This snow seems to have been falling for a long time, and it has not stopped all winter.
And this winter seems to be extremely long.
It’s so long that no one can remember when it started, let alone whether it will end one day.
Standing in front of the Wuling City Yamen, Chu Yueshan had no time to enjoy the snow.
He stomped his feet back and forth, as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
"I said! Can you calm down for a while? It's so dazzling that my eyes are dazzled!" Sun Kuan on the side said angrily.
After hearing this, Chu Yueshan was like a dynamite barrel being lit. He stopped, pointed at Sun Kuan and cursed: "It's all you! What a bad idea!"
"Still looking for a daughter-in-law! Can anyone be a daughter-in-law?"
"That's it! That girl is a witch, and she deceived our Qingxiao to create such a big trap!!!"
Chu Yueshan looked excited and spitted all over Sun Kuan's face.
Sun Kuan stretched out his hand to wipe the saliva from his face, and said with some guilt: "How do I know...that girl looks fair and pure, she doesn't look like a witch..."
"Then people still have the word "witch" written on their foreheads?" Chu Yueshan cursed loudly, and Sun Kuan's face that had just been wiped clean was once again contaminated by spit.
"Then don't you think he came to pick you up from Tianxuan Mountain? Today when I was at work, I bragged to everyone I met that I was going to Tianxuan Mountain to live a good life!" Sun Kuan retorted.
"I...I was..." Chu Yueshan was speechless for a moment.
Before he could think of how to retort, a rush of footsteps suddenly came from one side of the street.
The two looked sideways and saw that a large group of people, surrounded by a large sedan, were walking towards here.
The group of people was huge, probably close to fifty or sixty people. The sedan they were carrying was luxuriously decorated. The sedan body was made of mahogany, the curtains were all silk and satin, and even the sedan handle was inlaid with gold rims.
But the people in the sedan seemed to have a lot of weight.
The wide sedan was swinging up and down exaggeratedly in a mobile manner, and the handle of the sedan was curved almost in an arc.
Chu Yueshan and the two looked a little dazed, but the crowd stopped in front of the Yamen.
Then, a heartbreaking howl came from the sedan.
"What an injustice!"
"It's unjust! Sir!"
Along with the cry, a nearly round "meat ball" squeezed out of the sedan.
He was probably walking too hastily, his feet stumbled, and he almost fell. Three or five of the followers who followed him stepped forward, and then they helped him up and led him all the way to Chu Yueshan.
He stretched out his hand to hold Chu Yueshan and continued: "My lord!"
"My child has been kind since he was a child."
"I didn't dare to step on the ants on the roadside. When I was three years old, I fed cockroaches at home. When I was five years old, I gave birth to a street rat. When I was seven years old, I fought with a group of thugs for a little suckling pig.
"
"When I was nine, I was determined to uphold justice. When I was ten, I started to exterminate bandits. When I was eleven..."
"Wang Dahu." Chu Yueshan's scalp felt numb as he listened to the endless life resume in his ears. He quickly interrupted the other party, "You have recognized the wrong person."
The man with a fat head, big ears and a round figure in front of him is none other than Wang Che's father, Wang Dagui, the richest man in Wuling City.
Wang Dagui was stunned when he heard this. He raised his head and looked at Chu Yueshan, blinked his eyes, and after coming back to his senses, he withdrew his hand.
"Is it you!?" He asked with his eyes widened.
"Haha, it's me." Chu Yueshan nodded hurriedly.
Wang Dagui still had some say in the Yamen. Since both his son and his son were involved in the murder, Chu Yueshan wondered if he could cling to this relationship and excuse his son in the Yamen, so his attitude was also
Very flattering.
"Well done to you, Chu Yueshan!"
"It's okay if you can't take care of your own son! How can you come to harm my son!"
"Your son must have done something evil and coerced my son!" But Chu Yueshan's smiling face was met with Wang Dagui's loud curse.
Chu Yueshan, who was thinking about working together, was so scolded by Wang Dagui that he was dumbfounded. It took him a while to come back to his senses.
Chu Yueshan suddenly became angry, blushed and cursed: "My son is famous for his talents from all over the country! How can he be like a playboy of your son! If you want to say that you are looking down on human life and doing evil, then only your bastard son can do it.
It can be done!”
"You're talking nonsense! My son..." Wang Dagui also looked indignant and was about to retort when he cursed.
Seeing the conflict between their masters, many of the followers behind him gathered around him and began to help Wang Dagui scold Chu Yueshan.
When Sun Kuan saw this, he certainly didn't want to see his brother-in-law being bullied by outsiders, so he rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward to join the battlefield.
The two sides were at loggerheads and had a heated argument at the gate of the government office.
…
In the widow's office inside the yamen, three of the only widows in Wuling City were sweating profusely around several corpses, carefully inspecting them.
There were many government servants helping out, going back and forth, and they were very busy.
Cao Shugong frowned and came to a corpse. He stared at the interlaced black lines on the corpse, and his frown deepened.
These lines seemed familiar to him, as if he had seen them somewhere, but no matter how hard he thought, he couldn't remember when he had seen them.
"Sir, my subordinates have checked and found that almost no one in the city has had contact with the Zhu family."
"The news that the Zhu family is a prince who retired from old age and returned to his hometown, and that he funded the construction of a school, Jishi Hall, also came from the county magistrate's office and Mr. Zhu."
At this time, a government official walked up to Cao Shugong and whispered.
Upon hearing this, Cao Shugong glanced sideways at the yamen servant with a strange expression, but did not respond.
The yamen officer felt a little uncomfortable when Cao Shugong saw him, and hurriedly said: "Also, Mr. Zhu and the county magistrate are urging you hard. They are already a little dissatisfied that Mr. Chu Qingxiao and others have not been arrested for so long. Do you want to separate them?
Send out some manpower and search the streets again..."
When Cao Shugong heard this, he raised his head and glanced at the other party: "The gangsters said that these corpses were not from last night at all. They were dead long ago."
Cao Shugong's words caused the officer's expression to change. He was horrified and said, "How is this possible?"
"Chu Qingxiao is a young boy who can be possessed by evil spirits and kill more than a dozen masters of the fourth and even fifth realms. Then why can't these corpses be monsters who have been resurrected from the dead?" Cao Shugong said solemnly.
"But... isn't there still one alive?"
"If they have died long ago, how do you explain the living one?" the yamen servant asked in confusion.
Cao Shugong frowned and shook his head: "I don't know."
"I always feel that this thing is weird, and Wuling City is also weird."
"By the way, how is the living one doing? Can he wake up?"
The Yamen servant hurriedly said: "Not yet. His condition is a bit strange. Several doctors have seen it but they are helpless."
Cao Shugong nodded, and just as he was about to say something more, another government servant walked up quickly.
"Sir, Chu Yueshan and Wang Dagui had a quarrel in front of the Yamen. Judging from the situation, they might start fighting."
After hearing this, Cao Shugong secretly felt a headache. He rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Let them come in. Don't be embarrassed outside."
…
"It's great to be rich. If you have money, wouldn't your son also stalk my Nian Shuang?" Outside the Yamen, the quarrel between Chu Yueshan and Wang Dagui was not over yet.
"Bah! Don't say that Nian Shuang is your daughter! So what if she goes to Tianxuan Mountain? Why don't you just write to my son anxiously? Besides, my son has received an invitation from Biyun City and will be there soon.
Being accepted as a closed disciple by their city lord! He is very different from your son!" Wang Dagui responded with a curse.
"Besides, my son has been kind since he was little, and he can't even bear to step on ants. Since he was three years old..."
"Save it!" Chu Yueshan hurriedly interrupted his string of "spells": "It's okay to use your rhetoric to coax a child, but can you deceive Capt. Cao? That's my old friend. He must be able to see clearly.
To restore my son's innocence..."
With that said, the door of the Yamen opened at this moment, and Cao Shugong walked out.
The two people who were still arguing just now suddenly changed their expressions. They didn't care to continue the verbal quarrel between them, and they both walked up quickly at this time.
After all, Chu Yueshan was a man of cultivation and his steps were brisk. At that time, he took three steps and two steps at a time, and rushed to Cao Shugong in a flash.
Then he knelt down with a plop, his face was full of tears, and he said with emotion: "Brother Cao! You have to make the decision for me! You know my child, he has been kind since he was a child..."
"I didn't dare to step on the ants on the roadside. When I was three years old, I fed cockroaches at home. When I was five years old, I gave birth to a street rat. When I was seven years old, I fought with a group of thugs for a little suckling pig.
"
"When I was nine, I was determined to uphold justice. When I was ten, I started to exterminate bandits. When I was eleven..."
Wang Dagui, who was panting halfway up the stairs, heard that his lines had been snatched away, and he was so angry that he almost fell down the stairs again.
With the help of several servants, after a while, he finally climbed up the stairs, which were no more than twenty.
He turned back and glanced at his servants, who quickly took out several beautifully packaged and generous gift boxes.
"Sir, Quanzi is causing trouble for you. Here are some antiques that I collect on weekdays. They are not expensive, only a few thousand taels of silver. A little care is disrespectful!"
He handed it over with a smile and said this.
Cao Shugong had already anticipated the attitude of these two people. He sighed, first helped Chu Yueshan on the ground, and then pushed away the gift box handed by Wang Dagui, saying: "You two don't have to do this. The matter has not been found out yet. If
The young masters are innocent and we will never unjustly accuse them."
"Instead of wandering around here, you two, why not think about where your young masters may be, let us find them, and maybe we can get to the bottom of the matter."
Cao Shugong was an upright man and was somewhat famous in Wuling City.
After hearing what he said, Chu Yueshan and others' expressions softened slightly, but the worries in their hearts still could not be reduced.
"We don't know this either? If we had known, we would have gone looking for them long ago, why would we waste time here." Chu Yueshan said dejectedly.
Wang Dagui on the side heard this and felt a bit of sympathy: "Yes. We know that a son is like a father. How can we not know what our own children can do? How could they kill someone?"
Seeing the two of them like this, Cao Shugong didn't know how to comfort him for a moment. But at this moment, the government servant behind him suddenly stepped forward and whispered in his ear: "Your Excellency has received the news, and the Zhu family's nursing home has been dispatched in large numbers.
, it seems that the location of Chu Qingxiao and others has been found."
"They are just nursing homes! Who gave them the power to arrest people again and again!"
Cao Shugong suddenly frowned and shouted angrily.
"But the Zhu family has a close relationship with Mr. Zhu and the county magistrate, so we don't dare..." The yamen officer looked embarrassed.
"Assemble the manpower and follow me. We must catch Chu Qingxiao and others before they do!" Cao Shugong said loudly with a serious expression on his face.
He vaguely felt that the Zhu family members seemed to be planning to kill people and silence them.
After hearing this, the government officials did not dare to neglect and gathered one after another. Following Cao Shugong's order, they quickly walked towards the place mentioned in the news.
Chu Yueshan, Wang Dagui and others were confused by this turn of events. After a while, they finally came to their senses.
"Let's go! Follow us!" Chu Yueshan said.
Wang Dagui also reacted and hurriedly called for his followers to follow him quickly.
…
At the same time, in the inner palace of the Yamen.
Li Sifang looked at the guy lying on the bed with a sad face.
That's a very weird guy.
He looked to be in his early forties, and his naked upper body was very muscular. At first glance, he looked like a martial artist who had been immersed in martial arts for decades.
There are strange black lines crisscrossing the body, which do not look like ordinary tattoos, but more like growing out of the body.
And more importantly.
The blood in his body has long since dried up, and all the vitality has been sucked out of him.
But he is still alive, he is breathing!
Li Sifang has been a doctor for thirty years and has seen many difficult and complicated diseases, but this is the first time he has encountered such a weird one.
He was a little frightened in his heart, and he couldn't even tell whether this guy was a human or not.
He was really helpless.
However, the head catcher issued a death order and must find a way to wake him up.
Li Sifang sighed when he thought of this.
"Sigh... I should have listened to my father and become a cook. Why should I study medicine?"
"Forget it about studying medicine, what kind of government office will you enter..."
Li Sifang lamented the eternal theme that women are afraid of marrying the wrong man and men are afraid of entering the wrong profession.
At the same time, on the street outside the Yamen, a figure was walking slowly.
He was an old man with a slovenly appearance, and the white hair on his head was scattered randomly and without any order.
Wearing a gray monk's robe, with his hands behind his back and a slightly stooped figure, he walked slowly through the streets.
He came to the Yamen, stopped there for a moment, and then walked into the mansion.
What was strange was that the guards guarding the gates on both sides of the mansion seemed not to have seen him. They did not say anything to stop him, and their eyes never fell on him for even a breath.
In this way, he passed through the front yard of the Yamen and came to the wing in the inner yard.
He stood in front of Li Sifang's house and heard Li Sifang's complaints.
The old Taoist priest smiled slightly and took another step.
His figure actually passed through the closed door and stepped inside without any hindrance.
"It's okay to join the Yamen. I haven't been promoted in all these years."
"It doesn't matter if I haven't been promoted, I'm still a hard worker..."
Li Sifang was still chattering, and he also turned a blind eye to the old Taoist priest who passed him towards the bed.
The old Taoist priest came to the unconscious Heijia's bed. He looked down at the other person with soft eyes.
At this moment, he stretched out one hand and pointed lightly toward the man's eyebrows. A peach blossom appeared from his fingertips, slowly fell down, and landed on the man's eyebrows.
A faint light flashed, and the peach blossom shadow disappeared into his body.
"It's time to wake up."
"Qingxiao needs you." The old man said.
At this moment, the man on the bed seemed to feel something, and his eyes suddenly opened.
His eyes were pitch black, without any light.
But this abnormality only lasted for a moment, and the next moment a clear color lit up in his eyes.
He sat up and looked into the room with a confused expression.
Li Sifang, who was complaining non-stop, was not expecting this. He was so frightened that he trembled and quickly retreated to the corner: "You... are you a human or a ghost?"
The man said nothing, but looked down at his arms and body again, muttering to himself in surprise: "I... am still alive..."
After saying this, the man turned his head and looked at Li Sifang, who stood up and walked towards him.
This posture frightened Li Sifang, who turned pale. He grabbed the teapot beside him and said shivering: "You...who are you? This is a government office. As long as I shout, the officials will rush in and chop you up."
died!"
This threat was obviously very unconvincing, and naturally it could not scare the man in front of him.
The man continued to move forward and stood still only one foot away from the doctor.
He looked down at the doctor huddled in the corner and said in a deep voice, "My name is Song Guicheng."