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Seven or eight days passed in a blink of an eye, and he heard that Jin Mingjing was finally able to get out of bed, but he was not in good health. Even so, he hurriedly chose a date to bury Mrs. Jin's body as soon as possible.

Just two nights before the burial, Chu Shao returned to the mansion after wandering around for a day, but was dragged out by Zhou Lanmu again, saying that he was going to visit Jin Mingjing's mansion.

Chu Shao looked at him, and said angrily: "Today is two days before the burial, and the Jin Mansion is the time for Ji Xi to cry, so there is no time to receive you."

"It's a good thing," Zhou Lan praised without changing his face, "They are crying about them, let's go get some of our things, it happens that the two have nothing to do with each other."

As soon as Chu Shao heard this, he stopped leaving: "Are you going to steal again? People are busy crying, so you go stealing, isn't it a bit wicked?"

Zhou Lanmu said: "If Mrs. Ruo Jin died for no apparent reason, and buried in a muddle-headed manner, it would be even more wicked. Although my method was wrong, it is better than shedding fake tears in the mourning hall."

"Then what are you going to steal this time?" Chu Shao rolled his eyes at him, "Is there anything to steal in the Jin Mansion?"

"I'll go in with you this time," Zhou Lanmu replied, "Let's go to the back garden where Mrs. Jin lives together. I've been thinking about it these days, and I always feel that there are still some things that haven't been discovered..."

"You want to go in with me?" Chu Shao was a little surprised, and raised his eyebrows at him, "Can you climb over the wall? Do you want me to carry you in?"

Zhou Lanmu turned his head away and didn't answer him anymore.The two tiptoed to find a hidden place from the back wall of the Jin Mansion. Chu Shao found a larger stone and leaped into the mansion lightly with his strength. Just when he was about to look back, he saw that Zhou Lanmu had also jumped with him. After entering, the white clothes landed lightly and lightly, without even making a sound.

This lightness skill... is absolutely amazing.

Even better than him.

In his early years, Chu Shao had been in the martial arts arena, playing with swords, guns and sticks very vigorously. Later, he learned the long sword, and he was able to learn it to an astonishing level. Only the lightness kung fu was neglected, and it all depended on practice. He was naturally surprised to see that he was proficient. : "Do you know how to do light work?"

Zhou Lanmu looked innocent: "I didn't say I wouldn't do it?"

Chu Shao was angry: "Why didn't you go by yourself that night? If I hadn't landed a little heavier, I wouldn't have attracted so many people, chasing you and me all night."

Zhou Lanmu replied calmly: "Well, I had a headache that day and my mental state was not good, so I shouldn't climb over the wall."

Chu Shao: "You are simply a bunch of idiots..."

Zhou Lanmu blinked, and quickly interrupted him: "I came out of Dianxing Temple and was seriously injured. I lay in bed for a whole summer and half of autumn. Now I can climb over the wall thanks to the rejuvenation of Fang Taiyi, and I have headaches from time to time. Isn’t it normal for my feet to hurt—or the general thinks I’ve lived in the general’s mansion for so long and wants me to go back as soon as possible?”

Chu Shao finally found out, don't try to reason with this person.

So he swallowed his anger and turned his head away, cherishing the words like gold: "There is absolutely no such intention."

Zhou Lanmu patted him on the shoulder with satisfaction.

Taking advantage of the darkness of the night, the two walked a few steps along the corner of the wall, bypassing the wailing mourning hall, and finally arrived at the back garden where the female relatives and servants usually lived.Just as Chu Shao was about to go straight to the main house in the back garden, Zhou Lanmu pulled him back.

"Come here first." Zhou Lanmu greeted him.

Chu Shao didn't know why, and followed him into a row of low bamboo huts on the right hand side. The bamboo huts looked a little crude, and they must have been used by servants on weekdays: "What are you doing here?"

"Let's go find the guard's place first." Zhou Lanmu squatted under the window of the bamboo house, glanced in, saw the light, and then lowered his voice again, "If the guess is correct, Jin Mingjing has no feelings for him. Normally, he must have a separate room."

Chu Shao said angrily behind him: "How do you know he doesn't live directly in Jin Mingjing's room?"

"Because I was chatting outside the door with those servants from the Jin Mansion that day, and none of them doubted him," Zhou Lanmu turned his head and smiled at him in the dark, "All the servants of the Jin Mansion said that he was old-fashioned and warm-hearted, and that he was the elder brother of everyone. In the Jinmingjing room, how can there be such an intimate relationship. But if there is no separate room, won’t others be able to see clearly when going in and out?”

Chu Shao followed him along the row of bamboo huts, and sure enough, he saw a separate room at the end of the row of bamboo huts. The door was locked, and the inside of the room was pitch black, so he couldn't see anything.

There was a cloud of dust in the air, Chu Shao sniffed, feeling a little uncomfortable, Zhou Lanmu didn't doubt that he was there, stepped forward and lightly raised his hand on the door lock, and the door lock made a weak "click" ", and fell to the ground.

Chu Shao looked down in shock, and found that he was broken by internal force.

Before he had time to ask, Zhou Lanmu turned his head triumphantly, and said to him, "I practiced picking people's door locks for a long time. What do you think, General?"

Chu Shao didn't want to talk to him, so he just pushed him into the house.

There is no light in the house, and the moonlight is not good tonight. Even if there are windows, it is gray and hard to see clearly.Chu Shao stood hesitantly for a while, then heard Zhou Lanmu fumbling for a few steps in the house, and suddenly lit a candle: "I'm most afraid of the dark, so it's better to light a candle."

"Where did you find the candle?" Seeing him walking towards the bed with the candle in his hand, Chu Shao couldn't help asking, "It was so dark in the room just now, it's hard for you to see clearly."

Zhou Lanmu didn't answer him, and leaned over the bed and groped carefully for a while. Seeing that he was searching carefully, Chu Shao couldn't help but took the candle in his hand and held it aside to illuminate him: "What are you looking for?"

"Poison," Zhou Lanmu replied in a low voice, "Look at the dust here and the lock on the door just now. Jin Mingjing hasn't had time to deal with this place after the guards disappeared. If we are more careful, we might be able to find something."

Seeing that he was searching carefully on the bed, Chu Shao couldn't help stretching out his hand, and touched the pillow carefully. He didn't know what he touched, and suddenly tore the pillow open with a "tear" sound, and the buckwheat husks poured out , by the light of the candle, Zhou Lanmu saw a pile of things tightly wrapped in silk, only a pointed head was exposed, which also looked like a hairpin.

"I only thought that he would hide these near him, but he didn't know it was in the pillow." Zhou Lanmu took the silk and untied it with his hands, "How did the general know it was here?"

"Didn't you say that this guard is a member of the army?" Chu Shao raised his eyebrows and replied, "I used to hang out in the lower barracks for a while, and I know their habits well. , I hid it in my own pillow like this, and I sewed it up with a needle and thread, and I couldn't find it anywhere when I searched."

"It's really a good idea," Zhou Lanmu praised casually, but when he saw the silk-wrapped thing, he exclaimed in a low voice, "Ah, this is quite interesting."

Chu Shao took a closer look and saw that there were two gold hairpins wrapped in the silk that were fished out of the well in Chaozhong and exactly the same as the ones on the young man's head. Apart from the two gold hairpins, there was also a small paper bag.

"It's arsenic|scent." Zhou Lanmu lowered his head and sniffed, and said, "Be careful and don't move! The tip of this hairpin is also smeared with poison, no wonder it is wrapped so tightly with silk, and only the tip is exposed—if someone is sleeping on the couch Once it’s caught, just take out the hairpin and stick it around someone’s neck..."

He didn't finish, but just frowned: "But I don't know what the poison on the hairpin is, I still have to take it back and ask the doctor to have a look..."

Chu Shao nodded, and before he had time to say anything, he suddenly wrapped Zhou Lanmu's arms across his arm, rolled him to the bottom of the other side of the bed, and at the same time quickly blew out the candles.

The door made of bamboo and wood creaked open, as if someone walked in holding a candle.

The two of them held their breath in the darkness and heard the footsteps gradually approaching, but only a timid voice sounded, as if they were very scared: "Wh...who, I saw you at the window just now, Come out!"