In the cold night, the breeze shuttled, and the verandah through the wall made a burst of falling sounds, like the eaves of the sky.

The faint noise in the distance was not so real, and Mrs. Li asked leisurely, "Are you curious why I can change my face?"

Changing faces? Zhao Ran thought that it was about the same as changing skins, so he nodded: "Yes." ”

Mrs. Li put down the handkerchief in her hand, turned her head and said, "Because my face is like this." ”

Zhao Ran suddenly saw a face and screamed in fright, took a few steps back, the color of the face was light or light, but it was nothing more than red lips and white teeth, black eyes and black eyebrows, but the face in front of him was completely blank.

If it weren't for Zhaoran, other people would have to faint in fright when they saw this face at first glance, but fortunately, Zhaoran himself was about to crawl out of the grave, and it was indistinguishable from Mrs. Li.

He stabilized his mind and said, "Mrs. Li deliberately left a human skin in the princess's sedan chair to disguise the illusion of death, and then disguised herself as Lord Li, Mrs. covered up two facts, you are still alive...... and the death of Master Lee. ”

Mrs. Li smiled: "The girl is really a bold person, the people who have seen my true face in the world today belong to you and Tan Ning who have lost the least temper, but it's a pity that the time is not right, otherwise maybe we will also become close friends." ”

Zhaoran sneered: "Don't dare, Mrs. Li is so bold and witty, how dare the little girl climb high." ”

Mrs. Li picked up the comb and gently combed her hair and said, "Once upon a time, there was a nameless flower, standing in the mud, and was looked down upon by people. One day a man stood by the mud and said, "This flower is so beautiful," and he bent his waist and let the man pick it in his hand......"

Her voice pressed people's heartstrings, and it was like a snow bead on the ground, seductive and cold: "Time is like an arrow, the white horse passes through the gap, and the rabbit flies away, but no matter how fast time passes, it can't be as fast as people's hearts repeat." Although the flower is bent over, the flower picker may not be able to walk a few steps, so he gets tired of the flower and throws it back into the sludge. ”

"Mrs. Li is not a nameless flower to be discarded. Zhaoran said.

Mrs. Li put down the comb in her hand and chuckled, as if she had said exactly what was in his heart: "The girl wants to say that I am a man-eating flower." ”

Zhaoran asked: "Then the concubines who died in the Li Mansion were also killed by the lady?"

Mrs. Li said indifferently: "It's just a few water-based flowers, and if they die, why is it surprising?"

Zhao Ran said: "If the lady has the intention to kill all the concubines, why should she take them to the princess to show their heads and let them die silently?"

Mrs. Li replied, "How do people know about tomorrow today?"

Zhao Ran frowned and said: "So those concubines should not have been killed by Madame, it was Master Li who killed them, so the lady took the remaining two concubines to see the princess, not to kill them, but to ...... Protect them, won't you?"

Mrs. Li didn't answer and asked, "You are so interested in these trivial matters, but I am not curious at all?"

Zhao Ran had a lot of questions in his mind, and suddenly flashed the painting of King Zhou's banquet, there was a faceless person in it, he thought it was not painted well, but when he thought of this, he opened his mouth and asked, "Could it be Mrs. Li...... Also from Ronghou Village?"

Mrs. Li let out an "oh": "So you also know Ronghou Village?"

"A few days ago, there was a demon in Rongjiazhuang, and I also heard about it. Zhaoran asked, "Is Mrs. Li from the Rong family?"

"It's not. Mrs. Li shook her head slightly, "I am from the south, I have stayed in the homeless opera troupe since I was born, my real name is colorless, and I changed my name to Huang Shanshan when I met Tan Ning." But I did move here for the sake of Tolerance Village. ”

"For the sake of ...... Human skin?"

Although Mrs. Li can paint makeup every day, it is not convenient to put on a human skin after all.

"You know that, too?" said Mrs. Li in surprise.

Zhao Ran had to be vague, so he asked, "I heard the news from a person who is familiar with Rongjiazhuang. Madame has been to Rongjiazhuang, have you ever heard of Rong Xian?"

Mrs. Li shook her head slightly, and asked again, "That lady can see a picture of King Zhou's banquet?"

Mrs. Li still shook her head, and couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and asked, "Then when Mrs. Li was in her hometown, did she hear about the banquet of King Zhou, and these stories of strangers waiting for others?"

"Of course I've heard of it. Mrs. Li smiled lightly, although her expression on her face was not obvious, but her voice was extremely beautiful, "Although my parents are afraid of me like a snake and scorpion, but my grandfather likes it very much, when he was young, he often held me and sat in the ancestral hall at home to tell those stories, he said that I am the real familyless, because the ancestor is a faceless person, good at painting a hundred faces, spying on the military situation for the King of Zhou, making great contributions, and being honored with a hundred faces." ”

"Play, play, dynasty general, talented and beautiful, there are more than a thousand faces on the stage, and it probably lives up to the three words of a hundred faces. Mrs. Li lightly pulled her hair in a bun, although her face was colorless, her demeanor was infinite, "But my grandfather never called us aliens, only that we were relics. ”

"The Remnants?" asked Zhaoran, "Where did the Remnants come from?"

Mrs. Li shook her head: "It has been many years since the Ronghou Village of Baimian Hou was annihilated, and the legends of the homeless class have long been gone, and I have only heard these from my grandfather, but unfortunately I liked to listen to the stories of talented and beautiful women when I was young, so my grandfather didn't pay attention to what he said." ”

She seemed to be a little stunned when she spoke, as if she remembered the past, recalled that she had fallen in love with Li Tanning at a glance on the stage, and after ten years, she looked back on the past and suddenly saw that the talented and beautiful woman was still in a dream.

"Why didn't Madame leave?" Zhao Ran couldn't help but ask.

Mrs. Li came back to her senses, her face was empty, but it was clear that she pursed her lips and smiled slightly: "Because you don't have to go!"

Zhao Ran was stunned for a moment, but when she saw Mrs. Li's figure move, she threw herself into it, with long sleeves and wide robes in front of her, black hair and white face, like an uncolored doll, and her ten slender fingers were raised towards Zhao Ran's neck.

Zhao Ran didn't have time to scream, only to feel a strong wind behind him, and someone slapped Mrs. Li across him, and Mrs. Li was immediately shocked and flew out and fell heavily to the ground.

Rao is like this, Zhao Ran still raised his hand and couldn't help but touch the neck that was almost broken, although his neck may not be dead, but there is still a chill on his back.

He turned his head and saw a scholar stepping in from the threshold behind him, it was Jiuru.

"Don't kill her yet!" Zhao Ran hurriedly stopped Jiuru, for fear that this little Buddha would be excited to kill Mrs. Li and subdue the demon, and he still had a lot of questions to ask.

Mrs. Li lay on the ground and chanted softly: "There are many stories in the past and now. There are few very good talents, and there are also fairies and ghosts, which are trivial and unsightly. It's not about weathering, even if it's good, it's in vain. On legends, it is easy to be happy, but it is difficult to move...... People are old and the stars are not the same, and spring is still the same every year. The last sentence is almost inaudible.

Zhaoran's face changed: "Not good!" He hurriedly jumped on the stage, and before he could get close to Mrs. Li, he was pulled back by the person behind him, and in an instant, a fire ignited on the stage, and Mrs. Li's whole person burned.

In an instant, the colorless Mrs. Li had a color...... Black.

In just a moment, Mrs. Li was already burned to the bones, but the upper and lower jaws moved, as if she was not dead, and she was so frightened that her upper and lower teeth were trembling.

Jiuru stepped on the stage, looked down at the scorched bones from top to bottom, and saw that he was dressed in white, his fingers stretched out through the firelight, holding its pharyngeal bones, and pinching it hard, those scorched bones turned into ashes.

Zhao Ran involuntarily touched his throat again, swallowed his saliva, and breathed a sigh of relief.

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There was a sound of footsteps behind him, Wen Zhigeng strode in, looked at the firelight on the stage and frowned, "Who is this?"

"Lord Wen, what did you find on the tower?" asked Zhao Ran rhetorically.

Wen Zhigeng glanced at him and said coldly: "Naturally, Li Mo is an anti-minister and rebel!"

Zhao Ran seemed to have figured out something, and grinned: "This stage is an adult's dog slave!"

"What did you say?!" Wen Zhigeng was shocked and angry.

Jiuru said: "This is Mrs. Li, and the person we see has always been Mrs. Li." ”

Zhaoran slurred his lips, thinking that Jiuru was really boring.

"How is it possible? I obviously caught Li Mo on the clock tower, and he died by himself!" He was repeatedly at a loss in the case of Lampless Alley, but he was not stupid after all, "Mrs. Li pretended to be Lord Li......"

Zhao Ran ignored him, but walked over to look at the humanoid black ash and muttered, "What is she doing back here?" This is a deep mansion, if Mrs. Li finds Wen Zhigeng approaching the Li Mansion with a brocade guard, and in a hurry, she will disguise herself as a dog slave, so that the loyal servant will become Li Mo, but even if she is sure that the loyal servant can deceive Wen Zhigeng, she should also seek a way to get out as soon as possible.

Wen Zhigeng sneered: "I'm afraid she thinks she can hide from the world." ”

After he finished speaking, he saw that Zhao Ran seemed to ignore him at all, and couldn't help but be a little angry, only to see Zhao Ran jump on the stage, pick up the scorched wood next to him and pull it out, and then said: "There is marble below!"

Wen Zhigeng's heart moved, and he turned his head and said sharply: "Go and shovel that stone, and be careful of what is hidden underneath!"

It took some effort for the Jinyi guards to pry open the whole marble, revealing a square stone cave inside, which was only equipped with a black jade-inlaid box about a foot wide.

Wen Zhigeng took the box in his hand, checked it repeatedly, and didn't find any hidden locks, he carefully opened the box.

At this time, it was just dawn, and when Wen Zhigeng saw the contents of the box clearly, Rao was usually ruthless and murderous, and he couldn't help but loosen his fingers, and the box fell to the ground.

The mountain wind was a little strong, and the things inside were blown to the corner of the stage pillars, and under the first rays of the morning sun, it was a human skin.

-- Li Mo and Li Tanning, the new superintendent of Henan Province, the human skin of Lord Li.

She looked back on the stage, and saw that there were more young scholars in the audience, with clear eyes, green bamboos, if a gentleman and a jade, she was moved by one side, although it was winter to spring, the peach blossoms were still the same, and the face was different, she was in love with this person.

Therefore, although she killed him, she hid his human skin deep on the stage, and when disaster came, she was still reluctant to leave alone, and still had to venture back here.

Wen Zhigeng gritted his teeth and said, "What a poisonous woman!"

Zhaoran climbed onto the stage, took off the human skin from the pillar, lit the candle, and said to Mrs. Li's black ash on the ground: "If you like this thing, take it on the road." ”

"You're so bold, put down the evidence quickly!" Wen Zhigeng shouted.

Zhaoran took the burning human skin and handed it over, and said in surprise: "Could it be that Lord Li's skin is like Lord Wen too?"

"You ......" smell the Geng angry.

Zhao Ran breathed a sigh of relief and withdrew his hand: "If Lord Wen doesn't like it, then give it to the person you like." With that, he threw the human skin into the black ashes of Mrs. Li, and the human skin burned to ashes after three or two blows.

Now Wen Zhigeng has no problem even if he has an opinion.

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Zhaoran went out of the house, and saw that the door of the Li Mansion was full of people early in the morning, carrying the burden, and the cage was whispering there, Wen Zhigeng was in a bad mood, frowning and shouting: "What are you doing?"

Jin Yiwei stepped forward and said: "Last night, at dusk, the Li Mansion asked the people in Wudeng Alley to go out of the city to catch food and fish, saying that it was one or two pieces of silver and a catty. ”

The leading civilian took a handwritten contract and came over: "Master Li also wrote us a contract, agreeing to pay the money with one hand and deliver the goods with the other." ”

Zhaoran thought that Mrs. Li must be afraid that when Jinyiwei attacked the Li Mansion, it would affect the neighbors, so the people who opened the Alley without lights in advance, one or two lines of silver and a pound of fish, enough for every household in the Alley to come out, no wonder how the Li Mansion was made last night, the Alley without lights was like a dead alley, and no one came out to visit.

The leading civilian said: "Master Guan, Master Li has lived in our alley for ten years, but he is a good man, I don't know what kind of law his old man has committed?"

Wen Zhigeng sneered a few times: "What kind of law did he commit? He committed the crime of rebellion, and no one has ever reported him in the same street for ten years, but I am afraid that they have already been colluded to take them all down and check whether there is any crime of rebellion." ”

Obviously, he saw Wen Zhigeng's ability to reverse black and white, so he had to pull Wang Zeng's sleeve next to him.

Wang Zeng thought for a while and said: "Lord Wen, Rong'an is a small town, and there are hundreds of people in the entire lightless alley, all of whom have been arrested and the town prison can't accommodate it." I think they are all ignorant people, so let's forget about the small punishment and the big commandment. ”

"Okay, even if the master says so, then the net will be opened, and the small punishment will be great...... Then give each household ten sticks. So saying, he walked away.

Zhaoran looked at Wen Zhigeng's back and couldn't help grinding his teeth, wondering if this dog cub didn't give him bones to eat since he was a child, and adults had to bite twice when they saw people.

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There is nothing to do in this place, Wang Zeng returned to the house, and everyone got on the horse.

Zhaoran glanced back at the Li Mansion, and didn't see where Jiuru went, but saw the Jinyi Guard tossing inside, and he had the intention of demolishing the Li Mansion.

"What are you looking for?"

Wang Zeng glanced at him, and said with a warning meaning: "You are too curious, if you provoke Wen Zhigeng, you have nowhere to escape, he has a dog slave who is very good at tracking." ”

Zhao Ran smiled, Mrs. Li would choose a dog slave to impersonate, but she knew two things: first, she had seen a dog slave, and second, she was completely sure that the dog slave would not appear by Wen Zhigeng's side. If these two things add up, then the dog slave will probably ask her to kill, and Mrs. Li will be so sure. ”

The dog slave was killed, how could it be upset.

Wang Zeng laughed treacherously when he heard him, and said, "What did you think of again?"

Zhao Ran turned his head and asked, "Master Horse, do you want to know where the things that Lord Wen is looking for are?"

Wang Zeng's eyes shrank, stared at the back of Zhaoran's head and said, "Could it be that you know where it is?"

"Li Fu died four or five concubines in a row...... But Mrs. Li is obviously a good person, so she shouldn't have killed the concubine. "And Mrs. Li is such a character, even if the character she will like is out of shape, she should not be a person who loves to kill, so there is a reason why he killed his concubine." ”

He hid his things in batches in the coffins of his concubines. Wang Zeng immediately came to his senses.

"Master Pony is wise and generous!" said Zhaoran.

Wang Zeng glanced at him: "It's logical for you to praise me for being wise and martial, how can I keep up with it." ”

Zhao Ran grinned and said: "That's because I know that I have grabbed the credit for the concubine, and a wise and generous person like the concubine will definitely not be stingy in rewarding the servant." ”

Wang Zeng said: "Okay, your origin is unknown, it is really not easy to get the concubine book, you have to figure it slowly, go back and wait for me to get you another household sticker." ”

Zhaoran thought to himself who wanted your concubine book, and he hurriedly said, "Then it's better to fold the silver taels." ”

Wang Zeng said in a deep voice: "Is Ben Hou's concubine book only worth a few taels of silver?"

Hearing Wang Zeng's displeasure, he shut up with obvious amusement, but in his heart he thought that it would be folded into gold?

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He tossed for another night, and slept until the evening, before he had bitten two bites of ham and elbow, Wang Zeng had already lifted the curtain and came in and said, "The coffins of the concubines of the Li Mansion have been found." ”

Zhaoran immediately jumped up from his chair and said, "Go!"

Li Mo killed five concubines, what was hidden in the coffin, he was really curious.

Probably in order to avoid Wen Zhigeng's ears and eyes, Wang Zeng did not let the coffin into the post station, but found a nearby Yizhuang to store it.

The Yizhuang at night was quiet, the guards stood in the courtyard, and they didn't even take the torches, and they stepped in with one foot, looking at the figures inside, under the bleak wind and cold moon, it was really hairy.

"Master Pony, it's all in it. ”

Wang Zeng nodded, and without saying much, he went straight into the inner hall, Zhaoran hurriedly followed, and when he looked from behind Wang Zeng, he saw that there were five black lacquer thin leather coffins neatly placed inside from new to old.

The concubine is just a thing, and it is buried thinly, Li Fu is the richest man in Rong'an Town, and the coffin with the concubine is not much better, compared to the ordinary white coffin, which is covered with a layer of lacquer.

Even if such a coffin were to be dug up and opened, there would be no funeral goods in it, so no one would care about it at all.

"Open!" Wang Zeng ordered.