Li Chaoge felt that Hua Lingfeng was too obvious. If the person who was following them that day was really Hua Lingfeng, who knew he was injured and showed up with the wound openly, wouldn't it be too stupid? Moreover, even though the man in black was covering his whole body that day, Li Chaoge could recognize that the man in black was a little slimmer than Hua Lingfeng.
Sure enough, there is an inside story. Li Chaoge asked calmly: "When did this happen? Is the injury serious?"
"What happened the night before yesterday." Sheng Lanchu complained, "Brother, too. It's late, and suddenly I have to test the martial arts of two apprentices, and the attack is still very heavy. But fortunately, I didn't hurt my muscles and bones. I'll be fine after two days, it won't work." Big problem."
Li Chaoge looked at Gu Mingke, raised his eyebrows silently, and motioned to him, "You see, I'm right." Gu Mingke corrected Li Chaoge's views on men not long ago, but he didn't expect to be slapped in the face so soon. Gu Mingke said: "The owner of the village is indeed very strict with the apprentice. The owner of the village is so responsible to the apprentice, he must have been adopted for a long time, right?"
"That's right." Sheng Lanchu sighed, "It's been seven years. They are almost brothers? They entered the door at the same time. Ling Feng was half a year earlier than Ren Fang. When Fang'er came to the villa, he was still young, only eight years old, and he slept alone at night. I dare not. Senior brother has worked so hard to bring them up, seriously? Raise these two as sons. If these two children are made heirs in the future, senior brother will have no regrets."
"I will be a teacher for a day and a father for life. My wife and the owner of the house are kind-hearted. In the future, the two apprentices will definitely be filial to you." Li Chaoge said, looking at the sky outside, got up and said, "I have been bothering my wife for a long time. It's time to go. How much? Thank you, madam."
Sheng Lanchu stood up to leave the meal, but was rejected by Li Chaoge. Sheng Lanchu personally sent Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke out. She stood at the door and watched the two figures go away. Handsome men and beautiful women walking together are always enviable. One of them has a strong color and the other is clear and unstained. They walk side by side in the sunset, as if they are going to soar with the brilliant light.
Sheng Lanchu stopped at the door and watched quietly. She turned around and walked back to the yard when she could no longer see her figure.
Sheng Lanchu asked softly, "Is the owner coming back tonight?"
"The owner said he was going to talk about business today, so he won't come back?"
Sheng Lanchu nodded, and replied as usual: "I see."
On the other side, Li Chaoge was walking on the road and bumped into Gu Mingke with his arm: "Look, what did I say?"
Gu Mingke turned his body slightly, held Li Chaoge's arm, and said helplessly: "The wife of the Zhuang Zhu is still watching from behind."
"I know." Li Chaoge didn't care, and said, "Anyway, she can't hear it. What do you think? How old is Hua Lingfeng this year?"
"On the first day, people in the villa mentioned that senior brother Hua Lingfeng is twenty years old, and second junior brother Ren Fang is fifteen years old."
Li Chaoge smiled, and deliberately asked Gu Mingke: "The best age for martial arts enlightenment is seven to ten years old. If you miss this age, the child's bones will grow hard, and his future gains will be limited. There is a five-year age difference between Hua Lingfeng and Ren Fang, but It only took half a year to enter the door. Mr. Gu, tell me, why is this?"
Gu Mingke had no choice but to correct her and said: "This is an individual behavior, it does not represent the whole, so don't generalize."
Li Chaoge snorted softly. She didn't want to discuss those trash men, so she asked instead: "Is that water ghost in the lake really? Is it a bought maid? I still think she's weird."
"The documents are complete, at least in terms of identity." Gu Mingke seemed to sigh, and said in a low voice, "But whether it is true or not is not important anymore."
Li Chaoge heard something, and immediately asked: "What's wrong? What did you see?"
Gu Mingke's eyes were like lacquer, his thin lips were slightly pursed, and the evening light shone on him, instantly turning into a cold color. Gu Mingke shook his head, refused to say, and said, "I haven't made up my mind yet, and I still need some evidence."
Li Chaoge raised her eyebrows slightly. She glanced at Gu Mingke, nodded her chin with a smile, and turned her head to look at the golden water surface under the setting sun: "Okay. I'll wait for you to figure it out."
It was haunted last night, and today everyone was secretly on guard. Fortunately, the night was safe and everyone had a dream until dawn. When everyone gathered at the gate of the villa, they couldn't help sighing: "It's rare, I have been on the road or haunted by ghosts for a month, and I finally slept peacefully yesterday."
Bai Qianhe deeply felt the same way. At this moment, when they saw Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke approaching, they felt quiet. After Li Chaoge approached, he glanced roughly and said, "Everyone is here, let's go."
Bai Qianhe asked: "Gu Sicheng, princess, what are we going to do today?"
Li Chaoge looked at Gu Mingke: "Human and sword, you choose one."
Gu Mingke thought for a while and said, "I'm still human."
He is not interested in Hong Chengyuan's smoky family affairs, he would rather find the corpse.
"Okay." Li Chaoge nodded and said, "Then it's settled, you take someone to find Xu Xingning's body, and I'll go and find the lost Qianyuan Sword."
Bai Qianhe followed right in front of him. He didn't know why, he thought? He couldn't understand what the two of them were saying. Bai Qianhe coughed, Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke looked at him together. Bai Qianhe smiled and said, "I'm sorry to interrupt you two. But, what are you talking about? Who, what sword?"
"That's right." Dali Temple and the three people who came here murmured incomprehensibly, "We don't even know the relationship between Hidden Sword Villa. Didn't we say that we will inquire separately and exchange information together at the end?"
Gu Mingke said: "Princess Sheng Yuan told me about it yesterday. We will talk about the details on the road, and now go find the corpse of the governor Xu Xingning."
Bai Qianhe's eyes widened silently, and his eyes rolled around. The three people in Dali Temple were silent at the same time. When they returned to the Villa last night, Princess Sheng Yuan said that she hadn't thought about it, and she would explain it when the reasoning was clear. As a result, this morning, Gu Sicheng said that he already knew.
How much do the two of them have hidden itineraries that others cannot see
The eight-member team parted ways in an inexplicable and strange atmosphere. Li Chaoge led Mo Linlang and the others on the street in the early morning, and said, "Today we will focus on inquiring about the two apprentices of Hong Chengyuan. You all know the key points, right?"
Bai Qianhe blinked and smiled meaningfully: "We don't know. Princess, did you and Gu Sicheng do something again yesterday? I always feel that you two have a tacit understanding that others can't understand."
"I didn't do anything, just discuss official business." After Li Chaoge finished speaking, she found that the other people had expressions of "we understand". She frowned and asked strangely, "What kind of eyes do you have? Is there any problem discussing official business?"
"No problem, no problem." Bai Qianhe smiled and said, "I'm on a business trip, I understand."
Li Chaoge instinctively felt that something was wrong. When she discussed business matters with Gu Mingke last time, Li Changle, Pei Ji'an and others also had this expression. It's just to discuss government affairs, isn't it
Li Chaoge frowned, and looked at Bai Qianhe warily: "What do you really understand?"
Zhou Shao dragged Bai Qianhe away and said, "Okay, don't talk nonsense. Finish the work early and call it quits."
Zhou Shao forcibly dragged Bai Qianhe away, but Li Chaoge still felt that something was wrong. Bai Qianhe said that she and Gu Mingke had a tacit understanding, but Li Chaoge still felt that they had a strange tacit understanding. But the other two had already left, so Li Chaoge couldn't bring Bai Qianhe back? He came to question him, and reminded him from a distance: "Inquire about the private affairs of the surname Hong."
Bai Qianhe waved his hand behind his back, signaling that they understand. Li Chaoge turned his head and found that Mo Linlang was also looking at her with a very strange expression. Li Chaoge was puzzled and asked, "What's wrong?"
How could Mo Linlang dare to pierce the window paper, the people above were pretending to be stupid, so as subordinates, they naturally had to cooperate intimately. Mo Linlang shook her head and said, "It's okay. Princess, where are we going today?"
Li Chaoge seemed to smile. She tightened the straps on her armguards, and when she lowered her arms, her eyes shone sharply: "Go and investigate the tomb robbers who did business with the old owner."
Gu Mingke didn't want others to know, but Li Chaoge wanted to investigate. Back then, where did Qianyuan Sword come from
Mo Linlang frowned upon hearing this: "Tomb robbers? It's not easy to check this group of people. They live in nowhere, come and go without a trace, and this is something that happened before the old owner was alive. The old owner died eighteen years ago. It’s been a year, and it’s been so long, it’s hard to say whether those people are still alive. With just the two of us, who are we unfamiliar with, who should we ask?”
Li Chaoge said: "There's no need to limit it to such a death, who said it must be? Do you need to ask someone?"
Mo Linlang was stunned for a while, then slowly widened her eyes: "Princess, you mean..."
"That's right." Li Chaoge squeezed his fists and said without changing his face, "Go and ask ghosts."
Bai Qianhe has a lot of strange contacts, and he is most keen on inquiring about other people's gossip, and Hong Chengyuan's lace news is more than enough for him to inquire about. That's why Li Chaoge apparently led the town demon chief Cha Hong Chengyuan, but in fact she and Mo Linlang acted alone, secretly looking for the tomb robber.
Normally, it would be extremely difficult for an ordinary person to track down the gang of tomb robbers, but Li Chaoge is obviously not an ordinary person. Mo Linlang was in charge of finding ghosts, and Li Chaoge was in charge of extorting confessions. Under Li Chaoge's violence, they really found out a lot of news.
After all, every line is like a mountain, and if you want to inquire about things like tomb robbery, you still have to ask the people inside the underworld.
Seven days later, progress came one after another from all parties. Bai Qianhe really deserved his title of little boy. He hung out in the brothel for a few days, and soon he was like a fish in water. He learned from an older sister that Hong Chengyuan had supported her business, and that Hong Chengyuan had an outhouse in Nancheng.
Bai Qianhe and Zhou Shao followed the clues to find Nancheng. Zhou Shao's big brother demeanor quickly won over a few local hooligans, who warmly invited the two of them to drink, and at the wine table, they gave a full account of the situation of the house.
Hong Chengyuan was merciful outside, and one of the women was pregnant to threaten the superior. Hong Chengyuan raised him up, and finally gave birth to a child, a boy, and Hong Chengyuan became more and more a treasure.
But seven years ago, the child's voice suddenly disappeared in the house. The woman said that the child was sick and died, but looking at her rosy face and beaming, it didn't look like her son was dead anyway. While eating, Bai Qianhe conveyed the news to Li Chaoge while looking at the menu. Li Chaoge calculated the time, and it happened to be the time for Hong Chengyuan to accept him as a disciple.
Bai Qianhe happily ordered several very expensive dishes. After sending the shop waiter away, he asked, "Princess, you have been seeing each other these few days? It's so mysterious. What did you guys do?"
Mo Linlang's lips moved slightly, but finally chose to remain silent. Bai Qianhe might not believe it, they went to bully ghosts.
Li Chaoge wrote lightly: "Go to an expert and ask a few words. Combining your information and sorting out the chronological order, it was about twenty years ago. The old owner and a group of tomb robbers bought Qianyuan Sword. A new grave was dug, and it was found that the burial object was a sword. The tomb robbers learned that the old owner of Cangjian Villa loved swords and became obsessed, so they came to Luzhou and sold it to the old owner at a sky-high price."
Zhou Shao frowned: "No, isn't Qian Yuanjian said to be a funeral object of an ancient emperor? Why was it dug out from a new grave?"
Li Chaoge had known for a long time that they would ask this question, so he was not surprised, and said calmly, "Because the owner of the new tomb is also a family of tomb robbers."
Bai Qianhe let out a laugh, and said happily, "This shovel actually dug up my colleagues. They do this business. I thought they would be very particular about building a cemetery, so they wouldn't be stolen."
"How is it possible?" Li Chaoge snorted lightly. At this time, the waiter in the shop came to serve food, and everyone stopped talking. After the people left, Bai Qianhe approached, and asked in a low voice: "According to this, who was the family who dug the grave? Is it the emperor's tomb?"
"How do I know that?" Li Chaoge picked up the chopsticks and said while eating, "Time is limited, so I didn't find out."
"No, no, princess, it's only been seven days. It's already amazing for you to find out all this." Bai Qianhe sighed sincerely, "Princess, where did you find an expert? The matter of grave digging twenty years ago ?It can be found out by you, it's too powerful."
Mo Linlang lowered her head and silently ate the rice without speaking. Li Chaoge thought it was not easy to cook as a cook, so he didn't tell Bai Qianhe the true source of the news, but said: "It's inconvenient to say the specific way now, so I won't mention it. Continue to sort out the time, twenty years ago, old? The owner got the Qianyuan Sword, and two years later, the old owner died suddenly. The sword was passed on to his daughter and son-in-law, and Hong Chengyuan became the new owner. After Chengyuan became the proprietor, the pride in the shopping mall and the admiration of the crowd gradually began to make trouble. Two years after Sheng Lanchu and Hong Chengyuan got married, Hong Chengyuan played tricks on the spot. Hong Chengyuan had no choice but to raise someone as a foreign room. A year later, the foreign room gave birth to a son, but Sheng Lanchu still had no signs of pregnancy. Hong Chengyuan gradually became distorted. He secretly raised the foreign room in Nancheng for eight years, and let The son took his mother's surname, and his surname was Ren Fang. When the child was eight years old, Hong Chengyuan took Ren Fang to the villa under the pretext of accepting apprentices. In order to deceive others, he took in a big apprentice half a year in advance, who was Hua Lingfeng. Ren Fang In this way, he entered Cangjian Villa openly and aboveboard, and lived there for seven years as the second apprentice."
When Bai Qianhe and Zhou Shao heard Li Chaoge say "it's not convenient to talk about it now", they thought that Li Chaoge had hidden skills and didn't want to reveal them to outsiders, so they both stopped and didn't ask any more questions. Only Mo Linlang knew that Li Chaoge said it was inconvenient now, not for keeping secrets, but because it was really inconvenient to mention those things when eating.
Bai Qianhe might vomit.
After listening to the timeline compiled by Li Chaoge, Bai Qianhe and Zhou Shao thought it was all right. Bai Qianhe clicked his tongue: "People's hearts are not enough, the owner's wife is good-looking and gentle, Hong Chengyuan has nothing to be dissatisfied with. I have seen the outer room, it is far from the wife, really? No Know what Hongcheng Yuantu is about."
Li Chaoge showed no mercy at all, and said coldly, "What are you trying to do by messing around outside?"
"It's different!" Bai Qianhe felt very wronged, "I know I can't be sexual, so I didn't get married, and I never provoke a good family. Every relationship I have is true. I know it well, you love? I would. Hong Chengyuan and I are not the same as scum like Hong Chengyuan, who want to make money and kill while eating soft food, and pretend to be affectionate when it's over."
"Don't laugh at a hundred steps at fifty steps." Bai Qianhe somehow became proud. Li Chaoge gave him a hammer and continued, "In the 21st year of Yonghui, Hong Chengyuan won? Forget about shape, he showed his hidden sword to Wu Jinyuan, the second governor. Wu Jinyuan offered to borrow the Qianyuan sword, but Hong Chengyuan was embarrassed to refuse out of face. Wu Jinyuan returned the sword three days later. Hong Chengyuan didn't know about the sword at first. Is it fake, or did Hong Chengyuan realize that there was something wrong with the sword when Wu Jinyuan died suddenly half a month later. He searched the governor's mansion and Wu Jinyuan's luggage under the pretext of holding a funeral, but found nothing. , Xu Xingning came. Xu Xingning was also looking for the Qianyuan sword. He searched the governor's mansion, but there was no whereabouts. The two searched for a long time but failed, and they suspected each other. Xu Xingning thought that the sword was on Wu Jinyuan's body and was snatched by Hong Chengyuan Let's go, but Hong Chengyuan thought the sword was hidden in the governor's mansion, and Xu Xingning found it now. The two of them probably confronted each other in private, and we don't know exactly what happened, but Xu Xingning disappeared, and his life and death are still unknown, and his whereabouts remain a mystery."
"The timeline and logic line are fine, it should be like this." Zhou Shao drank the wine in the bowl, put it on the table with a bang, and said, "The only problem is that there is no evidence."
"Yes." Li Chaoge sighed leisurely, she looked out of the window, at the undulating mountains, a round of red sun was falling, and tired birds were circling back and forth among the mountains and forests. Li Chaoge said softly: "Now, it depends on whether Gu Mingke can find the body."
Zhenyaosi and his gang were full of wine and food, and they leisurely returned to Hidden Sword Villa. Li Chaoge was very wary, and basically didn't touch the food in Cangjian Villa. Ever since Bai Qianhe knew that the lake was haunted, it always felt weird to drink the water from Hidden Sword Villa, so they usually ate out and endured it when they returned to the villa.
After Li Chaoge went back, he didn't enter the house and went straight to Gu Mingke's yard. Gu Mingke's courtyard is quiet, he hasn't come back yet. Li Chaoge leaned on the pergola, closed his eyes and rested his mind, slowly recounting what he had heard during the day.
The lonely ghost said that the Qianyuan sword was the sword buried with the emperor in ancient times. Before King Kui unified all the countries, he used this sword to kill foreign enemies and sweep Liuhe. Countless souls died under the sword. Later, King Kui proclaimed himself emperor in unification, enshrined Qianyuan Sword, his saber in battle, as the Excalibur of Protecting the Country, and hung it on the dragon chair. I heard that when the Qianyuan sword was hung in the palace, no bird dared to approach it within a mile of Fangyuan. When the ministers went to court, they were all trembling and sweating profusely. Later, when Emperor Kui passed away, he ordered people to put this sword in his coffin. There were countless objects buried with Emperor Kui throughout his life, but no matter how precious the gold, silver and jewels were, they could only be piled up in the side room as footwear. Only this sword, won? To sleep with this eternal emperor.
No one expected that the emperor's mausoleum was actually stolen, and the Qianyuan sword changed hands several times, and ended up in the hands of the old owner of the hidden sword villa. If the trajectory of the previous life was followed, the sword would change hands again, round and round, and land next to the son-in-law Pei Ji'an, and finally, it was stuck in Li Chaoge's heart.
It's a pity that she almost ascended the throne in her previous life. Although enthronement was just a ceremony, and she had become the real emperor at that time, but in retrospect, after all, the name was not right and the words were not right, which is hard to explain.
Li Chaoge was engrossed in his thoughts, when a cool and pleasant voice suddenly came from his ear: "What are you doing here?"
Li Chaoge was startled, she opened her eyes immediately, and saw Gu Mingke standing beside the dimly lit vine tree, looking down at her.
Li Chaoge let out a long breath: "You scared me to death. How did you come back?"
Gu Mingke raised his eyebrows lightly, this is his room, and he has become the one being questioned? Gu Mingke wiped the seat with a handkerchief, sat down slowly, and said, "Yes."
Li Chaoge changed his sitting posture, leaning his elbows on the fragrant vine branches, and resting his chin on his fingers. Following her movements, her sleeves slipped off, revealing a frosty wrist. The vine tree is dotted with small purple flowers, and the purple petals rustled down, falling on Li Chaoge's arm, dotted like stars.
Gu Mingke's eyes couldn't help falling on those purple broken flowers. Gu Mingke thought of some kind of pastry at the Hundred Flowers Banquet in Heaven, which was also white and smooth, dotted with purple flowers. Gu Mingke hadn't tasted it, but he somehow felt that it should be delicious.
Gu Mingke was so distracted that he missed Li Chaoge's words. After Li Chaoge finished speaking, see? Gu Mingke didn't respond for a long time. Seeing that he was still distracted, he was surprisingly angry: "Did you listen to me?"
Gu Mingke came back to his senses, of course he didn't have it, but the good thing about the gods is that they can cheat. He used his power to replay what happened just now, and found that Li Chaoge asked him if he had found Xu Xingning's body.
Gu Mingke was calm and unhurried, as if he wasn't the one who was distracted just now, and said calmly: "No. In the past few days, I have basically searched all the mountains, rivers and rivers in Luzhou, and there is no Xu Xingning's body. If he really died, the body It's not in the wild, but in the city of Luzhou."
Maybe Gu Mingke's range can be narrowed down even more. He has been in and out of Luzhou City these days, and if there is a corpse nearby, he would have already sensed it. After throwing away places such as government offices and streets, there are only a handful of places in Luzhou City that have not been searched by them.
Li Chaoge had already figured it out in her mind, she nodded, and said, "I've done almost all the research here, and there's only one place I haven't asked. It's a good night today, so let's go."
Gu Mingke had no objection, and he and Li Chaoge had not discussed it, but both of them agreed to put Cangjian Villa as the last stop. After all, they have to live in Hidden Sword Villa during this period of time, so it's not good to fall out too early.
When Gu Mingke got up, Li Chaoge stretched out the wrist that bullied Shuang Saixue, and held it motionless in mid-air. Gu Mingke was taken aback for a moment, and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Give me a hand." Li Chaoge said logically, "I've been waiting for you for too long, my legs are numb."
To be honest, Gu Mingke didn't quite believe this reason. But she spoke seriously, Gu Mingke couldn't check whether her legs were numb. Gu Mingke caught her wrist, and Li Chaoge brushed against Gu Mingke's wrist with his fingertips.
Li Chaoge touched the familiar place, but unfortunately, it was as clean as ever, without any scars. Li Chaoge stood up, Gu Mingke withdrew his hand, and said to her: "You are so boring."
Li Chaoge sneered and said, "You're not bad either."
Gu Mingke secretly thought that Li Chaoge was naive, and Li Chaoge scolded Gu Mingke for being hypocritical in his heart, and the two attacked each other and walked out of the courtyard like this. Bai Qianhe was about the same? He was about to go to sleep, but suddenly the window was knocked by a stone, Bai Qianhe opened the window, see? Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke were standing outside, both of them looked very calm, but Bai Qianhe instinctively felt that? Li Chaoge's mood? not too good.
Sure enough, when Li Chaoge opened his mouth, there was a strong smell of fire: "Come out, investigate the case."
"It's getting dark!" Bai Qianhe said incredulously, "The clues have been investigated, and the rest are all dead. What else to investigate?"
"Who said the clue was broken?" Li Chaoge's eyes flew over, more ruthless than June Feixue? "Stop talking nonsense, come out quickly."
Bai Qianhe went out muttering. He changed his shoes and complained: "There is no evidence, no matter how reasonable the reasoning is? Reasonable? It's all useless. Can we still make the dead talk?"
After Bai Qianhe finished speaking, he was taken aback for a moment. Li Chaoge smiled and said, "Who said it can't be done?"
As the night wind blew, Bai Qianhe hugged his arms, feeling chilly. With the last trace of luck, he asked, "Princess, are you going to interrogate someone?"
"No." Li Chaoge picked a leaf from the side of the road, flicked it against Zhou Shao's window, "go to interrogate the ghost."