But Bai Xing didn't appreciate it, but gave him a blank look, Shen Cuttlefish was slightly embarrassed, and a few beads of sweat oozed from his sideburns. An Ning'er also smiled, shook her head and said, "Hmph, I'm afraid that what Lord Chen thinks, it's not just to ask the Huangquan Dao people to protect the Lord to enter the city to take up his post?"

When Chen Guangrui heard this, he seemed to have seen through his thoughts, he was a little embarrassed, touched his hot forehead, and said helplessly: "Yes, I have some selfishness, and it is this selfishness that has harmed myself and the people of Zhongtianfu." Shen Cuttlefish hurriedly asked: "Where do you start with this?" Chen Guangrui then explained: "I saw that the Taoist priest was extremely skilled, and he had some means, and I expected that if I wanted to investigate the case of Liu Xun, it would not be easy, and maybe there would be a place to use him, although after entering the city again to take office, I begged him to stay." ”

"Who knew that the Taoist pretended to excuse himself at the beginning, but he wanted to get away with it. After my repeated pleas, the Huangquan Taoist was finally willing to stay in Zhongtianfu, and I used my savings for many years to build a Taoist temple for him outside the city for him to live in. At first, the people of Zhongtian Mansion didn't pay much attention to him, until he began to give talismans and water to the people to heal their illnesses and injuries. Fortune is good and evil, and one party is protected. In the market, there are ten and hundreds, and they all know that the Huangquan Taoist Temple outside the city of Tianfu has produced a heavenly master who can penetrate the heavens and the earth, and the people will call him Fang Tianshi, and spend a lot of money to beg him to do things and pray for peace and security. ”

"Since that person came to Zhongtianfu, I don't know if it's a coincidence or that person really has real skills, Zhongtianfu really has the people to live and work in peace and contentment, the grains are abundant, and what cases like thieves and thieves have disappeared without a trace, it can almost be regarded as a road that is not left behind, and the night is not closed. The people respect him more and more, the incense is endless, always worship the incense, originally wanted to pray for blessings and burn incense, but also to drive to the Guangwang Temple dozens of miles away, now only need to go out of the city, and as long as the gift money is in place, the Taoist people have to respond, than the monks and gods and Buddhas of the Guangwang Temple, a hundred times the effect. The people's trust in him even exceeded that of the yamen and the imperial court! If something happened at home, their first reaction was to go out of the city to find the Taoist priest!"

"In this way, isn't Zhongtian Mansion a mess?" Pei Jingnian sighed with an incredible face.

Chen Guangrui sighed heavily, clutched his sleeves, and said with a sad face: "Who says it's not? That Taoist priest's reputation is getting bigger and bigger, but Liu Xun's case has been left at hand without any progress. Just as I was racking my brains for the headless public case of Liu Xun's death, I even wanted to go to the person to ask for a sign and find a clue. Just when I couldn't sleep day and night, hesitating about this matter, I actually found a sealed secret letter among Liu Xun's relics. ”

Shen Cuttlefish asked: "Wait, rumors say that Lord Liu was alone in the house in the middle of the night when he was dealing with official business in the palace, and suddenly disappeared, and even the guards at the door didn't know what happened." And they also looked for clues at the scene of the crime, but found nothing, except for the official documents and case files piled up with books, Lord Liu did not leave anything. The rest of the furnishings, as usual. Where did Master Chen get that secret letter?"

"I found a palm-sized three-legged golden toad in Liu Xun's study, that is, in the study of the government office. But when he had an accident, he left it in the corner of the room, apparently to leave a clue, but those fools didn't take such an important clue seriously. With that, Chen Guangrui took out the golden toad from his arms, and in order to protect the clues, he always took it with him.

Spreading out the palm of his hand, the brass-gilded, two-inch-six-minute long golden toad was revealed, puffing out its cheeks, staring round, and bending its limbs, as if it would jump up from its palm in the next second and flee. The lifelike golden toad was quietly lying in Chen Guangrui's palm, Chen Guangrui sighed lightly and said: "This golden toad is extremely ingenious, it is forged with brass as a whole, and there is no joint gap on the whole body, which is a treasure." But ......"

Chen Guangrui stopped abruptly halfway through his words, and slapped the right hand holding the golden toad on the palm of his left hand, and turned the golden toad's belly to the sky and buckled it in the palm of his left hand. The eyes of Shen Cuttlefish and his party all converged on the golden toad's lower abdomen. I saw that there was an extra crack in the abdomen of the golden toad, and the dark gap was crooked and winding, like a dead tree full of branches, which was extremely conspicuous above the golden toad. Shen Cuttlefish frowned and asked, "This crack is the ...... left by Lord Liu?"

Everyone fell into deep thought, Chen Guangrui nodded heavily, and said earnestly: "This crack was clearly deliberately cut open with a knife, the crack is twisted and irregular, there are many cracks, and there are many traces of friction on the edge of the gap. And in this gap, there is a secret letter. As soon as the words fell, Chen Guangrui handed the golden toad to everyone. Shen Cuttlefish took it with both hands and played with it for a while, Bai Xing saw that he was playing well, and he was not serious, so he bit his lower lip, his face was slightly angry, and he pushed him with his elbow, and Shen Cuttlefish came back to his senses.

Lifting the golden toad high, facing the light, Shen Cuttlefish closed his left eye, stared at the right eye and looked into the slit, after a long time, Bai Xing Tears stabbed his waist impatiently, and muttered in a low voice: "Do you see what?" Shen Cuttlefish put down the golden toad, turned his face to stare at Bai Xing's tears' eyes, shook his head helplessly, and said with a wry smile: "Nothing." Pei Jingnian smiled slightly, hung his head and said, "Presumably, Lord Chen has already taken out the secret letter in advance for the sake of insurance." ”

"Not bad. Miss Pei is worthy of serving in the government, and the secret letter has indeed been taken down by me in advance. Otherwise, if they find out the strangeness of this golden toad, the consequences will be unimaginable. Chen Guangrui took out the stack of boxy secret letters from his underwear expressionlessly, the edge of the crumpled yellow paper had been polished very rough, and it seemed that it must have been hidden by his side for a long time. Shen Cuttlefish just wanted to stretch out his hand, but Bai Xing Tears took the first step, stepped forward and snatched the secret letter, and couldn't wait to open the crumpled letterhead.

The handwriting on it has begun to blur, I don't know if it is caused by time or sweat, but the faint ink marks can vaguely distinguish the handwriting and content of the letter, the crooked handwriting seems to have been written in an extremely tense and hasty situation, the size is different, and the penmanship is chaotic, which makes Bai Xing tear can't help but think: "Could it be that Lord Liu Xun encountered some emergency when writing this letter?"

The other four people rushed forward and gathered around Bai Xing Tears, everyone was quite shocked when they read the contents of the secret letter, even Bai Xing Tears, who had always been disrespectful to the government, was pale, and his hand holding the letter paper was already a little trembling. Slowly lowering his forearm, Bai Xing swallowed tears and said, "Lord Liu has already found out the details of this Huangquan Dao person......

Chen Guangrui closed his eyes slightly, but he couldn't stop the tears that slipped from the corners of his eyes, his pale lips trembled uncontrollably, and he nodded and said, "Not bad." Liu Xun knew that the Huangquan Daoist had ill intentions, and also found out that his original name was Fang Shenxi, who was originally a person from the rivers and lakes, involved in several life lawsuits, and killed people like hemp, and Fang Shenxian had already secretly looked for Liu Xun and proposed cooperation to him, wanting to fool the people of Zhongtianfu with him, and act as a traitor in order to make a profit from it. Huangquan Dao people, ambitious, can't help but want money, but also want power, if you really cooperate with him, it is tantamount to seeking skin with the tiger, and the deeper and deeper you fall. ”

"Sure enough, it's him!Fang Shen Sacrifice!" Pei Jingnian couldn't help but clench his fists, and his clear eyes burst out with a soaring killing intent, "I've been looking for him for so long, and I really met him here!" Bai Xingxian suddenly remembered the murderous fugitive who Pei Jingnian had mentioned a few days ago who also had a golden lotus bone, and suddenly realized: "Could it be that this Huangquan Daoist is the murderer with a golden lotus who escaped from the golden cicada in the prison of Anhuai Mansion!"

"This time, I must catch him!" Pei Jingnian has long forgotten his current identity, and he has also forgotten Yan Jie's entrustment, and he just wants to catch this thief who has escaped in his hands. And Shen Cuttlefish was also quite excited, and hurriedly said: "So, if you catch that person, you can force Jin Lian to ask about it and find my enemy?"

"But you're still cooperating with the Huangquan Dao people. An Ning'er blurted out.

Chen Guangrui's eyes were extremely complicated, his eyes flashed, and he replied word by word: "If I don't do it, my fate will be the same as Liu Xun!" At that time, no one will dare to come to Zhongtianfu again, and even if he comes, he will only fall into the palm of the Huangquan Daoist and become his puppet. No one dares to expose his true face again, I can only save my life and steal my life in order to take down the Huangquan Daoist in the long run. I don't want you to come, I can just take advantage of the unstable foundation of the demon path to destroy all his ambitions!"

"Liu Xun has a resolute personality, how could he be willing to go along with that demon way. Not only did he sternly refuse the Huangquan Daoist's request for cooperation, but he even wanted to catch the demon Dao, but who knew that he was fascinated by his tricks and let him get away. But even so, Liu Xun is still privately collecting deeds and clues about the demon Dao, and wants to bring him to justice. But just when he prepared all the evidence, his life came to an end. Chen Guangrui's face was solemn, like a pool of stagnant water, "He seemed to anticipate this, and at some point, all the officials in the palace, the catcher, the master, and so on, began to become wrong. It seems that it was the soul dementorship method under the demon path that made them lose their minds and came to spy on Liu Xun instead. ”

He had a premonition that the crisis was coming, and hid all the evidence and clues in one place, and wrote this secret letter, writing the situation he imagined and the ins and outs of this time, as well as the origin of the demon road, all written in the secret letter, I wanted to send it back to the capital, hand it over to me, and ask me to try to help, but I didn't expect that before the secret letter was sent, something happened to him. In order to prevent this secret letter from falling into the hands of the demon dao, he chiseled open the golden toad he was carrying and hid the secret letter in it. ”