Chapter 11: Shadows

“... This kind of wheelbarrow is used to send silver, because this kind of small car is the most dexterous and convenient, and it will never disturb others when walking on the road. This kind of car is pushed by people. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Mules and horses have hoofs, people don't, mules and horses bark, people don't. This quote comes from Gu Long's "Seven Weapons. Excerpt from the Parting Hook.

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Qiao Wen was guided by Li Yutang, who was panting slowly, and finally came to the fishing flower alley where the lights were already on and the Yingge was drunk. He had always been cautious in his actions, so he said to Li Yutang: "Lord Li, I believe that the ships that will help Gao Fei and them are now ready, so you can set off for Summer Bay first and take over this matter!" ”

Li Yutang was in a hurry to report before, and all the officials accompanying him were escorting the crowd of people who were making trouble in Xianti back to the yamen to settle the case, and he appeared wearing official uniforms and came alone, so it was naturally not suitable for him to enter and exit this place where the fireworks were full of miasma, so he was naturally ordered to go.

Qiao steadily entered the alley and came to the Zhou family's house that Li Yutang was referring to. At this time, here, the door is empty, empty and lonely, and there is really a tiger palace minister mentioned outside the door, and the Tsing Yi gangsters under the former "dog master" are burying their heads and squatting to watch. When he saw that the man was motionless, he felt bad, so he stepped forward and gently pushed his shoulder, and the man fell down against the wall.

Qiao Wen touched his nose and veins without any pneumatics, and his body muscles were also stiff, so he knew that this person had been hit by someone and had been dead for a long time. He was not alarmed, and carefully pushed the door to enter, only to see that the room in the central hall was wide open, and the weak flame of the candle on the black wooden square table was shadowed by the demons and wild demons outside the double hug and joy Buddha next to the offering case. He carefully searched the inside and outside of five rows of houses from left to right, leaving him with only empty and unoccupied houses, and no important clues to find.

"Where are the people?" Qiao Wen thought to himself, "Is it related to those three coffins?" There are no more than three places where the coffin is left, the shroud shop, which is known to be suspicious for the time being, and as for Yizhuang and the cemetery, it is necessary to investigate. As soon as he thought of this, he heard the familiar sound of his clothes breaking through the air, and the Tiger Palace ministers had come to stand by his side alone.

"It seems that Sun Fuji really escaped from prison." Qiao Wen asked directly after a little estimate.

"As Shugong worries, it is exactly like this, I have set up checkpoints in the city and stepped up the entry and exit checks." Hu Dianchen also knew that this was a move to make up for the dead, and said with deep remorse.

"The last time Tiger Boy came, I remember that there was a slight difference here." Of course, Qiao Wen didn't believe that thieves could leave no clues.

The last time Hu Dianchen came was to fly outside the eaves wall to attack Qin Haonan, a henchman of the Dark Flower Party, condescendingly, and he naturally had a clear view of the situation in the lobby outside the room. He remembered that at that time, there were wheelbarrows stacked in the corners of the walls on both sides of the house. At that time, I didn't realize that this was inappropriate, but now I think about it, how can anyone be in a hurry to bring a guy who eats and works to have fun. Thinking of this, he hurriedly reported to Qiao Wen truthfully.

Qiao Wenwen stroked the silver beard and said: "The wheelbarrow is dexterous and convenient, it is advisable to walk on the steep mountain road, and it has always been the first choice for thieves and thieves to transport goods. Ha ha! The purpose of the dark flower here is about to be revealed! ”

After the end of the task of suppressing demons in Kunshan a month ago, the total amount of red goods harvested in his lair was only more than two million taels of silver, and he originally thought that the organization was huge, and the natural cost of capital operation was large, and the loss and deficit were also normal, but then I learned that its organization was streamlined with only a dozen people, and the cost of his own money was not much, and the dark flower had committed a lot of crimes over the years, and the capital and property were only this number. But in the battle of Kunshan, there was no forgiveness for death, and as a result, the seven demons went to six, and one person was "Yao Ju", and he couldn't solve the problem, so naturally there was nothing to do. Therefore, it is also a foolproof strategy to open the file codenamed "Dark Flower" and dispatch the semi-retired "Iron Tree" Qiao Wen, hoping that with his years of experience and countless abilities, he can obtain the whereabouts of this huge amount of dirty money in one fell swoop from the clues of chasing the head of Dark Flower. If there is no huge amount of money behind it, if you make another incident, it will not be too big, and it will not be bad.

Qiao Wen thought deeply, Dark Flower chose this rumor, and opened it against the wind, whether he wanted to transfer the collection or for a bigger operation, could it be that there was an amazing change somewhere in the south of the Jiangnan in the capital that he didn't know.

Pang Yu was also unexpectedly watching from the sidelines, the narrow blade of the wind crab roe followed like a shadow, penetrating the bodies of the two pearl diving women, starting from Yu Zhen's chest and sinking deep into the armrest sword, and ending at the back of Yu Zhu's back interspersed with protruding blood drops on the tip of the sword.

Wind Crab himself couldn't have imagined that there was such a powerful special effect, and he was about to draw his sword and drink blood to kill the two of them, seeing Yu Zhen's anger and hatred, and secretly lucky, he was also suspicious when he heard the corner of his mouth smiling and snorted: "Look at you are still rampant!" After Yu Zhen finished speaking, Guan Jin's iron hand tightly clasped the wrist of the wind crab roe and held the sword, and the ten fingertips pinched the muscles into the bones, and the wind crab roe pulled out the sword, and sighed secretly, "I have been hit!" The left palm struck at Yu Zhen's forehead "Heavenly Spirit" acupoint.

At this time, Yu Zhen secretly stretched out a cotton white fist under his armpit, and in an instant, Yu Zhu's palm was opened, and the thousands of needles splashed out of the honeycomb mango ball were like chaotic bees out of the nest.

What the pearl divering Shuangniang made was the "concentric technique" in the jade burning move "Lian Pi Zhu", so they planned to repeat it, feint before and after killing, although they succeeded in killing the enemy, it was difficult to protect themselves. The wind crab roe is located in front of the nest ball, bearing the brunt of the attack, the key points of the throat, shoulder, chest and abdomen of the facial features were pierced by needles, and the red eyes showed a strange and unbelieving look, and the left palm was weakly attached to Yu Zhen's forehead, and he died on the spot without snorting.

Pang Yu stepped forward quickly, ignoring the suspicion of avoiding suspicion, he repeatedly brushed the second daughter's heart, although the blood was surging, and the power of speaking was temporarily restored, but the sword had penetrated the heart, even if the gods came to save it, there was no way to return to the sky. Yu Zhen trembled all over, vomited blood bubbles, looked at her sister affectionately, and said intermittently: "My sister came out half a little earlier than you, and now I will give it back to you, I can finally live and die together, I will go ...... first" After speaking, he closed his eyes forever and died. Yu Zhen calmly watched her sister die so fragrantly, she took a deep breath of grief and said to Pang Yu: "Actually, the two of us have been expelled from the island, and there is no other way to return to the master's sect but to make meritorious contributions and recover this Yeming Orb." Recently, the Beijing Line reported that someone traded and shipped here, and we knew that we were not opponents, and we would rather die to get this pearl back. There are Lao Panen people who sent the Buddha to the west, and returned this thing to the master on the island to restore the identity and reputation of our island people. Thank you so much!" Yu Zhu finished his tough confession, his whole body was relaxed for a while, and finally he looked at his sister gently, and the fish ballad song that followed the pearl diving when he was a child gradually disappeared, and his eyes slowly closed and he didn't move.

Pang Yu didn't want the two women to be so heroic and chaste, so he naturally had to obey his promise when he was dying, but he also thought of the South China Sea, the islands and Xingbu, the chopsticks island they talked about, Pearl City, where to find the master?

Qiao Wen realized the importance of the key person Sun Buer, and hurriedly took out the bamboo roll silk found from the wooden house in the backyard of Xianti, and spread it on the table with both hands to look at it. The paper is weak, not like the drug reaction of the words soaking in fire and water, but under the flickering of the residual candle, I was pleasantly surprised to find many hidden dark lines, which were cleverly connected with the sketch curve below, forming a geographical area that seemed to be acquainted. When he found this, he said, "Tiger boy, quickly take out the map of Songjiang Mansion!" ”

Hu Dianchen took this thing from his arms, put this sheepskin map on the table, and asked in his heart: "That Sun Fuji Pankou confessed, this is an undercurrent distribution map, do you want to take the sea area map......

Qiao Wen shook his head resolutely, firmly believing that it must be the dirty hidden gold map of the dark flower thief, not the cold and warm undercurrent that Sun Buji believed in. He stretched the paper silk on the sheepskin, moved it left and right, and finally stopped impartially on a vast area north of Songjiang City.

Hu Dianchen was also very happy to see such a consistent and overlapping phenomenon, and pressed his hands to fix the four corners of it to assist Qiao Wen, and his tone also brought out a trace of trill: "Shugong has found out?!" ”

Qiao Wen freed up his hands, stroked his silver beard, and studied the three stars, crosses and circles on the paper with his eyes for a long time, and then smiled with relief: "One thing Sun Thief is telling the truth, the location of this hidden gold is indeed known by the method of navigation. ”

Hu Dianchen had a clue, and he was still half-understood, waiting for Qiao Wen to explain further.

"If Sun Buji's right of address is that of a ship sailing at sea," Qiao said, pointing to the cross on the paper, "then the circle representing the sun is the point of longitude of the advance," he said, smearing the table dust with his hand and drawing a faint straight line between the two signs.

Hu Dianchen opened the paper silk, glanced at the sheepskin map, and said, "But there are many village building names scattered around this extension, how is it good?" ”

"You're right, the key point is in this star symbol, like the compass of a sea ship to determine the latitude, and this point orthogonal to the meridian cross is the important reference point we are looking for." After Qiao Wen finished speaking, his fingertips drew a straight concave line from the star until it intersected with the gray line, and then the internal strength and the external strength were strong, and the heat penetrated the silk back, and a building name appeared on the sheepskin map, Baiyun Yuanshan Temple.

Qiao Wen re-understood the cunning of the Dark Flower Thieves, not the same as the ordinary Green Forest Bandits, although the terrifying characters hidden behind them will not enter the world for the time being, but this matter must be manipulated by people who work intensively, and what he thought of was the other of the two leaders offered by Sun Buer, "Rose Wild Guest".

At this time, there were three crisp and urgent dog barks outside the courtyard, the two looked at each other, Hudian quickly packed up the paper and put it into his arms, Qiao steadily stretched out his sleeves to extinguish the candle flame between the tables, and couldn't help but say that they both vacated the house.

Pang Yu secretly recited the Buddha's words, drew the sword of the wind crab roe to separate the three people, and then blasted out three pits with the palm wind, and buried the three groups of people in them, and built three stone tombs with stones. He then took local materials, cut it into three wooden boards with a sword, and the tip of the sword was engraved, Hainan Sword Sect Wind Crab Roe, Chopsticks Island Yu Zhen Yu Zhu Sisters, Dark Flower Flower Slave and other words of the tomb, and then inserted these three cards in front of the tomb. He got up and cleaned his clothes, preached the Buddha's prayer again, and stopped stopping the "Sutra of Transcendence" seven times in a subdued voice, so as to complete the ritual of the past and the present life and the next life.

Pang Yu packed up their relics, put the narrow sword into the sheath, wrapped it and tied it to the back, the night pearl, the beaded sword and the thousand-needle mango ball, if they could show their identity in the future, report the death news, and so on, all of them were put into the Bao Zhai bag that was connected with the master in the old days. He was so focused on his spirit that there were still four huge boxes of Tibetans who wanted him to rescue him, so he didn't hesitate to set off in the direction they were going.

Pang Yu walked on the rugged mountain road of wild grass and sheep intestines, tossing and turning in the sea of black rocks and trees for a long time, and the scene suddenly appeared in front of him between the ups and downs of the terrain, and he was hidden behind the long grass and rocks on the side. He peeked at it, a hundred steps away from the top moon deep valley, as mentioned in the sightseeing square, the scenery is like its name, the white sand is full of valleys, the two walls are as black as ink and the cliffs are inserted into the sky, the barrel-shaped heavenly work of the first line of heaven with a crack of three feet wide, and the valley is like snow and white sand deep at the bottom. He did not want to go forward, but he knew that the sand was as white as day, and the night sky was conspicuous, and as soon as he stepped into the valley, he would be surprised by the secret guard. He looked at the two lines of sand trap footprints of different shades but neatly and neatly with the wind, and was thinking about how to sneak in out of nowhere, a white shadow floated out of the black crack in the valley, and the moon reflected the sand, revealing that this person had a spotted bundle of hair, a blood-bathed brocade shirt, and a long sword waving mixed with a murderous aura of evil.

Pang Yu knew that this person was the "Gao Fei" who had been at odds with people before, and now he was very angry and hostile. When the tribulation was reunited, he naturally greeted him with joy, and his mouth was also excited: "Brother Gao, don't be surprised, in Xia Pangyu, you are covered in blood, right?" ”

"Gao Fei's" face was uncertain, his eyes flickered, looking at the strange-shaped narrow blade sword bound by Pang Yu's back, after weighing and hesitating, the eyebrows were loosened, the murderous aura faded, and he said with a dry cough and hoarseness: "There is Lao Pang to catch the fast care, this is all the blood of the thief." ”

"Flower thief jade waist slave!?" Although Pang Yu felt that his tone and expression were different, he thought that it was normal for people to be abnormal after the shock, so he no longer cared.

"Only two or three of his subordinates are flower slaves. The caves in the valley are densely connected, like spider web ant nests, thinking that I am trying to catch them and escape outside the valley. Gao Fei shook his head, put his sword into the scabbard at his waist, and casually threw a few flower-shaped wooden plaques from his arms to the sand.

"What about the Tibetan boxes?" Seeing this, Pang Yu was only numbered differently from what he had found, so he continued to ask with concern.

As for them, they have already been released and go to the opera hall first. There was no one in the valley, and time was running out, so we set out at once. "Gao Bei" seems to be very concerned about their safety and is anxious to leave this place.

"Good! Walk! Of course, Pang Yu didn't doubt why "Gao Fei" knew everything about this valley pit, so he took a deep look at this valley, turned around and followed, and both disappeared into the vast night.

As soon as Qiao Wen and Hu Dianchen came out of the house, a black shadow flew out of the corpse wall and pounced at Hu Dianchen's feet. The Tiger Hall did not use force, but leaned over and stretched out his hand, he had recognized this as the elf dog "Black Stone" of the "Dog Master".

"Black Stone" enjoyed the forehead of the Tiger Palace, and seemed to be whimpering with sadness in his mouth, turned around on his heels twice, barked twice, and then ran dozens of steps away, and barked again, as if he wanted the Tiger Palaceman to follow.

Hu Dianchen also saw the joy in Qiao Wen's eyes, this dog must have found the traces of its owner or the location of the thief, you must know that the note of "Dog Master" is to track Sun Buer's wife "Zhou Miaoren", and the direction is consistent with the Baiyun Yuanshan Temple they found.

Qiao Wen nodded and agreed, and said meaningfully: "Tiger boy, you follow this clue first, and I will go back to the official post first to determine certain events." ”

"Obey the tree father!" The ministers of the Tiger Palace did not hesitate to do anything, following the figure of the "Black Stone" running and running, and a bad premonition of its master had arisen in his heart.

Qiao Wen returned to the official post and entered his room, there were a lot of redundant official documents on the desk, and there were indeed eight hundred miles of urgent official documents from it, the content of which was the list of the Dao King's son-in-law mentioned by the Goddess Sect. He quickly looked through the others, and also found a document requesting the deployment of manpower, which said that it was exactly what he was worried about, talking about the whereabouts of people in the rivers and lakes in Jiangnan who had been several times more recently, and the arresters and spies had no time to deal with it, so they earnestly increased the dispatch. Joe steadied his pen like the wind, and immediately circled and approved, and then began to secretly report on the pigeon roll paper the situation of his codename Operation Darkflower for the past few days.

The dark flower thief now has eyebrows, and the identity of the jade waist slave is already known to seven or eight, and it is even the other leader "Rose Wild Guest", it is very likely that this person is secretly planning, Qiao Wen is actually more worried than happy in his heart, the thieves who are on the run, the goddess sect whose friends and enemies are unknown, and the Seven Elders' Association of the God of Wealth who came out halfway, and many other things he can't follow, and he can't control them in the past.

After the meeting, Qiao steadily pushed the window to see the moon, released the carrier pigeon, and with his mixed doubts, spread his wings and floated away in the night sky, as far as the headquarters of the six doors of the capital.

(To be continued in Chapter 12 of the Tomb of the Sword Forest)

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P.S. The chapter of sick sickness, forgive me.

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