Duan Canghai also knelt down next to Qi Ning. When he saw Qi Ning pulling open the man's sleeves, and seeing Qi Ning's face change slightly, he knew something was wrong and asked: "Master Hou, what's wrong?"
Qi Ning did not answer. He pondered for a moment before raising his head and asking Wang Xiang: "What is this man's name? What does he do on the ship?"
"Returning to the Marquis, his name is Xu Qian, and he is the purchaser on the ship." Wang Xiang hurriedly replied: "Xu Qian goes out to purchase all the daily expenses on the ship."
"Where are the others?" Qi Ning asked: "Apart from Xu Qian who often disembarks, do others also disembark frequently?"
Wang Xiang hurriedly said: "Back to Lord Hou, business on the Qinhuai River only starts at night, so except for Xu Qian who goes out to buy during the day, everyone mostly rests during the day and works at night. In the past few days, except for the villain who went to the Hou Mansion to invite Mr. Marquis, the others have not disembarked. The girl will give everyone one day off every month. During the vacation, you can disembark, but you cannot leave easily on weekdays."
Qi Ning frowned and asked, "Isn't there anyone following Xu Qancai when he goes shopping?"
"The purchased items are all delivered directly." Wang Xiang explained: "They are all acquaintances. Xu Qian only needs to go to the store with the purchase order and say hello."
"So, you and Xu Qian are the only ones who have disembarked the ship in the past few days?" Qining looked solemn.
Wang Xiang actually felt that something was wrong and did not dare to make the slightest mistake. After thinking about it, he said: "Master Hou, the last time everyone got off the ship was seventeen days ago. Because he had to prepare for the Queen's party, he decided to do it himself. After that time, except for the villain and Xu Qian, no one left again."
Qi Ning stood up, glanced at the people around him, and asked, "Besides Xian'er, how many people are there on the ship?"
Wang Xiang said: "There are four boatmen, three cooks, and four guards. In addition to Xu Gan who is in charge of purchasing and the villain, there are thirteen men in total. In addition, there are four maids to serve the ladies. In addition to the girls, there are a total of It’s seventeen people.”
"Call all the men on the boat over." Qi Ning looked stern.
Wang Xiang did not dare to delay and hurriedly went to summon the men on the boat. Duan Canghai took the opportunity to ask again: "Master Hou, have you noticed anything strange?"
Qi Ning smiled bitterly and said: "I just hope I guessed wrong, otherwise something big will happen again this time."
"event?"
Qi Ning said: "Don't be impatient. If I'm not wrong, it will explode soon. You don't want to know." Suddenly, he felt someone looking at him. When he looked up, he saw Zhuo Xian'er standing on the second floor. She was looking at herself from a distance on the side of the ship. She was wrapped in that white cloak and looked extremely fragile in the night wind.
Qi Ning smiled tenderly at Zhuo Xian'er and said, "It's nothing serious. It's too cold outside. Don't catch the cold."
Zhuo Xianer nodded obediently, turned around and went back to the cabin. Duan Canghai came closer and whispered: "Master Hou, I'm afraid this girl is really passionate about you. She has not really set foot in the romantic field, and her friendship with Master Hou, It shouldn’t be fake.”
Qi Ning can actually feel that Zhuo Xianer is not so considerate to him because of his status as Jin Yihou. After all, he is also a well-informed person. Is the woman just pretending to be in love or is she really moved by her true feelings? He can also tell.
"Second Uncle Duan, there is something I need your help with." Qining hesitated for a moment before saying, "Send someone to watch nearby tomorrow. I may be busy with some things these days, but Miss Xian'er, starting from tomorrow At first, I didn’t want to see anyone else on board her ship.”
Duan Canghai understood it and said with a smile: "Master Hou, this is not a big deal, just leave it to me."
Wang Xiang had already summoned all the men on the ship and stood in a row according to Qi Ning's instructions. Everyone was uneasy and didn't know what was going on.
"Pull up your sleeves." Qi Ning said, "Duan Canghai, you hold the lantern."
Duan Canghai immediately understood what Qi Ning wanted to do, took the lantern and held it in his hand. Everyone on the boat did not dare to delay. They all pulled up their sleeves according to Qi Ning's instructions.
Qi Ning looked at them one after another until he reached the third person, then his expression changed slightly and said: "Come out and stand aside."
The man didn't know why, but he didn't dare to disobey. He walked out of the queue and stood aside.
When Qi Ning came to the end, except for Xu Qian who was lying on the ground unconscious, eight of the remaining twelve people were called out by Qi Ning, including Wang Xiang.
Everyone looked at each other in confusion, but Duan Canghai had already seen the trick. The eight people called out by Qin Ning had more or less red spots on their arms. Some were quite conspicuous, and two or three were just faint marks that were not clear. .
Wang Xiang felt that something was wrong and couldn't help but ask: "Master Hou, this... what on earth is going on?"
"It's hard to explain now, but remember, you must never go upstairs." Qining looked solemn and did not explain much. He went up to the second floor and entered the cabin. Zhuo Xian'er had already greeted him and asked: "Master Hou, did something big happen?"
"Xian'er, do you have four more maids here?" Qi Ning let them in first without explaining.
Seeing Qi Ning's serious expression, Zhuo Xian'er hurriedly called a few people in. Qi Ning couldn't care about anything else at this time, so he asked a few people to roll up their sleeves, observe carefully by the light, and breathed a sigh of relief.
The maids upstairs have no marks on their arms.
"You guys go down first, but don't go downstairs yet." Qining ordered: "Don't come into contact with the men on the boat."
"Master Marquis, what happened?" Zhuo Xian'er asked anxiously after the maids retreated.
Qi Ning thought for a moment and then said: "Xian'er, there should be a disease spreading on your ship. The man you saw just now went crazy. He wasn't really crazy. He was probably suffering from an illness."
"Ah?" Zhuo Xian'er said in surprise: "Sickness?"
Qining said: "I'm not sure what the situation is now, but the disease should spread very quickly. Fortunately, you are safe for the time being, but remember, don't come into contact with the men downstairs. They In the middle, most are already infected.”
Zhuo Xianer's pretty face turned pale slightly, and she seemed a little panicked: "Then... what should we do?"
"Don't worry, I'll go back and think of a solution now." Qining sighed, thinking that it was supposed to be a beautiful night, but who knew that such an incident would happen.
He knew that the sooner this kind of matter was resolved, the better, and there was no room for delay. He reached out and patted Zhuo Xianer's face gently, and said softly: "Don't worry, you stay here first, listen to me, don't go downstairs, more Don't let people from below come up. I don't know yet what the route of spread is, but... as long as you don't come into close contact, you should be fine."
"Xian'er... Xian'er listens to you." Zhuo Xian'er said obediently: "But... But the Marquis has just been in contact with them, will anything happen?"
Qi Ning thought that I was worried about this now, but he still smiled and said: "My contact time is short, it should be okay." After a pause, he said: "Xian'er, I'm leaving first and come back as soon as possible to help them treat them."
Zhuo Xian'er nodded and said: "Okay, Xian'er is waiting for you to come back."
Zhuo Xianer stood on the side of the ship upstairs, watching Qining and Duan Canghai leave. She didn't return to the cabin until they could no longer see their figures.
As soon as he entered the cabin, he saw a person standing by the window, facing out of the window, with his back to Zhuo Xianer, wearing a black cloak and a black leather hat on his head, with his hands behind his back, and on his On the back of his hand, there was a tattoo that seemed to be burning.
Zhuo Xianer was not surprised, she just walked to the edge of the chair, sat down diagonally, raised a hand, looked at her green hands, the nails were stained with red phoenix juice, and said in an indifferent voice: "You seem to enjoy leaving without telling me. The feeling of entering.”
The man didn't look back, but simply said: "You seem to enjoy being with that man and making love." His voice was deep and rich, with a hint of sarcasm in his tone.
"Oh?" Zhuo Xian'er raised her eyebrows slightly, with a smile on her lips: "Why, you can't stand it? Or have you been peeking outside?"
"If nothing happened outside, would you really want to sleep with him?" The man said lightly, "I don't think you would be so confused."
Zhuo Xianer looked at her slender hands and smiled: "You don't seem to care who I am with."
"I have no control over what you want to do." The man said, "But don't forget, if the overall plan is ruined because of your own mistakes, I won't be the only one who is unhappy."
Zhuo Xianer frowned slightly and said, "You don't need to remind me, I know what I am doing."
"But you are ready to go to bed with him." The man's voice was very cold: "Don't forget that he is from the Qi family. As far as I know, this man just came down from the Daguangming Temple not long ago. Do you know what he did on the mountain? What?"
"What's the meaning?"
"Mo Lancang's second disciple Bai Yuhe was defeated by him." The hands on the man's back moved unconsciously, and the flames on the back of his hands seemed to be burning up, and he said slowly: "And it is said that this person He defeated Bai Yuhe with just one move, do you think this person is an ordinary person?"
Zhuo Xianer was startled for a moment, then smiled and said: "It turns out that his martial arts is so powerful, I underestimated him." He raised his head slightly, his swan-like neck was as white as jade, with a sweet smile on his face: "He looks like He's so polite, but he turns out to be very good at martial arts."
Then I heard the man snort coldly and say, "Do you really like him?"
Zhuo Xianer did not answer, but asked: "We have never had a good solution, but this time we met him by accident. Don't you think this is a great opportunity?"
"Of course I know." The man sneered: "I'm just worried that you are confused. You have to know that to do big things, you must never use emotion. Especially in this matter, if you are really emotional, you will become This is the biggest variable and weakness of this plan. Of course I won't allow such a thing to happen." He snorted coldly: "If you want to use the mind-taking method on him to make him mistakenly think that he is having sex with you, I will I advise you to give up this idea. You don’t know the depth of this person. If he sees through it, all your previous efforts will be in vain.”
Zhuo Xian'er's lips moved slightly, but she didn't speak.
"Beigong Liancheng is related to him. This person can defeat Bai Yuhe with one move. He must be connected with Beigong Liancheng behind it, which also proves that Beigong Liancheng is not dead." The man said slowly: "We can't anger Beigong Liancheng yet. Gong Liancheng, so we must be careful with this person, not only to let this person be used by us, but also... we must not let Beigong Liancheng discover our existence."
Zhuo Xianer chuckled lightly and said with a hint of ridicule: "It seems that you are very afraid of Beigong Liancheng. Is he really that scary?"
"If you see him one day, you will never laugh." The man never turned around, his voice was low: "When he discovers our existence, it may be the end of us!"