Widths of smoke rose from the incense burner and filled the room with a refreshing fragrance.
A man in his fifties was lying on a bed of nanmu gold wire, his eyes closed and his face was filled with pain.
"Master Zhang, how is my father? Still can't wake up?"
Mu Qingxue stood beside the bed and looked at Zhang Shun who was pricking the man on the bed and said worriedly.
"Oh, Miss, I am low in ability and have tried all my skills but can only keep Mr. Mu alive. I guess he is powerless to wake him up.
"Actually, when Mr. Mu came back from serious injury two years ago, the seven of us said that Mr. Mu was also infected with a strange poison. If there was no corresponding antidote, just by our means...ah..."
Zhang Shun shook his head, and a helpless look appeared on his old face.
If Mu Qingxue had not insisted on asking him to use all means to wake Mu Zhen up, he would not have been delayed for nearly three days.
It was obvious that the seven masters, including him, made it very clear two years ago, and I don’t know what Mu Qingxue had been crazy about recently and insisted on asking him to treat Mu Zhen’s “illness”.
Mu Qingxue was silent for a while and looked at Zhang Shun, "Master Zhang, do you know Heishanzhai?"
"Heishan Village?" Zhang Shun frowned, thought for a while, and was startled, "Miss, are you talking about the Eighteen Heishan Village that entrenched in 100,000 Heishan Mountains?"
Mu Qingxue nodded, her expression on her face was not very good, "I didn't believe it either. Although the Heishan Mountains are connected to the Qingyang Mountains, compared with the Heishan Mountains that stretch for more than 100,000 miles, the Qingyang Mountains are one thousand miles away.
It's not even enough, it can even be said to be a small hill.
"Heishan Village is completely impossible to take time and effort to come to Qingyang County, let alone come to our Muli Town. However, something happened a few days ago. After my investigation in the past two days, I determined that this was indeed a part of Heishan Village.
What the village does.”
"What's the matter?" Zhang Shun cooperated and asked as Mu Qingxue said.
Mu Qingxue did not answer positively, but said, "Master Zhang, I heard that my incompetent second brother sent a servant named Yan Ji to your apprentice three days ago?"
"Oh? The young lady knows this too? That kid is quite clever, but I had pinched his bones at that time, and it could be said that it was not bad. I didn't hand him anything, but I just handed him over it.
His most basic stalking skills are just his.
"Using his qualifications, it is estimated that he can't achieve anything in eight or ten years. He is not as good as my two apprentices. What? Is this kid related to what the young lady said?" Zhang Shun shook his head first, then reacted and asked.
road.
"Is the qualification very poor?" Mu Qingxue opened her frown slightly, "That's good. This person is the only person who came back to report the news after Heishanzhai intercepted my Mu family caravan."
"What? The Mu family caravan was robbed by Heishanzhai?" Zhang Shun was really shocked this time. He had just received the news for such a big thing.
"That's right, Heishanzhai even threatened my Mu family to ask for one thousand taels of silver to redeem people and goods. However, the day before yesterday I sent someone to trade with them, but they repented that they wanted not a thousand taels of silver, but a thousand taels of silver
Gold!" Speaking of this, Mu Qingxue was obviously very angry.
"One thousand taels of gold? That's ten thousand taels of silver. Our pharmacy's annual net profit is only about five thousand taels. This Black Mountain Village is really brave to speak!" Zhang Shun said coldly.
"We Mu family can't take out a thousand taels of gold, but I don't think Heishanzhai had ever thought of handing over to us people and goods, and even Mu Xiang and the others were dead." Mu Qingxue said in a low voice.
"Mu Xiang is dead? Is there something wrong with that kid Yan Ji?" Zhang Shun's eyes suddenly narrowed.
"It may be a problem, or it may be that the people from Heishanzhai simply deceived him, but no matter what, you must keep an eye on him. In the end, if it really doesn't work, let him disappear quietly. I'll solve it with my second brother."
Mu Qingxue said coldly, the reason why she would rather kill the wrong person and let him go had understood it from before she took power.
If it weren't for her feeling that Yan Ji might have some effect. In addition, Yan Ji is her second brother's person, she doesn't want to have a quarrel with her second brother, so maybe Yan Ji was arrested and interrogated as soon as she came back.
"The second brother is indeed not suitable to be the head of the Mu family."
Mu Qingxue was a little helpless. She was not a person who was greedy for power. If her father had not been poisoned and sick, the Mu family would have to support her, and she would not have controlled most of the Mu family's power.
Even if Mu Leping is more capable, it would not be a problem for her to give him all the industry and subordinates.
When she was a child, she had a good relationship with Mu Leping.
"When did it start? It seems that my father asked my second brother and I to start managing the Mu family business..."
Mu Qingxue looked at the light rain that started to fall outside the window, sighed and said intimately.
"I know what to do, Miss."
Zhang Shun nodded seriously. He knew very well the seriousness of this incident. Even if Heishan Village is divided, it is not something that any of the six major forces in Muli Town can resist. If Yan Ji really surrendered to Heishan Village, then
It's not his ruthlessness.
"Master Zhang, you don't have to rush to deal with him directly. It's best to lure the snake out of the hole through him. Sometimes living people are more useful than dead people.
"After all, what's the use of killing a child who is not even a warrior? It's important to find out the real purpose of Heishanzhai. If it really doesn't work, it's time to use Yan Ji's death to "shock the snake." Mu Qingxue instructed
One sentence.
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Oyster Town, Juxiang Restaurant.
This is the industry of the Lou family in the six major forces in Muli Town. It should be said that most of the large restaurants, inns and shops in Muli Town are the industry of the Lou family.
In a private room, Yan Ji stood respectfully beside Mu Leping who was dining.
There was another young man about the same age as Mu Leping on the table. He had long black hair, a wooden hairpin on his head, a white long gown, a folding fan on his hand, and drinking wine with a smile on his face.
"You mean Mu Qingxue called Zhang Shun three days ago and has not come back until now?" Mu Leping said with a gloomy face.
"Yes, young master, I think there must be something strange about this matter, so I hurriedly came over to report it to you." Yan Ji asked for help.
"Hmph! I didn't expect that the old guy Zhang Shun also turned to Mu Qingxue, this bitch! He originally accepted you as an apprentice, but I thought he had not betrayed me. Now it seems that it must be Mu Qingxue, this bitch!
What benefits did Xu Nuo give him that made him change his mind!"
Mu Leping slapped the wine glass in his hand and said fiercely.
"Brother Leping, don't be angry. Maybe there are any misunderstandings in this? After all, Master Zhang has been standing by your side for so long. He was your master when he was a child and would not betray you easily." The one holding a folding fan in his hand