Wulin Xiaohui

When he returned to the room, he saw Ye Zang flipping through the book leisurely, Shen Yizhou walked over, turned the pages and looked at the cover, it turned out to be a history book.

Shen Yizhou was bored and said: "It's boring, it's boring, why hasn't Xu Daxia come back yet!"

Ye Zang turned a page of the book in his hand, without raising his head: "It will take at least half a month to go back and forth from here to Hengdao faction. If you catch up a bit, you should be back tomorrow."

Shen Yizhou vaguely remembered the crescent moon hanging in the sky last night, and Xu Lian had been away for almost half a month. In the past half month, they had enjoyed traveling in Wuzhou until now they felt boring, and finally waited until the time to leave up.

"Where did Xiuxiu go?"

Ye Zang thought for a while, and said, "It seems that they are going to play in the temple in the west of the city."

"What fun is there in the temple?"

"Zhu Tang said there are several swings in the backyard."

Shen Yizhou flung himself onto the bed, embraced the brocade quilt and rested for a while with his eyes closed, gradually feeling drowsiness coming, so he fell asleep in a prone position.until woken up by a loud bang.

Shen Yizhou jumped up from the bed, grabbed the sword at the head of the bed before opening his eyes, and quickly moved to the corner of the bed.

"It's Hero Xu." Ye Zang's voice sounded.

Shen Yizhou saw through the indistinct mosquito net, it seemed that Ye Zang was supporting a person.

Xu Lian was sitting on the wooden bench, his left hand was covering his chest, his breathing was disordered.

"Hero Xu, who hurt you?"

There were many stab wounds on Xu Lian's clothes. The most serious wound was on his right chest. The clothes on his chest were all stained with blood. It was hard to imagine that someone would hurt him like this.

"Where is Sha Qinghe?"

Shen Yizhou and Ye Zang looked at each other, but neither spoke.

Xu Lian said again: "I have something to ask him."

Shen Yizhou realized something, and said pleasantly: "Master Xu, do you know that he is innocent?"

Xu Lian didn't answer, just said: "This matter is not simple."

Shen Yizhou hurriedly called Sha Qinghe and told him what Xu Lian might have found out.

As soon as Sha Qinghe entered, Xu Lian asked, "Do you recognize your master's handwriting?"

Sha Qinghe nodded, Xu Lian took out a stack of papers and put them on the table.

Sha Qinghe picked up the stack of papers and took a look, then gave Xu Lian a questioning look: "Hero Xu, what is this?"

Xu Lian said "Yes" and said, "This is my correspondence with your master."

Sha Qinghe flipped through them one by one, his face became more serious the more he looked at them.When he finished reading the stack of letters, his face was already extremely ugly.

"The handwriting on this letter is exactly the same as Master's, except for the word 'Yue'."

Xu Lian coughed twice, and his voice was as calm as usual: "I have been communicating with Master Gu for half a year. Now it seems that there may be someone else who communicated with me from the beginning to the end."

Sha Qinghe put down the letter and said solemnly: "What Xu Daxia said should be good."

Shen Yizhou was surprised: "You mean, someone pretended to be the head of Gu and communicated with Xu Daxia?"

Sha Qinghe nodded: "That's right, this person imitated the master's handwriting perfectly, but unfortunately there is still a loophole in it. In order to avoid the taboo of the name of the late father, the master wrote Yue characters, which have always been replaced by Yuelai, but here is a letter with The word 'Yue' was added, so it was obviously not written by Master, so I judge that it is very likely that these letters were not written by Master."

Xu Lian said: "Someone has been planning this since half a year ago."

Several people looked at each other, but didn't speak.

"Sure enough, Yang Xin has a problem. I went to the Hengdao Sect and asked Yang Xin about Sha Qinghe. I didn't expect that there were several people from the Youdu Sect hiding beside him. I was negligent. I didn't find that Yang Xin was poisoned. He was seriously injured by them.

"Youdu Gate?" Shen Yizhou asked in surprise.Ye Zang frowned and said nothing.

Xu Lian said to everyone: "I have something to say to Qing He alone, please go out and wait for a while.

Shen Yizhou and Ye Zang walked towards the door together and closed the door.

Not long after Xu Lian and Sha Qinghe were alone, they let Ye Chen in again.

Sha Qinghe said: "I want to follow Daxia Xu to find out who is behind Yang Xin, time is running out, I can't explain some things clearly, I hope you will forgive me.

Shen Yizhou hurriedly said: "It's dangerous for you to go here, Master Xu was injured again, if you don't mind, I would like to help you."

Sha Qinghe shook his head: "It's dangerous to go here, I don't want you to take risks for no reason, I understand your wishes in Yizhou, so let's leave it alone for now."

At this point, Shen Yizhu didn't want to say any more, he could only agree to Sha Qinghe and let him and Xu Lian resolve this matter, but he was still worried: "If you need it, you must find me."

Sha Qinghe hastily agreed, and after Xu Lian recovered from his injuries, he said goodbye to Shen Yizhou and his party, and headed to the northwest.

Sha Qinghe and Xu Lian went to the northwest, and Shen Yizhou who stayed behind felt melancholy, but he had no other choice, so he set off to Liangtang to solve Xiuxiu's problem first.

Shen Yizhou had been thinking about it for a long time in the past few days, so he told Ye Zang his thoughts.

"Bai Xiaosheng?" Ye Zang asked in surprise, "Do you know where it is?"

Shen Yizhou then told Ye Zang what the storyteller said.

But Ye Zang was dubious: "How can you be sure that what he said must be the truth?"

Shen Yizhou said: "He said that Bai Xiaosheng is away from home for a month every year, which coincides with the time when Bai Xiaosheng sends messages."

Every year, Bai Xiaosheng sends out innumerable news about the world, but one thing is that he can't bear the heat, so every July, he will cut off news for a month.

"Perhaps Bai Xiaosheng didn't just hide at home to rest during that month, but went far away to a cool place."

After Shen Yizhou finished speaking, he took out a map: "I bought this from a storyteller. Bai Xiaosheng lives in Chenjia Village, and there is an apricot tree in front of his house."

Ye Zang took the map and looked at it. There were not many houses in Chenjia Village, and there were two yards next to each other. One of the bigger houses had an apricot tree painted outside the courtyard wall.

Shen Yizhou walked to the window and saw Xiuxiu came back from the outside with Zhu Tang.In order not to be recognized, she has been wearing men's clothing during this time, and her face has been disguised.

Chenjia Village is not far from Dingzhou. If you drive fast, you can reach it in one day and one night. If you take a carriage slowly, you can reach it in three days.

Uncle Guan drove the carriage without saying a word, heading towards Chenjiacun at a leisurely pace.

During this period of time, Xiuxiu did not want to leave, and traveled all over Dingzhou with Zhutang inseparable.When he was about to leave, he was still reluctant to let go, looking back in the carriage foolishly.

As a small village with no name, Chenjia Village has no reputation in Jianghu. Several people went to a nearby town and asked the local people to confirm that they had not gone the wrong way.

The road got narrower as we got closer to Chenjiacun. The small road was barely enough for a carriage to pass, but it became narrower and narrower as it got farther from the official road. Finally, we had to unload the carriage and walk in with the horse.

After walking for a long time before reaching a place where there are people, a woodcutter carrying freshly cut firewood came down another narrower path leading to the mountain, and walked towards the village, panting heavily.

A few people were embarrassed to disturb him, so they led the horse and followed silently.

As the woodcutter walked, he became more and more out of breath. Finally, he found a stone that was half a person's height on the side of the road, so he put the firewood on the stone, and the man also leaned on the stone, taking the opportunity to rest for a while.

The woodcutter raised his arms to wipe the sweat off his face. He looked back as he moved, and was startled to see several people and a horse standing behind him.

"Hey, who is it?"

Zhu Tang stepped forward and said, "We're here to find a man named Li Yaozong." Li Yaozong was the storyteller's name.

The woodcutter didn't think too much after hearing this, but said regretfully: "Li Yaozong, he doesn't seem to be at home recently, and he will come back when the weather is the hottest." Ye Zang and Shen Yizhou looked at each other, and they both felt that Come to the wrong place.

Zhu Tang said: "That's too unfortunate, but since we're here, let's go around the village. Brother, please show me the way."

The woodcutter took a few steps forward, pointed down the mountain, and said, "Here, that's Li Yaozong's home."

Several people looked in the direction he pointed. On the opposite hillside were two houses next to each other. Not far away was a slightly dense group of houses. It was expected that other people in the village lived there.

Thanks to the woodcutter, the group of five went downhill to the outside of Bai Xiaosheng's courtyard.

When you get close to the house, you can hear the sound of "cuckoo" pigeons, which is exactly what Li Yaozong said.

Ye Zang stepped forward and politely knocked on the door several times before he heard someone's voice coming from the house: "Who is it?"

Ye Zang hurriedly said: "Sir, Ye Zang is here to ask Mr. for a favor."

The curtains in the room were lifted, and a middle-aged man dressed as a scholar walked out, with a slightly fat figure, dragging a box of books to the door.

Shen Yizhou coughed deliberately.

The man was dragging the box with his back to them, but when he heard the sound, he suddenly turned his head and looked with doubts on his face.

Zhu Tang changed from his previous frivolousness, and said politely: "Your Excellency is Bai Xiaosheng?"

The man stood up straight, and everyone could see that he was tall, and his whole body looked like a wall, not like a scholar, but like a butcher.

He put down the box, looked at the opposite person vigilantly, and said, "Who are you?"

Shen Yizhou and Ye Zang glanced at each other, the waste paper spilled from the window sill, the endless sound of pigeons, and his answer, this person should be Bai Xiaosheng.