Chapter 35 Heading South
"What comes to mind...you mean Dongshi Town?" Li Motang frowned and thought, "You mean, someone knows that I was investigating the embezzlement of military pay back then. The ancestor of Wu Langzhong happened to be related to this matter, so he rushed to me before I arrived. Before the tree hut, kill him and silence him.
Liu Xuetian's death was to cover up the truth, and the governor was killed. All attention must be on Liu Xuetian, and Wu Langzhong was easily ignored. "
"What do you think?" Huang Feng asked.
Li Motang didn't dare to assert and shook his head: "It's a bit unbelievable."
Huang Feng admitted that this point of view is relatively far-fetched among the many inferences just made, but if the other party has scheming intentions, then the most unlikely is often the most likely.
"But this possibility cannot be ruled out. It is easy to prove. Don't you say that according to Daxia law, military salary expenditures must be registered in a book?" Huang Feng reminded her, "Anyway, you have to investigate this matter and find the saved book. , and then pick out the properties of the ancestors of the Wu family and compare them, and you will know at a glance.
If my guess is true, then there is definitely something wrong with Liu Xuetian’s concubine in the eighteenth room! "
After speaking in one breath, Huang Feng put down the case file, stretched his waist and prepared to leave.
"Where are you going?" Li Motang asked.
"I'm done speculating, of course I'll go back to rest and take Xiaobai out of the city for practice later." Huang Feng stretched out his finger, tapped his temples, and said with a smile, "I only provide intellectual help, you have to do the physical work yourself. Do it, or are you reluctant to let me go? "
When Xiao Nuan heard this, she realized that Young Master Huang was... teasing the young lady? !
"Hey, why am I a little excited instead of angry?" Xiao Nuan blinked. If it were anyone else, she would have rushed up and cursed.
Li Motang put one hand on the sword, and the sharp edge in his eyes pierced Huang Feng. He said nothing, and his meaning was expressed clearly.
Get out of here quickly, or I'll kill you!
"Burning bridges, I didn't expect you to be such a woman." Huang Feng didn't forget to indulge in his mouth when he went out, turned a corner and came to Bai Yang's room.
At this time, Bai Yang had just finished practicing. He raised his head and was very happy to see Huang Feng: "Brother, you are back."
"Let's go out and walk around."
"good."
Huang Feng called Bai Yang and left the inn together. Xiao Nuan watched from the window and turned back to report to Li Motang: "Miss, Mr. Huang and Xiao Bai have left."
Li Motang put down the case file, raised his sword and stood up: "Let's go too."
Xiao Nuan quickly asked: "Where are we going to chase Mr. Huang?"
"What are you chasing? I think you are obsessed with this!" Li Motang poked Xiao Nuan in the head angrily, "Come with me to find out where that military salary went!"
Xiao Nuan whispered: "Miss, you are here. If there is a real ghost, it has been beheaded long ago. How can you have the chance to enchant my mind, right?"
Li Motang laughed in anger and continued to poke at Xiao Nuan: "You have learned how to quibble, right?"
"Um... Miss, please stop poking. I can't do it anymore, I can't do it anymore, ah, I'm going to faint!" Xiao Nuan begged for mercy while covering her forehead.
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Huang Feng was in no hurry to leave the city. Although he got some weird news from He Qing, strange things were hard to come by.
For example, when a man spends the night alone in the Junhe River on a rainy day, he will encounter a female ghost wearing a red wedding dress. It is the dry season, where can he find it?
"I have to ask more." Huang Feng came to a wonton stall and looked at the stall owner. He found that he was a kind-hearted man in his thirties, so he took Bai Yang to sit down and ordered two bowls of wontons.
When the stall owner brought the wontons over, Huang Feng asked, "Brother, are you a local from Shulu?"
There were not many people at the stall at this time. The stall owner put a towel on his shoulders and said with a smile: "Yes, three generations of my family have been doing this small business in Shulu, making wontons. In Shulu, I say second, no People dare to say number one.
Isn't this young man a local? Do you want to ask me something?
Young Master, you are really discerning. My stall is not far from the city gate, with people coming and going, and the information is the best. Just ask, Young Master.
Of course, there are some things that you shouldn't just talk about. If I can't explain them, don't blame me. "
Huang Feng found that this old man was also a talkative person, and he was not stupid, so he asked with confidence: "It's not a question that will embarrass me. We are planning to go out of the city. It's our first time here and we are not familiar with the place. I want to ask I asked my brother which place has the best scenery and which place I can’t go because I’m feeling uneasy lately.”
"It's a simple thing. If you want to enjoy the scenery, go up the mountain to the north and there is a red leaf forest. Many years ago, the second son of the Yao family in Shulu passed the imperial examination in autumn. It is said that one of his poems was about watching the red leaf forest in Beishan. He came up with this idea, but he didn't expect that he would use it in Qiu Wei to help him gain fame in the exam.
On the second day after the announcement, he asked people to build stone steps and a pavilion in the red leaf forest of Beishan. Now the scholars in Shulu gather there from time to time to recite poems and write poems.
Continue north through the red leaf forest and climb to Yunxia Peak. You can see the steaming sea of clouds. I was lucky enough to climb it once and felt like I was going to become an immortal.
If you are not interested, you can go west and burn incense at Tai Sui Temple on the west mountain. It will ensure peace for a year. I go there every year and it feels very good.
As for where you can't go, don't go south. "
Huang Feng asked doubtfully: "I heard that Yunzhu Peak, sixty miles south, is very famous. There seems to be a sword monument?"
The stall owner smiled and said: "You are talking about the legend of the couple of gods and gods slaying the dragon demon. This story is indeed the oldest and most famous among the many legends in our tree house. If it were other times, I would recommend you to read it. .
However, in recent days, the south has been uneasy, and several woodcutter and hunters have gone south but have not returned.
I heard from people who have returned that fog will suddenly appear in the mountains in the south recently. The fog comes and disperses quickly, but if you don't have time to leave when the fog starts, you will never come back.
I'm not scaring you. The people from the Monster Collection Department went to check it ten days ago and didn't come back.
Even Mr. Zhenfu went there. Maybe the fog scared us Mr. Zhenfu. It is said that Mr. Zhenfu stayed there for three days and never saw any fog before he returned.
Oops, we have a guest. You two gentlemen, please eat first. We will talk later. "
He said he would wait a while, but the number of people gradually increased and the stall owner was busy, leaving no chance for small talk.
After eating wontons, paying and saying goodbye to the stall owner, Huang Feng and Bai Yang hurried out of the city before the city gate was closed. After all, most monsters and ghosts were more active at night, so they could only choose this time for training.
"Brother, shall we go south?" Bai Yang actively asked as soon as he left the city.
Huang Feng looked at him: "When I asked the stall owner just now, weren't you busy eating wontons?"
"I'm listening to everything."
"I hope you didn't listen." Huang Feng hummed, hesitating whether to go south or not.
It can be judged from the words of the stall owner that no matter whether it is a ghost or a demon, they will not dare to appear when facing a powerful person in the Hedao realm.
At this level, do you think you can handle it?
"Senior brother?"
Looking at Bai Yang's expectant eyes, Huang Feng sighed. If he went out by himself, he would definitely not go.
But it was a rare opportunity to take Xiaobai out to practice. He noticed Xu Jingshan's conspiracy and deliberately avoided Fenzhou. It would be too rude to deal with it any more.
"Okay, go south!" Huang Feng waved his hand, majestic and high-spirited.