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7. Suspicion in Linjiang Town ([-])

That night……

Guan Hongfeng came to the yamen of Linjiang Town under the cover of night, and he had been waiting for a long time for a laugh.

"How to get in?"

"Come with me." With a smile, he went around to the east side of the yamen familiarly, led Guan Hongfeng over the wall, and sneaked in cautiously.

Following behind with a laugh, the two escaped the night guard of the yamen and entered the cell without a sound.

"Cell?" Guan Hongfeng looked at him suspiciously and laughed. Although the purpose of tonight was to investigate the case, no suspects have been caught so far. Why did he come to the cell instead of the archives?

"I have been to the archives before. The archives here have not been sorted out for a long time, and the files in the archives are all dusty."

Guan Hongfeng frowned, "Who is the magistrate of Linjiang Town?"

"My surname is Liu. It has been two and a half years since my family moved here from a city in the west to serve as officials. Linjiang Town is not big, so we can't find any flowers. The magistrate of Liu County is also very casual and friendly. Linjiang The town has always been very stable. By accident, it was discovered that the Demon Cult had a correspondence with Miss Magistrate..."

"Someone is coming." Guan Hongfeng jumped up to the beam with a laugh, and hid against the roof, only to see a middle-aged man in a dark blue shirt running out with a slightly panicked expression. After walking a few steps, the man stopped and wiped Wiping the sweat off his forehead, he calmed down and walked forward slowly.The yamen servants on duty all called him "Master".

"That's Liuzhi County." With a smile, he gave Guan Hongfeng a look, "Go, go and have a look."

The two went in the direction where Liu Zhixian ran out, and came to the innermost part of the cell, where there was a locked room.

"The key should be on Liu Zhixian's body." Guan Hongfeng pondered, laughed but shook his head and waved his hands, took out a small black bag from his body, and took out a key chain from it, with many strange-shaped iron bars hanging from it.

I touched the toothed edge of each iron bar, picked out one with a laugh, fiddled with the keyhole twice, and then used a thin smooth iron bar, and only heard a "click", the lock was unlocked. up.

"When... did you learn this?" Guan Hongfeng didn't say anything about the ability to pick locks. He let out a "chick" smile and didn't answer. He put away his tools and walked in first.

The room was a bit gloomy and cold, with two wooden beds side by side, with a female corpse lying on each bed.

The one on the left is wearing a khaki linen dress and has her hair combed. The woman on the right is wearing an azure outer shirt and a crescent white inner skirt. Her hair is simply tied up and she wears a simple hair accessory.

Guan Hongfeng first looked at the woman on the left, and asked, "Is this Abi?"

The woman's facial features are a bit strange, and there is a sense of incongruity between the nose and chin, but Guan Hongfeng can't tell the specific problem.

There was still no answer after a laugh, Guan Hongfeng turned his head to look in doubt, and saw a smile standing between the two wooden beds with frowning eyebrows, looking to the left for a while, and then to the right for a while.

"how?"

"Abi sneaked into the magistrate with a disguise..." Guan Hongfeng was stunned when he heard the word "disguise", but he laughed again: "It's just that the one on the left is definitely not Abi, it's shorter than Abi, but the one on the right ..."

With a laugh, he suddenly uttered a question of "hmm", leaned down and approached the woman's face on the right, took out a small knife from the small black bag, and gently picked at the joint between the woman's chin and neck, and a layer of skin was lifted.

"Come and see." A laugh gently touched the layer of skin, "This is one layer, and under this layer, there is another layer. The one on the right is Abi."

Guan Hongfeng also leaned over to take a look, and saw that the human skin mask lifted up with a laugh was very thin, and the layer below this layer was tightly attached to the skin. If you didn't look carefully, you couldn't see any flaws.When Guan Hongfeng retired eight years ago, his disguise skills were not so powerful, and Guan Hongfeng was amazed for a while.

He laughed but then speculated: "If this is Abi, the one on the left should be Miss Zhixian."

With a laugh, the human skin mask was removed from the face of the woman on the left, revealing the beautiful face underneath.Sure enough, Guan Hongfeng's sense of incongruity disappeared.

"Liu Zhixian..." Guan Hongfeng thought of Liu Zhixian's expression just now, "he was just "changing faces" for them. "

"En." Nodding with a smile, he stretched out his hand to remove all the masks on Abi's face. Guan Hongfeng was finally able to see Abi's true face—an ordinary girl with an ordinary appearance.

"The question is why would he do it."

"Why, there must be something wrong with the magistrate." She turned to the magistrate with a smile: "What I didn't finish just now, after Abi became the magistrate's maid, she found that the magistrate was afraid of his daughter. At the beginning, Liu Zhixian often did strange things, and he didn't take much care of the affairs of the yamen."

"Has anyone met Miss Zhixian before?"

He laughed and thought about shaking his head, "I don't know, go back and ask Brother Huang, they have lived in Linjiang Town for three or four years." Seeing Guan Hongfeng's thoughtful look, he asked him with a smile: "Why, You suspect..."

"I doubt the identity of this Miss Magistrate, otherwise there would be no reason for a father to be afraid of his daughter, and there are no rumors about it... But the identity of this "Miss Magistrate" is difficult to verify, let's check Liu Zhixian first. "

"Is there anything that can't be tested..." With a chuckle, he revealed his usual chuckle, and stretched out his hand to remove the clothes of the woman on the left.

"What are you doing!" Guan Hongfeng quickly clasped his laughing hand, and turned his face away from looking, "No matter who she is, the dead are the greatest."

"I know." He answered with a perfunctory smile, and shook Guan Hongfeng's hand, "If you don't dare to look at you, just go aside."

Before Guan Hongfeng came back to his senses, he stripped off the woman's blouse with a laugh, revealing the pink bellyband, and the two snow-white balls were looming. Seeing more things that shouldn't be seen, he quickly turned his back.

"look……"

"I do not watch……"

"She has a tattoo of Chiwu."

"What?!" Guan Hongfeng hesitated for a while before turning around, and saw the woman hugged him in his arms with a smile, revealing her back, her snow-white skin was smooth and delicate, and there was indeed a red sun tattooed on the left shoulder blade .

Turning around and waiting for the woman to dress with a smile, Guan Hongfeng frowned and thought, "I'm afraid that this Demon Sect woman pretended to be the magistrate's daughter. Liu Zhi County has always been threatened by the Demon Sect. But Linjiang Town is so small, what is the Demon Sect trying to do?" ...What did you mean by Liu Zhixian's strange behavior earlier?"

"I don't know the details. I just came to Jiangzhen not long ago." Jian Jian tidied up the clothes for the magistrate, walked to Abi with a smile, and carried Abi on her body, "Let's go..."

"Won't taking her away arouse suspicion?"

"Since the faces of the two of them are going to be changed, I definitely don't dare to look for it openly. I must take Abi's body away."

"Let's go."

Carefully escaping from the Yamen, the two headed towards Dr. Huang in the dark.There is an occasional cool breeze at night, but the clouds are thick and there is no moonlight tonight.

"In the past eight years, you..." Guan Hongfeng was silent for a few seconds, and suddenly brought it up, but he didn't know how to continue this topic.

Back then, he was the one who insisted on withdrawing from the sect and retreating into the Jianghu world, and no one told the truth about it. The person who opposed him the most and couldn't understand it was the second junior brother Mo Qing.

In the past eight years, if he regretted it, Guan Hongfeng didn't regret it, but he was always worried and guilty.

But unexpectedly, it turned out that the second junior brother had already quit the school and wandered in the rivers and lakes, becoming a "flower picker".

"I did what I wanted to do." A smile didn't evade Guan Hongfeng's question, and he answered frankly, and called "senior brother" for the first time since the two met: "Back then you said that your sword intent was useless. People can understand, but you can't go any further. You said you wanted to find something to support your sword intent, and then you insisted on going your own way, and you have never seen you since you left the sect.

Eight years have passed, brother, I want to ask you, have you found it? "

It is very strange to say these things at this time, this place, and this scene. A smile is still carrying a corpse on his back. Whether it is Guan Hongfeng or a smile, this kind of reunion is far from what the two imagined. Accompanied by a beautiful woman, but when the night is dark and the wind is high.

Perhaps it was because they hadn't seen each other for a long time that they seemed to be estranged, but now that they said "senior brother", they regained their original intimacy.For Guan Hongfeng, this question is Guan Hongfeng's most confident question: "I found it..."

Startled with a laugh, he turned his head to look at Guan Hongfeng, only to see Guan Hongfeng showing a faint smile with gentle eyes.

"What is it?"

"I can't tell you yet."

"Cut." A smile curled her lips, "When can I say it?"

"I do not know."

No longer entangled with this question, he laughed and asked again: "Can you adapt to life in the officialdom? I didn't expect you to go to be a watchdog."

Not to refute anything, Guan Hongfeng just smiled casually: "King Ren has a talent for managing the world, and he knows people well, if one day, you can come to seek refuge..."

"Hey, I can't do it."

The two chatted all the way, and returned to Doctor Huang's small courtyard. The courtyard was silent, the room was dimly lit, and there was no one in the room.

"Brother Huang?" A laugh called out to the room, but no one responded.

"I have a message." Guan Hongfeng put down Abi with a smile, turned around and saw a piece of paper under the teacup on the table.

There are three simple words written on it: Baiguo Mountain.

"Brother Huang's handwriting." He took the note with a smile, and saw that the handwriting was scrawled, as if it was written in a hurry.

"Baiguo Mountain is not far from here. Many medicinal herbs grow on the shadowy side of the mountain. Divine doctor Yin will go up the mountain every once in a while. Brother Huang seems to be going there."

Guan Hongfeng suddenly had a bold hypothesis: "Linjiang Town is not big, and there is nothing special about it. Now it seems that the people from the Demon Sect came to Linjiang Town not for anything else, but for the miracle doctor Yin."

Doctor Yin has a very high status in the Jianghu. It is rumored that he can kill human flesh and bones. Ten years ago, Guan Hongfeng had a relationship with Doctor Yin when he was a teenager. At that time, he was shocked by Doctor Yin's medical skills. Now Doctor Yin is half retired. , but there are still legends of Yin's genius doctor circulating in the world.

"Let's go!" Leaving the note behind, he rushed out the door with a laugh, "We should be able to reach Baiguo Mountain before dawn!"