Not far from Ma County, the sky began to snow again.
The snow was not heavy, but the wind was strong.
Liu Chang and others had no choice but to go to the inn in Ma County and plan to stay overnight.
The inn was run by the government, and generally only received officials and their families. Liu Chang could live in a good house. If he was lucky, it might be the main house.
After all, there won't be any big officials coming to this small place, and there is no need to vacate the biggest and best main house in the post station.
The inn has a heated kang and charcoal, and then I send the courier to make some wine to warm my stomach. I think it's beautiful in this weather. As a result, when I arrived at the post station, I saw that the ground was depressed, and several houses were ventilated in all directions.
Liu Chang was dumbfounded. He was about to get angry when his chest suddenly became suffocated.
The soldiers under his command did not have this scruple. They shouted and cursed at the door of the inn, and went in and circled around again. Finally, they had to admit that the inn in Ma County had been abandoned for a long time.
"It's just a matter of anger, it must be because the place is poor, and the station has been left unattended for a long time."
"Presumptuous, too presumptuous!" Liu Chang's face turned pale with anger.
Since stepping into Ma County, he, a sixth-rank official of the imperial court, has been irritated everywhere.
"It's really poor mountains and bad waters that make troublesome people! The inn is a subsidiary of the country, and the small Ma County has let it go. This is a crime of dereliction of duty!" Liu Changcai said a few words, and felt a little breathless.
The soldiers hurriedly helped Liu Chang into the sedan chair and rushed along in the snow.
On this day, they first went to Xiaohe Town, and then to the county seat of Ma County. When they returned to Xiaohe Town, it was already late. There was an inn in Xiaohe Town, but Liu Chang didn't want to live here. So he entered the carriage and horse shop, and without any reason, he forced a mule cart and several mules.
The shopkeeper of the carriage and horse shop wanted to cry without tears. He sat down on the snow while watching the shadow of the mule carriage.
"what?"
The shopkeeper felt like there was something under his buttocks. He got up and reached out to touch it. It turned out to be a purse.
I opened it and counted it, not only enough money for cars and horses, but also some more.
The shopkeeper suddenly remembered that the man in the official uniform just now slipped his feet when he went out. When the two soldiers helped him, the three almost fell together, as if they were in this position.
-It must have been dropped at that time!
The shopkeeper immediately took out all the silver coins in the purse, smashed the whole ingot of one or two official silver directly with silver scissors, hid it deeply, and then threw the purse into the charcoal-burning stove. He thought that this was God's eye opening, and if the other party came back, he would definitely not recognize it.
In fact, this has nothing to do with God. Liu Chang's purse was lost because of a stone thrown by Doctor Mo.
He followed Liu Chang and others all the way, until about a mile out of Xiaohe Town, when Liu Chang suddenly felt a hole in his sleeve, and when he touched it again, the purse in the hidden pocket of the sleeve was gone, and there was nothing in the car.
"Stop! Stop!" Liu Chang quickly shouted.
The mule cart slid a long way down the mountain road and nearly hit the mountain wall.
The soldiers were startled, and they felt unspeakable fear. This mountain road is not easy to walk in the first place, but now the ice and snow do not melt, adding a bit of danger.
But what can be done, the first-level official crushed people to death. Before Liu Chang was lying in the sedan chair, they were not carrying it deep and shallow.
"Liu Yanshi, what's wrong?" The leading soldier jumped off his mule and asked gruffly, "The road is not easy to walk, it's dark, and three miles ahead is where we stayed yesterday. If the disease is committed again, it is better to endure it first.”
"not mine… "
Liu Chang felt the slit in his sleeve, and finally remembered that he had fallen before the carriage, and maybe he had scratched something and tore the hidden pocket in his sleeve. Liu Chang had been in the car all the way. Since he wasn't in the car, he must have landed in Xiaohe Town.
But they have come so far, the sky is dark and the north wind is howling, how can they go back at this time, who wants to! Liu Chang gritted his teeth and sat back, but his heart seemed to drip blood.
The money in the purse is not too much, but as a sixth-rank military officer, his family has no permanent property, and the money is hard to come by. If you spend a little bit, you will use less money. How can you not feel heartache
Coincidentally, Doctor Mo behind him was also calculating money.
The howling wind would automatically weaken within three feet of him, and in the end, only some fine snowflakes blew on him.
His robe is very wide, but the cuffs and necklines are tied tightly, so that no wind can penetrate.
The clothes are thick and stuffed with cotton to keep out the cold. Mo Li is not afraid of the cold, but the people here dress up like this when they go out in winter, especially in Ma County. When Mo Li left, Doctor He said that he had to put on his clothes before leaving.
Mo Li thought for a while, wearing too little will attract attention, so he accepted the kindness.
In such a snowstorm, it is difficult for ordinary people to walk, but Doctor Mo is counting money.
- When going out, the teacher gave a sum of money, Xue Lingjun gave some, saying that it was a reward with a letter, and even Tang Xiaotang secretly stuffed the twenty copper coins that he had accumulated for a long time.
Then in Xiaohe Town, Mrs. Xue gave some money, but Mo Li had given all of the money to Doctor He, because Liu Chang's group of people did not give any money to see a doctor and get medicine. In the recipe that Mo Li opened, there were several medicinal herbs that were not cheap. Liu Chang and others took several medicines in one go. Among them, the medicinal herbs were all taken away by the soldiers.
Doctor He was initially reluctant to ask for it, but he refused, but he finally accepted it. After all, he still has a few apprentices to support.
Mo Li counted the money while calculating the distance from here to Shilang Mountain in his heart.
- I was a little lost in thought, and almost chased after him.
Liu Chang and his party stopped. The place where they stayed was a big mansion. There was no plaque at the door, but it looked like a squire's residence.
The ink carp casually found a tree and climbed over the wall.
Although the house is large, there are not many places where lights are on. In the countryside, lamp oil is not cheap. The servants are not allowed to light the lights casually.
When Mo Li touched under the window of the main courtyard, he happened to hear the servant come to report to the owner of the mansion.
"Liu Yan is here again."
The owner of the mansion was in his forties, with a national face and a robe with a swastika pattern. He waved his hand in displeased and repelled the servant.
There was another person in the room. He was thin and thin. He rolled his eyes and asked, "What happened?"
"The people under Liu Dan, the bandit general Liu Dan, who was appointed by the court, were originally ordered to encircle and suppress the mountain bandits in Pingzhou. Later, when the gold mine on Shilang Mountain happened, they went there to investigate the case. This Liu Yan is not involved. Knowing what's going on, he took a few people all the way to the north, and he stayed with me yesterday, and also asked me about the way to Xiaohe Town, Ma County, and what to say about visiting relatives... I see his expression, it's almost like seeking revenge!"
The thin man frowned and said, "His surname is Liu, what's his relationship with Liu Dan?"
"I don't know, it seems to be a distant relative of the same clan." The member said disapprovingly, "He just passed by and has nothing to do with us. By the way, did you really see a dragon in Zhushan County?"
Mo Li was about to leave when he heard this sentence and stopped suddenly.
This action was very slight, but the thin man in the room shouted: "Who is it?"
The skinny man rushed out the door, jumped onto the roof, looked around, but saw nothing. He returned to the courtyard angrily, and said as he walked, "I did hear a strange noise just now."
The staff outside thought he was making a fuss, maybe because the snow on the branches was too heavy, and a piece or two fell on the ground.
"Be careful, no big mistake, now there are outsiders here again."
The thin man checked the eaves and branches again, and found that there were no footprints, so he went back to the house.
"That dragon... I'm not sure. At that time, I had already entered the Yangchanggou, and I was far away. I could only vaguely see the clouds in the sky, which seemed to be the tail of a dragon." The matter has to be reported to the Lord as soon as possible! I didn’t expect a few crowds, but we are the first to get solid information here.”
The member outside suddenly asked: "Do you think Qin Lu hid there because he knew that there are dragon veins in Zhushan County? Otherwise, why would he be such a great master and a genius of Zaifu, why would he live in seclusion in the mountains? If you don't talk about it today, we will I don't even know that Qin Lu is also in Zhushan County. It's incredible! In a small Zhushan County, not only the ghostly poisonous vulture who killed the entire Buddha Temple, but also Qin Lu, who was the world's number one expert, the mysterious gourd doctor. It's not that I'm afraid of Xue Ting's invisible and invisible poison, we won't set up our base in Ma County, it's far away, it's really inconvenient, we don't even know Qin Lu is in Zhushan County."
The thin man whispered, "Maybe it's because of that little baby..."
His voice was so soft that the outside staff couldn't hear him clearly. When he asked again, the thin man said impatiently, "Nothing, when will your news get out?"
The outsiders were very unhappy, and there was a hint of irony in their tone: "The wind and snow are so strong that the pigeons are frozen to death, and the fast horses can't run the mountain road. How can I spread the news? If you are in a hurry, run this trip yourself!"
While speaking, it suddenly became dark and the candle went out.
The staff member was about to exclaim when he heard banging noises from the pitch-dark room, mixed with the angry shouts of thin and thin men. The staff member hurriedly approached the corner of the wall, and when he wanted to slip out, there was suddenly no sound in the room.
He didn't dare to move, and he didn't dare to breathe.
When I was listening to the movement, the back of my neck suddenly became cold, as if it was being held back by something cold.
- It's a knife.
"Forgive your life, my family's money is in the warehouse."
"Where is the dragon vein?"
A strange voice came from behind the member, rising and falling, making it difficult to distinguish between men and women.
"You, what did you say? I don't know, what dragon veins... I do know about the mine veins, there are..."
Before the member's extraneous words were finished, the knife was closer to one point, and he didn't dare to move any more, but he was very anxious in his heart. He knew very well that the thin man's martial arts was very good under the master, but now he was brought down, what is the origin of this man
Mo Li didn't give the members time to think clearly. He didn't speak, but continued to ask ventriloquically, "Don't try to be vague, the dragon veins of Mount Shilang are no longer there, right? Where are the new dragon veins you found?"
Mo Li guessed that the thin and thin man was the inexplicable visitor that day. He heard that this group of people was looking for the dragon veins, but he didn't know how many ways they went, so he simply took a gamble. Seeing that they knew the situation of Shilang Mountain very well, but didn't care much, it was natural that they didn't have what they were looking for.
"The dragon veins of Mount Shilang are still there, still!"
"nonsense!"
Mo Li felt the pulse of the neck beating very fast outside the member, and his body was tense, as if he wanted to take the opportunity to escape. The neck, which looks like it's about to kill someone in anger, actually—
Elixir! Another elixir, this person has also eaten it, when did the herbs that give birth to spirituality become worthless
The ink carp was so frightened that it took only three hundred miles of Qimao Mountain to give birth to a white ginseng plant.
"If there were no dragon veins here, would you build such a large house in this backcountry and live there for a long time?" Mo Li turned into an old voice and said sullenly, "If you dare to deceive this old man, no one here will survive. until dawn."
"No no, you've always misunderstood." The staff member trembled uncontrollably. He felt numbness in his meridians, as if there were insects crawling. He suddenly thought of Xue Ting, and his body suddenly softened by more than half.
He was afraid of death, and even more afraid of life than death.
"We are here because we were ordered to find the whereabouts of the treasures of the previous dynasty."
Doctor Mo was stunned, why did another treasure from the previous dynasty appear? He just followed Liu Chang, but he first heard that there are dragon veins elsewhere, and then accidentally dug up a group of ulterior motives, and now even the treasures have come out.
Since the words are out of the way, they can only hold on to the end, Mo Li said sharply: "It's still nonsense, the treasures of the previous dynasty are just rumors, not enough to believe."
"No, no, it really exists." In order to save his life, the member said, "The jade seals used by the emperor today are all fake, and the real jade seals are together with those treasures. It is said that they were taken away many years ago. ."
"Then why did you come to Zhushan County?"
"This… "
The staff member decided that the person who came was Xue Ting, and wondered if the other party really didn't know about the treasure, he tentatively said, "Because after investigation, it was found that there were only three or four people who could take the treasure away without knowing it, and the others. Although he is powerful, he can't erase all traces. The most mysterious person in this place and it is widely recognized that the person who holds the treasure is Meng Qi, but the national teacher has long disappeared... Our lord excavated from other directions, and it took several years In time, I finally found out that someone was suspicious."
A small official who was sent to Zhushan County.
Not only did he take the initiative to ask for it to be released, but he also used money, saying that the sooner the better, it doesn't matter if it is remote. Although it was possible to find out that the other party seemed to avoid misfortune and did not want to be implicated by his classmates, it was this person who had the problem.
There is no problem with the student registration test, but the household registration is fake!
Ordinary scrutiny would not see the problem at all if it hadn't digged so deeply.
"Xue Lingjun was also one of the handsome princes in the capital back then, but he got married a long time ago, and his official position is small, but he is only the head of the punishment department, so he doesn't have a big reputation, but after all, Shulan is beautiful and admired, so..."
The staff kept saying good things, but the people behind them didn't appreciate it, and said coldly: "Don't talk about him, focus on the point!"
"We found everyone in the brothel in the capital. She had a portrait in her possession. Because she had a relationship with Mr. Xue by the Weishui River, she was in love with her, so she painted it because she couldn't see it... We went to the former court again. Some old people were sure that the portrait was Mr. Xue, but the person in this painting was recognized as a 'Ghost Vulture' who disappeared in the martial arts. At that time, people in Jianghu only knew his surname Xue, but did not know his name. "
The author has something to say:
Xue Zhixian: When people sit at home, the pot comes from the sky.
Xue Zhixian: Doctor Mo, you have seen it, if you get caught in Meng Guoshi, you will be unlucky. It is obvious that the suspect is Meng Qi, why did you turn a corner and hit me on the head? ?
Meng Qi: Upstairs is pure touch of porcelain.