"People ran away?"

Zhao Lin's forehead was suddenly beaten, and he took a deep breath to try to calm his mood down.

He thought that the master was angry with Chu Liu, or used despicable means such as poisoning, but he didn't expect it to be a direct assassination.

In fact, with Zhu Huaishan's cultivation, as long as he was a little vigilant, nothing would happen, but unfortunately he never dreamed that the apprentice he brought up would make a move to kill the teacher.

"It's all to blame Senior Brother for my incompetence and failure to protect Master."

Gao Yuan blamed himself: "When we chased out, Chu Liu had already escaped from the city. ”

Zhao Lin comforted: "It's no wonder that you guys, no one can think of it, have you reported to the official?" ”

"It's reported, but for the internal affairs of the sect, the government will post a wanted notice at most, and strictly check it at the city gate, and the rest is just for show."

"Although Chu Liu is not diligent in practice, he is also a real and solid temperament, how dare those catchers come forward to arrest them, it would be good to be able to report to us."

Zhao Lin knew that this was the case, and he didn't have too much hope, he pondered for a while, and said, "Senior brother, where do you say Chu Liu will go?" ”

This is the problem he is most concerned about, Chu Liu killed the master, so he must retaliate with a tooth for a tooth and kill this rebel who killed the master.

Gao Yuan shook his head, and then sighed, "In the past month, our senior brothers have been secretly monitoring the Chu family while searching around the county, but unfortunately they have found nothing. ”

"The world is so big, if Chu Liu has the heart to leave his hometown and hide for the rest of his life, how difficult it will be to find him!"

Zhao Lin disagreed with Senior Brother's opinion, but he didn't say anything to refute it, grabbed the teapot and filled it for the two of them, and asked, "What about Senior Brother Yuan?" How I didn't see him. ”

Gao Yuan looked around and lowered his voice a little, "The Chu family has a relative in Songyuan County, and Senior Brother Yuan felt that Chu Liu might go over to defect, so he ran over there to monitor." ”

"Senior Brother Yuan has a heart."

Zhao Lin nodded and glanced outside the tea shop, "Senior brother, I want to go to Master's study to have a look." ”

Gao Yuan smiled, "Okay, meet a few senior brothers." ”

"No, it's not the time yet."

"Why?"

Zhao Lin said in a deep voice: "We have only six people in Liuhemen and me, to put it mildly, even if Chu Liuwo is in a mansion in Qinghe County, we may not be able to find it." ”

"Now Chu Liu is in the dark, you are in the light, of course you can't find it."

"If I don't show up now, then I'm in the shadows."

Gao Yuan thought about it and agreed: "Senior brother is thoughtful, then I won't tell them yet." ”

When Zhao Lin was the chief of arrest last year, he cracked several old cases in a row, and he was still the main force in arresting the group of leopards in the mountains.

The so-called name of the person, the shadow of the tree, if Chu Liu knew that Zhao Lin was back, maybe he would really escape.

After leaving the tea shop, the two found a restaurant on the street and ate something.

It wasn't until it was getting late, after the apprentices and disciples had left, that the two walked into the Liuhe Gate.

After Zhu Huaishan passed away, Gao Yuan moved into the house as the new owner, but because he was still in mourning, it was not officially announced.

Everything in the study room is as before, and there is a tablet of Zhu Huaishan on the right side of the door.

"Since you're here, let's put incense on the master." Gao Yuan said softly.

Zhao Lin came to the tablet, lit three incense sticks, bowed down, and said silently in his heart: "Master, don't worry, I will kill that beast and give you an explanation." ”

After the worship, Zhao Lin turned around, "Senior brother, what was the situation at that time?" ”

Gao Yuan came to the desk, pointed to the chair, and said, "When we came in, Master sat on this chair with a dagger in his chest. ”

Zhao Lin walked over, looked around, and saw crimson blood stains on the chair and the surrounding floor.

"What about the dagger?"

Gao Yuan opened the drawer and took out a dagger with a cold light.

Zhao Lin took it, and his heart moved.

The dagger is about eight inches long, with blades on both sides, and a pointed and thin head.

With this kind of dagger of sharpness, it stabbed with all its might, even a martial artist who had cultivated the armor strength method could not stop it, not to mention that Zhu Huaishan was defenseless.

The handle is very long, taking up half of the entire dagger, and is wrapped in a layer of ray skin that prevents sweating and slipping, smooth and shiny, with a thick layer of pulp.

It can be seen that the owner of the dagger likes this weapon very much and plays with it all the year round.

Zhao Lin raised his nose and sniffed, and smelled a smell of sweat stains and oil.

This is the smell on Chu Liu's body!

"Senior brother, can I take this dagger with me?"

"Okay, take it."

Gao Yuan didn't ask the reason, and happily agreed.

Zhao Lin put away the dagger and said with a straight face: "Senior brother, according to what I just said, you are responsible for the investigation, and I will come to make a secret visit." ”

The information is almost gathered, and I have a rough plan in mind.

Zhao Lin doesn't think that the world is big, and it is difficult to find someone.

Most people in this era lived in a county and a city.

It is difficult to leave the homeland, and it is not easy to take root in a different place, especially a son-in-law like Chu Liu, who has never suffered hardships, and it may be no problem to leave the place where he has lived for a long time and live, but can he endure this kind of life?

If you want to live a comfortable life, you still can't do without acquaintances.

Therefore, Zhao Lin judged that Chu Liu must still have a connection with the Chu family!

These are all things he pondered in his heart, and he didn't directly follow Gao Yuan.

Gao Yuan apologized and said, "Senior brother, you should have been cultivating in Xingyun Sect, but you have to travel thousands of miles to come back." ”

Zhao Lin didn't care and said: "It's nothing, as an apprentice, this is what should be done." By the way, it's you, senior brother, let's spend more energy in the door, I think the apprentices have gone a lot recently. ”

Gao Yuan's face was embarrassed, "What Senior Brother said is that this aspect has been neglected recently. ”

Zhao Lin rested in Liuhemen that night, and the next morning, before the apprentices and disciples came, he went out to Nancheng.

The Chu family is in Nancheng.

There are many rich people in Nancheng, and many people from all walks of life are begging for a living here.

There is a cake shop near Chu's house, and the owner separated his house and turned it into a chase shop, which can accommodate ten people and live for three pennies for a day.

In order to hide people's eyes, Zhao Lin pretended to be a husband, found the landlord and paid the money for three days, and lived in directly.

The whole bunk was filled with rough men, who went out to look for work during the day and came back at night to rest.

Zhao Lin also pretended to go out to work during the day, but only in the vicinity of Chu's house.

Keep your ears open, listen to what's going on inside, and don't let go of everyone's conversation.

Before coming here, Zhao Lin had already inquired with Gao Yuan about the situation of the Chu family.

The Chu family is engaged in the silk business, and the family business is quite large, and the house occupies almost half of the street.

The current head of the Chu family is the old lady Chu Hongtai, who has four sons and one daughter.

The daughter married into Matsubara County, and the four sons helped with the business here.

It stands to reason that the son should split up when he grows up, but the Chu family did not.

The reason is that among the four sons, only the eldest gave birth to a son, that is, Chu Liu, and the other three brothers either had no heirs or gave birth to daughters.

There is only one heir to Chu Liu's huge family business, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a seedling in a thousand hectares.

Growing up in such a family, Zhao Lin didn't believe that Chu Liu could stand the precarious life outside.

In addition to practicing martial arts in his own family, he also hired a resident dart master to guard the mansion all year round.

Zhao Lin listened to it for three days in a row, and his brain was about to crack, but there was no progress.

The word Chu Liu seems to be a taboo, except for the servants and slaves who occasionally chew their tongues behind their backs, no one in the whole house mentions it!

The closer the person is to Chu Liu, the more he doesn't mention it.

Apparently a gag order.

In the past three days, Zhao Lin only heard Chu Liu's mother say one sentence: "Master, you said that Liu'er ......"

"Shut up ......"

If Chuliu's name is not mentioned, it means that there must be something wrong inside.

Zhao Lin knew that as long as he continued to monitor like this, he would be able to find clues sooner or later, but time waited for no one, and he couldn't spend it here all the time.

If it really drags on for a year and a half, I'm afraid that Xingyun Sect will remove itself.

There are a large number of people coming and going in the Chu family every day, and Zhao Lin has no skills, so he can only pick two or three people to follow, but unfortunately he didn't find a trace of Chu Liu.

Zhao Lin felt that he couldn't go on like this, and he had to find a way to come out!

He has Chu Liu's dagger, and the smell of his body is left on it.

However, the smell of the human body is too weak, and it can only be found by smell when it is very close.

Unless, like the beard of Mt. Paekdu, traced with a special musk, the flavor travels far and long.

Thinking of this, Zhao Lin suddenly had an idea in his heart.

……

Baekdu Mountain, Yuliangba Village.

Ma Laohan held a shower in one hand and a flower hoe in the other, playing with flowers and plants in his yard.

More than ten years ago, he was caught by a beard and went into the mountains to raise smelling marten, in order to pass the boredom, he planted some flowers and plants in his free time.

Although people have returned to the village, this preference has been retained, and in addition to farming, they often accompany flowers and plants.

The courtyard gate squeaked, and a burly young man with a slightly dark face walked into the courtyard and said to Ma Laohan with a smile: "Uncle, do you still recognize me?" ”

Ma Laohan looked at the visitor in surprise, and felt that the voice seemed to be heard somewhere, but he couldn't remember it for a while, and asked, "Are you ......?"

"We met in Fuli Valley last year."

"Fuli Valley? You are Lord Zhao! ”

Ma Laohan recognized Zhao Lin, there was some horror in his eyes, he still remembered the scene when Zhao Lin casually killed the murderous beard.

Zhao Lin smiled and said in a relieved tone: "I didn't have anything else to do when I came to you, did you still have the spices you used to feed the sable?" ”

Last year, Hu Zi was arrested, and the interrogation was handled by Zhao Lin, including the abducted villagers.

Zhao Lin was more impressed by this old man, and he paid special attention to it, remembering that his family lived in Yuliangba Village, so he came over directly.

Ma Laohan heard Zhao Lin ask about spices, his heart was relieved, and he said: "The villain was only concerned about running for his life at that time, and he didn't bring anything, but the villain knew the ingredients and production methods of musk powder. ”

Zhao Lin was overjoyed and said with a smile: "Okay, you tell me the formula, I'll buy it now." ”

Ma Laohan didn't dare to slack off, so he went back to the house and took a piece of straw paper, and wrote on it with charcoal: musk, sheep weed, honey, nanmu, cardamom, atractylodes......

Zhao Lin silently wrote down the prescription, thinking that maybe he could use it in the future.

"These herbs have a strong taste, so they don't need to be too heavy."

After writing, Ma Laohan handed the straw paper to Zhao Lin.

Zhao Lin didn't delay for a moment, came directly to the town, grabbed the medicine according to the prescription, and bought all the more than a dozen flavored medicines.

When he returned to Yuliangba Village, Ma Laohan had already set up the pot and boiled the water.

Ma Laohan put all the medicinal materials into the casserole, boiled for half an hour, and then poured the soup and medicine into an urn, and then smashed it with a pestle.

Zhao Lin saw that the old man was tired and sweating, motioned for him to hand over the things to himself, and then smashed them quickly at a speed that was difficult to distinguish with the naked eye.

"Puff puff ......"

In a moment, the herb turned into a cloud of black mud.

Ma Laohan was dumbfounded, and exclaimed: "Lord Zhao's miraculous skills are world-famous. ”

"What kind of miracle is this?"

Zhao Lin smiled and asked, "What then?" ”

Ma Laohan replied: "Dry it into powder and use it." ”

Zhao Lin frowned: "It's too slow, is it okay to bake dry?" ”

"Yes."

Ma Laohan poured the paste into the pot, dried it over low heat, wrapped it in oiled paper, and finally put it in a cloth bag.

"Thank you, sir."

Zhao Lin thanked him and left two taels of silver when he left.

……

There is a buffalo street not far from Chu's house in Nancheng, which is said to have been there when Qinghe County was first built.

More than a dozen men dressed in coarse cloth and white sweat scarves sat on the side of the street basking in the sun, chatting with each other.

These people are also Lifu, but they are not like the gang of hundreds of people like the docks, a group of three, a group of five, and a maximum of a dozen people.

Although there are servants and servants in large families, they basically perform their own duties, and sometimes they have temporary work, and they can't get together enough people for a while, so they come here to help.

Zhao Lin put the white sweat towel on his shoulders and found a random place to sit down.

"Unexpectedly, I'm going to work again."

Zhao Lin teased himself in his heart.

With musk powder, the next step is to "drugged" the people in the Chu Mansion who may be in contact with Chu Liu. ”

Old lady Chu, Chu Liu's father and three uncles, a group of relatives, and even the nurse, the dart master, and the Xixi...... It is possible to come into contact with Chu Liu.

Zhao Lin had only heard the voices of these people, and their appearance was basically not the same, and he could only match them if he went into the mansion and explored around.

"Boy, why are you here?"

Among the people who took the work, a man with a pinch of hair on the side of his mouth glanced over.

Zhao Lin glanced at a pinch of hair and chuckled, "Wait for work." ”

A pinch of hair sneered: "Do you know whose territory this is?" ”

Zhao Lin shook his head: "I don't know." ”

"If you want to work here, you have to pay for the first month, understand?"

"I don't understand."

"I don't know, I don't understand, get out of here!"

"I won't roll, why don't you roll one and I'll take a look?"

A handful of hair's face changed, and more than a dozen men around him glanced at each other, got up one after another, and walked over to Zhao Lin with bad intentions......

Bang bang...... Ouch!

After a few breaths, except for Zhao Lin, no one was standing.

"Uncle, you are so good at it, and you are still doing this?"

A pinch of hair said with a bitter face.

In fact, Zhao Lin didn't make a heavy hand, he was afraid that he would continue to be beaten.

"Stop pretending, get up."

Zhao Lin didn't pay attention to his question at all, and said: "I have a small request, the owner will come after a while, no matter what kind of work, I will pick first, no one can rob me, you know?" ”

"Yes." Without waiting for a handful of hairs to speak, the Lifu replied in unison.

(End of chapter)