Murder

Yingbeishe is the largest intelligence agency in Jianghu. Grandpa Chi Yebai's generation started to operate it. When it was in his hands, the subdivisions had spread all over mountains, rivers, seas and lakes.

In addition to setting up sub-houses in the main city, the spies of Yingbei House infiltrated everywhere.You don't know what secrets you have that they know, and they will never reveal your secrets unless necessary.Most of the time, Ying Beishe treats intelligence as a commodity for sale, and many people hate it, but many admire it.

Chi Yebai attended the martial arts conference when he took over Ying Beishe.People in the martial arts world never imagined that the usual wretched intelligence dealer would have such a suave and romantic leader. Because nearly half of the people who participated in the meeting were female heroes, the direction of public opinion suddenly became volatile.

Sima Feng also went to that martial arts conference.Chi Yebai stood in the field, repelling fourteen masters with a single move, and he even drew pictures and wrote poems to praise him in a sour manner.It's a pity that those paintings and poems were torn up by Chi Yebai, and every time he thinks about it, he loves it and feels sad.

While changing his hair to draw Chi Yebai's eyebrows on the paper, Ah Si's voice sounded from outside the study: "Master, Ying Beishe is here."

Sima Feng jumped up and rushed out of the door, but immediately stopped his momentum, cleared his clothes twice, and said, "Hmm, who's here?"

"The Eagle of Rongqing City." Ah Si thought for a while, and added, "There is also Ying Beishe's messenger, in short, it is not Young Master Chi."

Sima Feng was a little disappointed: "Isn't it?"

Ah Si smiled and said, "No."

Sima Feng: "If you break your mouth again, be careful that I will beat you up."

The person who came was not Chi Yebai, he was indeed very disappointed.But the eagles in Rongqing City flew thousands of miles to the mouth of the Yulan River, it would definitely not be a trivial matter.He didn't care about punishing Ah Si, and hurried to the front hall.

Sima Liangren and Fu Guqing went out to play, so naturally Sima Feng took care of the family affairs.The eagle was still majestic and majestic, but it was standing on the messenger's head instead, with its sharp talons dug into the hair, which made Sima Feng's four and the others tremble with fear.

The letter box has been removed from the eagle's foot, and the letter paper is a thin roll, with teeny small letters inside.

The messenger gave the letter paper to Sima Feng: "Ying went back to Ying Beishe first, and the head of the family asked me to come over and report to you immediately."

Sima Feng was a little happy in his heart, but his face remained calm.Ah Si is such a dog, following the young master's intention, he asked earnestly: "What else did Mr. Chi say?"

Messenger: "No more."

Ah Si: "Didn't you come to greet my young master?"

The messenger looked at Sima Feng's face: "No. The boss just said a word."

Sima Feng raised his eyelids.Ah Si: "What do you say?"

Messenger: "Xiao Liu, send it to Pengyang immediately for someone to see."

Sima Feng: "... gone?"

Messenger: "No more."

Sima Feng was so angry that he laughed instead, snorted twice, and decided not to get angry with Chi Ye in vain, and looked at the scroll carefully.

The child that Rongqing City discovered a few days ago was already the third child who died in the city recently.The three children, all around four or five years old, were drugged and thrown from the bridge into the river. One fell to his death and two drowned.A young eyewitness at the place where the third child had an accident said that he saw a woman in red standing on the bridge, but because he was too young, what he said was not believed.Nowadays, couples with children in the city are in danger and rumors are everywhere.The strange thing is that the quacks and the officials in Rongqing City have kept a strange silence, and the news has been tightly suppressed, and nothing can be revealed.

The scroll is too small, and the words are densely written.Sima Feng asked the messenger: "That's all? Is there anything else?"

"Yes." The messenger straightened his waist and said as if endorsing, "There was also an incident of kidnapping and killing young children in Rongqing City ten years ago. At that time, five children died, and they were also around four or five years old. That case was true. Many eyewitnesses, watchers, night returners, and officers and soldiers have seen a woman in red on the Twelve Bridge. Because it was already late at night, the woman came and went like the wind, and her movements were erratic. The fog was heavy, so we couldn't see her face. But the murderer was never caught, and there were no rumors about the woman in red afterwards."

"What is the Twelve Bridges?" Sima Feng asked.

"It is the bridge on the Fuyan River in Rongqing City. There are twelve bridges, collectively called the Twelve Bridges, which are relatively low stone arch bridges. The oldest one has a history of 360 years, and the latest one was rebuilt more than 60 years ago. Yes, when Rongqing City was broken and the stone bridge was destroyed, the people in the city raised money to rebuild it."

Sima Feng was a little surprised: "You remember so clearly?"

"I wrote it down on the way here." The courier took out a note from his pocket, "Although the head didn't say anything, he wrote a note to me. Let me remember the numbers and information on it, and tell me to listen."

Sima Feng became happy again, and asked with a smile: "What else was written on the note?"

Messenger: "Legend of the Red God."

Ah Si: "...what?"

He thought he heard it wrong, the words "Legend of the Red God" were just like the low-quality books on the small bookstall in Pengyang Market.He has seen such things as "The Legend of the Red Tassel Spear", "The Story of Hunting the Deer", and "The White-Browed Snake Demon", but he has never heard of the legend of the Red God.

Sima Feng frowned: "When you mention it this way, I seem to have some impressions. It's just that Rongqing is relatively peaceful, and there are very few major cases. Ten years ago, the incident was directly reported to the court, but it has nothing to do with us."

"Yes." The messenger nodded, and the eagle on his head also nodded, "The murderer was not caught, but many people were dismissed."

"That's why I didn't dare to say anything this time." Sima Feng smiled and stood up, "It's interesting. But if we go to Rongqing, who invited us?"

The messenger was taken aback when he heard the words.When members of the Sima family came forward to investigate the case, they were either invited by the officials or complained by the victim.Chi Yebai asked him to send a letter to Sima Feng, but he didn't think about it at all.Ah Si on the side once again played his dog-legged nature: "Master, since Ying Beishe sent this letter, it is naturally regarded as Ying Beishe who invited us. Ying Beishe is indeed a well-known big gang in the world. Sima Si admires and admires public good and righteousness."

Sima Feng was very satisfied: "Ah Si is right, it was Ying Beishe who invited us to go."

The messenger is still in a daze: "Is that so?"

"Of course it is." Ah Si said, "Brother, you go back and report to Master Chi. My young master is vigorous and resolute. Maybe he will arrive in Rongqing City tonight."

"...He farts." Chi Yebai said coldly, "I can get there tonight, does it mean that I can travel thousands of miles, or do I know how to go to the sky and escape from the earth?"

The messenger Nuonuo lowered his head and dared not make a sound.The eagle was very tired from running around, standing on Chi Yebai's arm with its head hanging down, looking very listless.

Chi Yebai felt very distressed.Sima Feng had an eagle shed there, but he didn't expect that Sima Feng didn't give the eagle water to eat, let alone rest.The messenger only said that Patriarch Sima was indeed preparing to go out when he left, because it was already late at night, and he couldn't leave the city on horseback, so he sneaked out over the wall and rushed back to Yingbeishe overnight to report to Chi Yebai.

Chi Yebai asked the eagle to be taken down to take good care of it, then turned and left.

The messenger was stunned for a while, then hurriedly followed: "Master, aren't you going to Rongqing City?"

"What did I go to do?" Chi Yebai wondered.

The messenger thought about it, and Xin Dao really didn't need to go.

"...Don't go there and be influenced by Ah Si and those people." Chi Yebai said earnestly, "Practice martial arts with Murong more when you have time, and Ah Si's gossip and talkative, don't hang out with him. "

Messenger: "Yes."

He didn't dare to tell Chi Yebai that Murong Hai had taught Ah Si to be such a gossiper.

Murong Hai was playing with his wife cutting flowers, he had no time to talk to the messenger, and let him go to the martial arts field to practice martial arts by himself.He clumsily cut out two puppies with intertwined tails and arms and feet, and thought they were very cute: "Is it suitable for the head of the family and Master Sima?"

Mrs. Murong: "Oh my god, it's very suitable. You can quietly paste it on the window of the owner's house tomorrow."

"He will definitely find out." Murong Hai said, "You post it, and he won't blame you if he finds out."

Madam thought about it, felt that Murong Hai had talked a lot, she smiled and put the puppy away.

In the early morning of the next day, Murong Hai quietly took his wife to go to post the puppy, but found that there was no one in Chi Yebai's room.He grabbed a servant and asked, the servant said that the master left very early and said he was going to sea to find the master.

Murong Hai was taken aback: "Is he really not going to Rongqing City?"

On the other side, Sima Feng and four or five people headed by Ah Si were taking a boat on the Yulan River, heading west all the way against the current.

The scenery on both sides of the Yulan River is beautiful. Sima Feng leaned against the window and yawned, and heard the apes crying from a high place.

It's so bitter.He thought to himself, could he not find a wife or an old man?

Feeling obscene again, he patted his face and opened the book in his hand.

Sima Feng, the "Legend of the Scarlet God" that Chi Yebai drew his attention to, didn't think about it. Last night, he searched the study room upside down, and finally found some information from an old book he read when he was a child.

Chishen is the younger sister of two gods in ancient times. In order to prevent her elder brothers from killing each other, she sacrificed her entire body of divine power and turned into Chishen Peak.But in this story, before the two gods began to slaughter the world, Chishen had another story: she conceived a god fetus with the energy of heaven, earth, sun and moon, but none of them could grow safely, and all of them died for some reason.The first child drowned in the Milky Way, was eaten by fishes and shrimps, and his soul wandered between the heaven and the earth, turning into clouds that accompany the stars day and night; the second child fell into the world and turned into hundreds of rivers and lakes; The sky lantern, burned to death, became the enlightening star on the east side of the sky; the fourth child could not speak when it was born, and cried day and night, and finally turned into a full moon in the night, rising to the sky coldly.But the last child's death was normal: he was strangled to death by the red god, because he spit out human words as soon as he was born, and he said all the secrets of the gods.The child's immature voice vibrated day and night in the Nine Heavens, and Chishen couldn't bear it, and finally took his life by himself.

Both he and Chi Yebai had heard of this story when they were young, but when Sima Feng read it now, he found it very scary.

Although it was just a story, there was a faint logic and information in it, which filled him with uneasiness.