A glance at the spring breeze

It rained cats and dogs rumbling from the sky.

The rain was rapid, and the huge raindrops hit people's shoulders and backs, which felt painful and cold. More importantly, the torrential rain made people blindfolded, and everyone could no longer continue to search for Ruan Lan's whereabouts.

Fortunately, Manager Zhang found a small cave on the island where they could hide from the rain first.

I believe that this rainstorm will not be long, and it will not be too late to continue looking for Ruan Lan when the rain subsides.

The cave is narrow, just enough to hold the figures of four adult men, surrounded by four people, it is still a bit crowded, unable to stretch out their limbs.

Eunuch Yu moved towards Qi Mo, squeezed together with Qi Mo, then turned his head and said to Yin Jian: "Your Majesty, please come closer and stretch your legs. It's raining again in such a small place. It's too wronged Your Majesty." .”

Qi Mo couldn't help rolling his eyes.

— Your Majesty, your Majesty.

He was almost squeezed out of the cave by Eunuch Yu.

"The Taoist priest who sent us here told me, Your Majesty, you know a magic technique that can quickly find out Ruan Lan's whereabouts." Qi Mo looked at His Majesty's tired look, and asked the question in his heart. He sighed, "I wonder when His Majesty is going to use it?"

Yin Jian's eyes darkened, and he didn't speak, but took out a paper fan in his arms, and slowly opened it along the connection of the fan bones.

Close up.

Open it up again.

closed again.

so repeatedly.

At first, Qi Mo thought there was something mysterious about this fan, so he turned his eyes to the fan, only to see the four scrawled characters written in flying and flying shapes on the fan with a golden light shining on it.

——No extreme.

Well.Qi Mo thought to himself: It really is a very magical and mysterious word. I don't know what it will be used for?

Unexpectedly, after waiting for a long time, Yin Jian who was sitting across from him didn't even open his mouth to explain, the other party just stared blankly at the folding fan in front of him.

"Kick ah ah ah..."

Open it and close it again.

When Director Zhang saw His Majesty acting so abnormally, he sighed silently in his heart, and then said to Qi Mo: "Young Master, I don't know, this technique is very troublesome to operate, and... Your Majesty only activated it a few days ago. Use it, at least another ten days and a half a month."

Qi Mo suddenly realized, and glanced at Yin Xian: "Oh. So that's how it is."

Yin Jian suddenly said, "Qi Mo, is Lingtang's surname Zhang?"

Qi Mo was quite surprised when he heard this: "How do you know?"

Manager Zhang was also surprised, and quickly looked at Qi Mo.

Yin Xian finally put away the fan in his hand, his face was a little more angry than before, he looked up at Qi Mo, and said: "Then tell me about your mother's family."

"Mother clan..." Qi Mo frowned, rolled his eyes and recalled for a while, then curled his lips, "I don't remember."

Yin Jian raised his eyebrows: "Don't remember?"

Qi Mo nodded: "Well. I really have no impression."

Looking at Qi Mo's eyes, he was clear and upright, without dodging, and it didn't seem like he was lying.

"That's all." Yin Jian leaned his back to the stone wall that was close to him, his expression seemed to be depressed again.

Rumbling--

There was another deafening thunderclap in the sky outside.

The rain seemed to be getting heavier, and all the raindrops that came with the strong wind hit Manager Zhang and Qi Mo.

Qi Mo listened to the sound of pouring rain outside the cave, looked at the three people in front of him, shook off his already wet sleeves, and said, "You say... Taoist Xuan Mo said that we are destined people on this island, What means?"

Manager Zhang and Eunuch Yu shook their heads.

No one seems to know.

"Gollum-gollum-"

what sound?

Everyone looked at Eunuch Yu.

Eunuch Yu smiled sheepishly, with embarrassment on his face: "Slave... the slave didn't do it on purpose,"

"Gulu Gulu—" the voice sounded again.

Eunuch Yu hurriedly covered his stomach, and suddenly wanted to cry, but his jaw trembled and he said, "I haven't eaten all day..."

Qi Mo patted him on the shoulder, looked at the heavy rain outside the cave, and said, "Hey, when the rain stops, I'll go to the beach and catch you some fish, shrimp, crabs and seabirds, and then roast it over the fire, it must be delicious You don’t know, I used to go hunting outside. After hunting, I would find some firewood everywhere, and roast the hares and boars that I caught until they were golden, crispy, tender and juicy, and then lightly pat the roasted rabbit legs out. Twitch, a stream of fragrant yellow sizzling oil immediately flowed out. The roasted aroma can be smelled ten miles away, and the tender and crispy roast meat is chewed in the mouth, not to mention how delicious it is.”

Eunuch Yu coughed, imagining the scene described by Qi Mo, and immediately swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Seeing that Director Zhang and His Majesty the Emperor were resting with their eyes closed, without any expression of displeasure, he dared to ask, "Is what you said true?"

"Of course." Qi Mo was very airy, "I will show you a hand then."

"Okay, you have to keep what you say, let's make a deal."

"It's a word."

After Qi Mo finished speaking, he suddenly frowned and said, "No, it's raining so much outside, where can I find dry wood to start a fire?"

After hearing this, Eunuch Yu immediately froze: "Then what should I do..."

Qi Mo said: "It seems that it can only be eaten raw."

"what……"

At this time, Director Zhang raised his eyebrows and swept towards them, seeming to show displeasure, and Eunuch Yu immediately calmed down.

Qi Mo sighed on his back, and tapped his fingers on the cave wall behind him, and there was a rhythmic sound.He said: "I don't know when the rain will end... I wonder if Ruan Lan is also hungry, and probably hasn't eaten yet."

Of course, Yin Jian remembered that Ruan Lan had only eaten one bag of dry food that he had brought with her for many days. If this continued, even if she was not killed by Xichen, she would starve to death.

In the late autumn, it was raining heavily and the wind was constantly blowing. It was supposed to be the season that made people feel cold all over, but seeing Yin Xian's heart became hot and irritable, he took the folding fan and fanned it again and again.

Qi Mo trembled as he watched Yin Zhenfan's movement.

This emperor is so strange...

"Your Majesty, I have a question that I really don't understand. Why did you come to find Ruan Lan in person?" Qi Mo suddenly thought about it, and remembered the previous incident, "Oh yes, that time at Qiumang Mountain, you You also came to find Ruan Lan in person, didn’t you?”

Yin Jian was noncommittal about this, and only asked: "Then why did you come to find Ruan Lan in person?"

Unexpectedly, Qi Mo was stumped by this question. He pointed at his temple with one finger, and after a while he said: "At the beginning, I heard that Eunuch Yu said that Ruan Lan was missing, so I wanted to follow him without even thinking about it. Daoist Xuan Mo also agreed..."

Yin Jian still asked: "Then why did you come here?"

Zimo shook his head: "I don't know."

Yin Jian also said, "Then... I don't know either."

"You..." Qi Mo opened his eyes wide.

Why is this emperor so unreasonable?

But after all, he was facing the emperor of Middle-earth, so he didn't want to get angry, so he just continued to hit the wall behind him with his fingers—however, he used a little more force than before, and changed the knocking to poking.

Rumbling--

The four looked at each other.

This time the sound was not thunder from the sky, but seemed to originate from the depths of the cave.

But this small cave is only that big.

Mr. Zhang said: "There may be a dark layer in the cave, be careful, Your Majesty!"

Qi Mo said: "Eh? Why is there no movement again?"

Yin Jian asked: "Where did your hand hit just now, try again."

"Oh good." Qi Mo groped on the wall behind him according to his memory, and pressed to a place.

Rumbling--

Qi Mo said in his heart: There is indeed a mechanism here!

The cave trembled above the heads of the four, as if they were roaring with incomparable anger.

Eunuch Yu's voice trembled, and his whole body trembled: "There...is there something..."

Zimo then pressed the organ deeper on the stone wall.

A hole as high as a person was directly opened on the opposite stone wall, and a heavy object suddenly swung down from inside, and threw it directly at Eunuch Yu.

Eunuch Yu was knocked to the ground before he had time to see clearly what the black shadow leaping out of the sky was.

A stinky smell came over his face.

"Oh...it hurts, it hurts to death." Eunuch Yu sat up covering his head, and when he opened his eyes and saw what was pressing on him, he jumped to the top of the cave screaming in fright.

"Ah-ah-this is it!"

Swinging out from the opened hole were the corpses of two people.

They are naked|naked, overlapping each other.It seemed that he died not long ago, and there was no large area of ​​rot on his body. Some dark spots had already appeared on his abdomen and legs, which should have been white.

The facial features of these two people are still there, and they are very clear - the most important thing is that all four people in the cave know each other.

"This is..." Qi Mo's eyes widened.

Eunuch Yu backed away in shock: "They—"

Mr. Zhang said, "Your Majesty, these are a pair of twin brothers, Zhou Tingjin and Zhou Tingyuan, that Her Highness the Princess gave to Lord Ruan before."

Qi Mo was in a daze: "Yes, I've seen them in Ruan's mansion before. Aren't they Ruan Lan's male favourites? Why did they come here? They're still dead..."

From the corner of his eye, he saw that Yin Jian seemed to be very contemptuous of the title "Ruan Lan's male favorite", and only glanced at the two corpses: "It's fine to die."

Eunuch Yu was frightened out of his wits, with tears streaming down his face, he hesitated and said: "But, when the servant came out of the Ruan Mansion, he saw them in good health, how could it be...how could it be—"

Director Zhang checked the two corpses over and over again, and said, "Return to Your Majesty, there are no wounds, and there are no signs of poisoning."

Yin Xian said: "Then...are there nothing in their bodies?"

Except for Qi Mo, all the four people present clearly remembered that a dead maid was found in the well of the palace before, and all the internal organs of the maid disappeared, leaving only a pair of bare skin and bones .

There were no wounds, and no traces of poisoning.

It is still unknown who the murderer is.

Mr. Zhang did not know what method he used to press on a corpse, and then opened its mouth—even the tongue was gone inside.

Mr. Zhang said: "Returning to Your Majesty, the situation is indeed the same as that of the palace lady who was found in the well before, and it is much lighter than ordinary corpses."

"That should be it." Yin Jian looked at the two corpses for a long time before saying, "These two died not long ago. It seems that the murderer is also on this island."

"Your Majesty, look, what is this!"

Qi Mo's voice suddenly sounded, and he poked his head out of the hole that was opened not long ago, holding a book in his hand.

"I picked it up from the ground at the entrance of the cave." He walked up to Yin Jian and opened a page of the book in his hand.

The pages of the book are full of old beetle smell, and most of the dilapidated book covers are incomplete.

Fortunately, the handwriting is still clear.

I saw that there was clearly written on it—the County Chronicle of Wu County, Linzhou.