Chapter 64: A Rare Night Talk

The time has passed, and the night is cool and the moon is high. Cao Ji, the mysterious man who was usually dressed in black and covered with a cloak, was now dressed in light clothes, sitting on a high roof, looking at the rows of houses and the ancient city of Jingzhou with lights and shadows in the distance, motionless, his skinny face was reflected even more rugged and gloomy by the cold moonlight of the winter moon.

I heard a squeaky sound of opening the door below, and then a gust of yin wind drifted from behind, and in an instant, there was a purple figure beside Cao Ji, Xiahou Ti.

Xiahou Ti crossed his legs and sat side by side with Cao Ji on the roof. He handed over a delicate, small, cake-shaped tin flask and said, "Your flask." Cao Ji took the flask, shook it twice, then pulled the cork and poured it into his mouth. The wine is Yin red elixir, the grape wine of the Western Regions, Cao Ji always said that the feeling of drinking it is like drinking blood, he likes it. And this wine jug, since Xiahou Ti knew him, has been on Cao Ji's body for twenty years.

Xiahou Ti does not drink. He habitually lit a bag of cigarettes, and a puff of hot smoke rose a pale cyan smoke ring in the darkness, which drifted bigger and bigger, and drifted more and more. One is sipping wine, the other is smoking, the other is dark and thin, and the other is cold. Some people say that cigarettes and alcohol are not separated, just like the two of them, no matter where they go, no matter what task they perform, they can always get together. But they are not partners.

"I'm going to get out of here early tomorrow morning. Cao Ji tasted the taste of wine in his mouth and said with a sigh.

"Reluctant to Jingzhou?" asked Xiahou Ti.

"That's not it, I just think this errand is too nourishing, and the whole day is full of food and wine. If I hadn't helped you, I'd have forgotten who I am. He looked at the flask in his hand.

"Are you going back to Huainan?" According to the rules, no one will ask the other party what they are doing here or what their tasks are, unless they are willing to say it.

"Yes, go back and send a message for Huan Wen. "Cao Ji went out in the afternoon, and he didn't say where to go, but he went to see Huan Wen.

"That group of people in blue clothes is Huan Wen's. Xiahou Ti was not surprised at all when Cao Ji went to see Huan Wen, he said lightly.

"Does he know who you are?"

"I don't know. ”

He didn't know. Looking at him today, he shouldn't know what happened in the bamboo forest. Cao Ji gently rubbed the body of the pot covered with patterns, like caressing the waist of a bewitching woman.

"So many people, do you take them all away?" Xiahou Ti of course referred to the half-dead men in blue clothes that Cao Ji took away from the bamboo forest, as well as his own corpses, these non-human and non-ghost people add up to more than a dozen people.

"They were transported back to Huainan by water overnight that day. By the way, you go back to the dungeon and think about how to reply to the elders?"

Reply truthfully. Xiahou Ti still looked indifferent.

"Reply truthfully, including that Luochuan Prince?" Cao Ji deliberately mentioned Han Yue, while paying attention to Xiahou Ti's reaction.

Xiahou Ti did not move at all, as if he was immune to the four words of Luochuan Gongzi. After a while, he suddenly said, "They are also back to Huainan," after a pause, and then another sentence came out: "You bother." ”

Cao Ji was originally relieved by Xiahou Ti's indifference, but when he heard these two sentences, especially the sentence "How much trouble do you have" that followed, he almost choked on a sip of wine. He stared at Xiahou Ti's well-defined side face: "Ati, you won't really... ”

"No!" Xiahou Ti decisively interrupted him without waiting for him to finish the second half of his sentence.

"What did you encounter in the cave of Nengru Temple? Could it be that it is even more sinister than the underground palace?"

"Not sinister. ”

"Isn't it sinister? You're covered in wounds, and you're on your hands. I've known you for 20 years, and I haven't seen your dragon hurt in the armor. ”

"If you don't go on a mission with me, how do you know that I haven't been injured?" Xia Hou Ti smiled.

Cao Ji also smiled: "Reminder, then next time I ask the elders to carry out the mission with you, so that you don't know if you are hunted down." If you want to make a mistake, isn't that a real dragon... ”

Xiahou was stunned, and without waiting for him to continue, he stood up and said, "Sleep!"

Cao Ji looked at the back of Xiahou Ti returning to the room, sighed, picked up the wine jug, and flew to the ground. The people of the underground palace, every one of them has been paid fate. Xiahou Ti is like this, isn't it the same for him to kill Cao?

Huan Mi has been confined to the inner courtyard for three days.

For three days he spent the rest of his time in his room, reading a book, writing or stroking the harp. I remember what song I heard Han Yue play that day? Yangchun? This piano is just an ornament, and when he has nothing to do, he is elegant, how can he compare to the famous scholar Luochuan Gongzi. There is also Huan Yi's piano and flute combination. When can I have a matching confidant by my side? Thinking that he is also a handsome son, Wen Taowu is not bad, just because he has a domineering eldest brother, no one in Jingzhou City dares to make friends with him. Huan Mi thought about it, and couldn't help but feel a little gloomy.

No one disturbed him, except for the servants who brought him food on time, and there was no noise or noise in the courtyard. There is no movement, which means that Han Yue, Huan Yi and the others are safe. It is estimated that by the time of day, they should have left Jingzhou City and arrived in Yuzhou. He only knew that the eldest brother wanted to keep them, just to know what they had gotten from the temple of Nengru. But he didn't know that Huan Wen would offer a reward all over the city to arrest him, and even send people to kill him.

In fact, Huan Mi himself also wanted to know what secrets were hidden in Nengrusi, and he even regretted not going down with them that day. Huan Yi Han Yue didn't say it, and Zhang Li didn't say it either. Zhang Li is a person from the imperial court, and he is ordered to investigate the case, so he must not move, so Huan Wen only got the idea of Huan Yi Han Yue and others, even if it is the son of the family, after all, no one knows that they have been here. But Huan Mi knows that a gentleman has a good way to take it, even if he is curious and wants it, he can't use power to take it like his brother.

Huan Mi has already made up his mind, once the ban is lifted, he must personally go to Nengru Temple to find out. Anyway, he can be regarded as the son of the family, he can do it with Guo Huanyi, and I can do it with Long Kanghuan.

Yu Lu is holding the map of Jingzhou City, looking at it carefully little by little, and then lock the place with the bamboo forest before going to investigate. A subordinate who is familiar with the terrain pointed to the map and introduced: there are seven bamboo forests in Jingzhou City, five in the city and two outside the city. Three of the places in the city are in the vicinity of private mansions, and if they were the place where the crime occurred, the fight during the day would definitely alarm the surrounding residents and passers-by. The other two places in the city are not on the way out of the city, Huan Yi and they came out of Huan Mansion, and they should go straight to the outside of the city, and they will not wander around in Jingzhou City. Then the place where the crime occurred should be two bamboo forests outside the city.

Yu Yu changed into civilian clothes, took a few personal soldiers and entourage, and first came to a bamboo forest outside the city, which is close to the avenue, and there are many passers-by, cars and horses. Yu Yu looked at it and shook his head, this is definitely not the place where the crime occurred.

So they found another bamboo forest outside the city. It's a remote place, and according to his subordinates, there is a lake at the end of the bamboo forest, which leads to the Han River. Because Jingzhou City is directly connected to the Han River, there is a ferry to dock boats, so generally no one will go around the lake and then enter the Han River. Only in spring, summer and autumn, there will be fishermen who come here for morning fishing, or there are boats carrying a few trips to the lake. It's winter, so there shouldn't be many people here. This bamboo forest grows very densely and broadly because it grows by the lake and has abundant water. There is a small road in the middle that cannot be seen at a glance, and according to the soldiers, it is indeed suitable for blocking the ambush.

Sure enough, there are all kinds of imprints on the trail. Yu Yu motioned for everyone to search carefully. Looking for the imprint all the way forward, blood began to appear, and I touched it with my fingers, and it was already dry. Further on, there were more and more blood stains, and there was even a large pool, and it seemed that there were many dead and wounded. But there was not even a single body at the scene. How many people have been here?

I thought it would be difficult to find clues, but I didn't expect that there were clues everywhere, but it was the same as no clues.