Demolition

Seeing the Huaihe River again, Lu Chen had a lot of thoughts in his heart. At the moment when he remembered the past, he felt that he saw Chaohu Lake.I am the guardian of Chaohu Lake and one of the lives it cares for. It will appear at every critical moment, like a parent protecting their children.All the lost memories are placed in the dark caves under Chaohu Lake. The process of recalling is to find the lost past in the direction most desired by the heart.

But the north and south banks separated by a river are completely different. As soon as they entered the territory of Nanchao, the group felt an unusual sense of oppression. The sky was so low and stuffy that people couldn't breathe. His face was gloomy and he was in a hurry, and there were many rats, snakes, ants and beasts scurrying along the way, and the situation was not optimistic.

They didn't go into the city, but found a restaurant in the suburbs to sit down. It was the best time for business at noon. Not only was the lobby not full, but the people sitting inside also looked down and didn't dare to talk. A picture of panic.Ji Chuan recruited a servant, but he did not expect that the one who came was the shopkeeper who was sitting behind to settle the accounts. After Ji Chuan boldly ordered a table of dishes, he got the surprised and happy expression of the originally sad shopkeeper, and took advantage of the opportunity to ask him

"We are travelers from outside. I wonder if my little brother knows any interesting places in Anqing Mansion?"

"Hey, gentlemen, I advise you to change the way. It's not easy to find a place to play. If you walk along Jiangnan, there are golden beans everywhere."

"Although the scenery in the south of the Yangtze River is indeed the best in the world, we have all walked to the gate of Anqing Mansion. There is no reason why we can't enter through the door."

"Hey, guest officer, if you listen to my advice, there will be nothing wrong. Of course, if you don't get in through the door, you have the advantage of not getting in through the door."

"how do I say this?"

The shopkeeper looked a little hesitant, but looking around, the small shop with few people left two tables in a short time, looking very bleak, so the shopkeeper also sighed

"How do you see my business?"

"Sparsely populated."

"To tell you the truth, the small shop has a few good dishes, and the prices are quite reasonable. Although it is not a prosperous place, it is still a stronghold. I don't usually dare to talk about the word "Xinglong". I still dare to do it. But in the past half a month, the business of the small shop has been getting worse day by day, and even the daily operation can't be maintained. If you come two steps late, you may see a closed shop."

"What happened to you?"

"It's not what happened to me, but a natural disaster."

"A natural disaster."

"The reason why there are so few people here is because Anqing Mansion has enforced a curfew and traffic restrictions for more than ten days. People inside can't get out, people outside can't get in, isn't there just less people on this road?"

"Oh? Why is there such a strict control? Is this related to natural disasters?"

"It started a month ago." The store owner also let go of the chatterbox, and sat at their table to act as a storyteller, "One night a month ago, the government suddenly enforced a curfew and drove everyone back home. The small one took a peek because he was outside the city, and it turned out to be a crow. To be honest, it is not uncommon to see a few crows in this place in Anqing Mansion, but there are thousands of crows. I have never seen the dense array of crows in Wanwan. I was scared to death at that time. There were flames outside the city wall and arrows flying around. However, this crow attack can only be said to be anticlimactic. They flew away without even entering the city.”

"At first, I thought the matter would end here, but after two days since the crow left, a rumor began to circulate in the streets and alleys," the shopkeeper lowered his voice pretending to be mysterious, and the other four had to pretend to be curious, " The rumor is that 'the one who wins the three-legged crow wins the world'."

Several people glanced at each other, showing just the right amount of confusion and surprise, and the shopkeeper continued triumphantly.

"This rumor was just a few words at the beginning, and then it was spread ten to ten times, and it became that our emperor took the throne after robbing the barbarians. The name is not right, and the three-legged The crow is a god sent down by the heavens, just to punish the emperor. Anyway, it came here anyway."

It can only be said that the courage of the people is really great, the four of them looked at each other, and the shopkeeper was talking eloquently without realizing it

"If you want me to say, don't you just want to fight? Whose throne is justified? I don't believe that you can be the emperor with a crow. If you really want a crow with three legs, how can you be alone for so many years?" Didn't find any?"

Seeing that the topic of this posture is about to be taken away, Ji Chuan hurriedly added a sentence

"And then? Just because of this rumor that Anqing Mansion is going to be closed?"

"No," the shopkeeper stopped talking and continued, "It's because a group of crows attacked the city half a month ago."

Lu Chen calculated in his mind, it should be the flock of crows who went crazy when he left Baiyazhai

"This time the government didn't warn in advance, and the crows were not as gentle as last time. They went on a rampage and injured many people. It was hard to drive them out, but Anqing Mansion was also seriously injured. Because of the recent incidents For the two incidents of crows attacking the city, the government sealed off the city for safety reasons, preventing people from easily entering or leaving the city."

Having said that, Lu Chen knew in his heart that the reason why Yingyuan closed the city was probably to search for his whereabouts.Even if he found Sangmu's chain, he was still unwilling to sneak away by himself.

"However, I see that the people here are very scared, and there are birds and beasts flying away along the way. Is there anything else going to happen?"

The shopkeeper sighed.

"This is also where I am strange. Some people say it is God's punishment, and some say it is a precursor to the earthquake. There are different opinions. The atmosphere in the city is not good. As a result, my business is even more bleak. "

After chatting for a while, I was worried that the owner of my small shop went to the back kitchen to help them prepare meals.

The four of them didn't speak much, Duan Jiang was silent for a while and said

"This kind of vision should be caused by cultivating mulberry wood. The air of mulberry wood is leaked, and ordinary people can't feel it, but animals are more sensitive."

"But why did the crows from Baiyazhai attack the city again?" Duan Lin asked suddenly

In fact, Lu Chen wanted to say that maybe it was because Duan Lin's father, Duan Shan, was dead, and no one was controlling those crows, so they just did whatever they wanted, but he didn't dare to speak out, so he had to keep his head down, but it was Ji Chuan who spoke.

"I think the reason for the closure of Anqing Mansion is not that simple."

"I think so too." Lu Chen quickly echoed, "Could it be that Sangmu's upbringing was not going well, and he closed the city because he was worried about external interference." But what external force could there be besides the crow?

"The top priority is to sneak into Anqing Mansion secretly and find those raven-removal people. One day later, they will suffer more damage."

"That being said, where are we going to find it?"

Ying Yuanzhi would never use the back office of Anqing Mansion as his base camp, but other than that, where else would he be able to refine mulberry trees?

"Do you think it will be in Baiya Village?"

Lu Chen had an idea, if the day he saw Duan Shan was the first day when the mulberry tree began to grow, then the mulberry tree at that time should be very fragile, but the crows in Baiyazhai were affected immediately and sent out Crazy, either the crows in Baiyazhai are much more sensitive than others, or it is because the place where the mulberry tree was born is very close to Baiyazhai.

"You are right." Duan Jiang also agreed

"But when I was still in Anqing Mansion, I rarely saw Ying Yuanwai go out. If he arranges such an important place in Baiyazhai, there is no reason not to keep an eye on it."

It takes a lot of effort just to collect and detain those crackers. There are only about 40 crackers in Anqing Mansion, and even including the ones brought by Ying Yuanzhi himself, there are only [-] of them.With such a small number of people, it is far from enough to accomplish Ying Yuanzhi's goal.

"It's Nianqi!" Ji Chuan said.

"Nian Qi?"

"Nian Qi is the deputy head of the Tzu Chi Hall, and he is sinister and vicious, so he is not very popular with the people in the hall." Duan Jiang explained

"But Tzu Chi Tang is a sect in the north." How could Ying Yuanzhi get involved with the forces in the north?And, "How do you know?" Lu Chen looked at Ji Chuan strangely.

Ji Chuan looked at him for a while before explaining

"Actually, I already knew that Ying Yuanzhi and Nian Qi were in collusion."

Lu Chen's eyes widened, and Ji Chuan continued to explain

"My uncle poisoned my people. I followed the clues to find Nian Qi, but found that he had already used this kind of poison, and the destination of the poison was Yangyue City in the south. I was in a hurry, so I begged Duan Lin to contact Mr. Duan. Sir, only now did I know Ying Yuanzhi's conspiracy. I was afraid that he would be bad for you, so I went to the south with all my might, and the poisoned 3000 people were originally just to confuse the public, but the real purpose was to let me find you."

Lu Chen was dumbfounded, that's how the bloody man lying in his room came from.

"That means..."

"That's right, that Jue Village was actually poisoned by the Great Ming."

"But why?"

"I guess Ying Yuanzhi was not sure about Sangmu's whereabouts at that time, so he wanted to find the golden dan crow by dissecting the alchemy. The golden dan crow is the crow king. The role of the crow king is similar to mine. You can pretend to be a real one. The Three-legged Crow, plus he has Taiyi's successor in his hands, as long as he finds the Three-legged Crow, everything will be at hand."

It turned out to be so!That village full of crows and those villagers who were unwilling to become crows and turned into humans when encountering demons turned out to be the poison under Yingyuan!Just to find a real crow, he sacrificed so many innocent people.

Lu Chen felt that he had never really understood Ying Yuanzhi, and he didn't know that his appetite had reached a bottomless level.

Then the weird light in Lianle Lane and Ying Yuanzhi's behavior of calling him out of Yangyue City after seeing his city patrol report and ignoring him urgently can all be linked.In the place where the security is the most lax, at the feet of the emperor, he is so unscrupulous in doing such atrocious deeds.People in a village were fed poison by him, and then waited in pain for their sanity to fade away, turning into a pitch-black crow, before being brutally dismembered.

In Ying Yuanzhi, no, in the eyes of power, there is no concept of human life, even if the blood flows under the feet, so what, as long as you can look down on all sentient beings in the end, everything is worth it, and everything must be used for oneself.