Abduct a shadow guard to investigate the case

The night is like ink, and the bright moon hangs high.

Sanhe Town ushered in the hustle and bustle of the night, Fangxiangqiaoshi, lights and singing.

Over the sky above the night market, a slender figure walked on the moon, jumped over the roofs quickly, and stopped on the high wall of the backyard of Huichun Hall, looking down at the scene in the courtyard.

Xuan Qi came to the window, opened the window of the guest room a crack, and looked around the corner of the street.

Before the time for a cup of tea, he explained to Shen Yao the reason why he wanted to visit Huichun Hall at night.

"What? You said that the person who gave you acupuncture wrote the word 'save' on your wrist?" Shen Yao raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"Well, when he helped me up." Xuan Qi said.

"'Save'...'Save me', 'Help me'...Is Dr. Han in any danger?" Shen Yao asked thoughtfully.

"Actually... I think the person who gave me acupuncture may not be Dr. Han..."

"Are you sure?!"

"I'm not sure. We just met Dr. Han for the first time, and I'm not familiar with him. At that time, I was blindfolded, and I couldn't tell whether it was him from the breath. But there is one thing, which is strange now. During the acupuncture process, Doctor Han didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, it was the apprentice next to him who spoke."

"When you said that, I also felt it. At that time, through the gauze curtain, I only saw a man in a crow blue gown who was similar to Dr. Han walking into the inner room to give you an injection. It was not very real. .If it wasn’t Dr. Han who gave the needle, who else would it be? Is he asking for help from you?” Shen Yao touched his chin and said.

"This... Xuan Qi doesn't know. But since we are seeing a doctor in Huichuntang, it's better to find out about this matter, so I want to talk about Huichuntang tonight." Xuan Qi looked at Shen Yao with earnest and firm eyes.

"Nonsense!" Shen Yao glared at him.

Xuan Qi was stunned and blinked.

Shen Yao said, "You are injured, do you want to make it worse?"

"I……"

"What are you?" Shen Yao interrupted him, stood up, and Xuan Qi hurriedly stood up.Shen Yao smiled at him, "You stay at the inn tonight, looking at Master Lu, why don't I go and check?"

Xuan Qi stayed in the inn, while Shen Yao walked out through the window.

Outside the window of the guest room was a back alley, empty of people at this time, Xuan Qi's eyes shifted to the night sky above his head, the moonlight tonight was as gentle as water, reflected in his eyes, and shone into his heart.He stretched out his hand to close the window, his gaze swept across the opposite corner, and the hand closing the window suddenly stopped.

Xuan Qi flew out from the window, turned over in the air, and the next moment, he had arrived at the corner of the wall opposite the window.

He squatted down, under the moonlight, carefully looked at a white scratch at the corner of the wall, his eyes moved, he picked up a piece of gravel from the ground, and next to the scratch, he carved a few more seemingly random marks .

On the other side, Shen Yao dodged the guards who were watching the night in the backyard of Huichuntang, turned over and jumped into the courtyard.

After checking several rooms, Shen Yao didn't find anything special. Shen Yao entered a small courtyard on the west side. There was a small main house in the courtyard and two side rooms in the east and west.The main house was lit, but strangely all the room windows were battened up.

Before Shen Yao came to the window, he heard Doctor Han's voice from inside the room, "Then read the book, don't read it too late, I'm leaving first."

Shen Yao hurriedly jumped up, and just flew to hide on the roof, the door of the room opened, Dr. Han walked out, turned around and closed the door, took out another lock, locked the door from the outside, and then set foot leave.

Shen Yao jumped off the roof, came to the door, picked up the lock and looked at it, took out a thin needle from his waist, and poked it at the keyhole.

He worked for a long time, and even heard the sound of things moving in the room.Shen Yao raised his hand to wipe the fine sweat from his forehead, and missed Xuan Qi's ability very much.

Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and there was a slight "click" sound, and the lock opened.

A vase flew towards him, Shen Yao stretched out his hand to catch it, looked at the person who threw the vase at the table in the room, and exclaimed "Doctor Han" in a low voice in surprise, the person saw his appearance clearly, and took half a step back slightly, But he didn't speak.

Shen Yao took a closer look, and found that the man was wearing a crow blue gown similar to what Dr. Han wore during the day, but his long hair was only casually pulled up, and most of it was scattered on his shoulders. Although his appearance was quite similar to that of Dr. Han, he was feminine. Many, and smaller in stature.

Shen Yao suddenly remembered a sentence he heard in Huichun Hall during the day, and he tentatively asked, "Are you... Doctor Han's sister?"

The man looked at him and nodded.

Shen Yao took two steps forward and explained, "During the day, you pretended to be Dr. Han, and gave acupuncture to a young man in black behind the gauze curtain, and wrote the word 'save' on his wrist."

The man nodded again, as if he had lost his vigilance, and did not back away.

Seeing this, Shen Yao walked over and put the vase on the table.

He suddenly remembered something and asked, "You can't talk?"

The man nodded, then shook his head again, looked at the teacup on the table, dipped his right index finger into the tea, and wrote three words on the table: "Dumb by medicine".

Shen Yao looked at it and asked, "Who did it?"

The man dipped in water again and wrote: "Brother".

Shen Yao frowned, and saw Doctor Han's sister write again: "Hero, save me".

"Well, I'll take you out first!" Shen Yao said.

Doctor Han's sister nodded to him, her eyes full of gratitude, and her subordinates wrote: "Go to the pharmacy" and "Grab the antidote."

Shen Yao understood, blew out the candles in the house, took Dr. Han's sister out of the house, and locked the lock on the door back.

Bringing a person over the wall and across the courtyard will inevitably require physical contact. Just as Shen Yao hesitated, Dr. Han's sister hugged her arm. Shen Yao was startled, but seeing Doctor Han's sister's face as usual, she raised her chin to him, signaling He climbed over a wall.

Shen Yao couldn't help mocking himself, and quickly turned into the pharmacy under the guidance of Doctor Han's sister.

Just after midnight, the night was quiet, only the occasional barking of dogs came from the corners and alleys.

Shen Yao took Doctor Han's younger sister back to the inn, and walked through the window, while Xuan Qi helped the Han family's younger sister to get in from the room.

Doctor Han's sister entered the room and stood firm, brushing off her clothes casually. Xuan Qi just said the word "Han", seeing her appearance clearly, and shut the word "doctor" from her mouth again.

Shen Yao jumped in from the window and explained to Xuan Qi, "She is Dr. Han's younger sister. You guessed it right, she was indeed asking for help during the day, and it was her brother who locked her up and asked him to pretend to be Giving needles to patients yourself.”

Doctor Han's sister expressed her gratitude to Xuan Qi for slightly blessing her lower body.

Xuan Qi cupped his hands in return.

Shen Yao briefly told Xuan Qi what he had discovered at night, and then said to Doctor Han's sister, "It's arousing suspicion. It's inconvenient to go to Xiaoer to make medicine tonight. You can take your medicine when we make medicine tomorrow morning." The antidote is also boiled."

Xuan Qi said, "I'm afraid that the Han family will find her missing tomorrow and will search for her in the town."

Shen Yao said, "That's right," he thought for a moment, and clasped his fists at the younger sister of the Han family, "Is Miss Han willing to go with us? Leave the town as soon as possible tomorrow morning, and we will take good care of the girl. On the other hand, Shen also wants to ask you to continue Treat my companion."

Doctor Han's sister listened and nodded quickly.

Shen Yao looked back at Xuan Qi, but he seemed to have something to say when he saw him, Shen Yao raised his eyebrows, Xuan Qi looked at Doctor Han's sister, but hesitated to speak.

Shen Yao blinked, and said to Doctor Han's sister, "Miss Han, it's expedient for now, I wrong you to rest in this guest room tonight, and Xuan Qi and I are keeping watch on the roof. Ring, and we'll come down."

Doctor Han's sister looked around the room and saw Lu Zangming who was sleeping soundly on the bed in the inner room. She took a breath and nodded to Shen Yao.

Hotel roof.

The night is like a daisy, and the semicircular moon hangs in the sky, exuding soft brilliance, dotted with stars, shining brightly, the outline of the mountains in the distance is faint, and the rows of roof tiles are scattered nearby, coated with a faint layer of light by the brilliance of the stars and the moon. silver frost.

Shen Yao and Xuan Qi sat down on the roof, and Shen Yao asked, "Can we tell what's going on now?"

Xuan Qi said, "I just found the secret code of the shadow guard of the hidden villa in the alley outside the inn. A brother was looking for the owner of the villa nearby, and left a secret code for information exchange between the shadow guards. I have already responded. Before sunset tomorrow, there will be shadow guards coming to check and join us."

Shen Yao nodded, "So you want to wait until you join the other Shadow Guards before leaving Sanhe Town?"

"Yes, there is still a day's mountain road away from the villa. It will be safer with a few more guards. However, if the Han family newspaper officer finds someone tomorrow, it may take some effort to hide Miss Han."

Shen Yao said, "What are you afraid of? Sanhe Town is so big, you and I can't hide a single person in one day. By the way, today under the guidance of Miss Han, I have found Song Ping's medical record."

"Young Master, have you discovered anything?" Xuan Qi asked.

Shen Yao frowned, and said, "Irregularity of internal organs, disharmony of six internal organs, gangrene and swelling on the back."

"gangrene?"

"Well, Miss Han said, it's a kind of lump on the body. Judging from Song Ping's illness, it's at an advanced stage, and it's an incurable disease."

"Incurable disease..." Xuan Qi also frowned and thought.

Shen Yao sighed, put his hands behind his head, and lay down on the roof. He looked at the night sky, then looked sideways at Xuan Qi, and said, "You also think it's strange, but it just so happened that Song Ping had a fatal illness." disease, arranged for the family members, and then destroyed the body and traces of the theft."

"You mean... Song Ping might have been bought by someone? He exchanged his life for money to give to his family." Xuan Qi was still sitting with one leg bent, with his arm resting on his knee, and the breeze blew up his forehead. His hair, the moonlight depicted his facial features more deeply, and the starlight was reflected in his deep eyes.

Shen Yao's eyes fixed on him, and the phoenix eyes implied tenderness, and said, "Well, if this is the case, then the person who bought him got the secret scroll back then. As for why it took two years to reveal the mountain and dew, maybe It’s to avoid the limelight, or to gather resources and conduct experiments.”

"Is this person the one who kidnapped the owner of the village and killed the deputy head?" Xuan Qi asked.

"The kidnapping of the owner of the villa seems to be inseparable from this person, but the murder of deputy hall master Shi is still unclear. It's just that all the clues now point to the inside of the villa, and it is likely to be someone from the medicine hall So, it is really a good thing that we have Miss Han as a foreign doctor this time." Shen Yao turned half over, and said to Xuan Qi, "Let's not talk about this tonight, by the way, these few days Riguang is busy running around, but in fact, I have always wanted to ask you something."

Xuan Qi said, "Sir, please tell me."

Shen Yao patted the roof tiles beside him, looked at Xuan Qi, then at his hand, Xuan Qi raised his eyebrows slightly, put one hand behind his head, and lay side by side with Shen Yao on the roof.

Shen Yao lay back on his back, stretched out a finger to the sky, clicked on a few bright stars, and asked, "We were at the bottom of Wujia Village before, how did you decipher the word 'lion' in the nursery rhyme through the 'star official map'?" Mysterious? Teach me."

"Well," Xuan Qi raised the corners of his mouth in an unpredictable manner, and said, "there are twelve star palaces in the West, which were introduced to China in the Sui Dynasty. Taoism enshrined the twelve star kings and other star kings together. Sagittarius and Hai are Pisces, which belong to Wood, Zi is Aquarius, Chou is Capricorn, which belongs to Earth, Mao is Scorpio, Xu is Aries, which belongs to Fire, Chen is Libra, You is Taurus, which belongs to Gold, and has been Gemini, Shen It is yin and yang, it belongs to water, noon is the day of the lion, and if it is not cancer, it belongs to the moon, the palace of the lion is the sun and star king, and the azimuth is noon, that is, the south."

"So the twelve gods on the wall at that time were the Xingjun of the Zodiac, and the south was the key 'lion' in the nursery rhyme."

"Exactly."

"You know so much, you even know something as unpopular as the Western Zodiac."

"My lord, the five elements of yin and yang are inseparable from Qimen Dunjia, and Xuan Qi only learned it in the shadow hall."

"Where is the Lion Palace in the sky?"

"Hmm..." Xuan Qi hesitated for a moment, then pointed to a starry sky in the south of the sky, "I think it should be there, the Lion Palace corresponds to our star official Xuanyuan," he swiped his hand from south to north, and tapped the sky There are six or seven stars, drawing a shape like a sickle, "there is the head, there is the neck, and there, it should be the mane."

Shen Yao responded, but turned to look at Xuan Qi's handsome and focused profile.

Xuan Qi felt Shen Yao's gaze, turned his head, and was face to face with him, with only a short distance between them.In Shen Yao's eyes, there seemed to be autumn water flowing, and it seemed to be shining stars, he smiled softly, and said to Xuan Qi, "The stars are so beautiful."

Xuan Qi felt that his ear tips were hot, a sweet and painful feeling rose in Xuan Qi's heart, joy and sadness, close at hand and far away, this kind of contradiction tore his heart, suppressed and wanted to break The desire that comes out of the wall.

Shen Yao looked at him, with unknown emotion flashing in his eyes, the two were silent for a moment, Shen Yao asked him, "Are you cold?"

Xuan Qi hurriedly said, "It's not cold." After he finished speaking, he was inexplicably upset.

Shen Yao sat up at once, just as Xuan Qi was about to sit up, Shen Yao stretched out his hand to take off his outermost robe, and covered Xuan Qi.

"Sir, this..."

"Be obedient," Shen Yao said to him, "You are injured, don't be brave, just make do with a night of rest, and I'll watch the night."

"No, how can you let the young master watch the night?" Xuan Qi shook his head and sat up.

Shen Yao stretched out his hand to prevent Xuan Qi from returning the robe, and said, "I'm not afraid of the cold, I'm much stronger than you now," he said, stretching his hand forward, as if he wanted to touch Xuan Qi's face, but suddenly As if remembering something, he shook his hand and withdrew it.

He lowered his head and touched his nose, then raised his head, just missed Xuan Qi's sad eyes, he said to Xuan Qi, "Anyway, put on your coat first, sleep or not, I will stay here tonight."

"..." Xuan Qi clenched his hands holding his robe, lowered his eyes, and said, "Thank you, my lord."