Chapter 8: The Murder of Tianyun City
A few days later, Tianyong City is known as the granary of the Great Xia Dynasty, it is located in the plain, the land is fertile, the people live and work in peace and contentment, there are many gangs, the taverns and Qinglou theaters in the city are everywhere, it is one of the big cities closest to the 100,000 mountains, when Wu Haosheng stepped into this city, he felt the prosperity of this world, which is not inferior to the modern big city. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The crowded streets, the shouting and shouting are constant, of course, he is accustomed to the high-rise buildings of the modern city, but Wu Haosheng does not have much feeling about the buildings here, but compared to the nameless small village he stayed in a few days ago, it is majestic and magnificent.
The hundred-zhang high city wall is like a sleeping dragon in the Tianyong City, and the two-storey buildings stand on both sides of the street, and the roofs are covered with cinnabar-colored glazed tiles, which makes people feel very neat and unified at a glance, and Wu Haosheng is wondering if the designer of the construction of this city-state is a Virgo.
"Brother Haosheng, come here. Lin Chenxi shouted in the crowd, at this moment she was dressed in white, and she was back to her male body, and she was eating a string of rock sugar gourds in her hand, probably because she was afraid that her beauty would cause unnecessary trouble.
"Eh, here we are. Wu Haosheng quickly shuttled through the crowd and came to Lin Chenxi's side.
At this moment, a soft little hand had already taken Wu Haosheng and pulled him into a nearby tailor's shop.
To be honest, Wu Haosheng and Lin Chenxi are really incongruous at the moment, one is wearing clothes made of fine silk, while the other is coarse linen clothes with traces of sewing, not that Lin Chenxi does not share his clothes with Wu Haosheng, but the body size is not suitable, so Wu Haosheng is still wearing the rag clothes sponsored by the villagers.
"What does this son need?" As soon as Lin Chenxi and Wu Haosheng stepped into the tailor shop, a fat middle-aged man greeted him with a smile, but the shopkeeper's eyes only fell on Lin Chenxi, and he didn't skim the corners of Wu Haosheng's eyes, saying it too much, if it weren't for Lin Chenxi's hand holding Wu Haosheng, the shopkeeper would have been driven away.
Wu Haosheng had not received this kind of treatment in his previous life, but he didn't say anything, but he just regarded the shopkeeper as a pug with a wagging tail in his heart, and the dog looked down on people.
"Well, take this, and make some good clothes for my brother. Saying that, a piece of gold had already appeared in Lin Chenxi's palm.
As soon as the shopkeeper of the tailor's shop saw the gold, his eyes never moved his position again, and he stretched out his fat and stubby hand to take the gold from Lin Chenxi's hand and checked it, and the smile on his face was even worse, like a blooming chrysanthemum: "I'll go and get a ruler to measure this big brother." β
followed Lin Chenxi and Wu Haosheng also rose to the top, and immediately became a big brother, but Wu Haosheng felt more and more that this shopkeeper was like a pug who nodded and had.
"Chenxi, I think it's better to forget it, I'm embarrassed to use your money. Although Wu Haosheng didn't know the value of this ingot of gold in this world, he felt a little unhappy in his heart at this moment.
"Brother Haosheng, don't shirk it, you and I are brothers and sisters, ah no, we are both brothers, and the silk and satin I am wearing, but my brother is wearing such coarse and rotten clothes, if this is spread out, won't I become an unkind and unrighteous person?"
Regarding Lin Chenxi's statement, Wu Haosheng really has no way to say anything, this is completely like a moral kidnapping, of course, Wu Haosheng knows in his heart that Lin Chenxi is really good to himself, so he will no longer refuse.
Just as the shopkeeper was measuring Wu Haosheng's body, people outside suddenly poured in, and the street suddenly became panicked.
Wu Haosheng and Lin Chenxi heard a rush of horses' hooves, and a few people were extremely arrogant and shouted: "Get out of the way, get out of the way." β
As far as the eye can see, a group of cavalry wearing battle armor is galloping through the street at this moment, and the eye-catching thing in this team of cavalry is a young general in a white robe, who looks white and clean, although he holds a bright silver spear in his hand, but he has no soldier's fierce color, but has an arrogant and domineering face.
Who raises what dog, with such a master, no wonder his subordinates are also so arrogant, Wu Haosheng is most unaccustomed to this kind of unstoppable gentleman.
Just as Wu Haosheng secretly counted the squirrels in front of him in his heart, he didn't notice the change in Lin Chenxi's expression, now Lin Chenxi's face was calm, his brows were deeply locked, and his original interest in playing around with Wu Haosheng in the past few days was also gone, and he muttered in a low voice: "I didn't expect to meet him here." β
With the cavalry gone, the streets returned to their former appearance, and the vendors gathered up and began their shouting again.
"The two guest officers must not be locals. The shopkeeper of the tailor shop has already measured the size of Wu Haosheng's body at the moment, and he is also free, it seems that he wants to chat with the big customer in front of him and enhance his feelings.
"Yes, the shopkeeper asked what is this?" Wu Haosheng replied, because Lin Chenxi was still in a daze at the moment and didn't know what he was thinking, although he didn't have a good impression of the shopkeeper, but he also replied out of politeness.
"It's nothing, just to inform the two of you, Tianyun City has not been quiet in the past two days, if there is nothing to do at night, try not to go out. At this moment, the shopkeeper's original groveling appearance is gone, and his face is still a little solemn.
The shopkeeper's words attracted Wu Haosheng's attention: "Oh, has something happened here lately?"
"I saw the cavalry that just passed, it was sent by the imperial court, there have been several murders here recently, and many children and pregnant women have died. The more the shopkeeper spoke, the more frightened the look on his face seemed to be.
"Does the shopkeeper mean that there has been a murderer who has been killing children and pregnant women everywhere recently?" In Wu Haosheng's heart, he just felt that there was a perverted murderer, and besides, he was neither a child nor a pregnant woman, so he really couldn't understand why the shopkeeper was telling him this.
"No, no, no, if this were the case, the court would not have sent people, this is not as simple as a murder case. β
"Oh, shopkeeper, do you know something else?"
As soon as Wu Haosheng finished asking, the shopkeeper of the tailor shop first looked around, as if he was afraid that someone was watching him, and then approached Wu Haosheng and whispered: "The night before yesterday, an old customer asked me to go to his house to make a few clothes for his children, and as soon as I left, I heard a scream from that house, out of curiosity, I looked through the crack in the door of their house, and then saw that their family was all killed by a man wrapped in black cloth, and" said that the shopkeeper swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva in his throat.
"And all their blood was sucked dry, and the boy was taken away by the man wrapped in black cloth under the armpit, and I was so frightened that I stumbled and fell to the ground, and the man wrapped in black cloth seemed to look at me when he flew up, and his eyes were all green. β
At the same time, a golden brick and jade pillar glazed tile in Tianyong City, pavilions and pavilions, strange stone rockeries, countless, the road is connected, the red wall is carved on the mahogany in the luxurious mansion of the dragon and the phoenix, a banquet has been prepared, a plaque says that there are already several men with different expressions and extraordinary bearing in the hall of the Juyi Pavilion, and the one who gathered everyone together is a middle-aged man who sits in the center of the hall and wears a purple gold python robe, this person is the city lord of Tianyun City here, and also the younger brother of the current saint, Dai Wencheng, the king of leisure.
The banquet was all the head of the first-class sect in Tianyong City, the head of the Broadsword Sect, Tie Buyun, who was full of beard and black skin, and looked like a fierce Zhang Fei, and the Liuyun Sect sent a young disciple Zhang Tao, a young talent known as a smiling scholar, in addition to Ling Changfeng, the sect leader of the Luoyu Sect, Jiang Chenghu, the master of the Immortal Pavilion, and the new head of the Hehuan faction.
The above few people all represent the first-class sects in Tianyun City, and they will tremble with the trembling lord when they move Tianyun City, but they are all sipping refreshments in front of them or whispering to each other at the moment, as if they are still waiting for someone.
Soon, a white-robed young general walked into the banquet hall, holding a bright silver gun in his hand, with a high-spirited face: "I'm really sorry, everyone, I'm late." As he spoke, he took out a thing he was carrying, and everyone in the hall hurriedly bowed to the ground when they saw it.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said, today specially ordered the new martial champion Qin Lan to go to Tianyun City to investigate the recent serial murder case, and hope that the people in charge of the domain will actively cooperate to help, and I will appreciate this. β
"Long live my emperor, long live, long live. "The sect masters, together with the King of Ease, deducted their heads against the holy decree, and then stood up from the ground, and saw that no matter what sect it is, it is still subject to the control of the imperial court.
When King Xiaoyao and the others got up, Qin Lan knelt on the ground: "The last general, Qin Lan, is specially here to assist King Xiaoyao by the command of the Holy Lord." Then he kowtowed to the King of Pleasure.
"Please, please. Dai Wencheng, the king of leisure, hurriedly helped Qin Lan up, but he was a little unhappy in his heart, this Qin Lan was comprehensive and well-behaved on the surface, but in fact, he wanted to give himself a dismount from the beginning.
This can be seen from the fact that he took out the holy decree for the first time, instead of saluting himself first, which is obviously trying to suppress himself. However, Dai Wencheng didn't show much on the surface, and always greeted him with a smile, just as if he was young and vigorous.
"Okay, everyone is here, let's take a seat first. Saying that, the King of Joy made a gesture of invitation, and led everyone into a side room of the Juyi Pavilion, where drinks had already been prepared for everyone.
At the beginning of the banquet, a team of singers and dancers with beautiful faces came in, and there was an endless stream of delicacies, but everyone ate very little, after all, everyone here are people who have seen the world, and they also know that this time they are not so simple as eating.
Sure enough, when the song and dance were over, Dai Wencheng waved his hand to signal his subordinates to step back, and began to talk about business: "Today I will gather everyone, and I think everyone knows the purpose." β
"What the King of Freedom is talking about is the serial murder of pregnant women and children that happened in the city recently. Zhang Tao fanned the fan and said with a smile on his face.
"The smiling scholar is right, it is this matter, I think you must have noticed that this incident is extraordinary. When it comes to business, Dai Wencheng has no relaxation during the previous meal.
"Well, we have all heard about the recent events, it should be someone who catches boys and girls to practice, but under our noses, such a blatant name and such ruthless means, there must be a lot of water in it. "Although the head of the broadsword gate looks rough, he is not as brave and resourceless as he looks.
"That's right, the other party should have a certain degree of certainty, and this incident, do you think that this incident is somewhat similar to the demon behavior of Taiyi ****, who was surrounded and suppressed by all decent people in the Great Xia Dynasty ten years ago?" Dai Wencheng synthesized the accidents that happened in the past few days, and according to the investigation, he said the conjecture in his heart.
"What? Everyone present seemed to remember something with the words of King Xiaoyao, and their faces were a little dignified, only Qin Lan, who had just arrived, and Hualou, who was the new head, looked puzzled.
"I just debuted, I don't know what the Taiyi **** you are talking about exists? Hua Manlou of the Hehuan faction asked a little puzzled.
"Brother Hua, you have not been the new head of the house for a long time, so naturally you don't know, but this Taiyi ****'s methods are really outrageous, they are experts in refining corpses, and the exercises they practice are also vicious. Jiang Chenghu of the Qixian Pavilion explained to him, and it seemed that he had a lot to do with the Hua Manlou of the Hehuan faction.
"Oh, can you tell my brother?" Hua Manlou became a little interested in Taiyi ****.
"Let me tell you, our court was also a participant in this incident in the past, and I should know no less than you. Dai Wencheng said.
"Taiyi **** this sect came out of nowhere, the head of the sect was just a mediocre cultivator before, this limit is approaching, failed to break through the shackles, so he thought about going to the mysterious and weird 100,000 mountains to try his luck, never thought that he really encountered an opportunity to obtain a black spear and a shroud in it, so that his skills improved by leaps and bounds in a short period of time, and then returned to the Great Xia Dynasty to create Taiyi ****. Dai Wencheng said with a pause, picked up the teacup in front of him, blew on it, and took a sip.
"It's too one**** The cultivation of the exercises can make a breakthrough in people's strength in a short time, but it is very vicious, during which it is necessary to constantly inhale the essence blood of virgins and girls, and also to refine a few zombies, use their corpse qi to invade themselves, and reach the so-called harmony of yin and yangγ β
Just as everyone was listening attentively to Dai Wencheng talking about Taiyi's **** past, a discordant voice came into everyone's ears: "Tut-tut, I didn't expect it, you still remember my Taiyi ****." β