Chapter 219: Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven: Night Detective
Liang Hongyu was here with Shao Yunjing, after three days of recuperation, the injuries on both arms healed, she learned from Shao Yunjing where Chen Liqing killed Zhu Ruxian in Runzhou, got the help of Mingjiao to escape, and went to find the news of An Daoquan's treatment, and immediately submitted her resignation to Shao Yunjing.
Shao Yunjing knew that she was anxious, but she didn't stop her, so she prepared enough entanglements and things for the application of the rivers and lakes, and asked the masters of Mingjiao to help her change her makeup, dress up as a man, hide from the officials and soldiers, and leave Suzhou, more than one day to Nanjing, but did not enter the city, since the Purple Mountain disembarked, and then took the land to Guazhou.
After leaving Suzhou, the search is not so strict, plus the protection of Mingjiao, there are no officials and soldiers to find trouble, Liang Hongyu walked freely, and came in the direction of Runzhou, this day entered the south of Runzhou Baohe Town, Liang Hongyu also went here before, but it was in a hurry, this will walk into the town leisurely, only to feel that the scenery here is beautiful, it looks beautiful like a picture, especially a trip to the north, you can see the Yangtze River and three continents from afar, which makes people fascinated, and can't help but be greedy to see the scenery, and walk for a while.
The day is easy, and in a blink of an eye it is already time for Yanghua to sink, Liang Hongyu found a restaurant by the river, found a head to sit on the window, and looked at the scenery while eating good Jiangnan wine.
The sky will still be bright, but Liang Hongyu will look at it for a while and find that there are fewer and fewer pedestrians on the road, and every household is closed, as if to avoid ghosts, as if to avoid ghosts, and can't help but say a little strange to Xiao Er: "Little Second Brother, are your customs here different from other places?" ”
Xiao Er was puzzled and said, "What does this mean by the guest officer?" But do you see anything different? ”
Liang Hongyu pointed to the people downstairs who were closed, and said, "It's not dark yet, why are they closed?" ”
Xiao Er heard this and smiled: "The guest officer doesn't know, it's a pregnant woman at home, so he closed early." ”
Liang Hongyu was even more strange and said, "What? Do pregnant women have to close early? Why haven't I heard of it? ”
Xiao Er wanted to speak and stopped, Liang Hongyu was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, so he took out a piece of silver and said, "You just say, I'll hear what's going on." ”
When Xiao Er saw the little coin that was more than one or two, he couldn't help but be moved, first grabbed the silver in his hand, and then said in a low voice: "The guest officer doesn't know, we have been along the river for nearly a year, since Liuhe, to Guazhou, as long as the pregnant woman is pregnant, the family closes late, basically suffers from the disaster, so now all of us along the river, there are pregnant women in the family are closed early." ”
Liang Hongyu frowned slightly, and said, "I don't know what disaster has happened?" ”
Xiao Er refused to say it again, Liang Hongyu sneered and said, "What, do you want me to spend another tael of silver to buy it?" Why don't you call your shopkeeper up, and I'll ask him." ”
Xiao Er said with a bitter face: "Guest officer, he ...... about this He set up ghosts and gods, and the villain really didn't dare to talk about it, if the guest was annoyed, the villain was willing to return the two pieces of silver. As he spoke, Xiao Er really took out a tael of silver, reluctantly took it in his hand, and handed it back to Liang Hongyu.
Liang Hongyu looked at Xiao Er with some surprise, she knew that these shopkeepers were scheming, and they regarded money as a mosquito seeing blood, this Xiao Er would rather have blood than beg her not to ask, which made Liang Hongyu curious, she rolled her eyes, sneered, and said: "Okay, you can take back this money, and I will say to your shopkeeper in a while, you took me a tael of silver, but you can't do anything for me, do you say that he will believe me, or will he believe you?" ”
Xiao Er was stunned for a moment, and only after half a sound did he shout: "Guest officer, you are trying to kill me." ”
Liang Hongyu was originally such a narrow ghost, but after leaving Huai'an's house, she hadn't let go like this for a long time, and she couldn't help but be happier when she saw Xiao Er's embarrassment, so she knocked on the wine bowl with chopsticks and said, "If you don't say it, then I'll call someone." ”
Xiao Er had no choice but to say: "That's the case, just a year ago, we had a pregnant woman who was eight months pregnant, and the door was closed late at night, and when she got up the next morning, the pregnant woman's belly was cut open, and a baby was formed, and the raw one was taken out. ”
"Originally, this thing was scary, but I didn't expect that from that day on, there were a series of accidents, and then it came out, the house closed late, and the ghost who ate the baby was recruited, so it came out, and since then everyone has been afraid, so they are all careful, as long as there are pregnant women at home, they will close the door if they don't wait for the night."
Liang Hongyu shook her head slightly, although she hadn't walked the rivers and lakes, but she didn't believe in what the ghosts and gods said, this evil ghost came out to eat babies, how could she listen to it.
"This kind of thing, if you believe it, you will have it, if you don't believe it, there will be a reason, and the baby and pregnant mother will be killed, and your officials here will let this word spread and don't care about it?"
The little second waved his hand and said, "Don't talk nonsense, we can't afford to cause trouble." ”
Liang Hongyu saw that Xiao Er was scared enough, and smiled at the moment: "As soon as I say it, you will hear it, we don't have pregnant women here, what else can you do." ”
The little second said: "Don't believe it, guest officer, if it's just a mess here for us, then that's it, didn't I say it, from Liuhe, Changlu, to our Guazhou for such a long distance, how can it be said that it is fake." ”
Xiao Er probably felt that saying this was not enough to express credibility, so he said: "And...... If they hadn't told them to close the door early, I don't know how many people would have died, if you don't say anything else, just appear at night, and there is no trace in the house, and you can take the child away, is this something that people can pretend to do? ”
Liang Hongyu secretly said in her heart: "I can do it, it's not a difficult thing." It's just that when he saw Xiao Er's appearance, he didn't say any more, but after hearing Xiao Er say twice that it was from the Mingjiao, she was even more suspicious, although the relationship between her and Shao Yunjing and his wife was not bad, but the Mingjiao people were hiding filth and filth, and Liang Hongyu still didn't look down on them.
Liang Hongyu saw that she couldn't ask anything, so she was ready to forget it, just wanted to let Xiao Er go down, she heard a burst of angry scolding, she turned around and looked downstairs, and saw the door of a family open, a man was pointing at a Taoist priest and scolding, Liang Hongyu said a little strangely: "This monk preaching is a good thing to do good and accumulate virtue, if you don't do it, why are you still scolded?" ”
The little two leaned over and took a look, and said, "This Taoist priest should be scolded, the guest officer looked at the door of this house because the Taoist priest failed to close it." ”
Liang Hongyu was just as Xiao Er was speaking, when she suddenly raised her eyebrows, she stood up, staring at the Taoist priest below with blazing eyes, and said at the same time: "Oh, there are pregnant women in this family?" ”
"Of course!" Xiao Er shouted: "The guest officer doesn't know, that Xu Wu is a cooked skin, married two daughters-in-law and failed to give birth to a child, some time ago I married a concubine, I didn't expect the concubine to get pregnant, Xu Wu hurt like something, every day their house closed the earliest, not even business, seeing that the child is going to be a full month, but today let this Taoist priest miss the time, how can he not be angry." ”
Liang Hongyu grabbed a message from Xiao Er's voice and said, "Is every stolen baby to be formed and born quickly?" ”
Xiao Er nodded and said solemnly: "Yes, they are all formed male fetuses." ”
Liang Hongyu smiled and said, "Where can you know this?" ”
When Xiao Er said this, he was not afraid that Liang Hongyu would not believe it, but he was afraid of Liang Hongyu's jokes, so he hurriedly swore and vowed: "I don't know, there are also baby girls who have had an accident here, but the baby has not been taken away, and it is still in the belly of the pregnant woman, even if the male fetus is not formed, it will also be left." ”
The more Liang Hongyu listened, the tighter her brows wrinkled, and said in her heart: "Master used to tell those anecdotes about the rivers and lakes, and when he used to tell those anecdotes about the rivers and lakes, there was an East Shaolin Temple in the south of the Yangtze River, and there was a method left in the temple, called 'Elder Immortal Doll Cake', which is how to take the baby boy in the stomach to be used for medicine and consumption, and later the East Shaolin Temple was destroyed by the imperial teacher Jintai, and the origin of this doll cake was cut off. ”
The more Liang Hongyu thought about it, the more she felt that it was right, looked at the person below, and said in her heart: "Yes, Mingjiao is the number one religion in Jiangnan, how can you not know the powerful truth here, you must want to lead out the person who makes immortal doll cakes, so it is rumored that ghosts and gods are doing strange things, and then they secretly find out, this bull's nose is blocking the door of other people's houses, just to let this family enter the eyes of the thief who makes immortal doll cakes." ”
Thinking of this, Liang Hongyu couldn't help but feel ashamed of the Taoists below, and said in her heart: "Originally, I promised Shao Yunjing to kill you, but I just had the intention of returning the favor to Shao Yunjing. ”
It turned out that the person who was blocking the door from closing the house was the 'Vermilion Bird Zhenren' Zhao Wende, and at this time he pestered the owner of the family to turn his fate, and he refused to leave when there was more food for a while and less rice for a while.
Seeing that it was getting darker and darker, the master was also anxious, grabbed a knife that was used for cooked skin, waved it at Zhao Wende's head, and shouted: "If you don't leave, Lao Tzu will chop off your dog's head!" ”
Zhao Wende stepped back in a panic, and couldn't stop saying: "Monk Zhai, this is a good deed, why do you suffer like this, why do you suffer like this." "He's still sour here, then Xu Wu is really anxious, he raised his hand and threw the knife out, Zhao Wende hurriedly lowered his head, the knife knocked the crown on his head flying, and the hair on his head was scattered, Zhao Wende was so frightened that he screamed, covered his head and ran away, his hair was scattered, he looked very funny, and the people around him couldn't stop coaxing him, Zhao Wende left with shame, and Xu Wu went back and closed the door tightly.
Above the restaurant, everyone who saw it was laughing at Zhao Wende's embarrassment, only Liang Hongyu's eyes were cold, with Zhao Wende's ability, not to mention such a cooked leather craftsman, even if he was a martial arts expert, it was impossible to knock off his crown, Cai's move was just Zhao Wende acting.
Liang Hongyu recalled Zhao Wende's clumsy performance, and suddenly arose, and said to Xiao Er: "You people who have been softly taken away their children, but have they all been disturbed by this Taoist priest?" ”
Xiao Er smiled: "How is it possible, we don't have so many Taoist priests here." ”
Liang Hongyu breathed a sigh of relief at this time, and said in her heart: "The Ming Sect must be a famous sect, and it shouldn't be able to do such a hurtful thing, but I think about it too much." ”
Liang Hongyu lowered her head to eat again, but saw that Xiao Er did not leave, holding the piece of silver in her hand, and she looked like she wanted to speak, Liang Hongyu immediately understood, and said indifferently: "This silver is yours." Xiao Er was overjoyed, and hurriedly thanked him.
Liang Hongyu drank slowly, if there was no Zhao Wende in this, even if someone made a move to do immortal doll cake Liang Hongyu would not interfere, she was not Jintai, and she did not have the ability to fight Shaolin, but it involved Zhao Wende, she promised Shao Yunjing, so she couldn't ignore it.
Liang Hongyu put down the wine glass, looked at the scenery outside, and said softly: "Sister Shao, you really deserve to be the wife of the sect leader, and you think about everything for your officials." She had a grudge against Mingjiao, and she had a conflict with Zhao Wende and killed him, which can be said to be completely reasonable, and no one will doubt it, but she Liang Hongyu is going to have a reputation of ingratitude, but Liang Hongyu agreed to do this, not only to repay her kindness, but also because she has always had an opinion on the people in the Mingjiao, and the direct murderer who killed her father was the Mingjiao people, so she did not resist killing the people in the Mingjiao at all.
Liang Hongyu came down from the restaurant, and found an inn to live in, after entering the guest room, he didn't wash, he fell asleep, and stayed until the fixed watch, when the sound outside sounded, Liang Hongyu sat up from the bed.
Liang Hongyu got up and stuffed the pillow into the quilt, made it look like she was sleeping, then opened the pane, dodged out, and then closed the pane, covered it with a muslin cloth from the outside, and couldn't see that the window had been opened inside, and then turned over to the roof, these methods were taught to her by Chen Xizhen, although Liang Hongyu didn't know if this method could be used, but she still did the same way to draw a gourd.
Liang Hongyu walked towards Xu Wu's house through the ridge, she stepped on the good point during the day, this inn is exactly a straight line from Xu's house, Liang Hongyu was afraid that she was not familiar with the path and went to the wrong place, so she deliberately found this route.
After Liang Hongyu arrived at the house of the neighbors of the Xu family, she lay on it and waited quietly.
Nearly two watches, three figures flew over, and stopped on the house on the left side of Liang Hongyu, Liang Hongyu looked through the moonlight, and saw that the three people were bald, and couldn't help but have a cold glow in their eyes, and secretly said in their hearts: "It seems that it is really those Shaolin remnants who came to take this baby!" Thinking of this, he took off the short-horned bow that Shao Yunjing prepared for him from his back, this is a bow for fishermen, originally the people of the rivers and lakes don't use bows, but in addition to this, Liang Hongyu will not use other hidden weapons.
Liang Hongyu took out another iron feather arrow, set it up but did not open the bow, and aimed at the three monks, at this time, a cloud floated over, covering the moon, and the three monks suddenly exclaimed, followed by a flash of light in front of Liang Hongyu's eyes, and her appearance with a horn bow was just exposed in front of the eyes of the three monks.
A monk roared angrily, flew towards Liang Hongyu, and smashed down with an iron crutch in his hand, and roared angrily at the same time: "You little thief, give the poor monk his life!" ”
Liang Hongyu stepped back, leaned back, and the iron crutch wiped her face down, and the tiles under it were smashed, and the flying fragments burst out to both sides, and the screams in the room below came out, Liang Hongyu was shocked and angry, with his left hand on his back and his right hand raised, the short iron feather arrow hit the monk, and at the same time said: "The master didn't go to look for you bald thieves, but you found the master first!" ”
The iron crutch in the monk's hand was picked up, and the iron feather arrow jumped up, and the second monk also came over, his cheek was scratched, his dark face was full of anger, and the ring knife in his hand pushed horizontally towards Liang Hongyu's waist.
The two monks made a move, both of them were decent martial arts, upright, powerful, and there was no ghost domain skill at all, which made Liang Hongyu even more angry, grabbed a golden spear in his right hand to block the ring knife, and reprimanded coldly: "You bald thieves, good monks, but do such a hurtful thing, aren't you afraid that the Buddha will accept you!" ”
"You little thief is talking nonsense!" The monk of the wheel and iron crutch was the most irritable, listening to Liang Hongyu's words, the iron crutch in his hand danced more and more urgently, and covered Liang Hongyu, Liang Hongyu relied on his body to take a few steps back, which would be too late to put away the horn bow, so he threw it to the ground, and then pulled out another iron spear, and said in his heart: "Girl, I am waiting for Zhao Wende to come over today, waiting for the three of you bald asses to do evil, take the opportunity to kill him, and the three of you bump into it by yourself, then don't blame the girl for being ruthless." ”
Thinking of this, Liang Hongyu's double spears rushed out, and they crashed into the weapons of the two monks, the sparks flew out, she practiced the kung fu of the spear and the horse, the strength was the top, the three weapons intersected, the two monks were shocked by her and each took a step back, the iron crutch was still pressed, and the ring knife was shaken up, and the sparks flew at the edge of the blade, and the jump was full of shakuhachi length and height.
Liang Hongyu danced with two guns, and the two monks were caged in his gun circle, the martial arts of these two monks are quite extraordinary, but the hands-on experience is obviously not as good as Liang Hongyu's feet, and although there are also life-control tricks, the ruthlessness is far from enough, so it was suppressed by Liang Hongyu's double guns, and for a while, it was impossible to conflict.
After fighting for more than ten rounds, the two monks gradually became familiar with Liang Hongyu's rhythm, and a little bit of conflict came out, although Liang Hongyu knew the reason, but she had been worried about the monk who didn't show up, so the double guns in her hands didn't dare to use the old, so there was no way to hurt the two monks when they had the upper hand, and when they saw that they would turn the situation back, she couldn't help but be secretly anxious.
The three of them fought anxiously, and they couldn't distinguish up and down for a while, at this time, there was an exclamation from Xu Wu's house, followed by Xu Wu's roar, the three of them were stunned, and they stopped together, Liang Hongyu was the first to react, and shouted angrily: "Okay, you turn the tiger away from the mountain, lead me away, that bald donkey goes to fetch the child in someone's belly!" ”
The Tie Guan monk scolded angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about! When he was about to step forward again, the monk who quit the knife grabbed him and said, "Senior brother, slow down!" Then he said to Liang Hongyu: "I'm afraid that we have all been tricked!" ”
Besides, when Liang Hongyu and the two monks fought together in the mist, a figure sneaked towards Xu Wu's house, and above the room where the three monks were hiding, the third monk was also going to chase Liang Hongyu, but at this time, the clouds in the sky faded again, and he couldn't help but move his heart when he saw the person who came from the hidden form, but he said that he was Liang Hongyu's accomplice, so he fell down again, but no longer moved.
The person who came was closer, and the monk above the room saw the person at a glance, and couldn't help but be surprised in his eyes, and said in his heart: "How can it be a real person from Suzaku!" Originally, he wanted to dodge over, but he hesitated, Zhao Wende is also a famous figure in Jiangnan, his identity and status are not below these three monks, the big monk never believes that he will do such a hurtful thing, but at this time, Zhao Wende came over like this, but it was suspiciously tight, the big monk thought about it, and fished a tile from under his feet and threw it towards Xu Wu's courtyard.
With a snap, the tile hit the ground, Zhao Wende stood suddenly, and then Xu Wu's house sounded a screaming exclamation, but it was Xu Wu's concubine who had a big belly and couldn't sleep well.
Followed by Xu Wu's roar, he rushed out of the house with a Pu knife, last night, he failed to close the door in time, which made him worry all the time, worried about the concubine and the child in her belly, so he specially got a Pu knife, lying in the room next to the concubine's bedroom, he was going to fall asleep while lying down, suddenly heard the sound of broken tiles, and the scream of the concubine, and immediately rushed out of sleep.
Xu Wu knew Zhao Wende, and he could see the person clearly by the moonlight, and couldn't help but scold angrily: "Bull nose, it's really you!" "Speaking of the wheel knife on chopping, the southerners are not better than the northerners to fight bravely, Xu Wuchun has learned martial arts for a few days, and he has rarely met opponents, so he thinks very high, although he knows that there may be something tonight, but because it is late, he did not find a helper, so he kept vigil by himself, and he was not afraid, this will be a big knife wheel, with a sound of wind on Zhao Wende's head, seeing the knife falling, Zhao Wende still did not hide, Xu Wuxian was a little panicked, thinking about whether to let a knife, so as not to really kill people, the sword behind Zhao Wende flew out, stabbed at his heart, Xu Wu didn't even react, and was pierced by the sword.
At the moment when Xu Wu was killed, the big monk flew down, grabbed Xu Wu and retreated, he wanted to save Xu Wu, but it was too late, he would take Zhao Wende's sword and retreat, Zhao Wende snorted coldly, then flew back from Xu Wu's body and re-entered his hands.