Suspect in Jinling

"It's a good thing that he hasn't had any residual poison this month. The patient is in a good mood and his body isn't going to go bad."

He Zhi Zhai.After Shi Yi looked, heard, and asked, he explained the condition to the patient's family member. This family member was a new visitor to Hezhizhai, with thin eyebrows and a cold face, and asked him with distrust: "Doctor Shi, according to what you said, The detoxification started last summer, since it has been several months, why is there a relapse?"

Shi Yi shrugged: "It's just a sign of danger at the moment, so you don't need to pay too much attention to Kuang Botou."

"What is the cause of the disease?"

"It's complicated. Cold exposure, fatigue, emotional agitation, and even climate change may cause symptoms."

"What about the body temperature? His body temperature is very cold, and he doesn't sweat all day long. Is it because of the injury?"

"Captain Kuang, this is beyond the doctor's control, it's a matter of his personal constitution."

Kuang Jian crossed his arms, looked at Sha Xiangyue with a serious face, and reached out to shake his bony shoulders, as if he was not satisfied with He Zhizhai's treatment.

Sha Xiangyue looked indifferent, she propped her chin in deafness, flipped through the herbal refreshments beside her, and stuffed them into her mouth.

Seeing this, Kuang Jian blocked his mouth, took away the pancake, and said to him in a low voice, "Don't eat anything else, I won't be able to eat it after dinner."

Turning his head and asking Shi Yi coldly: "Prescribe him another maintenance prescription, under his eyelids..."

Before Catcher Kuang finished speaking, Sha Xiangyue suddenly stood up, stepped forward, raised her hand and poked him on the head: "Quiet!"

Kuang Jian's pupils suddenly widened, like a kid who was frozen in place, and was stunned.

Shi Yi couldn't hold back for a moment, covered his lips and laughed.

Sha Xiangyue rolled her eyes, gave Shi Yi a dissatisfied look, and then looked at Kuang Jian, complaining, but her eyes were gentle: "I don't know if I'm sick or not? Don't worry about it " Said, gave Shi Yi a look, took Kuang Jian's arm and walked downstairs, "If you have any illness, you will be cured this winter, let's go eat quickly."

At that time, the dusk was about to close, and the clouds covered the sky. When Shi Yi heard the words, his face full of smiles suddenly froze slowly, and turned into a gloomy and serious one. When he couldn't see the pair, he turned and stood at the window, and opened the gauze curtain Looking downstairs, two figures, one black and one purple, quickly came out of the building. Sha Xiangyue held Kuang Jian's arm and was talking happily. When they walked to the main entrance of the hospital, the two The man stopped suddenly, and the head catcher Kuang leaned on Sha Xiangyue's shoulders, helped him straighten the shoulder line of his jacket, and then naturally lowered his body to smooth out the creases on the hem of his clothes.

It's hot, and Shaxiangyue is wearing white clothes inside, and a very light purple veil outside. The auspicious clouds in the twilight, and the clouds rolling in clouds, shroud pedestrians gorgeously, extending to the end of the sky. Yi looked at the two of them and murmured softly, "The setting sun is infinitely wonderful..."

It was just near dusk.

Sha Xiangyue and Kuang Jian are studying the trivial matters at home.

Sha Xiangyue said that he wanted to expand the yard. Originally, he lived alone in his own house, and he was full of odds and ends in the yard, and he was reluctant to throw it away. Kuang Jian had nowhere to go for morning exercises, so he might as well buy a neighbor's house He also said that he saw customizable ice silk boots at Zhangji Garment yesterday, and he wanted to order a pair for Kuang Jian, which would be lighter and cooler to wear in summer.

For the past few days, Kuang Jian has been staying at Sha Xiangyue's. Sha Xiangyue didn't let him move his things. Instead, he took him in and out of various shops to buy new products. He said that they were tired of living in the west of the city, and they moved to Kuang again. Jane lives in a house in the city, and there are two sets of utensils everywhere, so it is convenient to live in.

Although the ideas of the two people collide and oppose, they still get along very harmoniously when they live together. In the early morning, Kuang Jian wakes up early and washes all the sheets and clothes that the two of them have changed. Morning exercise, when I came back, it was about the middle of the hour. At this time, Sha Xiangyue was most likely awake, and was wearing pajamas, tending his flowers and plants in the small flower garden.

The past few days happened to be the days when the peonies were blooming. When Kuang Jian came back for a few days in a row, he saw Sha Xiangyue squatting in the small flower garden with disheveled hair, loosening the soil, pruning branches, fertilizing and catching insects. The morning is always humid and smells like acacia. The smell of the bed sheets fluttering in the yard, during the ups and downs, Kuang Jian could see the back of Sha Xiangyue, like a dream.Sha Xiangyue knew that he was back when she heard the door, and would call him to help pass the rope and scissors without looking back. , chopped more than a dozen thin bamboo branches with a knife and put them in the flower pot, and then used a rope to erect the flower head flower cup of peony.

While walking, Sha Xiangyue asked Kuang Jian if he had ever caught fish and insects, and said that they could go to the countryside to catch fish and insects when he was off duty, and come back to feed his little turtle and big carp. It will be useful, I will make a cloth net out of old cloth at night, and we will go fishing for fish and insects in a few days..."

Sha Xiangyue spoke briskly, and was chatting when suddenly a rude voice came from behind!

"Taiping believer, I will kill you!"

Kuang Jian paused, her heart trembled violently.

Sha Xiangyue also froze, turned her head quickly, and saw a boy who was at most nine years old jumping out from behind them, with a wooden sword in his hand, shouting at them: "Taiping believers, stop!"

Behind him were younger boys and girls who also held wooden swords. They were beautiful and had fierce expressions. They shouted at Kuang Jian, "You monster! You don't obey the law! Take off your clothes!" Immediately after the two little boys The child rushed up and surrounded Kuang Jian, jumping up and down like his elder brother, shouting loudly: "Rebellious! Heretic! Rebellious—! Heretic—! Take off your clothes! Take off your clothes! Take off your clothes——!"

Although the crowds on the street had dropped sharply, the sharp clamor still immediately attracted the attention of passers-by.

Kuang Jian felt relieved, it turned out that he didn't come here to kill Xiangyue.Stretching out his hand, he brushed aside the wooden sword indifferently, and picked up the collar of the leading child: "Where are your parents?"

Seeing that their elder brother was captured, the two children immediately chased and beat Kuang Jian, "Let go of brother! Let go!" Seeing that their own strength could not shake Kuang Jian, one of them grabbed Kuang Jian's clothes, and the other waved his hand and shouted at passers-by: " Uncles, everyone, take a look! This man is from the Taiping Sect! He has tattoos! He is bullying my brother!"

Kuang Jian knew that this was a blackmail tactic, looking around, trying to find their parents. At this time, passers-by had slowly gathered. Although many people might not believe this nonsense, no one dissuaded them. Instead, the man said to Kuang Jian, why bother with the children, or take off your shirt, and let you go without tattoos.

Sha Xiangyue folded her arms in a nonchalant manner, and immediately sneered at the man when she heard the words: "What's the point? We've never met before, and if you tell him to take off his clothes, he will take off his clothes, then I'll tell you to jump into the Qinhuai River, and you will too." huh?"

The man's face turned red when Xiangyue said that he was killed, and he retorted loudly: "Why do you let me jump into the river? It is the imperial court's decree to investigate the Taiping Sect, and it is the order of the Zhenfu Secretary! Seeing that you are so guilty, you must be inseparable from the Taiping Sect It doesn't matter!"

Sha Xiangyue's eyes sharpened, not knowing whether to attack or retort, Kuang Jian immediately said: "Xiangyue!"

There was indeed a red lotus on Shaxiangyue's back waist. Kuang Jian didn't want him to get involved in this kind of right and wrong. When faced with doubts, he neither replied nor argued, but raised his voice as if no one else was there, and asked the child sharply: "Your parents?" Where? Let alone take you away!"

A Taiping believer can exchange five taels of silver, which is enough for a family of five to spend for two months. It is hard to guarantee that idlers in the city will take advantage of the opportunity to move their minds. In the thinking of ordinary people, Taiping believers will not write on their faces that they are Taiping believers. But they must be physically strong and unwilling to show their skin. These children are not good at dating, and they must be instigated by adults to blackmail Pengci.

The nine-year-old child was so stubborn that he refused to respond and just beat and kicked Kuang Jian desperately: "You belong to the Taiping sect, I will kill you! I will kill you, and then I will cut off your head! Let the town government secretary send you to Feed the dog!"

Seeing this, Kuang Jian didn't say a word, she picked up the kid and pushed away from the crowd. Pedestrians knew that it was not easy to provoke when they saw Kuang Jian's aggressive aura. Although there was an expression on his face that was about to curse, no one dared to stop him , when things came to this, the "father" who had been hiding all this time finally came slowly, took big steps to meet Kuang Jian, and shouted with all his strength before confronting him: "What are you doing! What are you doing! It's impossible to tie up the child in broad daylight !"

The person in front of him is good at hands and feet, with a shrewd face and slick eyes, he looks like an opportunist.

Kuang Jian glanced at him up and down, "Are you his father?"

The man with his arms akimbo: "It's me! Who are you!"

Sha Xiangyue interjected coolly: "He is the head arrester of Ying Tianfu, you don't know you picked the right person for blackmail."

The man was startled at first, and then he shouted unreservedly: "Who is blackmailing? Who are you calling blackmailing!"

Kuang Jian sneered: "You don't need to tell me whether you are blackmailing or not. I will take you three children back to the yamen and ask them to find out whether their father taught them to intercept passers-by."

The remaining two children were too young, and looked up at the adult talking in a daze. The man immediately showed a guilty expression, grabbed one with one hand and quickly hid it behind him. Passers-by tasted it and started whispering. Kuang Jian looked around. Only then did he pull out the iron plate of Ying Tianfu, and asked in a vibrating voice: "What's the matter? You are still waiting for me to take off my clothes?"

What can the official catcher have to do with the Taiping Sect?Only then did the passerby let out an "ah" and suddenly realized that they scattered like birds and beasts, leaving only the man and the two children standing in the same place with a disgraced face. Kuang Jian asked the man's name, and the man answered in a muttering voice, Kuang Jian just nodded at him from the air: "I remember you, let me see you being cheated and kidnapped next time, and wait for a prison meal!" Then she stuffed the eldest son into his arms, and said sharply : "Find new parents for the children if they don't know how to raise them—and get out!"

Only then did the man feel as though he had been pardoned, he bowed and bowed, and ran away quickly, dragging the three children.Sha Xiangyue clasped her arms, looked coldly at the figures of the four fathers and sons, the youngest girl was running around, so anxious that she didn't even look back to pick up the wooden sword in her hand——

The night was getting darker and the night wind was getting cooler. When we reached the middle of the city, the evening bell rang from the empty Dabaoen Temple.

This matter is not worth mentioning to Kuang Jian, but it is enough to spoil the good mood. When Kuang Jian thinks that this is by no means an exception, there are still many people rushing for the high reward in the dark places that cannot be seen in Jinling City. If you use your brain, you don't know where this nameless wildfire will eventually burn.

"Jiang Xingzheng did a good job." Kuang Jian said coldly, unable to hide his anger.

Sha Xiangyue didn't say anything, picked up the conversation just now, and asked Kuang Jian if he had caught fish and insects, Kuang Jian was out of his mind, and shook his head, Sha Xiangyue pulled his arm and walked forward, saying Not only does he raise red carp at home, he also fosters a big light-colored fish in Dabaoen Temple. He kills Xiangyue to donate money to temples and do things every time he visits temples. He is not limited to the teaching circle of Taiping Sect. With this preference, I don't think it's strange, just passing by the gate of Dabaoen Temple, the crowd has thinned, Sha Xiangyue proposed to go in and have a look, crossed the Zhumen Tower, and passed the Bishan Gate, Kuang Jian followed him silently, and played with him for a while The fish under the Perfume River Bridge entered the Daxiong Palace, and a middle-aged monk with a lot of experience walked towards him. The monk nodded familiarly at Sha Xiangyue and proclaimed the Buddha's name.

Sha Xiangyue said: "Trouble master, don't disturb the abbot, I just come to see the enshrined sea lantern, nothing else."

The middle-aged monk turned sideways knowingly: "Please follow me to kill the benefactor."

The hall of Dabaoen Temple is majestic and majestic, with towering eaves and corners. Kuang Jian does not believe in this way. Looking around, he doesn't know where his thoughts slipped. Seeing this, Sha Xiangyue turned her head and whispered to him: "I'll come when I go, you If you’re bored, why not go out and buy me a piece of Yu’s pastry first, if you want the ground chestnut crystal parfait made by the shopkeeper himself, if the shopkeeper says it’s out of stock, you can say that Xiangyue Chengxi came to buy it.”

Kuang Jian didn't make a sound, but looked at him with deep eyes.Sha Xiangyue was puzzled: "What's wrong?"

The candles in the verandah of the hall were brightly lit, so that half of people's faces were bright and half were dark. Kuang Jian didn't speak anymore, and turned around to go. Then Sha Xiangyue followed the middle-aged monk to the back hall, passing by Baoxiang Bodhisattva. He held incense on the ground and worshiped, and then, an old monk with white beard and hair and cassock came from the back room in the corner. Sesame oil, a catty of lamp grass?"

Sha Xiangyue said: "It's less this time, and four catties of lamp oil will be enough. Please trouble the mage."

Saying that, the two stood in front of the cross lotus ever-bright lamp holder, Sha Xiangyue took the utensils, and added lamp oil with her own hands.

"Is foster father there? I want to see him."

Sha Xiangyue's expression remained unchanged, she poured the lamp oil steadily with both hands, and lowered her voice.

"Your head teacher left on the tenth day of this month. He said that there is something to do in the north, so he won't be returning to Jinling for now." The old monk stared at the ever-burning lamp, and transmitted the message in a guttural voice, his lips barely moving: "Why did Master Xiaosha come in person? , Ying Tianfu didn't make things difficult for you."

"No. It is the Secretary of the Zhenfu who offered the reward, not Ying Tianfu, and the spies they buried have also withdrawn. I am safe." Sha Xiangyue spoke quickly, and then asked in a low voice: "Who did the foster father see before he left? What assassination missions have you been given?"

The old monk shook his head insignificantly: "I don't know. However, the group of Xu's people have not seen anyone missing, so there should be no mission."

Sha Xiangyue let out an oh, relieved, lightly lifted the oil spoon, the oil thread was broken, leaned over and gracefully put down the utensil, thought for a while, and said: "Tell Mrs. Xu to be safe, the situation is serious now, and the city is full of people to search and arrest." Taiping Sect, his foundation is not deep, so don't rush into it and cause trouble."

The old monk combed the lamp grass with a long needle, and the flame of the sea lantern jumped suddenly: "I will persuade myself, but it is not a long-term solution for Xiao Xu to hide all the time. They are shameless, and they will always be found out by the neighbors wherever they live. , and now the city is strictly interrogated, and I can't leave the city for the time being."

Sha Xiangyue also knows that things are tricky, and now people from all walks of life in Jinling City are trying their best to catch the Taiping Sect. Even the children know that they want to catch the Taiping Sect in exchange for money. Suspicious persons will be reported to the town government department.Although Xu's confrontation with Sha Xiangyue and disagreement with Jin Chizi, but after all, they belong to the same school and teach, and now that his adoptive father is not around, he can't ignore it.

Sha Xiangyue sighed, and rubbed her temples troubledly: "...Understood, let me think of a way."

The night is dark, and the hottest season is approaching, and the night sky is rarely crystal clear.

Kuang Jian stood silently on the Perfume River, feeding the fish in the river.This is not the water of the Qinhuai River, but a small river flowing through the periphery of the Qinhuai River. There is a wooden bridge on the small river. The railings are not high, but the bridge deck is spacious and grand. In the sound, the surface of the water seems to be red and green, with the sound of running water, and several large fish with light colors jump out of the water happily, chattering for food.

"Why are you standing so far away? Let me find it easier."

Suddenly a figure rushed to Kuang Jian's side, and knocked hard on the railing of the wooden bridge.

Kuang Jian turned around, the lights were brightly lit, and he stared at Sha Xiangyue's eyes complicatedly.

Those eyes were deep, black as ink, and that glance seemed to know everything, but also seemed to know nothing, Sha Xiangyue felt uneasy for no reason, but the person in front of him quickly looked away, and just asked: "Can you go now?" ?”

Sha Xiangyue took his arm flatteringly, and obediently replied, "...um."

Kuang Jian pulled out his arm uncomfortably, took the initiative to embrace Sha Xiangyue's shoulder, raised his other hand, and asked, "Eat it? It's still cold."

What was held in that hand was the ground chestnut crystal parfait that Sha Xiangyue had just sent him to buy.

Sha Xiangyue lowered her head and took a bite of his hand, and raised her head while eating: "What's wrong? You were left out in the cold, are you angry?"

Kuang Jian shook her head: "No. Let's go home."

Kuang Jian made it clear on that rainy night that he was imperative to the head teacher of the Taiping Sect, and then he contacted the ambitious Jin Chizi in a detour, but Jin Chizi didn't know the specific whereabouts of the head teacher of the Taiping Sect.Sha Xiangyue knows that Kuang Jian will know that the real core figures of the Taiping Sect are all connected in a single line, and they are connected from top to bottom, with many levels and do not cross each other, forming a central pole information controlled by the head teacher At the same time, any stronghold with a slight level will have at least two passwords. If the believers want to communicate smoothly, they must first check the password once on the outside, and then check again when they see people inside. The structure is so strict and the organization is strict. No chance of intrusion.

The identity of Sha Xiangyue is a secret. Few people in the sect know that he is the son of Wu Guan. He will mention it to others. Kuang Jian took care of it, but because of emotion and reason, Sha Xiangyue would contact her adoptive father to confirm. That is to say, Sha Xiangyue would inevitably come into contact with top secret strongholds during her actions in the past few days.

Sha Xiangyue went to various shops in the name of purchasing new items. From the east to the west of the city, she contacted no less than [-] shops, and had instructed Kuang Jian to confuse the public several times. It was also repeatedly testing whether Kuang Jian would act.

"Yusinian's death has nothing to do with Taiping Sect."

Sha Xiangyue said so.

After saying this, he smiled slightly as if a big stone had been removed from his heart, and took another bite of the parfait.

Kuang Jian muffledly responded, but did not speak.

Sha Xiangyue was held under his armpit, a little dissatisfied, she raised her head and asked, "What don't you want to ask me?" Then she brought the parfait to his mouth and let him take a bite.

Kuang Jian ate cooperatively, chewed and swallowed, and replied, "I don't want to."

I don't know if it was influenced by Jiang Xingzheng's bounty to hunt down the Taiping Sect these days, Kuang Jian kept a straight face, but his tone was very peaceful: "You tell your people to be careful, the current situation is tense recently, don't cause trouble."

Sha Xiangyue looked at him, and suddenly felt something else, her smiling eyes were crooked, shining like stars, and he said: "Although you don't care about Yu Sinian's case, I can help you analyze the murderer. "

Once she was relieved that it was not the Taiping Sect's doing, Sha Xiangyue obviously relaxed.

Kuang Jian looked down at him and said in a hoarse voice, "...Huh? Have you found anything else?"

Sha Xiangyue tilted her head: "It's not a discovery, it's just a very basic thing in our business, I can talk to you about it."

Kuang Jian raised her eyebrows: "All ears."

Sha Xiangyue hugged his waist affectionately, and coughed lightly: "Generally speaking, it is a very troublesome thing for an assassin to assassinate a certain important person. Half a month before the operation, he needs to follow up and figure out the target. For the daily itinerary, choose the easiest place to get, then figure out the terrain layout, plan the attack and retreat routes, and use this information to finally formulate and implement the action plan. It can be said that if you are not very familiar with the place, Assassination is impossible for one person, especially for those who are doing fast work. The most basic thing is to have three people. For erasing traces, if conditions permit, internal responses can also be placed during the course of action, so as to ensure that after the first attack fails, the second attack can succeed suddenly, instead of waiting for the target to be falsely alarmed and then strengthen defenses, which will make it very difficult to succeed. .”

"Master Yu obviously committed the crime alone and was not happy. The murderer was very courageous and calm. Master Yu returned to Jinling City privately without notifying anyone. The murderer probably started to follow from Huai'an Mansion. In the end, he chose to fight in Jinling City, and he was very aware of the curfew in Jinling City that night, and he stepped on the place where he would do it in advance, so he swaggered and killed people and drove Master Yu's body home in a carriage. It should be big..."

"Wait," Kuang Jian frowned and interrupted him, "How do you say this? You said that many people can do that cut."

Sha Xiangyue squinted her eyes, and nodded vigorously: "Many people can use it, but it's only for skill, not for mental choice. Killers are also divided into stages. The fledgling boy likes to make up the knife very much, because They are always worried that they will not be able to kill the opponent. If the time is not urgent, they will repeatedly confirm the breath of the deceased and make up the knife repeatedly, and the scene is often in a mess; The amount of bleeding is also the most, if you don't dodge enough, it will splatter the whole body, and you will become a living target when you retreat; as for Master Yu's wound, I guess it should be a veteran with at least 20 years of experience, otherwise it would not be such a waste to choose the fourth and fifth A knife between the ribs, especially with a boning knife, does not bleed for a cup of tea, and ordinary killers would not choose this method of killing."

Kuang Jian pondered for a while: "So the murderer I'm looking for is someone who has traveled between Huai'an Mansion and Jinling City in the past month, and is between the ages of 35 and 45."

Sha Xiangyue added: "You and Fourth Master's analysis of Lord Yu's official business is still valid. Although there are still not many clues, but after cross-comparison, we may find something."

Afterwards, Kuang Jianjian didn't speak any more, he put his arm around Sha Xiangyue's shoulders and concentrated on thinking about the case, Sha Xiangyue followed his thoughts and walked home unconsciously.It was foggy in Hualin, and the streets and alleys were hazy, approaching the entrance of Huifu Lane, Sha Xiangyue began to touch the key to open the door, but a large bulge suddenly rushed over, it turned out that the person squatting there in the night was a person!

The two stopped for a moment in fright, and after a closer look, they recognized Zhu Shi. Before they could speak, the squirrel-like boy rushed over and cried, "Kuang catcher! Kill master!... Cigu, Save Shigu! She was captured by the Jinyiwei, they said she was from the Taiping sect!"