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Bright red blood beads popped out from between the fingers, Zhou Qingyan stared at the blood beads in a daze.

"My lord, what's the matter with you?" Ah Qiang put down the food box, and hurriedly turned around to ask someone to get the medicine box, but was stopped by Zhou Qingyan.

The young man licked his finger casually, and the tiny wound soon stopped bleeding: "When someone brings the medicine box, this wound will heal."

Ah Qiang brought out the meals plate by plate, they were all simple and refreshing dishes, and they were served with porridge: "You didn't eat anything yesterday, Fang Bo specially asked you to eat something today."

Zhou Qingyan found a maid to clean up the fragments of teacups on the ground, and sat down casually: "Uncle Fang really gets wider as he grows older."

He moves very casually when eating, unlike Chu Heng who always sits upright, eats, eats and sleeps without saying a word. When the two of them are together, they can always hear Zhou Qingyan's voice alone. In the end, Chu Heng had to hug him on his lap and hoop him up. Feed by mouthful.

Ah Qiang didn't care what he said, just forced him to eat the whole bowl with fried bamboo shoots, and finally packed up the dishes and left contentedly.

Zhou Qingyan said angrily, "How dare a maid be so arrogant."

Ah Qiang retorted happily: "The slave girl has found a new backer." Isn't that right, when Chu Heng comes back, she must be rewarded well.

Zhou Qingyan curled his lips: "Hurry up and get out!"

Ah Qiang rolled away happily.

When Zhou Qingyan was the only one left in the study, he restrained his relaxed expression and pressed his chest slightly.

In the past few days, the wound on his heart has begun to scab, and there is a faint itching sensation from the wound, which always makes people want to scratch. Zhou Qingyan has been used to this kind of heart-stirring feeling for a few days, but just for a moment, in his mind, For a moment it was blank.

The teacup fell to the ground.

After a while, Zhou Qingyan's lowered eyelids finally moved, and he called someone in: "Is there a letter from the front line today?"

The maid only thought that he was thinking too much, and shook her head: "Pavilion Master, maybe I can't remember the time since the war started, but I think it will be here soon."

Zhou Qingyan's eyes froze slightly: "No." It's impossible for Chu Heng not to remember writing to him.

Ziyuan didn't want him to go to the battlefield, and it was impossible for him to forget about it—he knew that Zhou Qingyan would definitely go to the front line if he lost contact.

Unless something stopped him, he would not be able to deliver the letter for a while.But according to the time calculation, at most we can reach the border between Jingxi Road and Kuizhou today. Could it be that there has already been a fight?

Zhou Qingyan panicked for no reason, barely supported the table and poured two sips of herbal tea: "Call Gong Yuan."

Zhou Gongyuan came soon: "Pavilion Master?"

"Do we have spies on Jingxi Road?"

Zhou Gongyuan shook his head slightly: "No, after the emperor ordered to hunt down the people in the Wuying Pavilion, many brothers scattered everywhere were damaged, and the hidden stakes on Jingxi Road were also pulled out."

In other words, their connection with Jingxi Road has been cut off now, and unless Chu Heng continues to send letters, he will not get any news about the march of the Chu army in a short time.Zhou Qingyan couldn't help but gritted his teeth.

Zhou Gongyuan said in a deep voice: "Pavilion Master, among the ten guards of Jin Ge, there is someone with outstanding lightness kung fu, otherwise let him..."

"Send a few more people to re-bury the hidden piles on Jingxi Road as much as possible. It's best to find out the news about Lichuan and Kuizhou." Zhou Qingyan said, "I'm waiting for tonight. If there is no news tomorrow morning, I will go there. Go west of Beijing."

Zhou Qingyan's calculations were excellent, but unfortunately something happened on Jiangnan East Road before the night was over.

Near midnight, the suburbs were ablaze with flames and thick smoke billowed everywhere.

Zhou Qingyan woke up from his sleep, his black hair fell out of his clothes, and he asked sharply, "What's going on?"

Ah Qiang panicked and said: "Pavilion Master, the granary to the east is on fire!"

Zhou Qingyan's heart skipped a beat.In the granary on the east side was the freshly harvested grain, most of which were taken away by Chu Heng, and the rest was rations for the rear.

Zhou Qingyan strode towards the granary with a cold face: "Who set the fire?"

Ah Qiang took small steps to keep up: "I haven't found it yet, I heard people say that the weather is too dry these days and the wind blows it up."

The young man's sneer in the darkness became clearer: "Save this nonsense and tell the king of hell!"

"Hurry up and send people to put out the fire. If the fire can't be extinguished, try to transport the food out." Zhou Qingyan said as he walked, and suddenly stopped and turned his head to look in a certain direction.

It was a small hill, and the trees were not too dense - with Zhou Qingyan's eyesight, he could see the looming figure in the hill.The young man's face turned completely cold, as cold as the twelfth lunar month in winter, and a murderous intent flashed in his eyes.

"Take your man and bring him back to me." Zhou Qingyan said softly, without any emotion in his tone.

The expression on Ah Qiang's face faded in an instant, and she whispered "Your maidservant obeys orders", and then disappeared.

She is Zhou Qingyan's maid, who takes care of the pavilion master's daily life and can occasionally push Pai Gow, but she is not only a maid, but also a hidden guard trained in Wuying Pavilion, an existence of the same level as Shi'er.

It took only a short stick of incense for Zhou Qingyan to arrive at the granary after he knew about it, but during this time, the granary had already become more than half of ruins. It's just a drop in the bucket.

Zhou Qingyan's hands hidden in his sleeves were clenched tightly. The fire might burn all the food inside.

"Let everyone back away, dig up the surrounding soil, and don't let the fire spread again." Zhou Qingyan made a decisive decision and shouted sharply.

Hearing the words, the people below immediately stopped wanting to go in to save food, and consciously dug soil around to isolate the fire in this small space.

The flames intensified with the wind, and when it was the most violent, it even illuminated a small piece of sky, and the fiery breath rushed towards the face, making people retreat subconsciously.

Someone came over and asked in a low voice: "Pavilion Master, what should we do with the food?"

Zhou Qingyan: "If the food is gone, we can still grow it, and if people are gone, it is really gone." It is impossible for him to let the people below exchange their lives for food.

Someone seemed to be looking at him from a distance, and Zhou Qingyan looked in the direction of his line of sight—it was a young man with a dark complexion, with many burns on his body, and a woman was bandaging his wounds.

He was sitting on a box with several other boxes piled up next to him.

Zhou Qingyan could tell at a glance that it was a grain box. He and the young man looked at each other for a while, then suddenly raised their eyebrows and walked over.

Seeing him, the woman quickly saluted and was helped up by Zhou Qingyan.The latter didn't look at the woman, but kept staring at the young man: "You rescued this?"

The young man didn't speak, his eyes kept rolling around him, until the person next to him poked him before he replied slowly: "Yes."

After waiting for an hour, the fire burned the entire granary to ashes before it slowly extinguished. A group of people stood not far away and watched hundreds of thousands of catties of grain turn into dust, with regretful expressions on their faces. .

Zhou Qingyan turned to look at the young man: "You are so bold, you dare to go in to save food in such a big fire."

This man didn't know what was wrong with his brain. Others looked at Zhou Qingyan tremblingly and respectfully. He seemed like a normal person: "I'm afraid."

"What are you afraid of?"

The young man glanced at him, hesitated for a moment before speaking: "I'm afraid you'll kill me. It was my cousin who lit the fire. He was originally on watch tonight, so he hired me to take his place."

This man spoke like that millstone, only willing to spit out bits and pieces each time, which made everyone anxious for a while.

Zhou Qingyan raised his chin slightly, revealing a clean and distinct jawline. His loving eyes now lacked any warmth, and he stared at the young man for a long while—for a moment he felt that he had been seen through by the overly beautiful man in front of him, and in his heart In an instant, he froze.

"Say what you want to say, and leave if you don't." Zhou Qingyan said heavily, "I don't have that much time to play charades with you."

All the special performances of this person from beginning to end were to attract his attention.

Zhou Qingyan didn't know what he was going to do, and he didn't have time to play this childish drama with him.

The young man was taken aback for a moment.

Zhou Qingyan walked away just as he was in a daze, Ah Qiang should have caught the man from Shan Qiu, and after going back for interrogation, he would know who the murderer was.This matter must not be left alone.

Seeing that he was unmoved at all, the young man panicked: "Wait!"

Zhou Qingyan kept walking: "Say."

The young man looked like beans pouring out of a bamboo tube: "It was my cousin named Liu Dali who started the fire. He made a fortune not long ago. At first, he just secretly delivered grain from the granary. Today, he suddenly knocked down the oil lamp."

In order to prevent the grain and grass from catching fire, Chu Heng separated the hut where the guards rested from the grain and grass. Even if Liu Dali knocked over the oil lamp, it would not catch fire unless he brought the oil lamp into the granary.

Seeing that Zhou Qingyan was unmoved, Liu Dali could only bite the bullet and tell the whole story: "I was also involved in stealing food at that time."

Zhou Qingyan sneered.

Liu Hu originally wanted to hide this matter secretly in his heart, but he didn't expect that the legendary Pavilion Master Zhou was so powerful that he couldn't hide it, so he might as well tell everything and obey - maybe he won't lose this job.

Zhou Qingyan brought them into the hall, there were already three people inside, Alian and Aqiang and a middle-aged man who was kneeling and trembling.

Liu Hu could tell at a glance that it was his self-pocketing cousin Liu Dali, he hesitated for a moment and stood beside him - without kneeling.

The door of the hall was not closed, and there were nearly a dozen soldiers standing outside the door, holding swords and looking at them expressionlessly.

Zhou Qingyan sat down in the front seat: "Who will speak first?"

Liu Dali was the first to speak: "I say, I say, I say everything, please spare me my dog's life."

"I didn't do it on purpose..." Liu Dali just finished speaking half a sentence, crying bitterly, when suddenly he felt a gust of cold wind blowing by his ears, Ah Qiang's whip slapped and splashed fine stones on the ground.

Liu Dali collapsed on the ground like a dead dog.

It was probably the first time that people in the Chu family saw Zhou Qingyan showing such a terrifying expression, and the guards outside the door couldn't help but tremble. dead.

The young man's voice was very soft, every word was like an ice cave, pouring people to death: "I don't want to know who lit the fire."

"I just want to know who's behind the scenes instructing you to start the fire."

Liu Qiang suddenly felt that he had fallen into an ice cave, and he suddenly realized how childish his behavior in front of Zhou Qingyan was.

This person didn't want to know the truth about the ignition, but just wanted to follow the clues to find out who was behind the scenes.

Zhou Qingyan chuckled suddenly, although the smile didn't reach his eyes: "Why, don't you want to say it?"