Cloud of the Qing Dynasty

The space in the basement is not large, but more like a secret dressing room, where some clothes, jewelry and miscellaneous things are hidden, and it has obviously been roughly searched by someone. The scene is as messy as a typhoon passing through, and all the boxes and cabinets are opened. Then, all kinds of things were scattered all over the place.

"She's a woman who lives alone, why hide so many clothes?" Adamu shook off a piece of clothes that were obviously men's clothes and inspected them.

"...This is something easy to use." Zhang Chi found a box of clay, and found a gray wig next to it, "I recognize this headgear, it was worn by the old woman who poisoned Daoist Yichenzi and the others that day. This is the butterfly head hairpin. At that time, I thought it was a bit too fancy for an old woman to wear it. It didn't match the rustic clothes at all, so I paid more attention. Now it seems that the old woman is probably dressed as Bai Ling .”

Mu Liuyun was a little curious: "I heard that the disguise technique can completely transform a person into another person's appearance. Is it really so miraculous?"

"It's not difficult to make a young woman look like an old woman at a glance, but no matter how clever the disguise technique is, it can't really make the fake one look like the real one. If you look carefully, you can still distinguish the traces of the disguise, but I didn't have it at the time." Pay close attention to such a passer-by, so I didn't see through her disguise." Zhang Chi thought of something, and added, "If you are asking about the kind of "human, skin, mask" and other quack legends, that is fake. Yes, the disguise technique can only hide one's original appearance, pretending to be a person whom no one knows, it is impossible to disguise oneself as a specific person, the fundamentals of body shape, movement and voice tone It can’t be imitated, but people who know it can see through it at a glance. Otherwise, if people who know how to disguise themselves all pretend to be Emperor Hou or something to give orders or cheat money everywhere, wouldn’t it be a mess.”

"That's true." Mu Liuyun also felt that this sounded reasonable.

Adamu suddenly found a silver lock in the corner: "This is Huwa's longevity lock. Why is it here with Bai Ling? Could it be that Huwa's disappearance has something to do with her?"

"What's going on?" Zhang Chi asked.

"For more than half a year, children in our village have often disappeared, and all of them are alive or dead. There is no trace at all, which makes people in the village panic. There are rumors that the children were photographed by some Han people. Huazi's abducted, we have not allowed outsiders to enter the village for a long time, especially the Han people, but it is still useless, about ten days ago, the tiger baby also disappeared."

"Will people believe this kind of rumors? Generally, flower shooters only work in crowded cities, and they mainly target vagrants who are left alone. How stupid are they to go to a place where everyone knows each other, Besides, the Miao family’s cottage is very eye-catching wherever the Han people go. If they are discovered, they must not be beaten to death by the Miao people?” Zhang Chi said, “The other day I saw Bai Ling dressed as an old woman with an infatuated look beside her. That silly kid, could it be a tiger baby?"

"She must have drugged Huwa and took the child away." Adamu said sadly, "Could it be that...the children lost in our village in the past were all the sins of the Red Lotus Sect?"

Zhang Chi frowned, and said solemnly: "It's also possible, who knows what the Red Lotus Sect is doing behind the scenes."

***

After coming out of Bai Ling's residence, Zhang Chi and Mu Liuyun returned to the stilted building where they lived temporarily, Zhang Chi saw that Mu Liuyun was expressionless and silent all the way, so he asked: "What's wrong with you, are you in a bad mood? "

Mu Liuyun shook his head and sighed softly: "Bai Ling, who poisoned my fellow sect, has been punished, but I still don't know why she did this, who is behind her, and for what purpose, so this matter still remains to be solved." I can't finish the calculation. But what to do next, I have no idea."

"It's really a problem." Zhang Chi sighed while holding his forehead, "Even if we know that Bai Ling's accomplices may be hiding in Wugu Village, we can't arrest and torture all the hundreds of people in the village. , come here, I would rather kill by mistake than let it go. Even if it is really done, there is no guarantee that the mastermind behind the scenes will not be involved at all."

Mu Liuyun looked at Zhang Chi: "I saw that you hesitated to speak to me in front of that bandit, do you think the man in black who killed Bai Ling might be from Heilongzhai? "

Zhang Chi didn't expect that Mu Liuyun's observation skills were so keen, which made him feel a little flustered for no reason. He quickly shook his head to drive some inappropriate thoughts out of his mind, and said with a serious expression: "It is indeed possible. If the man in black Hiding in the Black Dragon Village early in the morning, he was afraid of your martial arts and familiarity with the surrounding environment, and he led you to the Wugu Village. These points are all plausible. Let’s put this aside as a conjecture for the time being. Actually, I had something to say at the time I didn’t say anything, because I felt that the people in Heilongzhai had a lot of talk, and I was afraid that there would be rumors that would be detrimental to the relationship between Shangqing Palace and Jinghong Villa, so I didn’t tell them other clues in front of them.”

"What does this matter have to do with Jinghong Villa?" No matter how little Mu Liuyun knew about Jianghu, he had at least heard of the name of the martial arts family Jinghong Villa. Comparing each other, it can even be said that there are even more powerful forces in the world.

"It's very relevant, you should take a look at this first." Zhang Chi took out a metal cylinder with a lotus-shaped head from his arms, "This is the hidden weapon used by Bai Ling to launch the poisonous needle at that time. Generally speaking, it is as delicate as this." Most of the hidden weapons are produced by the Tang Sect in Sichuan, but in the past few years, Jinghong Villa has also begun to make hidden weapons and sell them at high prices, and in order to distinguish them from Tangmen’s hidden weapons, there will be a mark on the hidden weapons made by Jinghong Villa.”

He pointed to Mu Liuyun at the bottom of the cylinder with a "Hong" character with a square frame: "This is it."

"So this hidden weapon was sold to Bai Ling by Jinghong Mountain Villa?" Mu Liuyun was puzzled. How many times have you turned your hand?"

"The problem is, this delicate and deadly hidden weapon can be sold at a high price of at least a thousand taels on the black market. Anyway, with Bai Ling's financial resources, it is definitely unaffordable. If it is said that Honglian taught her, it is very difficult. Strange, such a valuable thing must be carried by an extremely important person in the sect for self-defense, not just any spiritual girl can take it out to play with. And this is just one of the suspicious things, my people in Heilongzhai Before I came here, I found this on Bai Ling's corpse." Zhang Chi took out another piece of good-quality letter paper, on which it was written, "After the matter is completed, you can use this letter to receive five hundred taels of silver at Jinghong Villa", and signed the letter. The name "Qin Wuqi" of the owner of Jinghong Mountain Villa is inscribed everywhere, and a private seal is also stamped on it.

"So you suspect that Jinghong Mountain Villa is also related to this matter?" Mu Liuyun took the letterhead and examined it carefully, "But I remember that you searched Bai Ling before you tied her up. Find this 'on a dead body'?"

"That's right, that's the interesting part of the matter. I'm pretty sure that she didn't have this letter on her body when I searched her before." Zhang Chi said, holding his chin, "This also shows a problem. The man in black who killed and silenced her It shouldn't be the people from Heilongzhai, at least not the group we saw in the hall, they watched me search me, so they wouldn't be so stupid."

Mu Liuyun nodded: "So this is obviously planted by someone."

"If this is just an independent incident, it can be regarded as framing, but with a rumor I heard before, the matter is a bit more interesting." Zhang Chi said, "When I was inquiring about the news in Wuguzhai a few days ago, I just heard some aunts talk about Bai Ling, saying that she didn't want to marry in her twenties because she had an affair with Qin Wuqi, the owner of Jinghong Villa, and Qin Wuqi even gave her a hidden weapon to kill people without blood. The token of love is very likely to be the syringe."

Mu Liuyun asked suspiciously: "Isn't she the lover of the second head of Heilongzhai?"

Zhang Chi coughed lightly and said, "Actually, it's not strange for a beautiful woman to have affairs with several men at the same time."

Mu Liuyun nodded and didn't say anything. He put down the letter paper, frowned and thought: "But why is this matter so weird?"

"Indeed, there are many contradictions among the clues." Zhang Chi suddenly changed the subject, "I remember you said before that you went down the mountain this time to deal with the conflict with Jinghong Villa. About this matter If the matter does not involve any sect secrets, can you tell me what is going on?"

"There is nothing I can't say, but I don't know very clearly about the specific matters." Mu Liuyun said, "I only know that this matter is related to a batch of timber. Jinghong Villa used some means to force the purchase, and the disciple in charge of the matter went to negotiate, but was beaten up by the people of Jinghong Villa. Afterwards, the owner of the villa, Qin Wuqi, wrote a letter to apologize to the senior brother in charge, and hoped that the two sides could work together again. We met to coordinate and resolve this matter, and the senior brother of the sect leader sent Yichen and others to Lingnan to negotiate with the people from Jinghong Villa, and asked me to come and have a look."