Dongdu Pavilion Case Record

Wen Tao and Yang Fang walked to the mountain gate together, the blue-purple firelight at the mountain gate reflected the exhausted and determined faces of Yang Jiajun.Their ancestors followed the Patriarch of the Yang family to expand the territory from this barren land in the Central Plains, and guarded this place for more than a hundred years. They are the loneliest guards and the most distant frontiers in the great Zhou Dynasty.

Wen Tao walked out of the mountain gate, but he didn't intend to stop, Yang Fang said, "Where is Daoist Wen going late at night?"

Wen Tao thought about it for a while and said, "Inspector Yang, have you ever seen a herd of elephants in Gaoyao Mountain?"

"Elephants?" Yang Fang squinted his eyes and thought for a while, "I have heard from soldiers that there seems to be an elephant valley in the southwest of the Wudu Mountain Gate, where elephants often rest. Yang has never seen it with his own eyes. Pass."

"Can you borrow your soldiers? It's best to know Xianggu."

Yang Fang saw that a young man was still running around in the middle of the night for three days, so he called a few government soldiers who were familiar with the place and said: "You guys follow Daoist Wen and follow his orders." Yang Fang did this Firstly, he really hoped to help Wen Tao find out the truth as soon as possible, but secondly, he had multiple minds.Although the Dongdu Pavilion is quite prestigious, it is remote. Now the owner of the pavilion, Tang Wuyi, is in a coma, and maybe his life is in danger. If Wen Tao leaves, the case may become a headless case.

Wen Tao led several Yang family troops to the southwest.Generally, the road from Bozhou is in the southeast direction, and the road in the southwest direction is rarely traveled by people, and it is remote and barren.Those Yang family soldiers opened the way with their long knives while chatting: "Master Wen Dao, is it true that your pavilion master killed our young master? Our brothers don't think you and Pavilion Master Tang are like bad guys."

Those Yang family troops have been bored for several days, they only know that their young master was killed by Tang Wuyi, but they don't know anything about it.Probably because they are both Han Chinese with Wen Tao and Tang Wuyi, and they have a natural sense of closeness in their hearts. They just feel that their young master and Tang Wuyi seem to be trapped in the five poisons as soon as they come.

Wen Tao walked forward all the way, and replied firmly: "He didn't kill him."

"Really?"

"I said it must be the work of the Miao people."

"Now we've figured it out, we will avenge the young master when we go back!"

Several Yang family soldiers started chattering, even though it was midnight, everyone was very angry, wishing to have the blood of the Five Poison Sect members pay back immediately.Wen Tao didn't realize it at first, but now he couldn't help being secretly startled.The Yang family has guarded this place for a hundred years, and there is still a deep gap between them and the Miao people.And he and Tang Wuyi are just outsiders, and Tang Wuyi is still heavily suspected of killing people. These people are just because they are both Han people, so they easily believe that they are good people, and they are all the ghosts of the Miao people.If they think so, the Five Poison Miao people probably think the same way.People all over the world will make judgments of likes and dislikes because of these simple and unreasonable reasons.Wen Tao seemed to see again whether Dong Sheng, who was hunched under the moonlight last night, who spent his best years in eliminating prejudice, was doing a false thing from beginning to end.

"Here we are! It's just ahead." A mansion soldier shouted.

Several people walked for nearly two hours and came to a valley.It was almost dawn at this time, the fog was thick, and the curling white smoke passed through the whole valley, which felt a bit like a fairyland.There are several narrow waterfalls in the valley, flowing out of a clear pool with gurgling water.There are wild flowers everywhere beside the pool, and colorful butterflies are flying.A few wild elephants were lying a little far away, stretching their long trunks and big ears, and occasionally neighing.

The few of them didn't approach, and the elephant herd didn't leave either.The mansion soldier explained: "I heard from the Miao people here that this place is called the Valley of Elephants, because the Miao people regard images as gods, so few people come here."

Wen Tao nodded.He remembered that in Yang Han's notes, he heard the neighing of elephants on the way back to Wudu. The way back to Hua is likely to be nearby.

"Please help me to check around to see if there is another way to the five poisons here." Wen Tao ordered, "It should lead to the back mountain gate of the five poisons."

Although they didn't know what Wen Tao's order meant, they all carried it out faithfully. One of the soldiers with an excellent sense of direction even used his memory to infer the general direction of the Mountain Gate behind the Five Poisons, and he was in the valley behind the waterfall. To test whether there is another way to return to the five poisons.

"There are traces of people walking here." The mansion soldier said excitedly after searching for a while, and he found something.

Wen Tao heard the words and hurried over to check it out. It turned out that there was an extremely hidden and narrow path with traces of people walking on it.He walked forward along the path, followed by a few government soldiers.At the beginning, they were surrounded by mountain walls, and they couldn't tell the direction. Gradually, as the mountain walls were almost exhausted, the surrounding vegetation and scenery slowly appeared. They actually passed through the valley directly, and behind the valley was the back mountain gate of the Five Poisons. !

"It's here so soon!" Several government soldiers said in surprise.

"Master Wen, how do you know there is another way to return to the five poisons?" Several people wondered.

As expected... Wen Tao thought to himself, in this way, everything will work out.

If this is the case, then the final goal of all these carefully designed layouts turned out to be Tang Wuyi?Using such an ingenious trick to make a tempting bait, the purpose is to lure Tang Wuyi into the bait?

In the end, what does that person want Tang Wuyi to do?To kill him or...

Wen Tao's muscles tensed up again.It was close to noon at this time, and the stratus clouds dissipated today, and the rare sunny weather in Gaoyao Mountain.The government soldiers who came out with him to explore the road had gone back to rest, but Wen Tao was extremely exhausted but didn't feel sleepy at all.His gaze was fixed on the clear sky like a falcon.He was waiting for a carrier pigeon, the one that came back from Kunlun with his master Wen Tunan's answer.

Wen Tao waited from noon to evening, until the gradually darkening sky finally flew the carrier pigeon he had been waiting for for half a day. Wen Tunan's reply letter was tied to the carrier pigeon's leg, and a portrait torn from the page was attached.Wen Tao tremblingly unfolded the letter. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still shocked when he saw the truth.

He tore up the letter roll in his hand, and the scraps of paper flew behind him with the wind, and the hot and humid wind of Bozhou felt cool on his body at this moment.He walked towards the Temple of Five Poisons step by step.At the gate of the temple, Yang Fang, the Five Poison Envoys, Dong Sheng, Jiang Ziming and Mr. Huang had arrived as promised.Wen Tao's face was cold and his teeth were chattering slightly. He said in a deep voice, "Please bring Pavilion Master Tang and Guardian Zuo. I have already solved this case."

Everyone was surprised and puzzled when they heard the words, but Wen Tao ignored them. He walked into the Temple of the Five Poisons, and his eyes were full of clusters of blue-purple flames.