Volume 1 The Land of Ashes Chapter 21 Wake up
The sky was slightly bright.
The snow is still falling.
The snow seemed to have been falling for a long time, and it didn't stop all winter.
And this winter seems to be extraordinarily long.
So long that no one remembers when he started, and I don't know if it will ever end.
Chu Yue Mountain, who stood in front of the yamen of Wuling City, did not have time to enjoy the snow.
He stamped his feet back and forth, anxious like an ant on a hot pan.
"I say! Can you stop for a moment! It's so shaky that my eyes are glazed! Sun Kuan on the side said angrily.
Hearing this, Chu Yueshan was like a barrel of dynamite that had been ignited, stopped, pointed at Sun Kuan and scolded: "It's all you!" What a bad idea! ”
"I'm looking for a daughter-in-law! Is that anyone who can be a daughter-in-law? ”
"Now it's good! That girl is a demon girl, tricking us Qingxiao into poking out such a big basket!! ”
Chu Yueshan looked excited, and his spit flew sideways, splashing Sun Kuan's face.
Sun Kuan stretched out his hand and wiped the spit on his face, and said with a little emptiness: "How do I know...... That girl looks white and pure, not like some kind of witch......"
"Does that person still write the word demon girl on the door of his head?" Chu Yueshan scolded, and Sun Kuan's face, which had just been wiped clean, was polluted by saliva again.
"Then don't you think he's coming to pick you up from Tianhangshan? When I went to work during the day today, I bragged that I was about to go to Tianhang Mountain to live a good life! Sun Kuan retorted.
"I ...... I'm ......" Chu Yueshan was speechless for a while.
Before he could think of a rebuttal, a rush of footsteps came from the side of the street.
The two of them looked sideways, and indeed a large group of people were walking towards this place with a large sedan chair.
The group of people was huge, probably about fifty or sixty people, and the large sedan chair carried was luxuriously decorated, the body of the sedan chair was made of mahogany, the curtains were all satin, and even the handle of the sedan chair was trimmed with gold.
It's just that the person in the sedan chair seems to be full of weight.
The wide sedan chair swings up and down in an exaggerated mobile fashion, and the handle of the sedan chair is curved almost rounded.
Chu Yueshan and the others were a little stunned, but the crowd stopped in front of the yamen.
Then, a heart-rending howl came from the palanquin.
"Wronged!"
"Wronged! My lord! ”
With that cry, an almost circular "ball of meat" squeezed out of the sedan chair.
Probably walked too eagerly, and he almost fell down, and the entourage that followed him stepped forward with three or five, and then he was helped up, all the way to Chu Yueshan.
He stretched out his hand and grabbed Chu Yueshan, and continued: "My lord! ”
"My boy was kind from an early age."
"Ants on the side of the road are afraid to step on it, I fed the cockroaches at home when I was three years old, I gave birth to street rats at the age of five, and I fought with a group of villains for a little suckling pig when I was seven years old."
"At the age of nine, he was determined to uphold justice, at the age of ten he began to exterminate the bandits, and at the age of eleven, he was ......"
"Wang Dahu." Chu Yueshan listened to the endless life resume in his ears, his scalp suddenly felt numb, and he hurriedly interrupted the other party, "You recognize the wrong person." ”
The man with a fat head and big ears and a round body in front of him is none other than Wang Che's father, the richest man in Wuling City, Wang Dagui.
Wang Dagui was stunned when he heard this, raised his head to look at Chu Yueshan, blinked his eyes, and after coming back to his senses, he withdrew his hand.
"It's you!?" His eyes widened and he asked.
"Hehe, it's me." Chu Yueshan nodded busily.
Wang Dagui still has some say on the Yamen's side, since his own son and his son are involved in this homicide case, Chu Yueshan thinks about whether he can cling to this relationship and exonerate his son on the Yamen's side, so his attitude is also very flattering.
"Okay, you Chu Yueshan!"
"If you can't manage your own son, forget it! How can you come and harm my son! ”
"It must have been your son who did something evil and coerced my son!" But Chu Yueshan's smiling face greeted him, but in exchange for Wang Dagui's loud and angry scolding.
Chu Yueshan, who was thinking of working together, was stunned by Wang Dagui's words, and it took a while to come back to his senses.
Chu Yueshan suddenly became angry, and scolded with a red face: "My son is a well-known talent in ten miles and eight towns!" What a son like yours! If you want to say that you are careless of human life and do evil, then only your bastard son can do it! ”
"You talk nonsense! My son ......" Wang Dagui also looked indignant, and he was about to return the scolding.
Many of the entourages behind him saw that there was a conflict between the master's family, and they also surrounded him and began to help Wang Dagui scold Chu Yueshan angrily.
Seeing this, Sun Kuan, of course, didn't want to see his brother-in-law being bullied by outsiders, so he rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to join the battlefield.
The two sides quarreled with each other, and they quarreled at the entrance of this mansion.
……
In the room in the yamen, the three only servants in Wuling City were sweating profusely around several corpses, carefully inspecting them.
A number of officials were on the side to help, shuttling back and forth, very busy.
Cao Shugong frowned and came to the side of a corpse, he stared at the interlaced black lines on the corpse, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper.
He felt familiar with these lines, as if he had seen them somewhere, but no matter how he thought about them, he couldn't remember when he had seen them.
"My lord, my subordinates have checked, and almost no one in the city has had contact with the Zhu family."
"The news that the Zhu family is the prince who has returned to his hometown and the money to build the school and Jishitang is also from the county government and Lord Zhu."
At this time, a servant walked up to Cao Shugong's side and whispered.
When Cao Shugong heard this, he glanced sideways at the servant, with a strange expression, but he didn't respond to anything.
The official was a little uncomfortable by his Cao Shugong, and hurriedly said: "Also, Lord Zhu and the county commander have urged them very much, and they are already a little dissatisfied that the adults have not arrested Chu Qingxiao and others for so long, do you want to divide some people and go to the street to search and arrest ......"
When Cao Shugong heard this, he looked up at the other party: "The servants said that these corpses were not dead last night at all, they have long been dead." ”
Cao Shugong's words made the officer's face change, and he was shocked: "How is this possible? ”
"Chu Qingxiao is a hairy boy, he can be possessed by demons, and he has killed more than ten masters of cultivation in the Four Realms or even the Five Realms by himself, so why can't these corpses be monsters that have come back from the dead?" Cao Shugong said in a deep voice.
"Yes...... Isn't there another one alive? ”
"If they're long dead, how can the one who is alive explain?" The official was puzzled.
Cao Shugong frowned and shook his head: "I don't know." ”
"I always feel that this matter is weird, and Wuling City is also weird."
"By the way, how's the living one? Will you be able to wake up? ”
The official hurriedly said: "Not yet, his condition is a little strange, and several Lang Zhong have seen it and are helpless." ”
Cao Shugong nodded, and was about to say something more, when another official walked up quickly.
"My lord, Chu Yueshan and Wang Dagui quarreled in front of the yamen, and they might fight depending on the situation."
Hearing this, Cao Shugong secretly felt that his head was big, and he rubbed his eyebrows: "Let them in, don't be embarrassed outside." ”
……
"Rich and amazing, huh? Isn't your son stalking my family if you have money? Outside the yamen, the quarrel between Chu Yueshan and Wang Dagui is not over.
"Phew! Don't say that Nianshuang is like your daughter! What if she went to Tianhang Mountain? Don't you still write to my son with a blank eye, besides, my son has received an invitation from Biyun City, and he will be accepted as a closed disciple by their city lord immediately! It's a world away from your son! Wang Dagui replied scoldingly.
"Besides, my son has been so careful and kind that he can't even be willing to step on ants, and he has been ...... since he was three years old."
"Save it!" His string of "spells", Chu Yueshan hurriedly interrupted: "It's okay for you to coax children with this set of rhetoric, can you deceive Cao Zhutou?" That's my old friend, he'll be able to see what is going on and give my son a clean ......."
As he spoke, the door of the yamen opened at this time, and Cao Shugong walked out of it.
Fang was still arguing, and the faces of the two suddenly changed, and they didn't care about continuing the verbal dispute between the two sides, so they all walked up quickly at this time.
After all, Chu Yueshan was cultivated, and his steps were brisk, and at that time, he took three steps and did two steps, and rushed to Cao Shugong's front with a smoke.
Then he knelt down with a plop, his face was crying bitterly, and he said with emotion: "Brother Cao! You've got to call the shots for me! You know my boy, he was kind from an early age......"
"Ants on the side of the road are afraid to step on it, I fed the cockroaches at home when I was three years old, I gave birth to street rats at the age of five, and I fought with a group of villains for a little suckling pig when I was seven years old."
"At the age of nine, he was determined to uphold justice, at the age of ten he began to exterminate the bandits, and at the age of eleven, he was ......"
Wang Dagui, who was panting and climbed half of the steps, heard that his lines were robbed, and he was so angry that he almost fell down the steps again.
With the help of a few servants, after a long while, he finally climbed the stairs that were no more than twenty floors full.
He glanced back at his servants, and the men hurriedly pulled out a few beautifully packaged and weighty gift boxes.
"My lord, the dog has caused you trouble, there are some antiques that I collect on weekdays, which are not expensive, just a few thousand taels of silver, and a little caution is not respectful!"
He smiled and handed it forward, and said so in his mouth.
Cao Shugong had already anticipated the attitude of these two, he sighed, first lifted Chu Yueshan on the ground, and then pushed open the gift box handed by Wang Dagui, and said: "You don't need to be like this, the matter has not yet been clarified, if the sons are innocent, we will never wronged them." ”
"Instead of basing yourself here, you might as well think about where your son-in-law might be, let us find them, and maybe we can find out about it."
Cao Shugong is an upright person, and he is also somewhat famous in Wuling City.
Hearing this, Chu Yueshan and the others turned a little pale, but the worry in their hearts still couldn't be reduced.
"We don't know that, huh? If I knew, I would have gone looking for them a long time ago, where would I waste my time here. Chu Yueshan said dejectedly.
When Wang Dagui on the side heard this, he probably also felt a little sympathetic: "Yes." But how can we not know what kind of things our own children can do? How could they kill someone? ”
Seeing the two of them like this, Cao Shugong didn't know how to comfort for a while, but at this moment, the official behind him suddenly stepped forward and whispered in his ear: "My lord received the news that the Zhu family's nursing home has been dispatched in large numbers, and it seems that they have found the location of Chu Qingxiao and others. ”
"They're just nursing homes! Who gave them the power to arrest people again and again! ”
Cao Shugong suddenly frowned and scolded loudly.
"But the Zhu family has a lot of relationship with Lord Zhu and the county order, and we don't dare to ......," the official looked embarrassed.
"Mobilize people, follow me, you have to catch Chu Qingxiao and the others back before them!" Cao Shugong sank his face and said loudly.
He vaguely felt that the people of the Zhu family seemed to be planning to kill people.
Hearing this, the officials did not dare to slack off, gathered one after another, and with Cao Shugong's order, they walked quickly towards the realm mentioned in the news.
And Chu Yueshan, Wang Dagui and others were a little confused by this change, and after a while, they finally came back to their senses.
"Let's go! Keep up! Chu Yueshan said.
Wang Dagui also reacted, and hurriedly beckoned his entourage to follow quickly.
……
And at the same time, the inner house of the yamen.
Li Sifang really looked at the guy lying on the bed with a sad face.
That's a weird guy.
looks like he is in his early forties, and his naked upper body is very strong, and at first glance he is the kind of martial artist who has been immersed in martial arts for decades.
There are strange black lines on the body, which is not like an ordinary tattoo, but more like it grows out of the body.
And more importantly.
The blood in his body had long since dried up, and his life had been drained.
But he's alive, he's breathing!
Li Sifang has been a man for 30 years, and he has seen a lot of incurable diseases, but it is the first time he has encountered such a strange disease.
He was a little stunned in his heart, and he couldn't even tell if this guy was a human or not.
He was really helpless.
However, the head catcher gave a death order, and he must find a way to wake him up.
Li Sifang thought of this and sighed.
"Alas...... I should have listened to my father, become a cook, and study medicine? ”
"It's okay to study medicine, what kind of yamen do you enter......"
Li Sifang lamented the eternal thesis that women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, and men are afraid of entering the wrong business.
At the same time, on the street outside the yamen, a figure was slowly approaching.
It was an old man, with a sloppy appearance, and the white hair on his head was scattered haphazardly, and there was no order to speak of.
Dressed in a gray robe, with his hands behind his back and a slightly clumsy figure, he walked slowly through the streets.
He came to the yamen, stopped there to take a look, and then stepped into the mansion.
And the strange thing is that the guards on both sides of the gate in front of the mansion didn't seem to see him, and they didn't say anything to stop him, and they didn't even look at him for a moment.
In this way, he walked through the front yard of the yamen and came to the wing room of the inner courtyard.
He stood in front of Li Sifang's room, and Li Sifang's complaint was heard in his ears.
The old Taoist priest smiled slightly and stepped forward again.
The figure passed through the closed door and stepped into it without hindrance.
"It's okay to enter the yamen, I haven't been promoted for so many years."
"It doesn't matter if you haven't been promoted, it's still a hard ......"
Li Sifang was still chattering, and he also turned a blind eye to the old Taoist priest who walked past him to the bed.
In this way, the old Taoist priest came to the bed of the unconscious Hei Jia, and he looked down at each other with a soft gaze.
One of his hands stretched out at this time, and lightly pointed at the man's eyebrows, and a peach blossom phantom emerged from his fingertips, slowly falling, and landed on the man's eyebrows.
A glimmer of light flashed, and the peach blossom phantom disappeared into his body.
"It's time to wake up."
"Qingxiao needs you." The old man said.
And at this moment, the man on the bed seemed to feel something, and his eyes suddenly opened.
His eyes were pitch black, and there was no light in sight.
But the anomaly lasted only for a moment, and the next moment a clear color lit up from his eyes.
He sat up and looked into the room with a confused expression.
Li Sifang, who was complaining non-stop, was unexpected, he was so frightened that he shuddered, and then hurriedly retreated to the corner: "You...... Are you a human or a ghost? ”
The man was silent, but looked down at his arms and bodies again, and said to himself with surprise: "I...... Still alive......"
With that, the man looked sideways at Li Sifang on the side, he stood up and walked towards him.
This posture frightened Li Sifang's face pale, he grabbed the teapot on the side, and said tremblingly, "You...... Who are you? This is the yamen, as long as I shout, the officials will rush in and hack you to death! ”
This threat is obviously not convincing, and naturally it can't frighten the man in front of him.
The man continued forward, standing still within a foot of Lang Zhong.
He looked down at Lang Zhong who was huddled in the corner, and said in a deep voice, "My name is Song Guicheng." ”
"Commander of the Xizhou Sword Armor White Floc Battalion."
"Take me to see Chu Qingxiao."