When the book-traveling little detective meets the two-faced prince

Every room could be seen through at a glance. If there was someone there, it would be impossible for there to be no sound at all. But even so, Xiao Yihuo still shouted Jiang Lian'an's name and looked for Jiang Lian'an's figure.

Entering another room, he could still see signs of a fight and scattered bloodstains.

All the wooden furniture in the house was broken into pieces.

Xiao Yihuo's heart sank suddenly, and his eyes darkened. The hands at his side slowly tightened. Even if it was a corpse, he would find Jiang Lian'an.

After standing there for a while, Xiao Yihuo stepped out of the house and saw the hollow rod stuck in the window paper. He became alert and walked over to take the hollow rod down.

When he took it down, the empty pole tilted slightly, and a stick of incense fell from it. The incense was not completely burned out. Xiao Yihuo put it to his nose and smelled it, and it exuded a faint musky scent.

It’s the drunkenness of life!

After a careful search, Xiao Yihuo found another one on the window paper outside another door.

Xiao Yihuo's pupils constricted and his gaze fell on the wooden barrel placed in the yard last night. The shrill scream from last night was still lingering in his ears.

That rotten skin water can corrode the skin and flesh.

Could it be...

Xiao Yihuo's Adam's apple rolled up and down, and then he slowly walked towards the wooden barrel, feeling a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.

As I walked over, a gust of wind blew up the paper money on the ground and made it float towards the wooden barrel.

Xiao Yihuo stood in front of the wooden barrel facing the door, but his eyes did not look into the barrel for a long time. He seemed a little hesitant.

He always felt that someone like Jiang Lian'an could survive in desperate situations and it was impossible for him to die so easily.

Xiao Yihuo calmed himself down, took a deep breath and looked into the wooden barrel. Before his eyes fell down, his ears moved slightly and suddenly there was a sound of cutting through the air from the upper left side of his head.

Xiao Yihuo used the wooden barrel in front of him, supported himself with his hands and turned around. He did not check what the thing was that was shot at him, but just held it tightly in his hand, and immediately looked in the direction where the thing came from.

After seeing that familiar figure, the vigilance in his eyes disappeared, and his pupils relaxed, with a smile that even he himself could not understand.

Jiang Lian'an was lying on the roof of the dungeon, waving at him. Then, with a look of disgust on his face, he raised his index finger between his lips and nose, signaling him to speak more quietly.

Only then did Xiao Yihuo dare to move his gaze into the wooden barrel. The rotten skin water in the barrel was crystal clear, and you could see a large amount of milky white crystals sinking to the bottom of the barrel, but there were no bones, skin, or flesh.

It turns out that a large amount of alum was added.

Excessive use of alum can be extremely corrosive to the skin.

At this moment, there was a noise coming from the corner of the yard.

Xiao Yihuo used the force of the force to fly onto the eaves nearby, and then with the help of the roof, he landed steadily next to Jiang Lian'an in just a few seconds.

Jiang Lian'an opened his mouth wide, then pulled himself down onto the eaves, scanning the situation below.

Soon, two human traffickers ran out.

The two human traffickers carefully checked the rooms in the yard, but did not see anyone.

Looking at the quiet and deserted courtyard, he scratched his head and said, "Strange, I clearly heard someone shouting just now."

"I must have heard it wrong. Judging from the time, they shouldn't be back so soon."

"But where did Jiang Lian'an go? Why did he suddenly disappear?"

"Maybe they've left. No matter what, we've achieved our goal. Let's go back quickly."

After the two returned to the backyard, Lin Lezhi breathed a sigh of relief and lay on his back on the eaves. Then, with a gloomy face, he whispered in disgust: "Why are you shouting? I'm afraid they don't know I'm still here."

Xiao Yihuo took out the thing Jiang Lian'an had just thrown down, which was a copper coin with the inscription "Chengjing Seventh Year". Xiao Yihuo shook it in his hand and said, "Since you are here, it would have been better if you had agreed to my request earlier."

Hearing this, Lin Lezhi's eyes were filled with disdain, and he rolled his eyes at Xiao Yihuo.

He hadn't slept all night last night. Finally, he didn't have to run anymore and had a chance to close his eyes and sleep. But as soon as he closed his eyes, he heard someone calling Jiang Lian'an's name.

At first, Lin Lezhi still wanted to.

Just call Jiang Lian'an, not him, go back to sleep!

But suddenly he changed his mind and realized that he is Jiang Lian'an now. Who else could be the one to call Jiang Lian'an so loudly if not Xiao Yihuo?

As a result, Lin Lezhi sat up in shock from his dying illness, crawled over and saw Xiao Yihuo standing in front of the wooden barrel. Afraid that Xiao Yihuo would be stupid enough to put his hand into the water, Lin Lezhi reluctantly gave up and threw away the copper coin he had picked up while escaping.

Remember to keep warm before it comes.

Now he finally understood what it meant that a penny can make a hero fall.

Lin Lezhi looked at the copper coin tossing back and forth in Xiao Yihuo's palm. When the copper coin bounced in Xiao Yihuo's hand, he reached out and grabbed it back, saying stubbornly: "You don't need it, give it back to me!"

Xiao Yihuo smiled, and followed Lin Lezhi's example by lying down on the roof, jokingly saying, "I've said it before, all my money is yours."

"Who cares about your money? I have hands and feet, and I can earn it myself."

"is it?"

"nonsense."

As the saying goes, a man may be poor but his spirit is not poor.

Even if it was possible for him to use Nan Rongyi's body and change his name to Jiang Lian'an.

But... he is not Nan Rongyi, why should he take Xiao Yihuo's money? Even if he really traveled into Nan Rongyi's body, Nan Rongyi was in Northern Qi, and the Yunqiang Kingdom was destroyed. Nan Rongyi was not afraid of death for his best friend, so why would he care about money?

But he picked up this penny honestly, and no one can take it away from him.

However, Lin Lezhi suddenly became curious and wanted to test Xiao Yihuo, so he looked at Xiao Yihuo and asked, "Didn't you always call me Ayi before? Who is that Ayi?"

Hearing this, the smile on Xiao Yihuo's lips disappeared, and there was a hint of ambiguity in his eyes when he looked at Lin Lezhi.

Just when Lin Lezhi thought he had asked a question he shouldn't have asked, Xiao Yihuo's eyes showed a hint of loneliness, and he slowly said, "Didn't you say that you don't allow me to call you Ayi anymore?"

Lin Lezhi looked away and scratched his nose and said, "I have lost my memory. I also want to see if I can get my lost memories back."

"And...and didn't you say, when you came here, that I could ask you directly?" Lin Lezhi frantically tried to make excuses for himself.

Xiao Yihuo was silent for a while. Just when Lin Lezhi thought that Xiao Yihuo would not speak, he slowly said, "Ayi, Nan Rongyi is my only friend in the palace since I was a child."

"The imperial master in the palace observed the stars and made divinations, and said that I was born with an ominous sign, so my father, as well as my brothers and sisters in the palace, don't like to get close to me. They said that I was born with bad luck and that my name also has the word "calamity" in it."

"My mother... also passed away on my fifth birthday."

"When I was seven years old, Ayi, who was two years older than me, came to the palace. He was looked down upon by the people in the palace just like me, but he didn't care. He treated me gently like a brother."

"I hoped that he could receive the best treatment in the world, but his country was destroyed and his family was ruined. And then...because of my incompetence, I watched him die in the sea of ​​fire, but I could do nothing."

Xiao Yihuo looked at Lin Lezhi and said, "So when I saw you, I hoped from the bottom of my heart that Ayi was still alive in this world, even though... he had forgotten me."

Back when he was in Yulong Village, Xiao Yihuo did say that he wished he had never been born.

Suddenly, Lin Lezhi felt a surge of guilt in his heart. He was very embarrassed for a moment and wanted to find a hole to crawl into, but he couldn't help coughing because he choked himself.

Every word Xiao Yihuo said struck Lin Lezhi's heart.

This... The person who allowed Xiao Yihuo to be born, who bears so many sins, and who killed Xiao Yihuo's only confidant, was himself.

Having someone point it out to you directly and knowing it in your heart are two different feelings. This feeling is more uncomfortable than having someone poke you in the spine, just like having your underwear lifted up.

"Lian'an, are you okay?" Xiao Yihuo stepped forward and asked with concern.

Lin Lezhi waved his hands quickly, looked away and said, "No... I'm fine, please continue."

Seeing that Lin Lezhi was looking away, Xiao Yihuo's eyes darkened and he said calmly: "I think you are quite good the way you are now. The name Lian'an also suits you very well."

“Is… is that so…”

Lin Lezhi looked guilty in front of this real hero, and turned to comfort him: "Um... don't take divination and astrology seriously. People in this world believe in divination and astrology too much, so they are often trapped by the divination and cannot escape their fate."

“No matter what others think of you or how they treat you, you must never believe it yourself.”

"As for names, as the ancients said, the world is unpredictable, and fortune and misfortune are interdependent. The past is not your fault, but others'. You must believe that yesterday's cause will have tomorrow's effect. How do you know whether the future will be a disaster rather than a blessing?"

Although Xiao Yihuo treated his relatives with extremely cruel methods, he was also a wise ruler and a true male protagonist.

A hint of surprise flashed across Xiao Yihuo's eyes, and he asked with speculation in his eyes: "It sounds like you know a lot about me?"

"Ahem!" Lin Lezhi looked at Xiao Yihuo and tried to make amends again, "The royal family has been in constant conflict since ancient times, and you happened to be born into the royal family. There must be many reasons why you had to do so. I am just guessing."

Xiao Yihuo looked at Lin Lezhi without saying anything.

Lin Lezhi continued, "If you don't like the word 'disaster', I think the word 'xu' is very good. Xiao Xu, Xiao Yixu, Xu Se Chun Guang Xin, is a good name."

Hearing this, Xiao Yihuo's pupils shook, he was stunned for a moment, and then smiled as if relieved.

"Well, I also like the word 'Xu'. It was chosen by my mother. She said that even though it was freezing cold when I was born, when she saw me, she felt as if a spring breeze had warmed her heart, melting away the coldness."

"But..." Xiao Yihuo looked at Lin Lezhi and said bluntly: "Are you so sure that I am Xiao Xu?"

Lin Lezhi really wanted to complain.

He just flew up, do you think he is blind? He can still retreat!

Lin Lezhi turned over, leaned sideways with his hands on his head, and said with a hint of pride: "Do you remember what I said before when I determined that the owner of the manor was a fake identity, that a person's living habits can reveal a lot of things and are difficult to hide?"

As he spoke, Lin Lezhi shifted his gaze to Xiao Yihuo's hand.

"You said you were sickly since childhood, so it must be very difficult for you to learn martial arts. Even if you are not favored, you are still a prince. You are not needed to do dirty work. Where did the calluses on your palms come from? And only your right hand has calluses. You have used a sword in Yulong Village."

Xiao Yihuo looked at the palm of his right hand, a dashing smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, without any sign of weakness.

"I advise you that next time you want to pretend, you should borrow Qingchuan's ointment to cover it up first." Lin Lezhi said kindly.

"Thanks for the reminder. I will pay attention next time." Xiao Yihuo looked at the empty scene with ghost money and asked puzzledly: "But why did this courtyard become like this, and why are you hiding here?"

Lin Lezhi briefly told Xiao Yihuo what had just happened.

When the two bosses ordered the human traffickers outside the door to capture Lin Lezhi, Lin Lezhi did not hesitate too much. He immediately lifted the bluestone slab and ran into the tunnel.

The human traffickers naturally followed closely.

Relying on his familiarity with the tunnel, he remembered that there was a secret door hidden in Yan Jingyi's room. He guessed that the two bosses should not have told the human traffickers about the secret door.

So he sneaked into Yan Jingyi's room. When he went up, in order to cover his tracks, Lin Lezhi took off his shoes and entered the house. Then he found the secret door on the wall and went outside the village.

Then, after waiting for the village to quiet down and confirming that there was no one in the yard, Lin Lezhi returned to the tunnel through the dungeon entrance, then followed the banyan tree and climbed onto the roof.

Hearing Lin Lezhi say this, Xiao Yihuo's eyes became even more puzzled, and he said bluntly: "Since you have already left, why did you come back?"

"Because I have something I want to confirm, and besides, I'm not the one they really want to arrest."

"What's the matter?"

"Don't worry about that fox Xiao for now. When I climbed up, I found a strange sight. How about I take you to see it?"

Xiao Fox...

Xiao Yihuo kept a smile on his face, but the corner of his eye twitched slightly.

He said he wanted to take Xiao Yihuo to see a strange sight, but he only crawled forward cautiously. When he crawled to the other side of the square roof, Lin Lezhi raised his head slightly and pointed outside the wall and said, "Look, this is a strange sight."

Not far from the square roof, outside the thick wall, there is another courtyard, which is roughly the same in shape as the courtyard they are staying in, but it is not in the style of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Instead, it is a stilt house built according to the terrain.

There was a wall between us before and I had never been around to the back, so I didn’t know there were other buildings outside the wall.

After a moment of silence, Xiao Yihuo slowly said, "It is a wonder, yes, but I still think that the name you gave me is even stranger."

"What's so strange about this? You pretend to be someone you like to meet people. It's a waste of your talent to call you Xiao Yihuo or Xiao Xu. I think these names are just right." As he spoke, Lin Lezhi did not forget to nod.

Lin Lezhi didn't even turn around to look at Xiao Yihuo's expression and gave another pertinent suggestion.

"You don't like foxes, how about I change to something else? A jackal? A hyena? I think a weasel would suit you well, too."

Each one is uglier than the other, and none of them are human.

Xiao Yihuo's eyes twitched slightly, and he compromised, "Don't change it, the fox is fine."