The battle between Cheng Shi and Zhang Kuan was something Dugujing didn't expect, but he didn't expect that Zhang was not only crazy, but also crazy.

However, the crooked fight was correct, and Cheng Shi attracted everyone's attention, and the two of them were safer.

The two of them were lying on the roof of the attic, and they saw the lights in the distance brightly, one person appeared, and the guards also made a way, thinking that the person must be Le Zhengshang. So the two of them snuck down to the roof of the attic and chased in the direction of the man who had carried the timber away.

Wu Niu is a person who can't do things, but this is just the evaluation given to him by others, he thinks he is a person who can do things, but he is not very good at talking.

Sometimes not being able to speak is not being able to do things.

So Wu Niu is a person who can't do things.

So he always does the dirtiest and most tiring work, and no one has helped him, because no one wants to do the dirtiest and most tiring work, and the dirtiest and most tiring work is often the work without oil and water.

Today, the shopkeeper invited the carpenter master of the whole city to come over and renovate a water pavilion in the backyard, this kind of work is often more oily and watery, Wu Niu didn't expect that he could also participate.

But Wu Niu didn't know how to get oil and water from this kind of work, after all, he was a person who couldn't do things, so he could only listen to other people's arrangements.

He was again assigned to one of the dirtiest and most tiring jobs - transporting wood - and it was also replaced with useless wood that needed to be destroyed.

In fact, Wu Niu still has an advantage, that is, he can work - sometimes being able to work and being able to do things are two different things.

At the same time as the master carpenter began to work, he also began to work, sending the changed timber from the backyard to the flatbed truck in the firewood room in the inner courtyard, because the flatbed could not be pulled to the backyard trestle.

Of course, he didn't send it piece by piece, he waited for a bundle to be saved, and he could help the master carpenter hand over a new plank while waiting, and of course no one helped him in the middle.

From working at night, until now, Wu Niu has been thinking about whether to be a master carpenter more than once, and there is a master carpenter who seems to like himself quite a lot, starting as an apprentice.

The timber is not sent to the firewood room to add matches, because it will have to wait until tomorrow, although the ethereal building will open the fire every day to prepare for breakfast, but there is at least more than an hour before now, and the shopkeeper can't wait, so Wu Niu needs to transport the timber out.

Originally, this was the work of three people, and the shopkeeper asked for at least three people, and it was quickly handled. But no one has returned to do the work that is tired and has no oil and water, and there is not much wood to deal with, and there are too many people for three people, so now there is only Wu Niu alone.

Driving the little donkey pulling the flatbed cart, he didn't care about what happened in the inner courtyard, and walked out of the ethereal building through the side door.

It was very easy to get out of the city, and the people who defended the city were only nominally soldiers of the Song Dynasty, in this place where martial arts people and Jianghu sects gathered, plus nearly 100 people from the Detention Immortal Pavilion appeared in the alliance lord's mansion during the day, so they were held accountable by the people in the rivers and lakes, so now they don't dare to stop more, it is useless.

Out of the state city not far to the west is 800 miles of Yunmengze, to the lake to stop the little donkey, Wu Niu will move the wood out of the car, and then drive the donkey to the distance, with the fire fodder back to prepare for the fire.

But when he got back to the place where the timbers were stacked and was bending to light the fire, suddenly a long sword was placed around his neck, and a crisp voice came: "Don't look back." The voice of another equally young man sounded behind him: "I ask, you answer, don't play tricks." ”

It was Dugujing and Du Xi'er who arrived.

Wu Niu's body trembled, and he couldn't help nodding.

Dugujing asked, "Why did Le Zhengshang replace these woods?"

Wu Niu's voice trembled: "I don't know"

Dugu Jing was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did Le Zhengshang renovate that attic?"

"I heard that the attic is in disrepair, for the safety of the guests. ”

"Then why do you need to destroy the wood that has been replaced?"

"Because...... Because Lu Lao Er died and stayed in the Ethereal Building...... Unlucky. ”

"Who is Lu Laoer?"

"Ranked ...... in martial arts in defense The first person. ”

"To be clear, what defense?"

"The Ethereal Tower guards are divided into two types: 'offensive guard' and 'defense', the offensive guard makes the spear, and the defense makes the long stick. Lu Lao Er has always been the second person in the defense of martial arts, so everyone calls him Lu Lao Er, he just became the first half a month ago, I heard that ...... I heard that he died in the attic today. ”

Dugujing and Du Xi'er glanced at each other, and Dugujing continued to ask, "How did he die, who did he listen to?"

Wu Niu spoke more and more neatly: "Listening to what other guards said, I don't have a good relationship with them, and I only hear a little bit when they talk about it." I heard that Lu Lao Er was not injured, and I don't know how he died. ”

Dugujing looked at Du Xi'er, meaning that he could find something from the point of "no wound", Du Xi'er shook his head. Without a clue, Dugu Jing said in his heart.

Du Xi'er looked at Dugujing with an inquiring gaze, and pressed the sword in his hand down.

Dugujing didn't speak, but Wu Niu was paralyzed in fright, shouting "spare life" in his mouth, and said: "There is a small thing to tell the two of you, and ask the two heroes to save a small life." As he spoke, he knelt on the ground and kept begging for mercy.

Du Xi'er said coldly: "Let's hear it." ”

Wu Niu kept shaking and said, "It's ...... Just after a period of time today, our shopkeeper forbade anyone to enter the backyard, and also refused to allow guests to enter the backyard, and was furious because the subordinates let people into the backyard without permission, but soon led dozens of people from the side door into the ethereal building to the backyard. We were all asked to stay in the inner yard and no one knew what was going on in the backyard. I don't know the next thing. ”

Du Xi'er's hand holding the sword kept trembling, so frightened that Wu Niu kept kowtowing and begging for mercy, saying that everything he knew had been told.

Dugujing couldn't bear it and said, "You go, we won't kill you." ”

"No!" Du Xi'er said coldly, "He will expose us, and we must not let him go back." ”

Wu Niu hurriedly kowtowed and said: "The small one will never say it, the small one will say that the thing has been burned, and I will definitely not mention that I have met two heroes, and I beg the heroes to spare their lives......" The forehead slammed on the wooden board, which sounded really light.

Dugu Jing said: "He is not a murderer, Qin ...... Why should we bother the innocent? ”

Du Xi'er looked at Dugu Jing coldly and said, "Who in this world is not innocent? You and I are both innocent people, but if Le Zhengshang finds out, what do you think he will do?"

Dugujing didn't speak.

Wu Niu hugged his head and lay on the wood and cried bitterly, a man in his thirties cried loudly in front of the two juniors, without thinking about resisting or fighting to the death, just like his life in the past 30 years.

Dugujing's eyes were sour, but he couldn't say anything to plead.

The long sword in Du Xi'er's hand trembled more and more, and Dugujing suddenly found that a tear flowed out of Du Xi'er's eyes, and she couldn't bear it.

Dugujing took a deep breath, spit out slowly, and said lightly: "It turns out that Miss Qin also has a favor." ”

Du Xi'er put her long sword into the sheath and stretched out her hand to wipe away her tears, and said with a calm face: "Life, be sad." ”

Dugu Jing had a flash of inspiration and said to Wu Niu: "You have revealed so much information about the Ethereal Tower, if you go back to Le Zhengshang, you will definitely not let you go, if you ride that donkey to the north, the farther the better, and swear never to return to Lizhou City, we will not kill you." ”

Wu Niu kowtowed: "Thank you two heroes, thank you two heroes, the little one swears that he will never participate in the affairs of the rivers and lakes again in this life, and he will never return to Lizhou City...... hacked to death with a knife......"

Dugu Jing said: "Okay, okay, you can leave quickly." He added: "Leave the fire fold, and I'll help you burn it in a while." ”

Wu Niu left the fire fold and took the donkey and went north, and then went to the land of the Northern Han Dynasty in the north of Fenzhou, near the border of Liao. But eleven years later, the Northern Han was also destroyed by the Song, and Wu Niu returned to the jurisdiction of the Song again. But that's a later story, so don't mention it.

After Wu Niu left, Dugujing and Du Xi'er began to check the piled up wood one by one.

Most of the wood can hardly see whether there are any scratches, find a part of the wood that can only see the faint scratches when you look closely, and hand it to Du Xi'er to look at, Du Xi'er also shook his head after looking at it, and it was featureless. It may be possible to restore all the wood to find clues.

Du Xi'er rummaged and said: "If you can find serious damage, obvious traces are enough, serious damage means that it is the landing point of the force, although the rear force will also damage the plank, but the value is not high." Dugujing suddenly realized, lowered his head and pulled quickly.

After about a stick of incense, the two of them finally cleaned up their things, lit the fire-burning grass, and slowly the fire became bigger and bigger. By the bright light of the fire, Du Xi'er squatted on the ground and looked at a few pieces of wood.

One plank was broken into three, and nothing unusual could be seen when put together.

There was a hole in a plank, and I don't know what poked it, but it was certain that the object must have passed directly through the plank, not on the board, because the hole was the same size on both sides.

Two long pieces of wood, with several large and small holes for fixing mortise and tenon joints, one of which was broken in two.

A relatively intact piece of wood, a deep wound cut by a sharp weapon, almost cutting the piece of wood into two, the scar is deep in the middle and narrow on both sides, it should be a knife.

A quick plank, intact, near the end of the position there is a strange trace, is connected horizontal and vertical, and the horizontal and vertical bends are more rounded, like the stroke of a certain word.

Other than that, it's gone.

"How?" Dugujing looked at her face badly, but still asked.

Du Xi'er's cheeks were hot from the scorching flames, and he pinched the last plank with both hands, and shook his head gently, with a sadness in his eyes.

Dugujing walked to her side gently, but saw that she stretched out her right index finger and swiped over the horizontal and vertical marks on the wooden board, and suddenly turned the wooden board upside down as if she had found something, and the traces became vertical.

Du Xi'er's index finger slowly swiped over, and the nail was perfectly embedded in the marks, and as the fingers moved, it looked like the marks that had just been carved with the fingers.

"This is?" Dugujing asked in surprise.

Du Xi'er said in a hoarse voice: "This is what my master carved out with his fingertips, and now I can be sure that my master must have had an accident in the attic." ”