"Okay, you Yang Huairen, you have also learned to hide things from Xiang Ye, do you feel a little panicked when your head rests on your shoulder, and you want me to move the place for you."

"General Gu Xiao, General Gu Xiao, Xia Guan really didn't mean to hide it from Xiang Ye, but Xia Guan felt that Xia Guan did not submit to the other party, nor did he promise the other party to do the things that are sorry for Xiang Ye, sorry for the emperor, and sorry for my Great Wei Jiangshan Sheji, so he didn't uphold it. General Gu Xiao, if Xia Guan really did something to be sorry for Xiangye, my son Yang Zhi would not have died tragically on this Wei River. ”

"Say, you are hiding something from Xiangye!" Gu Yunfei put the sword on Yang Huairen's neck.

"Two years ago, someone sent a message to Xiaguan and asked Xiaguan to help open the gate of Yecheng. The lower official is the guard of Yecheng, and he is responsible for guarding the city gate, so he can obey the arrangement of this thief. Xia Guan burned the letter and secretly strengthened the defense of the four gates of Yecheng, and it was precisely because of this that after the thieves in Yecheng launched a rebellion, they were able to block them in the city and not let them mix with the enemy elements outside the city. In the past two years, Xia Guan didn't receive any secret letters, until a while ago, the letter appeared again. ”

"Or will you help open the gates?"

"No, it's to ask the subordinate to help set up a few people in the garrison camp. The letter also said that if the lower officials did what they said, the lower officials would get ten thousand taels of gold. If you don't comply, you will have to take the lives of your subordinates and your family. Although Xia Guan is just a garrison, he is also a dignified Wei man, how can he let these thieves pinch their noses and leave. The subordinate noted down the names of those people, and then secretly probed, and secretly detained all those who matched the secret letter. ”

"Why didn't you kill it directly?"

"Because the lower officials are suspicious."

"What's the doubt?"

"What the lower officials are suspicious about is that two years ago, these people asked the lower officials to help them do things, and the lower officials did not comply. Two years later, they came to Xia Guan again, and directly attached this person's name to the secret letter, and Xia Guan could not confirm whether these people must be their people. ”

"You're a smart person, Yang Huairen."

"The lower officials don't dare to say that they are smart, but they just seriously help the prime minister and the court."

"And how did you check?" Gu Changfeng asked.

"Back to Xiangye's words, Xia Guan checked all the people on the list, and found that most of them were ordinary people, and there was nothing to doubt in themselves, but there were a few people who were indeed suspicious."

"What about those people?" Gu Yunfei asked.

"Still in secret detention, Xiaguan originally wanted to find an opportunity to uphold Xiangye on this matter, but Xiangye was not in Yecheng a while ago, and just after he came back, he was sent by the emperor to envoy Beiliao. If it weren't for the rebellion today, Xia Guan is afraid that he can only wait for Xiangye to return to Yecheng before he can go up. ”

"Since you have someone who wants to harm your son, why don't you stop your little son?" Yan Su asked.

"Mrs. Hui's words are not that the lower officials are unwilling to stop them, but that this rebel son will not listen to the lower officials at all." Yang Huairen shook his head and sighed, looking like he hated iron but couldn't hide his grief: "Everyone knows that I dote on my young son, but they don't know why I dote on him." My wife and I, although it was the order of our parents and the words of the matchmaker, I knew from the moment I lifted her red hijab in the cave room that she was the lady I was looking for. When we had our first two children, my wife and I were both young and in good health. The birth of the child was also smooth and did not suffer any twists and turns. ”

"What about when you gave birth to this little boy?"

"In those years, my wife was often sick and was not in good health. I arranged for my wife to go to the countryside to recuperate, and Yang Zhi had it at that time. I didn't want this child, but I asked a doctor and said that according to my wife's physical condition at the time, there was no way to have an abortion. Mrs. She, who finally survived those months, encountered even greater trouble when she gave birth to Yang Zhi. This Yang Zhi is an uneasy person from his mother's womb. The other children all came out with their feet first, but he was good, he was head-down, and he had a big head.

For three days and three nights, I almost killed my wife. As for himself, he was not much better, when he came out of my wife's belly, his whole little body was soft, and his body was also dark and green, and I only looked at it at the time, and I wanted to be buried in him.

Who knows, it's such a little thing that doesn't seem to be alive anymore, and it screams and comes back to life. We all thought that this was God's will, so we raised him carefully. He was not in good health when he was a child, and he was the youngest child born to my wife and me, so I naturally preferred him. If I had known that I was favored, I would have changed him to what he is now, and I would ...... A few days ago, when he made me angry, I punished him to kneel in the ancestral hall. When I remembered to look for him, I found that this rebel had fled without knowing when, and I had people look for him in the city for several days but could not find his whereabouts. If I hadn't received a summons from Xiangye today, I wouldn't have known that he died in this Wei River.

Providence, everything is providential. Perhaps, this child should not have been us in the first place. ”

"In the past few days, has Lord Yang received any letters?"

Yang Huairen shook his head: "I haven't received it." Xu knew that my son was dead, and Xu decided that even if I sacrificed the lives of the whole family, it was impossible for them to lead me by the nose, so they gave up. ”

"I hope so." Yan Suwen sighed and fell on the water again.

Under Gu Changfeng's arrangement, Gu Yunfei quickly brought the person who salvaged the body over. Those people traveled in different boats, using special hooks, and searched in the backwater waters. Until dark, the bones of the people who fell into the water from the flower boat were not found. together

"Master, it's not too early. Why don't you go to another body of water with your lady first? The smell of this place is too bad. Gu Yunfei covered his nose and pointed to the distant water: "Don't worry, with me and Lord Yang staring here, it will be fine." ”

"What do you think, ma'am?"

"Just do what Yunfei says." The smell of stagnant water that was stirred up was indeed unpleasant, but it was nothing to her, who was used to seeing carrioning corpses. The reason why I agreed to leave was because I knew that I was pregnant, and my physical condition at this time was different from before. In the past, she could come by her own temperament, but now, she has to take care of the child in her belly more or less.

Rotten gases are somewhat toxic, and if she hurts the fetus, she is afraid that she will be blamed to death. This is her first child with Gu Changfeng, and the meaning to him is naturally different.

Yan Suwen turned around and was about to enter the houseboat, when he suddenly stopped again. for she saw something floating in the reeds.

The backwater is full of reeds of all sizes, and the things that float in the reeds are clusters of ghost fires.

Ghost fire, also known as phosphorus fire, but wherever this kind of thing appears, there will inevitably be rotting corpses.

"What's wrong?"

"Let Yunfei take people to those places where there is phosphorus fire."

"Isn't that a ghost fire?" Gu Yunfei looked at the flames floating around and pulled out his sword.

"What are you doing with your sword drawn? Scare those phosphorus fires? The so-called ghost fire actually has nothing to do with ghosts, it is a special substance produced by the bones of dead people. The ignition point of this flame is so low that you don't feel any temperature even if you touch it with your hand. It won't hurt anyone, at most it will follow the air flow of your walk as you pass by. ”

"Phosphorus fire, I know it, there are a lot of them on the battlefield." Gu Yunfei put the sword back again: "In our hometown, call this a ghost lantern." I'm not afraid, but I just feel unlucky. ”

"How much blood have you got on your hands, and you're still angry." Yan Suwen looked at Gu Yunfei and shook his head: "Since there is phosphorus fire in the reeds, it means that there are corpses below. The fact that so many phosphorus fires were gathered over there meant that there were not one or two corpses down there. Perhaps, the missing people we are looking for on the flower tower are in those reeds. ”

"It's easy, I'll bring someone over now." Gu Yunfei jumped onto a small boat.

Those on the small boat are all specialized corpse collectors, and they are no strangers to phosphorus fire, and they are not afraid. Seeing Gu Yunfei on the boat, the boatman didn't even hesitate at all, and rowed the boat into the reeds floating with phosphorus fire. Gu Yunfei stood at the bow of the boat with his sword in his hand, and was about to put on a chic swordsman pose, but before this posture was set, he felt the boat under his feet swaying for a while, almost shaking him into the water.

"What's wrong? The ship must have been frightened by the ghost fire in the reeds? ”

"The little boy is really joking, this ship is not frightened, but hung up by something below." The boat stopped abruptly halfway through the row, and no matter how it swung its oars, it just spun in place, and it still did half a circle. The boatman was an experienced man, and when he saw that the oars were not moving, he knew that the boat was caught up in something underwater. He picked up a long artemisia in his hand, and with enough strength to hold it up, the boat rowed forward a few times, but it didn't go far before it stumbled again.

"Little boy, there's something under this water, and it's not a small thing. Why don't we catch it up and have a look? The boatman gave the other boatmen a look, and everyone stopped.

"Laobei, I just want to see what the hell is down here."

"Sailing in the middle of the night, the little boy has to be cautious when he speaks." The boatman said as he observed the water. When the water was calm, he held the edge of the boat with one hand, grabbed the artemisia with the other, and after making sure that the artemisia was mixed with the thing under the water, he pulled it upwards with all his might.

With a hula sound from the water, a blistered corpse floated up.

The boatman pulled out the artemisia and struck it a few times on the body, and some small fish and aquatic creatures fell from the carcass. There was another noise on the water.

In the air, the indescribable stench that wafted through the air became more and more intense. Through the lantern on the bow of the boat, you can see that it is a female corpse, because the time spent under the water is too long, and the things in the water gnaw at it, so that the whole face of the female corpse is indistinguishable. Although his face was ruined, the clothes on his body were still there.

"Little boy, take a look, this female corpse is what you want to salvage?" The boatman removed the debris from the woman's body.

Gu Yunfei glanced at it, but couldn't be sure, so he had to stretch out his hand and wave at the big boat: "Madam? ”

"Shen Jiu, go over and take a look." Yan Suwen turned around and looked at Shen Jiu, who was standing not far away. Shen Jiu nodded, took another small boat to Gu Yunfei, and with just one glance, he was sure that this deceased was one of the girls who were performing on the Bird Tower.