[Comprehensive Martial Arts] Journey to the Homeland

Clear skies.

The north wind blew and howled all night, and the goose feather and heavy snow drifted all night.When the dawn dawned, the heavy snow stopped quietly, as if driven away by the golden crow, leaving the ground covered with broken ice and broken jade.After the snow stopped, the weather became colder.As soon as a person steps out the door, he feels the bitter cold wind, so he must wrap his clothes tightly.

After the snow falls, it is necessary to sweep the snow.The snowdrifts are pure white and look like cotton piles or white sugar piles, but they are actually icy cold.People who have practiced internal skills naturally don't care whether it is cold or hot.But the snow sweepers, those who piled up snow, and those who used carts to pull snow away on the street were all ordinary people who made a living, and none of them were skilled in martial arts.

In the Forbidden Palace of the Imperial City, the small inner eunuch has always been in charge of cleaning.One of them was walking around with a bamboo broom, and found a human-shaped snowdrift covered with snow beside a drainage ditch.

When he found it, he still didn't believe that the corpse was covered under the snow, so he brushed it a few times, and immediately revealed a dark gray crane cloak and a hair crown inlaid with white jade.The crane cloak is worn on the person's body, and the hair crown is placed on the person's head.This is actually a dead person, and he has been dead for a long time, his whole body has been frozen and stiff, showing an abnormal posture.

The little eunuch turned pale with fright, and turned him face-up tremblingly.There was a thin layer of ice on this man's face. Behind the ice layer, his expression was distorted by horror, his facial features were all deformed, his face was purple, and he was like a grimace coming out of the nether world.

Even so, he can still recognize that this is the most famous person in front of the emperor, the newly conferred national teacher, "Master of Black Light" Zhan Bieye.

There were no visible scars on his whole body, only some dirt was rubbed on the crane cloak.The surrounding area was covered with snow, and there were no blood or footprints.This peerless master, whom even the emperor honored as "immortal master", died here without anyone noticing.

Seeing this terrifying face, the little eunuch uttered a scream and sat down on the ground.At first, he didn't dare to stare at the dead body, but when he realized that this person was Zhan Xianshi, he became more and more shocked. Knowing that something serious happened here, he quickly got up and ran straight to Mi Gonggong Mi Cangqiong.

Mi Cangqiong was drinking tea, and his expression changed after hearing it, and he hurried over to take a look, but was so shocked that he didn't say a word for a long time.What he thinks is much deeper and farther than that of the little eunuch.But no matter what he thinks, Zhan Bieye's dead body here is absolutely impossible to hide from Zhao Ji, and there is no need to hide it.

At this time, Zhao Ji hadn't gotten up yet, so he first summoned the inner eunuchs in the palace and asked them to suspend their work and start searching the harem.

After checking for a whole morning, someone came to report that in the Fenghe Courtyard by the lake, the main hall was empty, and the furniture seemed to have been carried away by little ghosts, and none of the original tables and chairs remained.The house was tidy and clean, as if it had been scrubbed carefully, but the reason for scrubbing was unknown.

However, with Mi Cangqiong's insightful eyes, he still hasn't seen anything unusual in the other courtyard.Even if strange things happened in this place, the traces were cleaned up afterwards, and they didn't want to leave any clues for him.

Accumulating snow without a trace means that Janbie died before the snow fell.He usually does things, but Mi Cangqiong doesn't fully know about it.Why he came to the other courtyard and why he died silently are all unsolvable mysteries.

Mi Cangqiong personally inspected the body and confirmed that the dead person was Zhan Bieye, not disguised beforehand.When he examined it, he was found to have died of drowning.In other words, someone subdued him, took him to the side of the ditch, forced his head into the water, and held him firmly until his lungs were filled with cold water and he died completely.

The only person in the imperial city who can do this is himself.Of course it wasn't his doing.

Mi Cangqiong stood quietly beside the corpse, her two long eyebrows flickered, but her breathing was even and slow.When he saw the end, he suddenly let out a long breath, and said without thinking, "Why bother?"

He waited until Zhao Ji got up, finished his lunch, and spread out the pen and paper contentedly, before carefully saying that Zhan Bieye was dead.Zhao Ji was taken aback, and then refused to believe it, insisting on going to see the corpse.Mi Cangqiong tried to dissuade him for a long time, but the effect was zero, so he had to take him to see.

Zhao Ji looked at Zhan Bieye's deformed face, and his own face was also distorted.Mi Cangqiong hurriedly helped him away, but he heard him muttering: "Is there a ghost in the palace? Otherwise, how could Immortal Master Zhan know the truth?"

The more he trusted Zhanbieye, the more he was hit by Zhanbieye's death.Zhanbieye usually pretended to be a ghost and used all kinds of supernatural powers, but now he died unexpectedly. It wasn't the work of a ghost, could it be a human?

The corpse drove away his elegant interest in poetry and painting, and made him restless.He also knew that he needed Zhuge Zhengwo and others to handle the business, so he asked Mi Gonggong to call Shenhou and Shu Wuxi into the palace.

Mi Cangqiong smiled wryly, "Yes."

Zhao Ji thought for a while, and then said: "Call Miss Su here too. When she enters the palace, she will be separated from Zhuge. If they meet again, I will have to listen to the old man's nagging."

Mi Cangqiong hesitated for a moment, then continued: "Yes."

Master Black Light is dead!

This astonishing news was quickly passed out of the palace through various channels, and flew to the streets and alleys of Bianliang.Before Mr. Zhuge entered the palace, many people heard the news of Zhan Bieye's death from many sources.Some of them were happy, some were shocked, and some were harboring ulterior motives, but none of them sincerely mourned him.

Among these people, Su Mengzhen had the most unique reaction.Like Eunuch Mi, he also let out a long sigh.

Su Ye was eating a thousand-layer pancake when the news of the deep palace murder came.Her diet is simple, but often refined.Next to the pancakes, there was a bowl of soup, three dishes, and snacks randomly piled up in a small basket.She calmly extended her chopsticks towards the beef. The beef was thick and tender, the color was also very attractive, and there was a curl of steam.

Su Mengzhen stared at the chopsticks and beef, and asked at the same time, "Is that you?"

Yang Wuxie sent a message and left immediately. Before leaving, she gave Su Ye a meaningful look.The others had already left, but Su Mengzhen asked his questions on his behalf.

Su Ye didn't even lift his eyelids, he was indifferent, "Who else is there besides me? Of course it's me, I killed him yesterday."

Su Mengzhen said coldly: "Why didn't you tell me."

Su Ye smiled and said, "I know the body will be found the next day, so why worry? I purposely waited until now, and after you're done being surprised, I'll explain the process to you. Do you want to hear it?"

Su Mengzhen remained silent, and continued to look at her with cold eyes, the meaning was self-evident.

Su Ye gave up on recruiting Zhan Bieye, so he shot mercilessly and killed him in the shortest possible time.Zhanbieye tried all his tricks, even resorted to the terrifying kung fu of "black hole", but he was still unable to recover.

She fought fiercely with him in the Fenghe Bieyuan, smashing all the furnishings in the house, and after a lot of effort, she finally captured him alive and suppressed him to the ground.

He was going to destroy the corpse, and so was she.When it was time to do something, she suddenly changed her mind, took him to the ditch closest to the crime scene, drowned him alive, let him lie there, and then returned to the other courtyard to wipe out all traces. The dropped ones were put into the jade pendant space, leaving an empty main hall.

She still doesn't know the names of Wenquan and He Liu.Ever since the man behind took out a dagger and stabbed her in the back of the neck, she no longer cared about who they were.She took out the corpse water, melted away their corpses, wrapped up the remains, and threw them into the Paradise of Paradise as well.Therefore, no matter how vigorously Mi Cangqiong tried to find the dead outside Zhanbieye, it would be a waste of effort.

Janbieye drowned in a ditch, and there was no trace on his body that could identify the murderer.Without traces, there would be no evidence, and no one would be able to accuse her casually.She did this probably because she was dissatisfied with the Grand Master's Mansion for doing all the bad things but not being held responsible, a momentary act of righteous indignation, but she didn't plan to do a psychological analysis for herself.

Zhanbieye's death was like a scene in a horror movie in the deep palace.For her, being able to scare others is enough.

"He has been pampered and pampered for more than ten years. He eats food, wine, and beautiful women every day, and his martial arts are bound to be inferior to before. I think he is too confident to plot against me rashly." Su Ye said calmly, his expression as usual.

Su Mengzhen snorted, but said nothing, obviously accepting her statement.Or he thought that this junior sister's secret would be kept forever, so it was useless to ask, so he simply let her go.

Su Ye casually said that he was not good at martial arts, without any psychological pressure.Anyway, the dead will never wake up, so they can't jump out of the grave to settle accounts with her.But when she saw Eunuch Mi, she didn't use the same rhetoric, let alone admit that she was the murderer.

She was ordered to enter the palace, and when she got off the carriage, she saw Mi Cangqiong with a ruddy complexion and drooping corners of her eyes and mouth.Mi Cangqiong was alone, waiting for her at the entrance of the palace, and naturally had something to say to her.

The two of them walked slowly, and just over a hundred meters away from the guards at the palace gate, Mi Cangqiong asked rather hastily, "Is that you?"

Su Ye smiled and said, "What is it me?"

Mi Cangqiong laughed, but his laughter was extremely cold.He emphasized his tone, and asked again, "Zhan Heiguang died in the palace yesterday, was it your fault?"

"I know about this. My senior brother, Mr. Su, has already told me." Su Ye stared sideways at him, his expression was three parts surprised, three parts happy, four parts innocent, as innocent as he could be, " I have no grievances with Master Heiguang, why kill him, let alone how can I kill him?"

Mi Cangqiong squinted at her, with a look of disapproval in his eyes.She was pretending to be naive, and he was also pretending to be old, holding on to airs and expressing his dissatisfaction with his eyes.

Then he said: "Tell me, it doesn't matter, when Zhuge finds you, I'm afraid it will not be easy to pass the test."

Su Ye wondered: "God Zhuge? Why did he come to me? On the body of Master Heiguang, there is evidence related to me? Was he sealed by the red sleeve knife, or died under unknown poison? ?”

This is exactly the doubtful point of Mi Cangqiong's hesitation.The first thing he suspected was Su Ye who entered the palace yesterday.Cai Jing, Fu Zongshu and the others were hostile to Su Ye, and they could never hide it from him.When Su Ye came into contact with Zhao Ji, Zhan Bieye also felt threatened, and began to be eager to try, waiting for an opportunity to kill her.In terms of motive, Su Ye is indeed the most suspicious.

But he didn't understand one question - how could Su Ye clean up the things in Fenghe Bieyuan.Did she dig and bury it?thrown into the water?Carried out of the palace?Or did you find an insider in the palace?

He has no evidence, so he doesn't have enough confidence to speak.What's more, Su Ye is bold and careful, and she is definitely not a woman who will be subdued when she is frightened.If he keeps asking questions, it will only annoy him.

At this moment, Su Ye said slowly: "Could it be that from now on, as long as someone dies in the palace, they will be blamed on me? If someone has this idea, it is best to change the target, because I am not easy to bully."