Lu Yao didn't even look at the two of them, urging his uncle to get in the car. Lu Yaozu really wanted to beat this dead boy: "The old Lu family is really going to cut off their children and grandchildren, what kind of face do you think you will use to see the ancestors and ancestors?" ”

"Grimace."

After waiting for a while, Xin Shansi finally saw the horse walking slowly, and there was indeed a person on the horse's back. The man hung his head down, his right hand hung down, his left hand clutched the reins, and his chest... With an arrow sticking in.

Just looking at the hanging right hand, Li Shang knew that the man on horseback was dead.

"He wasn't turned upside down?" Xin Shansi stared at the position where the arrow was interspersed, and her heart was tilted to the left.

"His body stiffened, keeping the tense it had been when he died." Li Shang ran his hand down Shansi's arm and held her hand, "Let's go over and have a look." ”

"Okay." Xin Shan Silian walked and pulled him to the west quickly, and arrived at the side of the horse in only seven or eight breaths. The horse, too, seemed to be tired, and stopped when he saw them.

Li Shang let go of Shansi and approached to examine the body. The man was not very old, about thirty, his eyes were not closed, and his eyes were protruding. The skin and flesh are cold, already stiff, the legs are tightly clamped between the horse's belly, and the five fingers of the right hand are bent and tight, and there should be a horsewhip. An arrow pierced the heart, and the blood-soaked clothes on his chest were dry. He removed the man from his horse, unloaded the knife he was carrying and the burden he was carrying, and searched from head to toe.

Xin Shansi rummaged through the bag on the saddle and found the household register, a few taels of silver, a few used square scarves, and a pair of mille-feuille shoes, nothing else. When I opened the household register, I knew the person's identity at a glance.

"Hushan Langting, Mo Qing."

Lake and Mountain Pavilion? Li Shang's eyes narrowed, his hand stopped on the left upper arm of the corpse, and he looked up at Shansi: "Gu Ming will also meet the woman in white, and he is going to send a letter to Hushan Langting." "Finger into a claw, tear it hard. The garment on his arm was torn open, revealing a letterbox strapped to his arm.

Xin Shansi crouched down.

Li Shang took off the letterbox and shook it, but the letter in the letterbox was still there. He carefully opened the letter box and poured it out and unfolded it. There were no words on the envelope, but the seal was pasted. The messenger was dead, and the envelope didn't say to anyone, so he only thought it was for him, tore open the seal and took out the letter, unfolded it to see the words, and his eyes couldn't help but tighten.

"Qi Ningshu is not dead, Shi Yaoshan is the mountain chief." Xin Shansi noticed that Dr. Li was wrong: "What's wrong? "Shi Yaoshan? She seems to have heard Dr. Li mention it.

Li Shang blinked and turned his face: "My mother withdrew once before marrying my father." ”

"Qi Ningshu?" Seeing Dr. Li nodding, Xin Shansi decided to go back at night and invite the god to buy a few sticks of incense to worship: "What kind of god is in charge of luck?" ”

Li Shang didn't understand: "I don't know, I can ask Fengxiao later." ”

"Was your mother withdrawn or did she take the initiative to retire?"

"It was my mother who proposed to withdraw from the family."

"Because of your father?"

Li Shang shook his head: "No, it's Qi Ningshu who went to Mengdu with his father, and when he came back, he suddenly wanted to take the martial arts exam." "The Great Mongolian Martial Arts Department was only established 27 years ago, and although the Mongolian people claimed to be justified, there was no place for the Han people to stand in the first martial arts department. His mother just wanted to live a peaceful life.

"Because of this, your mother quit?" Xin Shansi asked, "Qi Ningshu agreed?" ”

Li Shang smiled and said, "I don't agree, can my mother marry my father?" ”

Also, Xin Shansi asked: "Later, did he get in?" ”

"Wu Zhuangyuan in the first year of Taishun." Li Shang clenched the letter in his hand, and his voice was very cold: "But in October of the fourth year of Taishun, he was rumored to have died in Beiluoluo Mountain. ”

"Dead on the battlefield?"

"Yes."

Wu Zhuangyuan... Xin Shansi grabbed Li Shang's shoulder: "Fang Kuo said that the owner of the rice shopkeeper is the martial champion of the princess. ”

Li Shang lowered his eyes and read the letter again, and smiled on his lips: "I have always been unable to figure out how many generations of the Li family have been in business, when they are very shrewd, how can the family easily trust the rice shopkeeper and lend him such a large sum of silver?" Now that I have figured it out, if the rice shopkeeper comes in the name of Qi Ningshu, he will say that there is an urgent shortage of grain and grass before the battle. Once confirmed, the Li family will definitely help them. ”

"Qi Ningshu is a mountain chief in Shiyao Mountain, where is that?" Xin Shansi took the letter from Dr. Li's hand and fixed her eyes on the word Qi Ningshu, who had murderous intentions towards a person who had never been masked.

"Camp of demons. I had doubts about that place for a long time, because there was no need to build it. Li Shang's eyes were as cold as an ice cave: "You said that the Li family's silver... Where did it go ? ”

Chapter 70

"Lili timeline..."Xin Shansi checked the letter, and found that the letter was not signed: "Forty years ago, that is, in the eighth year of Liehe, Darihude Siqin went into hiding. In the ninth year of Liehe, Meng Yuling was born, and in the twenty-second year of Liehe, Meng Yuling injured her eldest brother with an arrow, and was given death with her mother..."

"In the early autumn of Liehe's twenty-second year, Qi Ningshu went to Mengdu." Li Shangdao: "I didn't return until the beginning of spring of the following year, and at the end of spring, my mother retired from the family, married to the Li family on the second day of the lunar month, and I was born in November of the twenty-fourth year of Liehe. In the first year of Taishun, Qi Ningshu won the martial champion..."

"Are there a lot of Han people who are educated in the martial arts?" Xin Shansi suspected that Qi Ningshu, the martial champion, had someone to help behind.

"Very little, in the twenty-seventh year of Wuke, Qi Ningshu is the most outstanding among the Han people. Apart from him, no Han Chinese has won the top spot. Li Shang continued to calculate the time: "In September of the second year of Taishun, Qi Ningshu went out with the army. In November of the third year of Taishun, the rice shopkeeper borrowed silver from the Li family, and the Li family was destroyed in the Mid-Autumn Festival of the following year, and Qi Ningshu died in October in battle. ”

"Siqin started buying baby girls 27 years ago." This point is still seven years before the Li family was wiped out, Xin Shansi calculated the time, Qinfeng Tower was built in the eighth or ninth year of Taishun. In the tenth year of Taishun, Lingzhou Fengyue Villa was slaughtered.

"At first, Siqin didn't buy a baby girl very often, and he only bought one every month or two..."Li Shang then turned over the corpse: "Twenty-seven years ago, that is, the twenty-first and twenty-second years of Liehe, at that time, Meng Yuling was only thirteen years old, and he was about to grow up. Her mother has been favored for many years, and she should have accumulated a lot. After that, he was given death, but his savings should have been kept. Save a little, and then have Siqin, Qi Ningshu... Or whoever helps you next to you is enough to last for seven years. ”

Reasonable, Xin Shansi looked at the letter in her hand again: "This letter didn't say who it was for...", looking up at the horse, "Could it be sent to the Hushan Langting?" ”

"Not necessarily..."Li Shang searched the body, and then checked his hands and feet: "At most, it can only be said that the person who sent the letter is from Hushan Langting." ”

"Indeed." She carried two household registers on her own. This is complicated, Xin Shansi laughed: "I don't know where the letter comes from, and I don't know where to send it?" ”

"I don't know where it came from, but where it was sent..." Li Shang found no other useful use in the corpse, and stared at the arrow stuck in the deceased's heart: "I have seen this horse, although its legs and feet are still strong, but from its newly exposed mouth, it must be in the prime of life, and the age is twenty-three or four." ”

"Old horse knows the way?" Xin Shansi withdrew her gaze and turned to Dr. Li, how could he be so smart? Seeing the serious appearance of the person, her heart was pounding, and she didn't care about anything, so she hugged him and nibbled a few bites.

"This arrow—" Li Shang couldn't see anything, but he felt that it was a little different from the arrow he had seen.

"What's wrong?" Xin Shansi asked.

Li Shang shook his head: "I don't know." Pull it out hard: "Take it, and give it to him when you meet Meng Yao one day." He had been in the army for 10 years, so he should know what was wrong. ”

Xin Shansi pulled a cloth towel to pick it up: "Give it to me." ”

Putting the arrow on the cloth towel, Li Shang pulled the corner of the cloth towel and wiped his hands, stood up and saw the ruler sword coming, he said loudly: "Go get a shovel and bury the person." At the end of the day, he sent them a very useful letter, and he could not use a few drops of corpse water to dispose of people at will.

Hearing this, the ruler sword turned around and ran, and soon brought a small shovel. Lu Yao also specially followed and found a piece of land. Remove the saddle and place it next to the corpse. They left nothing but the registers, letters, and arrows. After the man was buried, he led the horse away.

Seeing the horse, Lu Yaozu was unhappy to stay in the donkey cart. It's not early, and the line is going back quickly. Only a few people did not know that they had only been walking for two moments, and two cloth clothes chased them to the fork of Xiaozhang Mountain, and among them was a man who looked like a man with a five-foot bow on his back. Standing on the fork, the two looked left and right, not knowing where to chase.

"Are you sure you shot?" The middle-aged man asked, the axe he was holding in his right hand had dried blood on the blade.

Swen was displeased: "If I say I shoot, I will shoot." ”

After looking around again, how can there be a figure? The middle-aged man was annoyed: "Damn, the twelve brocade clothes are all waste, and a few little minions can't take it, and they dare to be arrogant." How will they explain when they go back this time? ”

"Why is it a little minion?" Swen Wensheng's eyes fell on the small dirt bag not far away: "Those people have been lurking for more than ten or twenty years, and they are not intimidating. The twelve brocade clothes are not their opponents, and it is also reasonable. Moving over, he raised his right hand and drew an arrow, "Come and help." ”

When digging up the corpses, the faces of the two were solemn and abnormal. The middle-aged man picked up the empty letterbox and swallowed: "What should I do?" ”

"How do I know?" Swen recalled last night: "I kept an eye on it, there were nine people in total, and eight of them gave away one of them. This one only ran for more than ten zhang, so I chased him and released three arrows. Could it be...", looking at the axe, "there are more than nine of them, and there are still those who have not been exposed?" ”

Middle-aged people also think so: "So what to do? ”

"Chase again?" The clerk stood up and went to the fork.

"Where are you chasing?" They don't know who the main family behind this group is.

After a pause, the scholar clutched the arrow, was silent for a few moments, and said coldly: "Then go back empty-handed?" ”

The middle-aged man got up: "Go and see if there are any horseshoe prints on the road?" ”

The scholar hurried on the road, scrutinizing it. This is the main road, and there are car wheel prints and hoof prints on the road, but because it is dry on the ground and it is a tuyere, it is not very clear.

The middle-aged man checked the surroundings and found some traces, which were only obviously left by passing by, and he was a little depressed: "They fled all the way to the east, and they would not go to Xishu City, so we split up and chased them east and north, and met here two hours later." ”

There was no other way, so the scholar nodded: "Then let's go." ”

Xin Shansi and his entourage arrived in Xishu City when it was almost dark, and they arrived at the Da Xian Inn. Li Jiujiu had been sleeping for a long time, but after blowing outside for so long today, she still had to take a bath. There was a few whine babbling noises, and when he left the small tub, he fell asleep again. Li Shang kissed and kissed lovingly: "Look at her tired? ”

After the lights went out, the two of them lay down on the bed and said the letter again. Xin Shan thinks about tomorrow Can you ask Gu Mingyi, where did he send a letter to Hushan Langting a few years ago?

"Yes, I want to ask." In the past few years, he has been able to move freely, and he has made many inquiries about the Li family. Everything about the Qi family and Qi Ningshu was also bought by him from several old people who had been dismissed from the Qi family.

Li Shang really didn't expect that a person who had been dead for 20 years would still be alive and well: "Not long after Qi Ningshu set out on the expedition, the Qi family moved to the suburbs of Mengdu. After Qi Ningshu died in battle, the Qi family was also depressed, and their children did not make a living in these years, and they could be regarded as gnawing on the old foundation to live. ”

Xin Shansi played with her daughter's little feet: "Check the Li family's property again, right?" It is also clear who is in the hands of them, and is there any other master behind it? ”

In the dark, Li Shang looked at Jiao Yan who was close at hand, and wanted to get closer, but before he moved, he ran into a small arm, and couldn't help laughing: "Shansi, put it in bed for a while, I want to hug you." ”

"Okay." Xin Shansi was not reserved at all, and when she got up, she moved her daughter inside: "I want to kiss you at the fork of Xiaozhang Mountain in the afternoon." ”

"Then why don't you kiss?" Li Shang hugged his daughter-in-law who came over.

Xin Shansi hugged him: "There is still a corpse on the side, how can I kiss it?" Raise her head to meet his lips.

Li Shang's kiss today is very gentle, sucking lightly, delicate. The two are obsessed with each other, and they are reluctant to leave...

The next day, they didn't need to go to Gu Mingyi, Gu Mingyi came, and Feng Xiyi was there. Hearing that Yijian Villa was going to Linqi with the Su family's mother and son, Xin Shansi smiled and said, "We are also leaving Xishu City tomorrow." ”

"See you next time..."Feng Xi saluted Yan Qing and Li Shang with a teacup: "I don't know what year and month it is, but I wish your family a happy life." ”

"Thank you." Li Shang liked Feng Xiyi's words, took a sip of tea from a cup, and looked at the other side. Gu Ming also took the teacup: "I wish us all the best of luck in Ping Jiqi." ”

Xin Shansi raised her glass: "Okay." After taking the tea as a glass of wine, he got down to business, "Young Master Gu, do you remember where you sent a letter to Hushan Langting five years ago?" ”

"I expected you to ask about this." Gu Ming also went through the matter from the beginning several times in the past two days, and the more he thought about it, the more he tended to speculate on Yan Qing and Li Shang. Yesterday afternoon, father and son gossip, he casually talked about the letter, and also learned something from his father: "Hushan Langting Dong clan. ”

Dong's? Li Shang thought of one person: "Dong Mingsheng? ”

"Yes, that's it." Gu Ming also pointed to twisting the empty porcelain cup back and forth: "Before the first month of the nineteenth year of Taishun, Dong Mingsheng sent a letter to my father, and there was an endgame chess drawing in the letter. My father was not good at chess, but my mother and my great-grandfather were very good. ”

Dongming is good at chess, and he is famous in the rivers and lakes. He is different from Qi Baizi, the old shopkeeper of the Absolute Evil Building, Qi Baizi only likes to read people's hearts through games. Li Shang asked: "What did you send to Hushan Langting to send an endgame cracking map?" ”

"Yes." This Gu Ming also didn't know before, he said: "In order to solve the endgame, my great-grandfather didn't go out for a month. In addition, according to my father, he and Dong Mingsheng were only general friends. ”

"Dong Mingsheng is good at chess, and he is also good at calculation, and he is very high, and ordinary people can't get into his eyes at all." Li Shang was thinking in his heart, the old horse, there is no letter where to come and nowhere to go, and there is no special messenger... Looking at it this way, it really has a bit of Dongmingsheng's taste, but what about the household register?

"It's because I'm too good that my father doesn't dare to have a deep relationship with him." Gu Ming also smiled.

"It's best not to have deep friendships." Feng Xiyi likes smart people, but he is disgusted with pretending to be profound: "That kind of person calculates you, not only does he not feel guilty, but he will also laugh at you stupidly in his heart." ”

Qing Gao... Xin Shansi nodded on the table: "Young Master Gu, go back to Yijian Villa and ask if your great-grandfather still remembers the endgame?" ”

"Don't ask, the old man has a habit of collecting the endgame." Gu Ming also carried a teapot to pour tea for a few people.

Li Shang pushed the cup forward: "Then take a good look at that endgame and see what Dong Mingsheng said in that endgame?" ”

His eyelashes fluttered, and Gu Ming replied: "I will consult my great-grandfather and my mother." ”

"What do you mean?" Feng Xiyi couldn't turn around a little, she also knew a little chess, but why couldn't she understand what they were saying?

Xin Shansi clearly stated: "If a very high-minded person wants to calculate you, will he give some hints in advance, so it cannot be said that he is calculating or unintentional." If you don't realize it, you're stupid.

Dr. Li and I wondered, did this come out of the end of the household with that letter? Gu Shaozhu said that there was an endgame of chess in the letter, and Dong Mingsheng was good at chess... What did he lay out in that game of chess, would he hide all the calculations against the Gu family in the endgame? Of course, these are all just speculations on our part, and we can't be true for the time being. ”

"No, no..."Feng Xi waved his hand: "My master said that if something doesn't make sense, then calculate it the other way around." Substituting everything that is possible and impossible into it will lead to many unexpected results. I couldn't agree more, and I don't think humanity should be underestimated at any time. ”

Gu Ming also poured tea for her: "That's right." ”

"Thank you, Gu Gongzi!" Feng Xi pretended to be weak: "Like the girl in white?" ”

After looking at the red mole at the end of her eye, Gu Ming also shook his head: "It's not like that." She pretends to be weak, just like the vixen described in the strange talk, the charm is charm, but she always feels that she is going to change her face and absorb the essence of the next moment.