Chapter 141: Back Mountain
In the early morning, on the cliff with a cold wind, the Admiral of Jiumen, who received the report, led a large group of officers and soldiers, and under the leadership of Master Kong, hurriedly came to the edge of the cliff behind the Xiangguo Temple that ordered the closure of the mountain.
Because the mountain is closed, no one is allowed to go down the mountain on the mountain where Xiangguo Temple is located.
All the pilgrims who stayed in Xiangguo Temple, including the ladies of the Prime Minister's Mansion to which Meng Rutian belonged, the old ladies and ladies of the General Ling Guo's Mansion, and the ladies of other officials, were only allowed to stay in the backyard, and no one was allowed to leave, let alone go to the forbidden place in the back mountain to watch.
After receiving the report from Xiangguo Temple, Captain Shangguan Yi immediately took the team to the house of the servant, took out all the servants who were still in the dream, and hurried to the scene of the crime in the early morning and night.
Dozens of warrior monks of Xiangguo Temple obeyed the abbot's order, pinched wooden sticks and vigilantly surrounded the forbidden land in the back mountain to prevent the officers and soldiers from accidentally breaking into the forbidden place.
There was such a big murder in Xiangguo Temple, a major place in Buddhism, which naturally alarmed the ninety-five in the palace, that is, the emperor of the Northern Zhou Dynasty.
Among these princes, except for the seventh-ranked Xun Wang, at this time, not in Sheng'an, the other princes, including King Yu, King Xuan, King Cheng, and King Qing, all rode to Xiangguo Temple with personal guards, and came to the cliff clearing of the back mountain full of corpses.
Xiangguo Temple is not too far from Sheng'an, of course, it is not too close, before the sky is bright, this silent back mountain cliff is noisy, and everyone is also busy.
Under the fierce gaze of the Admiral of the Nine Gates and several princes, several servants nervously and cautiously inspected each corpse, and an assistant was followed by each servant to help record.
The blood-stained weeds and the rocks of the earth, the corpses all over the ground are dressed in black, there are knife wounds and sword wounds, and every wound is at the fatal point, which can be said to be the wounds of eighteen kinds of weapons.
It looks like a bandit is making trouble, but the fatal wound is a life-threatening move, and it seems to be done by people in the rivers and lakes with extremely high martial arts, and the man in black seems to be a two-pluck person, appearing in the back mountain of Xiangguo Temple at night, which has to make people guess their purpose.
A soldier squad leader of the Yamen, holding a long sword, panicked out from behind a big rock next to the cliff, ran to several princes with a panicked expression, and knelt directly on one knee in front of several princes and the Admiral of Jiumen, and pointed to the cliff not far behind him with his index finger.
"My lord! Over there, on the side of the cliff, there was a group of people climbing down the cliff, because it was too far away and the light was not good, so it was impossible to see the identities of those people, but looking at them, it seemed that they were looking for something under the cliff. โ
Before dawn, they followed the adults to Xiangguo Temple, and then, he took a group of brothers to obey the orders of the adults and separately inspected the crime scene in the mountain behind Xiangguo Temple.
At first, the sky was too low, and the visibility was too low, so they didn't find those people, but now, as the sky was getting brighter, they suddenly found that in the early morning light, there was a group of people and horses walking slowly down the difficult cliff, looking like they were hanging in the air.
The sudden appearance of such a team of elusive people at the scene of this crime is a good thing. He immediately whispered orders to his men, secretly monitoring the people who appeared unexpectedly in sight, and he ran back to tell the adults.
When Lord Admiral Jiumen heard this, the movements in his hands paused, and he was secretly shocked in his heart, whether those people who suddenly appeared were the killers of last night.
He glanced at a few princes standing beside him, felt the pressure, clenched his fists, strode to the edge of the cliff, and followed the direction of the captain's finger with a rigorous gaze, and looked carefully again.
I saw, just as the squad leader said, not far from where they were downhill, there was a group of figures in blue clothes, hanging on the cliff, probably with a rope tied around their waists, moving down the cliff, and their accomplices were still standing on the mountain.
The Admiral of the Nine Gates stared at those people with a deep gaze, and his big hand in official uniform moved back, loudly calling Shangguan Yi, who was still busy.
"Captain Shangguan, you take a team of men and horses with him to see who they are? What do they want to do? If it is really the assassin's murderer, he will be arrested immediately. If not, interrogate them and drive them away from the back mountain! โ
Shangguan Yi's resolute face was upright and stern, and he respectfully bowed to several princes and the Admiral of the Nine Gates, "No! Come with me! โ
With that, he led a group of men and horses to follow the officers and soldiers who got up, and walked towards the mountain road behind the big stone, chasing the group of men and horses not far away along the mountain road.
King Xuan didn't know when, he had already stood on the edge of the cliff, facing the cold wind, thinking about the corpses he had just seen all over the ground, and the coldness in his heart was even stronger.
These two black-clothed people, one is from the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and it looks like someone's secret guard, and the other is like the Southern Guard, and their facial features are slightly warmer than the heroism of the Northern Zhou people.
These two people were also wearing night clothes, and they died at the same time in Xiangguo Temple, thinking that they were doing something unseemly, and seeing their bodies fall separately in two directions, they thought that they were destroyed by another group of people.
"My lord, the family members of the Fuguo General's Mansion reported that Miss Ling, who was praying for blessings in Xiangguo Temple, disappeared last night and has not gone back until now!"
A soldier guarding the Xiangguo Temple to investigate the case emerged from the dense woods and respectfully saluted the Admiral of the Nine Gates.
When the Admiral of the Nine Gates heard this, his head became big, and the cold sweat on his forehead suddenly burst out.
This Miss Ling's reputation was discredited, and she was sent to Xiangguo Temple by General Ling to think about it, which is something that everyone in Sheng'an knows, but no one expected that this Miss Ling would suddenly disappear, if General Ling knew, he didn't know how much temper he would have.
"Why did Miss Ling disappear when she was fine, did you find anything?"
Admiral Jiumen's ugly face was full of strictness, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, hoping that Miss Ling would go out for a walk by herself instead of being killed by these thieves.
Xiao Bing stood straight in front of the Admiral of the Nine Gates with a sword in one hand, swept his eyes, followed his several princes, and replied in a trembling voice.
"Back to my lord, the people who came to report the case from the General Auxiliary Mansion are the eldest maids Mo Lan and Hui Lan next to Miss Ling, and the two of them only found out that Miss Ling was missing this morning, and what they didn't see was Tielan next to Miss Ling. According to the guards who escorted Miss Ling to Xiangguo Temple, last night, the guards guarding the courtyard gate found that after Tielan was discharged from the hospital with Miss Ling, they immediately called the other guards to look for it, but they didn't know what was going on, they all fell unconscious when they returned to the outer courtyard, and the two guards who left the gate were not at ease and went to ask them to be unconscious together. It is said that he should have been drugged. As for Miss Ling, she has disappeared since last night. When Miss Ling's two maids heard about the murder, they immediately came to report the case. Do you want the adults to help them find Miss Ling? โ
"Oh, does Old Madam Ling know about this? Hasn't Old General Ling arrived yet? King Yu, who had not spoken, turned around indifferently and asked the little soldier.
This Miss Ling is missing, but it is not a trivial matter, especially at the moment of the murder.
I heard that the family members of the General Fuguo Mansion rested in the wing room of Xiangguo Temple last night, except for the maid next to Miss Ling, no one cared, and Miss Ling was too a failure.
"Old General Ling didn't know that Old Madam Ling was frightened and didn't leave the hospital, so she only told the maid to come out, saying that the Nine Gates Admiral's Mansion must find Miss Ling!"
Of course, in Xiao Bing's heart, these are also the words, and I am afraid that no one in the general's mansion wants to see the notorious Miss Ling.
The Admiral of the Nine Gates is in charge of the security of Sheng'an, and Xiangguo Temple is also among them, this person is missing, he shouldn't have taken care of it, but the missing person is Miss Ling, so he has to help find it in the face of the General's Mansion.
"Tell me to go down, search for the murderer, and help find Miss Ling. Go down! โ
"No!" The creep took two steps back, turned and strode away.
Compared with the busy soldiers on the cliff, the princes who are thinking about it in their hearts, the bottom of the cliff under the cliff is a different scene.
"Maple Leaf ......" Ling Yiyi shouted, sat up suddenly, and sat in place in a daze, staring straight in front of him with a blank gaze, but there was no focus.
Ling Yiyi's mind kept flashing pictures of the past, since she could remember, she was in the orphanage, and then she was adopted by the leader, ostensibly a student, but in fact a killer named Huofeng, and finally wanted to quit the killer organization, and was kidnapped by the praying mantis to take Jingmei hostage, and then, a bomb sent her and Jingmei back to heaven.
Then, her and Jingmei's souls were sucked into the talisman in the red bag by the amulet given to her by Maple Leaf.
Then, Maple Leaf used forbidden magic to help them survive outside her villa, and when her and Jingmei's souls were struck by lightning and disappeared, Maple Leaf was also struck by lightning and then disappeared.
Then, she crossed over to this strange world and became the eldest lady of the Northern Zhou Fuguo General's Mansion who fell into the Jasper Lake and was hunted down.
Maybe it's because she has been falling into the lake for too long, and although she has replaced the original owner as the eldest lady of the General's Mansion, she has lost her original memory.
If it weren't for the fact that she was plotted by someone in Xiangguo Temple this time, chased and killed by a killer, and finally lost the cliff and luckily recovered her memory, she really wouldn't know that she was originally a soul from modern times, the killer Huo Feng Ling Yiyi.
A gust of cold wind blew, Ling Yiyi's body shivered involuntarily, and immediately clasped her arms with her hands, her confused eyes were as clear as spring water, and she opened wide suddenly, staring at the extra pair of long legs with blood stains next to Bai Xi's feet.
Ling Yiyi was shocked, turned her head to look at her side, and suddenly felt a tightness in her heart.
I saw that Zhao Xuanchen's strange and familiar cute baby face was pale and weak, which made her heart throb.
It's just that it's so strange, because she has only seen it four times since she crossed over and landed here today, so it's so familiar, that's because, before the two broke up, she regarded Xuanchen as her best friend and a friend who needed her to take care of her.
Zhao Xuanchen was lying in the grass full of weeds with his eyes closed, and the silver mask representing Lou Baiyu's identity flew there without knowing it, revealing Zhao Xuanchen's delicate and handsome baby face, his bloodless face was frighteningly pale, and his dark brows were tightly locked.
Ling Yiyi, who had his hands around his chest, carefully looked at Zhao Xuanchen, who didn't know if he was asleep or seriously injured and unconscious, he was only wearing blood-stained white profane pants, his naked upper body was shining with holy light, the red fruit on his chest was sexy and attractive, and his black hair was messy and scattered on the ground, not showing a trace of wolf bรจi, but he was as holy as a fairy and could not be contaminated.
Suddenly, another cold wind blew, and Ling Yiyi, who was admiring the beautiful man, shivered with coldness, rubbed off the goosebumps with her hands that passed through the cold wind, and she finally found out that she was no better than the naked Zhao Xuanchen.
Last night, she was drenched, in order to help Zhao Xuanchen, who had a high fever, cool down, and of course, to keep Zhao Xuanchen hot, warm, she took off all the clothes on her body, leaving only the white clothes and pants with light red blood marks that were diluted by the water.
Thinking of this, Ling Yiyi, who had lost too much blood, gritted her teeth and reached out to take back the shabby and bloody butterfly skirt that was thrown aside, and quickly put it on her body.
The wet skirt was thrown aside overnight, and it was almost dried, even if it was wet, but it could be worn, Ling Yiyi put on the skirt, put on the hair like a bird's nest, and reached out to Zhao Xuanchen's forehead who closed his eyes tightly.
Ling Yiyi felt the cold skin, like a needle-like piercing hand, her cold hands probed Zhao Xuanchen's snort, feeling that he was still alive, and checked Zhao Xuanchen's body again, except for some abrasions, there were no major wounds, and her heart was a lot calmer.
This Zhao Xuanchen, in name and word, is the stupid king of Dongzhao, but in fact he is the owner of the first floor of the Baiyu Building in the world who runs a killer business, not only is he not stupid but also ruthless, but, why, why, when her life is threatened and she chooses to jump off the cliff to survive, he will stupidly jump down.
To say that it is not moving, that is a lie.
At the moment of life and death, Ling Yiyi, who had already forgiven Zhao Xuanchen for deceiving and calculating, saw Zhao Xuanchen jump off the cliff regardless of a single thing, and tightly protected her in his arms with both hands, helping her resist the huge impact and impact of falling from a high altitude, Ling Yiyi swore in her heart that as long as the two of them went out, she would definitely be the best and best friend with Xuanchen, and a friend as important as Maple Leaf and Jingmei in her heart.
Ling Yiyi's legs were stabbed by herself with a dagger, the wound was not deep but she also lost too much blood, she got up from the ground firmly, bent down to pick up Zhao Xuanchen's ink-colored robe that was thrown aside, squatted next to the unconscious Zhao Xuanchen, gritted her teeth and helped him get dressed.
"Zhao Xuanchen, wake up, fool, wake up ......"
Ling Yiyi raised Zhao Xuanchen's strong arm and helped him get dressed, while shouting his name loudly, worrying in his heart, why is he still not awake now, could it be that he has suffered internal injuries?
The cliff is so high, falling from above, if it weren't for the lake, the two of them might have died no longer anymore, such a big impact, the lake can blow up the waves, think about it, Xuan Chen may really have suffered internal injuries.
Thinking of this, Ling Yiyi quickly put on Zhao Xuanchen's robe, and gently rested his right hand on his wrist to help him check his pulse.
In her previous life, as the number one killer of the killer organization, Huo Feng, she was not proficient in medical skills, but ordinary cold and traumatic gunshot wounds were not difficult for her.
"Yiyi, Yiyi......"
Zhao Xuanchen, who was in a coma, kept shaking his innocent head, his thin lips opened lightly, and his voice like a mosquito chirped softly, "Yiyi, Yiyi......"
Even if he was injured internally and fell into the boundless darkness, Zhao Xuanchen still subconsciously called Ling Yiyi's name, just like he was still worried about Ling Yiyi in his heart after being drugged by Chu Xiaoyao, and always inadvertently called out Yiyi's name.
Ling Yiyi shook her head helplessly, feeling that Zhao Xuanchen's pulse was weak, the blood veins in his body were not smooth, and his qi and blood were stagnant, and he was really injured by Yan Zhan, so it was no wonder that he didn't wake up for a long time.
"Yiyi, Yiyi......" Zhao Xuanchen's ink-colored robe was embroidered with green bamboo, like an immortal left in the heavens and the earth, and like a demon who was extremely caught in the darkness and could not ascend to heaven.
"Yiyi, Yiyi......"
The calls made me feel like I didn't know what I wanted to express, but it warmed Ling Yiyi's cold heart, which was calculated to fall off the cliff.
The corners of Ling Yiyi's mouth hooked up a faint smile, and she gently rested Zhao Xuanchen's hand on his body, and then got up to look at the surrounding environment.