The night air was fresh and dusty, and the moonlight was as bright as silver. The fiery trees and silver flowers rising from the sky above the song and dance studio were like thousands of trees blooming, and they were as gorgeous as a shower of stars, complementing the moonlight.
Many luxurious carriages passed through the fragrant streets, passing through the bright lights, passing by the melodious sound of phoenix flutes, passing by the singing like oriole, passing by the bustling voices of laughter and laughter.
At this moment, the girls' attention was all focused on the dignitaries. They had swaying figures, good looks, and coquettish voices. They stood upstairs or at the door and greeted the men to come in. The men were naturally attracted by the prosperity and harmony. The girls were so dazzled by their beauty that no one noticed that an ordinary sedan, with the cooperation of several mute slaves, quietly entered the secret door of Die Lianhua.
"Thank you, Master, please come in. Our master has been waiting for you for a long time." Looking at a corner, the long-awaited Die Lianhua, Manager Mo, saw the small sedan stopped and hurried away. When he arrived at the sedan chair, he lowered his head to greet the man's arrival and said very respectfully.
"Why, your master is afraid that I will come to settle accounts, so he doesn't dare to come to see me directly. Instead, he asked you to come and greet me." The man sat in the sedan chair for a long time before he said calmly.
"Of course not. Master said, Mr. Xie, you are definitely not here to settle accounts. Let me come to greet you. It was our master who was assassinated last night and was really inconvenient to move. That's why we took this step. Mr. Xie, please Mingcha~"
"I was assassinated just after making money from my family last night. It seems really unlucky.
It seems that next time you have to remind your master that it is best not to earn your own money, otherwise you will easily get into trouble. "After hearing Steward Mo's explanation, the person in the sedan chair mocked the unlucky man who was assassinated, but he immediately opened the sedan chair and walked towards the secret door. He walked in a hurry, which was not ugly. Understand his concerns.
From the outside, the "Die Lian Hua" square is just a simple three-story red satin stilted building. The structure is clear at a glance, but there is something hidden inside. Although the "Die Lian Hua" square was built using the "stilted building" design, " was built, but in fact, the "Dielianhua" square was actually built using a combination of mortise and tenon structure and mechanical techniques. It was divided into two parts, the front building and the back building. Behind the golden nest is Yudie, the largest butterfly net assassination intelligence organization in the world.
There are always some shrewd people in the world who can guess the location of "Yu Die". Then, someone can know the relationship between Yu Die and Die Lianhua, and they can also guess without any surprises while going down the river. It turns out that the masters behind Die Lianhua and Yudie are both the same person, that is the world's number one thief, Gao Qi, who has dominated the world for many years.
But the shrewd people in this world, even if they rack their brains and think hard, can only know the relationship between the Thief Saint Gao Qi and the "Die Lianhua" and "Rain Die".
However, no one can know that Xie Ruqing, a powerful figure in the dynasty, and Gao Qi, the thief saint, were close friends of life and death. They were like pink lotus roots, with the roots broken. One of them was an official and the other was a bandit. One was black and the other was white. In the light, in the dark. , accumulated staggering wealth and power~
Xie Ruqing rode the "mechanical ladder" to the top of "Die Lian Hua" and walked to a dark green picture of mountains and rivers with ease. Then, he lifted up the dark green pictures of mountains and rivers and pressed lightly somewhere behind it. A door appeared on the stone wall at the end of the corridor.
"It seems that the design of my mechanism is too simple. Every time, you can find the switch without my people leading the way~ It makes me quite worried about the safety of my place~"
As soon as Xie Ruqing walked into the room, he saw a bare-chested black-haired man wearing a bronze unicorn mask who was changing his dressing. He stopped what he was doing, looked at him with a smile, and said helplessly .
Xie Ruqing smelled the smell of blood floating in the room and couldn't help but frowned. Then, he walked up to the man wearing the bronze unicorn mask, took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve, put it on the table and said :
"Your organization here really needs to be designed better. It's really shameful that you can be assassinated in your own territory."
Gao Qi smiled casually, picked up the small bottle, looked at it, and said:
"This medicine is quite good. I didn't expect you to carry this with you. It's not bad. I accepted it with a smile.
But, hey, my machine skills can't guard you. It wasn't someone outside who assassinated you, it was just a man who cheated on me. I was careless and he stabbed me. "
Xie Ruqing naturally took off her black cloak, sat next to Gao Qi, handed him gauze and said:
"Being able to get close to you, you should trust me a lot. Who is it?"
"You should have an impression. In the second year of high school, many years ago, I picked up an orphan from a small tribe that was exterminated on the border."
"It's him who has been raised by your side since childhood. What made him betray you?"
"I didn't expect that you are still interested in this matter. It's okay to tell you. He is Ru Shuang's best friend. Ru Shuang betrayed me before. I have been looking for her for a long time. A few days ago, I personally captured her. Throw it into the grass basin.
He was deeply in love, and his pleas failed, but he had the courage to assassinate me. If he was deeply in love, I would naturally help him and let him accompany Rushuang in exactly the same way. "
"He has been loyal to you all these years. I didn't expect that he would be so confused. However, this time you did not show mercy and spared his life. I remember that he also saved your life."
"You have shown mercy. Otherwise, how could you have escaped from 'Die Lianhua' with just Rushuang, and managed to hide for so long without 'Yu Die' and the others finding them." Gao Qi said while continuing to help himself After bandaging, he casually tied an ugly bow on himself and said:
"Actually, I wanted to let them both go, but when Rushuang escaped, I thought I would be safe and sound. However, I had the guts to leak our affairs to the outside world, and even said that the one with the highest price would get it. Haha~ Just looking for death."
"I've got two jars of good wine. How about it? Are you interested? Come drink with me tonight and relieve all your worries~"
"Why, it's Lanling fine wine. If it's not, I won't drink it. If it is, I won't drink it either." Xie Ruqing poured herself a cup of tea and said lightly.
Gao Qi smiled awkwardly and said:
"You can't blame me for this. I didn't expect that this boy Hao'an would spend a lot of money on me. Besides, more than half of the money I earned went into your pocket. Your son's little money, front foot It just left your pocket, and then it went back out of your pocket."
"You didn't expect that? Could it be that my son is blind and can't recognize his own cousin? You are just betting on whether my son is cold-hearted or cold-hearted."
"He calls you godfather, but you are plotting against him."
"Hey~ That can't be said. I am still very good to this boy Hao'an. At least, if one day this boy hurts me, I will never take revenge on him."
"When you bought Murong Shu back, you could have told me directly and I would have paid her to take her away. Why did you want her to be the oiran of 'Die Lian Hua'?" Xie Ruqing asked.
When Gao Qi heard this, he couldn't help but laugh sarcastically. Then he opened a secret compartment beside him, took out a bottle of Daughter's Red, drank it directly to his mouth, took two sips, and drank it. Passing the wine to Xie Ruqing's side, he said in the liveliest tone:
"I've said it a long time ago, I don't care about anyone in this world except Gu Gu, and I don't want anything.
Money and power are just a way for me to protect Gu Gu.
In my eyes, everyone is just a commodity at best. If it has value, use it. If it has no value, I will never keep it.
Including you, you and I have known each other for many years and are considered close friends, but if it comes to the point where only one of you and I can survive, I will kill you without mercy and let myself survive. "
"She's not Gu Gu, she's just Gu Gu's niece. I don't even care about Gu Gu's parents. I can use them. What's more, a niece..." After saying that, Gao Qi took another sip of his daughter's red wine, and there were naked eyes on his face. Two blushes were visible.
"But Gu Gu cares about this niece very much." Xie Ruqing said.
"I know, so that day, I saved her. Isn't it enough? Let me say it again, she is not Gu Gu. I am only good to your son because he has half of Gu Gu's blood." Gao Qi finished drinking. Taking the last sip of daughter's red wine, he sat down on the couch and said.
"Thank you Ruqing, let me tell you, in fact, I also wanted to kill you. If it weren't for you, Gu Gu and I would have grown up together. Gu Gu's husband should have been me, and Gu Gu should have had children with me. Raising daughters.”
"Gu Gu won't marry you, she doesn't like you."
"Hey~ Yes, if it weren't for Cheng Guan Gu, you think you would be alive today.
However, Gu Gu has a good vision. You are indeed talented. When I robbed the rich and gave to the poor, I was all indebted to you for giving me advice. Later, I established Yudie. Without you, I don’t think I would have succeeded so quickly. "
Xie Ruqing stood up, took out another jar of daughter's red from the secret compartment, and listened quietly to Gao Qi's words while drinking. After Gao Qi finished speaking, Xie Ruqing said: "You can succeed so quickly without me, you You are a hero, and so am I, but you have no taboos and will inevitably get into trouble."
"Hero, that's a good word. I'm not an official, so naturally I don't want to wear a hypocritical mask. Anyone who blocks my way will be killed. If you are not like you, you will see a hundred steps with one step."
"The wine is good, drink more. This is Murong Shu's body deed. I haven't signed the deed of residence for her yet. This is the only one. Now that it is destroyed, she can continue to live innocently.
Here, I will find another substitute. Anyway, except for your family, no one has seen her true face. "
Gao Qi looked at Xie Ruqing's appearance, finally stood up, patted the non-existent dust on his body, then took out a book from the bookshelf behind the screen, and took a piece of yellow plain paper inside to the candlestick It started to burn, and when the paper burned his hand, Gao Qi slowly let go.
"I came to you for one more thing." Xie Ruqing looked at the ashes of the selling contract for a moment, then moved his eyes away and looked at Gao Qi's red and green pupils.
"What's the matter? Tell me."
"It seems that you really don't know that Gu Gu didn't fall ill this year. I suspect that someone was poisoned."
As soon as these words came out, Gao Qi immediately frowned, clenched his fists, and said coldly:
"If you know who did it, I'll kill him."
"I don't know yet. I only found out now that this matter may be related to your 'Die Lianhua' Rushuang."
"She...heh...I underestimated her. I didn't expect that she could do this."
"You have already killed the man. I don't think we can ask any more questions. If you capture the maid next to her and interrogate her, she might be able to know something."
"Oh, this is natural, but do you think that if she dies, I can let her go? I will not let her go. She is dead, and she still has a mother and brothers and sisters. Why not use them all to make amends?" Okay~ Come to think of it, the peonies in spring will look better~" Gao Qi said with a smile.
"Children are innocent, and you don't have to kill them all. If you really want to wish her nine clans, you...are her biological father, and that's included. Maybe you can kill yourself."
"Years ago, I told you that the future of these children has nothing to do with me.
I don't need these children, and these children were not born under my expectations. These women thought that by giving birth to my children, they could restrain me and marry me.
It's just wishful thinking. The life and death of those children have nothing to do with me. I only care about Gu Gu. "
After saying that, Gao Qi took a dagger from the wall, looked at it for a moment, and said, "It's so sharp."
Immediately, he stabbed the dagger into his shoulder, and blood immediately spurted out from Gao Qi's shoulder. At this moment, many beads of sweat appeared on Gao Qi's forehead due to pain, and his lips also Gao Qi started to tremble, but Gao Qi still smiled and said to Xie Ruqing:
"This knife is my apology to Gu Gu. From now on, when I catch the person who harmed Gu Gu, I will personally go to Gu Gu to apologize."
Xie Ruqing was surprised by Gao Qi's paranoia and infatuation, and then said: "You'd better stop the bleeding first and live well, Gu Gu, we have to protect him together."
"I'll leave the maid's affairs to you. If anything is found during the investigation, remember to tell me. This matter should be done by the Xie family, but... I don't know who it is. After I find out... you have to cooperate with me. , deal with that person."
"Remember to deal with your rainwater basin. I guess a lot of people will have to be thrown into it."
"Oh, you are so cruel. What I killed was just an emotionless daughter, but what you want to kill is your family members who have been with you day and night for so many years."
"So what...everyone has to pay the price for their decisions."
