Weicheng snow

It was half an hour after the two arrived at Liu Seqing's shop.

Yi Qingchen wakes up slowly from Huashenchi's arms, the iron gate of Liu Seqing's shop and a long string of wind chimes are in sight, the night wind blows the wind chimes to jingle, the more Yi Qingchen listens, the more familiar he is, the more he listens, the more familiar he is. He felt that this embrace was very familiar, and in an instant, flashes of light flashed through his mind.

Ten years ago, it was the same person in front of him, who clearly had suffered several severe injuries, but still held himself in his arms, forgetting day and night and fatigue, and rushed all the way from Lingshan to Weicheng, knocked on this iron gate, interceded with Master Liu, He hastily dissected his soul and cast spells on himself, but he couldn't wait until the moment he woke up, so he hurried back to Lingshan.

Yi Qingchen clearly remembered that he was obviously dead at that time, but he really couldn't bear Hua Chenchi to be so sad for him, he was afraid that Hua Shenchi would go crazy, cry, and be in pain, even if the three souls and seven souls were gone He wanted to comfort him, "You don't have to be like this. I have no skills. I'm a thief and a man. But you are so good, you will meet him in the future." The one who surpasses me a thousand times..."

It's just that the remnant soul is speechless, the yin and yang are broken, and the thoughts can't be conveyed. Hua Shenchi finally dissected his own soul, and left Yi Qingchen forcefully in this world.

Yes, these, how could he forget...

Hua Shenchi stopped in front of the iron gate, but did not move for a long time, Yi Qingchen thought that Hua Shenchi couldn't free his hand to knock on the door because he was hugging him, but after thinking about it, there was no one in the room, so why bother knocking on the door?It was about to turn over and land, and take the flower sinking pond to the other side to climb over the wall and enter the house.Not wanting Yi Qingchen to make a move, Hua Shenchi said in a deep voice, "Don't move."

Yi Qingchen was a little confused, raised his head to inquire about the situation, but saw Hua Shenchi's slightly frowning eyebrows, Yi Qingchen also realized that something was wrong, and immediately raised his ears to observe the current situation.

Not long after, I heard the sound of someone climbing over the wall on the other side of the courtyard. Yi Qingchen was clever, with mixed feelings in his heart. He and Master Liu had both been bandits once, but they were the only ones back then Stealing other people's shares, but now they are reduced to being patronized by thieves, really old.

After thinking about it, Yi Qingchen just chuckled, turned over and landed on the ground, and before Hua Shenchi recovered, he had already rushed towards the thief.

When Hua Shenchi arrived, the thief was already cornered by Yi Qingchen with a dagger, but vigilant as Hua Shenchi silently opened a bottle of drug in his sleeve robe, and then he got closer.

At that time, Yi Qingchen was asking the thief what he had stolen, and the thief was staring at the dagger on his neck, so frightened that his two legs trembled, and even his voice trembled, "Hero, spare me, I say, I say Recently, it has been rumored that the former thief Yi Baixue lived here. If the shark pearl was stolen by Yi Baixue, it was probably hidden here. So, I came to look for it, but I only found some broken copper. Tie, the conscience of heaven and earth, the little one just took a money bag, and the money in it is not enough for a meal, if you want it, a hero, you can just give it back to you, let the young one go, I have seniors and juniors, You can't enter the yamen..."

Yi Qingchen was stunned when he heard the words, he guessed that most of the people who would spread his identity to the outside world were only the Food Marrow Sect, and the purpose of the Food Marrow Sect was also very clear, which was to turn the rumors in the world into reality, so that he could sit on the ground. If he is charged with theft, he will not only lose his trust with the people around him, but also be targeted by people who covet the shark pearl, which will bring trouble to Master Liu.

Seeing that Yi Qingchen was in a daze, the thief rolled his eyes, lowered his body, and slipped under Yi Qingchen's dagger. Yi Qingchen wanted to chase him again, but Hua Shenchi calmly dissuaded him, "Wait." Counting silently to three, just after the third count, the thief who had run far away gradually slowed down, turned around a few times on the spot, and fell to the ground with a plop.

Hua Chenchi walked up to the thief, held the latter by the collar, and lightly said, "Let's go to the yamen."

The two of them went to the government office again, because of Murong Qian's garrison, there were only a few policemen left in the yamen who were still on duty at night. Fortunately, Jiang Zhigecha was one of the few one person.

The two came here with a thief, Jiang Zhige was very surprised at Yi Qingchen's arrival at first, but after hearing the reason for the two's arrival, he showed a kind of helplessness that he was accustomed to, "This is the No. 20 Three thieves, right? Because there are many ruthless people among them, I dared not let Mr. Chan Ji go home to live, and we still kept it from Mr. "

Yi Qingchen was horrified when he heard this, "What exactly does the Marrow Sect want to do..." Jiang Zhige was also very helpless, "God knows what they want to do, since the troops from the Murong Mansion stationed in Weicheng, the yamen has become a place of shame." As a display, many brothers have been dispatched by Murong's family army to go to various places to investigate trivial matters."

As he said that, he handed a letter to Yi Qingchen, covered his head and said in distress, "Forget it, don't complain, there is a disaster in Jiangling right now, someone set fire to hundreds of houses overnight, and the fire burned half of the house. Thousands of people were killed or injured in the city, and the yamen is not manned right now, so I have to go and investigate in person tomorrow."

Yi Qingchen held the letter in his hand and read it several times, and found several suspicious points, "The sky is dry and the things are dry, if only someone's candles burned the cloth, along with the wind, it may also cause such a scene, how to judge man-made? "

Jiang Zhige asked Yi Qingchen and Hua Shenchi to sit down and elaborate, "Actually, Jiangling is quite far away from Weicheng, so it's not up to us to take care of this matter, but...someone accidentally discovered that The location of the burning house is very special, if you stand on the pagoda in the city and look down, it will be a sentence."

Yi Qingchen was suddenly curious, "What are you talking about?"

At this point, Jiang Zhige clenched his fists and let out a long sigh, "For...Jiang Zhige."

At this point, Yi Qingchen also understood who was responsible for the Jiangling fire case. No wonder the imperial court sent this matter to Weicheng, and Murong Qian, the general guarding Weicheng, would blame Jiang Zhige for it .

It's just that this matter is easy to say, but Yi Qingchen discovered many deliberate and unreasonable things, such as Jiangling is already behind the Yangtze River, between the second and third lines of defense, how did Jiang Jiuqu go deep into this place?If he has such ability to go deep into this place, does it mean that the forces of the Marrow Sect have already broken through the second line of defense?Then why haven't they made any big moves?

Thinking of this, Yi Qingchen couldn't help thinking of Duanyue Yeluo in Shilin Village, and the Faceless Ghost who caused trouble on Lingshan.

Behind the four lines of defense, how many forces of the Marrow Sect are still hidden?

Jiang Zhige was obviously also full of worries, even the case related to Jiang Jiuqu couldn't arouse his interest, "Actually, this is not the first case caused by the ghost-faced lord in this period of time. Brother Zaiyi Before going to Lingshan, I have already gone to various places to investigate the cases with the words "gifting Jiang Zhige" left, there are about eight cases, right?"

"Running around without stopping. I didn't get enough sleep for three hours a day. I just returned to Weicheng not long ago. The Yamen brothers regretted that I was tired and wanted to hide the Jiangling matter, but I didn't expect that the Yamen was short of manpower. The case went round and round again. In my hands...is it really fate?"

Although Yi Qingchen felt sorry for Jiang Zhige, he also knew that as long as it was about the ghost-faced gentleman, Jiang Zhige would do it himself, so he only said some polite words like "rest more" and "take care of your body", and turned to Focusing on the case itself, "Including the Jiangling fire case, there are nine cases in total, right? Do these nine cases have anything in common?"

Hearing this, Jiang Zhige showed a satisfied smile, turned around and took out nine letters from the locked cabinet behind him, and handed them to Yi Qingchen, "Brother Yi is really smart, it's really nice to ask you... ...."

Yi Qingchen knew in his heart that for such a big case, no matter how close the relationship is, he would not casually explain the details of the case in detail, but Jiang Zhige acted like he was a helper in the Jiangling fire case shortly after the reunion, between the lines They were all testing their own ideas, clearly wanting to hear what they would say.Moreover, the Weicheng yamen is indeed sparsely staffed at the moment, and he and Hua Shenchi are very leisurely, so Jiang Zhige's intention of saying this is very obvious.

Yi Qingchen opened the nine letters with a smile and read them one by one. They recorded nine different cases, namely Jiangxia Blood Pond, Xiangyang Parade, Yiling Corpse Mountain, Shangyong Phantom, Yongan Ghost Dance, The shipwreck in Wuling, the huge waves in Dongting, the wedding of a girl in the first stone, and the sea of ​​fire in Jiangling.Yi Qingchen read the details of the nine cases again, and the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, the more terrified he became, and unconsciously he had goose bumps all over his body.

Every time he finished reading a piece of paper, he would hand it to Hua Shenchi, and Hua Shenchi read the case a little later, and his eyes became darker the more he looked at it.

After reading the nine cases, Yi Qingchen found that these cases have one thing in common, that is, almost all the witnesses who provided testimony saw a row of ghosts wandering on the street in the middle of the night.

The ghost shadows formed a very long team, accompanied by strange laughter during the parade. Occasionally, if a brave person wanted to take a sneak peek, he would see a very abrupt sedan chair and a black lacquered mouth in the team. But if you look closely at the coffin, you will be frightened by the ferocious faces of those evil spirits.

The local population passed it by word of mouth, and for the convenience of calling it, they picked up a name for it from an excerpt.

Hundred Ghosts at Night.

The most frequent occurrence of Hundred Ghosts at Night was also the time when the Jiangxia Blood Pond case happened. Later, blood cases occurred successively in Xiangyang, Yiling and other places, but the frequency of Hundred Ghosts at Night gradually became not as high as it was at the beginning.However, there is a piece of testimony claiming that he saw the Hyakki Night Walk twice, one after the other, and the number of the Hyakki Night Walk in the latter time was huge, almost five times that of the first time he saw it.

Moreover, he met the person who died in the first case during the last Hundred Ghost Night Walk.

By the time the Jiangling fire case occurred, the Hundred Ghosts Night Walk was almost extinct, and no one had seen it since then, and the mighty Hundred Ghosts Night Walk seemed to have evaporated overnight.

Such a method really resembles that the Marrow Sect is refining corpses everywhere...

Yi Qingchen thought for a long time, looked at Jiang Zhige sympathetically, and said with admiration from the bottom of his heart, "Brother Jiang...you are a good catch." Jiang Zhige sorted out the letters , locked it back in the cabinet, and laughed at himself after hearing the words, "I can't feel at ease even if the murderer hasn't been brought to justice for a day, and I feel sick when I think of the blood similar to mine flowing in the body of such a heartless guy. …”

Yi Qingchen thought of the case of the ghost-faced gentleman destroying Jiang's family, and his love and admiration for Jiang Zhige increased, "Brother Jiang, if you need my help, just ask, anyway, the two of us are idle in Weicheng." Idle..." After thinking about it, I can't make the decision for Hua Shenchi, and Hua Shenchi said when he was in Lingshan that he would keep a distance from himself.Then he changed his words and said, "I'm free, I can go to Jiangling with you, as for this brother Hua... he is not in good health, and he can't stand the sun and rain..."

Hua Shenchi said coldly, "I'll go too."

Hearing the words, Yi Qingchen unconsciously looked at Hua Shenchi, and naturally saw the latter's cold eyes, which were cold, as if dissatisfied with Yi Qingchen's words just now, Yi Qingchen hesitated for a moment, and looked away.

Jiang Zhige got Yi Qingchen's promise, and he felt very happy. He immediately got up and clasped his fists, and invited Yi Qingchen to say, "Brother Yi, before you go to Lingshan, I promised you a meal for my brother. This time you will give me up." With such a great kindness, even if I invite you to Qiaoshouge for a meal tomorrow, Brother Yi, don’t refuse any more.”

Yi Qingchen really didn't refuse any more, and exchanged pleasantries with Jiang Zhige for a while, then excused himself to escape early.

On the way back to the shop, Yi Qingchen could feel that Hua Shenchi's mood was not very good. The most obvious manifestation was that Yi Qingchen talked to him, but the latter ignored him. If he was in a good mood on weekdays When you are talking, you will definitely smile a little, or make some modal particles.

Yi Qingchen failed to strike up a conversation several times, so he changed his method again, his voice was softer and slower, his tone was elongated, and he proactively apologized, "It's my fault, I shouldn't have pushed you away to go to Jiangling. I made an appointment, I was just afraid that you were tired and forgot to take your feelings into consideration, I promise I will never do it again next time, if I do it again, I will..."

This set of methods is very useful for dealing with the young Murong Qian, but it is not very effective for dealing with the mature Huamu in front of him. The latter just asked back, "That's it?" There was a hint of silk in his tone The playful smile, spoken in Huahua Shenchi's low tone, actually made Yi Qingchen's scalp go numb, and his head became dizzy for a moment, "Just... as you please?"

Only then did Hua Shenchi's mood suddenly brighten, and even the aura around him was no longer as dull and cold as before, "You said this, I will remember." Yi Qingchen just belatedly realized that he was underwhelmed. He dug a hole by himself, but the words are already out of his mouth, and Hua Shenchi's mood has improved a lot, so he is very satisfied.