Chapter 44: The Mystery of the Slaughter City

Early snow came out of Chang'an, Wanjia built jade bricks.
In the afternoon, Hanmei melted snow, Li Jinglong and Hongjun came to the military garden. Amidst the plum blossom fragrance, several ministers were sitting around drinking tea. The attendees were the Ministry of Justice Shang Shu Wen Yu, a third grade purple robe clerk, and Prince Li Heng. When he saw Li Jinglong, he nodded slightly and said, "Jing Long, Hong Jun, sit."
"... This is the fourth military newspaper received this month."
The green tea was poured into the bowl. Wen Yu of the Ministry of Criminals handed the tea bowl to Li Jinglong. Li Jinglong then handed it over to Hong Jun. Hong Jun still remembered what Qing Xiong had said.
Sitting under the prince's head was a bureaucrat wearing a purple robe and gold ribbon, but Li Jinglong knew it. In the past, his boss Hu Sheng saw him, and he inevitably nodded and bowed.
"Ganzhou, Yizhou, and Shazhou all encountered raids at night, and the places they passed by were not left and ruins." Fan Shen also said, "Whether young or old, women or children, all kill. The dead have exceeded 100,000. As seen by the scouts in the Hexi Army, it is all hell! "
Li Jinglong was so impressed that Hong Jun could not help being attracted attention. The early winter scenery in the military headquarters garden was fine, but the officials discussed it was such a thrilling issue.
Li Jinglong frowned, and Wen You asked again: "General Ge Shuhan never sent troops to investigate?"
"Three soldiers have been sent outside the Great Wall." Fan Shen replied, "I don't know whether it was Hui or Turkic chaos. In one month, the four cities were slaughtered, and there was no shadow. It was freezing outside, and there was no clue at all. "
"What do you think of Jing Long?" Li Heng said suddenly.
All the ministers looked towards Li Jinglong.
Li Jinglong knew that the prince summoned himself, and no matter what happened, he must have doubts about the monster. Hearing a few words, he was roughly aware of it and said, "The minister takes the liberty to ask three questions."
No one on the scene had a higher official rank than Li Jinglong. Everyone didn't believe in the idea of ​​strange power and chaos, but the Prince said nothing, but only motioned to Li Jinglong to ask.
"One: what kind of weapons were attacked by soldiers slaughtered in the city?
"Second: What is the main direction of plundering in the city? No one escaped from such a big city ?!
"Third: What did the court say about the matter?"
After Li Jinglong asked the exit, the prince smiled and looked at the crowd.
"This is what we are worried about." Fan Shen said, "It is really impossible to explain ... The old and young women and children were killed as much as possible, and the young and middle-aged soldiers in the city disappeared overnight, and there is no trace."
Hong Jun: "???
Hongjun put down the tea bowl and began to think, this is not like what people do.
"The city's wealth, food, and food should not be violated as soon as it falls." Wen You said, "Dali Temple is so puzzled that the court ..."
Wen You looked at Li Heng for help, and Li Heng breathed slowly, only to answer.
"Besides that, wireless cable?" Li Jinglong asked.
"In addition, there is no clue." Li Heng replied.
After a moment of incense sticks, Li Heng, Li Jinglong and Hong Jun came out of the gate of the military department.
"Yang Xiangqin returned to the army," Li Heng explained. "The current military newspaper is pressing on him. One hundred thousand soldiers and civilians say little more, say less, the four cities are destroyed, and it is still a big deal at the border. . This matter is very strange, they all think it was a case of the looting of the Hui Army before it entered the winter. "
Li Jinglong took a deep breath, and frowned deeply: "It can't be the Hui Su Army. If it's Hui Pu, how could it not move the property in the city?"
"Do you think it is related to the demon?" Li Heng asked.
Hong Jun said: "You have to look at the local area. It is so difficult to judge now."
Li Heng said: "We have only two and a half months. The Kaichun Huixu messengers will arrive in Chang'an. If they don't get the evidence at that time, I am afraid that the right minister will consider it and find an excuse to use troops with Huipu.
"Your Majesty can promise?" Li Jinglong suddenly tense.
Li Heng just looked at Li Jinglong quietly, and Hong Jun felt a hint of danger.
Immediately, Li Heng nodded softly and said, "I thought, I wasn't very good, but I didn't expect ... This time I rely on you, right, how many subordinates do you have?"
Li Jinglong smiled bitterly: "The demon king has been removed. They all have important responsibilities. They have gone far away, and Hongjun is with them."
Li Jinglong said that putting one hand on Hongjun's shoulder, Li Heng was not surprised, but thought only: "It's the same."
"Someone will help you." Li Jinglong replied, "When the mountains and rivers are exhausted, the turnaround is not far away."
"Isn't it you?" Li Heng smiled, "This is my letter, I will find General Ge Shuhan after arriving in Hexi, go and wait for your good news."
Hong Jun was inexplicably, listening to the duo's strike, and finally Li Heng turned away.
"What's the same?"
"His Royal Highness means that his situation is very similar to mine. After many years of fighting abroad, Li Linfu collapsed and was able to return to Chang'an. Unexpectedly, he added another opponent, Yang Guozhong."
Li Jinglong packed his luggage in the room, Hong Jun changed into a slim military uniform, carrying a baggage, squatting on the railing under the gallery to watch him.
"Datang and Huipu, once this knot cannot be undone." Li Jinglong took the clothes, and a gust of wind came out, and passed in front of Hongjun, and said, "Yang Guozhong will try again to send His Royal Highness Prince.
For the first time, Hong Junshang listened to Li Jinglong's explanation of political struggle, and gradually understood the friction and contradiction between people. Eventually, he was still in "power". Since ancient times, people's desires have been endless.
"So will they fight?" Hong Jun was surprised, "Did Yang Guozhong just rebel?"
"He didn't dare." Li Jinglong couldn't help crying, "Yang's family just wanted to live."
Yang Guozhong is powerful now, but he is favored by his sister, rampantly domineering, and even making many enemies in the DPRK and China. After the Fox Demon case, it will definitely affect the Yang family. When Li Longji died in the coming day, Li Hang ascended the throne. The first thing was to liquidate the Yang family.
So Yang Guozhong must try to preserve the entire clan and get into trouble with the prince.
"So with Huipu, it may not necessarily fight." Hong Jun said.
"Hmm." Li Jinglong took Panchuan and passed Hongjun again, saying, "It is not necessary to fight Huipu, but he can send the prince again and stay in Liangzhou. So he can draw his hand, Do the layout in North Korea. "
Hong Jun learned a lot and asked, "So in case they fight, who are we going to help?"
Li Jinglong: "..."
"Who else can you help besides helping the prince?" The carp demon really couldn't listen anymore, and said, "You are stupid, the world is changing. You don't help the real emperor, do you still help the traitors? "
Hongjun said: "But Yang Guifei also gave me snacks ..."
Li Jinglong raised his forehead and thought that if Hong Jun was coaxed by Yang Guifei to poke the prince with a flying knife, the reason was actually dim sum. I do n’t know what the people think.
"The crown prince gave you Hetian Yuzhu, why didn't you say that?" Li Jinglong snarled his bag and said angrily.
The carp demon carried a burden and jumped into the corridor, saying, "Two, I will say goodbye to you too ..."
"No!" Li Jinglong did not listen to anger.
"Where are you going?" Hong Jun wondered.
The carp demon got the guidance of the Kun, and was very depressed for an hour and two quarters. Yu Sheng couldn't live like this every day, so he decided to save 99,981 people and accumulate virtue to be a living being.
"Now, save Yang Guifei." The carp demon said, "I don't know if it counts, let's count from the next one."
Hong Jun said: "You are on the road like this, be careful to be caught and make braised fish."
The carp demon considered for a long time. When he and Hongjun went down the mountain, he once digged earthworms to eat, and was almost caught. Later, Hongjun went to the rescue and brought it back.
"Then we can get three chapters ..."
Li Jinglong said bitterly: "No one will limit your freedom-go get the soul pollen!"
Hong Jun asked again: "Is Hexi fun? Is there anything delicious?"
"Promised to take you there?" Li Jinglong said.
Hong Jun: "!!!"
"Long history!" Hong Jun shouted immediately, "I have all my burdens, do you have the heart to throw me here alone ?!"
Li Jinglong buried his head in his robe and said, "Did you leave home to Chang'an, did you come by yourself?"
Hong Jun: "That's different!"
"Why is it different?" Li Jinglong's mouth slightly hooked and passed Hong Jun, looking for the paperwork.
"I know you now, of course it's different." Hong Jun said, "How can you leave me? Look, I've packed everything!"
Hong Jun said patting the baggage.
Li Jinglong really thought about leaving him in Chang'an to watch the house. After all, no one knows if there will be monsters again. But throwing Hongjun in the Exorcism Division, he was really at ease. I didn't take care of myself on the road. The road was far away and I was very lonely.
"Then we can get three chapters of the law." Li Jinglong said, "First: I have to listen to everything in the world."
"I always listen to you." Hong Jun said blankly, "When did you not listen to you?"
Li Jinglong fingered Hongjun and said, "That's not necessarily ... for example ..."
Li Jinglong thought about it and could not give an example. Now think about it and find that Hong Jun is indeed the most obedient one. Had to say: "Second ..."
Hongjun jumped off the railing and reached out to pull Li Jinglong. He quickly said, "Long history, you said, I will do everything. Take me!"
Li Jinglong looked at Hong Jun and suddenly laughed. At that moment, he wanted to hug him into his arms and rub it hard.
He raised his hand subconsciously, but realized what he was doing, and immediately stopped.
"Don't pull it." Li Jinglong said, "Just take you to pack your clothes. Hexi is very cold."
Hong Jun was not afraid of the cold, and brought two more items under Li Jinglong's insistence, so he jumped with joy and instinctively tucked the carp demon into his bag and stepped on the horse.
Li Jinglong said: "Don't overdo it, this is out of tolerance, not to play."
Li Jinglong went to the West Market, purchased some Jiangnan tea cakes, salt, rouge and other things, and went to the gold shop to buy a pearl hairpin and a piece of silk, rolled into the size of the palm, and put it in the bag, Hong Jun can see Strange, ask: "Long history, do you want to dress as a woman on the road? What do you buy rouge for?"
"Chang Shi has been thinking about this for a long time." The carp demon said behind Hong Jun. "No one can recognize it when it is out of Chang'an. You can safely enchant, I guess right?"
People at the market laughed wildly, and Li Jinglong gritted his teeth and said, "Hong Jun! If you damage me again, go back to the Exorcist Division!"
Hong Jun was busy telling Rao, Li Jinglong turned his horse into an alley, Hong Jun saw that he was very familiar here, but it was the Chen family!
Hong Jun was busy dismounting, Li Jinglong knocked on the door and went in to visit. The woman still came in with the baby and said, "Li Xiaowei? Are you coming again?"
Li Jinglong replied: "Send you some flowers."
The woman was busy quitting, but Li Jinglong insisted on handing her five gold ingots for a total of twelve. The woman refused, but had to gratefully accept it.
"You're growing up." Hong Jun pinched the baby's hand. The baby was nearly ten months old and had long teeth. He grabbed Hong Jun's finger and stuffed it in his mouth, biting it, Hong Jun was busy Said, "Let ... let go! Pain!"
Li Jinglong said happily, coaxing the baby to open his mouth, and then said to the woman: "A tolerance, come back to see you again. Hong Jun, left."
Hong Jun knew that he was because of the heart light, so he couldn't let go of the descendants of Chen's family and couldn't help but feel moved.
The two left Changan and walked along Guandao all the way to the north. Hongjun rode with great pleasure on horseback, looking for hard-to-run roads.
Li Jinglong has been thinking since he left the military, and turned back to Hongjun: "Save a little effort, you will be tired in less than a few hours!"
Hong Jun laughed: "You haven't told me, what is Liangzhou like!"
Li Jinglong replied: "I don't know! I have never been to Chang'an in my life."
After an hour.
Hong Jun: "Are you at the post?"
Li Jinglong replied: "It's only two hours before Chang'an comes out, and even Lishan hasn't passed it yet."
Hong Jun began to be bored. When he came down from Taihang Mountain, he felt nothing new. Now he knows a lot about this world, and everything is strange. In the early winter season, the sights and sights were barren. Apart from hurrying on the road, I had to scream with Li Jinglong, which was too boring.
After two hours.
Li Jinglong rode his horse expressionlessly, with Hongjun behind him. Hongjun was lying on Li Jinglong's back and fell asleep. Hongjun was carrying a carp demon behind him, and the carp demon's mouth was motionless and sleeping.
Li Jinglong immediately carried two people and one fish, Hong Jun's horse was completely empty and followed.
Li Jinglong: "..."
After three hours.
Li Jinglong patted Hongjun behind: "Hey, it's here!"
Hong Jun was sleepy and stretched out. Li Jinglong turned over and dismounted, searched for documents, went to the post to spend the night, and by the way determined that he had not taken the wrong path. Hongjun stood outside the post and looked around dumbly. The official took his subordinates on a business trip, and the subordinates were supposed to do everything well. Li Jinglong was followed by a Hongjun. Instead, he seemed to be waiting for the young master with sincerity. It seems that there is no hope in this life.
"Young Master." Li Jinglong said inside, "What do you do when you come in to eat and are still standing outside?"
Hong Jun was refreshed when he heard the meal, and quickly stepped away. At the post, Xiaoer first glanced at Li Jinglong, then glanced at Hongjun, and said, "Young Master, please inside."
"Two upper rooms." Li Jinglong said to Xiao Er.
"A room upstairs." Xiao Er said blankly.
Li Jinglong repeated: "Two go to the house."
Xiao Er stretched out a finger and said, "Every station has only one room, guard, do you either live in the backyard log cabin?"
Hong Jun said, "It's okay, I'll go to the log room."
"How does the young master sleep in the log room?" Xiao Er said, "Is there any rule in your family?"
Li Jinglong: "..."
Li Jinglong has never been out of Chang'an, so I don't know that every post on the official road along the way is only a room. Even if the merchants have to stay in the past, they are also setting up a screen in the hall of drinking and eating to deal with a night of sleep. Shangfang still lives for the wealthy businessman holding Guan Wen or the official who returned to Changan to report his job.
"That's it, let's sleep together." Li Jinglong saw that the room was clean, and the couch was quite big, so he simply packed it up and let Hongjun sleep, and found a pot of water to let the carp demon go in and soak, carp. One day the demon wind blows in the sun, the whole fish is almost dry.
After busy, after waiting for the young master, Li Jinglong laid himself down, thinking that I was a young master anyway, how could I not have a few days of the young master.
"Long history." Hong Jun said.
Li Jinglong replied: "Going out is not the same as staying at home, and you have to deal with it first."
"I can not sleep."
Hong Jun was led all the way by Li Jinglong during the day, and he slept too much, now he was energetic. However, Li Jinglong was very nervous when he came to trouble last night, and many things happened during the day, only to feel exhausted, and his head was heavy when he was on the pillow.
"Hmm." Li Jinglong closed his eyes and said, "So what are you going to do?"
"I think there are three possibilities for monsters in the north ..."
"Say." Li Jinglong said concisely that consciousness has begun to wander, Hong Jun said: "It is said that from the age of mountains and seas, there is a demon in the northwest, called 'Dry Pi'. This kind of monster will make the surrounding area drought. It ’s the desert ... "
Li Jinglong didn't say a word, Hong Jun approached a little, whispered: "Long ... History ... Are you asleep?"
When he was in Yaojin Palace, Hongjun always liked to tease him while he was sleeping. After watching Li Jinglong for a long time, he wanted to tease him. Li Jinglong had fallen into a deep sleep. Hong Jun observed for a moment and felt that his facial features looked good, so he took a piece of paper and traced it on his face a few times.
Li Jinglong raised his hand to block Hongjun's wrist, and Hongjun went to find the brush.
At night, the wild woods withered.
Mo Zhigen left Lishan, turned north, and galloped one day to the bank of the Yellow River.
This horse pole is as beautiful as the wind, and it runs from dawn to darkness, a day, and it runs six hundred miles.
"Do you have to go north again?" Mo Rigen fluttered in the cold wind and sighed. The winter in the north is extremely cold. After leaving the Hulun Lake area, he had four choices. First, he went west to Mobei, second, he went south to Suhang, and then went to Nanyue. Third, he went to Guanzhong Changan. Fourth, enter Shu.
Qiu Yongsi promised to help him inquire about the whereabouts of the white deer in the south, while Tegra paid attention to the areas of Kultai and Tianshan. The other two advised him, it is best to go north after Changan winter, so as to avoid the bitter cold of Mobei.
It will be too long until the end of spring and the beginning of summer next year, and I don't know what variables will appear in the meantime.
Morigen carefully put away the exorcism officer's uniform so as not to get dirty. He still wore the sackcloth slim hunter's uniform when he went south. The summer dress was too thin and was blown by the cold wind. His physique could not help but a little trembling, thinking After crossing the Yellow River, you have to buy clothes in the town.
The Yellow River will freeze in the middle of the day. Mo Rigen led the horse and boarded the last ferry. While crossing the river, he still reluctantly glanced back at the southern Central Plains.
At night, Yulin County on the north shore was still brightly lit, and Mo Rigen couldn't help rubbing his hands and striding into the fur shop with a large stride. Mo Rigen was tall and handsome, holding a horse, attracting many people on the street to cast envy Sight. After a while, he changed his jacket and put on a fox hat to restore the Shiwei man's appearance, making him more muscular and handsome.
After changing the new clothes, Morigen took out the finished leather mask from his bag and put a mask on his face to resist the snow, and his bright eyes looked down the street.
Tonight, he could only stay in Yulin first. He put on his gloves and prepared to go to the city to find some wine and drink. However, at this moment, there was a man along the street who rushed madly, his hair disheveled, and he yelled wildly.
Morrigan glanced sideways and kept walking under his feet, leading the horse into the winery.
"Hey! Stop it for me!"
The madman fell in the snow outside the medicine hall, and a man chased behind him, roaring, grabbing the scones in his hand.
The madman stole a scones and couldn't help shaking, and the man walked away scoldingly.
"Don't block the store to do business!" The boss shouted, "Go!"
The madman crawled and fled, fled to the side, and kept talking about something, Mo Zhigen thought about it, and found out a few coins, just about to buy him a cake, suddenly heard the madman in the distance whispered: " Ghost ... Ghost ... Ghost ... Deer? ... Deer! "
The eyes behind Morigen's mask suddenly widened, and he turned and ran to the madman.
The lunatic could not dodge, panting like a bellows.
Mo Rigen knelt in the snow on one knee and asked in a low voice, "What did you say?"
"This man is crazy!" The proprietress in the medicine hall splashed pots of water and said, "Come over from the northwest, crazy, and yelling before, saying there are night ghosts on the Great Wall."
Morrigan whispered, "What do you see? Don't be nervous."
The lunatic stared at Morigen staring blankly, but his eyes were bright.
Mo Rigen muttered the mantra in a low voice, crossed his palms, and slowly pressed down on the lunatic's forehead. The lunatic gradually calmed down from shaking.
The madman's eyes widened, and Morigen's reflection appeared in his bright eyes.
"It's all right." Morigen whispered comfortably, "Don't be afraid."
Morrigan flipped through the madman's clothes and found a small iron card in his pocket.
The iron card is written: Tianshui School City Weiqisansanlu.
The proprietress of the medicine hall observed Morigen and saw the leather mask he was wearing, and suddenly hey.
"Hey, you're in charge, look at it quickly. It's not what they said, the one outside of Cyprus ..."
"Get up and follow me."
Mo Zhigen nodded to the boss of the medicine hall, set up the madman, and led him away from the shop.