In the early morning, Luo City is full of life and bustling with pedestrians.

Bullock carts were going to the East Market for the market. From time to time, they were crowded on the small roads. The cart drivers were chewing the pancakes in their mouths and yelling at people to give way.

Laughter, curses, and cries were endless.

You can't seem to see its decline over the past hundreds of years. This city seems to still be stuck in its most glorious moment.

In the Taiping Medical Center, Chen Ji stood behind the counter with his sleeves rolled up, holding a copper scale and giving medicine to the patients with a smile. He had a clean smile. No one would ever associate him with such things as "catching spies."

On the other side, Old Yao is taking exams for his studies.

She Dengke was sitting upright behind the counter, checking the patient's pulse with his eyes closed, while Old Man Yao was holding a bamboo stick at the side and asked in a deep voice: "Tell me quickly, what kind of pulse is this?"

She Dengke put three fingers on the patient's wrist and asked tentatively: "Hong pulse?"

With a snap, the bamboo stick hit She Dengke's back, which shocked the middle-aged male patient across the counter.

Old Yao stretched out his hand to signal the patient to be calm, and continued to ask She Dengke: "What's the pulse?"

She Dengke bared his teeth and said, "Sure pulse!"

Snap! Another hit!

She Dengke hurriedly said: "Shen Mai!"

Snap! Another hit!

The patient hurriedly stood up and grabbed Old Yao: "Stop beating the child. Dr. Yao, please calm down first. I can make the pulse sink. If the pulse sinks, just sink the pulse!"

Old Man Yao slowly turned his head to look at the patient, but did not say anything for a long time: "...If I feel a happy pulse, will you admit it?!"

After saying that, he turned his head and glanced at Chen Ji and Liu Quxing, thinking about who to beat up next. As he glanced over, he suddenly stopped outside the door.

At this time, a little black cat dodged left and right in the crowd of people outside the medical center. It carefully raised its head to observe the human footsteps, and then avoided it.

When they arrived at the door of the medical center, Wu Yun scratched the threshold and the dog looked inside furtively, but he happened to meet the eyes of old man Yao.

Old Yao looked at it expressionlessly, and Chen Ji felt nervous. His master didn't seem to like small animals, so he didn't want to blow away the dark clouds.

However, Wu Yun only shrank his neck when meeting Old Man Yao's gaze, and then mustered up the courage to climb over the threshold and get closer little by little.

But Wu Yun jumped onto the counter, came to Old Man Yao, and lay directly on his hand!

Old Yao was stunned for a long time, his original serious expression slowly changed, and he burst into laughter. She Dengke and the other three fellow apprentices were all stunned. This was the first time they had seen their master look so kind and cheerful!

It turns out that this old man can laugh!

Old Man Yao realized something was wrong, immediately became serious, and said in a nonchalant manner: "This little thing is quite lovable."

Liu Quxing came over and wanted to touch the dark clouds. Old Yao immediately opened his hand and said, "Get out of the way!"

Liu Quxing: "..."

The next moment, Wu Yun's head arched in Old Man Yao's hand. Old Man Yao was silent for a moment, then turned to She Dengke and said, "Go and get the purple wood box from my room."

Old Man Yao gently tapped Wu Yun's head with his other hand and said casually: "Your name is Wu Yun, right?"

Chen Ji's pupils suddenly shrank, and his heart became nervous as if someone had pinched him.

Only he and Wu Yun knew about the name he gave Wu Yun. Where did Old Yao learn about it? Did the other party already know everything?

At this moment, Chen Ji recalled the incident when Old Man Yao went to Zhou Mansion to pick him up, the incident when the Buddha and Bodhisattvas pulled him back to the medical clinic, and the incident when he went to Wanxingyuan for medical treatment. Each one of them seemed to have hidden meanings.

Chen Ji was thinking about it when he saw old man Yao glance at him silently, as if he saw through him.

Old Man Yao only glanced at him, then turned his gaze back to the dark clouds. She Dengke came over and asked: "Master, is this the cat in Wanxing Garden? I remember you haven't been to the palace for a long time, how do you know?

Is it called a dark cloud?"

Old Man Yao glanced at him sideways: "I figured it out by fortune telling, can't I?"

Liu Quxing on the side was stunned for a moment: "Can this be calculated? Then please calculate what my nickname was when I was a child."

Old Man Yao took out six copper coins from his sleeves, scattered them on the counter with a calm expression, and then said to Liu Quxing expressionlessly: "You are called mentally retarded."

Chen Ji: "..."

Liu Quxing: "..."

She Dengke brought the purple wooden box over and opened the drawer of the box. Inside, there were pieces of exquisite snacks.

Liu Quxing exclaimed: “Zhengxinzhai’s dim sum!”

Old Man Yao held a piece of snack in his hand and placed it in front of Wuyun: "Eat it."

After Wu Yun finished showing off for a few words, he stared at the box again.

Old Man Yao was not stingy either. He actually took out another piece and said, "It's a good thing to be able to eat snacks. The stupid raccoon slaves only know how to eat meat. Only the smart raccoon slaves know the benefits of snacks."

After Wu Yun finished eating two snacks, he ran to Chen Ji and lay down in front of Chen Ji without looking back, showing no regrets.

When Old Man Yao saw this, he just slapped the snack crumbs in his hand into his mouth without getting angry.

He looked at Chen Ji and said casually: "It actually likes you."

After that, he went on to study at She Deng Science School.

Seeing that everyone's attention was diverted, Chen Ji asked in a low voice: "Why are you here during the day?"

Wu Yun responded: "Concubine Jing left Prince Jing's Mansion and went somewhere. If no one is in charge of Xingyuan tonight and the maids are all lazy, I will come out to play with you!"

Chen Ji smiled and said, "Then you just stay in the hospital. I'll weigh the medicine for the patient first."

While he was talking, a middle-aged man in luxurious clothes came to the door. He held a prescription: "Mr. Yao, I came to get some medicine, but I was in a hurry to go out in the morning and forgot to bring enough money. Can you please let me get the medicine first and go back to give it to you?"

When my mother is being treated, you send a young apprentice to accompany me home to get money. Don’t let the apprentice work in vain, I will give him twenty pieces of clothing."

Old Man Yao took a look at the prescription: "These medicines are not cheap for you. Are you sure your family has money?"

The middle-aged man nodded: "OK!"

Liu Quxing hurriedly said: "Master, I'm going!"

Old Man Yao smiled solemnly: "You don't want to be admitted to school by me, do you? Chen Ji, go ahead!"

Liu Quxing's face suddenly turned pale, and he watched helplessly as Chen Ji walked away with others!

Arriving at the door, the middle-aged man led Chen Ji into a carriage.

After lowering the curtain, the middle-aged man slowly tore off the beard and wrinkles on his face, revealing Yunyang's original appearance: "You asked someone to bring me a message, do you want to go to the inner prison?"

"Yes," Chen Ji nodded: "I think Liu Shiyu's case is not simple. It is not like Liu Shiyu's personal behavior. There is a big fish behind it."

"Hey, you actually took the initiative to help me perform meritorious service? Are you short of money?" Yunyang became suspicious: "Ordinarily, you just earned fifty taels of silver. Even if you go to Hongyi Lane, you won't be able to spend it all in a month. Could it be that you went to Baiyi Alley? Xiang? Listen to my advice, those Yangzhou skinny horses have been trained to play music, chess, calligraphy and painting since childhood, and they are very charming when they walk, sit or stand. They are not something that a young apprentice like you can tolerate."

Chen Ji smiled: "Master Yunyang, aren't you happy that I want to help you make meritorious deeds? If you get a high position one day, you might be able to help me get an official position in the Secret Service."

Yunyang was noncommittal: "Do you think the remaining Liu family children also have problems?"

“You’ll know only after you’ve seen it.”

Yunyang stopped talking nonsense and took out a black blindfold: "Close your eyes. The location of the inner prison is a secret. You cannot know it and your ears must be plugged."

Closing his eyes and plugging his ears, the ancient world quieted down, and the excitement of Los Angeles seemed to have nothing to do with him anymore.

Yunyang opened the curtain and went out to catch the carriage. The carriage was driving slowly on the bluestone road. No one noticed that there was a little black cat squatting on the roof of the carriage, and it was swaying along with the carriage towards the south.

Old Yao stopped taking exams and stood at the door of the medical center with his hands behind his back, watching the carriage leave, wondering what he was thinking.

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"arrive!"

Yunyang took off the cotton from Chen Ji's ears and pulled his arm out of the car. He saw Chen Ji take out a piece of gray cloth from his arms and cover his mouth and nose, curled his lips and said, "You are quite cautious."

Chen Ji said with a smile: "The inner prison of Luo City must have been infiltrated into a sieve by the Liu family. Otherwise, why did they learn the news of Liu Shiyu's death so quickly? Naturally, one must be cautious when coming to a place like this to investigate the Liu family's case. By the way... the Secret Service's inner prison has been infiltrated like this, wouldn't Lord Yunyang be angry?"

Yunyang sneered: "All the jailers from Luo City were sent to Lingnan last night, and now they are all staff transferred from other places."

Chen Ji blindfolded himself and stumbled while being pulled by Yunyang. He heard that there was no one nearby, and there was nothing unusual except for the chirping of birds.

Arriving outside an iron gate, Yunyang knocked three times quickly and twice slowly, and then the iron door slowly opened inwards.

When the heavy and rotten door was opened, it made a harsh sound of iron scraping against each other, which was heartbreaking.

Inside the door, a young spy was waiting.

After entering the inner prison, Yunyang said: "You can take off the blindfold."

Chen Ji opened his eyes, slightly blocked the light in front of him with his right hand, and squinted to look at it.

But I saw a narrow staircase sloping downwards, extending deep into the ground.

On the wall next to the stairs, there is an oil slag lamp hung every fifteen steps, like a ghostly lamp to attract souls and guide the way.

The strange thing is that under every oil lamp, there is a gossip pattern engraved on the lamp holder. Chen Ji curiously asked: "What are these gossips about?"

Yunyang recalled: "It is said that seven years ago, the Prime Minister found a 'Xingguan' who was proficient in Qimen Dunjia and painted it in every inner prison. It is said that... a lamp is a prison , as long as the Bagua diagram is there, the lamp will not be extinguished, and the person will not be extinguished."

Chen Ji frowned: "What do you mean?"

Yunyang shrugged: "I didn't know."

The young spy led Yunyang and Chen Ji underground. When they reached the plains, they found a stone wall corridor leading into the darkness in the distance. On both sides of the corridor were dark cages "embedded" in the stone wall.

When the two figures appeared, someone immediately clung to the iron railing and cried: "Sir, I was wronged. I have absolutely nothing to do with the Jingchao spies. The mother at home is over sixty years old, and she has two children under her knees." The two children need to be fed, please let me go back!"

There was an endless stream of cries of injustice, but Yunyang seemed not to hear them: "Let's go, the files are inside."

However, as soon as Chen Ji took a step behind him, he froze in place.

In the dark inner prison, two gray-white ice streams flew out of the cage in front of him and penetrated into his body from the center of his eyebrows.

Yunyang turned around: "What's wrong?"

Chen Ji's expression remained as usual: "It's okay. It's my first time in the inner prison. I feel a little uncomfortable seeing these haggard prisoners."

Yunyang said with a smile: "I was scared at first, but I gradually got used to it."

Chen Ji took steps again, and as he and Yunyang walked deeper into the inner prison, streams of gray ice flew out from each cell.

They seemed to sense the existence of the traces, and swam over like dragons tumbling in the air.

Chen Ji looked at this scene in shock and inexplicable. Hundreds of ice streams penetrated his body from the center of his eyebrows, and finally merged together and entrenched themselves in his Dantian.

The momentum of the ice flow was so huge that it had a faint tendency to extinguish the fire!
Chapter completed!