In the big tent of the navy in the windy city, many obvious changes have taken place in recent days.

For example, following the strange instructions given by the commander-in-chief, Lord Li, the soldiers brought back a large box of damp and fishy dirt from Hai Niangniang Island. No one knew what the soil was used for, and Mr. Li had never liked to grow flowers and plants. The suspicion in the adjutant's heart could not be dispelled, and before following Lord Li's order to set off to return to Fenglin City to get something, he also deliberately checked whether there was anything in the soil, and the result was very simple, the soil in the box was just mud, which had long been soaked by the seawater, exuding a damp and salty smell.

And the dirt of this box made the Navy camp tent stink. The big guy didn't dare to say anything about the taste of the big boss above his head, so he could only tense his nerves and hurriedly cover his nose.

For another example, the adjutant who returned to the city was secretly arranged by Lord Li to go to an embroidery building in Fenglin City to find a wind chime. The adjutant who had guarded the coastal defense line for many years rarely saw many delicate and ingenious women, and he blushed slightly and wondered when Master Li hung a wind chime here. When an embroidery lady in the embroidery building brought him a bell, his face was difficult to hide his confusion.

"Is there anything wrong with this wind chime?" he asked.

"Official, it's actually nothing," Xiuniang hurriedly replied, "The Taishi Mansion will no longer block the Embroidery Building, and will no longer mention that matter." What was left behind, the sisters did not move casually. Since the official has come to look for this wind chime, let's take it. ”

"Blockade the embroidery building?when did it happen?" The adjutant looked at the wind chimes that the embroidery lady took to carve a little golden bird, and turned it, it was an ordinary wind chime, there was nothing strange about it, but he always felt that everything was not normal in his heart, "What did you just say 'that thing'?"

"That's it......" Xiuniang couldn't say it out loud, so she could only invite the adjutant to a secluded place and lowered her voice, "Has the official heard about the Cui family?"

"Nope. The adjutant followed Master Li and devoted himself to strengthening the coastal defense, but in fact, except for the Chinese New Year every year, he almost never returned to the city, and he was quite unfamiliar with the big and small things here.

Xiuniang breathed a sigh of relief: "So you don't know." That's probably not about you. The wind chimes held by the official originally belonged to Miss Cui. ”

"Which Cui family?"

"The daughter of the former Outer City Guard, Lord Cui. ”

The adjutant nodded and said, "It turned out to be Master Cui, I heard a little." His daughter is very favored in Taishi Mansion. ”

Once these words are spoken, they will definitely continue, and the more Xiuniang speaks, the more nervous she becomes: "That's right, but since 'that incident', the Cui family has fallen overnight." You think, there was still the Cui family supported by Miss Cui before. Alas, what a pity. The son of the Cui family is missing, and Lord Cui is also missing......"

"Wait, what are you talking about? ”

"That is, has the official heard that this embroidery building has ever fallen to death?"

"Haven't heard of it. ”

Xiuniang said in a low voice: "It's Miss Cui Ning of the Cui family." The wind chimes held by the official were also Miss Cui's. ”

"It turns out that the wind chimes belong to Miss Cui. The adjutant looked at the mediocre wind chimes in his hand, a string of small golden crows spread their wings and flew, and the crisp sound of jingling bells when the wind blew, and felt even more strange, he thought to himself, he had never heard that Lord Li had any personal relationship with the Cui family, why did Lord Li secretly let me go back to the city to get Miss Cui's relics?

The embroidery lady also said: "...... Since Miss Cui fell from the building, the Cui family has followed the decline. The sisters in the embroidery building all felt that the Cui family had fallen into some evil? Master Cui was gone, and Master Cui had disappeared......

"You just said that the Taishi Mansion blocked the embroidery building, is it also for the incident of falling from the building?"

"Yes, the Taishi Mansion said that it would investigate the case, and it was strictly forbidden to talk about Miss Cui outside, and people were panicked all day long. By the way, there were three sons who came to check overnight, and it was also Miss Cui. ”

"Which three sons?"

Xiuniang replied: "The Xu family, the son of the Xin family, and the son Ke." ”

The adjutant pondered, it was difficult to see anything strange from a wind chime alone, and he didn't know what had happened to Cui Mansion, but this matter was obviously strange, mainly because Lord Li's behavior seemed to have changed as if he had changed a person, but his mind was not abnormal, why was he suddenly interested in a string of wind chimes? It seems that he hasn't considered it in the long run, and it just so happens that this embroidery girl mentioned Xin Lin, I still recognize it, so it is better to go to a letter with him to ask what is going on. After thinking about it, the adjutant thanked Xiuniang, left a letter for Xin Lin, and hurried back to the camp with wind chimes, and when he untied the horse's leash, he immediately noticed that the horse was uneasy.

"What's going on today?" said the adjutant strangely, and smoothed the horse's mane over and over again, comforting him.

It's a pity that it's not very useful. The horse became more and more alarmed, and when he saw that the leash was completely untied, he kicked his front hooves and neighed, and the adjutant immediately grabbed the rope and stabilized the horse: "What's the matter?" The horse retreated with its four hooves in a row, and the adjutant hurried to see what was inside the manger, and saw a centipede crawling out of the gap crookedly.

The horse's nostrils were wheezing.

The adjutant laughed: "It turns out that you are afraid of bugs." ”

After saying that, he drew his sword to cut it, and a voice sounded beside him: "Wait, the miasma centipede can't be cut in two directly, it will spew poisonous gas, and you are so close." ”

The adjutant looked back, and the ordinary-looking man standing behind him asked, "This brother knows poison very well?"

The man scratched his head: "I usually read more books, and there are books written in them." ”

The adjutant put away his sword: "Then how do you deal with the miasma centipede?"

"Simple, with realgar wine. The man had prepared the hot wine and fell down on the centipede, which curled up and stiffened. Seeing this, the horse finally quieted down.

The adjutant couldn't help but say, "Great." Thanks a lot. ”

A big crow landed on the shoulder of the stranger who came to his aid, and croaked twice in his ear, and the strange man could still answer a few words, and it seemed that he could understand the language of the crow.

The adjutant couldn't help but be amazed, this person seemed to be ordinary, but there was always a sense of mystery. He couldn't guess what the identity of this bird trainer who knew poison would be.

When the stranger heard this, his expression was obviously uneasy, and he seemed to be reprimanding the crow: "...... How can this be? She had already agreed not to harm innocent people, didn't she just gather a hundred birds, why did she encroach on your territory? What are you doing staring at her every day?"

After that, he hurriedly said goodbye to the adjutant: "There are a lot of poisonous insects in the city recently, so be careful." ”

The adjutant said, "Thank you very much." I haven't asked my brother's name yet, and I'll go back to the city another day to thank you. ”

"Yu Hui. The man waved his hand, "It's nothing, no thanks." ”