Yan Qi opened the purse and poured the contents into the palm of his hand, which turned out to be an insect shaped like a cicada.

King Ning looked at the thing in her hand and was stunned, "Green worms? ”

Legend has it that when a frog gives birth to a child, the mother and the child will gather together after separation.

In the early years, some people used the blood of the mother and child of the frog to smear the coin, and the coin coin painted with the mother's blood will fly back to the pocket containing the child money after spending it, so there is a saying that "the frog pays back".

It's just that the frog is difficult to catch, born in the South China Sea, the price of a pair of frog mother and child is often higher than the coin itself, and the frog sold on the market is mostly impersonated with osmanthus cicada painted with cyan ink.

Yan Qi glanced at King Ning and said: "They have fought with me, I don't dare to follow too closely, this one in my hand is a female worm, and the lady is a child worm in her purse, and if I release the mother worm in a while, it will fly to find the child worm." ”

King Ning let go of the reins in his hand, leaned forward slightly, and stared at her palm.

"Let's go."

On the other side, Xie Hanci was sitting cross-legged at the bottom of the well, using a hairpin to pick up the broken pottery pieces that were pierced into the flesh of Lao Jia's skin little by little, Lao Jia covered his neck with one hand, and his breath was floating.

"Don't be busy, girl."

Just now they walked through the inner courtyard together and jumped into the dry well, an arrow happened to shoot at the mouth of the well, and the gravel exploded next to Xie Hanci, Lao Jia blocked it sideways for him, and was cut through his throat by a sharp stone flake.

When a few people fell to the bottom of the well, they found that the mouth of the well above their heads was sealed with rubble, and Lao Jia's collar was also soaked with blood.

Xie Hanci didn't stop the movement in his hand, tore off a sleeve and replaced the blood-soaked handkerchief around his neck, tears mixed with beads of sweat fell down his chin on the damp muddy ground at the bottom of the well, "You still have to help your general rehabilitate, you can't die here." ”

Lao Jia's face was pale because of blood loss, and his smile was full of bitterness, "The painting has been ruined." ”

Chen Lao interjected: "The wellhead is now sealed, anyway, the left and right are dead, it is better to ask this little girl to tell me what is on the painting, and go down can be regarded as an explanation to the general." ”

Xie Hanci raised his eyes and glanced at the wellhead that was blocked by the gravel above his head, and the light of the fire fold in Chen Lao's hand gradually dimmed, and with a wisp of white smoke, it was completely extinguished.

The well has been reduced to a dungeon where you can't see your fingers, and they are about to become death row prisoners here, Xie Han smiled self-deprecatingly. Yes, death is coming, and what can't be said.

"Painter Shen painted a picture of a lady looking for plum blossoms on a snowy night, the painting shows a lady wearing a silver quill brocade cloak, holding a mahogany inlaid jade poetry palace lamp, behind him are two plum trees, the red plum on the left has been fully bloomed, and the bud of the white plum on the right is waiting to be released."

Chen Lao asked: "But what does this have to do with the general's unjust case, and what does the identity of that lady say?" ”

Xie Hanci replied: "There is no explanation, and there may not even be such a person in the world, just a character drawn by Shen Lang at random." The key to the painting is not the lady. ”

Suddenly, there was a sound of insects at the mouth of the well, and a small blue-green insect flickered its wings through the cracks in the gravel, and swayed to a stop on Xie Hanci's shoulder, and a man's anxious voice came from overhead.

"Thank you! Are you down there? ”

It's King Ning! Xie Hanci was overjoyed, stood up suddenly, hit the hard stone wall, covered his forehead and said "oops", looked up and shouted, "I'm down there!" ”

"Okay, get out of the way!" King Ning forged a sword scabbard with dark iron and kept hitting the stones, and several people's bodies were clinging to the wall of the well, and the dust wrapped in fine stones kept falling to the bottom of the well.

After a pillar of incense, the boulder blocking the wellhead fell down and shattered, the early morning sunlight poured down the wellhead, Xie Hanci's eyes adapted to the darkness, and he couldn't open his eyes by this dazzling light, so he had to move his eyes back to the bottom of the well.

The old armor on the opposite side of the well wall, facing the dazzling light, his eyes were dull, but he did not dodge in the slightest.

He died in the well.

King Ning put down the hemp rope, Chen Lao couldn't bear to leave him in the well, took off his coat and tied him behind his back, and was stunned to rely on a rope, carrying Lao Jia's body, and crawled out of the dry well with his hands and feet.

As soon as Xie Hanci climbed out of the well, he saw Yan Qi and King Ning watching Chen Lao and the others vigilantly, and King Ning directly protected her behind him, pressing his hand on the hilt of the sword, ready to unsheath the blade at any time.

Xie Hanci put his hand on his, shook his head slightly, glanced at the corpse on Chen Lao's back, and his voice was a little choked, "He is here to save me." ”

King Ning patted her on the shoulder, let go of the hand on the hilt of the sword, and turned his head to lead the horse, she knew that he was leaving time to say goodbye to them.

She looked at a few people, and finally her eyes fell on the red mask on the man's face, last night she was very strange, if it was just to cover her face, wearing a scarf or a black mask, why wear such a conspicuous mask?

After a closer look today, she recognized that this was actually the judge's mask in the play, with red oil paint used as the background color of the mask.

Xie Hanci met his deep eyes, "Why is it a judge?" ”

A deep male voice came from under the mask, "It is difficult to show the injustice in the world, even if I die, I am willing to be a judge and rehabilitate the general." ”

Xie Hanci took a step forward, his voice soft, but his eyes were full of wanton cunning.

"At first, I thought that you were afraid of being recognized by the Dayue Assassins, until they took me back to the temple, and fled from the temple to the dry well, and the masks on their faces were taken off and lost. As long as your mask hangs motionless on your face, I understand that it is actually me who you are afraid of. ”

"Do I know you?" Xie Hanci stood on tiptoe and reached for the red mask on his face, his body stiffened, and he subconsciously leaned back, but he didn't stop it, she still took off the mask, and a familiar face was revealed.

Xie Hanci's eyes widened in shock, "Uncle Li? You're not being ......"

"That's He'er's plan to get out, what I said in the grass hut is true, my son is in the capital, and he has to make this decision for his safety. Back then, I took my son to run for my life, and now I am reunited in this cave of the old people, everything is fate, and God has given me a chance to make up for my mistakes. ”

There was an indifferent smile on his lips, but his eyes were looking at the mountains in the distance.

"I'd like you to bring something for me." As he spoke, he untied a purse around his waist, and inside was a white jade wrench, and the inside of the wrench was outlined with a small mountain peak with gold thread, "This is something left by his uncle, please help me transfer it to my son, it can be regarded as a little thought left for his unborn child." ”

Xie Hanci took the thing and put it in his arms, "Then he knows...... Before? ”

He shook his head bitterly, "Where do you dare to let him know, not to mention that these grievances have nothing to do with him." What I have to do in the future, nine deaths, and may affect my family, let him think that I died under the knife of the bandits, but it is a good thing, and it is good to be an ordinary ordinary ordinary person with a big dedication. ”

King Ning led the horse back, Xie Hanci saw the scroll on the horse's back at a glance, and pulled it out of his pocket, the action was so fast that King Ning didn't have time to reach out to stop it.

Xie Hanci unfolded the scroll with a brush, and it was the "Lady Looking for Plum Blossoms on a Snowy Night", which depicted a lady wearing a silver quill brocade cloak standing under two plum trees, one red and one white.

"If I want you to know the secret of the painting, can you promise me one thing?"

Several people saw the painting and understood that what Xie Hanci had brought on his body before was not a real painting, and what was burned later by mistake was only the fake painting, and the real painting was in front of them at the moment.

Their faces were immediately filled with joy for their gains, and Chen Lao even rushed to say, "Oh, it's still you who are clever." Amitabha, I'm glad you tried to deceive us in the first place. ”

Uncle Li turned him around with his elbow, "You say, girl, don't say it's one thing, even ten or a hundred of our brothers are also desperately trying to do it." “

Xie Hanci smiled, "You don't need to work hard in this matter, as long as you promise me that no matter what you do in the future, you won't hurt the innocent civilians." ”

"Done!"

"Naturally, we've already been discovered by those assassins, and we can't stay here to be bandits."

"Yes, if there is a clue on the painting, we will follow the investigation and not do this murderous business."

Seeing that they agreed, Xie Hanci found a case of breaking incense, spread the unfolded painting on it, and Xie Hanci lit a fire fold that asked King Ning to come.

Chen Lao was a little puzzled, and asked: "It's a sunny day, it's not that you can't see this clearly, why are you lighting this fire fold, but be careful, don't burn this authentic work." ”

Xie Hanci didn't answer, but tapped the face of the lady in the painting with his fingertips, only to see that her eyes were slightly lowered, but there was a trace of sadness between her eyebrows.

"Don't you think it's strange to see her expression?"

Chen Lao scratched his head and asked tentatively, "It seems that I'm not very happy to paint this girl?" A few people next to him laughed, and Uncle Li seemed to have found a clue and asked: "This painting is called "Lady Looking for Plum Blossoms on a Snowy Night", and the woman in the painting has found a plum tree, why doesn't she look up to admire the plum blossoms, but lowers her head." ”

"She's looking at the lights." King Ning's voice came from behind Xie Hanci.

She was still a little worried, but when she saw him nod her head lightly to herself, she breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and continued: "What the prince said is right, this lady is looking at the lamp." Coming to look for plum blossoms on a snowy night, although I walked under the plum tree, I couldn't see the plum blossoms because the Shiwen Palace lamp in my hand was not lit, so I had some sorrow between my eyebrows. ”

"So, how should it be? How can you light this palace lamp? Uncle Li looked at the fire fold in Xie Hanci's hand, "It won't be ......"

"That's right!" Xie Hanci put the fire fold directly on the palace lamp in the painting, and the paper immediately burned, crackling, and then a puff of white smoke rose from the painting, with a pungent sulfur smell.

When the smoke cleared, the painting "Lady Looking for Plum Blossoms on a Snowy Night" was gone, replaced by a jade pendant and a poem.