After entering Yancheng, Shui Qingxiang found that Yancheng was very large, much larger than Dongzi County.

The spacious bluestone road can accommodate two or three horse-drawn carriages, and the shops on both sides of the road are lined up, looking bustling and lively.

On the way back, the eldest son of the Yuan family explained the death of Yuan Lao.

"Since my father returned to his hometown, he didn't care about the world, and moved to live in another courtyard in the suburbs a few years ago, and moved back to Yuanfu to recuperate because of a cold half a year ago. Just a few months ago, strange things often happened in the Yuan Mansion, and they all said that this mansion was ...... Haunted, haunted! When Yuan Dagongzi said this, his face changed gloomily, as if he had seen some eerie and terrifying picture in front of him.

Of course Liu Yingyi didn't believe these words, his handsome and peerless face seemed to be covered with a faint mist, and his delicate eyebrows frowned slightly, and he could see that he felt uncomfortable because of Yuan Dagongzi's words, but a pair of dark eyes stared at each other tightly, as if he wanted to know what was next.

Yuan Dagongzi continued: "The servants who serve my father often say that the master will disappear for no reason, and I can't see his figure in the room, but as soon as I turn around, the person suddenly appears, and I didn't believe it before. But once I saw with my own eyes that my father was not in the room, but when I turned to leave, I saw my father holding a book in his hand and stopped me, but I clearly did not see him in the room. And in the past month or so, my father's temper has become worse and worse, and his health has deteriorated. ”

Yuan Da recalled this, his eyes suddenly showed a strange light, and even his voice was deliberately lowered a lot: "Just three days ago, the jade unicorn in my father's room suddenly disappeared, and my father was not in the room, and there was a pool of blood on the ground. We searched for a long time, and almost went to report to the official, but we didn't expect that after a pillar of incense, my father suddenly appeared in the room again, his breath was weak, and told us not to call the doctor, not to report to the official, and then ...... Then my father choked.

As soon as my father died, we followed his instructions, did not report to the official, did not call the doctor, but found that the bronze lock plate that my father never left was missing. I thought it was my father who accidentally lost it, but I didn't expect the jade unicorn that disappeared to appear in my father's room again the next day, and the jade unicorn not only changed color, but also had a bronze lock plate in its mouth. ”

"Nonsense, nonsense. How can a jade unicorn change color? You don't know that it is a gift from the first emperor, and there is only one thing in the entire Great Feng Kingdom, how can you do something to devour people and kill people? Liu Yingyi had an unreasonable expression, if he hadn't been sitting in the carriage, it was estimated that he would have walked around in anger.

Yuan Da said helplessly: "We naturally didn't believe it at the beginning, but the jade unicorn did change color, and there was an inexplicable blood mark on its body." The Taoist priest who invited him said that the jade unicorn was too heavy to kill, and the blood mark on the jade unicorn was the mark left by it after killing, and he also said that his father was sucked by it and died after it sucked the essence blood. And, on the very day my father died, we received this. ”

As he spoke, he took out another note from his body, carefully unfolded it, and then handed it to Liu Yingyi: "This is under the jade unicorn when he found it that day. ”

Liu Yingyi took the note and saw a line of small words written on the note: "The past has disappeared." ”

Liu Yingyi saw this handwriting, it was indeed the master's handwriting. He was enlightened by his master since he was a child, and his master's handwriting was very familiar, but if this was really written by his master, then what kind of secret was hidden in this note, like the letter sent to Ning Wuze?

The more she heard these strange things, the more Liu Yingyi felt that the master's death was suspicious.

After hearing this, Shui Qingxiang also felt that this was a strange case.

If it was in modern times, she immediately suspected that someone had killed Liu Yingyi and Ning Wuze's masters, and then faked the murder scene.

It is also in this era that there will be people who believe that unicorns can kill.

It's just that, before confirming her thoughts, the first thing to do is an autopsy.

The funeral party carried the coffin and walked into Yancheng in a mighty way.

After entering the city gate, I walked for a long time, and when I came to a house with gray tiles and white walls, the two big characters "Yuan Mansion" were written on the door of the house, and the funeral procession stopped.

The coffin was carried to the hall by the Yuan family, and the funeral procession dispersed after entering the Yuan Mansion.

Not long after entering the door, Liu Yingyi beckoned everyone: "Open the coffin." ”

He couldn't believe it, and he didn't want to believe that the master who had carefully taught him since he was a child had passed away like this, and finding out the cause of death was the thing he wanted to know most.

"Wait! Although my father is not an official in the imperial court, but it is our Yuan family, what kind of identity are you, and you dare to touch your father's coffin? "The one who said this was Yuan Ergongzi in the funeral procession just now, the one who looked unruly.

Liu Yingyi stood with his hands in his hands, there was sadness and sorrow in his eyes, but his voice was extremely firm: "Although the master is not my father, he is better than my father, he is not an official in the imperial court, but he has more prestige than ordinary officials in Dafengguo." As the descendants of Yuan Gong, do you want him to die in vain? ”

At this moment, a young and delicate man stood out in the crowd, looking a few years older than Liu Yingyi, only to hear him say in a tactful tone: "Lord Liu has always had the best relationship with his father, and it is natural to understand this idea." It's just that my father said before he died, 'Don't report to the official, don't see the doctor', we just fulfilled his last wish. Besides, Lord Liu is not Yancheng's parent official, even if he wants to open the coffin for an autopsy, I'm afraid it won't be Lord Liu's turn. ”

Shui Qingxiang felt that although this man spoke in a loud voice, it was reasonable, and he sounded more rational than Yuan Da and Yuan Er, but it seemed to be more difficult to deal with, so she couldn't help but look at him again.

His appearance is not very similar to Yuan Da and Yuan Ergongzi, he looks more handsome, and even a little feminine. Even if he wears a filial piety dress on his body, he has a bit of the charm of a merry boy.

Suddenly, there was a pig-killing roar from the backyard.

"You unfilial descendants, I will clean you up for the master!"

Ning Wuze didn't know where to run out, he was still holding a big broom in his hand, he was full of anger at the moment, his face was gloomy and black, and the beard on his chin seemed to stand up one by one, eager to tear and chew a few people at once, and then swallow them into his stomach.

The big broom in his hand turned into a sharp weapon at this moment, and everywhere the bamboo broom went, it was all turned upside down. Several members of the Yuan family have already been hit by the big broom, dodging left and right, and stumbling to the ground.

The other family members rushed up and wanted to attack Ning Wuze, but before they could get closer, Ning Wuze quickly pushed them down with a broom.

The first time Shui Qingxiang saw someone make a broom better than a sword, she couldn't help shouting "good guy" in her heart, if it weren't for the bad temper of this guy in front of her, I really wanted to worship him as a teacher.

"Senior brother, stop making trouble!" Liu Yingyi, who was standing on the side, sighed, "The master's coffin is here, and the cause of his death has not yet been investigated, do you want him to die like this?" ”