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Thinking back to the information about An Shigeng and the An family that Wu Ming had looked up before, his thoughts became clearer.
"Master, there is a guest outside the door who wants to see you. He claims to be your friend, and his name is Lu Xiaofeng."
"Lu Xiaofeng? Friend?" Wu Ming smiled playfully. Lu Xiaofeng liked making friends, but few of his friends were good people. Now that he came to me, was it fate's arrangement?
"Please come to the front hall and serve tea. Good tea."
"Yes, master." The footsteps of the butler outside the door gradually faded away. Wu Ming stood up, straightened his clothes slightly, opened the door and walked out.
"Lu Xiaofeng is a trouble." Jingwei appeared and followed Wu Ming.
"You know him, too?"
"Of course I know. Lu Xiaofeng is a genius. He was born in the market. He relied on his extraordinary talent and learned a lot from here and there to make a name for himself. He loves wine and women, and is a typical playboy."
"This person has two major characteristics. One is that he likes to make friends. He claims to have friends all over the world. The other is that he likes to cause trouble. He likes to get involved in all the big and small things in the underworld. In the Six Gates, most people don't like him because he has solved many cases, and every time he makes the people in the Six Gates look incompetent."
"Okay, I see."
"Actually, you don't have to follow me all the time. I know you have a daughter, and the child is still young, so naturally she needs someone to accompany her. Or if you want, you can bring your daughter to the mansion. I can accompany her when I have nothing to do on weekdays. I'll call you if there's anything else."
Hearing Wu Ming's words, Jingwei stopped and stared at Wu Ming's back for a long time, until Wu Ming noticed her abnormality, turned around and greeted her, then she followed again.
"If you want, I can help you talk to the Queen. She has too many things to worry about and may not notice these things."
"Well! You don't have to tell me, I'll handle it myself." There was a hint of lightness in Jingwei's voice, no longer as cold as before.
Chapter 9: Progress
"Hua Manlou greets the Grand Master." Hua Manlou is a magical person. Although he is blind, he has a bright demeanor that healthy people do not have.
"I've met the Playboy."
"Mr. Lu considers himself a friend, so why did he become so reserved after entering the room?" Wu Ming cast his gaze towards Lu Xiaofeng, only to see that he was staring at his feet, as if he was embarrassed to look at him.
However, Wu Ming knew clearly that Lu Xiaofeng was not a shy person, and his current behavior was probably just for show in front of him.
"Hehe, isn't it because I'm afraid of your high walls and deep courtyard?"
"What kind of wall or courtyard can stop Master Lu's Feng Wu Jiu Tian? Besides, servants are the face of the master's family. If you are afraid that my servants are ignorant, then you are saying that I, as the master, don't know how to teach people."
"Not really, not really, just a joke."
"Not really. It's normal for friends to joke around. I certainly don't mind. But if you want to be my friend, you have to be prepared to be cheated."
"No way, are friends meant to be cheated?"
"If you don't use friends to cheat, what's the point of having friends?"
"Lao Hua, it's over, it's over. Why do I feel like what he said makes a lot of sense?"
"Of course it makes sense. Don't you always cheat me?" Hua Manlou took over the conversation and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Now it seems that this chief of the Plum Blossom Inner Guard is quite easy to talk to.
"Okay, whether we can be friends or not is not determined by the present. What are you two doing here so late at night?"
"It's nothing, I just want to know more about the counterfeit currency case."
"It's just a small matter, there's no need to come all the way to me, right?"
"It's really necessary. The person in charge of this matter in the Six Gates is Liu Jiyan. He is a very conservative person. The honor of the Six Gates is as important as a thousand pounds to him. Old Lu, I have offended the Six Gates before. If I go to him, I will definitely be beaten out."
"I actually know what you two want to know, but some things are just speculations at the moment. As the Grand Master of the Inner Guard, I cannot speak without evidence."
“Jingniu…” Wu Ming waved his hand and asked Jingniu to bring the file of the counterfeit currency case.
"These are some things related to the case. Mr. Lu is a detective like a god, so maybe he can figure out something."
"The counterfeit currency case is naturally not over. To be precise, it has just begun."
"You two have been in Zuiyue Tower for quite some time today, so you may have seen something different. Also, the money house. Although the counterfeit currency case has just appeared, the counterfeit currency had already started to circulate before the case. The money house is a place for depositing and withdrawing money, and the staff are all veterans in the industry. They really didn't notice anything at the beginning. Was it really just the negligence of the staff?"
"The counterfeit currency case broke out neither too early nor too late. When it was first reported, it was the people from the bank who discovered it first. The problem lies in the four words 'neither too early nor too late'."
“Why not a few days earlier, or a few days later.”
"It may be most appropriate for Hua Gongzi to investigate the money house. Right now, the Six Gates haven't set their sights on the money house, but that's a matter of time."
"If the person in trouble is from the Hua family, even if the Hua family is highly valued by the government, they will inevitably get into trouble. Mr. Hua needs to be aware of this."
"Thank you, Grand Councilor, for the reminder." As Wu Ming spoke, Hua Manlou's brows became deeper and deeper.
Commerce is well developed in the Tang Dynasty, and there is more than one imperial merchant. They have long been competing with each other. If the Hua family suffers a setback in this matter, there will probably be many people who will take advantage of the situation.
No matter how ferocious a tiger is, it can still be defeated by a pack of wolves. Hua Manlou naturally understands this.
"Loma, there is something wrong with this Loma." Just as the two were communicating, Lu Xiaofeng, who had been checking the files before, suddenly spoke with some excitement.
"what is the problem?"
"I have a friend who is the successor of the Luban Divine Axe Sect and is proficient in mechanical devices. Before Lao Hua and I came here, we visited him. When we met him, he was already under the supervision of the Six Gates."
"Zhu Ting?" Wu Ming was a little dazed. Even if he had memories of his past life, some things had long been blurred, and he could not remember all the details clearly.
"The Grand Chamberlain also knows Zhu Ting."
Lu Xiaofeng and Hua Manlou, one is the protagonist of the Lu Xiaofeng legendary series, and the other is a peerless character that makes people admire and feel sorry for him. Wu Ming naturally remembers them.
But Wu Ming didn't know that much about other people.
Now that Lu Xiaofeng mentioned it, he remembered a lot of things.
"Jingwei, go and find out Luoma's whereabouts. If convenient, bring him back." Wu Ming suddenly spoke. After Jingwei left, he turned his attention to Lu Xiaofeng again.
"Not only do I know Zhu Ting, I also know that he has a fellow apprentice named Yue Qing."
Lu Xiaofeng: "Yes, the key point lies in this Yue Qing. Yue Qing died of plague a few years ago. The people who registered this matter were Jiang Long and Luo Ma from the Six Gates. To be precise, it was Luo Ma who took the lead."
"I once showed the fake coin to Zhu Ting, and he told me that there were traces of the Divine Axe Sect on the fake coin, which means that the Divine Axe Sect members were involved in the imitation of the coinage template."
"But there are only two people left in the Divine Axe Sect, one is Zhu Ting, and the other is the deceased Yue Qing. Zhu Ting cannot do such a thing, so the only possibility is that Yue Qing is not dead. If Yue Qing is not dead, Luo Ma is highly suspected."
"Loma is just a silver-clad constable. He can't have such great power. Even if it is related to him, he is just a participant. I injured him in front of everyone today. If I was the person behind the scenes, no matter why Luoma was injured, I would not let him live." Wu Ming explained the reason why he asked Jingwei to find Luoma.
"Because you are the Grand Chief of the Plum Blossom Inner Guards, if Luo Ma offends you, he will most likely be targeted by the Plum Blossom Inner Guards. If someone is suspicious, it will be easy for him to be exposed if he is targeted."
"One advantage of chatting with smart people is that it saves trouble!" Wu Ming smiled comfortably, found a comfortable position, and nestled in the armchair.
"Your subordinate...?"
"It's just Luo Ma. Even if the other party wants to silence him, they won't send any experts. It's enough to have Jing Wei here. There are only two results. After Jing Wei leaves, Luo Ma is dead. The other is that Jing Wei brings Luo Ma back."
"No, there is another way. Miss Jingwei, come back with Roma and the killer."
"Lu Xiaofeng, you are too presumptuous. How can you talk to the chief minister?" Seeing that things had made new progress, Hua Manlou rarely made a joke.
"Haha, just call me Wu Ming, no need to call me Da Ge Ling. I like to make friends with smart people, but as I said, after being cheated by a friend, you can't complain carelessly."
Wu Ming looked at the two of them, or more precisely, at Hua Manlou. The Hua family was worth winning over, and Wu Zhao should like this gift very much.
As for the friendship between the Hua family and the emperor, Wu Ming didn't think there would be any problem at the moment. After all, Wu Zhao had not yet exposed her ambition. She was just a queen who would scream and shout pitifully after being stabbed a few times. She was not the queen of heaven that later became, let alone the empress that later became.
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Chapter 10: Like Smoke
An Shigeng was not impressed by Roma. + An Shigeng was the man behind the scenes, but he was only the apparent executor of the plan.
Lockheed Martin was a man arranged by another collaborator, because in order to replicate the coin mold, many skilled craftsmen were needed. The coin mold of Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty was successfully made by Gongshu Jia, who was known for his domineering mechanical skills, and with the cooperation of many skilled craftsmen.
The Kaiyuan Tongbao coin not only has obvious patterns that are difficult to replicate, but also has some hidden marks that were designed from the beginning for anti-counterfeiting purposes.
Just having an An family alone cannot attract so many talents.
An Shigeng killed Luo Ma in order to frame Wu Ming and sow discord between the Six Gates and the Inner Guards, thus making the investigation of the counterfeit currency case a little more difficult.
Wu Mingze believed that since Roma had offended him, the Grand Chief of the Plum Blossom Inner Guard, and was in danger of being silenced, given that he was guilty of something. The two people, with two different ideas and two different paths, might have intersected by coincidence.
Roma was in a bad mood. He wanted to take the opportunity to show off in front of the God Captor, but he got himself into trouble. Even though his broken arm had been corrected and the God Captor personally gave him good medicine, the hidden injury was not so easy to heal.
The dull pain in his arm constantly reminded him that he might have offended a powerful person whom he could not afford to offend, and his heart ached more than his arm.
What is the way for small people to survive? Bully those who are weaker than themselves and kneel down to those who are stronger than themselves.
Luo Ma thought he had some strength, but he knew he couldn't afford to offend someone who could make the God Captor Liu Jiyan shut up.
The moonlight was cold, and Roma was walking on the street corner, but he saw the person who frightened him again at the corner. The shadows were twins, + there was no romance, only a chill that made people feel bone-chilling.
The shadow that Wu Ming left on Roma is still there. Just looking at Wu Ming's face is enough to make him lose half of his courage. At this moment, Roma is numb.
Afterwards, he also learned about Wu Ming's identity from the God Catcher. He was the Grand Master of a large pavilion. No one could afford to offend him with either of these two identities.
But, you are a grandmaster after all. There is no need for you to come out in the middle of the night to block people just for a small person like me, right?
If he was bolder and calmer, he would easily be able to tell that the person in front of him was not Wu Ming.
The person sent by An Shigeng was Ji Yaohua’s senior sister Ruyan.
Apart from her remarkable pair of peaches, this woman is best at disguise and poisoning. Her disguise technique is a kind of illusion aided by psychedelic poison.
The less calm Luo Ma became, the more he was certain that the person in front of him was Wu Ming, and the less he could see the flaws in the other party.
Ruyan acted decisively. As a killer, she knew that it would be in her best interest to act now. She raised her white jade hand and as the night watchman's drum sound approached from the corner of the street, she fired her palm with thunderous force, carrying pink poisonous smoke, straight into Roma's forehead.
Why does the grandmaster use poison to kill people?
Roma realized that something was wrong, but at this moment, the poisonous smoke had already entered his mouth and nose, and it was too late.
No, maybe it is not too late, because Jingwei is here, and the sword light is like a piece of silk and clear waves. It is a sword of killing that can kill people, but in Luoma's eyes it is like the holy light of salvation.
Ruyan was shocked, and her disguise was immediately exposed due to the violent emotional fluctuations. Having killed countless people, she could understand the desperate situation she was in now.
All she saw was sword energy. There was no way to go up to heaven or down to earth. The sword energy blocked all her escape routes. Roma was right in front of her, but she had lost the chance to take action. All that was left for her was to be captured.
Just as Wu Ming and Lu Xiaofeng were coming up with one hypothetical plan after another for the counterfeit currency case from the enemy's perspective, Jingwei came back with a man and a woman.
The man was undoubtedly Luo Ma, and the woman was Ruyan, the killer sent by An Shigeng.
Wu Ming naturally ignored Luo Ma and focused his eyes on Ruyan. At this moment, Ruyan was full of sword intent, but this sword intent had nothing to do with her. It was the sword energy that Jingwei had planted in her body.
The sword energy blocked all the important acupoints in her body and suppressed all her internal strength. If Ruyan wanted to use her internal strength at this time, her meridians would be torn apart by the sword energy in an instant.
"This woman is preparing to assassinate Luo Ma. She is not very strong, but her disguise is very strange. She disguised herself as a leader of the Grand Chamber. She must want to frame you."
"Put the blame on me? Interesting! What's your name, and who ordered you to kill Roma?"