Hu Tianming's body trembled slightly, he didn't expect Shi Cheng to ask such a question.

Hu Tianming replied a little incoherently: "I'm really ashamed, I was in the critical period of retreat at that time, and I didn't know anything about the outside world until I was out of the customs, but at that time he had already returned to the royal city." ”

There is a big flaw in this sentence, Hu Tianming is only a monk in the cultivator realm, not even a first-class monk in the cultivator realm, and a monk of this level will not enter the realm of contemplative fugue during retreat meditation, but can stop the retreat on his own at any time. Shi Cheng still has a good understanding of some of the universal rules of the sect in the world, and when a monk who is not very proficient in cultivation sends a letter of 100,000 urgent letters to his family, the elders of the sect will often directly interrupt their retreat and pass the letter to them.

Therefore, unless Mrs. Hu did not write to Hu Tianming when she was in Yunqiu City, there would be no reason for Hu Tianming not to know the news that Hu Enli was seriously ill. However, Shi Cheng clearly remembered that Madame Hu had told him in Yunqiu City about her suffering alone, coupled with Madame Hu's helpless appearance at that time, how much could she hide the news of Hu Enli's serious illness from the other backbone of the family?

"Master Hu, I think I can understand your current mood. You want to avenge your parents, but you're afraid of those people. But I have to tell you, whether you are willing to tell Shi Mouhe or not, it will not affect those people's killing intent towards you. It's your business that you don't want to tell the truth, but it's up to you whether those people are willing to let you go. ”

Shi Cheng stared at Hu Tianming and continued: "If Hu Gongzi can trust him and is willing to consult with him, maybe we can find room for rotation together." ”

Hu Tianming's face turned blue and red for a while, he calmed down a little, and said: "Those people are very powerful, Brother Shi still don't wade into this troubled water." ”

"Brother Hu still remembers what Shi said to everyone at the martial arts conference that day?"

Hu Tianming is a very smart person, he thought about it for a while, and then understood the meaning of Shi Cheng's words, and said in surprise: "Brother Shi is saying that my father and mother are dead in ...... In the hands of the remnants of the Lu clan? ”

"That's what I'm going to say to Hu Gongzi, and what I'm going to say next may be a little offensive to you, but now it seems that this should be the truth. Ling Zun may not know about the Lu Clan, but he may be secretly helping the Lu Clan's pawns in your country, which is why he has brought death to himself. ”

Shi Cheng saw that Hu Tianming was stunned, and said, "Hu Gongzi may find it a little difficult to accept......

"Not really. Brother Shi...... To tell you the truth, I do know some things about my father in private, but the remnants of the Lu clan in Brother Shi's mouth are unheard of below. ”

Hu Tianming sighed and said, "About three years ago, when I went home to visit relatives, I learned that my father had privately recruited a special caravan. ”

"After all, I will also be involved in some family business affairs, so I am curious why my father never mentioned this when he wrote to me, and when I asked my father about it in person, he directly reprimanded me and told me not to disclose it."

"Brother Shi should know that smuggling is common here in the Southern Wilderness, and the governments of various countries have repeatedly banned it. At first, I thought my father might be involved in smuggling, so I didn't take it seriously. But one day a year ago, I suddenly discovered that the items smuggled by my father were actually excavated from the tombs of the dead and the forbidden area, and even the bones of the tomb owner! ”

Hu Tianming took a deep breath, as if he had thrown away his burden.

Shi Cheng noticed a new situation revealed by Hu Tianming: in addition to collecting corpses, the Lu clan seemed to be collecting items dug up in the forbidden area in the Southern Wilderness.

In the era of War of the Gods, the resentment, corpses, and spells of the gods have created countless dangerous forbidden areas on the sea and land. However, the forbidden area is a place that has been clearly branded by the gods, and although it is dangerous inside, it is full of opportunities for the monks. The treasures left over from the Age of the Gods and the relics left behind by countless later monks are an extremely tempting piece of fat for many people, and it is precisely for this reason that the business of stealing and smuggling spiritual treasures is very rampant in the poorly controlled forbidden area.

Hu Tianming continued: "I really can't accept this kind of thing, robbing people's graves and digging up people's bones is really detrimental to yin morality. ”

"So I went to my father to theorize, but he reprimanded me again, and I went straight back to the martial arts academy in a fit of anger, and I rarely went home in the days that followed."

Shi Cheng asked, "But even so, Ling Zun can't afford to be sick in Yunqiu City, so Hu Gongzi, you should also go over and visit." ”

Before answering this question, Hu Tianming hesitated for a long time, and it was not until Shi Cheng repeated his question again that he took a deep breath and said, "Actually, I am not worried about my father's situation, because I know that he will be fine. ”

"Up to now, Tianming doesn't hide it from Brother Shi, before his father moved to the Xieyang Dao, he overheard a conversation between his father and a visitor when he went home to visit relatives."

Shi Cheng's heart was raised, and Hu Tianming now got to the point.

"Father didn't talk much to the visitor, and his voice was so low that if he hadn't been a monk below, he wouldn't have heard their conversation." Hu Tianming recalled: "The conversation I heard was not long, to the effect that their corpse was discovered by several caravan men, who used this incident to blackmail my father, but my father took money to temporarily appease him. ”

"And then?" Shi Cheng couldn't wait to ask.

"The visitor didn't seem nervous, but said that when they got on the road, they had their own arrangements, and my father only needed to cooperate with them, and the detailed plan of action would be discussed with him in secret before he left."

Speaking of this, Hu Tianming's face was very ashamed: "I am ashamed, it is because of this conversation that when I learned that my father was the only one in the caravan to come back, I wondered in my heart whether my father's illness was faked." Those caravan mates were killed by the conspiracy between him and the visitor. ”

"Although it seems to be very unfilial, I really don't dare to go to Yunqiu City to face my father, I am afraid that I will suddenly find out that his illness is indeed fake."

Saying this, Hu Tianming exhaled with relief, as if he had unloaded a boulder in his heart.

Shi Cheng didn't comment on Hu Tianming's actions, he asked, "Master Hu, what does that visitor look like, do you know his identity?" ”

Hu Tianming shook his head and said, "That person came to visit late at night, and he was still wearing a cloak, so I didn't see his face." To be honest, if my mother hadn't talked to me that night, I probably wouldn't have passed by my father's study and could not have heard their conversation. ”

Shi Cheng pondered for a moment and asked, "Master Hu, have you tried to track that visitor?" Did he come secretly at night alone or by car? Can you tell his martial arts cultivation? ”

Hu Tianming frowned and recalled carefully for a while before replying: "I don't remember very well, but that person should be a monk, but I can't see the specific realm." ”

Hu Tianming didn't seem to be able to see the visitor's cultivation, which made Shi Cheng realize that if it wasn't for the magic weapon to cover it, then that visitor's cultivation would definitely not be lower than the cultivator realm.

"It's not small." Shi Cheng thought to himself.

"As for how that person came, I really can't remember this, but I vaguely remember that there was no movement in the front hall that day."

"Thank you Hu Gongzi for informing me of these things, Shi has one last question, do you have a key in your hand that Ling Zun entrusted to you?"

Hu Tianming asked in surprise, "How did Brother Shi know?" ”

"This is what Ling Zun told me personally."

"Father, ......?!"

"Now that I think about it, that key may be one of the reasons why Ling Zun was killed, Hu Gongzi, can you tell me more about that key?"

"It was the key that brought my father killed?!" Hu Tianming's heart struggled for a while before he finally replied: "It was given to me by my father before he left the royal city, and he told me that the key was obtained from the forbidden area, and it might be related to a forbidden area on the eastern side of the continent. My father thought it would be good for my future path, so he gave it to me and told me to keep it a secret. ”

"Master Hu, I hope you can hand over the key to you, letting it stay by your side will only bring you endless disasters." Shi Chengzheng said, "Shi can guarantee that in the future, he will definitely make the murderers of your mansion pay the price!" ”

Hu Tianming nodded with a wry smile and said, "Don't hide it from Brother Shi, such a bad thing, Tianming doesn't want to continue to keep it by his side." ”

Hu Tianming looked at his companions in the distance, and then said to Shi Cheng: "This time, I came to investigate the poisoning case here on the orders of the master, so when the investigation here is over, I will immediately return to the martial arts academy and hand over the key to Brother Shi." ”

Shi Cheng nodded, "But it stands to reason that Master Hu, you should go home to deal with the aftermath, why does your National Martial Academy have to let you investigate the case here?" ”

"A lot of people have been transferred out of the martial arts academy, so I have to stay for the time being." Hu Tianming's answer was very brief, and he didn't seem to want to say more on this issue.

"I wonder if you need Shi to help you investigate the poisoning case here?" Shi Cheng asked suddenly, startling Hu Tianming.

"But Brother Shi's identity is really ......," Hu Tianming said in embarrassment.

"Don't worry, I'll always be under your noses. I don't know if Hu Gongzi has heard the news that the princess of your country and the princess of Hecheng has recovered from her serious illness, and I won't tell you that the person who cured the princess of Hecheng is Shi. In addition, Ling Zun's illness was also cured in the next hand, if you want to find out the truth of this poisoning case as soon as possible, Shi Mou, the Dan Master, will definitely be able to surprise you. ”

Hu Tianming had heard the news that Shi Cheng was treating the granddaughter of Shengde, and he himself was quite convinced of Shi Cheng's attainments in medicine, but Shi Cheng's identity was still a hurdle that could not be overcome after all. "Brother Shi, it's not that I can't trust your ability, if you are a person from the Eastern Continent, or someone from Shanhezhou, everything is easy to say."

"Shi just wants to follow you in and take a few looks, believe me, it will only take two quarters of an hour at most."

Hu Tianming did not agree to Shi Cheng's request in the end, but took Shi Cheng to ask the elders who led the team for instructions.

The elder who led the team refused to agree to Shi Cheng's request at first, and the other monks also glared at Shi Cheng angrily. Just when everyone was about to ask the surrounding soldiers to come over and take Shi Cheng away, Shi Cheng analyzed in detail to Elder Ma what he found after inspecting the corpse, which calmed down the originally restless crowd a lot.