Chapter 17: Before and After the Battle (3)

Dozens of masters in Jiajiazhuang have been exploring everywhere in the village for a long time, and there still seems to be no clues, and the Sichuan characters between Jia Yuan's eyebrows are even more distinct.

"Jia Huan"

The big housekeeper Jia Huan suddenly appeared in the courtyard of Chang An and Chang Sheng.

"Sir."

Chang An was stunned, he didn't notice Jia Huan's arrival.

"Let the managers of each park lead people to guard the park, especially the four parks in the southeast and northwest, and the vegetable park."

"Yes, sir."

Jia Huan's voice had not yet fallen, but the person had disappeared into the corridor, Chang An was shocked, this big housekeeper's body was already like a ghost, and he even suspected that Jia Huan's skills might not be weaker than Jia Yuan'an.

Jia Yu'an saw Chang An's thoughts and said lightly

"Don't be surprised, Jia Huan is just a good figure, he is the only person in Jiajiazhuang who has practiced the light skills left by Jia Wu's ancestors, even in the face of the great grandmaster, he can retreat with his whole body, but when it comes to martial arts, he is also average."

Chang'an Khan, no matter how generally he is, is also one of the ten grandmasters.

The sound of the flute is still faint from time to time, the people in the village are crowded, and dozens of masters are like well-trained troops, orderly in each park to check.

About half a pillar of incense later, the east side "whoosh!" With a bang, a firework quickly jumped into the air, "Smack!" Releasing a brilliant fire, the master of the East Garden gave a signal.

Jia Yu'an's eyes changed, and his body swept towards the east lightly.

"Come with me to the East Garden."

Chang An heard this and quickly followed.

In the manor, a large group of masters gathered towards the East Garden.

When Jia Yu'an and Chang An arrived at the signal transmitter, there were already many people around.

A disciple of Jiajiazhuang was sitting on the ground, with five fingerprints clearly visible on his neck, his face was full of horror, his lips were white, and he seemed to have seen something extremely terrible.

"Who's signaling."

Jia Yu'an asked.

A middle-aged man walked up, his face was slightly pale, there were beads of sweat on his cheeks, and he was a little distracted.

"Owner, it's me."

Chang An saw that his expression was different, and guessed what he saw from time to time, so he asked

"What do you see?"

The middle-aged man's voice trembled slightly, and he replied

"I just checked between the courtyards, and when I got here, I saw that this junior brother was grabbed by the neck and lifted up, so he quickly released a signal, and the figure saw that I put the signal, so he ran away."

Jia Yu'an was a little annoyed.

"Why didn't you stop him?"

The middle-aged man's expression became frightened.

"That'...... Not people. ”

After saying that, the middle-aged man gasped, and every time he recalled the scene he had just seen, he felt like a nightmare.

"After I put the signal, I wanted to catch the figure, the figure was wearing a cloak, I couldn't see his body shape clearly from behind, but he was not fast, although I was far away, I caught up with him in three or two steps, how did I expect that when I grabbed his hand, it seemed to be touching a bone, the man was thin and didn't look like a normal person, and when I came back to my senses, the figure looked back at me."

The middle-aged man swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued

"I can't forget that face in my life, where is that person, it's just a skeleton in human skin!"

Everyone looked at each other, all of them looked incredulous, Jia Yu'an looked indifferent, but the dark clouds between his eyebrows already showed that he was angry at this time.

looked coldly at the disciples of Jia Jiazhuang who were sitting on the ground.

"Nonsense, you say, is what he said true!"

The disciple had already been frightened into delirium, and was even more distracted by Jia Yu'an's sudden roar.

"Ahh Hell! Go away! ”

The disciple roared madly, waving his hands in front of him as if to drive something away.

Jia Yu'an waved his hand helplessly.

"Take him to the doctor's room."

Chang An suddenly asked about the people present

"Have you ever seen the figure that this senior brother said?"

A tall man stepped forward and said hesitantly

"In this way, when I first came, I did see a very thin person, but the light was too dim at that time, so I just thought I was a junior brother of Dongyuan, so I didn't care."

"Humph!"

Jia Yu'an snorted coldly.

Another disciple came out and said

I remembered, last night, when there was an accident in the main park, I also saw an old lady who looked like a person, and she was also very thin, but she was wearing the waist card of the vegetable park around her waist, so I didn't care, and now I think about it is indeed a little strange, the old lady came to deliver the food but did not push the cart. ”

When Jia Yu'an heard this, his eyes became more and more cold

"Could it be that you want to say that my master of Jiajiazhuang was strangled to death by an old woman."

Chang An asked again

"The four disciples who died, are their waist cards still there?"

"Gone, when they found their bodies, they disappeared."

Jia Huan suddenly appeared.

Jia Yu'an smiled coldly and said

"It's not really a ghost staring at my Jiajiazhuang."

Chang An laughed

"It's a flute and a skeleton, it's really scary."

Jia Yu'an then remembered, he listened carefully, but found that the faint sound of the flute had disappeared.

He looked at Chang An and suddenly said to the disciples

"Go back to sleep."

When everyone dispersed, only Chang An and Jia Yu'an were left.

"What do you think?"

Jia Yu'an asked.

"And no matter who those people are and their origins, but if the killers of these nights have relied on the waist cards of the dead disciples to get into Jiajiazhuang, then how did the killers on the first night come in, where did they get the waist cards, without the waist cards, they would never have entered the realm of no one in Jiajiazhuang, where the masters are like clouds. And more importantly, whether those killers are still in the manor today. ”

Jia Yu'an said

"You mean there are moles in the village."

Chang An shook his head.

"If there is a traitor, then why should they take the deceased's waist card later."

He then asked

"Recently, some of Jiajiazhuang's disciples outside have disappeared."

Jia Yu'an was stunned.

"I'll call someone to check tomorrow."

Chang An smiled slightly and muttered to himself

"Interesting, no wonder the disciples who have been killed these days are so scattered, it turns out that they have been lurking all over the village for a long time, it seems that when the time comes, they will have to take action."

Jia Yu'an was puzzled.

"It's all about playing, they only have five waist cards in their hands, and five killers come in, and what kind of wind and waves can they turn up."

Chang An took a deep look at Jia Yuan, the question he had been hiding in his heart and didn't dare to ask, and finally couldn't help but ask.

"Can't the owner see that they are looking for something?"

Jia Yu'an's expression changed, his eyes showed a cold light, and he looked at Chang An coldly, and after a long time, he withdrew his gaze and sighed.

"Perhaps."

Chang An chuckled, this answer did not surprise him.

Jia Yu'an said

"Starting tomorrow, I will ask someone to check the whole village for a living."

Chang An doesn't think so.

"Tens of thousands of disciples in Jiajiazhuang, I'm afraid that when the entire village is investigated, the duel will be over."

Jia Yu'an said again

"What can you do?"

Chang An smiled.

"Since the owner of the village is willing to trust me, then I will be in charge of this matter."

Jia Yu'an said

"Is there anything I need help with?"

"Give me a piece of the Bird and Flower Garden."

"It's not difficult, I'll have someone give it to you tomorrow."

There was a sound of snorkeling in the village.

"It's late at night, let's get some rest early."

Jia Yu'an left slowly.

Chang An was also about to leave, his feet just stepped out but paused slightly, saw a piece of shredded paper on his feet, he carefully picked up the shredded paper, and observed it several times, the color of the paper has faded very lightly, but he can still vaguely see the incomplete pen and ink outline on it, but he can't see what the word is, or this is not a word.

Chang An looked around and found that there was a piece of shredded paper on the ground not far away, and he continued to search along the trajectory of the killer's departure, but he couldn't find any other shredded paper.

He chuckled, shook his head, tuckled the shredded paper into his sleeve, and slowly walked away.

The second day, the morning, the third day of the seventh month.

Chang An left Jiajiazhuang early and entered the city, sitting at a noodle stall on the side of the road.

"Boss, what are the characteristics of your Ningchuan Prefecture?"

The boss wiped the beads of sweat from his face, smiled, and was busy cleaning up the table for Chang An.

"Guest officer, our noodles here are a must."

Chang An raised his eyebrows.

"Yes, then bring me a bowl and add two taels of beef."

"Okay, child, a bowl of noodles, two taels of beef!"

After waiting for a while, the boss came over with fragrant noodles and beef, Chang An looked at the noodles in the boss's hand with anticipation, and inadvertently put the waist card of the Flower and Bird Garden on the table.

was gobbling up breakfast when the boss saw the waist card.

"Yo, you turned out to be a hero from Jiajiazhuang."

Chang An's mouth was full, he waved his hand, smiled mysteriously at the boss, and leaned over to the boss and whispered

"Harmful, fake, used to bluff people, in this realm, it's not easy to have a waist card."

The boss said urgently

"I can't help it, people who dare to pretend to be Jiajiazhuang will be discovered by them."

Chang An said disdainfully

"What can happen, it is difficult for the dignified Jia Jiazhuang to stare at such a trivial matter all day long."

Chang asked again as if he had thought of something

"Boss, look at you like this, you know something."

The boss said

"Guest officer, you are an outsider, maybe you don't know, ninety percent of the industries in Ningchuan Prefecture are Jiajiazhuang's, you see this row of shops, which is not Jiajiazhuang's industry, they are also their eyes and ears, it can be said that even if a mosquito flies in this city, it can't hide from them. If you take out this fake waist card in front of others, you will immediately be recognized. ”

Chang An suddenly realized, and patted his chest in fear

"Oh, boss, you are really my savior, fortunately you reminded me, otherwise I am afraid that I will be beaten to death by someone as soon as I enter Ningchuan Prefecture."

The boss patted Chang An on the shoulder mysteriously

"It's not enough to be beaten to death with a stick, but it's just to break your hands and feet and throw you out of the city."

Chang An shuddered and shook his head vigorously

"Then you might as well kill it...... But boss, have you ever seen this kind of thing, tell me. ”

The boss was hooked by Chang An, so he simply sat down next to Chang An

"A few years ago, there are a lot of people like this, it turned out that Jiajiazhuang was a hit on this kind of person, and later found that this kind of person became more and more rampant, back then, there were even related industries in the city, there were dark businessmen who specialized in making fake waist cards for people, and the waist cards were made, almost all of them could be messed up, and the result annoyed Jiajiazhuang, good guys, a large group of masters searched in the city for half a month, turned the city upside down, and finally put the gang to a pot, and burned all those fake waist cards. Later, in order to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, Jia Jiazhuang issued a death order in the city, but it was a fake token, and they were all cut off and driven out of the city. ”

Chang An had a bad premonition in his heart, and he sighed heavily, the situation in Jiajiazhuang was probably worse than he imagined.

Chang An asked again

"Later, no one dared to fake the waist card."

The boss said

"There must be some people who are not afraid of death, but there are fewer and fewer of them."

Chang An left the noodle stall and wandered aimlessly on the street, but overheard the conversation of passers-by.

"I heard that the stone dream bear arrived yesterday."

"Yes."

"Just stay at the Yunlai Inn."

"It's the day of the duel in two days, and I don't know if Master Jia can win."

"How can Master Jia lose if he is so powerful."

"I heard that Shi Mengxiong is already a great grandmaster."

"It's okay, our master of Jia Zhuang is called an undefeated scholar, and he has never tasted defeat in his life, so Shi Mengxiong is destined to return this time."

Chang An raised his eyebrows and muttered to himself

"He only arrived yesterday."

At noon, Chang An returned to Jiajiazhuang.

As soon as he returned to the courtyard, Jia Huan arrived.

"Chang Gongzi, the owner of the village asked me to inform you that the news that you asked the owner to check last night has been found, according to the manager of the Flower and Bird Garden, Jason, his disciple went out a month ago to run errands and has not returned, and has lost contact."

Chang An was stunned, Jiajiazhuang's speed of work made him a little amazed, worthy of being able to dominate the northern martial arts for thousands of years.

"Where did that disciple go?"

Jia Huan replied

"Gangnam."

"You know where you disappeared."

"My disciples in Jiajiazhuang will leave a code everywhere they go, and the last code left was in Jiangzhou, and no code has been found since then."

Chang An muttered

"Jiangzhou ......"

"Brother."

Chang Sheng came to Chang An's side.

"Letter from Jiangnan."

Chang Sheng handed Chang An a note, and held a carrier pigeon in his other hand.

Chang An opened the note and saw the dense handwriting like a ghost drawing on it, and couldn't help laughing.

"I can understand your words."

Chang An smiled and said to himself.

Chang Sheng looked at Chang An suspiciously and asked

"Whose letter?"

Chang An touched Chang Sheng's head and said

"A friend."

Jia Huan silently looked at the note in Chang An's hand and said nothing.

"Where's the owner?"

"I am in retreat, and the owner of the village said, the affairs in the village will be handed over to you in the next few days, and Chang Gongzi has something to tell me to do."

Chang An nodded and suddenly asked

"Big housekeeper, do you know about the fake waist cards in Ningchuan Prefecture back then."

Jia Huan nodded

"I know, back then, I was the one who led people to exterminate that group."

Chang An's eyes lit up and said

"Can that gang of fake waist cards really be fake?"

Jia Huan recalled

"The waist cards of the eight parks, each of which has them, is indeed very real, if you don't distinguish carefully, it is indeed difficult to recognize, and then when the gang is exterminated, I know that these fake waist cards are from Xiangxi Prefecture."

"Xiangxi Prefecture?"

Chang'an is puzzled, Xiangxi Prefecture is in the west, and it is at least 5,000 miles away from here.

Jia Huan nodded

"Speaking of this, we have to mention the incident that caused a sensation in martial arts thirty years ago."

Chang An asked

"What's the matter?"

Jia Huan said word by word

"Thirty years ago, the three major factions encircled and suppressed Xiangxi Prefecture."