Qi Ning's face was solemn, and he asked in a low voice, "Did you hear any sound?" ”

"Voice?" Ximen Zhan Sakura looked dazed: "What sound?" ”

Qi Ning said: "It seems.... It was as if someone was screaming, and ..... It seems to be a woman. ”

"Scream?" Ximen Zhan Sakura's face was pale: "You heard a scream, I.... I didn't hear it, where did it come from? ”

Qi Ning shook his head: "That voice flashed, and I don't know if I heard it wrong." But if there is really a scream, it is in this house, who is ..... in the middle of the night? Thinking for a while, he immediately saw Ximen Zhan Sakura's nervous expression, hugged him into his arms, and said with a smile: "It's okay, maybe I heard a bad job, you have a good rest first, and I'll go out to see what's going on." ”

Ximen Zhanying immediately grabbed Qi Ning's arm and said softly, "I'll go with you." ”

She was covered with rain and dew, and it was when you were in love with me, although she didn't say it, she didn't want to be separated from Qi Ning for a moment in her heart.

Qi Ning saw her Chu Chu moving appearance, smiled and nodded, the two put on their clothes, and then went out, there was still some time before dawn, the sky was dark, and he vaguely heard movement outside the courtyard, Qi Ning went out of the courtyard, he heard the voice, and really didn't judge where it came from, vaguely saw a few figures not far away, and asked in a deep voice: "Who is it?" ”

A few figures over there stopped, and one of them rushed quickly, but it was Qi Feng.

"Guogong, you ..... How did you get up? Qi Feng said in surprise.

Qi Ning said: "What are you doing?" ”

"Someone just said that they heard a scream, but they don't know where it came from, and I don't know if they heard it wrong." Qi Feng said: "Boss Duan ordered us to take a look around the mansion separately, but don't let people take advantage of it." ”

Qi Ning had previously wondered if he had heard a mistake, but when he heard Qi Feng say this, he was sure that he had heard correctly, and immediately asked, "Who heard it?" ”

"Two or three people heard it, and if it was one person, it might have been a bad listener, but.... Since several people have heard it, it is better to look for it. Qi Feng said: "Guogong, madam, you go back to rest first, just leave it to us, if you find anything, we will report it." ”

Qi Ning felt strange in his heart, but tonight was the wedding night, and it was not good to take the bride to look for it everywhere, and it was enough to leave this kind of thing to Qi Feng and the guards in the mansion, so he said: "Then you should be cautious, and when you search, you should also be careful." Xiang Ximen Zhan Sakura said: "Let's go back to the room first!" ”

Ximen Zhan Sakura nodded, and before he could turn around, he heard a voice shouting, "It's here!" ”

Qi Ning's spirit tightened, Qi Feng also changed color slightly, and said in a deep voice: "Go over there and take a look." Running in the direction of the shouting, several guards immediately followed, and Qi Ning did not hesitate, and also went in that direction.

Soon, he arrived at a forest, but saw torches lit in the grove, a few torches flashed, he stood outside the forest, before he entered, someone in the forest had already come out, and bowed to Qi Ning and said: "Guogong, there are assassins!" ”

"Assassins?" Qi Ning immediately took Ximen Zhan Ying's hand, thinking to himself that it was his enemy who came to the door on the wedding night? Whether it is in the DPRK or in the rivers and lakes, Qi Ning naturally has no shortage of enemies, but if someone dares to sneak into the Guogong Mansion, it is really a lot of courage.

"Guogong, there is a corpse in the forest, it is the maidservant girl in our house." Lin Nei came out again, but it was Zhao Wuxian with a cold expression.

Zhao Wuxian and Duan Canghai returned to Beijing to participate in Qi Ning's marriage this time, after the wedding banquet, they did not return to the camp, they stayed in the mansion, there was movement in the mansion, Duan Canghai sent a few passers-by to look in the mansion, but Zhao Wuxian was the first to find out about the situation.

Qi Ning frowned, and was about to enter the forest, when he suddenly thought of Ximen Zhan Ying, secretly thinking about the wedding night, or not let Ximen Zhan Ying see these bloody things, turned around and didn't speak, but Ximen Zhan Ying was acting neatly, without waiting for Qi Ning to react, he had already drilled into the woods, Qi Ning was stunned, and then smiled bitterly, Ximen Zhan Ying was originally from the Shenhou Mansion, and would often participate in some cases on the rivers and lakes, and when he heard that there were corpses in the forest, he didn't want to go in.

Zhao Wushu took the torch and led Qi Ning to the forest, only to see that there were already six or seven people in the forest in a circle, and when they heard the sound of footsteps, everyone turned around and saw Qi Ning, and immediately dodged a gap.

Qi Ning stepped forward, but saw that Ximen Zhanying had already squatted next to the corpse, the corpse was wearing a skirt, and it was a servant girl Undoubtedly, Qi Ning leaned closer, looked at the handmaid's face, suddenly changed color, and lost his voice: "Yes..... It's Sulan! He could see clearly that the female corpse lying on the ground was actually Su Lan, a servant girl who had been taking care of the black monster.

Qi Ning's surprise was not trivial, when he returned from the wedding banquet tonight, he also talked to Su Lan, and his impression of this girl has always been very good, a girl who was alive a few hours ago, but at this time she has become a cold corpse.

Qi Ning was shocked, and his heart was filled with unprecedented anger.

"Xianggong, she....!" Ximen Zhan Ying examined the corpse, and suddenly raised his head to look at Qi Ning, his pretty face full of horror.

Qi Ning squatted down on the side, staring at Su Lan's throat, the originally white and slender neck, at this time, it was actually dripping with blood, in her throat, there was clearly a bitten wound, and blood flowed outward from the wound.

Qi Ning's eyes were like knives, and he said word by word: "Bronze General!" ”

When I first saw Ximen Zhan Ying, that night Ximen Zhan Ying and Yan Lingxian were chasing the traces of the bronze general, and there were several strange murders in the capital for a while, and the victims were all sucked dry of the blood of the body and turned into dried corpses, and the culprit was the bronze general.

The Shenhou Mansion has been chasing the whereabouts of the Bronze General, but since that time, the Bronze General seems to have disappeared out of thin air, and there has been no more crime, and no one in the capital has seen a blood-sucked corpse.

Qi Ning once analyzed the characteristics of the bronze general, and told the Shenhou Mansion, after all, this was not his business, and he still had other things to do at that time, and he did not have the energy to track down the case of the bronze general, and the bronze general did not commit another crime after that, and Qi Ning did not ask the Shenhou Mansion about the follow-up of this case, but he never expected that the bronze general, who had disappeared for a long time, would appear again this time, and the place where he appeared was the Protector's Mansion.

The case of the Bronze General is a secret case, so naturally it will not be publicized to the public, everything is secretly investigated by the Shenhou Mansion, so no one else present understands what kind of divine the Bronze General Qi Ning is talking about.

"It's him!" Ximen Zhan Ying was sure: "The wound is exactly the same as the case he committed before. ”

Zhao Wushu also squatted down and said in a low voice: "Guogong, this wound is very strange, just like ..... It's like a wild beast tearing it open with sharp teeth, but looking at the wound and tooth stains, it doesn't look like a wild beast, it's obviously a human tooth, and there are no fierce beasts in the house. ”

Qi Feng was shocked and said, "It was someone who bit his throat, so ..... Who is that, and how can it be..... How could he be so vicious? ”

"There must have been some traces." Ximen Zhan Ying raised his head and said: "The bronze general has always washed the blood in the human body and turned it into a dry corpse, but this ..... Although this girl's neck was bitten open, the amount of blood that was sucked was not much, if I guessed correctly, the murderer did not want to suck blood, but the guards in the house acted quickly, and the murderer had no time, so he fled in a hurry. He got up, inspected the surroundings of the corpse, suddenly took a few steps, squatted down, and said in a cold voice: "Torch!" ”

Zhao Wushu hurriedly approached with a torch, Ximen Zhan Ying took the torch and took a picture of the ground, Qi Ning also approached and asked in a low voice, "Zhan Ying, what did you find?" ”

"There are footprints here." Ximen Zhan Ying bent over, took a picture with a torch, and said in a low voice: "Xianggong, you see, there are many footprints here, and the guards in the house are all wearing boots, which are obviously footprints left by cloth shoes, so naturally they will not be theirs." ”

Qi Ning thought to himself that Ximen Zhan Ying had been trained by the Shenhou Mansion after all, and his observation power was still not weak, so he bowed his head and said, "This should be the footprints left by the Bronze General." ”

Qi Feng pulled out his sword and said, "Guogong, let's follow the footprints to chase the assassin, a few of you, come with me." ”

Qi Ning had already said in a deep voice: "Qi Feng, you take someone to the third lady's side immediately, whether the assassin will leave or not, we can't be sure, we must protect the third lady's thoughtfulness, and also, don't alarm the third lady for the time being, just protect around her yard." ”

Qi Feng hurriedly said: "Yes!" "I hurried away with a few people.

"Lao Zhao, you go find the ugly man and see where he is now." Qi Ning commanded: "If you find him, don't be alarmed. ”

Zhao Wuxian said yes and quickly retreated.

Ximen Zhan Ying had already walked out of the road with a torch at this time, suddenly stopped, turned around and said, "Xianggong, murderer..... It looks like it's hurt! ”

"Hurt?" Qi Ning was stunned for a moment, stepped forward and asked, "Why do you judge like this?" ”

"You look at his footprints, there are no rules, it seems to be stumbling." Ximen Zhan Sakura said: "I'm not sure he must be injured, but if a person is seriously injured, unsteady when walking, floating under his feet, staggering ......, of course, it is also possible that the murderer is drunk." ”

Qi Ning's heart sank, and he frowned: "Drunk? But he couldn't help but think that when he and Ximen Wuxian talked about the bronze general, he judged that the murderer was likely to be a person in the officialdom, or even a military general, and at the wedding banquet in the evening, many of the civil and military generals in the court came, and many of them were drunk.

Thinking of this, a chill ran down his spine, if this was the case, then the bronze general was likely to deal with him often, but the other party concealed his identity, but he was unaware.

At this time, he heard the sound of footsteps again, Qi Ning turned around, and saw that Duan Canghai had already brought a few people over, Duan Canghai led people to search in other places, and when he heard the movement here, he hurried over, this small forest was near the east courtyard where Qi Ning lived, so Qi Ning arrived before him.

Seeing the corpse on the ground, Duan Canghai's face showed a look of anger and clenched his fists, but when he saw that Qi Ning was safe and sound, he was slightly relieved, stepped forward and whispered: "Guogong, the assassin should be coming at you!" ”