Suzaku Fury

Sha Tuo returned to Dali Temple from Honglu Temple a long time ago, but he never saw Di Renjie and Yuchi Zhenjin come back, so he hurriedly finished his dinner and waited for them at the gate of Dali Temple.

I saw him pacing back and forth hundreds of times at the door, but the two familiar horses appeared at the end of the road.

"Why don't they come back after they go out all day..." Sha Tuo rubbed his hands, planning to sit in front of the stone pier in front of the door for a while.Just as he was about to turn around, he heard a rush of horseshoes behind him, causing him to take advantage of the momentum and turn back staggeringly.

But I saw the person running ahead riding a reddish-brown BMW and galloping towards Dali Temple. The person in black cloak and indigo official uniform was Yuchi Zhenjin, Minister of Dali Temple, and Di Renjie was He followed closely behind on a snowy yellow-brown horse.

"Di Renjie!" Sha Tuo jumped up and waved at them, but he didn't dare to call the leader by name.Sha Tuo has always been afraid of Yuchi's real gold, and always felt that Yuchi's gaze on him was like Ling Chi, which was enough to crush him to ashes.In this way, I feel that looking directly at Yuchi is life-threatening, and I usually avoid it if I avoid it, but I can only stagger his blue eyes calmly, or look at Di Renjie, or look elsewhere.

Yuchi Zhenjin reined in his horse and braked sharply, barely stopping in front of Sha Tuo, then got off his horse.

Shocked, Shatuo retreated a few steps and quickly bowed to him.

"Sha Tuo!" Di Renjie immediately followed the brakes, and immediately ran towards Sha Tuo after getting off his horse, "You are waiting here, but you found something in Honglu Temple?!"

Sha Tuo nodded and said: "That's right, I've been waiting for you here... You've been waiting for a long time, come, let me show you something!" He took out two cloth bags from his clothes and handed them to Di Renjie.

"I can't ask anything from them, but what I have to say is that it is different from the usual one. No one actually saw Mr. Fang leave Honghe Temple that day. I saw very little gain, It was rare to go to Honglu Temple again, so I went to the burnt-down office room and walked around, and I found this."

Di Renjie unfolded the two cloth bags he handed over, and found that the white-gray powder inside was very similar.

"The black cloth bag is what I found in the office of Honglu Temple Minister today, and the goose yellow cloth bag is the powder you gave me that day. Although I don't know what it is, but after my identification, the two are definitely the same thing. Burnt ashes."

Di Renjie handed the cloth bag in his hand to Yuchi Zhenjin, excitedly said: "In the vast gray sea, you actually let you find these white ash, Sha Tuo, it will become a great tool in the future!"

Sha Tuo was praised by Di Renjie, and immediately laughed naively: "My nose has been trained by my master since I was a child. As long as the smell has passed under my nose once, I am not afraid that I will not be able to get it back. Besides, this kind of ashes is just It’s in the middle, it’s clear at a glance once you enter the house, and after a little consideration, it’s not hard to know that the two are the same thing.”

Di Renjie asked: "Is it clear at a glance?"

"Yes!" Sha Tuo nodded, "It's just on the ground, distributed like a stream of water."

Di Renjie glanced at Yuchi Zhenjin's hand, and asked again: "Shatuo, when you went, was there any water on the ground?"

"Water?" Sha Tuo frowned and thought, then shook his head: "No, not a single drop of water."

"Very good!" Di Renjie laughed loudly.

Yuchi Zhenjin squinted at him, put away the cloth bag in his hand with sullen expression, and said: "Hmph, the arrogant soldier will be defeated, how dare to claim credit for such a trivial skill? It's ridiculous." After finishing speaking, he didn't care what the two of them did Responding, he led the horse into Dali Temple on his own.

Sha Tuo shrank back from his scare.He felt that he was really getting carried away, he thought that Yuchi would give him a bad look, but who knew that Yuchi just led the horse inside, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

Di Renjie looked at Yuchi's back, and couldn't help but smile with an unknown meaning on his lips.He patted Sha Tuo on the shoulder and comforted him: "Sha Tuo, you have been working hard all day."

Sha Tuo smiled and said, "It's nothing. Before you came to Dali Temple, I ran to the dungeon almost every day. I came into contact with rogue bandits and prisoners sentenced to death. What I smelled was the smell of burnt skin and flesh. One day, I lived like a walking dead. I thought I was going to spend my whole life in that place, but then I met you, and happened to encounter a Dragon King case. I originally blamed you for causing me trouble. But after the case was closed He was promoted to an official position, and he was freed from it."

"You said at the time that you were my nobleman. At first I thought it was not true. I just thought you were talking nonsense. But after getting along with you for a while, I felt that it was indeed the case..."

Hearing this, Di Renjie took the reins of the horse, smiled as he walked, and said, "From what you said, I think you are my noble person. If I hadn't just met you, I might have been lynched to death by Bo Qianzhang. In the dungeon."

After all, both of them laughed.

Sha Tuo just laughed, and asked again: "Actually..."

"Why are you two still procrastinating here?! Save gossip until after the case is closed!" Yuchi Zhenjin came out of the stable to interrupt their conversation, gave them a hard look, and then snorted a few more times. Go to the front hall of Dali Temple.

The two looked at each other and shook their heads.

"Your Excellency Yuchi was even more unsmiling before, his whole body was tense, and his pair of bluish-colored moves were even more piercing, looking at you as if a layer of skin could be scraped off." Shatuo shrank his shoulders, and Di Renjie walked into Dali Temple quickly, "It's not bad these days, at least he is willing to say a few words about you, which makes people feel a little more popular. A few days ago, before you reported to Dali Temple, everyone treated him again." Respectful and afraid, I just think of him as the cold-faced Yan Luo from the Western Regions."

Di Renjie tied the horse, and after listening to Sha Tuo's words, he couldn't help laughing and said: "I think he is much better than those flatterers, and his eyes are true, and there is no falsehood. Even if his mouth It’s not what he said, but you can see what he’s thinking from those eyes.”

Sha Tuo seldom looked at Yuchi Zhenjin. Hearing what Di Renjie said, he inadvertently recalled the past scene, and quickly shivered several times.

"In this Dali Temple, I'm afraid you are the only one who dares to look at Master Yuchi."

Di Renjie glanced at him, but smiled and said nothing.Afraid that Yuchi would lose his temper if he waited inside for a long time, he hurried into the front hall with Sha Tuo.

As soon as he stepped into the front hall, he saw Yuchi Zhenjin standing with his hands behind his back, concentrating on the Chang'an city map screen behind Guan Yan.

Di Renjie walked up to him, took out the bamboo knot he threw to him just now, and handed it to him: "My lord."

Yuchi Zhenjin glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, pointed at the map without picking up the bamboo joints, and said: "This is Suzaku Tianjie. Turned around and disappeared."

Di Renjie nodded, and handed the bamboo knot in his hand to Sha Tuo to let him look at it, and then he also pointed to the map and said: "If, as the guard of Nahonghe Temple said, this red bird goes out from Tianjie to Mingde Gate, Finally disappeared in the direction of Honglu Temple. Then I boldly ended up with the scorched branch that Yuchi and I found before. The flying route of this Suzaku is the dense forest outside the city, Mingde Gate, Tianjie, Suzaku Gate , and then go back the same way, and finally disappeared in the dense forest.”

Sha Tuo was stunned when he heard this, and then looked at the bamboo joint that Di Renjie gave him, and found that except for a small moth-eaten hole that was not obvious, it was just an ordinary bamboo joint, with no special features, which inevitably made him even more confused. up.

Yuchi Zhenjin glanced at Sha Tuo dissatisfied, took the bamboo joint out of his hand, pointed to the small hole on the top and said: "After I found this bamboo joint just now, I wanted to use it on the corners of several houses on Tianjie Street. Looking for similar small holes, I found something suspicious."

Di Renjie's eyes turned cold, and he asked, "My lord also thinks that 'Suzaku' is a puppet?"

Yuchi Zhenjin said: "That's right. Earlier I doubted whether the appearance of 'Suzaku' was real, but everyone said that they had witnessed 'Suzaku' with their own eyes, and they said that Qiqing was true. If a non-existent I can't make everyone's confession consistent, so I began to suspect that there is indeed a 'Suzaku' in Tianjie, but this 'Suzaku' is not the other Suzaku, but a mechanism, behind the scenes, where does it go? Wherever it flies, it will fly, everything is pre-set.”

Di Renjie smiled and cupped his hands and said: "Your Excellency is wise. Before, this subordinate thought that this 'Suzaku' was a machine drawn by a wire, and the operator could change its flight path as he wished, but why can the operator use the wires on the sky street? Leaving no traces and being able to make the 'Suzaku' fly is really puzzling. I once doubted the feasibility of this conjecture. It was not until today that the adults discovered this bamboo joint with holes that they confirmed this idea. "

"Furthermore, the gray powder that Sha Tuo found at the place where the Minister of Honglu Temple died today is consistent with the powder found in the dense forest that day. I am even more sure that the cases that happened in the past few days are all the same thing."

Sha Tuo was completely dumbfounded: "You mean, the Minister of Honglu Temple, Suzaku of Tianjie, and the accident on the observatory are all the same thing?"

Di Renjie nodded.

Yuchi glared at him sharply, and asked: "Why didn't we find this powder when we went there?"

"My lord, it's water." Di Renjie took off the silver jug ​​pinned to his waist, walked to the side and poured some water, then poured it back into the hall, squeezed a little off-white powder from the cloth bag and sprinkled it on the ground, then poured water on the ground, Sure enough, when the off-white powder hit water, it disappeared instantly.

"The people from Honglu Temple must have poured a lot of water into the house to fight the fire that day. The powder disappeared when it came into contact with the water, but it would reappear as soon as the water disappeared. That's why we didn't find these powders."

Sha Tuo nodded knowingly, and asked again: "Then what is the connection between these powders and the charred rags that Kuang Zhao brought back that day? Are they the same thing?"

Di Renjie squatted on the ground, looked at the off-white powder that reappeared, and shook his head silently.

Yuchi Zhenjin stood upright, staring at the silver pot in Di Renjie's hand without saying a word.

Di Renjie felt that the atmosphere was not right, so he stared at the toe of Yuchi Zhenjin's shoe for a while before looking up at him, unexpectedly when he looked up, he saw Yuchi Zhenjin's serious face, as if he had something to say.

"Yuchi..." Di Renjie stood up, "Did you think of something?!"

Unexpectedly, Yuchi Zhenjin snatched the silver pot in his hand, a smug smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he stared at it for a long time, then suddenly he looked up to the sky and laughed.

Sha Tuo lay on the official case and slowly straightened up, looking at Di Renjie with fear on his face, but Di Renjie also had a bewildered expression.

Yuchi Zhenjin had had enough of laughing, so he tossed his black cloak, put one hand on his hip, and threw the silver pot in his hand to Shatuo.

Sha Tuo didn't expect him to do this, so he didn't catch it in a hurry, and he was in a mess with the smell of wine all over his body.

"You, take me to see the imperial physician Wang Pu tomorrow. If you dare not obey, I will teach you how to taste the iron in my dungeon."

Sha Tuo looked terrified and opened his mouth wide in fright.

Yuchi Zhenjin couldn't wait for his reply for a long time, he waited for him with glaring eyes, and said sharply: "Do you understand?"

"Yes! It's my lord!"

Yuchi laughed in satisfaction, turned around again, raised his face slightly to look at Di Renjie and said, "Di Renjie, let me see how smart you are?!" After speaking, he laughed again and walked away, leaving only Sha Tuo and Di Renjie were still in shock.

Sha Tuo quickly stood up, shrank to Di Renjie's side and whispered, "Di Renjie, save me."

Di Renjie glanced at the direction Yuchi was leaving with a smile, then took a step back, made a bow to Shatuo, and said respectfully: "Medical Officer Lao Shatuo, I also want to visit Imperial Physician Wang Pu."

"You!" Sha Tuo stared angrily.

Di Renjie patted him on the shoulder with a smile, said "rest early" and left.

Sha Tuo looked at the backs of the two of them leaving, and turned around in place again, and found that he was the only one left.

"It's over." Sha Tuo cried, looking down at the silver pot in his hand.