Ling Yun wanted to exchange 800 taels of silver notes for the jade pendant from the Liu brothers. Unexpectedly, when it happened, there was a big stir. The Liu brothers were bloodied and the jade pendant finally fell into the hands of Ying Chuanlin, the martial arts master of the Hou Ye Mansion.
Ling Yun's handsome face was so angry that he gritted his teeth and said, "Ying Chuanlin, what do you want?..."
Ying Chuanlin raised his eyebrows and said, "I didn't think anything of it. I just gave this jade pendant to your princess wife. She is so jealous and she must not tolerate this kind of thing." Hello!"
Ling Yun's face was livid; he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "You are so despicable."
Ying Chuanlin Shiran laughed: "It's useless for you to scold me now. Junior brother, we will meet again later."
As he said that, his body was as light as flying, and he was already several feet away.
Ling Yun suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute!"
Ying Chuanlin stopped and said, "Junior brother, what else do you have to say?"
Ling Yun pointed at the body of the gray-clothed killer on the ground and said expressionlessly: "Did you send this person?"
"Oh, how come you see it?"
Ling Yun said coldly: "Don't lie. In fact, you didn't want to show up at first, but just sent this person to steal my jade pendant. Later, you were unwilling to let the matter be exposed, and you were afraid that he would leak the secret, so you killed him and silenced him. right?"
Ying Chuanlin raised his eyebrows and said: "Yes, that's right. Junior brother, you are indeed very smart, but it's a pity that it's useless. These three dead people on the ground will not testify for you anymore! Without evidence, even if you are What can the commander of the bodyguards of the Ministry of Punishment, Shangshu Mansion, do to me?..."
Ling Yun looked at the other party's arrogant look with cold eyes, and suddenly felt sad in his heart. He calmed down his fluctuating mind and said: "Let me ask you again, today's appointment is originally very confidential, how did you know about it? Don't tell me, you just happened to meet me."
Ying Chuanlin rolled his eyes and said in a strange tone: "If you don't want others to know, you have to do nothing yourself. Who doesn't know that you, Commander Ling, are a man of the hour in the capital, and every move you make attracts much attention; we here treat you Commander Ling even more. We take it more seriously!"
"Where are you?..." Ling Yun frowned and said, "Where is the Marquis's Mansion? Where is Li Ruiyun's Tianxiao?"
Ying Chuanlin smiled and said: "Junior brother, sometimes you are too smart and your life will be shortened."
Ling Yun's eyes turned cold and he said: "In other words, I have always had your eye spies around me?"
Ying Chuanlin's sinister eyes flashed, "What do you think? Hahaha..." He laughed and walked away.
Ying Chuanlin's back gradually faded away, but Ling Yun stood blankly in the wind.
His dull expression seemed to have returned to normal, although there was still deep sadness in his eyes. His long eyelashes were wet, lightly brushed with a layer of dim light by the setting sun, like the newly born wings of a butterfly.
Hopelessness spread little by little in his heart, slowly squeezing and rubbing in silence, as if it would burst at any time.
Only the considerate Feng'er whimpered, caressing his somewhat absent-minded eyes, and his somewhat messy hair...
At this time, he suddenly heard a voice. The voice was hoarse and low, as if it came from underground, "Commander Ling, Commander Ling..."
Ling Yun felt a chill; Miyin looked around and saw that the person calling him was actually a "corpse" lying on the ground!
He was one of the two farmers who picked up his jade pendant.
This man had just been stabbed in the heart by the gray-clothed killer with a sword, but his breath was still lingering and he could still make sounds.
Ling Yun felt happy. As long as this man didn't die, there would be evidence to accuse Ying Chuanlin! He rushed forward, carefully helped the man up, and said eagerly: "How are you? Come, I will perform exercises to heal your injuries!"
The man's face was pale and he said in a weak voice: "It's useless... I know that I, the villain Liu Aniu, am ashamed of you... But I still want Commander Ling to do something, and I hope you can fulfill it... "
Ling Yun's eyes were slightly red and he said, "You tell me."
Liu Aniu said intermittently: "The villain's father is seriously ill. After the villain's death, I'm afraid there will be no one to take care of my father, so please..."
Ling Yun said: "You are a filial son. Where is your home?"
Liu Aniu said with a trembling voice: "In Liujiazhuang, not far from here, the third household in the east of the village... Commander Ling, I know you are a good person, you must... promise me..."
Lingyun's starlike eyes blinked, and suddenly remembered something, "By the way, let me ask you, who did you entrust to put that calligraphy book in my dormitory?"
There was a trace of hesitation in Liu Aniu's dark eyes; he opened his mouth but stopped talking. He was thinking about whether to tell Jiao Xing.
Seeing that he was hesitant, Ling Yun couldn't help but sneer at the corner of his mouth, "There are only a few people who can enter and leave my dormitory - even if you don't tell me, I can find out; if you have to force me to go and check in person, huh snort……"
Liu Aniu said in a panic: "No, no, I say! It's... it's my sister..."
"Your sister?..." Ling Yun glanced at him suspiciously.
Liu Aniu took a breath and said, "It's just...Jiao Xing..."
"Jiao Xing?..." A trace of surprise flashed across Ling Yun's cold eyes, which was somewhat beyond his expectation; but when he thought about the causes and consequences, it was quite reasonable.
Liu Aniu looked at him almost pleadingly with his dying eyes, and murmured: "Commander Ling, please, please don't... embarrass her. Our brothers forced her to do this, and so did she... There is no way!..."
As he spoke, he suddenly lost his breath. Ling Yun reached out to test his breathing, but he was already breathless.
Ling Yun sighed and silently put down Liu A Niu's body.
I originally hoped to save Liu Aniu and leave a witness for myself, but now it seems that the only hope has been dashed.
He stood among the corpses for a long time. Suddenly he remembered something, so he grabbed the sword and ran towards Liujiazhuang like flying.
As soon as he entered Liu Aniu's house, the smell of blood hit his nose.
Ling Yun's heart suddenly trembled, and he shouted, "No!..." He took three steps at a time and rushed into the back room. He saw Liu Aniu's father, Old Man Liu, dead on the kang!
The deceased's chest was dripping with blood, and he had been stabbed through the heart by a sword.
The bed and the floor were covered with patches of bright red blood, as if they had been crushed and smashed all over the fallen flowers. The bloody light was so confusing that it was shocking.
At that moment, Ling Yun felt that everything in front of him was shaking, and all the sounds seemed to disappear in an instant.
The surrounding suddenly became silent, looking extremely ferocious and terrifying.
Ling Yun calmed down and walked forward to examine Old Man Liu's body carefully. When I touched it with my hands, there was still residual heat on my body. The murderer had obviously just left.
Ling Yun felt a burst of anger and blood rising. With a pair of scarlet eyes that were bleeding, he said through gritted teeth: "Brother, you are so despicable..."
In the flower hall of the Commandery's Mansion, Princess Huanyu was leaning alone against the window, her eyebrows slightly furrowed, her forehead resting on one hand, feeling emotionless.
At this time, the girl Xiangyun came in in panic and whispered: "Princess, the martial master is outside asking for a meeting."
When Huan Yu heard the words "Ying Martial Master", he felt offended. He didn't even bother to raise his head and said, "No!"
Xiangyun lowered his head and lowered his eyes, hesitated slightly and said: "But Master Ying said that he had something very important to tell the princess, and it was about the princess; he also said that if you don't see him, you will regret it. ... "
"Oh?..." This aroused Huanyu's curiosity.
The brilliance in her beautiful eyes flashed cleverly, and she thought to herself: "Let him come in, I want to see what he is up to?" So he lazily stood up, his red lips parted lightly and said, "Okay, let him come here. Come see me."
After a while, Ying Chuanlin walked in, led by Xiang Yun.
Ying Chuanlin greeted Huan Yu and said, "See you, Princess."
Huan Yu lowered his head and played with the thumb ring in his hand, and said absently: "Ying Chuanlin, if you have anything to say, just say it directly. I am impatient to talk to you."
Ying Chuanlin's deep eyes flashed and he smiled: "Does the princess hate me so much?..."
Huan Yu lazily raised his head and looked directly at the person in front of him with cold eyes, "What do you think? Ying Chuanlin, don't look at me for forgetting the things you have done before; I just don't have them for the time being. I have the evidence of your crime, otherwise how could you still stand here and talk to me so nonchalantly?"
Ying Chuanlin's expression was distorted for a moment, and then he suddenly laughed slowly, "What's more important is that the princess is suspected of throwing a rat into a trap, right?"
Huan Yu was startled for a moment, then turned her cold eyes and said, "What do you mean by this?"
"What do you mean? Why should the princess ask questions knowingly?" Ying Chuanlin curled his lips in a bad way, "I admit that I have done many ulterior things; but can some of the things Ling Yun did be brought to light? ?
"If you insist on holding on to me, forcing me to take out the things that Ling Yun has done, then we will all die together..."
"Ying Chuanlin!..." Huanyu raised her eyebrows and said: "I'm warning you, if you talk nonsense again, don't blame me for being rude to you! Besides, you are you, and the county horse is the county horse. , please don’t put you and Jun Ma together in the future.”
Ying Chuanlin slowly lowered his face and said quietly: "Hey, Ling Yun and I are brothers from the same sect. Is the gap so big in the eyes of the princess?"
Huan Yu glanced at him with disdain and said without mercy: "Who are you? Can you be compared with a county horse?"
Ying Chuanlin's face was neither happy nor angry, and he could not see any emotions, "Yes, I admit that in the eyes of the princess, I am not a good person; but is Ling Yun a good person? He was erratic and betrayed the princess's love for him. A true love, hooking up with other women, ambiguous relationship..."
Huan Yu said angrily: "Shut up, Ying Chuanlin, you are not allowed to talk nonsense and slander the county horse again! - Someone, please bring him out to me."
As she spoke, she turned her cold eyes and signaled to the guards on her left and right.
An ambiguous smile appeared at the corner of Ying Chuanlin's lips, and he said slowly and calmly: "Why does the princess have to be so angry? I won't bother you, I'll just go on.
"But before I leave, I have to remind the princess, be careful about the person you sleep with! On the surface, I treat you with gentle words and caring, but in fact, you are half-hearted and have different dreams!"
As he spoke, he sighed softly, turned around and walked out of the hall.
Huanyu's heart twitched unconsciously, and she blurted out: "Wait!..."
Ying Chuanlin stopped and said, "May I ask if the princess has any other instructions?"
Huan Yu slowly stood up from the chair, walked step by step in front of Ying Chuanlin, looked directly into the other person's eyes with a pair of deep eyes, and said word by word: "Ying Chuanlin, what did you mean by what you just said? "...
