Chapter 53: Tracing the Trace
The most romantic thing in this world is that the beauty is pitiful, and the moon is under the night.
In the middle of the night in this drizzle, there are stunning beauties running around with enthusiasm behind him, which is really a blessing cultivated in his previous life, Zhaoyan feels that his luck is really good, but it is a pity-
People are boys and girls, and flowers are blood-spattered!
Kicking on the green bamboo, in an instant, the body was as light as a swallow stepping seven steps in a row, and it was able to avoid the person behind him to force a palm, and the bamboo with thick forearms burst open, and the flying debris of the goddess scattered flowers hit in all directions, Zhaoyan people had nowhere to borrow in mid-air, and suddenly pulled out the umbrella behind him, the umbrella surface was stretched and rotated like a wheel, and the bamboo pieces hit the top and made a series of "ding" sounds, he turned around and landed, and a sweeping leg attacked the enemy's lower plate, and in the blink of an eye, fists and feet fought each other for several rounds, Zhaoyan subconsciously turned his head, and a dagger broke out of his sleeve, almost cutting his face, the blade glowed green in the moonlight, obviously quenched with poison.
He dodged this knife, and his subordinates left no room at all, and the re-closed Luo umbrella slapped firmly on the opponent's chest, which was no different from smoking an iron rod, and immediately hit the person's chest with qi and blood, and took seven steps back, just as the bamboo that had been blasted just now collapsed, stopping between the two like the Chu River Han Boundary.
"This brother, from last night to now, you have been chasing me for almost twelve hours, and you still refuse to let go?"
Zhao Yan held an umbrella in one hand and pinched his waist in the other, his expression could not hide his sleepiness, and he said angrily: "I didn't seduce your mother and kill your father, nor did I take your wife and daughter to sleep with you, so you can chase after you like this?" ”
Confronting him was a man, full of crow feathers and black hair, dressed in a snow-green robe, looking at his demeanor and demeanor, you can know that he is a rare beautiful man, not to mention that he has clear eyebrows, handsome posture, and the whole person seems to be painted in ink.
Hearing this obvious ridicule, the man in Tsing Yi had no anger on his face, and said with a faint smile: "Sharp teeth and sharp mouth, wait and knock out your full mouth, sew your mouth, and see how hard you are." ”
Zhao Yan thought for a while and said seriously: "The question of whether it is hard or not is not determined by the teeth. ”
"......" The man in Tsing Yi had to admit that he lost when it came to shamelessness.
Choked on the other party, Zhao Yan was in a good mood, patted the bamboo scraps on his body, and said: "This brother, seeing that you are also an old Jianghu, you should know the truth of 'being a man and leaving a line, and seeing each other in the future', you let me go, and go back to spend the Spring Festival with Mei Jiao Niang in your arms, wouldn't it be better than chasing after me and eating ashes?" ”
"I've only heard a truth in my life, it's called 'cutting grass to eradicate roots'." The man in Tsing Yi said coldly, "Boy, you know what you have done yourself, so you don't need to gag with me." ”
"Brother, what you said seems to have done something heinous." Zhao Yan pretended to pat his heart in fear, and then smiled weirdly, "Let me think about it...... Is it because I don't sleep in the middle of the night and wander around, and I bumped into a pair of young people arguing, and I was so idle that I panicked and went up to see the excitement? Or did I witness your good-natured disguise and trick those two good Samaritans into the alley to kill the killer? Or maybe I didn't know whether I was alive or dead, and I hit your concubine on the head in front of you, and almost tore the fig leaf on her face? ”
The man in Tsing Yi looked at Zhao Yan coldly, as if he was looking at a dead man.
"When I think about it, these should be the things." The smile on the corner of Zhao Yan's mouth slowly became cold, "It seems that Brother Tai is going to kill people?" ”
The man in Tsing Yi suddenly said: "I have heard, your name is Zhaoyan, you have been in Mei County for less than three days, your origin is unknown, and the teacher is unknown. ”
Zhao Yan said: "No, it's just below, what advice does Brother Tai have?" ”
"Luo Bingyan thinks that you have a relationship with the old palace master back then, and this time you are here to seek revenge for him, is it true?"
"Then when the old palace master was alive, he was not born yet, what is the reason?" After a pause, Zhao Yan changed his words and smiled a little ill-willedly, "However, his daughter was born bright and moving, and I am very happy to have a reason with her." ”
His smile was a little explicit, but when a man saw it, there was nothing he didn't understand the deep meaning.
The man in Tsing Yi secretly said in his heart, Luo Bingyan's speculation was not wrong, the daughter of the old palace master not only survived, but also wanted to avenge her father, so she found such a bold and daring Jianghu Sanren, I don't know if she didn't dare to come or still hide in the dark to snoop.
Thinking of this, the coldness in the eyes of the man in Tsing Yi receded slightly, he looked at Zhao Yan carefully, and felt that except for that mouth, everything else was still pleasing to the eye, so he said: "There are so many beauties in the world, if you are willing, I can take you to see." ”
Zhao Yan raised his eyebrows and asked, "If I want to see the thorny beauty last night, is Brother Tai also willing to cut his love?" ”
The man in Tsing Yi didn't hesitate at all, and said lightly: "As long as you are willing to her, you can accept the blessing." ”
"Coincidentally, if you don't have other skills, you will please the beauty."
Zhao Yan hung the umbrella back behind his back with his backhand, smiled at the man in Tsing Yi, walked forward with empty hands, and was about to step over the bamboo, when he suddenly exerted force under his feet, and half of the bamboo was kicked out by him violently, bringing up a large piece of broken grass and soil, which instantly blinded people's eyes.
The man in Tsing Yi had already prevented him from making trouble, and he didn't panic at all, the sleeve of his robe on his left side flew to block the dust that came to his face, and he heard the sound of the wind in his ears, and his right hand bent his fingers into a claw and grabbed forward, and he really grabbed something, but it was not a fist and foot blade, but a stinky stone stained with cow dung!
The stone started, the pickled matter also stained the palm, and it couldn't be shaken off, and the nausea that rose from the stomach suddenly swept over like a river and a sea, and the man in Tsing Yi looked up and saw that the slippery boy was gone, and he didn't want to touch himself at all.
"Damn it!"
The man in Tsing Yi threw away the stone, tore off a large piece of clothing and wiped his hands fiercely, his body walked through the forest like a ghost, faster than the flying bird, but unfortunately Zhao Yan had been practicing penance in the cold mountain for five years, and he had to go back and forth on the Guluan Peak every day.
Sure enough, the man in Tsing Yi chased all the way out of the bamboo forest, the night in front of him was vast, the outline of the house was faintly visible, a small river cut off the road ahead, and there was no bridge or boat on the river, as if no one had ever come.
The face of the man in Tsing Yi was as gloomy as water, he flowed all the way into the river, feeling the cold river water washing over his body, washing away the stench and stickiness on his hands, and the anger that almost burned his reason was calmed down a little, and his eyes were still extremely cold.
He left like a water ghost and quickly disappeared into the streets.
It wasn't until he had been gone for a long time that a figure lifted the haystack of a house and crawled out of it.
The man in Tsing Yi never thought that Zhao Yan really ran away, but instead of running as far forward as possible, he was bold enough to fall behind him.
Being chased and killed all day, the mud bodhisattva also has three points of anger, not to mention that Zhao Yan has never been a good-tempered person, even if this trouble is caused by himself.
It's a long story, and it has to start with him going down the mountain.
Let's say that on the 11th day of February, Zhao Yan packed his bags, said goodbye to Bu Hanying and the people of Hanshan, and returned to Yanbei Pass alone.
Zhao Yan in the cold mountain in the past five years is not to say that it is a escape, but also with others rarely intersect, Yin Mei will take the time to visit him every year, the two get along like sisters and brothers, and just right to take the measure, he just asked Yin Mei what to do outside, Yin Mei has nothing to ask for him, so this time suddenly received Yin Mei's urgent letter, Zhao Yan "sighed" in his heart, and thought that something had happened to her, but fortunately, although the letter did not report good news or bad news, just asked him to take a detour to the south, to Mei County, Surabaya Prefecture, Donghai Prefecture.
Meixian occupies a favorable transportation location, people in the southeast and southeast have to pass through this place whether they go north or west, the unique water and land business nourishes the behemoth of the weak water palace, compared with the other five major demon gates of the underworld, the weak water palace acted violently in the early years, and later changed Luo Bingyan as the palace master, and took care of the weak water palace with the body of a female stream, and the people of the gate were deterred, and it can be called a strange flower in the demon gate.
Now that the time of the martial arts conference is approaching, people from all walks of life are rushing to Qihuang Mountain in Zhongzhou, Meixian is bound to be mixed, so as to avoid accidents, Yin Mei got a secret report, saying that someone wants to take this opportunity to do something in Meixian, and the spearhead is pointed at the weak water palace and the Baidao sect passing through here, I am afraid that there will be a big disaster.
Yin Mei didn't give many clues, thinking that the other party was acting very secretly, Zhao Yan was also in trouble for a while, and he didn't know what to do, and when he rushed to Meixian, the people of the weak water palace who bullied the female disciples of Wangshu Men had already caused a storm in the city, and it seemed that it was just a group of lustful villains acting impulsively, but Zhao Yan knew in his heart that this was probably the black hand behind the scenes who had already begun to act.
In order to lure the snake out of the hole, Zhao Yan found the eight animals who committed the crime, killed them in a cruel and arrogant manner, and kept an eye on the reaction of the Weak Water Palace, and sure enough, he found something strange - although the whole thing started because of Wangshumen, the real thing that the mastermind behind the scenes had to deal with was actually the Haitian Gang who arrived later, otherwise Mei Qiniang would not have to repeat her old tricks after being recognized and disguised, and go to the restaurant to provoke Jiang Pingchao and his party who were ready to stay out of the matter.
Confirming this, Zhao Yan deliberately left his name, and then rushed to Xianyu Villa.
Yin Mei mentioned in the letter what Luo Bingyan has done over the years, although she is a moody female devil, compared to Jiang Pingchao and Mu Qing, who are newcomers, Zhao Yan is more willing to ventilate with the master of the weak water palace, not to mention that since the mastermind behind the scenes wants chaos in Meixian, it is contrary to Luo Bingyan's concept over the years, if she refuses to give in, it is a stumbling block that the other party must eliminate.
However, Zhao Yan is just a nobody, and he killed the people of the Weak Water Palace, why does Luo Bingyan trust him?
Pushing others by himself, Zhao Yan felt that if he was Luo Bingyan, he would have to scrap half of his body and bones before he could have a good conversation after meeting.
Therefore, Zhao Yan took advantage of Luo Bingyan's tiredness to sneak into her bedroom with light skills and left a letter.
The so-called "three days to take your life" is just a threat he deliberately wrote, to remind Luo Bingyan that he is afraid of killing, a woman can be in charge of the weak water palace for nearly 20 years, relying on not only strong martial arts, but also cautious and suspicious, with what happened before, coupled with this "letter of life", Luo Bingyan is bound to wake up, and it will not be easy to secretly kill her, as long as the crisis emerges, Zhao Yan has the confidence to discuss cooperation with Luo Bingyan.
Thousands of calculations, but Luo Bingyan was dead.
Zhao Yan still thinks about it incredible.
Yesterday, after leaving a letter to Luo Bingyan, he didn't dare to stay for a long time, so he quickly left Xianyu Villa, lurking nearby and snooping carefully, and soon saw Elder Huo and Shen Luoyue coming out together, and rushing to Midtown with people. After a while, Elder Huo took a young girl back to the villa, Zhao Yan met in the restaurant, remembered that she was Jiang Pingchao's sister, and immediately understood that this was "inviting someone".
Sure enough, Shen Luoyue and Jiang Pingchao and his party came later, Zhao Yan watched them enter Xianyu Villa, and he also followed in as the sky was getting darker, but he didn't dare to get too close to Luo Bingyan, hiding in a big tree outside the banquet hall, and with the outstanding ear power obtained from practicing "Heaven Interception Gong", he heard the conversation and confrontation of the people inside.
Luo Bingyan's soft and hard work, Jiang Pingchao and Fang Yongyan's hesitation, and Ye Xixi's resentment...... The statements of all parties were expected by Zhaoyan, and after Ye Xixi and Jiang Yu left Xianyu Villa, he thought for a moment and followed.
As a close relative of the deceased, anyone in Baidao may accept Luo Bingyan's Xiaozhi and move for the benefit of emotion, but Ye Xixi is difficult to accept, the mastermind behind the scenes wants the chaos in Meixian County, it is impossible to reconcile the two sides, it is best to start from Ye Xixi, especially now that she is angry and runs away, there is only one river fish by her side.
Zhao Yan fell behind them, and followed all the way from Xianyu Villa to the left of the secret door, Ye Xixi was obviously angry, she didn't want to go back to the inn to be persuaded by gossiping, and broke into this ninth-rate place to clean up those ruffians and hooligans, rescued several abducted women and children, and the attack was heavier and heavier each time, and the river fish also aroused the fire, just when the two were arguing, a woman's cry came from the alley, and the two immediately shut up, pulled out their weapons and rushed over.
The alley was dark and chaotic and twisted and turned, and Zhao Yan was fifty steps behind them, so it was inevitable that he would be lost for a moment, but he didn't think that this blink of an eye was the difference between life and death.
There was indeed a woman in the alley.
The cloak was covered, the black clothes were masked, almost perfectly blended with the night, Jiang Yu and Ye Xixi did not find her in time, just as the two of them looked around, the woman burst into trouble, clamped Ye Xixi's right hand holding the sword from behind, and stabbed directly at Jiang Yu!
The two stood very close, this time they shot fiercely, Jiang Yu was directly pierced by a sword, Ye Xi was shocked and wanted to break free and fight back, but the woman was ruthless, she actually grabbed her wrist and turned the sword edge, asking her to "kill herself" on the spot!
Zhao Yan couldn't save Jiang Yu one step too late, seeing this situation, he immediately hit a stone and wanted to save Ye Xip, but he didn't expect that in addition to the masked woman here, there was also a person hiding, the life-saving stone collided with another stone in mid-air, both exploded, and Zhao Yan's hiding place was also exposed, but seeing a flower in front of him, a man in Tsing Yi who looked like a good woman raised his palm to kill, if he hadn't reacted quickly, I was afraid that he would have been injured in the hands of the other party as soon as he saw his face.
He avoided this palm, and he lost the last chance to save Ye Xixi, watching the sword blade slash across the side of his neck, and the woman who was still beautiful and fresh just now died in the blink of an eye.
The masked woman is obviously in a group with the man in Tsing Yi, although she didn't expect an uninvited guest to come, she had a tacit understanding to deal with it, fortunately, her martial arts skills are lower than the man in Tsing Yi, Zhao Yan grabbed this flaw and put a heavy hand, so she got out of the dark alley, but unexpectedly, the man in Tsing Yi was not only strong in martial arts, but also very strong in light skills, and chased him all the way.
This is a bitter Zhao Yan, from last night to now it has been nearly twelve hours, he has only rested less than a stick of incense, if it is not for the endless inner breath, I am afraid that he can be consumed alive.
What shocked him the most was that he learned a message from people during the break-
There was more than one murder last night, Luo Bingyan actually died in Xianyu Villa, his letter really became a letter asking for his life, and the city gates of Meixian County were urgently blocked, and Zhaoyan was already the "murderer" who was jointly pursued by black and white.
The change came unexpectedly, and the man in Tsing Yi was still chasing after him, Zhao Yan didn't think about letting go, but the other party's martial arts were at least in the middle of his own, and he secretly didn't know whether there was a backhand, so he rashly resisted just to give his life, so he simply played a trick, and he could escape from under the other party's nose.
"You've been chasing me for almost a whole day, and now the feng shui is turning, it's time for me to come."
Zhao Yan muttered to himself twice, and chased in the direction where the man in Tsing Yi disappeared, not startled by the dust under his feet, and even the wild cat under the eaves did not notice that anyone had walked in front of him.
This man in Tsing Yi was really cautious.
Leaving from Xiaohe, he first went to Buzhuang to get a complete set of dark new clothes and shoes, and then walked quickly in the shadows, turning around several times halfway, if it was lighter and weaker, I am afraid that he has been dizzy, Zhao Yan held his breath, and followed him like a ghost, until the fourth watch was approaching, and a majestic mountain villa loomed in the night.
This man in Tsing Yi actually came to Xianyu Villa.
Zhao Yan broke into this place twice at night, not to mention that he had seen all the people in the Weak Water Palace, and he had also seen a seven, seven, eighty, eight, eight, and eight, and he never knew that there was such a person in the villa.
He hid behind the tree, and saw that the man in Tsing Yi did not go through the main entrance, and climbed in from the dead corner of the high wall, obviously not from the Weak Water Palace, but he was very familiar with this place.
In the weak water palace, there must be this person's internal response.
Zhao Yan instantly thought of the masked woman who killed Ye Xixi and the two last night, the other party was ruthless and sophisticated, and knew how to hide the number of moves, it must be an old Jianghu who licked blood from the knife edge.
With his eyes narrowed slightly, Zhao Yan sneaked into Xianyu Villa along the path of the man in Tsing Yi, and at this time there was no trace of the other party.
The real culprit who killed Luo Bingyan has not yet been caught, Shen Luoyue and Elder Huo have put the body of the palace master into the underground ice cellar for the time being, and there are ice cubes to protect the body, not to mention that it will not rot or rot for seven days.
There were many guards near the ice cellar, and Elder Huo was watching it in person, Zhao Yan wanted to see Luo Bingyan's body with his own eyes, thinking that his portrait had been plastered all over the streets and alleys of Meixian County in one day, he could only give up helplessly and go to the back mountain.
Luo Bingyan was killed in a big trouble, and all the forces in Meixian County were mobilized, even if Zhao Yan was tired all day long, she also heard a lot from the market, knowing that she was blocked by a sword when she was practicing in the hot spring, and the eighteen guards nearby were also killed, and Luo Bingyan's face was also engraved with the word "Zhao".
When Zhao Yan heard about this, he was simply ridiculous in his heart, but unfortunately most people now think that Luo Bingyan was killed by him, two of the four people who can testify for him have died, and the remaining two are probably eager to sit down on the facts, since he can't see Luo Bingyan's body, he can only come to see the place where the crime occurred.
Houshan Hot Spring was originally Luo Bingyan's private forbidden place, but now that there is this bloody case, others dare not set foot in half a step, Shen Luoyue sent people to surround this place far away, if she is not accompanied, no one is allowed to trespass.
The drizzle was getting heavier, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and the lanterns and candles around were swaying, and the guards were only in a trance for a moment, and Zhao Yan had already swept under the shadow of the mountain wall and quietly walked behind the rockery.
The white mist in the hot springs curled, and there was a hidden light leaking from the cracks in the stone wall, Zhao Yan did not bring a fire fold, took out a night pearl from his arms, and took this light to check carefully, and really did not see the traces of a fight such as sword marks and palm prints, Luo Bingyan's clothes left at that time were still hanging on the branches, and her usual gold bead Bai Lian was on the top of the clothes.
Bai Lian coiled neatly, which showed that Luo Bingyan had not touched it before he died.
When death is imminent, why doesn't she use weapons to protect herself? It's just too late, or you can't do it.
Zhao Yan looked around carefully, and there were no traces of soft steel wire entanglement and tightening on the old trees and stones, indicating that the murderer did cut her throat with a sword in his hand, but the space here is not very large, and the hot springs occupy more than seventy percent.
Even if the murderer was holding a long sword, if Luo Bingyan didn't get close to the edge of the pool, the blade of the sword would not be enough to reach two feet around her.
In this case, there were only two possibilities at that time, one was that the murderer threw his body into the water after killing people on the shore, and the other was that the murderer went into the water to kill people.
If it was the former, there should be blood stains on the ground or on the stone wall, Zhao Yan carefully looked at the gaps and found nothing.
Then it can only be the latter.
Zhao Yan was about to return to the edge of the pool when he suddenly heard a faint sound of footsteps, and immediately dodged sideways, raising his right arm to block a claw coming from behind.
Through the glimmer of the Night Pearl, Zhao Yan saw a person of similar size to himself, dressed in a night robe, with a hideous ghost mask buttoned on his face, revealing only a pair of eyes as bright as cold stars!