After Xue Shaochen calmed down, he got up, opened the door of the clean room, and saw that there was no one around, so he swaggered towards Jingming Palace.

"You're slow."

Before Shaochen stepped into the dormitory, there was a voice of Song Milling being helpless and complaining.

After entering, I saw Song Mian sitting at his desk, flipping through a book called "People's Livelihood Tongjian".

This book is known to many people, is the previous dynasty of Wei Xin written a classic of governance, he took the past dynasties of various cases or stories of governing the country and the people as an example, stating how to govern the country as a minister, how to make the people obedient, how to resist foreign enemies, get along with neighbors, is a rare masterpiece, however, in order to prevent someone from learning the content of this book to plot wrong, so only the palace has it, although there are also some of the people, but only not too detailed fragments.

"You're not constipated, are you?" He closed the book in his hand heavily and looked at Xue Shaochen with an embarrassed face, "You look like this, can you still drink with me at night?" What is in my palace is all authentic Youzhou burning knives! ”

"What's the matter?" Xue Shaochen scratched his head and said, "It's just that the clean room is quieter than anywhere else in the palace, so I stayed for a while." Don't worry, I will accompany you tonight without getting drunk! ”

"That'll be fine."

Song Mo said with a smile, and suddenly seemed to think of something, and became sad again.

Shaochen smiled and asked, "What's wrong with you?" One moment laughing, the next moment mourning? ”

Song Mo sighed: "Actually, it's nothing, but I thought that Song Yu must be eyeing me now, I'm afraid that in the martial arts test of the Winter Festival, he will take me under the knife." When I had a good relationship with him before, he often came to teach me, and many of his martial arts were instructed by him, and I was really afraid that he would give me a fat beating when the time came. ”

It turned out that this winter festival of the Chu State, in addition to the fact that the Emperor of Chu had to lead hundreds of civil and military officials and the emperor's relatives to sacrifice to heaven and earth at the end of the year, it was also necessary to carry out hunting and martial arts tests that all guests could participate in.

They must be dressed in military uniforms, ride horses to hunt the beasts of the back mountain, each person is limited to three, the time is limited to one hour, and finally, by comparing the rarity value and weight of the harvested goods to determine the ranking, the top winner can be rewarded by the Chu Emperor.

After the end of the hunt, it is a martial arts test between the participants, according to the lottery match to fight in pairs, the winner enters the next round, fights in turn, and determines the first to third place, and the martial arts test gets more rewards than the hunting.

The emperors of Chu in the past dynasties wanted to use this kind of event to demonstrate the concept of "governing the country with force and winning the world immediately".

"I know what you mean, the Rite Department Shangshu Wang Shanchang is the prince's man, and he will definitely make trouble from it and make some conspiracies and tricks to make you fight against the prince." Xue Shaochen stood with his hands in his hands.

Song Mo said: "Yes, I know that guy Song Yu is the best, if you want to talk about tricks, he is no less than Liang Xiang." Do you have any ideas for me? ”

"Yes, yes, I just don't know if I can do it." Xue Shaochen stared at Song Miao's eyes and said.

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"Good!"

Shaochen took out an ancient book from his arms and handed it to Song Miao: "This "Chaos Palm Technique" was taught to me by my master, and the moves are sharp and ruthless, and they are by no means weaker than the martial arts of the Prince Sanqing Palace. ”

"Really?"

Song Mo stretched out his hand to take it, but he was full of suspicion.

What is Sanqing Palace? That is in today's martial arts, the only one qualified to compete with the world's three major sects, the inheritance is very long, the inner family martial arts are famous all over the world, the most famous of which is the head of the Sanqing Palace, "Tai Chi Yin and Yang Hand", this martial arts is just with softness, soft and rigid, not only can invisibly resolve the opponent's moves, but also can knock down the other party in the simplest way in the blink of an eye, many people who have been taught, don't even know when they were recruited, even some masters of Xiafeng Valley and Wuji Sect are afraid of three points.

Although the senior monks of Xuanyin Temple are not afraid of the Sanqing Palace by relying on their superior outer door kung fu, if the two sides meet, they will still give in a few steps. You must know that Xuanyin Temple, as the former first in martial arts, is not respectful to everyone.

And the prince Song Yu's master Qingxu Daochang, is the second master of martial arts in today's Sanqing Palace, only ranked under the head of Lingxu, everyone in the rivers and lakes does not know its prestige, especially his stunts - "Eagle Claw Tearing Wind" and "Cloud Breaking Fist" make it even more superb, although Song Yu has only learned four successes for the time being, but with his age, it is already very good.

Song Mo slowly opened the first page of "Chaos Palm", which read: When heaven and earth are not divided, the name is 'chaos', and the chaotic ones are turbid and indistinguishable, light and dark are not distinguished, and death and life are not known. Therefore, this palm method must accept the two qi of yin and yang to be able to practice, and when it is completed, it is like mastering the universe, yin and yang are the same, rigidity and softness are combined, and one palm breaks ten thousand laws, and no one can stop it.

While Song Mo was pleasantly surprised by the wonder of this palm, he also suddenly had doubts in his heart: "This is also strange, Xuanyin Temple cultivates all hard foreign kung fu, how can there be a secret to cultivating internal strength?" Could it be that Xue Shaochen also practiced martial arts outside of Xuanyin Temple? ”

Although he was puzzled, considering that it was Shaochen's privacy, he didn't want to ask, he just said: "This palm technique must be harmonized with yin and yang, what I have been practicing is the strong yang qi of the Mingshan faction, to practice this yin and cold qi, only the sect that accepts female disciples has it, where can I practice?" ”

Xue Shaochen showed a sly smile and said, "I have my own way." ”

Dongdu Dongshi Donghuafang Qingyu Street Wushi Alley is not correct

Xiao Chongguang and Lu Yunsheng covered their noses with handkerchiefs, squatted on the ground, and looked at a rotting corpse on the ground in front of them that had been gnawed by maggots and corpse cockroaches.

Today, as soon as Cao Zixiao left on the front foot, the people from the Jingshi Yamen on the back foot came to Tiwei Mansion to inform him that someone had reported the case on Qingyu Street in Donghuafang and found a corpse in the manure tank in Wushi Alley.

Sogo asked Ji Yun to stay with Guo Ting, and he and Lu Yunsheng brought fifteen guards to the scene of the crime.

Not long ago, he pulled the dung truck and a big scoop to the edge of the manure tank to scoop manure water, thinking of selling it to farmers living on the outskirts of the city to grow vegetables.

When he raised the spoon and was about to start his hand, he suddenly felt that something was not right, because he found that the dung water in the pool was constantly tumbling as if it was boiling, and the cow felt that something was abnormal, so he was very careful to use the scoop spoon to remove the tumbling piece of dung, and he didn't want to touch the hard thing, so he used the big spoon to scoop the unknown thing from the bottom, and took a closer look.

It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, at first glance, it scared Niu Er's three souls away and the second soul flew away, and he was so shocked that he fell to the ground.

That hard thing turned out to be a corpse with rotting skin and clothes! It was also densely crawled with maggots that were constantly gnawing, and the feces were tumbling, which was caused by a large number of maggots being attracted to this corpse and swarming.

Niu Er immediately didn't even care about the eating guy, and stumbled like crazy and ran to the yamen to report the case.

Xiao Chongguang glanced at Niu Er, this was a rough man with an obese body and a dark complexion, about thirty-eight or nineteen years old, he looked honest, dressed in shabby and dirty yellow cotton clothes, at first glance, he was a civilian who had been engaged in high-level physical work at the bottom for a long time, and he still looked frightened at this time.

Sogo got up and faced Niu Er and asked, "Niu Er, do you come here every day to scoop dung water?" ”

"Yes, unless you are sick or on the New Year's Day," Niu Er nodded again and again, "Alas, the old mother at home is unfortunately paralyzed in bed, and the son is still swaddling, and my daughter-in-law has to stay at home to take care of it, so this big family relies on me to pick up dung and water, sell vegetables, and help others sew clothes to earn money to supplement the family." ”

After speaking, Niu Er's eyes couldn't help but moisten, which showed that his family was indeed having a very hard time.

"Did you notice anything like this yesterday? Or is it something that is even more difficult to detect? Xiao Chongguang continued to ask.

Niu Er replied: "No, yesterday was the same as usual. ”

"Okay, I see, you go down first. If there is anything else to ask in the future, I will summon you. ”

"Whoa."

Niu Er saluted Sogo's forked hand, and then pulled the dung cart in the direction of his house.

"Do you see what's unusual about this corpse?" Xiao Chongguang looked at Lu Yunsheng and asked.

"Look," Yun Sheng pointed to the head of the carrion, "you see his cheekbones, which have been completely sunken, must have been formed by being hit by a heavy object before his death. ”

Xiao Chongguang nodded and said: "Yes, the murderer did this because he was afraid that if this corpse was found before it decomposed, it would allow the person handling the case to find out the identity of the deceased and investigate himself, so after he killed the deceased, he immediately destroyed his face." Not only that, Yunsheng, but you take a closer look at the forehead of the deceased. ”

Lu Yunsheng endured the stench, looked forward carefully, and said in surprise: "The area around his forehead bone has turned purple and black!" ”

"Yes," said Sogo, "and some of the maggots that had crept up on his forehead had all died of inexplicable bruising, so that the others did not dare to come any closer, so his frontal bone was the best preserved. Do you know why? ”

"The frontal bone is poisonous!" Lu Yunsheng's pupils shrank.

Xiao Chongguang added: "And it is highly toxic, I'm afraid it ······"

"Wait!"

Yun Sheng raised his hand to stop Sogo from continuing, and then moved to the top of the deceased's head and said, "There are five depressions on his forehead and above his temples, as if they were pinched by someone with the power of his fingers. Moreover, these five depressions have the darkest purple-black color, and thus spread in a ripple shape, which should be the source of the poison. ”

Xiao Chongguang said: "I was about to say, I'm afraid that someone killed this person with a drug master." ”

"Fingerprints, poison, ruined cheekbones······" Lu Yunsheng groaned, "Could it be that who attacked this person with a hand containing poison?" ”

Xiao Chongguang shook his head and said: "Impossible, what he is poisonous is, unless that person's body can coexist with venom, poisonous gas, and poison without exclusion, is there such a person in the world?" ”

"Yes." Lu Yunsheng said in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Sogo stared at Yunsheng with wide eyes in surprise, frowned slightly and asked, "Who is it?" ”

"It was seven years ago that the thief who had terrified the entire martial arts - the old man of the Five Poisons."