3. Hiding corpses in caves
03 Hiding corpses in caves
In front of Tang Ai was a huge ice crystal, the length of a human being, and when the fire fold approached, the ice surface reflected light. If it's just a normal lump of ice, it's nothing. The problem is, this ice mound is clearly not ordinary.
Because there's really a person lying in it.
To be exact, it's a one/silk/not/hanging man.
One/silk/no/hanging, is one/silk/not/hanging, and the man is seen at a glance all over his body.
Tang Ai's eyes hurt, and they hurt all the time. No matter how arrogant she is, she is not afraid of the sky, but when she grows so big, it is the first time she has seen a naked/naked body of the opposite sex.
The beam of the fire fold shone forward, and only countless ice crystals of the same light shone out. These ice crystals were arranged on both sides of the road, and in each piece of ice crystal, there was a naked/naked man, to say nothing about a hundred.
"I told you not to watch it, but now you can't blame me." Wu Twenty-One muttered in a low voice, and then raised his eyes to look at Tang Ai, "Little Tang, it seems that we found the place where the corpse collector hid the corpse by mistake, and I am afraid that the strangeness of this cave is more than that." โ
Tang Ai'er was hot, and he tried his best to lower his gaze, but he didn't listen to what 521 said.
Five-Two-One's eyes froze, and one dodged and pulled her to hide behind the protruding mountain wall.
"Be careful, someone's coming." He whispered to Tang Ai.
It was really said by 521, and the sound of footsteps from the other end of the cave came from time to time. Someone can walk through the cave, which proves that the cave does have another exit.
The demon wind swept the ghost fire, and two figures appeared in the firelight.
The people who came were two women, dressed and furnished very differently from the Central Plains, one of them was graceful and gorgeous, and seemed to be noble, and the other followed her and was her maid.
The two women were talking, but the words in their mouths were sticky, like they couldn't swallow a hot eggplant in their mouths.
This shouldn't be Chinese, it seems that the two are Koreans on the other side of the mountain.
It is not difficult to see from the movements of the two that they carefully examined each ice crystal along the way. The master and servant circled around to see the ice crystals, and then stopped in the middle of the road, as if waiting for something.
As they drew closer, their faces were reflected by the torches they were holding.
The hostess's face was covered with a layer of tulle, revealing only a pair of beautiful eyes.
As for the maid, she looks really good...... It's hard to put into words.
A gust of cold wind hit his bones, and Tang Ai couldn't help but shiver.
This sound could not have been lighter, but it had already made the Goryeo woman turn her head suddenly. In the blink of an eye, two women were already walking towards the sound.
Five-two eyes turned their eyes and supported their foreheads, staring at the two Koreans pulling their clothes and hair, and smearing two handfuls of wet mud on their faces, making themselves look wolf-bรจi, and their original faces were completely covered.
Then, he began to stomp his feet vigorously, for fear that the Koreans would not find him.
The two women turned a corner and saw Tang Ai and 521.
When the maid saw the living, she said a strange Chinese dialect: "Who is the muddy history?" How big is the cow prison? โ
Wuer looked at the two of them in a daze at first, and after a while, he suddenly started crying: "Our boss...... Our boss is gone! โ
He actually howled, and learned the stubble accent of the corpse collector vividly.
521 said that he and Tang Ai were the subordinates of the corpse collector Niu Boss, while howling, while adding oil and vinegar to talk about the avalanche, begging the two women to take him and Tang Ai out of the valley, tears flowed, it was almost moving the heavens and the earth, and Tang Ai's goosebumps fell to the ground.
In recent years, the Beijing opera industry has been popular in the selection of the best performers, once a year, and it is also an annual event under the roots of the imperial city.
The masked woman didn't seem to be suspicious, she glanced up and down at Tang Ai and 521, and her eyes finally fell on Tang Ai, and the light in her eyes was like a wolf and a tiger.
She whispered a few words to the maid in Goryeo, turned seductively and walked back, disappearing into the depths of the cave in a moment.
The maid glanced at Tang Ai and the others, and snorted heavily: "Muddy, stand here." โ
"Yes, yes!" Five-two-one responded in a low voice, and slashed Tang Ai with one hand.
"It's okay to go out with mud, but it's not allowed to look at the mud when you pick the road." As she spoke, she pulled out two cloth belts and greeted Tang Ai and Wu Twenty-One.
It's good now, the two of them are deprived of vision. The maid pulled out a rope from her waist and tied Tang Ai's right hand at one end and Wu Twenty-One's left hand at the other.
"Go with the nest." She grabbed the rope and dragged them to the other end of the cave.
Tang Ai was blind, and there were potholes under his feet, and his shoulders hit 521 vigorously.
Five-two-one pretended to wilt, screaming in his mouth, but his shoulders quietly changed his posture, and he gently pushed it when Tang Ai bumped into him, not only unloading the force of her impact, but also allowing her to stand firm immediately.
Tang Ai was thinking about what to do after he got out of the hole, but he didn't pay attention to 521's act of helping him.
The two men walked forward with the maid, and I don't know how long it passed, but the maid finally led the two to the other end of the cave.
The cold wind was still roaring with joy, and it seemed to scrape off the skin on the face. The road further on was much smoother, and the maid led the two of them on a further journey, and suddenly stopped without warning.
She loosened the rope tied to the end of Five-Two-One's hand, and then ripped off the cloth belt that was blindfolded by Five-Two-One.
Five-two-one saw the light of day again, and thanked the maid again, and then he was about to untie the strap on Tang Ai's eyes: "Brother, let's go." โ
Unexpectedly, the maid pushed him aside and yelled at him unceremoniously: "Go over there, it's the road, the mud, go back to the mud of the sky/court." He, slip down! โ
As soon as the five twenty-one sons fell into the ditch, the old man struggled to get up, and asked in a panic: "Big ...... Eldest sister, where are you going to take my brother? โ
The maid glared at him viciously and said, "If you don't want to tear it, go quickly!" โ
"Don't tear, don't tear." Five-two-one-one trembled, and said, "I, can I say goodbye to my brother?" โ
He held Tang Ai's hand tightly and pressed his front body against Tang Ai's chest, as if he wanted to make a difference between life and death with her.
Tang Ai's eyes were still blind until this moment, and his hands were still tied, but he heard Wu Twenty-one say in his ear in a voice that only he could hear: "Little Lord Tang, that masked woman seems to have a prominent status, and she has taken a fancy to it, but you have a great opportunity to go deep into the enemy camp to find clues." Of course, Lord Xiao Tang is handsome and extraordinary, if you look good, there will definitely be flying blessings, and don't waste some food. So, let's split up for the time being, and there will be a period later. โ
After saying this, he reluctantly let go of Tang Ai, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Tang Ai listened to 521's parting words, and was shocked at first, but when he came back to his senses, he only wanted to beat him, a dead scoundrel full of provocative words and shamelessness, so that he couldn't find his grandmother's house!
Unexpectedly, at this time, I don't know where a wisp of fragrance came out, so thick that it could make people faint.
Smelling this aroma, Tang Ai was in a trance for a while, and his limbs suddenly felt weak. The maid gave her a push on her shoulder, and carried her into a carriage.
The veiled Goryeo woman was already waiting in the car.
Seeing Tang Ai enter, she smiled at Tang Ai and said in a proficient Chinese: "Tian/Chaoren, I have seen the corpses of many of you, but I have never seen a handsome man like you. In particular, you are not a corpse, but a living person. โ
She grabbed the side of Tang Ai's neck with one hand and gently untied the cloth belt of Tang Ai's blindfolded eyes: "From now on, you will be my person." โ
A big bead of sweat rolled down the back of Tang Ai's neck, and the corners of his lips twitched unconsciously, as if a fish bone was stuck in his throat.
No matter how much Wu Er Yi owes Bian, he at least has one sentence that is right, this masked woman is Tang Ai's most important clue now.
There must be many dangers on the way to solve the case, and Tang Ai has long had the consciousness of sacrificing his ego.
After a long time, she finally forced herself to put on a smile, but unfortunately, laughing was more ugly than crying.
The sun went down in a short time, and a fierce wind blew from the top of the mountain, and the snow fell from the branches of the trees beside the road.
The car carrying Tang Ai was out of sight, and the five and two sides walked out from behind the cedars, combing their messy hair at will, and dusting off the snowflakes that fell on their bodies.
"Childe, Childe!" Two small figures, one fat and one thin, shouted and chased after them, and they were the two little boys who had blocked the way of the corpse collector in the Heaven/Earth Realm earlier.
Neither of them had any empty hands, the little thin man was holding a long and narrow flat wooden box, and the little fat man was holding a small clay pot.
The opening and closing of the wooden box on the hand is concealed, and there are silver ribbon buckles at both ends of the head and tail, which can be carried on the back. He and the two of them were surrounded by 521, and they couldn't take care of their breath, but they helped 521 carry the wooden box.
While tying the buckle on his chest for 521, he hurriedly said, "Childe, everything is prepared for you at your command." Walking along this road all the way up the mountain, after several twists and turns, you can see an old pine with a crooked neck, and things are buried under the tree! โ
He also said innocently: "Childe, don't rush us back to the capital, aren't we just thinking about doing more for you." โ
He said that he would uncork the jar and hold the crockpot in front of 521. A sweet and greasy smell overflowed from it, but it was filled with a jar of maltose.
"You two stinky boys, how can this place be so fun." Wu Er Yi shook his head and smiled lightly, knocked on the door of each of them with his left hand, and gently took the sugar jar from his small hand, "I have a hunch that something big will happen in Goryeo soon, and the border with me will become very dangerous." Go back, you two need to know how to save your life. โ
The two children were unyielding, one shook the sleeve of 521, and the other hugged his leg: "Childe, send us another task!" โ
Wu Twenty-one sighed helplessly, turned the heads of the two little cubs, and pointed in the direction of the border pass: "On the way back, there was an avalanche in the mountain pass, and many of the bodies of my people were buried in the snow. After this is done, I will go back to Beijing, and I will not be allowed to delay a moment on the road. โ
Not big and not too small, they reluctantly looked at 521, and finally shouted "order" in unison, and ran away with a jump.
After the two children left, 521 walked along the other side of the mountain road with the sugar jar in his arms, and after a while, he reached the bend of the mountain road. A protruding rock blocked most of the way, and he stopped in front of it, his eyes flickering, and he smiled faintly.
There was a little movement behind the mountain rock, and a young man with sword eyebrows and starry eyes and a stern face stepped out, dressed in a strong suit and majestic.
Wu Twenty-One was not surprised by the appearance of this young man, and smiled at the young man: "Xu Zhan, you arrived too much earlier than the agreed time." Let my dignified General Xu Shao wait for a long time in the cold wind, I really don't want to go. โ
His eyes rolled around, and his gaze fell back to the sugar jar in his hand: "I don't have anything to look at now, only this, otherwise...... Do you want to take a bite too? โ
"No kidding, you better take care of your body." Xu Zhan pushed the sugar jar away and coughed embarrassedly, "Let's get down to business, you sneaked into the investigation of the corpse trafficking case, but what progress has you made?" โ
"Heh, of course there is progress, and it is still a lot." 521 explained the previous things to Xu Zhan in a few words, and the acquaintance process with Tang Ai was even more understated.
Xu Zhan's attention was all focused on one point, and after listening to the 521 narrative, he was stunned and said, "The woman wearing the veil is not -"
"It's Lord Jeong-hee. The younger sister of Lee Min-ji, the commander of the right capital of Goryeo, the lord of Jeong-hee. 521 said for him, "Even she is involved in this matter, and it must be Li Minzhi's share." โ
Xu Zhan's face turned blue when he heard this, and his eyes straightened, and he didn't answer for a while.
Five-two-one shook his hand in front of his eyes: "Hey, are you a little too surprised?" โ
Xu Zhan said: "If this is the case, it is too cautious to implicate this matter!" โ
Five-two-one sighed as if he was nothing, and the clouds were light: "That's why the old man asked me to come, and the six doors were just sent out by the old man as a cover." In the affairs of the Goryeo Kingdom, the old man turned a blind eye on the surface, and they were fighting with the Jurchen Ministry, but in fact, he was clear in his heart. There is no one around him who can be trusted, only I am still far away from the temple, and I am the only person he can use at the moment. We can't choose what kind of Lao Tzu we have on the stall, it's all fate. โ
Xu Zhan said solemnly: "It's a matter of importance, or even the situation at the border, what do you need me to do, just ask." โ
Five-two-one smiled and raised his eyebrows: "Don't worry, I will never be polite to you, there are still many things to look at you in the back." โ
"Okay, I'll wait for your news, I'll lead the people around for the next few days." Xu Zhan nodded, and said thoughtfully, "By the way, I remember that you said before that there was someone who would definitely meet in person, but he had already seen it?" โ
"Of course! She's an interesting person, so I'll introduce you to you another day. Five-two-one turned around, waved his hand behind Xu Zhan's back, and said nothing, "I'm leaving, and now I'm just going to her side." Her things are tricky, and I'm worried she'll be in trouble alone. โ
Xu Zhan looked at his back and said in a low voice: "Xiao Yu, I have known you for so many years, and I have never seen you so attentive to anyone. โ
"Xu Zhan, I heard what you said!" Xiao Yu raised his voice, his feet did not stop, and he did not turn his head.
He laughed at the wind, but the next sentence changed to a deep voice: "That's because of a debt, a debt that I owed many years ago." โ