Layers of cold sweat broke out on Pink Die'er's head, but I don't know if it was because the broken arm hurt badly, or if I was too frightened in my heart.

He hissed and begged, saying that he didn't know many things, saying that although he had done a lot of evil, he had never deceived Shen Yixue, saying that although he had nothing to love, he still wanted to find his sister who didn't know where he fell......

Later, his voice became lower and lower, and finally his body went soft, and he passed out directly.

At this time, the pink butterfly naturally can't die.

Shan Tianying then ordered his subordinates to carry Fan Die'er to the room where the Li Mansion had not yet been destroyed and settled. During this period, the county magistrate, who had been watching from afar, stepped forward and invited Shan Tianying and his party to go to the county office, but Shan Tianying refused without hesitation.

The current Pink Butterfly has lost too much blood because of a broken arm, but it has just been bandaged but because of emotion, the wound is bleeding again, so it is naturally not suitable for a "long journey", so it has to be close.

Hearing Shan Tianying's refusal, the county magistrate couldn't help but have a look of regret on his face, and when he turned around with Shan Tianying, his face was full of relief.

Shen Yixue's heart moved, and she subconsciously turned her head to look at the tribulation.

Li's gaze sank: "That Miss Li family." ”

Shen Yixue recalled: "Miss Li is in the county office?"

Li Zheng nodded: "When I was looking for you in the county government, I saw her before." ”

Therefore, in fact, this county lord does not really want Shan Tianying to take his men to the county office, but he has to say this because of reason and face.

Moreover, because of the existence of Shan Tianying, the "General of the Guard", he could only accompany him and follow him into the Li Mansion, where the main gate of the group had long been dilapidated into ruins.

Such a big thing happened in the Li Mansion, even the Shan Tianying who was in the city was locked down and searched followed the sound, and there were some people who watched the excitement from a distance, but there was not even a single person who came out to check the situation in this huge Li Mansion.

Shan Tianying's subordinates walked in front with Pink Butterfly, followed by Shan Tianying, he looked back at Shen Yixue and Li Zheng, who were still standing side by side, his eyes darkened, and he sighed in his heart, he actually made a "please" posture, and saw that the county lord who followed him was in a cold sweat, and when he looked at Shen Yixue again, his eyes were also cloudy.

There are still too many questions that have not been solved, and Shen Yixue and Lizheng will naturally not leave, so they follow the situation. Shen Yixue was a little more girlish in the end, and deliberately took the first step and walked in front of the county master, completely ignoring the other party's blowing beard and glaring at the back.

The tribulation was a little helpless, but he only smiled lightly, but when his eyes swept over the county master, he was as cold as ever.

The middle courtyard and backyard of the Li Mansion are still in good condition, because no one has come out all the time, and those subordinates of Shan Tianying have turned against the guests and went to find a room on their own, settle down and treat Fan Die'er.

Shan Tianying paused, stopped the county lord and the others behind him with his eyes, and looked at the tribulation, his eyes were deep: "Now, can you explain what happened before?"

Then, without waiting for the tribulation to answer, he added: "The current Dongling Empire, although it cannot be said to be stormy, but strange and strange things are endless, and demons are rampant everywhere. In the next, I have also seen a lot. ”

He calls himself "below", which is naturally aimed at the tribulation, after all, he and the tribulation, even if they have two or three sides, even at this moment, it is completely because of Shen Yixue that there will be an intersection.

Li's expression remained unchanged, and his tone was indifferent: "For example?"

Shan Tianying said: "Five years ago, the empress opened a department to select scholars, just to select talents, regardless of background. As a result, only a dozen people arrived in the capital......"

Shen Yixue was confused when she heard it, and she didn't know why Shan Tianying suddenly mentioned Dongling's internal affairs, it was only because of his previous sentence of "strange and strange things" that he listened patiently.

However, this thing is indeed "weird", not to mention the Dongling after the Western Desert and Nanping were returned to Shun, how big is the area and how much is the population, even the previous Dongling, there will not be only a dozen people who enter Beijing to take the exam, right?

Shen Yixue didn't know what the status of the people of Ximo and Nanping was after returning to Dongling, but even if it was to appease the people, it would not completely exclude the people in these two regions from the court.

So, how is it possible that there are only a dozen people?

Sure enough, I heard Shan Tianying continue: "The current Dongling has a population of nearly 10 million, even five years ago, there were as many as 8 million!"

Eight million people, but only a dozen scholars go to the exam?

Li Zheng asked directly: "These people, what happened on the road?"

At that time, the person who was ordered to investigate the matter was not Shan Tianying at first, but later because the matter was too unbelievable, Empress Lingxin once suspected that those people were deceived and concealed, so Shan Tianying took over.

Shan Tianying directly took people to the hometown of one of the scholars, and after making sure that he was leaving home, he followed the route of the scholar to Beijing, walked all the way, inquired along the way, and did not let go of a detail, and finally found the stinky corpse in a barren mountain halfway through!

As for why this scholar left the road and ran into the barren mountains, even now Shan Tianying does not know. What he saw was a corpse with its heart and lungs removed.

The only thing that can prove the identity of the corpse is the burden next to it, which is intact, even the broken silver that is coiled.

Finding the first one, the next one was much easier, but the result was extremely shocking to Shan Tianying.

Most of the scholars who went to Beijing had accidents on the way, some fell off the cliff, some fell into the water when crossing the bridge, and even some were eaten by wild beasts halfway, and so on.

"So what?"

Shan Tianying said: "I continued to investigate, and I learned from the companion of the scholar who fell off the cliff that what appeared in front of them at that time was not a cliff at all. ”

"What is it if it's not a cliff?" Shen Yixue was also a little curious, and asked, "It can't be a smooth road, right?"

Unexpectedly, Shan Tianying said: "Exactly!"

According to Shan Tianying, the two scholars who were traveling together had some quarrels on the way at that time, so one walked in front and the other in the back, and they were seven or eight feet apart.

This distance is not close, it is not far, but it is enough for the person in the back to see the situation of the person in front clearly.

He was still a little strange at the time, there was a path comparable to an official road in the barren mountain, but the person in front of him suddenly disappeared from his eyes.

Because of his anger, he didn't immediately catch up to check, but when he got closer, he found that the road that originally looked flat and wide turned out to be a cliff!

And the scholar who walked in front had already fallen, and his bones were gone.

Obviously it was a smooth road, but in a blink of an eye it became a cliff, he was frightened, frightened and uneasy, but he didn't dare to go any further, he even ran back to the ground with a rolling belt, ran all the way down the mountain, ran back to his hometown, and didn't even dare to go to the capital.

After returning home, he rotted this matter into his stomach, and he didn't dare to confide out half a word, until Shan Tianying traced it, brought the news of the scholar's death, and traced it to his head.

Originally, the scholar had no hope of survival, after all, the two of them had just had a quarrel at that time, and they were in the barren mountains and mountains, only these two people, he just couldn't speak clearly.

"But you believe that man's words, don't you?" Shen Yixue said, "So, that scholar doesn't need to kill people to pay for his life." ”

Shan Tianying said: "I've seen a lot of weird things, so naturally I can't help but believe it." ”

In other words, before he tracked down the scholar who fell off the cliff, he had already encountered strange things.

Shan Tianying said that the wound of the scholar who was taken out of his heart and lungs at the beginning did not look like it was man-made, but more like it was done by some kind of beast. And he did find a handful of hair in the same color as the corpse's wound, red in color, coagulated by dried blood, but he didn't know what kind of animal left it.

In the process of tracking down the death of the scholar who fell into the water, he was directly picked up by a pair of miserable white hands onto the side of the boat, almost overturning the boat, and letting him fall into the water.

"In other words, the vast majority of the scholars who rushed to take the exam nearby had an accident halfway, and the survivors also retreated, so that only a dozen people rushed to the capital in the end?" asked Shen Yixue.

The look on the tribulation was still faint, but Shen Yixue could clearly see the anxiety in his eyes; "So what?"

Shan Tianying's gaze was sharp for a moment, as if he wanted to see through the tribulation: "So, there are some things that Your Excellency doesn't have to hide at all. For example......

He paused for a moment and turned his gaze to Shen Yixue's face: "Xue'er's question." ”

Li Zheng took half a step forward without moving, blocking Shen Yixue behind him: "What's the problem?" ”

Shan Tianying was unrelenting: "Xue'er and I haven't seen each other for eighteen years. ”

"How do you know that the woman in front of you is the woman you haven't seen for eighteen years?"

"You!" Shan Tianying finally couldn't help but change his face, and his tone unconsciously brought a hint of anger, "Now, you say I recognized the wrong person?"

The calamity is still like a pool of still water: "No. ”

"You!" The anger in Shan Tianying's heart was finally completely aroused, and he reached out and pressed it on the hilt of his sword.

Shen Yixue saw that the atmosphere between the two was not right, so she had to step forward to play a round and say to Shan Tianying: "That's not what he meant. ”

Then he turned his head to look at the tribulation and asked in a low voice, "You really don't say it?"

"He's just an ordinary person. ”

Shen Yixue said: "But you should also be able to hear that the matter has involved ordinary people." ”

Then he added: "Pink Butterfly is also an ordinary person." ”

After the tribulation, he lowered his eyelids and stopped talking.

Shen Yixue felt that the reason why Li Zheng was reluctant to say more about Shan Tianying was not entirely because he didn't want to talk about Shan Tianying, an ordinary person, who was involved. His attitude changed suddenly.

She thought about the scene for a moment, thought of the sudden change in the attitude of the tribulation, suddenly came to her senses, and immediately looked up at the tribulation in surprise, crying and laughing, but it seemed to be a little sweeter.

It turns out that there are times when the tribulations are so naïve and willful!

If it weren't for Shen Yixue's sake, how could Shan Tianying, a pro-guard general, condescend to his dignity and waste so many lips and tongues to explain?

However, he was angry, but he was never able to attack Shen Yixue, so he could only suppress his anger and ask, "Then what does he mean?"

Shen Yixue said: "His words are not wrong, I am no longer the original me." ”

She sighed and pointed to her face: "Actually, the young owner also has a number in his heart, doesn't he?"