Ji Yan, Mei Yuning, and Sun Dayong took turns using Ji Yan's dagger, and each drew his own works on three pieces of mulberry paper, completed the drawing, and compared them together.

The so-called no comparison is harmless, and this comparison, who is better and who is inferior is judged, and the person who draws the worst is immediately harmed.

Ji Yan's hand is holding the pen, so the wrist strength is the most accurate, this knife painting is somewhat similar to writing brush words, and the most important thing is also a sense of proportion.

Mei Yuning is second, it is a decent work, not as delicate as Ji Yan, but he can barely tell what he is painting, and others can probably understand it.

If you say it clearly, others can understand it, which is a passing grade for general works.

Sun Dayong's work is a little unbearable to look at directly, it looks like a long-used cutting board, only a piece of scratches without rules, and a series of miscellaneous ones are superimposed on top of each other.

Sun Dayong also realized that his work was a little out of his hands, he touched the back of his head, and said with a smile: "I usually hold a big knife with this hand, and I am good at killing enemies and investigating cases, but I am not good at this painting." In the past, when we marched to survey the terrain, I also took a few people to survey the mountains and explore the way, and some people wrote and painted on cloth or mulberry paper. ”

After listening to Sun Dayong's words, Mei Yuning smiled and said: "Then it seems that this errand this time is still the same, Sun Qiguan, you survey the mountains and explore the way, and I will translate with Ji Tong to record your calligraphy and painting." ”

Sun Dayong knew that Mei Yuning was joking with him, so he didn't continue to say anything, only smiled with embarrassed trembling thick lips.

Along the way, Mei Yuning rarely took the initiative to talk to Sun Dayong, and this is because she has been together for a long time recently, so she will take the initiative to talk to Sun Dayong.

After listening to Mei Yuning's teasing words, Ji Yan felt a sense of relief in his heart.

It turned out that along the way, Ji Yan had always been worried about the knots between Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong.

Of course, having said that, in fact, the main thing is how Mei Yuning treats Sun Dayong, or that she is more troublesome when she gets along with anyone she doesn't know.

Mei Yuning treats people she doesn't know well, she has a frosty face, and when ordinary people talk to her, she also ignores her.

Only after a long time and getting acquainted with each other did she recover her little girl's heart, love to be naughty, and love to joke.

In modern times, her personality would probably be called "sullen".

So seeing Mei Yuning making Sun Dayong's joke, Ji Yan only felt a lot more relaxed in his heart, at least it showed that Mei Yuning had already passed the initial alert period for Sun Dayong, so that if he wanted to arrange some things later, it would be much more convenient for the two of them to work together.

The three of them talked and laughed for a while between the gaps in the mountains and forests, seeing that the sun had emerged from the thick clouds, and a piece of green could already be seen in the distance of the sun.

They judged the time again, and when it was past noon, they went down the hill to their lodgings without further delay.

This down the mountain is still much lighter than going up the mountain, after all, they are familiar with the road, along the original footprints and cut out the road, the three of them trotted all the way, and it took less than an hour to go down the mountain.

By the time they reached the foot of the mountain, it was nearly dusk, and the sky was beginning to be overcast.

Ji Yan walked towards Chen Laohan's house, thinking about what he should eat tonight?

He was still curious about one thing in his mind, that is, he didn't know if Chen Laohan's daughter came back with the five-person Ming Dynasty incense digging team, and he didn't know what his daughter looked like.

Before entering the courtyard gate, Ji Yan was in a good mood, so he shouted outside the house, "Lao Chen, we're back." ”

After all, Chen Laohan was a guide for the people of the Ming Dynasty, so "Lao Chen" is called himself, and he still knows it.

But there was no reaction in the house at all, no one answered, no one came out to greet him, and Ji Yan didn't think much about it, anyway, the courtyard door was wide open.

The three of them walked directly into Chen Laohan's house.

As soon as he entered the house, Ji Yan was shocked by the situation in the courtyard.

In the small courtyard, there were two corpses, lying on the ground with their backs up, with several deep wounds on their backs, and blood flowed all over the ground, and the entire courtyard was covered in the courtyard.

These two people seem to be the two bodyguards of Chen Sihan, the incense digger of the Zhancheng Kingdom, who was hit in the back, and felt that they had been sneak attacked.

Mei Yuning and Sun Dayong had handled the case, and when they saw this scene, they were also very surprised at first, but they reacted much faster than Ji Yan, and after a while, they came back to their senses and immediately walked into the house quickly.

The two of them looked around the hall and the inner room, and then silently shook their heads and walked out of the house.

Ji Yan was still standing stupidly in place at the moment, and when he saw the two of them walking away from the house, he finally reacted a little, and asked in disbelief: "Are they all dead?" ”

Mei Yuning frowned, and said sadly: "Yes, there are Chen Laohan inside, Chen Sihan, and there are ...... in the inner room."

She was a little bit and didn't continue.

Sun Dayong answered: "The inner room is a girl, maybe she is the daughter of Chen Laohan, alas...... It's really a good person who doesn't live long......"

Ji Yan's face was pale at the moment, his mouth was dry, his breathing was a lot shorter, and everything in front of him seemed to be a little trance and unreal.

He has also seen dead people, on the battlefield, beheaded in the capital, in short, they are all unknown and unfamiliar with him.

These things are different in front of them, these people are still smiling and talking to themselves in the morning, giving them sickle herbs, and when they come back from the mountain, they are separated by yin and yang.

Ji Yan settled down and cautiously approached the house.

In the hall, the two people lying on the ground were Chen Laohan and Chen Sihan.

Chen Sihan was wiped on his neck, his eyes were still full of incomprehension and horror, it is estimated that those gangsters were attacked together, causing Chen Sihan to die without knowing how to react.

Chen Laohan's posture seemed to be kneeling and begging for something before he died, but these gangsters did not have any compassion, and still slashed obliquely and killed this good old man.

Looking at the back room, Ji Yan seemed to understand what Old Man Chen was begging for.

There was only one female corpse in the back room, lying on the bed, naked, with blood stains on her body and some filth, apparently she had been abused before she died.

Ji Yan looked at all this, and still seemed to be a little incredulous, he breathed a sigh of relief, silent, and stood in the room like a log.

Mei Yuning has a clear love and hate character, especially Chen Laohan is also her benefactor, and on the way here, he helped her find herbs.

Her face was pale, her fists clenched, her teeth clenched, and her eyes seemed to be on fire.

Mei Yuning silently went to the back room, found the clothes that were still on the ground, and re-covered the female corpse, which could be regarded as a last trace of dignity.

After she came out of the back room, she expressed her opinion directly.

The corners of Mei Yuning's mouth twitched, and she said coldly: "This murder should be committed by the five Ming Dynasty people mentioned in Chen Sihan's mouth, and the Ming people committed the crime, so they naturally had to act in accordance with my "Da Ming Law", murderers, beheading, rapists, hanging." All five of them deserve to die. ”

After listening to Mei Yuning's categorical assertion, Sun Dayong couldn't help frowning.

He pondered for a long time, thought for a while, and finally spoke: "I think it's better to forget it, this wild and wild place, we have nowhere to find it, besides, we came here with a military plane this time, and the map is not yet visible, so we will do it with others, I'm afraid we will lose a big one because of a small one." ”

Sun Dayong adheres to the principle of "more is better than less".

Obviously, he was not willing to do this for the sake of the people of Zhancheng, even if it was Chen Laohan, who had been with them for five or six days.

After Ji Yan listened to the opinions of both sides, he didn't express his position immediately, not for other reasons, but because of this tragic scene, he was stunned, and his mind was blank for a moment.

It wasn't until now, when Ji Yan came back to his senses and saw Mei Yuning staring at him directly, Sun Dayong bowed his head and was silent, that he realized again that he was the core of the team and had to make a decision.

After thinking for a moment, Ji Yan gritted his teeth and said: "The grace of dripping water, the spring reciprocates, Chen Laohan is still kind to us, and we have to help him end this hatred." ”