"Brother-in-law, this is the residence of Master Wang, the Grand Secretary of Wenyuan Pavilion." Su Hua said to Fang Xiao, "But, brother-in-law, what are you doing here?"

"My father is a family friend of Lord Wang. When he was in the capital, he was taken care of by Lord Wang. Besides, Lord Wang is also the chief examiner of my provincial examination, so he can be regarded as my home." Fang Xiao said with a smile without caring about his name.

"So that's it, but I won't go in with my brother-in-law. You know, my father is a military officer after all." Su Hua said as if he was standing outside the palace and leaving Fang Xiao after two steps.

"Hey, my stubborn disease is a stubborn disease for me to come to the Chinese culture and light military. Well, I'll just go visit alone." Fang Xiao shook his head and turned to Su Hua and said, "I don't know how long it takes for me to come out. You can go back first, don't wait for me."

"Okay." Su Hua was also happy when he heard this. After all, unlike Fang Xiao, he was a scholar and was most annoyed by such common etiquette. But what he didn't know was that Fang Xiao secretly planned to go to the south of the city alone and meet the old man that day.

When Su Hua walked away, Fang Xiao knocked on the door of the royal palace, "Student Fang Xiao came to pay homage to Enfu, please go and report it." Fang Xiao took out a post and handed it to the door. The Grand Secretary's Mansion fell into the door and even the door was a little more scholarly. He respectfully replied to Fang Xiao and walked in with the post of worship.

After a while, the door walked out and respectfully led Fang Xiao into the mansion. After walking through two halls, he walked out of the hall opposite. The door stopped walking and signaled to Fang Xiao. Fang Xiao looked up and saw the three-character Yuelai Hall. When he walked into the hall, he saw a picture of a crane over the clouds, with pairs of porcelain bottles and candles placed on the table. An old man in his fifties was looking at Fang Xiao with interest on the chair on the side.

"Student Fang Xiao has seen Enfu." Fang Xiao withdrew his gaze and bowed respectfully to Wang Cheng.

"Please get up quickly." Wang Cheng also helped him up and said, "If you call En Mansion again, you will be unfamiliar. I am a few years older than your father, so you can call me uncle."

"The uncle is above, my nephew is polite." Fang Xiao acted as a gesture to bow again but was stopped by Wang Cheng.

"I won't promote these vain rituals here, let's sit down." Wang Cheng said with a caress.

"That nephew Meng Lang is here." Fang Xiao also apologized and sat down.

"What did your father ask you to do this time?" Wang Cheng asked as he looked at Fang Xiao sitting down.

"My father asked me to go north and follow Lord Su Buqing to experience it at the Six Gates." Fang Xiao also said.

Wang Cheng's face twitched slightly, "Your father has started to mess around, Fang Xiao, you are Jie Yuan from the Jiangsu Provincial Examination. The Spring Festival will not be a difficult task for you next year. It is not impossible to get a Southern Huiyuan, but don't be led by these things."

"My nephew knows that academic priority is, but my father will make the same arrangements as he must have reason." Fang Xiao also said.

"Yes, Linyu is indeed not such a casual person. I think he has his arrangements, but whether you go to Hangzhou or stay at the Six Gate, your studies cannot be ruined. After all, you are a saint, so you must remember that you will always be a scholar." Wang Cheng was still educating.

"I'm sure," Fang Xiao replied respectfully. Wang Cheng looked at Fang Xiao's appearance and liked it tightly, so he smiled and pulled other words.

Three coffins are neatly placed in the morgue of Liushangmen in Hangzhou. Xue Wu looked at the report written by the coroner and narrowed his eyes slightly. "There is no other analysis except the cause of death. Qingtan seems that your coroner here can be removed from the list."

"Who said no? I could tell at a glance that this corpse was the opening of the blood droplet." Xiao Qingtan also shook his head and said.

"Look at the neat blade, it's a bit strange." Xue Wu suddenly stared at a corpse and said.

"What's wrong?" Xiao Qingtan also walked over. After looking carefully, Xiao Qingtan hurriedly approached the corpse and gently touched the collar of the corpse's clothes with his hands. Then he sniffed it with his nose. "It's interesting, there was no bloody smell at all."

"Is it the head that was cut after death?" Xue Wu asked.

"No, the cause of death should be correct. Blood was also flowing all over the ground where the corpse was found, and there was no sign of poisoning, so it should be fine if they died of blood droplets. I was a little surprised to see that the front chests of these three corpses were not bloody." Xiao Qingtan said with a frown.

"What's wrong with that? I always feel something is wrong." Xue Wu said.

"Xuewu, you should have seen people from the East Factory use blood droplets." Xiao Qingtan said, "The most important thing about blood droplets as an assassination weapon is its speed. So when the blood droplet is put on the head, you can cut off the head with the high-speed rotating blade. But it is precisely because of its speed that blood will definitely splash out, so the collar will never be so clean."

"In other words, they used blood droplets to slowly kill people?" Xue Wu said.

"But, although these three people are not considered martial arts practitioners, they are considered to be tough. How could they not struggle under that situation?" Xiao Qingtan continued, "But if they struggle, the skin cut by the blade will also splash blood." Xiao Qingtan's frown was still tightly locked.

"Can you get dizzy? Hand knife or sweating pills, etc." Xue Wu said.

"This is a bit right. I just smelled some wine on that dress. If there was medicine in the wine, all this would be reasonable." Xiao Qingtan took the tea handed over by the servant and took a sip of it and continued, "Isn't this just so silly?"

"How do you say it?" Xue asked without doubt.

"You think, since you have already fainted, what method can't you use to treat these people? Why do you need to use blood droplets to cut off your head in one go? In this way, we simply run and lock our target in Shuiyue Pavilion, which can use blood droplets? I don't understand that a stupid mistake would make such a tissue hidden so deeply under my nose." Xiao Qingtan also said the thoughts in his heart to Xue Wu.

"Maybe they believe that Siwen Pavilion will not betray their interests? Or they think that Siwen Pavilion is not clear about their news?" Xue Wu also made his own guess.

"This shouldn't be. Siwen Pavilion shouldn't be so close to them, otherwise Qi Siyan wouldn't have given us almost all the information about Shuiyue Pavilion so quickly." Xiao Qingtan thought for a while and said to Xue Wu, "And since Shuiyue Pavilion has a foothold in the martial arts world, it shouldn't be unclear about Siwen Pavilion's abilities."

"That means that there are some unknown reasons that force them to do this." Xue Wu also narrowed his eyes slightly and thought.

"There is only one reason I can think of when chopping off my head," Xiao Qingtan continued.

"Cover your identity?" Xue Wu replied.

"That's right, but can't the corpse be destroyed? Or just use a Park knife to cut it down, why use a blood drop to show your identity? This problem is still not solved!" Xiao Qingtan said.

"You mean they were deliberately trying to identify themselves, or they thought our six doors could do nothing about it." Xue Wu said suddenly and dumbly.

"Just like the case in Jiaxing Mansion?" Xiao Qingtan also became gloomy when he heard this. "If this is true, then there must be a big Buddha behind this Shuiyue Pavilion."

"Yes, it seems that this is another big case that is very involved." Xue Wu said.

"Forget it, don't think about these things for now, but it is certain that these people cannot get out of touch with Shuiyue Pavilion, but we haven't even caught the tail of Shuiyue Pavilion." Xiao Qingtan said as he signaled his subordinates to close the coffin, "It seems that we have to start with the audience of Shuiyue Pavilion. Where is Li Feng, come here."

"I'm here." Li Feng heard Xiao Qingtan telling him to come in from outside the door.

"You arrange our spies to find out where the Shuiyue Pavilion is and the conditions for entry from those high-ranking officials. Remember to be secretly secreted." Xiao Qingtan said, feeling a little biased and said, "Forget it, they should be intentional, so let's check it out for me in a swagger so that the whole Hangzhou knows that we are checking Shuiyue Pavilion."

"Is it necessary?" Xue Wu also scratched his head and asked.

"It is very necessary. Since Shuiyue Pavilion may be openly launched to compete with us, they will know whether we are secretly hiding these things. It is better to make the momentum bigger and I can also go to Lord Mo to invite me." In the end, Xiao Qingtan also joked.

"Subordinate to obey the order." Li Feng also answered respectfully.

"Yeah, go." Xiao Qingtan nodded.

"This will be an arduous battle." Xue Wu glanced silently into the distance.

Fang Xiao was walking towards the south of the city after coming out of the palace. Although he was a little wary of the old man who appeared inexplicably, his curiosity still drove him to the mansion in the south of the city as the old man said.

Fang Xiao walked quickly and found that the market of Shuntian Prefecture was prosperous and the vast and prosperous, which was different from Yingtian Prefecture. After walking for another half a day, he suddenly saw two big stone lions squatting in the north of the street, three beast-headed gates, and there were about ten people in gorgeous clothes sitting in front of the door. The main gate was not open, and there were only people entering and leaving the east and west corner gates. There was a plaque above the main gate, with three big words "Anyi Prefecture" written on it. Although he was prepared for what the old man said, when Fang Xiao actually came to this mansion, he was still surprised by the scenery he saw. One side of the street in the south of the city was full of his mansion. However, he had other measures to see the name of the mansion. "If you have such a big mansion in the capital, you cannot be an unknown person, comfortable? Is it the one from Tumu Fort?" Fang Xiao was also shocked when he thought of this!

Just as he was thinking about whether he would come forward to call the door, a luxuriously dressed servant came out in front of him, "Dare you dare to ask, Mr. Fang Xiao?"

"It's right here, what's wrong with you?" Fang Xiao also replied.

"That's good. My master said he had an appointment with the young master, so he asked him to follow me." The servant was also overjoyed when he heard Fang Xiao's answer.

Fang Xiao heard the servant say this, and he knew that the old man sent him here to wait for him. Now it seems that he has no right to choose. Fang Xiao shook his head with a wry smile and signaled the servant to lead the way.

However, what Fang Xiao expected was that the servant did not take him to the mansion, but instead walked a long way and entered a not-so-conspicuous teahouse. The entrance of the teahouse was very small and only two floors, with only three tables on the bottom floor. Fang Xiao walked into the ground and was the only private room on the second floor.

Although the teahouse is dilapidated, the decoration of the elegant room still has its charm. What catches your eye is a screen of flowers, birds, fish and insects. Afterwards, there is a unique world. It is hanging inside a couplet of blessings and longevity, with paintings on both sides. The old man leaned against the window railing that day, as if he was looking at the scenery.

The old man turned his head and signaled the servant to retreat. The servant simply sued An and retreated.

"Sit as you like, I don't have to be restrained here." The old man also walked slowly back to the Taishi Chair.

"Yes." Fang Xiao bowed respectfully and sat on the Grand Master's chair on the other side. He half lowered his head and looked at the former king carefully.

"Are you, you're very surprised?" the old man said with a smile.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't be here as you are." Fang Xiao also let go of his guard and just let it go.

"Haha, I am worthy of being Fang Liangping's son, I'm brave enough." The old man also smiled, "It's only been two years since I came out of the palace. Being an ordinary old man is indeed more comfortable than being the Supreme Emperor."

"I think if you think so, the emperor will be very happy." Fang Xiao sat very straight and did not dare to change any slight changes.

"Children, however, thinking and doing are always different." The old man's eyes revealed the brilliance of age.

"You, this is." Fang Xiao only felt the sweat on his body falling in waves.

"You don't have to say it out loud, just understand it." The old man said slowly and slowly after taking a sip of tea.

"Boy dares to ask, is the world peace good?" Fang Xiao said expressionlessly.

"When will the world be peaceful?" The old man had no intention of being angry at all. "It's not that I want to fight, but that I have to fight."

"But the current emperor is a rare wise ruler. Otherwise, you wouldn't have come out of the palace." Fang Xiao stood up and gritted his teeth.

"Sit down, why are you nervous?" the old man raised his hand and signaled, "Jian Ji's child is really good, but the throne is addicted to it. The reason why he let me out was not killed. First, my dynasty has already ruled the country, and he wants to deal with me inappropriate ways. Second, he is also afraid of my power outside."

"But you tell me this is not harming me." Fang Xiao's face was full of depressed expression.

"Now it seems that you are a little worse than your father." The old man smiled and said, "Do you think the man in the palace would not know when I see you? My house is surrounded by spies from the East Factory, and my every move will be monitored, so when you meet me that day, you have already been paid attention."

"Of course, what he and I know is that as long as I don't really raise an army, he will never do anything to me." The old man said that he put down the cup in his hand and continued.

"But since that's the case, isn't it good to maintain this tacit understanding?" Fang Xiao completely relaxed after hearing the old man's words.
Chapter completed!