Half an hour later, Zhong Ruoxi turned back and knocked at the door again. When Li Qing opened the door, she saw that she had carried a thick folder in her hand and waved to him: "accompany me to see her."

Li Qing suddenly drew at the corner of his mouth and hurriedly stepped back: "just go by yourself. Why do you want me to follow you and be discouraged..."

Zhong Ruoxi's beautiful eyes stared: "can you go?"

"OK, OK, let's go." Li Qing hissed, "let me see. What can you take out to settle the ancient moon?"

"It must be something you didn't expect." Zhong Ruoxi answered faintly. The two men walked through the corridor and came to the door at the end.

Li Qing raised his hand and knocked on the door. A thick man's voice immediately came from inside: "who?"

"I really want to..." Li Qing smiled at the corners of her mouth and suddenly found that Zhong Ruoxi was staring at him coldly. She smiled and coughed: "it's me."

"Oh, wait a minute." this time it was replaced by the sweet voice of Gu Yue.

Then the door opened, and Gu Yue, who had removed her mask, was holding a strand of her long hair with her hand. It was obvious that she was going to bundle her hair. When her eyes fell on Zhong Ruoxi, the delicate cheeks that were full of smiles suddenly cooled down: "you didn't say there was someone else."

"You didn't ask me if there was anyone else." Li Qing cleared her throat with an embarrassed face, turned her head and looked behind her. "Let's go in and talk."

After staring at Zhong Ruoxi, Gu Yue dodged away and let Li Qing and Zhong Ruoxi into the house.

"She wants to talk to you." Li Qing raised her hand and pulled Gu Yue's soft hair. She found that Zhong Ruoxi was staring at herself again and quickly stopped her hand. She pretended to turn carelessly to the window and looked down through the dusty window glass.

Gu Yue simply stroked her hair back, then put the rubber band around her wrist, looked up and down at Zhong Ruoxi coldly, "I have nothing to talk to you."

"I know you don't have much patience. Just get straight to the point." Zhong Ruoxi threw the folder on the table and sat on the old sofa in the room. "I need your help for this operation."

"No interest, please come back." Gu Yue said directly, and then turned to open the door to send Zhong Ruoxi out.

"You can ask for anything, and I'll meet you." Zhong Ruoxi suddenly said.

"Oh?" the jade hand that grabbed the door handle took it back again. Gu Yue turned and asked with a smile, "does it include your life?"

Zhong Ruoxi smiled at the corners of her mouth: "this can't be done."

Holding her cheek in her hand, Gu Yue stared at Zhong Ruoxi and blinked: "how about I scratch your face? Anyway, you don't make a living by laughing. You shouldn't care."

Zhong Ruoxi shook her head gently: "No."

Gu Yue stretched out another jade finger and pointed to the ground: "then you kneel down and beg me?"

"No way."

The smile on her cheek disappeared, and Gu Yuehan said in a voice: "it's not possible, it's not possible, what else do you say to meet all my requirements? Zhong Ruoxi, you'd better get out."

Sipping her lips, Zhong Ruoxi calmly unfolded the folder and pushed it to Gu Yue: "you might as well have a look at this."

Gu Yue didn't pick it up, but just glanced at it: "what?"

With a slight sigh of relief, Zhong Ruoxi stretched out her jade hand against her smooth forehead: "I know what you people are doing in Longxi. I have an information network that you can't imagine. Nothing can escape my eyes."

"As early as 150 years ago, groups spontaneously organized by non-governmental organizations carried out a carpet like in-depth excavation in Longxi. Although a large number of casualties were caused in this process, they did not get nothing. At that time, there was a rich merchant in the coastal area who started with shipping and silver village. His name was Wan Jianru. Thousands of families had been doing business for generations, but there were always some in the world Things that money can't buy, such as life... "Zhong Ruoxi suddenly raised his head and stared at Gu Yue coldly, "When Wan Jianru was fifty-three years old, he suffered from incurable diseases and failed to seek medical treatment in many ways, so he decided to ask for immortality. He heard that there was a fairy building in the mang mountains and forests in western Gansu, which appeared in the clear sky and rain. Mortals can solve the art of immortality from immortals and become immortals."

Li Qing picked her eyebrows, came back from the window, glanced at the expressionless ancient moon, and then pulled over a chair and sat down.

Zhong Ruoxi sighed: "However, Wan Jianru was very ill at that time. Longxi was poor and had a long way to go, so he couldn't arrive in person. So he selected dozens of sailors from his ship, sent a group of debt collectors from Yinzhuang, and bought a group of scattered soldiers from the military and government yamen at that time. The water men of Wan family acted steadily and worked hard; the local ruffians who urged debt were active and could play rogues; and the Army soldiers He is also experienced and can wield swords and spears. The three parties come together to supervise each other and make up for each other. Together, Wan Jianru sent them deep into Longxi to find the trace of the immortal building. It is said that Wan Jianru placed all his hopes on the immortal building and gave nearly half of the family property of the three parties. It is the so-called "yes" Money can make ghosts grind. Under the temptation of wealth, more than 400 people from the three sides went to Longxi. "

Zhong Ruoxi suddenly fell silent, looked carefully at Li Qing and Gu Yue, and spoke again: "a year later, this group of people finally came back, but compared with leaving, there were only more than ten people left."

Li Qing's face changed and couldn't help asking, "where's Wan Jianru? He's been dead for more than a year?"

"Wan Jianru died six months ago. Wan Yuanlin, the eldest son of the Wan family, inherited the family business. At that time, the remaining ten people, led by a sailor surnamed Li, presented what he found in Longxi to Wan Yuanlin, hoping that he could fulfill the promise of his father Wan Jianru." Zhong Ruoxi paused slightly, "that's a batch of bronze boxes that no one has seen."

Li Qing's face was livid for a moment.

Zhong Ruoxi saw Li Qing's change and blinked her beautiful eyes with some pride: "because a group of worthless bronze boxes had to pay nearly half of their family property, Wan Yuanlin naturally wouldn't agree. He ordered someone to cut a bronze box in public, and the liquid flowing out of it smelled bad."

Bending over to pick up the folder from the table, Zhong Ruoxi opened one of the pages and read: "it is said that this smell spread for miles and disgusting. When people cover their noses and pass through the lane, it is difficult to eat."

After raising the folder in her hand, Zhong Ruoxi picked her eyebrow: "This description may be exaggerated, but you must have seen it, so I don't need to describe it more. In short, Wan Yuanlin immediately became angry and thought that these people brought back from Longxi were all the remaining evils of witches and insects, which was far from his father's last wish, so he directly refused to cash his promise, punished more than ten people for 40 and drove out thousands of families."

"I came back from my trip to Longxi with a narrow escape and finally got a good meal. These ten people naturally harbor resentment. However, the only advantage is that they have honed their courage under the extremely harsh environment in Longxi. Therefore, after the injury, these ten people gathered together again and robbed thousands of people on a dark and windy night Home. Wan Yuanlin, the then head of Wan family, was dissected by thieves, and his head was taken off and inserted in front of Wan Jianru's Lingpai. Even the children of Wan family who were still in their infancy were hacked to death by random knives. More than 80 people from the top to the bottom of the direct line of Wan family were killed overnight, and the big businessmen who lasted for hundreds of years disappeared. "

"Wanjia has always done good deeds along the coast. Many people rushed to see wanyuanlin off at the funeral. Cries and howls rang through the whole city, and the long queue lasted for many miles. Until decades after this incident, local old people burned paper to pay homage to wanyuanlin's death." Zhong Ruoxi smiled almost ironically at the corners of his mouth, "More than ten thieves robbed a lot of gold, silver and jewelry from thousands of families and fled after sharing the stolen goods. The government posted a notice to arrest and execute the arrested person at the mouth of the vegetable market. Everyone applauded and ate the meat cut off by the tortured person. There was a scholar in Luoshui at that time. Later, he became a scholar and wrote a poem on this subject during the imperial examination. The emperor was very happy about it The language of, therefore, sealed Wan Yuanlin's Lutheran Marquis, and gave a gold plaque to shine on the clan's court. "

Li Qing's eyelids jumped: "more than ten people have been caught?"

Zhong Ruoxi stared at Li Qing for a while, then asked with a smile, "Li Qing, do you really don't know? Or pretend to be stupid?"

Li Qing looked blankly: "what does that mean?"

With a sneer, Zhong Ruoxi stretched out three jade fingers at Li Qing: "three people in the same group of criminals escaped, as if they had disappeared from the sound of sales, and there was no news."

Li Qing pulled at the corners of his mouth: "then you say it's over if someone escapes. This kind of thing is what you say. How can I know?"

Zhong Ruoxi stared at Li Qing without blinking, and suddenly opened his mouth slowly: "if these three people don't escape, how can there be you."

Li Qingxin was surprised and suddenly stared round his eyes: "Zhong Ruoxi, what do you mean!"

He raised his hand and rubbed his temples. Zhong Ruoxi said quietly, "Li Qing, what did your ancestors do?"

"Shipping."

"Where's the Chen family?"

"Er, the Chen family has never made a serious living. They rely on lending, money laundering and gambling."

Zhong Ruoxi's smile on his lips slowly expanded, and finally asked, "what about Qi family?"

"The Qi family was born in military and political affairs. There are..."

Li Qing suddenly stopped, his face changed from blue to purple, and then from purple to white.

"He selected dozens of sailors from his own ship, transferred a group of debt collection imps from Yinzhuang, and bought a group of scattered soldiers from the military and government yamen at that time. The sailors of thousands of families were steady, down-to-earth and willing to work; the local ruffians who urged for debt were active and could play rogue; and the Army soldiers were experienced and could set swords and guns. The three parties gathered together to supervise each other and supplement each other. They were seamless."

What Zhong Ruoxi said before echoed in Li Qing's heart again and again, sailor, bank, army?

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