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It was already evening, and there were only three pharmacies in Nancheng, and Fucheng found Huichuntang.Huichuntang was originally an old medical clinic with a history of several decades. Later, Mr. Qi became old and had no successors, so he changed it into a pharmacy, which was more leisurely.Although Huichuntang is no longer a medical clinic, Mr. Qi will set up a booth in the lobby to see free clinics when he has nothing to do.

When Fu Cheng and Zhou Xuanyi entered, two or three people were seeing a doctor.Old Mr. Qi was old and spoke slowly. Fucheng knew him and said hello to him.Mr. Qi smiled like a kind old man in a fairy tale. He smiled at Fucheng, and then turned his head to talk to the patient.

Fucheng walked to the counter, and the drug catcher was a villain, and he was lowering his head to make plans.When he looked up and saw Fu Zhou and the others approaching, he laughed.He recognized Fucheng, turned his head and saw Zhou Xuanyi behind him, and immediately became aroused.The clerk welcomed and sent him to see many people. He had only seen Zhou Xuanyi's regal appearance three times in his life.Zhou Xuanyi made him murmur a little, the staff always felt that his face was very familiar.

The clerk quickly grabbed good medicinal materials for invigorating blood circulation, and at Fucheng's request, he also grabbed a few big tonics, and said casually, "Is Brother Yan better?"

Fu Cheng was a little confused, and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Didn't Brother Yan catch this medicine?" The clerk scratched his head and said doubtfully, "He came to me a few days ago, covered in blood, I thought he was injured."

Fucheng and Zhou Xuanyi looked at each other, they didn't expect to find Yan Shaokang's news by mistake, and asked urgently: "When did you see him?"

"Seven or eight days ago, why are you asking this?" The man became a little wary.

Fu Cheng thought in his heart, wasn't seven or eight days ago the days before and after Xiahou Lord's murder?Fu Cheng secretly handed him a piece of silver, "Is it convenient for you to ask me something?"

The clerk immediately smiled, and Fucheng gave him a ten tael ingot of Wenyin, which was his half-year expenses. "Convenient and convenient."

When Zhou Xuanyi saw the ten taels of silver that Fucheng gave casually, he was a little jealous and a little distressed, and finally realized that the teacher's money is not easy to earn.He quietly poked Fucheng in the back, and asked, "Why do you give so much money?" After Fucheng's lectures, Zhou Xuanyi understood that survival is not easy, and now he is not happy to see Fucheng being so lavish. .Although he didn't know what he was not happy about, anyway, it was Fucheng's money, so what did it have to do with him.

"Hey, can you speak well, why are you poking me all the time?" Fucheng yelled, and then replied in a low voice: "In case this incident leads to murder, I have to leave some Life-saving money." This person in Fucheng is generous every time he does things, especially when it comes to such fatal things, if the buddy tells Fucheng news today that he will die tragically in the back alley of the pharmacy tomorrow, Fucheng will feel better.

Zhou Xuanyi didn't understand the market as well as Fucheng, just about to say something, the staff welcomed Fucheng and Zhou Xuanyi to the backyard, "Talk over here."

When he arrived in the backyard, Fu Cheng asked straight to the point: "When did you see him?"

The clerk took the money and was meticulous in handling things. He trotted all the way to the counter to get the account book, looked through the account book carefully, and then replied, "It was eight days ago."

Fucheng felt that he had come to the right place. Eight days ago was the day before Master Xiahou was assassinated.

The clerk said while recalling: "That day, it was night, and Yan Shaokang suddenly rushed into the store. I recognized him. He is a doctor. He used to come to my place to buy medicine."

Zhou Xuanyi was still thinking about money, so he asked casually, "What did he buy?"

The guy said: "That's the fault here, he didn't buy the medicine."

Fu Cheng asked: "Didn't buy any medicine? Then why did he go to the pharmacy?"

"He said he was waiting for someone." The man said, "I know him fairly well, so I asked him to wait in the pharmacy, but his hands were covered with blood, and I thought he was injured, so I advised him to bandage him quickly, but he As if nothing happened, now that I think about it, it probably wasn't his blood."

Fu Cheng frowned, whose blood is not his?

The man continued: "I don't know, he looks like a zombie. I thought he was scary, so I hid in the back hall."

Zhou Xuanyi asked: "Did you see the person he was waiting for?"

"No." The man was a little embarrassed, "I squinted for a while, and I was very sleepy. I was on night duty before, but I didn't feel sleepy. I don't know why I couldn't open my eyelids that day."

Fucheng thought to himself, Yan Shaokang is a master at using poison, and the guy must have been drugged.

The man continued: "When the clapper rang at the second watch, I shivered and became a little more awake. I vaguely saw who he was arguing with,"

Zhou Xuanyi and Fu Cheng stared at the buddy together, this should be the point of Yan Shaokang's disappearance.

Fu Cheng asked anxiously: "And then?"

"Then……"

Zhou Xuanyi said coldly: "Then you fell asleep."

The guy wanted to refute himself a few words, but finally scratched his head helplessly, "I don't know why, I was very sleepy that day."

"Although I didn't hear what they were talking about, I heard voices. The person opposite was talking neither male nor female..." The man lowered his head again, hesitant to speak, and his voice was as thin as a mosquito, "It seems to be an eunuch .”

However, Zhou Xuanyi suddenly opened his pupils wide, and his voice became severe, he asked, "What did you say?"

Zhou Xuanyi took two steps forward, and stood face to face with the buddy, even Fu Cheng could feel the overwhelming aura of Zhou Xuanyi.If Fucheng hadn't known that this person's martial arts was only [-]% at most, he would have thought that Zhou Xuanyi was going to kill him.

The man was frightened by him, thinking that it was scary for him to be angry, the man took a step back unconsciously, sweat dripping all the way to the base of his neck, he waved his hands and said, "I didn't say anything."

Fucheng looked at Zhou Xuanyi's reaction suspiciously, and comforted him, "You don't have to be an eunuch if you speak in a high-pitched voice." There is a sect in Jianghu that specializes in cultivating "Yin Qi". of.

"Keep your voice down," the man seemed to have heard something terrible, looked around carefully, and then lowered his voice, "I heard, Yan Shaokang called that man Grandpa."

The most precious part of a man is castrated, and he will be especially concerned about his dignity in other places. I heard that people in Dongchang call themselves general banners, governors, and governors. He called himself "Grand Duke".

Zhou Xuanyi narrowed his eyes and said, "Have you told others about this?"

"How dare you." The buddy swallowed, no matter how you look at Zhou Xuanyi, he thinks this person is not easy to mess with. Besides, who doesn't know the methods used by Dongchang to torture people? Even if he is beaten to death, the buddy doesn't want to follow him The eunuch got involved.

"There's more..." The guy began to falter.

Fucheng was a little impatient, thinking that he needed to add more money, so he stuffed another two taels of silver, and said, "Say something quickly."

Zhou Xuanyi wanted to stop him, but he couldn't. He saw his two months' money being sent out again.

The guy was misunderstood, and he felt a little embarrassed at the moment, "I don't want money, who said I want money. I'm not sure..."

Zhou Xuanyi stretched out his hand angrily, and said, "Then return the money to me."

Fu Cheng was amused by Zhou Xuanyi's miser-like posture, and teased, "You really lost your money."

The buddy has never seen anyone asking for money back after inquiring about it. Isn't this gang of elders more generous than one?The pharmacy clerk grabbed the money so hard that no one would give it to anyone, "I was dazzled that day, and I'm not sure how many people came."

Zhou Xuanyi just said it casually, he didn't really want to steal money from a pharmacy clerk, so he asked, "What do you mean?"

"That..." The guy looked around and mouthed, "It's just that grandpa..."

After saying the three words that made him dread, he resumed his normal voice and said, "There seems to be someone beside him."

Zhou Xuanyi asked: "How many people can't you see clearly?"

Zhou Xuanyi spoke with a sense of sarcasm, most people couldn't bear it, and those who were stared at by him usually doubted themselves whether they were a fool.

The guy explained with a guilty conscience: "I was dazzled so much, that man didn't say a word from the beginning to the end. I don't know if he is alive or not."

Fucheng asked the buddy again, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, he told the buddy not to reveal his whereabouts to others before leaving, and gave the buddy a tael of silver. This time, Zhou Xuanyi didn't know whether he was thinking about things or he was used to Fucheng. The city spends money lavishly, without stopping it.

The clerk took the money and thanked Fu Cheng a thousand times. After asking about it, Fu Cheng gave him enough money for half a year to be free. He is a smart man, knowing that he should shut up after taking the money.His private plan was to leave Liuyin Lane as soon as Fucheng left, and go to Mo's Village ten miles away to join his cousin.

After Fucheng and Zhou Xuanyi walked out of Huichun Hall, they didn't go back to Liuyin Lane immediately, instead they wandered aimlessly on the official road.After asking the guys in Huichun Hall, neither of them spoke again.

Fucheng was a little confused, how did Yan Shaokang get involved with the people from Dongchang?

Bailu City was originally a place far away from the emperor, and it was full of fish and dragons. Swordsmen from the desert also gathered here, and the minions of Dongchang would not come to such a barren place.But I can't bear the fact that there are many merchants coming and going, and there is a lot of money. The big households in Bailu City have some contacts with Dongchang. As the largest of them, Xiahou Mansion should have close contacts with Dongchang in private.

There is no such thing as forming a party for personal gain, and paying tribute to Dongchang seems to be a kind of security. After all, there is nothing wrong with making good friends with them.

Before Lord Xia Hou was assassinated, people from Dongchang appeared in Bailu City.The strangest thing is that Fucheng didn't see any eunuchs at the wedding banquet in Xiahou Mansion. If people from Dongchang came to Bailu City, they could only attend the wedding banquet, but at least on the bright side that day, Fucheng didn't see any eunuchs. To a person from Dongchang.

Fu Cheng suddenly asked: "Did you remember something?" Zhou Xuanyi is not a person who is used to showing his true expression, this is his habit, even after losing his memory, he still abides by it.But when the pharmacy clerk mentioned Dongchang, Zhou Xuanyi's expression was a little unnatural.

Until now, the two of them had walked under the warm sun, but Zhou Xuanyi's vigilance from the very beginning did not dissipate.

Zhou Xuanyi was thinking about something, his brows were furrowed at this time, he looked at Fucheng, shook his head honestly and said: "My mind is very messy." Zhou Xuanyi didn't say what was in his heart, he vaguely felt Yan Shaokang's disappearance and I have a great connection.

They should have met before the wedding banquet in Xiahou Mansion.

Zhou Xuanyi's memory has always been inconsistent. Regarding the relationship with Yan Shaokang, Zhou Xuanyi has a little intuition, which is different from his familiarity with Fucheng. He and Yan Shaokang should be very familiar with each other, and their interests are closely related to each other. .

From Fucheng's point of view, Yan Shaokang's actions were basically clear before Xiahou's mansion was killed.Three days before Lord Xiahou was killed, Yan Shaokang led Fucheng to Tianxiang Tower, and got news from Xiahou Mansion from Xuefengniang. It was still a question mark whether Xuefengniang's death was Yan Shaokang's work that night. He also met a man who claimed to be "Grand Duke" at the pharmacy, and disappeared mysteriously after sneaking into Xiahou's mansion the next day.

Motivation?Fucheng couldn't figure out, what was Yan Shaokang's motive for doing this?

Fang Hai had already gone to southern Xinjiang to investigate Yan Shaokang's background, but it would take at least ten days and a half a month before the results came out.

Zhou Xuanyi thought about it, and suddenly said: "You don't have to worry about Yan Shaokang, he won't die for a while."

Fucheng didn't follow Zhou Xuanyi's train of thought, and asked in a daze: "How do you know?"

"Intuition." Zhou Xuanyi's voice was very cold, he didn't seem to be talking about his own affairs, and said: "Yan Shaokang is connected with my fate, and they won't take action against him until they find me."

Zhou Xuanyi and Fucheng are the two ends of a balance, they are the existence of each other. As long as Fucheng holds Zhou Xuanyi in his hand and walks along the laid thread, he will definitely find the truth about Yan Shaokang.

Fucheng thought about this matter, Yan Shaokang is definitely not dead, if he died in Xiahou Mansion, he happened to be the best scapegoat for the assassination of Xiahou Lord, an assassin with unknown origin, assassinated Xiahou Lord on the spot, the county master would not have to bother Find Chen Ming as a scapegoat.This is also the reason why he investigates the case slowly and is not in a hurry.

But Zhou Xuanyi obviously remembered something, judging from what he meant, it seemed that he didn't intend to share it with Fucheng.Fucheng and Zhou Xuanyi have been working together to investigate the case for so many days, and for the first time, a estrangement has arisen.