The waiting time is always difficult, so when Tie Xinlan was looking for the nine-headed bird rubbing, Bai Xiaosheng had nothing to do and walked around Songmen City, although Bai Xiaosheng entered the city from an "unconventional passage", but the identity of the person who wrote the record was easy to use anywhere, and Songmen City, as one of the twelve cities, would not have an eyeless soldier who insisted on driving him out of the city.

Compared to the other eleven cities in those streets and alleys, the structure of Songmen Castle is very simple. The entire city of Songmen Castle is built on a mountain, and the Castle Lord's Mansion is on the top of the mountain, which is in the highest position of Songmen Castle. The rest is divided into four avenues, one avenue is flanked by blacksmith shops, one avenue is flanked by medical halls, one avenue is where residents live, and the last avenue is where the residents of Songmen Castle beg for a living. It is said that this structure is to facilitate the defense against foreign enemies, but Bai Xiaosheng really can't understand that this kind of road suitable for horses and galloping does not even have a corner, and it goes straight and straight, and when they encounter foreign enemies, they can only watch them run away on a straight road.

The four avenues are the last avenue is the most lively, where restaurants, pubs, post stations and even casinos and dust places are all available, residents rely on this avenue to earn money from the rivers and lakes, Bai Xiaosheng also went to the post station specially, but saw that the post station horses were empty, and wanted to come to the Lu family brothers are still outside the city.

Songmen City is close to the border of the dragon's tongue, and there are perennial wars in the territory, where grain and the like can only be grown in the city, the amount is small and fine, resulting in the price of food in Songmen City is quite high, and even the ordinary ten wen a bag of meat buns have risen into a silver fragment in Songmen City, fortunately, Bai Xiaosheng walks the rivers and lakes as a writer, and all the resources of the reporter are at the mercy of Bai Xiaosheng, including yellow and white things, so Bai Xiaosheng's waist bag is quite rich, and he will not eat himself poor after eating for a few months.

In addition to the residents of Songmen Castle and the tourists who came and went, there were also groups of soldiers of Songmen Castle on the street.

"Stop!" "Don't go!" There were a few loud cheers from behind Bai Xiaosheng, and then Bai Xiaosheng was hit by a force and almost threw the bun in his hand.

When I turned around, I saw a young woman sitting on the ground with a baby in her arms. After all, it was built on a mountain, and the road to Songmen Castle was not smooth, and the young woman made a cut in the sharp stone on the ground when her arm hit it in order to protect the child, and blood kept flowing out.

The young woman sat on the ground and rushed behind a few soldiers of Songmen City wearing soft armor, the woman saw that she couldn't escape, and kowtowed to the soldier with the child in her arms: "Please, all masters, okay, don't drive our mother and son out of the city, my family has not returned to join the army, my hometown has been burned to black ashes by bandits, our mother and son have nowhere to go, it doesn't matter if I go out, but the child is still so young, how can I live if there is an accident!"

The woman was crying and kowtowing, her head hitting the ground and making a bloody mark, and the appearance of her cloak and the blood on her face made the young mother like a helpless howling ghost in hell.

The Dragon's Tongue Frontier, a place of perennial warfare, is hell, and Matsumon Castle is the pure land of bliss for these people in hell. After tasting the Pure Land of Bliss, I don't want to go to hell again no matter what.

The woman tried in vain to win sympathy in the form of self-harm, and the soldier hurriedly stopped the woman when she saw this, which made the woman think that the soldier was going to forcibly arrest her, and she struggled desperately, crying while struggling, this action woke up the baby in swaddling clothes, and she cried in fright.

If this kind of thing happened in any city, it would definitely be overwhelmed by the many people who came and went, but in Songmen Castle, such a scene has become commonplace, and the people who come and go have become numb to the scene in front of them, and they are still doing their own things, and they are not affected by it.

In the end, the woman compromised, and Bai Xiaosheng watched as the young woman was taken away by the Songmen City guards holding the child crying.

Bai Xiaosheng is not hard-hearted, he is not a bodhisattva, nor a hero, nor is he the peerless master who can subvert the world with his own strength, all he can do is bite the bun and watch silently. Fortunately, the lord of Songmen Castle is not hard-hearted, but all the elderly, women, and children who have been expelled can go to the city gate to receive a thin blanket, and relief porridge will be distributed regularly every other day outside the city, which is why those refugees are still outside Songmen Castle to this day.

After settling his lunch, Bai Xiaosheng returned to the Shiji blacksmith shop, where he has been living these days.

"Mr. Xiaobai!Mr. Xiaobai!" As soon as he stepped into Shiji, an apprentice ran over: "Sister Lan said that the news you are looking for has been settled, and she is waiting for you in Shiting." ”

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Bai Xiaosheng came to the stone pavilion, the stone pavilion was still the place that scared Bai Xiaosheng to faint, Tie Xinlan sat in the stone pavilion with an extremely arrogant attitude and poured a sip of water on the bamboo tube, her face was a little haggard, it seemed that she had really wasted a lot of energy looking for heraldic rubbings these days.

"I heard that there is a clue?" Bai Xiaosheng came up and went straight to the point, he knew that the female blacksmith in front of him was inexplicably disliked by himself, but Bai Xiaosheng didn't need to let himself be loved, he just needed to know the result.

However, Tie Xinlan's opening disappointed Bai Xiaosheng: "It's a pity that I have searched through the entire heraldic rubbing records of the stone record, and there is no record of the nine-headed bird coat of arms. Bai Xiaosheng sighed when he heard this, he also knew that it was not so easy to find, after all, it was news from fifty years ago, and it was not reliable to say.

Seeing Bai Xiaosheng's face of loss, Tie Xinlan took a sip of water again before speaking slowly: "Although there is no rubbing record, but I checked the transaction records, fifty years ago, a person came to my Shiji with a sword for transformation, and the content of the transformation is to talk about the heraldic branding at the hilt of the sword, and the coat of arms that has been branded is the nine-headed bird." ”

Bai Xiaosheng lowered his head and raised it again, his eyes shining and staring at Tie Xinlan: "Is this true?" Tie Xinlan nodded: "But don't be happy too early, it is said that the master master of the year did not accept this business, the reason seems to be that the master of Shiji at that time said that there was a rotten smell on the scabbard of the sword, indicating that the sword was fished out of the cemetery, but then he couldn't stand this person from stalking, so he just gave it to him." After speaking, he paused, and glanced at Bai Xiaosheng with squinted eyes: "Maybe the person you are looking for is dead." ”

Fished out of the cemetery, that is, tomb robbery. It is not uncommon for some Jianghu guests to love a certain weapon all their lives, and even after death, they have to be buried with their own weapons.

The swords were all taken to the grave, and the owner of the sword is probably no longer alive.

Because the first impression was not very good, Tie Xinlan didn't like Bai Xiaosheng very much, so she told Bai Xiaosheng the result in this breathing way, disgusting Bai Xiaosheng. I thought I could see Bai Xiaosheng's sluggish and even disappointed expression, but what Tie Xinlan saw was Bai Xiaosheng's indifferent expression: "It's okay, even if you die, it's normal." ”

After all, the reporter has been looking for this person for nearly a hundred years, and it is not surprising that he died.

Bai Xiaosheng: "Can you tell me what the name of the person who came to change the coat of arms?" Tie Xinlan shook her head: "That person didn't leave a name, only signed a code name, called a dartle." ”

Hearing this code name, Bai Xiaosheng nodded: "Thank you." ”

That night, Bai Xiaosheng took out a flying pigeon from the cage, packed the note with the word "landmouse" in a thin bamboo tube, tied it to the pigeon's leg, and touched the meat on the pigeon's body: "Xiao Baibai, you have to lose weight." After saying that, he threw the pigeon out, and the fat pigeon fluttered its wings and flew away crookedly in the air.

In the early morning of the third day, Bai Xiaosheng said goodbye to Shi Kangdang with a cage on his back and left Shiji, came to the medical hall avenue and knocked on the door of a medical hall that had not yet opened, and the door was opened by a half-hundred old man, who yawned and rubbed his eyes: "Young man, who are you looking for?"

Bai Xiaosheng smiled: "Hello, I'm looking for Elder Sun." ”