Chapter 065 Jin丨Exclusively published by Jiang Wenxue

On a deserted path, a slovenly young man rode past on horseback, and a young man in black rode a steed closely behind him, with a knife on his waist, one hand holding the reins, and the other holding a mooncake.

System: [Your trip was in vain, right?]

Xue Chen: [Although we haven't found out what poison my brother used, we almost know his method of committing the crime, and there is someone to take the blame, so it's not a wasted trip.]

System: [Ah? Did you find out? 】

Xue Chen: 【Although Xiao Mian's sense of taste is not activated, he can't see with his eyes, but his tongue is more sensitive than that of ordinary people. It is obvious that the poison is in the moon cake. It is that taste that I can't remember what it is. It passed through the hands of the dead Gan Rong and was delivered to Concubine Shu. It was stimulated by the fragrance of roses and turned into a deadly poison that kills instantly. 】

System: 【Yes. 】

Xue Chen: 【My brother put down the flowers and ran away. Now Gan Rong's death points to Concubine Wang, and Wo Yun Tower points to Fu Zongshu. The most interesting thing is that these clues only point to each other. There is no clear evidence. Even if Concubine Wang and Fu Zongshu want to prove themselves, it will be difficult. 】

System: 【Will Zhuge Shenhou close the case like this? 】

Xue Chen:【They will probably continue to investigate. When the one-month deadline is up, they will hand in whatever they find out. It will be fun if they can drag Fu Zongshu into the water.】

System:【What do you mean?】

Xue Chen:【You will know when the time comes. Just wait and see.】

The two of them rode their horses to the town. After arriving at the busy city, they led their horses and walked forward slowly.

Zhui Ming got some wine from a roadside wine shop and filled his gourd. Pei Rui followed him silently, tilting his head slightly, as if listening carefully to the sounds around him.

The wine gourd was full and returned to Zhui Ming. He paid for it and turned to Pei Rui and said, "Xiao Mian, do you want to find a place--"

Before he finished speaking, a group of people rushed over with weapons in hand, and passers-by around them retreated.

The leader shouted, "Xuan Yue Dao! I finally found you! Brothers, go ahead and kill him to avenge my second brother!"

They quickly surrounded Pei Rui and Zhui Ming, and without saying anything, they picked up their weapons and killed them.

Zhui Ming quickly put away the wine gourd: "Wait, Xuan Yue Dao? Did you recognize the wrong person?"

Pei Rui lowered his head slightly, drew out his knife, and mercilessly and swiftly chopped down anyone who approached him.

Zhui Ming knew that Pei Rui's knife skills were very good, but he didn't expect it to be so powerful.

The young man had experience in the army, and the sword techniques he used were wide and open, which was absolutely labor-saving and could kill people at the fastest speed.

His movements were not beautiful, but because of his slender figure and powerful movements, he seemed to be doing things with ease. Looking closely, he seemed to have profound meanings and was particularly elegant and neat.

Zhui Ming was shocked when he saw Pei Rui using a knife for the first time.

Pei Rui is now just Pei Rui, not Xiao Mian.

He seemed to have thrown away all his emotions and turned into a sharp blade, acting entirely on instinct. His ultimate goal was to get rid of the enemy, without fear or mercy.

These people are just enemies, not the same kind, so no matter how many he kills, he will not be soft-hearted.

Zhui Ming was stunned for a moment. There were already six or seven people lying on the ground without a sound, and the blood holes on their bodies kept oozing dark blood.

Those people were also frightened by Pei Rui's ferocity. The morale they had accumulated with great difficulty was exhausted. After a period of confusion, some of them wanted to retreat. They took a few steps back, rushed into the crowd and fled with blood all over their bodies. There were

also people who were facing death, their legs and feet were weak, and they didn't even have time to dodge, and were chopped off by Pei Rui.

There were also a few people who were very good at martial arts. It seemed that they were full of hatred and were determined to kill Pei Rui. Instead of retreating, they advanced and joined forces. After a few moves with Pei Rui, they were powerless and wounded. They retreated to the side and waited for an opportunity to act.

Zhui Ming shouted, "Stop! Stop!"

Pei Rui swung his knife to wipe off the blood, and did not look back: "What's wrong?"

The others took the opportunity to rush over.

Before Pei Rui made a move, Zhui Ming used his Qinggong to kick the man away and blocked Pei Rui: "This boy is my younger brother, not the Xuanyue Knife you are looking for. Did you misunderstand something?"

The man next to him spat out blood and stared at Zhui Ming resentfully: "The young marquis is offering a large sum of money for the Xuanyue Knife, and it looks exactly like this blind boy. Could it be false?" Zhui

Ming: "Young marquis?"

The man: "My second brother treated me like a real brother, but he died at the hands of this inhuman Xuanyue Knife. If I don't avenge this, I swear I will not be a human being!"

After that, he raised his sword and killed again.

Zhui Ming wanted to stop him, but the man seemed to have anticipated it and dodged on purpose. He didn't expect Pei Rui to attack at this time. He avoided Zhui Ming when he dodged, but he was hit by Pei Rui's knife.

The man didn't expect that he would die so miserably. He spat out a mouthful of blood and stared at Pei Rui: "You...will...die badly..."

He was silent after that.

Zhui Ming turned around and subconsciously wanted to comfort him: "Xiao Mian..."

Pei Rui pulled the knife out of the body, kicked the person aside, and said in the same tone as always: "Kill them all." Zhui Ming

couldn't believe it: "Xiao Mian?"

Pei Rui frowned slightly: "Cui Ming, they want to kill me. If they don't kill them all, I will be the one to die."

For some reason, when Zhui Ming heard Pei Rui say this, he felt a pang of bitterness in his heart.

What is the difference between this child and the cold-blooded boy he was when he was a teenager?

He was separated from his family when he was young, and he was blind and suffered a lot. Zhui Ming

couldn't imagine how he had survived all these years.

Xiao Mian didn't even have a mother wolf who loved him. He was able to survive to this day because of this wildness in his body.

Zhui Ming said, "Xiao Mian, do you believe me?"

Pei Rui tilted his head.

Zhui Ming: "Leave them to me, I will protect you and never let you get hurt, okay?"

Pei Rui was a little hesitant: "Will you die?" Zhui

Ming took a deep breath, his voice a little hoarse than before: "My martial arts are very good, enough to deal with these people, I won't die easily."

Xue Chen: [Can this be supplemented in the brain? ]

System: [What what? What did he supplement in the brain? ]

Xue Chen: [I guess he thinks that Xiao Mian has met kindhearted people who wanted to protect him before, but ended up dying in front of Xiao Mian. His sympathy for me is overflowing. I really didn't want to lie to him about this. How can he be so imaginative?]

System: [This is great. It improves Xiao Mian's settings. I thought Zhui Ming would think that Xiao Mian kills without blinking an eye and distance himself from you from then on, but unexpectedly it brought the relationship closer.]

Xue Chen: [It's my fault. I didn't tell him clearly who the kindhearted person is.]

System: [Please don't tell me!]

Zhui Ming has a strong sense of justice and would not kill people for no reason, let alone so many people.

After he stopped Pei Rui, those who were so scared that their legs went limp finally had the strength to crawl away. The rest were also subdued by him, knocked unconscious for a while, and thrown to the street.

Looking back and seeing the young man standing in a pool of blood, Zhui Ming sighed, walked over and wiped the blood off his face: "It's all solved, Xiao Mian, let's go."

Pei Rui nodded and put away the knife.

Zhui Ming held his hand and led him to the horse. He was relieved when he saw him sitting on the horse.

The young man was in danger, on high alert, with murderous intent all over his body. Zhui Ming couldn't help but worry that he would suddenly hack to death a pedestrian on the roadside.

The two of them rode their horses wildly, quickly left the crime scene, avoided the pursuit of the police, went out of the city, and took a small road back to Beijing.

After returning to the capital, the blood on Pei Rui's body had already coagulated. The black clothes did not look very obvious, but the smell was very strong. Anyone who saw him could tell that he had just killed someone.

Zhui Ming did not take him back to the old building, but sent him to the Taiping Palace: "You missed the rest day on the trip to Huzhou. You should go home and rest first. I will handle the Shenbu Division."

Even if it was a dispute between the rivers and lakes, killing someone in the street was a murder case.

Zhui Ming went to Huzhou secretly without revealing his identity. After returning to the capital, he had to explain the situation and notify the government office there to withdraw the government's wanted notice for him and Pei Rui.

Pei Rui was about to go back home when he heard Zhui Ming say, "Are you Xuan Yue Dao?"

Pei Rui looked confused: "I don't know."

Zhui Ming patted his shoulder: "I still have official business to attend to, so I won't go to see the prince. You should go back soon."

Pei Rui nodded, said goodbye to Zhui Ming, and returned to his own yard.

After settling the expenses for this month, the main body came out of the warehouse. It seemed to be strolling in the garden, but in fact it was walking towards Pei Rui.

Xue Chen: [I don't know

if the moon cake is still edible.] System: [Is it stained with blood?]

Xue Chen was distressed: [I can't see it! Xiao Mian smells of blood, and it's impossible to tell whether the moon cake is stained with blood or not!]

System: [You should have given it to Zhui Ming for safekeeping in advance.]

Xue Chen: [Forget it, he's not much better. 】

Slowly walking to Pei Rui's courtyard, Xue Chen passed through the moon gate. Pei Rui just took off his black clothes, bare his arms, drew a bucket of water from the well in the yard, poured it directly on his body, washed off the blood stains, and then filled another bucket.

Xue Chen: [Ah, Xiao Mian, you have a great figure.]

System: [...? ]

Xue Chen walked forward, picked up the handkerchief next to him, and helped Pei Rui wipe the blood off his body.

The two bodies were very close, and their vision overlapped. Pei Rui seemed to have recovered his vision, which made it much easier for him to do things.

After washing his body, Xue Chen went to the house to find new clothes. Pei Rui wiped off the water stains on his body, stood there, opened his arms, and let the original body help him put on his clothes.

Xue Chen touched his abdominal muscles: [It's all my brother's fault. How could he be such a person? I don't have many muscles.]

System: [Did you have muscles before you traveled through time?]

Xue Chen: [No.]

System: [...You can't blame your brother entirely.]

Xue Chen: [It was very difficult for me to build a muscular physique before. After traveling through time, I have martial arts skills, but I still don't have muscles. Who else should I blame but him?]

After dressing Xiao Mian, he sat on the stone bench next to him, opened the paper bag on the table, and turned it inside out.

The oil paper bag was waterproof, and the blood on the outside did not seep in. The mooncake was dry, but it smelled faintly of blood.

Xue Chen frowned, picked up a mooncake and put it in his mouth.

System: [How is it? Xue

Chen did not answer and left Pei Rui's courtyard directly. He came to the warehouse, took out the catalog and looked through it, but he did not find what he was looking for, so he called the butler over.

The butler of the Taiping Palace was also surnamed Xue. He was a family son and had lived in the Xue family since he was a child. It has been more than 40 years. It can be said that he watched Xue Chen and Gong Jiu grow up.

The housekeeper was not reserved in front of Xue Chen, and looked at him with a loving look: "What do you want, young master?"

Xue Chen smiled and asked: "I remember that we have some datura flowers at home. Uncle Cheng, do you know where this herb is?"

The housekeeper: "They are all from last year, and the medicinal properties have weakened. I wanted to sell them to the pharmacy at a low price, but the prince said that soldiers in the army are often injured and need to use datura as medicine to relieve pain, so I took them all away. Why did you suddenly think of this? Do you have a headache again?"

Xue Chen supported his forehead: "It's an old problem... Since there are no datura flowers, give me those borneol and menthol."

The housekeeper hurriedly did as he was told.

System: [Why are you pretending to be sick? 】

Xue Chen:【I can't just say that I found that the mooncakes seem to have the juice of Datura flowers added to them. If I really say that, not only my brother, but even my father will be shocked.】

System:【Datura flower?】

Xue Chen:【It is a medicinal ingredient that can be used to make Ma Fei San. But in this world, it is often used to make knockout drugs. I was wondering why this smell is so familiar, it's the smell of knockout drugs!】

System:【How do you know what knockout drugs smell like?】

Xue Chen:【It was in the medicine that Xie Heng drank two days ago.】

The system was speechless. How could someone drink knockout drugs by themselves!

Xue Chen returned to his residence, took off his coat, let his hair down, and rubbed his brows and temples: "Xiao He."

Xiao He had been waiting outside. When she heard the call, she hurried in: "Sir."

Xue Chen took out the peppermint oil: "Give me a massage."

Xiao He poured peppermint oil on her palm, pushed it open, and massaged a few acupuncture points for him: "Why do you have a headache again when all is well, young master?"

Xue Chen did not speak.

Xiao He asked hesitantly: "Should I tell the prince?"

She was the spy arranged by Gong Jiu to be beside Xue Chen, and she had to report all matters of Xue Chen to Gong Jiu.

But now Xiao He has taken refuge with Xue Chen, and every time she wants to pass on a message to Gong Jiu, she must get Xue Chen's consent. When Gong Jiu returns home, she will also monitor Gong Jiu and report his movements to Xue Chen.

But Gong Jiu doesn't spend much time in the mansion, and Xiao He's role is limited, so Xue Chen has to find a way himself.

He said softly: "This matter cannot be kept secret. If you don't tell him, he will be suspicious... But if Lian'er knows that I am sick, she will definitely worry again. Do you know what he is busy with recently?"

Xiao He: "I don't know, but I can help you find out in the letter."

Xue Chen smiled and said: "Okay."