Dou Jingpeng said goodbye to the alchemist: "Grandpa, I plan to go down the mountain." ”

"Is it for the Wutai Mountain Massacre?" the alchemist asked rhetorically.

"Yes, I can only return my friend's innocence if I find out the real reason for the destruction of Wutai Mountain that year. Dou Jingpeng continued: "Grandpa, I hope you can keep this trip confidential, and when others ask me, you will say that I went down the mountain to collect medicine." ”

"Stick a knife in your friend's ribs, you can be regarded as a narrow-minded person, go ahead, grandpa promised you. ”

Dou Jingpeng and Situ Lanlan then went down the mountain, and met Ruan Wenjun on the way down the mountain, and after Ruan Wenjun asked the reason for going down the mountain, "Senior Brother Dou, I want to go down the mountain with you." ”

"No, this time I went down the mountain to investigate the case of the destruction of Wutai Mountain, it is inconvenient to take you, and no one can predict what danger there will be on the way. Dou Jingpeng said.

"I'm not afraid, if the girl next to you can go, I will go. Nguyen Van Jun said.

"My name is Situ Lanlan, I'm different from you, I often wander the rivers and lakes, I should have more experience than you. ”

It turned out that my competitor was called Situ Lanlan, and I remembered, "My name is Ruan Wenjun, I don't think I'm worse than you, I'm very smart." Ruan Wenjun looked at Dou Jingpeng again, "Senior Brother Dou, I promise I won't hold you back." ”

"Okay, senior brother can't resist you, but you must keep your trip secret, and you must be careful in everything. The three of them hurried down the mountain. Be extra careful all the way to the sharp store, because there are too many minions of Pang Qiushui on the rivers and lakes, in order not to attract attention, the three of them are commensurate with brother and sister, Dou Jingpeng is the eldest brother, Situ Lanlan is the eldest sister, Ruan Wenjun is the second sister, the three of them are ready to go to Shanxi to do business, and the long sword is stored in the pawn shop, Dou Jingpeng wears a hat and wears a linen clothes, looks like an ordinary person, three people and three horses, went straight to Wutai Mountain, after four or five days finally came to Wutai Mountain, the mountain has long been no longer the grand occasion of the year, deserted, as long as a few wild households live here, so the three of them knocked on the door of a family, and the door was opened by a patch all over the body, a sixty or seventy-year-old husband, with a long gray beard and wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, but his body is quite tough.

"The old man is disturbed, the three of us brother and sister want to stay here for one night tonight, I don't know if it's convenient. Dou Jingpeng took off his hat and asked politely.

"It's convenient, let's all come in, generally people who come to Wutai Mountain at night will spend the night in a few of our few households, and they have long been used to it, and they still talk about convenience and inconvenience. The old man said.

This old man is quite talkative, he should be able to ask some things, Dou Jingpeng thought in his heart.

"Let's go to the main house to have some food first, the home is a little small, the main house not only entertains guests, but also a place to eat, my family has a total of three houses, even four firewood rooms, I'm afraid I will wronged this son, you have to live in the kitchen tonight, that is, the firewood room." The old man said.

"Don't be wronged, old man, it's better than sleeping in the wilderness and being with jackals. Dou Jingpeng said.

"You're a good young man. The old man led Dou Jingpeng and the three to the main house, and an old woman greeted him, "There are guests at home again." ”

The old man said, "I'm here for the night again." ”

The old woman said, "Come in, young people." ”

A dining table came into view, with half a pot of rice, a lot of meat, and red wine.

Dou Jingpeng smiled and said, "What a rich dinner!"

The old husband explained: "We people here do not farm, every day with bows and arrows out to go out to the field, naturally the table is full of game, in their thirties came to this mountain, has been hunting for 30 years, almost every day is meat. ”

Situ Lanlan said: "Old man, where did the rice come from?"

"I bought it at Yamashita and used the game I brought to go to Yamashita to exchange some change, and then I saved some rice. ”

"Old man, how is this wine made, and why is it red. Nguyen Van Thien was surprised when he saw red wine for the first time.

The girl said and laughed, I am a mountain villager, how can I make wine, this is just to pour the ordinary wine bought from the mountain into the fresh bamboo, and then the wine in the bamboo absorbs the rain and dew and the nutrients of the bamboo, and after a certain time, when the bamboo is cut, then the wine inside is poured out and it becomes like this. ”

"Then I'm going to have a taste tonight. Dou Jingpeng said, "Old man, I won't be polite to you, I'm really hungry." ”

"Eat when you're hungry. The old woman took out a few stools, arranged them around the table, and said happily.

Five people sat down around the square table. "You're welcome, eat to your heart's content, young man. The old man said.

Dou Jingpeng is full of worries, how can he eat to his heart's content.

Dou Jingpeng tore a pheasant leg, chewed it in his mouth, swallowed it, and slowly drank a glass of wine, and the cup was also made of bamboo.

"Old man, I want to ask you something, is it okay?" Dou Jingpeng asked.

"What's the matter?" The old man said.

"About five years ago, there was a tragedy here, I don't know if my husband knew. Dou Jingpeng tried to ask.

The old man was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Three days ago, a pair of young boys and girls also came to my house and asked me the same question, what is your relationship with them?"

"Which two, what do they look like?" asked Situ Lanlan.

"The boy was about the same age as you, a tall boy, with a slightly thin face, thick eyebrows, a pair of shining eyes, dressed in black, a round face of a girl, a full forehead, crooked eyes when he smiled, and a sword and a sword respectively. ”

"It's Li Shihe and Chu Chu! It turns out that they came before us. Situ Lanlan said.

"Then old man, have you told them?" Dou Jingpeng asked anxiously.

"No, we don't know anything. The old woman hurriedly said, her face was a little pale, and the old woman thought to herself that these three people knew the two people with weapons, and they must not be ordinary people.

Dou Jingpeng saw that his husband looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, and asked, "Really? Dou Jingpeng changed his name.

"Don't ask again, I really don't know, if I continue to question, I will issue an 'eviction order'. The old man said solemnly.

Dou Jingpeng closed his mouth and finished the meal honestly, without anyone saying a word. After the meal, it was already very dark, and the old man said: "You two girls live in the third room, that is, the second room in the east, what about you, you are in good health, not afraid of the autumn cold, just be wronged, live in the firewood room, the easternmost one." The old man said to Dou Jingpeng.

"Well, thank you Grandpa. "The three young men were very polite.

Entering the firewood room, in addition to the stove and firewood, there was a lot of hay left in the firewood room, Dou Jingpeng flattened the hay, then lay down and covered the sackcloth on his body.

When he arrived, Dou Jingpeng couldn't sleep anymore, since the old man and the old woman didn't talk, then he went to find clues by himself, he hurriedly got up, quietly walked through Lan Lan and Ruan Wenjun's room, and walked out of the door, which was also a simple door tied with wooden planks. He came to the site of the massacre, here you can see at a glance that it is the scene after the fire, there has been no achievement in the past five years, where to start, this is Dou Jingpeng's top priority, he holds a fire fold in his left hand, and a bamboo pole in his right hand keeps picking up some dusty things, even if there are some clues, it is good, so many years have passed, how can there be evidence. But he had only one belief in his heart, that if I gave up searching, it would be tantamount to giving up on Shihe, so he rummaged through it over and over again, and with his hands he picked up a large heavy stone slab that had collapsed, and suddenly he found something shiny, and he picked it up, and held up a bone, to be clear, an arm with only bones left.

Dou Jingpeng took off the bracelet and wiped it carefully, there was a slight rust, but the whole was still intact, he suddenly froze, he felt that this bracelet was so familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere, it was engraved with a snake pattern, he must have seen it, but he couldn't remember it. Dou Jingpeng calmed down first, sorted out his thoughts, and recalled all the bracelets he had seen in the past 20 years, remembering that when he first saw Pang Qiushui, it was when Pang Qiushui went to Jinjia Town to discuss the plan to pay the "dragon", and passed by an inn called "Tang Song Inn", one of the two bosses in it had such a bracelet, and he didn't seem to have a left arm. But Dou Jingpeng was not completely sure, because he was only seven years old at the time, and his memory was very vague, and now he was in his heart, because he was uncertain, he came to the door at a loss, and he would only startle the snake.

Li Shihe stopped looking, he hid the bracelet in his arms, he planned to go to the inn again, hoping to be lucky this time, he walked back. As soon as Dou Jingpeng pushed open the door, there was a person standing in front of him, either anyone else or the old man, "You went to the ruins." ”

I couldn't hide it, so I could only admit: "Yes, grandpa." Dou Jingpeng is still very polite.

"Have you noticed something?" asked the old man.

"No!" Dou Jingpeng said resolutely, this time he had to lie.

"What is the relationship between you and the two people who came before, why do you want to know about the murder case back then, what are you investigating?" the old man asked several questions in a row.

Dou Jingpeng said: "That's the case, grandpa, my friend was mistaken by the people in the rivers and lakes for the murderer of the Wutai Mountain extermination case, and he was being killed by the 'martial arts', I know that he must not have done it, so I want to find out the truth and give him a martial arts justice." ”

"Who is your friend?"

"It's the boy with the knife you saw last time. ”

"It can't be that he did it alone, because it was two people back then. The old man muttered.