The cold wind sent faint screams and shouts, and Mo Li finally remembered what he had forgotten.
—Liu Chang is still in that house.
So many people died, and things got bigger.
Mrs. Xue's wish to send Liu Changyuan away is afraid that it will fail. Such a murder case will definitely disturb the county government. Liu Chang can completely describe this as someone assassinating a court official, and he will find an excuse to stay in Ma County. Put pressure on the county government.
This is not the most troublesome. When this murder case is reported to Pingzhou, Jin Yiwei's secret subordinates will find out that all the people he placed in Ma County are dead, while Liu Chang and others came to stay overnight, but they lived well.
What else is there to say, it must be checked from Liu Chang!
As long as one investigates, it will soon be found that Liu Chang went to Ma County to break off the marriage in the past, and the person who pointed his finger at the marriage was actually the daughter of the ghost poisonous vulture. Needless to say, Jin Yiwei must think that the murderer was Xue Zhixian, or Mrs. Xue.
He went to Liu Chang in anger in order to follow up after the incident and wait for an opportunity to kill people to avoid future troubles.
There are mountains all around Ma County. Once the body is thrown into a remote ravine, and the snow is covered again, the man disappears. When the spring flowers bloom next year, only some broken bones and clothes can be retrieved from the ravine, because the corpses were eaten by wild wolves. Ma Xian insisted that they fell into a ravine and fell to their death, and this became a headless koan.
Unexpectedly, the house where Liu Chang stayed was the stronghold of Jin Yiwei's secret subordinates.
The Xue family, who had sneaked into the house to prepare for action, suddenly found that this place was unusual. It was an unknown force tracking the treasures of the previous dynasty. They immediately changed their minds and ignored Liu Chang. Instead, they killed all the servants in the house and then entered the study. He restrained Kun Qi (a thin and thin man), and forced Qian Wu (outside member) to explain his origins.
Qian Wu was greedy for life and was about to betray Jin Yiwei, but Kun Qi killed him with a pear flower needle, and committed suicide because he was afraid of the methods of the Xue family. So the Xue family didn't find out who was behind the power, so they were worried, so they let Liu Chang out, and let him mix things up a lot in order to catch the people behind the scenes.
- The above speculation can be said to be reasonable, and combined with the traces left in the study, it is even more conclusive.
Mo Li's face sank, and he turned around and ran towards the mansion.
There seemed to be a gust of wind passing by, and the corner of Mo Li's eyes caught the brown shadow again.
"Doctor, please stay."
"I have something to do." Mo Li kept walking, and in an instant, he came to the side of the courtyard wall, and then climbed over the wall.
In the cold night, Liu Chang and others rushed to the backyard with lanterns.
Two figures flashed past on the courtyard wall, and under the reflection of the snow, it was like an illusion.
The leading soldier's eyes widened instinctively, but only saw that the pine branches in the courtyard were overwhelmed, swaying in the cold wind, and as the person carrying the lantern entered the courtyard, the shadow also appeared.
The shadow of the tree protruded from the shadow cast by the eaves. At first glance, it seemed to be hiding in the dark, but it suddenly transformed into an evil spirit that stretched out sharp claws towards them.
"what!"
The soldiers backed sharply, staring in horror at the shadows on the ground.
"What's going on?" Everyone quickly raised their knives and looked around vigilantly.
The soldier who shouted loudly found that he was frightened by the shadow. He couldn't bear to admit it, so he could only point out a hand casually, and said nonsense: "I seem to have seen a shadow there just now."
"what?"
Liu Chang stared at the opposite roof, his face slightly distorted.
The soldier quickly withdrew his hand, why did he point to the roof? With such thick snow, who can stand on the roof? He was about to say that he had read it wrong, but Liu Chang had already ordered: "Go and see if there are any footprints on it!"
Everyone was dawdling, apparently not daring to approach.
They just looked at the servant's body and knew that the murderer was a man of martial arts.
—Murdering is like killing a chicken, breaking the neck of the deceased in one fell swoop, who would dare to provoke such a murderer
"Go!" Liu Chang said sharply.
He felt a pain in his heart again, because of his body, he didn't have enough energy to act as the leader in the past, but stood in the middle of the crowd.
The soldiers were dissatisfied, and dragged them to the eaves. After looking carefully, they found no snow falling down, and there were no footprints as far as their eyes could see.
"Report the matter, no one!"
After listening to Liu Chang, he glared at the soldier who first shouted, and continued to lead people to the backyard.
At this time, in the study, Mo Li checked both corpses, and took out a small bamboo tube for sending a letter from the thin man's arms, and there was half a word Xue written in blood on the corner of the wall beside the corpse.
Doctor Mo wiped away all these traces with a sullen face.
Standing in front of the window, Meng Qi saw the light of the lantern getting closer and closer, and he had already reached the study side. He slowly raised his hand.
When several lanterns were extinguished together, Liu Chang and others were shocked.
"Someone!"
In the panic, the soldiers' blades collided with each other.
They couldn't tell whether it was an enemy or their own, and they just thought it was an attack, and they swung the knife to block. Pushing each other, punching and kicking, messing up.
Meng Qi calmly made a gesture of invitation to Mo Li.
Ink carp: "… "
The two of them passed through the chaotic pile of people one after the other. They were nimble and didn't touch anyone, like an invisible wind. After they were far away, the soldiers were still fighting each other indiscriminately. Liu Chang leaned against the wall and was not involved. His eyes were fixed on the direction Mo Li was leaving.
Liu Chang saw two figures.
Two men who seemed to be very young, could not see their faces clearly, and their martial arts skills were unbelievably high. They fluttered over the roof and disappeared into the wind and snow.
"I helped the doctor solve a problem, can it be counted as a favor the doctor owes me?"
Meng Qi's voice was still very clear in the howling cold wind, his right hand was behind him, and his expression was leisurely.
Mo Li didn't buy his account, and vetoed: "Anyone can do anything to extinguish the lantern, it's not a help."
Then he heard a soft laugh, and he was inexplicably surprised.
"... This doctor, it's not a good habit to avoid the heavy and take the light. The only experts in Ma County are Xue Ting and Qin Lu, but they don't have the youthful appearance of you and me. Now there are suddenly two unknown experts, Shui Hun. Now, the tracker's train of thought will be disturbed... What I'm saying is that you let that Liu Yanshi see the suspicious person in the mansion with his own eyes. Without me, it's easy for others to think of your truth. Identity. No matter how talented you are, you can't be separated into two."
Mo Li said calmly: "The sky was dark and the lanterns went out again. Although there was a glimmer of light reflected by the snow, they suddenly fell into darkness from the bright place. How could Liu Yan be an ordinary person? Clear your face?"
"But the ordinary person you mentioned avoided the accidental injury of all the soldiers in the dark."
Meng Qi followed Mo Li, not in a hurry, his voice gradually became obscure and hoarse, "Those who have always eaten the treasures of heaven and earth will get some benefits, and they can see things in the dark, let's just say it is one of them. "
Mo Li instinctively stopped and stared at Meng Qi.
Sure enough, it wasn't an illusion. Something was wrong with Meng Qi, the temperament between his eyebrows changed, and the corners of his lips had a sarcastic smile.
"Meng Qi?"
Mo Li gave a tentative cry, and the latter raised his eyebrows. Although he was still dressed in a wide robe with large sleeves and hairpins, he was no longer in a dignified and dusty state. , he said arrogantly: "You are the doctor hired by me? It's ridiculous, I'm not sick."
"… "
Doctor Mo thought expressionlessly, it was indeed a difficult patient.
For a while, he chased after himself, seeking medical treatment, and for a while he was taboo and refused to admit it.
According to the medical handbook written down by Mr. Qin in those years, the disease has no name and can barely be regarded as a kind of detachment from the soul. The cause of the disease is great sadness or great joy. Patients often have two mentalities when dealing with people. The difference is mainly in dealing with external things, and there is no difference in their own body. They will not think that they are a fisherman one moment, and that they should be a singer the next moment. In mild cases, they remember their abnormal behavior; in severe cases, their memory is blurred and confused, and they do not admit that they have been abnormal.
It is a difficult disease, very difficult to treat. Qin Lu Yun encountered two times when he traveled the world. He used the same formula and tried his best to treat him, but the results were different.
Mo Li took a deep look at Meng Qi and said tentatively, "Are you interested in elixir?"
"Who is interested in good things born in nature?" Although Meng Qi was laughing, his tone was indescribably gloomy, "People in this world want immortality and longevity to be equal to the sky, and they want to be easy to cut. The marrow has added a Jiazi of skill... Ha, even the poor and ignorant mountain people are thinking of digging up a spirit medicine, so that they can sell it for money."
Although the ink carp doesn't like humans digging for elixir, it also knows that in the eyes of human beings, those herbs that are quite spiritual are just dead things.
- Chickens and ducks can croak, cattle and horses can run, but plants can't speak or move, so they can only suffer from this big loss.
"Liu Chang did take the elixir, it should be a coincidence." Mo Li said this, but he still felt heartache.
"Naturally it's a coincidence... If he ate the elixir that I planted, he is now in a different place." Meng Qi's eyes were full of killing intent, Mo Li took a step back out of vigilance, causing him to burst into laughter. Walk away.
Looking at the direction Meng Qi was leaving, Doctor Mo was sure that it was not Zhushan County, and he was relieved.
He stretched out his hand and took out the messenger bamboo tube he had just found from the thin man, and opened it carefully.
This kind of bamboo tube is tied to the pigeon's leg. It is a bamboo tube, rather a thin and small bamboo tube. The things that can be put in it are also very limited.
"Zhushan County, Qin Lu... An orphan of the former Chu?"
Mo Li understands the meaning of the first two words, that is, the thin man is reporting the news that the mysterious doctor Xuanhu has appeared in Zhushan County, but the last word...
The name of the current state is Qi, and the name of the former state is Chu.
Since it is described as "the orphan of the former Chu", it is probably a descendant of the royal family of the previous dynasty. Could it be that Xiaotang is suspected of being the bloodline of the previous dynasty? Mo Li is unbelievable, this is nonsense, not to mention that most of the clans of the previous dynasty were hanged in the palace city of Xianyang, Taijing, and some others were called kings in Jiangnan, and they were all 108,000 miles away from Pingzhou. Tang is not even ten years old this year, and it has been fifteen years since the previous dynasty perished. Isn't this a charge of treason for no reason
Mo Li's face was sullen, and the bamboo tube and the paper were shaken into powder.
"Otherwise, why don't you go back and ask?"
The sudden sound made the ink carp almost slash with a knife.
He stared at Meng Qi, who was standing not far behind, and the other party was calm and laid back again. Needless to say, someone was about halfway along the way and suddenly eager to seek medical attention, Baba ran back.
Meng Qi didn't look embarrassed at all, and admitted frankly: "Sorry, you took the note for too long, and I happened to see the content above. Since the matter is related to the genius doctor Xuan Gourd, why don't you ask him himself."
The ink carp did not speak.
"Don't be so nervous, in fact, I came back because I saw an uninvited guest." Meng Qi gestured to Mo Li, motioning him to listen.
There was the sound of hooves, coming from far and near, running towards the house.