Chapter 3: The Snake

Qin Lin turned over the corpse of Gao Jackal Yu, and the face of the dead corpse was blue and black, obviously poisoned and died.

Qin Lin had already seen a lot of corpses, but he was the first one to be killed by his own hands - of course, strictly speaking, the other party was to blame.

Sitting on the big stone by the stream to calm down a little excited, Qin Lin wanted to smoke a cigarette, and subconsciously touched his clothes, the tattered linen clothes didn't even have a pocket, let alone a cigarette, he couldn't help but smile bitterly......

If you have a legal identity, you can report this matter to the government, and the credit for capturing and killing Gao Jackal Yu is very great, Shi Wei's shadow map mentions that the reward is eight hundred taels of silver, Qin Lin has also spent some silver money to buy some food these days, knowing that he can already be a little rich man with this money.

However, Qin Lin did not have a legal identity, and it was very likely that he was recognized by the government as a bandit of the White Lotus Sect, and attributed Gao Jackal's death to internal strife; If the other party considered the factors of the eight hundred taels of silver and the reward and promotion, he would even kill him first, and then take the credit and embezzle the reward silver, with the "prestige name" of Dongchang and Jinyiwei in the later generations, Qin Lin had no doubt that they might have such a surname.

At least, you can't recklessly put your life in the hands of others, Qin Lin has always thought that pinning your fate on someone else's morality or conscience is completely an idiot's behavior.

The little bit of loose silver money that he took when he stole linen clothes had been almost used, Qin Lin was now destitute, and he was really depressed when he saw the senior brother of the White Lotus Sect who had a reward of eight hundred taels of silver falling to the ground, but he couldn't go to receive the reward!

After resting for a while and calming down, Qin Lin began to examine Gao Jackal's body.

First of all, he pinched a few times on his cuffs, and found a hard thing in the inner pocket of the left cuff, took it out and looked at it carefully, it turned out to be a lotus-shaped jade pendant, carved with the best mutton fat white jade, the jade quality is warm, the carving is exquisite, and the lotus branches and leaves are like that, which is really a rare artistic treasure.

It's a pity, this thing can be guessed with a pig's brain, Tie Ding has a lot to do with the White Lotus Sect, even if it is priceless, it is impossible to sell it, so Qin Lin casually put it aside.

Qin Lin reached out and touched the corpse's arms again, touched the hard paper, and found that it was a few books, "Golden Lock Hongyang Great Policy", "Ying Robbery Sutra" and other White Lotus Sect classics, full of absurd words, flipping through the cracks of the Jiuyang Sutra that was not written in small characters, and there was no treasure map in the pages of the book illuminating the sun.

He was disappointed, threw away a few broken books, and spat upwards: "What kind of thing, hidden in my arms like a baby, I still think it's a silver ticket, it turns out that it's all heretical heresies, it's bullshit at all, it's worthless!" ”

He didn't find anything of value from the corpse, Qin Lin was a little disappointed, and now only the small burden that Gao Jackal was carrying was left, and he threw it aside when he was resting just now, not caring about it, so Qin Lin didn't have much hope for it.

Thank God for being able to find a few taels of silver, at least on the way to Jiangnan, just don't let me go hungry, Qin Lin thought so.

Unwrapping the burden, the top is a few sheets of dough wrapped in oiled paper, Qin Lin didn't know that the one was poisonous and the one was not poisonous, so he threw it away.

A small porcelain bottle, filled with colorless and odorless powder, is likely to be the poison in the cake under the high jackal feathers just now, poured two or three dollars into the stream, only a moment later, there are fish turning over the white belly floating, sure enough, the poisonous surname is fierce, it is really a necessary medicine for home travel to kill people and set fires, stay.

There was a bulging cloth bag in the middle, pinching the shape inside, Qin Lin suddenly became excited, and pulled open the rope tied to the mouth of the bag, and sure enough, it was a whole bag of snowflake silver, and there were about two hundred taels to mention.

At the bottom was a stack of books and documents, Qin Lin had already secretly called it a fluke when he got two hundred taels of silver, thinking that this was probably some scripture of the White Lotus Sect, so he took it out and looked through it without care.

Unexpectedly, the first book was extremely heavy, Qin Lin was stunned and almost didn't hold it, opened the cover, the inner pages were full of golden light, it turned out that there was no piece of paper in the book, it was all gold leaves, at least fifty taels.

Get rich! Qin Lin was overjoyed.

Then I looked at the rest of the book, but there were no more gold leaves, but there were more than a dozen road references and five or six letters.

The road citations were issued by Jianli County for Zhang San, Jingmen Prefecture for Li Si, and Wang Mazi from Gucheng County...... There is also a letter written by Chen Dianshi from Gucheng County to his maternal uncle in Songjiang County, indicating that Wang Mazi brought it and asked his maternal uncle to take care of Wang Mazi.

The road guide is covered with vermilion seals of various states and counties, and the handwriting of the letters is also different, there is no doubt that they are genuine, as for their original owners, with the mystery of the White Lotus Sect and the ruthlessness of the high jackal feather, they must have seen the Lord of Yama earlier, and there are no bones left at this moment.

After a little thought, I understood Gao Jackal's intention to carry these documents, obviously preparing to escape the Tianluo Nets pursued by the Jinyi Guard! The reason why I prepared so much was because the escape route was uncertain, and I didn't prepare well in a hurry, so I brought a few more copies in case of improvisation.

It's a pity that Jin Yiwei has already hunted him down with a shadow and a pattern, even if there is a way, there is no way to take the main road to pass, Gao Jackal Yu finally escaped here along the path, but he died in the hands of Qin Lin by mistake.

Thinking through the joints, Qin Lin was overjoyed, so he rummaged through the road citations and letters, and he found a road guide issued by Hanyang County: "Qin Mujian, born in the forty-third year of Jiajing, has a white face, no beard, lives in Hanyang, his father Qin Gui, and his mother Tan are dead." ”

This is good, the age is the same, and the death of both parents is not involved, it is very convenient to pretend, and it is the same surname, the surname Qin Minglin is the word hibiscus, just the right fit!

I flipped out another letter, and the header read, "Brother Dongbi saw the letter like a meeting: since the Chu Palace, I have been separated for more than 20 years, and the foolish brother is very worried about ......"

This letter was written by "Qin Shi" to "Brother Dongbi", from the tone of the two sides are old friends for many years, Qin Shi's only son and daughter-in-law died early, he raised his grandson Qin Muhibiscus alone, and this grandson "Bing surname is stubborn", to the age of seventeen did not have a proper life, now Qin Shi is seriously ill and expected to die soon, afraid that no one will discipline his grandson after death, and will be lured on the evil road by the evil people, so he wrote a letter to ask his grandson to bring to his old friend before his death, and ask "Brother Dongbi" to take care of and control him, and find a legitimate career in Qizhou.

It's a pity that since Lu Yin and this letter fell into the hands of Gao Jackal, it is enough to prove that Qin Muhibiscus has not only been lured to the evil path, but has even embarked on a dead end.

"Then, in the future, I will live instead of you," Qin Lin's spirit perked up: "From now on, I will be Qin Lin's hibiscus!" ”

However, he is not ready to go to the "Dongbi brother" who has never met according to the letter, and now he has two hundred taels of silver and fifty taels of gold leaves, and with a legal identity, where can the world go? It was still decided to follow the original plan and go to the economically developed and well-connected coastal areas of the Yangtze River to look for opportunities.

Qin Lin dragged the corpse into the bushes, and with great effort he dug a deep pit with the single knife of the high jackal feather, and threw the corpse, the suspected poisonous dough cake, several White Lotus Sect scriptures, superfluous Lu Yin letters, and a single knife into the pit.

The crystal jade white lotus jade pendant wanted to throw it in, but after thinking about it, Gao Jackal Yu, as the senior brother of the White Lotus Sect here, stored the scriptures close to his body and didn't care about the gold and silver, which was the true color of a cultist with red roots, but this jade pendant was precious and heavy in the sleeve, maybe it had other important uses, so he kept it.

Fill the pit with floating soil in the pit, step flat, and then go to the distance to carefully dig some grass and trees, root and insert on this ground, the grass and trees grow flourishing at the turn of spring and summer, and even if Bao Qingtian comes here a few days later, he can't see that there is a person buried underground.

After carefully cleaning up the traces left behind, Qin Lin smiled and inserted three branches into the ground, and chattered in his mouth: "It is said that it is said that it is not necessary to kill or bury, the master serves from killing to burying one-stop service, and the senior brother has made a lot of money." Alas, at the end of the day, you're not good at yourself, and the taste of poison cakes is not something you can taste casually......"

If the high jackal feather spring is knowledgeable, will he be so angry that he will come back to life?

Qin Lin was in a good mood, and took stock of the harvest: two hundred taels of silver, fifty taels of gold leaves, a white lotus jade pendant, a bottle of poison, a road guide, and a letter, all wrapped in a wrapper, and walked on his shoulder.

After walking three miles forward, crossing a small hill, it was a small mountain village with only five or six households, the sackcloth was dirty and smelly after wearing it for a few days, and it was torn to tatters by thorns, Qin Lin used the scattered silver to find the mountain people to buy coarse cloth clothes to change into, and the linen clothes that were taken off were wrapped in Lu Yin and gold and silver, and the ancient brain was stuffed in the baggage.

Listening to the mountain people say that there is a slightly larger Makou town by the river ten miles ahead, and from time to time there is a small river boat moored at the wharf in that town, to see how many hours the sun sets, Qin Lin decided to stay in Makou Town, waiting for the passenger ship to go to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

After crossing the two small hills and walking on the barren mountain road, the coarse cloth clothes that Qin Lin had just bought were torn a lot by the wattles.

Suddenly, I felt a strange pain in my calf, and hurriedly took two steps back.

But there was a five-foot-long snake in the grass, black and white flowers, the scales on the snake's head were upturned to the back, the head was triangular, the back was black-brown, the head, abdomen and throat were white, and there were a few black-brown spots, the abdomen was flattened, and the tail tip was pointed and long.

The snake coiled into a plate, its head held high, spit out a scarlet snake letter, making a terrifying sound, and the two fangs in its open mouth were the ones that bit Qin Lin.

This guy looked like a poisonous snake at first glance, Qin Lin was annoyed, tried to keep his composure, and at the same time slowly retreated, not to provoke it-he was already unlucky to be bitten home, wouldn't it be wronged to take another beating?

Sure enough, the snake slowly retracted its head, and after a while, Qin Lin retreated further, and the poisonous snake proudly raised its head, made a soft noise, and slowly slipped away from the bushes.

Whew~~ Qin Lin took a big breath, and then he had time to check the injury.

Pulled up the right trouser leg, two deep tooth marks on the calf, blood continued to flow out, the wound was high and swollen, and pressed it with his fingers, "!" The pain made Qin Lin's mouth snort, the injury was swollen and hard, and in a short time, the nearby skin was already blue.