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Baili Mingyan was taken aback for a moment and then suddenly understood. "There is a curfew in the capital, but we entered the city smoothly. There is only one possibility—someone deliberately let us enter the city."

"Isn't it obvious who this 'person' is? Who in such a huge capital has the right to openly let us into Beijing during the curfew? I'm afraid that apart from the Minister of Criminal Affairs who is investigating the serial murder case, it can only be today's It's holy."

Baili Mingyan said: "You mean that Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment set up this trick to let us jump in? Why..."

The corner of Qian Yuhan's mouth curled up, and he turned to look at Baili Mingyan and said, "I'm afraid the serial killer they are talking about is among you and me."

Baili Mingyan frowned, Qian Yuhan smiled lightly when he saw this, "Don't frown all the time at such a young age..." He stretched out his hand and pressed Baili Mingyan's knit brow.

Qian Yuhan's fingers were as cold as jade, but every touch made Baili Mingyan's skin burn.Baili Mingyan backed away from unnaturally turning his head to the other side, his eyes drooping like a child in trouble.

Qian Yuhan's hand stopped in the air for a long while and then slowly lowered. He said: "No matter what the reason is, we are obviously identified as murderers by the government. Now we are competing with the government. Going to the inn as soon as possible is the top priority."

Baili Mingyan nodded, turned around and mounted the horse, his movements were swift but there was a little more hesitation in his eyes.

The night wind blew up, and a few dark clouds covered the waning moon in the sky, bringing the last ray of light in the world into the cloud.The courtyards of the high pavilions were all shrouded in darkness, and a little light from the cabinet in the atrium of the Shangshu Mansion became the last solitary light of the entire city.

Li Junhao stood in front of the lamp with his hands behind his back, holding Dahao in his right hand, looking down at the words with wet ink on the table and frowning, the word 'sleepy' completely filled out the entanglement and doubts in his heart at this moment.He entered the court as an official at a young age, boasting of extraordinary talent and learning, and has been an official for many years and has been highly relied on by the emperor.In just five years, he was promoted to the first rank of official of the Ministry of Punishment, and it can be said that he has a bright career and a worry-free future.But he didn't expect that the conspiracy and calculations when he became an official and became a nobleman did not bother him, but now a civil criminal made him try his best and made no progress.

The case has not progressed for a long time, but people continue to die in the capital.If it were ordinary people, it would be easy to say, but the people who died were all dignitaries in official positions or their children.A total of five people died in seven consecutive days. The murderer came and went without a trace or clue.

If it is said that there is no clue at all, on the third day after he personally took over the investigation of the case, he found that the dead were all officials with dirty hands. They were either corrupt and bribed or had one or two lives in their hands. High-ranking people deceived their superiors and took human life seriously. Now it is clear that they were killed. Li Junhao secretly thought that they all deserved what they deserved.

But the state-owned state law and the imperial power are supreme, and no one has the right to decide the life and death of a person except the person on the dragon chair, so this case still needs to be investigated.

Li Junhao rubbed the corners of his eyes, and drank another cup of strong tea. Thinking of the secret letter that came in the evening, he couldn't help feeling a little worried.

It was the first time for this young Shangshu to encounter such a difficult matter, as long as there was a spider thread, he would grab it without hesitation.Thus, the secret letter sent by the anonymous person became this spider thread.

Originally, Li Junhao was also a cautious person, but this anonymous letter actually revealed the details of the murder case that the government has never made public, and pointed out that there is only one weapon in the world that can cause such wounds, and that is the string of one of the four famous knives in the world. moon.

In addition, the anonymous person actually pointed out in detail that Xianyue is now on a young man who will enter Beijing in the evening tonight.

Time was running out, Li Junhao decided to give it a go after thinking for a while, and immediately sent an order to search at various city gates according to the shape of the knife drawn in the secret letter. Sure enough, a city guard found the special knife.

A hasty knock on the door interrupted Li Junhao's contemplation, only the servant at the door whispered: "My lord, the spy is back."

Li Junhao coughed twice and then said in a deep voice, "Let him in." Although he was burning with anxiety, he had to remain calm in front of his servants.

Before the words were finished, a man dressed as a guard gently pushed open the door, bowed and half-kneeled in salute: "I have seen you, my lord."

"Tell me." Li Junhao's voice was calm, without any fluctuations.

"There are two people in total, a young man and a young man. The young man is about thirteen or fourteen years old with a sword in his hand. The young man is as beautiful as a fairy and not like a mortal. Both of them rode a black horse to the east of the city."

Li Junhao nodded thoughtfully, paused for a while, and then said: "Send someone to follow, first find out their purpose and wait for an opportunity to lure that handsome man away..." Li Junhao made a grasping gesture, and the guard understood , clasped his fists and lowered his head, "Yes!"

After the guard left, Li Junhao raised his eyes and looked at the gloomy sky outside the window. After a long time, he murmured in a low voice: "Could it be him..."

Qian Yuhan and Baili Mingyan traveled smoothly all the way, and they arrived in the east of the city within half an hour.But at this time the east city gate was closed, and only two city guards leaned on their guns, drowsy.

Baili Mingyan thought to himself, how could such a lax management look like a curfew, thinking that he would fall into such an obvious trap, he was very annoyed.

"I said that children should not frown all the time..."

"I'm not a child!" Baili Mingyan retorted sharply for the first time without knowing where the anger came from.

Qian Yuhan was slightly stunned, then smiled slyly, "Children have a temper..." After finishing speaking, he rode his horse into a remote alley without looking back, and when he came out, he had no longer ridden a horse.In the night, Baili Mingyan felt Qian Yuhan glanced at him, he turned his head angrily, but heard the sound of his clothes ripping through the air, and when he looked up, he saw Qian Yuhan had jumped onto the city wall, standing on the city wall facing He waves.

A quarter of an hour later, Baili Mingyan stood under the tall city wall, bent over and panting, his black satin brocade jacket was covered with hay and loess, and his back was soaked with sweat.

Qian Yuhan sat on the wall shaking his folding fan and lazily said: "If you don't come up, we don't have to go out of the city..." He yawned and added: "You can go to jail directly."

Baili Mingyan raised his head and stared fiercely at the person above, his gaze wished he could bite it into pieces and swallow it.He knew that he had always paid attention to internal strength cultivation and exercises, and had never deliberately practiced light exercises.For a city wall as high as the capital city, it would be difficult for someone who has deliberately practiced light kung fu to jump up it all at once, let alone a thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy who has never practiced it.However, Baili Mingyan knew that the main reason why he couldn't jump the city wall was not his lack of martial arts attainments...

"It's useless for you to stare at me..." The man on the wall said disdainfully: "Thinking that I, Qian Yuhan, have such a great reputation, I accepted such a useless as an apprentice..."

Before finishing a sentence, I heard a 'bang' in my ear.Baili Mingyan was only one step away from jumping up the city wall, but it was a pity that he fell down again after only one step.

"Tsk tsk tsk..." Qian Yuhan looked at Baili Mingyan who fell heavily on the ground and shook his head helplessly. "Why are you so desperate? Do you think you didn't fall hard enough? It's a pity that you have such a good black brocade..."

Baili Mingyan gritted his teeth and stood up again, only to feel that the sea of ​​Qi in his dantian was constantly surging, but it was always chaotic and he couldn't find a proper direction to flow.Every time he lifts his Qi, he is forced back by the blockage in his meridians, and he has no luck.

He looked at the man standing on the wall, even if he couldn't see the expression clearly, he could imagine the man's sly expression at the moment.He took a deep breath and recharged his energy, but before he had time to fully charge, he felt his body lighten. In one breath, Qian Yuhan had already jumped off the city wall and reached out to lift him up from his armpits. With a few times of help from his feet, he jumped up the city wall with ease. .

After standing still on the city wall, Qian Yuhan clapped his hands and said, "You're not tall, why are you working so hard. What a useless guy..."

Baili Mingyan's breath was blocked in his throat and he couldn't get angry, so he could only raise his eyes and stare fiercely at Qian Yuhan.As the distance got closer, he realized that he had only reached this man's chin. The suppression of his height made him have to look up at this mighty man.

One day, he will make this person look up to him, surrender to him, and make him never laugh again!Baili Mingyan swore to himself.

Suddenly, he felt a chill in his wrist, and in the blink of an eye, Qian Yuhan pulled his wrist to feel his pulse.Baili Mingyan was startled, and quickly shook off his hand, but when he saw Qian Yuhan's face gradually turning dark, he knew that he couldn't hide it.

"The meridians are blocked, the qi and blood are blocked, and as long as the true qi is circulated a little, the whole body will suffer severe pain, especially the big joints... Thanks to you, you can still walk the rivers and lakes without any scruples. If you really use your hands, a person who knows a little about martial arts Even a countryman can put you to death." Qian Yuhan looked at Baili Mingyan calmly and said coldly: "Do you want to die?"

Baili Mingyan seldom saw such a serious expression of Qian Yuhan, so he couldn't help taking a step back to avoid Qian Yuhan's cold eyes and whispered: "Of course I don't want to die..."

"Then why didn't you say it?!"

Baili Mingyan was startled, he didn't expect that Qian Yuhan, who laughed and seized every opportunity to mock him along the way, would get angry because of this.Baili Mingyan glanced at him suspiciously, but saw a thin layer of anger on that handsome face, although it was not obvious, he was really angry.

"Master..." Baili Mingyan took the initiative to call him master for the first time, and he slowly said, "I worship you as my master for this reason, Master Jiang said you can help me..."

"Master Jiang? Jiang Zhe?"

Baili Mingyan said in a deep voice: "Well, Master Jiang said that only you can help me, otherwise I will definitely go crazy if I continue to practice..."

Qian Yuhan frowned and didn't speak, it took him a long time to say: "Why didn't you say it earlier?"

"I..." Baili Mingyan never wanted to say that it was because he didn't like Qian Yuhan, he didn't want to bow his head to beg him, and he didn't want to owe him favors, so he gritted his teeth and hesitated to speak.

"Forget it, I will find time to help you dredge your meridians as soon as possible. Before that, you'd better not be lucky. Every time you move your qi stagnation, it will get worse. If it accumulates to a certain level, even I may not be able to help you all resolve."

Seeing the worry deep in the eyes of this handsome man, Baili Mingyan was a little dazed. He was used to Qian Yuhan's ridicule and sneer, so he thought that this heartless man would not care about anyone, as if everyone In his eyes, he was just a plaything, an object of ridicule... The expression like this shouldn't appear on his face.

"Let's go." Saying that, Qian Yuhan walked over and naturally reached out to wrap his arms around his waist, and then his body fell firmly on the ground in the blink of an eye.

Before he could struggle, Qian Yuhan let him go and walked forward.Suddenly looking at Qian Yuhan's back, Baili Mingyan suddenly felt that the fearless man in his eyes was nothing more than a frail and lonely boat in the rivers and lakes.