Chronicles of Celestial Origins

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In the majestic and majestic hall in the middle of Feilong Mountain, Dou Wencai looked at the letter in his hand and smiled.

"What did Dou Xiao say in his letter?" Dou Yanyu asked from the side.

"Read it yourself!" Dou Wencai handed the letter to her.

Dou Yanyu took the letter and read it over with a cold snort: "This Dou Xiao, relying on his status as a disciple of the Qianyi Sect, has never interacted with the people in our second room. Even if it is you, he is not polite. Now something has happened. , Only then did I know how to ask for help, if I had known this, why should I have let him taste the punishment of Qian Yizong. "

"Dou Xiao's life or death is not important, but if we can win over Tangning through his line, it will be of great benefit to us. Now that we have figured out the whole story, since he was not set up by others, let's start our plan! The three-step chess move will Tangning is completely tied to our warship."

"Please explain how it works specifically."

"The first step is to establish a relationship with common interests. You must do your best to ensure that Dou Chong returns to the house unscathed. Isn't he greedy for money? Just give him more spiritual stones, and then invite him to participate in our industry with huge profits. Come on, now that you have this handle, you can take the second step.”

"The second step is to make him trapped in it and unable to turn back. You arrange an incident, use his leverage as a threat, coerce and lure, and force him to kill the disciples of his sect. Don't Jiang You have several disciples of the Qianyi sect under him? Let him cooperate with you, and the two of you will come up with a plan together.”

"The third step is to get hold of the evidence that he killed his sect disciples, and then force him to tell us the important information about the Qianyi Sect. We need to do it step by step. We need to ask him some irrelevant information first, and gradually increase the importance of the information. In this way, He naturally became ours."

"We need to complete the first two steps before he returns to the sect, so we have to move quickly. Your first task is to make him agree to return Dou Chong to the mansion, and then I will invite him to participate in our Dou family's industry. As for the third step How to arrange the second step cleverly requires careful consideration, this is the most important step.”

Dou Yanyu said: "Yes, I understand."

"You give this letter to Bo Lun. If Dou Chong's matter asks him to do more, you can just keep an eye on it."

"Okay." Dou Yanyu responded and left the hall.

Dou Wencai saw her go away, and he turned into a ray of light and headed east. He came to a deserted field, stopped in front of a grotto, and walked in.

In the room, a fair-faced man sat cross-legged on a huge stone. Seeing him come in, he said, "Master has read the secret letter you sent. Let me pass it on to you. Your proposal is very good. If you can Instigating this person to rebel will be of great use to the sect. If this happens, you will have made a great contribution, but be careful not to expose yourself. "

"That's it? Where are the things I want?" Dou Wencai said calmly

The man turned his left hand, took out a wooden box and threw it to him.

Dou Wencai looked happy, but when he opened the wooden box and saw what was inside, he was a little disappointed: "Is this the only one? Where are the rest?"

"Don't be too greedy. The lion opened his mouth before the matter was finished. Do you think I can give you all those things with just a few words?" the man said sarcastically.

"What do you mean?"

"We fought bloody battles with Xuanmen on the front line. We never fought to the death. What have you done? Huddled in a corner of Qinchuan and became the head of your wealthy family, doing some sneaky things. The current situation of confronting Xuanmen is a life-and-death struggle for us. Yes, what credit do you have, so you have the nerve to ask for this or that?”

"You can talk to Master about what you said. See if he reprimands you and reprimands me." Dou Wencai said calmly.

The man snorted coldly and disappeared into the distance.

…

Outside Luoxia County, under a sycamore tree two miles west of the city, an old woman with chicken skin and white hair, a bowed back and waist, leaned against the old tree and stared blankly into the distance. She came at sunrise and returned at night.

She was wearing shabby coarse clothes, and day after day, no matter it was windy or rainy, the thunder and lightning never stopped.

There might be passers-by coming from the west, and she would ask them endlessly.

Over time, people in the county and town knew this old woman and she was called Wutong Woman.

Some people say that this old woman is marching far away with her only son, so she waits here every day. There are also rumors that she was abandoned by an unfaithful person when she was young, and she became insane. There are different opinions, and there are even dozens of rumors.

The cold came and the summer came, and the spring came in the east. She leaned against the old tree and looked into the distance all day long. Gradually, her eyesight became blurry and she couldn't see clearly. So she took a wooden branch to explore the way. Every time a pedestrian passed by, she always moved forward with her stick. , pulling people and interrogating them endlessly.

Everyone just thought she was a crazy woman and avoided her.

Until one day, a man walked up to her. She could not clearly see his face, but could only vaguely see his outline. He was a man with regular features.

The man said: "Grandma, I'm tired from walking, can you give me a drink of water?"

She took out the water bag and handed it to the man and asked, "Where are you from?"

"I come from the west."

"Have you ever met my granddaughter?"

The man said: "I don't know what your granddaughter looks like, and I don't know if I have seen her before."

"My granddaughter is sixteen or seventeen, no, she should be twenty-four or five now. She often wears blue cloth skirts. She has a delicate body, rich talents, and beautiful features since she was a child."

The man smiled and said: "Old man, what you are talking about can be millions or millions in the world. I don't know who you are talking about."

"I have been here for three years. Every time I pass by, I always see you here. I heard that you go out every morning and return at dusk. You have been here under the sycamore tree for ten years. Is it because you want to ask people about your granddaughter? I am a good storyteller and a nosy person. You might as well tell me in detail where your granddaughter went and when she went there. I travel all over the country and have been to many places. If I encounter her, I will bring her to see her. you."

"Thank you, little brother. If you can bring my granddaughter here, I will spend the rest of my life working as a cow or a horse. I will be grateful for your kindness." The old woman said, and she wanted to make a deduction.

The man gently lifted his body up: "It doesn't have to be like this."

The old woman said: "My granddaughter's life is miserable! She was born less than four months ago and was crushed to death by a beam when she was building beams for someone else's house. My daughter-in-law's parents are both dead and she has only one eldest brother in the family. Within a few years, she The eldest brother forced her to marry a wealthy man from far away as a concubine."

"My granddaughter has been frail and sick since she was a child. Her family was poor and she didn't have enough food or clothing. She suffered a lot from my old wife. Her father had an engagement with a neighbor in her early years and assigned her a marriage. When she was fourteen, She married into that family. Less than two years after her marriage, the county recruited soldiers and captured her husband as a young man. She went to the east gate of the city every day to wait for her husband to return. "

"Day after day, year after year, suddenly one night, a fire broke out in her house. Her parents-in-law, aunt, and others all died in the flames. Only she disappeared. No one was seen alive, and her body was not found. The government came to check I didn’t have a clue for several days.”

"Oh? There is no body. Was it burned?"

"No, the fire was extinguished by the neighbors not long after it started. The bodies of her parents-in-law, aunt, and family were all intact. I searched for people in the county town day and night to find out about her, and I met a man in a restaurant."

"He told me that the fire that night was not caused by a missing candle, but by a group of thieves. She was actually taken away by the thieves. The group of thieves was entrenched in the west, but he refused to say that the group of thieves were there anyway. Where is the west, so I come to the west of the city every day, and when I see passers-by from the west, I will inquire about her. "

The man arrived and said, "Thank you for your bowl of water. I will try my best to find her. If I encounter her, I will do my best to bring her back. By the way, I don't know your granddaughter's name."

"Her name is Su Jiaowei."

…

Tang Ning returned to the wooden house and asked Fangyuan to present Dou Chong's confession to the sect. Within a few days, Jiang Youzhi and others frequently invited him to drink. Tang Ning always came and got drunk every time he was invited.

There is only one thing. No matter how drunk he is, he will go back to the cabin no matter how late he is. He will never spend the night in Wangxichuan attic. This is not because he is afraid that the Dou family will do evil to him while he is drunk, but because he is worried that he will be drunk. , the Dou family used a beauty trap on him.

If I do something stupid while drunk, I'm afraid I won't be able to get over it.

He didn't want to cause trouble like this.

After about ten days, people from the Supervision Department finally arrived, and the monk who led the team was still Zhang Yan.

Everyone entered Tangning's wooden house, and the two of them sat down separately, while the rest naturally stood aside.

"The sect received your memorial file and immediately sent us to investigate and verify. Junior Brother Tang, what is going on? Who is this Dou Chong?" Zhang Yan asked

Tang Ning smiled and said, "Actually, it's very simple. The whole thing has nothing to do with Dou Xiao. Everything was done by Dou Chong alone. Dou Chong's confession made it very clear. This Dou Chong is Dou Xiao's cousin. Because of his serious entrustment, he had a rift with Wang Ming, a descendant of the Wang family in Xunyang County, so he secretly stole the secret file information of the Eastern Intelligence Station, hoping to find evidence of Wang Ming's crimes, and then handed it over to the sect to kill someone with a borrowed knife. "

"In that case, then Dou Chong will be arrested. We are ordered by the sect to investigate, interrogate and convict him."

"Dou Chong has surrendered and is being detained at the intelligence station. Fangyuan, go and take Dou Chong into custody."

"Yes." Fang Yuan responded, left the wooden house, and went straight with his sword.

"Senior Brother Zhang, wait a moment, let's have a taste of Qinchuan's wine." Tang Ning said, taking out a large jar from his storage bag, taking out several jade cups, and filling them with wine.

Zhang Yan said: "Junior Brother Tang, I appreciate your kindness, but I have never drank from this cup, and I don't like it."

"It's okay to try it. I didn't taste this last time I came to Qinchuan, but you can't miss it today. This is not an ordinary drink, it is a secret spirit wine."

"Oh?" Zhang Yan also became interested after hearing what he said: "Is it really a spiritual wine? I have often seen its name in books. It seems that today I have to break my taboo."

After saying that, he picked up a glass and drank it in one gulp.

"Well, it's a bit spicy and doesn't taste very good, but it does have the effect of stimulating spiritual power."

Tang Ning smiled and said to the disciples from the Supervisory Department standing nearby, "You guys should have a drink too!"