In the Fu family mansion, in Fu Mingrui's courtyard, a scream startled the swallow on the beam and flew away.
“Ah—ah—”
Fu Mingrui woke up from a nightmare full of insects, his whole body soaked with cold sweat. In the dark room, the curtains fluttered, revealing a hint of light that looked like black insects crawling.
"Ah! Ah—" He jumped off the bed in shock, still in shock. Wanqing's appearance last night made him feel paranoid at the moment, and he thought those mottled shadows were bugs crawling on the wall.
He fled from the room in panic. The sunlight fell on him and he heard the chirping of birds. Only then did his mind gradually calm down, as if he had finally crawled back to the human world from that evil world full of monsters and insects.
The scorching sun now shone on him, making him feel like he was finally alive. Last night was like a walk through hell. If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that there were such strange and evil things in the world.
That Wanqing was clearly no longer a human being. She was a giant insect in human skin! Even though he was standing under the scorching sun, he could not feel the scorching heat of summer. Instead, he felt as if he was in an extremely cold place, shivering all over.
The experience last night was unforgettable for him. How could he believe that beneath this beautiful world of birdsong and flowers, there could be such an evil dark world? It was like he went to another world last night, not the blue sky and white clouds, the beautiful mountains and clear waters that he saw every day. How could he appreciate the colorful butterflies chasing flowers and ladybugs playing with leaves in the future
He touched his still cold face, and Lian Youyou's words reappeared in his ears: Things hidden in the darkness are often more exciting than what they appear on the surface.
At that time, he was still smart enough to continue, saying that the invisible truth is far more important than the visible truth. But Lian Youyou was just making a double entendre, alluding to the evil things in this beautiful world that ordinary people don't know.
He was really frightened, and was so frightened that he thought he would not dare to turn off the lights and go to bed for the next few days.
He touched his chest and suddenly realized that he was still wearing Lin Tingjun's clothes. Suddenly, he finally remembered what happened last night when the man in black broke into the Nine Gates. He immediately rushed to his elder brother Fu Mingsu's study.
At this time, Fu Mingsu was also secretly feeling strange in his study. Why didn't the six assassins he sent out return all night? He was shocked. Could it be that they were silenced by the Nine Sects? !
Fu Mingsu couldn't help but clench his hands on the table, and a gloomy look appeared on his handsome and calm face. Suddenly, he heard footsteps, and when he looked out the window, he saw Fu Mingrui coming angrily. His second brother's handsome face was as ugly as a demon.
Fu Mingsu was confused, but Fu Mingrui had already strode in and pointed a finger at his face: "You and father should stop interfering in the affairs of the Nine Sects!"
Fu Mingsu was shocked by Fu Mingrui's words. He sat there in a daze for a while, staring blankly at the extremely angry Fu Mingrui.
Fu Mingrui pointed at Fu Mingsui's dazed face, suppressed his anger and strode in front of Fu Mingsui's desk. Then he stopped and looked at Fu Mingsui anxiously: "Brother, we can't touch the Nine Gates. The people you sent were pinched by them like this! Do you know, it was just a pinch!" Fu Mingrui hurriedly picked up the pastry on the table and squeezed it hard, "The leg bone is completely shattered!" The crumbs of the pastry fell from Fu Mingrui's fingers and scattered on Fu Mingsui's desk.
Fu Mingsu was immediately shocked, as if he understood why his men had not returned: "Did they kill all my people?"
"No." Fu Mingrui didn't know what happened next, "But they probably don't dare to come back. They are not from the Nine Gates at all!" Fu Mingrui paused, and didn't say the word "people". He tried to calm down and looked at Fu Mingsu again, "Brother, if you want us to be safe, don't mess with the Nine Gates again. I made peace with the Nine Gates last night..."
"Why were you at Jiumen last night?!" Fu Mingsu was very careful and wanted to avoid Fu Mingrui, but he didn't expect that he still failed to avoid him in the end. "Didn't you rest in the bath last night?"
"They kidnapped me!" Fu Mingrui thought of what happened last night and became angry again. He completely lost his usual calmness and was out of control. He was going crazy. "I am a living person, but they kidnapped me. You don't know that, but the assassin you sent was met in the yard! Brother, the Nine Gates are very powerful. You can see how out of control I am now, and you know how panicked I am!"
Fu Mingsu was really shocked. The guards of the Fu family were also very skilled in martial arts, and no one dared to kidnap anyone from the Fu family. But they kidnapped his second brother without anyone noticing, and sent him back. This showed how skilled they were.
"In short, don't interfere in my case anymore and don't provoke the Nine Gates anymore. I will go to investigate the case today and will not come back. Big brother, tell father to never make enemies with the Nine Gates again and break the agreement I made with them! Tell father not to worry, the other party has no intention of taking his official hat, I will resolve this matter myself!" After Fu Mingrui finished speaking, he seemed to be worried and instructed again, "Don't interfere anymore!" After Fu Mingrui finished explaining loudly, he left in a hurry, and his hurried figure revealed a hint of panic.
From childhood to adulthood, Fu Mingrui had never been so panicked today. Fu Mingsu felt it. He detected the panic hidden and concealed under Fu Mingrui's anger. He didn't know what Fu Mingrui had experienced at Jiumen last night, but it must have made him afraid.
He felt a sense of seriousness, and even a sense of panic emerged from his brother's panic. What kind of evil spirits are in these nine gates
Near noon, Fu Mingrui's twelve trusted constables gathered inside the Eight Gates.
These twelve people were carefully selected by him from hundreds of detectives in the Eight Gates. They can be said to be the elite among the elites.
"Boss, this is the record of Lijia Village back then." The twelve people were very efficient and had already found the archives of the plague incident in Lijia Village ten years ago from the Yellow Book Library. Because it was a plague, it became an important event and was entered into the Confidential Yellow Book Library, which made it easier to find.
Fu Mingrui took it and flipped through it, and indeed, the Lijia Village incident was resolved as a plague. The Tianliu River flooded, Lijia Village was affected, and then a plague broke out, and all the villagers were infected. In order to control the epidemic, the county magistrate reported it to the state government, and the state government dispatched troops to Lijia Village to strangle all the infected people in the village.
Fu Mingrui calmed down after reading the files, and his mood was extremely heavy. He thought for a moment, and his black eyes flashed with sharpness and wisdom: "Zhao Cheng, Wang Quan, Song Mingquan, Sun Peng!"
"exist!"
"After Ma Guanqun became an official, he handed over the management of the Ma family grain shop to his brother. The account books from that year should still be there. You should quickly track down the accountant of the Ma family ten years ago and secretly arrest him for interrogation!"
"Yes, sir!"
"Li Lidao, Chen Chu!"
"exist!"
"Go to Lijia Village and see if there are any survivors! Make sure to conduct a thorough investigation in Lijia Village!"
"Yes!" (To be continued)