Xu Wenqing hid in the hole behind the cabinet. He only felt a small insect crawling around his neck, but he did not dare to move because there was no sound at all from outside the cabinet.
She didn't hear the other person's footsteps leaving, which meant that these people were still in the room, but no one spoke.
Time passed so slowly. I don't know how long it took, but finally there was a sound outside.
It sounded like someone knocking on the door.
Then a voice sounded.
"Deacon Huang from the Princess Mansion should be here, hurry up and open the door!"
Zhang Gou's heart was pounding. Although he knew that Princess Taiping could not come here in person, there was still a trace of fantasy in his heart.
Even if it wasn't Princess Taiping who came, he would probably be taken to the princess's mansion. What he was most worried about was that Princess Taiping would blame him for this matter.
There was a sound of footsteps, and a man with a goatee entered the room, followed by two guards from the princess palace.
Shopkeeper Geng stood up, put away his folding fan, and said with cupped hands: "Brother Huang, I'm really sorry that you have to make this trip."
Deacon Huang said with a smile: "My brother, why are you so polite? We heard that someone dared to take the name of the princess's mansion, so we are really curious."
Shopkeeper Geng smiled and said: "That's right, I heard that the last guy who dared to do this has been in jail for more than two years. This guy really doesn't know how to live or die!"
As he spoke, he pointed at Zhang Gou.
Seeing Butler Huang looking over, Zhang Gou hurriedly said: "I, Zhang Gou, have been to the princess's mansion once, and also followed the princess to the Taishan Palace!"
"Did you hear that? He said he had been to the Taishan Palace!" The fat shopkeeper hugged his belly and laughed, and the others also laughed.
Deacon Huang sneered and said: "Fart, I am not even qualified to follow the princess to the Taishan Palace. Who are you, and are you qualified to go to such a place?"
"What I said is true. If you don't believe me, you can take me to see Her Royal Highness the Princess!" Zhang Gou said anxiously.
Manager Huang was immediately furious. He stepped forward and kicked Zhang Gou and said, "You still want me to take you to see Her Highness the Princess? If Your Highness loses her temper, I will be in trouble too. Do you want to kill me?"
He turned around and said coldly: "This guy is not from our princess's house. Brother Geng, you can handle it yourself."
Zhang Gou was so frightened and frightened that he couldn't care about anything else and shouted: "I am from His Highness King Zhou, and it was His Highness King Zhou who sent me to find His Highness the Princess!"
The fat shopkeeper said in a gloomy tone: "First we said you were from the Princess's Mansion, and now even His Highness Prince Zhou has been brought out. Do you think we will still believe you?"
Wang Datou said in a trembling voice: "What he said...is true. I saw him...entering Prince Zhou's Mansion..."
Before he could finish his sentence, Boss Zhong kicked him in the face and said sternly: "You still dare to speak?"
Butler Huang sneered and left the room without looking back.
Zhang Gou's face turned pale, he never expected that the situation would turn out like this.
But after all, he was a man who had seen a lot of storms. He quickly calmed down and gritted his teeth and said: "What do you want, if you want money, I am willing to pay double the amount!"
Shopkeeper Geng sneered: "Boy, now that I'm here, do you think this matter can be solved with money?"
"Then what do you want?" Zhang Gou said angrily.
"Isn't it too much to cripple one of you for offending our Shijindan?" Shopkeeper Geng wrote lightly.
As soon as he finished speaking, Mr. Zhong squatted down, bent one of his thick knees and pressed it on the back of Wang Datou, and pressed the other knee on Wang Datou's right hand.
At the same time, two big men grabbed Zhang Gou and pushed him to the ground. His right hand was straightened and pressed to the ground like meat on a chopping board.
Whoa, whoa!
The two big men pulled out the knives from their waists. Zhang Gou's forehead was covered with sweat. He knew that begging for mercy would be useless, so he simply closed his eyes.
Wang Datou has been taking in too much air and outgoing too little. If he doesn't get treatment quickly, his life may not be saved, let alone resist him.
In the hole behind the cabinet, Xu Wenqing and Lu Wei were just hugging each other, both of them too frightened to move.
Shopkeeper Geng glanced at Zhang Gou and said calmly: "Very good, but he is still a man." He ordered his men: "Knock them unconscious first, and then gag them to prevent their screams from being heard."
Touch, touch!
Zhang Gou and Wang Datou were knocked unconscious by the handles of knives, and their mouths were stuffed with cotton cloth.
The two big men raised their knives high and were about to drop them on their arms.
At this moment, a coughing sound came from the direction of the door.
Cough, cough, cough!
Everyone in the house was shocked. They looked towards the door and saw a pale man with a sickly look on his face.
When the man saw everyone looking over, he smiled and said, "You continue, I can wait for you to finish the matter."
The fat shopkeeper said angrily: "Who are you, kid? When did you stand there?"
The sickly man coughed twice more and said with a smile: "While you were stuffing cloth in the mouths of those two people, I came in. I didn't even knock on the door. I hope you'll forgive me."
As he spoke, he bowed to everyone.
The fat shopkeeper looked at Shopkeeper Geng, originally wanting to ask him how to deal with this man.
However, they found that shopkeeper Geng looked at the sick man solemnly, with a hint of fear in his eyes.
The sick man smiled and said: "It seems that you don't intend to deal with these two people anymore. That's fine. Let's deal with our affairs first."
As he walked in slowly, everyone realized that there was a young man behind him, but the young man was too thin and was completely blocked by the sick man before.
The sick man walked to the chair where Zhang Gou had been sitting, sat down, and then crossed his legs. His movements were exactly the same as those of the previous shopkeeper Geng Da.
The only difference is that he sat very firmly and did not slide down.
The boy's behavior was even weirder. After he came in, he closed the door and bolted it, and blocked himself at the door.
The fat shopkeeper felt a little uneasy, but he didn't dare to say anything.
No matter who it is, the person who can make Shopkeeper Geng show such an expression must be someone he can't afford to offend.
Shopkeeper Geng finally spoke and said: "General Zhuang, what do you want to see me for?"
The fat shopkeeper next to him was surprised. This man who looked like he was about to die was actually a general?
The morbid man smiled and said: "Shopkeeper Geng is a smart man. He should know why I am here?"
Shopkeeper Geng's face turned even paler and said: "I, I don't know."
The sickly man smiled and said: "That's okay, I remind you, but it's not convenient for others to hear what we want to say. Xu Xiaowei, in addition to the shopkeeper Geng, will send several other friends on their way."
Shopkeeper Geng's face changed drastically and he shouted: "Run quickly and find the boss, don't worry about me!"
However, the young man's voice was faster than his. His figure was seen swaying in front of several big men, and those big men all held their throats and fell down.
The smell of blood instantly filled the whole room.
No one could have imagined that the sick man would always be smiling, but he would immediately kill other people, let alone that the young man could be so vicious and cruel.
I saw the young man holding a short knife in his back hand. The knife was dripping with blood, and his eyes were full of wild light. He looked like a wild beast.
When the young man looked at the fat shopkeeper, the fat shopkeeper collapsed to the ground in fear.
At this moment, Boss Zhong shouted loudly and slashed at the young man with a steel knife.
The young man circled around Boss Zhong, and Boss Zhong also fell down with his hands on his neck, blood flowing out from between his fingers.
A foul smell spread through the room, and a pool of yellow liquid flowed out from under the fat shopkeeper's buttocks.
The young man wrinkled his nose, took out the short knife, whirled in the air, sliced open the fat shopkeeper's head like a boomerang, and then returned to the young man's hand.
"It stinks." The young man said coldly.
The sickly man smiled and said: "Just bear with it for now. Today's task is very important. If it is not done well, the general will be angry."
The young man snorted and stopped talking.
The sick man turned his eyes to Shopkeeper Geng, and saw that he looked as if he had just been caught in a heavy rain, his clothes were soaked with sweat, and his face was covered with cold sweat.
"Our boss just got a little extra money from the people named Zhuang. Why do you have to kill them all?" Shopkeeper Geng said loudly, as if he was using his voice to embolden himself.
The sickly man smiled and said: "Brother Geng, this is the wrong thing to blame. The general already knew about your deduction of money. He is a broad-minded man. How can he care about such a trivial matter with you?"
Shopkeeper Geng looked at the corpses on the ground and roared: "Why is that? Why do you want to kill them?"
The morbid man sighed slightly and said: "I can only blame your boss for being too careless. Someone has been watching. We have no choice but to abandon the pawn to save the car."
Shopkeeper Geng Da stamped his feet and said: "So what if we are being targeted? It's not like we haven't been targeted before. We just need to get rid of them. Why is this so?"
The sick man said softly: "It is precisely because there is no way to get rid of them, so I have to shut you up."
Shopkeeper Geng Da said in horror: "Who is targeting us?"
I especially remember that a prince discovered their secret. In the end, the prince died of a sudden illness. No one knew that he was murdered.
After that, Shopkeeper Geng deeply felt how powerful the man behind their boss was.
The sickly man put away his smile and said three words in a deep voice: "Bad person."
Shopkeeper Geng shuddered and finally understood the seriousness of the matter. To all those walking in the darkness, these three words represented the invitation from the King of Hell.
After being silent for a while, he said in a hoarse voice: "Is our boss dead?"
The smile returned to the sick man's face.
"There was a bad person watching around Cai Yang. We spent a lot of effort trying to lure the bad person away, but Cai Yang actually took the opportunity to escape."
Shopkeeper Geng laughed and said, "I understand, you want to find the boss through me."
The sick man smiled and said: "That's right. We have searched all the places where Cai Yang might appear, but we still can't find him. You are Cai Yang's most trusted person, and I believe you know where he is hiding."
Shopkeeper Geng's smile turned cold: "Yes, I do know, but I will never tell you."
The sickly man's smile did not fade and he said: "I understand that you were just a dirty gambler back then. If it weren't for Cai Yang, you wouldn't have gotten everything you have today."
"Since you know, then don't waste any time and just give me a good time!"
The morbid man suddenly said: "Do you know why a person like me, who is not very good at martial arts and is about to die of illness, is so important to the general?"
Shopkeeper Geng's expression changed drastically and he couldn't help but take a step back.
The morbid man smiled and said: "It seems that you have heard about me, that is convenient. You should know my ability to use poison. If you don't want to experience the feeling of not being able to die, just tell the whereabouts of Cai Yang."
As he spoke, he placed a small bottle on the table.
Shopkeeper Geng looked at the vial on the table, his eyes full of struggle and fear.
The sick man said leisurely: "This bottle of medicine is called "Bone Erosion Powder". As long as you are poisoned by this poison, you will feel like there are countless ants in your body biting your bones. Do you know the last person who took this poison?"
How did you die?"
Shopkeeper Geng's legs couldn't help but tremble and he couldn't say a word.
The sick man smiled and continued: "He screamed for five hours, and the skin all over his body was scratched by himself. You must have never seen what a person looks like after being skinned, right?"
Shopkeeper Geng yelled: "You bastard, even if I become a ghost, I won't let you go!"
The morbid man smiled and said: "Then you have to queue up. At least ten people have said this to me. After you die, you must help me urge the ghosts of those people to come to me quickly."
"you you……"
Shopkeeper Geng pointed at the sick man and kept backing away. The man's smile at this moment was so hateful and terrifying in his eyes!
The sickly man sighed and said: "Some people never shed tears before seeing the coffin. Lieutenant Xu, feed him the Bone Erosion Powder."
In the wall hole behind the cabinet, Xu Wenqing and Lu Wei hugged each other tightly, like two squirrels in the snow, shivering to keep each other warm.
Although none of them had seen the sickly man, their fear of him had reached its peak.
It became quiet outside the room again, and the two of them held their breath, not daring to take a breath.
At this moment, an extremely shrill howl suddenly sounded.
"Ah! Ah! Ah!"
The two of them trembled suddenly, and a strange smell spread in the cave. Reed was frightened by the sound and lost control.
The screams have not stopped since they started. Along with the screams, there is also the sound of people rolling on the ground!
"Kill me! You...you kill me quickly! Let me die!"
Shopkeeper Geng’s voice was no longer human-like.
Xu Wenqing suddenly felt something dripping on his leg. He reached out and wiped it on his face, only to realize that he was crying.
Fear suddenly amplified in her heart, and she covered her mouth tightly, but a whimper still came from her mouth.
Fortunately, the room outside was filled with the screams of Shopkeeper Geng, and her cries were muffled.
"Zhuang Zizhou! You are such a bitch! I...I...I...I said it!" Shopkeeper Geng finally gave in.
The screams finally disappeared, and the sickly man's leisurely voice sounded again.
"It's such an amazing willpower that you can persist for such a long time. Geng Zhong, I have to look at you differently. Okay, tell me the whereabouts of Cai Yang!"
Shopkeeper Geng gasped and said weakly: "My boss... once told me that he knew what he was doing was too dangerous, so he prepared a secret place for himself that no one could find, enough for him to hide.
Eight years in the last ten years.”
Zhuang Zizhou said calmly: "Brother Geng, please stop talking nonsense and tell me his location directly."
"I...I don't know where that place is!"
Zhuang Zizhou sighed and said: "That's a shame, Brother Geng. To be honest, I don't hate you, but I'm sorry that I have to let you leave this world in the most painful way."
"Wait, wait. Although I don't know where he is, he told me that if I want to find him then, I can leave an address on a note and put it in the chopstick basket on the table by the window on the second floor of SF Building.
Then he will come to me."
"SF Building?"
"It's a small teahouse, just near Li Garden."
Zhuang Zizhou nodded, stood up and searched the room. He quickly found a pen and paper, and said with a smile: "Brother Geng, I can lend you a few words."
Shopkeeper Geng asked: "Where is the address?"
Zhuang Zizhou thought for a moment and said, "Whose room does this belong to?"
Shopkeeper Geng pointed to Wang Datou on the ground and said, "This is his residence. His name is Wang Datou. He is a local rogue."
Zhuang Zizhou pondered for a moment and said, "Just write it here."
Shopkeeper Geng Da agreed, wrote down Wang Datou's address, and handed the note to Zhuang Zizhou.
Zhuang Zizhou handed it to Captain Xu again and said, "Thank you for your hard work. When you get to Shunfeng Building, find a beggar to put the note."
The young man showed an impatient expression and snorted, "It's really troublesome." He opened the door and strode away.
"Wait a minute, leave your knife."
The young man said angrily: "Why is it like this again?"
Zhuang Zizhou smiled and said: "Be obedient, and I will buy you a better one."
The young man muttered, threw the knife hard, half of the blade was inserted into the ground, and then turned around and left.
…
I wonder if the carriage was moving too smoothly, but Princess Taiping actually fell asleep leaning against Wu Chengsi.
Looking at Princess Taiping's sleeping face, Wu Chengsi couldn't help but reach out and touch her smooth and tender face.
At this moment, Wu Chengsi noticed that Feng Wu was looking at him with a strange look.
When Wu Chengsi looked over, she quickly looked away.
Not sure if it was because of a guilty conscience, Wu Chengsi actually explained: "The princess's mansion is almost here, I just asked her to get up."
Then he patted Princess Taiping on the face and said: "Get up quickly, we're here!"
Princess Taiping rubbed her eyes, touched the slapped face, glanced left and right, and said in surprise: "Did I fall asleep just now?"
Wu Chengsi said: "Yes, did you not sleep well last night?"
Princess Taiping glanced at Wu Chengsi and said, "It's not because I worry about you that it makes me want to fall asleep very late."
"What do I have to worry about for you?"
"Huh, you'll find out later!"
While they were talking, the carriage had arrived outside the princess's mansion. After a few people got off the carriage, Feng Wu looked at the princess's mansion with an expression that seemed a little surprised.
Wu Chengsi asked: "What's wrong?"
Princess Taiping listened to Wu Chengsi's question and then glanced at Feng Wu. Seeing her expression, she said with a smile on her face: "How is it? Is my palace not bad?"
Feng Wu nodded silently.
As soon as they entered the princess's house, Butler Li suddenly came forward and said: "Your Highness, Xue Shao is waiting for you in the side hall."
"I am very busy now, let him wait." Princess Taiping waved her hand casually.
Continuing to move forward, Wu Chengsi discovered that the direction Princess Taiping took him was not leading to the lobby or the back house, but a road he had never walked before.
After a long while, a quiet courtyard appeared ahead.
There were fallen leaves everywhere around the yard. It seemed to be a very remote part of the Princess Mansion, and no servants were cleaning it in time.
When they arrived at the courtyard gate, Princess Taiping ordered: "You all wait outside."
Then he said to Wu Chengsi: "Second cousin, please let your people wait here."
Wu Chengsi nodded in agreement and entered the courtyard with Princess Taiping.
As soon as the two people passed through the gate, they saw two guards guarding the inside of the gate.
The two guards saluted them, then closed the courtyard door and stood guard at the door.
There are a few almond trees in the yard, but they are all withered.
Suddenly, Wu Chengsi saw a woman wearing a cloak under the largest apricot tree.
The woman was tall and straight, standing there quietly, but giving people a feeling of dominance.
There is only one woman in the world with such temperament, Wu Zetian.
Wu Chengsi was filled with surprise. Wu Mei rarely left the palace, so how could she suddenly appear in the princess's mansion and choose such a remote place to see him?
Faintly, he had a premonition that something big had happened.