According to legend, in ancient times, there were black Jiao who did evil and wantonly devoured people, and there were also fierce tigers who won the Tao, chasing black Jiao for thousands of miles, and eliminating demons and defending the road.

A tiger and a Jiao, chasing and fleeing, the black Jiao couldn't get rid of it in a hurry, and plunged into a clear pool, hiding at the bottom of the pool, dead or alive.

The tiger circled around Qingtan a few times, but there was nothing to be done, so he simply crouched by the water of the pond to suppress the demons.

Tens of millions of years have passed, the tiger is still mighty, turning into a cool mountain, the water of Qingtan has become deep and dark, and everyone is called the Black Dragon Pond.

At the foot of Qingliang Mountain, by the Black Dragon Pond, there are 100 families living in a small village, with smoke curling and chickens and dogs smelling each other.

At No. 23 Licun Hutong, Tie Lingshuang opened his heart and finished eating the dumpling beef, which was extremely refreshing, and stood outside the twenty-three houses along the way.

A small yard with a fence only up to the waist. In the clean and refreshing yard, there are a few ridges of vegetables on the side, three main rooms with white walls and green tiles, and a small kitchen with cooking smoke, which is ordinary and warm.

A chubby little girl, two or three years old, wearing a sky-high mustache and a belly pocket embroidered with blue on a red background, circled briskly around the small table in front of the door, her eyes bent into crescents, full of laughter. There is a small red and black scar on his forehead, which should have been knocked somewhere recently.

Tie Lingshuang looked outside the fence, her mood suddenly froze, she looked at the little girl in a daze, the laughter in her ears gradually became complicated, and she turned her head to look behind her.

In a trance, a little girl ran around the stone table in the yard laughing and running, looking sideways, the tall figure, as if she had made a mistake, became hunched and collapsed, and followed the mother who looked up at the sky with a flattering face, and apologized in a whisper, looked up and saw that she was looking at him, and made a grimace.

"Yue'er, run slowly, I just fell yesterday, and it won't hurt today?"

The gentle voice sounded, the past vanished, and Tie Lingshuang turned her head to look at the wake of the wake, and a young woman walked out of the kitchen, with a normal face, dressed in coarse cloth clothes, holding a plate of green vegetables in her hand, putting it on the table, and looking sideways at her daughter.

The little girl heard her mother's soft shout, stopped, looked up at her, and the tender voice sounded,

"Mother, Daddy doesn't talk much, he said that he would accompany Yue'er today, but I haven't seen him for a day. ”

The woman frowned slightly, and seemed to be a little worried, looking at her daughter looking at herself with a look of grievance, smiling lightly, her eyes were bent into crescents, and her plain face suddenly had a watery charm.

"Don't worry, Daddy is going to stay at home for a long time this time, and he will be back in a while. ”

After that, he picked up the little girl and put her on the small bench, as if she was aware of it, and turned to look out of the fence, a woman with a cold face, all covered in blue and black, carrying a short gun, and looking at herself with a touch of sadness in her beautiful eyes.

Taking a deep breath, Tie Lingshuang lowered her eyes, nodded at her, took two steps, raised her hand to push open the wooden door, and came to the woman's side.

"Jinyi Wei Tie Lingshuang, a colleague of the honorable husband, is ordered,"

Looking at the little girl who looked up at her feet, Tie Lingshuang smiled slightly,

"I was ordered to investigate the case, and the honorable husband has set off first and asked me to inform my wife. ”

A country woman, although she has never read poetry or books, is not stupid, every time her husband travels, she will sort out her baggage, comfort herself in a low voice for a long time, and then she will be reluctant to leave, and she will look back and shout that she will come back immediately, and after having a daughter, she will turn back one step at a time.

This time, when I woke up, the person was gone, and I was already worried, but when I saw Tie Lingshuang, I vaguely felt that something big was happening.

The woman seemed to be a little scared, glanced at the iron gun in Tie Lingshuang's hand, and then looked down at her daughter staring at the scar on her face in a daze, suppressed the panic, nodded and said softly,

"Girl, let's talk in the house, Yue'er, you eat well, my mother will come over immediately." ”

Saying that, walking to the main hall, Tie Lingshuang raised his eyes and swept it, it was no different from an ordinary farmhouse, it was clean and refreshing, and there were a few soft grass crickets hanging on the wall, thinking that it was for the little girl outside the door to play. There is also a ruler-long withered grass that is strange, with a simple buckle, like a long sword.

Tie Lingshuang nodded, the old hunter crossed the mountains and mountains, in order to avoid snakes and insects, he often used narrow blades of grass to form a grass sword, and the snakes and insects naturally retreated, which was very effective.

"Girl, where has my husband gone?"

Tie Lingshuang looked at her, and saw that she was holding her lower abdomen with one hand, her fingertips trembling, and her other hand was clenched tightly with a fist, pressed against her chest, and the mist in her eyes was faint, looking at herself expectantly and fearfully.

I can't bear to look at her, let your emperor be ambitious and domineering, or linger on grievances and hatreds, and everything will come to naught.

Tie Lingshuang lowered her face, looked back at the girl who was eating and peeking at herself, turned her head, reached out and took out the two silver tickets from her purse, put them on a few cases on the side of the wall, looked at her quietly, and whispered,

"I was killed in an attack in Fusi, Beizhen, and I was ordered to track down the murderer. Madame, please also pay your respects. ”

The woman's body in front of her paused for a moment, slumped in the chair, tears couldn't be stopped, and flowed down from the gentle moon's eyes.

Tie Lingshuang took a light step, blocking the gaze of the little girl outside the door, stiffened her face, and looked at the ground quietly, her eyes flashing, not knowing what she was thinking.

"Mother, why are you crying?"

The little girl stood beside the two of them with a small bowl and a small spoon, looking up at her mother, who was sobbing with tears streaming down her face.

The two of them were startled, they both came back to their senses, the woman quickly wiped her face, forced a laugh, stood up, picked up her daughter, hugged her tightly in her arms, nodded at Tie Lingshuang with red eyes, and walked out of the house.

"Mother, it hurts me when you hug me. ”

The little girl's voice came, and the woman comforted her softly.

After a long time, the door next door sounded, the woman wiped her face, walked to the main hall, and saw that Tie Lingshuang was still standing there in a daze, with a nasal voice, and asked softly,

"Girl, can I go and bring him back?"

Turning her head indifferently, Tie Lingshuang looked at her for a while, her eyes gradually cleared, and nodded,

"You go to Jiming Temple and tell the sweeping monk at the gate of the Great Compassion Hall that it is Twenty-three's family, and Beizhen Fusi will send him back. ”

The woman nodded, and both fell silent again.

"Girl, do you have anything to ask?"

Taking a deep breath, Tie Lingshuang shook off her mind and looked at the woman in front of her,

"Has he been doing anything unusual lately?"

The woman's brows furrowed slightly, her eyes were stagnant, and she thought about it for a long time, as if she was thinking of something happy, her eyes were shining, the corners of her mouth were upturned, as if she saw Tie Lingshuang in front of her, and suddenly came back to her senses, the whole person suddenly dimmed, and the smile on the corner of her mouth became desolate, shaking her head,

"No, I used to go out often, and when I came back, I was with me, planting vegetables in the yard, picking melons, and accompanying Yue'er, this time we just went to the temple and Taoist temple more, there was no difference, how did I have a grudge with others. ”

Tie Lingshuang nodded, remembering that his whereabouts were undecided yesterday, and then asked,

"Where did you go yesterday?"

The woman shook her head and whispered,

"We, we just went to Linggu Temple, to worship the Bodhisattva, my daughter fell in it, she didn't go around the street, she went home, and then woke up this morning, people,"

As she spoke, the woman's tears flowed, Tie Lingshuang was upset, nodded, and was not comforted, turned around and was about to walk out, remembering that there was no clue about the matter, and she was patient,

"When was the last time you saw him last night?"

"Well, in the middle of the night, when I got up and went out, the moon was right in the middle. ”

Zishi, that is to say, went out after the twenty-third son, and then was discovered by Xiaolingwei in the early morning, twenty-three is Xuanwei, entered the hidden guard, and has not been a gentleman on the beam again, go out, it is very likely that it is to find a demon, and then it was discovered by a monster?

"Has he been out at night lately?"

Seeing the woman on the opposite side shaking her head, Tie Lingshuang nodded lightly and strode out, and when she was about to go out, the woman shouted softly,

"Girl. ”

Tie Lingshuang turned around, slightly strange, and saw the woman walking forward slowly, her swollen and red eyes with tears,

"My husband, he, did he say anything?"

was about to subconsciously shake his head, saw her hand stroking her lower abdomen, stunned for a while, nodded, looked at her, and whispered,

"She told you to raise your children well, and if it was hard, find a good person to marry, not alone. ”

Looking at the woman's mournful shaking of her head, thinking that she would have a hard time living alone in the future, Tie Lingshuang's eyes flashed,

"Madam, I'm in the innermost part of the rock sugar alley on Sanshan Street, if you have any difficulties in the future, just come to me. ”

After that, he pushed open the door and walked out, walked to the mouth of the alley with his head down, Tie Lingshuang turned his head to look, and the woman was still covering her mouth, staring at the door in a daze.

The chest was burning with anger, blocked and bored, Tie Lingshuang had a cold face, carried the iron gun, walked along the road to the edge of the Black Dragon Pond, saw a big stone by the water of the pool, and snorted coldly, the iron gun in his hand was raised, the wind was blowing, the iron gun with a strong wind, crossed a cold light, and smashed on the stone,

"Boom"

I didn't look at the rocks that were broken into a puddle, and I walked all the way, and a low murderous voice came,

"It's here, Zhu Di, Yao Guangxiao, big bastard. You wait. ”

Angry, Tie Lingshuang, who had followed the road for a long time, finally suppressed the anger in his heart, his eyes returned to clarity, and he glanced around, on a bluestone avenue, people came and went.

Looking up, it turned out that along Qingliang Mountain, all the way to the vicinity of Qingliang Gate, looking back at the tail of Qingliang Mountain in the distance, shaking his head, anger will really make people become blind.

Just as he was about to turn around, and then walk back along the road, about to go to Xiaolingwei to see the place where the 23rd was attacked, he suddenly saw a group of peasant Chinese characters, holding a few crying children, rushing out of the foot of the mountain on the other side of Qingliang Mountain, and went straight to the Qianjin Pharmacy at the entrance of Qingliang.

Slightly strange, Tie Lingshuang looked up at the sun faintly hidden in the thin clouds, slanted slightly westward, there was still enough time, and he also walked towards the Qianjin Pharmacy.

In the past, there was Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, who wrote "A Thousand Gold Prescriptions", and took the life of a righteous person more than a thousand gold. With the help of a pharmacy opened in the name of a daughter, it seems that the business is very good. The gray-bearded doctor sitting in the hall had the demeanor of a medicine king, and he didn't put on a show, walked up to a child, stretched out his hand to take the pulse, and gently pressed the child's delicate wound with the other hand.

The farmer man who was holding the child looked anxious and said loudly,

"Doctor, my child said, playing at the foot of Qingliang Mountain, suddenly rushed out a bunch of snakes, look at the child's body, the bite is all wounds, will it be poisonous?"

The doctor didn't respond, just concentrated on identifying the wounds, Tie Lingshuang stood at the door, glanced at it, these children were still sobbing, with a panicked face, their bodies were all thin linen clothes, most of them were patched, the clothes were stained with blood, and the exposed hands and feet, dense wounds, also had a little blood.

Walking forward, the swarthy boy near the door was also in the arms of a peasant man, the man saw Tie Lingshuang with a scar on his face, carrying a weapon on his back, and was so frightened that he forgot the child in his arms for a while, and looked at Tie Lingshuang in a daze and stretched out his hand to point at the dense small wounds on his child's hands and feet.

It's not a poisonous snake, the wound is not deep, there is a difference in length and depth, criss-crossed, mostly scratches side by side, snake bites, but this snake is a bit much. It is normal to occasionally see a few snakes on the mountain in this season, but there will be no groups of snakes appearing.

Tie Lingshuang was still frowning and thinking, the doctor opened his eyes and said softly,

"Well, although the pulse is fluctuating, it is caused by fright, and it is not poisonous. It's this injury, it's a bit much, you don't need to drink medicine, go back and wipe off the surrounding blood with a damp cloth to prevent mosquito bites, eat more rice, and replenish the blood. ”

After that, he went to give another child a pulse, and all the men were happy.

"Where's the bunch of snakes?"

The peasant man holding the child in front of Tie Lingshuang turned around, heard the woman in front of him ask, and hurriedly whispered,

"On the north side of the mountain, along the foot of the mountain, a mile away, there was a little pond with a beekeeper, not far from his hut. ”

Nodding, Tie Lingshuang turned around and walked out.