It was late at night, but Zhu Jiaduan was not asleep yet.

When he was out, he used to light a light in the room after dark. When the light naturally went out, he went to take a nap, and then when the five drums crowed, he got up immediately.

A master of his level can be able to occasionally use his exercises to regulate his breathing to make up for some sleep time. Of course, it is just occasionally... if he doesn't sleep, no matter how good a master is, he will die suddenly.

And tonight, he obviously couldn't sleep for a while.

Because the lights in his room had not yet been turned off, there was an abnormal movement around his room...

Everything happened very quickly, shouting, muffled groans, and the collision of the fist and palms, the movement of the sword unsheathed... almost all sounded from all directions at the same moment, and almost ended at the same moment.

It took less than ten seconds in total.

Then, Zhu Jiaduan's door was knocked.

Dong-dong-dong-

There were only two sounds, but in this quiet night, it seemed very pissing.

Zhu Jiaduan did not respond to the knock on the door, and he did not even breathe loudly.

At this moment, he had already hidden his breath, held the hilt of the sword in his hand, and stood in the middle of the room, nervously guarding against the surprise attacks that might have come from any direction.

"Master Zhu, don't be nervous..." Seeing that he did not respond, the person outside the door took the initiative to speak, "Your disciples have just fainted for the time being, and no one died...at least not yet."

Zhu Jiaduan naturally would not be so naive that he believed such words immediately. However, since the other party said this, he could not always pretend to be mute: "Who are you?" After asking these three words, he seemed to feel that the question was not appropriate enough, so he added, "Who are you...?"

"We... are just some errands..." The person outside the door replied, "After the order of the master, I want to ask Director Zhu to visit Qiliu Youlan to talk to you."

"Who is your master?" Zhu Jiaduan asked again.

"This...we are inconvenient to say it," said the person outside the door, "You can ask him in person."

"Hmph..." Zhu Jiaduan snorted coldly, "You masters are so arrogant." He paused, "If you don't even report a name, just let me follow you... Isn't you a little too underestimating Zhu?"

The brother outside the door really wanted to reply to him, "Yes, but that's not the point", but he finally held it back.

A few seconds later, the person outside the door said again: "The master knows that Director Zhu is busy with affairs, so he told us... While inviting you to come, he will first 'take care' of the brothers of the Guangxing Escort Agency on your behalf to avoid your worries. I hope that Director Zhu can give you some face to see the master's "conscience" for you and follow us."

What he said is the point.

It sounds quite polite, but the actual content is intimidation, and the conditions are all set up for you - if you give me shame, then what will happen to your escorts and apprentices? You should consider it yourself... Let's take a step back, even if you, Director Zhu, don't care about your life or death, will you be sure to break through our siege?

Although Zhu Jiaduan has a bad temper and a impatient personality, he is definitely not the type who will sacrifice his life for the sake of temporary face. To put it bluntly, he is like most people in the world, bullying the weak and afraid of the strong.

When he was in the superior strength, he would stand up and sing and shout, just telling others something, as if he had done something great; and when he was at a disadvantage, his back was not so hard and his tone was not so big... If there was a step, he would go down, give it to others if he wanted face, and it would be almost the same.

At this moment, Zhu Jiaduan thought about the situation for a moment, then curled his lips and replied: "Since that's the case, then Zhu can only go with you..."

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Two moments later, the seven willows are in vain.

It was still the same room, and Zhu Jiaduan had been "invited" to the concubine.

Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai were also present. Of course, they were very relaxed at this time, just sitting on the side to watch the show.

"You can call me '官网'." As soon as the other party sat down, the lord introduced himself.

"Looking at your face, Zhu is a few years older than you. Isn't it appropriate to call you 'Master'?" Zhu Jiaduan still held her airs and did not completely put it down.

"Is it suitable..." The Duke did not take the other party seriously at all, "...you have to call me too."

"Hmm?" Zhu Jiaduan glared at the concubine, "You are a little crazy, right?"

"Is this crazy?" the prince asked back and laughed again, "Ha... Then if I tell you, you have to kneel down and talk to me, what do you think?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhu Jiaduan's face changed.

As the saying goes, the monarch, minister, father and son, son kneels on the father, people kneels on the official, minister kneels on the king... This is the etiquette.

The concubine is definitely not Zhu Jiaduan’s son. What he implies is that he is either an official in the court or a relative of the royal country.

"You..." Zhu Jiaduan spoke hesitantly, as if he wanted to ask something.

"You'd better not ask." But the concubine snatched his words and did not ask him to ask.

"Okay..." Zhu Jiaduan nodded slightly and took another step back, "I dare to ask the concubine... I invite Zhu to come today, what's wrong?"

The concubine glanced at Sun Huang and the others and continued, "They are here, why do you think I'm doing?"

Zhu Jiaduan also looked at Shuangxie and said, "Can you... the concubine wants to talk to me, the little disciple Zheng Mukai is dead?"

"That's right." The concubine replied.

"Okay." Zhu Jiaduan leaned against the back of the chair, "Zhu listened carefully."

The prince did not go around the corner and said, "It's simple. Three days ago... Zheng Mukai used his light skills to climb over the wall and climbed into the window, sneaking into my seven willows, with the intention of using the strongest cards on our top cards, so I asked a few of my subordinates to kill him."

"What?" Zhu Jiaduan was excited when he heard this, "It's you?" But he thought about it and felt a little unbelievable, "Be serious about this?"

"Do I need to lie to you?" said the concubine.

Zhu Jiaduan was not quick, and he couldn't figure out this question for a while: "Then... why was my disciple's body found in the back alley of Chengdong Inn? And my two travelers..."

"Isn't this obvious?" The prince interrupted him in a lazy tone. "I don't want to be investigated for such trivial matters, so I threw Zheng Mukai's body near the inn where Huang Shaoxia and his friends had a holiday with him during the day. They also covered up the cause of death, thinking that they could deal with the lawsuit. They were also worried that the two men knew that Zheng Mukai had come to me, Qi Liu Youlan, before he died, so I kept doing it... and asked someone to silence them."

When Zhu Jiaduan heard this, he seemed to have nothing wrong with this.

In fact, there is no such thing, because what the Duke said now is all the real thoughts that Aquarius had at that time, but now he is taking the blame.

"Then why do you admit it again now?" Zhu Jiaduan thought for a moment and asked again.

"Because they have already come to the door." The monk said, pointing at Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai again. "I don't want to be annoyed... I'm already annoyed, I can't kill them, right? Of course... it's okay to kill them, but after killing them, it proves that they are not the murderers. Then you must continue to investigate. At that time... will I destroy your Guangxing Escort Agency?" He paused, shrugged, and said, "After all, this matter is what your apprentice Zheng Mukai is. Now that things have come to this point, I'll just ask you to explain it clearly."

The more he used a casual attitude to say something like "kill your escort agency", the more credible he was.

But Zhu Jiaduan was not so easy to accept all the orders, and was still questioning some details: "No, right..." He looked at him with a slanted look and said aggressively, "You said that these are all done by your subordinates. Can any of your subordinates do the Five Thunder Punching Heart Fist?"

"Ha!" The concubine smiled. After laughing, he raised his voice and shouted outside the house, "You are serving at the door, come in."

As soon as he finished speaking, Shui Sheng pushed the door open and came in.

It was obvious that Shui Sheng had already arranged to wait outside this house before the concubine sent someone to "invited" Zhu Jiaduan.

At this moment, he deliberately did not report Shui Sheng's name, but used the word "serving at the door". One was that he didn't want Zhu Jiaduan to know what Shui Sheng was called, and the other was that he wanted to make the other party feel that he just called a turtle slave who happened to be listening to the wrong person at the door.

"Master, you give me your order." Shui Sheng lowered his head and walked in and responded in a humble tone.

The concubine didn't even look at him, and said directly: "Master Zhu wants to see the 'Five Thunder Heart-Punching Fist', you have used three success powers to fight him."

"Yes." Shui Sheng was ordered, and without saying a word, he started to use his skills and attacked Zhu Jiaduan with one punch.

Zhu Jiaduan was not unprepared when he heard the commoner's words. He sat on the chair and secretly used his internal strength, raised his palm and greeted him.

Bang—

The next second, the fists and palms hit each other, and the air inside the house seemed to be stagnant.

After Shui Sheng finished the punch, he stopped his momentum and stepped back to the concubine.

Zhu Jiaduan sat there without moving, but a ray of cold sweat had already come down on his temples.

At this moment, Zhu Jiaduan looked at the "turtle slave" in front of him seriously, but no matter how he saw that Shui Sheng was the most ordinary brothel, and he was not very clever in his appearance from his eyebrows.

However, the strength and skill of the punch just now... are real.

Zhu Jiaduan didn't know if the other party had only used 30% of the force. Anyway, he had used more than 80% of the force himself, so he could have dissolved the opponent's fist strength when his palm was already numb, otherwise the meridians on his arm might be damaged.

"Okay, you go out." Before Zhu Jiaduan could recover, the prince waved his hand and sent Shuisheng away in a very casual tone.

Shui Shengnuo made a sound, then left the house and brought it to the door.

After he went out, the prince looked at Zhu Jiaduan with a complacent look and asked, "Master Zhu, do you have any other questions?"

Zhu Jiaduan said in his heart: "This guy is demonstrating with me... He was in the inn just now, and in the blink of an eye, his subordinates subdued all my disciples. Now he just called a turtle slave to the hall and would make the Five Thunder Piercing Heart Fist... Plus the Li'er he just mentioned... How big is the power behind this person?"

Thinking of this, Zhu Jiaduan is actually already weak.

Because he felt strongly that he might be sitting in front of someone he could not afford to offend; as long as the other party said a word, let alone his life... He was afraid that he would not escape the disaster in the entire escort agency, including the family of the escorts.

"No more..." Zhu Jiaduan had no choice but to give such an answer.

"Well." The prince pondered and continued, "Okay, since the matter has been explained clearly, I will now ask for a way to settle the matter." He paused and said again, "Although this time, it was basically the case that Zheng Daode was responsible for his own fault, my handling of the matter... is indeed inappropriate. So, tomorrow, I will prepare a "black gift" to the inn where Director Zhu stayed, just to treat it as a family fee for Director Zheng Daode and the two corpses. If Director Zhu thinks it is too little, he can come to me again... From now on, Director Zhu will be my "friend". If there is anything difficult to do, you can come to me..."

He said this and stared at Zhu Jiaduan: "This method... I wonder if Director Zhu is satisfied?"

"Satisfied...satisfied..." Zhu Jiaduan had already surrendered to the tyranny of the common man. While the person was given a face now, he took care of it and did not dare to refuse it.

"Okay." The prince nodded, "Then, let's talk about this today. Director Zhu... Please come back. I have something else to talk about with Sun Shaoxia, Huang Shaoxia and others, so I won't send it."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Jiaduan looked up at Sun Huang and the others. His eyes were a little complicated, and it was hard to tell whether it was sympathy or guilt. From Zhu Jiaduan's perspective, it seemed that he had dragged these two young people down, making them related to characters like the Duke, but Lao Zhu was too busy to take care of himself and had no time to care about them.

"Okay... OK, Zhu said goodbye, please stay." After saying that, Zhu Jiaduan walked out, which was so steadily.

What is the Tong'er's Divine Sword? In the face of the real "power", he is a small leader; to be honest, if Lei Buwei had not retired from the world for many years and was far away in the sky, he would not dare to be so arrogant with Lei Buji before.

When the guy's footsteps were gone, the concubine invited Sun Huang and the others back to the table.

He poured two glasses of wine for them himself and said leisurely: "Is this matter... okay?"

"As appropriate!" Sun Yixi raised his glass and responded.

"Be particular!" Huang Donglai also raised his glass and said.
To be continued...