No matter if you are a human or an immortal, you can still farm for me after traveling through time!

Gradually, the people on the street slowly dispersed, and the closing drum began to sound.

The compact "dong dong dong" sound kept ringing for a long time. Ji Qingyue didn't count it in detail, it was hundreds of times.

"Four hundred beats of drums when opening the market, and six hundred when closing the market." Li Erlang sat in front of the window, watching the people leaving the street, and the soldiers patrolling the streets drove away those who were still lingering.

The first night Ji Qingyue arrived in the city, he also heard intensive drumbeats. At that time, he thought something had happened, but the neighbors around him did not make any move. They even gradually quieted down after the drumbeats, and he finally Understand the meaning of the drum sound.

Because they couldn't go to bed early tonight, Ji Qingyue and Li Erlang chatted with each other. Li Erlang was very interested in everything about Ji Qingyue, but Ji Qingyue rarely mentioned it. Over time, Li Erlang stopped asking, and now they were talking about cotton.

After tonight's incident was over, Ji Qingyue began controlled experiments to ensure that the cotton seeds could survive and grow smoothly outside.

Spinning and weaving have been handed over to Li Grandma. When their skills mature enough to teach, Ji Qingyue will need to hire them to teach more people to weave.

He thought that if cotton was born out of thin air, people would definitely rob it when they saw its value, especially those from aristocratic families and landowners. At this time, seeds and planting methods are extremely critical. As long as one of the two is controlled, aristocratic families and landowners cannot take the cotton as their own.

Ji Qingyue is not a saint, but he has never thought about making money by controlling cotton. The world outside does not leave much space for the people at the bottom. If there is any gap, he will be targeted. Therefore, before promoting cotton, we must plan carefully to spread cotton widely and reach the emperor's ears as early as possible.

After the drum beat fell, the vendors and pedestrians on the street disappeared without a trace, leaving only a few lonely paper lanterns. The weak light could only be cast in a small circle. The empty streets were pitch black, and the roads were completely dark. The doors of the inns and restaurants on both sides were closed tightly, leaving only scattered candlelight in the rooms inside the building.

After the market is closed, ordinary people without documents cannot go out and walk around on the streets.

Ji Qingyue never said anything. When the drums started to sound, his palms began to feel slightly hot, but not as hot as the previous two times. It was even a little comfortable.

Based on the direction in which the silk thread hung down, Li Erlang deduced the location of Lu Lu's room, which was probably at the upper right side of the room where they were.

The wing on the fifth floor is very big. I heard that one room above is as big as the three or four rooms downstairs.

There are no pedestrians on the street, but from time to time you pass by rows of soldiers patrolling with torches. If you encounter someone still wandering on the road, no matter what their identity is, you have to go to jail. Who knows if they are some small-time thieves? Woolen cloth.

In the private room, candlelight was brightly lit. Xu Dan and Lu Lu were sitting at opposite ends of a royal couch. Both of them were wearing light pajamas, so clear that they could vaguely see the clothes inside. They took a hot bath, washed away their hair, and wore their long hair. They sat on the couch and fanned themselves to steal some coolness.

Both of them are pretty and young girls. It was a pleasant moment, but neither of them looked very good.

Xu Dan frowned as he looked at the account book, while Lu Lu pursed her lips and carefully read the confession handed over by the female guard.

The four female guards stood at the table not far away, carefully observing their young lady's expression.

Each confession contains two or three pieces of paper, which record what the eight people did, heard, and said after entering the inn.

This is exactly what Lu Lu wants.

Everyone is guarding a different position and has a different perspective. What they can see is definitely different, but the intersection of their eyes determines that they will definitely see some of the same things, hear sounds, and the actions one person makes are also different. Support can be obtained from other perspectives.

Lu Lu was very cautious about the carriage she rode in. She even felt that the horses were not as important as the carriage, because the carriage was her last resort. There were many valuable things on the carriage and there was no room for any mistakes. Therefore, as long as the carriage was not used, it would definitely be left behind. Four people on duty.

Two groups of guards, eight confessions.

After reading it over, there are no loopholes in their confessions. Each confession can be supported by other confessions. For example, the person in the front right of the carriage sneezed, and the confessions of the other three stated that the person in the front right The man sneezed.

Perfect.

None of the eight people touched the carriage.

Lu Lu laughed as he looked at it, but there was no smile at all in his eyes, instead there was a chill in his eyes.

The four guards in the room looked panicked and looked at each other, but they didn't dare to ask first.

Lu Lu picked up four identical tassels placed aside. She didn't think the two brothers of the Li family were fooling her. Erlang of the Li family had just clearly told his cousin that the tassel on the back left corner of the carriage was a ginger-yellow gold and silver thread. tassel.

The gold threads are mixed with strands of silver threads, and it's hard to spot the difference without looking carefully.

Lu Lu fiddled with the four tassels and confirmed again that all four were identical gold tassels.

Someone unknowingly replaced the tassels.

To be honest, except for the six personal guards, Lu Lu didn't have a deep impression of the other female guards. He only knew that they were all people brought by his father. She believed in her father, so she would naturally not doubt them. However, these days were different from the past. Not all of these people were as reliable as she thought.

Lu Lu once again looked at each confession carefully, trying to find loopholes in it, but after reading it again, he found nothing.

Shufu looked at his young lady frowning, as if the traces between her eyebrows were deeply etched on her face. She comforted her, "Miss, if you don't let us take a look, see if we can find any clues."

Lu Lu raised his head, looked at the four warrior maids in front of him who were also in the boudoir, and asked: "Did you ask these two groups to write separately? Is there any possibility of collusion?"

Shufu and Tulun replied firmly: "Miss Hui, there is no possibility of collusion."

Tulun further explained: "Where Sister Shufu went downstairs, I went to the room on the same floor to find the four people who were on duty. Before they could react, I ordered them to turn their backs, not to say anything or to look at each other, and to write down the duty hours. Everything they saw and heard, what they said to each other, what they ate, and other details were recorded on paper one by one. If the four of them were prisoners and they knew that the lady was going to investigate, they would have colluded in advance."

Shufu nodded. She also ordered them to record separately. This kind of interrogation method was learned in the past training to prevent collusion.

"Okay, I understand." Lu Lu remained in a reclining posture, with her eyelids drooped somewhat similar to the Arhat Bodhisattva in the temple, showing compassion for heaven and earth. Then when she raised her eyelids, the sternness in her eyes was revealed.

At this time, the silk thread on the wrist of Lu Lu's right hand holding the fan suddenly loosened and tightened. This was Li Erlang's prompt.

The note also said: "If you receive a signal, it means you are facing a fatal crisis."

Lu Lu closed his eyes, hiding his anger, and then sat upright calmly. Dan Niang on the side raised her eyes and looked over: "Do you want to go to bed to rest?"

She shook her head gently, seemingly calm, but the hand holding the fan tightly showed how nervous she was at this time.

She couldn't let that person see that she had seen through the clues inside.

"Rat and rabbit wheel, you lock those eight people in the same room. I want them to bear witness to each other. They are not allowed to come out of the room before General Yang arrives. If anyone acts rashly and wants to leave the room, the others will immediately Tie him down." Lu Lu rubbed his tight wrists and issued the order calmly.

Shufu and Tulun left the wing after receiving the order. Only Niu Niang and Snake Ten were left in the room. While they were worried, they also wondered why the young lady suddenly acted like this, as if something very serious had happened to them. among people. No matter how hard they looked at each other, they couldn't find the answer, so they had no choice but to continue to stand where they were and guard the young lady.

Lu Lu squeezed the handle of the fan hard, and held the paper on the edge of the imperial concubine's couch with his other hand. He clenched it tightly with his fingers. His fingers suddenly lost their color and their fingertips turned pale.

Evil-minded people are trapped in the Rat and Rabbit wheels! ! !

It was actually among the two of them! ! !

And those eight people were innocent.

The funny thing is how many people are in the inner circle and how many people are in the outer circle are still a mystery.

Lu Lu closed her eyes tiredly. She guessed that it was not because of the sudden violent tugging of the thread, but because of these eight perfect confessions.

Shufu and Tulun acted separately, one upstairs and one downstairs. The two of them did not know the contents of the confessions obtained by the other, which ensured that they could not know the one thing that the eight people jointly identified - the eight people. None of them touched the carriage. She really didn't believe that there were many people with malicious intentions among the guards her father had chosen for her. Otherwise, she would not have been able to safely walk from the south of the Yangtze River to the northwest. There would be many gaps along the way that could kill her.

Her father's habit is to arrange at least four guards around her to guard her at the same time. She was shocked that there was a person with evil intentions among them. If there were more, not only her, but also her father would not forgive her.

Those female guards who are not so close, no matter whether there are people with malicious intentions among them, Lu Lu doesn't think it is particularly important, because most of them are loyal to his father. If his father wants to take action personally, he will definitely take advantage of the weak points. , the consequences of their rebellion must be very tragic.

As mentioned before, ordinary female guards cannot approach her. If any of them wants to take action, the only killing methods available are poison and sharp weapons.

Poisoning is unlikely, because any food brought to her will be tested for poison by Long'er's silver needle under her eyes; as for sharp weapons, the knives of the guards after entering the city were confiscated and stored in one place. You cannot carry a sharp knife with you. Once discovered, you will inevitably be imprisoned. There is one more thing to note when using small sharp weapons. You must make sure to move quickly and kill her with one blow, just like the black ring-headed knife in the dream. The blade is not small and it can kill her quickly...

A knife through the heart.

Why was this killing method used, why was it in a remote mountain...

Isn't it just to ensure that after killing her, the golden cicada can escape from its shell without anyone noticing?

Unless they had no choice but to do so, they didn't seem to want her to die in the bustling city. Did they think she was wary and outsiders intervened, hindering the planned plan, so they had to take action before she left Shandan? ?

The eighteen male guards in the periphery are people trained by His Majesty's Defense Pavilion and are His Majesty's people.

The nobles and officials of Chang'an were assigned different numbers of people according to the rank of the princes and ministers to guard their safety. According to the official rank, the second-grade father had 72 Fanghe around him, and the other 18 people were assigned to her by her father; The fourteen additional female guards were all trained by her father, and they were only loyal to her father. The six female guards around her had followed her almost from childhood to adulthood, only obeying her orders and working with her father. They can disobey their father's orders when they are against their father's orders.

Therefore, as long as there are no evil-minded people among the people close to you, people on the periphery will be stopped before they make any abnormal moves, and this person close to you is the most critical part of the plan.

This is the advantage of the three parties obeying different masters but performing the same task. If the male guards on the periphery make a mistake, the other male guards can still hesitate, but others will not.

If you want to put her to death, you have to add a fourth party. The fourth party in the dream is the bandits. The bandits cause a commotion, and only when everyone is unanimously exposed will the evil-intentioned people have an opportunity.

It's a pity that she has already guessed who that person is and will not give that person another chance to hurt herself.

First of all, all of this must be thanked to the Li family Sanlang. He must have never imagined that just discovering the differences in Liusu would help her so much, and even directly become the most important evidence for her to identify the evil person.

In the room downstairs, Ji Qingyue noticed that the temperature in the palm of his hand had dropped slightly. It was no longer so hot that it felt like his heart was burning. Now he could feel relieved again.

Neither Ji Qingyue nor Li Erlang could see the situation upstairs. Ji Qingyue knew from the temperature of his palms that there was no crisis upstairs, while Li Erlang inferred Lu Lu's situation from the still taut silk thread in his hand. There was nothing different about the silk thread. It seems that the upstairs is still under the control of Miss Lu.

But Ji Qingyue said that the heat in his palms had not disappeared, and a slight warmth indicated that the person was still intent on killing.

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

Ji Qingyue could only pray that Miss Lu would get through the difficult time safely.

Ji Qingyue was uneasy in the painting, but Li Erlang was not as nervous as Ji Qingyue, and he was still there to comfort Ji Qingyue.

As early as when Shi Liang cut off the bandit's head to save Shiro, he had already understood life and death clearly, and he could spare his life while cherishing it. "Ms. Lu is not an ordinary person. She has a smart mind, quick thoughts, and is willing to listen to the advice of outsiders. This kind of person can definitely rely on the people and things around her to plan a way out for herself. On the contrary, Yue Lang, your hands are already uncomfortable enough, so don’t be too nervous, it will make you feel uncomfortable in your heart."

Ji Qingyue shook his hot hand, feeling the change in heat inside, and calmed down after making sure there was no sudden and severe burning sensation.

Li Erlang is right, Miss Lu is really an intelligent and extraordinary woman who should not be underestimated.