Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

The proverb that comes to mind from this is that the bamboo basket fetches water in vain, and all that is in hand is but an illusion.

The master is implying the answer he already knows, that is, there is another murderer in this seemingly complete case?

"Jia Chen, what are you still doing at the door?" He Panying shouted.

Zhao Ran turned his head away and saw Jia Chen walking in from the door with a pale face and a little panic. Speaking of which, this scene has happened several times, and Jia Chen is always in a daze for no reason.

Jia Chen sat back on the spot, his brows twitched slightly, and he clearly saw the eyes he cast on others, which was very similar to the surface of a lake under the moonlight, the moonlight was full, and when he searched carefully, there was nothing there.

"The rain has stopped outside!" A Jin Yiwei came in and reported to Fu Heng.

Now that the rain has stopped, the missing students still need to be found.

"My lord, Xiaosheng is proficient in martial arts. I will go with a few Jinyiwei adults." He Panying volunteered and said, Fu Heng looked at his stature, and praised, "In the face of crisis, we are brave enough to face it. It is really a good thing for Bailu Bookstore." student!"

He Panying got Fu Heng's approval, and said with more effort: "Thank you, sir." After saying that, she lifted the stick and went out without looking back, even surpassing several Jinyi guards who were at the door, and rushed outside into the dark night in.

Several guards in Jinyi looked at each other in blank dismay, the tree of human heads was outside, and it was pitch black outside, they had no choice but to go out, unexpectedly He Panying would rush to get out.

"Senior He is really admirable. He has taken care of us from the beginning to the end, and he rushed to the front if there are any dangerous things." Su Qiyan said, "If that's the case, let's go find it together."

"No need, since there are all Jinyiwei adults here, we are not as proficient in martial arts as Senior He, so going there may add to the chaos." Lu Tao retorted.

"That's right, if something happens, the adults of Jin Yiwei will still protect us. This is indeed not helping but adding to the chaos."

Su Qiyan didn't force her, she just said calmly: "If you don't go, then I can help Senior He by myself."

After finishing speaking, he also turned around and went after He Panying without looking back. Lu Tao frowned and said, "What's wrong with Qiyan, he is not such a positive person usually."

Su Qiyan ran after He Panying almost as soon as he left the house. He had a nightmare just now. In the nightmare, all of them died, and only He Panying survived. That dream was so realistic So much so that Su Qiyan couldn't ignore it.

If everyone here is going to die, then He Panying is the only hope.

"Qiyan?" He Panying heard footsteps behind him, and couldn't help but be a little surprised when he found that the person chasing him was actually Su Qiyan.

Su Qiyan took a few quick steps and said, "Senior He, let me go search with you."

He Panying nodded, and walked towards the back of the temple. Su Qiyan's expression changed slightly: "Senior, what are we going to do behind the temple? There are no buildings there, and Yang Danshu can't be hiding there. Run down the mountain."

"There are still a lot of debris piled up behind the hall, maybe Yang Dan's book is hidden in it." He Panying explained to Jin Yiwei.

Jin Yiwei said: "Then go and have a look, maybe this kid is hiding under our noses."

Su Qiyan could only watch helplessly as they walked towards the back of the temple.

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Su Qiyan's statement made the rest of the students a little embarrassed, especially those who were preparing to take the exam. I wonder if these emperor guards will bring back bad exam words for themselves, so that their futures will fall short , Lu Tao couldn't help but said: "Master Fu, if you need the students to contribute, feel free to say something, we are afraid of causing trouble for you."

Fu Heng was wiping the knife with a cloth handkerchief. Hearing this sentence, he smiled and said, "That's true. After all, you are all scholars. You have nothing to do. You should stay where you are and it will be convenient for us to take care of you."

His words instantly calmed the hearts of many students, and Lu Tao said sincerely: "Master Fu is just a generous, benevolent and righteous person."

Zhao Ran felt that Fu Hengneng was able to calm people's hearts at this time, he was really a talent, and it really made people feel good about him involuntarily.

His thoughts were about to fall, and Jiu Ru said softly in his voice: "Be careful of Fu Heng."

Jiu Ru seldom expresses opinions on people, and Zhao Ran always thought that Jiu Ru stood too tall, so it was inevitable that people would be the same height.

But Jiuru told him to be careful about Fu Heng.

Fu Heng...Zhao Ran couldn't help taking a few glances. Compared with the romantic and suave Fu Heng he saw at the first glance, the Fu Heng 20 years ago was a little more lush and lush, and he was a little more like a guard with a knife.

He only took a few glances, then Fu Heng turned his head to look at Zhao Ran and said with a slight smile, "This is the disciple of the little sage."

Yang Wan interjected: "His name is Zhaoxian, but the little sage has worked so hard to pick a student under his door."

Fu Heng smiled and said: "It can be seen that the little sage has a heart of safety and protection, and it must be obvious that he must be superior."

Jiuru responded briefly: "Mr. takes care of students, it's a matter of course."

Fu Heng smiled and said: "I heard from the county magistrate that Zhaoxian followed the little sage to investigate a serial murder case in Shucheng not long ago. I was in a hurry to come here and didn't listen carefully. Now I'm a little curious, how about How about Zhaoxian tell us carefully?"

Although the rain outside has stopped, there are still lightning and thunder, especially when several students are missing, and the people who went looking for them have not yet come back, and this Mr. Fu still has time to listen to the serial murder case, especially the serial murder case. Meng Chengtian, who was the victim of the murder case and a relative of the murderer, was sitting behind him.

Meng Chengtian didn't seem to be annoyed, he smiled a little: "Sir, if you want to hear a story, there is a person on my side who can tell it very well, you might as well let him tell it." He turned his head and said, "Hengsheng, what do you say? no?"

Hengsheng raised his head, and said expressionlessly: "Maybe I don't know as much as Young Master Zhaoxian."

Fu Heng put away the knife in his hand: "Then choose what you know, and Zhao Xian will make up for you if there are any omissions."

Seeing Fu Heng looking at him clearly, his heart moved. Fu Heng did it on purpose, but he didn't know his purpose of deliberately provoking this matter at this moment.

"This matter starts 20 years ago. It has been seven years since Mrs. Meng Baimei married into the Meng family. The Meng family has not yet come out, but Bailu Academy ushered in a grand event..." Hengsheng's tone It was extremely plain, but a few words aroused everyone's interest. You must know that the Meng Mansion—that is another symbol of Bailu Bookstore besides the little sage, and now it is the most private matter in the Meng Mansion.

Hengsheng slowly raised his eyes: "That means the little sage has come to Book City again."

Everyone was slightly taken aback, and turned to look at Jiuru's face under the light. No matter what, they never expected that the little saint had come to the academy 20 years ago.

Hengsheng said: "It is a legend that the little sages of the past dynasties will visit Bailu Academy, but there is also a legend in the Meng Mansion that a sage will also be born in the Meng Mansion. As long as this sage is born, the little sage will no longer visit the Bailu Academy .”

The students involuntarily glanced at Jiuru who was sitting quietly with his eyes down. It turned out that the Meng family had always wanted to replace him.

"However, the Meng Mansion has married all kinds of virtuous daughters, but they have not been able to give birth to the little sage, who is like a virgin for a hundred years, and descendants of hundreds of clans. In the end, the Meng Mansion even gathered a daughter of a different person..." Hengsheng Slowly said, "That's right, Baimei is the daughter of the Shadow Clan."

Zhao Ran sat up straight involuntarily, and said wildly: "The Shadow Clan has always been content and self-conscious, and has been doing business for a living for more than a thousand years. Most of the time, not to mention strangers, even other strangers from the survivors rarely hear about it again. The name of the family. But since Master Meng married Baimei, not to mention giving birth to a saint, he couldn't even give birth to a child."

Yang Wan pinched his beard and said, "Even if he hasn't been born for seven years, although Chief Meng Shan is a great sage, he has enough reasons to stop his wife and remarry. No wonder..."

It is reasonable for Baimei to force Meng Tian to have an affair with her out of desperation.

Hengsheng said indifferently: "You're wrong, Baimei had intercourse with Meng Tian only with Master Meng's consent, because he couldn't bear children at all, and there are dozens of maids in Meng's house, if you really want concubines It is not difficult to have one. After Baimei and Meng Tian had an affair, they gave birth to a pair of twins. The Shadow Clan has always given birth to twins. The first born is the master, and the second born is the servant."

In order to hide that he could not have children, Monsanto actually forced his personal attendant to have an affair with his wife. The students of Bailu Academy felt ashamed.

When Hengsheng said this, his thin lips curved slightly, as if mocking: "I don't know why, but Baimei gave birth to a boy and a girl. Of course, Master Meng would not let his daughter be a servant, so he didn't follow the rules. According to the customs of the Shadow Clan, Meng Qingwan's age was deliberately reduced by one year. But he knew that the pair of children were borrowed, but he didn't know that since the Shadow Clan wanted to let the one who was born later be a servant, there must be something to do. servant's reason."

Fu Hengdao: "Is the one born later born with a defect?"

Hengsheng said: "To be born as a shadow is to be born flat. The one born later will gradually become less and less human, and more like a paper man. Therefore, the one born later can only be a servant and will always be sincere At the feet of my elder brother and elder sister."

Clearly and inexplicably, he remembered the paper man he met in Lane Without Lights, the mysterious figure who turned Li Mo into a demon.

Hengsheng asked back: "Imagine if that shadow was unwilling, what would it choose to do?" Hengsheng didn't continue to say, but left such a question behind.

"It will kill the master and replace him." Lu Tao blurted out.

However, Zhao Ran shook his head lightly, and said wildly: "He will kill everyone who knows his identity, and the master will be the last one, because the master... is his best cover."

After he finished speaking, almost everyone turned their eyes to the shadow on the bottom of Meng Chengtian's feet.

Meng Chengtian slightly bent his lower lip, only to hear Hengsheng say, "That's why Meng Qingwan even killed her own mother, Baimei. I think if she wasn't poisoned to death by Yinniang in the end, the next target should be the head of the mountain and the young master." Alright."

Meng Shanchang's whereabouts are unknown, but Meng Chengtian is still sitting upright after all. Such a weird story made everyone sigh.

Lu Tao couldn't help asking: "How did you get such top-secret information as a servant?"

Hengsheng lowered his eyes and said: "Before Meng Qingwan died, she regarded me as her lover, so I only heard about the details."

Everyone nodded and said: "It's no wonder that the eldest lady of the Meng Mansion is rarely seen by people, and it's no wonder that she, a dignified young lady, would do so many cruel things."

Zhao Ran has already confirmed that Fu Heng deliberately said the poem that Master said that people are in the heart of the sky and water is in the middle of the moon. He didn't understand it, but Hengsheng probably understood it, so he had to say that Baimei is the Shadow Clan. .

But even so, he still spoke impeccably.

This point, even Zhao Ran has to admire, this Hengsheng is really extraordinary.

"He Panying and the others have been out for a while." Jia Chen interrupted suddenly.

Fu Heng waved his hand and pointed to the other two guards in the hall: "Go out and have a look."