Outside the Blizzard Inn.

The middle-aged shopkeeper and the young swordsman in green shirts stood side by side.

"Is it a delusion? But I see it······ Is it all fake?" Li Zijin muttered to himself, frowning slightly, looking at the old man Chai in front of him, who he had never seen through.

The young man recalled the smell of blood he had smelled in the room just now, and the bloody appearance of Qiao Hongmiao's head he saw was still in his eyes.

However, why did the head in the brocade box suddenly turn into a watermelon?

Is Qiao Hongmiao dead or not?Why did Tong Temple and them appear in the Flying Snow Inn so suddenly?

If Qiao Hongmiao is really dead, then is he cleared of suspicion?

The God of Wealth of Zheng Guo, with a smile on his face, asked the young man, "What is true and what is false?"

Li Zijin didn't know why, raised his head and looked at the man.

The middle-aged shopkeeper no longer looked at the young man beside him, but slowly closed the brocade box, looked up into the clouds, and muttered: "What you see with your eyes may not be true, and what you have experienced may be all your imagination." Life in the world is like a white horse passing through a gap, a big dream. Why should you and I be obsessed with what is true and which is false? ”

Seeing that the middle-aged shopkeeper didn't seem to plan to return the brocade box to himself, Li Zijin was getting closer again, and took a closer look, it was indeed just a watermelon.

At this moment, the young swordsman, who failed to understand the meaning of Old Man Chai's words, thought for a moment, and finally hugged his fist at the middle-aged shopkeeper, said goodbye, and turned his head back to the inn.

After watching Li Zijin leave, the middle-aged shopkeeper who was actually the God of Wealth of Zheng Guo quietly put away the spiritual power covering the brocade box.

After the blinding method failed, a smell of blood refilled the brocade box.

Master Chai raised the lid of the brocade box in his hand slightly with his fingertips, revealing a gap.

Inside the gap, the skull is only.

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Half an hour ago.

As soon as Li Zijin left the Zhehua Building, the shopkeeper of the Feixue Inn suddenly disappeared from the Tianzi room on the eighteenth floor, and immediately appeared behind a handsome man on the nineteenth floor.

"The owner is so interested?" asked the man with a smile.

"Actually, in the Orihua Building, I prefer to be called the landlord. The handsome man didn't look back, and looked out from the railing, as if he could see the young swordsman in green shirt flying up the wall at a ghostly speed, trampling on countless houses, and rushing back to the Flying Snow Inn.

The shopkeeper of the Feixue Inn walked up to the owner of the Folding Flower Building, and looked into the distance with him, his eyes could also fall on Li Zijin.

The middle-aged shopkeeper sighed: "The world always says that climbing high and looking far is true. ”

The man beside him shook his head and smiled: "Don't you know that the height is cold?"

"People like you and me can be regarded as being in a high place?" the middle-aged shopkeeper sneered, "It seems that you, the owner of the Folding Flower Building, have really been mixed among women all year round, and even your eyes have become short-sighted." How big is the swaying and the sky is so high, how can you and I imagine? Those who live in a corner and have never seen the vast world with their own eyes are like frogs at the bottom of a well, sitting in a well and watching the sky. ”

Shen Xiuyong smiled calmly, remembering that he had the honor to watch a female sword fairy dancing the sword up close, and remembering the temper of the female sword immortal, he also said with color: "Master Chai said this, but he is prejudiced against Fuyao women?"

This God of Wealth with a golden body in the Zhengguo God of Wealth Temple was instantly deflated, and the words in Shen Xiuyong's mouth came from a female sword immortal named Yunmeng.

That female sword fairy likes to hide her face with a veil, and no man in the world has ever seen her true face.

Yunmeng's swordsmanship is also extremely high, and he once temporarily replaced the Rouge of the Tomb Guards, sitting on a winning thing, and has a cultivation that is extremely close to the four major Tomb Keepers of Fuyao, so the realm naturally does not need to be said.

At least, it's far from being comparable to the God of Wealth.

The gods of the world, although they are noble gods, the road to heaven does not need to be easy for qi refiners.

Located in Honghu Prefecture, where the aura is thin, the God of Wealth in a small vassal country like Zheng Guo is even more so.

On the spectrum of hundreds of immortals, what about the name on the register?

Facing the sword immortals on the top of the mountain who can understand the sword, even if it is his old man, he has to bow his head and give way.

Although Shen Xiuyong compared the women's sword immortals with the "fat powder women" in the Fengyue place like Zhehualou, there is a suspicion of confusing the public, which is a way of strong words and sophistry.

But Master Chai still doesn't plan to continue to express his opinions with the other party and argue, this time he "climbs high and looks far", he just wants to see what this Shen Xiuyong wants?

gave himself a gift first, and said that he would give Li Zijin a gift.

The boy who gives money is afraid that he is not like this.

Is there really a free lunch in the world?

"I'm curious, who is Master Shen, and what does he want to do?" the middle-aged shopkeeper asked curiously, glancing at the handsome man beside him.

Hearing this, Shen Xiuyong smiled dumbly, "Who am I, where do I come from, and where am I going, these are three questions that have puzzled Shen for a long time. Unfortunately, even I have not been able to find the right answer so far. If he finds it in the future, Shen will inform Master Chai. It's just ······ Is there really a 'right answer' in this world?"

The middle-aged shopkeeper looked at the figure that was getting closer and closer to the Feixue Inn, and said in a deep voice: "Master Shen Fang doesn't want to beat around the bush. Chai just wants to know, what do you want to do to Li Zijin and Feixue Inn?"

"Be friends. The handsome man didn't even think about it, and gave the answer directly.

His smile was sincere enough, but his eyes were too deep, a look that was hard to believe, declaring that the guy with such deep eyes had the same deep scheming and city as his eyes.

Even if such a person sincerely wants to be friends with others, they will not trust them easily.

For example······ Master Chai at this moment.

Master Chai spread out his palm, and a fortune cup appeared out of thin air in his palm, and he moved his hand to the handsome man's side.

"What does Master Chai mean by this?" Shen Xiuyong tilted his head slightly with a harmless look on his face.

"It's tiring to be friends with someone like Master Shen, and Chai may not be able to do it. The meaning of the middle-aged shopkeeper is to return this precious gift to himself.

"Don't even want a cup of wealth?" Shen Xiuyong didn't explain anything, but kept testing the bottom line of this Zheng Guo God of Wealth.

The middle-aged shopkeeper smiled indifferently: "A gentleman loves money and takes it in a good way." ”

He didn't believe Shen Xiuyong, and he didn't want to "go along with him".

The middle-aged shopkeeper, who was a friend of the old man in Jinhuai Bookstore, was inevitably on Li Zijin's side.

And beside him, Shen Xiuyong, who is also the owner of the Zhehua Building and the owner of Kaoyufang, if he really wants to attack Li Zijin, it is absolutely impossible for Master Chai to sit idly by.

Standing in such a sensitive position, this Zheng Guo God of Wealth cannot accept this gift.

This is different from the smiling tiger boy temple who came to the door to ask questions and gave himself incense foil.

The cup in his hand is much hotter than the incense foil.

The matter has come to this point, so there is no reason why Shen Xiu will never tell the whole truth.

He gently pushed away Master Chai's hand and explained: "Shen and Li Zijin are friends but not enemies. The same is true for Feixue Inn and Jinhuai Bookstore. What I gave him was indeed a gift. ”

Master Chai asked, "What kind of gift?"

Shen Xiuyong replied with a smile: "A human head." ”

"Whose head?" the middle-aged shopkeeper's face was a little ugly.

"Arrest the Ya chasing the murderer, the son of the Shangshu of Zheng Guobing's department, and the head of Qiao Hongmiao. Between the words, Shen Xiuyong was calm and composed, as if he had just gotten rid of an inconsequential country man, rather than a young master who was still a scholar of the military department.

"Then you are also a gift, a gift that pushes your 'friend' into the fire pit so that he can be chased and killed by half of Zheng Guo?" Old Man Chai was already thinking about how to send Li Zijin out of the city.

On the Qiao Mansion's side, there are many eyes and ears in Jinhuai City, and the ground network qi refiners and martial artists also sneaked into Jinhuai City one after another after that little Qiao went to the post of the arrest department to chase the murderer, disguised their identities, and waited for an opportunity to move.

The owner of the Folding Flower Building, seeing the gloomy face of the old man Chai beside him, laughed and said: "How thoughtful I am when I am the old man Chai, it seems that even if I have been the shopkeeper for so many years, I am very sloppy!"

And the shopkeeper of the Flying Snow Inn couldn't say a word, just stared at the handsome man beside him, hoping to find the answer he wanted from his eyes.

Looking at Zheng Guocai, who looked so serious, Shen Xiuyong restrained a little and explained carefully: "Although Shen is not a far-sighted person, and his work is far from the level of leakage, he also knows what it means to 'have a beginning and an end', Qiao Hongmiao was assassinated, there is already a murderer, and he will be arrested a little later." Li Zijin is sure to be safe and sound, please let Master Chai relax. ”

Master Chai was skeptical, and then asked: "Are you so sure, are you sure that the Qiao Mansion will not suspect Li Zijin?" After all, when he first arrived, he had a holiday with Qiao Hongmiao in Huajian Ji, and many people present witnessed it with their own eyes. ”

The handsome man nodded, "How can you not be suspected?" Li Zijin will definitely be suspected. And······ I also sent someone to inform the smiling tiger in advance, and told him to take someone to the Feixue Inn to catch the murderer, it seems that they should be arriving at Tongsi Temple soon, right?"

Without waiting for Master Chai to ask, Shen Xiuyong himself continued: "What is Master Chai anxious about? If you want to completely get rid of the suspicion of a person, you can't blindly escape it first, otherwise wouldn't there be no three hundred taels of silver here? As soon as possible, Li Zijin should appear in front of Tong Temple and the monks of the Earth Net, and see the gift in his hand with his own eyes······ At this time, the veto can eliminate half of Qiao's doubts. Later, the person I had arranged in advance would be 'accidentally' caught by the officers and soldiers who wanted to arrest the Ya, and then 'unintentionally' leak his mouth, revealing some clues about his assassination of Qiao Hongmiao, and then being severely tortured, so that the process of being forced to confess would be more tortuous and bizarre. In the end, 'helplessly', he personally admitted the fact that he killed Qiao Hongmiao, and then revealed the location where he hid Qiao Hongmiao's head. The human and material evidence are all there, and the case process is complete, seamless, and clear. At this moment, he can eliminate the doubts of the other half of Qiao's Mansion and get rid of all the suspicions of Li Zijin. ”

Hearing this, the middle-aged shopkeeper of the Feixue Inn breathed a sigh of relief completely, and a boulder was unloaded in his heart. Then, he looked at the owner of the Folding Flower Building beside him with the eyes of a monster, and felt that a person who worked so hard to such an extent could really sleep at night?

What is in their heads?

In addition to calculation, is there a little bit of normal people's joys, sorrows, and sorrows?

Rao is the god of wealth with a golden body in the temple of Zhengguo Caishen, and he has to sigh with emotion, people's hearts are extremely complicated, and in a moment, he will play with a Qiao Mansion in applause.

For such a person, it is very simple to save someone.

But how terrible such a person will be when he wants to harm someone.

Shen Xiuyong looked at the God of Wealth, who was finally no longer aggressive, turned his head and continued to look into the distance, stretched out a finger, pointed in one direction, and said an intriguing word: "Master Chai, look, that is the direction of Zheng Guo's capital city, is it far?"

The shopkeeper of the Feixue Inn suddenly remembered something, and he didn't have time to answer the question of the person next to him, his figure flashed away, and he disappeared on the top floor of the Zhehua Building in an instant, and went to the outside of the Feixue Inn.

And the handsome man who was left alone on the folding flower building and liked to look at the distance by the railing, when he was alone, he finally didn't have to show a hypocritical smile that had been practiced thousands of times, but was expressionless and asked and answered himself.

"It's not far enough. ”

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In the prison cell.

The smiling tiger with a needle hidden in the cotton is closing his eyes and recuperating.

Tong Temple's heart was extremely depressed.

Previously, he had already sent a flying sword to Zheng Guojing, telling Lord Shangshu of the Ministry of War that his beloved son had died.

At the moment, it is not known what the reaction will be on Qiao Gaotang's side. Qiao Hongmiao died, and all the underground network qi refiners and martial artists in Jinhuai City, including the dead soldiers and spies sent by the capital to secretly protect Qiao Hongmiao, were all responsible.

Even his Tong Temple is absolutely inseparable.

Such a living person was secretly beheaded under everyone's noses.

This is a great shame for the arrest of the Ya, for the ground net, for the Tong Temple, and for the Qiao Mansion. It is a black spot that can not be erased for a lifetime, and will be regarded by the world as an after-dinner conversation, and regarded as a laughing stock by the enemy.

At first, Tong Si thought that the murderer would be the green-shirted young swordsman at the Feixue Inn, after all, he was the only one who had a conflict with Qiao Hongmiao on the surface.

However, the information that I got secretly that Li Zijin was the murderer turned out to be wrong.

Tong Si took the monk to the Feixue Inn, intending to catch Li Zijin, but he didn't think about it, but he made a fuss.

At that time, the clue was interrupted, and the smiling tiger was very anxious, afraid that the punishment would be lowered in the capital, that Qiao Gaotang would be angry with him, and that he would never be reused by the Lord Shangshu of the military department in the future, and that he could no longer hold the power and grasp the information of half of the temples of Zheng Guo for Linglong City.

But there is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it, so it is at the end of the Tong Temple, and the Ya is arrested, saying that he has caught a suspicious guy, and he was stopped by the officers and soldiers for questioning, saying that he leaked his mouth, and it is said that it seems to be related to Qiao Hongmiao's death. At that time, the officers and soldiers who wanted to arrest him wanted to arrest him, but they were defeated by the thief, just because the thief turned out to be a rare Six Realms Sword Cultivator!

Fortunately, Tong Temple led a group of Earth Net Cultivators, and on the way out of the Flying Snow Inn, they happened to encounter that scene, and dozens of Earth Net Monks joined forces to subdue a Six Realms Sword Cultivator.

Now the thief was arrested and brought back to the prison cell, where he was tortured to extract a confession.

Judging from the realm cultivation, that person's strength in refining the sword cultivation of the God Realm did have the opportunity to hide the entire arrest office, including the secret sentry installed by Qiao's Mansion in Jinhuai City, and sneak into Qiao Hongmiao's bedroom and kill him.

But what is the motivation?

What kind of life-and-death enmity does this person have with Qiao Hongmiao, or Qiao Fu, who needs him to risk his life and never die?

At present, the man has been tortured to extract a confession for a long time, but he has never confessed, and he keeps saying that they have arrested the wrong person and that he has been wronged.

However, the officers and soldiers who wanted to arrest the Ya did remember that the man had said that he had leaked his mouth before, and there were blood stains on his body, and he was still haunting the vicinity of the Yaya, which made it really difficult not to suspect him.

An officer and soldier who wanted to arrest the Ya held a long whip in his hand, and the long whip was covered with blood, and he sweated profusely and walked out of the cell where the sword cultivator was held, and came to the smiling Hutong Temple, shook his head and sighed: "Tell the steward Tong that the thief has hard bones, and he can't be recruited alive or dead, and ask him where the blood stains on his clothes and sword came from before, and why he haunted the area around the arresting Ya, he can't answer." Could it be that we really caught the wrong person?"

Tong Si snorted coldly, "How can a prisoner admit that he is a murderer as soon as he comes up? There are fresh blood stains on his sword and clothes, and he appeared near the arrest office so coincidentally, isn't it a thief? Continue to beat me until I confess." Be sure to give an explanation to the above. ”

The officer and soldier who wanted to arrest the Ya had a sad face, but he didn't dare to disobey the order of the smiling tiger, so he could only walk back to the cell with a long whip.

A messenger flying sword suddenly descended on the Arrest Ya, flew into the arrest ya's cell through the gap in the window, and finally hovered in front of the smiling tiger boy temple.

He suddenly got up and took the letter from the flying sword with a nervous expression, his hands trembling slightly.

Tong Si recognized this messenger flying sword, it was the exclusive messenger flying sword of the military department, Qiao Gaotang, Qiao Gaotang has always only used this flying sword when transmitting extremely important information.

Rao is this smiling tiger, and before opening the letter, he couldn't help but swallow his saliva.

Everyone in Zheng Guo said that he was ruthless and cruel, but they didn't know that Master Qiao was the real "hard-hearted".

Qiao Gaotang's punishment methods and torture methods are endless, and when they fall into his hands, they will not die and have to shed their skin.

Compared with it, his own methods are really not ruthless.

Tong Si trembled and unfolded the letter, there were only a few words on the letter, but it had already made him sweat coldly.

"Three Days"

Tong Si knew that Qiao Gaotang's three days were meant to give him a three-day deadline to arrest the murderer.

It is also ······ Give him a three-day period to live.

At the moment, the smiling tiger has no doubt that if he fails to bring the murderer to justice within three days, then what awaits him after three days will definitely be death.

And before he dies, he will go through inhumane torture.

It's going to hurt.

Thinking of this, there is no need to delay for a moment.

"Wait!" Tong Si suddenly spoke, shouting to the arresting officer who was walking towards the cell.

The officer and soldier who held the long whip in his hand and had been whipping the Six Realms Sword for several hours, and rarely stopped to rest halfway through, turned his head and looked at Tong Temple in confusion, and said suspiciously: "My lord?"

Tong Si held the letter paper in his hand, his face was extremely gloomy, and he slowly walked into the cell, his eyes were so cold that he didn't look like a person, and said softly: "You have worked hard, go and rest." ”

If the officer and soldier received the pardon order, he could finally rest, he was grateful, thanked the Tong Temple again and again, and hurried out of the cell, and when he was about to leave, the officer and soldier who wanted to take the Ya suddenly turned around and asked, "By the way, Steward Tong, do you need me to leave it?"

Tong Si glanced at the long whip in his hand, and that look looked like a child's toy, he smiled and shook his head, "No need, I have ······ Better instruments of torture. ”

Although the boy butler was laughing, but in the eyes of the officers and soldiers, he did not feel the slightest warmth, but a chill down his spine, which was terrifying, and he hurriedly said goodbye and left, away from this place of right and wrong, afraid that he would see the scene later, so that he would vomit all yesterday's food. After all, the name of this smiling tiger is well known.

After the officer and soldier left, Tong Si gently closed the cell door, paused slightly, and slowly walked to the fire in the cell for lighting, and in the fire there was an iron brand.

Tong Temple threw the letter in his hand into the flames.

That Six Realms Sword Cultivator was bound by iron chains, his hands and feet were bound, and his body was covered with scars from being whipped and bloodstained.

He looked at Tong Si, who was slowly walking towards him with a smile on his face, and begged bitterly: "My lord, please let me go, I am really not a murderer." ”

Tong Si ignored his pleas, just took out a pill from his sleeve and said to the sword cultivator, "You should know this?"

Jian Xiu, who was already covered in bruises, looked at the turtle marrow pill in the hand of the smiling tiger, nodded and replied truthfully: "Recognize it, this is the turtle marrow pill, it has the effect of refreshing the mind, relieving pain and removing stasis, it is extremely precious and valuable." ”

"Yes, it is a blessing for you to be able to take such a panacea, come, open your mouth. Tong Si smiled and squinted, feeding the sword cultivator to subdue the turtle marrow pill.

The sword cultivator subdued the Turtle Marrow Pill, and immediately felt that the pain caused by the scars on his body had weakened by half, his breathing had become smoother, and his brain had regained his consciousness instead of the previous state of confusion, so he said gratefully: "I'm much better, thank you for the medicine, the Lord is clear, I am really wronged, and I really arrested the wrong person." ”

"Shh······h Tong Si smiled and shook his head, "You think too much, the Turtle Marrow Pill is not used to help you relieve pain." ”

The sword cultivator's smile instantly froze, and he had an ominous premonition in his heart.

Tong Si took a step forward, approached the sword cultivator, and whispered in his ear: "It's to help you refresh yourself, lest you pass out directly later." ”

The man's face turned pale, and he knew that something was wrong.

Tong Si took out a small box from his waist and said with a smile: "Actually, I like the title of the smiling tiger with a needle in Mianli, which suits me very well and is very realistic." When I first entered Qiao's Mansion, Master Shangshu taught me how to use needles, and I was only eight years old at the time, and I already knew how to make people roar like beasts. ”

As he spoke, the small box was suddenly opened, revealing more than twenty needles of different lengths, thicknesses, ranks, and colors.

Jian Xiu's cold sweat had already slid down his cheeks, and he began to shake his head constantly.

The smiling Hutong Temple said to himself: "Later, I found that it is not as clever to use needles to make people scream as it is to use needles to make people 'silent'. So I learned more advanced needle skills, which can be pierced in all kinds of mysterious and mysterious tricks, so that people can't survive or die. The most important thing is that they can no longer make any screams, just like mud cows entering the sea, unable to make any waves. It's hard to describe how it feels to cry and scream at first, but in the end, they don't even have the strength to make a sound······ That's okay, soon you'll understand. ”

Tong Si picked among the small boxes, and finally picked out a thin needle that he was more satisfied with, walked to the fire, inserted the tip of the needle into the flame, and said with a smile: "You must not be able to wait, wait a minute, I will be fine immediately." ”

In the flickering firelight, the man held a thin needle in his hand and suddenly looked back, "By the way, have you ever heard of it······ Ten fingers to heart?"

this day.

The screams in the prison cell continued until the second half of the night before gradually subsided, disturbing the people in a nearby street who could not sleep.

It's just that those voices eventually return to darkness, and these voices rarely can see the light in dark places.

Before dawn, Jian Xiu's mouth moved slightly, and in the ears of the tired Tong Temple, he used all his strength to squeeze out two words that were almost silent.

"I'll recruit. ”