The walls of the yard are peeling off, the yard is overgrown with weeds, and the surrounding areas are dilapidated. It looks like no one has cleaned it up for a long time.
There is a path in the middle of the yard, which connects the courtyard gate to the main house in the yard. Because people often walk there, there are no weeds.
When most people come here, if they don't know that there are people living inside, they might even think it's an abandoned house.
However, Xu Jinshui knew that Li Hong had deliberately left the weeds in the yard.
Some traps are obscured by weeds.
People who don't know the situation in the yard suddenly break in, especially if they come over the wall from both sides, it will be difficult to avoid these traps in the yard.
This is also a means of protection that Li Hong does for his own safety.
Only Xu Jinshui and his group knew that there was a trap in the yard, but they didn't know where the trap was.
Walking along the trampled path in the middle of the yard, Xu Jinshui came to the main door of the yard, opened the door and walked in.
After opening the door curtain and entering the back room, a strange smell hit his nostrils. Then he saw a shirtless Li Hong, leaning lazily on the scattered quilt.
After contacting the half-open door that had left the yard earlier, Xu Jinshui understood what had just happened in the room.
"Why are you here?" Li Hong glanced at Xu Jinshui and asked lazily.
The smell in the room was really pungent. Xu Jinshui took a step back and then said: "A lot of people have died on East Street recently, and some of them even worked together. These people spoke with a hint of Liaodong. accent."
"What do you mean?" Li Hong's eyes narrowed slightly.
Xu Jinshui looked around and said in a low voice: "I suspect that they are all sent by the consort like us."
In front of Li Hong, he only expressed doubts, not as sure as in front of Luo Zhongwang.
"Do you have evidence to prove that those people were sent by the Prince Consort?" Li Hong frowned.
Xu Jinshui shook his head a few times and said: "How can I have any evidence to prove this? However, all the people who died in the past few days were people with Liaodong accents, so I have doubts and worry that someone is secretly targeting us people. .”
"Are you talking about Jin Yiwei?" Li Hong showed a trace of disdain.
Jin Yiwei was highly praised by the world. In the past few years since he came to the capital, he found that apart from being proficient in making money, very few of these Jin Yiwei in Beizhen Fusi were serious about doing things.
He has never considered a Jin Yiwei like him as an opponent.
In his eyes, only the Liaodong spies trained by Li Yongfang were the most powerful spies in the world.
Xu Jinshui shook his head and said: "It's not like the Jin Yiwei people took action. The brothers all know the virtues of the Jin Yiwei. Every time they go out, the commotion is not small, but this time it's different. It's completely secret. Not at all." Unlike Jin Yiwei’s style, I suspect there is another force behind it targeting us.”
"You are overthinking." Li Hong waved his hand disapprovingly and said immediately, "There are not many people who have fled to the capital from Liaodong in recent years. They just killed a few people with Liaodong accents, and they may not be targeting us."
Xu Jinshui followed Li Hong and said: "Hearing what Li Tou said, I felt much more relaxed. However, if people have been killed for several days in a row, it will definitely attract the attention of the government. I think no matter what we do during this period, we should Be careful to avoid being targeted by the authorities.”
"What you said makes sense. Let's go and tell others to be more honest recently and not to attract the attention of the government. After this period of time, things will return to normal," Li Hong said.
Xu Jinshui nodded and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Li Tou, I will tell the others the message when I get back."
"When you see Luo Zhongwang, ask him to come to my place and arrange something for him to do." Li Hong warned again.
Xu Jinshui understood.
Li Hong came to Luo Zhongwang at this time because he was short of money and wanted to get money from Luo Zhongwang.
This had happened more than once or twice, and the people in their group knew all about it.
"If you have nothing to do, go back first!" Li Hong issued an eviction order and said at the same time, "I still have some things to do here."
As he spoke, he stretched out his hand and yawned.
Xu Jinshui said with a smile: "I just drank some water and left. I haven't even had a drink of water since morning. My mouth is very dry."
"There's it on the table. If you drink it, get out of here." Li Hong said impatiently.
There was no anger on Xu Jinshui's face.
He looked around the room, saw the big teapot on the table, and walked over.
While pouring water into his cup, he asked Li Hong, "Li Tou, do you want some water?"
"Wait, someone is coming." Li Hong's expression suddenly became serious, he turned over and came under the window, opened the wooden window a crack with his hand, and put one eye on the crack to look out.
Xu Jinshui, who was about to pour water into the cup, slowly put the kettle back on the table and put his right hand into his arms.
"Don't be nervous, it's Luo Zhongwang." Li Hong's eyes left the gap in the wooden window and closed the wooden window smoothly.
Xu Jinshui slowly took out the hand that was in his arms, lifted the teapot again, and said in a relaxed tone: "It's a coincidence that Shopkeeper Luo came here. Just when Li Tou was about to look for him, he came to the door himself."
"It's good that you're here, so you don't have to look for him again." Li Hong laughed and said immediately, "Pour me a glass of water too."
"Okay."
Xu Jinshui agreed, lifted another cup from the table, picked up the teapot and poured water into the cup.
The two cups were filled with water, and he shook them with his hands. Then he held a cup in one hand and walked towards Li Hong.
When he got closer, he handed the cup in his right hand to Li Hong, then he picked up the cup in his left hand and put it to his mouth and took a sip of water.
Li Hong took the water cup, drank the water in a few sips, and then returned the cup to Xu Jinshui.
At this moment, Luo Zhongwang walked in from outside the house.
"Li Tou."
Li Hong turned to look at Xu Jinshui and said, "Go back first! Don't forget what I told you."
"My subordinates excuse themselves." Xu Jinshui hugged Li Hong, then walked to the table beside him, put down the water glass in his hand, and then walked towards the door of the room.
Ahem!
However, before Xu Jinshui could walk out the door, Li Hong suddenly coughed violently, then covered his stomach with his hands, and cold sweat suddenly broke out on his face.
"Li Tou, what's wrong with you?" Xu Jinshui took back the steps he was about to leave and hurried to the bedside, greeting Li Hong with a concerned look on his face.
At this time, a vein popped out on Li Hong's forehead, he stared at Xu Jinshui with a ferocious expression, and said while holding back the pain: "It's you, you actually want to poison me."
As his words fell.
Luo Zhongwang on the side looked at Xu Jinshui in surprise.
They made an appointment to deal with Li Hong together, but unexpectedly Xu Jinshui had already taken action first.
