Chapter 13 Shadows

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Fang Xu said: "In fact, in the history books, the 'Empty Dust Sect' has experienced many ups and downs, and many books that record the 'Empty Dust Sect' have been burned, until now people only know that there is this sect, and they know that there are ten 'forbidden people' in this sect, but they don't know where the 'Empty Dust Sect' is and how many people there are. "Wait, what is the 'forbidden'?" Ye Suifeng asked. Fang Xu said: "The 'forbidden' can also be called a guardian, it is said that the 'forbidden' is forbidden to ascend to immortals, and can only protect the 'Empty Dust Sect', because the 'forbidden ones' are basically people with strong martial arts but serious crimes, in order to flee to join the 'Empty Dust Sect', the 'Empty Dust Sect' will ensure their stability, and they will also have to protect the peace of the 'Empty Dust Sect' for a lifetime." I only know so much about the 'forbidden ones', their whereabouts are uncertain, so no one knows where they are or what they do. "Hmm......" Ye Suifeng nodded, thought for a moment, and then asked, "What does the 'Empty Dust Sect' have to do with me?" Ye Suifeng asked. "Because...... They may be the ones who slaughtered the Ye family and attacked the Xue family. Fang Xu said.

"What?" The news was like thunder and lightning, and the earth-shaking Ye was a little stunned by the wind, got up, and ran to Fang Xu in a panic, his eyes glared at the boss, and said, "Do you still know anything?" Fang Xu said: "I only know so much. "Impossible!" Ye Suifeng pressed one hand heavily on Fang Xu's shoulder, and Fang Xu instantly felt that his entire arm was numb for a while. Ye Suifeng roared: "You have been with my father for so many years, how can you not know. "Dang dang!" "Be quiet!" shouted the jailer as he banged on the cell door.

Fang Xu opened Ye Suifeng's hand and said, "You give me calm and calm, these are just speculations." Ye Suifeng's eyes were a little dull, he sat down on the ground, and said, "It's useless if you want to take revenge, we can't even get out now." "If you want to go out, you must go out......" Ye Suifeng's eyes gradually became sharp.

"Alas!" Fang Xu sighed softly and said, "Now I'm worried about Mayfly Feather, after all, she is very dangerous now. "Meng Hongyi......" Ye Suifeng kept repeating the name. "You also feel that there is something wrong with him?" Fang Xu asked. "He's the one who sent us in. Ye Suifeng said viciously. "But Xue Yuyu is still with him......." Fang Xu sighed and said, "This person is not simple......"

Xue Yuyu fidgeted, and her heart was numb. Footsteps sounded outside the door, Xue Yuyu listened carefully to the footsteps, she hoped that it was Ye Suifeng and Fang Xu, or Chu Yunling who came to tell her that Ye Suifeng and Fang Xu were saved. A light cough shattered Xue Yuyu's illusion, "Miss Xue!" came the voice of the shopkeeper Meng outside the door. "This old man" Xue Yuyu scolded in a low voice, then got up to open the door, and easily hid Ye Suifeng's dagger in his sleeve.

"What are you doing here?" Xue Liyu asked angrily. Shopkeeper Meng smiled and said, "I'll tell you a piece of news." "What's the news?" Shopkeeper Meng looked into the room and said, "It's inconvenient for me to go in, why don't we go downstairs and sit down and talk slowly?"

"Hmph!" Xue Yuyu took a step back and said, "Don't go!" "Alas!" Shopkeeper Meng pretended to be melancholy, and said, "Then this news worth five taels of gold can only be given to others!" "Wait!" Xue Yuyu said, "Let's go downstairs! I need your news." Then he closed the door and went downstairs first. Shopkeeper Meng looked at Xue Yuyu's back as he left, and showed a satisfied smile.

"What is that?" Fang Xu looked at the cell door in amazement, and the conversation between Fang Xu and Ye Suifeng was interrupted from this moment. Outside the prison door, at some point, a man appeared outside the door, sitting upright on the ground, and in the faint light, the man's face could not be seen clearly. "Who are you?" Fang Xu asked at the man. The man was silent and did not move, but sat upright. Ye got up with the wind and said, "I'll take a look!" "Don't go over!" Fang Xu said in a low voice.

Then the man took out two bottles of wine from his garment and laid them on the ground. He took out a porcelain flask, and the man held it up and tilted it slightly, and the wine in it flowed down with a little light and fell into the wine bottle. "What does he want to do?" Ye Suifeng asked. "I don't know!" Fang Xu replied. The two watched intently at the man's movements, as if they were watching a performance.

Moments later, both decanters were filled. I saw that the man picked up two wine bottles, faced Fang Xu and Ye Suifeng, and with a light laugh, poured the wine in the wine bottles on the ground.......

Xue Yuyu and Shopkeeper Meng sat opposite each other. Shopkeeper Meng beckoned the guy to serve a pot of tea, and Xue Maoyu asked Zhengse: "What's the news?" Shopkeeper Meng filled the cup in front of Xue Maoyu with tea, and said: "About the matter of Zhu Jiabaoyu, it is worth five taels, although Zhu Lang is dead, but Baoyu is the treasure of the Zhu family for generations, and it is impossible to put Baoyu's matter aside because of Zhu Lang's affairs." ”

Xue Yuyu nodded, and Shopkeeper Meng continued: "What I want to tell you is the news of this Baoyu!" "Jade found?" Xue Yuyu asked. Shopkeeper Meng poured the cup in front of him full of tea and said, "How is it possible! I'm just telling you what jade looks like." So that you can find it, after all, there are many corrupt officials in Dingzhou......."

Xue Yuyu thought to herself, they didn't know what jade looked like, how to find it, if they really found it, Ye Suifeng and Fang Xu would be saved. "Actually, it's not a piece of jade, it's a jade plaque. "Jade card?" Xue Yuyu suddenly thought of the jade card in Chu Yunling's hand. Shopkeeper Meng took a sip of tea and said, "Hmm! I heard that the ancestors of the Zhu family liked jade, and I didn't know where to get a pure white jade plaque, ready to be used as an heirloom. I haven't seen the appearance of the jade plaque, but I know that there is no pattern on the jade plaque, because the ancestor of the Zhu family died before he could carve it. ”

After that, the jade plaque was passed down as it was. Shopkeeper Meng took a sip of tea. "Then ......" Xue Liyu stopped talking, then got up and walked quickly to the door. "What's the matter, are you going to find Miss Chu again?" Xue Yuyu stopped, turned his head and asked, "How do you know?" Shopkeeper Meng drank the tea in the cup and said, "You can guess it, it's not too early, let's go again tomorrow!" Then got up and walked back to the house.

The next day, Xue Yuyu got up early in the morning and prepared to find Chu Yunling. When Xue Yuyu went downstairs, he saw Jiang Chen standing behind the counter as always. "Jiang Chen!" Xue Yuyu said hello and left in a hurry. "She's gone?" Shopkeeper Meng walked out of the house, Jiang Chen nodded, "It's time to come!" Shopkeeper Meng walked to Jiang Chen's side and said, "I'm still soft-hearted after all!" Jiang Chen looked at Shopkeeper Meng and smiled lightly.

Six doors. "Zhao Bad, are you looking for me?" Zhao Yan found a bad one. "Tomorrow, you take two or three people and execute those two 'Soul Snatchers' at three o'clock in the afternoon'" The man looked at Zhao Yan with a surprised expression. Zhao Yan said in a low voice: "Remember, this matter is not allowed to be spread!" "Know....... Got it!" the man replied. Zhao Yan waved his hand to let the man go back, "Hey!" The man didn't take a few steps before he was stopped by Zhao Yan again, "Remember!" Zhao Yan frowned, looked at the man, and said, "Don't fail!"

At the same time, Xue Yuyu found Chu Yunling, who hadn't gotten up yet. "Why are you looking for me so early?" Chu Yunling rubbed her sleepy eyes and said. "Do you remember that jade plaque?" Xue Yuyu asked. Chu Yunling nodded, "I heard Shopkeeper Meng say that the jade that the Zhu family lost is a jade plate, and it is the same as yours!" Xue Yuyu said. "Huh?" Xue Yuyu was confused, and said, "Then whose jade plate belongs to?" "The Zhu family's!" Xue Yuyu said: "Where is your jade card?" Chu Yunling took out the jade plate, handed it to Xue Mayyu, and said, "Do you want to return it to the Zhu family, but we don't know who sent it!" Xue Yuyu said: "I don't have time to care about that now, let's get the five taels of gold first." ”

At this time, the door of the Zhu family was open, crying was around, and there were mourners one after another. Xue Yuyu saw a woman in plain clothes standing in front of the gate, her face was neat and dignified, but she was pale and bloodless, and she looked tired. "You...... Who is it?" the woman asked weakly when she saw Xue Liyu. "I'm here to return the jade!" Because the woman wore a filial piety cloth on her left sleeve, Xue Liyu was sure that she was from the Zhu family. Xue Liyu carefully took out the jade plaque and handed it to the woman. When the woman saw the jade plaque, she asked for a moment, and then said, "This is not our jade. "What?" Xue Yu's hopes were suddenly dashed. The woman did not say much and turned away.

Inside the cell. "Eh, get up!" Ye Suifeng and Fang Xu were reluctantly woken up, and when they opened their eyes, they saw five or six jailers. "Get up!" shouted one of the jailers as he kicked them. "You!" Fang Xu was a little angry, but he still suppressed his anger. The jailer said, "Someone has come to see you!" Then the jailer called that one in, Fang Xu and Ye Suifeng were not too surprised to see that person, and even had some expectations.

"Shopkeeper Meng, are you here?" Fang Xu said a little provocatively. The person who came to see them was none other than Shopkeeper Meng. Shopkeeper Meng smiled: "Xiao Wu hasn't come back yet?" The jailer said: "He has always been in the wilderness, and he may not have gone anywhere!" Shopkeeper Meng smiled: "It's not his fault that the doorkeeper is the doorkeeper." Then he stuffed the jailer with some silver taels. "Give us some time!" said the shopkeeper Meng. The jailers smiled and rushed out.

Shopkeeper Meng took the food box, put the food box on the ground, brought out a few dishes, and put the dishes and chopsticks in front of Fang Xu and Ye Suifeng, and then the shopkeeper Meng took out his own dishes and chopsticks, sat directly on the ground, and said, "Eat quickly!" "What are you doing here?" Ye Suifeng asked vigilantly. Shopkeeper Meng said, "I'll send you something to eat." "How did you get in?" Fang Xu asked. "These gangs often go to the inn to eat, so they are more familiar, mainly because their leader is not here today. Shopkeeper Meng picked up the dishes and chopsticks as he spoke, and said, "They definitely won't give you too good food, so I'll bring you some."

Ye Suifeng saw that the food was indeed a little hungry, so he also picked up the dishes and chopsticks, but Fang Xu did not move, "I have eaten it all with the wind, why don't you eat it?" asked the shopkeeper Meng. "I'm wondering what you're doing here?" Fang Xu looked at Shopkeeper Meng and directly said what he was thinking. "Hmph!" Shopkeeper Meng smiled slightly and said, "Xue Liyu is very good, don't worry about her, I just brought you food! ”

After a full meal, Shopkeeper Meng packed up the plates and got up to leave. Ding! A crisp sound resounded through the cell. A short knife slipped from the shopkeeper Meng's body, and Fang Xu and Ye Suifeng clearly saw that the blade was stained with blood, and the blood stains had not yet dried. Fang Xu wanted to take it, but was picked up by Shopkeeper Meng first, Shopkeeper Meng put away the knife and left without looking back.

"Yo, shopkeeper, go?" beckoned the jailer. "Well, I have time to bring my brothers over!" Shopkeeper Meng looked around and said, "Xiao Wu hasn't come back yet?" "No!" The jailer said helplessly: "If he doesn't come back, our gatekeeper will have to be replaced." "Let's change it earlier!" shopkeeper Meng dropped a sentence and left in a hurry.

Shopkeeper Meng walked out of the cell and walked to a piece of grass next to it. In the grass, there is a small pit, which cannot be seen until you stand closely. Shopkeeper Meng threw the knife into the pit, sighed, and paced away.

The knife lay quietly in the pit, on the robes of the jailers in the pit.