you got on my tail

Although Xingshan Mountain is in the same mountain range as Nanshan Mountain, the Snowy Crane took people along for a long time before finally getting close to it. When the heat was steaming at noon, the Snowy Crane didn't have any intention of resting, and still led people along the stream.

When the two mountains approached, the source of the pool gradually narrowed, and the mountain road began to twist and turn. Bai Xuehe stepped on the gravel and walked a few steps, almost falling down again.

"It's hard to go up any further." The guide gave him a hand, "My lord, don't go up."

"Is there something wrong here?" Bai Xuehe asked.

"Yes." The guide replied truthfully, "During the mine accident, the gravel fell and smashed the road ahead, so I never went up."

"The road is smashed, and no one has repaired it?" Bai Xuehe looked up, and saw that the road seemed to be able to extend a little bit, but it was gradually hidden among the rubble in the deep mountains.

"The people above need to allocate money to build the road, and this place is haunted because of the mine disaster..." the guide stammered, "We didn't dare to go there, so no one came up."

"Did you witness the haunting with your own eyes, or did you pass it on?" Although the guide made it clear that he didn't want to go up, Bai Xuehe still asked with a good-natured smile.

"I haven't seen the small ones, but there are so many people who died, and there should be movement." The guide replied cautiously, "Someone heard the movement, I was timid, and I never came up. But look, my lord, this place is alone. The flowers and trees don’t grow anymore.”

Bai Xuehe nodded, and the sound of footsteps gradually came from behind. Lu Yongning and Lan Ziqing walked behind them with some people. Lu Yongning was out of breath, but Lan Ziqing's face remained unchanged.

Bai Xuehe suddenly thought that Lan Ziqing seemed to have some skills when facing that drunk last night.

"The mining accident should be man-made, not a natural disaster." Bai Xuehe looked at Lan Ziqing and smiled, as if nothing happened yesterday. The plants are so neat that the flowers and trees can't grow. Governor Lu, why didn't you report such an obvious matter to the court?"

Lu Yongning's face showed some calm embarrassment, and then he praised Bai Xuehe with a pale complexion. Lan Ziqing was very stupid and couldn't say any compliments, and his expression was slightly puzzled. He looked forward, Bai Xuehe Crane's eyes were clear and clean, and when he said those inferences, Junxiu's face seemed to be a little childish, but it was hard to see what kind of person this was.

Bai Xuehe knew that Lan Ziqing was worried about what happened last night, so he sighed and comforted him: "I drank too much yesterday, so I didn't choose what to say."

never mind.Lan Ziqing was startled, and then smiled.

Only such a dull person would believe that Bai Xuehe was an upright person in his bones because of the bullshit article he wrote a long time ago, and also believed that he had persuaded Mr. Bai who was generally considered "shameless" last night.

Bai Xuehe was very disdainful, but his whole body was terrified by those trusting smiling eyes.

He felt that he should have sneered at Lan Ziqing's reaction, but unexpectedly, he didn't show anything. Instead, Lu Yongning, who had been unresponsive, came up and said, "According to what your lord said, this coal mine was deliberately destroyed?"

"That's right." Bai Xuehe smiled back and said, "The water source was disconnected to intercept the river, and there were ghosts and human voices. I guess they left the miners inside. I heard from Liu He that after the mine disaster, there was a fire and the mummified corpses It should also be the person who was unfortunately left in the cave, and was roasted alive like porcelain."

"Didn't the hand just be broken a few days ago?" Lu Yongning asked back, "How could the corpse come out..."

"Maybe it's an evil ghost." Bai Xuehe smiled a little coldly, "In short, this matter has nothing to do with General Liu. It's best for the magistrate to release him."

"This...you mean that someone is stealing mining and faked a mine accident?" Lu Yongning shook his head again and again, disobeying the imperial envoy for the first time, "This is impossible, even if there is water, no vents, no passages, people How is it possible to live?"

"We are here to solve the case, there is nothing we can find." Bai Xuehe kept his old expression and smiled calmly.

"Your Excellency wants to investigate, and the official should accompany you." Lu Yongning's expression suddenly changed, "But there are still things in the house, and the official can only resign first."

Then he ordered the officers and soldiers, "Follow Master Bai."

Lu Yongning left, but Lan Ziqing did not leave, but stopped in place, hesitating to speak.

"Do you want to ask about the severed hand?" Looking at the idiot hesitating, Bai Xuehe seemed to be joking, "Do you think this officer wants to wrong someone again?"

"Let me tell you, the severed hand is a mummy. How can we tell when it died? If it is inferred from the time it was soaked in the water, it was thrown into the water." Bai Xuehe didn't wait for Lan. Ziqing opened his mouth and answered first, and then asked, "By the way, where is the county magistrate who was kicked out because of the mine disaster before you?"

"The carriage overturned and fell to his death." Lan Ziqing suddenly raised his head and instantly sensed something was wrong.

"You go and write the paper to impeach me, saying that I have wronged General Liu, and send it straight to Yushitai." Bai Xuehe ordered in a low voice, "Write it in the paper again, please send someone to arrest me."

It was getting late, Bai Xuehe walked around the foot of the mountain, called his followers to find him an inn to stay temporarily, and investigated the case as he said, he didn't go back to the county town for three days.

So Heidan lived in the county for three days, and he couldn't wait for him to come back.

Heidan was a little anxious and wanted to run out to find him, but the officers and soldiers stopped him, saying that Master Bai had something to do.

"Then I won't go." They thought that Heidan would lose his temper, but the child knew that Bai Xuehe was going to deal with business, so he played with the little fox very obediently, eating and going to bed on time every day.

In the middle of the night, Heidan hugged the milk fox and slept in a ball. In another room, Yu Yan was still sitting under the lamp embroidering. The golden thread was shaken, and a dragon was faintly embroidered on the bright yellow brocade, which was exactly the same as the drawing next to it.

A figure suddenly appeared in the window, Yu Yan put down the embroidery thread, blew out the candle, and a tall man entered the room.

"The embroidery is so beautiful." The voice sounded, and the man picked up the embroidery cloth, his slender eyes were as gentle as water, "You foxes are really dexterous."

"I have done as you said, where is my husband?" Yu Yan raised her head, with a sad look on her brows, "He..."

"You still have something to do, the last thing." The man put his finger on his lips, "Bai Xuehe is in Xingshan now, you go and kill him."

"No!" Yu Yan was shocked, then quickly shook her head and put away the embroidery, "Enough, I don't know Lord Bai at all! How can I do it, I have never killed anyone!"

She threw down the embroidered cloth suddenly, stabbing her slender wrist like a sword, reaching straight to the man's throat, her mild watery eyes turned bluish-gray, and she was suddenly murderous.

"Don't want to see your husband?" The man remained calm, his voice was deep, like an irresistible temptation, "Your name was all given by him, so you don't want to see him now? Or do you want to let him marry someone else?" A wife and a child?"

"Naturally I don't want to." Yu Yan lowered her head, finally put away her killing intent, and then muttered, "Then how is my husband-in-law doing?"

The man nodded, and lightly put his hand on Yu Yan's shoulder, "Don't worry, go find Bai Xuehe, I will do everything to you."

"But how should I find..." Yu Yan wanted to ask again, but the man had disappeared.Footsteps sounded in front of the door, and Heidan ran over with the milk fox in his arms, "Mother Fox, let's go have supper."

Yu Yan looked at that face, and quickly wiped away the tears that had just flowed.

On the second day, Heidan got up very early again, combed his hair clumsily, and sat at the door chewing a bun with his arms in his arms.

Cheeks bulged, a bun was quickly swallowed, Heidan ran back and looked through some scripts, but only an hour passed.

The sun rose to mid-air, Heidan ran into the room with the fruit bought on the street, babbled and babbled to wake up the milk fox, and then turned into a fat snake and lay among the fox fur, the two animals whispered.

"I've eaten less these days." Heidan looked at his stomach that hadn't gotten smaller, "Do you think I've lost weight?"

The little fox barked twice childishly, which meant only Heidan could understand.

"I knew it hadn't changed." Heidan was only depressed for a moment, then remembered the script he had just read, raised his tail and asked, "Then shall I tell you a story?"

"Is it still the old story?" The little fox called out twice quickly, "I'm tired of hearing it, don't want it."

"Then don't talk about it." Heidan's tail hung down, and then lay on the milk fox's head, "Sleep."

"You woke me up!" The milk fox shook his big tail, "Xiao Hei, let's go out and play!"

"What if Bai Xuehe comes back and sees that I'm not here." Heidan lay on the milk fox's head, then turned over, "He has to worry if he can't find me."

"Then let's go find him!" The milk fox raised his paw and suggested that he didn't want to wait.

"In fact, I really want to find him. I don't know where to go to read like a snake, and I've been sleeping by myself recently..." Hei Dan basked in his stomach, and his tone was a little aggrieved, "It's reasonable for him to be busy. I shouldn't bother him, but I have nowhere else to go."

The little fox was also very anxious, put his little paw on Heidan, and howled to comfort him.

"You said your mother was sad too, why?" Heidan reasoned curiously, "She must miss her husband too much, he must be very kind to her."

There was a sudden noise outside the door, Heidan quickly turned into a man and put down the bed curtain, and then said "wait a minute" while putting on his clothes and socks, the milk fox anxiously helped him pick it up, and whined again, "You idiot doesn't even have clothes!" won't change".

"It's me." Yu Yan pushed open the door and sat down with a very soft voice, "Xiao Hei, do you want to go find Bai Xue He?"

"It's you." Heidan just relaxed and opened the bed curtain, and explained sensiblely, "He has something to do, so I can't disturb him."

"You miss him here, maybe he misses you too." Yu Yan lowered her voice, "It's not to disturb, but to do something to meet the person you want to see, there's nothing wrong with it..."

"Then..." Heidan obviously began to hesitate, "How do we go out, people are watching outside."

"Can't you get out after turning into a snake?" Yu Yan suggested, but her voice was very guilty.

In the evening, two foxes, one big and one small, brought the fat snake to the small village at the foot of Xingshan Mountain. Heidan hid in the street corner and put on his clothes. He raised his head and said, "Don't look at it!"

"We don't want to watch it!" The milk fox objected immediately, and then tugged on Yu Yan's sleeves, Yu Yan regained consciousness absent-mindedly, "That's right, we don't want to watch Fat Hei change clothes."

"I haven't eaten much these days! All..." Heidan retorted angrily just now, when he suddenly saw a few men in black walking through the streets, one of them looked very familiar even though he had changed clothes, as if It was the bad guy who wanted Bai Xuehe to throw him away.

Did he come to bully Bai Xuehe again?No wonder Bai Xuehe didn't dare to come back.

"Find a place to live on your own." Heitan carefully turned into a snake, and said slowly, "I have something to do."