In the main altar hall of the Yeyou Alliance, several guardians and other subordinates knelt on the ground, listening to the leader's instructions.
"What? Let Lin Quan run away again? And lose two hall leaders? You trash! I am so disappointed!" The ferocious roar of the leader of the Yeyou Alliance hovered in the hall.
Protector Jin, who was kneeling on the ground, was so frightened that he stuttered even more, and reported intermittently: "Lin...Lin Quan...he used the Shennong Cauldron to refine a new poison...it was very powerful...the two hall masters had just been poisoned by him... When the needle hit him, he fell to the ground and died..."
Before he finished speaking, the leader of the Yeyou Alliance stood up and slapped the table, then waved his palms together and vented his anger randomly. Wherever the palm wind passed, two thick stone pillars were broken at waist level, making a loud noise like a mountain falling and the ground cracking, and raising thick dust.
The newly promoted Guardians Yao and Tong were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats. They did not dare to rub their eyes when there was dust in them. They just stood stiffly to avoid being affected by the anger of the alliance leader.
After venting the anger in his heart, the leader of Yeyou Alliance looked around at his men kneeling on the ground and said with a gloomy expression: "I will give you another ten days. This time, you must catch Lin Quan and get back the Shennong Cauldron! Don't let it happen again!" I am disappointed!"
After that, he walked to the altar and rotated the incense burner in the center in one direction. A secret door instantly appeared behind the incense table. The smoke inside the secret door made it difficult to see the scene inside. In the blink of an eye, the leader of the Yeyou Alliance disappeared into the smoke, and the secret door automatically slid shut.
The Protector of Yeyou Alliance and other men who were kneeling on the ground dared to get up only after they heard the sound of the secret door closing. Then, under the instructions of the three guardians, they left the hall one by one to perform their respective tasks.
At the Eight Immortals table in the main hall of the Weiyuan Escort Agency, Su Qiqi and Qin Chuan were explaining the rules of escorting to the escort masters. The housekeeper hurriedly walked in and told Su Qiqi that Uncle Tian's son came back from the capital to attend funerals and stopped by to discuss matters about the house.
Upon hearing this, Su Qiqi hurriedly asked the housekeeper to invite Tian Bo's son in. She asked Qin Chuan and others to go to the meeting hall to continue discussing the search for Lin Quan, while she stayed in the main hall to receive Tian Bo's son.
Not long after Qin Chuan and others left, the housekeeper led a lean middle-aged man in.
The man glanced at Su Qiqi, turned to the housekeeper in shock and said, "I'm looking for your head escort, Mr. Nangong..."
The butler smiled at him, pointed at Su Qiqi and said, "This is our young master's bodyguard!"
"Ah? Is your young master escort a little girl?" The man looked Su Qiqi up and down and asked with some surprise.
The housekeeper laughed dryly and said: "That's right, our young escort is wearing a turban and a turban, and her eyebrows are not allowed to be worn by men... Even though she is young, she manages the escort agency in a decent way!"
The man nodded thoughtfully, then bowed to Su Qiqi and said, "Secretary Nangong, the reason why I came here this time is about my father... You also know that since the murder happened inexplicably, Things...I don’t dare to live in my house now, and I can’t rent it out..."
Su Qiqi heard what he said and nodded quickly and said: "Executive Tian, I'm really sorry, we do have a certain responsibility for this house... We wrote to ask you to come here to negotiate compensation..."
Tian Bo's son relaxed slightly when he heard this. His eyes shone with shrewdness and he asked tentatively: "What are you going to do with this house? I have suffered a huge loss this time... You can't just sit back and watch... "
Su Qiqi shook her head and said: "We plan to buy this house... If you think it is feasible, make a price..."
As soon as she finished speaking, Tian Bo's son showed a surprised expression, and then asked happily: "Are you really willing to buy this haunted house?" After receiving Su Qiqi's affirmative answer, he thought for a while and said: "Let's do this. We are very fair in our business. Since you are willing to take the initiative to compensate me for my losses, I, Tian Wenhui, will not just talk nonsense and ask for random prices. I will give you a discount based on the market price. How about it?"
Su Qiqi smiled and nodded when he heard this, and asked Uncle Tian's son to report the specific amount. Tian Bo's son thought for a while and said: "Let's give it fifty taels... If nothing like this happened, my house could be sold for seventy or eighty taels of silver... I can say that charging you fifty taels is a conscientious price... "
Su Qiqi heard that his quotation was almost the same as the market price the housekeeper had inquired about, so she didn't say anything more and asked the housekeeper to go to the accountant's office to get fifty taels of silver and give it to Uncle Tian's son, and signed the house purchase and sale deed in person, and then asked the housekeeper to give it to him. Go out. He went to the meeting hall to find Qin Chuan and others to continue discussing the strategy of arresting Lin Quan.
In the meeting hall, everyone was eating fruits and dates while enthusiastically discussing ways to arrest Lin Quan.
Everyone was chatting, and the sky turned dark unconsciously. The discussion got so exciting that everyone even forgot to eat dinner. Mrs. Nangong had no choice but to send someone to bring several plates of cakes and fruit soup to everyone.
The night was getting darker, and everyone still had no intention of leaving. They were excitedly making plans in the room, and did not notice that someone on the roof was removing the tiles, hiding in the dark and eavesdropping, showing a silent sneer from time to time.
Around the second watch, everyone felt sleepy, and someone suggested extinguishing the candles and going back to their rooms to rest.
Su Qiqi, Qin Chuan and Xu Yunling finally left the meeting hall. When Su Qiqi was about to close the door, the spirit rat in Xu Yunling's arms suddenly sensed something and began to stir uneasily. Its two small eyes stared at the roof, "squeaking" "The ground cried.
Su Qiqi, Qin Chuan and Xu Yunling looked at each other when they saw this, and all looked towards the roof. Several tiles were lifted there, and a black shadow flashed past, leaving several crisp sounds of the tiles breaking.
The three of them immediately ran out the door and jumped to the roof in tacit agreement, looking for the person who was eavesdropping.
"Sister Su'er, could it be Lin Quan?" Xu Yunling asked curiously while looking around.
Su Qiqi shrugged and said with a smile: "I don't know either, but it's very likely that he... is the only person with his skill who can come and go freely when we strengthen the guard..."
"Last time we found some poison powder in Uncle Tian's house and did a test. The poison was even more toxic than Mrs. Wu's poison... I was worried that he would secretly poison us if he couldn't defeat us..." Qin Chuan looked at the mottled tree shadows not far ahead and said solemnly.
"Poison..." Su Qiqi also looked a little nervous. She looked around again and said to Qin Chuan and Xu Yunling: "Go and wake up the others. We have to remind everyone..."
The three of them jumped off the roof, and each went to notify the other people in the escort agency to gather in the meeting hall again to discuss measures to deal with Lin Quan's poisoning.
