Ask Sword

Late at night, south of Dingzhou, Pinglai Inn.

The waiter carefully carried a pot of mutton sprinkled with scallions, walked into the lobby, quietly put the mutton on the table, turned and walked away.

There were already several figures sitting in the lobby, a tattooed brawny man with a blue tattoo on one corner of his forehead, a young man wearing a half ghost mask, a scholar holding a book and reading silently, a Confucian scholar with his eyes closed, and a girl wearing a veil.

Slap.

The burly man with a tattooed face picked up his chopsticks, ordered some on the table, and ate the hot mutton expressionlessly.

In the entire inn, there were only the piercing sound of eating and the sound of scholars turning pages.

boom!

The door of the inn was pushed open heavily, and the bitter wind and rain blew in.

Accompanied by a flash of thunder, a figure in a straw hat and coir raincoat appeared outside the door.

Tread Tread.

Li Ang, or Mosi's avatar, strode into the inn, took the rain all the way, sat in the corner of the lobby, and slapped the voucher given by Wang Shi-a jade plaque on the table.

'There are quite a lot of people. '

Li Ang looked around, and saw a familiar figure - Yu Shusheng, who had appeared in the case of Huairui mutation in Shengyefang, was also here.

‘Did he also accept the reward offered by Taiyuan Wang’s family? '

Li Ang thought casually. Yu Shusheng is a folk monk, it's normal for him to take on high-value commissions for money, and he doesn't seem to have mentioned to outsiders that he has seen Baiteman.

Otherwise, he would have been arrested by the Zhenfu Department as a suspect long ago.

While Li Ang was looking at the others, everyone in the hall was also observing him calmly, presumably guessing his origin and strength.

Squeak——

There was a sound of wooden floors on the second floor of the inn. A man dressed as a butler came downstairs and asked Li Ang with a smile, "Is it Brother Lufei?"

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Li Ang looked up at him and nodded silently.

"In this way, everyone is here except those two."

The middle-aged butler walked down the stairs and said to everyone: "Let me introduce, the next step is the butler of the 11th House of Wang's Beidu in Taiyuan. This commission was issued by my master Wang Bojian."

Wang's family ranks among the five surnames and Qiwang. His family is flourishing, divided into direct lineage and collateral lineage, and different lines are divided into various houses. According to the status in the family, they enjoy different levels of resources.

For example, the distant branch of the family can only serve as a small official in the local area, or do business and work in Wang's firm.

As for the main lineage, they are born to be superior to others and receive the best education since childhood.

Famous poets in Yu State such as Wang Zhihuan, Wang Changling, Wang Wei, and Wang Bo are all members of the Wang family in Taiyuan - making great achievements in a certain field is also the best way to enhance the status of this house in the entire family.

Being able to gather so many monks shows that Wang Bojian, who announced the reward, has a high status in the Taiyuan Wang family.

"Mr. Chu, who disappeared this time, is the husband-in-law chosen by my master for my daughter. He will be married in half a year."

The housekeeper said peacefully: "Mr. Chu Lang used to be a student of Luli Academy, and usually likes to study epigraphy.

That is to study ancient bronze wares, stone inscriptions, bamboo slips, oracle bones, jade wares, bricks and tiles, sealing mud, military charms, Ming utensils and other cultural relics, to verify historical materials, and to supplement history.

One and a half months ago, when he was visiting folk steles near Dingzhou, he disappeared unexpectedly together with the two accompanying guards.

His life light showed that he was still alive and still in Dingzhou, but we couldn't find him no matter what.

According to the divination of the elders in the family, he should have been involved in some kind of strange change. "

Li Ang raised his eyebrows when he heard the words. There are four kinds of abnormalities in monsters. Demons are biological aliens, demons are aliens in human form, aliens are inanimate objects, and aliens are those alienated objects that are extremely complicated and cannot be simply classified. Often the most dangerous and deadly.

"As for why you hired everyone, Mr. Chu Langjun's father and my master are life-and-death friends, and they made a baby kiss a long time ago.

But within a few years, Chu Langjun's parents died unfortunately due to a fire. Chu Langjun was also taken to Taiyuan.

so."

The housekeeper showed embarrassment, he didn't say the whole thing, the meaning was already obvious.

Although Wang Bojian is very authentic, he didn't tear up the baby, but Chu Haoman took over and raised him, and gave him the best educational conditions,

But the result of doing so is that Chu Haoman became the door-to-door son-in-law who lived under the fence. He grew up in the Wang family in Taiyuan throughout his childhood. .

Now that he is missing, the monks of the Wang family in Taiyuan are naturally unwilling to take the risk and help him--it's just an unmarried son-in-law, if he is gone, he will be gone, and he will just change it.

Because of this, Wang Bojian spent a lot of money and entrusted outsiders to help.

"As long as the money is in place, everything is easy to talk about."

The burly tattooed man waved his hands, not interested in the entanglements in the big family, "Where is the mutation?"

The housekeeper nodded and said, "It's in the forest forty miles west of Dingzhou City, and according to divination, you can get in with some special methods.

At that time, Brother Wang Li-nian from the Wang family in Taiyuan and Brother Ji Xingwang from Luli Academy will lead you there. "

Wang Linian was a taciturn middle-aged man in the crowd with a long sword on his waist. He was presumably sent by the Taiyuan Wang family to monitor the crowd.

And Ji Xingwang is the Confucian scholar with a gentle face.

"Ji Xingwang?"

Hearing this name, everyone present was a little shocked, and Li Ang narrowed his eyes.

In Luli Academy, besides Shan Changlu Qingya, who is a well-known monk in the Zhuxiao Realm, there are also several famous doctors - Ji Xingwang is one of them, and it was he who wrote and published a thesis on telescopes some time ago , replacing Eagle Eye.

Ji Xingwang nodded to everyone present. He is Chu Haoman's mentor, a mid-level monk in Xunyun Realm, and the girl wearing a veil who came with him is Chu Haoman's junior sister, who has innate divination skills. Gua ability.

After him, everyone in the hall introduced themselves.

"Liao Kaifeng, acquired martial artist." The tattooed muscular man said lightly.

"Yan Yan. Listen to the rain and read the teacher." The young man wearing a half ghost mask lifted the mask on his face.

"Scholar Yu, you know some low-level tricks." The scholar closed his book and said with some embarrassment.

"Lu Fei, acquired martial artist." Li Ang waved his hand.

boom!

The door of the inn was pushed open again, and two young men with the same appearance came in with their shoulders crossed, and introduced themselves carelessly: "Yu Yong."

"Yu Yuan."

The two talked to each other in tacit agreement.

"The two of us are puppet masters."

"Sorry for being late. I just went to the Qihuai Niangniang Temple outside the city, which is said to be very spiritual. The result of the lottery—"

"On a bad tree, there is little spring. When a lonely boat encounters a strong wind, there is nothing to trust when you leave. Nothing goes well."

The two seemingly unreliable puppet masters looked at each other and exaggerated: "It seems that this time someone will die."

"It won't be me who dies."

"Not me either."

"Who could it be?"

The twin brothers looked at everyone in the lobby and rubbed their chins.

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The tattooed burly man named Liao Kaifeng remained indifferent, and asked indifferently, "Are you the puppet brothers of Lingnan Dao?"

Yu Yongdao: "Do you recognize us?"

Yu Yuan said: "Hey, so we are so famous? We can meet admirers in Taiyuan? Brother, did you bring the paper, we will sign it for him."

The corners of the tattooed man's eyes twitched, "No, I heard the rumor that the two of you brothers cheated money in Lingnan Road and were biased. They couldn't stay there, so they ran to the vicinity of Luoyang."

When Yu Yongyuyuan heard the words, his complexion changed abruptly, and he said righteously: "Dear man, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk indiscriminately."

"It's okay to say that we cheat money, but cheat sex?"

"If your Excellency is referring to the female Cave Master of Wuwuliao, she is so heavy that she needs to lie on a stretcher and let a dozen people carry her away."

"Still trying to have one daughter and two husbands, and accept us as her husband and son-in-law at the same time. This is impossible at all."

"If you live at night, wouldn't you be like a blind man feeling an elephant?"

The two brothers talked to each other, their voices were extremely noisy.

Seeing this, Ji Xingwang rubbed his forehead, and stopped him aloud: "You two, be quiet, since everyone is here, there is no need to delay, let's start, and we can arrive at dawn."

The employer's words were an order. Everyone packed up their belongings, left the inn, and headed for the southwest of Dingzhou.