It's the second watch of the drum, and the entire streets of Kyoto Prefecture have fallen into silence, as if all the hustle and bustle during the day has been turned into darkness, and then they are reshuffled, waiting for the next sunrise.

There was no one in the front hall of Tongyuan Inn. Jia Xiuyue also chose to give up because he couldn't figure out why the mysterious man didn't come. He even thought that something might have happened to that man, but he was still just a small person, even if he knew the other person.

Something happened and he didn't know how to help the other person. So he waited in the front hall until the second watch drum sounded, and then finally gave up waiting.

This is the last drum watch on the fifteenth day of the winter lunar month in Chu Li. No one would have thought what would happen during this last drum watch, and no one would believe what could happen during this period. After all, this is the remaining time.

There is only one clock left.

"Dong dong dong -" The rapid knocking on the door suddenly broke the silence here, like throwing a small stone into the calm lake water, breaking the calm and causing ripples.

After a long time, there was a shuddering sound coming from inside the door, and then a yawning and dissatisfied voice came from inside.

"Who is it? The shop is closed, the guest rooms are full, the drinks are gone, and the food is spoiled. If you want to eat and drink, please come early tomorrow."

He spoke very smoothly, and it seemed that he had used this kind of words to frustrate many overnight guests.

Although the sound came from inside the inn, the door showed no intention of being opened.

The people outside the house were not angry when they saw that the people inside the inn had no intention of opening the door for them. They just said to the people inside: "A branch is alone on the shore."

These words seemed to have magic power, causing the man in the inn to become silent. The silence lasted only for a moment, and then there was another burst of murmuring sounds, and then there was no more.

People outside were a little confused and didn't know what happened in the inn, and he didn't know if he had made a mistake in any part of his body.

He remembered that before carrying out the mission, Kang Bo told him to come to the Tongyuan Inn on West Street if anything happened, and then tell the other party the code word he just said, and the other party would facilitate him. But Kang Bo didn't say that at the time.

Will this happen now?

The other person doesn't respond and may even leave.

The man outside the door began to wonder if he had come to the wrong place, so he tilted his head back and looked at the man who was dimly covered by the lanterns on both sides of his head.

Under the yellow light, the four words "Tongyuan Inn" are written brightly on the plaque.

The man thought to himself: "That's right."

So he raised his hand and knocked on the door again.

"Don't knock any more. It would be bad if you knock the night watchers here." The voice came from inside the inn, seeming to remind the man to be careful.

After the words fell, there was a sound of moving door panels.

"You're late today." The voice in the inn rang again, as if he was very familiar with the person outside the door.

The person who opened the door was naturally Jia Xiuyue. Just after the second watch, he went back to the backyard and fell asleep. However, he didn't sleep for long when he was woken up by the waiter's knock on the door. Later, he knew that the person he was waiting for had arrived, so he

He put on his clothes and didn't care about anything else, and went straight to the front hall. Now he felt a little happy and a little expectant. He had been here for twenty years, and the mysterious man had also been here for twenty years. Although every time he spoke,

Not much, but in Jia Xiuyue's heart, he already regarded the other person as someone who had the same fate as himself, so he felt a pity in his heart. He originally thought that the other person would not appear, until the waiter just told him that that person might come.

, the joy inside me couldn't help but surge outward.

The door panel moved open, and a middle-aged man dressed in black appeared in front of Jia Xiuyue.

"It's not him." Jia Xiuyue's first reaction when seeing the other person was this.

Although every time the other person came, he was wearing black clothes and a bamboo hat, so his appearance could not be clearly seen, but Jia Xiuyue was sure that that person was definitely not the person in front of him.

At that moment, Jia Xiuyue was thinking a lot. She subconsciously took a few steps back and distanced herself from the man in black in front of the door. At the same time, she clenched her hands into fists and tightened her muscles, ready to fight at any time.

This is an instinctive reaction as a former soldier

"You are not him." This was the first thing Jia Xiuyue said to the other party.

The man in black was stunned. He didn't know what Jia Xiuyue's unreasonable words meant.

In fact, Jia Xiuyue didn't know why he said such things. He just saw that the person who appeared in front of him was not the person he expected, and he felt a little disappointed.

The man in front of the door also saw Jia Xiuyue's movements. Knowing that the other party was still wary of him, he smiled calmly and said, "A branch is alone on the shore."

Jia Xiuyue narrowed his eyes slightly, then blurted out:

"An old friend from the wind and snow is here."

The man in black in front of the door then raised his hand to Jia Xiuyue and said, "Zhang Xinghai."

Jia Xiuyue waved her hand to Zhang Xinghai, and then said, "Just call me Shopkeeper Jia."

Zhang Xinghai cupped his fists and raised his hands to Jia Xiuyue, and said: "Shopkeeper Jia, my subordinate is injured..."

Before Zhang Xinghai finished speaking, Jia Xiuyue waved to Zhang Xinghai and said, "Come in and talk."

Zhang Xinghai nodded, then made a gesture behind him, and then several strangers also dressed in black appeared in front of the Tongyuan Inn.

"Sir." Several men in black helped the unconscious Qi Si and said to Zhang Xinghai.

When Jia Xiuyue suddenly saw a few strangers, he was not panicked. He just gave instructions to the waiter and said, "Take them to the backyard."

The waiter nodded, and then took Zhang Xinghai and others to the backyard.

Qi Si was placed in a side room in the backyard of Tongyuan Inn. Zhang Xinghai and Jia Xiuyue stayed in the room to detoxify Qi Si.

When he rushed over, Zhang Xinghai had already briefly checked Qi Si's poisoning situation. The wound was on the back shoulder. There was only a tiny pinhole, and the area around the pinhole was purplish-green, but there was no sign of spreading.

Zhang Xinghai understood that Qi Si should have used his internal power to seal the surrounding acupuncture points after being hit, slowing down the spread of Du Xing. As a secret guard of the Yasi capital, this move to seal the acupoints and lock out the poison is also one of the must-have secret skills.

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As the secret guard commander of the Yasi capital, Zhang Xinghai's other identity is that he is a member of the Zhang family in Yongzhou.

The Zhang family of Yongzhou was originally one of the three major families of the Northwest Poison Sect. In the 25th year of the Dali calendar, due to some reasons, they broke away from the sect and established their own family. In the same year, they were recruited by the Chu royal family and became an outside force in the Yamen capital.

Like Lu Qing of Hezhou Baixiaotang, Zhang Xinghai was sent to serve in the Kyoto Prefecture by his family. He is now in charge of the secret guards of the capital.

Because Zhang Xinghai belonged to a foreign power, Kang Bo did not tell him the identity of the person he was looking for today. Originally, the Tongyuan Inn line was not allowed to be known to him, but Kang Bo was afraid that something would go wrong, so he told Zhang Xinghai to come to Tongyuan.

From the Garden Inn. Hence the current scene.

Zhang Xinghai did not go to Prince Liang's Mansion to find Kang Bo after Qi Si was injured, because he did not want anyone to notice that the capital was investigating the matter, or that it had something to do with the capital. This was also the reason Kang Bo took over the Tongyuan Inn
Chapter completed!