【Kuan Xin】Snake and Venom

After a meal, Lin Yao still didn't like to talk much, but because of Zhao Jian and Xiao Jing's presence, he obviously let go of his guard, and no longer looked shyly at the crowd, and occasionally smiled with his lips pursed.

After dinner, the six people from Qizhai parted ways with the brothers and sisters of the Lin family, and returned to the door of the secret pavilion. Yuan Zhongxin caught a glimpse of a person standing at the corner of the street. He was far away, and in addition to the dark sky, he couldn't see anything clearly. Judging from the figure, it was the woman he had met by chance this morning.

At this time, a carriage passed by, blocking Yuan Zhongxin's sight, until the carriage passed completely, the figure at the corner of the street had disappeared.

Yuan Zhongxin frowned suspiciously, but remained silent, and followed Wang Kuan and the others into the secret pavilion with a normal expression.

When everyone returned to Qizhai, they found the wooden steward waiting at the door. Seeing the six people coming back, they greeted them and said, "Good evening, six people."

Yuan Zhongxin nodded with a smile: "Wood steward, come to Qizhai at such a late hour, but Director Lu is looking for it?"

The wooden steward nodded, and explained: "The head of the courtyard told me not long ago that he wanted to see you, but when I came just now, there was no one in Qizhai, and now I'm here again."

Yuan Zhongxin's eyes flickered slightly: "We went out to eat just now - there is Lao Mu in charge, and we will go to the director later."

After seeing off the wooden steward, Yuan Zhongxin turned around and said to Zhao Jian and the others: "You all stay in Qizhai later, and Wang Kuan and I can just go see Lu Guannian."

Although the four of them didn't understand Yuan Zhongxin's intentions, they still nodded in agreement.

Yuan Zhongxin looked at Wang Kuan: "Let's go."

Along the way, Yuan Zhongxin was silent and thoughtful, Wang Kuan looked at him slightly, and suddenly said, "You don't believe in the master?"

Yuan Zhongxin sneered: "When did I tell you that I believed him when I joined the Secret Pavilion?"

Wang Kuan lowered his eyes and remained silent.

Yuan Zhongxin touched Wang Kuan with his elbow, and said: "You won't lie, don't talk later, I'll deal with that old man."

Wang Kuan nodded and agreed.

Lu Guannian saw only Yuan Zhongxin and Wang Kuan, and asked in puzzlement, "Why are you the only two here, what about Zhao Jian and the others?"

Yuan Zhongxin said calmly: "They are busy with other things."

Lu Guannian did not doubt that he was there, put down the book in his hand, and looked back and forth between the two: "How is the result of today's interrogation? Did An Lijiu say anything?"

Yuan Zhongxin shrugged, and said casually: "There is nothing strange about it. He confessed to selling drugs to the frontier army. I guess he will be able to convict him if he asks about the details tomorrow."

Hearing this, Lu Guannian frowned slightly, and asked in a deep voice, "An Lijiu recognized everything, didn't he resist at all?"

Yuan Zhongxin nodded: "Yes, you can ask Wang Kuan if you don't believe me."

Wang Kuan nodded lightly. What Yuan Zhongxin said was the truth, and An Lijiu admitted everything.

Lu Guannian's expression was quite serious, and he stared down at the case book on the table with a distressed expression.

Yuan Zhongxin raised his eyebrows inaudibly, and asked pretending to be puzzled: "Headmaster, An Lijiu has been arrested and pleaded guilty so straightforwardly, the case of Wushisan is mostly solved, are you still here?" worry about what?"

When Lu Guannian came back to his senses, he found that the young man in front of him was staring at him with his head tilted. His eyes were deep, which made Lu Guannian feel guilty for no reason. He couldn't help sighing in his heart, but said on the surface: "It's nothing, you guys will go to interrogate An Li Jiuzhi tomorrow. At that time, bring the registration case book with you, because this time the person was arrested by the imperial army, and the mission report this time cannot be included in the secret cabinet, but must be handed over to the imperial army." As he said, he picked up the case book in front of him , to Yuan Zhongxin.

Yuan Zhongxin looked at him indifferently for a moment, then stepped forward to take it, his originally indifferent expression suddenly turned into a smile: "Okay, the head of the school, if there is nothing else, the students will leave first." After finishing speaking, he and Wang Kuantou Without going back, he walked out the door.

Lu Guannian tightened his hands, and asked out loud, "Didn't you find anything unusual when you interrogated An Lijiu?"

The two stopped in their tracks, Yuan Zhongxin turned around and smiled, and said lightly: "The head of the court, the imperial guards have a good attitude, the prisoners responded cooperatively, and the interrogation process went smoothly, is this abnormal?"

Lu Guannian was at a loss for words for a moment and didn't know how to answer.

On the way back, Yuan Zhongxin kicked the gravel on the ground while looking at the bright moon in the sky with an unfathomable expression.

Wang Kuan stared at him for a long time, then suddenly smiled.

Yuan Zhongxin was puzzled by his laughter, so he asked puzzledly, "What are you laughing at?"

Wang Kuan stopped in his tracks, crossed his arms, and looked at him with great interest: "Laughing at you, there are so many old and new students in the Secret Pavilion, and you dare to commit such blatant crimes. So far, it seems that you are the only one." .”

Yuan Zhongxin curled his lips, dissatisfied: "Which eye of yours saw that I committed a crime?"

Wang Kuan leisurely walked up to Yuan Zhongxin, and said leisurely: "I not only saw it, but I also heard it. You just answered Lu Zhangyuan's words like that just to force Lu Zhangyuan into a hurry so that he can take his own initiative." Consciously telling you the truth?"

Yuan Zhongxin glanced at him angrily, and said dryly: "OK, OK, you are the best, and you know a lot——I warned him a long time ago, and I can do things for him, but If you don’t tell anything, find someone else.”

Hearing this, Wang Kuan laughed lowly: "It's such a coincidence, I said that too." Not only a warning, but thinking of his own words before, it was almost a threat.

Yuan Zhongxin raised his eyebrows: "Oh, really? When did it happen?"

Wang Kuan blinked: "After returning from the case of Qinghe Town."

Yuan Zhongxin pretended to be surprised and said: "Oh, it turns out that Wang Kuan, who usually looks like a good student, also has a day when he can't get used to that old fox Lu Guannian."

Wang Kuan raised his eyebrows, looked at him with deep eyes, and said meaningfully: "I say that not only because I can't get used to him."

Yuan Zhongxin's heart beat lightly, and he swallowed the words when they reached his lips. He laughed a few times and was speechless for a while.

The corner of Wang Kuan's mouth pursed into a smile, and he stopped and stepped forward again: "Let's go, it's time to go back."

Yuan Zhongxin smacked his lips, his eyes were helpless, and he secretly cursed, why couldn't his heart beat?

When they returned to Qizhai, the two saw Xiaojing holding a bowl of brown transparent liquid in his hand. Yuan Zhongxin's right eyelid twitched in response to the occasion. Just as he was about to find an excuse to escape, Wang Kuan had already grabbed his hand. hand, Yuan Zhong cast a gloomy glance at him.

Wang Kuan looked at him with a smile on his face, and said softly, "Hey, drink the medicine."

Xiao Jing said with a smile: "Brother Yuan, don't worry, this medicine is not very bitter."

Yuan Zhongxin couldn't help it, he held the bowl and poured all the medicine into it, just about to open his mouth to cry out, Wang Kuan had already stuffed a candied fruit into his mouth quickly, Yuan Zhongxin posed questions to Wang Kuan while chewing eyes.

Wang Kuan raised the paper bag in his hand and explained: "I know you are afraid of hardship, so I just bought it on the street."

Yuan Zhongxin hummed twice, noncommittal.

Xiao Jing said: "Brother Yuan, the weather is dry, remember to eat lighter in the future, and eat less angry food, otherwise the nosebleed will become more and more serious."

Yuan Zhongxin nodded and agreed.

Early the next morning, Yuan Zhongxin and others went out, but Xue Ying and Wei Yanei stayed in the secret pavilion. Before leaving, Yuan Zhongxin told them both of the strange things they saw at the door yesterday, and asked them to pay more attention to it. Let's see if there will be that woman's figure again today. If she appears, follow up. There may be new clues.

Yuan Zhongxin and Wang Kuan were already acquainted with each other in the minds of the imperial army, but because Zhao Jian and Xiao Jing were new faces, the inspections that went all the way in were as complicated as yesterday.

And An Lijiu seemed to have expected that Yuan Zhongxin and the others would come so early today. When he opened the door and entered the room, An Lijiu was just brewing a pot of tea. .

Yuan Zhongxin didn't care, and after introducing Zhao Jian and Xiao Jing to him, he took a sip from the porcelain cup, probably because the tea leaves were sparsely placed, he really couldn't taste any sweetness.

An Lijiu saw that he didn't speak for a long time, squinted his eyes, and chuckled lightly: "Brother Yuan, you came today just to have a cup of tea with me?"

Yuan Zhongxin smacked his lips and said bluntly: "Of course not, the tea in my Qizhai is much better than this one."

An Lijiu's brows twitched, and his tone was blunt: "Then what do you want to ask this time?"

He still remembered that he jumped into the pit yesterday, he still cared about it, but a boy of eighteen or nineteen years old dared to blackmail him like this!

Yuan Zhongxin said with a smile: "I'm here to find Brother An to recognize someone—I don't know if you know Lin Liang?"

An Lijiu frowned, his eyes flickered slightly: "I know, a fool."

Not only Yuan Zhongxin, but even Wang Kuan and the three beside him all nodded in agreement.

Yuan Zhongxin: "Yesterday, that fool came to me and asked me to save you."

An Lijiu raised his eyebrows, and said with a snort, "Sure enough, he's a fool. How can we save the drug dealer who everyone wants to punish and then quickly."

Yuan Zhongxin tilted his head: "That's what I told him, but he argued with me, saying that Brother An is a good man. It is said that Brother An gave rice relief several years ago."

An Lijiu remained silent, staring down at the porcelain cup on the table.

"I told him that Brother An has been convicted of a crime. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, he secretly transported and sold drugs, and he could not escape the death penalty. This fool actually went to challenge the Imperial Army, and he couldn't hold him back..."

An Lijiu asked in surprise, "What did you say?"

Yuan Zhongxin said worriedly: "I said, Lin Liang offended the imperial army because of you, and now I don't know where he is locked up."

An Lijiu clenched his fists secretly, feeling uneasy. He didn't believe Yuan Zhongxin's words just now, and just regarded it as a trap. He wanted to deal with it casually, but now he couldn't grasp it. Lin Liang's temper He knew very well that Lin Liang was absolutely capable of being impulsive and contradicting the forbidden army.

Is it true that Lin Liang was arrested by the imperial army as Yuan Zhongxin said?

At this time, Xiao Jing, who was silent on the side, suddenly said: "Sister Lin Yao cried terribly because of this incident last night, and she kept talking about saving her brother."

An Lijiu asked in disbelief, "Lin Yao is here too?"

Lin Yao has come, and Yuan Zhongxin's words are probably true.

Looking at An Lijiu who was in distress and anxiety, Yuan Zhongxin smiled secretly, and said calmly: "Brother An, the only way to rescue Lin Liang now is to prove that what Lin Liang said is right, And what Lin Liang said, you should be very clear."

An Lijiu's face was tense, and the emotions in his eyes were complicated. He gritted his teeth secretly, his nails were about to dig into his palms, but his fists were still tightening, showing embarrassment. After a long time, he closed his eyes heavily and opened them again. In the blink of an eye, his expression had returned to normal, and his tone was blunt and difficult: "Lin Liang is wrong if he is wrong. It is not worth speaking for someone like me. Contradicting the imperial guards will at most give him a prison sentence, and he will never lose his life."

Yuan Zhongxin stared at him coldly, his eyes were deep and unpredictable.

Wang Kuan frowned and persuaded: "Brother An, if you have any difficulties, just tell us, we will definitely help you."

An Lijiu had regained his composure, and he smiled nonchalantly: "I've accepted the favor, everyone, please go back."

Yuan Zhongxin pursed his lips tightly, staring at An Lijiu for a moment, as if he wanted to see through his heart, and suddenly said after a long while: "Let's go."

The four turned and left.

An Lijiu looked at Yuan Zhongxin's back, and said in a strange manner: "Brother Yuan, my matter has long been settled, and it is really not worth your troubles. What is the truth of the matter, I really have no imagination." so important in it.”

What responded to An Lijiu was Yuan Zhongxin's back leaving indifferently, and the heavily closed wooden door.