From the fourth to the eighth day of the Chinese New Year, there was a heavy snowfall in Panlong Town. Auspicious snow indicates a good harvest. The people of the town and the farmers around the town happily welcomed this gift from heaven. The children in the town also happily walked out of the house, made snowmen and played snowball fights. No one knew what happened in the town on the night of the first snow.

A few people disappeared inexplicably in the lives of everyone, including Chen Mo, a good-looking yamen official, Li Si, a chef assistant in Zhang butcher's butcher's shop, as well as the tent in the laundry room in the south of the city, the only blacksmith in the town, etc., and a total of more than ten people.

As for the news that Zhao Xifeng was injured and moved into Panlong Academy, in order to avoid panic, it was not made public, and only a very small number of people knew about it.

On the tenth day of the lunar month, Zhao Wu returned to the town and learned that his son was injured. He rushed to the school as soon as possible. After seeing Zhao Xifeng himself and confirmed that he was fine, he thanked Ku Hai, Guo You and others. Originally, he had to come to pay homage to Zheng Yanji, but the latter only took action to save people because of Ku Hai's face. Naturally, he refused to see the postman like Zhao Wu. Even so, Zhao Wu still asked someone to send a thank-you gift and told Zhao Xifeng to remember this kindness.

A few days later, the captain Mu Tie visited Zhao Xifeng, who was still bedridden, and confirmed from Zhao Xifeng that one of the killers that night was Chen Mo, the now missing yamen official. He learned that Chen Mo did have accomplices, and the sinister knife stretched out from the ox cart was the real killing move against Zhao Xifeng.

However, so far, the killer has never seen anyone alive or dead, just like the evaporated from the world. Even Chen Mo's first wife doesn't know where he is. As for another more mysterious person, no one has seen his true face from beginning to end, and there is no way to find him.

In order to ensure Zhao Xifeng's safety, Mu Tie left two friends and guarded outside the school gate day and night. However, after the killer missed a blow, he seemed to have no plans for the next step and disappeared silently.

After the first month of the year, Zhao Xifeng's injuries gradually improved, so he could no longer bear lying in bed all day long and was stuck in a room and unable to move. After Dr. Shen confirmed that his injury was fine, he was taken back home by Zhao Wu. Mu Tie did not dare to take it lightly, and still sent two constables to secretly protect him to investigate the suspicious people he had contacted.

After Zhao Xifeng returned home, there were not many people visiting him. The first one was Dong Erpang. With his family's relationship in the army, Zhao Xifeng's injury could not be hidden from him. So the next day he brought a large bag of snacks to Zhao Xifeng's house. He first sneered at him, and his talent was too poor and he was not good at learning skills. Then he was almost killed by two stupid thieves who had never practiced. Then he showed off his physical state that he had just reached three days ago, and his peers in the town were all the same.

Among them, in addition to Gu Qingyuan's invincible hand, he was far superior to Zhao Xifeng. He also stated that after this, Zhao Xifeng's prestige among the children in the town was no longer suitable to be the co-governor of the world. He should give up the wise in advance. Such things made Zhao Xifeng so annoyed that he beat Dong Erpang out of the courtyard with a cross arm slashing in the same period. Dong Erpang rolled and screamed, until he left ten feet away from the courtyard. He stood firm and cursed for a while before leaving.

In fact, Zhao Xifeng knew in his heart that with his body that had not yet recovered and could not exert force, how could he beat this fat man so far? It was clearly that Dong Erpang deliberately exerted force to make him happy.

Zhao Xifeng saw through but didn't say it out loud. He cut and lay back on the bed.

When a teenager, the friendship between boys is often more pretentious than between girls.

The second person, Jia Jianzi, was the old man who set up a stall in a small town market on weekdays to tell fortunes. If anyone in the town has the most well-informed information, it must be him.

After learning that Zhao Xifeng was bedridden, the blind man came to Zhao Xifeng's house with empty hands, begging for him to make a fortune. Zhao Xifeng himself did not believe this, so he naturally refused. However, Zhao Wu's statement about the numerology ghosts was always to believe that he had an attitude of not believing in it, so he welcomed the blind man into the house. After listening to the Heavenly Book for half an hour, he was encouraged to exchange a sheep leg for a broken bronze plaque strung from dirty to colorless knot, saying that it could go against the heavens and change the fate and resolve the blood disaster. Zhao Wu was ashamed to find a treasure and immediately hung it on Zhao Xifeng's neck. Then he sent Jia Jian out with great gratitude, and gave him a piece of silver before leaving.

Days have passed day by day, and the town has returned to peace on the surface, but the undercurrents are surging, and only those who are interested in it can taste a little.

Liangcheng is the closest big city in the Great Zhou Dynasty to Panlong Town, and is also the most important military center and trade distribution center among the four northwestern provinces. In recent years, as the Zhou Dynasty's national strength grew, there was a steady stream of business travel.

On the afternoon of February 2, the caravan with only seven or eight people and two carriages came all the way from the direction to Panlong Town. After passing the inspection of the city gate guards, they came to the city.

The leader of this caravan was a short and fat man in his forties. He was not like a daily businessman, but was a tentman.

After entering the city, the caravan did not stop at all and walked straight towards Songhe Tower, the most famous restaurant in the city. However, the original team of seven or eight people, one or two people disappeared every time they passed two street intersections and merged into the crowd. When they reached the plaque of the restaurant, only a fat white man was left.

The man who looked like a tentman walked into the restaurant and ignored the bartender who greeted him. He walked up to the second floor with a familiar way and knocked on the wing room close to the street at the end of his right hand. In the wing room, a powerful local gentry was holding a banquet for his young son for the full moon. The big table was like a stranger who had not seen a sudden intrusion, and he kept talking and laughing.

The accountant found a free seat during the banquet, and ignored the people around him, picked up chopsticks and feasted, without any wine.

An hour later, the banquet ended, and the gentry and his family walked out of the wing room with the tent and returned to their house in the city together.

After entering the door, the doorman came to the tent and signaled him to follow with a blank expression. Everyone at the banquet dispersed themselves. From beginning to end, no one looked at the tent and said a word.

The mansion is not big. After passing through two corridors, the two came to a study room. The doorman left, and the accountant opened the door and entered. A young man in white fur was holding a book of the most popular novel of God and weirdness today. He was enjoying reading it. When he saw the accountant come in, he looked up and asked, "What do you think is the difference between Mr. Xiaoman's new work that has returned to the literary world after eleven years, compared with Hong Xiu's works thirteen years ago?"

The accountant shook his head and said he didn't know.

The young man with white fur smiled slightly and was not annoyed. He signaled him to sit aside for a while, but he continued to pick up the novel and started reading it with great interest.

The accountant, of course, was the accountant, who had withdrawn from Panlong Town with all the remaining members of the organization on the night of assassination of Zhao Xifeng.

What happened later also proved how wise this decision was. After that night, the entire government machine centered on Guo You was fully operational, and everyone in the town who had contact with Chen Mo was under the strictest surveillance and investigation. A large number of people were taken to the town government office for questioning, and if they were suspected, they would be directly detained. If Wang Yuanran had not expected it before the incident, he would probably have been uprooted in the layout of the entire killing organization in Panlong Town and even the entire northwest.

Despite this, Wang Yuanran was still full of anxiety in his heart at this time. There were two reasons: First, Zhao Xifeng was safe after such a big incident, and second, Li Si, who was very concerned by the great man, disappeared inexplicably in this incident.

"You did a good job this time, but it wasn't good enough. Do you know where you were wrong?" The young man from Baiqiu asked casually while flipping the pages of the book, not even looking at Wang Yuanran.

Wang Yuanran smiled bitterly and replied: "Report to Mr. Jiu, my subordinates are overestimating their abilities. At present, the hidden dragons and tigers in Panlong Town are far from being able to make a difference by the organization deployed in the town. It has led to the organization's ten-year layout in the northwest and all the chaos. My subordinates are willing to receive punishment."

The white-haired man shook his head and said, "Everyone thinks that killing old people is a killer organization, taking money and taking lives, but you and I know that the great gentleman's ambition is far more than that. Since the Star Tide came to the world, the organization has been in the northwest for more than ten years. If you miss such an opportunity to enter this game this time, it would be a big mistake."

The tent Wang frowned and began to think about Mr. Jiu's words.

The man in the white furry put down the novel, picked up the teacup on the table, took a sip of it to moisten his throat, and then continued, "You are wrong because your heart is not cruel enough. If you, in addition to killing that boy Zhao or something, send all the people in the town, and at the same time, you will always get something to do when you attack all the students in the side halls of the school. At that time, the town will be in a panic, and the organization can naturally arrange new people to go in, so that the waters can make you fish."

Wang Yuanran shook his head gently and said, "That's too easy to expose the existence of the organization, and there are really no one left in the town."

The white-haired man sneered and said, "Is the organization not exposed now? Instead of hiding it like this, it is better to drag down Beiyue Academy, the financial owner who assassinated the student, to let Beiyue Academy, which had just entered the venue but had no time to set up, block the first blow for us."

Wang Yuanran nodded slightly.

The Baiqiu man did not mention the life and death of the members of the town's organization because he didn't care at all.

"This time you have committed a lot of merits and demerits, I won't punish you. In the next six months, stay in the town honestly, reduce this body of fat, and let Mr. Qiu change your face. I brought a group of people from the capital and I will take them back to Panlong Town in the future." After Mr. Jiu ordered these, he waved to see him off and picked up the novel on the table again.

Wang Yuanran lowered his head and walked out of the study room. Just as he was about to close the door, the voice of a man with white fur came from the room: "By the way, Mr. Da told me that there is a unique stone in the town. You can bring it back to me next time. Don't ask what the stone looks like. When you see it, you will naturally know it is it."

The accountant bowed and accepted the order.
Chapter completed!