Tang Yu and Xiang Jincheng came to the north of the city with a team of catchers and walked east along the river. Pedestrians on the road gradually sparse, turn around the five cities of the Terracotta Division, you can see the city tower of the small north gate.

There is an abandoned bell tower at the bend of the riverbank.

From time to time, various birds fly in and out of the top of the tower.

Closer to the base of the city wall is the black black black shantytown, low and dark houses, one after the other, continuously. The crowd walked down the street, the ground was wet and slippery, and the corners were piled with leftovers. Occasionally run past one or two crumpled wild dogs. The whole street was filled with a strange smell of sour and greasy. Xiang Jincheng followed, complained, and said, "Xiao Tang, I really don't understand, what do the adults think? Why did you come to this place? It's dirty and bad here, how can you harbor criminals?"

Tang Yu didn't want to argue with him, so he turned the topic away and talked about him left and right: "Several adults arrange it like this, naturally they have their plans." Besides, aren't they being searched elsewhere in the city? We can't guess the intention, we just have to carry it out wholeheartedly. ”

"You're always going to please your boss. "Xiang Jincheng is yin and yang.

"Look at what you said, we are on an errand and holding the imperial court...... Tang Yu shook his head and said, "Who else can you listen to if you don't listen to Shangfeng's assignment?"

Xiang Jincheng frowned: "Damn, I got up early in the morning, and I rushed for half a day, and I was really hungry." Where can I find someone who stutters?"

"Where is there a restaurant in this place?"

A few people were talking, and they came to the heart of the slum street. Xiang Jincheng and Tang Yu stood up, scattered a team of arresters, and every two people were responsible for an alley, and they had to check one household at a time.

After Tang Yu finished the assignment, he went down the street and walked forward on the muddy alleyway. The wooden houses on both sides are crooked, the doors and windows are ventilated, and the ** ditch on the ground is full of stinky water, and the smell is unpleasant. He knocked on the door of his family and checked more than 10 households, most of these households were outsiders, including those in southern Anhui, Huguang, and a few old customers from Hebei, who made a living by picking up rags on weekdays. The house was filthy and messy, and there was all kinds of garbage piled up in the yard outside the house. Some couples are not very old, but they have five or six children, and when they see strangers coming, they huddle each other together, and their little faces are so dark that they can't distinguish their eyebrows!

In the end, there was only one left in this alley.

The wooden door panels were whitened by the sun, the patent leather was peeling, and the door frames were swaggering with the faded red couplets posted during the New Year.

Tang Yu was patient, raised his hand and patted the door panel.

After a while, the door squeaked and slowly opened to both sides, and a woman of twenty-four or five years old appeared behind the door. Willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, white skin, and long fine black hair loosely tied up in a bun on his head. Wearing a stone blue cloth skirt with silk around the waist. Born very charming and slender. Tang Yu didn't expect to see such a handsome girl in such a dirty place, so he was in a daze and speechless.

The woman smiled and said, "Is there anything wrong with the official here?"

"As a matter of routine, come down and check it out. ”

"Then please. ”

The girl opened the door, leaning slightly to the side, flashing to the side. Tang Yu stepped into the courtyard, and couldn't help but look at her facial features again, and suddenly, her body was like a lightning strike, and her heart was beating wildly! She, this girl, wasn't she the woman in white who was killed in the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion in the Purple Bamboo Forest that night?

The woman noticed that his expression was abnormal and asked, "This poor master, what's wrong with you?"

"It's you. Tang Yu couldn't suppress his excitement.

The girl wondered, rolled her eyes up and down, and said, "Do we know each other?"

"One night a few days ago, in a dilapidated ancient house in the woods under the Tonghui Bridge, you were hit by a hidden weapon and stabbed again. Didn't you die then?"

"You're dead. ”

"Oh, I'm sorry, I said the wrong thing. Tang Yu was a little uneasy, and apologized: "No wonder we didn't find you when we returned later, it turned out that you woke up and walked away?"

"I don't understand your words, you don't have a head or an end, you must have recognized the wrong person, right?" the girl refused.

"No, the moonlight was fine that night, because I cleaned it up for you and checked the injuries. I paid special attention to your face. ”

The girl pursed her lips and teased, "The world is so big that there are no surprises." There are people who look alike. ”

"That's just as well. Tang Yu nodded and said, "But the two of you look too similar?"

"I repeat, I don't know you. I haven't been to the Hou Ye's Mansion at all. The girl stood in the courtyard, lightly stretched her jade arms, raised her hands and feet, and said, "If, as you say, the little girl was seriously injured a few days ago, no one would be able to heal so quickly unless she was a god." Well, uncle, come and see, I look like a wounded person?"

"This ......"

Tang Yu hesitated.