Chu Mao stood by the water and rubbed his arms. He has worked in Dali Temple for eight years and has never experienced such a severe test. Chu Mao waited for a while, really couldn't hold back any longer, and said: "Master, the ghost in the lake hasn't appeared for a long time, let's find another way."
To be honest, Chu Mao felt that Gu Mingke's face was so dizzy that something went wrong with his mind. Li Chaoge is a princess, so it's okay to mess around, but Gu Mingke also followed. They blew the cold wind by the lake for a while, just to wait for a water ghost.
Isn't this nonsense, let's not say that there are ghosts in the world. Even if there are ghosts, they should go to Taoist priests to save them. Princess Sheng Yuan had a whimsical idea? The sky wants to interrogate ghosts.
Bai Qianhe nodded vigorously, and immediately responded: "Yes, princess, the female ghost hasn't appeared for so long, she must have fallen asleep. Disturbing the beautiful woman... no, it is too impolite to disturb the beautiful ghost, let's do it another day? Let's do it again." .”
Li Chaoge was silent. Water ghosts are most sensitive to people on the shore. This time they waited for so long and didn't see the water ghosts appearing. It is probably because Gu Mingke was there. The water ghosts felt the breath and dared not show up. If the mountain doesn't come to see me, I will see the mountain. Li Chaoge said to the people behind: "Water ghosts are different from other ghosts. Only when newcomers come down to replace them can water ghosts be released from reincarnation. Therefore, water ghosts will instinctively linger and drown. Those of you who know how to swim, go down and pretend to be drowning, and lure it out."
Zhou Shao shook his head: "I don't know how to swim."
Zhou Shao is strong and strong, so he can beat bears, but he can't swim. Mo Linlang also shook her head: "This is the first time I have left Dongdu. I was watched by my stepmother before, and I have never learned how to water."
The three people in Dali Temple were also all Guanzhong men. They had left the land since they were young, and they had been landlubbers for generations. Bai Qianhe looked left and right, and said sadly, "I don't know how to swim. If I knew the princess would use someone, I would have learned it in advance."
Li Chaoge nodded and said, "Okay. Wait, what is that?"
Li Chaoge suddenly narrowed his eyes and pointed to the other side of the lake. Bai Qianhe became excited, he was there wherever there was excitement, he immediately leaned over to have a look: "What, what is there?"
Without saying a word, Li Chaoge kicked Bai Qianhe into the water without waiting for Bai Qianhe's reaction: "Go down and find me!"
Bai Qianhe fell into the water like a weight, and made a big splash with a plop. As early as when Li Chaoge was pointing at something, Gu Mingke gave way to the side, but it was still too late. He raised his hand to look at his sleeve, frowned and said, "What a big splash."
Li Chaoge also wiped off the water from his face in distaste, and said, "Next time, I will use more force to kick him farther."
So that the water splashes can't be splashed? On them.
The other three people in Dali Temple looked at this scene in astonishment. Hearing the conversation between Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke, they closed their mouths with difficulty, and silently moved away from the two of them.
Isn't it so fresh and refined and not coquettish when handling cases? They felt that they might still not know enough about Mr. Gu.
When Bai Qianhe was kicked into the lake, she almost burst into tears. Is there any water in the lake at all? With tears in his heart, Bai Qianhe swims skillfully in the lake while his heart aches.
He had to be closer to the shore, or else he would bump into a ghost, and Li Chaoge wouldn't be able to catch him in time.
On the shore of the lake, after Bai Qianhe "voluntarily" entered the water, Mo Linlang stared closely at the water surface, not letting go of any trouble. She looked at it for a while, and then suddenly said, "Bai Qianhe, I mean, it's coming behind you."
After Mo Linlang finished speaking, Bai Qianhe kicked his feet, and sure enough, he felt the tangle of water plants on his ankles. Bai Qianhe thought to himself? Little sister Mo Linlang had a really exciting day, and at the same time she immediately floated up.
However, when Bai Qianhe was about to approach the water, the aquatic plants on his legs suddenly entangled tightly, pulling him tightly, preventing him from leaving. Bai Qianhe tried several times to no avail, and was about to turn around and cut off the aquatic plants on his legs, when he suddenly felt a wave in the water, and then his hind legs lightened, Bai Qianhe's body regained its lightness, and immediately surfaced.
Bai Qianhe vaguely felt that something was struggling behind him, and the water was crashing. Bai Qianhe didn't dare to look back to see what it was, so he quickly paddled back to the shore. When the people from Dali Temple saw Bai Qianhe coming back, they put their hands on him and dragged him ashore. The people from Dali Temple untied Bai Qianhe's coat and asked one after another, "Is it the matter?"
Bai Qianhe spat out the water in his mouth, and covered his eyes without saying a word: "I'm sorry. You guys go and interrogate the ghost, don't let me see it."
Not to mention Bai Qianhe who entered the water, the three people from Dali Temple stood on the shore, listening to the crackling and struggling in the water, they also felt their scalps go numb. It was clear that there was no one on the lake, but the water waves continued to spread, as if something was writhing underwater. Li Chao singer held a rope in his hand and stretched it all the way to the center of the lake. The place where the rope was hidden was bubbling.
The night is dark and the wind is high, the mountains are high, this scene is indescribably weird. Chu Mao felt that he was brave enough, but seeing this scene, he was still horrified.
After Bai Qianhe came ashore, Li Chaoge handed the rope to Zhou Shao and said, "Pull it up."
The water ghost has been soaked in the water for eighteen years, entangled by the resentment and yin energy at the bottom of the lake, his body is getting heavier and heavier, and the struggle with all his strength is quite impressive. But no matter how heavy it was, it looked like a little chicken in Zhou Shao's hands. Zhou Shao's expression didn't change, and he easily pulled it from the center of the lake to the shore.
When the ghost's mana is strong, it can hide its tracks, but now that the water ghost has been beaten into a prototype by Li Chaoge, it can no longer maintain its invisibility, and it is exposed to everyone in embarrassment. Bai Qianhe still covered his eyes and refused to watch, Chu Mao took a bold look, and saw that the other person's skin was white all over, his eyes were big and protruding, his hair and water plants were entangled, and water seeped down.
Chu Mao held back, covered his mouth and ran to the root of a tree to retch. The other two people in Dali Temple were used to seeing corpses, so they didn't have the same reaction as Chu Mao, but they still complained in a low voice: "I don't want to eat fish anymore."
Compared with Dali Temple's collapse and vomiting, Zhenyaosi's place is unbelievably calm. Mo Linlang took it for granted, Zhou Shao had no expression on his face, Li Chaoge carefully examined the details of the water ghost, while Gu Mingke was still concerned about his sleeves that were wet by the lake water.
Compared with water ghosts, cleanliness can't stand dirty even more.
Li Chaoge saw it almost, and asked: "I don't want to make things difficult for you. I invite you to come up today. I just want to ask a few words. As long as you answer truthfully, we will send you to reincarnation."
Chu Mao just came back from retching, he was tortured by the water ghost, but when he heard? Here, he still couldn't help complaining: "Is this called please?"
Li Chaoge ignored the trash behind and continued, "You? Who are you?"
The water ghost lay half down on the ground, breathless? He said forcefully, "I don't know."
Li Chaoge raised his eyebrows, and couldn't help but raise his voice at the end: "I don't know?"
Although Bai Qianhe was scared, when he heard the conversation, he still couldn't help but think about it. Participating in the topic: "Is there anyone in the world who doesn't know who he is? Shuigui girl, you? Living, no, you? Dead are too confused gone."
Mo Linlang said: "It's not surprising. After being a ghost for a long time, the past will be forgotten. Parents, relatives, and children will forget everything, and only remember the obsession before death."
"That's right." Bai Qianhe murmured, "She? Has been a ghost for eighteen years, maybe longer than she has been a human. No wonder she doesn't remember anything about the world."
After death, the soul will disperse, and after the loss of the three souls and seven souls, the memory will be confused and the mind will be blurred. It makes sense that the water ghost can't remember his identity, but Li Chaoge still thinks it's too fast.
If you have been dead for 50 or 60 years, it is normal not to remember who you were when you were alive. It has only been 18 years. Is it because you have forgotten too quickly? Li Chaoge entangled with this question again, and asked, "You? Why are you in Hidden Sword Villa?"
"Why am I here?" Shui Gui covered his head and seemed to be in confusion, "My parents sold me here? No, I was here..."
"You? Know Sheng Hong?"
Sheng Hong is the name of the old owner. Hearing this name, the female ghost quieted down, apparently she knew her. Li Chaoge asked again: "What did he bring you back for?"
"Blood..." The water ghost's eyes widened in a daze. The water on his body slowly turned red and dripped into the ground. "Blood, a lot of blood..."
The water ghost obviously felt something was wrong, and everyone dispersed. The people from Dali Temple frowned and said, "What's wrong with her? Why did she suddenly start bleeding?"
The others shook their heads, not knowing. Li Chaoge stood on the spot and moved. Seeing that the water ghost couldn't ask any more questions, she made a seal with both hands, and the rope in Zhou Shao's hand flew up automatically, wrapping around the water ghost and tightening it. The water ghost and the rope kept shrinking, and finally the female ghost turned into a water plant with a thin thread wrapped around it, and flew to Li Chao singer.
Li Chaoge opened the bottle, put the water plants into the bottle, then put the lid on, and said to Bai Qianhe with disgust: "Okay, open your eyes, the water ghost has been taken away."
Bai Qianhe finally opened his precious eyes. There was still a puddle of red water on the ground, Bai Qianhe didn't dare to think about it? What was that? He hid next to Zhou Shao, hugged Zhou Shao's shoulders, thinking? He looked at the bottle in Li Chao's singer without looking : "What magic weapon is this?"
As he said that, Bai Qianhe sniffed his nose and asked, "Who of you brought wine? I seem to smell a smell of wine."
Li Chaoge shook the bottle in his hand, and said: "The nose is good, this is the wine I got from the Cangjian Villa. I don't know if this ghost can drink well, don't get drunk in it."
Bai Qianhe was speechless for a moment. The people in Dali Temple were in awe and looked at the bottle in awe. When they heard Li Chaoge say it was a wine bottle, they were stunned, unable to change the expressions on their faces.
Everyone was busy catching ghosts, and no one noticed that Gu Mingke was very quiet. His sleeves had already been cleaned up, but he still lowered his head, concentrating on arranging his sleeves, his eyes were hidden in the darkness, making it hard to see his expression clearly.
All of Mo Linlang's thoughts were on the water ghost, she asked: "Princess, what did the water ghost say just now? What did she think? She said a lot of blood, what's going on?"
Li Chaoge was about to speak, when suddenly there was a slight sound of branches breaking in the woods, Li Chaoge immediately turned his head, his eyes were as sharp as a knife: "Who is it?"
The people in the dark realized that they were exposed, threw a smoke bomb at them, turned around and ran away. After the fog cleared, Li Chaoge looked at the quiet villa and hesitated for a moment. Gu Mingke pointed to the left side, and said, "Over there."
Without saying a word, Li Chaoge chased after him with his sword in hand. The man in black noticed that Li Chaoge was catching up, and kept flying hidden weapons behind him. Li Chaoge hooked a boomerang with his sword, spun it twice, and threw it back with all his strength. The person in front suddenly groaned, and fell down clutching his wound with a plop.
Holding the sword in his hand, Li Chaoge ran after him in a leisurely manner. Li Chaoge used his ? sword to pry the mask off the opponent's face. Sure enough, he was an acquaintance.
Li Chaoge chuckled: "I knew it was you?"
Ren Fang lowered his head, seemingly admitting defeat, but actually? His fingers secretly touched his side. As soon as his fingers reached the concealed weapon, Li Chaoge hit him hard with the scabbard on his shoulder. Ren Fang was in pain, couldn't help crying out in pain, and the things in his hands were loose. Li Chaoge kicked his hidden weapon away, and said coldly, "Using it at a young age? Hidden weapon, this is not a good habit."
Bai Qianhe and Zhou Shao also caught up. Bai Qianhe landed first and asked, "Princess, how are you?"
"It's him." Li Chaoge withdrew his sword, didn't bother to look at the people on the ground, turned around and said to Bai Qianhe, "Tie him up. His hands are not clean, you guys be careful."
"Understood." Bai Qianhe agreed. He, Bai Qianhe, didn't dare to say anything else, the yin man still has a hand, playing with hidden weapons in front of Grandpa Bai, a kid might not be qualified.
Bai Qianhe and Zhou Shao went to the back to tidy up and let them go. Li Chaoge took two steps with his sword in hand, and suddenly felt something was wrong.
Gu Mingke showed her the way, but he didn't move. Did he use her as a thug
Bai Qianhe came over and said, "Princess, it's packed, it's definitely stronger than rice dumplings."
"Hmm." Li Chaoge nodded casually and asked, "Where are the others?"
"Go to block Hongchengyuan." Bai Qianhe rubbed his fists and said, "That old man didn't know that his son was arrested by us, so he took this opportunity to catch him by surprise!"
When Ren Fang heard that they were looking for Hong Chengyuan, he struggled hard. Zhou Shao was annoyed, so he punched down with his fist, Ren Fang was completely quiet. Li Chaoge loosened his knuckles and said, "They've already done it, and we can't fall behind. If we drag people along, we'll have to settle the score with Hong Chengyuan."
Ren Fang had a shoulder injury, and he was the one who really followed Li Chaoge at the inn. Hong Chengyuan sent his confidant and illegitimate son to inquire about the news, but thought he was injured by Li Chaoge. In order to protect his precious son, Hong Chengyuan injured Hua Lingfeng's right arm in the name of teaching martial arts. Want to make Hua Lingfeng a scapegoat for Ren Fang. Including Li Chaoge and others stayed in the first night, the villa was haunted by ghosts, and the person who pretended to be a female ghost in white was also sent by Hong Chengyuan.
Hong Chengyuan wanted to use the haunted rumors in the villa to scare Li Chaoge and others away, so that the deaths of the three governors could be blamed on ghosts, and those who followed Li Chaoge could also use Hualing wind to cover them. Hong Chengyuan only thought that the ghost townsman's full-time job was to catch ghosts, and pretending to be a ghost in front of the town's monsters was like pulling a tiger's tail and shouting for help, looking for death.
The three of Li Chaoge passed through the border like a storm and went straight to Hongchengyuan's lair. Hong Chengyuan heard a report from his subordinates that the imperial envoy had quietly gone to the lake. Hong Chengyuan thought about it and was worried, so he sent Ren Fang to inquire about the news. The fewer people who know the secrets, the better. No matter how reliable your subordinates are, they can't compare to your own son.
After Ren Fang left, Hong Chengyuan's eyelids kept twitching. Hong Chengyuan was walking back and forth on the ground. He was anxiously waiting for his son to reply when suddenly there was a loud noise from the doors and windows. Several people broke through the windows and surrounded Hong Chengyuan in an instant.
In the night, a figure in white walked across the threshold unhurriedly. A gust of wind blew in from outside the door, and the candlelight was blown by the wind, shaking quickly. The other party came on the wind, his clothes fluttering like a fairy under the moon.
Hong Chengyuan narrowed his eyes, and pressed his hand on the sword calmly, with a smile on his face, and asked: "Master Gu, you? What is this?"
"I'm sorry for disturbing you in the middle of the night." Gu Mingke said calmly, "I was ordered to investigate the death of three assassins. I need to borrow the owner's villa. Please cooperate with the owner."
The smile on Hong Chengyuan's face faded, revealing a real ferocious look: "I entertain Mr. Gu kindly, but Mr. Gu repays his kindness. I have nothing to do with the three governors. They are dead. It's not my business?"
Gu Mingke glanced across Hong Chengyuan's room, and his gaze stayed on a shelf on the bookshelf. Gu Mingke withdrew his gaze, and said coldly: "Wu Jinyuan's death may have nothing to do with you, what about Xu Xingning?"
Li Chaoge chased in from outside the door, heard Gu Mingke's words, and said, "You? What are you talking nonsense with him, just arrest him and interrogate him to see if he is still stubborn."
Hong Chengyuan sneered at first, but when he saw Li Chaoge behind him, his expression froze suddenly. A guard of Kong Wu followed behind Li Chaoge, dragging a person in his hand, it was Ren Fang! Hong Chengyuan couldn't stand anymore, and cursed angrily: "What did you do to Fang'er!"
"What to do." Li Chaoge smiled lightly and said, "If you cooperate and obediently explain the whereabouts of Xu Xingning and Qian Yuanjian, I can spare his life. Otherwise, your son will not help you ?The pension is over."
When Hong Chengyuan heard that, his pupils constricted. Son, Qian Yuanjian, they all know about it. Hong Chengyuan realized that he underestimated these people, Hong Chengyuan kept his face sullen, he raised his hand suddenly, and a mist spewed out from nowhere in the room, Hong Chengyuan took the opportunity to run to the bookshelf, using ?Force to press a organ.
Many arrows flew out of the room in an instant, mixed in the mist, and the sound was chaotic. The people in Dali Temple avoided in embarrassment, but Li Chaoge took a step across without haste, and stood behind Gu Mingke, with his hands tied. Gu Mingke was extremely speechless in his heart. He lightly lifted his fingers under his sleeve, and the arrows flew wildly, but one of them shot at them. After the arrow stopped, Hong Chengyuan disappeared.
"I heard that there are many secret rooms in the Tibetan Sword Villa, and there are many organs. It really deserves its reputation." Li Chaoge sighed, looked at Bai Qianhe, and said, "It seems that you? Returned without any success last time, maybe so? waste."
Bai Qianhe paused, blinked his eyes vigorously, and asked tentatively: "Princess, are you praising me or scolding me?"
"Praise you?" Li Chaoge responded angrily, and she pointed at Zhou Shao with her eyes, and said, "On that wall, let's do it."
Zhou Shao understood, he clenched his fist, moved his shoulder joint slowly, and suddenly straightened his arm and smashed it towards the wall of the bookshelf. The bookshelf trembled violently, and the jade wares and vases on it fell to the ground with crackling crackles. Gu Mingke pressed the center of his eyebrows, and said patiently: "It took half a stick of incense to find it? Why do you have to do it? Make it so noisy?"
Li Chaoge was disdainful. Why waste time on things that can be solved with fists? Zhou Shao cracked the wall with one fist, and he punched again, the wall was finally overwhelmed, and fell down with a rumble.
Behind the flying dust, a secret path appeared in front of everyone. Li Chaoge stepped forward with the sword in his arms, and said to Gu Mingke, "Take care of Mo Linlang, I'm leaving first."
Li Chaoge, Zhou Shao, and Bai Qianhe are all about martial arts, but Mo Linlang is a special talent who doesn't know martial arts. In such a situation where violence is needed, Li Chaoge and the other two are able to protect themselves, but Mo Linlang is not.
Gu Mingke nodded in response. Such a big movement from them here has already woken up the others. Sheng Lanchu hurried over with her clothes on, and was stunned when she saw the smog in the main courtyard: "Master Gu, what's going on?"
"Villa Master's Madam." Gu Mingke turned his head, looked at her calmly and indifferently, and said, "Your husband Hong Chengyuan is suspected of murdering the imperial governor. Please cooperate with Madam to open the secret room of the villa. Or else, I can only contact Madam Let's punish together."
When Sheng Lan first heard that Hong Chengyuan had murdered the governor, her body shook. The maid and Hua Lingfeng quickly supported Sheng Lanchu: "Ma'am, what's wrong with you?"
"Master, are you? Are you okay?"
Sheng Lan cheered up at first, and said with a pale face, "I didn't know he would do such a thing. Here is the map of the villa. I would like to fully cooperate with Mr. Gu in investigating the case."