At the end of the morning, the shopkeeper in the library saw Mengzhou's voice and said happily: "Little boy, here." ”

"Yes"

"You're here to pick up books?"

Meng Zhou immediately said, "No, don't frame me." ”

"Then why are you here, you won't want to rub my book in vain again."

Meng Zhou took out two books from his arms and said, "I, I want to ask you if you know the origin of these two books." ”

The old man took the two books and looked at them carefully.

Half an hour later, the old man raised his head and said, "Yes." ”

Mengzhou stood up straight and asked, "What is the origin?" ”

"You pay for it, I'll do it."

Meng Zhou took out two pieces of broken silver from his pocket and said, "Can you say it this time." ”

The old man said slowly: "This is the book of later generations, its original book was written by a sorcerer in the southwest region, and later the clan declined, and this book was taken out of the southwest to Nanzhou by a person, this person is the first generation patriarch of the later Slug Yi clan, Tuling." ”

"So the medical skills that the Slugs were proud of for generations before are actually the evolution of witchcraft?"

The old man nodded and said, "That's right, it wasn't until later that more than half of the clansmen were wiped out by the Linzhou Kingdom, and this slug Yi changed his way of practicing medicine." ”

"So, maybe there are still people among the Slugs who know about this book now?"

"Not only do you know, but maybe there are people who will rebuild this evil path."

Meng Zhou exclaimed: "Why do you say this. ”

"Little boy, I've said enough today, if you really want to know, why don't you go and check it yourself?"

Meng Zhou bowed and said, "Please give me some advice." ”

Outside, somehow, it suddenly rained, and the old man glanced outside the door and said, "Little boy, the sun is about to set, you better go back early, lest it be dark and plant a water heel." ”

Meng Zhou went out of the door, and when he looked up, he saw Jing Rong holding an umbrella across the street.

"Why are you here?"

Jing Rong pulled Mengzhou and said in a low voice: "Look at the road." ”

Meng Zhou dodged a puddle and said, "Guess what I asked?" ”

Accustomed to the silence, Meng Zhou took care of himself and said: "It turns out that the witchcraft in this book is inseparable from the Slug Yi clan, and even now, there may be people who can do this witchcraft among the Slug Yi people, not only that, but the old man also showed us the next way." ”

Meng Zhou tilted his head and glanced at Jing Rong and said, "Aren't you curious about what it is?" ”

Jing Rong still didn't squeak.

Meng Zhou said in a long tone: "You're still angry, oops, I really know it's wrong, I won't say it again." Are you tired, why don't I hold your umbrella for you? ”

Jing Rong stopped, "Didn't you keep your ears shut and listen to these things before?" ”

"Because of you."

Meng Zhou bent his eyes and smiled like a little sun, dispelling the cold around him.

Jing Rong was stunned: "Because of me, what? ”

"Because I know that you will protect me, I will not be afraid, and I can be brave enough to do what I want."

Jing Rong looked away, and suddenly couldn't suppress the sadness in his heart.

Meng Zhou panicked, didn't he scare him? She asked tentatively, "You, what's wrong with you?" ”

"I'm sorry."

Meng Zhou was stunned, thinking that Jing Rong remembered that Shui Yang helped her be tied up before, she turned around and stood in front of Jing Rong, still with that smile.

"It's okay, I forgive you."

She said as she grabbed Jingrong's sleeve and shrunk her shoulders, "Ah, it's so cold, it's cold, let's go, let's go back." ”

Jing Rong looked down at the hands that were holding him tightly, his heart was empty, if you knew all this, would you say forgiveness so easily.

Back at the inn, Meng Zhou drank a few cups of hot tea before his body warmed up.

"Little two."

"Hey, what do you want, officer?"

Meng Zhou said: "I'll ask you about something." ”

"You say."

"Is there a lake all the way west from here?"

Xiao Er said: "Guest officer, that's too much." Don't know which one you're asking? ”

Meng Zhou scratched his head, didn't the old man mean what the sun set and the water followed.

"Are there any deserted lakes to the west? Or maybe it's a remote place near a lake. ”

The little two thought about it and said, "There is one here, but you'd better not go over there." ”

"What, could it be that it's haunted over there?"

Xiao Er said: "It's really restless over there, next to the barren lake, there is an abandoned house, when someone passed by before, I could often hear the cry of a woman inside, and then everyone said that it was a murderous house, and it was very evil, so no one went over there." ”

Someone at the next table ordered wine, and the little two answered, "Come on." ”

Female ghosts, murderous houses, no one has set foot on them. Meng Zhou knocked on the table and said in his heart, how can this story be so familiar.

Suddenly, she patted her head, isn't this exactly the same as the current Shaoguang that Zhang Hou mentioned to her? Meng Zhou sneered, this deceptive method is really old-fashioned as always.

"What do you think?"

"You're back, sit. How's the inquiry? Any news? ”

Heshan sighed, "I followed the address on the letter and found that the person I was looking for died unexpectedly half a month ago. ”

"Then does he have any relatives?"

"He also has a younger sister, but this girl left the border city two years ago and never came back."

"Do the people around know where this girl has gone?"

Heshan shook his head, and said in a dream: "Don't worry, although that girl is not in the border city now, she must have friends here, we can always find clues by asking slowly, so I will accompany you to go out to find it tomorrow." ”

Meng Zhou patted Heshan's shoulder and said, "Go and rest, you have to get up early tomorrow morning." ”

On the second day, Mengzhou accompanied Heshan to ask the entire south of the city, and no one knew where the girl had gone.

After coming back, Meng Zhou looked at Heshan's languishing appearance, and finally left with peace of mind, "Heshan, are you sure that the girl you are looking for is called Lin Zhishu, is it possible that she has changed her name?" ”

Heshan shook his head, "I'm not sure right now. ”

"It's a bit troublesome, but it doesn't matter, we're only looking for Seongnam today, and we'll ask other places tomorrow, and there will definitely be news."

"Yes."

Heshan collapsed on the bed a little tired, and said tiredly: "You can also go back and rest." ”

At the end of the morning, the sky was slightly dark, and as soon as Meng Zhou lit the candle and got up, he saw Sheng Lan standing in front of the table, staring at her expressionlessly.

Meng Zhou took two steps back, stroked his chest and said, "You squeaked in advance when you came in, it scared me to death." ”

"What are you looking for?"

"Huh?"

Meng Zhou reacted after speaking, "You follow us!" ”

Sheng Lan sneered, "It's you stupid." ”

Meng Zhou sighed, sat down and said, "... What's the matter with your visit this time? ”

"I'm going to the west of the city."

"Well, then, you didn't come to tell me your whereabouts, did you?"

Sheng Lan said: "You go with me." ”

"Why?"

"I'm going to Chang's house by the abandoned lake in the west of the city."

Meng Zhou stood up and exclaimed, "That ghost house? ”

Sheng Lan was a little impatient, "Are you going or not?" ”

"I'll go, but before I do that I need to know your name."

"Sheng Lan."

"Why did you come with me?"

"You have checked Shaoguang and Li Shou for so long, it is always of some use."

Meng Zhou spread his hands, "It's really not good to know more." ”

At night, the wind gusted in front of the gate of Chang's mansion.

Sheng Lan glanced at Meng Zhou, who was touching things in his arms in a hurry, frowned, and said, "What are you doing?" Let's go. ”

"It's over, I don't seem to have my talisman with me."

Sheng Lan snorted and walked forward, "Then you can be careful, ghosts like brainless people like you the most." ”

"Hey, you can't speak."

The reddish-brown gate was pushed open, and the sound of decay of wood grinded through the air, creaking and reverberating in the empty courtyard with the cries of women.

Meng Zhou swallowed his saliva, leaned over to Sheng Lan's side, and said in a low voice, "Miss Sheng, did you hear the woman's cry?" ”

Sheng Lan glanced around at the gray courtyard and said perfunctorily: "Well, go and have a look." ”

"That, I don't know martial arts, but, but I have good eyesight and run quite fast."

"So what? You want to use your good eyesight and good leg strength to go and see first. ”

Meng Zhou waved his hand hurriedly, "No, no, no, you misunderstood, I mean, if you encounter any danger in the future, can you tell me in advance, I can avoid it, so as not to drag you back when the time comes." ”

Sheng Lan said as she walked: "Good idea, it would be better if you could shut up." ”

“……”

The two walked along the corridor, and the sound of the wind in the courtyard was mixed with the cry of a woman who came and went at that time, and the whole courtyard became more and more weird.

Suddenly, a strong wind arose, blowing up a cloud of dust. The woman's cry was even more sharp and miserable, as if she was suffering the pain of peeling her skin.

After a few seconds, the crying stopped, and Sheng Lan opened her eyes to see a woman in red with black hair covering her face and no arms hanging upside down on the eaves of the corridor behind Meng Zhou.

"There's something behind you."

Meng Zhou stopped rubbing his hands, looked at Sheng Lan suspiciously, and said, "Ah, what did you say?" ”

Sheng Lan raised her voice, "There's something behind you." ”

As soon as these words came out, Meng Zhou's expression immediately froze, and after a few seconds, she slowly turned around, and before Sheng Lan could draw her sword, she heard Meng Zhou scream, and then jumped up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, stretched out her hand and pulled the black hair hanging down from the eaves, and threw it over the pillar next to her like crazy.

A moment later, Meng Zhou leaned on the pillar and kicked the dummy at his feet, his voice still trembling.

"It's too fake, it's too fake, it's not real at all."

Sheng Lan looked at the scattered cloth people on the ground who were smashed by Meng Zhou, and sneered: "I don't know who just screamed so loudly." ”

"I call it momentum, intimidating the enemy, you don't understand."

Sheng Lan said: "Then let's go, what are you still standing here for?" ”

"My legs are weak."

“…”

The two walked through the corridor to a room, where the cry was close to their ears.

Meng Zhou glanced at Sheng Lan, who was holding the sword, and stretched out his hand to open the door.

In the center of the room, the corpse of a woman in red was hung from the beams of the room, barefoot, and her black hair hung down on her chest to cover her face.

Sheng Lan withdrew her sword, walked into the house and walked around the corpse a few times, looked around again, and frowned, "Didn't that voice come out of here?" ”

Meng Zhou stood outside the house without moving, Sheng Lan beckoned, "You come here." ”

"I don't, I have good eyesight, I can see clearly when I stand here."

“…”

Suddenly, Meng Zhou seemed to have found something, and said in surprise, "Hey, Miss Sheng, there is something on her chest." ”

Sheng Lan held on to the corpse and drew his sword to break the rope.

"There's something, it's a special whistle."

Sheng Lan said and waved her hand, leading the wind into the whistle, and sure enough, with the whistle, the 'woman's cry' sounded intermittently.

Meng Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, "It turned out to be a ghost made by a whistle." ”

"She's got something on her arm."

Meng Zhou walked in, looked down and looked through the moonlight, and the female corpse had a circle of black patterns on her arms.

"It's this kind of thing again."

Sheng Lan said: "Have you seen it?" ”

"There are these traces on the bodies of those dead bodies in Shaoguang Hall, but the patterns are different."

"Have you ever found out why?"

Meng Zhou said: "We are investigating, and now we guess that it is probably related to Gu worms and a purple hallucinogenic flower, are there any other traces on her body?" ”

"There are traces of binding on her wrists and ankles, and she doesn't have a tongue."

Dream Zhou was shocked, "Who is so ruthless?" ”

Sheng Lan shook her head, "Those people must have put her here to hide some secret." ”

"Yes, I don't know if you've listened to the rumors of Shaoguang Hall."

Sheng Lan nodded, "It does look like the handwriting of the same people." Create the illusion of a haunt so that the people will not dare to come near. ”

A red figure suddenly flashed outside the door, and Sheng Lan stood up and chased around Mengzhou.

"Hey, where are you going?"

"Keep up."

Meng Zhou followed Sheng Lan all the way, and finally stopped in front of the rockery.

Meng Zhou gasped and said, "What did you just see, running so fast?" ”

"That figure just got in here."

Meng Zhou took out a fire clip and handed it to Sheng Lan and said, "Let's talk about it first, you take the lead." ”

"I thought you'd say no."

Meng Zhou rolled his eyes, "Did I say it work?" It's better to go in yourself than to be thrown in by you. ”

Sheng Lan stepped in, "Then you just follow." ”

The rockery looked low from the outside, but I didn't expect that there would be a lot of articles after walking in, and a dark and damp path winded and didn't know where it led.

Meng Zhou and Sheng Lan stepped on a layer of water and drilled through two small holes, and the place was finally open. Sheng Lan lit a few candles on the wall with the help of a fire clip. The eyes are slowly becoming clearer.

On one wall, there are five beautiful and thin girls, they are only wearing a single coat, their hands and feet are bound by the soft satin wearing iron hoops, and the green silk is gathered and braided behind them, and their heads are slightly hung as if they are asleep.

"Are they dead?"

Sheng Lan handed the sword to Meng Zhou, stepped forward to take a closer look and said, "No, they should have taken some kind of medicine and fell into a coma." ”

Meng Zhou silently moved over with his sword in his arms and asked, "Are there any traces on her body?" ”

"Nope."

Sheng Lan said as she rolled down the clothes of the girl in front of her, looked at the others again, and said, "Compared to the girl outside just now, their bodies are simply clean and terrible, without a trace of scars or marks. ”

Meng Zhou nodded and said: "Indeed, even these soft satins used for binding are the best, leaving no traces, as if they are afraid of hurting them." By the way, didn't you just say that you came here with a figure? ”

Meng Zhou said and looked around, "What about that person?" ”

"It's just the way to get here, she's definitely still here, unless there's some secret passage to get out and look for."

"Okay."

After some searching and temptation, there was no movement, and Meng Zhou wondered: "This place is so big, it is impossible for her to disappear out of thin air." ”

Sheng Lan glanced at the people on the wall, cut off a corner of the girl's clothes on the wall with a sword, took a corner of soft satin and put it in his arms, and said, "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's withdraw first." ”

Out of the hole, the courtyard was no longer the scene before the two of them entered, there were about six or seven black-clothed people standing in front of the rockery, holding a sword and looking at the two of them coldly.

Sheng Lan drew his sword and whispered to Mengzhou: "Be smart." ”

"Can you beat it?"

"I can't beat it."

Meng Zhou glanced around and said, "Then drag it out." ”

After saying that, she walked out from behind Sheng Lan, took out a piece of folded yellow paper, and said loudly to the people in the courtyard: "Everyone, how about we make a deal?" ”

Seeing that one of them was about to come over with a sword, Meng Zhou took out a fire clip and stopped: "Wait, you have thought about it, I took this thing out of it." So, if you take me to your master, and I'll hand it over, if there's anything else he wants to know, I'll promise to know everything. ”

"No, I don't."

The man in black waved his hand, and more than a dozen people in the courtyard instantly rushed up.

"Run."

Meng Zhou shouted and threw a bottle forward, raising a burst of white mist, and Meng Zhou pulled Sheng Lan and rushed out to the left.

"Give me chase."

After a few minutes, Sheng Lan couldn't bear it anymore and waved Meng Zhou away, and said, "Idiot, you can't tell the direction, it's a dead end over there, go this way." ”

"Not sooner." Meng Zhou said that he was in a hurry to turn around and keep up with Sheng Lan.

The footsteps behind him were getting closer and closer, Meng Zhou took out a medicine bottle from his arms and handed it to Sheng Lan, panting, "Throw this to them, you can still resist one or two." ”

There was a crisp bang, and a few shouts and curses came from behind him.

Meng Zhou glanced back at the kung fu behind him and bumped into a person head-on.

"Why are you here? Well, now is not the time to talk about this, it is important to run for your life first. Meng Zhou said and took Jing Rong and prepared to run.

After seeing Jing Rong, Sheng Lan's face finally relaxed, "He's here, what are you running." ”

Jing Rong saw that Mengzhou was worried, and she stopped talking, and knew that she must be worried that she was delirious again because of the last incident in the wilderness, so he was warm in his heart and said softly: "Don't worry, this time it won't be." ”

Jing Rongyan pushed Meng Zhou towards Sheng Lan and said, "Protect her." ”

"Leave a few alive, it's still useful."

Sheng Lan said and walked towards a stone, and beckoned to Mengzhou, "Don't come yet, do you want to be a live target?" ”

A few steps away, there was the sound of swords clashing, and Meng Zhou retreated, a little embarrassed: "Miss Sheng, I can protect myself, it's not as good as you..."

"He doesn't need my help, by the way, what's that yellow paper you just hold?"

Meng Zhou touched his nose and said, "Paper talisman, I found it again when I just came out of the cave." ”

"Your bluffing posture, I thought it was really an important letter."

"If it's really important, how can I take it out."

Sheng Lan glanced at Meng Zhou and said, "You just said that there is a trick to drag it out?" ”

"I am, but my witty words just now didn't have time to work."

Meng Zhou's words changed: "By the way, why did you check the Li family?" ”

"Avenge your loved ones."

Meng Zhou raised his eyebrows, "So frank." ”

"Now we're in a boat. Besides, don't you already know something? So whether I say it or not, you'll know sooner or later. ”

Meng Zhou stuffed the talisman paper to Sheng Lan and said, "If it goes well, the government will come in half a moment, and we have to inform the government in advance before these people transfer the evidence." ”

The movement outside turned smaller, and Meng Zhou glanced outside the stone and sighed: "It is worthy of my master, and he really shot cleanly." ”

Sheng Lan said incredulously: "Master? ”

Mengzhou was very excited, "Yes, I just recognized it a few days ago." ”

Sheng Lan sneered, "Silly melon." She said in her heart, this King of Huai'an is really self-inflicted and can't live.

Meng Zhou waved his hand and said with relief: "Forget it, I didn't expect you to say anything good." ”

As she spoke, she walked out of the back of the stone, patted Jingrong's arm, and praised, "Master, it's amazing." ”

Jing Rong threw down the sword in his hand, looking very headache, "You still call my name." ”

"Okay."

Meng Zhou kicked a few black-clothed people at his feet: "Will they wake up for a while, right?" ”

"When the time comes, the people who can hold out to the government will come."

Meng Zhou nodded, "By the way, we also found five living girls in a rockery in this courtyard, and this place is guarded by Miss Sheng, let's go over there and watch, so as not to let these people erase the evidence." ”

"Okay."

Soon after Meng Zhou and Jing Rong left, people from the government really came.

The red-robed official at the head was nearly sixty years old, with a white beard and sideburns, if it weren't for the fact that he was walking quite steadily, Sheng Lan doubted that his body would be able to support the trial of the case in front of him.

"Lord Wang, except for these black-clothed masked people, my subordinates have sent people to search around, and only found the fragments of the dummy and the jade whistle we arranged before under the corridor, and there is nothing abnormal in the others."

Wang Shiru said: "Can the anonymous messenger be found? ”

"Not yet."

"Find some people to escort them back, remember to prevent them from committing suicide, and after they are taken back to prison, they must watch every inch of it, and do not make mistakes."

"Yes."

The black-clothed man in the courtyard was dragged away, and Wang Shiru instructed a few guards around him: "A few of you, search carefully along this courtyard." ”

"Yes."

"My lord, I found that my subordinates found a blood book behind the stone, please take a look at it."

After Wang Shiru saw it, his brows furrowed, "Tell me to go down, pack up my hands and follow me." ”

"Yes."

In the dark room of the rockery, Meng Zhou once again stood in front of those girls, but they still seemed to be asleep.

"How did you find here?"

Meng Zhou said: "Miss Sheng and I followed a vague figure that suddenly appeared all the way here, but after arriving here, she disappeared inexplicably. ”

Jing Rong glanced at the girls and said to the dream: "Are there any marks on their ankles?" ”

Meng Zhou immediately squatted down, opened the soft satin and looked carefully, and suddenly she was surprised: "They all have a red line lotus flower as big as a bell on the inside of their ankles. ”

After dreaming of Zhou, he was surprised: "We have been looking for so long and we haven't found it, how do you know?" ”

"Three adults died in Kyoto a few months ago, and after investigation, this matter may be related to them."

"They?"

Jing Rong nodded and said: "Just three months before the accident of several adults, there were several piano girls in Kyoto City, who were highly sought after by everyone, just to see them with a lot of money. During our investigation, we found that the only thing that these three adults had in common before their deaths was that they had been to these harp girls frequently, and coincidentally, the ankles of those violin girls had such marks. ”

"And where are they?"

Jing Rong was silent for a few seconds and said, "Qinglou brothel." ”

Sure enough, Meng Zhou stood up, widened his eyes and said, "You've been there." ”

"I didn't."

"And how do you know so clearly?"

"I was involved in investigating the matter."

Meng Zhou tilted his head, with suspicion on his face, "It's just an investigation, I haven't seen it in person." ”

"Nope."

Jing Rong replied crisply, Meng Zhou sighed, and muttered, "That's a pity." ”

"What did you say!?"

"It's weird."

Hearing the dissatisfaction and threats in Jing Rongyin's voice, Meng Zhou immediately looked righteous and awe-inspiring, and said: "Since you have participated in the investigation of this matter, but there is no conclusive evidence to prove that these girls are directly related to the deaths of those three adults, it is just this opportunity to find out the truth of the investigation of this matter." Rest assured, I will definitely help you in this matter. ”

Before Jing Rong could react, three light blows came from the entrance of the cave.

Meng Zhou said: "The people from the government are here, let's go." ”