Queen's Detective

A senior person came in front, and a senior person came from behind, babbling—what a pissed off old man!

The white-bearded senior narrowed his eyes and said aggressively, "Which school did you come from?"

Yan Sanbai curled his mouth, neither humble nor overbearing, "I have quite a lot of apprenticeships, if you count as a real apprentice, it is Dongling Bulual Mountain."

The seniors paused for a moment, then gasped together, "Mount Dongling is not old?!"

The rest of the people looked at each other in blank dismay, Dongling is not old?Where did this sect come from, I have never heard of it.

However, these seniors with extremely high seniority and world knowledge beyond the reach of ordinary people all looked dignified, "Do you have proof?"

Yan Sanbai thought for a while, then turned around and asked Xu Changjin to borrow a sword, and closed his eyes, as if he was remembering something.Everyone looked curiously, and saw his wrist slowly turned, from stillness to movement. In an instant, the sword shadow suddenly pulled out the afterimage, and a nothingness sword flower suddenly bloomed on the tip of the sword!

Others were still marveling at the beauty of the many flowers, but the white-bearded senior had recognized them and exclaimed, "Suiyuehua!"

Mountain of Immortality, Years of Flowers, this ancient sect is too strict in accepting apprentices, only a single disciple can be produced in decades, it has long since disappeared from the Jianghu, and only exists in the memory of some older generations.Unexpectedly, they saw this flower again here!What is the origin of this Yan Sanbai?

Thinking of this, they looked at Yan Sanbai with a slightly more serious gaze.But when the others heard the explanation, they suddenly realized that Yan Xiatan's mentorship had always been a mystery, and now it was finally solved.This is something not old, although I have never heard of it, but judging from the reaction of the Tianshan School, it should be very powerful. No wonder it can cultivate such a master as Yan Sanbai.And Yan Sanbai once met a Chu madman, this kind of good fortune is beyond the reach of human beings.

And calculated in this way, isn't Yan Sanbai's seniority the highest in the room?How high?

Everyone was right, but soon, Li Yan gave the correct answer, because he, an old man, happened to have heard about this miraculous sect from his master, who was a senior man.

So he was immediately happy, raised his slender phoenix eyes slightly, looked at Yan Sanbai who was only about twenty, and said in a brisk tone: "Yo, master."

Master? !

Everyone was stunned. They had seen someone with a high seniority, but they had never seen someone with such a high level!Now the people of the Tianshan faction are down!Even the majestic King of Luoyang shouted, is there any reason for you not to shout?

Besides, the King of Luoyang is a generation higher than you.

Sensing the gazes of everyone present, several seniors of the Tianshan faction couldn't hold back immediately, but probably because the name of Bulaoshan is too famous, although they were reluctant, they still blushed and bowed to Yan Sanbai with a strange expression , As for the name, it is absolutely impossible to call it out.

But because of this little episode, they completely shut up, no longer care about the Chen family's affairs, and no longer ask Yan Sanbai if he knows something.

Li Yan waved his hand, "Take Ning Xiang back to the Yamen first, as for Chen Xuxu, let her go home."

Chen Shanwen had a good plan, and if he failed, Ning Xiang would be a backer, but he didn't expect Li Yan to be involved in this matter when he planned.

Everyone set off to return to Yingchuan. Although Chen Shanwen cheated Qingshan Sword Sect this time, Xu Changjin was a loyal person and did not intend to make trouble at this time. Moreover, Ning Xiang was the daughter of the previous head. The relationship between the Chen family and Qingshan Sword Sect How can it be broken for a while.This time, Zongli might not be able to send a few highly respected uncles over to clean up the aftermath.

The people from other sects said their goodbyes, and wanted to send the news back to the sect as soon as possible.This time the various sects suffered heavy losses. Not to mention the casualties of the younger generation, none of the uncles who went in before survived. It doesn't matter much, and I have to be forced to give an explanation.

But for Li Yan and Yan Sanbai, these were matters outside of the body, and there were naturally rules for getting along with each other. Yan Sanbai was not a peacemaker, and Li Yan was not, so there was no need to provoke more.

Moreover, Li Yan also got busy after returning to Yingchuan. Chen Shanwen was ambitious, and his life and death were still unknown, so he had to settle this account with the Chen family.

But I didn't expect that I didn't know, and I was taken aback. When Li Yan sent people to search the Chen family, they found the Shenhou Nu in the Chen family's warehouse!

When he was in Luoyang, Yan Sanbai was almost injured by Shenhou Nu. Li Yan followed this clue, but found no effective clues, but he unexpectedly met him here.But the Chen family is a powerful family, where did the Shenhou Nu come from?

Li Yan suspected that Chen Shanwen took it from Qiu Chan and the others, but Yan Sanbai immediately asked a question, "Is it possible that the Shenhou crossbow in Qiu Chan's hand was taken from Chen Shanwen at all?" ?”

Reverse thinking can sometimes have unexpected effects.Li Yan immediately thought of many things. How prominent the Chen family was in the previous dynasty. Even now, this big and famous family has an intricate relationship with the court. They want to get the Shenhou Nu, which is actually more expensive than Qiu Chan and his group. much easier.

Then push it backwards, how many people like Chen Shanwen are connected with that mysterious organization of Qiu Chan?How big is the web they weave?

And the court knew nothing about it.

Li Yan was well aware of the seriousness of this matter, and immediately followed the line of the Chen family to investigate, but what was disappointing was that the rest of the Chen family really didn't know much about it, even Ning Xiang knew very little about it.Chen Shanwen was meticulous in his work, and he took the Chen family out of this matter very cleanly.

The investigation suddenly reached a deadlock again.

"But there is another way." In the inn room, Yan Sanbai had just bathed and changed, put on clean clothes, and sat at the table drinking tea refreshedly, "They have been chasing me for so long, they will come sooner or later Kill me, as long as a few are captured alive, there will definitely be more news than now."

Li Yan sat opposite him, "Who would expect someone else to kill him?"

Yan Sanbai rubbed his nose, "I'm used to it."

Li Yan raised his eyebrows, full of aura, "It doesn't matter if you get used to it."

"Oh..." Yan Sanbai responded subconsciously, correcting if he knew a mistake or being a good detective.But after he finished speaking, he felt something wrong, the hand holding the teacup paused, he looked at his reflection in the tea, and couldn't help but ask himself - why are you so obedient?

But soon he found an appropriate reason, because what Li Yan said made sense.

Right, that is it.

Li Yan, who spoke very logically, looked at Yan Sanbai who was in a daze, and asked with a smile, "Do you think you look good?"

"Cough, no." Yan Sanbai said, "It's not as good as the prince."

Ling Ding passing by said, why are these two people flattering each other again at night, isn't it because they are good-looking, it's amazing.But he changed his mind and thought again, it is indeed quite remarkable, the creation of heaven and earth.

The next day, Yan Sanbai went to bed early and woke up early in the early morning sunshine, but just as he opened the window and looked down, he saw those members of the Tianshan faction standing downstairs in the inn, and happened to meet eyes.

"It's there!" Someone shouted, and they rushed into the inn quickly, and went upstairs, obviously after going back and thinking all night, they felt that they couldn't just let this senior young man go. , and they heard about Yan Sanbai's meeting with Madman Chu, and they even planned to ask him why.

Yan Sanbai was so helpless, seeing that those people were about to rush to the second floor, he quickly jumped from his room to the protruding eaves of the first floor, then turned around and quickly closed the window.

But look left, look right, where to hide?

Downstairs, the people who came out to go to the market early in the morning also looked at him curiously - where are you hiding?

At this time, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the window of the next room suddenly opened!

Li Yan poked his head out, looked at Yan Sanbai who was standing on the eaves looking left and right, and waved, "Come here."

Yan Sanbai's eyes lit up, and he quickly turned over and entered Li Yan's window.

When one window closes, the other window opens again.An old man with a white beard poked his head out, "Where's the person?"

The people downstairs shook their heads and said they didn't know, but they were thinking in their hearts—the relationship between Luoyang Wang and Yan Xiatan really is good.

In the room, Li Yan sat back on the side of the bed, leaning back with one hand on the back, leaning back slightly, and rubbing the somewhat messy hair that hadn't been combed yet.

Because he just woke up, he was still wearing a black undershirt, and as he moved, the undershirt was wide open, revealing a large chest.He seemed displeased to be woken up, squinting his sleepy Danfeng eyes, his fierce aura was almost undisguised.

Yan Sanbai just glanced at it and told himself not to look at evil, and then planned to go to the door to see if those people had left.

But Li Yan saw his action, and all the bad potential in his bones was aroused. He grabbed Yan Sanbai's arm and leaned over from behind slightly, "Where do you want to go? Zhuangyuan Lang."

"Cough, my lord, I'm going to... uh, have breakfast." Yan Sanbai was quick to think.

"Eat breakfast?" Hearing eating, Li Yan calmed down a little, patted Yan Sanbai's shoulder, and smiled almost face to face: "Remember my advice now?"

"Well, eat well and live a long life." The deep and magnetic voice made Yan Sanbai's ears itch, and he blushed unconsciously, but a smile appeared in his heart. At this moment, Li Yan, in his opinion, More like a big urchin playing a rogue, so the tone of his speech also brought some comfort.

Li Yan frowned, feeling that his tone was not quite right.Just as I was about to ask him for advice again, the door opened at a very inopportune time.

"My lord, it's time to get up..." Ling Ding looked at the two who were so close in surprise.He blinked, then blinked again, suddenly realized: "Hero Yan, did you sleep with the prince last night?"

"Ah?" Yan Sanbai didn't understand how Ling Ding came to this conclusion at all, but Li Yan laughed out loud. Ling Ding's conclusion won his heart deeply.

At this time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the door, and all three of them turned their heads to look, when they heard a knock on the door, and someone came from behind the door and said respectfully: "Dali Temple Chancellor Zhang Yan pays homage to His Royal Highness King Luoyang, Lord Yan .”

Zhang Yan?Why is he here?

Yan Sanbai and Li Yan looked at each other, Li Yan was fully awake at this moment, grabbed a robe and put it on, and said, "Come in."

Zhang Yan just appeared at the door, and Yan Sanbai asked: "Master Zhang is not in Chang'an, why are you here?"

Zhang Yan said: "My lord, there was a murder case in Qu County a few days ago. I came out with Lord Guan to investigate the case, but the case was too mysterious. I heard that Lord Yan is in Yingchuan, not far from the left and right. Lord Guan then sent an official to ask him to go and have a look."

case?Yan Sanbai blinked, Guan Qingci actually asked him for help?

Qu County is not far from Yingchuan, but it is not close. It takes about three days to go here, and it takes six days to go back and forth.Guan Qingci did not hesitate to spend the six days to ask Yan Sanbai for help, which shows that this case is not ordinary.But in a small county like Qu County, what kind of difficult cases could arise?

Zhang Yan was in a hurry, before he had time to elaborate, under Li Yan's unfriendly gaze, he secretly wiped off a cold sweat, and invited Yan Sanbai to the horse.Li Yan glanced at Ling Ding, and Ling Ding understood, so he recommended himself to be Yan Sanbai's attendant. As for A Da and A Er, because they didn't have a horse that could bear their weight, they were left with Li Yan sadly.

Because Li Yan still needs to deal with the affairs of the Chen family, once this kind of aristocratic family moves, more than one person will be affected, even if he is the king of Luoyang under one person, he needs to think carefully.

On the way to Qu County, Zhang Yan took a break to explain the case to Yan Sanbai in detail.

The case took place in an unremarkable village in Qu County, and the cause of everything originated from a black box.About a month ago, a young man went missing in the village, and no one could find him no matter how hard he looked, but a few days later, he saw the young man's floating corpse in the small river flowing through the village.

The young man's family was devastated and wanted to bury him.However, the old villager in the village said that the young man had the aura of a fox demon on his body, so he could not be buried directly, but had to be cremated.The young man's family disagreed at first, but the village affairs had the final say, so the young man was finally cremated, and the ashes were packed in a black sandalwood box.

During the burial, Muramasa asked someone to perform a ritual, saying that it was to get rid of the evil spirits on the ashes.

After the burial, the people in the village did what they were supposed to do, and they didn't take this matter to heart, but unexpectedly, something happened that night.A young man from the same village had a quarrel with his father when he was mourning, and went home angrily.His father felt relieved after a while, and when he went home, he found that his son had been hanged on the beam of the house.

And under his son's corpse, in the shadow of the corpse, there is a black sandalwood box! "Hey, didn't this box come out of the coffin?" Hearing this, Ling Ding said in surprise.

Zhang Yan's expression suddenly became a little weird, and he took a deep breath, "No way..." "But that's how it happened. When Mr. Guan arrived there, the first thing he did was to open the coffin against all odds. The coffin is empty!" Zhang Yan couldn't help shivering when he said this, "The most evil thing is not this, after the hanged man died, people in the village began to spread rumors that the reason why he hanged himself was It was because when he was buried, he happened to be standing at the diagonally opposite corner of the casket. At that time, the sun was about to set, and his shadow slanted on the casket. Wasn’t he doing a ritual at that time? Thinking of a test after finishing the method, pop!"

Zhang Yan spoke so vividly that he trembled with fright, and quickly approached Yan Sanbai.

Zhang Yan's eyes widened, and he continued: "The box locked the shadow of the hanged man in! Is that why he died?" "Although Ling Ding was afraid in his heart, he was next to Yan Sanbai, but his mouth was still stubborn.

Zhang Yan just gave him a look like you have never seen the world, "You will know when you get there, now not only this thing is evil, but the whole village is fucking evil, all of them are strange and chaotic, making me wait After a few days, I almost feel that there are ghosts in this world, otherwise, why would my lord ask me to invite Master Yan, isn’t it also helpless, I think Master Yan is better at this kind of thing.”

Yan Sanbai touched his nose innocently, "Where is my skill at?"

Zhang Yan quickly smiled and said, "Master Yan, you are so smart, of course you are good at any case."

Yan Sanbai could only look at the sky speechlessly, thinking that if Li Yan was there, he would probably sneer again and say 'pretending to be a ghost', but his curious eyes lit up.

Three days later, Yan Sanbai and his party arrived in Qu County smoothly.The three of them did not stay in the county seat, but went directly to Daqing Township, where the case happened.

Daqing Township is located at the foot of a mountain. The mountain is not high, and it is a low green hill with southern characteristics. Because this mountain is called Daqing Mountain, the village at the foot of the mountain is called Daqing Township.

A small stream meanders out from the Daqing Mountain. The stream gradually widens and becomes a small river, flowing through the village at the foot of the mountain.When Yan Sanbai and the others rode their horses into the village, they passed by this small river.

As soon as he entered the village, Yan Sanbai felt something was wrong.Although it is not noon, it is late, but along the way, there is not even a young man in the field. After entering the village, there are people, but everyone looks at them very strangely, it is a kind of scrutiny And guarded eyes, with a hint of repulsion vaguely.

It is said that the villagers are simple and honest, but the people here all walk around them, and no one comes to strike up a conversation with them.

Zhang Yanque was not surprised by this, "Lord Yan, don't bother with them, they just haven't seen much of the world, they think we are here to provoke trouble, so they don't want to see us."

Yan Sanbai nodded, it was impossible for him to care about others.He clamped the horse's belly, rode the horse and followed Zhang Yan to find Guan Qingci, observing the surrounding scene along the way.This village does not look poor, it occupies a good place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, except that it is a little far away from the county seat, everything else is very good.It's just that the villagers' reactions added a bit of weirdness here, making people feel that there is always a sense of uneasiness lingering in their hearts.

At this time, Yan Sanbai's horse neighed suddenly and kicked its hooves irritably.Yan Sanbai hurriedly comforted him, but it was already too late, a boy in civilian clothes who happened to pass by in front of him was frightened, and the pottery pot he was holding in his hand fell, and it fell to pieces with a bang.

Volume Four: The Black Box