Tang Yu looked at it twice, and recognized that this old woman was the person who cleaned the fallen leaves he met in the courtyard when he first visited the Dragon Mansion with Feng Letai and Cheng Liangjia, the two head catchers.

She looked older and haggard now than she had then.

His face was gray and his eyes were blank.

The hands, in particular, were not only calloused, slightly black and cracked, but also looked a little deformed, like a pair of dirty and ugly chicken paws.

The old woman was draped in white hair, holding the wooden fence with both hands, and looking at Tang Yu with persistent and eager eyes. The mouth babbles and talks endlessly.

Tang Yu was curious, walked into the wooden fence, and said to the woman: "This lady, are you from Longfu, why are you trapped here, is there anything you need my help with?"

The old woman stared at him with good eyes, and looked at him, but did not speak.

Tang Yu felt uneasy for a while, and suddenly felt an inexplicable fear, he asked, "Auntie, why don't you always speak?"

The woman stood there, stunned, with two dull eyes smirking at him. Suddenly, she opened her mouth and gestured her finger inside.

Tang Yu's eyes widened, and when he looked at it, his hair couldn't help but stand up, and he felt cold all over his body.

It turned out that the old woman's tongue had been cut off by Qi Gen!

Seeing this, he hurriedly asked: "What's wrong with you, who caused you to be like this? Tell me quickly, I am a fast catcher in the government, and I can make decisions for you?"

Tang Yu said on the one hand, and on the other hand, he was afraid that the old woman would not believe it, so he straightened his official hat and pointed to the cyan official uniform on his body. The old woman shook her head, raised her hand again, and tapped both ears to indicate that she could not hear at all.

Facing this deaf and dumb old woman, Tang Yu became more and more strange, he climbed the wooden fence with both hands and shook it, the fence was buried very deep and extremely firm. Just as Tang Yu was trying to find the gap and release the woman, someone suddenly said behind him: "This little brother, you still don't have to waste your efforts......

Tang Yu turned his head sharply, and not far behind him, there was a tall and tall chief dart master Long Zaitian, who was looking at him with a smile.

He glanced at the dusty woman again, turned back and asked, "Mr. Long, why are you keeping people here for no reason?"

Long Zaitian smiled, as if nothing had happened: "She is a crazy woman, mentally disturbed, and unstable. If you get her outside, once she gets mad, she'll beat people and throw things indiscriminately......"

"Is there such a thing? Why don't I look like it?" Tang Yu was skeptical.

Long Zaitian laughed and said, "Little brother, what did I lie to you? Didn't I tell you, she was originally a beggar begging along the street, freezing and starving in the snow and fainting, if I hadn't rescued her back and gave her a bite to eat, how could she have survived until now?"

"Then why are you ......" Tang Yu wanted to ask the old woman why she was deaf and dumb, but after thinking for a while, he swallowed the words back into his stomach. He said, "Since you took her in and saved her life, now that she is sick, you should consult a doctor." Wouldn't such unwarranted imprisonment and isolation from the world make the patient's condition worse?"

Long Zaitian nodded again and again, and said loudly: "I have always been generous and sympathetic to my subordinates. How could you not heal her? No, after taking more than a dozen doses of medicine, her illness was much milder than before. No more manic, hitting people and smashing things. I guess in two days, I can move out. ”

Tang Yu had nothing to say, so he had to leave the courtyard with Long Zaitian. When he reached the door, he looked back again and saw the old woman still leaning against the wooden fence, looking at him in a daze through the gap, two lines of dirty tears running down her cheeks.

Back in the front room, take your seats with each other. Long Zaitian clapped his hands and ordered to add new tea.

Lin Fanghe glanced at Long Zaitian, stroked his chin, and said, "A few days ago, we arrested the suspect in the area of Gulou Lane. I don't want that Guan Er to rely on brute force and resist arrest by force, but at the critical moment, thanks to Mr. Long's righteous action, the criminal was captured alive. I've always wanted to say thank you in person......"

Long Zaitian shook his hand: "It's a trivial matter, it's not worth mentioning." ”

Lin Fanghe saw that the other party's tone was strict and unmoving, so he said again: "The terrain of Gulou Lane is deserted, and it is mixed in all directions, which can be called a slum in the downtown area. The city's homeless idlers, beggars and stealers, three aunts and six wives, all gather here, and its public security situation is only one of the worst places in Chuzhou?"

Long Zaitian drank tea leisurely and echoed: "No, it happened that there was nothing to do that day, I went out of the dart game, and I also believed in the horse, and somehow ran to that place." When I heard the sound of fighting in the drum tower, at first I thought it was a thief's fire, and the spoils were unevenly divided, but I ended up doing a good thing.

As he spoke, he waved his hand to make tea: "This tea comes from southern Yunnan, it is a high-grade Pu'er, and it needs to be brewed twice before it can be fragrant." You might as well eat a few more cups. ”

Lin Fanghe had to drink tea slowly, thought for a while, shook his head and said: "Mr. Long has set up dart bureaus in many cities near the capital, and he often travels back and forth to Chuzhou, so he is familiar with old things. I want to take the liberty of asking you about someone, I wonder if I can?"

"Why should Lord Lin be so polite. Long Zaitian stroked his long beard lightly and said leisurely, "You know, I am a straightforward person. Fierce temperament. Therefore, you don't have to care, just ask, the old man must know everything, and he will say everything......"

Lin Fanghe glanced at him and sighed lightly: "Then old man, do you know that many years ago, there was a person on the ground in Chuzhou who was very good at kung fu and was nicknamed 'Mixed River Dragon'?"

Long Zaitian laughed loudly: "Haha, Lord Lin, this time you can ask......"

"I don't understand what Mr. Long means?"

"This is exactly the title given to me by my friends in the rivers and lakes when I was wandering in this area thirty years ago!"

"What, you're the 'Mixed River Dragon'......"

"Not bad. My surname is Long, and I mix in the rivers and lakes, killing and slashing, I can grab and occupy, and I have a little fame, so I was given such a nickname. Long Zaitian said and grinned.

Lin Fanghe was like thunder in the clear sky, his head was buzzing all of a sudden, and he couldn't help but be stunned: "So, the mysterious man in black who conspired with Miao Tycoon to rob the gold and silver of the Chuzhou Mansion Treasury is you?"

Long Zaitian patted his chest and glared: "It's the old man." ”

Seeing Lin Fanghe and Tang Yu's faces surprised and puzzled, he explained: "You also know that when the first emperor was around, in addition to the generals Hua Yun, Feng Sheng, Li Wenzhong, Chang Yuchun, Xu Da, Hu Dahai, and the military advisors Li Shanchang and Liu Ji, there were three important people who were always around......

"I've seen the relevant information about this. Tang Yu felt bitter in his mouth, he swallowed a sip of tea, and said, "Dugu seeks defeat with the long sword in his hand, helping the crisis and solving the difficulty." Tang Jingtian is proficient in medical skills and saves lives and helps the wounded. And you, Master Dragon—"