Lin Chengyong lightly supported Li Yan from kneeling with his hand, and said: "When I came, Atai said that he had known Your Excellency for many years, and asked him not to hurt Your Excellency. Atai is also my friend, and I came here to catch the murderer, and I hope that your Excellency can tell you the truth about the events of the year, and don't break your promise! ”

"As it should be, don't worry about being at home. I don't know if your dart game has a means to catch the murderer? ”

"The murderer has a strange fragrance on his body, and the younger sister can distinguish it, so she asks for the enemy in the square. Atai can see people from afar, and probe in high places. My two uncles and I stood on guard all around, and when we found the man, Atai showed up and led him to a secluded place, and then captured him. ”

"It is a very deliberate plan to surprise and rob people's hearts and increase their power in the crowd. Although there is no power to restrain the chicken, you can still help one or two in this matter. When the man asked about Atai's whereabouts, I told him that Atai had not returned, and asked him to go to the bamboo forest northeast of the ancestral hall. ”

"Bamboo forest?"

"Yes, there is a bamboo hut there, and I told the man that Atai lives there, and let him wait there. Originally, I thought of dividing the people and waiting for Atay to come back and then inform him to leave, but I didn't see anyone until the evening, but now it comes in handy. Lin Shao's family can investigate first, and if the person is still there, he can take Second Master Luo to get the person. ”

"Good! But I have not met this man, do you remember what he looked like? ”

"Oh, yes, but I forgot! Most of the people in the Wutian Pavilion are good at the art of disguise, and when they came here in the afternoon, they were thirty or forty years old and looked like a gray-clothed Confucian student. ”

“...... Thank you, Excellency. ”

What Li Yan said before was incomplete and ambiguous, and Lin Chengyong did not fully trust the person in front of him.

The words he said when facing the sword blade made him unbearable to be persecuted, and when he talked about Fang Tai, his concern did not seem to be fake, and in the end he was able to kneel down and plead for mercy.

The sincerity is overflowing, and I will believe it.

finally asked about the murderer's appearance, which was also Lin Chengyong's intentional temptation.

This person was a hunchbacked old man when he met Fang Tai in the morning, and he was a sturdy man in black when he arrived at the Yuanji Dart Bureau before noon, which was the same as what he saw in the medicine store after dinner.

If Li Yan described him as a hunchbacked old man, then he must have lied before; If it is described as a man in black, it may not have changed its appearance; If it is a different appearance, you can continue to test Li Yan's understanding of the murderer, so as to judge Li Yan's position.

As long as the other party answers, you can always get more information from the answer.

didn't think that Li Yan not only explained the appearance of the murderer, but also said the key to the disguise technique.

At this moment, Lin Chengyong secretly said in his heart: "Whether this is true or not, whether the roe deer owl is still in the bamboo forest, but it finally has a direction, so that it will not try its luck like a headless fly in the crowd, and it is good to go and investigate." ”

Thinking of this, without further ado, Lin Chengyong bowed his hand towards Li Yan and left.

Li Yan looked at Lin Chengyong's departing back, his eyes were deep.

Out of the Spring Shrine, the outside is still very lively. The spring has passed, the big sacrifice has been completed, and the people are accompanied by the spring plate of wax wine, expressing their thoughts and prayers for the coming year.

Lin Chengyong looked left and right, but did not see Rui Yurong's figure.

If she had found someone first, she would have already called me in the ancestral hall, and now she might have gone elsewhere, or it would have been better to go to the bamboo forest earlier.

Lin Chengyong thought so, turned around and walked towards the bamboo forest.

There are only two entrances and exits in the square in front of the Spring God Shrine, but there is a small road next to the north side of the ancestral hall, which leads directly to the northeast bamboo forest.

After a short time, Lin Chengyong came to the edge of the bamboo forest, and there was a thin layer of residual snow in the clearing, on which a few lines of footsteps were printed, as if someone had come and gone. He stopped and looked inside, and there was indeed a bamboo house, which was not really visible in the night.

He used the light skill of Shu Mountain's land technique, turned his body vertically, turned a few times in the air, and quietly stepped on the snow and fell under the eaves, leaving no footprints on the way.

Lin Chengyong was calm, attached his ear to the window, and listened carefully.

There was not a single sound of breathing in the room, only the occasional crackling sound of bamboo charcoal smoldering.

Was Li Yan deliberately misguising or was the murderer temporarily absent?

Lin Chengyong gently pushed the door, didn't think about opening it as soon as he pushed it, and saw that there was indeed no one in the house, so he dodged in.

There are all kinds of tables, chairs and bed tents in the house, and there is a charcoal basin in the center, and the bamboo charcoal that has not yet burned out still exudes a trace of temperature.

It does look like it's a regular habit.

At this time, a crescent moon rose in the east, and the cold moonlight sprinkled down, reflecting on the snow, illuminating the surroundings brightly.

In the silence, a slight buzzing sound suddenly came from the door, Lin Chengyong frowned and turned around, only to see a small insect flying towards him, coming straight towards him.

In the end, it fell on the sleeve of his right hand, and even if he waved his hand, the sleeve only flew up slightly and fell again, which has the meaning of unswerving.

Winter has just gone, the temperature is still cold, and the insects in the world will always be vigorous until the day of the sting, how can there be such flying insects at this time?

Just when he was puzzled, Lin Chengyong suddenly heard the sound of footsteps in the snow outside the door, he didn't care about the insect, and tiptoed to the door to peek.

I saw a gray-clothed man watching at the edge of the forest, dressed in a round-necked robe and a brown hat, with an elegant appearance and three long beards under his chin.

It is exactly what the roe deer owl in Li Yan's description looks like now!

This man really appeared here!

At the time of the Spring God Festival, Shang Fenghe, the roe owl, was also attracted by the excitement in front of him.

Although the city of Xiangzhou is close to the Yangtze River, the customs of the beginning of spring do not seem to be much different from that of Yuancheng County in the north of the Yellow River.

The same whip spring cow, sacrifice to the god of spring.

It's just that Weizhou at the beginning of spring is still a cold winter, the river is frozen with thick ice, there will always be white rime on the willow trees on the bank, and children are wearing winter jackets and rolling in the snow and playing on the ice.

My father would take out a lot of fish from the frozen river and stew them, and after the spring festival, the family would gather around the hot kang to feast.

The same excitement, the same expectations for the future.

Yuancheng County is the hometown of Shangfeng River.

Shang Fenghe was originally called Shang Xi, a very common name that a farming family would give to their children.

My father was an honest farmer.

My mother's family was originally relatively wealthy, but she offended the powerful and was fined and confiscated the family property, and even she was almost bought into a green building, so she had to flee to a foreign land.

The father rescued the mother who was in distress from the mountain, and the two fell in love and got married.

As the saying goes: marry a wife and marry a virtuous man. Mother once read when her mother's family was prosperous, sensible, visionary, under her control, the Shang family's life became more and more prosperous,

In the early years of Tianbao, Shang Xi was born.

However, the good times did not last long, and when Shang Xi was seven years old, his father entered Zhichong Mansion as a government soldier and crossed the Zhangye River to fight with the Hu people.

Originally, the government soldiers rotated for three years, but my father did not come back that year, only an obituary sent back from the west.

The mother was inexplicably grieved, and shouted with tears: "The public has not crossed the river, but the public has crossed the river!" Later, Shang Xi was renamed Shang Fenghe, in order to show that his father died in Zhangye Hexi, and hoped that one day he could bring the bones back to his hometown.

In the twelfth year of Tianbao, Yang Guozhong, the abbot of the country, relied on his great female strength, and one person ascended to heaven with a chicken dog, and many relatives took advantage of it and scourged the township.

The family foundation accumulated by the Shang family over the years was seized by someone with a heart, and the mother and son worked hard for several years until they could no longer support it, so they had to remarry with their son.

At that time, the imperial court was in turmoil, taxes were frequent, and his stepfather was frail, and he fell ill the next year.

The village began to spread the saying that her mother was a disaster star, pointing fingers everywhere.

Shang Fenghe is young but strong, and often scolds and fights with the children of the long-tongued man to maintain his mother's dignity.

As he grew up, he listened to his mother talk about the past, understood that people's hearts are sinister, and he hated the evil officials who harmed his family even more.

In the end, my mother died of resentment amid a vicious accusation.

Shang Fenghe sold his family property and went to the cottage with a sense of resentment.

The following year, several of the county's best at chewing the root of their tongues were hacked to death at night.

Because his hands and feet were not clean, he was taken out of clues by the officials, and the cottages were all removed by the government.

In the third year, Hu Xiancheng in the fish and meat township was hanged at home.

Because of the leakage when stepping on the spot, he was reported and almost blocked at the scene of the murder.

Since then, Shang Fenghe has been cautious in his every move.

After another two years, Hu Ren An Lushan supported his troops and raised troops in Fanyang under the pretext of "worrying about the danger of the country" and crusading against Yang Guozhong under the pretext of "worrying about the danger of the country" and crusading against Yang Guozhong in a secret edict.

At that time, the states and counties were at peace for a long time, and the defenders were about to collapse.

With the pleasure of revenge on the imperial court and Yang Guozhong, Shang Fenghe also joined the rebels.

Maybe that year's Spring Festival greetings also had this sentence "both peaceful and peaceful"?

But Yuancheng County, which was involved in the war, had no peace.

Shang Fenghe, who joined the rebels, gradually showed his fame with his blood and courage at the beginning, and was promoted to the rank of captain. But as the war progressed, the military revolution continued, the people fell into misery, starved everywhere, and ten rooms and nine emptiness.

The rebels Shang Fenghe saw were not righteous soldiers, killing people like mows and burning houses.

When he returned to Yuancheng County, his old residence had become a wasteland, and the fertile fields were also deserted.

The Spring God Shrine, which I used to go to with my father and mother, has long been overgrown with artemisia grass.

There is no trace of his own life, and Yuancheng County is almost in ruins.

After all, An and Shi are Hu people, not my race, and their hearts will be different.

On that day, Shang Fenghe, who understood this truth, took advantage of the night to touch the leader of his own army and suffocated the sleeping leader to death.

Before leaving, he looked back at the girl who had been robbed, and the girl looked at him with dull eyes, covered in bruises, and could faintly see what she looked like under her messy hair.

It was the baby kiss that his father set for himself, and he was also the daughter of the aunt's family who was the most slandered by his mother.

He picked up a dagger from the ground, handed it to her along with his clothes, and left.

Not far from the tent, a terrible cry came, full of despair.

And then it came to an abrupt end.

Since then, Shang Fenghe has begun to wander aimlessly in the rivers and lakes.

Alive, but not knowing why.

Hates the court, but is incompetent. Disgusted with the rebels, but powerless.

can only be a muddy ranger......

No, just a wanderer.

A few years later, Shang Fenghe met another wanderer in the Guanzhong area.

This man was in his forties, unkempt and disgraced, but his eyes were sharp, and he was afraid to approach him.

He was seriously wounded and dying, and Shang Fenghe boiled hot water for him in a dilapidated small temple and cooked a meal, saving his life for the time being. He didn't want to say his name, and only asked Shang Fenghe to call himself a killer.

He said that in order to repay the grace of saving his life, he taught Shang Fenghe the Shocking Tribulation, but he was not allowed to pass on any information about seeing him and this kung fu.

Shang Fenghe took care of the man for three days, but he still died of his injuries.

On the fourth day, someone came to the ruined temple and took the body of the killer away.

Before leaving, this man said to Shang Fenghe: "Heaven has no way, earth can't be, why don't we stop opening up the world?" ”

Shang Fenghe, who was in his twenties and had nothing, thought about it, and his eyes lit up again.

Then he departed with this man and entered the Heavenly Pavilion.

Wutian Pavilion is not an official government, not a military, not a civilian, not a green forest, and it is an extremely secret organization of rivers and lakes. In the face of different people, the people of Wutian Pavilion can be officials, soldiers, civilians, and green forests, and all identities are actually based on evidence, and it seems that there are tentacles extended by Wutian Pavilion in the world.

The Lord of the Heavenless Pavilion told him that the traitors of the court were unreliable, the family was mercenary, the Haoqiang was short-sighted and could not be relied on, and the Hu people were ruthless and ruthless, and these people were all obstacles in front of the Heavenless Pavilion.

The Pavilion Master also said that every person he killed and every errand he did in the mission was to establish a better order and make people live better.

He chose to believe, and put the belief that there was nowhere to place it for many years on the Lord of the Heavenly Pavilion, and fanatically believed in it.

After experiencing many difficulties, Shang Fenghe acted more and more cautiously, handled things cleanly, and never relented when killing, which was more and more appreciated by the pavilion master.

So a year ago, the pavilion master gave the Spring God Pill, and Shang Fenghe's skills improved greatly and became a "roe deer owl".