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After a stick of incense had passed, Tan Linshuang walked out of the house and continued to walk calmly into the depths of the alley.
Not long after they walked, a young man in a short brown shirt, with an unprepossessing appearance but sharp eyes, appeared from the corner and quickly followed.
"Um?"
Unexpectedly, just after he took two steps, he was grabbed by the arm by someone behind him. The other person was like a ghost, hiding deeper than him and moving faster than him.
However, he showed no fear, only a little surprise: "Not following?"
"It can't be lost." The latter said firmly.
Then he nodded to the former, asking him to follow him to the front of the house and knock on the door.
"Sir, what else do you want...and who are you?"
The woman who came to open the door thought it was Tan Linshuang who had returned, but when she saw who was outside the door, she immediately frowned.
Her subconscious expression made the two men suspicious. After looking at each other, one of them pushed her away and the other quickly closed the gate. Before she could react, the man who came in first covered her mouth and nose and dragged her aside, while the other man broke into the house.
"ah!"
Soon, screams were heard in the house, and the woman was so frightened that she stared blankly and struggled continuously.
"If you move again, I'll break your neck!"
A cold shout suddenly rang in her ears. The woman was startled and dared not move at all.
Then she heard the sound of rummaging through drawers.
Met a thief?
But how could such a thief be so rampant in broad daylight?
After being anxious for two incense sticks of time, the man who broke into the house came out and shook his head at the man who held her hostage. She didn't understand why, but she intuitively felt that the hostility of the two men had faded a little.
"Who was that person just now?"
At this time, the voice of the person behind him sounded again.
The woman shook her head and kept making “mmmmm” sounds.
The person behind him said again, "I'm going to let you go now. If you answer honestly, we won't make things difficult for you."
The woman nodded vigorously.
Immediately, her mouth and nose were released. Before she could catch her breath, the person behind her asked again, "Do you recognize the person who just came in?"
"I don't know him!" the woman said hurriedly.
"Then why did he come in?"
"Ask me for Master Zhu's address."
"Who is Master Zhu?"
"He's an instrument maker, quite famous here, but he rarely goes out, so it's not easy to find him."
"Equipment maker?"
The two men looked at each other, obviously unable to understand Tan Linshuang's thoughts.
They originally thought that by following Tan Linshuang they could find Merlin's hiding place, but who would have thought that the other party was actually looking for an equipment maker.
Could it be that...
Their eyes flashed at the same time, and they asked the woman about Master Zhu's address.
"Sorry, it was just a misunderstanding."
After the more agile man let go of the woman, he and his companion bowed and apologized, then threw down a string of copper coins and left quickly.
The woman was confused. She looked at the copper coins on the ground, and then at her two children who had just dared to come out of the house and were unharmed. She didn't know whether she was unlucky or lucky.
On the other hand, Tan Linshuang was about to arrive at Master Zhu's residence, and at the same time she noticed the tail behind her.
"It turns out there's not one, but two."
"One of them is a master of internal skills."
Previously, he had clearly only detected the presence of one person.
He also practices internal skills, and will not make mistakes when it comes to his own kind.
However, he was not nervous now, as he was certain that the other party was following him, not trying to get rid of him secretly.
"Following me? Why?"
Looking at the Zhu family's gate getting closer and closer, Tan Linshuang's mind was racing.
"Not assassination, but stalking... Are you trying to find something out of me?"
"Have they discovered that Zhang Kaigui is missing?"
With all kinds of doubts and guesses, he knocked on the gate in front of him...
That night, the agile man flashed into Tan Mozhu's study like a ghost and reported to him about his experience of following Tan Linshuang today.
"Equipment maker? Are you sure that man is just an equipment maker?" Tan Mozhu narrowed his eyes.
The man nodded affirmatively. "I've already asked the residents around here. Zhu Ah Si is just an instrument maker, with no other identity. Moreover, his Zhu family has made a living from this skill for generations."
"But just in case, I asked Ah Gan to continue to stay there, firstly to monitor Zhu Ah Si, and secondly to see what the young master's purpose is."
"Well done." Tan Mozhu nodded approvingly, waved his hand, and disappeared into the study like the wind.
The candlelight flickered slightly, swaying Tan Mozhu's shadow on the wall, making him look like he was pacing in place.
His mood at this moment was just like the shadow on the wall, wavering.
"Lin'er is like me. He never does things without a purpose."
"Then he secretly went to find Zhu Ah Si, he must be hiding a secret that no one knows about."
"Or... planning something big."
"What could it be?"
He rubbed his cheeks, feeling increasingly irritated.
At the same time, there seemed to be a fire in his lower abdomen, making him feel very uncomfortable.
He stood up suddenly and wanted to find Yanzhi to relieve his heat, but when he raised his foot, he suddenly realized that it was curfew.
He rubbed his cheeks again and paced for a long time. Then he thought of someone, so he left the study, walked through the dense bamboo forest, took a shortcut to the side door of the main courtyard, pushed it open, and walked straight into Ah Zhu's room.
As a second-class maid, Ah Zhu slept in a room alone, but the small courtyard in this compound was full of servants from the main courtyard, and every room was occupied. When she saw Tan Mozhu pushing the door in, she only let out a short scream, then covered her mouth and asked him with her eyes why he came to see her at this time.
Seeing her startled like a little rabbit, half sitting on the bed with only her underwear on, the fire burning in Tan Mozhu's lower abdomen became even hotter.
"I suddenly missed you."
Tan Mozhu smiled charmingly, untied his belt, took off his clothes, and climbed onto her bed.
Ah Zhu still covered her mouth, fearing that her screams would be heard by the people in the next room, but Tan Mozhu seemed to have swallowed two bull whips tonight. He impatiently stripped her clothes off and rushed towards her vigorously.
The anxiety in her heart and the stimulation of her body made her feel both painful and happy. Soon, she reached the clouds and trembled continuously.
Feeling that he had brought her into a wonderful world, Tan Mozhu was quite pleased with himself, but also felt that it was not satisfactory.
He touched Ah Zhu's smooth, flat belly and asked in a hoarse voice, "Do you want to get married?"
Upon hearing this, Ah Zhu, who was in a daze, nodded immediately and said, "I do!"
Is he finally willing to give himself a name?
Just as the feeling of surprise was emerging, Tan Mozhu continued to ask: "Do you like scholars or merchants?"
Ah Zhu's bright eyes suddenly dimmed. She turned her head away and said in a muffled voice, "I don't like any of them."
Tan Mozhu didn't ask any more questions. He rolled up the clothes scattered on the side into a ball and then tied it around Azhu's belly with a belt.
"Second Master, what are you doing?" Ah Zhu was stunned.
Tan Mozhu just said: "Try something different."
After saying that, he stepped back, bent Ah Zhu's waist, asked her to turn over, and kneel on the bed.
After getting into position, Ah Zhu felt her lower abdomen pressed against the piece of clothing. It wasn't uncomfortable, but it felt weird.
Then, Tan Mozhu's kiss slowly moved down from the back of her neck, and his hands reached out to the front, rubbing it gently back and forth. "How does it feel?"
"What...what feeling?" Ah Zhu was confused and became more and more uneasy.
"Do you feel like you're pregnant?" Tan Mozhu asked again.
Ah Zhu widened her eyes, not knowing how to answer.
How would she know since she has never been pregnant?
"Do you feel like the baby in your belly is tormenting you? Like this..."
Tan Mozhu suddenly exerted force and Ah Zhu groaned.
"Is the child bothering you?"
Tan Mozhu seemed to be possessed by a demon and insisted that she pretend to be a pregnant woman and cooperate with him in saying some unspeakable words.
"Still...still tormenting me...be gentle...don't hurt the child..."
"Second Master, please stop... I can't bear it anymore... The child is kicking me... Ah..."
She shouted softly, and Tan Mozhu moved roughly, just like a pregnant woman having an affair with another man behind her husband's back.
Could it be that the Second Master likes... As soon as a terrible thought came to her mind, she fainted in a convulsion.
But Tan Mozhu still didn't stop, and took her twice more before he was so tired that he lay down beside her...
"Where's the Second Master?"
Early in the morning, before daybreak, A Tong was looking for Tan Mozhu in the South Courtyard.
The servants all shook their heads, none of them knowing where Tan Mozhu had gone.
A Tong was so anxious that he was about to try his luck with Yanzhi when he saw Tan Mozhu walking out of the bamboo forest with a hunched back and a tired look on his face.
"Second Master!"
Ah Tong rushed over and said anxiously in a low voice, "Someone has gone missing from the orphanage again."
"What?" Tan Mozhu's fatigue disappeared on the spot.
A Tong said: "This time it was not a girl who was lost, but three boys, all about four years old."
"Dean Shen also said that before the three people disappeared, the guards were drugged, which caused them to hallucinate and faint. He captured the people in the east kitchen and tortured them, but no one admitted to tampering with their food."
"To prevent further mishaps, he personally supervised the preparation of yesterday's meals. The food is fine now, but the person is still missing."
"He's already planning to invite a Taoist priest to perform a ritual."
"He suspects that there are unclean things in the orphanage?" Tan Mozhu glared at him coldly.
Ah Tong lowered his head and stammered, "Whether it's the four guards or the servants in the east kitchen, they've all tasted the bitterness of the flesh. Unless they're tougher than I thought, they won't keep their mouths shut."
"I don't believe in ghosts and gods, I only believe in people." Tan Linshuang said in a deep voice.
"Have Ah Shou and Ah Gan continue to monitor Lin Er, while the other three will go to the orphanage to hide. With strict security, even if it's an evil spirit, as long as it appears, we will definitely catch it!"
"Yes!" A Tong obeyed the order.
But what neither he nor Tan Mozhu had expected was that under such strict supervision, three more girls around ten years old disappeared from the orphanage.
Shen Qiushan, a firm believer in ghosts and gods, was already terrified. Upon seeing Tan Mozhu, he revealed his suspicions: "Second Master, the first time, there were three girls aged thirteen or fourteen. The second time, there were three boys around four years old. Now, there are three again, all of them are girls around ten years old. Could this... be unrelated to our secret business, and is it really a haunting?"
"It was the devil who took them away!"
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