Chapter 50: The Rooftop (part 2 of 4)
After Xiao Suifeng got the key, he and Yu Wenqian immediately sneaked towards the old building.
In fact, the entire operation of infiltrating Tiantai Mansion is the most risky part of stealing the key, and it is the easiest to alarm others, because no matter how thorough the plan is, it doesn't count whether the master book is asleep or not, and even if it does, it doesn't know the depth of its sleep.
And after the key is in hand, the rest of the things are much simpler, the old building is in the middle of nowhere, few people pay attention to it, such as today's Taiwan Mansion is empty, and the manpower of the garrison has been transferred to several critical places such as the wind building and the dungeon, and the old building in this corner is even more unattended.
This is naturally a good thing for Xiao Suifeng and Yu Wenqian, and the two of them entered the old building almost effortlessly.
The old building, which is like a stone tower, has four floors, and the layout of each floor is similar, with rows of shelves filled with large and small boxes of various files, covered with dust and even cobwebs, apparently no one has come in for a long time, let alone taken care of it, so that the whole old building is full of stale atmosphere.
"The name of this old building really lives up to its name!" Yu Wenqian waved her hand to sweep away the cobwebs in front of her, covering her mouth and nose and complaining.
Xiao Suifeng was silent, and after closing the door, he took out the fire fold from his arms, lit a candle, walked to the shelf, and brushed off the dust on a box, only then did he see the words on the box clearly: The Ningshan Bloody Case in the Forty-fifth Year of Dakang is to be solved.
"The Ningshan Bloody Case Seven Years Ago?" Yu Wenqian also came over, and after looking at it, she couldn't help but snort softly.
"You know?" Xiao asked, looking at her.
Yu Wenqian glanced at Xiao Suifeng with the eyes of a monster, "Seven years ago, a Zhuangzi outside the mountain city of Beining, Shanbei, thousands of ordinary people were killed overnight, and the blood flowed like a river, this case was a sensation at the time, shocking both black and white, even Emperor Dakang was alarmed, and personally issued an order, ordering Tiantai Mansion to investigate the case thoroughly with the Criminal Department and Dali Temple. Don't you know that it's such a big thing?"
Xiao Suifeng's expression was slightly embarrassed, but fortunately, the fire was dim but he couldn't see it.
Yu Wenqian looked at the file of the Ningshan bloody case, sighed continuously, and mocked softly, "The big case that shocked the world back then, Yang Zhengshan swore that he didn't want to end up with a headless result, so he could only bury it in the old building's old papers. ”
Xiao snorted softly with the wind, put the box back in its place, turned around and walked upstairs. Yu Wenqian was stunned, then reacted, couldn't help sticking out her tongue, and hurriedly followed.
The Ningshan bloody case is like this, why not the tragedy of the Xiao family in Tiaogu?
Most of the first floor of the old building only have unsolved old cases seven or eight years ago, and the second floor is only a case within the past ten years, and it has been twelve years since the Xiao family's murder case in Tiaogu, Xiao Suifeng and Yu Wenqian searched all the way, and it was on the third floor that they found the file of the Xiao family's murder case.
The file was in a box in the far corner of the third floor, which was covered with a thick layer of dust, and after Xiao Suifeng dusted off the dust and cobwebs on it, he looked at the words on the box, and was stunned for a while, and he was stunned without moving.
In the forty years of Dakang, the case of the Xiao family in Tiaogu is to be solved.
is just a dozen words, but for Xiao Suifeng, it is a blood feud that has not been washed by twelve relatives so far, and it is a nightmare that he has lingered for twelve years!
After being sealed in the dust for 12 years and suppressed for 12 years, Xiao Suifeng thought that his heart was strong enough to face the bloody case of the year, but when all this was about to be revealed in front of him, the pain and hatred in his heart could not be suppressed.
Faces that had appeared countless times in dreams all appeared at this moment, and they fell in a pool of bright red blood, looking at themselves silently, as if questioning, twelve years later, why can't they rest in peace and avenge them!
At this moment, Xiao Suifeng was already surrounded by bloody hatred, he was like a lonely boat in the boundless sea of blood, caught in the magic barrier of hatred.
Hate, hate, hate! Revenge! Snow hate!
As Xiao Suifeng read silently, he felt that his heart was getting colder and colder, and his blood was getting colder and colder, and the Chengying Sword he was carrying behind him was getting heavier and heavier.
Just when Xiao Suifeng's mind was about to be filled with a sea of blood, and his breathing became more and more rapid, suddenly a warm hand held him, and with peace and light, pulled him back from the boundless sea of blood.
Xiao Suifeng's eyes finally regained their clarity, but he saw Yu Wenqian holding his hand tightly and looking at himself.
Yu Wenqian just watched, did not speak, did not open her mouth, a pair of eyebrows like a crescent moon frowned slightly, but her face did not have the pity or sympathy that Xiao Suifeng most often saw on other people's faces, but a kind of determination that he couldn't understand.
Xiao Suifeng rarely didn't dodge or be shy, but he held the warmth in his hand tightly and chuckled, "Don't worry, I'm fine, it's just that the old things of the year are in front of me, and I am a little distracted for a while." ”
Yu Wenqian was also rare to be quiet, she didn't play tricks on him, she just smiled slightly, like the warm sun on a spring day, melting the last layer of cold ice in Xiao Suifeng's heart.
"Open it. Yu Wenqian said softly.
"Hmm. ”
Xiao Suifeng's gaze fell on the wooden box again, took a deep breath, and finally opened the box, and immediately, a stale smell of books rushed to his face, but this time, neither of them dodged.
As Yu Wenqian said, Tiantai Mansion was indeed unable to find out the murderer in the case of the Xiao family's extermination in Tiaogu back then, but the reputation and strength of Tiantai Mansion are here, and under the investigation, it will naturally not be found for nothing.
Xiao Suifeng cleaned up his mood at the moment, and looked at it carefully with Yu Wenqian.
It's just that this box of old files is in front of you, but it's not easy to check them all, since the old cases have not been cracked, it shows that most of these files are actually useless clues or inferences, and it is really as difficult as looking for a needle in a haystack to find useful clues in them. Moreover, Xiao Suifeng and Yu Wenqian have limited time, so it is impossible to check them one by one.
"Fortunately, I didn't act according to Uncle Fang's plan, otherwise there are so many files, how can I finish reading them before dawn!" Yu Wenqian whispered while flipping through it, but Xiao Suifeng at this time naturally didn't have the heart to pick up Yu Wenqian's words, and he had already buried his head in the old scroll.
Fortunately, when Tiantai Mansion investigated the case, it was also organized, although the case was not solved in the end, but most of the wrong or useless clues were eliminated one by one, and before the case was completely sealed and hidden in the old building, a few of the most likely clues were also listed. Although these clues failed to find out any results in the end, so that the case could only end in vain, but at this moment, it can give Xiao Suifeng a reference or two.