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As soon as the three words came out, Xiao Zhouheng couldn't help being shocked: "Why did Meng Xue say such a thing?"

"Actually, it's just speculation." Lou Beiyin sighed, "I suspect not only that he was the murderer of Yuying, but also that ghost."

Xiao Zhouheng's feet softened, and he took a few steps back: "How could this be?"

"That's why Master Lu and I came to Li's Mansion this time." Lou Beiyin's eyes darkened, and he looked elsewhere, "Actually, the Ministry of Criminal Justice has long been eyeing Li Zhongnan, because of his cunning and lack of evidence. , I don’t know the depth of that person, this time I’m here to catch him.”

"He is the eighth young master of the Li family, how could he be a ghost? Then what happened to the fire yesterday?"

Thinking of Li Yunyi's determined attitude at the banquet yesterday, if Li Yunyi was either pretending to be stupid, or setting up a trick for Li Zhongnan to get inside.However, Lou Beiyin's next sentence denied Xiao Zhouheng's conjecture.

"This is also the problem." Lou Beiyin withdrew his gaze, "Li Zhongnan is indeed the eighth young master of the Li family. I asked the sixth young master a little yesterday, and his token is indeed true, which can prove his identity. As for the arson, it is not yet known." know."

"in this way."

"So this situation is even more difficult. Master Lu and I stared at him all the way to see him heading towards Li's Mansion. After all the calculations, we missed this point: I didn't expect him to be the Eighth Young Master of Li's Mansion."

"Then you and Mr. Lu still want more, what about this time, catch him...?"

Lou Beiyin clenched his fists: "Yes, it is necessary."

"Have you told the Sixth Young Master about Li Zhongnan?"

"No." Lou Beiyin shook his head, "Sixth Young Master, it's just a routine discussion."

"Wait a minute." Xiao Zhouheng only felt dizzy, as if he had drunk all the wine yesterday, and his throat suddenly became bitter and fishy. "Those old cases were also committed by Li Zhongnan? He is only in his twenties now, how is this?" Makes sense?"

Lou Beiyin seemed to have expected him to ask this question, and replied, "Li Zhongnan is a man in the Jianghu, he joined the famous Jianghu family at a young age, no one knows how skilled he is, although I am not sure that the case a few years ago is related to him. It is related, but the Zhenjiang mansion case a few days ago is inseparably related to him, he indeed rushed back to Li's mansion from Zhenjiang, not only stayed in Yang's mansion for a few days, but also someone saw him on the night of Yang's mansion's extermination."

"Is there anyone who survived? Li Zhongnan lived in the Yang Mansion?" A series of facts made Xiao Zhouheng's mind buzzing, as if he had no time to react.

Lou Beiyin made a gesture of silence: "Indeed, a descendant of the Yang family escaped by chance, and now I have been resettled in Jinling City."

"Presumably the surviving person is lucky."

"Of course, but Shu Ting doesn't need to worry too much. Although Li Zhongnan became the eighth young master of the Li family quite suddenly, Mr. Lu and I have re-thought the countermeasures, but it will take some time."

Hearing that the two had a way to deal with it, Xiao Zhouheng felt relieved a little. Seeing Xiao Zhouheng put down his guard a little, Lou Beiyin continued: "It's not for other reasons to talk to Shu Ting today, but to remind Shu Ting to beware of this person. That's all, don't get angry." After finishing speaking, he saluted and was about to leave.

Just as Lou Beiyin turned around and was about to go out, Xiao Zhouheng hurriedly asked behind him: "Why did he kill people last night?"

"I don't know." Lou Beiyin turned his face to the side, touched his chin, and said slowly, "It is estimated that Yuying's service did not cater to his wishes. One is for temptation, and the other is for nature."

Lou Beiyin came out of Xiao Zhouheng's room, the smile on his face immediately disappeared, Ruyu's face showed a complex and unspeakable expression, and he stopped for a while at the door of Xiao Zhouheng's room, and then he walked away .Lou Beiyin hurried forward a few steps, suddenly heard a tender cry, and heard a woman say angrily: "Who are you? You are so rude, you offended Miss."

When Lou Beiyin came back to her senses, she took a closer look, and saw Miss Sixteen Li Zhuyue slowly got up with the help of her maid: "Xiang Nong, don't be rude, Mr. Lou is a distinguished guest in the house."

Slowly standing still, Li Zhuyue left the maidservant's hand. She probably didn't expect to meet outsiders here. The small fan in her hand covered half of her cheeks, revealing only a pair of handsome eyes covered by double feathers. Lou Bei chanted and bowed: "My little girl has met Mr. Lou."

Seeing this, Lou Beiyin quickly held up a warm smiling face, and apologized: "Miss Sixteen, I'm sorry, Lou was abrupt, but did you hurt Miss?"

Although her waist was bent down, Lou Beiyin's eyes glanced at Li Zhuyue lightly, and the four eyes met. Lou Beiyin just met those eyes, and then hurriedly staggered. In one sentence: see nephrite jade cheeks, juanjuan.The world still sees pity and absurd joy.

I don't know if the so-called beautiful woman in the poem is a curvaceous girl like Li Zhuyue. Just those extremely beautiful eyebrows and eyes are enough to be worthy of the words "the world still sees pity".

"It's okay, Mr. Lou is going to find my sixth brother?"

Lou Beiyin didn't seem to hear Li Zhuyue's words, and said: "Forgive me Lou can't accompany you, let's go first." He got up and walked away.

Seeing Lou Beiyin walking away, Xiang Nong stomped his feet angrily, "Master Lou is so rude, obviously he was the one who offended Miss first, so it seems like Miss owed him."

Li Zhuyue frowned, and raised her hand to stop Xiang Nong: "Forget it, there are dead people and people in the house, Mr. Lou and the others are naturally impatient. There are many people in the front house who are distracted, let's go quickly."

Here Xiao Zhouheng heard Lou Bei's words, suddenly felt like falling into smoke.I don't know how I got on the horse and how I got out of the house.It was a sunny day, Xiao Zhouheng felt that he was in an ice cave, and for a while he was still immersed in the half-light and half-dark warning from Fangcai Lou Beiyin.Because of restlessness in this car, it was only after leaving the mansion that he realized that he was not riding for his own understanding.At first glance, the color of the straddled horse was similar to that of understanding, but upon closer inspection, the skin color was smoother and brighter. Xiao Zhouheng stroked the horse's mane and sighed deeply.

One person and one horse, accompanied by the rising sun, walked slowly along the river bank to Yuying's house.

Yuying's house is in a cottage named Hanweizhuang not far from Li's residence, and Xiao Zhouheng arrived within an hour on horseback.

To Xiao Zhouheng's surprise, he never saw Yuying's family members.After asking around, I learned that the family moved out of this place a year ago, and no one knows where they went.

It was a waste of time, which was beyond Xiao Zhouheng's expectation, there was no other way, Xiao Zhouheng had no choice but to leave here.

But just as Xiao Zhouheng lowered his head and raised his eyes, the horse was lost.

Hearing and searching around for a while to no avail, Xiao Zhouheng had no choice but to admit that he was unlucky, presumably that tall horse must belong to some young master in the mansion, and he may not be able to afford to use up all his savings.I don't have a lot of money myself, so I will be even more struggling now.This car can only go back to the house on foot first, and then go to make amends.However, losing a horse is not the most scalp-numbing thing for Xiao Zhouheng at the moment—only a few steps out of Zhuangzi, he realizes that he is being followed, and there is more than one person.

On the other hand, looking at my whole body, except for some loose money and a few bank notes given by Butler Li, there is only a book in my arms.Xiao Zhouheng took out the book and glanced at it. The four-character regular script of Fangzheng Zai Chaoye unceremoniously refracted the light, causing Xiao Zhouheng to be dazzled for a while—it was really unsuitable.

Not knowing the specific number of people on the other side, and also not knowing why he followed him, Xiao Zhouheng could only walk in a muffled voice without daring to stop for a moment.I don't know how long he walked, Xiao Zhouheng felt his legs and feet were filled with lead, and his mind was also in chaos. As it approached the afternoon, there were many beads of sweat on Xiao Zhouheng's head, and when he looked up, he saw a restaurant named Jiuchunlou As for the restaurant, Xiao Zhouheng can't control so much, even if he wants to die, he has to go to have a rest.

As soon as the front foot stepped forward, Xiaoer called Mr. Jueyan three times at the top of his voice.

It should be and it should not be, Xiao Zhouheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and let the loud voice lead him to a seat.All the diners in the restaurant pushed and changed glasses, talking loudly, and didn't notice anything wrong.

The group of people naturally followed Xiao Zhouheng into the restaurant, and from the corner of his eye Xiao Zhouheng could see clearly that there were five people in total, all of whom had faces that could be forgotten in a flash, sitting not far from Xiao Zhouheng.

Feeling helpless, Xiao Zhouheng took a sip of the tea served by Xiao Er as a disguise, scalded his tongue completely, then glanced at those people, as if he had no intention of making a move.Xiao Zhouheng had no choice but to drink the tea in his hand one cup at a time, and only gnawed the tea stains at the bottom of the cup for a while, but there were no movements of those people in this room, feeling strange, he quietly stretched his hand into his bosom and squeezed it. The book had already been drenched in sweat, and this action seemed to give some signal to those men in black. The five of them stepped forward, drew their knives and went straight to Xiao Zhouheng's face.

Xiao Zhouheng closed his eyes and sighed secretly.

The moment the knife wind that was full of stinky blood came towards Xiao Zhouheng, Xiao Zhouheng heard someone not far away pat the wooden table in the hall, and at the same time, Xiao Zhouheng's body seemed to be pushed by someone. With a shove, he immediately fell backwards.Everyone in the restaurant fled in alarm, and Xiao Zhouheng heard a quick plucking of strings in his ear amidst the quarrel, and then heard several howls of misery.

Xiao Zhouheng slightly opened his eyes for a moment, and saw two figures lying in front of Xiao Zhouheng. He couldn't help being surprised. The man in black with the sword was the Mr. Qu Yeliang next to Li Yunyi; Huangfu Chu, one of the "Three Heroes of Jinling", was absent yesterday from Shisha Mei Xiaoju.

The five people who were chasing him just now were lying crookedly on the smashed tables and chairs. There seemed to be only a thin opening in their throats, and blood was oozing out of their seven orifices one by one, as if they were lifeless.

Xiao Zhouheng saw the puddles of human blood, his ears rang and he was dizzy, he couldn't help but staggered, he hurriedly supported the table and chair beside him to stabilize his body.

"Shu Ting, what's the matter with you." Huangfu Chu jumped off the table, put the crouching harp on his back, and came to Xiao Zhouheng.

"No problem." Xiao Zhouheng swept Huangfu Chu's back, "Why don't you see your guqin?"

Huangfu Chu was taken aback for a moment, he didn't expect Xiao Zhouheng to ask such a question, and then said: "The string is broken."

Xiao Zhouheng sighed: "It's a pity."

"I still want to keep someone alive." Qu Yeliang got up, went to feel the breath of the fallen man, then swept towards Huangfu Chu, looked up and down the two who were talking, and smiled charmingly, "Who in this world can Avoid Mr. Huangfu's Langming finger."

Huangfu Chu likes to carry musical instruments, because of his unique disposition-less informality than the people of the Jianghu and more handsome than the princes of the aristocratic family, so the eight families in the south of the Yangtze River went to the female relatives of famous families, All the divas in the brothel regarded him as her confidant, so the affairs continued.

Besides, Huangfu Chu's Langming fingering technique is unrivaled in this world, the musical instrument passing through his hands seems to be lit up, when it is soft, it can heal the pain and ease the disease, and when it is severe, it can kill people.

Since the first time Xiao Zhouheng stopped at Shisha Mae, it was because of the song that Liuma listened to Liuyu, so he took a pen and wrote the sentence "chaotic fiber around the beam, the end of the world", and the two became friends because of this , and then Huangfu Chu gained a reputation of being chaotic and chalky in Jinling City.

Hearing Qu Yeliang's praise, Huangfu Chu clasped his fists happily, "Thank you, no one in this world can withstand Master Qu's Dan Que sword."

Qu Yeliang has always been mysterious, but because of his famous sword named Dan Que, and his fast and unrepentant swordsmanship, he has the reputation of being arrogant and swaying.

The guests in the restaurant had already dispersed, and the place was in a mess, only the shopkeeper and a few waiters were hiding behind the counter.

After Huangfu Chu and Qu Yeliang exchanged some polite words, the topic turned back to Xiao Zhouheng: "Shu Ting, who did you provoke?"

Xiao Zhouheng shook his head, wiped the fine sweat from his forehead again, and saluted the two of them: "Thank you Yuxing, Mr. Qu for saving his life."

Huangfu Chu was already close to Xiao Zhouheng, so he waved his hand: "It's okay, it's okay." Qu Yeliang hummed over there as a response.

Xiao Zhouheng calmed down, straightened his sleeves, and then said to Qu Yeliang who was still looking through the dead man's clothes: "Why is Mr. Qu here?"

Qu Yeliang didn't raise his head, and continued to search for the certificates that could prove the identities of several dead men: "The sixth young master is unwell. I will come out with the eighth young master to make a dose of medicine." As soon as Qu Yeliang finished speaking, he saw Li Zhongnan carried a paper bag in one hand and a medicine bag in the other, and walked into the restaurant.Those eyes that picked people seemed to carelessly swept over the people on the floor and the room full of unbearable people, and finally fell on Xiao Zhouheng: "What's the matter?"

"Someone wants to plot against Mister Juyan, so Mr. Huangfu will help me." Qu Yeliang beside him responded, stood up, took the medicine in Li Zhongnan's hand very naturally, and continued, "I checked, and there is nothing to prove my identity."

"Oh? What kind of trouble did Mister Absolutely get into?"

Li Zhongnan's gaze was so piercing that Xiao Zhouheng didn't dare to look at him, and he reluctantly shook his head as his words were meant to be teasing.

Unexpectedly, Li Zhongnan stepped over the corpse and came over by himself. He first greeted Huangfu Chu and reported his family name, and then said to Xiao Zhouheng: "Mr. Jueyan just came back from Yuying's house, what did you hear?"

Xiao Zhouheng's posture was extremely stiff, and he took a step back subconsciously: "They left Jinling a year ago."

"Really?"

Xiao Zhouheng still didn't dare to look into Li Zhongnan's eyes, and hummed indiscriminately as an answer.

"It's weird." Li Zhongnan looked at Xiao Zhouheng thoughtfully, "Then please trouble Mr. Jueyan to ask, who in the Li family has had a dispute with Yuying recently?" Regardless of Xiao Zhouheng's There was no answer, and he said to himself, "Mr. Jueyan, please do what you want." After saying that, he waved his sleeves, took out some money and gave it to the owner of the restaurant, and left the restaurant with Qu Yeliang.

"I have long heard that the Eighth Young Master of Li's Mansion has an extraordinary bearing, and today I saw that he is indeed so." Looking at the back of the two of them leaving, Huangfu Chu said, "It's just that he and Mr. Qu seem to be old acquaintances, which is beyond me. Based on my prediction, I thought he was only close to the Sixth Young Master."

"Huh?" Hearing what Huangfu Chu said, Xiao Zhouheng was taken aback, "Why did Yu Xing say such a thing?"

"Don't you know, Mr. Qu is arrogant and true, but his reputation of rejecting others is known all over the city. With such a face that attracts women's love, in Jinling, apart from the sixth young master of the Li family, Others must never get close to him." Huangfu Chu said with a smile, "Just now when the eighth young master came in, Mr. Qu helped him take the things in his hand, and Mr. Qu is not a servant of the Li family, isn't this a proof of familiarity?"

Thinking of Li Zhongnan's gaffe when he asked him about Qu Yeliang's name yesterday, Xiao Zhouheng suddenly became suspicious, and wanted to continue asking, but unexpectedly Huangfu Chu changed the subject, saying: "I just mentioned it casually, maybe it's because of He is the eighth young master of the Li family. Leaving that aside, what happened to Yuying just now?"

"Yesterday, a maid died in the mansion. Today, I sent some money to the maid's house on behalf of Li's mansion."

"Shu Ting, when did you get involved with the Li family? It's really hard to describe how you look in awe of the eight young masters just now." Xiao Zhouheng wrote several articles criticizing the court officials with his seniors in the literary world a few years ago. Wen Pian, Xiao Zhouheng, who vowed not to associate with those people, actually got involved with the Li family, this move is quite suspected of predestined relationship, Huangfu Chu was really surprised.

It's no wonder that Huangfu Chu didn't know, he hadn't been back to Jinling City for several months, so he naturally had no way of knowing that he entered Li's residence as a teacher, so he was able to talk to him about it, and by the way, he mentioned Yuying's murder yesterday and the incident of flooding in the residence .After saying that, Huangfu Chu couldn't help being surprised: "Shu Ting, you have really become a servant of Li's family. There are so many ways of living in this world, do you have to stay in Li's house? You are also a scholar. Scholars out..."

Seeing that Huangfu Chu was about to bring up the old account again, Xiao Zhouheng had to interrupt hastily: "I understand it, don't mention this matter again."

Huangfu Chu refused to let go: "If you are not hiding in Xiyun, then you have a good friend in Li's residence."

"Boast, how come."

"Don't treat me as a child with a yellow mouth. It's just that others don't know about you and Xiyun. You can't hide it from me. That's fine. I'll just pretend that you have a new lover. What's your name?"

Xiao Zhouheng's face felt a little burning unknowingly, for some reason, he thought of Li Zhongnan who was watching the corpse under the moonlight last night in his mind, and his heart was startled and frightened, so he waved his hands: "Just say this when you see me, good brother , you can forgive me."

Huangfu Chu laughed twice: "You're still shy here, that's all, I'll let you off this time, let me see you some other day."

"It's easy to say." Xiao Zhouheng has a very thin skin. Although he is usually unsmiling, he is actually the worst joke. At this moment, he wanted to end this topic quickly, and suddenly remembered the ghost woman mentioned by Lou Beiyin, so He said, "Yu Xing, have you ever heard about the annihilation of Yang's family in Dantu City, Zhenjiang?"

Huangfu Chu's face changed suddenly, he moved his eyes slightly, and his voice was very unnatural: "I heard it a little bit, what's the matter?"

"It's nothing, I'm just asking." Seeing that Huangfu Chu was deeply worried, Xiao Zhouheng went in without knowing it, but it was really not easy to ask further, so he had to talk to him about his incident, and then apologized to the shopkeeper of the restaurant. After committing a crime, he was about to lift his feet to go out, when a strong arm grew in front of him, blocking Xiao Zhouheng's way.

The author has something to say: Huangfu Chu, whose name is Yuxing, was first mentioned in Chapter 6. He did not attend a small gathering with a few people, and said that he went to Yingtian Academy to teach piano.