Chapter 2: The sword in the mother's hand, the wanderer's coat 2

Midnight.

The guards who surrounded Yuezhai were all so sleepy that they fought with their eyelids, and they haven't seen anything strange in this store for most of the day.

"Let's cheer up and keep an eye on it." Han Ruxu was walking back and forth and suddenly stopped to a bodyguard standing dozed off.

The bodyguard was so scared that he stood up straight, but he couldn't help complaining, "Your excellency, why didn't you just rush in and hit him off guard?"

"What do you know?" Han Ruqi was not angry. "The rags in there are broken casually. You may not be able to sell yourself." Thinking of his bad luck, he felt as if he was angry with others, so he added, "The shopkeeper has an unusual relationship with the prince, and he can't afford to provoke him." It's a reason.

Sure enough, the bodyguard was convinced and shut up and stopped talking.

At this time, the door that had been closed suddenly creaked open, and the guards guarding the front door immediately put their hands on the handle of the knife.

Wei Tanyi just took half a step at the door with a basket, and the sharp blade was aimed at him. What do you want to do?" Han Ruqi stared at him.

"Can Lord Han put away the murder weapon? Wei will be afraid to see these things." Wei Tanyi said, but his expression did not mean to be afraid at all.

"Lesss," Han Ruqi put the knife back to the sheath with a black face. "Where are you going to go so late?"

"Of course, it's the night market!"

Han Ruxu jumped a blue vein on his head: "Go to the night market? Where is the prisoner you took away?"

Wei Tanyi pouted to the door carelessly: "I'm sleeping in it. Lord Lao Han and everyone will protect him when I go out for a while.

Unable to find a reason to stop it, Han Ruxu could only watch the white shadow float towards the west city, and immediately ordered the two bodyguards to follow, and be sure to write down his words and deeds.

At this time, the door of Yuezhai was slightly open, and it was dark inside. Han Ruxu hesitated for a moment and decided to go in and have a look. It would be bad if the cunning shopkeeper had designed a trick to let the teenager escape.

***

Wei Tanyi did not go to Xi City.

Although he knew that there was a stalker behind him, he didn't mind and walked further west towards the Lu River.

In the early spring night, the breeze is gentle and the river is turbulgent. Wei Tanyi took out a piece of paper from the basket, cut it into the shape of a bird with the faint moonlight, and then wet it in the river. He said something in his mouth and threw it into the air. The paper bird was coated with a layer of golden light and turned into a real bird and flapped its wings.

"Ah!" There was a big or small exclamation behind him. I must have seen this strange scene and thought I had seen a ghost. Wei Tanyi didn't care, but he felt that there was something wrong with the quietness after that, so he hurriedly covered the basket and quickly turned back.

In response to his guess, there were two bodies inverted in the grass a hundred steps away. The clothes were the two of the bodyguards led by Han Ruxu.

"It's troublesome..." Wei Tanyi took a cursory look. Both of them were cut to death, and they didn't hear a call for help or fight. It seemed that there were at least two people who attacked, and they were by no means idle people.

The two dead people thought that they were ordered to follow up when they went out, and the person who had been following them had not been exposed. Looking back, the four-grade official with eyes higher than the top would definitely put the charge of murder on his head. Wei Tanyi shook his head helplessly. He could almost guess that Han Ruxu asked him why he wanted to kill people, whether he had done something that could not be seen, and why he said that he went to the West City but went to the Lu River and so on.

"I don't want to take the blame for others."

***

Han Ruxu only figured out the structure of Yuezhai today. The mouth-shaped courtyard, the front and back warehouse, walk along the corridor. What he sees through the cracks of the door are all antique calligraphy and paintings. Presumably the same is true on the other side. It seems that only one on the front is a resident. Somehow, there was a strange idea that "this person is indeed a mortal who needs to sleep".

The door is empty. If the teenager is still there, he should sleep soundly. Han Ruxu was about to push the door and enter. Suddenly, he thought that if this was a trap, the two deliberately pretended to be unfavorable to be unfavorable to themselves. Didn't they go in?

"Daw, the person is not oblique. He is afraid of what he will do. If he kills me, he will only lose money." Han Ruxu blushed for his own prospects.

"What is Lord Han going to do so secretly?" Suddenly, a cool sentence floated behind his back.

Han Ruqi was shocked. She was really at a loss as if she had done something wrong. Suddenly, she thought of something and asked, "Why are you sneaky? You don't even make a sound when you walk!"

Wei Tanyi picked up his arm: "I'm afraid it's not Wei secretly, is it?" He didn't bother to listen to his defense and said with a serious face, "The person you sent to follow me was killed, and the body was still by the Deer River. The child won't wake up until early tomorrow morning. He and I still have unfinished business. It's okay for Lord Han to come back early tomorrow morning.

"To be killed?" Han Ruqi was stunned, "Who killed him?"

He raised his eyebrows unexpectedly: "I thought Lord Han would insist that I killed them."

The two looked at each other on the cloister. After a long time, Han Ru hummed angrily, "If the prisoner is not here tomorrow, even His Royal Highness can't protect you!"

Wei Tanyi doesn't mind his threat: "I still say that. I won't embarrass his slaves. Can I ask Lord Han to leave now?"

The word slave is particularly harsh, but there is no way to refute it. Han Ruqi stared at him fiercely and shook his hand and left.

Feeling that the people around the front and back of the house were evacuated, Wei Tanyi returned to the room to put the door pin, took out a stick of incense from the drawer, lit it, inserted it into the incense burner, and then came to the bedside.

** The teenager was sleeping soundly, and the dragon mother dagger was placed on the pillow.

"Sleep, sink into the deepest dream, hold the real and fragile memory out of the water, and then be reborn."

With disturbing words in his mouth, Wei Tanyi sat on the ground in front of the bed.

The young man's eyebrows gradually gush out of blue-gray smoke, gradually filling the whole room. The dagger lying quietly beside him was also slightly shiny at this time, and a hazy figure was visible in the smoke.

***

I still remember that moment when my uncle said his last words and closed his eyes in front of me.

Our family lives in a small mountain village that can be seen everywhere. My father inherited my grandfather's mantle and became a blacksmith in the village. He can always forge the best sickle kitchen knife, and even people dozens of miles away will come to our house to buy knives.

But Dad never refused to cast weapons, saying that he didn't like the blade he made with human blood. The only weapon in our family is a dagger from our ancestors, which is said to be called the dragon mother. The dragon mother has not been stained with blood, but is only used to test whether the sickle is strong.

There is also an uncle at home, but he likes reading. He took the exam and taught in the village without any charcoal.

My mother is a great beauty. Everyone in the village said that it was a blessing in her last life that my father could marry her. My mother is beautiful and good at work. She is good-tempered and understanding. My friends in the village are all envious of me.

My mother always told me to respect my elders, but in any case, I hate my uncle. When I see him, I always look like I don't see him and walk away. Therefore, no matter how good my mother is, it is inevitable to quarrel with me for this matter. Every time I quarrel, my eyes are always red with tears. My father doesn't ask about right and wrong, he punished me to think about it in the yard.

I think I'm right, because my uncle wants to kill me.

I only said this to my father, but he said that I was thinking nonsense. How could my uncle want to kill me when he saw me grow up? Dad asked me not to talk nonsense, but he didn't take it lightly. Since then, he has rarely let me go out alone with my uncle.

My mother is more protective of my uncle than my father, so I didn't tell her about it.

One afternoon a few years ago, I went fishing in the field and met my uncle at the entrance of the village. At that time, I didn't know his intention and greeted him. I didn't expect him to look at me like an enemy.

I also blamed my ignorance and ran forward to ask my uncle why you didn't go home. It's time for me to cook and wait for us.

Just as I greeted him with a smile, my uncle suddenly threw the book in his hand, grabbed my neck with both hands, and tried hard to strangle me. I was scared at that time. When I realized what was going on, I waved the basket in my hand to his head, and then I was able to escape for my life.

That day, I ran all the way home and lost a shoe on the way. My mother asked me why I was running in such a hurry. I said my uncle was going to kill me.

"What nonsense are you talking about! He is your uncle. How can you insult him like this?

My mother really stared at me and scolded me. From then on, I never told her what was on my mind and began to stay away from the "efather" who wanted to kill me.

Who would have expected that my uncle died in front of me. Before he died, he told me that my mother was crazy and wanted to kill both of them.

My mother disappeared, leaving only the dragon mother dagger inserted in my uncle's chest. The villagers said that their mother was a monster. They killed their husband and brother-in-law cruelly, and gradually alienated me, the monster's child.

The blooded dragon mother became extremely sharp. It cast a blood-red shadow in my dream countless times, just like a bloodthirsty monster being awakened, guiding me to find more sacrifices for it.

***

Entering the deer river, the guards bent around with torches to look for the traces left by the murderer.

Han Ruqi squatted beside the body and regretted it. Knowing that there was something wrong with that guy, he only sent two people to follow him. There was no information about human life. If he couldn't find out who did it, he would be in danger.

"Your Excellency, footprints were found over there." A bodyguard came to report.

"Became here."

Unlike the footprints of two bodyguards walking side by side, the newly discovered footprints are only set at intervals, and the traces are quite shallow. The person who left them must be masters.

However, it is strange that Wei Tanyi, who also came to the river, did not leave any footprints. There were some confetti on the river bank, which should have been left by him, but there were no footprints nearby. Did he float here? Thinking of this, Han Ruxu couldn't help but have a cold war.

"Your Excellency," a person who has a good relationship with him in the bodyguard came over. "Why don't you immediately inform Dali Temple when there is a murder case? Isn't it to destroy the scene if everyone steps on it here?"

Han Ruxu touched the footprints. He couldn't see how gloomy his face was in the dark, but when he heard the sound, he knew that he was on the verge of anger: "Do you still need to inform Dali Temple? If the boy surnamed Wei is not the murderer, he must know the identity of the murderer, otherwise he dares to go back?

"Has Mr. Wei gone back? When did it happen? Instead, the man asked curiously.

Han Ru was shocked. Looking back on the sudden appearance of the sound just now, I didn't hear any footsteps, and he didn't leave any footprints on the beach... Did he really float? Just now, he landed directly into the courtyard from the sky, thus avoiding the eyes and ears of the door guard and coming directly to see himself?

Or is it that he was also killed, and it was just a ghost that floated back?

"That's simply..." Han Ruxu was scared by his own idea. "Expand the scope of search. If there is a third body, it must be protected immediately!"

"The third body?" The guards asked with one voice whether there were other people involved.

If it is a ghost, will the teenager in the room also be killed? The child is a repeat offender of six murders. If he dies inexplicably because of his own mistake... He dares not think about it any more. Han Ruxu immediately returned to Yuema after explaining the task clearly.

The door of Yuezhai's shop was locked. It seemed that there was at least a living mouth inside. Han Ruqi was slightly relieved and jumped to the wall.

Who would have thought that there was someone preparing to sneak in on the roof of the inner house, and the man was dressed in black, which was obviously not good.

"Hight!" While shouting, Han Ruxu rushed up and prepared to catch him alive.

Unexpectedly, the man in black turned around and sprinkled a handful of smoke. Han Ruxu couldn't dodge in the sky. He suddenly patted his face all over his face and lost consciousness before his foot fell on the tile eaves.

The man in black stunned him and thought it was all right, so he wanted to sneak into the room.

However, the man in black missed one thing. Under the eaves of the inner room was a spring. Han Ruxu, who fainted, fell into the water. As soon as the cold water was stimulated and his head was knocked, the effect of eclipsiness was mostly gone.

"Dare to play with Yin!" Han Ru, who came from a decent family, was most unaccustomed to putting medicine and hidden weapons. He jumped ashore and wiped a handful of water on his face. Regardless of his wet clothes, he pulled out his knife and cut it at the man in black. The man in black was unprepared and was almost unarmed.

The man in black with a shoulder injury was pressed against the wall by Han Ruqi in three or two moves. At this time, the door of the inner room opened and stepped out leisurely in a yawning Wei Tanyi, looking over the yard like appreciating the moon.

"Are you a human or a ghost?" Although he saw his shadow, Han Ruxu still asked uneasily.

"Me?" Wei Tanyi pointed to his nose, "Of course I'm a human, at least half a person."

"Come on, who are you fooling? Why don't you find a rope!"