"In short, your so-called Qiankun Ding, which can turn stones into gold, is just a conjecture of yours." Haitang said this at the end, Duan Qi was speechless at the moment, he wanted to refute, but deep down he also knew that what Haitang said was probably right, and he could only open his mouth weakly in the end, but he couldn't pronounce a single syllable. Seeing this, Haitang and Xiaoyue glanced at each other and sat down.

Ruan Whale Luo on the side looked at this scene, first frowned, as if she couldn't bear it, but then she cleared her throat and said, "We have one more thing to look for you today." ”

Duan Qi stiffly turned his body in the direction where Ruan Whale Luo was, and a faint trace of doubt appeared on his sluggish face.

"I want to know where my dad is." Ruan Whale Luo took a deep breath and then said.

Duan Qi still turned his stiff face at Ruan Whale Luo, he opened his mouth again, but he still didn't say anything.

"What the hell did you do to my dad?!" Ruan Jingluo slammed the table and stood up, staring at Duan Qi angrily. Duan Qi was also awakened by this sudden sound: "Big brother? He's in the City Lord's Mansion. ”

"Luo Luo, don't worry." Haitang stopped Ruan Whale Luo, who was about to open his mouth to roar.

"Duan family master, no one else in the city lord's mansion can enter, I wonder if you can introduce one or two to the city lord for us?" Xiao Yue asked.

Duan Qi's hand caressed the surface of Qiankun Ding, and his reason told him that Qiankun Ding's point of turning stones into gold was indeed his delusion, but his sensibility had not yet accepted this fact. After a while, he lowered his head and replied, "I'm sorry, I can't do what my eldest brother decides." ”

"Really?" Xiao Yue smiled noncommittally, she didn't say much, and looked out the window, a few birds had just flown on the branches, and at the moment they were chattering and frolicking with their heads down.

"I don't know the head of the Duan family—" Haitang spoke at this time, "Do you know about the bird of the dove?" ”

Duan Qi looked at the Qiankun Ding in his hand and shook his head.

"Wu Dynasty Lu Ji wrote "Mao Shi Lu Shuguang Yao" There is a cloud: 'Dove, dove also. Now it's called the cuckoo'," Haitang said slowly, "Then I'll say one more thing, and see if the head of the Duan family can guess what we want to say—there is a cloud in "Three Hundred Poems": 'The dove is in Sang, and its son is in Mei.'" The dove is in mulberry, and its son is in thorns. The dove is in mulberry, and its son is in hazelnut'. ”

Duan Qi listened to what Haitang said, but he still didn't react, he just quietly looked at the Qiankun Ding in his hand, and seemed to be still feeling sad about it.

"Duan Qi!" Ruan Whale Luo couldn't restrain herself at the moment, her roar shocked Duan Qi, Duan Qi raised his head tremblingly, and slowly shook his head.

"It seems that the head of the Duan family doesn't want to admit it, how can the head of the Duan family hear the allusion of the dove occupying the magpie's nest?" Begonia slightly increased the volume.

Duan Qi shook his head: "I don't understand what you're talking about. ”

"The city lord has always been sympathetic to the people in the eyes of everyone, upright and peaceful, and after he moved into the city lord's mansion, he completely changed as a person - he began to be selfish and began to oppress the people - it was precisely after he moved into the city lord's mansion that you would enter and leave the city lord's mansion almost every day, in the eyes of others, the brotherhood between you is very deep, but Ruan Whale Luo told us that the city lord has always sneered at your style of acting, and he has no brotherly friendship with you at all, you have such a bad relationship, you still go in and out of the city lord's mansion every day? These clues are connected, and it has to be suspicious. ”

"Anyone with a discerning eye can probably guess that the city lord's transformation is related to you, but they have no evidence, so they can only dare not be angry or speak." Xiao Yue added on the side.

Duan Qi's cheek twitched slightly: "You yourself said that there is no evidence, do you want to use these words to slander me?!" ”

Haitang smiled and continued to speak lightly: "You listen to me first." At first, I was still suspicious that you might have caught some trick on him and made him have to obey you, but then I found out that it wasn't - according to the information we heard in the City Lord's Mansion, you went to the City Lord's Mansion at noon every day and didn't return to Duan Mansion until sunset, and you stayed in the same room with the City Lord since you went to the City Lord's Mansion, and never left the room until you returned to the Duan Mansion, and we observed this for many days. I don't know exactly what you and the lord were doing in the room during this time, but the phenomenon itself is already very strange - what is even more strange is that although you have never come out of that room since you entered, the lord will occasionally leave the room during this period, and he will only occasionally leave the room during this time, and the rest of the time, he will stay in the room. ”

"You, how do you know?!" Duan Qi was taken aback, he was finally no longer as calm as he was just now, and subconsciously said so.

"It's good for you to admit it, after all, we only know about this ourselves, but we don't have any evidence to prove it to others." The corners of Begonia's mouth hooked up a touch of arc.

Duan Qi was stunned, his face turned blue and white: "But what does this mean?!" ”

"Of course, this alone doesn't explain anything substantial, but it lets us know that since the city lord moved into the city lord's mansion, you and the city lord have never appeared in front of other people together - in other words, when you appeared in front of people, he never missed the face, and when he appeared in front of people, you didn't know where you were, once or twice it can be said to be a coincidence, but it has been said to be a coincidence for most of the year, I'm afraid it's a little impossible, right?"

Ruan Whale Luo had gradually understood what Haitang meant when she heard this, she trembled, and said to Duan Qi in disbelief: "Are you ...... my father?"

"Lolo." Seeing this, Xiao Yue held Ruan Whale Luo's hand.

"Whether it's Ruan Yuluo's statement that she hasn't had a chance to talk to the city lord since she moved into the city lord's mansion, or the heavily guarded appearance of the city lord's mansion for fear of being told what happened inside, it all adds to my suspicions - I suspect that the city lord was imprisoned or killed by you half a year ago, and then you disguised yourself as the city lord, so that the phenomena I just said can be explained."

"It's funny," Duan Qi laughed out loud after hearing this, "It's just a joke in the world!" ”

"I know that you won't admit it," Haitang said, clearing his throat and shouting out the window, "Brother Yao, come in." ”

As the words fell, three people came from outside the house one after another—it was Yao Bai, Liang Zhi, and Wang Quan. Duan Qi was stunned when he saw this group of people walking in: although he didn't know Yao Bai, he still knew the two Qiang generals around Yao Bai, especially Liang Zhi, after all, Liang Zhi was sitting in the Jiangnan area, and he himself had seen it a few times.

"I've seen two generals." Duan Qi saluted Liang Zhi and the others in a panic, but Liang Zhi and the others ignored Duan Qi, they just silently walked behind Haitang and stood still.

"I asked them to investigate the news of the City Lord's Mansion," Haitang didn't have a chance to Duan Qi's move, he said to himself, "If you really want evidence, you may still lie in front of us, but in the face of the two generals, they don't have the courage to lie-Brother Yao, they have already brought a few guards from the City Lord's Mansion over, and they always know more about the City Lord's Mansion than we do?" ”

Duan Qi seemed to be in a mess, he obviously didn't expect the two generals of the Qiang State to be involved in this matter.

"And your butler, he assisted two generations of the Duan family, and you also said that he was your most trusted object in the Duan family, if I said that General Liang had already gone to find your butler, would you still deny it?"

"Hurry up and take out the evidence, and bring out the evidence that I killed Duan De!" Duan Qi roared hysterically.

"Okay," Haitang said, "I don't know if the Duan family master still remembers that when I first came to the Duan Mansion with the girl a few months ago, we were waiting for you in the courtyard, and your guard said that you had just come back from the City Lord's Mansion, and I was a little concerned at that time, why did your body look faintly bulging, and you still twisted your body from time to time during our conversation." Originally, I didn't take it seriously, but judging from the current situation, I guess that you hid Duan De's clothes under your clothes at that time - as for why you didn't hide his clothes first and came to us, I think one is because you just returned to Duan Mansion, and the other is to be vigilant against us, you just arrived on our front foot and our back foot, you are wondering if we are looking for your information, and you came to us directly in a hurry. Thinking about this, although I don't know why you brought back the clothes that pretended to be Duan De instead of just leaving them in the City Lord's Mansion, but since you brought them back, we have traces to follow. Yesterday, General Wang Quan followed you all the way to Duan's mansion, if he is not mistaken, Duan De's clothes are hidden in your bedroom, which is the room where we are now, if we can find that clothing in this room, how do you explain it? ”

Duan Qi was stunned for a moment, and suddenly fell silent.

"If the Duan family master still doesn't admit it, you might as well let the city lord's palace guards and housekeepers we brought come in and confront one or two, and then we might as well find out if there are any Duan De's clothes in your room." Xiao Yue said with a sneer.

“…… Not necessarily. ”

After Duan Qi said this, the whole person collapsed on the chair, as if his whole body had no strength for a moment, when he saw Ruan Whale Luo with Haitang and the others today, he already felt bad, and then saw the two generals of the Qiang State, he knew that his ending today was doomed.

"I did all this, do you know why I did it?" Duan Qi glanced at the begonia.

"Because of your greed, and your fear." Begonia replied.

Greed, it can be seen from Duan Qi's attitude towards Qiankun Ding, as Haitang said before, because of his greed, because of his dissatisfaction, because of his dissatisfaction with his desires - he hallucinated, he thought that he could turn stones into gold, so he had such a dream, and then he self-hypnotized to believe in such a dream.

Fear, because Duan De has always disdained his way of acting, after Duan De became the city lord, he was always a thorn in the side for him, and also because of his greed, the position of the city lord meant that he could get more power and more benefits.

So he did.

"Yes, because of my greed, because of my fear." Duan Qi laughed bitterly.

"It sounds like you're a little pitiful," Xiao Yue said ill-intentionedly, "but it's useless for you to pretend to be pitiful now." Birds such as doves, they do not go to rob the magpie's nest halfway, but directly put their eggs into the magpie's nest to hatch, the hatched offspring magpies will be raised as their own children, and the doves will grab the food of other magpies and seize their living space, perhaps this nest will be destroyed by it in the end. You say yes—"

"Duan De."

———— is not strict with the dividing line————

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