Chapter 12: The Mystery of the Wild Store (Part I)
The destination was set, Ding Yu no longer delayed, he packed his luggage - compared to when he first crossed over, now he has a lot of wealth: 9,800 taels of silver tickets, a copy of Luofu Waterfall swordsmanship, both of which were searched from He Yuandao's master's secret room, although the swordsmanship is not excellent, but at least it can be used to cover up his own martial arts; originally there were more than 10,000 silver tickets, and after coming to Yangcheng, he spent more than 1,000 taels to buy a Dawan Liangju and a hundred refining Qingluo sword. In addition to this, there are two sets of clothes, a new gold sore medicine, a silver knife, two East Pearls, two precious stones, and the most important spiritual rhino beads.
Early the next morning, Ding Yu shrunk his bones again, paid for the house, and after leaving the north gate of Yangcheng, he galloped along the official road.
The big Wan Liangju under the crotch did not live up to its value, but in one day, it had run nearly four hundred miles, and seeing that the sky was gradually darkening, Ding Yu dismounted in front of a Fulin inn and asked for directions. It turned out that this place was more than 100 miles away from Shaoguan, so Ding Yu planned to stay here for one night and continue his journey tomorrow.
The inn is located at the foot of a small hill, surrounded by mountains on three sides, surrounded by a circle of bamboo walls, the main entrance is three or five zhang away from the main road, and it is a two-storey bamboo and wood building that walks in, there are only eight single rooms in total, two of which are the residence of the boss and his wife, the cook and the second child, and the other six are guest rooms. On the west side of the small building is a brick and stone stove, in front of which are three large tables and a dozen wooden benches, and a bamboo canopy is supported above, which is the dining place for guests.
Due to the approaching Mid-Autumn Festival, many foreign merchants and laborers had to rush home, so the inns on the official road were almost full, and Ding Yu just caught up with the last room. After he put the salute in his room, he went to eat under the bamboo canopy. Naturally, there will be no celebrity chefs in charge of this mountain inn, but it is better to have a hot tea and rice than to nibble on dry food. Ding Yu was not the only one who had such thoughts, the other five rooms also came one after another, first a young couple, then a strong man with a descendant, and then three masters and servants, the master was a thin old man in his fifties and sixties, two servants were one middle and one young, and finally a young woman in a royal blue suit. The woman did not enter the tent, her eyes first looked at everyone in the tent, and then walked to Ding Yu's table and sat opposite Ding Yu by herself, because this angle just happened to see everyone in the tent.
Ding Yu smiled politely at the woman, but the woman glanced at him in disgust and turned her face away, which made Ding Yu a little embarrassed. What he didn't know was that in this era, strange men and women were not allowed to ask questions or salute each other, otherwise men were regarded as disciples, and women were considered to be unethical. The most polite way is to treat the other party as a transparent person, and don't pinch his eyelids, which is what a decent man and a gentleman do. Ding Yu didn't think he was embarrassed after touching a nail, so he casually ate a few large bowls of brown rice with three or five hot dishes stir-fried, and then went back to the room to rest.
At about the second watch (9 o'clock to 11 o'clock in the evening), Ding Yu was meditating in the house, and suddenly heard a terrible cry from outside, "Kill people~". Ding Yu's heart was cold, he hurriedly stood up, pushed the window open a line and looked out, only to see that under the dim moonlight, a figure in a white robe galloped away from the small building towards the foot of the mountain, and paused slightly at a distance of one or two zhang from the bamboo wall, and then rose up, jumped more than a zhang high, exceeded the bamboo wall five or six feet, fell to the periphery, and disappeared in the mountains and forests. Ding Yu was taken aback in his heart, judging by his swiftness, this person seemed to be beyond the scope of a first-class master - in this mountain village and wild store, there was such a great master?
At this moment, a moon-white figure jumped out of the small building again and chased after the previous person, shouting while chasing: "The thief is gone!" but it was a female voice, and the woman quickly jumped over the courtyard wall and disappeared. However, in Ding Yu's opinion, although her light skills are not weak, she is still more than a step weaker than the person in the lead, and she must not be able to catch up.
Ding Yu thought that something must be going on tonight, so he simply took the initiative to go out of the room to see what was going on. He spent half a column of incense changing his face, during which he heard several exclamations outside, and when he reached the first floor, he happened to see a group of people gathered outside the last room on his left, trying to look but not daring to look at his head, and a fat man sat paralyzed outside the door, muttering, "Dead! Ding Yu stepped forward quickly, and when he approached a little, he felt bloody, and as soon as he walked to the door, the fat boss stopped him and said, "The head of the road catcher ordered, no one is allowed to enter!"
Ding Yu suddenly wondered, no wonder these people were gathered at the door, but who was the head of the road catcher? While speculating, he stood still under his feet and looked into the room, only to see that it was extremely messy, and an old man sat on the ground, leaning on the edge of the bed, with his head resting on the bed. He was covered in blood, and there was still some yellow-yellow and white slurry flowing from the top of his head, and he was too dead to die anymore. On the wall above the head of the deceased, four large characters were written in blood: "Blood for blood"!
Ding Yu's pupils shrank, and he could see it clearly, those four words were clearly consistent with the four words left by him after his bloodbath of the Luofu Sword Sect, and the top of the old man's head was exactly five round holes, like the traces left by the Nine Yin White Bone Claws. If this was still the Condor World, he would think that it was Mei Chaofeng who started it. But now in the world of Shuangjiao, he should be the only one who knows how to do this kung fu, and this person didn't kill him himself-could it be said that the world of Shuangjiao also has similar martial arts? Or ......
Pressing his mind, Ding Yu continued to scan, in addition to a bamboo bed in the room, there were two sets of floor beds on the outside of the bed and on the ground at the foot of the bed, which were extremely messy at this time, and there was a young man lying on the floor at the foot of the bed, this person's chest was slightly undulating, and his eyes were anxiously rolling, but his body did not move, obviously he was pointed at the acupoint. Ding Yu remembered at this time, they were the three masters and servants he saw during the day, the old master died by the bedside, the young servant was restrained by the point, only the middle-aged servant was missing, and the young servant should know a lot of inside information. However, no one in the crowd seemed to know how to solve the acupuncture, and Ding Yu didn't want to cause trouble, so the young man just continued to lie down.
This situation did not last long, it had been some time since the two of them chased and fled, and now there should be a result. Sure enough, not long after, Ding Yu saw a moon-white figure jumping in from outside the courtyard wall, it was the woman who sat at the same table with him during the day, she was wearing a set of moon-white clothes, it was obvious that Fang had just fallen asleep, and after hearing someone exclaim, he didn't even have time to put on his coat and ran out to chase people.
When the fat boss saw the woman coming back, he jumped up like a life-saving straw, trotted up to meet him, and hurriedly said: "Road catcher, you have to be the master of the villain......" Before he finished speaking, the woman waved his hand to interrupt him and said, "Don't worry, you continue to guard the door of the house, don't let people in, I'll come right away." With that, he walked quickly into a room on the first floor.
In a short time, the woman came out of the room, fully dressed. She walked over to the boss and asked, "Is there anyone else in the store?"
The shopkeeper replied with a sincere fear, "If you go back to catch the head, Uchiko is timid, and the villain tells her to hide in the room, and the rest of the people wait," he counted around, and then said, "Except for one servant in this room, all the rest are here." ”
Lu Zhutou nodded and said, "Okay, everyone, don't be impatient, I have something to say." After that, she took off a bronze medal from her waist, held it high in her hand, and showed it to everyone under the light, and finally said: "This capture is the first-class capture of the Yuezhou Mansion of Da'an Dynasty...... Lu Fangrui followed the prestige, and saw that the person who spoke was a strong man, and she said coldly: "Who is you?
The strong man was flustered by her question, and waved his hand again and again: "The villain Wu Er is a merchant who walks the streets and alleys." Dare to ask the adult, but she is the daughter of the Nantian hero, and the road god who is known as the 'Lingnan First Goddess Catcher'?"
Lu Fangrui nodded calmly and said, "It's Ben Catch!"
As soon as these words came out, there were a few whispers among the crowd, and even Ding Yu was a little surprised: Nantian hero Lu Zhongyuan! If he remembers correctly, after Yan Nantian's disappearance, Lu Zhongyuan was the number one master of the righteous path, and he didn't know how high the martial arts of Jiang Beihe, the Jiangnan hero, were so high, but he didn't expect to meet his daughter here.
Looking at the admiration and envy in everyone's eyes, Lu Fangrui was also a little proud, she first smiled slightly, and then said with a straight face: "This arrest is going to Nanyue on business, I don't want to have a big death case in this small shop in the mountains, according to Article 28 of Chapter 1 of the Da'an Criminal Law, you and other people involved in the case must be arrested and deployed, and they must not be violated!"