A fire was lit, and the hole was full of light.

With the entrance of the cave as the boundary, there are two worlds inside and outside the cave. The snow outside the cave was as big as goose feathers, so that the blue-gray mountain rocks on the opposite side seemed to have a snowflake effect, and it didn't take long for it to be covered with a thin layer of snow.

"If you go further south from here, it will take a few days to get out of this mountainous area?" Yan Qi asked the tour guide, Mr. Yan.

"On the third day," the tour guide Yan was taking off his shoes, putting his boots and socks on the fire to roast, fortunately there was no smell, "before the end of the race, we can leave the mountains and enter the Yuelong River." ”

It was a day later than expected, considering that the snowy mountain road is not easy to walk.

The Yuelong River is the big river in the eastern suburbs of Kyoto, and Lake Qiandao is part of the Yuelong River, which runs through the north and south, crisscrossing with the mountains north of Kyoto.

However, this time the purpose is not north, but ...... But there is no purpose, taking a boat, walking on the waterway, where the water goes, people will go, floating casually, swimming casually, free and chic, arbitrarily west and east.

"I hope they are clever and have already prepared hot soup and hot water on the boat when they pick us up. Yan Qi looked forward to it, and also took off his shoes and socks to roast them by the fire, and took out a spare pair of home-style soft-soled shoes from his backpack and put them on, and began to be busy boiling water and making food.

Yan Zike also came over to help, processed the edible ingredients that the two of them picked up from the mountains and forests all the way, and boiled them into a small pot.

In the process of waiting for the meal to be cooked, the uncle and nephew squeezed to the not wide hole to enjoy the snow, watching the snow in the mountains and forests slowly thicken, and a few gray-haired little foxes probed out to forage for food.

The whole mountain forest was extremely quiet, except for the sound of falling snow and the rustle of little foxes stepping on the snow.

"It's a good place to sleep. Yan Qi sighed.

Yan Zike tilted his head and looked at her with a smile: "Then sleep, if you want, it's okay to leave three or five days later." ”

"One branch and four branches will go crazy," Yan Qidao, "It's the same to sleep on a boat, I haven't traveled by boat when it's snowing, and I still have a little expectation when I think about it." ”

"In this season, you can only choose the big river that does not freeze, and if it freezes, you have to wait for spring to come. Yan Zike laughed.

"Wait, we have a lot of time anyway. "Yan Qidao.

Yan Zike chuckled, his eyebrows and eyes seemed to be melted by the warm fire in the cave, and he slowly raised a hand to cover it, but he saw Yan Qi's eyes condensed, and said silently: "Someone is coming." ”

Someone's coming. Who else could be in this place besides him and her?

There is only such a large place in the glazed cave, there are some gaps and holes in the cave wall, but unfortunately it is completely impossible for humans to hide, Yan Qi asked Yan Zike to stand farther away, put on a bow and arrow, and guard the entrance of the cave.

The visitor didn't seem to intend to hide his footsteps, and walked unhurriedly, step by step.

Yan Qi could hear that the footsteps belonged to a man, a young man, tall and long-legged, with plenty of self-confidence.

His direction was clear, he was coming to this cave, without the slightest hesitation, which showed that he knew about this place, and had been here more than once.

Who is it?

The footsteps approached, and he easily jumped up the mountain rock, reached the edge of the cave, opened his legs, and his figure appeared at the entrance of the cave.

Qin Zhijue.

Seeing Yan Qi holding a bow and arrow and Yan Zike standing behind her, Qin Zhijue raised her eyebrows slightly, a strange light flashed in her eyes, but she still had a gentle smile on her face, and said, "What a coincidence." ”

……

"How did the Da Mo people bring the fire gun in?" Mu Chengxuan held a fire gun in his hand and studied it over and over, "Can this thing be disassembled?"

Or...... The official in charge of inspecting the other party's equipment on our side doesn't know the firecracker?" Wu Ting thought for a while, and then denied himself, "It's unlikely, if the Da Mo people really carry the firearms, let alone enter the competition area, even if they want to enter the country, they will be able to intercept them at the checkpoint." ”

"So there is only one possibility," Yan Zichen said calmly, "This fire gun was not brought in by the Damo people at all, but originally existed in my territory!"

"In this way, I have a foreign enemy in the court, and gave the method of making a fire gun to Da Mo, and the Da Mo people practiced hard in the country, and then entered the territory of our court empty-handed, at the same time, the person who was a foreign enemy had already made a fire gun in the territory, and hid in the competition area in advance, as long as the Da Mo people entered the competition area, they could find the fire gun according to the route known in advance. Wu Changge said, lightly glancing at Yuan Chang, who had been silent, "Who is this person, I think the scope is already very small." ”

"He's dead. Yuan Chang gritted his teeth and raised his eyes to look at everyone, his eyes were dark, "Maybe it's his remnants of his subordinates or cronies." ”

"The Da Mo people are really quite well prepared this time," Mu Chengxuan snorted, "This calculation is unexpected everywhere, which shows that when they proposed to settle the dispute between the two countries with comprehensive force, this plan was already formed." ”

"It's useless to say this now, the first priority is to find the rest of our team as soon as possible, and let them be careful of the firecrackers in their hands. Yan Zichen glanced at everyone, "Lao Mu, Wu Twelve, Xiao Wu, the four of us will go to find the others." Yuan Chang," he said, staring at Yuan Chang, who was staring at his brows, "I'll hand over my family to you." ”

"Don't worry," Yuan Chang said in a deep voice, "I will never let them have a half-point difference if I risk this life!"

"You'd better keep it," Yan Zichen smiled, "I don't want to rob my son-in-law with Lord Yama." ”

Yuan Chang was stunned, pursed his lips and nodded: "I'll go first." Without further delay, he rushed out towards the north with all his might.

The biggest snowstorm since the beginning of winter is in full swing, at this moment the world is already covered in silver, but unfortunately the night is early, this rare scene of thousands of mountains paved with silver can not be appreciated, only the black and dark ups and downs like ghosts of countless mountains stretching into the endless darkness.

And on the side of one of the mountains in this dark setting, a little orange light was faintly emanating from the cave on the mountainside, and the three people in the cave were standing quietly, and the voice of one of them was accompanied by the crackling sound of the burning firewood seemed unhurried and easy.

"It was precisely because Gu's murderous method was unbelievable, and it was definitely not something she could think of, so I became a little interested and slowly investigated," Qin Zhijue looked at Yan Zike with a smile, "After the accident, her dowry girl was sold on the spot, I asked someone to fish the girl out of the tooth shop, and asked her carefully about all the big and small things that happened around Gu's side during the period from the time Gu discovered the adultery between Min Xuanwei and Wei Chunhua to the time before the crime, and then, the girl gave me something." ”

Gu, who is Min Xuanwei's original wife, once murdered Min Xuanwei's concubine Wei Chunhua in the Ziyang Immortal Pavilion on Yudao with a glass car full of hydrogen, and committed suicide on the spot after being exposed by Yan Zike.

She and Qin Zhijue are childhood sweethearts.

It's a pity that after the official family, few can independently marry themselves, one of the two became a princess, and the other married into the Min family, and they have never been in contact with each other since.

This does not prevent the living from reminiscing about the past of the deceased, and doing their best to find out the truth to pay tribute.

"That girl gave me a piece of paper," Qin Zhijue was still smiling, the firelight dancing under his eyes, "To be exact, it's a letter." The general meaning of the letter is: good people may not be able to die well, and evil people may not be able to get evil retribution. Below this statement, there is a method that can ignite the air and cause an explosion, and there are a few sentences at the end, saying: Good and evil thoughts, but follow your own heart. ”

Speaking of this, Qin Zhijue reached into his arms, took out a folded piece of paper, gently unfolded it, and showed the side with words to Yan Zike and Yan Qi.

The content on this piece of paper is what he just said, and I didn't think he had been wearing it close to his body all the time.

Looking at the handwriting on the paper, it is beautiful and neat, most of it is from the hands of women, and there is no payment at the end of the page, and there is no language involving salutation and interaction throughout the paper.

"The handwriting on this paper, maybe no one is more familiar with it than me," Qin Zhijue chuckled and let his fingertips loosen, letting the paper slowly fall under his feet, "This is her handwriting." I looked at it countless times, but I couldn't find a single thing that didn't match her writing habits, not even some small details, so to speak, if she were to read it, she couldn't tell whether it was her own writing or not. But obviously, this word was not written by her, such an unbelievable method of air explosion, not to mention that she grew up in the boudoir since she was a child, even the craftsmen of the Ministry of Industry could not make it out of thin air. ”

Qin Zhijue lowered his eyes and stared at the page under his feet, but he didn't stop: "Of course, there are no absolutes in the world, in case we see you together, I still went to the Ministry of Industry to ask, Cui Chunyi and Master Cui of the Ministry of Industry, after this case happened, you were asked by Lord Yan to help verify the feasibility of the murder method, and according to Lord Cui, it was Miss Yan Qi who proposed the specific details of this method at that time." ”

Qin Zhijue raised his eyes to look at Yan Qi, still smiling: "Master Cui said that Miss Yan Qi saw this method from an old book, I can't confirm the truth of this, in fact, what Miss Yan Qi said is not important whether it is true or false, the important thing is who told Zhiling this method." ”

Zhiling is Gu's maiden name, and she was called by Qin Zhijue, and her voice seemed to carry three points of the sunny spring warmth of her childhood.

"I don't think this person should be Miss Yan Qi," Qin Zhijue's gaze moved from Yan Qi's face to Yan Zike's face, "The person who wrote this piece of paper not only knows that Zhiling has a grudge, but also understands Zhiling's handwriting, otherwise it would be impossible to imitate her handwriting like this." And the people who can know her handwriting so well, except for the Min family, are her personal people. However, it is impossible for the Min family to help her use this method to kill people in the Min family, and her personal people, according to the girl I fished out, are also girls who don't know much about big characters. Apart from these people, who else can get Zhiling's handwriting?"

"I've asked that girl again and again," the smile on the corner of Qin Zhijue's lips seemed to be a little thicker, but the bottom of her eyes was still cool, "For a few days, Zhiling always pushed everyone around her outside the room, Min Xuanwei didn't often share a room with her at that time, either didn't go home at night, or slept in the study, so she was the only one in Zhiling's room." What she did in the room, she never said, and no one dared to ask, but once, this girl slept until the middle of the night and felt bored, got up and pushed the window to breathe, the window next to it was the window of Zhiling's bedroom, she saw a black shadow leaving from the window, flying out of the wall. Fortunately, the moonlight was very good that night, so that the girl could see the true body of the black shadow clearly, and I would never have guessed that the black shadow was actually ......."

As he spoke, he looked at Yan Zike, and the fire reflected in his eyes suddenly flourished: "...... A parrot. ”

"Min Xuanwei doesn't like to raise birds, the parrot must not be raised by Zhiling, and how did the foreign parrot find the window of Zhiling's bedroom, this is not for the time being," Qin Zhijue slowly took two steps in the direction of Yan Zike, and was blocked by Yan Qi's stride, but Qin Zhijue didn't look at her, just looked at Yan Zike and spoke," Suffice it to say that the owner of this parrot is very whimsical, and the mind of the parrot is not comparable to that of ordinary birds, and it is said that some species of parrots have a mind comparable to that of a seven-year-old child, and there is no better messenger to use the parrot to carry messages. ”

Qin Zhijue said this, and laughed softly: "If you want to start with a parrot to find a person hiding behind the scenes, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, but even so, I want to give it a try." As far as I know, not all parrots are that smart, and in order to learn something about parrots, I found a bird shop, and the name of this bird shop ......"

"It's called Returning to the Residence. Qin Zhijue looked at Yan Zike's eyes and pushed the smile on his face into his pupils, "It is a special coincidence that on the day I went back to live here, I saw a young man with a face that resembled Miss Yan Qi and had the demeanor of Lord Yan, he seemed to be quite interested in an old parrot in the store, and I was also very interested in his interest."

"So I knew who was behind the shop, and of course, it might not mean much, but when I approached Min Xuanwei's grandfather with the piece of paper that imitated Zhiling's handwriting, and asked the old man who had studied calligraphy and handwriting for some pointers, I learned an amazing clue from him.

"Mr. Min told me that there is a person in this world who imitates the handwriting of celebrities.

"It is not uncommon for the world to imitate the handwriting of celebrities, and it is not uncommon for a master to be almost chaotic, but Master Min said to me that this person is more powerful than any imitation master, and he is a master of masters, and he said such a sentence: 'The handwriting imitated by this person is brought to the front of the original owner, but I am afraid that the master will not be able to distinguish the authenticity'.

It was this sentence that suddenly touched my heart, such a feature that is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood, and how similar it is to people who imitate Zhiling's handwriting.

"But I can't figure out how it could be this person, who shouldn't be him, there is nothing more contradictory and inconceivable than this, but when the final point of both clues is the same person, I think that no matter how impossible it is, it can become a reality.

"Now, then, I would like to ask Lord Yan to tell me how you managed to get your parrot to find Zhiling's room accurately? ”

Qin Zhijue said this, smiling and looking at Yan Zike's eyes.

Yan Zike always listened quietly and did not say a word. After Qin Zhijue's words, he saw him speak slowly after a long time.

"The habits and rules of living in the inner house are generally similar, and it is not difficult to infer it. ”

- Just this sentence is an acknowledgment of everything!

- It's him, it's him, it's really him.

The wind roared through the cave with the blizzard, and some biting cold wind came in, blowing the fire in the cave flickering, and the shadows cast by the three people on the cave wall disappeared one after another, transforming into a strange shape under the refraction of glass-like stone crystals.

"The state has national laws," Qin Zhijue hooked the corners of his lips slightly, and two clear fires danced in his eyes, "However, unfortunately, sometimes, people want to solve everything with their own hearts." Unfortunately, this time, I wanted to go as I liked. ”

As he spoke, he slowly walked towards Yan Zike, and the flames of the bonfire in the cave suddenly seemed to be oppressed by the wind, and they fell backwards, almost extinguished.

It's not the wind, it's not accidental.

It's an aura, an aura that is so powerful that it's incomparable.

He didn't need a more detailed explanation, he just needed to confirm his guess.

The surging but silent aura oppressed, but the moment it was about to touch Yan Zike, it was grabbed by another aura that suddenly appeared, this aura was quiet and powerful, with indestructible faith, and insurmountable determination.

"Miss Yan Qi," Qin Zhijue turned his face to look at her with a smile, "I'm not surprised that you are so protective, and I don't have any power to stop you from doing this, but I still want to say it in front: your uncle once provided others with methods to kill people, although he didn't do it himself, but it was no different from handing a knife to others......"

"Is there anything?" Yan Qi lightly intercepted his words, "I have seen the content written on that piece of paper just now, and there is not a single sentence that is to persuade the person who receives this letter to use the method on the letter to kill people, 'good and evil thoughts, but follow your own heart', a method that allows the air to explode is placed here, and how to apply it is all up to the person receiving the letter to choose." The same knife, some people use it to cut fruit, others use it to kill people, and some people don't touch it at all. ”

"If you don't put this knife in front of others, even if you have a grudge, you can't put it into action, it is this knife that provides the opportunity and confidence to kill, so that the person standing on the edge of the cliff has the strength to jump, if no one provides this strength, even if you want to jump off the cliff, you are powerless. Qin Zhijue said with a faint smile.

"I think we probably can't agree on this point," Yan Qidao, "Now I can only state my position: I will not allow anyone to be against him, no matter what the reason. If you have to take revenge, then the two of us will fight to the death. ”

Qin Zhijue smiled: "It seems that I can't convince you, and you can't convince me either, I think that fighting to the death is probably the only way, so be it." 166 Reading Network