Hearing this, Ah Zhan couldn't help but look up at Gu Zhan, but Gu Zhan looked indifferent, looking at Zhao Qingluan with a smile, with an expression that you could continue to say.

Zhao Qingluan looked at his idle appearance, and said in his heart that he had already guessed something.

immediately said: "The front is Yizhuang, I want to ask the two of you to help me find the real culprit."

Zhao Qingluan's voice was cold and calm, as if he was saying something that had nothing to do with him.

"Who are you?" Gu Zhan put his right hand on his knee casually and asked.

"It's my brother, who was killed a few days ago, and I rushed over when I got the news. He has been hunted down for a long time because of me, and the real culprit behind this scene will definitely spy on me, and if you are willing to help me, it will be easier to act. Zhao Qingluan said slowly, without a trace of waves in his voice.

"Why should we help you?" Gu Zhan asked rhetorically.

"For you will not allow innocent people to die unjustly."

"Is he really innocent?" Gu Zhan continued to ask rhetorically.

"He's different from me, he's just an ordinary person."

"Do you know why he wasn't chased and killed, why didn't he send more people to protect him, how did he, an ordinary person, have more than the previous rounds of hunting?"

Gu Zhan chased after her, and it was clear that he was suspicious of her.

Although Ah Ying couldn't look past it, he was still silent, this matter is not a joke, and if he doesn't do it, he will even get into trouble. Gu Zhan is a good person, he can't see any doorway, he said he won't help, there must be a reason.

Hearing this, Zhao Qingluan did not rush to answer, but looked at Gu Zhan calmly, Gu Zhan felt as if there was an invisible pressure that suddenly sank, and he felt a little furious in his heart.

Gu Zhan raised his eyebrows, stood up on the ground, and took a few steps forward with his hands on his chest. He thought, maybe he didn't want to be angry and arrogant to describe her.

"Suspicion should be," Zhao Qingluan hooked the corners of his lips, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his chin tilted slightly, "The afterword got Yuan Zhou to take a detour, after all, you are fugitives." Zhao Qingluan said, and at the end, there was a hint of a smile in his voice.

Ah Ying seems to feel the threat of *naked ground. If you don't help, you will always be a fugitive, you can't turn over, and if you help, I still have a way to clear your so-called crimes.

Gu Zhan chuckled and asked an irrelevant word: "Does the girl know what my name is?"

Zhao Qingluan stared at him and didn't speak.

If Gu Zhan is not mistaken, in front of this woman, Ah Ying has never called his name, if she knew, she must have sent someone to investigate, then everything would make sense.

Zhao Qingluan was silent for a moment, a hint of cunning flashed in his eyes, and said, "What do you say, Uncle Gu."

Gu Zhan took a breath and suppressed the anger that surged in his heart.

She knew, and the people in Yuanzhou Prison probably also knew, if their names were recorded, they would really become fugitives.

You must know that although Miao Jiang belongs to Datang, after all, it has always been an autonomous territory, and the same country has a different system, and Miao Jiang people also need to be proved by documents to enter the Tang Dynasty, but now the mutual market transactions are not so strict. The two also hid their identities in order to avoid unnecessary trouble, so they did not prepare documents.

If there is no document, if it is really investigated, it will naturally be illegal entry, which is a serious crime.

Ah Ying also saw Gu Zhan's displeasure, and walked over to ask Zhao Qingluan, "Sister, neither of us knows anything, are you sure you want us to help?"

Zhao Qingluan turned his head and said softly: "Ah Jin, you are too modest, you are very capable...".

"Okay, let's hurry up since we're going, let's hurry up, we still have to hurry."

Gu Zhan ruthlessly interrupted the conversation between the two, turned around and walked towards Yizhuang.

It's not that he doesn't dare to confront Zhao Qingluan face to face, but he feels that it's not worth it to burden Ah Ying like this, he naturally coped with Gou Lutang's repeated attacks alone, but Ah Ying is different, she went to Jiangning to investigate the old things, which is inconvenient, and if she is involved in the forces of the rivers and lakes again, it will inevitably cause more disasters. In that case, it is better to turn enemies into friends.

When the three of them came to Yizhuang again, there was not much residual heat left in the evening, the hut was surrounded by forests on three sides, as if it was gently held in the palm of a giant hand, the sky was getting dark, and the twilight was coming, like a huge tide in the distance.

Ah Ying couldn't help frowning, and said in her heart, why is it night every time she comes.

This time they did not choose to enter directly through the main entrance, but flew in through the side wall, and the three of them did not work badly, taking advantage of the night as a cover, and quietly sneaked into the stable.

Sure enough, there were blood stains on the grass clippings.

The three of them first looked around for a while, and when they saw that there was no movement, they left for the main house.

The three of them walked very lightly, and they still didn't dare to be careless. Zhao Qingluan, who was walking in the front, suddenly shrank back when he passed by the side, and his eyes signaled the two of them to step back, and Ah Ying and Gu Zhan, who were closely behind, immediately reacted, there was a situation!

The three of them walked around to the back of the side room, observing the situation outside with a glimmer of sight from the angle.

I saw a man wearing a large black cloak, covering all figures, and dragging a strong man with a rope that was silent. After a certain distance, the man straightened up and was only five feet tall¹ tall.

The cloak is wide, and it is difficult to see the other party's appearance.

The three of them remained motionless, staring at the man in front of the main house, intending to see what he would do next.

The man stood for a long time, and from Ah Jin's point of view, his wide robe moved, and then I saw the man take something out of his arms, and the night was a little dim, and he couldn't see clearly.

The strong man lying on the ground seemed to have suddenly woken up, and suddenly saw the black-robed man, and he screamed, but his throat seemed to have been damaged, and he only let out a whining scream.

Only then did Ah Ying see that the black-robed man was holding a long knife the length of his little arm, and Ah Jin's eyes widened suddenly, knowing what he was going to do.

said that it was too late, and before Ah Ying could react, she saw the black-robed man's long knife fall, and she seemed to clearly hear the sound of metal piercing into the flesh.

Ah Ying shrank in surprise and covered her mouth, and behind her, Gu Zhan gently put her hand on her right shoulder, and Ah Ying felt the warmth.

The strong man soon stopped moving completely, and only saw the wide cloak of the black-robed man flying, waving its thin wings like a strange black butterfly in the dark night.

"Click"

The three of them were startled, the window behind them knocked slightly, and the black-robed man suddenly turned his head to look this way, colliding with Zhao Qingluan's line of sight.

Zhao Qingluan's figure immediately retreated, and whispered: "I'll go and lure him away, you guys are waiting for the opportunity to move."

The three of them quickly separated, and Gu Zhan pulled Ah Ying around the side room and ran to the back of the main house. Zhao Qingluan shook his hand, rose up, and climbed out of the wall.

The black-robed man ran to where the three of them were standing just now, only to see the corner of Zhao Qingluan's turned-over clothes.

He stood still suddenly, crouched down and touched the adobe bricks and walls, sniffed under his nose again, couldn't see his expression clearly, and immediately turned his head and ran back.

Taking advantage of this gap, the two of them flew onto the main roof, and the two tried their best to lower their bodies to blend in with the roof.

Seeing that the black-robed man returned again, he didn't chase Zhao Qingluan, thinking that he had discovered his existence, and the two lowered their bodies a little.

Gu Zhan quietly raised his head to observe the movement below, only to see the black-robed man continuing his work, dragging the body of the strong man towards the main house.

The door opened with a buzz, and Ah Ying leaned on the roof and felt as if she had smelled the rotten smell that was still fresh in her memory, and unconsciously retched.

The man tinkered inside for a while, and the two were afraid of being discovered because they didn't know each other's depths, so they could only lie on the roof motionless.

After about a stick of incense, the man came out, closed the door gently, muttered something in his mouth, and then turned away.

The two people on the roof saw that the other party had left, and after waiting for a while, they didn't see Zhao Qingluan coming back, so they climbed down the back of the main house and climbed in through the back window.

Sure enough, there was still that familiar smell in the room. Probably because of the addition of new corpses, there was a strong smell of blood in the room. Ah Ying felt like she was in a corpse pool, and she felt sticky all over her body.

The two looked at each other and looked at the body separately.

The corpses here are all heart-gouged, and they are filled with unknown objects, and the blood hole in the chest is bulging, Ah Ying frowned, reached out and dialed it, and found that it was meat.

What kind of perverted psychology is this? It's all human flesh that won't be filled, right?

Ah Ying instantly felt very disgusted.

She held her breath as much as she could, examining all the corpses on her left, and the only thing on their bodies was a deep strangulation on their necks, except for the fatal wounds. Judging from the situation just now, he should have been dragged by a rope around his neck.

Ah Ying suddenly felt a little admired for the strong man just now, such a tough drag method, he could still wake up, and his vitality was extraordinary.

The two had a simple exchange, which was roughly the same as the situation on Ah Jin's side.

There were fifteen corpses in the dense area, and there was only one female corpse. In addition, the two also found that the people lying here have different degrees of calluses on their left and right hands, and they are more or less practitioners.

It seems that this murderer is not ordinary.

"Which one is her brother?" Gu Zhan leaned over and asked.

Ah Ying didn't think about it, and replied directly: "I really can't guess this, but I found something just now."

Ah Ying squatted next to a corpse in front of him, opened his shirt, and on the right shoulder blade, there was a circular scar, which was obviously burned out by force.

"There are no less than five people here with these burns, I wonder what a mark." Ah Ying said in a deep voice.

Gu Zhan nodded, and said intently: "This is also what I want to say, there are also six or seven people over there who have this kind of scar, if I am not mistaken, this should be the mark of Gou Lutang."

Ah Ying raised her eyebrows, a little surprised.

"Gou Lutang? In that case, she didn't just come for her brother, many people in Goulutang were killed, but the murderer couldn't be caught, which is really weird. ”

Gu Zhan got up, looked around, and said, "I'm afraid it's all excuses, it is estimated that her brother is not here at all."

Ah Ying frowned and looked at the round scar, and said silently, "So, we still got involved in the dispute in Goulutang."

Gu Zhan sighed lightly and said, "It's a blessing or a curse, you can't avoid it, since it's already here, let's let it be." Ah Yu, you will send a letter to your second brother tomorrow, it is estimated that there will be a long delay here, if the situation is not good, you are afraid that you will not be able to go back in time for the Mid-Autumn Festival. ”

Ah Ying then remembered that the second brother was still waiting for her in Jiangzhou, she pursed her lips and said, "That's the only way."

The two were still talking in a whisper, Gu Zhan's eyes suddenly moved, and he looked at the back window, Ah Ying immediately understood, and the two dodged and hid behind the long curtain.

There was a knocking sound outside the window, five in all, each slightly spaced.

Gu Zhan lifted the long curtain, flashed to the window, and knocked five times like the other side, the other party received the message, and after a while, gently pushed the window open.

Not Zhao Qingluan?!

Hiding behind the long curtain, Ah Yu stopped and immediately remained motionless.

I saw a green face suddenly appear in front of the window, she first put on one leg, straddled the windowsill, and then used both hands, intending to jump in.

The girl found that there was no one else in it except the corpse, and she was stunned for a moment, but before she could react, she was pushed hard behind her, and her body fell forward, and before the voice could be shouted, she was covered by a pair of hands.

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Note: ¹ ruler: one ruler = 30.4 centimeters in the Tang Dynasty, five feet, that is, about one meter and a half.