Cui Hanzhang and Cui Mingtang, two brothers, ran to the side hall of the ancestral hall while laughing and playing, and Hanling pestered Mingwei again, chatting about rouge and gouache, and the parents were short.

Standing in front of the school hall overlooking Xikou Qianyanzhou, open-minded. After being dressed up in wind and snow, the original Chi wax elephant, the mountains and ravines are winding and endless, the valley bottom stream is turbulent, and the water is murmuring, which is rare to reveal a snow scene in the south of the Yangtze River. The school is on holiday, and the whole side hall is empty, but unfortunately I don't see the master of the building making tea and asking for a class.

Thinking that there were still a few places to visit for the New Year, I didn't dare to stay in Mingtang's house for a long time, and after going down the mountain to find my sister, I began to go to more than ten kilns in turn to offer incense. The people in the mountains are simple, and sacrificing incense is not superstition, but awe, and it is a kind of faith. The guy who has eaten for generations is worthy of the reverence of every Xikou person, and every boy has followed his elders to participate in the sacrifice since he was a child, and the ritual procedures are well understood.

At the beginning, the cattle turned over and broke a few kilns, and there was no need to call for them, and the young and middle-aged people of every household would send out manpower to help repair them. Mr. Lou came out of Qianyanzhou without stopping, walked all over the three mountains and nine rivers, and climbed to the top of the mountain to have a bird's-eye view of the entire Xikou Qianyanzhou, sighing at the terrain layout, the whole Xikou Feng Shui Qi Luck flowed endlessly, and the jade belt wrapped around the waist and the water bureau sat on the green mountain.

In ancient times, there were land masters who walked all over the world, all in search of feng shui treasures, but the innate pattern is extremely rare, and most of them are pretended to be conditioned by human hands. And the jade belt wrapped around the waist water bureau and sit on the green mountains are perfectly integrated, giving birth to vitality, which is most suitable for the dormant residence before going to the river into the sea, and the blessing is endless. At the beginning, there must be a local master among the ancestors of Xikou, and the layout was carried out around the dragon kiln as the center, and each kiln mouth was the finishing touch, echoing each other.

Cui Mingtang was sent by his father to participate in the presiding over the dragon kiln sacrifice, set up a stage with three animals, followed several elders to step on the gang, and led the villagers to perform three bows and nine bows. Cui Hanzhang pulled his sister to salute and incense, the little girl participated in such a sacrifice for the first time, and felt very novel, her big eyes looked around, and she kept greeting him after seeing Mingtang. It's a pity that the distance is far, and Mingtang is engrossed in the ceremony and does not hear it.

It was already past noon after walking down, and Hanzhang remembered that there was still Zuo Yi lying on the bed at home, thinking that his father should also go out to the ancestral hall with the elders at this time to offer incense. So he walked home with Hanling and saw his mother busy cooking on the stove. When I went back to the house, I saw that Zuo Mi was still sleeping deeply, and when I got closer to listen, I found that he was still snoring.

Han Ling chirped around his mother like a lark and kept talking, three sentences without leaving Mingwei, and the mother who said it looked up at her son from time to time. It didn't take long for a group of children about the same age as Han Ling, under the leadership of Mingtang and other slightly older people, to pour into the small courtyard to pay New Year's greetings, and knelt down in the courtyard, and the mother hurriedly went into the house to get candy and snacks to distribute to everyone. After all, Han Ling has a child's heart, and after a few bites of food in a hurry, he also went out with the crowd to pay New Year's greetings.

Hanzhang whispered a few words to Mingtang, but did not keep up with the crowd. He still didn't worry about Zuo Mi who was asleep, afraid that he would wake up suddenly and scare his mother. Han Zhang could feel the bloody and fierce aura on his body, he must have experienced something, otherwise such a huge change would not have happened.

Seeing that my mother put down the candy bamboo basket and was about to go to the stove again, I couldn't help but call my mother to stop and rest in the sun. The mother was sincerely relieved that her son was much more stable after returning from prison. The days in winter are short, and the sun is warm. Through the refracted light, I saw some white hairs quietly emerging from my mother's head, so I volunteered to pull them out, and the sound of my mother's pain floated above the small courtyard. The life of the kiln farmer is plain and real, there is no need for wine banquets and singing and dancing, Cui Hanzhang heard his mother laughing and scolding him, and he felt warmer than the winter sun on his body......

"Run, Mother." Zuo Yu shouted and woke up in a dream suddenly, his forehead covered with sweat. The shouting also alarmed the white-haired mother and son in the small courtyard, and Hanzhang signaled the mother not to worry, and to make a bowl of hand-rolled noodles for friends in the house to eat.

"Brother Zuo is awake, put on this padded jacket first." Cui Hanzhang had a feeling that he had known Zuo Mi for many years, he handed him the warm cotton jacket, turned around and lifted the iron kettle on the stove, poured a cup of hot water, and put it on the bedside table. Cui Hanzhang didn't shy away from suspicion, so he sat on the edge of the stove and quietly watched him get dressed and get up.

Zuo Yi shook his head, sobered up and recalled that in the early hours of the morning, he found Cui Hanzhang's door by impression, and the wind and snow were so big, every step he took felt that the spirit of the whole person was consumed, and in the end, he only vaguely saw a figure rushing towards him, and he couldn't remember anything behind. In my dream just now, I seemed to see my mother shaking her hand at me in the sea of fire, asking him not to look back. Zuo Qi wanted to go to the fire to rescue his mother and run together, but he couldn't get in, so he could only shout in a hurry.

Zuo Qi was neatly dressed, sat by the stove with a teacup and looked at him, and said, "I didn't frighten you with this ghostly appearance, did I?" ”

Cui Hanzhang shook his head with a solemn face, "What disaster has happened to Brother Zuo, how many of them are the old housekeepers?" ”

Zuo Mi felt cordial when he saw Cui Hanzhang for the first time, so he thought of defecting to him when he was desperate. Seeing each other now, he had no reservations, drank a sip of hot water, moistened his throat, Zuo Qi returned a few of them to Qingyuan, and saw that Zuo Mansion was burned to a ruin, and they were chased and killed. escaped death, since several people scattered and fled for their lives, then they are all in their own destiny. As for the scar on his face, Zuo Mi only said that he injured himself in order to lurk back to the city, so that no one would recognize him anymore. It was only when he said that his mother and more than 100 people in Zuofu were killed in the fire that he was a little excited, his fists clenched tightly, and his body muscles tightened.

The mother carried a bowl of hot noodles on a tray, on which lay an egg, plus a plate of cold pork head meat and a roast chicken thigh, and quietly withdrew after the things were put down. Cui Hanzhang asked him to eat first in order to relieve Zuo Mi's tense state, Xu was hungry for too long, and after sleeping enough, he felt that he could eat a cow, and he couldn't take his eyes off the smell of his face. While Zuo Qi was eating with a gobble, Cui Hanzhang tried to deduce the situation behind the matter.

Zuofu is one of the largest silk merchants in Qingyuan, and the firms under his name are all over the 15 state capitals of the Shenguang Dynasty. Or is there another reason to cover up the truth? After all, the person has been burned and cannot be identified, and the autopsy conclusions made by the government are not very credible. And one after the other, the servants who gave themselves money and jewelry in two batches escaped. The situation that Zuo Qi inquired about should be just a rough idea, Zuo's firm, warehouse, and field property will not run, and following this line should be able to explore part of the truth.

Since there are still people on Qingyuan's side ambushing and chasing Zuo Mi and the others, they must know that there are fish that have slipped through the net, and I am afraid that they are not tracking down the whereabouts of Zuo's treasure banknotes and silver and jewelry. Although the value of one million taels of silver sent to me may be only the tip of the iceberg of the wealth of the Zuo family, the three generations of the Zuo family have been in business, and Zuo Youguang has climbed to the top and become the head of the four major silk merchants in Qingyuan. As the chief god of wealth of Qingyuan Banknote, Zuo Youguang has a strong wrist, suppressing opponents while co-opting opponents, and the entire silk and porcelain business in Qingyuan is built by their chamber of commerce like an iron bucket, and others can't get their hands on it. Qingyuan banknote customs are among the three major banknotes in the world by virtue of the taxation of the two major commodities, and even in some glorious moments, there is a faint tendency to catch up with and surpass the Linqing banknotes.

It is not a matter of a day or two that Zuo's wealth is coveted, and the open guns and hidden arrows have never hurt him in the slightest. But now, the Zuo clan has collapsed so quickly, I am afraid that there is a big game of chess behind it, and there are only a handful of people who are qualified to fall on the chessboard. Cui Hanzhang always felt that he had inexplicably crashed into the net and got out by luck. But since the secret blood book was sent, there always seems to be a feeling of being shrouded in a crisis. The wealth of a million taels of silver is not only a hot potato, and it is not an exaggeration to call it a talisman. Cui Hanzhang asked, "Do you know the life and death of the other three?" ”

Zuo Qi, who was immersed in eating, replied angrily: "Since I scattered and fled for my life that night, I have never found them again, and there is no news as if they were sinking into the sea." ”

"Then think about it, does anyone know that you sent the money out of Zuofu and to Xikou?" Cui Hanzhang asked very hurriedly.

Hearing Cui Hanzhang's tone, Zuo Yi could tell the seriousness of the situation. Raising his head, he tried to recall the situation in the bedroom of the old man Zuo, "Every time I enter the old man's room to obey the arrangement, it is in batches, I remember that every time I waited at the door, I saw my aunt Ruyi waiting inside, and the master told the housekeeper to chase you overnight, and she was waiting by the side." And I heard the housekeeper say that when I received you and Mingtang Gongzi in the hall, my aunt Ruyi was also present, so you should have taken a photo. ”

Come to think of it, they came out of the back alley at night both times, and no one should have seen them. This aunt Ruyi should be the clearest insider, but according to the news inquired by Zuo Mi, it is very likely that Aunt Ruyi should be buried in the fire. Cui Hanzhang still has doubts about this Zuofu fire, after all, the burning is too strange, and the timing is so coincidental, if there is no conspiracy, I am afraid it will be unconvincing, and he is more concerned about the life and death of his aunt. At night, I have to discuss with Mingtang and transfer the things in the backyard, and the Cui family's small courtyard is afraid that it is not safe.

"Brother Zuo, rest assured, I will continue to investigate the whereabouts of the other three people of the old housekeeper, as for the fire murder case in Zuofu, it needs to be considered slowly and in the long run." Cui Hanzhang comforted Zuo Mi, who would have thought that Zuo Mi shook his head and said: "The old housekeeper has his own destiny, and we are not afraid of death." But how innocent are the hundreds of people in Zuofu, what is the sin of the children who learn to speak? All of them were buried in the fire, and I also asked Gongzi Cui to return the innocence of my Zuo clan, and I kept my life to avenge them, and I was willing to serve the dogs and horses for my son. ”

Cui Hanzhang felt Zuo Mi's hatred mixed with a bloody aura spurting out, the whole person was full of demonism, such a breathtaking temperament emanated from a Zuofu guy, it was really incredible. If Lou Yueshan will inevitably find clues here, Zuo Yu will cause sudden death if he continues like this for a long time, and the hatred in his heart will automatically run the blood and qi to be released, forming a unique qi machine, and cultivating to the advanced to form a divine consciousness realm that will capture people's hearts, but this itself will be at the cost of burning the essence and spirit. If you don't have a powerful Qi cultivation kung fu to temper your body and warm your mind, sooner or later you will run out of oil and die violently.

The young man on the left is already unstable, and he is used to following the young master's dogs and horses, and his heart is dry; After the catastrophe of extermination, he escaped death and was frightened; The monstrous hatred can only be suppressed in the bottom of the heart, and the heart is angry; choose self-harm for family revenge, and die of heart; Heaven and earth are abandoned, and if no one leads them out, I am afraid that they will fall into the Infernal Demon Path, bloodthirsty and cruel. Zuo Qi is not a kung fu practiced, but a mental strength. It is similar to Cui Hanzhang's self-seeking and self-seeking, but the content released is completely different, good and evil are two sides of the same coin, and if you can't control the released devil, you will be devoured by the devil......

Fortunately, Zuo Qi's state is only fleeting, and the demonic qi comes and goes faster, giving people the feeling of an illusion.

"Since Brother Zuo defected to me, then I must believe that I will figure out the truth of the matter in my own way and give an explanation to everyone in Zuofu. Since there are still people chasing you, it is not enough to change your appearance, and you have to change your name for the time being. Cui Hanzhang looked at Zuo Mi's eyes with unquestioning eyes and said.

"Everything is arranged by Childe. Seeing that the boy still lacks a scholar, he just gives the villain an identity cover. ”

Zuo Mi has already made up his mind along the way, since Cui Hanzhang can get out of the Jin'an North Prison safely, he must not be an ordinary person, I believe that the eldest young master and the old man can see it more clearly than himself, and it is most suitable for him to stay by his side as a scholar.

"Then wronged Brother Zuo, pretend to be my scholar in front of people, and we will intersect with each other in the future. With my surname Cui, let's call Cui Xuan. ”

Cui Hanzhang did not shirk, and saluted Cui Xuan with his fists. Hanzhang named him 'Xuan' is also triggered by the traction of the demonic qi just now, the word sounds the same as the demon, and the demonic nature will steal people's minds. Add a heart treasure on it, hoping to slowly converge his heart.

Our older generation often admonishes the younger generation: "Bullying the mountains and not the water" means that the mountain is constant, visible at a glance, and the natural danger is clear. But water is impermanent, water is invisible and has all shapes, so water is the most dangerous and unpredictable. Since our generation can't be a mountain, we have to be like water, adapt to the situation, adapt and transform into any form. Being like water is not restrained and not rigid. You can see that the water can form dew at night, fog in the morning, thundershowers in summer, snow in winter, and ever-changing. ”

"These truths are also slowly figured out by me from the disaster of Jin'an's prison, and I am talking to you about this, hoping that Brother Zuo can accept Cui Xuan's identity from the heart, and adapt to your role that is no longer related to the Zuo family. If you often can't contain your hatred and are too easy to be seen through, then the two of us will not only lose our lives, but also have no hope of clearing up the grievances for the Zuo family, how can we talk about being innocent? ”

After deciding this matter, Cui Hanzhang explained that he would meet in the bamboo forest in the backyard at night. When I walked out of the door, I realized that the sun had set, and the days in winter were short. During dinner, Cui Hanzhang introduced Cui Xuan to his parents and family, and explained that Cui Xuan was a beggar orphan who he inadvertently rescued in Jin'an's examination, and came to him in desperation. In the future, I lived at home, and when I saw outsiders, I said that it was a distant relative of our family, and my family had suffered a disaster and came to take refuge.

Han Ling is a child's nature, and he is instinctively afraid of Cui Xuan's face, but under the encouraging eyes of his brother, he still tries to smile and say hello to him.

Cui's mother pulled Cui Xuan to sit down to eat, and said in her mouth, "What kind of scholar, our family doesn't like this, we will be a family in the future." ”

Cui's father said "eat" very simply, and naturally poured Cui Xuan a glass of earth soju........