The shrine is in sight. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Zhan Yan and Yin Seventeen stopped in front of the altar, and the two of them almost silently ascended the seven stone steps.

The door of the altar hall was closed, and the two of them listened to it under the porch in front of the door for a long time, but they didn't hear any movement.

The two of them glanced at each other, and at the same time reached out and pushed towards the door of the altar.

There was a creak, and the door was gently pushed open.

There was only a little light left from the oil lamp on the sacrificial table in the sacrificial hall, apparently from the last night's burning, and the oil was almost exhausted.

The hall was quiet, and there was no sound.

The morning light refracted through the lattice of the window, and shone softly on the three-legged bronze tripod of the sacrificial table—nothing, as clean as ever.

This made Yin Seventeen, who approached the sacrifice case directly, suddenly loosen her tense nerves, swallowed her saliva, and pointed to the oil lamp and said:

"No one seems to ...... But someone did come and stayed last night, and we ......."

Are you late?

She looked at Zhan Yan.

Zhan Yan patrolled around the temple, and every corner was exactly the same as when he and Yin Seventeen came.

Yin XVII also discovered this: "No matter the tripod vessels on the sacrificial table, the murals on the walls, or other small and trivial things, there is no change. ”

There was no change, no blood, which means that what she and Zhanyan were afraid of in their hearts did not happen.

Zhan Yan said: "Ye Qisheng said that Tie Ziwang is in the Ye Clan Ancestral Hall, I think he shouldn't lie to us." ”

Yin Seventeen affirmed: "He really didn't lie to us. ”

Zhan Yan approached the sacrifice case: "Tie Ziwang has either been killed, or he has been transferred to another place, let's look for ...... You know if it's late. ”

The two of them began to look for themselves in the sacrificial hall and the dormitory behind it.

The results were encouraging.

Yin Seventeen said: "Tie Ziwang is not here, but he has not seen any traces of blood or violence......

She stopped abruptly and pricked up her ears in silence.

Zhan Yan asked, "What's wrong?" ”

Yin Seventeen asked rhetorically: "Brother Zhan, have you heard anything?" ”

With that, she ran to the dormitory behind the altar, her eyes wandering around the dormitory again.

She's sure she's heard!

It was a dull sound, like someone struggling in a futon with their mouth covered.

But when she returned to the dormitory, the voice did not sound again.

Zhan Yan also understood what Yin Seventeen meant, and he approached every place in the dormitory where people might be hidden, and together with Yin Seventeen, he carefully searched for it again.

But I searched all the places, but I still found nothing as before.

Yin Seventeen muttered, "It's impossible, I heard it right......"

She must have overlooked something, what did she overlook?

Zhan Yan was still standing in the middle of the dormitory, his eyes were looking around in the hall, even on the roof beam, he looked at the hidden place, and when he saw the hidden place, he jumped on the beam to take a look.

Yin Seventeen looked at Zhanyan's movements, and suddenly looked at the corridor in front of the hall outside the dormitory.

She hurried out of the dormitory, stood under the corridor in front of the dormitory, and looked up at the wooden beams under the eaves.

There are eight stone pillars in the corridor in front of the dormitory, and there is a wooden beam horizontal board between every two stone pillars, and there is a distance between the horizontal board and the inner roof of the eaves, about half a person high, and the horizontal board is about the size of a person, and the width is about 30 inches.

Every time she walked past two opposing stone pillars, she looked up and looked at the corresponding horizontal boards.

However, she walked the entire corridor in front of the dormitory, but she couldn't find anything.

Zhan Yan followed out of the dormitory, and saw Yin Seventeen raise his head to check carefully every time he walked a section, and he also understood that Yin Seventeen suspected that there was someone hiding on the horizontal board, and he should have been inspired by him jumping up to the beam in the dormitory to check.

Zhan Yan walked to Yin Seventeen, who was standing in the middle of the last two stone pillars, and said:

"Just now you said that you heard the sound in the front of the temple, will it ......?"

Before he could finish speaking, Yin Seventeen had already turned around and ran towards the middle of the dormitory door, and in the blink of an eye, he descended the stone stairs with only seven steps, and ran towards the front of the altar.

After Zhan Yan was slightly stunned, he hurriedly followed.

When she arrived at the sacrificial hall in front of the dormitory, Yin Seventeen didn't stay in the sacrificial hall to check, she ran directly to the corridor in front of the sacrificial hall.

The corridor in front of the altar hall also had eight stone pillars like the dormitory, and each of the stone pillars had a wooden beam on top of it, and she started walking from the left side of the door.

There is no horizontal plate between the four stone pillars on the left!

After Zhan Yan followed Yin Seventeen, he also ran to the corridor in front of the door of the sacrifice hall, Yin Seventeen walked to the left of the door, and he walked to the right of the door.

Then when Yin Seventeen walked back to the front of the altar hall from the left side of the door disappointedly, Zhan Yan looked up at the horizontal board between the two stone pillars at the very end:

"Seventeen! Over here! ”

Yin Seventeen hurriedly ran towards where Zhan Yan was standing, and then stood beside him and looked up.

Tie Ziwang was tied to the horizontal board, tightly tied like a black zongzi, his mouth was stuffed with a black cloth, as if torn from his robe, his long dirty hair hung down and covered his face, and only his bright and anxious eyes could be seen occasionally between the strands of hair.

Zhan Yan jumped up, half-climbed on the stone pillar next to him and cut the rope on Tie Ziwang's body with his sword, and then after Tie Ziwang loosened the thick rope, he quickly jumped down and caught the falling Tie Ziwang without mistake.

Tie Ziwang not only had his mouth sealed, but even his hands and feet were tied tightly, and if he didn't catch him quickly when he fell off the horizontal board, he would definitely have a blue nose and swollen face if he didn't fall into a meatloaf.

Tie Ziwang loosened the bindings of his hands and feet, took off the cloth that sealed his mouth, and when he came to his senses, Yin Seventeen asked urgently:

"What the hell is going on? How did you get tied to the transverse board under the porch? ”

Since he was rescued, Tie Ziwang has kept his head down.

Hearing Yin Seventeen's question, he still didn't raise his face to look at Zhan Yan and Yin Seventeen, and his remnant face still didn't dare to face the living person in the daytime.

But he also understands that his father and mother have been killed, and he can't find the killer to avenge his parents on his own.

Tie Ziwang opened his dry lips and wanted to answer Yin Seventeen's words, but before he could say anything, he coughed several times.

Yin Seventeen patted Tie Ziwang on the back a few times: "Don't worry, speak slowly." ”

This is the first time that apart from Tie Shi Niang and Ye Hai, someone has been so close to Tie Ziwang, patting him on the back so considerately, and caring for him so softly.

Tie Ziwang looked at the side of his face with his hair hanging down, and looked at Yin Seventeen:

"You're a good guy......"

Good?

Yin Seventeen did not respond.

But she thought to herself, she must be a good person.

After all, whether in her previous life or in this life, she has never done anything evil.

Zhan Yan asked, "You were arrested at the Miao Village Chief's house last night?" Or did you go on your own? ”

Tie Ziwang lowered his head, didn't look at Yin Seventeen again, didn't look at Zhan Yan, and began to tell one by one what had happened since he woke up last night.

When he woke up, Tie Ziwang was surprised that he was not dead, and when he was attacked by the man, he thought he was dead.

He struggled, but he wasn't the man's opponent.

When he was hit in the back of the head, he reached out and felt the sticky feeling all over his hand, and he knew it was blood.

Before he could shout for help, he fainted and fell to the ground.

When he woke up again, he was lying in a warm hut, with a bed, a quilt and a light, and layers of gauze tied to his head, and the smell of medicine was all over the room.

He licked his lips and tasted the remnants of the bitter medicine that had been fed to him in his coma.

Under the words of Village Chief Miao and Miao Gui, he knew that it was Yin Seventeen and Zhan Yan who rescued him from the hearth of the big stove in his house, and entrusted him to the care of Village Chief Miao and Miao Gui.

Not only did I invite the best herbalist in the village, but I also came to see him from time to time to see if he woke up.

When asked about his parents again, the silence and sadness on the faces of the village chief and Miao Gui made him guess the bad result.

And the fact is that when he struggled to get out of bed and return home, the village chief Miao told him personally that his father and mother had been killed!

At that time, his mind was full of revenge, and he thought of the man who broke the back of his head and threw him into the hearth!

But the village chief Miao and Miao Gui did not agree with him returning home, and insisted that he continue to lie down and rest in the house, after all, he had just woken up, and Yin Seventeen was also showing his face and might come over when, and asked him about everything that happened on the night his parents were killed.

He couldn't compete with Miao Village Chief and Miao Gui, so he ran away while they agreed to let him go to the latrine.

Tie Ziwang said: "After leaving the village chief's grandfather's house, I ran home, but I saw that there was no one at home, only one person wearing a yamen uniform was in my house, I thought it should be the poor master in the yamen, maybe it was ......one of the two poor masters who saved me as the village chief's grandfather told me."

Yin Seventeen said: "The poor master you saw was the fast catcher in our yamen, and the Yin Seventeen mentioned by Grandpa Miao to you is me, and the head of Zhan Hunting is him." ”

She looked at Zhan Yan, and Tie Ziwang finally raised her eyes to look at Zhan Yan.

Tie Ziwang secretly ran out of the Miao Village Chief's house, and he saw that the person in the official clothes was actually Hua Zilai, but he didn't know Yin Seventeen and Zhanyan, so he only thought it was one of the two at that time.

He didn't want to be persuaded to go back to the village chief's house, and then lie on the bed obediently like that, either drinking medicine or resting.

He didn't go into the house, he only crept into the courtyard, and almost the moment he saw the figure of Hua Zilai, he turned around and ran out of the yard, without a sound, and ran very fast.

When he quietly closed the door of his house, he stood in front of the door in a daze for a while, and then went straight out of the village to Bianye Village.

Yin Seventeen asked, "Who was that person who attacked you?" ”

Tie Ziwang said: "That person is a blacksmith like my mother, and his skills are even better than my mother's, his name is Miao Tie......"

Miao Tie and Tie Shi Niang are also iron-striking, and their skills are equally extraordinary.

Although Miao Tie was humble, Tie Shi Niang also said bluntly to Tie Miao in person that Miao Tie's iron-making skills were better than hers, and more than once mentioned, Tie Ziwang heard it in his ears.

Miao Tie has been to Tie Shi Niang's house a few times, and Tie Shi Niang has also visited Miao Tie's house, and he and Miao Xian are also very talkative, just as Miao Tie and Ye Hai often go out to drink with each other.

In terms of age, this is a very strange friendship.

Ye Hai is more than thirty years old, and Miao Tie is ten years older than him, but Miao Tie talks with him very happily, and every time he shouts "Ye Dahai" affectionately, he can always speak to Ye Hai's heart.

Tie Shi Niang is the same, she likes this Miao Tie who is many years younger than her very much, and often struck iron with Miao Tie.

Tie Ziwang didn't like to see the living, even though Tie Shi Niang and Ye Hai called him out to meet Miao Tie many times, he still resolutely closed the door.

Miao Tie didn't care much about it, and always smiled and said that it would be better if it was cooked more in the future.

Miao Tie's easy-going and amiable made Tie Shi Niang and Ye Hai regard him more and more as close friends, and became more and more trusting, and Tie Ziwang, who never came out to see him, slowly got used to Miao Tie, who occasionally came to the door as a guest.

At that time, Tie Shi Niang's family didn't know that this Miao Tie, who was accepted by them and treated him sincerely, would become their upcoming nightmare.

That night, as usual, Miao Tie came to the door with two small wine jars.

After Miao Tie sat for a while, he said that it was a hot day, so he proposed to go to the pond with Ye Hai to drink a little wine and sit cool.

This is not the first time this has happened.

At that moment, Ye Hai happily responded.

Tie Shi Niang also instructed the two not to drink too late, and to sit for a while before returning home.

The two of them should go down.

Not long after, Miao Tie returned to Tie Shi Niang's house alone.

Tie Shi Niang asked Miao Tie, why didn't Ye Hai come back with him?

Miao Tie said that Ye Hai was halfway through drinking with him, and a fellow villager he didn't know said that he wanted to invite Ye Hai to see something, and he saw that Ye Hai was familiar with that person, so he came back early, and Ye Hai went to another place with the fellow villager, thinking that he went to the house of the same villager.

Tie Shi Niang was a little puzzled.

Miao Tie then said that he had heard from the villagers that the handles on both sides of the iron pot were broken, and he thought he had come to see this.

Tie Shi Niang said at the time, that is, the handle is broken, and it should be mentioned to her house to repair it for her, what is the use of asking Ye Hai to go to the house of the same villager?

Miao Tie said haha, then he didn't know.

Tie Shi Niang asked Miao Tie again if he heard the name of the village chief, Miao Tie shook his head and said that he didn't hear it.

Tie Shi Niang couldn't, so she had to enter the hall with Miao Tie.

As soon as he sat down, Miao Tie asked about Tie Ziwang.

Tie Shi Niang pointed to the back room on the right side and said that she was still staying in the house, and after saying that, she went to work by herself.

When Tie Shi Niang washed the pots and bowls in the kitchen and returned to the hall, Miao Tie didn't know what to say to Tie Ziwang, she actually saw Tie Ziwang out of the right side of the inner room, and Miao Tie was about to walk out of the threshold of the hall.

At that time, Tie Shi Niang was a little surprised, and at the same time a little happy, saying that her family was finally willing to talk to others except her and her husband.

Zhan Yan asked, "What did Miao Tie tell you at that time?" Got you out of your room and out of the hall into the courtyard? ”

This is not normal.

has always been what Tie Ziwang said, and he has never been willing to meet and talk to Miao Tie.

Since he hadn't spoken to Miao Tie and met, why did he suddenly listen to Miao Tie's words, leave his room, and let Miao Tie lead him all the way out of the hall to the courtyard?

Yin Seventeen was also aware of the anomaly.

She stared intently at Tiezi, waiting for his answer.

Tie Ziwang looked at Yin Seventeen, as if the matter was still related to Yin Seventeen, it was difficult to speak.

Yin Seventeen was inexplicably wonderful, and became more and more anxious to know what Miao Tie said:

"What did Miao Tie tell you? Say it quickly! (To be continued.) )