Ming Ye and Zhou Zhaoqing drove to the Immortal Garden where the shopkeeper lived temporarily.

The Immortal Garden is a garden bestowed by the emperor of the previous dynasty for the most beloved little princess to live in after marriage. There is a mountain in three steps, and a water in five steps. It is very delicate to put the Jiangnan landscape into the garden.Ordinary rich and noble families can't even afford the money for repairs and maintenance, even compared with the Taiping Palace.Such a garden is worth more than tens of thousands of dollars, and it is just one of the gardens where the shopkeeper occasionally stops when he comes to Capital.

The front door looked empty, but it was actually heavily guarded. Ming Ye got out of the car first, and Zhou Zhaoqing went to knock on the door. The concierge seemed quite polite, but in fact, he wanted to test the details first, and then check the waist card, while the guards were lying in ambush behind the door.

The two showed their badges to others, and the concierge said seriously, "So it's the young master and shopkeeper Zhou. The shopkeeper has been waiting for a long time."

After walking all the way for another half an hour, they arrived at Chunzaizhai where Meng Butuo lived.

There are more than a dozen guards here, all dead soldiers.

Going to see the shopkeeper, before entering the door, Ming Ye had to go through the inspection of the hidden guards, and he was not allowed to carry any sharp weapons on his body.

Zhou Zhaoqing obviously hanged a knife, before the hidden guard came, he had already smiled and said: "Under your noses, I am a helpless businessman, and if I don't go in, why bother you."

"I took the liberty to come here this time because I have something important to do with Young Master today. It is quite urgent and cannot be delayed, so I just wait for Young Master to pay a visit to the shopkeeper before going back to work together."

The guards present were all confidantes of the shopkeeper, and they could recognize Zhou Zhaoqing.He is the big treasurer of Capital, not the kind of person without status, he is unlikely to go crazy suddenly, let alone stay outside, and there is no practice of collecting weapons, so he was left to stand under the tree and wait.

Ming Ye pushed the door open and entered.

The room is not too big, it looks like an ordinary study.But the surrounding area has obviously been reinforced, and even the windows seem to be able to let in the light from the outside, but they are actually airtight.

Akeno walked to the back room.

Meng Butuo sat on the chair behind the table and called his name: "Ming Ye."

Akeno agreed and looked towards him.

Meng Butuo also wore Taoist robes, but the material was cloud calcined brocade silk with gold and silver threads on it, and every stitch was extremely delicate.

It looks like an unremarkable face, passing by at a glance in the crowd, it will not leave any impression.But Akeno knew that he was wearing a diaper, and he had changed many faces.

Meng Butuo smiled coldly: "You are the most capable person under my command, but why did you do the most important thing wrong."

Meng Butuo wanted to pretend to be a son-in-law, and use such a simple method to seek to conquer the world.However, even if he could make an identical face, he could not change his body shape, and his demeanor could only be changed after a long period of practice.

Therefore, his original plan was to use drugs to confuse the real son-in-law after the imperial court decides who to marry, consummate the marriage with the princess, make the princess pregnant and leave a child.Then, with the dark thread buried in the imperial court by the Wanlai Chamber of Commerce, the son-in-law was operated out of Beijing and found a place to release.On the way, he killed those close to him, and only used money and power to coerce and lure a few people who could testify.In office, he lied that he had a serious illness, and it was not surprising that his body shape changed, and he was familiar with everything about his original body.In the end, he returned to Beijing to complete the almost impossible task of replacing him.

Thinking of this, Meng Butuo's anger could not be suppressed: "Xu Yao was originally my favorite candidate. He is from a remote place, and he came to Beijing for a short time. Not many people know him well. When things happen in the future, kill him after leaving Beijing.No one can tell. You can't keep him."

Akino said frankly: "In terms of grand plan, Xu Yao's status is indeed suitable. But in the eyes of the Empress Dowager, he is just a pawn, used to test the attitude of the emperor and courtiers, and can be discarded at any time. Without this accident, it is almost impossibleReally become a son-in-law. It's better for the shopkeeper to wait and see what happens, and then choose a suitable candidate, and things will definitely happen in the future."

Meng Butuo looked at Mingye for a while, then nodded.If Akino just confessed his mistakes without mentioning the omissions, he would have to worry about what's wrong with it.

Now it seems that Akino is still loyal after all.

He arranged Ming Ye in the palace, firstly because of his introverted personality, not ostentatious, good at patience, suitable for staying in the palace to inquire about news.The second is how important the long princess Rong JIan is. An older person is unlikely to escape the eyes of those old foxes.

And Ming Ye was very satisfied with him, but he still did this wrong thing.

Meng Butuo said sadly: "I punished you. But it was because you made a mistake. Ming Ye, you won't feel dissatisfied."

Ming Ye lowered his brows, and took half a step forward, seemingly without any trace of resentment: "Why? The shopkeeper is the one who raised me, let alone such a trivial matter."

Many candles were lit on the walls of the room, much brighter than the cloudy day outside. The lights shone on the bells hanging on both sides of the table, and Meng Butuo could easily grab the bells to ring the bells to notify the hidden guards outside.Come in, you can also trigger the mechanism here.

He regards his own life as the most important thing.

Now Meng Butuo only cares about the princess, and doesn't care about others, so he continues to ask: "Then how is the princess's temperament, can she be regarded as intelligent?"

Ming Ye glanced over the two bells, and smiled slightly: "Princess is innocent and doesn't know the world."

In Meng Butuo's ears, it almost meant that he was not smart and could easily be fooled, so he said hello a few times.

If you miss this opportunity, it's not like there will be a next time, when Meng Butuo thought that something will happen eventually, he recalled the past and said: "Speaking of the long princess, I met her mother back then, she was really a charming beauty.How does she look like?"

At that time, he was already ten years older than Rong Ning. At this time, Rong Ning had been dead for more than ten years, but he was going to marry Rong Ning's daughter.

Mingye was already very close, and he could even see the fine lines around the corners of Meng Butuo's eyes. The human leather mask he made was a masterpiece, extremely realistic.

The moment he was about to kill someone, Ming Ye suddenly remembered the pearl on Rong Jian's earlobe.He only wore it once, and the pearls were smooth and round, making his complexion white like freshly fallen snow, so light, so fragile, and so lingering.

What earrings did he wear when he left the palace today?

Akeno was distracted for a moment, thinking about these things casually.

The next moment, Ming Ye jumped up, he pressed Meng Butuo's head down, and Meng Butuo's neck was forced to lift up, pushing against the back of the chair.He pulled out the wooden hairpin on his head and stabbed it in.

The wooden hairpin is very blunt, and it is very difficult to stab people to death. It requires extremely delicate hand skills and a good understanding of the human body. You have to avoid the bones and cut the trachea with one blow.

Until his throat was pierced, Meng Butuo still couldn't believe that Mingye actually did something to him.

His martial arts are not bad, but that was a few years ago, and now he is pampered all the year round, and he doesn't do anything for a long time, so he can't react for a while.

Meng Butuo tried his best to reach out his hand, trying to hold the bell, as long as the hidden guards outside came in and rescued him properly, he could still survive.

Mingye pushed his elbows out, his robe was very loose, but he pushed the bell that Meng Butuo almost reached to the desk of Duobao Pavilion so slowly without making a sound.

Meng Butuo's last hope was also cut off.

Blood gushed out from that wound continuously.

Ming Ye held the wooden hairpin in his left hand and stuck it tightly in Meng Butuo's throat. He could feel the wooden hairpin shaking slightly, and his flesh and blood wanted to expel the foreign matter from his body.

He just lowered his eyes, watching Meng Butuo's struggle calmly.

With such an injury, he would not die immediately, but Meng Butuo could only feel the passing of his own life moment by moment, but there was nothing he could do.

Mingye didn't mean to torture him deliberately, but Meng Butuo was surrounded by strict guards, so this was the most appropriate way.

Meng Butuo looked at Ming Ye, and there were many emotions in his eyes - love, sincerity, begging for mercy, and the determination to give everything in exchange for his own life. He opened his mouth, wanting to speak.

Akeno randomly picked up a book on the table, spread it out and covered his face.The pages of the book were softened by the blood, and pressed tightly against Meng Butuo's face, covering what he was trying to express.

Akeno didn't need to listen to that.He decided to kill someone, no one can change his decision, he will not stop because of anything.

After a while, the pages stopped rolling, only the blood was still flowing.

Meng Butuo died, he died so easily.

A quarter of an hour before he died, he was still thinking about replacing the son-in-law, marrying the long princess as his wife, and becoming the lord of the world.

His dream of being an emperor, his great ambitions, and everything about him were burnt at the moment he lost his breath, and they could never be realized again.

Ming Ye let go of his hand, only to realize that the wooden hairpin had broken his fingertips due to too much force.

He felt no pain.

Killing people with such a fragile weapon naturally takes more effort.

Akeno put the wooden hairpin on the table and walked away.

Perhaps most people, when killing a person who never showed his true face, would want to unmask him and find out.

But Ming Ye was not interested in this, he didn't even look at Meng Butuo's corpse.

The light was like daylight, but it couldn't illuminate Ming Ye's eyes.

With a "creak", the door was pushed open from the inside.

The smell of blood came to the face, it was only when a person's blood was drained that this smell would be emitted.

And there were only two people in the room.

The two hidden guards guarding the door immediately became vigilant and were about to draw their swords.

The person who came out was Akino.He stretched out his hand to strangle one of them by the neck, with great strength, the man couldn't break free for a moment, Ming Ye turned around and kicked the other guard away.

Zhou Zhaoqing stood under the steps, startled.

Ming Ye glanced at him, his voice was not loud, it seemed very ordinary, but to Zhou Zhaoqing it sounded like thunder.

He said flatly: "The knife comes."

Zhou Zhaoqing's martial arts is not high, it can only be regarded as flamboyant, but he is flexible and good at judging the situation. At this moment, without saying a word, he threw the knife in his arms into the air.

Chun Zaizhai's bodyguards have arrived one after another, and they all attacked Ming Ye.Ming Ye was surrounded by people, he didn't look at where the knife was, but only by his voice, he grasped the handle of the knife like a cloud and flowing water, raised his hand slightly, and the scabbard fell down.

His blade was inward, but he slashed at others.

Before the scabbard fell to the ground, the throats of the two had been severed, and blood was scattered all over the ground.

This was Zhou Zhaoqing's first time witnessing Ming Ye's murder, and he was so horrified that he could hardly move.

Before that, he had been speculating, but he couldn't tell how strong Mingye's martial arts was, how powerful his skills were.Ming Ye is only eighteen years old, how many years can he practice martial arts?But until this moment, he didn't know how wrong he was.

But for a moment, except for Ming Ye holding the knife and Zhou Zhaoqing standing below, Chun Zaizhai had no one alive.

Only then did Zhou Zhaoqing see Qing Mingye's appearance.

The original color of the snow-white Taoist robe that Ming Ye wore today has long been lost. From the chest to the hem, there are gushing and splashing blood.Her hair was scattered on her shoulders, and the wooden hairpin was nowhere to be seen.

It looked out of this world when it came, but now it looks like a ghost.

His hands were also dyed bright red, his left hand didn't hold the knife, it was hanging by his side, blood dripped down slowly from his fingertips, soaking the blue brick below.

"Tick tock" and "tick tock" were the only sounds in the huge courtyard.

Zhou Zhaoqing was horrified and dared not say anything, what a shrewd person he was, how could he not guess that Ming Ye just killed the shopkeeper in the house.

He actually killed the shopkeeper!

Zhou Zhaoqing didn't care about anything else, rushed into the study and saw the dead body lying on the chair.

This is the owner of the Wanlai Chamber of Commerce, the powerful treasurer.

Akeno just killed him.

Zhou Zhaoqing was in a mess, and couldn't even figure it out.

The footprints of the Wanlai Chamber of Commerce are all over Da Yin, and even set foot in places outside the territory.Such a behemoth, even if Ming Ye killed the shopkeeper, would he be able to take over and tame those people?

Zhou Zhaoqing saw the shopkeeper's seal on the corner of the table.Akino didn't take it.

The seal of the treasurer of the Wanlai Chamber of Commerce is worth tens of millions of gold, but it can also be worthless.

Akeno didn't need that seal that much.

At this moment, Zhou Zhaoqing suddenly remembered a few things that happened some time ago.

The sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance on Mingye's body, and the lipstick he wanted to make himself, seemed to have a sweetheart, which made Zhou Zhaoqing feel that he had grasped Mingye's weakness.

I see.I see.

Zhou Zhaoqing was the one who carried the sword for Mingye.

After the shopkeeper died, he would either reach the sky in one step, or die.

Akeno showed his weakness so easily in front of him, but because he was sure that he would have no choice in the future.

Zhou Zhaoqing sorted out his thoughts, and when he walked out, he had returned to his usual calm.

Ming Ye stood beside the rock, washed the blood on his hand with running water, the blood melted into the pool, and there was no trace in a blink of an eye.

Ming Ye raised his hand, looked at it, and frowned slightly, as if suspicious that he hadn't washed it clean.

Convinced, Zhou Zhaoqing knelt down on one knee: "This subordinate is willing to do his best for the son, until he dies."

After hearing what he said, Mingye only nodded slightly.

The shopkeeper is dead, and the power has been left behind. With Ming Ye's identity and methods, the people who are still alive in the Immortal Garden must either admit it or die.

No one wants to court death that much.

After finishing the matter of Immortal Garden, it was already dark outside.

Evening is coming, but there is no sunset.

Ming Ye glanced out the window, his mood could not be called good or bad, there was no fluctuation, but he finished a thing that should have been finished without accident.

He put down his pen, told Zhou Zhaoqing the rest, and was about to get up and leave.

Zhou Zhaoqing asked: "Where is the young master going?"

Mingye has changed into a new robe, which is still white: "Go back to Tianshui Lane."

But just today, his last robe was soaked with blood.

Zhou Zhaoqing said with a smile: "Young master has become the owner of the chamber of commerce, what are you going back to Sun's house for?"

Ming Ye said lightly: "There is something."

After killing the shopkeeper, there is indeed no need to go back to Sun's house, there is no need for that, and he should not go back to the palace, because he is no longer under the control of others.

But if you want to go back to the palace, you have to behave as usual, and the Sun family can't expose it.

When deciding to kill the shopkeeper, Akeno did not hesitate.But staying in the palace would be harmful but not beneficial, Ming Ye never made a decision.

Counting it, Immortal Garden and Tianshui Lane are not too far away, and Ming Ye walked back.

When passing through the alley, the owner of the grocery store stopped Mingye, and he said, "The one from the Sun family has a letter from you."

Akeno stopped and took the letter from the owner of the grocery store. He knew who wrote it when he saw the words on the envelope.

It's Rong JIan.

After taking it apart, there was a thin piece of paper inside, on which were written "Clear Sky Workshop", "waiting for you" and a few dozen words.

There is no name on the signature, just a bit of dried rouge.

Akeno looked at the spot of vermilion, he knew what kind of color it would be on Rong Jian's lips.

He was silent for a while, then suddenly asked, "When did the letter arrive?"

The owner of the grocery store has a good memory: "At noon, a strange driver said he was delivering letters for others. There is no one in your house, so let me go."

"Oh, by the way, he also let you see that you should go there as soon as possible. The other party doesn't seem to be able to wait too long. You're only coming back at this time. I guess it's not going well."

Ming Ye knew that Rong Jian was going out of the palace to see a doctor today, probably because he had made an agreement with Zhu Quan, and secretly came down the mountain, he probably wouldn't stay for long, and it was considered very late now.

But Akeno never thought about missing the appointment.

He shouldn't have wasted so much time in Immortal Garden.

Ming Ye suddenly said: "Boss Chen, borrow a horse."

Rong Jian waited for a long time, until the sky gradually darkened, Ling Song began to persuade Ling Song to go back.

But he is still waiting.He always felt that he could wait until Mingye would definitely come back if he saw the letter.Even if something really happened and he couldn't come, he would let someone come to report to himself.

He thought so.

But after waiting for a long time, it was really boring, Rong Jian drank while warming the wine, the new wine was very sweet, Rong Jian didn't care, after several cups, he was already half drunk and half awake.

Someone is knocking on the door.

Rong Jian said vaguely: "Come in."

He was so tired that he didn't look back.

The man said: "Your Highness."

When Rong Jian heard the sound and turned his head, Ming Ye was standing by the lamp, looking at himself.

When seeing Ming Ye, Rong Jian felt like he suddenly took a bite of ice cream on a very cold winter night, the weather was so cold that he shivered because of it.But the ice cream is so sweet, it is a joy that was caught off guard.

Rong Jian stood up and walked towards Ming Ye.

Maybe it was too hasty to get up, or maybe he was drunk, but Rong Jian didn't take two steps, he fell and threw himself forward, fortunately Ming Ye caught him and fell into his arms.

Even though walked so much today, didn't fall down.

Rong Jian's face was crimson, the color like burning clouds, and the sweet osmanthus fragrance exuded from his whole body, which made people want to taste it.

Ming Ye just held Rong Jian's arm and let him lean in his arms.

Rong Jian complained: "I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Probably because it was too hot, and Rong Jian's sanity was not so clear, he instinctively approached the place with lower temperature, Ming Ye's body was wrapped in the cold wind outside, and his body temperature was very low.

Rong Jian held his hand, trying to cool herself down.

Akeno was startled, he said: "Your Highness, my hands are dirty."

Ming Ye had killed too many people, and he would never feel guilty about it.But when he was held by Rong Jian, he suddenly remembered that his hands were stained with blood and had been washed for a long time.

Such a pair of hands.

Rong Jian raised his head, he was a little puzzled: "No, it's very clean."

There were times when Akeno didn't know how to answer.

Rong Jian lowered his head, held Ming Ye's hand, and said innocently: "Where is it dirty?"

Perhaps because he felt that Mingye's expression was rather serious, Rong Jian thought for a while, then took out his handkerchief, and wiped it carefully for Mingye: "Even if it is really dirty, it has already been wiped clean."

The author has something to say:

How can not be tempted?

Today I was planning to write more about dating, and there is a cliché plot that local dogs like very much... But my neck hurts so much that I want to vomit, so I stopped here.

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