The cold wind is like a cut, the winter clouds are dense, and on the teahouse where Jinling Xiangyu lives, Xie Yixiang is wrapped in a mink cotton jacket, sitting sideways against the guardrail, poking his head and looking downstairs. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At this time, it has been more than a month since the rebellion of Taiyuan Guan was quelled, and the case of the face-tearing demon that caused a lot of noise was also solved. In the end, the torture room and the Duwei Mansion were in the secret room of the mountain behind Taiyuan Guan, and the culprit of all these disputes, Xiyi Zhenren, was captured. It's just that Na Xiyi Zhenren was seriously injured when he was arrested, and his mind was even more disordered, and his mouth was full of words that didn't match the afterword, and he couldn't interrogate anything at all.

Under the pressure of the emperor, the imperial court reviewed it day and night, and it only took more than half a month to conclude such a big case, which can be said to be a rapid progress. It wasn't until a few days ago that Xiyi Zhenren's death sentence was finally sentenced, and he was beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market to show the public. And those disciples under the Taiyuan Guan Sect were either beheaded, imprisoned, or exiled, but none of them escaped. As for the large number of refugees who were taken in by Taiyuan Guan, they were also recruited by the imperial court, and most of them were incorporated into the army and transferred to the north of the desert to fight against the remnants of the previous dynasty.

However, what was surprising was that on the night of the rebellion, several money houses in the capital were stolen at the same time, and even the national treasury was not spared, and tens of thousands of goods were smuggled out of Beijing overnight. You must know that the whole capital was in chaos that night, and there was no clue about the occurrence of such thefts, and there was no way to investigate them. In a fit of rage, a large number of officials were implicated, and thousands of people were arrested and tortured in prison, but there has been no result so far. Its impact is far greater than that of the Taiyuan Temple Rebellion.

Although it is already afternoon, there are few people on the street, and with the advent of winter, it reveals a sense of desertion and depression. Xie Yixiang stared downstairs blankly for a long time, and finally turned her head and called out to the man in white sitting opposite her, "Hey!"

Xian Jingyue, who was on the other side, couldn't help but put down the book in his hand and raised his head with a puzzled expression. Xie Yixiang thought for a moment before saying: "I insisted on going my own way, although I finally caught the face-ripping demon, but it caused this earth-shattering event, so that many innocent people were implicated in it, could it be that I was wrong for all this?"

Xian Jingyue just smiled slightly and said, "Maybe." ”

Xie Yixiang suddenly looked lost, and said in a low voice: "In the past, the reason why I had to go to the torture room to catch fast was mostly because I hated the disputes in the imperial court, and I wanted to get out of my father's protection and break out of the world on my own. But after this incident, I realized that I was so useless. Sometimes it is clear that you want to do something good, but it leads to unexpected consequences, but sometimes doing something bad can save more people's lives. ”

She looked up at the backlog of white clouds in the sky and sighed, "I really can't understand the mystery, or maybe as that guy said, there is no right or wrong in this world?"

I only heard Xian Jingyue reply: "We are just mortals, and we can't see so much right and wrong. It is good if you have peace of mind in all things. ”

Xie Yixiang read Xian Jingyue's words over and over again, suddenly brightened, and said: "Yes, I am just a fast catcher, and the duty of fast catches is to punish rape and eliminate evil, do my duty, and be worthy of my conscience, which is enough." ”

Seeing that she had regained her confidence, Xian Jingyue said slowly: "The ignorant are fearless and are horsemen; Xie Yixiang nodded solemnly and said, "Senior brother is right, I must not easily give up my persistence just because I see the hardships of this world. I prefer to face the difficulties and never admit defeat. ”

Xian Jingyue saw that her heart knot had been untied, and she lowered her head and flipped through the book in her hand. Xie Yixiang bit her lip and couldn't help but say, "I'm still going to continue to do fast catching, and I want to be a good catcher." ”

Xian Jingyue didn't look up this time, just said "um", Xie Yixiang couldn't help but stretch out her foot and kick him, and said with some annoyance: "Before...... Didn't I say yes before, I first experienced two years in the torture room, and then we ...... Only...... But now I have to continue to do fast fishing, and I must rely on my own strength to make achievements. ”

Hearing her such an obvious hint, Xian Jingyue didn't care at all, and said casually: "What you decide, no one in the world can persuade you, why should I object." Xie Yixiang's face turned red, and she said angrily: "Since you don't care, then I'm not in a hurry." I'm only sixteen years old anyway, so you're getting older faster. ”

After saying this, she saw that Xian Jingyue still didn't react, and she didn't even blink her eyelids, and she suddenly became angry. She stood up abruptly, pulling out the chaos and slashing backwards.

But seeing the crimson knife light passing by, a brocade-clothed merchant at the next table immediately screamed, but it was the pure gold dry tobacco stick in his hand that was split in half by Xie Yixiang.

Xie Yixiang stared at the merchant fiercely, and said in a deep voice: "Don't think that if you helped me this time, I will be grateful to you. From now on, no matter where you are, sooner or later, I will have to take you back to the prison. The brocade-clothed merchant was so frightened that his face was pale, and the third lady of the Xie family in front of him was a regular customer of this "Xiangyuju", how could he not know it? Hurriedly said: "The third lady spares her life...... Villain...... The villain has never done anything bad......"

Xie Yixiang interrupted him and said, "I know you're not him, but who told you to smoke dry tobacco in front of me?" The brocade-clothed merchant was inexplicable, and seeing that Xie Yixiang no longer moved, he hurriedly put down a handful of copper coins and hurried downstairs.

It must be known that the "tea" and "cigarette" were originally a family, and at this moment, a small half of the guests upstairs in Xiangyu House were smoking dry tobacco, seeing that the third lady of Xie Fengxuan's family was angry because of this, and seeing the chaotic cold light in her hand, how could she dare to stay?

When the other guests were all gone, Xian Jingyue immediately snorted coldly: "Come out for me." ”

Xie Yixiang heard him speak, and before he came back to his senses, he heard a strange laugh coming from the roof, and a man said in a strange voice: "What a first Jingyue, you can actually break through my hideout." If it weren't for the fact that this girl suddenly went crazy and scared Lao Tzu a lot, she gasped. Otherwise, you won't find me. ”

As soon as he had finished speaking, a man dressed in black appeared in front of them, no more than thirty or forty years old, with gray hair piled up unkemptly on his head, and his eyes were red and swollen, as if he had not slept in days.

Xie Yixiang hadn't had time to take it back before she could take it back, and when she saw the appearance of the person who came, although her black clothes were tattered, she looked like a fast public uniform, and she suddenly remembered someone. She was shocked in her heart and asked, "Could it be the merchant head of Beiping?"

The man in black snorted coldly and said, "It turns out that you know that I am from Beiping, and it took me more than a month to come here, but I was unexpectedly disturbed by you." ”

Xie Yixiang listened to him speak vulgarly, but he undoubtedly admitted his identity, and couldn't help but be in awe. Among today's fast catches, the most prestigious is the so-called "Nanzhuang North Merchants", one is Jiangnan Zhuang Haoming, and the other is the Beiping Merchants in front of him. Zhuang Haoming is okay, but this businessman does not give up but is an extremely powerful character, it is said that he specializes in the investigation of unsolved cases, and the more fierce the criminal, the more interested he is. No matter how good the other party is, once he is targeted, he will not be able to escape his tracking, so he is nicknamed "Wicked Man Mill".

A few days ago, Xie Yixiang also heard that Shang Buqi came to Jinling, and also appeared at the scene of the crime of the face-tearing demon, but this Shang Buqi did not go to Jinling's criminal arrest room to officially report, everyone thought that his appearance was just a coincidence, and they did not take it to heart, but now he actually appeared in the capital again. Xie Yixiang was surprised, but when she saw that the merchant was angry, she stretched out her hand and pointed at herself and said, "You girl is a bastard, it hurts Lao Tzu ......."

This is the third time he has called himself "Lao Tzu", who knew that just halfway through the words, suddenly a piercing chill hit for no reason, making Shang Buqi shiver. Turning his head to look, it turned out to be Xian Jingyue, who was sitting next to him, slowly removed the long knife on his waist, gently placed it on the tea table, and continued to look down at the book.

Shang Buqi looked at the pitch-black parting on the table, and couldn't help but shudder again, and immediately snorted, so he had to suppress his anger, and said hatefully: "If it weren't for your girl to stir up the situation, the face-ripping demon would have been caught by me a long time ago." ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Xie Yixiang, but even Xian Jingyue was stunned. Xie Yixiang hurriedly asked, "What did Shang Zhutou say about this?"

Shang Buqi glanced at Xian Jingyue next to him, and said in a calm tone as much as possible: "More than three months ago, I heard about the case of the face-ripping demon, and I know about your Jiangnan ...... These catchers couldn't stop him, so they set off from Beiping and hurried. has been hiding in Jinling City to investigate and secretly visit, and found a lot of information about the face-ripping demon. Unexpectedly, there was a strange case in Liaodong, so I had to pull out and rush back. This back and forth, it took me more than a month, but I just arrived in Jinling the day before yesterday, but I heard that the face-ripping demon had already been caught by Xie Fengxuan's daughter, and he had just been beheaded by the imperial court. ”

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but snort coldly, and said with some anger: "I didn't expect that the dignified Xie Fengxuan's daughter would actually play with the methods of the imperial court and find a scapegoat to appease the people." Just imagine that Taiyuan Guan's rebellion is a big crime, and it is easy to charge Na Xiyi Zhenren with a face-tearing demon. It's ridiculous that you still made up a set of bullshit, saying that you use the art of yang to take people Neidan, you really regard everyone in the world as a fool. ”

After listening to his tirade, Xie Yixiang finally understood what he meant, and couldn't help but ask with some hesitation: "You...... You mean that Xiyi is a real person, not a face-ripping demon?"