The knock on the door was fierce and urgent, not like a girl's fist.
No one answered, Rong Duanyu pushed the door open and broke into the room with her skirt on. There was light smoke from the incense burner, the double curtains were dim, and the person in the bed was sleeping soundly. She ran to the bed, reached out and patted the face: "Wake up, don't sleep again."
Last night, the hot pot was paired with a jug of plum wine, Rong Luoyun was overwhelmed with alcohol, and now he was very sleepy. "Don't disturb me..." He muttered, rubbing his cheek against Rong Duanyu's nails when turning over.
"Something happened in the city, get up quickly!" Rong Duanyu tore away the quilt.
Rong Luoyun narrowed his eyes: "What's the matter?"
Rong Duanyu said: "A family's daughter was ruined and lost her life." It was hard to say, and she nodded, and she was about to cry, "It's exactly the same as the murder two years ago. Your name is engraved on the bedside... .”
Rong Luoyun woke up instantly, got up, put on his clothes and tied his hair, put on silk shoes, and walked to the window to peep secretly. The downstairs was bustling, and the people in the city walked towards the direction of the Mani Tower, and the couple cried out for their grievances under the tower.
Rong Duanyu asked: "What are your plans?"
Rong Luoyun closed the window: "Prepare the carriage, I'll quietly go back to the Extraordinary Palace through the back door." After being surprised, she was so calm, and before leaving, she did not forget to tell her, "Sister, tell the girls in the building to be careful and take precautions at night."
After saying that, he left, drove out of the Chaomu Building in a carriage, and avoided the crowd all the way back to the extraordinary palace. It was raining all night, and the long street behind the palace gate was still wet, and all the disciples were waiting for orders on the Miao Cang Terrace.
"Second brother!" Diao Yuliang waved in front of the hall with a sudden sound.
Rong Luoyun got off the car and walked over, step by step, recalling the situation in the palace yesterday. The sweet dried pears, the chirping human voice, and Huo Linfeng hugging him to listen to his chest. After crossing the threshold, he withdrew his soul, and called "Big Brother" to Duan Huaike who was sitting in the chair.
Duan Huaike asked: "You must know the situation, what are your plans?"
Rong Luoyun breathed out, and came to ask him his plan again, and he said lightly, "Kill him and hurry up." Once this happened, everyone was in danger, and he must catch the flower picker.
Diao Yuliang came over: "Second brother, I scolded you for an hour."
The child's voice was hoarse, and he was probably exhausted when he cursed. Rong Luoyun touched the other party's pigtails, and arranged: "Fourth, you lead your disciples to visit the households in the city, and make a note of those who have boudoir daughters. When it gets dark, you will patrol around these households."
Diao Yuliang took the order and went to do it immediately. Rong Luoyun held the tea to moisten his mouth, the bitterness made the tip of his tongue tingle, the enemy was in the dark, and I was in the light, except for taking extra precautions, he was completely passive. He asked: "Brother, is the government doing anything?"
Duan Huaike said: "Both the government and the barracks have sent manpower, but we can't count on it."
Rong Luoyun suddenly hoped that General Saibei would show up, regardless of friends or foes, the command of the army must be the same. He thought too far, waited for his thoughts to withdraw and squeezed the space between his eyebrows, and only waited for night to fall to go out to find the thief.
Duan Huaike reminded: "To capture him as soon as possible, the palace master, the big disciple, and those who are good at kung fu must all contribute."
Rong Luoyun nodded dumbly, and his attention stopped on the "big disciple". Everyone knew what happened, so Du Zhong must have known it too.
He stood up suddenly, without even saying hello, and strode out of Shen Bi Hall. The quiet and intoxicating elegant building, the locked golden pavilion, walked outside the Qianji Hall in one breath, he was extremely nervous, but he stepped into the gate very firmly.
Rong Luoyun walked around to the bamboo garden, his footsteps involuntarily lightened, that firmness was mixed with some grievances. In the garden, Du Zheng was washing his clothes, when he saw him, his eyes widened, as if he saw a murderer.
"Where's Eucommia?" he asked.
Du Zheng replied: "Not here, I went out."
Rong Luoyun thought, is he really not here? Still don't want to see him? Where do you go when you go out, to the city to listen to his evil deeds? He turned around and left without the eagerness he had when he came, only a deep resentment remained.
The small street was long and the weather was fine that day. He was running and flying a sand swallow kite. The man looked at him with a smile and followed him all the way. Right now he is walking forward slowly, staring at the hem of his robe, it took him a long time to reach the door of Wumingju.
When he looked up, he saw Huo Linfeng sitting under the eaves.
"Eucommia!" Rong Luoyun was startled suddenly, stepped on the gravel and ran in, barely stopping a few steps away. He stared at the other person, from eyebrows to eyes, from closed lips to clenched fists, he looked at everything.
Huo Linfeng said: "This subordinate trespasses again, will the palace ask for punishment?"
Rong Luoyun shook his head, no. After some deliberation, I didn't know where to start to talk about the bad things, so I simply pushed it to the other party, "...do you have anything to do with me?"
Huo Linfeng said: "The water and flowers in the jar were replaced with new ones, the birds were fed, and the fallen leaves were cleared." After he finished his report, he stood up and looked at him, "I waited at the corner of the Zimen last night until dawn. I have something to say. , but forget about it for now.”
Pouting her lips seemed immodest, Rong Luoyun pursed her lips tightly. After sipping for a while, he rushed to Huo Linfeng unwillingly, and with his face upturned, he said earnestly, "I forgot all about it, I obviously don't want to tell me about it."
He seldom explained anything to people. He stumbled and said, "I know you must have heard it. Believe it or not, you should, you should listen to me." He didn't dare to look people in the eye, so Looking at the dark lines on his clothes, "I wasn't in Xiaoyang City at all when the murder happened two years ago. I couldn't catch the murderer."
Huo Linfeng asked: "It wasn't you who did it, why do others believe it?"
Rong Luoyun replied: "Three people make a tiger, and one mouth makes gold!"
Huo Linfeng asked again: "Where were you last night?"
Rong Luoyun said anxiously: "I spent the whole night in Chaomu Tower!" He took half a step closer, his expression fisted, "My sister and I ate hot pot and drank a pot of freshly brewed plum wine. I was very drunk...I, I didn't go anywhere!"
Huo Linfeng frowned slightly, he was waiting in the cold wind and rain, but this guy was drinking plum wine. He was very drunk, whoever helped him into the room and put him on the bed, and whoever helped make the bed undressed, looked sideways, and there was a trace of pink on his cheek.
Holding his chin with his big hand, he asked, "Did you have sex after drinking? Who caught it?"
Rong Luoyun was stunned, covered his face and replied: "My sister caught it, she always keeps her nails so long!" After finishing the answer, she took Huo Linfeng's right wrist that was pinching his chin, "What happened last night has nothing to do with me. It doesn’t matter, I will definitely prove my innocence.”
Huo Linfeng let go of his hand, why didn't he prove it before, but now he is earnest.
I didn't prove it in the past because I didn't care. First, I didn't want to be an official or a noble, and second, I didn't want to honor the lintel. What do I want to do with those false names? He spends his time in the grass, trying to have a good time, no matter whether the world admires him or looks sideways at him.
"Now..." Rong Luoyun said, "I care, I'm afraid of being misunderstood by someone."
Ashamed to say it clearly, thinking about it and fearing that others would deny it, he gritted his teeth and added: "You are alone."
Huo Lin took the risk to make a fool of himself, isn't he alone, is he a horse? Rong Luoyun couldn't bear the slander anymore, so he raised his hand and punched the opponent in the chest.
"Why don't you speak?" He asked aggrievedly, "Is your heart still staggering because of me? It won't stop..."
Huo Linfeng wrapped his fist around it, and he had a love-hate relationship: "If you stop, I'll die!" His voice was urgent and bright, but the next sentence was deep and hoarse, "Like an idiot, you can become the palace master based on your appearance!" Is it?"
A sour remark of explicit derogation and implicit praise caused the cloud in the sky to flutter and block out the sun, and the cloud on the ground was stunned and staring. When the weather turned cloudy and it was going to rain again, Huo Linfeng turned against the guest and pushed Rong Luoyun into the hall, putting aside his emotions for a while, and wanted to discuss a strategy for catching the murderer.
Drilling into the study room, the two walked around to the desk and spread paper to grind, while Huo Linfeng drew a map of the city. In such a large Xiganling, there are countless streets and alleys, and it is like finding a needle in a sea.
Later, Diao Yuliang sent someone to send a message every half an hour, and marked it on the map, and Huo Linfeng would arrange for manpower to be transferred. Surrounded quietly, looking up, the idiot-like Palace Master was wiping his sword. He said: "I only care about wiping the sword, I don't know how to pour me a cup of tea."
After hearing this, Rong Luoyun went to boil water to make tea, then turned back to the table, like a student being reprimanded by his master. They are so prepared, but they know in their hearts that whether they can catch the murderer depends more on luck.
If the murderer is in the south of the city and they are in the north of the city, there is really nothing they can do.
Huo Linfeng said to himself: "It would be great if someone could know the six-way Sanskrit."
The six-way Sanskrit sound is a martial art of the Western Regions. With one ear, one can detect every movement and stillness in the six directions, as far as dozens of miles away. However, there are many sounds within a radius of tens of miles, it takes time to distinguish the sound you want, and this martial art is extremely harmful to the body.
After using the six-way Sanskrit sound, the ears are buzzing, painful and numb, and it seems to be deaf for a short time. The longer you use it, the worse the pain and the longer you will be deaf.
Huo Linfeng said something casually, and then continued to bow his head at his desk.
Unexpectedly, Rong Luoyun at the side said, "I know six ways of Sanskrit."
Huo Linfeng turned his face away, half-believing, half-doubting, surprised and happy, and then his doubts were overshadowed, and his joy was covered up by surprise. "What are you doing learning that kind of martial arts?" Once he changed his face, he lost half of his joy, "Kungfu that hurts your ears can't be used after practice, so don't use it."
Just now I begged someone to know the six-way Sanskrit sound, but now I am telling people not to use it. Rong Luoyun had his own plan, and without saying a word, he moved a little closer and stared at the map. Huo Linfeng put down his pen to ponder, and then said: "This kind of deployment is very poor in mobility, and the streets and alleys are not scattered enough."
Rong Luoyun remained silent, took a box of chess pieces, and first scattered five pieces in the southeast, northwest and the center of the city. Keeping hands, the third son, the fifth son, and the ninth son seem to be disordered but actually hide a mystery. After the last one was put down, the tea was cooked, and the fragrance filled the room and the paper fell, he asked softly, "How is it?"
Huo Linfeng was surprised: "The palace master knows strange skills?"
Rong Luoyun pretended to be modest: "I know a little bit about the superficial." The formation is the Floating Cloud Formation, for defense, and the corresponding offensive formation is called the Flowing Cloud Formation, all of which are flexible and flexible to win. The other party was full of admiration, but his face was as calm as water, but he secretly cocked his tail and flopped about.
Everything was planned, Huo Linfeng returned to Qianji Hall in the afternoon, taught formations, divided into groups, and arranged until dusk. As soon as it got dark, all the disciples came out in a mighty force, patrolling the city.
The three palace lords joined the first disciple, Rong Luoyun was wearing a black bunt with a ponytail and a small scarf around his neck. When Huo Linfeng arrived, he joked in a low voice, "Does the palace want to cover up?"
Rong Luoyun snorted coldly, scaring the people first without covering his face. He lifted the small scarf to cover half of his face, this time it was good, those eyes became more charming, bright like stars and bright like the moon.
Before setting off, Rong Luoyun ordered: "Catch the murderer alive, and don't take his life for now."
Leaving the extraordinary palace, they parted ways, each sneaking into the city to wait for an opportunity to catch the thief. Huo Linfeng arrived in the east of the city, walked through the old alleys and walls, and went door to door to investigate.
This night was like a cat catching a mouse, and no trace of the murderer was found in the middle of the night.
In the Mani Pagoda in the center of the city, the girl who died last night was moved to the pagoda, and the monks were chanting sutras for her. Rong Luoyun lurks nearby, not daring to look at the girl's body, but hears her parents crying.
Leaning against the wall and closing his eyes, he disappeared into a dark alley.
He didn't move at all, only the ear bones squirmed lightly, and all the true energy in his body exerted pressure on his ears. Breathing overturned, he recited the heart formula silently, and instantly heard the sounds around him. Whispers, cries, snoring and laughter, the rippling of the long river, the chirping of birds and beasts in the jungle, and the sounds of the six ways are all included in the ears.
Rong Luoyun carefully distinguished, suddenly, the eaves tiles moved and the windows creaked, it was reported from the north of the city!
He immediately flew to the north, and the patrolling disciples saw him passing by, and all changed their formations to follow him. Humming, his ears felt numb, and the deep part of his cochlea was painful like a pinprick.
The wind stopped, the footsteps stopped, and he couldn't hear anything at all.
Rushing to the north of the city, at the end of the spring alley, the small window was opened quietly, and the murderer had already slipped away. Seeing that the daughter in the room was unharmed, Rong Luoyun suddenly fell into a trick to divert the tiger away from the mountain.
He listened again and heard the strange movement in the south of the city.
Diao Yuliang was in the south of the city, chasing a suspicious figure and yelling at the prostitute.
First to the north of the city, then to the south of the city, the flower picker's lightness kung fu can't be faster than Bafangyou. Rong Luoyun suddenly had a guess, could it be that the murderer was not one person, but a group
Entangling all night, then quiet, spend the night safely at any rate.
When the sky was overcast, all the disciples were exhausted and returned one after another without success. Rong Luoyun also walked back, and at the foot of Lengsang Mountain, he met Huo Linfeng, who pretended to be innocent and waved.
My ears were numb and sore from my temples, and I couldn't hear anything except humming. Huo Linfeng walked towards him, opened and closed his lips and said something, but he couldn't read it, so he nodded blindly.
What Huo Linfeng said was "a hard night", walked back side by side, and said: "The officers, soldiers and common people were also patrolling the city last night. There are many people and it is easier to ambush. I suggest that they should unite and take turns to guard."
This sentence is so long, Rong Luoyun nodded again.
Huo Linfeng said sadly: "It's just that no one is willing to join forces with Bufan Palace."
Having clicked twice, Rong Luoyun hesitated, so he endured the pain and let out an "um". He always kept his mouth shut, and sooner or later he would reveal his secrets. After a moment of pondering, he said what was in his mind: "Maybe there are more than one flower picker!"
Huo Linfeng was taken aback, firstly because of Rong Luoyun's voice, and secondly because of Rong Luoyun's guess. "I'm not deaf, what's the point of shouting so loudly." He was indeed not deaf, but Rong Luoyun was very deaf.
Stepping into the palace, the rising sun casts shadows, elongated and cast on the street.
Huo Linfeng watched the shadow raise his hand, and slapped Rong Luoyun on the head. Rong Luoyun retaliated and punched him on the cheek. He pretended to be in pain: "Ah, the palace master is bullying others."
Rong Luoyun couldn't hear it, so he answered indiscriminately: "That's it!"
This loud voice was really abnormal, Huo Linfeng said calmly: "Palace Master, I feel that you are a flower picker."
Rong Luoyun nodded again: "That's right!"
"..." Huo Linfeng was almost certain, before he made a sound, he lowered his face and reached out to hook the other's earlobe. With just this slight slap, Rong Luoyun instantly retreated in pain, his face twisted slightly.
Huo Linfeng understood that he must have used the six-way Sanskrit tone disobediently, but he had no choice but to scold him, because he was completely deaf right now. That's all for being deaf, and she pretended to be negotiating with him, the fox Yuxue in the dream was cute, but the fox in front of her was very cunning!
Striding forward, he pursed his lips and said nothing.
Rong Luoyun followed, stepping on his shadow, thinking he couldn't see it!
Huo Ran turned around, as if killing a carbine, Rong Luoyun jumped in front of Huo Linfeng unexpectedly. Numb and painful, his pitiful look is very natural, as long as he doesn't shout loudly, anyone who looks at him will soften his heart.
General Huo who slaughtered the city was beaten with iron, but his heart was made of flesh. Staring, watching, feeling pity for the strangers you meet by chance, and pity for the person in front of you.
After a long time, he sighed and said slowly with his mouth: "This is not an example."
Rong Luoyun understood, and nodded like a chicken pecking rice. Suddenly, the other party supported his shoulders, moved closer, leaned over to touch his ear, and the warm breath brushed against his ear.
what to do...
What do you want to say? Why take advantage of him when he can't hear? Saying bad things about him, but still pouring out his heart, he tensed his heart.
He couldn't help muttering: "Eucommia..."
"Rong Luoyun," the thin lips of the person called Du Zhong moved slightly, "I'm Huo Linfeng."