After returning to the Prince's Mansion.

After a few days, I was almost able to get out of bed and walk after recuperating from my wounds, and I was happy for a while, and I forgot about the strange man as I came and went.

It wasn't until recently that I was walking with Momoxin that I listened to the maids discuss the strange things in the market...

"Hey, have you heard, Uncle Wang's five-year-old son on Dongdajie has been missing for four or five days!" Maid A looked gossipy and approached the other two people who were sweeping the floor.

Maid B, who was sweeping the floor, stopped her hand, looked at Maid A in surprise and asked, "Huh? Did you report to the official? ”

The maid nodded, "Of course I reported it, but there has been no clue, and the people in the government said that most of them were more than lucky, and Aunt Wang couldn't withstand the blow, no... Sick! ”

With that, the two were silent for a moment.

Maid C suddenly became emotional, "Really? I also remembered when you said that, yesterday I went back to the village, our village Li Yuanwai's own grandson is said to have been missing for several days, I heard the people in the village say that the doll was taken away by the black impermanence of the soul, provoked the Li Yuanwai family to cry and shout, and now they are still begging the Bodhisattva to worship the Buddha and ask the immortals to spare his grandson! ”

"Huh? So wicked? You say... Isn't this some kind of goblin that specializes in eating children? After the maid finished speaking, she shrunk her neck in fear.

Maid B looked calm, "How is it possible, I guess most of them are children who are greedy for fun, or they have lost their way and let those traffickers with evil intentions be taken captive." ”

As he spoke, another porter who loved to join in the excitement took the opportunity to come over and say, "Yo, you probably don't know that the people in your inner courtyard often serve by the master's side, just the day before yesterday by the moat..."

When the porter said this, he looked around, then covered his mouth with one hand and deliberately lowered his voice, "More than a dozen corpses of strong laborers have been fished out on the side of the moat. ”

"Huh?"

Hearing this, the three maids exclaimed in fright, and maid B pretended to be calm and said, "You haven't seen it with your own eyes, so you don't talk nonsense to scare a few of us." ”

The porter was anxious when he saw that she didn't believe it, and his hands involuntarily crossed his waist and said, "Look at what you said, what do you mean if I didn't see it with my own eyes, I'll tell you... Coincidentally, when the government was fishing for the corpse, I went to Nanshi to buy spices on the order of the housekeeper, and I happened to see it on the way back. ”

Under the extremely curious eyes of the three maids, the concierge said again, "Ouch, you don't know, when the government fished up the dozen dead people, someone vomited on the spot, what's going on... I took a closer look, and almost vomited with those people, only to see that the corpses were all blackened, and after soaking in the moat in this winter, they emitted a disgusting smell, you know... It's nine in the middle of winter, how can a dead person who has been soaked in water not freeze into ice cubes, and it can still stink? The main thing is that these people are all those who don't have a bitter master, no... When I looked at it like that, I had been dead for at least seven or eight days, and I still stopped at Yizhuang today! Oh, what a pathetic! ”

The porter sighed to himself.

At this time, maid A opened her mouth again, "But, it has nothing to do with what we said!" We're talking about children, we're talking about strong labor! ”

Unexpectedly, the porter man smiled and said proudly, "At first glance, these two things are indeed one and the same, as if they have nothing to do with each other, but you have to think like this, those dozen or so people are not suffering, maybe because they disappeared quietly like the children you said!" ”

Speaking of this, several maids suddenly realized, and began to admire the porter guy, he didn't go to the official mansion to be an errand and made a porter here, it was indeed a condescending talent!

"I'll tell you, I really didn't blow it...", and when he was proud, the porter was about to brag about himself in front of these maids again, but he saw me coming with a peach heart in his arms.

So the people didn't have time to salute, so they were so frightened that they scattered like birds and beasts.

And I held Moxin, with a hint of a smile on my face, "Did you hear what you said just now?" ”

In fact, when those people were talking just now, Taoxin and I were standing in the inner house gate, and I heard every word they said clearly.

It's just that the girl Taoxin was afraid that I would cause trouble, so she hurriedly pressed my hand, with a trace of worry on her pale little face, "Princess... Don't mess around. ”

I naturally understood what she meant, and I didn't want to elaborate on her, but I nodded with a smile to reassure her, "Hmm." ”

And what do I really want to do? Actually, it's very simple, I just want to see if all this is Yin Linxi's father's doing.

If it were him, then he would surely have killed many innocent lives on his way to immortality.

Although I am not a savior with high morals, I can't bear to let innocent people fall victim, not to mention that if Yin Linxi's father has the desire to live forever, then it doesn't matter if he can realize it, first of all, as a generation of kings, he is bound to rely on the heart of thinking that he can live forever, and give birth to the ambition of conquering other countries.

At that time, Zhongli, who succumbed to the gap between Wu Guo and Xian Yu, was a very good target.

Of course, it's far away now, what I have to do is to find out what Yin Linxi's father wants to do by borrowing the power of that weirdo.

And those things in the market... Thinking back to the boy behind the strange man that day, if he is not mistaken, he must be the son of Uncle Wang in the mouths of those maids just now!

But now instead of speculating here, it is better to go out and find some substantive evidence.

So, after I sent Taoxin back to the dormitory, I hurriedly called Shen Xiao and rushed with me to the so-called Nanshi moat...

I'd like to see if there's any connection between the place where a dozen dead people were picked up and the weirdo.

At this time, the cold wind of counting nine blew on the body, and the slightest chill penetrated into the bones.

Shen Xiao stood behind me and looked at me very curiously, and said with a wry smile, "Princess, what are we doing here?" ”

At this time, I didn't look up, but when I squatted by the river and looked at the direction of the river, I realized that the direction of the river was actually from west to east, but the palace was in the south, and it seemed that it had nothing to do with the moat.

Upstream, it is the west, which is separated from the palace by five or six downtown areas, if the murderer is the strange man, how did he avoid the densely populated downtown and transport these dozen people from the palace in the south to the west? Could it be that it was transported at night when there were few people?

If that's not right, it stands to reason that transporting a dozen dead people is not so simple, and there are not a few officers and soldiers patrolling at night in every downtown area, how do weirdos avoid these patrol officers and soldiers? Even if Yin Linxi and his son covered that strange man, but in the end what he did was an unseemly deed, imagine which son of heaven would notify his subordinates to shield a murderer who killed more than a dozen people after he did something wrong? This is tantamount to telling the world that he has done such a hurtful thing, so Father Yin Linxi will never notify the government.

But it's weird, if all the reasoning doesn't make sense... Could it be that I was wrong in my guess? Are these people's tragic deaths and the ghosts of that weird man really two different things?

A bad feeling gradually rose in my heart.

Just when he was at a loss, a passerby suddenly passed in front of him.

I then reached out and grabbed him, and sneered, "Hehe, this son, I want to ask where is the source of this moat?" ”

Originally, I just wanted to ask a good question, and then think about whether I should go to the source to find clues.

But I don't know why the passer-by saw me grabbing him, and suddenly smiled at me twice, and said politely, "It's easy to say, if my sister wants to know, then you might as well go with my brother and me, and I'll tell you when I get to my house, okay?" ”

After that, the passer-by stretched out his hand to rub the oil, but how could I be so easily bullied? Don't forget that I still have Shen Xiao by my side!

Before that guy could succeed, Shen Xiao's saber was crossed in front of him first, so frightened that the passer-by fell to the ground with weak legs.

"A good man spares his life, a good man spares his life!"

I glanced at the cowardice of the passer-by, and couldn't help but shake my head and sigh and hold down Shen Xiao's hand, and then said to the passerby, "You just need to tell me obediently where the source of this moat is, and I will naturally let you go." ”

After such a fright, passers-by said with a white face, "I said, I said, the source of the moat is a branch of the Guanyong River in the west. ”

Guan Yonghe...

My brow twisted slightly, I have heard this river mentioned before, because of its turbulent current, many people drown every year, so the Zhou Village by the river still retains the custom of worshiping the river god.

So, those dozen people were thrown down to worship the river god? That's why there is no bitter lord to claim it? This seems to be a bit of a past.

"Hero, can I go?"

At this time, the passer-by arched his hand towards Shen Xiao, and Shen Xiao looked at me again.

It wasn't until I nodded that Shen Xiao spit out a word from between his teeth with a gloomy face, "Get out!" ”

Then, passers-by fled.

And when I came back to my senses, I realized... Except for me and Shen Xiao, the two lonely figures on the side of the huge moat, there seems to be no trace of anyone else? Not even a hawker saw a single one.

What's going on? Could it be that the dozen or so dead people scared everyone out of the house?

But it happened to be at this time, Shen Xiao suddenly touched my arm and pointed to the river beach not far away, "Princess, do you see if there is someone there?" ”

"Where?" I followed his gaze.

Only then did I see that there was a ... Uh, no, a man covered in water and weeds was sitting there slumped, in stark contrast to the deserted market.

But who is this man? It looks like it should have crossed the river, could it have something to do with the dozen or so dead people? Could it be the bitter master?

I was shocked, and hurriedly ran towards the man.

But I really didn't expect that this run... So far, I've picked up a big problem!

"Uh... The... Brother? Or Miss? I reached out and poked at the person in front of me who was of unknown gender and looked down at the ground.

After a while, I saw the man looking up at me blankly, and there were dark green aquatic plants hanging in front of him.

However, at the moment when the eyes met...

I sat down on the ground in fright, this... Isn't this person in front of him Yin Linxi? Why is he here? And planted headlong in the aquatic weeds?

The man was also stunned for a moment, and then suddenly opened his mouth and called out to me, "Mother! ”

"Huh?"

This sudden "mother" almost didn't knock me down.

What's going on? Yin Linxi actually called me my mother? Where did I get such a big son?

But after thinking about it, it seems that something is wrong, it stands to reason that Yin Linxi will go to the morning court every morning, even if it is morning down, he should still be on the way back to his home at this time.

Therefore, the person in front of him is by no means Yin Linxi...

In order to see more clearly, I glared at him and leaned closer.

Really... The person in front of him is really not Yin Linxi, but he is just a little similar to Yin Linxi!

Who is he?