Young Master's Mansion!

Zhao Zheng, who had just returned, saw Zhao Zong, the two deputy commanders Gan Hongchang and Hongliangyuan, and a group of guards standing in the courtyard.

Next to them lay the already cold bodies of the third deputy commander Ran Yuanfei and three guards.

There is also the corpse of a stranger with a livid face next to him!

Behind everyone, there were more than a dozen servants and maids, their heads hanging down, and they were kneeling unsteadily on the ground. The ground was wet with cold sweat. They didn't know how long they had been kneeling.

"what happened?"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Zhao Zheng's face flashed with gloom. As for Xiao Luzi next to him, his face became gloomy after being shocked.

"Qi Gong Zizheng, these people are spies planted by outsiders. My subordinates have already asked about the masters behind them."

"As for Ran Yuanfei, please forgive me for my sins. It's because of my incompetence. As soon as my subordinate showed up, someone wiped his neck, and the man also drank poison and committed suicide!"

Hearing the words,

Zhao Zheng glanced at the path next to him and said calmly: "I'll leave it to you to handle."

"promise!"

Xiao Luzi's clear and neutral voice was mixed with a chilling chill. As for Zhao Zheng, he went to the study alone,

On the other hand, Jikong also returned to his yard at this time, holding Yin Yi's Red Moon Sword and concentrating on practicing that sword technique.

at this time,

The old eunuch Lin Yan hadn't come back yet, so Zhao Zheng had no choice but to continue to observe and practice the sword technique countless times in his mind.

Half an hour later,

Xiaoluzi entered the study room in a cold sweat and reported everything to Zhao Zheng one by one.

The people behind those people included not only the princes of the current dynasty, but also the nobles of the old Qin Dynasty, and even two people who were suspected of being from aristocratic families.

However, their purpose is simple, which is to pay attention to Zhao Zheng's daily actions, reception of guests and other trivial matters.

But I learned from Zhao Zong that the three guards were different. They had no clear purpose and could receive a lot of silver every month. If they were needed, someone would notify them.

Having said this,

Xiao Luzi lowered his eyes and whispered: "Master, how should we deal with these people?"

Zhao Zheng stood by the window, looking at Jikong practicing his sword in the distance, and said lightly: "What do you think?"

"Sir, I heard that Shen Yao will be given the 'five punishments' tomorrow. Why don't we take these servants, guards and relatives to beheaded together."

"With five punishments?"

Zhao Zheng was surprised when he heard this, and then smiled and said: "No wonder Wei Ran was in a bad state when he saw Young Master Xian today. I see, I'll do as you said."

"promise!"

Not long after Xiao Luzi left, Lin Yan came back with a pile of bamboo pieces and handed them to Xiao Luzi and sent them to the study.

It's just that these characters are said to be the characters of a vassal state that has disappeared for a long time. There are many similarities to them, so the specific meaning of some characters cannot be determined.

The people in the palace were quite responsible and wrote the original foreign languages ​​and corresponding vocabulary on the bamboo slips one by one, so Zhao Zheng needed to compare them carefully.

But even so, there is still a very small part of the text that cannot be translated. The people in the palace have already gone out to find someone knowledgeable.

Youshi,

Zhao Zheng, who had been busy for nearly two hours, finally determined the correct word groups. At this time, if he looks at the engravings next to the engravings, he can roughly understand them.

This is the mental method corresponding to the sword method!

"In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, hundreds of schools of thought contended, and the disorganized writing was indeed painful. This is just one kind. How complicated would it be if the writings of the princely states were gathered in one place?"

Zhao Zheng pinched his eyebrows and said with a headache: "I still can't completely translate it, so let's look at it like this for now."

Although some textual annotations are missing, after reading the entire article over and over again, coupled with the culture Zhao Zhengyi received during his thousand years of dreaming, I can almost understand it.

Unconsciously,

Zhao Zheng was so fascinated by what he was watching that he even forgot to eat dinner. Xiao Luzi did not dare to disturb him, so he could only carefully light the oil lamp and go to watch outside the study.

I don’t know when,

Zhao Zheng actually fell asleep lying on the three stone slabs!

…

at the same time,

Ranghou Mansion!

Three people wearing handyman uniforms entered the deserted courtyard of the mansion like ghosts, without attracting the attention of the guards who stayed behind.

soon,

The three of them followed the old butler's words and came outside the stone gate. They smelled the faint smell of blood in the air and frowned.

The leader placed the box Wei Ran handed him carefully on the ground. His muscles were tense and his eyes were filled with cold light.

Staring at the stone door in front of him, he said: "The things have been delivered. I wonder if there are any other instructions?"

"Don't be nervous, you three. I have no ill intentions towards you three. I just need you to do me a small favor."

"A small favor?"

The leader of the killer frowned and asked subconsciously: "The commission has been delivered. If there is any request, the price will be calculated separately."

"Ho ho ho ho..."

The hoarse voice let out a ferocious smile, and said lightly: "The price is easy to say, but I wonder how much the lives of the three of you are worth?"

The expressions of the three killers suddenly changed, and they shouted in unison: "If you dare to play tricks on us, you are seeking death!"

but,

Before the three of them could take action, several rays of cold light flashed in front of their eyes in an instant. The speed was so fast that even they who were in the Xiantian realm could not see clearly what it was.

Puff puff……

Several blood arrows spurted out, and the three of them hit the ground at the same time like soft-footed shrimps. Scarlet blood flowed from their wrists and ankles.

That blow just now,

All their tendons and hamstrings have been severed!

at the same time,

The closed stone door also slowly opened, and a figure whose face could not be seen clearly and was as skinny as a stick slowly walked out of the door.

Shrouded in darkness, the pair of cold, bloodthirsty, and cruel blood-colored eyes couldn't help but look at the three killers, and then made a scalp-numbing sound——

"He is full of blood, a good sacrifice. Wei Ran spent a lot of money to deal with him, hehehe..."

See this person,

The leader of the killer's eyes suddenly glared, his pupils instantly shrank into a vertical line, he took a breath of cold breath and exclaimed: "The super-class warlock Yin Yang family? Move..."

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Before the leader of the killers could finish speaking, three voices sounded at the same time, and the mouths of the three killers that had just been opened could no longer be closed.

"Hehe... In front of me, you don't even have a chance to commit suicide by taking poison."

Along with that ferocious laughter,

The skinny old man dragged the three people into the stone door one by one. Only then did the three people see clearly that there was a round millstone about ten feet in diameter placed not far away.

It is engraved with strange and intricate runes!

In the center of the millstone, there is a clay figure sitting cross-legged, and the clay figure is also covered with runes!

At this time,

The old man opened the things they brought, took out the hair, and solemnly inserted it on the head of the clay figurine.

Then the three killers were placed in a cross-legged position and placed around the millstone in the position of the Three Talents Formation.

Then he took out three half-foot-long bamboo poles, thick as a thumb, and hollow at the front and back, and inserted the sharp corners into their hearts to draw out the hot blood in their hearts.

As the hot blood of the three people flowed into the rune grooves engraved on the millstone, and the old man chanted vaguely,

A faint bloody light appeared from the millstone, reflecting the clay figure into blood red!

at the same time,
Chapter completed!