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Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou arrived at the manor.

The one who opened the door was still Attendant. When Attendant saw Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou, he welcomed them directly and said, "Esteemed guests, our Protector has been waiting for a long time."

Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou followed the other party inside.

However, it wasn't time for Zou Qingyuan to do that … A woman appeared.

Long Xiaoyuan immediately frowned when he saw the woman walking over.

"Miss." Attendant greeted Wu Xiangyuan.

Wu Xiangyuan nodded. Then, she stared at Shi Qingzhou.

Long Xiaoyuan's face darkened as he blocked Wu Xiangyuan's sight with a fake smile. Is there something the matter with this girl? "

Attendant also felt that his mistress was a little strange and cast a questioning gaze at her.

Wu Xiangyuan smiled slightly. I'll take you guys to Zou Protecting Law's place. "

"How dare I trouble Miss." Long Xiaoyuan immediately refused. We can just go with this little brother ourselves. "

Wu Xiangyuan looked in the direction of Shi Qingzhou. She gently bit her teeth and suddenly said, "Shitou brother, don't you remember little sister?"

Long Xiaoyuan frowned.

Shi Qingzhou was slightly stunned. The way he addressed Shitou brother reminded him of something …

Long Xiaoyuan also looked at Shi Qingzhou.

Shi Qingzhou said faintly, "You must have recognized the wrong person, right?"

Shi Qingzhou's words made Wu Xiangyuan's expression change slightly and turn pale.

Attendant opened his mouth to say something, but then closed it again.

Long Xiaoyuan pulled Shi Qingzhou's hand and said lightly: "Let's go."

Attendant looked at Wu Xiangyuan secretly. Seeing that the other side didn't have any movement, he didn't have any special orders. Then, he smiled and said, "Please follow me."

Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou followed Attendant towards Zou Qingyuan.

This time, Wu Xiangyuan didn't follow him.

Long Xiaoyuan looked at Shi Qingzhou, who was beside him. Seeing that the other person's expression was very calm, he slightly squinted his eyes.

However, this wasn't the place to talk, so Long Xiaoyuan didn't ask anything.

Shi Qingzhou and Long Xiaoyuan went to the same room as last time. Zou Qingyuan was already waiting there.

Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou walked into the house together.

Zou Qingyuan didn't know what happened on the way just now. He walked up to Shi Qingzhou with a smile when he saw him.

Compared to last time, Shi Qingzhou didn't look that happy. He didn't seem to be in a good mood.

Zou Qingyuan immediately asked with concern. Shi Qingzhou sighed.

"Does Brother Zou know the Liu Family?"

Zou Qingyuan paused for a moment and immediately understood what the other party was referring to.

"Brother Stone already knows about the Liu Family?"

Shi Qingzhou nodded, "I didn't know at first, but when I came out, I felt that something was strange on the street, so I sent people to investigate. Only then did I find out about the Liu Family … This Liu Family has a good reputation within the Imperial City. Why would something like this happen? "

Zou Qingyuan was silent for a moment, and then he said, "Brother Stone, since you asked, then I will say something that I am not sure about."

"Hmm?" Shi Qingzhou immediately said, "Brother Zou, please speak."

"There have been mysterious people going to Liu Family's house in the past few days. It's not like the people of Liu Family know about it, but they might just be business companions, just that, why would this partner suddenly attack the entire Liu Family … This is hard to guess. "

"Business partner?" Shi Qingzhou's gaze turned cold.

Zou Qingyuan said, "If he isn't a partner, what else could he be?"

Shi Qingzhou fell silent.

Long Xiaoyuan sighed. "Does Brother Zou know anything else?"

Zou Qingyuan shook his head. Liu Family did not pay much attention. He knew that there were people entering the Liu Family's house late at night because they were all experts in the martial arts world.

"An expert in the martial arts world …" Shi Qingzhou slowly lowered his eyelids. All of the dead Liu Family cultivators died with a single sword strike, their wounds all over their chest.

Yes, this point, to be honest, when I heard about the matter at Liu Family, I also went to the scene to take a look. I saw the wounds on those people, the killer's martial arts were very high, he was a first-rate swordsman. Zou Qingyuan said.

Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou looked at each other.

Shi Qingzhou said, "He is indeed a first-rate swordsman. Although most of the people in the Liu Family did not know how to cultivate, if the assassins were not good with their swords, and if the assassins were not fast with their swords, they would not have such wounds. The kind of wound that could cause this kind of injury... I think Heavencraft Tower can make up a list? "

Zou Qingyuan paused and nodded. "Yes."

Shi Qingzhou smiled faintly. "Since you can, Brother Zou, can you give me that name list now?"

Zou Qingyuan laughed bitterly when he heard this. Brother Stone, this is against our Heavencraft Tower's rules. "

"Rules are dead, but people are alive." Long Xiaoyuan said lightly.

Zou Qingyuan shivered slightly when he heard this, "Alright, please wait here. I will go now."

After Zou Qingyuan left, Long Xiaoyuan asked, "Will there be any problems with the items he took out?"

"As long as he's willing to take it out, there won't be a problem." Shi Qingzhou said with certainty.

Long Xiaoyuan nodded. In that case, that's good too. "

Shi Qingzhou also nodded and said softly, "Yuan, he doesn't dare to disobey."

Long Xiaoyuan said, "If you are smart, you shouldn't refuse. This is the Imperial City. "

Shi Qingzhou nodded in agreement.

Moreover, from the moment they came looking for him and accepted the mission from the Heavencraft Tower, to some extent, they could already be considered to be connected.

Not to mention, could it be that this world was the Royal Territory? Heavencraft Tower should not refuse even if it was based on emotion and reason.

Zou Qingyuan didn't leave for long. He came back about a quarter of an hour later with a list in his hand.

Shi Qingzhou didn't open it immediately, but stated his purpose for coming today after taking it.

"Is there any news from East Night Country?"

"Yes." Zou Qingyuan nodded. "Yes, Brother Stone, look at this."

Zou Qingyuan took out a bamboo scroll and Shi Qingzhou took it. After reading through it, he frowned slightly.

Moments later, Shi Qingzhou handed the bamboo block to Long Xiaoyuan. Long Xiaoyuan had also seen it.

Then, Long Xiaoyuan handed the bamboo block back to Shi Qingzhou, who took it.

"We know part of the information." Long Xiaoyuan said lightly.

Zou Qingyuan did not speak immediately. Instead, he looked at Shi Qingzhou.

Shi Qingzhou smiled. "Distant means that we can get what is on the surface ourselves. What we need is to go deep inside."

Zou Qingyuan laughed bitterly. I understand what Brother Stone means, but Brother Stone, you must know, our Heavencraft Tower does not have much of a foundation in the East Night Country. "

Shi Qingzhou shook his head slowly and smiled. Brother Zou was being modest when he said this. "

Long Xiaoyuan said indifferently, "Qingzhou is right, Brother Zou is being modest."

Zou Qingyuan's expression changed slightly. He smiled bitterly and said, "Alright, we will continue to follow up on them."

"If that's the case, I'll have to trouble Brother Zou to keep an eye on us. We still have matters to attend to today. If there's any urgent matter, Brother Zou can send someone to inform us." Shi Qingzhou said.

Long Xiaoyuan also nodded. That's right, if there's anything that Brother Zou needs, there's no need for you to be courteous. "

Zou Qingyuan immediately replied, "No problem."

After another few sentences, Shi Qingzhou and Long Xiaoyuan left Zou Qingyuan's place and took two things with them.

A bamboo scroll and a list of names.

After leaving Zou Qingyuan's place, Long Xiaoyuan and Shi Qingzhou did not say anything.

Hu Qingyuan was already waiting for them when they got back to the palace.

The other party requested to see him through a normal means, so Long Xiaoyuan sent someone to guide him to Imperial study when he got back.

When Long Xiaoyuan went to Imperial study, Hu Qingyuan was already waiting there.

"This humble subject pays his respects to Your Majesty. Long live the Emperor."

"Get up." Long Xiaoyuan sat on the Dragon Throne of the Imperial study and said.

Hu Qingyuan stood up and Long Xiaoyuan sent someone to sit.

Hu Qingyuan sat down on his seat fearfully.

Long Xiaoyuan did not delay any longer and directly asked: "I presume your beloved one came over because of the case of the Liu Family?"

"Yes, Your Majesty, this humble subject has already found some clues."

"Oh?" Long Xiaoyuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Tell me about it."

"This humble subject found it in a basement in Liu Family." Hu Qingyuan carefully placed an earthen yellow paper bag on the tray and handed it over to Long Xiaoyuan by the eunuch.

Long Xiaoyuan took a look, "What is this?"

"thiosulfonate." Hu Qingyuan said affirmatively.

Long Xiaoyuan was slightly shocked. Why would there be such a thing underground in Liu Family? "

"This humble subject does not know, this humble subject sees that this little thiosulfonate is placed in a very secret place. If it wasn't for the fact that this subject has a good subordinate who is an expert at finding traps, I'm afraid this humble subject would have overlooked this matter."

Long Xiaoyuan started to ponder.

Hu Qingyuan didn't even open his mouth while Long Xiaoyuan was deep in thought.

After a moment, Long Xiaoyuan said, "What do you think?"

Hu Qingyuan pondered for a moment, then said: "Your majesty, this subject suspects that the patriarch of Liu Family is hinting at something."

Shi Qingzhou was stunned. "What do you mean?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, this subject did not discover anything unusual in the Liu Family, but it just so happens that the thiosulfonate s are hidden so closely, and furthermore …"

An hour later, Hu Qingyuan left the Imperial study. Long Xiaoyuan was still deep in thought.

Shi Qingzhou's voice sounded in Ye Zichen's ears.

"What are you thinking about?"

Only then did Long Xiaoyuan come back to his senses. A light boat? When did you get here? "

Shi Qingzhou said, "You've been here for a while."

Long Xiaoyuan pursed his lips slightly. "Qingzhou, Hu Qingyuan found something in the Liu Family …"

Long Xiaoyuan did not add in any subjective assumption as he explained the clues that Hu Qingyuan had investigated. Then, he looked towards Shi Qingzhou.

Shi Qingzhou also pondered for a bit before slowly saying: "So, Master Hu suspects that this thiosulfonate was intentionally placed in the secret compartment by the Liu Family in order for us to find it and give us a hint?"

"Hu Qingyuan said so." Wu Tie said.

"What about you? What do you think? " Shi Qingzhou asked.

Long Xiaoyuan lightly touched the thiosulfonate and said indifferently: "Combined with the bamboo block that we saw …" East Night Country is probably not simple, right? "

Shi Qingzhou went silent.

Long Xiaoyuan continued: "From the information on the bamboo scroll, it seems like East Night Country is being nurtured everywhere, and the true owner of this Private is the imperial government. When the imperial government sends troops into the Heavenly Court, those Private will become the regular army. "

Shi Qingzhou slowly walked behind Long Xiaoyuan. "Hmm …" However, according to the bamboo scroll, there are not many Private s left. If we truly want to use them, it would be of decisive use, which would be unrealistic. "

"That's because the bamboo block isn't everything. It might have already evolved." Long Xiaoyuan said.

"There is indeed such a possibility, but …" The East Night Country is far away from us after all. It would probably be very difficult for us to destroy those private armies. If he used the martial arts organization … It's quite possible that all of them will be annihilated. "

"Qingzhou wants to do this?" Long Xiaoyuan held Shi Qingzhou's hand and moved the person in front of him from his back.

Shi Qingzhou shook his head slowly. This is only one of the methods, and this method will also have to pay a heavy price, and experts will not be able to find it. "

"That's right, it's hard to find experts. The shadow guard that we cultivate can bear this heavy responsibility, but it's not enough."

Shi Qingzhou was silent for a moment, "It can be hired."

"Like you want Heavencraft Tower to do something?" Long Xiaoyuan shook his head slowly. "For those in the martial arts world, they might have some martial arts skills, but they don't have any loyalty. Even if they were driven by benefits, they would still easily turn against each other. You can't."

"Invert?" Shi Qingzhou frowned. "If it was the internal war of the Sky Dynasty, they might have turned the tables, but I don't think they would betray their country."

Long Xiaoyuan still shook his head. "Qingzhou, those people are sharp blades. If we don't use them well, they will harm us. Unless we have no other choice, we cannot use them."

Shi Qingzhou frowned, "Then..." Since we know that the East Night Country is preparing for war, we have no choice but to prepare for war. "

Long Xiaoyuan nodded. Yes, we need to prepare for war. However, while preparing for battle … We have to speed up the process of finding trouble for the East Night Country. Rumors had already been spread in the East Night Country, what they needed the most right now … It had taken root and sprouted. It's a pity that we can't go to East Night Country ourselves. "

Shi Qingzhou slightly widened his eyes. You still want to go yourself? "

Long Xiaoyuan smiled bitterly. "It's not that I want to go, it's that I don't trust people …"

At this moment, Young Eunuch said that Fang Shuoyang wanted to see him.

Long Xiaoyuan was slightly surprised when he heard that.

Shi Qingzhou narrowed his eyes. " Fang Shuoyang? Is Young Master Xu by his side? "

"Reporting to the emperor, Young Master Xu isn't here."

Shi Qingzhou looked at Long Xiaoyuan. Long Xiaoyuan's eyes flashed. "Qingzhou …" "I think I know what Fang Shuoyang is here for …"

Shi Qingzhou paused slightly. "What?"

Long Xiaoyuan smiled. What Xu You told him... I'm afraid he has already made his decision. "

Shi Qingzhou was stunned when he heard that.

Long Xiaoyuan waved his hand. "Let him in."

"Yes sir!"

Fang Shuoyang came in, knelt down, and greeted them.

Long Xiaoyuan immediately said, "Young Master Fang, there's no need to stand on ceremony. Get up."

Fang Shuoyang stood up. His face didn't look very good. It was even a little pale, but his eyes were very firm, as if he had made some sort of decision …

Long Xiaoyuan glanced at the other party and saw the determination on his face. Then, he slowly said, "Why are you here?"