The Luoshui River is like a giant python inhabiting the forest. The river looks calm at night, but the water below is very fast.

Xie Jinyan found a rope to tie around the neck of the little yellow dog, and followed the little yellow dog downstream from Zhoujiazhuang to find it.

About five miles away from Zhoujiazhuang, there is a pebble shoal. The little yellow dog barked a few times and ran towards the shallows.

The fleshy yellow dog tossed the pebbles with its paws, and in two or three strokes a white heart was pulled out from under the pebbles.

The little yellow dog "Wang" barked twice and was about to bite down on the heart, but Xie Jinyan lifted the back of his neck and lifted it: "Don't eat this, I'll buy you some beef to eat later." ”

Lu Yubao searched around the river beach: "There are estimated five or six here. ”

Bai Luo frowned and said, "Five or six, I remember that more than forty people died in Zhoujiazhuang?"

Yuan Yuzhu said softly: "Forty-eight people." ”

Zong Ye picked up a pebble, and when the pebble fell, there was only a small splash in the river. "The current in this river should be quite fast. I'm afraid that more hearts will be washed downstream. ”

If it was a few corpses, it would be possible for Xue Yu to turn into a real body in the water to find it, but it was not so easy if it was just the heart. One is that it is easy to be eaten by fish, and the other is that the current is too fast, and the small heart will soon be washed downstream.

Bai Luo asked Yuan Yuzhu and said, "Young Master Yuan, has there ever been a Vermilion Bird Feather in Zhoujiazhuang?"

Yuan Yuzhu shook his head and said, "I haven't found out yet." Zhoujiazhuang is too remote, there are no people around, and all the people of the Zhou family are dead. No one knows the situation of the Zhou family. ”

Xie Jinyan hugged the little yellow dog and scratched the dog's head: "This is troublesome, now the Zhou family is left with this dog, and this case is difficult to investigate." ”

Bai Luo raised his eyebrows and looked at Xie Jinyan: "How do you know that this dog belongs to the Zhou family?"

In just such a while, Xie Jinyan and the little yellow dog have let go of the old grievances of the dog's mouth and heart, and they are like brothers.

Xie Jinyan hugged the little yellow dog, raised the little yellow dog's paws and showed Bai Luo: "Its paws have been trimmed." And this place is so biased, it's still so fat, and the hair is shiny, I don't know how good it is to eat on weekdays. Moreover, Zhoujiazhuang is so far away in this pebble beach that it has to run five miles back from here. No matter how you look at it, it looks like it was raised by Zhou's family. ”

Xue Yu pointed to the little yellow dog and said, "Then you ask it, have you ever seen the Vermilion Bird Feather?"

"Hush. Xie Jinyan glanced at Xue Yu.

"Wang. The little yellow dog barked twice.

Xie Jinyan picked up the little yellow dog: "Why do you really want to talk?" Then let me ask you, has there ever been a red bird feather in Zhoujiazhuang? ”

"Appeared. A calm female voice came.

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Xie Jinyan looked at the little yellow dog and stared at him: "Are you a female dog??"

Xie Jinyan turned the little yellow dog over again and looked at the bottom of the little yellow dog's belly: "That's not right." You're a male dog!"

Bai Luo resisted the urge to kick Xie Jinyan into the river, and looked behind him over Xie Jinyan's shoulder.

Behind Xie Jinyan, a woman wearing a sackcloth with a white conical hat and carrying a lantern stood on the river beach: "I've seen that red feather." ”

The woman was unpowdered, her face was pale, and her eyes were a little swollen.

Xue Yu was stunned: "Ling'er girl, why did you come here?"

Yue Ling'er is the Oiran of Lingyin Pavilion. When she saw Xue Yu, she saluted and said, "Xue Gongzi." ”

"Miss Ling'er, where have you seen that feather?"

Yue Ling'er couldn't help but shake when she saw a few hearts thrown out of the pebble beach. She lowered her eyes and said to Bai Luo: "I saw it in the hands of Zhou Gongzi." ”

"Zhou Lingheng?"

Yue Ling'er nodded.

"Where did he get it from?"

Yue Ling'er shook her head: "Zhou Gongzi didn't say it. When Zhou Gongzi came to me that day, he was holding a red feather, and Zhou Gongzi originally said that I would use it as a hairpin, but that day I had some awkward trouble with Zhou Gongzi, so I didn't take the feather away. I didn't expect a farewell to be a farewell. ”

Yue Ling'er was crying, and the pear blossoms brought rain made people feel pity.

Xue Yu said softly, "Why did you come here?"

"I heard that something happened to the Zhou family, so I came to take a look, but I didn't expect ......" Yue Ling'er's lips trembled and she seemed to be unable to say any more: "I heard that Young Master Yuan brought someone to find it downstream, so I wanted to follow over and have a look." ”

Yue Ling'er's face turned pale and she raised her head and asked Xue Yu, "Xue Gongzi, did I accept that feather in the first place, and Zhou Gongzi would not have died?"

Bai Luo said lightly: "Miss Ling'er's assumption is meaningless, if someone deliberately wants to harm Zhou Xiaogongzi, you can't save it." ”

"I just want to go with Zhou Gongzi, but Zhou Gongzi's body is not complete, and it is still hanging on the beams of the house. If I can't find Zhou Gongzi's heart, what face do I have to go down to see him?"

Yue Ling'er looked at the heart on the ground and whispered, "If a person lacks a heart, he can't enter reincarnation." How will we meet in the next life?"

Bai Luo said lightly: "Don't worry, as long as you are not an evil person, you can enter reincarnation without a heart." If you want to go with him, go with him. But if I were you, what if I wanted to find out the murderer?"

Yue Ling'er hurriedly said, "Does the girl have eyebrows?"

Bai Luo said coldly: "No." ”

Yue Ling'er looked at Bai Luo suspiciously. Bai Luo had already turned his head away and stopped looking at her.

Jiang Qinghan stood up from the ground and said, "Miss Ling'er doesn't need to look for it, there is no heart of Zhou Xiaogongzi here." ”

Just now, Lu Yubao and Zong Ye talked about hoeing the pebble beach together, and found all the hearts that rushed to the rocky beach.

Jiang Qinghan examined the five or six hearts in front of him one by one: "Zhou Xiaogongzi is a person who cultivates immortals, and none of the hearts in this have spirit beads. ”

"Young Master Yuan, does the Zhou family still have loose cultivation?"

Yuan Yuzhu nodded: "Zhou Lingheng's two eldest brothers are both casual cultivators, but they didn't enter the Xuanyue Temple because of their mediocre qualifications. ”

"Is there a foundation?"

"Yes. Zhou Lingheng's two elder brothers also had spirit beads, but the Xuanyue Temple's cultivation of the Medicine Sect was not compatible with them, so they did not accept the two sons. ”

"Then ask Master Yuan Shao to look down the downstream to see if there is a heart with a spirit bead. ”

Yuan Yuzhu was surprised: "Cang Ayajun suspects that someone has stolen the spirit bead? What's the use of stealing orbs?"

"I don't know yet. Bai Luo said lightly.

What is the use of the spirit bead recognizing that the owner has stolen the spirit bead? Where will your own golden spirit bead be?

What's more, Nuwa Temple and Zhoujiazhuang have all appeared Vermilion Bird Feathers. What does this matter have to do with Suzaku?

In the place where Bai Luo did not see, on the tallest and thickest tree in front of Zhoujiazhuang, a red-hot kestrel was hiding in the dark. As they left the riverbank, they flapped their wings and flew away.