late at night.

Wenshui County, the county head's mansion, in the tea storage room.

A small servant in a white robe walked in with a tea tray.

The boy looked about fifteen or sixteen years old. After he came in, he first put the plate on the table next to him, and then walked among the shelves, yawning while trying to endure sleepiness, looking for the target tea in the shelf. .

"And also, and also."

Suddenly, a woman's low voice came from outside the door.

The boy immediately followed the reputation.

Outside the door of the tea storage room, a young woman also wearing a standard white robe leaned on the threshold and smiled at him.

"Miss Nao, Nao."

The boy was stunned for a moment, and then grabbed the hem of the clothes with both hands nervously, his eyes dodging, as if he was a little nervous.

"How many times have I said it, just call me Nao."

The young woman walked in with a smile, approached the boy as she spoke, and smiled and winked at him.

At the distance of Chi Chi, the boy could even clearly smell the fragrant body fragrance on the other side, and his face "Zeng" turned red all of a sudden.

When the young woman named Nao Kojima saw this scene, her smile became even wider, with a bit of charm.

"What are you doing here?"

Nao Kojima leaned his back against the tea stand, and quietly approached the boy a little bit. He breathed like blue as he spoke, and the boy couldn't help but feel a little wet in his earlobes.

"Take, take the tea."

The boy lowered his head, blushing even more.

"Take tea?"

Nao Kojima's eyes flashed a little bit of brilliance, and then he asked softly: "It's so late, what tea are you taking? If I remember correctly, the tea in this storeroom is the best in the county head's mansion. What's the matter? As soon as these tea leaves are taken out, without the protection of the formation, the quality will soon decline."

"Um."

The boy nodded and said in a low voice, "So the tea leaves here are all ready to use. After taking them out, they must be brewed immediately."

"Oh?"

Nao Kojima looked surprised, "But now it's so late, who is it for? Only the county lord can call the tea here. She wants tea so late? Isn't it wrong, she never drinks tea late at night? Habit."

"It should be... entertaining people, right?"

Hearing this, the boy raised his head to look at her and said hesitantly: "The supervisor just said, let me make the tea quickly and send it to the reception room of Tianzihao. If the county head is delayed in entertaining the guests, I will have to smoke it. How many whips do I have?"

"It's that bad-tempered old man again!"

Nao Kojima suddenly became puffed up, grabbed the boy's right hand, and lifted his sleeve, "Let's see, sister, the welt you were hit by the old man a few days ago is still there."

"…"

The boy was slightly startled, looking at Nao Kojima's serious eyes and beautiful face, and was speechless for a long time.

"If I remember correctly, you've been working in the morning and evening, right? You only sleep four or five hours a day."

Kojima Nao put down the boy's sleeves, then raised his hand again, stroking his face, rubbing his dark circles with his thumb, pretending to be distressed: "Look at you, how trapped you are? That bad guy The old man also told you to make tea for the county lord."

"!"

Being so imitated by Nao Kojima, the cool touch of the woman's fingers made the boy suddenly uncontrollable, and his face became even redder.

"How about I help you?"

Kojima Nao looked at the boy, exhaled like a blue, and said softly.

At the same time, she stretched out her hand and stroked a handful of her long hair, then leaned over slightly, her unbuttoned collar drooped down immediately, the looming gully completely made the boy fall, and his mind went blank for a moment.

"This this…"

The boy was incoherent, "I, that, the county chief, want to make tea, I..."

"Didn't you teach me to make tea?"

Nao Kojima smiled, "I'm fine, you go to bed quickly, I'll help the county magistrate make tea."

"This…"

The boy seemed a little hesitant.

"Heye, my sister loves you very much."

However, Nao Kojima suddenly stretched out his hands, hugged the boy in his arms, reached out and pressed the other's head, burying his face directly on his chest, touching his head, and said softly:

"You haven't had much rest for several days. Hurry up and go to sleep now. Help the county lord make tea or something, and I'll help you... eh? What happened to my sister?"

"It's a tea can!"

The boy hurriedly took a box of cyan tea cylinders from the tea stand next to him and handed it to Nao Kojima, then put his hands on his crotch, and ran out of the door in a panic.

After running out, he leaned on the door frame, hid his lower body from the door, only stuck out his upper body, and said to Nao Kojima with a blushing face, "Then, then please, Miss Nao!"

"He Ye, you're not too old, the tea cans are quite big."

However, Nao Kojima gave a playful smile and made a vacuous gesture with his right hand.

"Um?!"

Completely ashamed, the boy turned and ran.

"…"

After he left, the charming smile on Nao Kojima's face disappeared completely, replaced by indifference and...the thought in his eyes.

She looked down at the tea tin in her hand, Liu Mei frowned.

In the middle of the night, who is the new county owner going to entertain?

Must see.

Thinking of this, Kojima Nao hurriedly opened the lid of the blue tea tin, took out a packet of tea leaves, and put the lid of the tea tin in its original position.

She took the package of tea leaves and walked to the table. After boiling water with the tea set on the table to make the tea, she took the tea set and left the tea storage room.

Kojima Nao walked in the quiet night of the prefectural government, and went all the way to the top floor of an attic.

In front is the Tianzihao reception room in the county head mansion.

And now, outside the door of this luxurious reception room, two big men in black armor are standing.

Um?

Kojima Nao frowned when he saw this scene in the corridor.

How are these two people?

This is the four elephant-level guards in the county head mansion.

Who the **** is the county lord receiving, to let the highest-level guards come to see the door as a show of respect?

"Nao Kojima?"

At this time, seeing Nao Kojima coming with a tea set, a strong man in black armor couldn't help but be surprised, "Why is it you? Isn't it supposed to be that kid Kazuya Matsushima?"

"Lord Fujimoto, can't others?"

Nao Kojima stepped forward and gave him a wink.

"you…"

The strong man in black armor obviously wanted to say something, but after glancing at the door of the reception room behind him, he closed his mouth that he wanted to make fun of, but just stretched out his hand, under the collar of Nao Kojima. pinched.

Kojima Nao cooperated very well, not only did not resist, but also made a corresponding intoxicated expression.

This scene immediately gave the other young guard in black armor a little itchy hands, and raised his hand with a smile, "I..."

"Your Majesty, the tea waiter is here."

However, before the young man could touch it, the strong man in black armor turned around and shouted at the door.

"…"

The black armored youth was speechless.

The strong man in black armor gave a sly smile.

"Let her in."

Takeda Ryoko's voice came from the door of the reception room.

"Yes."

Hearing this, the strong man in black armor quickly restrained his smile, stretched out his hand to open the door, and winked at Nao Kojima.

On the other hand, Nao Kojima lowered his head and slowly walked into it with a tea set.

It was late at night, but the lights in this famous reception room were still bright.

Nao Kojima was walking down the aisle, and two figures could be seen sitting at the round table at the end.

The two figures were sitting opposite each other.

Facing her was Takeda Ryoko.

The back facing her was a figure in white, which was obviously the back of a man.

But this back, how does it look like...

It doesn't make sense. Didn't that person leave Wenshui County long ago?

With curiosity and doubts, Nao Kojima walked slowly to the round table, put his tea set on the table with his head lowered, and glanced at the man calmly.

But can't see at all.

The other party's face was covered with a layer of gray mist, and it was impossible to see it at all.

Kojima Nao was not surprised by this.

Since the tea waiter can be allowed to come in, it must mean that the other party has a way to disguise his identity.

"You can go out."

Takeda Ryoko looked at the tea set on the table and said coldly.

"Yes, the county lord."

Kojima Nao lowered his head, hugged the silver plate, and turned to leave.

After walking out of the reception room, and as expected, after being wiped out by the two four-level guards, Nao Kojima walked towards his dormitory.

On the way, she kept recalling the back of the man in white.

so similar.

So much like the young head of the Beicun family back then!

…

…

Tianzihao reception room.

"Guanqi, are you sure that woman is a spy of the local family?"

Takeda Ryoko looked at the man in white sitting across from her, his face shrouded in a gray mist, and asked in surprise with his soul voice transmission: "What if the other party is not? Then the news will not get out at all?"

"…"

Li Guanqi was at a loss for words.

After a pause, he sighed helplessly: "It doesn't matter whether the female tea waiter who came in is a spy or not, the important thing is, 'Mr. It must have been discovered by other spies in the county head office.

Even if no one else came in, the spies would definitely find out about it.

This is what they eat.

The major families must have begun to place staff near the county head office at this time, ready to investigate.

Then, after a while, I'll go out for a while and let them find out that I'm 'Kitamura Rai'.

After this step is completed, our first step, even if most of the success is successful.

Besides, Ryoko, in your situation, I have reason to suspect that out of the 10 people in your county chief's mansion, 3 must be spies inserted by various local families... As for whether the female tea waiter is not, we will wait a while. There is a result. "

After that, Li Guanqi raised his hand and lightly rubbed a headband on his forehead.

This thing is a fifth-order magic weapon, which can release the mist and cover the face without affecting the user's own sight.

This is what Takeda Ryoko secretly took out from the treasury of the county chief's mansion. It is the stuff that circulates on the market, so there is no need to worry about being recognized as something in the county chief's mansion, after all, there are everything on the market.

And his current state, naturally, is to use the shape-shifting technique to transform into the appearance of Kitamura Lei.

"stop!"

Suddenly, a strong wind blows.

Next to Li Guanqi, a Western woman with a blond golden boy, Sophia, instantly appeared.

"Owner."

She looked at Li Guanqi, and her soul transmitted her voice: "That female tea waiter, I speculate, should be a family spy who travels in the county chief's mansion by virtue of her beauty and body.

The person who came here to deliver tea earlier should have been another male servant.

But in the tea storage room, the tea waitress deliberately teased the little boy, and after some flirting, she succeeded in letting herself take over the other's job, and came here to deliver tea for you.

Then, just after she left, she rubbed her left arm **** the road, and then the whole left arm began to turn black, and she wrote on it with her nails.

Judging from the strokes, what she wrote should be...

—There is a man with a disguised face who talks to Takeda Ryoko in the Tianzihao reception room late at night. I think his back is very similar to Beicun Lei, the young master of Beicun who left Wenshui County two years ago.

- It is suggested to send someone to squat near the county head's mansion, and after this person comes out, use the magic weapon to see the true face.

Then the tea waitress went back to the dormitory to sleep. "

Speaking of this, Sophia seemed very puzzled, "Master, what kind of message is that? I have never heard of it."

"It should be the blood-carved manifestation."

Li Guanqi thought about it and said, "Among the three-level spells, there is such a spell that allows a spellcaster to have a physical connection with an ordinary person.

Ordinary people only need to rub hard to generate heat at the position of the body where the rune is engraved, and the rune will be activated and turn into a black piece on the body surface.

At the same time, on the magician's side, black will appear in his same position.

This is similar to WordPad.

At this time, the ordinary person on the opposite side only needs to outline the strokes on the black skin, and the skin on the magician's side will also show the corresponding blood-colored handwriting.

In this way, the communication effect can be achieved. "

After Li Guanqi finished speaking, he nodded lightly, "It should be this spell."

This blood-carved manifestation technique, because the black skin of the writing is so small, so the writing will inevitably overlap one by one at the end, but for the magician, this is not a problem, they can easily analyze each a font.

"It seems that the female tea waiter just now is a spy."

Li Guanqi looked at Takeda Ryoko opposite, and said through his soul voice: "Although I don't know which family it belongs to, it doesn't matter, wait for me to go out for a while and let the spies of the major families use magic tools to see through my cover. The misty magic weapon on the face found that I was 'Bei Cun Lei', and our first step was half the success."

"Are you sure your disguise won't be discovered?"

Takeda Ryoko hesitated slightly.

Because Li Guanqi didn't tell her how he changed his face.

In Takeda Ryoko's view, Li Guanqi simply "went into a room, and then came out and became Kitamura Rai".

"Do not worry."

Li Guanqi was very determined, "It will never be discovered."

His transfiguration technique has never been seen through until now, and he has enough confidence.

It would be a good thing if it was really seen.

At least for such a small price, he figured out the conditions for his transfiguration to be seen through.

"Um…"

Takeda Ryoko nodded in a complicated mood, and then seemed to suddenly think of something, and asked curiously: "Guanqi, after this matter spreads, what will Patriarch Kitamura think?"

"Ask this for what?"

Li Guanqi was a little puzzled, "No matter what the Beicun family thinks, it will not affect our plan, didn't I say it? No matter what he does to clarify, once doubts arise, it will be difficult for everyone to trust the Beicun family."

"I'm just curious."

Takeda Ryoko said seriously: "I want to exercise my ability to distinguish information. I have read the information of the Kitamura family and have an opinion on this matter. I want to know what you think, and then see if I think it is correct. ."

"what?"

Li Guanqi was taken aback.

But looking at Takeda Ryoko with a serious face, Li Guanqi still nodded and said calmly: "At this juncture, the son of the Kitamura Patriarch, who hasn't come home for two years, suddenly met and talked privately with Takeda Ryoko, Ryoko, who are you? Beicun Patriarch, what else can you think?"

"Suspect."

Takeda Ryoko said seriously: "It must be suspected first, suspecting that this son who appeared in the county head's mansion is fake."

"Um."

Li Guanqi nodded, "Then what?"

"Not sure."

Takeda Ryoko looked embarrassed, "That's why I want to ask your opinion."

"And then there's the hypothesis."

Li Guanqi didn't sell anything, and directly stated his opinion: "If you want me to say, once this matter gets out, the Beicun Patriarch will immediately send people to investigate the truth of the matter and see if it is true or false. Is that son Kitamura Rai really Kitamura Rai?

at the same time.

The Kitamura Patriarch would quickly put in a hypothetical situation - assuming that it was true.

Then he began to speculate that his son secretly came back to Wenshui County at this time and privately met with the county magistrate Takeda, whether he wanted to cooperate with the county magistrate, get him out of office, and then seek power and seize the throne!

If so, how should he deal with it?

Don't think this is impossible.

Many big families are like this, and power is more important than family affection.

According to the information, the Kitamura family is such a family.

The Beicun family is not an ordinary family, but a local noble family in Wenshui County with the most entangled interests.

The wealthy and wealthy families have the most chaotic relationship.

The head of the Beicun family has as many as 39 sons, and there is almost no family affection between their father and son and between their brothers.

And most importantly, two years ago, the reason why the young head of the Beicun family ran away from home was because of a disagreement with the head of Beicun on a family matter, and he left after a big quarrel.

It was that disagreement that made the Beicun Patriarch understand that his lifespan was still long, and there was no need to establish the Young Patriarch so early to divide his rights.

then.

After the Young Patriarch ran away from home, the Beicun Patriarch did not set up a new Young Patriarch for a long time, and completely held all the authority in the family firmly in his own hands. "

Li Guanqi stretched out his right index finger, looked at Ryoko Takeda and said with a light smile: "Take the situation of the Beicun family, if the head of the Beicun family knows that Beicun Lei suddenly appeared in the county head's mansion and talks privately with you, the head of the county, then he is most worried. There is only one thing.

- My son, did he secretly come back and want to get rid of me by the hand of the county owner? Then replace it? "