After the immortal disappeared

All the guards saluted He Lingchuan and mounted their horses to chase after him.

Jiao Yu had no choice but to follow, turning back three times every step.

The setting sun on the ancient road was like blood, illuminating its burnt red fur and slowly disappearing at the end of the road; the hoofbeats of the team gradually faded away and were soon lost to hearing.

He Lingchuan watched them go away. Compared with the upcoming changes in Xushan, what the Chiyan people did in Lingxu City can at best be regarded as a prelude to the storm.

It was indeed a wise move for Fu Shanyue to leave at this time.

He sighed leisurely and rode his sheep back for two days to stay in Qingshi Town on the outskirts of Lingxu City.

The room in the inn is small but clean.

Dong Rui is already waiting for him here. Snail Toad took the time to eat a lot of prunella vulgaris at the Nian Zanli warehouse, so they had two more days to prepare.

The two of them had a meal in a restaurant and didn't talk much. They both ate carefully and slowly. After the meal, they went back to their houses to rest.

…

Lingxu City, Nanmian Lane Patrol Office.

It will be dark for another hour and a half.

I heard that the food tonight was good, with chicken legs included, so two guards from the night shift came over in advance. As a result, the chicken legs hadn’t come yet, but Mrs. Liu came first.

She looked nervous: "Qinzi, I saw the wanted criminal again!"

The older patrolman smiled and patted his young companion on the shoulder: "Oh, your sister-in-law is going to make a meritorious service!"

The young patrolman rolled his eyes and asked Mrs. Liu, "Are you sure?"

Neither of them believed it.

"Show me the wanted poster again."

Qinzi was reluctant, but the food in the office was not yet cooked, so he had to get up and said, "Follow me."

The two of them went to the old case room with a fluorescent spore in hand and dug out a pile of old wanted posters.

The dust was rising and Qinzi couldn't help but sneeze.

Sister-in-law Liu looked through them one by one, then pointed at one and said, "That's the person!"

This summer, the house leaked, moisture invaded, and the portraits on the wanted posters became moldy.

"Or this one?" Qinzi took out the wanted notice and took a look at it. "Number eighty-seven on the wanted list, Tu Yangzhi, a disciple of Bai Linggu sect, killed two divine envoys in Xuluo Kingdom seven years ago and escaped. Well, that's right. He looks fierce, are you sure he is this person?"

"Sure! I've seen this portrait when the list was published a few years ago." Sister-in-law Liu kept nodding, "I noticed this person three days ago. At that time, he was eating noodles at the canned noodle stall at the west entrance of the street. , sitting in the shed, the mole on his forehead was exactly the same as the one in the portrait. I just saw him again!"

"where?"

"As soon as he walked into Chunhe Cloth Store, I rushed to report it to you." Sister-in-law Liu asked him, "If the report is successful, will there be any bonus?"

"If Tu Yangzhi is really the one, I will be rewarded fifty taels of silver." Qinzi didn't think she had such luck, "but there are at least thirty or forty sighting reports of wanted criminals every year, all of which are false reports. Sister-in-law, those criminals are very He rarely appears in front of others.”

"Don't appear in front of others?" Mrs. Liu sneered, "They don't eat or poop, and cover their faces all day long? If you come with me, I will definitely earn these fifty taels of silver!"

The two returned to the front, and the older guard asked his companion: "How was it?"

He had the mentality of watching a show, but Qinzi grabbed the wanted notice and said: "My sister-in-law is convinced that what she saw is the fugitive Tu Yangzhi, and she insists on dragging me away."

According to regulations, patrolmen work in teams of two and cannot be released alone unless there are special circumstances.

The elderly patrolman was also reluctant. What kind of discernment could this civilian woman have? Ninety-nine percent of the time, she was mistaken.

He came over early and just wanted to eat more chicken drumsticks. It was better to do less than to do more.

But Sister-in-law Liu kept on assuring her that the volume was so loud that people coming in and out could hear it.

This woman is really capable of causing trouble. He said helplessly: "Okay, okay, keep your voice down, I'll go with you."

After they reported, the two men and one woman went to Chunhe Cloth Store.

On the way, Mrs. Liu introduced the two of them: "This Chunhe Cloth Shop is an old shop that has been around for more than ten years. Several of our neighbors often go to take care of it. However, since the owner changed a month ago, the business has slowed down. Other stores are good-looking and popular." There are no colors in his house! No one goes there now. I think he will become a prostitute in less than half a year. Wow, there are still people who dare to do this business in Lingxu City these days!"

The store rent in Lingxu City is so expensive, and the store in Chunhe Fabric Store is so big, doing business like this is a total loss.

The rangers yawned.

In front was Chunhe Buzhuang. Qinzi murmured: "Still next to the public house."

Next door to Buzhuang is the government office. What kind of fugitive would deliberately go here?

Entering Buzhuang, as Mrs. Liu said, there were no customers here. There were only two waiters sitting in the shop, one gnawing melon seeds, and the other dozing off with his head in his hands.

The man gnawing melon seeds saw Qinzi and others coming in, and immediately stood up to greet them: "Why are the two messengers here?"

Just when Qinzi was about to speak, Mrs. Liu said with a smile: "They went to my house for dinner, and by the way, they came with me to buy a piece of fabric. Take the piece of Begonia Red and show it to me."

The boy went to pick up the fabric. The patrolmen looked around the store, and the other boy nodded and bowed.

The front and back of the store, with a wooden ladder in the middle leading to the attic. This layout is very common in shops in Lingxu City, and there is often a storage room under the stairs.

The passage in front of the stairs was blocked with a half curtain.

At this time, there was a soft creak from behind the curtain, and someone came out of the storage room and wanted to go up to the second floor.

Qinzi jumped over and lifted the curtain to look up.

The man climbed two steps, turned around when he heard a strange noise, and met his eyes.

Qinzi was startled.

This person, this face!

Yes, it looks exactly like the portrait on the wanted poster, even the mole on his forehead is the same!

The man also asked him in a deep voice: "What are you doing?"

Seeing the fierce look in his eyes, Qinzi's heart pounded, and she forced herself to calm down and said, "I'm in a hurry, can I borrow a place?"

The man pointed toward the backyard.

At this time, the clerk in the store also came over: "Master, there is the warehouse behind, what can I do for you?"

"I'll just use a trap."

The elderly patrolman also came over: "Are you hungry?"

Tu Yangzhi had already walked up to the attic. Qinzi glanced at the stairs and winked at his companion: "My stomach doesn't seem to hurt very much. It's still bearable."

The elderly guard was startled and then understood: "Then go back, why are you still here?"

No, a real person is here?

The person named Tu has some cultivation skills, so the two of them may not be able to handle it, so they have to go back and ask for support.

The two of them were about to go out, but the waiter outside happened to be blocking the door: "You two adults, don't you want to show your respects?"

Qinzi waved his hand: "Get out of the way."

The stairs suddenly creaked and someone came down.

The two patrolmen subconsciously turned their heads and looked up. Unexpectedly, there was a flash of cold light in front of them. The man took a water thorn in his hand and directly pierced the throat of the older patrolman.

He went forward and then out, digging a bloody hole.

This time, there was no warning about the killing. Qinzi stood behind his companion and suddenly saw a thorn point coming out of the back of his neck. He couldn't help but scream and draw the knife.

There was a sound of wind behind him, and Qinzi struck with his backhand. As a result, he was kicked so hard in the leg that he half-crouched down in pain.

Suddenly, a big bird appeared in front of him. It was shaped like a stork and had a high crown. It kicked Qinzi and broke his leg bones.

Someone strangled his neck from behind and gave him a naked choke.

Qinzi watched the fugitive Tu Yangzhi walk down the stairs, looked at him and said, "Don't ask, just kill him."

With a click, Qinzi's neck was broken.

The patrolman's half-scream alerted Mrs. Liu in the front store. She was quite alert. She looked around twice and turned around and ran away.

But before she could reach the door, her collar was lifted up, and as soon as she opened her mouth, it was blocked by a cloth ball.

After she was taken to the store, a clerk went to the door to look around and found that no one was paying attention to the place, which was good.

Tu Yangzhi interrogated Sister Liu.

When the latter saw the two dead bodies on the ground, he was so frightened that he could tell everything without being forced to confess.

Everyone in the store was here, a total of four strong men, all with heavy looks on their faces. Someone said to Tu Yangzhi: "Old Tu, you have been exposed."

"We were exposed." Tu Yangzhi also didn't expect that his whereabouts would be discovered by a street woman while living in seclusion in Lingxu City. "These two patrolmen have just taken over the night shift. If they don't go back tomorrow morning, they will be suspicious. Besides, they have already reported it before coming to Chunhe Clothing House, and the patrol will definitely come to check here tomorrow. Even if we empty the cellar, there may still be monsters who can smell the smell of gunpowder barrels."

Another person said: "Not long ago, there was an accident at the post house, and the patrol in the south of the city was temporarily led by Tongxin Guards. The Tongxin Guards are much stricter than ordinary patrols, and they have to get to the bottom of every big thing. The brothers from Jixinling were also in charge a few days ago. Almost exposed."

"What should we do?"

Tu Yangzhi smashed Mrs. Liu's Tianling Cap with a slap and said, "We can't make the decision. Let's ask the superiors for instructions."

Soon, a bat flew out of Chunhe Buzhuang and headed towards Dunyuan.

…

There was the sound of flapping wings in the night.

Hearing the sound coming this way, He Lingchuan opened his eyes and went to the ground, pushing open the wooden window.

A gorgeous figure jumped into the window and landed on He Lingchuan's shoulder.

What a big parrot, with a red top and blue back, bright colors, and an arm's length from head to tail.

Such a gorgeous bird monster is too conspicuous and is really not suitable for summons.

He Lingchuan picked up this familiar bird: "Are you...?"

Fang Canran mentioned to him that there was a parrot at home that was almost 200 years old.

In the past, it was rescued by its ancestor Shao Jian, and later the bad news of Shao Jian was passed on to his daughter Shao Yingying. This bird monster just wanted to get a meal ticket, no, but to repay a favor, so he stayed at Shao's house. When Shao Yingying married into the Fang family, it became an heirloom of the Fang family.

The past stories of Shao Jian that Fang Canran heard were not passed down from generations of ancestors, but were told by the big parrot himself.

No wonder it requires details and feelings.

"I'm Uncle Ling!" the parrot mouthed, "There's an emergency!"

"Lingbo" is indeed the name of Fang Canran's family parrot, and He Lingchuan must make it say it himself.

It whispered in He Lingchuan's ear: "The little arrangement we made was accidentally exposed tonight! The patrol we found has been silenced by us, but we can't delay it for long. There may be people outside who hear strange noises. This is In the past month, patrols in the south of the city have been the strictest. I’m afraid that after dawn, Lingxu City will sense something unusual and start investigating!”