Sure enough, as Murong Ce said, the Shenhua Club has been deserted.
When Li Xin'an and Ye Qinglan rushed to the headquarters of the Shenhua Club, the door of the Shenhua Club was wide open. When they walked in, they saw that the courtyard was full of messes, and was in a mess. All valuable things were taken away.
Gone.
This is the case in every room and cabinet in the large house with four entrances.
On the martial arts field in the backyard, the blood stains have not yet been cleared away.
Mottled blood was splashed on the bluestone floor and yellow weeds, leaving many traces of the body being dragged.
Judging from this trace, it leads to the back door.
"Brother Li, it seems that nothing can be found here at the Shenhua Club. Where should we go next?" Ye Qinglan asked.
Li Xin'an waved her hand and said: "Don't worry, there are no clues outside, but there may not be any clues inside."
"We haven't checked the study and bedroom of the leader of the Shenhua Society, Amuter Khan. There should be a lot of valuable things in there."
Ye Qinglan nodded silently and followed Li Xin'an to look for those two places.
In fact, it is not difficult to find. Amtar Khan's study and bedroom are connected, and they are both located in the middle hall.
Li Xin'an pushed the door open and walked in. What she saw were several bookshelves that had been overturned on the ground. She didn't know if they were collections of classics and history or novels about monsters. Various classics were spread out in a mess, and the white papers were covered with footprints.
The size of Amutir Khan's study completely exceeded Li Xin'an's imagination. There were at least dozens of bookshelves.
The last time I saw such a big study was in the Li Mansion.
The home he once had seventeen years ago.
Li Xin'an then picked up a fallen book, flipped through it briefly, and threw it away when he saw it had no value.
Ye Qinglan said with a bitter face: "I get a headache when I read a book, let alone so many books. When do we have to find it?"
"Maybe there is some secret passage." Li Xin'an said.
Ye Qinglan's eyes lit up, "That's right, Brother Li, it's perfectly normal for these villains to build a life-saving secret path according to the behavior of the Shenhuahui."
"Ye Xiang, please spread out. The entrance to the secret passage is most likely in Amuter Khan's study and bedroom. Look carefully."
"Yes!" Ye Qinglan's three guards took the order and dispersed.
"You are only the seventh son of the Ye family, and you are protected by second-level masters with four or five lives. It's hard to imagine what the Ye family's heritage is." Li Xin'an said with a stupefied tongue.
"The Ye family is blessed by a first-grade Return to True Sword Saint. In addition, there are only about a dozen second-grade masters. The people I brought this time are basically half of the Ye family's permanent strength."
"You actually told me so completely?" Li Xin'an was puzzled.
Ye Qinglan smiled and said: "What's the matter? I already know that you are Li Linfu's son. Compared with this, the merchants of the Ye family are not worth mentioning."
"Although he is a merchant, once he becomes an imperial merchant, he is equivalent to controlling the economic lifeline of the imperial court. For example, this time after the New Year and into spring, the army marches north to Khitan, and the Ye family needs to pay for it. Without the Ye family, the army will be
If there is a setback, the treasury will be empty, the court will lose its trust, and the country will be trapped..."
Li Xin'an suddenly felt a coldness on his back and couldn't help but shiver.
When I mentioned Khitan just now, I felt awkward, and I always felt like something was crawling on my spine.
Ye Qinglan said slowly: "What Brother Li said is that the Ye family has become an imperial merchant, so the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. We have been playing with money since we were young, but from now on, there can't be any problems with money. Something went wrong.
, the Ye family will be beyond redemption."
"When my father wanted to compete for the position of Huangshang, many people in the family opposed it. They were afraid that something would happen and the whole family would not be able to escape. Now that we are riding a tiger, whether it will be difficult to get off depends on fate.
Good fortune."
"Everything depends on human effort. Don't say that everything is fate."
Li Xin'an smiled and said: "I have always been curious about why the head of the Ye family sent you to Chang'an. Logically speaking, the most outstanding young people in the Ye family should be your eldest and second brothers."
"How talented I am." Ye Qinglan rolled her eyes at him and said, "I don't know if I don't fly or sing for three years. If I don't sing, I will be a blockbuster."
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"Hey, it seems you are going to do something big in Chang'an."
Ye Qinglan sighed: "It's not a big deal. It's hard to say whether I can save my life."
"Anyway, I decided to stay in Chang'an to deal with Yang Guozhong and avenge my brothers. I might get caught in it. I've already sent the letter home, and I guess my family will be restless when I see it."
Li Xin'an patted his shoulder and said seriously:
"Don't worry, follow me, Brother Yu, Brother Yu will keep you safe!"
Ye Qinglan raised the corner of her mouth at him, revealing a mysterious smile.
Li Xin'an felt a little nervous. Ever since he learned what Su Xiu said to Ye Qinglan, he felt that he could not see through this rich young man more and more.
The two of them were not idle while they were talking. Li Xin'an kept looking through the classics. There was another brazier not far away. The flame had been extinguished, and there were only some residues left in the brazier.
Li Xin'an rushed over and shook off a piece of paper that had not been completely burned, with a few words vaguely written on it.
Through the light, he could barely make out the word "princess".
"What is a princess?" Ye Qinglan frowned and muttered:
"Is it a certain princess in the palace?"
"She couldn't have heard about Murong Bai's beauty, so she designed to bring Murong Bai to the forefront and take the opportunity to bring him into the palace!" Ye Qinglan exclaimed.
"You can really guess." Li Xin'an smiled helplessly.
"This princess is obviously not a princess of the Tang Dynasty. Although with the behavior of those princesses, robbing people is not impossible. But Murong Bai is Li Chu's swordsmanship teacher after all. Li Chu has no respect for the ministers in the court.
He may be just a humble, virtuous and good grandson of the emperor, but to those princes and princesses who are relatives of the emperor, Li Chu is an existence that cannot go beyond the rules."
Li Xin'an believes that no one dares to touch Li Chu's bad luck.
Just when he was thinking about what this "princess" meant, Ye Qinglan's female guard Qu Gang suddenly shouted:
"Master, Master Li, we have found the secret passage mechanism!"
The two looked at each other, and just as Li Xin'an was about to get up and rush away, there was a sudden sound of a crossbow string collapsing behind him.
A sharp sound broke through the air. Li Xin'an turned his head and dodged, and his left hand grasped the crossbow arrow that passed through his neck.
He turned around with a sneer and broke the crossbow arrow in half.
"I asked why I always feel like there is something behind my back. It turns out that Amtar Khan left a killer here!"
The bookshelf in front of them suddenly collapsed, and a figure jumped up high, holding a long knife, and struck the two of them head-on.
"Brother Li, be careful!" Ye Qinglan hurriedly warned.
Li Xin'an dodged the blow lightly, stood on tiptoes to pick up a fallen book, caught it easily, and hit the killer of the Shenhua Society on the head.
The man's eyes suddenly turned white and he fainted.
Five or six people suddenly jumped out from behind the surrounding bookshelves.
"So many?" Ye Qinglan was stunned, and then said angrily:
"Ye Xiang, you three bastards, someone didn't tell me!"
"If you, as a disciple, want to become a disciple, they will always give you a try on a few people."
Holding the book in hand, Li Xin'an avoided the attacks of Shenhuahui disciples one after another, and then attacked their acupuncture points one by one.
Ye Qinglan followed suit and picked up a book from the ground, stabbing it straight into the throat of the Shenhuahui disciple.
It's just that he didn't master the strength well. He only heard a clear "click", and the disciple's body was shaky, and finally he fell to the ground helplessly.
Li Xin'an raised her eyebrows and said jokingly: "You want to be a devil, you are so cruel."
Ye Qinglan threw away the book that was soaked in the Shenhuahui disciples, smiled helplessly, and said:
"It's my problem. It won't happen next time...ah no! There won't be a next time."
Ye Qinglan's three guards stood up neatly at this moment, and the leader Ye Xiang said solemnly:
"Although we don't want to see dead people, it's already good that you can do this, sir."
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"These disciples of the Shenhua Society are probably around the fourth level of cultivation. With their sudden attack, it shouldn't be difficult if the person they want to kill is the young master from seven days ago." Qu Gang, the female guard, said.
"Young master has made rapid progress in the past seven days, and he will definitely become a swordsman in the future!" Liu Wenyi, who has always been good at flattering others, said with a smile.
Ye Qinglan waved his hand impatiently, "I'll settle the score with you three when I get back! Is it true that you just said you found the secret passage?"
"Of course it's true." Ye Xiang leaned forward and said, "Master, Master Li, please!"
Li Xin'an moved forward and walked through the study. In the wardrobe of Amuter Khan's bedroom, the door to the secret passage was wide open.
He crouched down and compared, this secret passage was very low, it might not be too difficult to walk through it.
"How many of you have torches?" Li Xin'an asked.
Qu Gang, a female boxer, casually tore off a few pieces of clothes from Amutirhan's wardrobe and kneaded them into a ball. As she gushed out her inner energy, the ball of clothes burned.
She broke off a stool leg, stuck it on her clothes, barely used it as a torch, and handed it to Li Xin'an.
Looking at this scene, Li Xin'an was filled with admiration.
"As expected of a half-step first-level master!" Li Xin'an took the torch and stretched it towards the secret passage.
Under the illumination of the fire, he finally saw the entire secret passage clearly.
Although the entrance to the secret passage is very low, there is a cave of its own inside. It is over one foot high, and there are steps at the entrance of the secret passage that wind down and are several feet wide, and can accommodate two or three people walking side by side.
Li Xin'an leaned over and got in, followed closely by Ye Qinglan. Then, Ye Xiang and Qu Gang also got in, leaving only Liu Wenyi standing guard outside.
"The direction here should be south." Li Xin'an's voice echoed in the deep secret passage.
His voice was very low, but within the secret passage, the echo was amplified dozens of times, making it deafening to others.
The amplified sound spread far away, and there might be some danger lurking in the darkness in the distance.
After several people walked for a while, they felt more and more cold and damp, and unconsciously crossed their arms, even Qu Gang, who was half a step above, was no exception.
The flame on the simple torch flickered on and off, swaying violently, and was about to go out.
"In my opinion, this secret passage should lead to the outside of the city." Li Xin'an said.
"To the outside of the city?" Ye Qinglan said in astonishment, "It's dozens of miles away! How could they do it?"
"Nothing is impossible."
Li Xin'an thought of the unknown temple outside Chang'an City that was dedicated to something. Under the temple, there was a secret passage leading to a mountain stream further away.
That place has become one of the strongholds of the Blood Clothes Hall, used to store information from various places.
"Seventeen years ago, Liu Tingyu, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, was arrested, and a large number of Khitan spies were uncovered in Chang'an City. However, there were still many Khitan spies who quietly escaped from Chang'an City."
"Later, the imperial court discovered many secret passages, all leading to the outside of Chang'an City."
"Brother Li, are you saying that the Shenhua Club is a spy for the Khitan?" Ye Qinglan said in shock.
"This possibility cannot be ruled out. It will not be difficult to build this secret passage in seventeen years. But if this secret passage exists for even longer, it means that there are people in the court who are just like Liu Tingyu.
Those who work for the Khitan! They are even buried deeper than him!"
Ye Qinglan woke up suddenly and lost his voice: "The imperial court will send troops to the Khitan in the next spring. If that is really the case, wouldn't the army be in danger?"
Li Xin'an said in a deep voice: "This matter must be reported to His Highness first!"
"What about Murong Bai?" Ye Qinglan asked.
"Huh... Shenhua will kidnap Murong Bai, and the purpose is undoubtedly Murong Villa. It is very likely that the Khitan wolf slaves are also involved. He cannot die, but what matters is the reputation of Murong Villa and the safety of the Tang Dynasty's martial arts. Murong
Once the villa falls, the martial arts world of the Tang Dynasty will collapse! At that time, the Five Poison Sect in Southern Xinjiang, the Hundred Thousand Pagodas of Tubo, the Khitan Wolf Slaves, etc. will take the opportunity to get involved and muddy the waters."
"So, for the current plan, we should not focus on finding Murong Bai, but on stabilizing the reputation of Murong Villa."