When the sky was just dawning, Shi Lei, a thousand households in Laizhou Prefecture, received a package from the Civil Information Bureau.

The sender's name is "Wang Xiang". Shi Lei didn't know him.

At first, he thought it was sent to the wrong place.

But on closer inspection, his name and address were indeed written on the package, and the sender also paid the most expensive "wine power" and "number money", asking the letter bureau to deliver the package to him as soon as possible, without any mistakes.

So, with doubts, Shi Lei carefully unwrapped the package.

…………

After a few days of bed rest and medication recuperation, Shi Xiaohan's injured soul has basically recovered, and he is now able to get out of bed and move around, and he can also cultivate normally.

However, because Shi Lei unilaterally tore up her marriage contract with Gu Xu and burned the dowry gift sent by Gu Xu, Shi Xiaohan has been fighting a cold war with his father recently and never took the initiative to talk to his father.

When Shi Lei came to talk to her, she would turn her head away and never pay attention.

"Xiaohan, someone sent you a package."

Early this morning, when Xiao Han was sitting at the table eating breakfast, Shi Lei suddenly walked up to her side and said to her.

Shi Xiaohan lowered his head and did not speak.

She held her chopsticks tightly and kept stuffing the hot and sour noodles from the bowl into her mouth, which was stained with chili peppers and oil.

"It's your 'Kungo Knife'." Shi Lei added again.

Hearing the words "Kunwu knife", the chopsticks in Shi Xiaohan's hand fell on the table with a "snap".

She stood up suddenly, and sure enough, she saw a machete lying quietly on the coffee table not far away, which was as red as fire and glowed crimson.

She stepped forward in three steps and two steps, and held the "Kunwu Knife" tightly in her arms.

The petite maiden and the heavy broadsword create a striking visual contrast.

Shi Xiaohan clearly remembered that on the day Luojing City was broken, the "Kunwu Knife" was brought by Gu Xu.

She originally thought that after Gu Xu was forced to flee the capital on the "trumped-up" charge of treason, the knife would enter a long career of escape with him and would never return to her hands.

"Let the 'Kunwu Knife' replace me and stay by his side, perhaps...... He wouldn't be too lonely. The thought crossed her mind more than once.

She had already planned to find a new natal magic weapon.

It's just that she never expected that Gu Xu would silently send the "Kunwu Knife" back to her mansion.

How did he do it?

Did he expose his whereabouts and be discovered by the government?

Did he take a big risk?

Shi Xiaohan bit his lip, his eyes lowered, his heart was moved and worried, his heartstrings tightened all of a sudden, and sweat broke out in his palms.

At this time, someone outside the window suddenly shouted loudly: "Princess Zhaoning has arrived!" ”

Hearing this voice, Shi Xiaohan held the "Kunwu knife", like a rabbit, and slipped into his room with a smoke and locked the door.

She was in a bad mood today, and she didn't want to deal with this annoying princess at all.

Shi Lei glanced at his daughter's back and sighed helplessly.

Then he walked to the door, bowed respectfully to a carriage parked at the door, and said: "Weichen Shi Lei, I didn't know that Her Royal Highness the princess was coming, and I didn't welcome her, and I hope that Your Highness will forgive your sins." ”

After a pause, he added: "The little girl is unwell today and can't go out to greet her, please forgive Your Highness." ”

Shi Lei bent very low, and his posture was also very low.

He knew that he and his daughter were now sensitive—and although the court was merciful and did not intend to implicate them, he also needed to be careful at all times, and he must not give authority to others.

"Thousands of households don't have to be polite." A soft and pleasant voice came from the carriage.

Subsequently, Xiao Wanjun, the plainly dressed and graceful princess of Zhaoning, stepped out of the carriage with the support of the maid.

Behind her, there was an old man with gray hair, a bloated body, and a gilded cane.

"Shi Qianhu, this is Mr. Mu Yunkai, a master of divination who is enshrined in the royal family," Princess Zhaoning pointed to the old man and introduced to Shi Lei, "We came here today to ask you to assist in investigating the whereabouts of the fugitive Gu Xu. ”

The intention of the two was not unexpected by Shi Lei.

His gaze became solemn, and he humbly invited the two into the room.

As soon as he sat down, Mu Yunkai said straight to the point: "I want to know Gu Xu's birthday." ”

In the Great Wilderness World, a person's birth date is extremely important privacy information.

It's like a password of fate.

Some monks who have mastered special spells can know and influence the fortunes of others after learning about their birth dates, and even impose curses.

Therefore, except for fortune-telling and marriage talks, under normal circumstances, people will not easily disclose their birth date information.

At this moment, hearing Mu Yunkai's words, Shi Lei knew that the Great Qi Imperial Court was testing his loyalty again.

Although the imperial court did not regard him and Shi Xiaohan as Gu Xu's comrades and punished them together, they were also observing his performance.

Shi Lei sighed softly and replied truthfully: "Xin Chou year, Xin Mao month, Jiayin day, Ren Shen time." ”

In order to save his daughter's life, he didn't dare not cooperate with the investigation of the imperial court, so he could only silently hope in his heart that Gu Xu's kid would ask for more blessings.

Mu Yunkai wrote down this information, and then asked, "Do you have Gu Xu's handprint here?" ”

Palmistry is also an important personal information in divination, which is closely related to a person's numerology and fortune.

Shi Lei fell into deep thought.

The first thing he thought of was Gu Xu's handprint on the marriage book. It's just that the marriage certificate has been thrown into the furnace by him and burned to ashes.

Then he thought that after Shi Xiaohan gave the pill workshop to Gu Xu as a birthday gift without authorization, the two of them subsequently added a formal industrial delivery agreement - on that document, Gu Xu also left a handprint.

Shi Lei hesitated whether to hand over this document honestly according to the other party's request.

Intuition told him that the more information this person named Mu Yunkai knew, the more dangerous Gu Xu's situation became.

However, just when he was hesitating, Mu Yunkai's lazy gaze suddenly became sharp, as if he could see through his mind and get a glimpse of his thoughts.

Shi Lei had to wave his hand to the servant in the room and ordered, "Go to the first drawer of my desk and get the delivery agreement of the pill workshop." ”

The servant immediately did so.

After a while, Mu Yunkai took the agreement from the servant's hand, saw the red handprint on the paper, and nodded with satisfaction.

He thought for a moment and asked again, "By the way, do you still have the items left by Gu Xu here?" ”

Shi Lei has given up struggling.

He asked the servant to fetch a "Fengxing Talisman" - it was the day when Luojing City was broken, Gu Xu pasted it on Shi Xiaohan's body.

Mu Yunkai took out a brush, dipped it in ink, squatted down, drew a circular and complex formation on the ground, and placed the agreement and the "wind charm" at both ends of the formation.

Then he began to chant the incantation in a low voice.

As the formation glowed with silver light, the color of Mu Yunkai's pupils became lighter and lighter, becoming more and more transparent.

His voice also became ethereal, giving people an auditory hallucination.

By the time he had finished reciting a spell, his dark eyes were gone, and there was only a pale patch in his sockets.

"Shi Qianhu, I have begun to look for Gu Xu in the long river of fate," Mu Yunkai raised his head slightly and said to Shi Lei, "I need you to tell me as much information about Gu Xu as possible, such as his personality, his preferences, and his living habits...... In this way, I can clear the fog of fate more quickly. ”

"Gu Xu, he-"

"—Shi Qianhu, is it convenient to invite your daughter to talk about it?" Shi Lei was just about to speak, when Princess Zhaoning next to him suddenly interrupted, "I think that in the entire Luojing City, she is the person who knows Gu Xu best." ”

Shi Lei immediately got up, bowed his head to the princess and said, "I'm sorry, Your Highness, the little girl hurt her soul on the day of the break in Luojing City, and she has not recovered yet, so it is really inconvenient to come out to meet guests." ”

Shi Lei didn't dare or wanted Shi Xiaohan to appear on such an occasion.

On the one hand, he was afraid that she would say some irrational stupid things in front of the princess, which would lead to trouble;

On the other hand, something like this today is too cruel for Shi Xiaohan - it's better to be the villain yourself.

Hearing his words, Princess Zhaoning said lightly, "It's okay", and didn't force it anymore.

Shi Lei cleared his throat and said slowly: "As far as I know, Gu Xu has always been a very hardworking and self-disciplined person...... My daughter once told me that when he was in Yishui County, he was either practicing or doing tasks every day, and almost never left time for himself to rest......

“…… The reason why he worked so hard was because he was congenitally deficient and deficient in his roots, and if he couldn't cultivate to the saint realm before the age of thirty, he would die young......

“…… He was well-read and had an excellent memory, and he could remember exactly what was in the books he had read......

“…… He eats lightly and does not drink alcohol...... My daughter said that his favorite food is the almond tofu in the Yamen chef of the Yishui Exorcism Division......

“……”

Shi Lei silently told everything he knew about Gu Xu.

Princess Zhaoning listened quietly.

In her mind, Gu Xu's image became more and more complete and distinct.

When she heard that Gu Xu was "congenitally deficient and lacking in bones", her hands on her knees clenched her fists inadvertently.

She used to admire his radiance.

At this moment, she sympathized with his bad luck and shallow fortune.

"In that case, why did Gu Xu choose to rebel and commit treason?" Princess Zhaoning once again had such a question in her heart, "If this accident hadn't happened, he would still be the pride of the heavens that everyone had been looking at, and he would have been cultivated by the Great Qi Imperial Court and had rich cultivation resources...... It is not impossible to become a saint before the age of thirty.

But now, he has become a prisoner of the imperial court, and he has lost his previous access to resources...... Even if he escapes to Youzhou and successfully defects to Zhao Changying's command, the cultivation resources he can get may not necessarily be more than before......

The more she thought about it, the more confused she became.

Mu Yunkai sat cross-legged by the formation, muttering incantations in his mouth.

His divine consciousness had already drifted to the mist-shrouded river of mist.

But he searched and searched, but he never found any trace of Gu Xu—as if this person did not exist in the world at all.

Time flies.

The sun rises above the eastern horizon and climbs higher and higher.

In the courtyard of the Shi family's mansion, a few rays of golden sunlight also shone obliquely. It seemed to have grown legs, moving and spinning silently in the courtyard, passing over the bluestone staircase, passing over the carved window lattice, and floating in front of the girl's quiet boudoir.

Hours passed silently.

In the afternoon, the sun gradually turned west, and the silver light of the formation on the ground suddenly became extremely bright without warning, overshadowing the sunlight shining into the room, stabbing everyone present unable to open their eyes.

Mu Yunkai stood up excitedly all of a sudden.

"I saw it! I finally saw it! He shouted loudly. Looking at his excited expression, it was as if he had solved a problem of the century in the cultivation world.

However, before he finished speaking, his expression suddenly became painful and hideous.

His face turned pale at first, then red, and then bruised. His features were twisted, his deep wrinkles were twisted lines, and the muscles on his face twitched uncontrollably.

"Ahh

With a terrible scream, his eyes suddenly sunken deeply, and bright red blood flowed out of his sockets like a stream.

He covered his eyes and fell to his knees in pain.

Gu Xu ...... Gu Xu, he went to Jingcheng......" he said in a trembling voice.

At the cost of his eyes, Mu Yunkai finally found the answer he wanted in the long river of fate.

"Jing Cheng ......"

Hearing his words, Princess Zhaoning did not delay for a moment, and immediately used the "Communication Jade Talisman" on her body to give a new order to the officials who searched for Gu Xu.

Shi Lei looked at his blind eyes, silent, and had a complicated mood.

Since recognizing the limitations of his qualifications and abilities, Shi Lei has long ceased to pursue further progress in his career. The safety and happiness of his daughter is the top priority in his heart.

When his daughter was engaged before, he did not hesitate to take out 3,000 merits to ask Luo Sishou about Gu Xu's future, for fear that Gu Xu would die young and make his baby daughter a widow.

And after Gu Xu became a wanted criminal, he immediately made the decision to "draw a clear line, cooperate with the court, sacrifice Gu Xu, and protect his daughter", for fear that the court would regard Shi Xiaohan as Gu Xu's comrade and punish him together.

In his opinion, there is a high probability that this matter will end in Gu Xu's arrest, and there is a small probability that Gu Xu will escape from the country and wander the world from then on, never returning home.

Shi Xiaohan will also gradually forget this young relationship in the passage of time, and then form a new family and live a plain and happy life.

But now he found that he had underestimated both Gu Xu's ability and the determination of the Great Qi Imperial Court.

"Perhaps, another bloody storm is coming."

Shi Lei looked at the slowly moving sunlight by the window and let out a long sigh.

…………

Meanwhile.

After several hours of non-stop hurrying, Gu Xu finally came to the vicinity of Jing Cheng before dark.

Jingcheng is the fifth of the eight Taihang mountains, located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, controlling the Taihang fortress, there is an important post road to communicate between Yan and Jin in the territory, and it is named because of the terrain.

Ancient book cloud: "The four sides are high, the center is down, such as the depth of the well, such as the depth of the stove, so it is called the well." ”

Gu Xu didn't rush through the well, but hid in a shady wood, took off the mask on his face, and breathed a sigh of relief.

Due to his rest adjustment last night, he was interrupted by Sima Chang and the "reggae".

If you don't take off the mask again, there is a high probability that it will cause side effects.

But as soon as he took off his mask, Gu Xu faintly felt that an invisible gaze fell on his body, giving him a pinprick of discomfort.

But the forest was empty.

Gu Xu looked around, but he couldn't find the slightest shadow of the voyeur.

Just as he was wondering, the surface of the "astrolabe" in his hand suddenly lit up with a dazzling silver light, and then he heard a scream of pain.

The gaze that spied on him vanished in an instant, as if it had never existed.

Gu Xu frowned slightly.

Out of an abundance of caution, he put the mask back on his face.

However, at this moment, a loud voice sounded behind him:

"This official Liaozhou Mansion Qianhu Que Juchang is dedicated to arresting important criminals in the imperial court. Take out your 'road guide' and check it out! If you dare to conceal it, you will be regarded as guilty of the same crime! ”

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