Xiao Jinyan returned to the inn with an embarrassed face, and saw a plate of donkey meat on the table, as well as a few fires, and Bao Lu was sitting there eating happily, and his heart was cold.

"Brother Donkey, you died so miserably! I knew that you would end up today, I sold you to Lao Liu at the head of the village to make Ejiao last year!"

There was a shout from outside the door.

Baolu said: "The redfish girl just bought it for me, hurry up and eat it while it's hot!"

Xiao Jinyan took an arrow step, came to the table, and was about to stretch out his hand, when Xiao Hongyu opened his hand with chopsticks, and said angrily, "Did I say I ate it for you?"

Xiao Jinyan looked at her a little stunned, "Which tendon is wrong with you?"

The little red fish said that every tendon in my body is wrong, and I just won't give it to you. As he spoke, he picked up the plate of donkey meat and walked upstairs. Monk Baolu shouted from behind, "Redfish girl, I haven't finished eating yet." ”

"It's gone!"

Baolu looked at Xiao Jinyan with a complaining face, and muttered, "Why did you come back so early, I can't even eat." ”

Qingcao said on the side, "Brother Xiao, Sister Hongyu bought donkey meat for the master, I want to ask him, what are you doing during this time." Xiao Jinyan said, "So there will be donkey meat to eat, come and ask me." ”

Li Chengcheng smiled and asked, "How is Li Ergou doing over there?"

Xiao Jinyan said angrily, "There are many rights and wrongs in front of the widow's door, and I don't even bother to take care of the affairs of your Li family." Li Qingcheng shook his head and corrected, "Our Li family in Jinling has nothing to do with Li Qiuyi, Li Ergou, and Widow Li. ”

"Is there a difference, five hundred years ago it was all one. ”

"Not eight hundred years ago. ”

Xiao Jinyan didn't eat meat, so he picked up a rice ball, dealt with it in three or five mouthfuls, and asked Baolu: "Great monk, it's so boring in the city, why don't I take you to a place at night and have some excitement?"

Monk Baolu said in a loud voice, "Master said, don't let me go to Fireworks Willow Lane, I can't learn from you." ”

Xiao Jinyan said angrily, "I'm going to take you to a mass grave, there are no girls, there are dead bodies." ”

"I won't look at the girl, I'll go with you to see the dead body?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "Ten catties of beef." ”

Bao Lu picked up the Zen staff, "What are you waiting for, let's go now." ”

Xiao Jinyan said, "There is no program to go now, let's act after dark." ”

In the afternoon of the same day, Xiao Jinyan went to Liumen, told Su Zhengyuan about the clues, and told him that he might have to wait at the mass grave at night to find a way to catch the perpetrator.

Su Zhengyuan was anxious about this matter, "Then I dare to be kind, I will immediately dispatch people to lay a net around the mass grave, catch the murderer as soon as possible, and give an explanation to the people of Suzhou as soon as possible." ”

Xiao Jinyan said: "Master Su, this is a matter in the rivers and lakes, and your people will die in vain if they go." Man, I can help you catch it, but it seems that you didn't do what I told you last time. ”

"Didn't you forget about it when you got busy. Don't worry, I'll help you do it. ”

Xiao Jinyan shook his head, "Don't worry about this matter first, there are still a few days, it is the day of the Golden Sword and Crazy Sword Competition, I heard that your six doors are set in Taihu Lake?"

Su Zhengyuan said, "Where do we dare to decide, it was the Golden Sword King who sent someone to deliver a letter." You also know that these two are masters outside the world, if they really start in the city, ten Suzhou cities can't bear it, the Golden Sword King understands our Suzhou people, and sets the competition outside the city. However, this is a sensational martial arts event, and I am afraid that there will be a lot of people who will go to watch the battle at that time, and there will be countless people who join in the fun. The governor has issued a death order, on the ninth day of the ninth month of September, on the shore of Taihu Lake, it is forbidden for idle people to approach three miles away. ”

Xiao Jinyan said abruptly, "Taihu Lake is big, can you take care of it with your little manpower?"

Su Zhengyuan smiled wryly, "Shangfeng has an order, don't dare to disobey." It's one thing to be able to do it or not, but the attitude still has to be there, not to mention, these two cases in Suzhou City in the past two days have been full of turmoil, and the imperial court has sent Qin to send over, I have twelve hours a day, and I can't wait to break it into twenty-four hours. ”

Xiao Jinyan saw Su Zhengyuan's tired face, it seemed that he had been choking enough during this time, and he had lost at least ten pounds compared to two months ago. This battle of Li Chu will inevitably cause a sensation in the rivers and lakes, and ordinary people may be afraid of the orders of the government, but the people in the rivers and lakes will definitely not put it in their eyes, and there are many people from Western Chu and Northern Zhou.

This is a grand event, and it is also an extremely dangerous thing.

The battle of Li Chu has received such a high degree of attention, it is understandable, both of them are masters of the heavenly list, and they are well-known figures in the rivers and lakes, how can they be famous in future generations if they find a ravine and ditch to fight?

However, after the trip to Yangzhou, Xiao Jinyan felt that this battle was a little strange, because some things happened too coincidentally, which had to make him suspicious.

The envoy of the Ming Dynasty left the capital in a hurry, and in order to find the whereabouts of Chu Bieli, the second prince of the former Western Chu, he went down to the south of the Yangtze River overnight, and was killed by several ordinary green forest thieves.

Dengwen Academy sent Vancouver to secretly search for the collusion between Yuwen Tianlu and Xichu, but was plotted and lost his life.

The rivers and lakes that have been silent for several years have spread the news of the clues of the martial arts, and what is even worse is that many people in the rivers and lakes now believe that Xiao Jinyan knows the whereabouts of the martial arts, which almost made him the target of the public.

He vaguely felt that there seemed to be a force behind him, secretly controlling the overall situation and pushing the whole thing in one direction. Although the contradictions are concentrated in Suzhou, all the clues involve the situation between Ming and Chu in the west.

The spies and merchants of Western Chu gradually mixed into Suzhou City. Now, although Chu Qiu, the emperor of Western Chu, is sitting on that cold throne, his concept of lordship and harmony in the past twenty years has gradually aroused the dissatisfaction of the previous Western Chu nobles.

Several lords in the west of the Chu State believed that the Ming Dynasty had grabbed a lot of profits from the Chu State in the border trade, and they were bent on reviving the ambition of the Dahe clan's iron cavalry to level the Central Plains a hundred years ago. The war was tense back then, if it weren't for the sudden death of the emperor and the disappearance of the second prince, perhaps the imperial flag of Da Chu would have been planted on the head of the Forbidden City.

At this juncture, they heard that Chu Biling, the former second prince of Western Chu, was locked up in a six-door prison by Daming, and those nobles who were suppressed in Western Chu began to move.

Xiao Jin Yanshi has a suspicion, but he can't be sure, he needs to use external forces to help confirm this idea, although Su Zhengyuan's character is not good, but in Suzhou City, there is still a small amount of power.

"On the ninth day of the ninth month of September, I want to borrow ten people from you. ”

Su Zhengyuan said, "I don't have enough manpower here, let's not talk about the small case of speculation and touching the dog, just the murder case in Suzhou City in the past few days, I am already stretched thin here, where can I free up manpower for you?"

Xiao Jinyan said, "Don't worry, before the decisive battle, I will help you catch the murderers who killed Li Laosan and Ling Tiannan's family." ”

Su Zhengyuan said: "I'll think about it." ”

When he returned to the Xiaoyao Inn, Li Chengcheng had already changed into a set of night clothes, and the monk Baolu had gotten a peachwood sword and a few yellow paper talismans from nowhere, and was fiddling with them.

Xiao Jinyan didn't have a good breath and said, "You are a monk, why don't you recite the Diamond Sutra, why do you have some Taoist magic weapons?"

Bao Lu wondered, "Didn't you say that you were catching ghosts? We Buddhist disciples are more good at transcending the undead, and it is more reliable to use Taoist things to catch ghosts." Besides, the Diamond Sutra is so long, I can't memorize it, a sentence of urgency is like a law, and everything is solved. ”

"You're going to save trouble. ”

(I've been drinking for the past two days, and I've had a terrible headache, and there's another one at night, and I'll update it normally when I get home tomorrow.) ）