The place where Ran Feize was going was called Wuzhen. Wuzhen was not far from Pingzhou City, where Ran Feize originally wanted to take Su Xiaopei.
To say that this Pingzhou City is really a delicate place, there are officials, many people, prosperous and lively, it seems to be an ordinary big city, but there is Pingzhou Mountain not far from it. A martial arts conference. This year happens to be such a year - the autumn wind in October is cold, and the sword in Pingzhou is cold.
Wuzhen was originally called Wuzhen, but in fact there was nothing. But because Pingzhou Mountain has a martial arts conference every five years, many martial arts and martial arts people have settled down here to inquire about news. There are officials and people in Pingzhou City. For some people in the martial arts who are used to wantonly, they feel that it is very inconvenient to tie their hands and feet in the city, so over time, the foot of the mountain gradually became a town, and "no" became a town. "Wu", the government turned a blind eye to this, ordinary people would never come here for a stroll, and this place has become an open secret station in the martial arts.
Ran Feize never participated in any martial arts conference, because his master didn't like it either. The old man felt that it was tiring and boring to be in the limelight, so he liked to quietly lead him to the door of other people's houses to play in the gym. He finds it tacky to make a public appearance at a martial arts conference.
Ran Feize was taught badly and behaved in such a manner that he was not upright. At the martial arts conference this year, Ran Feize originally planned to take Su Xiaopei to Pingzhou City, where it was safer, and then he went to Wuzhen nearby to buy and sell weapons to earn some money. This kind of thing is very tiring to run from home to family. He plans to take advantage of the martial arts conference to catch some big fish, and then take the opportunity to see if there are any suitable apprentices among the young boys who come to watch martial arts.
In fact, recruiting apprentices in this way is quite unrighteous, because people who come to watch martial arts because of their fame are usually admiring the various factions and want to get started. All factions will also seize this opportunity to recruit new people and make money to make a name for themselves. Ran Feize wanted to find an apprentice here, and to put it bluntly, he was planning to dig a corner.
But now these plans have to be put aside, because a major incident has occurred in the rivers and lakes. The old owner of the Seven Kills Village, Fang Tong, was killed. Witnesses claimed that they heard a strange bell sound during the incident, and heard the owner's yelling. They rushed over and saw Fang Tong lying in a pool of blood, not far away. There was a corner of the robe flashing, and it was the murderer who escaped. In the end, of course, the murderer was not caught. The only clues were the ringtone and the robe, as well as the blade marks on Fang Tong's corpse. But these three things are enough. The nine-bell slash, the weapon used by the uncle Jiu Ling Taoist, is a weapon that emits a strange bell sound, and he usually wears a robe, and the blade marks on the corpse are also left with the cutting knife traces are the same.
All this shows that Taoist Jiuling is the murderer. Naturally, everyone in the Seven Kills Village would not give up, so they carried the corpse to the other courtyard of the Shensuanmen in Wuzhen, and asked the Shenshenmen and Jiuling Taoist to give an explanation.
The Taoist Jiuling was not there, and the divine calculation gate did not know what happened. Because Taoist Jiuling came to Wuzhen to break the Linglong Formation at the foot of Pingzhou Mountain. That formation was in a dense forest. It was built by a few old seniors who had passed away from the rivers and lakes. There were countless secret passages, which were said to be used to challenge each other for entertainment. To this day, it has become a great place for people in the martial arts to prove their strength. To be able to pass the Linglong Formation alive, and to use it in less time than others, is to have the ability to show off in the martial arts. The people from the various factions who went to the formation were quite malicious and added their own traps and formations to the formation to increase the difficulty of the exquisite formation, making the speed of rushing through the formation slower and slower.
The Taoist Jiuling went to the Linglong Formation, and the time for entering the formation was just three days before the death of Fang Tong, the owner of the Seven Kills Village. Now that the Seven Kills Village has come to the door, the Taoist Jiuling has not yet come out of the Linglong Array.
It is said that Taoist Jiuling should be able to clear the suspicion in such a situation. After all, there is evidence that he broke into the Linglong Array. Several people in the martial arts team watched him enter the battle. Will he be able to break the previous record of the Xuanqing faction's single-player team taking only seven days? But Qishazhuang was still unconvinced. After all, they also had evidence, so they speculated that Taoist Jiuling used the name of entering the formation to cover up the truth of his whereabouts. After he entered the battle, he searched for an exit, sneaked into the Seven Killing Village, and then sneaked into the battle after the murder to escape the crime.
Seven Kills Zhuang's words were unequivocal, and the Shensuanmen scolded them for making up the crimes they wanted to add. The two factions were at odds with each other. The two sides fought fiercely, and each suffered damage. At this time, the Taoist Jiuling came out of the Linglong Array. It took him ten days to break through the barrier this time. Hearing that the owner of Seven Kills Village was killed, he did not appear too surprised, but he also denied that he did it. But his ten-day breaking formation was also regarded as a suspicious point by Qishazhuang. Judging from the record of the highest breaking formation in seven days, the extra three days are just enough to travel back and forth to the Seven Killing Village to kill and commit murder.
Besides, Fang Tong, the owner of Seven Kills Village, had a disagreement with the Taoist Jiuling. He once accused the gods of pretending to be ghosts and cheating. As the master and uncle of the gods, Taoist Jiuling naturally wanted to find Fang Tong's trouble, and the two were not in harmony. There are no secrets in the arena. Taoist Jiu Ling also said that Fang Tong was killed this year, so it would be better for him to be careful. Of course, when he said this, his tone was not good, and it sounded like a warning and provocation in Fang Tong's ears. The Seven Kills Village and the Liangzi of the Shensuanmen became even deeper.
Now that Fang Tong has been killed, Qi Sha Zhuang believes that all kinds of evidence show that it was done by Taoist Jiu Ling, and he killed Fang Tong, first to vent his hatred, and second, to prove that they are not worthy of their reputation as gods, and they are not pretending to be ghosts as Fang Tong said. Thirdly, they think that the Taoist Nine Rings wanted to warn other sects that have grudges or doubts with the Shensuanmen, so that they should not oppose the Shensuanmen.
The Shenshenmen scoffed at this inference, and the Taoist Jiuling even laughed at the naive and dirty people of the Seven Kills Village, so the two factions fought again, and this time they also involved the factions that they had a good relationship with. Things got bigger and bigger, and there were witnesses on both sides. In the end, all that could be examined was the blade marks on the corpse.
So Shensuanmen sent disciples to look for Ran Feize. If you want to cast weapons and identify blade marks, this is naturally Ran Feize. This nine-bell slash was cast by his teacher, and it is unique. .
The disciples of the divine fortune-telling sect had fortune-telling and fortune-telling in various cities. They were well-informed, and as soon as the search order came out, someone immediately found Ran Feize in Ning'an City, but Ran Feize was procrastinating and was very dissatisfied with teaching the divine fortune-telling.
The gods were dissatisfied, and Ran Feize was even more dissatisfied.
His family is in charge of making weapons, and now he has to control whether this weapon kills people or not? Originally, there was no such thing. He also planned to take Su Xiaopei to Pingzhou City. After calculating the journey, the two walked slowly. It was estimated that it would take about half a month to arrive. But now that something happened, he traveled by himself, and it only took seven days.
Ran Feize was quite unhappy when he arrived in such a hurry and looked at the faces of these Jianghu people.
He still thinks about Su Xiaopei all the way. I don't know how she is doing without him
He remembered the expression on Su Xiaopei's pitiful desire to follow him in Stone Town earlier, and also remembered the look of her crying when he looked back in Ning'an City, and his heart was a little empty.
In this way, he seems to have been recruited, and he has been fascinated by ecstasy.
He had asked Su Xiaopei about her ecstasy. She said it was called hypnosis. Instead of putting the person to sleep, put the person in a highly suggestive state and respond accordingly when instructed.
Ran Feize had never heard the words she said, what preconscious and subconscious... But Su Xiaopei gave some examples and he understood. For example, when a thief sees a big bag of silver in his hand, the thief subconsciously wants it, but his preconscious tells him not to, and he can't afford to offend him. The subconscious mind is instinctive desire, while the preconscious mind is the intellect. Foreconscious judgment and filtering of subconscious information. So when he saw Mr. Guan holding the money, his preconscious knew that the money was unaffordable, and he probably filtered out his thoughts of robbing money directly. Maybe he didn't even know he had thought about it.
She said that hypnosis is like going deep into a person's brain and making the other person's subconscious active, which can help the other person recall, make the other person fall asleep, and even make the other person obey the guidance and do what the hypnotist wants him to do. She said that a clever hypnotist doesn't need cumbersome sleep coaxing words, or even words, even in a lively street market, as long as they give the other party enough hints, and then grasp the most focused and relaxed moment of the other party and give instructions, they can successfully enter opponent's subconscious. This sounds really unbelievable, Ran Feize said at the time, they would call it sorcery here.
Su Xiaopei said that she was not a very good hypnotist. She said that her ability was limited.
But Ran Feize felt that she was too modest. He felt that she was quite clever, and he didn't need to do anything deliberately, or even too many words, so he was attracted.
He thought she was mysterious, weird and interesting, but he really didn't think he had any thoughts about her. He saved her and took care of her, just like he would save other women in distress and take care of other women in distress. , he just did what any ordinary man would do.
Until that day, in Sima Mansion.
She was half hidden behind Sima Wanru's door and called him "Aze".
A hint, like touching a certain mechanism, clicked, he seemed to be suddenly awakened.
He felt that this was what she meant by the subconscious.
"Aze", he understood that she was asking him for help, he was a little flustered at the time, his heart beat faster, he was afraid of her accident, but he actually felt that the name was so intimate and joyful under such circumstances.
So after that incident, he couldn't help teasing her, but after teasing, he reminded himself that he shouldn't. But the next time we meet again, he can't help it.
He began to pay attention to everything about her, and then he realized that he had already paid attention to everything about her. She said that she was looking for someone, and that she wanted to go home. He would wonder who she was looking for? She said she was unmarried, but why would an unmarried woman come out alone to find a young man? He thought he should get to the bottom of it, but he didn't want to. Just like he clearly felt that she should be with him, but he knew that staying in Ning'an City was better for her than wandering with him.
He has always been a freewheeling person, even too freewheeling. However, he has many scruples towards her.
In the end, he decided to do his own business first. Anyway, it's not a good thing that the martial arts murder case is messed up, and she doesn't have to be involved. She lived a peaceful life in Ning'an City, and he needed to think about what to do in a place without her. He knows what he wants, the question is how? He is quite old, and before meeting her, he really didn't know how old he was. Fortunately, she was not young, so he didn't have to worry about being too old. It's just that he has no fixed place to live, how can he keep her
Ran Feize was worried all the way and quickly arrived at Wuzhen.
In Wuzhen, many people have gathered in other courtyards of various schools. Although there is still a long way to go before the martial arts conference, due to the murder of Qishazhuang, many sects have come to Wuzhen in advance to join in the fun.
As soon as Ran Feize approached the town, he was robbed by the Shensuanmen and the Seven Kills Village. It was said that the two factions robbed him, but in reality, both factions were waiting for him, but neither of them wanted the other to meet with him alone, for fear that it would affect his identification and inference of the blade marks on the corpse. So one faction wanted to invite Ran Feize, another faction stopped him, another faction wanted to invite him, and this faction stopped him. In the end, Ran Feize sat on his horse and watched the two factions fight.
After watching it for a while, I felt that it was not very interesting, and the fight was not too hard, and it was really not exciting enough. Ran Fize picked up the reins and drove his carriage to the side, leaving a sentence "You know where to find me" and then left.
Ran Feize has a residence in Wuzhen. It is not a big one, only two rooms. Behind the house there is a river, mountains, trees and grass, and a casting workshop. From the outside, the foundry looks tattered, and there is really nothing of value. It is in a remote corner at the foot of the mountain and is blocked by the house in front, so it is really inconspicuous. Every time Ran Feize came to Wuzhen, he lived here. Most of the weapons he cast were also cast in the casting workshop behind him, and all the people who knew him knew about it. According to the rare status of Ran Feize Shimen's weapons in the arena, this Broken Casting Workshop is too imposing.
Ran Feize arrived at the house, cleaned up, and just put everything in place. There were many guests outside the door.
It's still the God Calculation Gate and the Seven Killing Village, but this time there is also the Xuanqing faction.
Shensuanmen and Qishazhuang again asked to invite Ran Feize to sit in another courtyard and discuss the case. Ran Feize nodded earnestly and replied: "If something happens in the rivers and lakes, I should change the habit of inviting people to my own courtyard. Why can't I talk? Besides, if something like this happens, where do I go? Sitting on the side is inappropriate, right?"
Right what? Both faces turned black. But they do all want to bring people to their homes, both to take the initiative and to suppress, no matter what happens next, they have to figure out which side this important witness is standing on. Since there is such an idea, of course, people cannot be taken away by the other party. But Ran Feize's words were really ignorant, and both sides felt unhappy listening to them.
"Master Ran." Since he didn't want to go with them, the disciples sent by the Shenshangmen couldn't help but ask them on the spot. "Jiu Ling Zhan was forged by the masters of the heroes. If you can cast the same one again, I am afraid that only Ran Daxia can do it. I dare to ask, whether Ran Daxia has forged the same mark as the Jiu Ling Zhan blade in these years. weapon?"
Before Ran Feize could answer, the people from the Seven Kills Village sneered: "Why, the blade marks haven't been checked yet, so you want to push the blame on others?"