"Good morning, good afternoon, good night, and a safe life."

"May you go through thousands of waves and come back clean."

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When I slowly condensed the broken soul in the warm embrace, the night had gently wrapped the whole sky.

I always forcibly pulled my trance-like consciousness out of the mire of dreams and despair when my mind was still groggy.

Probably out of years of caution, I've developed a habit.

I was being carried, and the man who was holding me walked tirelessly down the alley leading to my lodgings. I remembered that it seemed like a long time ago, when I had walked so quietly with him in the depths of countless memories.

Walk through the winding passages beneath the ancient tombs, or walk in the vast ancient temples of the desert.

Walk on a path that you can only walk once in a lifetime.

“...... I'll go back myself. I was hoarse and didn't look at him.

I still didn't want to show my weakness, as if he really hadn't seen it in all these years.

When I thought he had silently rejected my request, I heard him let out a long sigh and finally let me go as he walked out of the alley to the bridge over the city.

I think it was probably late at night, otherwise the bridge was empty except for the starry lights of the far end of the dark river. But he smiled bitterly, something so big happened, even if it was just in the evening, no one dared to leave the house.

"Thank you...... Xiao Yue is cold. "When I finally got back to the ground, I still felt hot.

"Thanks for what?" He stood on the edge of the railing, crossed his arms, and looked at me with a nonchalant expression, as if amused, "Why don't you thank your wise Lord for making you kneeling in the snow?" ”

Drifting snow was already weighing on his shoulders and mine.

I narrowed my eyes a little unhappily, "Then why did your wise lord let you come to me?" I regretted it again and frowned: "...... Sorry, shouldn't talk about this. ”

I knelt down because I asked the emperor, but he came to me because he was worried about me, so it was really wrong for me to say so.

He shook his head, "I'll take you back to the house." And, next time don't let me find out that something like this is happening. ”

"Oh? Next time you'll turn a blind eye to me and leave me to my own devices, right? ”

"No, I'll beat you up and throw you into the river."

He said seriously, with "I'm not kidding" written all over his face. I couldn't help but chuckle: "I won't, you can rest assured." ”

"Is there anything in your whole body that deserves to be reassured of you?"

"Ha, haha......"

I walked slowly on the bridge with him. "How is the Queen Mother's health? Don't be careful, I ask as a friend. ”

"Hmm...... Neither good nor bad. He pondered for a moment, then said ambiguously.

"I'm serious, Your Majesty really underestimated the Wai Shot." I patted the snow between my hair, "It is recorded in ancient books that all the people of the Makri worship the gods and ghosts, especially the people of the Rimaki, who claim to be the Heavenly Clan, but they are never good at fighting in seclusion. ”

"Hmm. But it was such a nation that was wiped out overnight, and it also implicated many people from outside the country. Today, it's not as good as it used to be. He glanced at me, as if to ask me why I was speaking for the Witch, "The Wu Clan is the Imperial Blood Sinner who was expelled and exiled by our ancestors thousands of years ago, and later joined the Witch Clan to learn some nondescript tricks, and was disliked by the Witch and kicked into the desert. Later, the Wu clan was ashamed of this, and worked hard to cultivate these strange tricks, and the more they cultivated, the more evil they became, and they were not as good as the authentic Divine Method, but even if the desert environment was extreme, they were still more and more prosperous, and they liked to die, which was more difficult than the Witch Clan. Even the Wu clan and our country don't pay attention to it, let alone such a suspend. ”

"Uh......" Thinking about it this way, the Wu clan was actually kicked around like a ball in disgust by these two big countries before? It's also a big surprise. I laughed dryly, then resumed my extremely serious expression.

"Cold, you remember, the only thing you can do against the stars is death." The sharp words smashed heavily in the night sky, and the tone was confident and cold, as if I was warning and like a war letter. It is also like paving the way for inevitable disputes in the future.

Xiao Yueleng looked sideways slightly, although there was no expression, the air seemed to be very depressed.

Did he end up dying because of this?

Or died because of the Queen Mother? Or is it because of me?

Maybe it's because they don't want to listen to me.

"Farewell."

The night is as quiet as a lake without waves.

The morning light is as light as a faint color.

On the second day, I finally got rid of the death entanglement of high fever, but my body was still crunching in a burst of pain, bear with it, no way, if the puppet is too fragile if it is not cherished by someone who can protect it well, then it can only be used as firewood.

In the early morning, Wen Zhilan hurried to tear off the gentle skin and scolded me, I dragged my sick body against the morning light and dragged a few old friends who had some friendships to go to the emperor for me to test the emperor, and when the sun completely detached from the horizon and stretched my waist, I myself had changed into a concise silver white dress and was ready to go out to investigate the case.

I didn't expect the street to be so deserted, and I was a little curious if what happened in the palace that day was already known to the whole city?

At the door of the Li family's mansion, Li Feifan, who had only met a few days ago, was talking to Yue Wenyuan, who was sent by the emperor, and several guards next to him followed behind them.

Li Feifan has really lost too much weight, and it can be seen that his body is very weak compared to a few days ago, as if he was seriously ill, and his eyes are seriously red, I don't need to think much to guess how he has spent these days.

I finally came to a conclusion that although Li Feifan is the most troublesome rebel in his family, he is also a person with filial piety and family affection. It's probably a little different from me.

"Li Gongzi. Lord Yue. I dismounted, and saluted them without changing my face. The two of them returned the salute. In fact, I really wanted to say something like "festival mourning" to Li Feifan, but I couldn't make a sound for a while. The Li family in my memory is very kind, and Grandma Li is also a very friendly person, but I didn't expect it......

The family has been doing business and doing good for so many years, but they ended up with such a blood-stained mansion.

Somehow, it reminded me of the northern cold land, thousands of miles away, the ruined country that trembled in the wind.

"I should have gone to receive distant relatives first...... I still couldn't rest assured, so I came. Assist Lord Luo and Lord Yue in investigating the case. His hands have been trembling slightly, his lips are purple, and he is dressed in plain clothes and haggard and sad, not like the glamorous and noisy Li Feifan before.

Even the eyes don't look like it anymore.

"When you make up your mind, try your best to find the real culprit." My voice seemed to come from me with incomparably complicated thoughts, and I bowed my head and saluted more deeply, but I no longer dared to look into his gaze.

Stepping into the dilapidated gate, I could vaguely glimpse its atmosphere and magnificence from the charred wreckage.

"The master and servant of the house counted together, and there were three hundred and ninety-three people...... Excluding this Li Gongzi, there are a total of 392 people. Without exception, they were slaughtered, and then the fire ignited before it attracted the attention of the people. ”

Li Feifan took us roughly through the courtyard, because the scene was blocked in time, the body was not moved, and many people have come to check it in the past few days, but they don't have a clue.

I saw a lot of corpses along the way, the death was tragic and full of scorched marks, Li Feifan sometimes covered his face and couldn't bear to look at it anymore, and there was blood between his fingers, I rushed over and opened his hand, and suddenly my heart was so sad that I couldn't help myself. The palm of that hand was covered with deep and shallow scars, all of which were too tight from his own fist.

When I passed by a relatively intact room, I found that there were a lot of corpses and the furniture was very messy. I crouched down to examine the body of a maid, and the fatal wound was in the throat, which was supposed to be fatal with a blow, a sword wound. Looking at it again, most of the corpses around here are sword wounds.

This is interesting, how come the corpses I just saw were all knife wounds? No, no, Li Feifan said that this is an ordinary guest room.

I rubbed my chin, and suddenly fell into deep thought, but it didn't take long to signal Yue Wenyuan to continue.

“... It is initially speculated that the purpose of setting the fire was to destroy the corpses and eliminate the traces of the crime. It is uncertain whether it is from the same place as the attacker at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet that day. For some reason, we asked the surrounding residents, and they all said that they did not hear the slightest movement that night, and that they were only discovered when the fire burned to the side of the street. ”

"Hmm." I nodded, and Li Feifan and I looked at each other for a moment.

"Lord Yue, do you have an aerial view of the Li family's courtyard?"

"What do you want that for?" He pointed to Li Feifan, the living map, in confusion.

...... "I decided to start fooling around." This, I'm going to look at the overall layout and feng shui orientation of this house, which is also very useful! Yue Wenyuan was not a fool, and looked at me suspiciously: "What can it have to do with this incident?" ”

Fooling others is my specialty: "After all, the layout of many houses is fireproof, and the windows are also related to the wind direction when the fire is burned. ”

Yue Wenyuan sighed: "Then I'll go outside and get it." ”

"By the way, please ask Lord Yue to help me check the direction of the wind that night!"

"Oh."

As soon as he left, Li Feifan immediately showed an expression of "I almost believed it". “...... Don't you know that we don't have firebreaks at all? He remembered, and sighed bitterly.

I laughed dryly, "I've actually memorized the map here." I'll start with my lead. First, the reason why there was no distress signal here was because of the barrier, and we were trapped in the main hall that day, and the same method of doing the crime. Enchantment, killing, burning. For the time being, it's the same group. Second, people here die in different ways. Third, I would like to know two strange questions: why do you release masked people and monsters to give us human heads, knowing that we can be burned directly in the main hall? The step of killing people is redundant. Why do you set fire to this side when you know that it has been slaughtered? Burning this step is also redundant. ”

Li Feifan looked at me, and his eyes surged with emotions that I couldn't see clearly: "I just hate that I didn't go with my parents." I have clues, you know, I have a very smart sister......."

He led me to the screen of the room, where a burned female corpse lay on an incense burner, holding a sword in her right hand and pointing at the lid of the stove with her left.

His tears suddenly fell to the ground. "My sister Li Miaoyan is the smartest woman in the world...... She knows how to avoid gangsters, and she knows how to hide in the cold cellar. But...... Why did she ......?"

He was emotional, and I patted him on the back, and suddenly remembered my sister, whom I had only met a few times when I was younger, and felt even more empathy.

"Why is she still dead...... Why did you die here...... Why hold this incense burner? ”

I know that anyone who sees their favorite sister burned to such a terrible state will not be able to stand it.

"Sorry...... Can I check her and this incense burner? Li Feifan took a deep breath: "...... OK. ”

I nodded gratefully and stepped forward to examine the female corpse. After a moment, his color suddenly became gloomy.

"Suicide." I shuddered and spat out the heavy words.