After crossing over, the demon king rolled in my arms and acted like a spoiled child

Bai Jiyue immediately quickened his pace and headed towards the direction of the sound of water. After a while, he saw a rushing river running between two woods.

Bai Jiyue closed his eyes and imagined the scene of little Qingyue jumping into the water in fear. Just thinking about this scene made him feel heartbroken.

She was only four years old! How scared and desperate she was at that time!

Those who hurt her are so despicable!

Bai Jiyue clenched his fists, squatted down, and looked carefully at the woods along the river bank.

Xiao Hei also followed her, lowering his head and sniffing the ground.

As she walked, she suddenly stared at a tree.

There were several scratches on the tree. These scratches were very sharp and penetrated deep into the wood. They were obviously caused by a murder weapon such as a sword!

Look at the location of the scratch, it's on my thigh.

This position is too low. Even an adult practicing martial arts to chop down a tree would not be so low, unless it was a child! This sword is for chopping down children!

Bai Jiyue's heart skipped a beat and he reached out to touch the sword mark on the tree.

She imagined the thrill of Qingyue being chased. How did such a small person like her manage to dodge the killer's sword?

At this moment, Xiao Hei suddenly let out a low roar and dug the ground desperately with his claws.

Bai Jiyue went over immediately and saw that the soil in this area seemed softer than other places, as if it had been turned over by someone.

She immediately drew her deadly sword and began to dig.

Xiao Hei also helped dig with his sharp claws.

After digging for a while, a foul smell slowly seeped out, it was the smell of decay!

Bai Jiyue asked Xiao Hei to step back a few steps, then controlled the deadly sword to continue digging the soil.

After digging for a while, a piece of arm emerged from the soil. The arm was half rotten and looked disgusting.

Bai Jiyue concentrated his mind and continued digging in a circle with the deadly sword. Finally, something emerged from the soil. It turned out to be two corpses!

Most of the corpse's clothes were rotten, but the style could still be seen from the remaining scraps.

One of the corpses was wearing a servant's coarse cloth, and the other was wearing a black nightgown!

Bai Jiyue thought that the corpse in servant's clothes was probably the groom who protected Princess Qingyue. The groom was quite skilled in martial arts and must have killed a bandit before he was killed.

Probably, the bandits did not want to cause trouble and have their bodies exposed to the public, so they dug up the ground nearby and buried the bodies of the dead groom and their companions.

She held her breath and approached the two bodies, examining them carefully.

Suddenly, her eyes fell on the body of the man in black!

The flesh of the corpse had rotted a lot, but the skin on the wrist was still intact. Bai Jiyue suddenly saw that there was a round scar on the man's wrist!

Previously in the capital, Xiao Chongyun had found someone who knew something about her father's accident, but when they went to meet the person, they found that the person had been killed by two men in black.

They caught one of the men in black, and he had committed suicide by taking poison. When they examined his body, they found a round scar on his wrist.

The scar on this corpse's wrist is exactly the same as the one on the man in black's wrist!

It seems that the people who assassinated the insider and the people who hunted Qingyue should be the same group of people!

How could this be?

She always thought that the people who hunted Qingyue were sent by the Queen. Could it be that Bai Shousheng’s death was also related to the Queen?

She tried her best to search the original owner's memory in her mind, and found that there was no clue at all that the Queen and Bai Shousheng had any connection!

It seems that there are still many things that need to be investigated. She used the deadly sword to bury the two bodies.

Then she took Xiao Hei and walked along the river, and found that the river made several bends and actually flowed through Xinghua Village.

If Qingyue had been washed away by the water, perhaps the people in Xinghua Village would have seen it?

She asked Xiao Hei to wait outside the village and went into Xinghua Village herself.

Near the river, she knocked on the door of one of the houses.

The person who opened the door was an old man with white hair and beard. Bai Jiyue asked him politely, "Old man, I want to ask you something."

"What are you asking about?" The old man, who was probably hard of hearing, asked with his hands behind his ears.

"Grandpa, have you seen a little girl by the river in the past month or two? She has big eyes, is very pretty, and is this tall," Bai Jiyue said, gesturing at her waist, "and is well dressed, too."

Hearing this question, the old man frowned and said, "Why are you asking again? Didn't I tell you before?"

Bai Jiyue's heart skipped a beat: "Has anyone asked about this little girl?"

"Yeah, aren't you with them?" the old man asked back.

Bai Jiyue shook his head: "No, I guess the people I asked before were from the little girl's father's family. I am from her maternal grandfather's family. Old man, have you seen this little girl?"

"This little girl has quite a lot of relatives. Several groups of people have come to inquire about her!" the old man smacked his lips.

"Then old man, have you seen this little girl?" Bai Jiyue asked.

The old man shook his head: "I haven't seen it."

Bai Jiyue was immediately disappointed.

I haven't seen it. Why did you just say so much nonsense?

After thinking for a while, she asked again: "You just said that several groups of people came to visit?"

"Yeah, let me think about it. Including you, there are four groups of people!"

"What time did you come to inquire, and what kind of people are they?" Bai Jiyue asked hurriedly.

The old man stroked his beard and stopped talking.

Bai Jiyue took out a small silver ingot from his waist and put it in his hand: "Old man, my young lady has not been found yet, and my family is worried crazy. I hope you can tell me some clues!"

The old man smiled and stuffed the silver into his sleeves, then answered: "The first group of people came more than a month ago. They were dressed in black and looked fierce. They came in and asked us if we had seen a little girl who fell into the water."

Bai Jiyue nodded. She thought that these people should be the ones sent by the Queen to hunt down Qingyue. They probably didn’t find Qingyue in the water, so they came to the village to look for her, but they didn’t find Qingyue in the end.

"The second group of people came the next day. They were well dressed and looked like they were from wealthy families," the old man continued.

"The third group of people arrived about five or six days later. They all seem to be powerful martial artists." The old man smacked his lips.

He has lived to a ripe old age, and although his own cultivation has not been very good, he has seen some people with good cultivation, so he can tell that those people are all powerful in martial arts.

Bai Jiyue frowned and thought, who would send the second and third groups of people?

If it was the Queen's men, it would make sense to send someone the next day to confirm whether Qingyue was dead or not. Why would they send someone five or six days later?

However, these three groups of people should have returned empty-handed, and Qingyue might not have really stayed in Xinghua Village.

After thinking for a while, she asked the old man, "Old man, will this river pass by any other villages as it flows further?"