Qin Chuke was more than ten years older than Qin Xin, and when he saw the third brother looking so shy, he laughed out loud, and then lowered his voice and said, "Okay——, let's talk slowly on the road." ”

Although he lowered his voice, his voice was loud, coupled with the deliberate learning of Qin Xin's tone, there was a taste of good-natured laughter in his words, and the executioners and grooms around him all laughed when they heard it.

Qin Chu saw that the third brother blushed, and no longer made fun of him, Qin Xin briefly said how he accidentally injured a little beggar on the street, but he didn't say anything about the "Nine Leaves Ice Lotus", he didn't want to hide it from the eldest brother, but his father told him that the less one person knew about this matter, there would be less trouble, and he only told the eldest brother that he was going to Datong Town to deliver a letter.

The convoy quickly went out of the West City Gate and slowly passed through Fengyuan Villa, Qiu Miaoxue had been hiding in the car with a worried heart, and lifted the curtain of the car a small crack.

Watching the convoy slowly pass in front of the villa, she was a little hesitant, a little flustered, and a little excited...... It's also a little sad, after all, she hasn't left the villa for more than one night at a time when she's grown up.

Qiu Miaoxue was secretly sad in the car for a while, she was a little sleepy, maybe she didn't sleep well yesterday, she was thinking about her thoughts, thinking about it and falling asleep, this sleep was so heavy, until Qin Xin knocked on the car door outside and said, "Miss Qiu, it's time to eat." ”

Qiu Miaoxue yawned and stretched, lifted the curtain and saw that it was already dark.

Their convoy stopped next to a stream, and the driver, the men, and the executioners were all cooking in pots by the stream.

At this time, in Qinglin City, the sky was also dark, and a secret room in the City Lord's Mansion was about ten zhang in size, and the room was lit with oil lamps all around, and the secret room was very bright.

More than thirty people sat solemnly around a rectangular table in the secret room.

The more than 30 people were men and women, old and young, and they wore different clothes.

In the middle of the square table sat an old man with white hair, he glanced around, and when he saw that the people were almost there, he said with a gloomy face: "The old man invited you to come over this time, I think everyone knows what the so-called thing is, right?"

Opposite the white-haired old man, a middle-aged man with a scar on his face said angrily: "City Lord He, this time we were urgently summoned, presumably because of the missing people in Qinglin City, right?"

The white-haired old man was none other than He Feng, the city lord of Qinglin City, he was already seventy years old, his martial arts were extremely strong, and he rarely appeared in Qinglin City.

City Lord He nodded and said, "In the past two years, there have been incidents of the disappearance of entire families in Qinglin City, and there have been more than 100 people in five families, which has never happened in the past hundred years. I have only invited everyone to discuss this matter no less than ten times, but so far I have no clue about these things, and I don't know if any of you here have made any new discoveries recently. ”

Everyone in the audience shook their heads slightly, and no one answered.

Seeing that no one answered, He Feng showed an unhappy look on his face, and then said, "Hall Master Li, you can tell you about the statistical information in the past two years!"

A masked woman with a light veil beside City Lord He stood up and said in a loud voice, "Yes, City Lord." In the past two years, according to the statistics of our Hyacinth Hall, a total of five have disappeared for no reason. Last year, a total of 53 people went missing unexpectedly, and the two missing families were the family of the blacksmith Hou Jinhai in Nancheng District and the family of the butcher Jiang Dazhong. So far this year, 66 people have gone missing, and a total of three families have gone missing, namely the Hu family, the sugar man, the Mei family, the Mei family, and the Niu family, which sells rice. ”

The people present sighed as soon as they heard these data, and everyone here knew about the disappearance of some families overnight in the past two years, but they didn't expect that so many people had disappeared in the past two years.

The first thing that went missing was the Hou Fuhai family in Nancheng District last year, and all 39 people disappeared overnight, and at first I thought it was a vendetta between gangs.

The city lord He was very angry, and ordered that the matter must be thoroughly investigated, and sent people from the Hyacinth Hall to Hou Jinhai's house to investigate the scene, and checked inside and out, and found no traces of blood and fighting, some houses were still boiling water, and some houses were still boiling medicine, but neither a person was found in the whole house, nor a single body was found, as if the family had evaporated overnight.

The Hou family mainly makes a living by striking iron, and it is also quite low-key on weekdays, and the Hyacinth Hall checked all the people who have business dealings with the Hou family, and found that the Hou family does not have any enemies, and the business of the blacksmith shop is also a fair business.

He didn't find any valuable clues, and Hyacindo couldn't even figure out what the perpetrator's purpose was? Hou Fuhai's house was neither a vendetta nor a robbery, because no traces of a fight were found in front of or behind his house, and none of his belongings showed any signs of being turned over.

There is no trace left, which can be said to be an incredible thing for Hyacindo, because the people of Hyacindo are professionally trained, whether it is murder and arson or burglary, Hyacindo can find clues through the traces left at the scene and bring the perpetrators to justice.

The reason why Qinglin City's security was so good in the past was mostly because of the strong reconnaissance ability of the Hyacinth Hall.

Two months later, just when the Hyacinth was at a loss, the news came that all 14 members of the Jiang family were missing, and the Hyacinth immediately went to the scene when they heard the news, and the investigation results were almost exactly the same as the situation of the Hou family, and the family disappeared overnight, and there were no useful clues at home.

Because these two families are low-key and rarely interact with people, although these two families suddenly disappeared, the impact is not very large, and the city lord ordered to deliberately conceal the matter, so not many people know about it.

After the incident, the City Lord's Mansion sent a large number of masters to secretly investigate these two things, and the Hyacinth Hall was even more loose on the outside and tight on the inside, trying to find out the connection and breakthrough of these two things.

A year has passed, not only has there been no progress in these two things, but this year it has intensified, and so far three have disappeared for no reason.

City Lord He asked the major forces to conceal these things, so as not to cause riots all over the city, so the details of these things were still known only to a few high-ranking people in the city.

After listening to these statistical data, everyone began to discuss, and a middle-aged man dressed as a Chinese Facebook student stood up and hugged his wrist and said: "City Lord He, this year, we used the method of five families to send ten people from each sect to jointly patrol, but it didn't work at all." ”

Everyone agreed: "What Mr. Situ said is true. ”

"The Hu family, the candy seller, passed the news with us in the morning, and the family disappeared in the evening. ”

"The Niu family is the same, it's good during the day, but at night it's gone. ”

There was a loud buzz in the venue for a while, and the discussion was endless, and the city lord He frowned and waved his hand, coughed twice, and everyone slowly quieted down

When no one spoke anymore, City Lord He turned his head and gestured to an old man dressed in black beside him.

The old man stood up and said, "After two years of secret investigation, we have summed up a few similar pieces of information, which you can refer to. First, these missing families are all small businesses, and they usually do things very low-key, except for business transactions, they rarely interact with people.

Second, the time of disappearance is at night.

Third, before and after the three disappearances, several witnesses at the scene saw a middle-aged man dressed in white before and after the crime......"

"Now that you've seen it, it's easy to do, can't you draw shadow graphics?"

"Who the hell is so fierce and brutal?"

............

Although the missing person has nothing to do with them, everyone has been in danger in the past two years, and they have stepped up their vigilance at night, all of them want to end the case as soon as possible.

The gray-robed old man waited for everyone to be quiet before he continued: "These witnesses, the time they saw this person was at night, and the distance was not close, so no one can clearly describe the true face of this person, and they can only roughly judge that he is a middle-aged man with a medium height and a round face. ”

Hearing this, everyone let out a sigh of embarrassment, isn't this the same as having no clue? What kind of middle-aged man with a round face of medium stature is not just a handful of them when he is put in the crowd.

He Feng waited for everyone to calm down again before saying, "I know what everyone is thinking, because most of the people here have nothing to do with these missing people, so some people have the idea that it doesn't matter. Of course, there are still some people who have plans to leave, and I just got a piece of news today that the Xijin faction moved south, and just arrived in Huling Mountain, all 46 people are missing. ”

"What? all missing?" The people present suddenly exploded, because many of the people in it had the idea of leaving Qinglin City, and now that they heard that Xishajin was all missing, it means that this back road has also been blocked?

A short and fat old man frowned and said: "What kind of monster or force can be so secretive, killing the whole gang and the whole faction invisibly, the old man has lived for almost a hundred years, but it is unheard of!"

"Could it be that this force wants to destroy not which faction, but what does it want to bloodied our entire Qinglin City?" said the middle-aged man with a scar on his face, his words sounded a little sensational, but if you link the disappearance of the past two years with the disappearance of the Xijin faction in the end, then the possibility that this force will destroy the entire Qinglin City is not impossible.

Most of the people present are old and cunning people, and everyone who heard the scar man say this couldn't help but change color, and among them was Qin Xin's father, Qin Yuan.