Zhu He

After Yu Si said this, she saw Chang Jiaci frowned, and although her eyes flickered, deep disapproval also flashed in her.

Yu Si understood again: "You don't believe him,"

Chang Jiaci evoked his usual sneer: "Why should I believe him? He is a liar."

fraud?

Yusi recalled the Dong Qinghe she had met in these years. Although the two hadn't had much contact with each other, the only few times they had made Yusi feel that if anyone in the cultivation world could be worthy of being a "half-day Zhu" "Xia, White Crane in the Cloud" can only be the master of the East Gate of the Qinghe Gate. Dong Qinghe is benevolent and righteous, and he blames himself. I don't know how many cultivators and strangers have benefited from him, so how can it be Jia? What about the deceitful people in Ci's mouth?

A person's speech and gestures may be deceiving, but a person's eyes are not. Dong Qinghe's eyes are clear and open, and the eyes that often fall on Chang Jiaci are full of tenderness. Such a natural expression cannot be faked.

Concubine took Chang Jiaci's hand: "Jiaci, you don't believe him, is it because you don't believe him in your heart, or is it because of the obsession of the ninth world that you don't believe him anymore?"

Chang Jiaci was startled, and then listened to Si Si.

"Sometimes what we see with our eyes may not be true. If it is true as you said, you will be stuck in the cycle of coming and going for a long time. I don't want you to give up anything, but, if one day, just If... when your heart wants to believe in something, Jiaci, don't let your obsession become an obstacle. There is no one around you to help you, do you still have to fight against yourself?"

After Yusi finished speaking, she looked seriously at the man in front of her. In the past, she was usually aloof and cold towards others. Although the eyes she looked at now were not so hot and soft, to Chang Jiaci, it was like a candle lit in the barren night. , no matter how small it is, it is the only bright color in his whole life, how can people ignore it.

Even if it was difficult, even if he didn't want it in his heart, Chang Jiaci nodded helplessly under the ardent hope of Yu Si.

If one day, my heart really wants to believe him, I will believe it.

But is there really such a day?

Chang Jiaci sneered in his heart.

And Yu Si showed a generous smile.It was inevitable that Hua Jiandong was suspicious, she couldn't stay for long, and when the sun was a little lower, Yu Si got up and said goodbye.

Chang Jiaci was still reluctant to let go, and when she saw him, she agreed to come and see him again if she had the chance.

After her sister left, Chang Jiaci had been standing by the window railing in a daze towards the direction she was leaving, only to realize that it was already dark when she regained consciousness, but Dong Qinghe still didn't come back.

Hearing Qing Lang's voice from outside, Chang Jiaci pushed open the window.

Qinglang was talking to Qingyi, when he saw him, he came up to meet him.

"The sect master still has something to do, he asked me to come back and make medicine for you first."

Chang Jiaci glanced at the bowl in his hand, this time he didn't hesitate, took a mouthful and poured it into his mouth.After drinking, Chang Jiaci said, "I'm going out for a while."

It was getting late, and Chang Jiaci had to leave the house, so Qing Lang naturally wanted to ask.

Chang Jiaci said: "I want to go to the Ministry of Japan, and I have something to consult with Elder Jin." Regardless of whether Si Si cares about her appearance, Chang Jiaci does. I don't mind spending a little more time to get it for my sister, even if you want him to be a low-level kid, it doesn't matter, as for whether she is willing to use it at that time, everything is up to her.

As a result, Qinglang's face twitched when he said the words, he hesitated and said: "Well, Ribu is... a little busy right now."

Chang Jiaci sensed a problem at a glance: "What happened?"

Qinglang seemed to want to hide it, but Chang Jiaci's next two sentences left him speechless.

"If you don't tell me, you think I can't go to see it by myself, do you? Even though the mountain road out of Pianshiju is so high into the sky, but there are no fences, I think it's not easy to go down?"

The master of the East Gate had repeatedly asked Qing Lang to take good care of this ancestor, and he was afraid that something might go wrong with him. When Chang Jiaci said this obviously threatening words, Qing Lang had no choice but to say: "It's Elder Jin... ...He, he was plotted against."

"What?" This surprised Chang Jiaci, thinking that only a few monks had accidents yesterday, he asked, "Jin Xueli was also beheaded?"

Qing Lang quickly shook his head: "No, Elder Jin is still alive, but he was poisoned and was unconscious and was being treated by his disciples. The sect master also rushed over."

I also want to know that the Qinghe Gate has been flooded for a while and the elders before death have frequent accidents. The defense has long been impregnable. In addition, these two days are very critical, and the several masters are still inside the gate. The guards here There are many more than before. It should have been difficult for this outsider to choose such a moment to attack the insiders, but he did not expect to succeed. It is not so much that the external enemies are strong, but that there are internal thieves inside the door.

And aren't there still two ready-made villains locked up here, one demon cultivator and the other demon cultivator, unique objects of suspicion.

Chang Jiaci's smile cooled down as he thought about how the sect leaders gathered together and wondered how to interrogate himself and Shen Yuanxiu.

"I don't think it's better for me to go there now, so as to save your sect master from having to come in person later." Chang Jiaci said angrily.

But this time he really guessed wrong, and Chang Jiaci still couldn't believe it when he heard Qinglang's words.

"What did you say? Someone has been caught? Who is it?"

Qing Lang said: "It's Yu Miao, he poisoned Elder Jin."

Chang Jiaci was stunned.

……

As soon as Chang Jiaci arrived at the Xingbu Criminal Hall, he saw a bustling scene in front of him.

Dong Qinghe and Qiu Muwang sat on the high seats, and several sect masters sat at the bottom. In the middle, Yu Miao was kneeling on the ground under the pressure of Fu Chuan. Brother is also among them.

Chang Jiaci stood on the outermost side, obviously not very conspicuous, but as soon as he appeared, Dong Qinghe in the hall looked over keenly.

The East Gate Master was a little surprised to see the other party appearing here, but just as he was about to stand up, he was glared at by Chang Jiaci through the gauze hat, and Dong Qinghe had no choice but to sit back.

At this time, a person wearing a light blue student uniform walked in, Qiu Muwang asked him: "Have you checked clearly? What poison did your elders suffer from?"

That disciple is Elder Jin's apprentice, and Chang Jiaci saw him following Elder Jin when Jin Xueli came to treat Dong Qinghe last night.

The other party said: "I have read many medical books, and finally I have a clue. This poison is called 'Fengsha'. It is colorless and odorless. It is cast by a spell. After lighting it up and smelling its smoke within a mile, you can be infected. After being poisoned First, the eyes turned black, the whole body was weak and weak, and then the internal force collapsed, the bones and blood coagulated, and the limbs became rigid, and finally..."

Dong Qinghe turned his gaze back from Chang Jiaci, heard his disciple hesitate, and urged: "Say."

The man gritted his teeth and said: "In the end, the whole body will become extremely hard and brittle, and if you are not careful... it will be broken into fine powder, just like the wind blowing sand, hence the name."

As soon as this remark came out, many people in the hall changed their expressions.

Dong Qinghe asked again: "How long does it take for this poison to develop? Is there an antidote?"

The disciple shook his head with a bitter face: "At ten or twelve o'clock...there may be an antidote, but this poison is rare in the first place. I can only find signs of it in all the classics, but no trace of the antidote."

"Ask him, he is the one who inflicted the poison, and he must have the antidote!"

After listening to the disciple's words, the other members of the Ribu shouted, staring at the Yu Miao in Fu Chuan's hand one by one, their eyes were about to burst into flames.

"Stop making noise!" Fu Chuan shouted, looking at Qiu Mu Wang in the hall, "Listen to my master's question."

Qiu Muwang waited for the surroundings to quiet down before speaking to another disciple of Ribu, "What did you see when you entered the door?"

"I saw... I saw my master lying in the alchemy room, a black shadow escaped from the side door, I chased after him, and then caught him! It was him, Yu Miao who poisoned my master!" While talking, the disciple pointed at Yu Miao and said viciously.

"I...I didn't...I didn't..." Facing the resentful gazes from both sides, Yu Miao's frightened refutation seemed so weak, his face turned red and white, his eyes were swollen into walnuts, "I Elder Jin was not harmed... I only entered the door when I heard his cry..."

"You said you didn't harm him, so why did you run away? Why did you go to Japan?" Dong Qinghe's voice was quite gentle.

Yu Miao pursed his mouth, scanned the crowd with his big eyes, and lowered his head hesitantly, without speaking.

"If in my Jiu Ning Palace, such a stubborn disciple would have to be tortured." Hua Jiandong who was seated under the seat suddenly said.

"You can go to his residence and search it. If there is still the poisonous talisman, you can catch him personally and get it." The elder of the Yangshan faction who died at the side also said.

Qiu Muwang replied with a cold glance.

Fu Chuan said: "My master has already sent people to search his residence."

Hearing this, Chang Jiaci, who was outside the crowd, frowned.

Dong Qinghe asked: "How was the search?"

Fu Chuan shook his head: "Going back to the sect master, I didn't find anything suspicious."

Even if he didn't find it, it doesn't mean that the poison was not poisoned by Yu Miao. He was caught in the Japanese Ministry and refused to tell the difference at this moment. It is far-fetched to escape the crime like this.

Qiu Muwang's hands tapped lightly on the table, as if thinking about how to proceed with the trial.

"I also asked Elder Zhelong just now. He checked the door and there was no sign of outsiders entering." Qiu Muwang said, and turned to Yu Miao again, "I'll ask you again, you go to the Ribu What happened? Or, who told you to go?"

Yu Miao was so scared that his shoulders shrank, his whole body trembled like chaff, and he whimpered like a puppy, but after waiting for a while, he still didn't speak.

Dong Qinghe looked at him: "We can discuss other matters slowly. If you know the origin of this 'sandstorm' or have news about the antidote, you can tell us even a little bit first. Do you want to look at Elder Jin? Is it so that there is no cure for the stone?"

"I don't want to, I don't want to..." Yu Miao quickly shook his head, "I want to save the elder, but I really don't know, I don't know..." He started crying again while talking.

Listening to the pitiful sobbing sound, Qiu Mu Wang's cold voice sounded out in the hall's silence for a while.

"Pull it down, give him fifty lashes first, if he doesn't say anything, then add another twenty lashes, or if he doesn't say anything..."

Qiu Muwang turned to Fu Chuan, Fu Chuan nodded knowingly, and dragged Yu Miao out.

From a distance, Qing Lang looked at the thin young man who kept struggling, and then at Chang Jiaci. Based on his usual observations, he thought that the relationship between Chang Jiaci and this little disciple was not bad, and maybe the other party might make a move. save.As a result, Qing Lang forgot that the face he met was an indifferent face, and Chang Jiaci looked at Yu Miao who was being dragged away, without even changing his posture.

Qing Lang said in a low voice: "Xingbu's whips are unusual. They can't beat people to death, but they can hurt people to death. With that little disciple's cultivation level, twenty whips are enough for him to lie in bed for a month." Not to mention fifty lashes, seventy lashes.

Chang Jiaci didn't speak, but silently looked at Dong Qinghe in the hall.

There was also hesitation on Dong Qinghe's face, but since he handed over the Xingbu to Qiu Muwang's management, he believed in Elder Qiu's judgment. He would not criticize before, and naturally he would not in front of so many people now.

After a while, Yu Miao's cries became louder, accompanied by crackling beating sounds, which seemed very ear-piercing in the quiet hall.

Ten puffs, twenty puffs, thirty puffs... When it reached forty puffs, Yu Miao's whistling had gradually weakened to the point where there was a faint smell of blood floating in the air.

Chang Jiaci stood there motionless, not knowing what to think.

At this time, the elder of the Yangshan Sect said again: "Even though Elder Jin's method of poisoning is different from that of our master Fu and You Tianjiao's Master Wan, but the timing of the incident is so strange that we have to guard against it. Let me see, If he doesn't say it, we shouldn't be so wasted, maybe we will gain something else by checking whether that kid has any close contacts with other people in the sect recently."

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of the people in the hall couldn't help but glance at Dong Qinghe on the seat. The posture of Jiaci and Yu Miao wandering on the road together in the past few days was noticed by many disciples. If so, Chang Jiaci naturally cannot escape the responsibility.

Dong Qinghe sat there as motionless as a mountain under the gazes of all parties. He took care of Chang Jia in many ways before, because the matter of the chaotic beast came first, and they were the two who saved people, and no one else had the turn to speak, but now Elder Jin's life was at stake, and they had no other clues, so it was only natural to ask Chang Jiaci to ask. Dong Qinghe wanted to say "no" at this time, and his protective heart seemed too abrupt.

Chang Jiaci looked at the man in the distance, Dong Qinghe was also looking at him, the two looked at each other for a moment, Dong Qinghe's eyes flashed a trace of tenderness, just about to speak, suddenly a cold shout came from outside the hall.

"...My disciples of the Chen Department are naturally close to the Chen Department. According to your opinion, do you have to let the people in my department come and be whipped and interrogated one by one to count?!"

As the words fell, a white shadow suddenly floated up, stood with hands behind his back, and looked arrogantly at the elder of the Yangshan sect who was speaking, causing the other party's neck to shrink back.

It was Murong Jiaoyang.

Murong Jiaoyang snorted coldly and turned to Qiu Muwang on the other side, and said angrily, "Tell Fu Chuan to stop!"

Qiu Muwang was not worried about being refuted in person like this, but after a moment of stalemate between the two, he still called out to his disciples in a low voice.

After a while, Fu Chuan brought back a man covered in blood, slapped him, and left him in front of the hall.

Qiu Mu looked and said: "Elder Murong, what can you find out from him? Or do you know who killed Elder Jin?"

Murong Jiaoyang raised his chin: "I don't need to ask him, I don't know who did it, I just know it wasn't my Chenbu disciple."

Qiu Muwang frowned: "You can't just rely on your words."

Murong Jiaoyang took a step forward, came to Yu Miao, glanced at the half-dead man, nodded: "Okay, then I will be his guarantor, I want to ask Elder Jin for some herbs, so I sent Yu Miao As for the one who went to the Ministry of Japan, I don’t know why he ran into someone else and poisoned him.”

"The sun..."

Dong Qinghe couldn't help pointing out these words, but Murong Jiaoyang didn't dodge or evade Yu Miao's steps.

Qiu Muwang paused for a moment, and said again: "Elder Murong is sure? Even if this matter has nothing to do with Yu Miao, then two days ago, my star department was intruded for no reason, and the aura of the person who came was actually similar to Yu Miao's." It's the same, how can Elder Murong explain this matter? Could it be that you sent him to my star department?"

Qiu Muwang's words were for Murong Jiaoyang, but his eyes turned directly to Chang Jiaci who was outside the hall, and he immediately looked into his eyes.

Murong Jiaoyang frowned, and quietly glanced at the people on the ground, and when he raised his head, his gaze returned to arrogance.

"Yes, it's me too."