Daqing Criminal Division

On the 25th.

Hangzhou

A large carriage slowly driving into the doorway is passing through the streets of Hangzhou Mansion step by step.

The hoofs of the two big horses in front made a sound of 'stamping' on the road.

On the shaft of the car sat a man dressed in commoner clothes and wearing a bamboo hat. He folded his arms against the car door, and there was a copper coin hanging with a red thread dangling on the curtain behind him.

In that car, there was a little girl with a thin voice, fingering and humming an opera.

Listening to the libretto, it is singing "The Nun Going Down the Mountain" from the most popular "Encouraging Kindness" in folk theaters nowadays.

It's really embarrassing to hear such a young girl singing such a beautiful and moving song.

But the passers-by on the avenue walked in a hurry one by one, and no one noticed this carriage dressed as a family of ordinary merchants.

But just now when this carriage entered the city like this, there was an elderly white-haired tea drinker selling Yuqian Longjing under the city gate.

There are many tea mountains in Hangzhou Prefecture, and in this season, there are the most tea growers.

Along the way, there are also many merchants carrying tea baskets walking along the way. This carriage came from Jiangning, and there were some goods on the rear shaft.

Inside were brown paper packets.

A piece of red paper was tied with hemp rope on it, and the word "tea" of the boss was also written with a brush.

——Chen tea leaves.

I'm afraid it's also the means of livelihood of the family on the carriage.

Because he will come down from the official road and walk through this city gate.

Usually go to Tianmu Mountain, so you have to go around in front of Hangzhou Mansion to go to Lin'an County.

It is said that this mountain is the origin of the local mountain system and water system. It is named because there is a pool in the east and west peaks on the top of the mountain that has not dried up for thousands of years. It is like a pair of eyes looking down on the world.

An eminent monk of the former dynasty who attained Taoism in a temple in Hangzhou once left a sentence of Zen here.

The Celestial Eye refers to the left and right eyes of heaven.

The left eye sees through wisdom, and the right eye sees through people's hearts. These two eyes are the incarnations of two celestial beings walking in the world. Every 1000 years, they will come back to the world to maintain the world. Peaceful.

That's why Tianmu Mountain got its name.

I heard that the trees, landscapes, and ancient temples in the mountains and land are unique in the south of the Yangtze River, attracting people from all walks of life all year round.

Among them is an ancient temple with a very prosperous incense, named Damingkong Temple.

These days, Guzi Nunnery, an ancient temple, is mostly used by local pilgrims from Hangzhou Prefecture to go up the mountain. There are also many who study for exams, and those who recuperate in the inner house often live in the temple.

Therefore, surrounding this ancient temple that remains here, many villages have been added over the years, making Tianmu Mountain in Hangzhou Prefecture a famous Buddhist holy place in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Daming Kong Temple is probably also the purpose of this carriage running over the mountain road all the way to the top of Tianmu Mountain.

They also stopped at the gate of the city, and when the two officers and soldiers checked the things inside and outside the car as usual, when they unpacked one of the bags of old tea leaves, the old-fashioned city gate leader also came up to his nose and sniffed it. .

This smell is no different from ordinary tea.

Even more fragrant, with an indescribable taste.

The leader of the city gate has inspected this place for many years, and found nothing wrong. He carefully inspected the other goods after getting off the car with a knife, and then went around to the front, signaling the man on the shaft to open the door curtain.

As soon as it was lifted, the faces of the two people in the carriage other than the adult man driving the carriage also appeared.

Under the veiled veil to avoid being seen by outsiders, it can be roughly seen that there are two women sitting next to each other in the car.

One looked very young in stature, and he was the one who sang opera innocently all the way.

He didn't panic when he saw two men who looked like officials barging in. He even smiled sweetly under his hat before dodging away.

The other is a 'woman' with a big belly.

When the officers and soldiers with cold faces lifted the curtain from the outside to check, they were also taken aback at first, because this thin woman was obviously pregnant, so they shouldn't be seen by outsiders, so they didn't expect it.

But with just one glance, the other two officials who were ordered to check at the gate of Hangzhou Mansion also saw that the 'pregnant woman' in the car was bloated and her legs were swollen.

A duck-like stomach full of feed grains is particularly scary.

It's obviously like a hemp pole, with a strange figure that can't stand up because of starvation, and the whole face is covered under the hood with only the hair sickly covered.

"Hey, what's wrong with this family, how can you have such a big belly?"

One of the officers and soldiers also had a family.

But it was the first time in his life that he saw such a big, round belly that was bigger than an iron ball, so he only frowned and asked.

"Hey, my lord, my wife is very happy. She is a full baby in October. I'm afraid there are two, so her belly is bigger than ordinary people."

The man in plain clothes and hooked nose sitting on the shaft of the car also smiled, pointing to the woman in the car and explaining this.

This explanation makes sense.

I heard that some women have bigger stomachs when they are pregnant with two, and there is no problem with the customs clearance documents handed over by the family, and the two women sat obediently.

After this inspection, the officers and soldiers of the Hangzhou Mansion guarding the city gate didn't say much, they just waved their hands and let the carriage continue to move forward.

But when the man thanked him and then put down the curtain and continued to walk into the city, the wheels underneath continued to sway, and the 'pregnant woman' who was silent just now buried her hair in pain and uncomfortably and began to tremble .

She trembled with fear.

Her feet were originally covered by clothes, but a skinny foot tied to the car by a thick iron chain was also exposed.

The feet were covered with rotten sores and traces of being picked and scratched, probably caused by self-torture under extremely painful circumstances.

It's a pity that the official post and the city gate have already passed, and no one will be able to see this tragic and terrifying scene anymore.

"What are you shaking?"

"I couldn't bear it just now, and wanted to report us again, didn't I?"

Seeing this, the little girl who had been with her in the car also laughed.

After thinking about it, he moved his body closer to her, and then took out the knife that was just behind the pregnant woman's back and whispered in her ear,

"Let me tell you, if you dare to talk to those officials, if you can't wait for our cargo to arrive, I will dig up your belly and throw all your intestines and liver out to the dogs."

These words are really a bloody threat. This little girl's parents are so delicate, but her words are more sinister than poisonous snakes and spiders.

"———"

Hearing this, the pregnant woman with the veil on her face gasped in pain.

A pair of pale hands also clasped his stomach tightly, daring not to move like a dying person, and seeing some dirty liquid in his legs couldn't help but excrete.

"Oh, how pitiful."

"I'm addicted again. I peed my pants. I don't want to stay with such a dirty thing like you. Wipe it off with a cloth. Keep holding back. I'm leaving."

"Flower Girl... Spider, please, please... just give me some... just give me some..."

These words also forced the poor woman who was half imprisoned in the carriage to cry silently.

It's a pity that the little girl who was escorted by the "Flower Girl Spider" to escort the "cargo" turned around and went out, and sat down with the man driving the carriage again.

Wait until you see that there is something extra on the copper coins hanging on the shafts of their cars.

Looking up, she was just looking at a pigeon sitting on the roof of the car.

Seeing this, she first took down the letter hanging on the copper coin, and the little girl who took a look at it turned her head, but her expression suddenly turned cold.

"Cui Dongting, what do you mean by the words in your letter... It means that there is a person who rescued all of Yang Qingbing's family members from the state capital overnight?"

"Yes, and it happened just last night, and only one bird mark was left in Yang Qingbing's house."

As if he had expected this to happen, the hooked-nosed man also replied.

"Bird, what is this mark?"

"This is the special mark of the Shangyu Reserve in the former capital... The famous sticky people in this dynasty are probably already eyeing us."

"Who are the people who stick sticks? How can they spoil our affairs so well?"

She had an innocent face, but her voice was very vicious. The little girl in a flower jacket called 'Huagu Spider' was a little puzzled.

"You're still young, I'm afraid you don't know what kind of people this is, but you...have you heard such a story before."

Sitting on the shaft of the carriage, Cui Dongting, who carefully wiped the arhat coin on his fingers, only sneered.

"In the past, there was a bird called the God of Eagles, which was the highest totem of the Manchus in the past. Only one out of [-] birds of this kind came out. Once it is domesticated, it will not change for life, so the Emperor Shengzu said that there are sixty out of three hundred feather insects, and Haidongqing is the most handsome, and this is the origin of Haidongqing."

"That is a group of people who are not afraid of death. They live for their ambitions and die for their ambitions."

"Once they are selected, they hide in the dark, and unless they are summoned, they are as difficult to return to their hometown as itinerant eagles, and they have to remain anonymous and drift away all their lives."

"I have never seen their true faces, and only they themselves know who they are."

"But this group of people has been wandering among the people, making a living by eradicating rape and eradicating evil. One day, one of them dies due to personal fate, and the sticky people will keep the secret of his background protected."

——"And the rescue of Yang Qingbing's family this time may soon follow our footsteps to Hangzhou. I'm afraid it's...that group of 'Caidongqing' who have been undercover for the people all their lives and are incompatible with me.

……

No one knows about all the weird things that happened far away in Hangzhou Mansion.

But when the perspective returned to Jiangning Mansion thousands of miles away again.

This time, as soon as the homemade bomb case of the Wannan gang ended, Zha Keshan and the others set off separately and stayed in Jiangning Mansion. Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao were the only ones left to continue investigating the case.

Regarding the fact that Liu Cen, who was kidnapped and rescued, later developed traumatic disorder and lost part of his memory, the government has not followed up for the time being.

Because the legendary Damingkong Temple happens to be in the territory of Tianmu Mountain in Hangzhou Prefecture.

This case is bound to be related to the previous "Luo Han Qian" and "Green Spider with Flower Back".

However, everyone knew that a normal person who was in the bottom of a well in Jiangning and was illegally imprisoned for eleven days could not have heard the bells from a temple far away in Hangzhou.

One is that the distance between the two places is too far to spread.

The second is that in this process, if Liu Cen travels back and forth between the two places in a short period of time, the time is not enough.

Therefore, even Sima Zhun, who has experience in handling cases, couldn't give them much help this time.

Since it is impossible for Liu Cen to have been to Hangzhou during this process, it is impossible for him to hear any bells, and it is even more impossible for him to be in a coma and still figure out in his mind that what he heard was the bells in Damingkong Temple. a conclusion.

This completely contradictory paradox is puzzling.

Afterwards, Duan Xiao went to the prison of Jiangning Mansion to question Yang Qingbing again, but he did not draw any more conclusions from him.

Yang Qingbing didn't know what Damingkong Temple was, so there was only one possibility for this matter.

That is, as a folk doctor in the Jiangning Medical Center said before, during the process of Liu Cen's injury and coma, he may have inadvertently received behavioral and verbal hints from others.

What are verbal cues?

It is a kind of intuitive psychological and behavioral feedback generated by obtaining information in a state of mental weakness.

At this stage, it is very likely that someone kept mentioning the word "the bell of Damingkong Temple on Tianmu Mountain" in his ear.

At that time, Liu Cen heard it vaguely, and realized that this place was very important, so he wanted to write it down, but after that, he was seriously injured, and a serious accident occurred because of this information.

So much so that after waking up this time, he had the illusion that he had heard the bell ringing on the top of Leshan.

This phenomenon, in folk medicine, is often called self-psychological suggestion, just like, a person once saw some scenes in the portraits when he was just born, or in a certain period of time.

Afterwards, after a certain amount of imagination, this event will be rearranged and tampered with memory, and kept in my mind in other ways, so that afterwards, I have the illusion that I have been to that place.

But if you think about it carefully, Liu Cen would repeatedly mention this word in his ear when he was illegally imprisoned by the Wannan people.

I'm afraid that only Wang Tianxiao and the group of "Southern Anhui people" are the masterminds behind it.

Then there is only one way to understand what is hidden behind this mysterious bell.

That is, find a way to go to Hangzhou Mansion in person.

Let's see what is hidden behind the weird bell from Damingkong Temple on Tianmu Mountain that last remained deep in Liu Cen's memory.

This kind of work, the officials in Jiangning Mansion must have no choice.

Because this time the tax and bank issue of the government has not been completely resolved, they still have the responsibility of arresting and reporting the "Southern Anhui people" group. In this way, a certain two people who have just solved a case had to prepare to leave for Hangzhou again.

Fortunately, Sima Zhun also said that he can help with ultimatums and post stations along the way, and once they go to the government office in Hangzhou, there will be someone to meet them.

But if you want to get on the road so soon, you really don't have to be so anxious.

After all, there is still a long distance between Jiangning Mansion and Hangzhou Mansion. If you just take the shortest road and rush there, it will take more than ten days to arrive at least.

In addition, although they both have two good horses.

You don't need to take a carriage on the official road like ordinary people, but you have to prepare everything on the road before going to Hangzhou to avoid mistakes.

For this matter, Fuchaerji and Duan Xiao had to temporarily stay here in Jiangning for two more days.

Fortunately, the guest rooms at the Meixiang Inn have not been returned, and Zha Keshan and Yuan Bao have already left, so they each stay in an empty room as they are.

During the period, the two prepared to go to Hangzhou Mansion, which seemed to be no different from before.

They even took advantage of the fact that they didn't decide the winner of the case this time, and expanded some more personal, 'comparison' activities between the two——

This 'comparison' activity is often carried out in a special place that only they know.

Because for several days, they haven't decided a winner, so they have been working like this.

There was a cloud of smoke and white air in front of him.

In a remote alley in Jiangning Mansion, small wooden signs are hung at the door, and there is the sound of someone boiling water in front of the hall.

Inexplicably, people can't see what they are doing and where they are.

Across a hazy curtain, there were vaguely a few big white legs belonging to men walking around, and there was an inexplicable smell in the air.

With his back to the fog behind him.

Sitting upright at a distance, with solemn and indifferent expressions, the two of them held hands with one another, and took a deep breath while standing somewhere in Jiangning Mansion with their hands behind their backs.

The two of them were grown men with similar stature and strong aura.

Sitting with such a sense of contrast, there is a kind of rivalry, full of gunpowder.

"Hey, are you ready to lose to me this time?"

As he said, he folded his hands and cast a glance at Duan Xiao beside him, but Fucha Erji's expression was full of provocation.

"It's you who are planning to lose this time."

Originally sitting quietly, Duan Xiao, who opened his eyes upon hearing this, raised his eyelids and cast a glance at him.

The two people looked at each other expressionlessly, and the atmosphere suddenly became serious and sharp. If it wasn't for this place, others would think that they were going to fight on the spot.

"As a human being, don't just talk big, understand. Then, I count to one, two, three, and we will start."

Fucharzi said shaking his fingers.

"Come."

Duan Xiao was also noncommittal, and then agreed.

When the two of them walked into this place together, they sat down with cross-legged dignity.

Then he tore off the extra clothes on his body to reveal his back muscles and abdominal muscles. The two guys opened their arms, and the guys with inexplicably good figures listened to the old man with a Huaiyang accent speaking warmly behind him.

"Both of you come to the Tangchi to take a bath again today, who will be first this time."

Fucharzi: "I go first."

Duan Xiao: "I go first."

After all, the two guys who came to the bathhouse early in the morning still competed and raised their hands.

The bathhouse master: "Oh, hahaha, don't grab it, don't grab it, there is no such thing as a back rub hahaha, don't you just want to see who can last longer."

Perhaps this is the first time in this life to see two people who are so 'competitive', the old master of Jiangning Mansion couldn't help but find it funny.

Yes, rub your back.

It was their new hobby they had recently found.

It is said that there are differences between the northern and southern bathhouses, and the culture of back rubbing alone can be traced back to the previous dynasty, but as two big men, how can they not go to the bathhouse every day.

It was also the scrub master from Jiangning Mansion who poured some hot water on their backs, and when the terrible scrub towel was put on their backs, the two of them immediately began to grit their teeth and hold on.

"Hey, hey, ouch, master, lighten up—"

Fuchaerzi's screaming with his head bowed as he thumped the ground was quite different from that of Duan Xiao, who was silent but began to sweat silently.

To talk about such a boring and unnutritious thing, I am afraid that there is no third person in the whole world like the two of them.

But because the new case hadn't started yet, the two of them really couldn't find a way to 'fight to the death' other than fighting each other and deliberately making trouble for others.

These two people therefore developed this special 'competition' method.

——Take a bath, win or lose.

Whoever lasts longer wins.

At first Duan Owl was the other side of this 'duel'.

I still didn't want to respond to such a very low-intelligence competition, but the next sentence that Fucharzi said made him start to follow.

Fuchaerzi: "Yo, you're not afraid."

Someone who was paralyzed in the bathhouse like an old man, with a steaming towel on his head, sneered mockingly so slowly.

Duan Xiao: "What did you say?"

Fuchaerzi: "Say it again, say it again, are you afraid? Are you afraid? Are you not afraid?"

Duan Xiao: "Hehe."

Chang Ling and Duan Yuanbao are far away in the sky.

If I know that these two people can become so boring once they meet together, I'm afraid I will feel quite speechless.

After all, the two of them used to have eyes on top of their foreheads, but now that they are together, they have become so childish, which is really unbelievable.

But after such an encounter, the two of them really made the two of them compare each other boringly, and at the same time, they settled all the matters to go to Hangzhou Mansion.

The night before leaving Jiangning Mansion.

They went out together for a walk.

In the middle of the night, it was still the familiar stone dam on the banks of the Qinhuai River connecting the Grand Canal on the left and right. This time, the two of them found some free time and sat under it for a while.

Because I will leave for Hangzhou Mansion tomorrow, an unknown mystery will unfold again.

The atmosphere between them seems to be not bad tonight.

At this time, Duan Xiao still found a time to give someone the outfit he had bought before letting Uncle Ming go.

"Hey."

Duan Xiao thought, and suddenly made a sound.

"Ok?"

Someone beside him raised his head upon hearing this.

"then."

In this regard, Fucharzi, who was called out by him and received something all of a sudden, was a little surprised.

At first he thought Duan Xiao was deliberately joking with him.

But when Fucharzi found out that the package that the other party threw towards him was actually a suit of clothes of good material and a pair of shoes, he immediately fell silent.

And it just so happened that a bird with snow-white feathers dotted with patches of black happened to be embroidered on the cuff buttons of that dress.

The bird looked very similar to Fucharzi at first glance, with a pair of black, extremely bright eyes, as if it had been carefully selected for a long time.

This is actually the first time in Duan Xiao's life that he gave someone something so seriously.

But when he did this by himself, he seemed to be in a very open mood.

After all, he is only self-discipline and self-restraint, but he is not really cold-blooded.

He didn't think that he suddenly wanted to give something away, it was something that needed to be kept secret, especially people like him and Fucharzi didn't seem to know how to be polite, so he just gave it away if he wanted to.

But in normal times, when it comes to others, people like Fucharzi who are never polite can just answer casually.

But I don't know what's going on, seeing Duan Xiao staying here with him like this, the two of them seem to understand what it means without talking, but he always has the feeling that the other party might also want to hear how he praises him. up.

"Thank you."

"Well, this is the first time someone has given me something."

"Hey, by the way, how do you know that I just like this one? What a coincidence, this is really good."

Hearing his words, the tail of a fox who always likes to hide in the dark quietly and observe others but never reveals himself seems to be raised.

what's going on.

Apparently, quite happy.

Thinking of this, Fucharzi, who had closed his eyes and rested his arms on his head, pretended not to know anything, cocked his mouth slightly, and suddenly felt that his mood had become pretty good.

This night, the moon above Jiangning Mansion was hanging in the sky, shining brightly.

"Old Duan."

"Ok?"

"Hey, didn't you hate me calling you Lao Duan before?"

"..."

"..."

"Old Cha."

"Tsk, who is Old Cha? What an ugly and strange nickname."

It's the wind.

Something else was moving, too.

And this trip about Hangzhou Mansion thousands of miles away and the mysterious Daming Kong Temple on Tianmu Mountain is finally coming——

The author has something to say: Thinking back to the last time I wrote an emotional drama, some girls commented in confusion and asked me what I wanted to express in that chapter.

Let me say it silently first, this chapter is also an emotional drama, and this is how the two of them cultivated their relationship...

Don't ask why someone develops a relationship by taking a bath, yes, it is these two people, our old Cha and Lao Duan, with their chests up.

By the way, the update last night was too late, I am very sorry, I want to make up a chapter overnight for everyone, Jiumi, I love you~