Summary of the previous chapter: Ma Xiaoquan, who returned to Nanyang County after recuperation, first planned to buy a private house close to the Lu family's mansion...
When Ma Xiaoquan saw that the other party was silent, but looked at his expression as if he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh, he suddenly understood something in his heart.
Coming to the end of the Han Dynasty for more than 20 years, Ma Xiaoquan dare not say anything else. Ma Xiaoquan has really learned a lot in this alone.
Ma Xiaoquan could tell what the guy in front of him was thinking with just a few glances. Although he didn't know exactly what the other person was thinking, he could guess pretty well.
"Oh, haha..." Ma Xiaoquan said with a smile, "Um...brother, are you a local? I bought this house now and you came here. I guess your family
It must not be far from my home."
The shadow guard smiled and said, "Yes, my home is right there!" As he said that, the shadow guard pointed at the Lu family mansion not far behind him.
"Ah? Brother, you actually live there?" Ma Xiao looked envious on his face and kept clicking his tongue in admiration.
"No, no, I'm just a servant in that house, haha..."
Ma Xiaoquan exclaimed, pretending to be curious: "It is said that there is a very famous Lu family mansion in Nanyang County. Brother, that mansion must be the Lu family mansion."
"Um"
"Oh, it's a pleasure to meet you. I can get to know the people in the Lu family's mansion. It's really worthwhile for me, Mao Shiken, to come to Nanyang County."
Shadow Guard puffed up his mouth and almost laughed out loud. The name "Mao Shiken" really made people think about it. Coupled with Ma Xiaoquan's dialect, if he heard it slightly, "Mao Shiken" immediately came to his mind.
Three words: "hairy shit pit".
Shadow Guard said: "If you don't mind, brother, I can be your introducer someday and ask brother to come and sit at Lu's house."
"Great, then it's settled, haha"
The shadow guard hummed, his purpose of coming here had been achieved, and Ma Xiaoquan, opposite him, also began to make the next plan in his mind.
At night, Ma Xiaoquan lay in bed and thought repeatedly about everything that happened during the day. From the current point of view, everything seems to be moving according to plan, but the master once said that Long Er was difficult to deal with, and Ma Xiaoquan has not met Long Er yet.
Above, Ma Xiaoquan had no idea how powerful Long Er was.
After thinking about it all night, when the sky turned white, Ma Xiaoquan closed his eyes and slept until the afternoon.
When I woke up, the shadow guard from yesterday came to visit again, saying that he wanted to introduce Ma Xiaoquan to the Lu family mansion.
Ma Xiaoquan tidied up hastily and then went to the Lu family mansion with the shadow guard.
Since he and his son Ma Zheng had sneaked into the Lu family mansion before, Ma Xiaoquan was not reserved this time, but he did not act too naturally. Overall, he gave people a cautious feeling.
The shadow guard smiled secretly in his heart and asked: "Brother Mao...isn't your family big?"
Ma Xiaoquan let out an ooh, shook his head and said, "I always thought that my family's wealth was huge. Compared with the Lu family's mansion today, it's as if it's on earth or in the sky. Hey."
The shadow guard smiled slightly and gave up his position: "Haha...Brother Mao, the housekeeper is waiting for you, please"
Ma Xiaoquan nodded and followed the shadow guard into the main hall.
In the main hall, Long Er was teasing a little bird with great interest. When he saw his subordinate leading Ma Xiaoquan in, he nodded politely and stood up to greet Ma Xiaoquan: "Haha... you are...
..Brother Mao Shiken, hehe, hello, hello, come and sit down."
Ma Xiaoquan was surprised by Long Er's politeness. You should know that the two of them did not know each other before he met Long Er.
When Long Er saw Ma Xiaoquan in a daze, he couldn't help but despise him. Such a playboy seemed to be of no use.
After sitting down, Long Er asked Ma Xiaoquan: "Why did Brother Mao come to my Nanyang County?"
Ma Xiaoquan shook his head and said with a bitter look: "This is really annoying to say. I think I, Mao Gang, can be regarded as a number one figure in Yanzhou. I just like a little lady, and that guy Zhao Ming insists on getting married with me."
I argued, huh, I got angry and killed him while he was sleeping..."
"Zhao Ming?" Long Er's eyebrows twitched slightly, and the shadow guard beside him immediately nodded slightly.
Ma Xiaoquan saw all this from the corner of his eye, and he was not afraid of Long Er going to investigate, because just at the beginning of this year, Zhao Ming, a famous young man in Yanzhou, was indeed killed, and the murderer has not been caught yet.
...
But... Zhao Ming knew that there was such a person, but Mao Gang did not. If Long Er sent people to Yanzhou to investigate, wouldn't his identity be exposed?
Thinking of this, Ma Xiaoquan couldn't help secretly thinking that he had miscalculated. As a result, Ma Xiaoquan had to advance the plan he had made earlier.
After Ma Xiaoquan left, Long Er hurriedly summoned all the shadow guards to discuss the murder that Ma Xiaoquan had mentioned before.
The meeting system of the Shadow Guard is somewhat similar to the modern meeting system. Each member is allowed to speak in the meeting to provide information reference for decision-makers, but the final decision-making power still has to be made by the decision-makers. In usual meetings, Long Er is just one person
The speaker, and today in the Lu family mansion, he has the highest status and is naturally the decision-maker.
Some people suggested that people should be sent to Yanzhou immediately to investigate and confirm Ma Xiaoquan's identity, while some people were opposed to it. After all, there is a serious shortage of shadow guards now. No one knows when Ma Xiaoquan will come again. With Ma Xiaoquan's skills
, none of the shadow guards dare to take it lightly. Furthermore, Yanzhou is so big, confirming this news is not as simple as saying it.
"Yeah." After listening to the suggestions of his subordinates, Long Er was a little undecided. Originally, Long Er thought of sending someone to Yanzhou to investigate, but now he is seriously short of manpower, and there are no new recruits to join. In other words
In other words, if Ma Xiaoquan comes more often, the number of his shadow guards will definitely decrease rather than increase.
"Okay, let's put this matter aside for now. I'll keep a close eye on that shithole. After a year passes and the master's affairs are finished, we'll go investigate immediately."
"yes!"
...
Ma Xiaoquan didn't know the outcome of the shadow guards' discussion, but when Ma Xiaoquan entered the Lu family mansion during the day, he got a piece of information that made him very excited:
The last time he and his son Ma Zheng sneaked into the Lu family mansion to explore, they encountered a large number of shadow guards. Even if they finally escaped, they were all in a miserable state. Today, when they went to the Lu family mansion during the day, Ma Xiaoquan found that the number of shadow guards was smaller than before.
a lot of.
"Have all those shadow guards gone out to perform their missions?" Ma Xiaoquan muttered to himself, then shook his head and objected, "Impossible, then Long Er knows that I am difficult to deal with, how could he send people out again? Unless...
....”
Ma Xiaoquan sat up from the bed, jumped to the table in two steps, picked up the carving knife, and carved a line of words on the bamboo slips on the table.
Ma Xiaoquan carved modern simplified characters, which are still very different from the Chinese characters of the late Han Dynasty, but if you identify them carefully, you can still recognize them.
After carving this line of words, Ma Xiaoquan returned to the bed and fell asleep.
On the roof, a dark figure saw everything that happened inside the house through the gaps in the tiles, but because the external environment was relatively noisy, he did not hear what Ma Xiaoquan said.
"The boss asked me to keep an eye on him. What was he saying to himself just now? I didn't hear it... But it's okay. I must get the bamboo slip he wrote...
..."
...
The next morning, Ma Xiaoquan got up and went out to wash up. The shadow guard took advantage of Ma Xiaoquan's absence to sneak into the house and stole the bamboo slips on the table.
Sometimes Ma Xiaoquan is very shrewd, sometimes he is very sloppy. The bamboo slips on the table disappeared. Ma Xiaoquan thought he had thrown them away last night, so he didn't pay much attention.
...
In the Lu family's mansion, Long Er took the bamboo slip that Ma Xiaoquan wrote last night and had been reading it for more than an hour.
Before Long Er became a Shadow Guard, he was a disciple of the witch in Oligarch Mountain. If his master hadn't killed too many people and attracted an old guy named Huang Shigong, otherwise, Long Er would still be in Oligarch Mountain now.
Practicing.
Although Long Er's master, Yabo, was a woman, she had outstanding literary talent. Following her master for several years, Long Er not only learned a skill, but also learned a good literary talent.
The bamboo slips Ma Xiaoquan wrote last night were in simplified Chinese characters. Long Er thought for a long time, drew with a pen and paper for a long time, and spent nearly an hour to completely "decipher" the words Ma Xiaoquan wrote.
"Four lives of reincarnation, four lives of enlightenment, four lives of cause and effect, four lives of love, four lives of fate, four lives of calamity, four lives of love for thousands of years..." Long Er muttered for a long time, shook his head and said, "What is this?
Poetry? Why would this shithole write such a poem?"
A subordinate came over to take a look and said: "Boss, I once heard my master read this poem..."
"What? Master has remembered it?"
"Yeah, yes, the master said at the time that he heard it from one of Ma Xiaoquan's wives."
"When did you hear it?"
"I don't know, I have only heard of it..."
"Well" Long Er held his chin with his right hand, "Ma Xiaoquan's wife? Could it be that... this shithole is pretended by Ma Xiaoquan? No, this matter needs to be reported to the master, um, just right, you heard
For these words, take this bamboo slip with me and send it to the master with my handwriting, and ask the master to make a decision."
"yes"
Long Er exhaled, shook his head and said: "With this, we have one less person in our shadow guard, huh"
...
At night, Ma Xiaoquan sneaked into the Lu family mansion and started his massacre plan.
According to Ma Xiaoquan's steps, he must complete the planned task of killing at least three shadow guards today.