The next morning, Liu Cheng says goodbye to the two Taoist chiefs and takes Fluttershy and Liu Rui back to Jingdezhen, under the pretext that they want to go to the town to do some business.

That Hu Daochang didn't believe that Liu Cheng was really doing business, but he knew that Jin Yiwei would sometimes act in secret, and it was inconvenient for him to ask more, so he was polite and didn't keep it.

Along the way, Liu Ruike was happy, because there was an extra little cat to accompany him, wrapped in his arms and kissed and hugged, all kinds of petting cats, making the cat demon very uncomfortable, wanting to resist, and afraid that Fluttershy would say it, but fortunately, Liu Rui was quite gentle, so he had to endure it.

It was dusk when they came to Jingdezhen, so they found a place to stay, and before they could eat, Liu Rui fell asleep. Liu Cheng called Fluttershy outside, "I'm going to go out into the street and ask about the bazaar in a moment, and see what the two horses that the two Dao Masters rode back can sell for tomorrow." You can eat dinner with Liu Rui, don't wait for me. ”

Fluttershy looked at Liu Cheng and winked at him, smiling at him, "Then you go ahead, be careful what you do, and take care of yourself." ”

"That's natural, such an adult, what's not to worry about. ”

Liu Cheng came to the place where the white dragon set up a stall on the edge of the market to tell fortunes.

The market has fewer and fewer people, fortunately, the fortune teller has not left, only to see that it is still the small table, on which is spread a brocade cloth embroidered with gossip maps, behind a Taoist priest is a middle-aged man, gray hair, thin face, only to see him, his eyes are slightly open, three locks of long hair on his chest, holding a thick book to see fascinated, pedestrians walk in front of his hexagram stall, and can not disturb his concentration.

Liu Cheng thought to himself that this might be the secret history of the brocade clothes that Bailong's father gave him the nickname "scholar".

So he went up to him and said to him, and the man seemed to recognize him, and said, "

The water is full of flowers and branches by the river,

I make a fishing song and swing the head of the boat.

If the general asks what he is happy about,

Fishing a river spring water soft.

Things are done so quickly, and dude is also very fast. It was indeed a middle-aged man's voice in his voice.

"Why doesn't Bailong come out of the stall?" asked Liu Cheng.

"This kid goes to the Shangqing Palace every once in a while to learn the Taoism for a few days. The middle-aged Taoist priest stroked his beard and said. Then he pretended to say in a loud voice, "Come, put your hand over and let me show you palmistry." ”

Liu Cheng thought to himself that I was also in the Shangqing Palace, why didn't I see the white dragon, but then I thought about it, the ten major Taoist palaces, seventy or eighty Taoist temples, thousands of people come and go every day, and it is not uncommon to not encounter them, even if they do, they may not be able to recognize them at once.

When the two were pretending to look at palmistry, they had already exchanged folds. "Look at the palmistry of the son, he will be a noble person in the future, and he got married a year ago, oops, congratulations!"

"Got married a year ago, oh, thank you. Then Liu Cheng left ten cents and got up to leave.

I thought to myself that these two men are really interesting, every time I show me a fortune teller, it can be the same as the real thing, and I got married a year ago, who am I marrying, will Fluttershy be able to get bigger in two months.

"Childe, stay behind, don't be in such a hurry. As he spoke, he took out a scroll from under the table, this is a painting drawn by the dog, and I will give it to you, which is to say hello to you in advance, and I can choke on the wine.

Liu Cheng thought to himself that this might be some kind of clue or topographic map, but he didn't dare to open it to look at it.

"That's really thanks, I'll accept this generous gift, if you go to the capital to do business in the future, just come to me, I'll make up for you a happy wine." Liu Cheng said half-jokingly.

"Then you have to talk about it, and leave an address. The Taoist priest was still serious.

Liu Cheng left his address, no longer delayed, and hurriedly said goodbye and went back. Because he is afraid that Fluttershy will be worried after a long time.

When Liu Cheng returns to the inn, he sees Fluttershy and Liu Rui practicing in the house, only to see Liu Rui squatting on a horse, and Fluttershy standing on one foot, and the cat demon actually supporting the wall to practice handstand.

It's a surprise. If you don't eat dinner, what kind of skill do you practice? "Why have you finished dinner? It doesn't look like it, why did you start practicing first. ”

Liu Rui was very happy to see Liu Cheng come back, "Dad, you're back." My sister was teaching me how to strengthen my body, and she said that as long as I practiced horse walking, I wouldn't be tired from farming in the future. Is this true?"

Liu Cheng had no choice but to nod, "Of course practicing horse steps has a role." Practice hard. "Fluttershy has a knack for it.

Why is the cat demon? Liu Cheng shook his head, "If you don't want to have dinner, I'll go eat it myself." The dishes downstairs are ready. ”

"Eat, eat, Liu Rui was the first to run down. Fluttershy glared at Liu Cheng, "Originally, he needed to squat and walk with half a stick of incense." You've let it go. ”

The family sat down for dinner together, and the little flower cat also jumped on the table, "You really think of yourself as a person, Liu Cheng took it aside." ”

"Don't bully it, Xiaohua is my good friend. Liu Rui took the little flower cat into his arms and fed it a mouthful of fish first.

At this moment, a group of people walked in, and everyone who came was dressed as a brocade guard, led by Liu Mao.

Then Liu Mao was also shocked when he saw Liu Cheng, "Big brother, what a coincidence, why did you come to Jingdezhen too." Two of them also knew Liu Cheng, and they both bowed their hands to him.

Liu Cheng nodded to them, "Do you have an errand?"

"Let's handle the case, the people from the three law divisions are outside the door, and there is a fugitive in this shop. We're here to arrest people. ”

"What fugitive? It's so important, it needs to be arrested by the Jinyi guard in Beijing. ”

"Big brother, eat quickly, start your hands in a while, and it will be a mess here. This fugitive has good martial arts, and the local arrest is fast, and he is not an opponent at all. Liu Mao said and slammed the mace in his hand to the ground, "Come on, block the stairs and the door." ”

"Do you want me to help?" Liu Cheng asked, because he saw that Liu Mao even brought a mace, and Liu Mao would not easily use a heavy weapon like a mace without a big battle.

"Thank you, big brother, we have enough people here. You'd better take shelter outside the house. Liu Mao saw Liu Cheng at a table, two children, and a cat? This eldest brother is not yet married, and these two children don't know who they are. I can't help but be suspicious.

At this time, I heard the upstairs ping-pong move, and some of the guests running down, and sure enough, it began to be chaotic.

I heard the sound of tiles on the second floor again, as if someone had jumped off the building and flew out. After a while, someone outside the door came to report, "Lord Qiqi Zongqi, I have caught it." ”

Liu Mao bowed his hand to Liu Chengyi: "It seems that the eldest brother can continue to eat, the younger brother will say goodbye first, and we will get together again." ”

A bunch of people were all out in a hurry. I don't know who I caught. Liu Cheng was worried that his room upstairs would be affected, so he hurriedly went upstairs to take a look, fortunately, the room where he did it was far away, and he saw that half of the wall of the guest room was about to be demolished.

Looking down from upstairs, I saw a bunch of people below picking people out of the big net, and a monk and a girl were put in shackles. But no matter how these two people look at it, they don't look like Jiangyang thieves, I don't know what kind of prisoners they are. I couldn't care much more, so I went downstairs and continued to eat.

Liu Cheng thought to himself, the strange case of Jingdezhen that the emperor asked to investigate, it is better to see the files of the official government, or to go to a foreign house to investigate, otherwise there is really no clue. After waiting for Fluttershy and Liu Rui to fall asleep at night, he hurriedly changes into his night clothes and opens the painting given by the scholar and Xiao Zhezi under the oil lamp.

Seeing a person painted in the scroll, it looks a little familiar, isn't this himself, the white dragon is really interesting, he actually painted himself, it seems that there is no clue in this painting.

I opened the small fold again, and saw that it read: "Outside Fuliang County, the western suburbs of the wharf, see you in the third watch." Whisper: three cat calls to two cuckoo calls. "What does this mean? Is the scholar trying to let me meet someone?

After reading and putting away these things, I quietly turned out the window.

A pair of small green eyes on the gray tiles were staring at him, it was the cat demon. Liu Cheng made a gesture to silence, and then quietly jumped downstairs.

The cat demon thought it was strange, what was this man doing when he didn't sleep, so he quietly followed behind.

Liu Cheng secretly went to the stable to get the horse, and when he came to the avenue, he rode a horse and galloped, leaving the cat demon far behind.

Fortunately, Liu Cheng was quite familiar with the terrain of Jingdezhen, and it didn't take much effort to find the pier. There were several boats parked there, one of which was lit up.

Liu Cheng learned three cat calls, and two cuckoo calls came from the trees overhead. Liu Cheng was startled, he thought that there would be a bird cry from the boat, and it turned out that this person was in a tree.

When I looked up, I saw a woman floating down, wearing a black dress and a short skirt, wearing a hat, and a black veil to cover her face, looking like she was dressed like a Han person.

Liu Cheng bowed his hand to her, "Under Liu Cheng, there is no nickname on it, I don't know what your nickname is." "The secret history of Jinyi Wei is generally reluctant to reveal his real name.

"I'm not a secret envoy of the Jinyi Guard, it's okay to call me Hongxiu. Come with me" This woman called Red Sleeves doesn't know what is mysterious about her.

Since he was the person recommended by the scholar, Liu Cheng didn't ask much, and got off the horse and followed her.

She took Liu Cheng to a dense forest, asked Liu Cheng to tie the horse well, and then followed her to sneak in, and after walking for a while, they saw a fire in front of them, so they hid in the grass and secretly observed.

I saw a group of black-clothed people gathered in a clearing in the forest, and in the middle of the ground kneeling twelve people wearing black masks, who were being removed, and three people were checking the identities of the people kneeling on the ground.

It turned out to be a secret place of execution. It looks like lynching, and the twelve men and women look like members of a family, and it seems that this is going to be destroyed.

Liu Cheng touched Hongxiu lightly, which meant that he was not going to rescue, but Hongsleeve shook his head at her.

After a while, the twelve people were beheaded, and Liu Cheng was very uncomfortable, did you let me see the beheading in the middle of the night?

When these black-clothed men left with their heads, after a while, a bunch of servants came and moved the corpses away, and they didn't know where to transport them.

This surprised Liu Cheng, the laws of the Ming Dynasty are strict, how could anyone use lynching? And the person who executed him had something to do with the government, and this red sleeve didn't dare to save him, let me see what these are doing?

When the surroundings were quiet, Liu Cheng said all the questions in his stomach. The red sleeves took off the veil, revealing a pure and fair face in the moonlight, and smiled at Liu Cheng, revealing a few small white teeth. "These people are bandits, and they have no bad deeds on weekdays, and they are clearly beheaded, and the people are not responsible, so the local government came up with this method. Sometimes it hurts the innocent. I also hope that Lord Liu will go back and tell Lord Lu. ”

"This is really unheard of, there is such a thing, I wonder which official acted like this?"

"I don't know. Hongxiu stroked the hair on her forehead and sighed.

"Then how do you know that they are from the government, and those people must be guilty?" asked Liu Cheng suspiciously.

"My judgments are all based on hexagrams. Hongxiu said confidently.

"Fortune telling, is this accurate?" the process became even more confused.

"Nine times out of ten, I rarely miss. ”

Liu Cheng hurriedly arched his hand, "Disrespectful and disrespectful, it turns out that you are also a master." Liu Cheng thought to himself, he didn't know if it was true or false, if everything relied on fortune telling, then the world would save trouble. "It's not just for me to come and see this today, is it?"

"Of course, the corpse of the Lin family master in the strange case in Jingdezhen should be at the burial place of these executed prisoners. ”

Liu Cheng was taken aback, "Are you saying that the old man of the Lin family was also a bandit, so he was secretly executed?"

Redsleeves nodded, it should be.

"Did you see it with your own eyes or did you calculate it?"

"If you calculate it, you should find the place where the body is hidden. However, when I deduce the fortune calculation, I can only calculate vague things, probably like this, and the specific things are not accurate. ”

Liu Cheng was really surprised when he heard this, "Even if it's rough, as long as you can count the welts, it's not easy." So why don't we keep up?"

"There are masters in their ranks, and I have counted them, and they will be discovered. Let's look for their footprints and traces for clues. ”

"Then dare to ask, who did you learn from this method of divination and detective?"

"No one taught me, I figured it out on my own. Hongxiu said embarrassedly.

"Then you are the founder of the mountain. Liu Cheng was surprised.

"Are you kidding me?" Red Sleeves thought Liu Cheng was joking with him.

"Where, I have seen a lot of masters, you have this ability, I don't wonder how much I have seen. Let's go. ”

So the two looked for footprints and car marks and quietly followed.