When Tang Qianlin and the three of them came to Mohe County, it was already after nightfall.

Mohe County is not as prosperous as they thought, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is desolate, and a few people walk on the street with their shoulders shut.

The Mohe River in March is just like Harbin in the cold winter.

Tang Qianlin stopped a passer-by and asked, "May I ask how to go to the 'Chat Origin' pawnshop?" ”

Passers-by shook their heads and said they didn't know and hadn't heard of it.

Li Yunfan asked: "Is it not called this name?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "An Guotao said this to me, such a strange pawnshop name, as long as ordinary people have heard it, they will definitely be able to remember it." ”

Li Yunfan said: "That's it, ask a few more people, if not, come with me to find my master first." ”

After Tang Qianlin stopped a few passers-by and asked, after getting a reply that he didn't know, he had to follow Li Yunfan to find Bei Zihong.

Li Yunfan led Tang Qianlin and Tang Yushi and the two of them walked for about ten minutes, and then came to a shop that sold carbon, Li Yunfan opened the thick curtain at the door and just entered, and when he was about to ask, the shopkeeper behind the counter hurriedly greeted him and said affectionately: "Young owner, you can count it back, the master has been waiting for you." ”

Less owner? Even Li Yunfan himself was puzzled by this title, but thinking that it was probably Bei Zihong who deliberately arranged it this way, he didn't say anything more, and followed the shopkeeper into the room in the backyard.

Walking into the house, the three of them saw that Bei Zihong was giving medicine to a person lying on the bed, and when they saw them coming in, they just raised their hands and signaled them to wait first.

Bei Zihong carefully finished taking the medicine and bandaging the man, then got up and said, "You guys are a little late." ”

"Late?" Li Yunfan hurriedly asked, "Master, has something happened?" ”

Bei Zihong said: "The pawnshop of Liaofayuan was burned down, if it wasn't for my people arriving in time, I'm afraid this guy would have been burned to death." ”

Tang Qianlin looked at the man lying on his stomach and asked tentatively, "Could he be Ye Yunong?" ”

Bei Zihong nodded: "Yes, he is the Ye Yunong you are looking for." ”

Tang Qianlin was puzzled: "Senior, how do you know that what I'm looking for is Ye Yunong, who talks about the origin?" ”

Bei Zihong said: "Ye Yunong is the only person in the Yan clan who has contact with An Guotao, after I learned the news that you married An Ran, I probably speculated that An Guotao may have told you the secret and asked you to come to Ye Yunong." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "No wonder, it seems that the seniors know much more about the Yan family than An Guotao. ”

Bei Zihong raised his hand to signal the three of them to sit down, and the moment they sat down, his eyes fell on Tang Yushi's body.

Bei Zihong asked, "Who is this young man?" ”

Li Yunfan said: "Master, this is the son of Old Tang. ”

Tang Qianlin explained: "To be exact, it is an adopted son. ”

"No wonder it doesn't look like it, and you shouldn't have a child of this age at your age." Bei Zihong got up and walked to Tang Yushi, carefully observed his eyes, wiped the sweat from his forehead with his thumb, sniffed it, and said, "This kid is highly poisonous, and besides, is his life experience also related to the four kings surnamed Han?" ”

Tang Qianlin and the others were very surprised, and Tang Qianlin hurriedly asked, "Senior, how do you know?" ”

Bei Zihong went to the cabinet next to him and began to grab the medicine, and after he grasped it, he beckoned the guy to come in: "Take it and fry it, there are two pairs of medicines, fry eight bowls of water into two bowls, and bring it after the medicinal soup is naturally cold." ”

After speaking, Bei Zihong sat down again and looked at the three people: "Many years ago, I once rescued a young man in the woods on the outskirts of Mohe, who looked like he was eighteen years old. But the boy insisted that he was only twelve years old, and I thought it was strange that the child had something wrong with his brain, and when he came back, he found that he had been poisoned, not exactly what kind of poison it was, but I knew it was a hot poison, but because it was too late to be cured, he eventually died, and when he died, he had become an old man of seventy or eighty years old. ”

When Li Yunfan heard this, he hurriedly asked, "Master, do you know the 'leopard slave'?" ”

"Of course I do." Bei Zihong nodded and said, "And I know that it has something to do with Ma Yanqing, one of the four kings of the Han surname, if it weren't for my order to monitor the Yan family, I would have interfered." ”

Tang Qianlin seemed to understand something: "Senior, do you mean that from the very beginning, you knew that among the four kings, only the Yan clan guarded the Shaman Spirit Palace?" ”

Bei Zihong said: "That's right, I have been ordered to defend the Yan clan here for decades, and they also know about my existence, but because the Yan clan here does not dare to disclose their power, we are just fighting in secret, and we have not been distinguished." ”

Li Yunfan wanted to ask something, but it was difficult to speak, after all, he was an apprentice, so he had to signal to Tang Qianlin with his eyes.

Tang Qianlin understood and asked, "Senior, take the liberty of asking, whose order are you on?" ”

Bei Zihong was silent for a moment, and finally said two words: "Hongmen." ”

Hongmen? Li Yunfan and Tang Qianlin were shocked, but Tang Yushi didn't know what was going on.

Beizi Hongdao: "In the past, Hongmen's banner was 'opposing the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty', with 'loyalty, righteousness, unity and mutual assistance' as its creed. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, we also changed from anti-Qing to anti-imperialism and anti-feudalism, supported Mr. Sun to establish a republic, and worked together to make China no longer oppressed by foreign powers, but there was a group of people in the Manchu Qing Dynasty who never gave up on restoration, and we, Hongmen, were also secretly monitoring every move of this group of people. ”

Li Yunfan said: "These people are the four kings surnamed Han? ”

Bei Zihong said: "Strictly speaking, in the past, this group of people belonged to the red belt and self-proclaimed people who were truly loyal to the court, and it was also this group of people who privately formed a small court and canonized the four kings surnamed Han, the purpose of which was to reopen the secret discovered before the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, so as to achieve the purpose of restoration." ”

Tang Qianlin said: "In other words, the correspondence between the four spirits of the shaman and the four kings of the Han surname only came later, and has it not always existed?" ”

Bei Zihong said: "Of course, the four spirits originally existed in the legend of the shaman, and the people of the small court just took advantage of this to make a maze array, because they could not guarantee that the news of the Shaman Spirit Palace would not be leaked, so they simply released similar news to confuse the public, so that outsiders did not know who was guarding the real Shaman Spirit Palace." ”

Li Yunfan asked, "Master, what exactly is the Shaman Spirit Palace?" ”

Bei Zihong said: "As far as I know, it looks like a weapon, but I haven't found out what it is, because I still don't know the exact location of the Shaman Spirit Palace, and I don't know if it's hidden in the snow-sealed mountains." I've spent my whole life trying to find out this secret......"

Before Bei Zihong became a disciple of Hongmen, he used to be a catcher, in other words, he was originally a catcher, like most catchers, he was also an orphan, but while becoming a catcher, he also discovered one thing that made him indignant in the different ways, that is, the different ways did not ask about state affairs.

As a Chinese person, but he doesn't ask about national affairs, so what is the purpose of the exploration of the hunt for a hundred years?

At that time, Bei Zihong was a hot-blooded young man, and he saw that the corruption and incompetence of the Manchu Qing Dynasty led to the loss of power and humiliation of the country, and he had more than enough strength but not enough strength.

Bei Zihong said of this indignation: "Once, I and another person went to Liaodong to investigate the case, and witnessed the Japanese humiliating our people at the Liaodong port, but the Manchu defenders at the port turned a blind eye, and even held the mentality of watching the excitement, I shot out angrily and killed two Japanese, which was wanted by the Qing court and the Japanese, but I didn't expect that the companion who went with me not only did not help me, but reported to the upper authorities that I violated the rules of the door and made extraneous ......branches."

After Bei Zihong knew about this, he argued with the arrester, and after some arguments between the two, the arrester theorized that Bei Zihong actually shot at him, and it was a black hand from behind, and Bei Zihong killed the shameless man on the premise of being seriously injured.

It is taboo to kill each other, the key is that this person first reported Bei Zihong for violating the door rules, even if Bei Zihong went back to explain, no one would believe him.

Bei Zihong knew that he was right, but he also knew that from now on, there would be no place for him to be found, so he planned to sneak back, tell the master the truth, and then leave the hunt, fight the sword and the rivers and lakes by himself, and be a lone knight.

But things are far from being as simple as Bei Zihong thought, on the way back to return, he happened to meet the other three arresters who came to investigate his violation of the door rules, Bei Zihong didn't want to kill each other with the same door anymore, and took the initiative to explain the reason, but the other party didn't want to believe it, and asked Bei Zihong to commit suicide and apologize.

Bei Zihong refused to give in, and fought with the three of them, although Bei Zihong was strong in martial arts, but he was no match for the three of them who wanted to kill their own peers, and finally they were seriously injured, but at this critical moment, two mysterious people suddenly appeared and rescued Bei Zihong from the three of them.

When Bei Zihong said this, he looked at Tang Qianlin and asked, "Guess who is the person who saved me?" ”

Tang Qianlin hesitated, and asked tentatively: "Could the person who saved you be my master?" ”

Bei Zihong nodded and said, "That's right, the person who saved me is indeed your master Xiahou Shidao." ”

Tang Qianlin shook his head slightly when he heard this: "Why? ”

Bei Zihong said: "After Xiahou Shidao rescued me, he explained his identity, it turned out that he was not a catcher, but a lone soldier. ”

Really!

Tang Qianlin was shocked when he heard this, although he had already had the answer, he didn't want to believe it.

Li Yunfan looked at Tang Qianlin's appearance, and asked Bei Zihong again: "Master, we investigated all the way and found that the lone army seemed to be pervasive, what was going on?" ”

Bei Zihong said: "The Lone Army is the most mysterious organization in the Alien Path, everyone only knows the approximate origin, but they don't know who the leader of the Lone Army is, what is the ultimate goal of this organization?" However, this is very similar to the hunting, and I even suspected that the lone army and the hunt were originally the same faction, but the division of labor was different. ”

"What?" Tang Qianlin looked at Bei Zihong in surprise, "The lone army and the capture were originally the same faction? ”

Bei Zihong said: "After Xiahou Shidao saved me, he hinted at me this, but I don't want to believe it. ”

Bei Zihong asked Xiahou Shidao why he was lurking in the hunt? Xiahou Shidao's answer was that Lone Army and Hongmen had been secretly investigating a secret hidden in the small Manchu court.

At that time, Bei Zihong just wanted to escape and clear his grievances alive.

Xiahou Shidao told him that it was impossible to clear his grievances now, so there were only two paths in front of him, either he would be hunted down forever and die for the rest of his life, or he would change his face and become another person with the help of a lonely army.

Of course, it is not unconditional for Xiahou Shidao to help him, that is, to become a member of the Hongmen and go to Mohe to monitor the Yan family among the four kings of the Han surname.

"Wait!" Tang Qianlin interrupted Bei Zihong's recollections, "I don't understand, why do you want to spy on the Yan clan and not the other three princes?" ”

Bei Zihong said: "The reason is very simple, only the Yan clan is trying to cover up, and you now know that the Yan clan lives in Sun Wu on the surface, but in fact it is hidden in the Mohe area, why do you want to do this?" So, Lone Army and Hong Men focused on this. ”

Tang Qianlin thought for a while and said, "Senior, there is one more thing I want to ask you. ”

Bei Zihong understood what Tang Qianlin wanted to ask: "You want to ask about your life experience, right?" ”

Tang Qianlin said: "Yes, the last time I was in the dream of Hongtutun, I retrieved the lost memories of the past, and in my memory, I found that I was taken away from the gate by the master, and it was the shaman priest who pursued and killed him. ”

Li Yunfan said at this time: "Old Tang, let's tell Master everything we investigated before." ”

Tang Qianlin took a sip of tea and told Bei Zihong how he came to Harbin and what he had experienced in the past few days.

When Bei Zihong heard about Asda in Hongtutun and the strange desert under Gongrong Village, and even the Nai He Bridge, he was extremely surprised, and he was so surprised that he wanted to ask something, but he didn't know where to start.