu stood in the corner of the garden with the Jianglong and a few people, chatting lightly.

The treasures on display that night are, a life-size jade carving girl, it simulates the main palace of the dynasty Henlan clan, Heran clan at the age of thirteen on the battlefield to make a contribution, fourteen years old to participate in the thirty kingdom palace nobles held at the civil and military meeting, whether piano, chess, calligraphy and painting or riding archery, all proficient, won the championship in one fell swoop, since then famous, this jade carving was completed that year, immediately became the wealthy daughter's throw of the contention.

The second is a letter of recommendation, Zhong Liangfu said that Tianyi Pavilion has a friend of his, and it is said that with this letter, he can have the honor of becoming a disciple of Tianyi Pavilion.

Tianyi Pavilion is the largest immortal cultivation sect in Chaoyang Continent, and it is also an item that everyone is very excited about. They are either rich or powerful, and sometimes they are not only rich and powerful, but who paves the way for their children and grandchildren.

The third is an ancient lamp, Zhong Liangfu said: "This thing was obtained from a team of foot traders, the old man has been putting it on the desk for more than ten years, and I heard it sigh several times. I hope that those who are destined to get it may have a blessed fate. โ€

No one was interested in that lotus ancient lamp, and even that letter of recommendation was not the most popular, the most popular was the jade carving.

Because the daughter of the jade carving, the seventh princess of the Great World Kingdom, Mocai, also came today.

She looked almost the same as her mother back then, she was exactly fourteen years old this year, and she was no different from the jade carving in terms of height and demeanor.

Everyone has heard that the seventh princess of the Great World Kingdom, Mocai, is a beautiful girl, and today she is well-known at first sight, and there are countless admirers, and they all want to buy a jade carving in front of her and give it to her to smile.

Only Su Mu looked at the lamp and was fascinated, because he felt that the lamp was looking at him, but it was obviously a lamp, why did he feel that way?

He didn't understand. Keep an eye on it. Hope to find some clues.

Suddenly, he noticed that there was another eye staring at the ancient lamp. It's Princess Mocai.

Could it be that she also felt that the ancient lamp was watching her? Then this lamp was too unfocused, and at the same time it was like two people throwing flattering eyes, which was really frustrating. Su Mu's eyes turned cold and he no longer looked at the ancient lamp.

After all the social activities on the scene, the next thing is the theme of tonight.

Before the auction began, the Seventh Princess gave a speech: "Heroes, we are here today, whether it is successful or not. All show that Zhong Aiqing is a liver and gall, but also on behalf of everyone's enthusiasm, silver to enter the treasury, the treasury of silver is for the people, your silver is equivalent to the country for the people, the palace is deeply grateful, tomorrow I do the east, let's continue the good period, get acquainted with joy, and hope that you will appreciate the face. โ€

The words made everyone's blood boil. Their faces bloomed with joy, and they all said that they would definitely go to the meeting.

After fierce competition, the jade carving was bought by the best arms dealer in the world. Dashiguo is the largest country in the Chaoyang Continent, and it is also the most powerful country, constantly expanding its territory, and its military needs are huge, and this arms dealer has made a lot of money over the years.

His greatest wish was for his son to marry a prince and nobleman, preferably a princess. His son Zhu Xiaoxue also came, not far away and not close to the seventh princess, looking at it stupidly.

His rich father bought the jade carving and gave it to the seventh princess, who only smiled faintly and said thank you.

The second letter of recommendation was bought by a Xihua businessman for a million silver, which greatly surprised Zhong Liangfu, he originally thought that this would be a hot item, but he didn't know how everyone knew, even if he was a registered disciple of Tianyi Pavilion, he didn't have much chance to really embark on the road of cultivating immortals.

When it came to that ancient lamp, the price started at 500,000 taels.

Everyone sighed for a while, such an inconspicuous broken thing was just knocked out such a large sum of silver after being in the prime minister's study for more than ten years, although everyone was very rich, they couldn't be stupid enough to buy everything.

What is surprising is that the seventh princess first asked for 600,000 yuan, and the listeners were all dumbfounded, the proceeds of this auction are going to be given to your emperor's family, why are you holding the royal silver to make a kick?

Zhong Liangfu said embarrassedly: "If the princess likes it, why don't you tell the old minister earlier, so that the old minister can make an arrangement in advance, where you need to bid, just give it to the princess directly." โ€

"Everyone competes fairly, how can I break the rules. โ€

"A million taels. โ€

This time, it was the turn of the three brothers who turned Jianglong to be dumbfounded, their mouths couldn't close for a while, they looked at each other in confusion, and each said a few words. The person who asked for the price turned out to be Su Mu.

The seventh princess stared at Su Mu with big black eyes, she was a princess, how could she never have imagined that someone would dare to raise her price, and immediately her little face sank, and she came over angrily, and shouted to him face to face angrily: "Two million taels." โ€

Looking at the beautiful face that could be smelled close to breathing, Su Mu did not retreat, pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, and said softly: "Five million taels." โ€

"You...... Don't you know who I am?"

"You know, doesn't it mean fair play?"

"It's not fair if I come to compete, you know?

Looking at the Seventh Princess, who was half a head shorter than herself, Su Mu laughed softly and said, "Princess, what if I want to buy it and give it to you?"

The princess was slightly surprised, then her face softened, and with a faint smile, she said, "That's pretty much it." โ€

After getting her hands on the ancient lamp, the princess reached out and asked for it.

"What are you doing?" asked Su Mu pretending to be puzzled.

"Aren't you going to give it to me?"

"I didn't want to give it to you, I said if. โ€

The princess said angrily: "You... You scoundrel, you have the audacity to tell me your name. โ€

Su Mu glanced at an old locust tree outside the courtyard and raised a lantern, knowing that the people outside were ready, there was a trace of irrepressible excitement in his eyes, and he became more and more calm, slowly taking steps, and turned around to look at the seventh princess leisurely.

The Seventh Princess had never been neglected, and was immediately made unhappy by his lazy demeanor, and shouted, "Say it quickly!"

At this time, the uncontrollable Turning Jianglong came over and whispered: "Brother Su, the brothers have all been arranged, and it won't be long before they can break in." โ€

Su Mu tilted his head slightly invisibly, still maintaining his faint smile that made the Seventh Princess hate it, and whispered: "If the big fish don't take it, the small fish will slip through the net, do they understand this rule?"

Turning Jiang Long's eyes widened, and then narrowed, and asked, "What do you mean by Brother Su?"

Su Mu glanced at him with disgust and said, "You are also a famous person in the Tao. You didn't tell me that the Seventh Princess would come. Now that she's here. Can we touch this kind of person? Of course we can't. Remember, stay away from that stupid princess. โ€

Turning Jianglong nodded and said: "This doesn't need to be reminded by my brother, we don't dare to move the princess even if we have ten heads." โ€

"The silly princess can't touch it, but there is one person who can't let it go. โ€

Turning Jianglong remembered Su Mu's cold expression after hearing the murder of the little tear man in Yunni Bookstore, and nodded again: "I know that I must keep it for Brother Gu." โ€

The Seventh Princess looked at the obscene-looking guy who kept whispering to others, ignored her scolding, and said angrily: "How can this be reasonable! Take it for me!"

They only cared about whispering, but they didn't know that the seventh princess was already angry.

Su Mu pretentiously flicked the dust on his sleeve, and said unhurriedly to Jiang Long: "How can this be reasonable! This girl dares to ignore my ignorance and take it for me!"

Turning Jianglong complained bitterly in the back, and said secretly in his heart: "Brother Su, you just have to sรจ, why do you have to provoke this notoriously arrogant and domineering seventh princess again and again?!"

Seeing that there were only four people around Su Mu, the princess snorted coldly: "Ignorant fanatic." โ€

"Someone has broken into the mansion! The archers are ready to shoot the defense line of the gate court, and they are not allowed to enter the inner mansion!"

The princess was about to instruct the middle-aged guard behind her, who had never left an inch, when suddenly a loud shout came from outside. Although the tone was angry, it was very calm. As soon as I heard it, I was a person who had been commanding on the battlefield for a long time.

There was already a row of wooden ladders hidden under the courtyard wall of the inner house, and the archers used the fastest time to build on the wall.

The people in the inner courtyard saw clearly, no one expected that the gang of thieves outside was so powerful, and they leveled the guards outside in just a short time, and even had time to hide under the eaves of the wall to sneak attack the archers.

Most of the guards in the Prime Minister's Mansion were concentrated in the Inner Mansion, and at this time, they poured out, and there were hundreds of people in Wuyang.

Facing the black-clothed men around the courtyard wall who had already climbed over the wall and exuded a murderous aura, most of the guards of the inner palace rushed up, leaving more than 100 people to protect the officials and merchants, mainly to protect the Seventh Princess, in the eyes of these guards, the rich merchants were not worth protecting at all.

A team of dozens of people surrounded Gu Xiaoshu and a few others.

There is a lake in the courtyard of the inner mansion, and there is a big pavilion in the lake, bounded by the pavilion, and the officials are protected in the east, and the four of Su Mu are in the west.

"Vice General Guan, you go and help these guards kill that man, I hate him when I look at him. โ€

"Princess, there are only four people from our imperial army, and we have no time to take care of anything else, and protecting you is our top priority. โ€

The seventh princess is arrogant, but not stupid, she never hesitates to kill these lieutenants in normal times, but today she did not move, he must have seen something unusual.

"You think these people are dangerous?"

"All of them are brave and good at fighting, especially the man with the hair on his face. โ€

"He hasn't made a move yet, how can you see the danger?"

"Dozens of guards are besieging and killing, can a princess who doesn't care like him do it?"

The seventh princess looked at the young man on the covered bridge who looked obscene, but looked free, as if he was in his own back garden, her eyebrows frowned slightly, and she said seriously: "I can't do it." โ€

Su Mu did look very leisurely at this time, with one hand behind him, and the other hand casually resting on the pillar that was not as good as his waist.

On the outside, he was not frightened or afraid, but in fact, he was also angry in his heart, the intelligence of the three Jianglong brothers was too bastard, and he didn't know that the princess was coming, and he couldn't even figure out how many guards there were in the house, and he couldn't figure out the number of guards, and he didn't even know whether these guards were domestic or wild, which was really stupid.

Although he was facing wild soldiers who had been fighting outside all year round, he was not afraid, and as long as he wanted to get out, these guards might not be able to stop him.

All he can do now is to hold on until the results of the battle between the men in black and the guards come out, it is very simple and not simple, the simple thing is that if the men in black win, he will stay, and if he loses, he will flee. It's not simply that these wild guards in front of you are not so easy to deal with.

"I'll leave these people to me, and the three of you will take care of the back. โ€

When the three of them heard that he wanted to stand alone, knowing that his skills were not a problem to deal with these guards, they were not humble, so they drew their soft swords from their waists and killed them without saying a word.

Su Mu is not very old, but he has a lot of means to kill the enemy, especially in the next few years, he specializes in killing corrupt officials, and it is indispensable to fight with these court guards, and he is clear about their strategies against the enemy.

At this time, seeing those guards coming calmly in a formation of two in the front and three in the back, he knew that they were still thinking about capturing him alive, so he couldn't help but sneer and rushed over with one arrow step ahead.

No one could see when he drew a short knife, and no one could see how many times he slashed, only to see a wind-like figure circling around the crowd, blood splattering everywhere, and then gracefully retreating, and the five guards fell to the ground with a muffled grunt. None of them hurt the vital point, but they could not stand up again, and they had to lie in bed for at least ten days and a half months. (To be continued......)