Cai Zhao guessed that it was the accent, handwriting, movement habits, etc., but Chang Ning rejected it, "It's martial arts. Especially with your father's skills, where can the Demon Cult find a similar master to pretend to be your father. I... what the hell?" !”
He suddenly stopped his chopsticks and said, "I know why they attacked Sect Master Qi! Only if Sect Master Qi is injured, the people pretending to be him don't have to use their skills!"
When Cai Zhao heard this, he suddenly realized.
Chang Ning slapped his chopsticks on the table: "Originally, Sect Master Qi was supposed to be 'seriously injured', but you stopped him. He was only slightly injured, so the fake one must be 'remaining poisonous and suffering from repeated injuries'." !”
He thought for a moment and then said: "Maybe they wanted to replace Song Yuzhi! Well, Song Yuzhi is already a fake."
Cai Zhao said angrily: "If Song Yuzhi is fake, then so many people in Guangtianmen are blind! I heard that among the guardians who came back, two of them watched Song Yuzhi grow up, and two others accompanied Song Yuzhi in I have stayed in Qingque Sect for seven or eight years!"
Chang Ning said oh, a little disappointed.
"I thought they couldn't replace that many people." Cai Zhaoshun said with a thoughtful look on his face.
"From what Mr. Qian said, it seems that the longer he pretended, the more effort he put into it. It only took a few days to replace Senior Brother Fan, but Mr. Qian was as tired as if his skin was peeling off. Those in important positions, At least it will take a few months to replace him. Moreover, I don’t think they will have many ‘Qiangongzi’ on their hands.” - If it were easy to replace people, they would replace Manager Chen instead of buying him off , and all kinds of courtesy.
Chang Ning thought about it and agreed.
Cai Zhao took out the golden needle wrapped in a handkerchief from his arms, "I took this out from the back of Senior Brother Fan's neck. Do you recognize it? Is it the 'Luan Po Needle' that Manager Chen mentioned just now?"
Chang Ning took the golden needle and looked at it repeatedly, "Yes, that's it. It's a heretical gadget, nothing more."
"It's still useless? I think it's very powerful. We were shaking the world next to us, and Senior Brother Fan didn't even wake up."
"It's really useless." Chang Ning threw the golden needle aside with disdain, "The powerful thing about Luanpo Needle is not the needle, but the drug that soaks the golden needle. After it hits the acupuncture point, it will make you unconscious on the spot, but it has a huge Disadvantages - the smell is extremely strong and lingers for a long time. Unless you have no nose, you can smell it from two or three feet away."
"The acupuncturist must carry a small syringe with him to isolate the smell, because the moment he opens the syringe, the smell immediately dissipates, and everyone can detect it. Let's put it this way, the only way to use the Luanpo needle is to sneak attack, with lightning speed Prick the needle into the vital point. But since you can attack by surprise, why not just use the poison knife and poison needle, which has no smell yet. This kind of thing is only used when you want to capture people alive - they spend so much effort to capture people Go, I expect your father and Sect Master Qi to be alive and well at this moment."
Cai Zhao was in a daze, and after a moment he said: "No wonder I have always disliked the smell of bitter medicine in Master's room. Now that I think about it, it is probably used to cover up the smell of the Luanpo needle."
"We have gained a lot today. Now we have two difficulties. First, how many people have been replaced? Second, how to crack this kind of body-changing method? To understand these two points, we have to ask the Qian Gongzi . However, after today’s commotion, I don’t know where they will transfer Young Master Qian.”
Chang Ning tapped the wine cup crookedly with a chopstick, looking like an elegant and relaxed drinker.
"I know." Cai Zhaohu said.
Chang Ning stopped tapping, thinking he heard wrongly, "What did you say?"
Cai Zhao: "I said, I may know the approximate whereabouts of Young Master Qian."
Chang Ning's eyes were cold and untainted by the hint of alcohol, "...what kind of pill did you give Mr. Qian just now?"
Cai Zhao smiled bitterly: "Like the Luanpo Needle, it is also a very useless thing."
She looked at the sky outside the window and said, "It's almost time. Let's buy a hunting dog."
…
Qingque Town is backed by the majestic and dangerous Jiuli Mountain, with dense and vast mountain forests in front and behind.
Since there are mountains and forests, there will naturally be abundant birds and animals.
Since there are birds and beasts, people who hunt are indispensable.
And to hunt, naturally hounds are indispensable.
So, Cai Zhao easily found a small hunting shop at the end of the town, spent all the gold and silver barley in his wallet, and bought a small hound with a keen sense of smell. After leading the dog to a deserted place, Cai Zhao took out a small wax pill from his arms, crushed it, smeared the oil inside on the handkerchief, and put it in front of the dog's nose to smell it.
At this time, night fell, and Chang and Cai were walking in the town with their hounds, which seemed quite elegant to outsiders.
Cai Zhao explained softly as he walked.
"The thing I gave Mr. Qian to eat is called 'Anxiang Pill', and it was made by my mother."
"My mother loved fragrance when she was young. Well, in fact, many girls do. But there is no time to incense when you go out. If you pour perfume directly on your body, once you start using it, you will be dripping with fragrance and sweating, which will make you embarrassed. So my mother She just wondered if there was any medicine that would naturally emit a fragrant aroma after taking it. Unfortunately, she didn't think of it until the Tushan battle."
"Later, my mother settled in Luoying Valley, and she became leisurely and elegant. She calmed down and tinkered with this 'secret fragrance pill'. People who took the pill began to smell the fragrance after half an hour - alas, who would have known that this Not only was it time-consuming and expensive, but it also smelled bad. My aunt joked that the smell was like the inferior incense used by a coquettish landlady to attract customers. It had been there for three years, had been exposed to rain, and was finally splashed. A spoonful of vinegar."
"I was so girlish that I threw away the entire box of dark-scented pills. My aunt said it was a pity to lose them, so she asked me to pick them up and play with them. My aunt and I used dark-scented pills to feed chickens, ducks, pigs, dogs, and horses... naturally , and also fed people.”
"The fragrance lasts the longest on a human body, almost two hours, and other animals are inferior. Once the hour has passed, the smell is gone. Later, my father said that although the fragrance is not good, it can be used. Come and track it. Alas, when I actually tried it, I found that this thing is really useless."
Chang Ning was very interested: "What's missing?"
Cai Zhao sighed: "As long as the person taking the pill has internal strength, once he notices it, he can use his internal strength to force out the medicinal properties."
Chang Ning chuckled, "Sure enough, nothing in the world is perfect."
Then he stopped and turned to look at the girl, "You are so confident, do you think Young Master Qian won't force out the scent of medicine?"
Cai Zhao tilted his head and clapped his fingers: "First of all, Mr. Qian's martial arts skills are low, and he has just struggled to perform the 'Transformation Technique'. Even if he had some skill in the past, he doesn't have much left now."
"But he can ask others to help him extract the power of the medicine." Chang Ning questioned.
"That's right." Cai Zhaodao, "But there is another thing. This Qian Gongzi loves to be beautiful. He is already scented with incense, and they rushed to set fire to hide it. They may not necessarily find the smell of the secret fragrance pills. We can bet that A gamble.”
Chang Ning nodded first, and then smiled, without any hint of fireworks.
"You don't have to bet, the Qiangongzi is not willing to be imprisoned." He said, "Maybe you didn't see it, but when he was groping around Fan Xing's body, he took the opportunity to stuff a paper ball in his hand. After the spell was cast, he fell down and sat down. When I got to the Fan Xing family and heard that those people were going to kill the Fan Xing family, I quickly took the paper ball back and stuffed it into my sleeve."
Cai Zhao's eyes widened: "What do you mean..." She thought it was annoying for a man to touch a man, so she didn't take a closer look at it.
"I guess the words written on the paper ball should be words like asking for help." Chang Ning said.
Cai Zhao showed a comfortable smile for the first time in two days.
…
There are two entrances and exits in Qingque Town.
The south gate and the east gate are followed by Jiuli Mountain to the west and north.
Chang and Cai first led the hounds to the two gates to confirm whether the group of people had left Qingque Town - indeed they had not, they were still in the town.
Then the two of them walked to all the residential areas in the town, including the alley that had just been burned down - to prevent them from trying to kill them.
But still found nothing.
So they had no choice but to wander around wine shops and restaurants. This kind of place had a strong aroma of wine and food. Fortunately, the smell of 'Dark Fragrance Pills' was special. Cai Zhao had tried it in the downtown area of Luoying Town before, and hounds could distinguish it.
Yet there was still no trace.
Seeing that the two hours were approaching and the pills were about to expire, Cai Zhao became a little anxious.
Chang Ning suddenly said: "Let's go to Jiuli Mountain to have a look."
Cai Zhao was stunned.
She first thought that Chang Ning was ridiculous. Those people would take the initiative to send him to the door because they were crazy. Even if Qi Yunke was replaced by them, there were still many martial arts masters and uncles in the inner and outer sects, and hundreds of disciples who were not vegetarians. The impostor who dares to hide in the ward can cover up the sky with one hand - otherwise why would they have to change to the Fan Xing family.
But then she thought again, what if?
So the two of them hurried to the northwest. Unexpectedly, as soon as they reached the foot of Jiuli Mountain, the hound started barking fiercely - a trained hound knows to pounce on the prey without hesitation. If Chang Ning hadn't held the rope tightly, The hounds had already galloped up the mountain.
A chill ran down Cai Zhao's spine and he looked at Chang Ning in fear.
Chang Ning picked up the hound and said in a deep voice: "Hurry up the mountain."
The two of them used their internal strength to rush through the forest and fly through the air like two birds, running straight towards the mountain.
When they arrived at Fengyunding, Chang Ning quickly put down the hound in his arms.
As soon as it landed, it ran straight to the cliff and barked again and again.
The barking of dogs attracted the guarding disciples of Fengyunding.
It was already late at this time, and they shouldn't have opened the iron rope, but when Song Yuzhi crossed the cliff before, he had told them to let Cai Zhao cross the cliff to avoid an accident if he stayed outside.
Song Yuzhi's prestige in the Qingque Sect was second only to Qi Yunke's, but he was more than fair in his actions, so the disciples who guarded the cliff naturally obeyed his orders.
So in the middle of the night at the top of the storm, the horn sounded again. After seeing the correct flag language and the faces of Chang and Cai, the disciples on the other side quickly released the iron rope.
Chang and Cai quickly picked up the hound and passed it through the iron rope. As soon as they landed on the edge of the cliff of thousands of mountains and rivers, the hound in Chang Ning's arms struggled to jump to the ground and ran very fast - Chang Ning tiptoed and caught up immediately.
The middle-aged disciple next to the chain box asked with a smile: "Junior sister, are you buying a dog to relieve your boredom?"
Cai Zhao smiled awkwardly: "Haha, yes."
"This dog looks bad-tempered, junior sister, I need to worry about it." The disciple also thought that Cai Zhao probably bought the dog to play with because he was depressed because his father was missing. Sure enough, he was still a little girl.
Cai Zhao hurriedly chased Chang Ning. Unexpectedly, he saw Chang Ning and the hound beside a bush before walking very far.
The hound sniffed and circled around the grass, but could no longer identify where it was going.
Chang Ning stood aside with a frown.
Cai Zhao looked up at the sky.
At the beginning of the child hour, in the bright moon, the medicine has expired.
Chapter 39
The sun gradually set, and blue-gray mist enveloped the mountains.
Chang Ning was lying on a yellow pear wood bed hung with delicate gauze curtains. Her thick black hair covered half of the bed, rising and falling like gorgeous and thick silk satin. He opened his eyes and looked quietly at the patterns on the top of the gauze tent. Next to the beautiful azure bamboo branches were embroidered with a cluster of small crimson flowers, and in the distance there was a ginger-yellow frog with a mangy head jumping around.
The jade-cut curtain, the embroidery needles falling from hibiscus, and the patterns painted by Cai Zhao.
Chang Ning curled his lips slightly - he knew the little girl was secretly scolding him, he just pretended not to know.
He put on his clothes and stood up, and took a moment to freshen up. The face in the mirror was covered with sores and his facial features were blurred.
He couldn't help but laugh.
The girl didn't know how many times she disliked his face, and how many times she wanted to run away, but in the end she still stayed by his side, caring for her so much.
If someone wants to bully him, she has to protect him; if he wants to bully someone, she has to stop him. Every time he saw a girl getting angry, he found it indescribably funny.
She is a hard-spoken person with a soft heart. Even if she discovers that she has something to hide in the future, she will not be angry for too long.
She treats him so well, so he should treat her well too.
Sitting at the table, he laid out paper and started writing, closing his eyes and meditating, repeatedly searching the forest of memories in his mind, and finally found a mottled broken leaf on an inconspicuous dwarf tree——
"... In February of the Guiyou year, the leader of the Nie family heard that Elder Yaoguang Zuo Qianqiu was plotted by Qingque Sect Yin thief and Taichu Guancang Huanzi. He was very sad and ordered his followers to go to rescue Elder Kaiyang. Unfortunately, the success failed, but instead Many warriors were killed and Elder Kaiyang also died. The thieves in Beichen are heavily guarded and future generations should take this as a warning."
Below is a sketch with only a few strokes: the rocks under the setting sun stretch into a pointed shadow on the ground.
There is a line of small words on the side: Start from here, go east for three miles, turn sideways for four miles, repeat twice, meet a shallow stream, cross it to the north, it is not far away.
Chang Ning tried his best to trace the sketch in his memory, read it carefully twice, folded it and put it in his arms.
