Ambush from all sides

Looking up, this bird looks really beautiful and lovely. Although it doesn't have too many colors, its feathers are bright, and its pointed beak shell is also bright and firm.Dead Leaf looked at its dripping black eyes, that innocent and curious look... huh?This little guy, why does he seem to keep turning his head and looking at me?

Withered Leaf frowned, a little doubt appeared on her face.He tilted his head, and saw the little guy standing on Zhan Hao's finger, blocking an excited child beside him.Ordinarily, this bird should pay attention to the person in front of it, but it leans its body, twists its neck, and looks at the dead leaves with a pair of black eyes.

Could it be by chance?

Withered Ye thought about it, and moved her body behind Shaosi, letting her block the bird's sight.Unexpectedly, the bird immediately jumped onto Zhan Hao's shoulder with a "hula", and its small body was facing the dead leaves, staring straight at him.

It's really crazy... The dead leaf stared at the bird for a while, as if facing a big enemy.At first I found it weird, but later I realized that it was really stupid, so I stuck my neck and turned my twisted head back silently.He stared at the rice bowl in front of him, his body stiffened and he dared not move.The bird was still looking at him, no matter how the little girl teased him, it shook its head and chirped once or twice, and finally its eyes fell on the dead leaf.

Zhan Hao quietly glanced at the little bird on his shoulder, and then at the dead leaf with a stiff neck, which was full of doubts. He raised his eyebrows unhurriedly, and a calm smile appeared on his mouth.

After lunch, Uncle Zhong took Fang Ning to another private room and continued to ask her some things, while Zhan Hao hugged Xiao Shaosi to tease her.The little girl was not afraid of him at all now, she sat on his lap and hugged the bird, giggling.The bird stood on her finger and didn't move away, just fluttered around the room from time to time.

Chong Lian sat beside her with a plate of peanuts, eating while watching Qiu Langxing write and draw on the ledger with a cinnabar pen.After a while, he turned his head to face others, opened his mouth "ah", and looked like he wanted to be fed.Chong Lian bent her lips with a half-smile, then picked up her fingers, and shot a peanut into his throat with a "swoosh".

Then Qiu Langxing coughed with his throat stuck in pain.

Seeing the dead leaves from the side, her cheeks twitched uncontrollably.He really couldn't figure out why Zhan Hao hired Qiu Langxing to work, and even became Uncle Zhong's apprentice.Although he is indeed quite capable, and his martial arts is not bad, but this guy's sloppy personality, don't you feel pain in your eyes and itchy hands when you look at it?

Really, I want to fight if I look at it more.Dead Leaf thought uncomfortably, and turned her face away in disgust.As soon as his eyes turned to another direction, he immediately saw a small thing flying towards him with a "hula la".Withered Leaf's heart exploded, and he stretched out his hand reflexively to grab it... But the thing was very alert, it made a sharp turn in the air, and landed on his shoulder in the blink of an eye.

It's the little bird.Seeing the bird fly away, Shao Si sat on Zhan Hao's lap and stretched out his hand pitifully to call it: "Little Douzi, don't run away!"

He even named it... Withered Ye was speechless, twisting his neck and staring at this half-red and half-black "little bean".The little guy tilted his head, blinked his black eyes twice, then stretched out his head and rubbed against his neck.The cool, slippery little head made the dead leaves itchy.He dodges subconsciously, but his eyes inadvertently saw Zhan Hao's smiling face.Zhan Hao raised his eyebrows at him, and said with a smile in his voice: "Bie Cen, call it over."

"What do you call it?" Withered Leaf frowned and stared at him, stretching a hand to his shoulder as he spoke.I wanted to shake it away with my hand, but unexpectedly, the little guy thought that the dead leaf was going to touch it, so he squinted his eyes and happily stretched out his head to rub his fingers.Withered Ye was speechless, raised her eyes and glared at Zhan Hao angrily.Zhan Hao couldn't help chuckling twice, and said, "Call it by its name, let it come to me."

Withered Leaf stared at him, hesitated for a while with a tangled expression, and finally said with a suppressed voice unwillingly: "Little Douzi, go over there."

"Chirp~(≧ω≦)" When the little guy heard him call his name, he was so happy that the whole bird shivered from head to tail, looking extremely happy.Dead Leaf was dumbfounded by its exaggerated reaction, and watched it fly back happily.After stopping on Xiao Shaosi, this guy turned his head and flirted with him flirtatiously.

Withered Ye supported her forehead and silently turned her body to the window.

This is so abnormal and so weird!In the past, these little things were all scared by his evil spirit and dared not approach!Why are animals and children so willing to get close to him after coming here? !This... Is it because he has changed, or is it that the little things in Jiangnan are too courageous?

Dead Leaf stared depressedly, puzzled.It's not that I don't like it, but... these things are too inconsistent with his image.Thinking back to the scene where he took the little mandarin ducks to the street before and was noticed by others, Dead Ye felt his chest congealed, and even his expression began to feel unnatural.Hearing Zhan Hao's whisper teasing Shao Si behind him, Dead Ye felt more and more depressed and tangled, he stared at the crowd coming and going downstairs, trying to calm down his disturbed emotions.But when the mind was disturbed, suddenly, a gust of hot wind blew by, and at that moment, the dry leaf's nose, which hadn't itched for a long time, smelled a long-lost smell of fire and nitrate.He suddenly became vigilant, straightened his back, and sneezed hard at the same time.

Dai Yue——Dai Yue again!

Dead Leaf rubbed his nose angrily, for some reason, flashed in his mind the day when the fishing ground started fishing, he originally wanted to ask about Zhan Hao and Dai Yue, but was interrupted by Yi Rong , I forgot everything at the time!Moreover, Zhan Hao actually managed to fool around like this!This dishonest bastard... Gritting his teeth, Dead Leaf turned around and stared at the guy who was messing around with the children, then twisted back viciously and stared at the Que top floor opposite.

There was no one in the opposite window, only some diners could be seen through the window lattice.The dead leaves looked up and down, and finally found a touch of red silk gauze behind the eaves of the roof.

That should be the corner of the sleeve, floating out from behind the cornice.Withered Ye frowned and watched, feeling a little suspicious.Dai Yue is cautious and meticulous in his work, it is impossible to say that there is such an obvious flaw, why would he show him the corner of his sleeve?While thinking, Dead Leaf saw a snow-white catkin slowly revealing from the sleeve, pointed down with slender fingers, and then made a "three".

third floor?Withered Ye frowned, looking suspiciously at the third-floor corridor.There was no one on the porch, and through the large windows, one could see a private room.When Dead Leaf looked over, the door of the private room was just pushed open, and a man in gray came in, picked up a sword from the table, then turned and walked out.

The man was tall, with indifferent brows and eyes, and a stern face.Dead Leaf had never seen this person before, but it was strange that this person gave him a very familiar feeling.The figure seems to have been seen somewhere, and the walking posture is very familiar.

Withered Leaf squinted at the opponent's back, and turned her head in doubt.The man was about to walk out of the private room, but he seemed to feel something for a while, he paused at the door, and then turned his face firmly.

Familiar eyes, cold with a trace of contempt and hatred.Withered Leaf frowned, tensed her body reflexively, a certain shadow in her mind became clearer and clearer, and she was about to remember it soon...

The other party stared at him closely, and after a while, an indifferent and cruel smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.He gave the dead leaf a cold look, then turned and walked out, and the door of the private room was also closed.

Withered Ye held his breath and tried hard to see his whereabouts through the window outside the top floor of Que, but it was in vain after all.But after a while, he saw the man come out from the gate, and then got into a gorgeous carriage.When he bowed, Dead Leaf found something wrapped around his waist with sharp eyes.

At this time, the curtain of the carriage was lifted from the inside, Yan Qi's seductive face was revealed, and he stared at him with hatred.Withered Ye's eyes froze, and the disgust and contempt in his heart burst out instantly.He frowned, then smiled coldly, reached out and gave Yan Qi a thumbs down motion.

Yan Qi's whole face stinks from his provocative gesture.Seeing him shaking in the car window, Dead Leaf kicked the door panel angrily, and then the coachman spurred the horses to run.While walking, Yan Qi was still glaring at him viciously, but when passing by the intersection, Dead Leaf saw him look away, squinted meaningfully for a while and looked at Mrs. Yu's carriage parked at the gate of Longbaiju.

Then, a disgusting smile appeared on Yan Qi's face, as if thinking of something evil.When he turned the corner, he rolled his eyes for one last look at the dead leaves, then turned his face away and lowered the curtains of the car windows.

Nian Yuqing and Yan Qi are together.

Although Dead Leaf has never seen Nian Yuqing's face—that fellow has always covered it more tightly than him—but judging from his figure, walking posture and the whip around his waist, it is Nian Yuqing. .

They seemed calm and unhurried.

Withered Ye stood in place and thought for a while, then turned her face to look at Zhan Hao suspiciously.This guy hugged Xiao Shaosi, still talking softly and in a low voice, calmer than those two just now.Withered Leaf gave him a discouraged look, then turned her face back angrily.

At a quarter to three in the afternoon, Zhan Hao asked Chong Lian to send Fang Ning, mother and son back.Withered Ye saw Chong Lian leisurely climbing into the carriage, sitting in front lazily holding a whip, Yan Qi's meaningful eyes earlier came to mind.His temples twitched faintly, he couldn't help but frowned and walked to Zhan Hao's side, and said in a low voice: "You take people here and send them back so openly, what if the Yan family becomes suspicious and arrests them! "

Zhan Hao looked at him with raised eyebrows in surprise, and said in a low voice, "Who told you that I'm going to send them home?"

Withered Leaf pursed her lips and glared at him.

Zhan Hao laughed lazily: "Of course I want to take them back, if something happens, everyone will have to rely on me."

Hearing what he said, Dead Leaf breathed a sigh of relief.Zhan Hao is such a ghost, there is no way he didn't take this into consideration, he was really worrying about it, he was full.Dead Leaf groaned a little depressed, turned around and wanted to leave, but Zhan Hao stretched out his hand to hold him back, and said with a smile, "Where are you going? We should go back too."

Withered Ye stared at him for a while with a gloomy expression, then shook off his hand and got into the carriage in a blink of an eye.

"Fang Ning said that Yu Yonglin became something wrong four months ago."

Inside the carriage, Uncle Zhong was talking indifferently, and buried himself in rolling the shredded tobacco into a ball and stuffing it into the pipe.When he was about to light a cigarette, Zhan Hao crossed his legs and lightly touched his knee.Uncle Zhong raised his eyes suspiciously, and saw Zhan Hao looking at the dead leaves beside him, then shook his head quietly.

Hey, this young master.

Uncle Zhong sighed pretentiously, put away the pipe in his hand, and continued: "When Yu Yonglin went out, he was very mysterious. Fang Ning asked him what he was up to. He didn't say anything at first, but later revealed it. After a while, it was said that he was doing big business. Someone told him to use the folk prescription given by his father to make medicine, but he didn't tell Fang Ning what kind of medicine it was. It was said to be confidential, and that person forbade it to be revealed."

Zhan Hao lowered his eyes, listened to him calmly, and then fell into deep thought.Withered Ye frowned on the opposite side, and her heart also became active.Earlier, Fang Ning said that a young man bought a lot of pills to strengthen his body, and then the big business came... Could it be that young man?

After a while, thinking of Yan Qi's look at Fang Ning's carriage today, Dead Ye felt more and more that he had something to do with this matter, maybe he was the one who bought the medicine.

Zhan Hao didn't speak all the time, Uncle Zhong looked at him, and said, "I think Fang Ning is a bit strange, she seems to be hiding something and didn't say anything, but she's not very nervous, it doesn't seem like it's something important."

"If I could see those prescriptions..." Zhan Hao muttered in a low voice, his expression somber.Uncle Zhong shook his head and said, "I asked, and Fang Ning said that those prescriptions were not at home, and they should have been taken away before. Although she saw it once or twice before, she doesn't remember the specific ingredients."

"She lied." Zhan Hao said firmly, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and steadfast eyes.Uncle Zhong stared at him, and after a while, he asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Fang Ning's family has practiced medicine for generations. Even if she is not proficient, she is still good at it. Uncle Zhong, do you remember that she said that some ingredients in the prescription have never even heard of their names? If she can say this, it means Let her remember the names of the herbs."

"Then why did she say she didn't remember?" Uncle Zhong frowned, with some doubts in his eyes: "This can also be regarded as a clue. If you tell it, it may be able to find the murderer of her husband sooner."

At this time, Qiu Langxing, who was looking at Chonglian through the window, turned his face and smiled twice, with a ghostly look in his eyes: "Master, why are you getting more and more confused? The murderer is not only the Yan family and the Lin family, but also the other murderers." Who could it be? At most, we can add a Shadow Gate, there is no need to investigate. We didn't intend to investigate the murderer, Master, have you forgotten?"

Uncle Zhong was stunned, and let out an "uh" in confusion.Zhan Hao smiled and said, "Uncle Zhong, do you remember that you told me before that there was a large field of poppies and marijuana planted on the back hill of the Lin family?"

"Ah..." Uncle Zhong continued to be confused.

Zhan Hao smiled calmly: "Fang Ning didn't want to tell the ingredients in the prescription, probably because there were dangerous drugs in it. Do you remember that Yu Yonglin's hometown is near Dali? Where the poppies abound."

Uncle Zhong was still in a daze: "Ah, is that so..."

Qiu Lang had a good time, and leaned sideways to Zhan Hao's ear, muttering: "Master, he doesn't know anything about things other than Suzhou and Hangzhou, how can he know where poppies grow..." Before he finished speaking, Uncle Zhong viciously slapped him on his calf. Kicked.Zhong Yunde crossed his arms in depression, cursing inwardly, little bastard, he has never traveled far to bully his elders!

After hearing Zhan Hao's words, Dead Ye originally thought about whether to tell him about seeing Yan Qi and Nian Yuqing before leaving, but now it seems that he has already thought about it.So he shrugged and gave up, and once again scolded himself in his heart for worrying about nothing.He looked out of the window with his face turned away. After a while, for some unknown reason, the carriage suddenly "creaked" and stopped on the bustling street.

The four of them swayed in the car, and then the door was opened. Quan Jing leaned in with wide eyes and said, "Master! Jin Shengxi's door was blocked by people from the Yan family and the Lin family!"

Upon hearing this, Zhan Hao frowned immediately.He stretched out his hand to lift the curtain, and he really saw the entrance of Jin Shengxi in the side passage, a large group of people crowded there, many well-dressed guards stood outside, and there was a lot of noise inside.A gray figure with a whip tied around his waist wandered through the crowd and entered the shop.

This time, Dead Leaf also frowned.He got up with a cold face and was about to get off the carriage, but Zhan Hao grabbed his clothes and pulled him back.Dead Leaf was stunned for a moment, seeing him looking at her seriously, she pushed herself on the seat, and said to Qiu Langxing, "You go."

Qiu Langxing was taken aback, unable to laugh or cry: "What?! Why did you ask me to go?"

Uncle Zhong glared at him angrily: "You are the most cheating here, who else will you go to?!"

So Qiu Langxing got out of the car crying, and before leaving, he ran to the carriage behind and dragged Chonglian up, saying that he wanted her to protect himself.Uncle Zhong sat by the window, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, thinking that he was Qiu Yingtian's grandson, Chonglian's kung fu might not be as good as his, so why should he be protected?There isn't a serious neurotic apprentice these days!

Here Zhan Hao turned his head sideways, watching the two of them walking quickly into the crowd, and then looked away.Dead Leaf frowned and stared at him suspiciously, feeling a little strange in her heart.Isn't Jin Shengxi a casino?That's all for Yan Qi, why are Lin Zhihuan and Nian Yuqing also appearing here?Also, what is the relationship between Jin Shengxi and Zhan Hao? Why is he so nervous?

"Master, is it okay?" Zhong Yunde looked at the scene outside the window with some worry, his eyes were not very optimistic.Zhan Hao lowered his head and pondered for a while, then called Quan Jing to get into Fang Ning's carriage behind him.Yuke stared blankly at Quan Jing going to the back, feeling a little silly for a moment.Seeing her in a daze, Zhan Hao helplessly stretched out his hand to pat her forehead, and said with a smile: "Let's go, why are you standing there?"

Yu Ke foolishly replied: "Don't you wait for Mr. Qiu?"

Zhan Hao glanced out lightly: "It's okay, he can take care of it, let's go, go back to eat." After finishing speaking, he put down the curtain and closed the car door.Uncle Zhong sighed, put down the curtains, and sat back with a relaxed body.When he leaned his back against the wall of the car, Dead Leaf heard him mutter in a low voice: "Fortunately, I have already got all the documents..."

Withered Ye stared at her face, and the suspicious look in her eyes became more intense.

The carriage started, and Zhan Hao leaned back in the slightly turbulent carriage with no expression on his face.After a while, he felt that the dead leaves were looking at him, so he raised his face to meet his gaze.Zhan Hao's eyes were calm and flat, showing no emotion.Dead Leaf glared at him, and couldn't help grinding her back molars secretly.Zhan Hao smiled indifferently, then raised his eyebrows at him.

It was still early when we returned to the exhibition house, and it had just arrived at Shenshi.Zhan Hao got out of the carriage and went to the back to help Fangning. Seeing her hugging little Shaosi, he reached out to take the little guy over. Withered Ye helped Uncle Zhong get out of the car.At this time, there were a few clouds floating in the slightly orange sky, and there was an abnormal quietness in the air.

A small bird flew across the air and landed on the top of the tree at the door.Dead Leaf looked up and found that it was a little bird with a red head and a black body.

little bean?

Is that the little guy?Dead Leaf looked at it suspiciously, feeling somewhat unbelievable.Didn't Zhan Hao let it go, why would it follow?Is it possible that they are really domesticated?

At this time, the bird on the top of the tree that was looking up at the eaves called "chirp" twice, and then turned its head around.Withered Ye shuddered, and said to herself, little bastard, don't stare at me again!But the little bird only glanced at him, then turned its head to the other side, its mouth still "chirp chirp chirp", it looked like an ordinary wild bird.

I guess it's not a little bean.

Dead Leaf let out a breath with some palpitations, feeling that she was about to be scared out of the shadows by that little guy.He shook his head depressingly, then turned around and followed Uncle Zhanhao Zhong into the door.

At this time, the bird on the tree turned its head back.Standing on a tall tree, it saw the slender figure of withered leaves walk under the eaves, and then came out from the other side and entered the yard after a while.The little guy blinked, opened his wings, and flew upwards with a fluttering little body, and rushed towards the backyard in an instant.