In Kyoto Yong'an Fang, there is a street, called Hanako Street, on the right side of Suzaku Avenue, because it is located in a remote area, it seems cold and deserted in the daytime, but once it is night, it is very lively here, the reason is very simple, because this place is near the water, it is Weishui, and opposite it is the famous Zhangtai Street, the so-called ride farewell Zhangtai night, the boat travels Luoshui Spring. It is also said that where Jingzhao returns, Zhangtai is empty and dusty, and Kyoto fireworks buildings are all here.

At night, the lights are on, in Zhangtai Street, all kinds of officials and rich gentry no longer have the rigor of the day, and they all run around the fireworks halls in various places, and even more, they spend a lot of money to charter a building boat, take the girl in their photo to swim in Weishui at night, and talk about the wind and snow.

The night moon in Kyoto is still so bright, the girl's thighs are still so white and tender, the sky in the middle of the night, dotted with stars, is so bright, so quiet, quiet, too quiet, compared with the past, the air always feels that something is missing, do you feel? No, there is no romantic fireworks at that moment, yes, on the opposite side of Zhangtai Street, in the fireworks street, several fireworks shops are silent.

On the boat, a wealthy businessman was holding a young girl about eighteen years old and whispered, "Agarwood girl, look at the gift I prepared for you", waved his hand, and his subordinates got the order, and hurriedly put a bunch of fireworks on the ship's floor, "bang", the fireworks in the night sky, like golden chrysanthemums in autumn, short, but extremely brilliant, "Agarwood girl, please see." ”

Standing on the tall boat, Xing Yi pointed to the fireworks street on the other side, where he had arranged for more than a dozen subordinates to have a fireworks feast for the agarwood girl tonight.

Half a sound, the other side of the river was still silent, and the torturer was a little embarrassed and a little angry, "Little Four, come here, go see what's going on?" Then, he said softly to the person beside him, "There was a little episode, wait a while." ”

The person next to him received the order, swished to the stern of the boat, looked at the river bank that had been 100 meters offshore, gritted his teeth, "whoosh", jumped down, fortunately, it is now the end of June, the water of the Wei River is not cold, a distance of 100 meters, just a few minutes, Xiao Si swam to the shore, walked towards Huahuo Street, and said in his mouth, "Dog's day, this little thing can't be done, do you also go to cleansing?" ”

In the fireworks street, Xiao Si shook his wet black robe, walked to the Liu's fireworks hall where the fireworks were booked, and knocked on the courtyard door, half ringing, no one answered, "Boss Xue, Jiang Lao Liu...... Did you hear that, I, Xiaosi, the criminal boss asked me to come over and ask! ”

Xiao Si shouted loudly towards the courtyard.

"How could there be no one?"

Xiao Si took a few steps back, and with the fragmentary light on the street and the bright moonlight, he looked at the big words "Liu's Fireworks Museum" on the door, "I didn't find a mistake", and I came here to explain tonight's fireworks feast in the afternoon.

Immediately, Xiao Si walked forward again, "Duo, Duo, Duo", this time he kicked it directly with his foot, "Is there anyone, open the door!" ”

A few feet down, the door actually "creaked", was kicked open, the door was not bolted, Xiao Si broke in angrily, and scolded when he opened his mouth, "Why don't you open the door for a long time?" ”

"Ah......h

It turned out that the door was not tethered, and the reason why Shicai did not push it open was only because the two corpses were lying behind the door, and under their vigorous kicking, the corpses behind the door fell to the ground, and the door naturally opened.

A miserable scream broke the silent street in an instant, and it happened that a group of Xiao Zijun, the yellow character of the Imperial History Mansion, was patrolling here, and when they heard this shout, they hurriedly ran over, "Who is here, what happened?" He asked and jumped straight through the door.

In the courtyard, Xiao Si looked frightened and obscene in the corner, more than 80 corpses were spread all over the place, although it was at night, but today it was exactly fourteen, the moon in the sky was bright and dazzling, each corpse was incomplete, as if it had been eaten by a wild beast, there were missing half of the head, there were fewer arms and legs, and even more, only the limbs and heads were seen, but the abdomen was not seen, the corpses were all over the ground, and the smell of blood in the sky made people want to vomit uncontrollably.

Xiao Zijun walked forward and touched the two corpses at the door, there was still residual warmth, obviously he had just died, would the murderer not go far yet? Xiao Zijun hurriedly ordered, "Zhang Ling, stay here, don't let people destroy the scene, Wang Changbing, you quickly go back to the Yanei to report, Zeng Chengcai, you and me, chase!" ”

"No!"

Xiao Zijun's arrangement is very reasonable, obviously as the leader of the inspection team of the Imperial History Mansion, his handling of such emergencies is not a matter of one or two days, which is also one of the reasons why the Imperial History Mansion has faintly suppressed Dali Temple and Kyoto Mansion in recent years.

Xiao Zijun and Zeng Chengcai jumped on the roof one after another, looked around with the help of the moonlight, and at the courtyard wall, several obvious bloody footprints were vividly visible, "Go from here, chase!" ”

Xiao Zijun carried the sword, looked at the direction, and chased after him first, but he just jumped over a courtyard wall, and entered a courtyard, it was still the same scene, the same horizontal corpses everywhere, the same bloody nose, a small path apart, but ten meters, two courtyards, twenty or thirty mutilated corpses, Xiao Zijun stopped, and looked at the courtyard wall opposite, the bright red bloody footprints, "So ferocious, what if you really catch up?" ”

"Lord Xiao, are you still chasing?" Zeng Chengcai was behind him, and his words were a little trembling and a little sluggish.

Xiao Zijun gritted his teeth and jumped up with his long sword, "You stay, I'll take a look." ”

So.

Not long fireworks street, thirteen fireworks restaurants, none of them were spared, Xiao Zijun chased more and more frightened, the more frightened he chased, and finally, on the bank of the Weishui River, the blood-red footprints disappeared, Xiao Zijun also put down the long sword in his hand, and tightened his right hand that clenched the sword, cold and sweaty on his hand, which was terrifying.

Thirteen fireworks halls, more than 100 corpses, overnight, slaughtered, since five years ago, after the Bai family suffered a tragedy, Kyoto has never had such a tragic murder, it should be said that this murder, compared with five years ago, there is no more.

Five years ago, the Bai family destroyed the door, that was from the sword, and there was still a whole body after death, and today's door destruction case destroyed the door of the thirteen families, and there was no complete corpse.

"Lord Xiao, Lord Xiao?" On the bank of the Weishui River, behind Xiao Zijun, Zeng Chengcai held the long knife in both hands and shouted tremblingly.

"Count the corpses, ask the people in the yamen to protect the scene, and notify Lord Xu tomorrow." Xiao Zijun turned his head, looked at Zeng Chengcai, who couldn't stand up straight with both legs, walked forward, and patted him on the shoulder.

The next day, after a morning of inventory, a total of thirteen fireworks houses on Huahuo Street, plus the subordinates of one executioner, a total of 146 or 148 corpses, because of the incompleteness, the people in the Imperial History Mansion can only determine the number of people according to the heads in the field, but there are two corpses but no heads, but there are stumps and broken legs, I don't know if it is a person, or the corpses in other courtyards are missing.

Wait until noon, Xiao Zijun finished counting the scene, came to the Yushi Mansion, saw that Xu Jianping had not yet come to the hall, has been anxiously waiting, to Shen, Xiao Zijun really couldn't sit still, so he came to the door of the Li Mansion to ask to see Xu Jianping, from the Li Mansion learned that Xu Jianping went to Dali Temple yesterday, and after not returning overnight, he hurriedly ran to Dali Temple, so he received Xu Yushi who was still in a coma.

"Alas, Lord Xu, why are you dizzy again......"