Among the peaks of Yuanni, there is a low mountain nest called Gen Mountain. There are two sons born in a family with the surname of the eldest in the mountains, the eldest son has a smart and deep personality, and the younger son is born with little heart, so the whole family loves the young son very much.

One day, the stubborn young son quietly peeked at the beast in the forest at the bottom of the mountain to learn how to use its limbs together, but was almost killed by the beast, but fortunately a white-robed old man came to the rescue.

The white-robed old Taoist insisted on pulling him to tell his fortune, saying that he had strange bones and was the best candidate to pass on the unique way of heaven, so he wanted to accept him as a disciple.

Since then, Xiao Changling has followed the Yuanni Mountain Empty Dao people to practice martial arts. Later, somehow, the long machine at home also found Yuanni Mountain, knelt all the way from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, learned the habit of the empty road people and hung upside down on the tree for three days and three nights, racking his brains to put himself under the door of the empty road people.

"I heard the old way of the empty air, Changji is very good at ingenuity, as for the light swordsmanship, it is not enough, if the person you are chasing is him, it shouldn't be impossible to catch up, right?" Hua Thirteen frowned and looked at Chang Ling suspiciously, and continued to ask, "By the way, where has Chang Ji been training all these years?" Who to choose? ”

"I'm also strange, the talented person is definitely not a long machine, but I don't understand how to fall into the sachet of a long machine." Chang Ling frowned, scratched the back of his head in confusion, and replied while thinking about it, "After going down the mountain, I went north to the desert, and he went straight to the capital, as if he was following a certain high-ranking minister in the court, and I don't know." ”

Hua Thirteen couldn't help but fall into thought, but he didn't forget to joke with Chang Ling half-seriously and half-jokingly: "Follow me, a nameless cloth, I have wronged you." ”

At this time, the dark night filled the city, and the cold moon moved westward, pouring obliquely into a deep mansion in the center of the city, and a black shadow flashed and entered a deep dark room.

"Smack!"

A slap on the ground was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and a gloomy female voice came from the depths of the dark room, and scolded very dissatisfied:

"Reckless foolish thing! Do you know how much trouble you've caused? Can't your brain be eaten by a dog? Who made you blame him for such despicable means? It even alarmed the palace, you! You shit! ”

As she spoke, the angry woman pinched and twisted the man in gray who entered the room, but the man in gray did not move like a rooted wood, did not cry out in pain, nor did he retreat, but just hung his head deeply and gritted his teeth. The beating woman took half a quarter of an hour to gradually withdraw her hand, and watched the man in gray standing silently, the woman suddenly raised her hand slowly, kindly and gently climbed the cheek of the man in gray, and gently stroked:

"Does it hurt?"

The gray-clothed man, who was pestled like a nail when he was beaten just now, couldn't help but take half a step back at this moment, still lowered his head, ignoring the hot pain all over his body, and lightly opened his clenched teeth: "It doesn't hurt." ”

The woman who gradually vented her anger began to become extremely gentle, pulled the gray-clothed man to sit down, and said softly: "Your father-in-law and I have let you follow him for so many years, and this time it will startle the snake, I will inevitably be worried, Xiaoque, you won't blame me, right?" ”

The man in gray hurriedly shook his head: "The grace of the righteous father and the righteous mother is as deep as the mountains and seas, and the little bird did something wrong today and deserves to be punished." ”

The woman nodded, turned around and took out a beautiful medicine box inlaid with gold and jade: "This bottle is a medicine that invigorates blood and dispels stasis." ”

The man in gray took a small medicine bottle with purple jade and gilt very familiarly, and thanked her slightly.

"After this incident, the control of his house should be stricter, and this splash must have stopped for a while. These days, you don't have to worry about him for now. The woman commanded in the shadows.

The man in gray seemed a little nervous: "Then what should I do?" ”

The woman closed the lid of the luxurious and elegant medicine box, and pointed to the gray-clothed man with a large vermilion character carved and hollowed out in the center of the lid:

Qin.

The gray-clothed man nodded knowingly, and before leaving, he couldn't help but ask with concern, "Is my father-in-law in good health?" ”

"Old problem. Every year after winter, his cold spreads from his hands to his heart and lungs. The woman turned around and gradually walked into a shadow darker than black, leaving behind her a faint echoing words: "But he can stand it." What else can't he endure all these years? ”

It's already early in the morning, and on a long winter night, people who are awake will always envy those who sleep peacefully, and envy the peace and tranquility that are unhindered.

Painting Thirteen looked at the faint candle flame that was beating, still waiting in the house for Chang Ling to come back, and he didn't know if he could bring back Xu Da who was safe and sound.

"Squeak" The door quietly opened a crack, and Chang Ling carried Xu Da, who was beaten miserably, in front of Hua Thirteen, and Hua Thirteen's brows slowly relaxed.

Chang Ling whispered in the ear of Hua Thirteen, "Zhou Mansion behind the pavilion", Hua Thirteen didn't seem surprised at all, he asked in a low voice: "Does Xu Da know where he was brought from?" ”

Chang Ling shook his head, and Hua Thirteen nodded as if reassuring. At this time, Xu Da sat up tremblingly from the couch, and after calming down, he saw the acquaintances in the room clearly, and said with a crying voice:

"Half red! What the hell did Lao Tzu do! Just now, someone covered my head, took me from a gloomy place to a gloomy place, punched and kicked me, and I had to tell me how my brother died, if I had the fuck known, would I have spared the murderer? ”

"Shh

Hua Thirteen looked at Xu Da's blue nose and swollen face, looked at Changling with satisfaction, and then glanced out of the door with his eyebrows at Xu Da, who was shouting: "If you are louder, I will also be dragged by you to Huangquan to see Xu Fei." ”

Xu Da was stunned, didn't dare to snort anymore, swallowed his saliva, widened his eyes, and asked, "Half red, what do you mean by this?" Who and for what did you do to me? ”

"Why, don't you know?" Hua Thirteen glanced at Xu Da lightly, "Didn't the person who beat you ask clearly?" Xu Fei's death, except for you, I'm afraid no one knows what happened. If you were a murderer, would you kill someone? ”

Xu Da was in a trance for a moment, but he still didn't know: "But, I really don't know who the murderer is!" If I knew—"

"But you must know any clues, for example, the day Xu Fei died, what was wrong? I remember that you mentioned Mrs. Zhou. The thirteenth painter stared at Xu Da intently, and followed the temptation without hurrying.

Xu Da is not as reckless and reckless as when he rushed into Xu Fei's house and saw his brother's corpse, after all, in his eyes, Zhou Rong's blue eyes for Xu Fei came from their heavy gifts and bribes, how can he say it? Xu Da rolled his eyes and said, "No, nothing, we want to celebrate that my younger brother is expected to enter the review ......"

Hua Thirteen lowered his eyes impatiently, got up and opened the door, and said expressionlessly to Xu Da: "It seems that Brother Xu Da's injury is not serious enough, and he hasn't woken up yet, and now your life is hanging by a thread." Since you are unwilling to be honest with each other, you are also powerless to help each other in the future. But don't worry, I am acquainting, if there is an accident in the future, I will collect the corpses of the Xu Da brothers. ”

The three words of painting thirteen were as plain as water, but they were slammed into Xu Da's heart like a waterfall. Xu Da thought about it, and after he fainted at the scene of Xu Fei's murder, he woke up in a gloomy place, and was taken out with his head covered and beaten violently, scarred and faintly painful, and couldn't help but be very frightened. Seeing that Hua Thirteen stood by the door and made a gesture to see off guests, Xu Da was even more stubbornly lying on the couch and didn't dare to move half an inch, he cried and begged:

"Half red-faced, I'm just a friend of yours in the capital, and our brothers can trust you, I'll tell you everything I know, but can you-"

"I'll keep you here to keep you safe." When Hua Thirteen heard the word "friend", he couldn't help but sneer in his heart, what he pinched was Xu Da's careful thinking of being greedy for life and afraid of death, and asked, "You answer me first, what does 'there is a painting in a painting' mean?" ”

Xu Da didn't expect that the first thing he asked about Painting Thirteen was this matter that seemed insignificant to him, and he replied frankly: "It seems to be a painting of a Beijing pharmacist, and my younger brother said that the painting was made by Mrs. Zhou in his early years, and I don't know anything else." ”

Painting Thirteen "buzzed" in his head, and suddenly remembered the painting he inadvertently glanced at when he first went to Qinyuan to ask Jingmo to paint a birthmark. No wonder he had a strange feeling of familiarity but not intimacy with the painting in his heart at that time.

It seemed that a lot of thoughts were mixed up in the mind of Hua Thirteen at once, and it was as if the doubts that had been stuck in his heart had converged. After a while, he stood up with a "Teng" and was about to go to Qinyuan, when there was a soft knock on the door with a light knock.

Xu Da shrunk his neck like a frightened bird, and looked at Hua Thirteen in a panic, Hua Thirteen frowned and thought about it, no matter who was outside the door, whether it was for himself or not, Xu Da must not expose his traces.

"Get out of the west window, climb down the painting building to the empty room downstairs and wait for my news." Painting Thirteen whispered to Xu Da without refuting it.

Although Xu Da was bruised, he did not hurt his muscles and bones, and he was afraid that he would be worried about his life if he was exposed, so he jumped out of the window in a hurry.

Painting Thirteen vaguely heard that the person outside the door seemed to subconsciously count five times and five times, and after opening the door, the person who greeted his eyes was indeed Jingmo, but she was dressed as a dancing girl, beautiful and beautiful, and she seemed to be holding a painting in her hand......

In the Zhou Mansion, Zhou Rong, who couldn't sleep all night, was so anxious that he couldn't take a sip of tea, and he asked the family who hurriedly walked in, "What about people?" ”

"Back to the county master, I still haven't found it."

"Waste, waste! People are locked up in the firewood room, how can a boiled duck still fly? Zhou Rong was so angry that his gums trembled.

"Keep looking! Once you see it, cut him off on the spot! Zhou Rong gritted his teeth and confessed, "Steward Luo, what happened to the person you asked to find?" ”

"Back to Junma, the people of Qinyuan went to Yuankong, according to the people nearby, this Beijing pharmacist seems to have gone out to practice medicine recently, and she is quite prestigious among the people, so it is not good to directly lead troops to break in......" Steward Luo knew that Zhou Rong's reaction would definitely not look good, and his voice became weaker and weaker.

"It's rubbish too! I can't even find out a small broken garden! Why wasn't she there when I was looking for Jingmo? Zhou Rong was anxious and annoyed, "Forget if you can't find the female pharmacist, why haven't you even found a person who has been paralyzed for many years?" ”

"Back to the county, we already have an eyebrow. It's just that Chunmanlou seems to come and go at will, but there are a few places where the ground is guarded, and I believe that the people who want to be caught quietly in the near future. ”

After hearing this, Zhou Rong was slightly satisfied, and his anger gradually extinguished: "If you can really arrest him, you will be rewarded!" ”

Zhou Rong's style has always been to only punish and not reward, and after hearing this, all the people in the hall kowtowed. Zhou Rong asked faintly, "What about the white girl?" Xu Fei's incident yesterday must have frightened her. ”

"Xu is back to Chunmanlou to dress up, last night I already told the girl that she was going to have dinner with Junma at noon." The butler replied with a smile.

Zhou Rong looked at the white belly of the fish belly at dawn in the east and the brightly lit painting gallery opposite the Zhou Mansion, so he got up and went to the art gallery.