Jiaohua

That night, Yao Zhen followed the person who gave the painting on the bridge all the way, and the first place he followed was the Zhiyu Water Pavilion across the lake from Wenhe Building.

The Zhiyu Waterside Pavilion is heavily guarded, and there are Yan Jun guards left by Shen Lie nearby. These people dare not approach, and use paper and pens to draw the lights of the Zhiyu Waterside Pavilion from all angles.

After finishing the painting, they went to Feishuang Pavilion, which was already under control, stayed for a long time near Feishuang Pavilion, and finally went to the south of the city, knocking on the door of a rich family.

Yao Zhen hid far away under the shade of a tree, and saw them talking with the people who came out of the gate in a friendly manner. The attendant standing behind, who was the one who sent letters to Zhuo Changzong frequently, suddenly pulled out a dagger and stabbed him. The servant who came out of the gate died.

Afterwards, these people broke into the mansion and started killing. Because the moon was dark and the wind was high, everyone in the mansion was sleeping, and there was no movement.

When the killing was over, they left with a few heads.

The door of the mansion was gently closed by the leading man, and everything returned to silence.

These people did not stay in Hengxiang City, they headed south all the way, leaving the city at night, Yao Zhen followed them all the way.

Until dawn, he lost them in Xizhu Village.

The villagers in Xizhu Village were all talking about a Chen family in the village, and the soldiers guarding the gate of the Chen family just happened to be withdrawing that morning.

Yao Zhen followed the villagers to watch the fun, and the structure of the mansion aroused his curiosity, so he slipped in while no one was looking.

The Chen family's mansion was almost emptied by the village head and the others, and they were transported to the Hengxiang Yamen, but Yao Zhen still found many familiar places there.

He thought about it for a long time, and finally understood where the familiarity was. It was Mr. Youjian, no, to be precise, it was his sister, Mrs. Chen.

All the calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls were taken away, but the New Year pictures stuck with strong rice glue in the lobby were still pasted.

He could find a sense of familiarity with Mrs. Chen when he painted the woman's eyebrows and jewelry that year.

Yao Zhen suddenly remembered a long time ago during a banquet, Hao Weifeng inadvertently raised his mouth, saying that Mrs. Chen's white hair and wrinkles looked strange, the color of the white hair was often different, and the position of the wrinkles seemed to have changed.

At that time, none of them took it seriously, they were all laughing and joking, and Hao Weifeng didn't take it seriously after mentioning it.

Yao Zhen recalled these things, and began to think more and more about Mrs. Chen's strangeness, and then thought about Mr. Youjian, as well as the daily life of Zhuo Changzong and Mr. Youjian before his death.

Finally, relying on the location of his hometown mentioned by Mr. Youjian, he inquired all the way, how could there be any hometown, and no one in Linbi Township knew Chen Youjian.

He took out the drawing paper that was traced on the New Year pictures, and continued to inquire in Linbi Township, but someone really saw Mrs. Chen, and pointed him to a mansion in the neighboring village.

After Yao Zhen entered the village, he continued to inquire at the entrance of the village. An old farmer in the village told him that the mansion was surnamed Chen, and he bought it five years ago.

When Yao Zhen heard "there are not many people", he became more courageous. At night, he came out of the inn where he was staying and entered the Chen family's mansion.

There were indeed not many people in the mansion, so he searched one by one, and finally entered a study room, on a cypress bookcase, he found the pattern that the craftsmen said, when Zhuo Changzong came to the door with silver to inquire about it.

He has never seen what kind of pattern it is, but it should be what the craftsmen said.

It looks like a symmetrical crabapple ruyi pattern, which looks simple but extremely complicated, with a neat layout. If you look closely at the long branches of this pattern, it is actually a double-linked unicorn pattern.

Apart from the Wen Luo caught in the book, he also found a large number of words written by Mr. Youjian.

Seeing that the husband's handwriting was really recognizable, Yao Zhen looked at it one by one and found that they were looking for three people, one named Tang Xiangsi, one named Meng Gong, and one named Zhang, with only one character Zhang and no name.

In the entire cypress wood bookcase, there is not a single book of Confucian classics, all of them are strange heretics, Qimen Dunjia, Xuanmen Ksitigarbha.

There are also a large number of maps, including the secret passages of Hengxiang Mansion. One of the maps shows densely packed corpses, like ancient sacrifices.

Also, they dug graves here and there.

Yao Zhen took out a few pieces of paper and handed them to Xia Zhaoyi: "General Ali, take a look."

Xia Zhaoyi picked it up, lowered his head to look at it, and said, "This one, you once asked someone to send it back to Hengxiang, and asked your classmates to keep it for you."

Yao Zhen nodded: "Well, that's right."

"A few days ago, I sent Dong Yanjiang to the street to inquire about the craftsmen you mentioned. A craftsman with a better memory and skillful hands repainted a picture for Dong Yanjiang. Dong Yanjiang brought other Look at the artisans, it has been confirmed that it is the one that Zhuo Changzong inquired about."

It is also exactly the same as the pattern on the swordsman's scabbard.

"That's great," Yao Zhen said happily, "General Ali, can it be confirmed now that Yuan Yi's death from falling from the building is related to Mr. You Jian? General Ali must uphold justice for Yuan Yi!"

Xia Zhaoyi raised his eyes to look at him, and suddenly felt a little bit of emotion in his heart, and said kindly: "These few days, I have worked hard for you."

"In fact, I still regret that I didn't keep up with those people and let them get lost."

The reason why he went to Nanwupi again was to inquire about those people again, but found nothing.Moreover, because he inquired and saw Mr. in Linbi Township, or was targeted by those people in the Chen Mansion, yesterday, he was chased by many people. Injured, Gao Jin hired someone to send him back to Hengxiang Mansion.

"There is still a portrait," Yao Zhen looked at the paper in Xia Zhaoyi's hand, "Miss Ali, the portrait is below."

Under the pattern of the scabbard, apart from the New Year pictures on the old residence of the Chen Mansion in Xizhu Village, there is also a portrait of the attendant who delivered the letter to Zhuo Changzong.

"The man at the head, because of my angle, it's hard to see his face clearly, and I can't draw a general idea."

"No hurry," Xia Zhaoyi said, "Mr. Chen Wuyou from Lianfeng Academy knows him well, so it's not difficult for him to paint."

"Hmm! With General Ali coming forward, Mr. Chen will definitely not stop painting!"

"Second miss," Xia Junnan said, "I just sent someone to the mansion in the south of the city, but these days, the yamen has not received any reports related to the extermination of the door. After so many days in the past, there should be a bad smell .”

"It may have been cleaned up," Xia Zhaoyi said, "Those people have been operating in Hengxiang for many years, and there are their people everywhere."

"General Ali, I heard and saw that Mr. is outside right now?" Yao Zhen asked.

"Well, he is also a courageous person. He stayed at Dongping Academy knowing that the incident happened, and knowing that I have been following him for a long time, he dared to come here tonight."

Yao Zhen thought for a while, and said: "This is no different from coming to the door to provoke. He has no fear, and he doesn't know what kind of power he is fighting. Dongping Academy alone can't give him such confidence. General Ali, now, you have to... deal with it him?"

Xia Zhaoyi asked back: "What do you think, has the time come?"