Warm fragrance cloud around

Before Ah Jia finished speaking, the chopsticks in Cheng Jiangyun's hand fell out with a click, "What's going on?"

"Master Hou was assassinated in a small alley. I heard that he bled all over the place and was seriously injured." A Jia looked horrified.

"Where is he now?"

"Now he has returned home for medical treatment."

"How's the injury?"

"It's not clear yet, Ah Yi followed."

Cheng Jiangyun bent down to pick up the chopsticks that fell to the ground, his expression was calm, but his tightly clenched right hand revealed his true heart. Lin Junnuan took the bowl of egg liquid in front of him: "Go back and have a look."

Cheng Jiangyun shook his head slightly and remained silent.

"Don't be reserved at a time like this." Lin Junnuan patted him on the shoulder, "Master Hou has been assassinated, but you, as the son of the Hou family, don't care about it, and it's not good to hear about it."

Cheng Jiangyun stared at the dusty wooden chopsticks in his hands for a long time. He didn't know what he thought of, and a self-deprecating smile curled up on the corner of his mouth, "You are right, let's go." He is now being watched by many people, and his words and deeds must not be sloppy. The population is solid, and if necessary, it's okay to play a scene of father's kindness and son's filial piety at the end.

Several people stopped the carriage and hurried back to Jianyuanhou's mansion. The guard Ayi stood straight in front of the door and waited. When he saw Cheng Jiangyun, he immediately greeted him, "Master, don't worry, Lord Hou is fine."

Ah Jia didn't know the specific situation, so it was inevitable to exaggerate. In fact, Jian Yuanhou's injury was not serious, but there was a half-finger-long cut on his right arm, which did not hurt the meridians and blood vessels.The guards of the Hou's mansion came very quickly, the murderer could not miss the opportunity, and immediately swung a knife to kill himself, the blood on the ground was actually his.

But Tangtang Jianyuan Hou was assassinated in broad daylight in the capital, this matter itself should not be underestimated.

Cheng Jiangyun stopped the imperial physician who was about to leave, and asked carefully about Jian Yuanhou's injuries. The trauma caused by the assassination was not serious, but Lord Hou seemed to have been frightened, and his mind was tense and confused for a while. Settle down, and tell him to take care of himself during this period of time, and not to be stimulated again.

Lin Junnuan followed to Hou Ye's mansion, and stood outside the room of Lord Hou waiting for orders. Through the door, one could see that Mrs. Min, who had been reduced in size, was half leaning on the bed of Lord Hou, wiping his sweat while comforting him softly, Cheng Jiangyun's twin brothers and sisters were also crowded at the end of the bed with worried faces, only Cheng Jiangyun stood a few steps away alone, his expressionless face looked a little deserted.

After sending the imperial physician away, Cheng Jiangyun asked the entourage who came to Jian Yuanhou to interrogate, "Who is the murderer?"

"No, I don't know, I don't know the little one."

"Where is the body?"

"It was transported away by the officers and soldiers of Jingzhao Mansion."

"Why weren't you by your side when Master Hou was assassinated?"

"It's Master Hou..."

Hou Jianyuan, who was lying on the bed, suddenly interrupted the follower, "Leave this matter to the Jingzhao Mansion for investigation, and you don't need to worry about it."

Cheng Jiangyun was silent for a moment, "Tell me the reason."

"There's no reason, you just do it."

Cheng Jiangyun lowered his eyelids, with a bit of coldness in his eyes, "I'm sorry."

"Bastard! You don't listen to my words?!"

"Dear father," Cheng Jiangyun snorted, "When did you see me obediently?"

"You! Niezi!!" Jianyuan waited in a hurry, patted his chest and coughed twice, and the Min who was next to him hurriedly handed over the handkerchief, and comforted him gently, "This son is just like this, if you don't have any malicious intentions, don't fight with him." Children care about."

Cheng Jiangming, the second son of Cheng, also looked at his elder brother timidly, "Brother, Daddy is also doing it for your own good, so just say a few words less and don't make him angry."

These words undoubtedly added fuel to the flames. After Jian Yuanhou was relieved, he pointed at Cheng Jiangyun angrily, "The case has nothing to do with you. You'd better stay out of your own business, or get out immediately, immediately!"

Cheng Jiangyun glanced at him expressionlessly, turned around and walked out of the room without saying a word, pulled Lin Junnuan up and left without looking back.

The news of Jian Yuanhou's assassination had spread, and many families sent people to the mansion to inquire about the news. When Cheng Jiangyun walked out of the mansion, he happened to meet the young servant from Lu Taishi's mansion.

"Your Majesty, how is Lord Hou's injury? Is it all right?" The young servant was sent by Grand Master Lu, and when he saw Cheng Jiangyun, he asked generously.

"No problem."

"Then you are?"

"Go back to Dali Temple, you should go back too, and tell Grandpa that you don't need to worry about it."

Cheng Jiangyun dragged Lin Junnuan straight out of the Hou Mansion, and only let go after a few hundred meters away.

"Sorry." He was short of breath just now, and he didn't hold back his strength.

"I'm fine," Lin Junnuan flicked his wrist indifferently, "It's you, are you okay?"

Cheng Jiangyun laughed at himself, "It's okay, I'm used to it." It wasn't once or twice that he and Jian Yuanhou broke up like this.

Lin Junnuan didn't know how to comfort others. Seeing an old man walking by with candied haws on his shoulders, he immediately took out a copper coin and bought two bunches. He picked out the bigger and rounder one and handed it to Cheng Jiangyun, "Do you want to eat it?"

Thinking that he didn't even have breakfast, she quickly withdrew her hand, "Let's stop eating, let's find a restaurant for lunch."

"I want to go to Jingzhao Mansion first..."

"Go after eating," Lin Junnuan said firmly, dragging Cheng Jiangyun into a small noodle restaurant by the side of the road.

***

Lin Junnuan stared at Cheng Jiangyun as he ate up a large bowl of beef noodles, drank another half bowl of noodle soup, and ate some dumplings to fill his stomach. The two left the noodle shop and walked towards Jingzhao Mansion.

"Does Lord Hou have any enemies?" Lin Junnuan asked curiously.

"Enemies? There should be quite a few." Cheng Jiangyun looked up at the sky, "My father is not a good-tempered person, and there are countless people in the capital who hate him both openly and secretly."

Speaking of her father in front of an outsider like her, Mr. Cheng must have been pissed off. Lin Junnuan couldn't answer the question, so he mumbled and quickly changed the subject, "The place where Master Hou was assassinated seems to be nearby. , shall we go and see?"

"it is good."

Jian Yuanhou was assassinated in a dark alley.The location of the alley is remote, and the surrounding houses are old and dilapidated. It is a bit special in the bustling and beautiful capital city. The alley is not deep, and you can see the end at a glance. It has rusted and is covered with cobwebs. It has obviously not been opened recently. The walls on both sides of the alley are roughly one and a half feet high (two or three meters), and it is not easy to climb over the wall to leave. Leaving the alley, you can only turn back along the original road.

Of course, for those with kung fu, climbing over the wall is a matter of minutes.

"Can Lord Hou know kung fu?"

Cheng Jiangyun shook his head, "No."

"Then who did you learn your kung fu from?"

"A martial artist invited by my grandfather."

Even the teacher was invited by Taishi Lu. It seems that the father of Jianyuanhou is not doing very well. Lin Junnuan said, "It's a bit strange, why did Lord Hou enter the alley alone? Where did the waiter go? ?”

"Father made them back down."

Lin Junnuan's eyes turned slightly, "That is to say, Master Hou retreated all his followers, came here to meet someone on his own initiative, and was assassinated. Is it possible...the person he wants to meet is the murderer?"

"Who knows," Cheng Jiangyun shrugged, "Even if you ask him directly, he won't be able to admit it."

At the end of the alley, there was blood on the ground, and a large amount of blood sprayed out on the wall, which should have been left by the murderer when he cut off the blood vessels in his throat to commit suicide.

At the time of the assassination, there were only Lord Hou and the murderer in the alley, and the murderer had committed suicide. Judging from the current situation, it seems that Lord Hou is unlikely to cooperate with their investigation. If we want to find out the truth, we have to find clues from the scene and the corpse.

Lin Junnuan walked around the pool of blood on the ground several times, when the guards of the Marquis of Jianyuan swarmed over, the blood was trampled in a mess, and nothing could be seen; the blood on the wall was empty near the head One piece, spread out in a radial pattern.

The sun above his head was a bit dazzling, Lin Junnuan arched his hand to cover his eyes, bent his waist and carefully searched for every abnormality on the ground, and suddenly bumped into Cheng Jiangyun in front of him, who was looking down at his palm, with a cold expression on his face Somewhat scary.

"What did you find?"

Lin Junnuan pulled his hand down, and there was a dark wooden sign quietly lying in the palm of his hand.Just looking at the appearance, it was exactly the same as the wooden sign in the arms of the deceased in Huixianlou a few days ago, but this wooden sign was covered with blood, making it look even more eerie.

"Where did you find it?"

Cheng Jiangyun silently pointed to the grass next to his feet. The grass that should have been green was stained dark red by the blood. There was a square blank in the bloodstain on the ground, the size of which was exactly the same as the wooden sign, which meant that the blood of the deceased was splashed over. At that time, the wooden sign had already fallen to the ground.

Lin Junnuan laughed dryly and laughed, "The wooden sign may also be left by other people passing by before, and it may not necessarily be related to Lord Hou, right?"

Cheng Jiangyun didn't speak, and there were complex emotions in his lowered eyes.

The token soaked in a lot of human blood must not be something bad on the street. If it was left by someone else before, it must have been picked up long ago.Unless someone just happened to pass by here not long ago, and hadn't had time to look for it after losing the wooden sign—he didn't believe in such a coincidence.

Either the murderer or Jian Yuanhou, the owner of the wooden sign should be one of these two people. No matter who the wooden sign is, it is enough to explain a problem. There is a certain connection between Jian Yuanhou and Chi Yan. .

Then I got in touch with the long sword next to the thatched cottage in the mountains, the weapon smuggled by Baiji’s study, the abnormal behavior of Jian Yuanhou who appeared alone in the alley, and the act of severely stopping him from investigating the assassination just now... Is his good father Did you know something a long time ago, or in other words, Jian Yuanhou was actually involved in the plan of the Chi Yan organization?

Thinking of this, Cheng Jiangyun's heart sank. Lin Junnuan noticed his expression and couldn't help sighing, "It's just a sign, don't think too much about it."

"Baiji's study is also related to Chi Yan." Cheng Jiangyun said coldly.

"what?"

This is a clue that Lin Junnuan didn't know. Cheng Jiangyun gestured to her the pattern of the jade pendant, and she suddenly realized, and asked another question, "According to you, this wooden sign is Chi Yan's token, and the jade pendant is also Chi Yan's." Tokens, Chi Yan is just a killer organization, do we need to prepare so many tokens?"

It does sound a bit strange, but Chi Yan's organization has always been unpredictable, and Cheng Jiangyun is not good at guessing their behavior. He silently looked up at the sky. Not long ago, it was still bright and sunny, but now there are bursts of dark clouds gathering and covering the sky. There seems to be an undercurrent in the capital below.

A rainstorm is coming.

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