In Pingchuan's horrified eyes, a black shadow flashed past, and the owner of the building disappeared and flew towards the right at high speed.
On the right side was a mine, but another shadow emerged from the mine and fled into the distance.
But the building owner's movements were so fast. Within a moment, the figure was caught up, and the building owner hit him directly on the back with his palm.
The man groaned, vomited blood from his mouth, turned around, and looked at the building owner behind him in horror. He wanted to run away, but the building owner had already grabbed his neck.
"Kuofu level?"
The owner of the building was a little surprised. He didn't seem to expect that there was actually a living person here, and he was also a master at the Kuofu level.
"I haven't seen you before."
Pingchuan looked from afar and saw the cold-faced Rakshasa Leng Lianyi.
Leng Lianyi struggled desperately, but no words came out.
"He is one of ours."
Pingchuan spoke in time.
Upon hearing this, the building owner loosened his hand slightly, but did not completely put down Leng Lianyi, but Leng Lianyi still took a breath.
"Building owner, I'm Leng Lianyi. I'm here to take refuge on the twelfth floor."
The building owner stared at Leng Lianyi for a long time and finally let him go.
"Okay, then I'll give you a task. Go to the city to find a shop for me..."
Leng Lianyi gasped for air, his face turned pale, and he looked at the building owner with lingering fear and said
"My subordinates will not disappoint the owner of the building."
Immediately, he used the fastest movement in his life and escaped from here desperately.
When Xiao Zhong returned to the fireworks shop, he saw that there was no one in the fireworks shop.
"Master! Master!"
Xiao Zhong scratched his head. Master rarely goes out, why did he suddenly disappear?
He shouted a few times and walked into the inner room, only to find that his home had been robbed. The wall beside Master's bed had been broken open. Xiao Zhong immediately became alert. Could something have happened to Master?
But at this moment, there was a sudden sound from the hole that had been smashed into the wall.
Xiao Zhong was trembling all over. The thief hasn't left yet?
But suddenly a familiar voice came from inside the wall.
"I'm finally back. I'm exhausted. I must have a good sleep when I get back."
It was Wu Qinghui's voice.
"Sister Wu!"
Xiao Zhong blurted out.
"Um?"
Inside the wall, Wu Qinghui questioned.
"I seemed to hear the sound of a little bell."
Four people walked out.
"Little bell!"
The four of them were very happy to see Xiao Zhong finally coming back.
"Did the people from Taiyang Mansion rescue you?"
Xiao Zhong shook his head and told the four people what happened.
The four of them heard this with horror.
Su Qinqin said
"Those eunuchs should be the same group of people who massacred the Imperial Army that day."
When Wu Qinghui heard this, he remembered the fragrance of flowers he smelled in the tunnel.
"Is it related to the officers and soldiers in the tunnel?"
Suddenly she remembered another thing.
"By the way, since the two forbidden soldiers who stole my wine are also their people, are these things related?"
Su Qinqin's eyes lit up
"I'm afraid that's not necessarily the case. The old man buying paper is probably one of them."
Xiao Zhong was confused when he heard this. He saw that the four people were sweating profusely and looked very embarrassed. He then looked at the big hole in the wall.
"What are the four sisters doing at my house? Where is my master?"
Hearing this, the four ladies looked dim and didn't know how to open their mouths.
Madam Hu saw the three of them cooing, so she said
"Oh, let me tell you, the night you disappeared, your master was also taken away and has not come back yet."
Xiao Zhong suddenly said anxiously
"what happened?"
Madam Hu told the truth about Lao Zhong being taken away and Lao Zhong hinting that they found Wu Qinghui's wine.
Xiao Zhong couldn't believe it.
"Did Master steal the wine? Could it be that Master was also in the same group as those people?"
"No, how could it be possible, Master?"
Su Qinqin comforted him
"It should be the two Imperial Guards who stole the wine. Do you remember that that day, your master asked you to go to the quarry to purchase saltpeter for him. I suspect that it was because he wanted to hide the wine that day, so he specially stole it. you."
Xiao Zhong also thought of that night, when his master asked him to go to the quarry very suddenly, which originally made Xiao Zhong a little confused, but he didn't take it to heart.
People are always like this. If they are someone they trust, they will do everything they do with confidence. But once they have doubts about that person, as long as they recall for a moment, they will feel that everything in the past is full of doubts.
"No wonder, when I went to the quarry to purchase, according to the manager of the quarry, my master had already had a shady deal with the quarry."
"By the way, there is one more thing that I find strange."
"What's up?"
Su Qinqin asked.
"Every few days, a batch of goods will be delivered to the shop from the countryside outside the city, but the materials for making fireworks are always kept in the inner room. Except for purchasing some saltpeter a while ago, they are all enough. So Uncle Geng'er What is the purpose of each delivery?”
At this moment, memories came flooding back, and many of Lao Zhong's strange behaviors seemed so unexpected.
"Then what did Uncle Geng'er give you?"
Su Qinqin looked a little serious.
Xiao Zhong thought for a while
"Master hasn't shown it to me, but every time he sends a lot of firewood and things in burlap bags. I don't know what's inside."
Su Qinqin's delicate face turned pale, and she seemed to have figured something out.
"Did you ever see the firewood afterwards?"
Xiao Zhong shook his head
"There's a lot of firewood, and I'll use it when cooking, but I don't think I can use it all. Uncle Geng'er keeps sending it, and Master accepts it all. Sometimes it's too little."
"What about the contents of the burlap sack?"
"I've never seen it, but the smell was very pungent, so I didn't pay much attention to it."
Su Qinqin's face turned ugly. She sat down on the bed next to her and said blankly.
"One Nitrate, Two Juans, and Three Charcoals..."
Xiao Zhong's expression changed drastically. He was very familiar with this formula. His master asked him to memorize it every day, and he had already learned it by heart.
"Sister Su, how do you know this formula? This is the formula for making fireworks."
Su Qinqin looked at him, shook her head, and said word by word
"This is not only a formula for making fireworks, but also a formula for making gunpowder. Your master is secretly making gunpowder!
"What!"
Regarding the origin of black gunpowder, he has heard from his master since he was a child, so he is naturally familiar with it.
"The sulfur in the burlap sack?"
In the crops in rural areas, insecticides are made of sulfur. Saltpeter mines are plentiful. As for firewood, there is no shortage of it in rural areas.
"But where did the gunpowder go?"
Xiao Zhong was still puzzled. He was with his master almost every day. Where could he hide the gunpowder without being discovered by him?
Su Qinqin thought hard for a long time, but couldn't think of an answer.
"You have to ask your master. Maybe the fireworks you make also use black powder, or they are mixed together."
Xiao Zhong's eyes suddenly turned to the table where he was working. There were also small black pills that he had just processed that night, which were pieces of black gunpowder.
"It's possible that a lot of these black powders are indeed made every time. According to Master, since the palace has to purchase a large amount of fireworks every New Year and festival, it is better to make more in advance."
Su Qinqin looked at Xiao Zhong.
"What year did this start?"
Xiao Zhong thought for a while
"It's been like this every year for as long as I can remember."
"No, something's wrong!"
Xiao Zhongdao
"What's wrong."
Su Qinqin said in deep thought
"The largest or most stable source of customers for your shop is naturally the palace. However, except for festivals, the palace does not have such a large consumption. Obviously, the palace purchases excessive amounts every year."
"No, your master is making gunpowder for the palace!"
Su Qinqin said suddenly.
"Yes, that must be the case. Things like sulfur and saltpeter are controlled items in the city. Your master can ignore the control and purchase them at will, and there is no one to control them for so many years. It only means that he is working for the palace!"
"Could it be that the person who took away Old Man Zhong that night was someone from the palace?"
Madam Liu also understood at this moment that this fireworks shop was probably the property of the palace.
"It's interesting. It's getting more and more interesting. Tunnels, black powder, palaces, weird flowers... On the surface, these things don't seem to have much connection, but if you really dig into it, you'll find that they all have subtle connections."
"Who is it that cleverly strings these together?"
Su Qinqin said thoughtfully.
Madam Hu scratched her head and became more distressed as she listened.
"Oh, no matter, I have to go back, I'm too tired today."
"Xiao Zhong, you haven't slept well these past few days. Get some rest. If your master is related to the palace, he should be fine."
Xiao Zhong also breathed a sigh of relief. He felt relieved knowing that his master was working for the palace and not secretly doing illegal things.
"Um!"
He nodded, sent away several sisters, and then closed the shop. He had indeed not slept well these past few days and planned to catch up on his sleep.
Go into the inner room.
A ghost-faced man sat quietly on the bed and looked at him.
The sleepiness that Xiao Zhong had just felt disappeared immediately!
When did this person come in?
"Everyone is gone?"
The ghost-faced man stroked the long sword in his hand. The long sword was slightly unsheathed, emitting a dazzling fierce light.
Xiao Zhong was dumbfounded and nodded dully.
"Don't be nervous, someone asked me to ask you something."
"Of course, you don't have to answer."
But the long sword was unsheathed for another three minutes.
"You...you said..."
Xiao Zhong felt that his lower body was shaking constantly, but he couldn't control it.
"Are those thousands of fireworks ready?"
Xiao Zhong was shocked.
"Are you... from that night?"
That night, by the Changming Lake, there was a man in black who also asked him about the fireworks business.
The ghost-faced man's eyes were cold, as if he was ready to eat him at any moment.
"I ask you questions and you just answer them."
"Soon."
"how much longer?"
Xiao Zhong thought about it in his mind.
"Delivery can be done within seven days."
"Give it to whom?"
Xiao Zhong shook his head.
"The man will come and get it."
"Click!"
Xiao Zhong felt a soreness in his neck, then his mind went blank and he fell down.
In the palace, a group of officers and soldiers took Lao Zhong to the armory.
There is a metal secret door in the armory.
"Boom!"
The secret door was opened by a mechanism, and inside the secret door, it was pitch black.
An officer and soldier walked in holding a torch, but was caught back by Lao Zhong. When the officer and soldier were about to scold him, they were slapped by the accompanying captain.
"Don't want to die? It's out!"
The captain said harshly.
Everyone extinguished their torches and walked into the secret door, and then all they saw was a mountain of black pills, almost occupying the entire dark room.
"Hey! I saved a lot!"
The captain looked at Lao Zhong with a half-smile.
"Are they all here?"
old clock road
"That's not clear, but after so many years, it's more or less the same."
The captain smiled
"Almost? These are enough to blow up the capital."
Lao Zhong shook his head
"The most fried streets."
Captain said
"Isn't it okay to take such a large amount?"
Lao Zhong glanced at him with disdain. For laymen, Lao Zhong didn't want to explain too much.
The captain looked at him and didn't care.
"Move them all."
