Murder

Halfway through the boat, there were more and more strange rocks on the surface of the river. After traveling for more than a hundred miles, the boat could not continue.

"This part of the upper reaches of the Yulan River is particularly dangerous." The boatman said, "Now that the spring flood has just passed, the summer flood has come again, and the water has become fierce. I dare not go there anyway."

Ah Si: "Then what should I do?"

The boatman pointed to the people waiting on the mountain walls on both banks: "If you are willing to pay, they can help you carry the boat across this distance."

There are protruding rocks everywhere on the mountain wall, and naked men are sitting on the rocks, looking at the people on the boat.

This section is covered with strange rocks for about half a mile. The boat of Sima Feng and others is not big, and about [-] or [-] men can carry it. After passing this section, they can board the boat again after passing this section.Ah Si asked the price, and his jaw dropped in surprise: "One tael per person?!"

"This is a life-threatening job." Said the boatman.

Sima Feng didn't feel sorry for the money, but he felt that it was unnecessary, so he turned around and ordered everyone to pull out the horses from the cabin and walk ashore by land.The ship docked at a nearby port for the time being, because there was a sign of the Shaoyi League on the ship, no one dared to think about it, so Sima Feng led these people on the road immediately.

Although no news was heard from Pengyang, the closer they got to Rongqing, they could hear people whispering about what happened in Rongqing City when they were resting at the tea stand.

"I heard that it was the Red God who caused the trouble." Someone whispered, "The temples on the Red God Peak are all deserted, and no one has taken care of them for a long time. No, they must have annoyed the gods."

"The Chishen Peak was originally the incarnation of the Chishen, who is upset if the Chishen is gone?" Someone laughed and objected to his statement.

The person who spoke before laughed strangely: "The red god is gone, but there are still her brothers. Ordinary people don't go to worship their own sisters, so it's okay, and they have to be punished one or two."

Everyone scoffed and didn't believe it.But the waiter at the tea stall listened very seriously: "Maybe it's really Chishen. I heard that when the third child died, there were women in red clothes standing on the Twelve Bridge. Ouch, that look, It's extremely fierce. Her ten fingers are pointed, her teeth are white, wow, she can chew off the heads of several children with one bite!"

Xiaoer's words became more and more outrageous, and seeing that everyone's expressions were getting worse, the tea stall owner sternly called him away.

"This murder...is related to the legend?" Ah Si laughed, "Then Chishen died five children, so he won't kill five children this time, right?"

On the way, Sima Feng had already told everyone the legend of the Red God he found, but the few he brought out were all experts who had seen the scene, and no one took this legend to heart.

But one of the youngest attendants expressed his opinion: "The murder of brothers that happened in Pengyang City a few years ago is related to the legend. It's just that the two men used the name of the legend to hunt and kill, and they themselves don't care about the legend. believable."

"Speaking of which, Master Chi asked you to pay attention to the legend of the Red God, maybe it has something to do with the legend of the Red God." Ah Si continued his words, "Yongbo also makes sense, maybe it is similar to the previous murder of brothers. "

Sima Feng shook his head: "Stop, don't talk about it. It's best not to be preconceived in everything, let's talk about how to get the details."

The young man called Yongbo asked again: "We don't bring Gan Lingshi this time, what if Rongqing doesn't have a good job?"

"The young master can perform an autopsy." Ah Si said, "and there is no way to bring Gan Lingshi. Don't forget that after the Shaoyi League fire last time, Gan Lingshi followed us to the Shaoyi League to examine the leader's sister's body. He vomited, he vomited while riding a horse, and he couldn't keep up with us on foot, and in the end Brother Murong carried him all the way."

Thinking of Gan Le's tragic situation at that time, everyone at the table couldn't help laughing.

Gan Le, who was far away in Pengyang, sneezed three times in a row, spraying saliva and nasal mucus into the medicine bowl in front of him.He frowns and shakes the bowl of Chinese medicine powder, then turns to Song Beiyan, who is crouching beside him pounding the medicine, and says, "Xiao Song, make another powder of March Wishing Grass."

Song Beiyan was shocked: "I've been pounding that bowl of medicinal powder for four days! The stalks of wishful grass are too fucking hard, Brother Gan!"

Gan Le was unhappy: "Don't speak foul words. If you tell me to hit you, do it. I just sneezed and got dirty. I don't know who is thinking about me."

"Who will miss you!" Song Beiyan angrily thumped the grass leaves in the medicine bowl, hoping to finish these as soon as possible before going to get Gan Yue his Wishing Grass.

"...Chi Yebai." Gan Yue suddenly laughed, "It must be him."

Chi Yebai sneezed, rubbed his nose in embarrassment, and stood up straight again.

He stood on the shoal, frowning and staring at the sea water, then suddenly bent down and stretched out his hand to grab a transparent shrimp out of the water.The little shrimp broke a tendril and struggled between his fingers.

"Master, I found it."

The old man who was digging a hole on the beach with his buttocks pouted immediately raised his head, squinted his eyes and looked at the shrimp in his hand, and exclaimed happily: "That's right! That's it! Hey, he's sneaking away like someone else, let's eat it!" it!"

Chi Yebai gave the shrimp to the old man.The old man with white beard and white eyebrows, a mess of gray hair tied up in a mess behind his head, his sleeves rolled up and his trouser legs rolled up too high, took the shrimp from Chi Yebai's hand, and carefully put it into a chicken belly that had been washed and drained of blood. Rise.Chi Yebai squatted beside him, watching his master stuff a dozen or so transparent shrimps into the chicken's stomach, then pinched the opening with his inner strength, and put the chicken into the sandpit that had been warmed by fire .

"Master, it's cruel for you to eat like this." Chi Yebai whispered.

"You are cruel." The old man snorted, "You are not funny. What about Sima? I like him."

"..." Chi Yebai felt a little unwilling, "Master, I am your apprentice."

"But you have learned my skills, but you can't learn my chicness, heh." The old man brushed his messy hair a few times, motioning for Chi Yebai to put his hands on the covered sand pile with him, "Let me be your teacher." Let's see how well your Huachun Jue has been practiced."

The master and the apprentice then used all their skills to roast the chicken seriously.

Chi Yebai's master's name is Qing Yuanzi, which was given to him by Wudang Fengleizi.He was Fengleizi's younger brother back then, and after decades of practice in Wudang, he still looked like a handsome young man in his twenties, so the first time he went down the mountain alone, he caused eight worldly affairs and was blocked by eight girls At the foot of Wudang Mountain, if you don't marry them, you won't let him go there.Qing Yuanzi was really terrified, before Fengleizi came down to help, he ran away from Wudang Mountain and never went back.He thought his common name was ugly, so he kept using the Taoist name, and he thought the common etiquette was troublesome, so he only had a Taoist name, but he never regarded himself as a Taoist priest.

Qing Yuanzi is a prodigy in martial arts, and has the ability of photographic memory.He also likes to delve into martial arts mentality, and after seeing the moves that others have used once, he will soon be able to do it himself.Then one year he entered the martial arts conference by mistake. It happened that the leader of the martial arts was competing to recruit relatives. He thought the big man who had won 36 knights was too ugly. A winking eye was so frightened that he was trembling all over, so he jumped onto the ring angrily, and used more than 70 moves in a mess.

In the end, he didn't marry that girl, but was chased by that girl for 18 years, so he had to escape to this small overseas island.

On the contrary, he was at ease, using all his martial arts to remediate the small island, and even tamed many turtles and seabirds. He sat on the edge of the cliff every day and looked into the distance.

Then one day, he counted with his fingers, and another 18 years passed.Thinking that the woman wouldn't just wait by the sea, he chiseled a plank and sailed back across the ocean.

As soon as he approached the land, he heard the crying of children in the sea, "Sima" and "Sima" yelling non-stop.Qing Yuanzi immediately jumped into the sea to save the person, and carried the child who jumped into the sea to rescue him back to the shore.The two children are clever and cute, and Qing Yuanzi especially likes Chi Yebai who looks very good and Sima Feng who looks very smart, so he patted his butt and went to Yingbeishe and Chi Ye Bai's parents said they would take them as disciples.It's a pity that Sima Feng had already learned martial arts from Sima Liangren at that time, and had already started to practice the internal skills passed down from his family. In the end, Qing Yuanzi only accepted Chi Yebai.

He was so excited that he had an apprentice, and immediately passed on to Chi Yebai the set of Inner Strength and Mind Techniques that he had realized.

Qing Yuanzi thought that no one knew who he was, but Chi Yebai's parents found the record of Wudang rebel Qing Yuanzi from the files in the house that night.The two of them didn't say anything, and Chi Yebai didn't say anything by the way, so ten or twenty years later, Qing Yuanzi still thought that no one knew who he was.

The Huachun Jue was thick and warm, with continuous heat, the master and apprentice squatted under the sun for half an hour, and finally smelled the aroma of chicken.

Qing Yuanzi gave Chi Yebai a chicken leg.After chewing on it for a while, I felt something was wrong. After all, I was just such an apprentice in my whole life. Although my temperament was not the one I liked, at least I had a good appearance and a good temper. He was very reluctant, but he still generously tore off the other The chicken legs were given to Chi Yebai.

After Chi Yebai finished eating, he watched Master chewing on the shrimp and chicken bones with relish.

"Master, I want to ask you something." Chi Yebai said.

Qing Yuanzi: "Tell me."

"I didn't even see you for a while when I was young, do you remember?"

"Of course I remember." Qing Yuanzi nodded, "You worked very hard at that time, my baby. I heard from your parents that you have a very good memory and remember everything. It is because you remember too much that you are going crazy."

"Yeah." Chi Yebai pondered for a moment, then asked cautiously, "But there is one thing I don't understand. I really have a good memory, but why did it explode at that time? I have recently recalled repeatedly, but I can't remember anything clearly. I vaguely remembered words such as night hunting and beating. Master, do you know what this is?"

Qing Yuanzi's eyes suddenly became serious.

"Baby, you are disobedient. When Sima is not by your side, you must not enter the dark room in your head." Qing Yuanzi said nervously, "Master can't even pull you out."

"I can come out by myself."

"Why did you come out?"

Chi Yebai: "..."

He turned his head away: "Anyway...you can come out if you think about other things."

Qing Yuanzi was full of doubts: "Aren't you honest with Master?"

Chi Yebai quickly changed the subject: "Master, do you remember what happened at home when I was going crazy? Is there any place in Pengyang where you can hunt at night?"

Qing Yuanzi closed his mouth, moved around, swallowed a mouthful of chicken, and said slowly: "I don't know."

Sima Feng and others finally arrived at Rongqing City.He went to Yingbei House's Rongqing branch immediately, and when he found out that Chi Yebai hadn't come at all, he was half discouraged.

The other half supported him to visit Rongqing's governor, and after some pleasantries, he brought Ah Si and others to Yizhuang.

There were still three children's bodies in the yizhuang, Sima Feng cheered up and went to check on the condition of the third child who died first.

"The corpse showed no signs of beatings or binding wounds. There was no struggle, and there was no old wound except for the new wound." Sima Feng said quickly, pinching the child's arm through the glove, "It's quite strong Child."

Rongqing's policemen followed Sima Feng all the time, and added at this time: "This child has been missing for more than ten days. I thought he was abused, but after being weighed, he seems to be a little fatter than before he disappeared."

Sima Feng's hands paused: "Have been missing for more than ten days? Still getting fat?"

The author has something to say:

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Qing Yuanzi's character design is written in the notebook and I don't think there is anything wrong.Until I typed his Dao number on the computer for the first time, the input method displayed - hydrogen atom.