Chu Zhixia led Xue Cheng through the deserted streets, the streets and alleys were filled with low cries, yellow paper money and white spirit flags were fluttering. Drinking snow hung from the saddle, and the sound of the bell was the only variation in the long, monotonous cry.

Chu Zhixia suddenly had a very strange feeling, as if someone was watching her from behind, but there was no malice. That familiarity made Chu Zhixia's whole body tremble, she turned her head suddenly, but only saw the rain flying in the sky, a snow-white cat jumped over the puddle, stood still and tilted her head to look at her.

"Is it my delusion?" Chu Zhixia muttered to himself.

She turned and rode away.

Tiny strands of rain fell into the puddles, causing ripples. Shen Zhou leaned against the moss-covered corner, and stretched out his hand to the white cat on the ground with a slightly short lean. The white cat nimbly climbed along Shen Zhou's hand to his shoulder, hiding under his hat.

"If she finds out, I don't want you." Shen Zhou touched the cat's back and threatened.

The white cat snorted twice.

——

The county guard observed Chu Zhixia tremblingly for several days, trying to figure out from her a little antipathy to Bai Ziche, or the inclination towards her master. But Chu Zhixia's notoriously unruly personality didn't make waves and didn't give the county guard a chance to gain insight into the truth.

By the time the county guard reacted, Chu Shixia had completely taken over the fish scale book and other files of Anyang County.

"Yang is against yin, bullying the upper and lower." Chu Zhixia picked up a roll of fish scales, patted it on the county guard's face, and said contemptuously, "You said that if Your Majesty knew that the new policy he introduced under the spittle of hundreds of civil and military officials has caused today's evil results, it is all because of your selfish desires, what kind of death will you be given?" Ling Chi, the head of the owl...... Or the Nine Clans? ”

The county guard's hands and feet were weak, and he knelt on the ground with a thud, and looked up at Chu Zhixia tremblingly, "The lower official is just confused for a while...... Ask the eldest lady to open up the net! ”

"Open the net? When the people of Binzhou had no land to cultivate and were in debt, did you ever open the net? When the people were displaced and mourned, did you open the net? Now that the incident is happening, the guillotine is about to cut your neck, but you know to beg me to open the net! Chu Zhixia waved his hand and swept the tea cup off the table, smashing it on the county guard's back.

The county guard kowtowed desperately, and blood flowed from his head, "The lower official knows the crime, and the lower official deserves death!" But my family doesn't know about it! If the eldest lady wants to kill, kill me to appease Your Majesty's anger and let my family go! ”

The anger in Chu Zhixia's heart was surging, and Huo Ran drew his sword and slashed at the top of the county guard's head. The sword light of the sword was awe-inspiring, and the black gauze hat on the head of the county guard was split in two, and he knelt on the ground in a daze, and the smell of urine emanated from the hem of his clothes.

"Lord County Warden, have you ever thought that those people who died in vain also have their wives, children, and parents?"

Chu Zhixia's sword blade hung in the center of his eyebrows, and he said fiercely in disgust, "I'll give you one last chance." If you do it, I will leave you with your life, and after a hundred years, I will personally go underground to apologize to the people of Binzhou; If you can't do it, when my song will arrive in the imperial capital, you will dig the grave of your nine clans. ”

The county guard nodded frantically, "Miss, please say, the next official will go to the soup and fight the fire, and he will not give up!" ”

"The plague in Binzhou originated from man-made disasters, not natural disasters. If anyone dies of famine, I will take your head back to the imperial capital to restore his life. Chu Shixia said slowly, "How the new deal should be implemented, you should be clear now." ”

"The lower officials must eat and clothe their clothes, put on their livers and galls, and never let those who should take it take a penny less, and those who shouldn't take it take an extra penny." The county keeper raised three fingers and swore to the sky.

"You'd better be." Chu Zhixia sneered, "The Yulin Guard will be stationed in various counties until the plague dissipates. Don't try to hide it. ”

"The lower officials don't dare." The county guards the cross-flow road.

Chu Zhixia lifted the hem of his clothes, sat on the chair, leaned forward slightly and stared at the county guard, revealing a frightening smile, "So, let's talk about Wang Biao now." ”

The county guard's expression froze.

"Don't want to say?" Chu Zhixia pushed the sword back into its sheath, and the hilt of the sword lifted the chin of the county guard, forcing him to turn his eyes around and fix on her, "Or do you want to tell Your Majesty in person?" ”

"No, no, no, the lower official is just thinking about how to plead guilty to you." The county guard shook his head loudly, "Wang Biao was instructed by the lower officials, and the lower officials received a secret letter from the eunuch Xu Delu, the master of ceremonies. The crime of the lower official deserves death! ”

Chu Zhixia's expression was very cold.

The palm print eunuch is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, and if the magistrate wants to be promoted but has no background, he will loot the people's fat and people's ointment, and send it to the palace to please the palm print eunuch, in exchange for a few fluttering words in front of the emperor. However, Xu Delu also knew that if this matter was known by the emperor, he would definitely be dead, so the county guard did not dare to speak out.

"It's this gelding again." Chu Zhixia grinded his teeth, and his dangerous aura overflowed.

"The lower official has a secret letter to corroborate, and when His Majesty blames him in the future, he will also ask the eldest lady to say a few kind words on behalf of the lower official." The county warden said tremblingly.

Chu Zhixia turned his head to look at him, a mocking voice sounded in his chest, but he said, "Okay." ”

——

It was late at night.

The rain is still falling.

Chu Zhixia lay on the bed, drinking the stream snow and put it on the pillow. She stared at the pitch-black tent, not sleepy. Chu Zhixia scared the county guard so much that he couldn't possess his body during the day, and when he went out, he almost fell on the threshold, and the matter of Anyang County came to an end.

The heavy human life on her body was relieved of some of it, but she still couldn't sleep.

Chu Shixia hadn't dreamed for a long time.

Ever since he dreamed that the painting boat on the lake exploded and the boat fell into the water and died, Chu Zhixia had never dreamed of him again. That ominous dream seemed to have some kind of ending, piercing Chu Zhixia's heart to blood. Chu Zhixia repeatedly warned himself that it was just a dream.

But another voice said coldly, "Then why don't you dream of him anymore?" ”

Chu Zhixia raised his forearm to cover his eyes and let out a long sigh.

Where the hell are you?

The sound of the wind outside the window was suddenly torn.

Chu Zhixia was shocked, picked up the drinking stream and rolled over from the bed, slammed the window and jumped under the corridor. Cheng Yuan, who was patrolling, was taken aback and looked at her at a loss. Chu Zhixia didn't speak, and wrinkled his eyebrows to look at the roof where there was a faint sound of footsteps.

In the next moment, a long black object rolled off the roof and smashed into the rain, spreading a bloody color.

It was a corpse.

Cheng Yuan looked at Chu Zhixia in shock, and then at the corpse in the rain. Chu Zhixia walked out with his sword, used the scabbard to remove the black clothes of the corpse, and a golden skull rolled out of the corpse's arms. Cheng Yuan held out an umbrella on her head and asked confusedly, "Is this an assassin?" ”

"Hmm." Chu Zhixia nodded, wrapped the skull in the corner of his clothes, put it in the palm of his hand and looked at it, and said, "I found out when he stepped on the roof, and then another person killed him, his steps were lighter and his hands were faster." ”

Cheng Yuan looked at the bone-staining wound on the corpse's neck, and said solemnly: "Is it friend or foe, does the eldest lady have a clue?" ”

Chu Zhixia looked up at the rainy roof, there was no one there, only tiles that were about to be trampled on. Other than that, there is nothing to prove the identity of the visitor.

Chu Zhixia thought about it for a long time, so long that Cheng Yuan thought she was asleep, so he whispered, "No." ”