In the fifth year of Taihe, October is not in October, and you are three quarters.

Chang'an, Wannian County, Jinchangfang, Zhangjiabie.

"The King of Light?" Zhang Yijun's face was half surprised and half suspicious, "What else did King Guang reveal at that time?" ”

Li Shangyin forked his hands slightly, and explained the fact that the man in King Guang's mouth often went in and out of the Yingwang Mansion, "I'm sorry, at that time, Yishan felt that this matter was too strange, so he didn't mention it to Brother Yijun......

Zhang Yijun raised his hand to caress his chin, the muscles at the corners of his eyebrows and lips tensed, and his eyes stared straight at the window lattice in the front hall in the distance.

"Something is wrong...... Zhang Yijun slowly got up from the ground, the two sword eyebrows were almost side by side, and he repeated in a low voice several times in his mouth, "Something is wrong!" ”

Li Shangyin hurriedly asked what was wrong.

Zhang Yijun took a lantern, and in order to avoid people's eyes, he motioned for Li Shangyin to go to the back garden with him, and glanced at the pine trunk that the man had kicked off.

There is a retreat room in the back garden, with plain walls and gray tiles outside, and a flat table inside. The flower beds outside the retreat are also randomly planted with some honeysuckle, bauhinia and the like, but they are all withered because no one has been here to take care of them for a long time. Zhang Yijun carefully placed the lantern on the brief case in the retreat room, and pointed to the futon at the opposite end.

After the two sat down, Zhang Yijun opened his mouth and asked, "How did you and Wang Yanyuan know that person was the King of Light at that time?" ”

Li Shangyin thought for a moment and organized the following language: "He wears the prince's gold medal on his waist, and Master Miaoxuan in the temple does call him His Royal Highness, and he also calls himself so." ”

Zhang Yijun pondered for a while, this was not very suspicious, and he suddenly asked: "Then how do you know that he is the person you are looking for?" ”

"Of course, it's from ......" Li Shangyin blurted out as a matter of course, but a flash of thought in his mind made him speechless, "...... That lotus meridian crown ......"

"Think about it again, are you sure it's the King of Light with a lotus crown on his head?" Zhang Yijun paused, lightly buttoned his knuckles on the desk, and then added: "Not the hibiscus crown?" ”

Zhang Yijun reminded him, Li Shangyin's complexion changed suddenly, when he saw the back of the King of Light, he always had a faint sense of strangeness condensed in his heart, and he suddenly recalled that the person who went out of the house with the man wore on the top of the head, which was the hibiscus crown instead of the lotus meridian crown on the top of the King of Light, the two looked quite similar from a distance, and it was easy to confuse.

"This is one of them," Zhang Yijun leaned back slightly, "By the way, do you smell anything on the King of Light?" ”

This question, which seemed to have nothing to do with the topic, made Li Shangyin hesitate for a long time, taste? Li Shangyin recalled Shaoqing and replied with doubts: "Well, it seems to be ...... It smells of camphor. "The Great Mercy and Grace Temple often stores scriptures and scrolls, and camphor is a standing thing, refreshing and refreshing, and preventing silverfish.

"No smell of benzoin?"

"Benzoin?"

Zhang Yijun nodded, provoking Li Shangyin's memories: "At that time, we were walking on the wide street of Jinchangfang, and there were pilgrims and tourists coming and going, and the crowd was scattered with the smell of sandalwood and benzoin, and the ......" Zhang Yijun raised his sleeves and raised it to Li Shangyin.

Li Shangyin sniffed and sneeze unconsciously, which made him instantly recall, but he also sighed in his heart, this mixed fragrance is really sticky, and there is still that fragrance on the sleeves after a long time.

"Walking through that wide street, it is almost inevitable that you will be contaminated with this smell, but you say that King Guang has only the smell of camphor on his body, but there is no such fragrance, then it means that he did not walk wide street, or entered the Great Mercy and Grace Temple very early......"

Li Shangyin's eyes lit up leisurely.

In this way, the faint strangeness he felt at that time was explained, that is, the person who walked side by side with the man at that time was not the King of Light, but someone else! It's just that the clothes are similar, which confuses Li Shangyin. But when he thought about it, he was puzzled: "Then since the King of Light has never traveled with this man, if he has never gone to Yang Zhiyi's mansion, why does he know that there are many people who have gone to the palace?" And that the man is also a worshipper? ”

"This is a flaw," Zhang Yijun said, and a thought gradually emerged in his heart: "You and I have seen that man's clothes, with a brown robe with lapels and a scarf, this is not what the person who went to pay respects would wear, besides, you and I have seen the appearance of that person, do you think this person will be the same person as you are this year?" ”

Li Shangyin shook his head again and again, rushing to take the exam with that person, stunned by his imagination, and couldn't sketch that scene.

"King Guang has never been to Yang Yuqing's mansion at all," Zhang Yijun then carefully said: "I'm afraid that it was because Yishan didn't reveal the man's outfit when you described the cause and effect at that time, so that King Guang made a mistake in his mouth when he followed your meaning......

But what was the purpose of the King of Light? Yishan did not report to his family, why did King Guang finally mention that the man often went in and out of Yingwang's mansion? And it is exactly what the man meant, how can this be explained? ”

Zhang Yijun did not answer immediately this time, and Li Shangyin could see from his expression that Zhang Yijun was not confident about this.

"King Guang's intentions are still un......clear at the moment," Zhang Yijun shook his head lightly: "But the purpose of the man may be to confuse the public...... "For no other reason, King Ying has always been obsessed with cultivation and has always been obscure about temple affairs, this is not a secret, and courtiers often know little about King Ying.

Zhang Yi couldn't help but be shocked by the man's grasp of people's hearts, even if he was in a desperate situation, he could play with the opponent's psychology in the palm of his hand, which was absolutely out of his mind. After all...... Even Zhang Yijun himself was deceived by that hint, which made him silent for a long time, and he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed of His Royal Highness King Ying.

Because of the kick of the man in black, the back of Zhang Yijun's hand was a little painful, and he rubbed it unconsciously, he lowered his eyes slightly, but found that the back of his hand was still stained with some red mud that was about to dry. Zhang Yijun picked up a handful, and after a little rubbing his fingertips, the red clay shattered into red soil.

"That'...... What now? Li Shangyin felt that the whole case was now in a very delicate stage, and they had already caught the key suspect, but let him escape; He thought he was close to the truth, but he found that it was other forces that were stirring up the situation, and now they were in the stage of cutting off hope, which made Li Shangyin feel very confused, and he leaned back a little tiredly, "In Jinchangfang, there is nothing to gain today except for knowing that the man is indeed a member of the ghost soldiers......"

"No," Zhang Yijun said with relief: "Yishan thinks about it, the places where this person has appeared before and after, there are Xuandu Temple, there are culverts, there are Yang Zhiyi Mansions, and there must be a certain place where the culvert leads...... Zhang Yijun paused, he saw Li Shang's stealth leaning forward slightly, and knew that Juzi had understood what he meant: 'The previously unrelated clues are strung together by this person, and there must be a behemoth behind it, so that all this can be run in an orderly manner under the strict defense of the Jingshi, And the man who is the right person is likely to act as a bridge to connect with each other, to and fro, or even just one. ’

Li Shangyin only needed Zhang Yijun to grasp the key point: the clue has not been broken, and the man's escape is not to let the tiger return to the mountain, but to put a long line and catch a big fish. If this person had been interrogated on their side, it would be very likely that the enemy would have assigned, as he said, another person to take care of them, and they would have to be headless flies again to search for clues.

"In other words, we only need to find out where this person is going, and it is very likely that we will know the stronghold of the rebel party, and if he will do something at that time, we can report it to the government in advance, and the city defense is prepared, and the rebel party will never be able to succeed!"

"I see!" Li Shangyin was interested, and couldn't help but recall excitedly: "Rong Yishan think about it...... This person is dressed in black, the clothes seem to be made of coarse linen, and the texture of the mask seems to be bronze, but the production is rough, I am afraid that any blacksmith in the city can make it......" Saying that, Li Shangyin couldn't help scratching his head, this person's clothes and clothes were too ordinary to judge the source.

"Has Yoshiyama ever noticed the red mud on that man's soft boots?"

"Red clay?" Li Shangyin had doubts on his face and speculated: "But...... It hasn't rained in the past few days, so could it be that he has been to the canal? ”

"It's not a canal,......" Zhang Yijun nodded lightly, picking up a little red scrap on the case, "There is a spring in Shanhe, in the first year of Emperor Dezong's Xingyuan, about forty years ago, there was a blowout, bringing out the soil underground, and the surrounding soil was red, so it was called Chilong Spring, because of its close proximity to the imperial city, there were often dyeing workers in the palace who were lazy and took mud to make dye......"

"Brother Yi Jun is talking ......"

Zhang Yijun smiled coldly at the corner of his mouth, "This red mud is unique to Shanhe. ”