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Bao Zheng remembered what Li Si said just now to let Ling Chuchu and Zhuo Yun get married as soon as possible, looked at Ling Chuchu with a strange expression, and asked, "What's going on with you and that Zhuo Yun?"

Ling Chuchu shook his head helplessly, sighed softly, and said, "I only found out about this three months ago. It turned out that Zhuo Yun and I married each other with our fingers. When my father mentioned it to me, I disagreed." , had a big quarrel with him, then ran away from home, and met you only in Luzhou."

When Bao Zheng heard that Ling Chuchu himself did not agree to the marriage, his expression relaxed slightly, but his face was too dark for several people to notice.

Jiang Yi was thinking: This Zhuo Yun also has some protagonist fate. He has a blood feud, and his fiancée wants to regret the marriage. He only needs a golden finger to rise.

Ling Chuchu continued: "Later, when I came back to spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with my father, my father brought up the old matter again, and I had a big fight with him, and he even locked me up.

Then, Uncle Zhuo Qi was killed in the woods. When we found his body, his left shoulder had been cut off, but he couldn't find it, which made the village panic.

At the same time, my father suddenly disappeared..."

After briefly talking about the matter, Ling Chuchu said: "I'll take you for a walk in the village first, familiarize yourself with the environment, and see if you can find any clues."

"good."

Ling Chuchu took the three of them, first went to Zhuo Yun and Yang Kai's house, and then went to the knife factory in the village.

The knife factory is quite lively, many young people are forging iron, forging weapons, and there is a lot of ping-pong.

Ling Chuchu introduced: "This is the knife factory opened by my father. Yang Kai and Zhuo Yun usually make weapons here. After the weapons are finished, they will be sold together."

Bao Zheng nodded, recalling what he had seen and heard all the way in Yinyi Village, his thoughts turned: According to Chuchu, the people in the village basically have martial arts, and they also run such a large-scale knife factory, obviously not too much. If you are short of money, then it is impossible to live in seclusion to avoid the exorbitant taxes of the court.

Could it be that he is avoiding some enemy?

...

In the evening, Yang Kai invited Ling Chuchu to dinner, and Jiang Yi and the others by the way.

The main ingredient for dinner is naturally the musk deer that was just hunted today.

After the meal, Jiang Yi and the others returned to Chu Chu's house and began to discuss the next move.

"Brother Jiang, Brother Bao, did you find anything today?" Ling Chuchu looked at the two of them and asked.

Bao Zheng shook his head: "I haven't found any useful clues yet."

Jiang Yi said: "This village of yours is really weird. Everyone seems to hide secrets. But these old people don't care about him in advance.

Let me ask you, apart from your Seventh Uncle Zhuo's death and your father's disappearance, have any strange things happened in this hermit village recently? "

"Strange thing?"

After pondering for a while, Ling Chuchu said: "Recently, apes often appear in the forest outside the village. When Yang Kai and Zhuo Yun are hunting, they often see the remains of food that were torn apart and eaten by the apes. Is this a strange thing?"

"What ape-man?" Zhan Zhao asked curiously.

"It is said that the ape-man is eight feet tall and covered in hair. He is so powerful that he can tear tigers and leopards apart." Ling Chuchu explained.

Jiang Yi knew that the ape-man was Ling Chuchu's missing father, Ling Ri. It's just that he couldn't say it directly, he could only rub his chin and pretend to be thoughtful.

Seeing that he seemed to have thought of something, Ling Chuchu hurriedly asked, "Brother Jiang, what's wrong with this ape-man?"

Jiang Yi asked without answering, "When did the legend of the ape-man appear? Has anyone in the village ever seen an ape-man?"

Ling Chuchu recalled: "There have been rumors since I was a child, but no one has ever seen it, and I have never seen the food remains left by ape-man before. It was not until a month ago that apes began to appear frequently. It happened that my father disappeared, Zhuo Qi The time of Uncle's death."

Thinking about it, Ling Chuchu felt that the timing of the appearance of the ape-man was too coincidental, and guessed: "Could it be that this ape-man is the real murderer?"

Jiang Yi guessed that Zhuo Qi should have released the previous ape-man rumors to prevent the woman on the back mountain from being discovered, and said in his mouth:

"It's hard to say whether this ape-man is related to the events in the village, but it is a great suspicion. If possible, we'd better catch this ape-man. It doesn't matter whether it is a real ape-man or someone pretending to be it."

Ling Chuchu nodded: "Okay, I will discuss with Yang Kai and Zhuo Yun tomorrow, and set traps in the forest to catch the ape-man."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Bao Zheng again: "Brother Bao, do you have anything to add?"

Bao Zheng thought for a while and suggested: "I want to go to your father's room and study to check if I can find any clues."

"Okay, come with me."

As Ling Chuchu said, he took the three of them to search Ling Ri's room, found nothing, and then went to the study.

The study room is quite elegantly decorated, and there are various books on the bookshelves.

After Jiang Yi entered the room, he immediately noticed an exquisite sword hanging on the wall, shining brightly.

He stepped forward, took off the sword, and drew it by the hilt.

With a scoff, there is only a steel wire attached to the hilt of the sword, and there is no sword body.

Following Jiang Yi's movements, there was a muffled rumbling sound, and the wall in front of him suddenly turned over, revealing a secret passage.

Ling Chuchu looked at the dark secret passage, and was also a little surprised: "There is actually a secret passage here, I never knew about it."

Jiang Yi smiled and said, "Let's go in and have a look."

The four of them took an oil lamp for lighting, walked into the dark passage, and walked more than ten meters before they came to a secret room.

There is a table against the wall in the secret room, and a black rosewood box is placed on the table.

Ling Chuchu looked at the wooden box and shouted: "I've seen this red sandalwood box once before. My father loves this box very much. He won't let Erniang touch it with me at all. I didn't expect my father to hide it here. , no wonder I never saw it again."

Hearing what she said, Bao Zheng knew that the contents of this box must be very important to Ling Ri. He stepped forward to open the red sandalwood box, but found that there was only a piece of yellow cloth inside, with small dragons tattooed on it.

Jiang Yi looked at this piece of yellow cloth, his eyes flashed, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind: In fact, outsiders can take this piece of yellow cloth and the yellow cloth and bracelet from Liu Zi, pretending to be the prince who lived among the people.

If it works well, there may be a chance to ascend to the throne. After all, the orthodox position in this year still has a strong appeal. It can be said that the current emperor's improper position is a great weakness.

It's a pity that he is not in the mood to do things right now, he just wants to improve his strength as soon as possible, and he doesn't want to get involved in this matter.

Bao Zheng took the yellow cloth and looked carefully for a while, but couldn't find anything unusual, so he could only continue to search in the secret room.

As soon as I turned my head, I saw a curtain in the corner, as if it was covering something.

Bao Zheng stepped forward curiously and opened the curtain.

Suddenly, a dark headless mummy caught his eyes.

"ah!"

Suddenly seeing such a terrifying thing, Bao Zheng couldn't help but screamed and passed out.

Jiang Yi and Zhan Zhao hurried over to help him up, and carried him back to the room.

"Brother Bao, is he alright?" Zhan Zhao asked worriedly.

After Jiang Yi took Bao Zheng's pulse, he said with relief: "Don't worry, he was just overly frightened and passed out. I'll give him two needles and he'll be fine."

With that said, he took out the gold needle and began acupuncture for Bao Zheng.

Not long after the needle was administered, Bao Zheng came to his senses. After opening his eyes, he shouted with lingering fear: "There is a ghost!"

After finding that he was not in the secret room, Bao Zheng breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's not a ghost, it's a mummy."

Ling Chuchu comforted her.

But her comfort undoubtedly had the opposite effect, Bao Zheng's face was still so ugly: "What, a mummy! Why do you have a mummy at home?"

"I don't know. I've had it since I was a child. And it's not just my family. Every household in the village has a mummy, and there is one in the knife factory, and every mummy is missing a part of the body. I also asked my father. , and he refused to tell me why.”

Ling Chuchu explained.