【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

Su Yi lifted the curtain of the kitchen room, holding two plates of exquisite pastries in her hands, and said with a smile: "I can hear you and the children bickering in the kitchen room."

An Lijiu shrugged with a smile, noncommittal.

Wei Yanei waved his hand: "Sister Suyi, don't get me wrong, it's not children, only Yuan Zhongxin can do such a naive thing as bickering."

Yuan Zhongxin immediately threw a sharp eye at Wei Yanei.

Wei Yanei looked innocent: "I'm just telling the truth."

Suyi put the cakes on the stone table, and greeted her: "Let's have some cakes first, come here at this time, it's not time for dinner yet..." She paused, and found that there were two people missing, and asked suspiciously Said: "Miss Zhao and Mr. Xue are not here?"

The four of them sat down consciously, and Xiaojing explained: "Sister Zhao and Xue Ying are guarding the secret pavilion for fear of accidents."

Su Yi nodded in a daze, and then asked worriedly: "By the way, did those forbidden soldiers trouble you last night? Are you okay?"

Just as Wei Yanei was about to speak, An Lijiu waved his hands casually, and said lazily, "Don't worry, if something really happened, Suyi's pastries might have already been sent to prison."

Wei Yanei: "..."

This is said, no matter how you listen to it, you will be beaten.

Su Yi shot An Lijiu a look, and said earnestly: "An Lijiu, you should thank these six children, without them, you would still be in prison."

An Lijiu pouted, and said bluntly, "It's not that I begged them, and I just thanked them."

Yes, thank you, but thank you like visiting someone's ancestral grave.

Yuan Zhongxin raised his eyebrows, and was about to pick up a piece of pastry and put it in his mouth when he was slapped on the back of his hand. Yuan Zhongxin was stunned for a moment, and the other three were also stunned, looking at the hand in a daze. The owner found that An Lijiu was staring at him with disgust: "Eat without washing your hands, you are not afraid of eating food - go, wash your hands first."

Yuan Zhongxin: "???"

Why is this guy so badass?

He subconsciously looked at Wang Kuan, but saw that he was looking at himself and An Lijiu with great interest, Yuan Zhongxin patted his left shoulder angrily: "What are you doing in a daze, help me to uphold justice!"

Wang Kuan pursed his lips and smiled softly, coaxing: "Hey, go and wash your hands before eating."

Yuan Zhongxin: "..."

Wei Yanei and Xiaojing laughed so hard that they couldn't control themselves.

Yuan Zhongxin couldn't help it, and stood up aggrievedly, while cursing in a low voice: "I shouldn't have saved you in the first place! Damn, you blinded me!"

Seeing Yuan Zhongxin's figure, Wei Yanei murmured in disbelief: "Brother An, you are the only one who dares to think of Yuan Zhongxin like this. You two are so similar in your death-loving temperament."

Hearing this, Wang Kuan paused, staring deeply at Yuan Zhongxin who was bending over to wash his hands not far away.

He vaguely remembered that Yuan Zhongxin once said that An Lijiu looked like a person.

After Yuan Zhongxin washed his hands, he grabbed a piece of pastry and threw it into his mouth. While chewing, he said, "How did you get caught by the imperial army?"

An Lijiu looked up slightly, recalled for a moment, and then said: "If I said that I was knocked out during the delivery of Wushi powder, and I was already imprisoned in that room when I woke up, would you believe me?"

Yuan Zhongxin stared at him with a slight warning, gritted his teeth and said, "What do you think?"

An Lijiu looked innocent, and spread his hands helplessly: "Then I have nothing to say - because this is the truth."

Wang Kuan felt strange: "But the imperial army said that it took less than two days to arrest you. Brother An, have you seen the appearance of the man who knocked you out?"

An Lijiu shook her head: "I was rushing on the road at the time, and someone hit the back of my head like that, and I passed out."

Yuan Zhongxin smacked his lips and shook his head: "If you are not vigilant, you deserve to be knocked out."

An Lijiu: "..."

Wang Kuan lowered his eyes and smiled lowly, but before he got down to business, his expression immediately returned to normal: "Brother An, have you been forced to confess by words and deeds of the Imperial Army in the past month?"

An Lijiu's eyes flickered slightly, and he said calmly: "Yes, but the question is all about Wushi scattered in the black market business chain."

Yuan Zhongxin asked lightly: "How did you answer?"

An Lijiu said four words very calmly: "I don't know."

Yuan Zhongxin frowned: "You don't know?"

An Lijiu raised his eyebrows, his eyes were deep: "To a large extent, I'm not lying, I really don't know everything about the Wushisan business chain, and the people who really stay in the poisonous nest are not as many as you imagined." Believe me—even if I have been lurking for eight years, I am still just a drug dealer with self-selling rights."

An Lijiu knew that Wei Zhuoran had already seen Yuan Zhongxin and the others, so he must have revealed his true identity, otherwise, Yuan Zhongxin would not have spent all his energy in rescuing him from the forbidden army. There is no need to cover up things that are latent and secretive.

Yuan Zhongxin's brainpower flashed through something quickly, but he couldn't grasp the key point. He always felt that he had missed something: "Just for asking you these things, the Imperial Guard locked you up for a month?"

An Lijiu nodded calmly.

Yuan Zhongxin squinted his eyes and looked An Lijiu up and down. After a long while, he threatened in a bad tone: "An Lijiu, try to spout nonsense again, and I will let you taste the taste of heaven, believe it or not?"

An Li curled her lips in gloom: "What's wrong with learning at such a young age, I want to learn from people with brains."

Wang Kuan and the others: "..."

Are you calling them brainless?

An Lijiu sighed helplessly: "The Forbidden Army still wants to know the list of secret operations lurking in the poison nest."

The four of Yuan Zhongxin were astonished and asked in unison: "What did you say?"

An Lijiu said lightly: "I am not the only one lurking in the poison nest, there are other people. Sometimes, we may have contacted during the process of transporting Wushi powder, but we don't know each other's identity. I really don’t know the list of other detailed works, so the imperial guards can’t ask anything at all—that group of fools wasted a month on me, and it’s funny to think about it.”

Wang Kuan realized something was wrong: "Wait, why did the Forbidden Army force you to make a list?"

If it is really asked, what will the Forbidden Army do?What's more, isn't the less people know about such an important thing as the detailed list, the safer it is?

An Lijiu smiled mockingly, and asked, "Why do you think they are?"

As soon as these words came out, a chilling thought appeared in everyone's mind.

An inner ghost related to Wushisan appeared in the forbidden army. If you ask the detailed work list, you can kill the weeds and eradicate the roots. At that time, outsiders will know nothing about the situation in the poisonous nest.

Xiao Jing said timidly: "If the detailed work list is really leaked, it will be a catastrophe—fortunately, Brother An doesn't know anything."

An Lijiu snorted twice: "Miss Xiaojing, do you think that if I find out, I will know everything about the imperial guards?"

Su Yi tapped An Lijiu's forehead angrily, and scolded: "You still compete with a little girl, are you sorry?"

What happened to the imperial army, Yuan Zhongxin couldn't concentrate on it for the time being, the most important thing now is to prove An Lijiu's innocence, he frowned and asked: "Are you really destroying all the evidence that can prove your identity? "

An Lijiu nodded: "At that time, the drug nest was in turmoil, and there was an extremely serious crisis of trust inside. If I didn't destroy it, I would have been discovered long ago."

Yuan Zhongxin's eyes darkened: "Why is there turmoil, is there a spy that has been exposed?"

It was rare for An Lijiu to be serious, and his face was quite dignified: "I don't know, I just remember that the turmoil lasted for more than a month, the Wushi powder in the poisonous nest was basically unsalable, and the entire business chain stopped operating, probably It took more than half a year to start working again.”

Yuan Zhongxin: "Then someone bought thirty boxes of five stone powder from you?"

An Lijiu frowned slightly, with an unclear expression: "Yes, I originally thought of disposing of Wushisan as usual. I thought I succeeded, but I didn't expect that not long before I was arrested, those [-] boxes should have been destroyed. The Five Stone Powder actually appeared in the border military area."

It was from that time that An Lijiu completely suspected that there were aliens in the imperial court.

Wang Kuan asked: "Then how do you usually deal with your five stone powder?"

An Lijiu replied: "I will first replace the problematic five-stone powder with the real five-stone powder. Of the replaced five-stone powder, some will be secretly transported to Wei Zhuoran, and some will be destroyed privately."

Wei Yanei raised his voice in amazement and shouted: "You are still in touch with my father."

An Lijiu looked at Yuan Zhongxin suspiciously: "Didn't you make it clear to him?"

Yuan Zhongxin blinked, and popped out two words: "Forgot."

Wei Yanei: "..."

An Lijiu explained: "Although I have contacts with Wei Zhuoran, it is very rare. If there are too many five-stone powders and I cannot destroy them myself, I will contact him secretly-it is not easy to destroy the five-stone powders mixed with red cuckoos." Simple, it cannot be burned with fire, otherwise its toxicity will disperse with the smell and spread to other people, let alone bury it on the spot. If it is buried under the soil layer, within a few days, that piece of soil will become a barren land, and then There is no possibility of farming."

Xiaojing then said: "So the five stone powder containing red cuckoo can only be soaked with water until a white gauze-like substance appears on its surface, and its toxicity will completely subside, and then it can be burned with fire."

Yuan Zhongxin suddenly realized, and he asked: "Then where do you usually destroy Wushi San?"

An Lijiu replied: "Out of Kaifeng City, go eastward for eleven or twelve miles, and there is a small town called Tong'an Town. I have a property there, and I destroyed Wushi San there."

Hearing this, Yuan Zhongxin fell silent, he was thinking about whether there would be any clues in Tong'an Town that could prove An Lijiu's innocence.

How could An Lijiu not know what Yuan Zhongxin was thinking? He raised his eyebrows and said jokingly: "Why, do you want to visit Tong'an Town? It's not impossible, take me as your guide, I know Where is there something delicious?"

Yuan Zhongxin: "..."

What the hell did he save back then!