Chapter 3: The Truth

The sky was gloomy and terrible, there was not a hint of wind, and even the trees seemed to have stopped chirping. www.biquge.infoSuddenly, there were a few muffled thunders in the distance, and after a while, pea-sized raindrops crackled and fell.

Today is the day of Luo Sanye's funeral, and as soon as the funeral procession set off, it rained. The Luo sisters were wearing heavy filial piety, burying their faces in white turbans, their faces were wet, and they couldn't tell whether it was tears or rain. Shangguan Hao walked at the front of the funeral procession, holding Luo Sanye's rank in his arms, and walked out of the city step by step in the mud.

Less than halfway down the road, the rain gradually became heavier, and a white mist became angry on the ground. The funeral procession of the Luo family was soaked in a thick mist, giving people a hazy and eerie feeling.

The raindrops hit Luo Wanqi's face like bullets, she raised her hand to wipe away the water traces with her sleeve, and picked up her grief-stricken sister Luo Wanyi again. Their snow-white shoes made a splash of water, which swirled and disappeared on the ground, leaving only a puddle of sludge on their grieving hearts.

The mourners who followed behind them all drooped their faces and looked sad. A few of them were even more cold teeth chattering, glaring at the sky from time to time, and muttering discontentedly. But many more were silent, their eyes glazed over, as if they were soulless husks.

When the funeral procession of the Luo family turned around the corner, the empty West Street was suddenly full of people watching. Some of them were holding umbrellas, some were wearing hats, and they all stared at the people of the Luo family quietly, and a few muttering discussions came from the crowd from time to time.

Shangguan Hao turned his head to stare at the two strangers who were biting their ears beside him, and pouted impatiently. He didn't like this kind of occasion, especially when he was seen in such an embarrassed way.

A certain number of people quickly asked to see the lively crowd and arrived at the entrance of the city. At this time, a gust of wind howled from the northwest, and the white scarf on Luo Wanqi's head was ripped up. She quickly turned around and pulled, and suddenly she saw a black car parked at the corner of the street not far behind her.

At this moment, the door moved, and a tall figure appeared beside the car. The man stared for a long time at the funeral procession that was about to fade away, letting the rain wet his military uniform.

The man in military uniform gradually disappeared into the white vapor, like a distant phantom. Wanqi turned her head, and suddenly her heart chuckled, she recognized the person.

Luo Sanye slept forever in the wet soil, and the youngest daughter Luo Wanqi stood in front of the tomb and stared at her father's final destination, and suddenly felt that a big piece of something was missing in her heart. There was too much sadness in her heart, but for some reason, she couldn't shed a single tear at this moment.

She felt guilty and blamed herself, her father died unjustly, but she didn't even have a clue who the murderer was. She felt that she had no face to see her father, and at the same time, she hated the murderer who killed her father to the extreme. She secretly swore at her father's grave that she would find the murderer and take revenge.

Sister Luo Wanyi didn't know what her sister was thinking at the moment, she walked to Wanqi's side gently, and her heart was filled with infinite sourness, she only had one relative in front of her now.

The clouds and rain stopped, the sun climbed out of the cloud peak at some point, and there were two white people hugging each other tightly in front of Luo Sanye's tomb.

On a hot and unbearable day in August, the 750 train from Xi'an whistled and rumbled into Lanzhou No. 1 station. As soon as the train stopped, a group of officers and soldiers with loaded guns surrounded the train.

The conductor stared at the muzzles of the black holes in horror, and cold sweat broke out on his head. At this moment, an officer who looked like a steward came to his side.

"Sir, what's the matter?" The conductor, Vivi, asked.

"What's in the car?" The officer asked, raising his voice twenty times.

"It's medicinal herbs, it's all medicinal herbs!" At this time, a thin man got out of the car and hurriedly explained.

"Medicinal herbs!" The officer glanced at the thin man contemptuously, rejected the cigarette he offered, "Open all the boxes, we will check them." ”

"Sir! It's really all medicinal herbs. The thin man stepped forward with a courteous face and quietly stuffed a paper bag into the officer's pocket.

"What are you doing here!" The officer glared at the man and said sharply: "We are from the Lanzhou garrison area, and we are ordered by our superiors to check the prohibited items, you dare not cooperate!" ”

The thin man put his cold ass on his hot face, and he was angry, and sneered: "It's not that I don't cooperate. I'm afraid you won't be able to touch the goods here. Do you know whose face this is? ”

The officer sneered: "Lao Tzu only checks, no matter whose goods he has, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu is here, if he dares to smuggle prohibited items, he will have to be pulled out and shot." This is the order of Chief Fei. Come on, get in the car and search for me! ”

As soon as the officer gave the order, a group of officers and soldiers immediately jumped onto the train.

"Who dares to move!" The thin man stepped forward to block the door, and several big men with angry eyebrows appeared in the carriage behind him.

"What? Are you going to rebel? The officer shouted.

"The chief is serious!" The man said coldly, "We are just small businessmen, how dare we rebel against the government." As he spoke, he took out a handwritten oracle from his coat and handed it to the officer.

The officer opened it and swept it, his eyebrows moved slightly, and he suddenly understood that this batch of goods belonged to Lin Tong's relatives, and the handwritten edict was also issued by Lin Tongzhi himself. The officer glared at the oracle and began to feel torn between the two sides.

I want to check the private goods, but I just met such a master. Don't check it, Fei Shaoshuai won't let him go. Check it, my own people are soft-spoken and don't dare to offend Lin Tong. When I was in a dilemma, someone suddenly asked in a loud voice, "What's the matter?" β€œ

Everyone looked back and saw Fei Yunan appear on the platform, followed by adjutant Chen Sheng.

When the officer saw that there was a savior, he hurriedly greeted him and told Fei Yunan about it.

"Lin Commandery!" Fei Yunan snorted coldly, "What a big face." Check it out for me! I'm going to see what it's all about. ”

Soon, the thin man and a few entourages were escorted aside, and Fei Yunan personally walked into the carriage. Several officers and soldiers pried open the boxes with all their hands, and the first few boxes were indeed medicinal herbs. The officers and soldiers were disappointed, but when they pried open the boxes on the ground, they were surprised to find that they were full of tobacco and soil.

"Look, sir!" Chen Sheng shouted excitedly, "It's smoke." ”

"Oh?" Fei Yunan raised his eyebrows without moving, walked over and lifted a lid to look at it, and said coldly: "Bring those people back to me!" It is simply fatal to dare to smuggle tobacco and soil under the repeated explicit prohibition! ”

Since discovering her father's notebook, Luo Wanqi has been unable to calm down for a long time. After her father's burial, she was even more desperate to get the whole thing to light. So, she went to the women's prison where her second aunt was held.

The dimly lit reception room smelled musty everywhere. Luo Wanqi looked at this place that looked like a demon cave, and for the first time in her life, she felt helpless. She turned to the table and sat down, listening nervously and intently to the sound outside the iron door. But the iron door was dark and heavy, and there was no living life in the corridor.

After waiting for a long time, the iron door was opened from the outside with a bang, Wanqi raised her head, and by the dim light, she saw a woman with a chain in her hand walking in.

The woman looked up at her, her eyes glazed over, and she didn't seem to know Wanqi. Knowing that Wanqi called the second aunt, the girl's thin face became a little angry.

"You're back?" Second Aunt Qin Fang seemed a little surprised, and suddenly her eyes darkened, and she muttered, "It's good to come back, you must have seen him." He's dead, my lord is dead. ”

The second aunt's voice was hoarse and her tone was desolate, which made Luo Wanqi's heart hurt.

"Auntie, Dad has already settled in the ground... I'm coming to see you and I've brought you something to eat by the way. Tell me what is wrong with you here. ”

Qin Fang listened to Wanqi's words absentmindedly, and said with a wry smile: "The person who is going to die, what are the difficulties?" Thank you! I didn't expect you to come to see me. ”

Wanqi glanced up at the guards outside the door, held the second aunt's thin hand, and said in a low voice: "Auntie, I have something to ask you this time, please tell me the truth." ”

"You want to know about the master." The second aunt said.

Wanqi nodded, "I found something. You tell me honestly, you didn't actually hurt your father, did you? Tell me, what really happened that night? ”

Qin Fang lowered her head and sighed, "Don't mention it again." Even if I didn't kill the master, I am responsible. It's me who is sorry for him first, it's me who failed him... ”

Seeing that the second aunt refused to speak, Wanqi was a little anxious, "You must tell me." We can't let Dad die unjustly. Do you know? I dreamed of my father, and he told me in his dream that his death was related to the blood jade unicorn. Tell me, what is that? ”

Qin Fang looked at Wanqi in surprise and muttered, "Blood Jade Qilin? Are you talking about the piece of blood jade that the master said? ”

"What blood jade? Second aunt! Wanqi felt a hot current in her heart rush up, and her hands trembled a little.

Qin Fang told her that on the day Luo Sanye died, he told her that he already knew the whereabouts of the blood jade, and the baby might be available in the evening. At that time, Qin Fang didn't care, because Luo Sanye was a fan of antiques, and he was fiddling with jade with those merchants all day long, so she only regarded it as what those people sold him.

That night, she expected that Luo Sanye was not at home, so she sent someone to deliver a letter to the singer, and the two made an appointment to meet in the backyard and escape together. However, as soon as they arrived in the backyard, they found a dark shadow next to the rockery. When they looked over, they were so frightened that their souls almost went out of their bodies. Luo Sanye fell to the ground on his back, his face was pale, his eyes were glaring, and he seemed to have been dead for a long time.

"We didn't know what to do, when suddenly my aunt brought someone in. He saw the old man fall to the ground, and insisted that we killed the old man. But I can see that the old man was scared to death by things. I guess... I guess... Qin Fang stared at Wanqi in horror, her face turned gray, as if the words below were some kind of spell, and she would die if she said it.

"You know the murderer, don't you?" Wanqi asked tightly.

"It's the ghost of Prince Yu. It had to be him. Qin Fang asserted with a strange expression, "When the old man bought this house, I knew that it was not clean inside. I persuaded him that it was a murderous mansion. Anyone who goes in will be killed by a ghost for no apparent reason. But. The lord doesn't listen to me. He's dead... He's dead... He was killed by a ghost... ”

The second aunt stood up suddenly, dancing wildly, laughing, and shouting: "Dead, dead." Prince Yu... The ghost is here to claim his life! Kill you ... I'll kill you, haha... ”

The second aunt suddenly went crazy, and Wanqi was startled. She tried to calm her aunt, who was a doctor and knew it was intermittent madness caused by excessive mental stress. But Qin Fang's strength suddenly became very strong, and she pushed Wanqi down, overturning all the tables in the living room. The guard at the door noticed that the situation inside was wrong, and hurriedly rushed in to stop the second aunt. Then, he dragged her out of the reception room.

Luo Wanqi stared at the door in horror, panting loudly, feeling as if she was having a nightmare. She got up and walked out of the dimly lit room. At this moment, the dazzling sunlight fell on her. She turned to look into the dark hallway, and walked into the sunlight without looking back.

The street market in Lanzhou City has always been very lively, and Wanqi quietly disappeared into the bustling crowd, feeling warm as she had never been. As soon as she reached the entrance of West Street, she saw a group of people rushing towards the execution ground in front of her. She involuntarily moved by the crowd, aimlessly following the crowd to the Dharma field.

At this time, a thin man was tied to the ground of the city wall in despair. His face was pale, his head hung down, and he looked like a rooster waiting to be slaughtered. Several officers and soldiers with spears on their backs stood straight on either side of him, waiting for something.

"What's going on? What law did he break? Wanqi asked the person next to her in a low voice.

"Alas, these days, there is still a royal law there, whoever has a gun in his hand can kill people casually." A tall man said.

"I've heard that this person is still some kind of ruling brother-in-law." The white-bearded old man interjected.

"Then how can you still be shot?" The tall man was curious, "Supposedly, these are all their own people." ”

"Phew! Own? The white-bearded man said matter-of-factly, "Since ancient times, there has been a struggle for power, how can there be any own people's opinions." I heard that this system has long been at odds with Young Marshal Fei. Our young marshal is a living Hades, do you want to offend him, can you still live? This trick is called killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys. Otherwise, why would you be shot if you sold some medicine? ”

"Yo, you're really old and old." The tall man gives a thumbs up.

"Not really. Young people learn a little. Whitebeard said triumphantly and disdainfully.

At this time, an officer on horseback appeared on the execution ground, holding a flag in his hand, dismounted and walked to an officer and soldier and said a few words. Then the officer and soldier beckoned two men and stood directly in front of the thin man with a gun on his back.

After that, Wanqi couldn't bear to watch it anymore. She squeezed out of the crowd quickly, her heart fluttering. But she hadn't gone a few steps before the shots rang out. Then, she heard a burst of exclamations from the crowd behind her.

Bloodthirsty, murderous, that's what those warlords really are. Iron-blooded young marshal! As long as Wanqi thought of this person, she felt cold. She suddenly felt that her father's death must be inseparable from this murderous demon king。。。。。。