"Who do 'they' mean?"
Xu Shan's father paused for a moment, "It should be those senior brothers in the hall and the master of Shan'er, who else can there be?"
” "Old man, where is the Taoist temple?"
"It's just upstream of the river, it seems to be called Changle Palace."
The gate of Changle Palace was pushed open, and the broken stone pillars and the remains of the majestic palace wall stood silently in the sunset, looking bleak and abnormal.
Zheng Ronghua took the lead in with a team of officials, patting off the cobwebs stained on his robe as he walked, "My lord, no one has been here for a long time, you see the barren grass all over the courtyard, all of them are half a person high." ” Liu Xujiao followed closely and walked in, and asked the officials to check room by room to see if there were any clues related to the case.
He used his long sword to remove the weeds on the ground in the courtyard, and carefully searched inch by inch, unwilling to let go of a trace of suspicion.
Zheng Ronghua saw that he was personally surveying, so he was embarrassed to be idle on the side, he followed behind Liu Xujiao, chatting with him without a match, and casually looking at the barren grass in the garden.
Liu Xuzhu was impatient by him, and just wanted to find an excuse to break him away, but suddenly swallowed the words that came to his mouth again, he looked at Zheng Ronghua and winked at him fiercely.
Zheng Ronghua was stunned by him, and he blinked twice, trying to figure out what this blink meant?
Seeing that he didn't understand, Liu Xuzhu turned his mouth to the right and motioned him to look at his feet.
This effort made Zheng Ronghua even more confused, he also pursed his mouth twice, stretched his neck and asked with a smile, "My lord, is it cold in the mountains, do you feel unwell?"
Before he finished speaking, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of something at his feet that jumped out of his wrist, and jumped up at his wrist, Zheng Ronghua said "ah", only to find that the thing was actually a big black and orange snake, but now, he couldn't dodge, the snake body rose like a bolt of lightning, and it was about to leave two blood marks on his wrist.
At that moment, a blue light cleaved down his cuffs, cut them in half, and rolled down into the grass with the snake's head.
Looking at the hideous snake head in the grass, Zheng Ronghua's legs immediately weakened, and he couldn't get up after squatting on the ground for half a day.
Liu Xuzhu withdrew the Qingfu Sword back into its scabbard and stretched out his hand to pull him up, "Lord Zheng, let's go to the main hall and wait, the grass is high here, and a snake suddenly appears, I'm afraid that I will accidentally cut off Lord Zheng's arm." ” The irony in his words couldn't be more obvious, but now Zheng Ronghua couldn't take care of it so much, he crawled to the main hall and sat on the dusty ground panting.
The officials gathered one after another, everyone shook their heads silently when they saw them, and after the people were assembled, Liu Xuzhu asked lightly, "Didn't find anything?"
” "Back to my lord, the main hall and the side room are full of daily necessities, and there is nothing strange about it."
Liu Xujiao nodded, "I do."
As he spoke, he strode out the door, and the frog sword swung forward, sweeping lightly across the ground, revealing the thing hidden beneath the grass.
Looking at the black round mark, his personal bodyguard Han Wei was the first to shout, "This should be a trace of being burned by fire." ” Liu Xuzhu nodded approvingly, "That's right, and there is more than one such trace in this courtyard," he said and used the green worm to brush off a few wild grasses next to him, "Here, here, and there, there are seven or eight places in total."
He raised his eyes, a glimmer of light in them, "So, I deduce that there were once several iron furnaces here. ” "Iron furnace?
Why do those Taoist priests need so many stoves?
Zheng Ronghua seemed to have finally recovered from the fright, and returned to the habit of breaking his mouth.
"This is not an ordinary iron furnace, it is an alchemy furnace, Taoist alchemy, there have been alchemy since ancient times, but I don't know, why did the people in this Taoist temple spend so much effort to move the Dan furnace away, leaving only a few black marks.
And that viper."
Zheng Ronghua came to the spirit, "Then what's wrong with that snake?"
” Liu Xujiao glanced at him, "There are many snakes in the mountains, this is not unusual, but the snake just now has no teeth." ” "Then you were still frowning at me just now, and I was so scared that I almost lost half my life."
After speaking, Zheng Ronghua found that he was so excited that he yelled at Liu Xujiao, his face was blue and white, "My lord, I don't mean that from the lower officials." ” Liu Xuzhu didn't take his rudeness to heart, he picked up the snake head on the ground, and said to himself, "This tooth is obviously not broken, but extracted, what kind of person will pull out the snake's tooth?"
What good did he want this toothless viper?
” No one answered him this question, the mountain wind gradually rose, blowing all over the garden and the grass rustled, Zheng Ronghua wrapped his cloak, "My lord, why don't you come here today, the province will freeze your body." ” Liu Xuzhu glanced at him obliquely, "Does Kuizhou's copywriter record the owner of this Changle Palace?"
” "This subordinate has to go back and check to find out."
Liu Xujiao nodded, "Let's go back to the house today, and when we find the master, we will make the next step." ” Sun Qin and Mrs.
Lin sat at the table eating fruits and chatting, Lin Chengzhang walked in from outside the door and saluted Sun Qin, "Cousin, you still came here on this cold day, this time you have to stay here for a few more days before leaving." ” Sun Qin hurriedly let Chengzhang into the chair, "I have to come here a year ago, bring you some wild game in the mountains to taste, you loved venison the most when you were a child, I pulled half a deer to come over to make up for you this time," she took Chengzhang's hand, "You have to get well quickly, don't let down your aunt's heart, she is going to break her heart for you." ” Chengzhang was just about to speak, but his chest was stuffy again, and a cough followed, making him so breathless that he couldn't breathe.
Seeing this, Mrs.
Lin panicked first, and hurriedly ordered the little servants to take him back to the room, Cheng Zhang waved his hand again and again, "Mother, I'm fine, our sister and brother haven't been together for so long, and we haven't had a good chat with my cousin." ” Sun Qin hurriedly persuaded on the side, "You go and rest first, I will go to you after talking to my aunt, you have listened to your sister since you were a child, go quickly, go quickly." ” Cheng Zhang nodded with a wry smile, and was helped down by the little guys.
Sun Qin looked at Mrs.
Lin's face full of worry, and asked tentatively, "Chengzhang's illness is still not getting better." ” Hearing this, Mrs.
Lin couldn't help but shed two lines of tears, she grabbed Sun Qin's hand, "Xiaoqin, I usually don't dare to say this, but you, I hurt it when I was my daughter, and I told you the truth today, you cousin, I'm afraid it won't be cured." ”