I patted Zuo Youdao on the shoulder and asked him to put the flashlight aside first, and I also lit a flashlight and put it on the ground.

Two white beams of light tore through the darkness in the small hall, one illuminated Pan Jiuzhou, and the other illuminated me and Zuo Youdao.

I stepped forward and squatted in front of Pan Jiuzhou, who looked at me with a wary expression.

"You relax and don't get too nervous." I comforted him with kind words.

Zuo Youdao took out the pipa knife at the right time, and rubbed the back of the knife slowly with a reddish-brown dirty cloth.

Because Zuo Youdao is tall, the afterglow of the flashlight can't shine on his face at all, only the dirty cloth and pipa knife in his hand are particularly conspicuous, and his body is wide, standing there is like a thick black mountain, which is quite oppressive.

Of course, Pan Jiuzhou also knew what the pipa knife was for, and a large bead of sweat suddenly soaked out of his head, I guess he didn't hear what I just said to him, because he kept staring at Zuo Youdao and swallowed saliva.

I turned my head to Zuo Youdao and said, "Did you bring the spirits?" ”

Zuo Youdao didn't say a word, and immediately took out a small half bottle of high wine from his backpack.

If you want to say that this half bottle of wine, I specially asked for it from Sun Luyuan during dinner this afternoon.

Zuo Youdao took a sip of wine in his mouth, and with a "poof" sound, he sprayed all the wine foam on the edge of the pipa knife.

I took the wine bottle from his hand and brought the bottle to Pan Jiuzhou's mouth: "Take a sip?" It's not compulsory, you can drink if you want, and you don't drink if you don't want to. ”

Liquor is like anesthetic medicine, in the past, when Jinyiwei gave pipa punishment to prisoners, sometimes he would have a conscience attack and pour several jars of liquor on the prisoners, so that the prisoners were almost drunk to death before the execution, and they did not feel much pain.

But I only have a small half-bottle of spirits here to get you drunk, but not to the point of losing your senses.

Pan Jiuzhou looked at the bottle on the side of his mouth, and said for a long time: "It's not enough." ”

This sentence was said by him subconsciously, and he himself reflected that it took a moment to understand what he said, and his face changed several times.

I turned back to Zuo Youdao and said, "He said that he didn't have enough wine, why don't you get him some more?" ”

Zuo Youdao snorted coldly: "Think beautifully, after this village, there will be no such shop, do you like to drink or not!" ”

Pan Jiuzhou seemed to be awakened by Zuo Youdao's voice, and began to howl again: "What do you want to do!" You're breaking the law by doing that! Help, help—"

Tell me, where did we break the law? I didn't take Pan Jiuzhou from beginning to end, I didn't threaten him or beat him, I said good things to him from the moment I came in, Zuo Youdao was holding a pipa knife in his hand, but this knife didn't greet Pan Jiuzhou, and we didn't say that we were going to use the pipa on him, right?

It's just that the room is a little darker, and Zuo Youdao's figure is a little scary.

It's not illegal to have a dark house, but it's not illegal for people to be strong and strong, right?

We are people with a bottom line, of course we won't do anything out of bounds, but Pan Jiuzhou has no bottom line, people, they all have the habit of treating others with themselves, he has no bottom line, so he naturally thinks that we don't have a bottom line.

The reason why the underworld forces are strong is because they have no bottom line; The reason why the underworld forces are stupid is also because they have no bottom line.

I put my hand on Pan Jiuzhou's shoulder, and still said to him with kind words: "Drink the wine, it can be more or less relaxed." ”

I can relax when I drink, I'm not lying.

But Pan Jiuzhou panicked when he heard my words: "Big brother, I have no grudge against you, what are you ...... What is this for? I am...... I didn't do anything unreasonable, don't do that. ”

At the end of the day, the thing was about to cry.

I asked him, "Haven't you really done anything unreasonable?" ”

"Not really, I swear to God!"

"Oh, I really haven't done it, it's a pity, like you, to put it bluntly, you are Zhou Lianshan's accomplice, I know, he must have instigated you, right?"

"Yes, it's Zhou Lianshan, it's all instigated by Zhou Lianshan, so I ......"

I waved my hand to interrupt Pan Jiuzhou: "Normally, you should be sentenced lightly when you are sentenced, but if you look at you, you don't actively make meritorious contributions, and you don't take the initiative to explain the problem, how can you give a light sentence when the time comes?" Besides, you don't have any evidence to prove that all the things you did were instigated by Zhou Lianshan, don't you think about it? ”

Pan Jiuzhou looked at me in a daze and didn't speak for a long time.

I felt that the foreshadowing in front of me was full enough, so I said straight to the point: "So, you still have to take the initiative to explain the problem, this ...... Zhou Lianshan didn't confess, but if you confessed, then you are making meritorious contributions. ”

Pan Jiuzhou's eyes were still a little resistant at first, but soon, the last bit of stubbornness in his heart was extinguished.

I saw that his eyes had become very dim, so I waved my hand at Zuo Youdao, who understood and put away the pipa knife.

After a long time, Pan Jiuzhou let out a long sullen breath: "I confess, I will confess." ”

I immediately showed a very official smile: "This attitude is right, let me ask a question first, how did Zhou Mountain get in touch with your Ghost Yin Mountain?" ”

According to Pan Jiuzhou's confession, Buzhou Mountain first contacted Guiyin Mountain, it was ten years ago, when there was often a person called "Mr. Bai" in and out of Miao Jiang, every time he entered the territory of Miao Jiang, he would make a special trip to Guiyin Mountain to place Zhou Lianshan, but Pan Jiuzhou did not know what this Mr. Bai was doing, because every time he came, Zhou Lianshan would branch out of others and meet him alone.

I asked Pan Jiuzhou if he had ever thought about a question, that is, the strength and popularity of Guiyin Mountain in Miaojiang are very poor, why didn't Zhou Shan choose them?

Pan Jiuzhou said frankly that it was because Zhou Shan fell in love with the things in the swimming water, since three or four years ago, Xu Shigao often dived into the water, he said on the face that he was just idle to practice the water, but the fool knows that he is looking for something underwater.

However, Zhou Lianshan didn't care about this, every time he saw Xu Shigao enter the lake with equipment, Zhou Lianshan only smiled contemptuously.

Once Zhou Lianshan spit out the truth after drinking, telling Pan Jiuzhou that Buzhou Shan originally planned to control Miao Jiang in his own hands, but in order to get something that was swam to the bottom, they had to form an alliance with Guiyin Mountain, Bu Zhou Shan and Zhou Lianshan also made a contract, agreeing that Bu Zhou Shan would do his best to make Zhou Lianshan the master of Miao Jiang, and after the matter was completed, Zhou Lianshan must tell Bu Zhou Shan the method of opening the underwater mechanism.

At that time, Zhou Lianshan said with a smile that there was a very subtle mechanism under the swimming water, which was left by Wang Zhi when he built a darkroom here, as long as the mechanism was not broken, no one would want to get anything under the water.

However, when Pan Jiuzhou asked what was under the water, Zhou Lianshan sold the pass, saying that no matter what was under the water, the people of Guiyin Mountain could not touch it, but if Zhou Shan really had the ability to take that thing away, it would be a blessing or a curse for Guiyin Mountain.

I calculated it in my heart, and I felt that what Zhou Shan wanted was probably the corpse demon that was under the water.

Thinking of this, I opened my mouth and asked Pan Jiuzhou: "The four-legged fish under the lake is the founding ancestor of your Guiyin Mountain, right?" ”

Pan Jiuzhou shook his head: "It can only be regarded as our ancestor, not the ancestor of the mountain, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, there was a sect of Guiyin Mountain, and at that time Guiyin Mountain was still called Beiyin Mountain." Later, in order to establish a dark room, Wang Zhi managed to insert the Jinyi Wei'an into the Beiyin Mountain Gate, and then the Jinyi Weigu occupied the magpie's nest and took the position of the owner of the Beiyin Mountain Gate, resulting in the loss of the inheritance of the Beiyin Mountain, because the inheritance has changed, and the Beiyin Mountain has become the Ghost Yin Mountain. The ancestors we enshrined under the lake were the ones who took the throne of the master of the gate back then. ”

"Listening to your tone, you don't seem to have a good impression of this ancestor."

"Alas, in fact, I can't say whether I have a good feeling, if I want to say that I have a good feeling, I have only seen its golden eagle, to say that I have no good feeling, every time I ask it for blessings, it can often be fulfilled, and it has also helped me a lot over the years."

I thought about it for a while and said, "Does Zhou Lianshan attach importance to worshiping the ancestors? ”

Pan Jiuzhou was slightly stunned at first, as if he didn't expect me to ask such a question, and after a short while, he spoke: "I can't say, anyway, my master doesn't pay much attention to the ancestors every year, and sometimes he doesn't participate in it under the pretext, and there is a red birch forest on the side of the ancestral temple, and he doesn't send people to guard it." But every few years, he will spend a high price to let people repair the ancestral temple, and the quality of the repair is very high. I can't tell if my master values that ancestral temple or not. ”

When I came out of the ancestral temple before, I was surprised to find that there was no one guarding the temple, but now that I think about it, this is also reasonable.

Zhou Lianshan must have known that the four-legged fish was not an ancestor of Guiyin Mountain, and the reason why he repaired the ancestral temple was just for the disciples and outsiders to see.

Since you know that the four-legged fish is not an ancestor, why do you still pretend to worship it?

There's a lot to be said here.

Finally, I asked Pan Jiuzhou: "How does Zhou Lianshan treat you on weekdays?" ”

Pan Jiuzhou was silent for a long time before responding: "Compared to other senior brothers, it's very good." ”

When he said the word "good", Pan Jiuzhou's eyes and tone were a little distant, as if he was not sure what Zhou Lianshan was doing to him.

I couldn't get any useful information from Pan Jiuzhou's mouth, so I greeted Zuo Youdao and planned to find Zhou Lianshan.

Before we had even stepped out of the threshold on our front feet, Pan Jiuzhou shouted loudly: "I have already told you everything I know!" ”

I nodded, and without looking back, I said, "I know." Don't worry, no one will torture you, no matter what we say, we are still public people. ”

Out of the small hall, I turned and closed the door, and then pulled out a cigarette and lit it.

Zuo Youdao glanced at me: "You are addicted to smoking enough." ”

I didn't answer, I just asked him: "Lao Zuo, what do you say, what is under the lake that makes Zhou Shan so concerned?" ”

Zuo Youdao thought for a while and said, "Judging from the current clues, the things under the lake are corpse demons nine times out of ten. ”

It's not that nine times out of ten, it's that what's under the water is definitely a corpse demon, but that's not the point.

I couldn't help frowning: "But why would Zhou Shan be interested in a corpse demon?" ”

(End of chapter)