Chen Ji watched the dark clouds slowly recede into the shadows and disappear into the gambling den.

The dark clouds penetrated the rain curtain, and regardless of the heavy rain pouring down on me, I searched all the corners of Hongyi Lane.

It tumbled into a backyard and gently opened a bamboo dustpan, revealing the fat orange cat inside.

Wuyun was slightly disappointed when he saw it was an orange cat, but he hesitated and asked: "Have you seen an injured human running away tonight?"

Fat Orange raised his head and meowed: Huh?

Wu Yun held back his temper: "Let me tell you, have you ever seen an injured human being..."

Fat Orange meowed again in confusion: Huh?

The dark clouds covered the bamboo dustpan again: "I don't need to ask you!"

It braved the heavy rain and climbed back onto the roof of the tallest building in Hongyi Lane, "Jinfang".

It stood on the eaves corner overlooking the entire Red Lane, and quickly analyzed where Sanhua and Cihua might appear.

However, Wu Yun suddenly saw that in several nearby streets, there were hundreds of spies wearing raincoats quietly hiding in the dark to ambush. Not only that, there were also some spies pretending to be civilians and searching from house to house.

Although it was difficult to search for the defected spy under the heavy rain, the Golden Pig did not really give up!

Wu Yun jumped down from the eaves urgently, he had to find that person before the Secret Service.

At this time, Chen Ji looked through the back door of the casino and looked at the dark night outside, feeling anxious that a crisis was approaching.

No matter how good Chen Ji was at reasoning, it would be impossible to find the defecting spy under the current circumstances.

Fortunately, Wu Yun has brought about a turning point... It depends on whether Wu Yun can find the defected spy before the Secret Service.

Chen Ji adjusted his raincoat, pressed the brim of his hat, and turned back to the gambling hall.

He found a spy and pointed at Chen Wenxiao who was squatting in the crowd: "Drag him into the house and hang him up. I have something to ask him."

Chen Wenxiao squatted on the ground for so long that his legs became numb and he kept changing positions as if he was in need of urination.

Just as he was talking, a spy came to Chen Wenxiao, lifted up his bun and left: "伱, follow me."

Chen Wenxiao's hair was pulled so hard that he could only grin and be pulled to the private room upstairs, where he was tied with ropes and hung from the ceiling.

After a long time, the spy retreated, and Chen Ji walked in wearing a bamboo hat and asked slowly: "Name."

"My father is Chen Liqin, a colleague from Luocheng. You can't do this to me!" Chen Wenxiao roared and wanted to see Chen Ji's face clearly, but he was hanging on the beam, and his eyes were completely blocked by Chen Ji's bamboo hat, and he couldn't see at all.

clear.

With a bang, Chen Ji hit Chen Wenxiao with a feather duster and said in a cold voice: "You will answer whatever I ask you, do you understand?"

"I understand, I understand," Chen Wenxiao's hands were so painful that he no longer had the grace he had when he was roaming the city of Maluo.

"Name."

"Chen Wenxiao."

Chen Ji asked: "Why did you hook up with Jingchao?"

"Ah?" Chen Wenxiao was dumbfounded. He didn't know how he got involved in this heinous crime.

Chen Wenxiao said in a panic: "It's unfair, I didn't hook up with Jing Chao, I just came to the gambling house to have fun!"

"I have wronged you?" Chen Ji asked with a sneer: "Then why are there never any IOUs and account transactions from you in the account books of the gambling houses in Hongyi Lane? You are not a gambler here, you are clearly a Jingchao spy. Come here This is to support my colleagues!"

Chen Wenxiao was anxious: "I just came back from Donglin Academy a few days ago. How can I have accounts and IOUs?"

Chen Ji said gloomily: "It seems you have no means to prove yourself? Then just follow me to the inner prison."

When Chen Wenxiao heard the word "inner prison", he was so frightened that he almost became incontinent. In the past few years, how many people have been able to escape from the inner prison alive? Not to mention that he was the son of a fifth-rank official. Even the fifth-rank officials who died in it were unknown to ordinary people. Several.

He thought for a long time: "Wait a minute, before I went to Donglin Academy, I borrowed money from the gambling shop in my brother Chen Ji's name, so there is no name in my name. You can look through the account books of each house, and you can definitely find it. Found traces!"

Chen Wenxiao added: "In the past three years, I have gone home to visit relatives for a month every Spring Festival. The name Chen Ji can definitely be found in the accounts at this time of year."

Chen Ji remained speechless.

Does he have the account books of various gambling houses? Of course not, he just made false statements based on his own guesses.

Once upon a time, he really thought that he was a gambler in his previous life. The reason why the Chen family hated him was because he had really done bad things.

But now, Chen Ji suddenly understood many things.

He lowered his head and asked softly: "Since the name is written down, who should the gambling shop ask for the account?"

Chen Wenxiao replied: "Of course I'm looking for my father. If my father doesn't want the family to be scandalized, he can only recognize the IOUs one by one."

Chen Ji was confused: "Does your father know that this is your debt?"

"I don't know, he thought it was a trace."

Chen Ji became even more confused: "Don't Chen Ji know how to argue?"

"He argued, but what's the use of his argument? His reputation has been ruined over the years. My father doesn't believe what he said... Sir, please put me down. I am really not a spy of Jing Dynasty. Tan, it’s too uncomfortable to hang up there.”

Chen Ji breathed a sigh of relief: "I'm not sure yet whether what you said is true... For Mr. Chen's sake, I can let you go for the time being, but you have to write down everything you just said and sign it. If there is anything untrue, my secret agent will go to the Chen Mansion to find you."

Chen Wenxiao cried with joy: "Don't worry, sir, everything I said is true and I must write it clearly!"

Chen Ji walked out of the private room and gave some instructions to the spy.

However, two spies walked into the private room and closed the door. After a while, one of the spies came out with a piece of rice paper filled with words and handed it to Chen Ji: "He has written it."

"Thank you," Chen Ji nodded and turned around to walk to the second floor. He carefully stuffed the confession into his arms and protected it under his raincoat.

"Sir... Sir," the secret agent didn't know Chen Ji's rank or what to call him, but he saw Chen Ji following Master Jin Zhu, and he should be one of Jin Zhu's confidants: "What should we do with the people in the house?"

Chen Ji climbed up the wooden stairs and heard a soft voice: "Keep hanging."

…

…

Just as Chen Ji was going upstairs, he saw a spy rushing in from outside the door. The spy threw off his raincoat on the floor, held the knife in his waist and rushed to the second floor.

Arriving at the door of the box on the second floor, the secret agent raised his hands and said to the golden pig who was drinking tea inside: "Sir, fortunately, I have lived up to my duty. I have finally found a witness. The witness is a hawker walking down the street.

, he saw a person covering his waist wound this evening and running to the west!"

Chen Ji's mood gradually sank to the bottom. He didn't expect that Jin Zhu said on the surface that he couldn't find it, but he still arranged a large number of people to search for clues.

But it happened to be found!

Where is the defected spy now? Will anyone else see him? What will he tell him after he is captured? Chen Ji knows nothing.

Chen Ji calmed down and looked at the golden pig: "Congratulations, sir, the credit is at hand."

Jinzhu stood up with a smile: "Send people to continue looking west. He must have been seen by others when he fled. Find out all the witnesses! The Jingchao Military Intelligence Department sent so many people to arrest him.

There must be a big secret hidden in this person! We must find him tonight!"

The secret agent took the order and hurried downstairs and walked out the door.

However, just as he walked out of the gambling house, he heard a roar and flew back to the gambling house, crushing the tables in the gambling house!

With a clang sound, all the secret spies drew their knives and pointed the crossbows at their waists at the dark night outside the gambling house gate.

But the person who came was wearing a blue cloak. The opponent just took off the cloak from his collar, shook his hands in front of him, and rolled all the crossbow arrows into the cloak. He was unharmed!

The curtain of rain falling from the sky fell around him, as if it was pushed away by a magnet, without even a drop falling on him.

Chen Ji heard the golden pig next to him sneer: "This is not a spy from Jing Dynasty. It looks more like a certain official. I heard that he went into hiding in the mountains and forests incognito a few years ago. I didn't expect that he would reappear today... and take action."

, I want to live!”

The next moment, a secret agent took out a copper whistle and blew it.

The cry of killing came from outside Hongyi Alley, and hundreds of spies came from the shadows to surround the official.

The golden pig calmly walked down the stairs and walked slowly outside the encirclement. He was holding a few copper coins in his hand, as if he was ready to take someone's life at any time.

Chen Ji silently observed the situation. He didn't care whether the Military Intelligence Department or the Secret Intelligence Department won in this fight...

"Meow!"

A cat meowed suddenly, and Chen Ji turned to look out the window, only to see Wu Yun standing on the windowsill: "Found it, a civet cat said that he saw him fleeing to Anxi Street, in the backyard of the cloth shop that had just been moved.

.”

Chen Ji frowned, how could the other party escape to Anxi Street by accident?!

The area near Anxi Street is not an important traffic thoroughfare, and it is not as good as the East Market. The West Market is full of fish and dragons, making it easier to hide. On the contrary, because it is close to the palace, there are more soldiers patrolling at night.

Is this spy going to find himself, or did he really escape to Anxi Street by chance? It can't be such a coincidence!

The better a person is at reasoning, the less he believes in coincidences!

Chen Ji knew that he could no longer stay here, he had to deal with this spy!

But how to leave?

While he was thinking about it, there was the sound of breaking tiles above his head. Chen Ji looked up and saw that someone seemed to be walking with heavy footsteps to the eaves of the wooden roof.

Not only that, footsteps were also heard from other directions, running towards the windows on the second floor of the gambling house.

The official outside the door is there to lure the tiger away from the mountain. These spies who invade from all directions are the ones who kill people and silence them.

With a whoosh, a masked man in black flipped over from the roof into the window, like an eagle, and without saying a word, he slashed at Chen Ji with a knife!

In the narrow room, Chen Ji picked up the chair next to him and threw it at the spy. He quickly exited the private room, went to the corridor on the second floor and shouted: "Master Golden Pig, someone sneaked in from upstairs!"

His shout attracted everyone's attention. The golden pig raised his eyebrows, turned around and came back to kill him.

Just as he was rushing this time, Golden Pig saw a spy chasing him down the corridor with a knife.

The spy's sword skills were so sharp that wood chips flew everywhere during the chops, leaving behind a weak medical apprentice who could only dodge left and right with all his strength, without the ability to fight back!

With a hiss, the tip of the knife cut across Chen Ji's chest, leaving a huge gash in his raincoat, and blood seeped out of his clothes.

Just when everyone thought Chen Ji was going to die, they saw Chen Ji burst out of courage from nowhere, roared angrily and instead of retreating, he ran headlong into the arms of spy Jing Chao!

With great effort, Chen Ji used his arms to tie the spy's knife-wielding hand under his armpit, pushed the spy back to the private room, and knocked him out of the second-floor window!

The golden pig was startled for a moment, but saw that his legs were slightly stretched, and his fat figure floated up to the second floor like a feather.

He rushed to the window and saw the Jingchao spy who had fallen downstairs, staggering and chasing the traces of serious injuries into the dark night rain outside Hongyi Alley.

Golden Pig stood in front of the window lattice, letting the night rain sweep down on him: "Strange, Jingchao's spies came here to kill people and silence them. Why did they abandon their targets and instead pursue Chen Ji like death?"
Chapter completed!