wind geese

It was still dark, and the villages in the mountains were shrouded in blue mist.

A burst of hurried footsteps disrupted the tranquility before dawn, and several men dressed as policemen came along the village road and rushed to the small courtyard of Luo Xunfeng's house.

Two of them walked around to the back of the courtyard, and the remaining few knocked on the door to no avail, so they directly broke in and rushed into the courtyard.

The hall, bedroom, kitchen, woodshed... The small area is clear at a glance, and there is no one there.

Several policemen rummaged through the bed and cabinet, poked the bottom of the bed with their sabers, and swept the things off the bookshelf. At this time, a folded paper fell out of a fallen vernacular.

A catcher picked up the piece of paper and shook it open, looked at it with the fire folder in his hand, and said, "Hey, isn't this a map of the mountains around our county?"

Others also gathered around, and saw that the picture was drawn in a rather large area, covering a radius of nearly a hundred li, and many places were circled with cinnabar and marked with crosses.

"Will that Feng and his servant escape into the mountains?" one person asked.

"Very likely, let's take this picture back and present it to the master." Another person said.

Everyone nodded and was about to call it a day. Suddenly, they felt a gust of wind blowing, and the flames were extinguished in an instant. Everyone's eyes suddenly went dark, and they saw a black shadow sweeping across the sky like a ghost. They were frightened. He called out, but the black shadow just flashed past and disappeared without a trace.

"What's going on?!" The two people behind the house rushed in after hearing the sound.

"Yes... yes... there are ghosts—" a timid policeman tremblingly said.

"Don't talk nonsense!" Someone stopped him immediately, and asked the person who came in, "Did you see someone escape from the house?"

"..." The two looked at each other and shook their heads.

At this moment, a policeman holding a fire pocket yelled loudly, "The map! The map is gone!"

……

At the same time, a black figure quickly shuttled through the mountains, heading east.

……

Two days later.

There are people coming and going in the streets of the town. At the entrance of the most lively vegetable market, there are many notices posted on the bulletin board of the yamen, old and new. There is a poor scholar who likes to show off, shaking his head and pointing at the notice. Peddlers explain.

"Oh, it's really not peaceful recently..."

"There are so many people missing, and some fugitives have escaped from prison. I think it's better not to go out if you have nothing to do."

"I heard that Mr. Liu of our county government office has a wonderful hand with Danqing. He can draw portraits based on descriptions and impressions. Most of the portraits here are probably drawn by him."

"Tsk tsk, look at that fugitive, he looks like a treacherous man!"

……

People's discussion was on the rise, and no one noticed that in the shadow of the alley behind them, a tall and thin young man in black was looking towards the bulletin board.

When the young man saw the ferocious face of the fugitive drawn with raised eyebrows, his eyebrows twitched slightly.His gaze randomly scanned the portraits of missing persons lined up in two rows, each of which was written with a name, "Liu Fusheng, Zhang Cheng, Zhou Chang, Situ Yi, Liu Feng..." Suddenly, the young man fixed his gaze on One of the portraits - "Situ Yi", the paper of that portrait is relatively old, obviously it has been pasted for a while, the figure in the painting is a bit special among the missing persons, he is not as upright as others Young and middle-aged, but an elderly middle-aged man with two beards on his lips.

"Situ Yi, Situ Yi..." The young man chewed the name repeatedly in his heart, and suddenly he clenched his fists and took half a step forward.

"Oh, watch the road carefully!" A woman happened to pass by the alley with her baby in her arms, and was startled by the young man rushing out.

"Sorry." The young man hurriedly lowered his head to apologize, his bloodshot eyes trembling.

The woman walked in front of him, the young man looked up, and just saw the girl who was being held by the woman on her shoulders. The girl had a pair of shofar braids. Seeing him looking up, the young man stretched out her white and fat hands to him, hee He laughed, his small face was like a blooming flower.

The young man was in a daze for a moment, at this moment, the scolding sound of police patrolling the street came from the street behind him, the girl was attracted by the sound, looked at the street intersection, then looked at the young man, and saw the young man looking at her, holding out his index finger Touching her lips, the girl's eyes widened, and the figure of the young man jumping up was reflected in her eyes.

"Fei... Feifei, hee hee..."

The woman heard the playful words of the girl on her shoulder, patted her and turned around to look around. There were people coming and going behind her, nothing special.

……

In the afternoon, south of the county seat.

Weeds grew wildly around the dilapidated mountain temple, and a thick dead tree fell across the ground, the fracture was blackened, and half of the temple collapsed.

The blades of grass were brushed by the wind, making a soft rustling sound.

A black shadow lightly landed in front of the ruined temple.

Su Yu pushed open the dilapidated temple door, and entered the dilapidated temple silently under his feet.

The statues of mountain gods are covered with dust, and the corners and beams are covered with cobwebs, which seems to show that this ruined temple has been neglected for many years.

He lowered his head, and soon found shallow footprints in the dust on the ground, which extended to the back of the statue and disappeared near a floor tile.

Su Yu knelt down and tapped the floor tile with his fingers, and there was a hollow sound from below.With a thought in his heart, he immediately groped for the edge of the floor tiles, quickly found a gap, and picked up the floor tiles.

A burrow appeared in front of my eyes, and there was chaos below, and a faint sour smell came up.

Su Yu concentrated for a moment, no longer hesitated, and jumped down.

The burrow was not as big as expected, and there were some scattered leftovers and rope ends inside, and the sour smell became obvious.

Su Yu squatted down in front of a piece of messy rope, he picked up the rope, frowned, his hands clenched tighter and tighter, his nails sank deep into his palm, suddenly he let out a low cry, and hit the ground with his fist, splashing a cloud of dust.

He punched and punched, the joints in his hands were bleeding, but he seemed unconscious, the anxiety and panic accumulated in the past few days could no longer be suppressed——

Master is gone!

Whether it was at home or at the ten-mile pavilion in the east outside the town that had been agreed upon, Su Yu couldn't wait for him to appear.In two days, he went back and forth between the village and Shiliting several times, fearing that he would miss Luo Xunfeng, but he never saw Luo Xunfeng again.

When he returned home after escaping from prison that night, Su Yu found that the furnishings in the house were the same as the morning when he was taken away. It seemed that no one had returned home since then.

And these two days, not only Luo Xunfeng disappeared, but Ping'er's father also disappeared without a trace.

Realizing that something might happen to Luo Xunfeng, Su Yu sneaked back to the town yamen to inquire, and found that Luo Xunfeng had not been arrested. He searched on the street again, but found no clue.

The map that fell from Luo Xunfeng's untouchable bookshelf is just the most common mountain map, and the labels on it are just some circles and crosses, without any secret codes. It reminds me that Luo Xunfeng often went to the mountains before, Su Yu could only speculate on what he might be searching for in the mountains, but had no further clues until...he saw the name in the missing person notice on the official bulletin board.

Is the clue that I finally thought of interrupted like this?The situation in the cave shows that people were once imprisoned here, but now they have been emptied.

Now he would rather hope that the young master abandoned him than imagine other possibilities. The feeling of panic seized his internal organs, stirred his internal organs, and made him almost unable to breathe.

Su Yu pounded the ground for a while, panted and stopped, he looked at his fist covered with mud and blood, his chest heaved continuously, suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he wiped his blood-stained fist vigorously with his other hand, Then he lowered his head again, wiped up the dirt on the ground with his hands, and carefully identified it.

The red soil--

Hidden in some faint footprints.

Su Yu looked at the soles of his shoes, they were ordinary yellow-gray soil.

He also remembered that he had helped Luo Xunfeng pack his shoes many times when he went out, but he had never seen the red mud once.

There is no way out, there is no way out, and there is another village——

"Oh, thank you, young man. People are old and useless..."

At sunset, in the dense forest, the gray-haired old man rubbed his shoulders while thanking the young man who was carrying a large bundle of dry firewood.

"You look thin, but you are quite strong. Oh, if my short-lived son was still around, he would be as big as you by now..."

"Old man, you're being polite." Su Yu pursed his lips silently when the old man mentioned his son, but he didn't know how to comfort him, and said silently, "I want to know, do you know that you have lived in the mountains for so long? Do you know where there is red mud in the mountains?"

"Red mud," the old man thought for a while, and said, "Oh, you can walk westward for about half a day, and you will see a waterfall. Don't think that there is no way. Go around the left side of the waterfall and you will find a small path. , and then you can see a shady field. My old lady used to go there to pick wild vegetables, because the road was too slippery and difficult to walk, so she stopped going. I remember that she stepped on a red foot when she went there before Mud back."

Waterfalls...paths...wild vegetables...

There seemed to be some fragments in my mind that wanted to be spliced ​​into a string, but it flashed past again, and I heard the old man beside me say, "My home is here."

Chaifei small courtyard is right in front of you, Su Yu helped the old man bring the firewood into the yard, the old man thanked and said, "Young man, it's getting late, it's not a big deal for you to go into the mountain now, why don't you spend the night at my house, you Seeing your complexion is so bad, your lips are chapped, come into the house quickly, I will ask my old lady to pour water for you. Old lady, old lady, a guest is coming—”

Regardless of Su Yu's refusal, the old man walked towards the house while shouting.

When the old lady in the house greeted them, the two turned their heads, only to find that the young man was no longer in the courtyard.

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