Murder

Chi Yebai understood every word he said, but he didn't understand the meaning of Sima Feng's words.He reached up and wiped his shoulders, wiping away the rain that dripped from the leaves.

"I don't quite understand." Chi Yebai whispered, "But...don't ask. I don't know how to answer."

Sima Feng nodded and hugged him suddenly.

"You don't understand if you don't understand, it's okay, I won't blame you." He hugged Chi Yebai tightly in his arms, his tone was gentle, "I'm not really angry...I understand what you mean."

Chi Yebai settled down.He had been running around for days, worried in his heart, finally calmed down at this moment, feeling both tired and relieved, he put his arms around Sima Feng's waist, and let out a long sigh.

The feeling of sleepiness became stronger, and now that Sima Feng was by his side, he felt that he could fall asleep without resorting to other means.

On the second day, Song Beiyan came to look for Chi Yebai early in the morning, and saw Sima Feng who was also walking from the other side.

"Brother Chi is awake?" Song Beiyan looked at him carefully and asked.

Sima Feng felt that his eyes were strange: "You ask me? How do I know?"

"Brother Gan said, last night you two took advantage of the darkness and had a good fight in the backyard with swords in hand." Song Beiyan said, "It's all because you insulted Brother Chi."

Sima Feng: "...you can only listen to half of Gan Lingshi's words, and don't believe them all."

What he brought to Chi Yebai was the news of the return from the spies of Yingbeishe Shifang City Branch.

Chi Yebai has already woken up, practicing sword and loosening his muscles and bones in the courtyard.Sima Feng stayed with him last night, waiting until he fell asleep again before leaving.He had enough rest and was in good spirits. When he saw Sima Feng and Song Beiyan, a smile appeared on his face.

Due to Song Beiyan's presence, Sima Feng resisted the thought of rushing over to kiss him, and handed him a note in a polite manner: "The news is back, the Dongcai market is really worth pondering."

When I was with Chi Yebai last night, he briefly told him about the sudden deaths of the sons of Shaoyi League Zhuo Yong and Xie Ankang.All doubts are concentrated in Dongcai Market, but Dongcai Market is a place that even the officials of Shifang City dare not enter casually.

There are two vegetable markets in Shifang City, East and West, and they have a long history.In the past, Xicai Market mainly sold food such as vegetables and meat, while Dongcai Market was twice the size of Xicai Market. In addition to selling various food materials and utensils, it also sold weapons such as knives and guns.Therefore, the personnel traffic in Dongcai Market is more complicated than that in Xicai Market, and it also receives more attention from the government than Xicai Market.Later, several shops in Dongcai Market fought for customers, and a large-scale fighting broke out, and dozens of people died.It is said that the Dongcai market was full of dead bodies that day, and the blood flowed like a river, which was very miserable.

After the incident, the shops in Dongcai Market gradually moved away, and slowly, many weird stories began to flow out.

For example, in the streets and alleys of Dongcai Market, there are ghosts wandering all day long, or ghosts gather in the dark, jumping out to eat pedestrians at night, and so on.After the shops moved out, a large number of empty houses were left behind. Due to the impact of that incident, no one wanted to come to this smoky place to do business again. The price of houses fell, and most of them were rented out for housing instead of shops.Most of the people who are willing to rent in Dongcai Market are not good people. They are not afraid of death or ghosts, and they all go astray.

As time passed, Dongcai Market became an extremely difficult place to infiltrate in Shifang City.

Sima Feng and Lin Shaoyi had already read the news about Ying Beishe before it reached Chi Yebai.It took only a few days for Yingbeishe's spies to find out the place where Chen and Liu's sons were buried and the circumstances of their deaths.The death conditions of the two were exactly the same as Mr. Xie and Zhuo Yong, and before they disappeared, they were both seen entering the alley next to Chunyan Tower.

Mr. Chen and Mr. Xie's corpses were placed in the west of the city, Mr. Liu's corpses were placed in the south of the city, and Zhuo Yong's corpses were placed in the north of the city: the places where these four disappeared were all near the Chunyan Building and Dongcai Market in the east of the city, but the places where the corpses were discarded were far from the city. Far east.Because of this, Sima Feng became even more suspicious: the murderer was most likely hiding somewhere in the east of the city, so when throwing the body, he deliberately chose these places far away from the east of the city to prevent being found out.

Chi Yebaifei quickly read the contents of the paper, and hurried out with Sima Feng, telling the head of the Shifang City branch who came to deliver the letter that everything was arranged by Sima Feng.

"Since the corpse was dumped and the journey was far away, maybe someone has seen someone acting suspiciously." Sima Feng said to the leader, "Check carefully near the corpse dumping place, and report any suspicious news to me."

Lin Shaoyi was afraid that Yingbeishe would not have enough manpower, so he assigned dozens of Shaoyimeng gang members to serve as dispatches by the leaders.The leader took orders to go, Sima Feng turned back to Lin Shaoyi and said: "Leader Lin, we also have to go to Dongcai Market."

If the murderer was really hiding in Dongcai Market, and the four people walked into that place inexplicably and died inexplicably, someone must have seen it.

Dongcai Market is like a small world that is faintly independent from the management of the government of Shifang City. The more such a place is, the tighter the precautions between people will be, and there will be eyes everywhere.

Lin Shaoyi naturally understood what he meant, but she also expressed her concerns: "Li Yijin and I go in and out of Shifang City every day, and people in Dongcai Market might know us, so it's not convenient for us to go in."

"Let's put on a disguise." Chi Yebai said, "You don't need to go too many people, we all have martial arts, we can protect ourselves."

Lin Shao wondered for a moment, then turned around and told Li Yijin to take care of the house, and followed Sima Feng and Chi Yebai to Dongcai Market.Gan Le eagerly wanted to dig the grave, but Song Beiyan looked sad, but no one could help him, so he left with a sad face.

"Who will help disguise?" Lin Shaoyi asked Sima Feng, "No one in the Shaoyi League seems to understand this matter."

"I'll come." Chi Yebai said calmly.

Lin Shaoyi was taken aback: "Master Chi?"

"The Yingbeishe spies are not only good at lightness skills, but they also have to infiltrate various places to inquire about information, so disguise skills are the foundation." Sima Feng was a little inexplicably proud of others, "Besides, what is Xiaobai looking at?" Everyone can remember that disguise is not a problem for him."

He cautiously praised Chi Yebai, Chi Yebai had no joy on his face, he just looked up at him, the corners of his eyes were a little crooked.

After asking the Shaoyi League to help the crowd buy all kinds of necessary things, Chi Yebai started to work.Li Yijin didn't have anything to do, so she held Xin Zhong aside and watched with relish.After Lin Shaoyi's handsome face turned into a reckless man, Xin Zhong grabbed Li Yijin's arm violently and cried out loudly.

Lin Shaoyi was startled, turned around and saw Li Yijin covering Xin Zhong's eyes, comforting in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, ugly is ugly, but it's still your brother Lin inside."

Lin Shaoyi: "Who is ugly?"

Li Yijin: "You are ugly."

One of the two frowned while the other smiled.Li Yijin still didn't forget to remind him: "The powder is not sticky, don't frown, be careful if it falls off again, you have to stick it again."

It took the most time to disguise Lin Shaoyi. Sima Feng and Chi Yebai were strangers to the people in Shifang City. They only changed the way they tied their hair and their clothes, and stopped messing around with other things.Sima Feng dressed himself up as a boatman, with his trousers and cuffs rolled up high, a layer of black smeared on them, and a few scars made by kneading flour, which looked similar.Chi Yebai is very simple, his face is still pale, he hastily put on a long white dress, his back is slightly bent, his hair is messy, he looks like a sick ghost.

Sima Feng stared at Chi Yebai fiercely, Chi Yebai was puzzled: "What are you looking at? What didn't work well?"

"It's all very good." Sima Feng smiled, "Little Bai, why are you always so good-looking? I have never seen anyone more beautiful than you in the world."

Chi Yebai frowned, blushed, and said in a low voice, "Don't tell me any more jokes about brothels."

Sima Feng quickly put away the playful expression on his face, and nodded solemnly.

Xin Zhong on the side stopped crying.He sat in Li Yijin's arms, sobbing, watching Li Yijin neatly pin Lin Shaoyi's uncombed hair behind his ears.

The three of them entered the city from the east gate of Shifang City, and after walking for about half an hour, they arrived at Dongcai Market.

Different from the bustling scene at the city gate, the Dongcai market was lifeless even in the daytime.The other side of the inner river is also a very quiet Firework Alley, but that place is colorful, but it is dilapidated and messy in front of you.

According to what they said before, the three of them split up and quickly walked into the Dongcai market.

Although it is called a vegetable market, it has a large area.Due to the lack of planning, many houses were built indiscriminately. The alleys are small and narrow, and the sewage flows across the ground, making it very difficult to walk.Sima Feng followed Chi Yebai not far behind, and heard Chi Yebai whispering to someone about "Master Xue Doctor" in Dongcai Market.

Naturally, there is no Miracle Doctor Xue, just a fabricated character.There were not many people in the alley, and even fewer were willing to talk to the sick ghosts. Chi Yebai continued to walk forward, occasionally leaning on the wall, and there was a lot of drama.

Sima Feng followed behind him, pretending to be looking for a place, looking around, occasionally looking down at a crumpled note in his hand.

As he turned a corner, he almost bumped into a person walking towards him.

The young man walked hurriedly, carrying two baskets of fish in his hands, and was obviously taken aback by him too.

Sima Feng scolded him in a rough voice, and the young man bent down to pick up the fish without getting angry, and looked at him with interest: "This big brother is so unfamiliar, what is he doing here?"

"None of your business?" Sima Feng glared at him.

The young man got up and looked at his note.Sima Feng is a rough man now, so he couldn't react so quickly, so he read the content on the paper.

"Look for Miracle Doctor Xue." The young man nodded, "Then you are in the wrong place. Go back from here and turn right at the rice shop. Miracle Doctor Xue is to the east."

Sima Feng didn't expect that there was such a person as Miracle Doctor Xue, so he pretended to be angry: "I must believe you if you say you are in the east?"

Before the young man could speak, a child came out of the door on the side, and timidly called out, "Brother Changqing."

"Hey." The young man turned his head and smiled, "Do you want to buy fish?"

"Yes. Mother said she wanted a small one."

The young man immediately put down the fish basket and rummaged through it for the child.

Sima Feng frowned suddenly.The position where the two fish baskets were put down happened to block his way forward.Seeing the sick ghost in front of him abducted elsewhere, he couldn't keep up.

In fact, Chi Yebai heard the voice coming from behind, but he doesn't know the boatman now, and today he mainly came to check the road in Dongcai Market and see if there are any suspicious signs, so he didn't stop to wait for Sima Feng, Continue to go deeper.

The alley gets deeper and deeper, and it is very easy to get lost.Chi Yebai carefully remembered this journey.He saw someone pushing the door and coming out not far ahead, so he walked over slowly and asked him about "Miraculous Doctor Xue".

The man was about forty years old, or even younger, because his clothes were slightly different from the people in Dongcai Market, Chi Yebai took a few more glances quietly: he had a calm temperament, a tall figure, and his demeanor was full of bookishness, like a man. Scribes.

The middle-aged scribe looked at him, stood on the steps and bent slightly, and asked with a smile, "Who are you looking for?"