Dozens of experts from Jiajiazhuang searched all over the village for a long time, but there still seemed to be no clues. The word "Sichuan" between Jia Yuan's eyebrows became more distinct.
"Jia Huan"
The chief steward Jia Huan suddenly appeared in the courtyard of Chang An and Chang Sheng.
"master."
Chang An was stunned. He didn't notice Jia Huan's arrival.
"Let the managers of each park lead people to guard the park, especially the four southeast, northwest and vegetable gardens."
"It's Master."
Before Jia Huan's voice fell, he had already disappeared into the corridor. Chang An was shocked. The butler's movement skills were already like a ghost. He even suspected that Jia Huan's skills might not be weaker than Jia Yu'an's.
Jia Yu'an saw Chang An's thoughts and said lightly
"Don't be surprised. Jia Huan is only good at physical skills. He is the only person in Jiajiazhuang who has mastered the light kung fu left by Jia Wu's ancestors. He can survive even when faced with a great master. However, when it comes to martial arts, he is average."
Chang'an Khan is one of the ten masters no matter how ordinary he is.
The sound of the flute still fades in and out, and the village is crowded with people. Dozens of masters are like a well-trained army, inspecting each park in an orderly manner.
After about half a stick of incense, there was a "swish!" sound from the east, and a firework quickly jumped into the air. "Pop!" released a gorgeous firelight, and the masters of the East Garden sent out a signal.
Jia Yu'an's eyes changed, and his body moved lightly to the east.
"Follow me to the East Garden."
Chang An heard this and quickly followed.
In the manor, a large group of experts gathered towards the East Garden.
By the time Jia Yu'an and Chang An arrived at the signal transmitting place, many people were already gathered there.
A Jiajiazhuang disciple was slumped on the ground, with five fingerprints clearly visible on his neck. His face was full of horror and his lips were white, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.
"Who sent the signal?"
Jia Yuan asked.
A middle-aged man walked up. His face was slightly pale, there were beads of sweat on his cheeks, and he was a little distracted.
"The owner of the village, it's me."
Chang An saw something strange in his expression and guessed what he had seen from time to time, so he asked
"What do you see."
The middle-aged man's voice trembled slightly as he replied
"I just checked between the courtyards. When I got here, I saw this junior brother being grabbed by the neck and lifted up by a figure, so I quickly sent out a signal. When the figure saw that I sent out the signal, he ran away."
Jia Yuan was a little angry.
"Why didn't you stop him?"
The middle-aged man's expression became frightened.
"That...is not human."
After saying that, the middle-aged man took a breath of cold air. Every time he recalled the scene he just saw, it felt like a nightmare.
"After I sent the signal, I wanted to catch the figure. The figure was wearing a cloak. I couldn't see his figure clearly from behind, but he was not very fast. Even though I was far away at the time, I caught up with him in a few steps. , Unexpectedly, when I grabbed his hand, it felt like I was touching a bone. The man was so thin that he didn’t look like a normal person. When I came to my senses, the figure looked back at me."
The middle-aged man swallowed a mouthful of saliva and continued.
"I will never forget that face in my life. It's not a human being at all. It's just a skeleton in human skin!"
Everyone looked at each other in disbelief. Jia Yuan had a cold face, but the dark clouds between his brows showed that he was furious at this time.
He looked coldly at the Jiajiazhuang disciples who were slumped on the ground.
"Nonsense, tell me, is what he said true?"
The disciple had been frightened to the point of unconsciousness, and was even more distracted by Jia Yuan's sudden roar.
"Ah! Ghost! Go away!"
The disciple roared like crazy and kept waving his hands in front of him, as if to drive something away.
Jia Yuan waved helplessly.
"Send him to the hospital."
Chang An suddenly asked the people present
"Have you ever seen the figure that this senior brother mentioned?"
A tall man stood up and said hesitantly
"So, I did see a very thin man when I first came here, but the light was too dark at the time, so I just thought he was Dongyuan's junior brother and didn't pay attention."
"snort!"
Jia Yuan snorted coldly.
Another disciple came out and said
I remembered that last night, when there was an incident in the main park, I saw an old lady who was also very thin, but she had a vegetable park badge on her waist, so I didn’t care. Now I think about it. It does seem a bit strange. The old lady came to deliver the food but didn't have a cart. "
When Jia Yuan heard this, his eyes became colder and colder.
"Could it be that you want to say that I, the master of Jiajiazhuang, was strangled to death by an old woman?"
Chang An asked again
"Those four disciples who died, do they still have their belts?"
"No more. When their bodies were found, they disappeared."
Jia Huan suddenly appeared.
Jia Yuan smiled coldly and said
"There's no way a ghost is really targeting my Jiajiazhuang."
Chang An laughs
"It has flutes and skeletons, it's really scary."
Only then did Jia Yu'an remember. He listened carefully, but found that the flute sound that had been disappearing had disappeared.
He looked at Chang An and suddenly said to the disciples
"You guys go back to sleep first."
After everyone dispersed, only Chang An and Jia Yuan were left here.
"What do you think."
Jia Yuan asked.
"Regardless of who those people are and their origins, if the killers in the past few nights sneaked into Jiajiazhuang by relying on the waist cards of their dead disciples, then how did the killers on the first night get in and where did they come from? They have obtained the waist card. Without the waist card, they would never be in a deserted land in Jiajiazhuang where there are so many masters. And more importantly, whether those killers are still in the manor now. "
Jia Yuan said
"You mean there is a traitor in the village."
Chang An shook his head.
"If there was a traitor, then why would they take the deceased's badge later."
he then asked
"Have any of the disciples outside Jiajiazhuang gone missing recently?"
Jia Yuan suddenly realized.
"I'll ask someone to check it tomorrow."
Chang An smiled slightly and said to himself
"Interesting, no wonder the disciples who have been killed these days are so scattered. It turns out that they have been lurking throughout the village. It seems that they will take action when the time comes."
Jia Yuan was puzzled.
"They've calculated everything. They only have five cards. If five killers come in, what kind of trouble can they cause?"
Chang An took a deep look at Jia Yu'an. He finally couldn't help asking the question he had been hiding in his heart and didn't dare to ask.
"Can't the owner see that they are looking for something?"
Jia Yu'an's expression changed, his eyes revealed a cold light, and he looked at Chang An coldly. After a long time, he withdrew his gaze and sighed.
"maybe."
Chang An chuckled, this answer did not surprise him.
Jia Yuan said
"Starting tomorrow, I will ask people to check for strangers in the entire village."
Chang An doesn't think so.
"There are tens of thousands of disciples in Jiajiazhuang. I'm afraid that the duel will be over by the time the entire village is investigated."
Jia Yuan said again
"What can you do."
Chang An smiled.
"Since the owner of the village is willing to trust me, then I will be in charge of this matter for the village."
Jia Yu'an Road
"Is there anything you need my help with?"
"Give me a badge from the Flower and Bird Garden."
"It's not difficult. I will ask someone to give it to you tomorrow."
The sound of a wake-up call sounded in the village.
"It's late at night, go to bed early."
Jia Yuan left slowly.
Chang An was also about to leave. As soon as he stepped out, he paused slightly and saw a piece of shredded paper on his foot. He carefully picked up the shredded paper and observed it several times. The color of the paper had faded. It's very faint, but you can still vaguely see the incomplete outline of pen and ink on it, but you can't tell what the words are, or maybe they're not words at all.
Chang An looked around and found a piece of shredded paper on the ground not far away. He continued to search along the killer's departure path, but could not find any other shredded paper.
He chuckled, shook his head, put the shredded paper into his sleeve, and left slowly.
The next day, morning, the third day of July.
Chang An left Jiajiazhuang early, entered the city, and was sitting at a roadside noodle stall.
"Boss, what are the special noodles in Ningchuan Prefecture?"
The boss wiped the sweat from his face with a smile on his face and was busy clearing the table for Chang An.
"Sir, the lo mein here is excellent."
Chang An raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah, then give me a bowl and add two taels of beef."
"Okay, my dear, a bowl of noodles and two taels of beef!"
After waiting for a while, the boss came over with fragrant noodles and beef. Chang An looked at the noodles in the boss's hands expectantly, and inadvertently placed the Flower and Bird Garden waist badge on the table.
While he was devouring breakfast, the boss saw the waist badge.
"Hey, you turn out to be a hero from Jiajiazhuang."
Chang An's face was full, he waved his hand, smiled mysteriously at the boss, leaned close to the boss and whispered
"It's harmful. It's fake. It's used to bluff people. In this world, it's easy to get things done if you have a card."
The boss said anxiously
"But you can't do it. If you dare to pretend to be someone from Jiajiazhuang, it would be a big deal if they find out."
Chang An said disdainfully
"What could happen? How could the dignified Jiajiazhuang still stare at such trivial matters all day long?"
Chang Cangzong thought of something and asked again
"Boss, looking at you like this, you know something."
The boss said
"Sir, you are an outsider. Maybe you don't know that 90% of the industry in Ningchuan Prefecture belongs to Jiajiazhuang. When you see these rows of shops, any one that is not Jiajiazhuang's industry belongs to them." With their eyes and ears, it can be said that even a mosquito flying into this city cannot hide it from them. If you take out your false identity in front of others, they will immediately see through it."
Chang An suddenly realized it and patted his chest in fear.
"Oh, boss, you are really my lifesaver. Fortunately, you reminded me, otherwise I would have been beaten to death as soon as I entered Ningchuan Prefecture."
The boss mysteriously patted Chang An on the shoulder.
"It won't be enough to beat you to death with a stick. I'll just break your hands and feet and throw you out of the city."
Chang An shivered and shook his head vigorously.
"It's better to kill him...but boss, have you ever seen such a thing? Tell me."
The boss's talkative nature was hooked by Chang An, so he simply sat down next to Chang An.
"In the past few years, there were a lot of people like this. It used to be that Jiajiazhuang only gave such people a beating. Later, it was discovered that these people became more and more rampant. At that time, there were even related businesses in the city. Secret dealers specialize in making fake waistbands for people. The waistbands they make can almost look real. As a result, Jiajiazhuang was annoyed. Good guy, a large group of experts searched the city for half a month and turned the city upside down. In the end, the gang was brought to justice, and all those fake waistbands were burned. Later, in order to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, Jiajiazhuang issued a death order in the city, but it was counterfeit Anyone who holds a token will have their hands and feet cut off and be driven out of the city."
Chang An had a bad premonition in his heart, and he sighed heavily. The situation in Jiajiazhuang might be worse than he imagined.
Chang An asked again
"Later on, no one dared to fake their waistbands anymore."
The boss said
"There must be some people who are not afraid of death, but they are becoming less and less."
Chang An left the noodle stall and wandered aimlessly on the street, but overheard the conversations of passers-by.
"I heard that the Shi Meng Xiong arrived yesterday."
"Really."
"Staying at Yunlai Inn."
"The duel will be in two days, and I don't know if Master Jia can win."
"How can Master Jia lose if he is so powerful?"
"I heard that Shi Mengxiong is already a grand master."
"It's okay. Our master of Jiazhuang is said to be an undefeated scholar and has never been defeated in his life. That Shi Mengxiong is destined to return home in vain."
Chang An raised his eyebrows and said to himself
"He actually only arrived yesterday."
At noon, Chang An returned to Jiajiazhuang.
As soon as he returned to the courtyard, Jia Huan arrived.
"Mr. Chang, the village owner asked me to tell you that the information you asked the village owner to check last night has been found. According to Jason, the manager of the Flower and Bird Garden, his disciple went out on business a month ago and has not returned yet, and has lost contact. "
Chang An was stunned for a moment. He was a little surprised by the speed of Jiajiazhuang's work. He was worthy of commanding the northern martial arts for thousands of years.
"Where did that disciple go?"
Jia Huan replied
"Jiangnan."
"Do you know where he disappeared?"
"My disciples in Jiajiazhuang will leave secret codes wherever they go. The last secret code left was in Jiangzhou, and no secret codes have been found since."
Chang An murmured
"Jiangzhou..."
"elder brother."
Chang Sheng came to Chang An.
"Letter from Jiangnan."
Chang Sheng handed Chang An a note and held a homing pigeon in his other hand.
Chang An opened the note and couldn't help but laugh out loud when he saw the dense writing on it that looked like ghostly symbols.
"Only I can understand your words."
Chang An said to himself with a smile.
Chang Sheng looked at Chang An doubtfully and asked
"Whose letter."
Chang An touched Chang Sheng's head and said
"a friend."
Jia Huan silently looked at the note in Chang An's hand without saying a word.
"Where is the owner?"
"While we are in retreat, the owner of the village said that the matters in the village these days will be left to you. If Mr. Chang has anything to do, you can ask me to do it."
Chang An nodded and suddenly asked
"Butler, do you know about the fake waistbands in Ningchuan Prefecture?"
Jia Huan nodded.
"You know, I was the one who led people to annihilate that group of people back then."
Chang An's eyes lit up and he said
"Can those artificial fake waistbands really look like real ones?"
Jia Huan recalled
"There are every kind of waist badges in the eight major parks. They are indeed very real. If you don't distinguish them carefully, it is really difficult to recognize them. Later, after the group was wiped out, we found out that these fake waist badges came from Xiangxi Prefecture."
"Xiangxi Prefecture?"
Chang An was puzzled. Xiangxi Prefecture was to the west, at least five thousand miles away from here.
Jia Huan nodded.
"When we talk about this, we have to mention the incident that caused a sensation in the martial arts world thirty years ago."
Chang An asked
"whats the matter?"
Jia Huan said word for word
"Thirty years ago, three major sects encircled and suppressed Xiangxi Prefecture."
