In the main room, Su Zhou sat weakly on the bed, Xiao Man hid behind Chen Ji and poked his head out. The dim and flickering candlelight kept pulling the shadows of the three people, like their thoughts, constantly shaking.

Chen Ji told Xiao Man: "You stay in the room, I'll be back soon."

Xiaoman pulled his sleeve and whispered: "Master, this woman is too fierce, I will go with you!"

Chen Ji comforted him and said, "Watch the door and don't let anyone else in."

Xiaoman: "Oh..."

Su Zhou looked at Chen Ji coldly: "I advise you not to have any evil thoughts, otherwise your entire Chen family will die."

Chen Ji said slowly: "Don't worry, I'm going to get you some healing items."

After that, he turned around and went out. After closing the two wooden doors of the main room, he walked out of the courtyard.

Xiaoman said anxiously behind him: "Master, please go and come back quickly. I'm a little scared to be alone with this woman."

Chen Ji raised his eyebrows but did not look back.

The moment the door closed, Xiao Man stood up straight, and the panic expression on his face calmed down a bit.

She pushed the door open a crack as if nothing had happened, quietly looked out, and said casually to Su Zhou behind her: "You must have made a mistake, you fierce bitch, my young master will never be the one who betrayed Prince Jing. This afternoon at the Zhang Mansion

At that time, the young master had already proved it..."

Before she finished speaking, Xiao Man turned her head and found that Su Zhou had come behind her like a ghost.

Xiao Man pointed his sword at Su Zhou, but Su Zhou's figure was like a slippery loach, and he leaned on the chopped arm and ducked behind Xiao Man.

The Emei thorn was placed against Xiaoman's chin again. If she moved a little, the poisonous Emei thorn would be nailed into her chin.

Xiaoman was caught off guard and yelled: "Let me go, let's go out and find a place to fight."

Su Zhou whispered: "Don't shout, or I'll kill you too."

She looked at Chen Ji through the crack in the door and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that Chen Ji was chatting with soldiers from the Bingma Division for a while, but no one came in to arrest her.

Xiaoman muttered: "Are you relieved now? My young master will definitely not betray you, nor will he betray Prince Jing."

Su Zhou said in a deep voice: "Knowing people, knowing faces, but not knowing hearts. Even the brothers who have been with the prince for many years can betray the prince, why can't he?"

Xiao Man said helplessly: "My young master is not that kind of person. He has never had the heart to kill a chicken since he was a child. He used to raise two chickens, and he cried for a long time when he accidentally killed one. He was very kind."

Su Zhou sneered: "People can change. Everyone in the world said that he had a close relationship with the princess and the prince. But I think Prince Jing's palace has been in trouble for a long time. He is not sad at all. This does not prove that he betrayed the prince.

?”

Xiaoman looked at the retreating figure outside the door and said after a long silence: "He is very sad. He just doesn't want others to see that he is sad, but I can see it."

Su Zhou sneered: "Are you the roundworm in his belly?"

Xiaoman was silent for a moment, and then said calmly: "Hey, we are all working under the governor's hand. I am kind-hearted to save you, but don't be ignorant. You pressed your Emei thorn against my neck twice, why, you can really do it

Can you kill me?"

The candlelight in the room froze for a moment, the atmosphere became colder, and even the charcoal basin in the room seemed darker.

Su Zhou said calmly: "You are just a seventh-level minister, how dare you talk to me like this?"

Xiao Man opened his mouth: "I... I'm just not as murderous as you guys. I don't like killing people, so I can't be promoted. By the way, I saved you this time and you haven't given me the copper coins yet."

Su Zhou thought for a moment and slowly put down the Emei thorn, took out a copper coin from his sleeve and threw it into Xiaoman's arms.

Xiaoman picked up the copper coin and looked at it carefully. He saw that the word "Jianing Tongbao" was not engraved on the copper coin, but the word "Light": "So this is the copper coin of lamp. Can it really be exchanged for two hundred taels of silver?"

Su Zhou saw her appearance and asked doubtfully: "Have you never seen copper coins?"

Xiao Man frowned: "Who said I haven't seen it before? Haven't I seen it before?"

Su Zhou was even more confused: "You have never seen the copper coins of the lamp. Have you never received a mission in the past? Who brought you into the lamp?"

Xiao Man curled his lips: "Who are you? Why should I tell you? By the way, has the governor ever said why we are called 'Leng'?"

Su Zhou sighed: "Why don't you know anything? 'Lamp' means 'home'. When you go home, if there is a light in the house, it means there are people at home. 'Light' means giving a home to homeless people like us."

."

Xiaoman lowered his head and put the coins into the purse on his waist: "That's no need. You don't have a home, but I do."

Su Zhou: "..."

Xiaoman put the coins in his pocket and warned: "I'll save you, but I'm warning you not to hurt my son, and you're not allowed to reveal my identity, and you're not allowed to use Emei thorns against me again... Oh you!"

Boom.

Before Xiao Man finished speaking, Su Zhou fainted and fell to the ground.

…

…

When Chen Ji returned, he was still carrying two red lacquered food boxes.

Outside the gate of Mingquan Garden, six soldiers and horsemen held torches, and Chen Ru handed them the food boxes: "Generals, it is not easy to go out on duty in this cold and windy weather. I told the chef to prepare some meals for you.

Hurry up and eat it while it’s hot.”

The soldiers and horses were flattered: "You're so polite, Third Young Master, why should we bother you to worry about eating?"

Although Chen Ji was a concubine of the Chen family, to these soldiers he was already a high-ranking figure, something they could not reach even on tiptoe.

Chen Ji smiled and asked casually: "By the way, there are so many of you here to guard the Chen Mansion, what should we do about arresting people?"

The leading soldier in front of the door snarled: "We at the Luo City Army and Horse Division, Ji Jin Ji Liang, know very well that the serious matter of arresting people has to be done by the Secret Service."

Chen Ji asked casually: "Are there any clues about where the incident occurred?"

The soldier smiled and replied: "You must have asked the right person. We were the first ones to rush there. There was blood all over the Xingluo Street. Only one of the Qiantui Army soldiers was killed. General Wang's chest

They've all been sieved."

Chen Ji took a breath of air: "You have killed so many people, how many murderers are there?"

The soldier said smoothly: "I heard from the living king of the secret spy department that there are two murderers in total, one is the female assassin of the lamp, and the other is an accomplice who drives the spirit."

Chen Ji asked with a smile: "Since the Secret Service is here to take action, we must be able to catch them. Did the Secret Service tell us how to catch them and when they can be caught? After all, it is quite scary that such a murderous person is at large.

."

"Third Young Master, there is no need to be afraid. The brothers are guarding you," a soldier said with a simple and honest smile: "The Secret Service is going to the city's medical clinics to search at the moment. It is said that the female assassin was seriously injured. If she does not receive treatment in time, she will be afraid."

It’s impossible to survive.”

Chen Ji hummed and entered Mingquan Garden with a smile: "Brothers have worked hard, I'm going back to rest first."

Several soldiers hurriedly nodded and bowed: "Thank you, Third Young Master, please go back and have a rest."

Chen Yi locked the door of the courtyard and returned to the house.

Su Zhou was lying on the bed unconscious. When Xiao Man saw him coming back, he hurriedly came forward and said in shock: "Young master has been gone for a long time. I was in the same room with this fierce woman and I was almost scared to death."

Chen Ji smiled and didn't take these words to heart.

The biggest mystery about what happened tonight is why Su Zhou was able to accurately find his room on the way to escape.

It is not difficult to find the Chen Mansion, but if you want to find his whereabouts accurately in the Chen Mansion, how can a female assassin who has just arrived in Luo City and is alone do it?

Both Su Zhou and Xiao Man regarded him as an ordinary person and thought he was easy to fool.

Chen Ji didn't reveal anything, and quietly watched what they wanted to do.

He took out a palm-sized white porcelain bottle and a sewing box from his arms, and handed them to Xiao Man: "In the white porcelain bottle is the most powerful burning knife in the house. Use it to clean the wound of the person on the bed, and the wound will be healed."

It will suppurate."

Xiao Man looked at the sewing box: "What is this?"

Chen Ji took a look at the sword wound on Su Zhou's body: "The needle was roasted on the charcoal basin. After burning, her wound was sewn up like sewing clothes. Whether she can survive it depends on her own luck."

Xiaoman's eyes widened: "I've heard of pouring liquor on wounds, but did you learn using needle and thread to sew human skin in a medical clinic? Why have you never heard of it before?"

Chen Ji hummed: "What I learned in the medical clinic is useful."

Stitching the wound can prevent secondary infection, and it will heal with granulation in about ten days. If it is not sutured, it may not heal in a month or two.

Chen Ji left the house and let Xiao Man rescue him.

He sat at the stone table in the courtyard and looked at the palm of his hand quietly.

The next moment, he closed his palms, and when he opened them again, there was a black 'sword' floating in his palms.

The black sword is like a bamboo leaf, without a hilt or a sword, and is as thin as a cicada's wing.

I touched Chen Ji with my fingertips. The surface was rough, as if it were made of black iron. Even the edges were not smooth and flat. It didn't look very stylish.

He was thinking in his mind: "Why is Xuanyuan's sword so brilliant and shining like a shooting star when passing through it? But my sword looks like an inconspicuous piece of iron... It's because I didn't capture enough swords, or maybe

Not raised long enough?”

Chen Ji tried to control the sword with his mind, but the black iron piece was swaying in front of him, always a little disobedient, and the speed could not be increased.

In an instant, he simply used his sword to move towards the wintersweet tree in the courtyard.

His original intention was to penetrate a leaf, but when the sword was planted in front of the wintersweet tree, it missed by a few inches.

With a snap, a two-finger-thick wintersweet branch broke off. When the sword was returned to the old palm, it was intact.

Chen Ji walked forward and looked up to see that the wintersweet branches were smooth and flat, as if he had just cut a piece of tofu instead of cutting off a piece of wood.

He lowered his head and looked at the sword species. He had finally mastered the practice of this sword species and was no longer a layman.

However, he doesn't know how many sword intentions he has to capture and how many people he has to kill before he can achieve his goals.

With a creak, the door to the main room was pushed open.

Chen Ji turned his hand and put the sword back into his sleeve, and asked as if nothing had happened, "What's wrong?"

Xiao Man looked at him suspiciously for a moment, and then said: "The wounds have been sutured, please come in."
Chapter completed!