Reasoning eight

"Immortal Emperor!?" When Xiao Bei heard this, he was immediately shocked and the three corpses jumped wildly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoI don't know if it's Wang Yangming's nonsense or if it's true.

Wang Yangming said calmly: "Don't you know? Yang Tianchen has seen a lot of suffering in the world and witnessed the invasion of foreign races, so he has this long-cherished wish to establish an immortal empire so that the people in the world can enjoy happiness forever. ”

Xiao asked puzzledly, "How did you know?"

Wang Yangming stroked his beard and said: "Yang Tianchen and I have been old friends for many years, and only I know his thoughts. ”

Xiao Bei thought to himself: "No wonder Yang Tianchen has been frowning and sleepless in official business, it turns out that he has this ambition." However, even though his martial arts are extremely high, he may have little future to fulfill this wish. Unless he can cultivate into an immortal body and become a saint. ”

By this time, the villagers had already settled the two homeless men and cleared the firewood and grass. Then they dispersed and went home. Wang Yangming glanced at Xiao Bei, turned over and dismounted, stepped forward quickly, and followed the village woman who had lost her son before.

Wang Yangming came behind the village woman, coughed, and patted her on the shoulder. The village woman turned around and looked at the two of them in surprise, Wang Yangming arched her hand and said, "This aunt, we are sent by the government to investigate the death of your beloved son, and now I have some questions, I want you to answer them." With that, he took out a token and shook it in front of the village woman's eyes.

Although this village woman is fierce, but after all, she is a commoner, and she has been bullied by the government in the past, and when she heard the two of them report to their homes, she immediately obeyed and said honestly: "Thank you, two officials, why don't you come to my house and sit for a while, I will definitely tell you everything I know." ”

Xiao Wang and the others nodded, and followed the village woman into her house, only to see that the house was surrounded by four walls, and the walls were leaking, showing that she was extremely poor.

The village woman took out three buds and stuffed one for each of Xiao Wang, while she sat on the ground, nibbled on the buds, and asked, "Two adults, what do you want to ask?"

Wang Yangming also sat on the ground, nibbling on the bud and asked, "Auntie, when did you not see your child?" ”

The village woman sighed and said: "My child's name is Xiao Worm, he has been clever and quick-witted since he was a child, and five days ago, I saw him playing with some children at the entrance of the village, so I reprimanded him a few words, told him that it was not very peaceful outside, and told him not to go too far from home, and then he went down to work in the field on his own, but when the sun set, this child has not yet returned." I was anxious all of a sudden, and I looked for him everywhere at the head of the village, but I didn't find it at night, and I remembered that there were hungry people around here who caught children to eat, and I was as anxious as ants on a hot pot, so I told the village chief, and the village chief mobilized the whole village to help me find the children together. ”

Wang Yangming saw that her eyes were full of tears, and hurriedly comforted her, saying: "Auntie, don't be too sad, this person can't be resurrected from death, for the sake of today's plan, we still have to find out the truth as soon as possible, find out the real culprit, and avenge the little worm." ”

The village woman wiped away her tears, nodded and said, "Lord Xie comforted us, and then the whole village divided up to look for it, turned the village upside down, and found no trace of the child." I remembered that the last time I saw the worm was playing with a group of children, I went to the parents of the children and asked them one by one, but the children were sure that they had not left the village gate, and when the sun went down, they went back to their respective homes, so they did not know where the worm had gone. ”

Wang Yangming's eyebrows tightened, and he asked, "Do you have any special friends among the children, or do you have any enmity with other villagers?"

The village woman hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I won't tell you the truth, I am a relatively rude person, and I usually have some quarrels with others, but I really don't have a deep hatred." As for my little worm, I'm usually more generous, and I'm quite popular among children, and it's okay to say that it's the king of children, and I have a better relationship with all children. But recently, I often heard him say that he met a new friend called Xiao Shi. It seems that the relationship is the best. ”

"Xiao Shi...... Okay, I made a note of it. What about after that?" Wang Yangming then asked.

"The next day, we searched all the caves and woods around the village, but we still didn't find any bugs. At this time, Ma Erdan said that on the day of the incarnation, he saw several homeless people in the village, and they seemed to be moving near the place where the insect disappeared, and those homeless people generally lived near the abandoned river temple, about ten miles away from here. ”

"As soon as I heard this, I immediately went to the river temple, but the villagers couldn't resist me, so they had to follow me. ”

"It took us half an hour to hurry to the temple of the river, and we found the seven homeless men gathered together to make a fire, and we didn't know what to cook. We immediately asked them about the whereabouts of the worms. When they saw that there were many of us, they immediately reasoned that they did not know, so we had to search on our own, but we searched the entire river temple and found no one. ”

"Just when we were despondent, suddenly a burst of lightning struck, startling all of us, at this time Ma Erdan, who was searching in the main hall, shouted, we hurried over to take a look, only to see him hiding aside, shivering, stammering and saying that thunder fell from the sky, and half of the idol was split, and there was something in it. ”

"I immediately stepped forward and opened the idol, only to find that the worm was riding on a huge dragon-shaped bone, and was no longer breathing. ”

"So you didn't see lightning splitting the idol, did you?"

The village woman hesitated for a moment and said, "It is true that I did not see it with my own eyes, but at that time there happened to be a thunder falling into the temple, and then Ma Erdan screamed, and as soon as we entered, we saw that the idol was split, so there was no suspicion." ”

Wang Yangming stood up and said, "Thank you, sister-in-law, I have finished asking, please rest assured, I will definitely bring him to justice as the real murderer of the little worm." After speaking, as soon as Xiao was pulled, the two walked out the door.

The village woman thanked them and sent them out of the room.

Wang Yangming then asked every family in the village, especially those with children in the family, and focused on asking who Xiao Shi was. As a result, none of the children knew about Xiao Shiqi, I don't know if Xiao Shi's mother remembered by mistake or Xiao Shi's friends outside the village.

The second horse was not at home, and he didn't know where he went.

When the two left the village, it was already the end of the day, and Wang Yangming asked Xiao Bei, "Brother Xiao, are you interested in accompanying me to the River Temple?"

Xiao Qiqi said: "Why did Brother Wang go there at night?

Wang Yangming said: "It's not that there is anything to discover, it's just that if there is really a conspiracy, night is the best time." ”

Xiao Bei nodded, and the two of them immediately raised their horses and hooves and ran towards the River Temple.

The starlight was dim, the clouds covered the moon, and the area was desolate and uninhabited, and the bones of starving corpses could occasionally be seen on the roadside, giving people a creepy feeling.

Halfway through the run, several masked men in red clothes suddenly popped out of the bushes on the side of the road, and several of them raised their hands and shot several sleeve arrows at Xiao Wang and the others. Xiao Bei blocked it casually and blocked the sleeve arrow, while Wang Yangming leaned to the side and dodged the sleeve arrow.

The masked man drew his sword and killed the two of them, Xiao Bei had no sword in his hand, and he had no intention of killing, and when the masked man came closer, with a slight luck, the ice ring was sent out, freezing several people. Wang Yangming took his long sword out of the sheath, the tip of the sword wrapped in true qi, and fought with several other people, and after a few moves, those people were hit by the acupuncture points and fixed in place.

The masked men didn't expect the opponent's martial arts to be so strong, and a few of them were subdued, and they looked at the two of them with fear in their eyes.

Wang Yangming stepped forward and said to the masked man: "You guys blocked our way late at night and started without saying a word, are you the legendary robbers, or do you have another plan?"

One of them said tremblingly, "The two adults have a lot of ...... The ...... in our house There are old and young, it's just ...... It's just that I was forced to live and had to rob for a living...... Your Excellency spared us...... Let's turn from evil to good and go home...... Farming. ”

Wang Yangming picked up the blades dropped by the masked man on the ground, looked at them, and said with a smile: "These swords are of high quality and are worth a lot of money. ”

The masked man who spoke was sweating profusely, stammering, and didn't know how to justify, Wang Yangming walked up to him, and with a wave of his hand, he took off the man's mask.

The man was startled and wanted to turn his head, but his body was frozen, and there was nothing to move, so he could only watch his true face exposed in front of Xiao Wang and the others.

The green light in Xiao Bei's eyes lit up, although the stars and the moon were lightless, but he could see it clearly, this person was Ma Erdan who had just spoken out in the village to stop burning people.