The only honor of the water cut off

No.20 Section Two

The thick blackness around him seemed to cling to everything, even the sound of wind and rain stopped abruptly, without a single sound, he swung his arms violently in horror, creating a cloud of turbidity, someone looked up in confusion like a weed, Threads of blood flowed down the hairline, forming blood beads at the ends of the hair, falling down one after another, the blood-stained eyes and the bloody mouth on the neck...

Ah!

Brother Gongsun!

Brother Gongsun! !

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Gongsun Ce......

"Pang Tong!" Gongsun Ce suddenly shouted,

Zhan Zhao on the side repeated in confusion: "Pang Tong?"

Gongsun Ce was startled suddenly, the rain had stopped, and the never-ending rain was falling drop by drop along the eaves.

How did he get down the mountain and how did he get back to the mansion, but he couldn’t remember it. The little raccoon brought a bowl of ginger soup and said, “Brother Gongsun, drink it while it’s hot, lest you catch a cold.”

It's a dream!Is it a dream?

He took a deep breath, it was clearly his voice.

Is even the unrecognizable corpse in Yesong Forest also a dream?

Xiaoli suddenly laughed and said, "Brother Gongsun is worried about Brother Pang?"

"I..." didn't deny it, but didn't admit it either.

"Those men in black are not Feiyunqi." Zhan Zhao said casually, hitting someone's heart.

"How did you see it?" Gongsun Ce's eyes lit up, and his heart beat three minutes faster.

Zhan Zhao threw the peanut back into his mouth, and said relaxedly, "When did you see Feiyun riding a mask?"

Brother Gongsun was startled again when he heard the words, and continued to have a fever in his ears, it was so obvious that he couldn't see it?But he let out a long sigh of relief in his heart: Gongsun Ce, Gongsun Ce, how can you mess up your size with just one piece of clothing?Think about who Pang Tong is, and who is Feiyunqi, who would be killed in the wilderness, what's more, there will be no bones left?

He frowned slightly. Who were these people and why did they die? Is it related to the strange things here?Why did Pang Tong's clothes show up here? Is he still in Qinzhou?How can I say that there are so many corpses suddenly, as a magistrate, it is hard to escape the blame.

Thinking of him, a trace of irritability loomed in Gongsun Ce's heart that had just calmed down.

Is he hurt?

"How's Madam Zhizhou's injury?"

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Sang Jinchun was seriously injured, even the most mediocre doctor could tell that she had lost too much blood and was dying.

Yuan De held Sang Jinchun's pale and feeble hand tightly, trying to help her get through this test.He knelt and sat in front of the bed with his head buried low, unable to see his expression.

"Master Yuan."

"Go out." Yuan De's first speech was so short and powerful.

"Get out!!" Yuan De raised his head suddenly, his round eyes were bloodshot, his expression was horrifying, and he was completely different from usual, even Gongsun Ce couldn't help being stunned.

I don't know how long it took, Sang Jinchun's head moved slightly, Yuan De seemed to be aware of it, stretched his neck to look at her with a happy face, and vaguely heard a faintly hummed: "Father, don't go away ...Wait...wait." At the beginning, half a minute of joy froze on Yuan De's face, and a layer of frost formed on Yuan De's face in an instant.

It was late at night, but there were not many people who could sleep due to the endless commotion, so Yuan De broke into Li Die's yard in full view, and Li Die was furious, shouting: "You are also an officer, how can you be like this?" Presumptuous, don't guard your wife well, run to me and run wild!"

Yuan De shook his finger and pointed at the tip of Li Die's nose: "If you don't take good care of you, a monster, you won't be able to take care of her every step of the way!"

Li Die was trembling with anger: "You!! How dare you...speak insultingly!!"

"Then you come and kill me! Why do you want to hurt Jinchun over and over again!" Li Die had a strange expression on his face when he heard this, and shouted to the girls who were waiting on his left and right: "What are you looking at! Get out!"

"Yuande, what are you trying to say!"

"That female ghost is clearly your subordinate!"

"It's... just nonsense!"

"Could it be that you sent the 'female ghost' to lure her to the forest tonight, and now she is dying. The messy corpses on the mountain are the evidence!"

"Master Yuan, don't talk nonsense." The outer curtain was lifted, and Ding Chou walked in slowly, his clothes were freshly scented, and he still looked calm and relaxed.

Yuan De sneered: "The adulterers and adulterers are here now!"

"You!" Li Die was furious and raised her hand to hit her, but Yuan De grabbed her wrist. She asked Ding Chou for help, but the latter sat down to drink tea calmly. Li Die stomped her feet and shouted, "Let go!"

Yuan De narrowed his eyes, and said: "Do you want me to say more? The 'female ghost' wandered in front of my house on the night of the master's burial, and I was startled away. The mosquito needle she shot also hurt my forehead; Jinchun was in the mourning hall. Worship, the 'female ghost' was discovered by those children and pushed Jinchun to the corner of the table!"

"It's getting late, let's talk about what you have to do!" Ding Chou's eyes narrowed, and there was no expression on his face, as if the adulterer and adulteress had nothing to do with him.

"Leave Jinchun alone, you can take everything from the Sang family. Whether it's family property or treasures."

Hearing the word treasure, joy flashed across Li Die's face, and Ding Chou's eyebrows twitched at the right time.

"Hehe..." Ding Chou chuckled, and said, "Master Yuan is really generous, so can you tell us where the treasure is?"

"I have no idea."

Ding Chou's eyes narrowed, and he said coldly, "Then why do you negotiate terms with us?"

"If you don't agree, I'll tell Gongsun Ce everything I know."

Li Die shook her body, and said angrily, "Nonsense, what have we to be afraid of!"

Yuan De flipped his hands and raised something in his hand, a shining plum blossom dart, it was actually made of pure gold, embedded with red, green, blue and silver gemstones, if it was used as a hidden weapon, probably the emperor would not be able to bear it.

Li Die was quite surprised: how could he be there?

Yuan De said: "That year, the master set up a martial arts competition, but no one could beat it. The prize was three pure gold plum blossom darts, which were given to the new lady. The whole Sang Mansion, oh no, the whole Qinzhou knows about it."

Li Die's heart was thundering, and his face was cloudy, while Ding Chou looked at her with a probing look.

Yuan De gritted his steel teeth: "The night Jinchun broke his forehead, I pulled it off the pillar of the mourning hall, your... thing!"

Li Die took a deep breath and sneered, "This thing has been stolen by Xiao Xiao long ago. Besides, would I use such a clearly marked thing to commit murder? Do you think Gongsun Ce will believe what you say, and don't doubt that you hide the darts?" motivation?"

Yuan De smiled: "Of course, this doesn't prove anything, but I just need him to turn his eyes to you, that's enough!"

Ding Chou, who had been keeping his composure all this time, suddenly got into trouble, and snatched the golden dart from Yuan De's hand. Yuan De was taken back two steps, and stared, "You know martial arts??"

There was a soft breathing sound from the roof, and Ding Chou was startled: Someone?

He tapped Yuande's acupoints, and opened the window. Sure enough, he saw a black shadow flying towards the forest. Several thoughts flashed through his mind, but Li Die urged in horror: "Hurry up!!"

Ding Chou chased after him according to his words, but he didn't know that another black shadow entered the room again.

At that time, Ding Chou turned around, but saw Li Die lying on the ground, and Yuan De had disappeared.

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Zhan Zhao wiped the sweat off his head, and said, "That Ding Chou's martial arts are not weak, I only need to breathe a little harder, and I'll be spotted right away."

The little raccoon took off his night clothes, and said: "Master Yuan has settled down, and he hasn't woken up yet." After saying that, he handed a sword to Gongsun Ce: "It was taken from Master Sang's room, the one you are looking for It should be this one!"

Gongsun Ce took it, and flicked lightly on the blade with his hand, but it really didn't strike.

The little raccoon said: "Master Sang's room is very messy, there are traces of rummaging around, even the blue bricks that built the wall are loose."

"Loose?" Gongsun Ce smiled meaningfully, and said, "Even the wall has been dug up, what are you looking for?"

"Zhan Zhao, according to what you said, this female ghost has a lot to do with this old lady."

Zhan Zhao said: "According to Yuan De, this female ghost is Li Die's person. And he also said that the man in black on the mountain was killed by the so-called female ghost."

Gongsun Ce suddenly turned cold: Killed by a female ghost?Although Pang Tong is formidable, he is a mortal after all. How can he...?

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"I'm going to open the coffin for an autopsy."

When the sky was red, and the sun was not yet full, he brought back a group of yamen servants, and he saluted Li Die respectfully, Li Die felt his feet tremble, and took a step back to hold Ding Chou's hand.

Ding Chou laughed and said, "Lord Gongsun came really fast."

Li Die said angrily: "Master Gongsun, you are not only a distinguished guest in the Sang Mansion, but also an official of Qinzhou, but you can't be so presumptuous!"

Gongsun Ce smiled faintly: "Ma'am, forgive me. I am not talented but I also know that the dead are the worst. If there is no truth, I would not dare to make such an unreasonable request."

"Master has been in the ground for many days, you..."

Someone presented the sword, Gongsun Ce took it, and slashed his arm, leaving a white mark, and then disappeared: "A sword that has not been sharpened can't even hurt the flesh, but it can break through martial arts. The throat of the weak Master Sang, Madam thinks this is too unbelievable."

Zhanzhao Xiaoli sandwiched Li Die and Ding Chou in the middle, Ding Chou glanced at the two of them, and remained silent.

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Three injections of fragrance, and then a bowl of high-quality shochu, the smoke that rises is misty, and there are such green waters and green mountains in the Yege Forest, which is an excellent resting place.

Gongsun Ce kowtowed three times respectfully before ordering someone to dig the grave.

The corpse had already begun to decompose, and the people at the side all frowned and covered their noses, and retreated one after another. Gongsun Ce put on his clothes, took a piece of ginger, and opened the coffin himself.

Fatal wound on the left neck, three inches below the jaw, pierced the carotid artery, a superficial wound on the outside and inside, the opening is somewhat uneven.

Gongsun Ce got up and said: "Please look, ma'am, the wound started to the bottom of the left ear, but not as long as the throat. Could it be that the master turned his head completely to the left shoulder before he fell? This is not consistent with what Miss Xiao He saw. Furthermore, so The wound is wide at the top and narrow at the bottom, deep at the top and shallow at the bottom, which is completely opposite to the wound caused by a sword feeding the throat due to a fall. The third..."

Li Die stared at him in a daze, her face was pale and her eyes were scattered, as if she couldn't hear a word, she couldn't help but interrupted: "Okay, Mr. Gongsun, what do you mean?"

"I want to say that Master Sang was murdered." Gongsun Ce took the unsharp sword, and said again: "This kind of sword can't hurt people, but a murder weapon that can cause such wounds..." He suddenly Pulling out the hairpin from Li Die's head with his hands, the hairpin has a sharp handle with some barbs on it, hanging out a few strands of hair: "It should be somewhat similar to Madam's hairpin."

Li Die suddenly yelled, and covered his bun: "Gongsun Ce, what do you mean? Even if the master didn't fall to his death, why are you talking nonsense that I am the murderer!"

Gongsun Ce smiled slightly: "Take Miss Xiaohe."

Xiao He trembled and didn't know why she was brought here, and seeing that Gongsun Ce felt a little more at ease, her steps were also calm.

"Miss Xiaohe, who will be the first to arrive on the day of Master's death?"

Gongsun Ce's face was full of righteousness and calmness. Although he still had that handsome appearance, he was quite different from the Gongsun Ce in his heart. He didn't know what the difference was, so he bowed his head and replied, "The young master arrived first. , then the old lady...then the lady and your lord..."

"Master Sang is lethargic and lazy. He actually dressed neatly. He was the first one to show up at the scene of the incident when the slave girl got up, even faster than you, the person who slept with the master."

Li Die was secretly startled and was speechless.

"Xiao He, you once told me that when you saw the master fall, what noise did you make?"

Little He nodded slowly and said, "Yes, it's the sound of "bang bang"."

"The sound of 'bang bang', what kind of sound is this? I'm sure it's not the sound of a sword falling to the ground." Gongsun Cecong took out a wooden stick, slightly thicker than his arm, covered with brown blood: "It's just right. Zheng accidentally found this in the firewood room. The blood stains on it are quite strange, not like the lines formed by the natural flow of fresh blood, but rolled into the blood that is about to dry, and stained in patches. It is only because of time The murderer couldn't dispose of it, so he had to break it into several pieces and throw them into the woodshed nearby."

"So it can be guessed that when Xiao He found Master Sang practicing sword in the yard early in the morning, he had been dead for a long time, because the large amount of blood on the ground had already turned to silk and dried up."

Xiao He's eyes widened, and she said timidly: "But...but...the master is indeed standing!"

Gongsun Ce nodded to her, and said: "Didn't you say that the master has always used one move and never changed it? In this way, it can be done with this stick."

"Later, I went to the firewood house to look for it, and I got something. Fortunately, the firewood house has a lot of storage and has not been burned." He took out two wooden sticks and connected them end to end.

He took the top section, and compared the blood stain left on the cross-section with the wound on Master Sang's neck, and they matched exactly: "It seems that someone moved Master Sang's body to the small courtyard and did it again For other things, when the wooden stick is used to support Master Sang's body, the bleeding in the wound has almost stopped, and such marks will be left on the section."

"When Madam specially sent Xiao He, someone pretended to be a ghost to let Xiao He see, at the same time pulled down the wooden stick, made a 'bang bang' sound, and appeared first in a majestic manner, all of this can be explained together. "

"Gongsun Ce! Are you implying that Yili and I are the murderers?" Li Die interrupted him angrily, crying, "My poor child, before your bones are cold, someone will wrong you without evidence."

Gongsun Ce raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay, let's talk about the evidence." He put his hand behind his back and said, "Let's do it strictly."

Ding Chou's complexion changed slightly, while Li Die stared at Ding Chou in amazement, took a step back unconsciously, and stared at the person, who was really serious about his work, and his complexion turned from white to blue involuntarily.

"No..no..he's not..."

Gongsun Ce interjected: "He should be dead, right? The killer even cut off a strand of his hair as proof?"

Li Die couldn't speak, but saw Zhan Zhao pulling out a lock of his hair, which was half a foot shorter, and said with a smile, "You have to pay a price for cutting the hair of this hero."

"That day, I blatantly asked Xiao He for questioning, thinking that you would do something, and sure enough, someone attacked Yan Wu at night, Zhan Zhao blocked the sword for him, and he confessed everything."

Yan Yuzuo said bitterly: "Madam, I'm doing things for you, but you actually sent your men in black to kill me, so you can't blame me."

"Yan Yuzuo! You don't spout blood!"

Yan Yu said: "Lord Gongsun, it was Li Die who asked me to tamper with Master Sang's autopsy record. There are letters and 500 taels of silver to testify!"

Gongsun Ce shouted sharply: "Li Die, quickly tell me how you conspired to harm people, what is the purpose, and tell me the truth!"

At this moment, Ding Chou made a sudden attack, and he bullied Gongsun Ce, Zhan Zhao and the little raccoon were startled, not expecting his movement to be so fast, Gongsun Ce subconsciously held up the fitness sword in his hand to block it, but was caught by Ding Chou Chou grabbed the sword and listened to him: "Master Gongsun said that this sword cannot hurt people, so I will show you!"

Zhan Zhao's little raccoon rushed to compete with the sword, but missed a shot. Ding Chou didn't intend to stop Gongsun Ce, so he suddenly turned around and picked up Li Die. His hand sank, and the blade of the sword broke immediately. With a single strike, Zhan Zhao's internal energy was aroused so that the blood in his heart surged. At this moment, a piece of plain paper floated out from the broken sword. His eyes lit up, and he abandoned the sword to catch it regardless of the danger.

Zhan Zhao's little raccoon kept Gongsun Ce safe, his heart relaxed, and he took a step back, seeing that Ding Chou had fled with Li Die for a few feet, and when he was about to chase him, he realized that although his speed was not as fast as the female ghost's, he was still fast. Astonishing, Zhan Zhao couldn't help but let out a 'huh'.

Ding Chou shouted: "The other courtyard of the hot spring, fighting female ghosts in the rainy night, I still see an old man in orange clothes, I'm afraid it's more ominous now! Master Gongsun, do you have a 'true temperament' at this moment? Hahahaha!"

His voice echoed thinly in the woods, and gradually disappeared with the distant figure, but it was like a heavy fist hitting Gongsun Ce's heart, resounding one after another.

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