Star Gate

Li Hao remembered!

Speaking of swords, the Li family really has one... or one?

The reason why he was a little unsure was because the sword Li Hao remembered... it didn't look like a sword.

But Li Hao knew that this was the sword.

Very contradictory.

However, it is true.

When he was a child, Li Hao's father put a sword-shaped jade pendant on Li Hao's neck and told him seriously, "This is called the Starry Sky Sword. It is the only old object passed down from my Li family. In the future, if you give it to your children, don't It’s said to be jade, but this is a sword.”

When talking, my father was very serious.

Of course, after being serious for a moment, seeing that Li Hao was confused and his father was helpless, he added: "This is what your grandfather told me. This is what the ancestors passed down. If you have to say it is a sword, you can do it anyway." Just call it that.”

That's why Li Hao immediately thought that the Li family really had a sword called the Starry Sky Sword.

In fact, he was wearing a small sword-shaped jade pendant on Li Hao's neck at this moment.

At this moment, Li Hao was slightly confused.

If the sword of the Li family mentioned in the slang is this jade pendant, then the Li family does have a sword.

Does the Zhang family have a knife?

Li Hao is not sure about others. Zhang Yuan's parents passed away early. Li Hao has known him for many years and he is very familiar with Zhang Yuan.

"The Zhang family's knife..."

Li Hao thought carefully for a while, did the Zhang family have any knives?

Recalling the past, Li Hao's eyes moved slightly soon. The Zhang family might really have a knife.

Unlike his own jade pendant, jade is a valuable thing after all, it is still an old jade, it is worth some money, and the Li family still pays some attention to it.

As for the Zhang family's knife, Li Hao suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he went to Zhang Yuan's house to play. Zhang Yuan once stole something to play with Li Hao. Zhang Yuan's father soon discovered it and beat Zhang Yuan violently.

That thing... seems to be a knife-shaped stone.

At this moment, Li Hao's memory was a little distant and fuzzy, but he still vaguely remembered that Zhang Yuan's father scolded him for a while, saying that the thing was left by his ancestors. Although it was not valuable, he passed it on to a broken stone, but it was also left by his ancestors. Those that come down are not allowed to be thrown away.

Of course, Li Hao actually saw Zhang Yuan's father casually throw the stone aside. Li Hao suspected that Zhang Yuan's father just wanted to beat his son that day and found an excuse.

"Could it be that that's the Zhang family's knife mentioned in the slang?"

If that's the case, then it's a match.

Later, Li Hao never saw the stone again. In fact, as they got older, Li Hao and Zhang Yuan would not just go and play with a stone. There were many of them on the roadside.

At this moment, Li Hao was generally sure that maybe what was said in this slang song was true.

Subconsciously, he touched his chest. The jade pendant was cool and there was no change.

This hint of coolness also made Li Hao wake up instantly. Soon, he looked at Chen Na with some desire and impulsiveness, and quickly said: "Sister Na, can I meet your grandma?"

He wanted to know where this tune came from, who spread it, and how many years it had been spread. Is this tune complete?

Why is this self-immolation case related to a country slang song?

What is the red shadow? Why do you want to kill people from the eight families in this slang song?

Moreover, if you want to kill, should you kill one person, or should you kill everyone who has anything to do with the Eight Families? If so...

"Um?"

Before Chen Na could speak, Li Hao was suddenly startled.

He quickly opened the files. Although he had read these documents countless times, he still quickly checked them and murmured: "Hong Jiao's parents have passed away. She was not very old when she died, so after Hong Jiao died, There is no one else here in the Hong family."

"On Zhou Qing's side, his lover is still alive, but Zhou Qing has no children. The couple has not produced any offspring for many years."

"Zhang Yuan needless to say..."

Zhang Yuan is the only member of the Zhang family. Zhang Yuan's parents passed away early, so Zhang Yuan is the only descendant of the Zhang family.

"Wang Haoming was not married when he died, but Wang Haoming was not an only son. He also had a younger brother..."

"Liu Yunsheng is an old man and has been a bachelor all his life."

"Zhao Shihao had a daughter. After Zhao Shihao died, he left Yincheng with his wife and her whereabouts are unknown."

Li Hao quickly checked and found that some of these people were married, some had children, and not all of them were alone, so Li Hao had not found any problems with this before.

But at this moment, Li Hao suddenly thought of himself.

"My parents passed away unexpectedly three years ago... It was an absolute accident, the car rolled over due to loss of control, but... is it still an accident now?"

Li Hao's parents passed away three years ago.

Caused by an accident!

It has nothing to do with the self-immolation case, so Li Hao has never involved his parents in this case before, because it is a self-immolation case.

At this moment, Li Hao had a lot of thoughts in his mind.

The four families of Zhang, Hong, Zhou and Liu were completely cut off and no direct line existed.

Wang Haoming has a younger brother, Zhao Shihao has a daughter, and if he is the Li mentioned by the sword of the Li family, then the Li family... seems to be his own.

"This is not killing a person, but... annihilating the entire clan!"

My heart became more and more frightened, and at the same time, I became more and more angry!

Didn't my parents die accidentally?

Of course, all this cannot be completely determined, after all, there are still people from the Wang and Zhao families.

…

"Li Hao!"

Chen Na's shout made Li Hao wake up.

"Are you OK?"

Chen Na saw that Li Hao had finished his question and answered by herself, but he ignored her, as if he was distracted.

"fine!"

Li Hao shook his head hastily. Chen Na glanced at him and suddenly said: "You... do you think these people are related to the songs in the song? But they are all country slang songs, some are adapted from some myths, and some are simply I just sing casually on weekdays, I think it may be just an accidental coincidence, isn't this two less?"

As she said this, she wanted to laugh, but before she could laugh, she was suddenly startled and glanced at Li Hao.

There are two missing families, one with the surname Zheng and the other with the surname Li!

Li Hao?

Is this related to Li Hao?

After all, she was also on patrol, and she still had basic logic and thinking. She immediately thought of Li Hao. Li Hao had been tracking these people, could they have something to do with him?

"Li Hao, your surname is Li, right?"

"..."

Li Hao smiled bitterly, can I say no?

Chen Na suddenly frowned: "Tell me the truth, is there something wrong with the deaths of these six people?"

She looked at the document but didn't read it carefully, but it seemed that they were all accidental deaths, and they were not concentrated in one year. Could this be related?

"Sister Na, let's not talk about this for now, can I meet your grandma?"

Li Hao didn't want to say more about this.

When Chen Na saw this, she stopped asking. She suppressed the matter first and said, "I just said it, but you didn't hear it. My grandma passed away a few years ago..."

"Feel sorry!"

"It's okay. My grandma was over ninety when she passed away. It was considered a happy mourning."

Chen Na didn't have anything to say, and quickly said: "But many people in my grandma's side can sing this song... It was like this when I was a child, but I don't know now. I don't know how many old people are still alive in my hometown. I have been there for many years." Didn’t go back.”

Seeing that Li Hao was interested, Chen Na added, "Otherwise, if you are really interested, let's take some time to go to my hometown and check it out. If we meet an old man who can sing, we might be able to ask some questions." What."

Li Hao thought for a while and nodded.

"We will have a rest the day after tomorrow. Is it convenient for you, Sister Na?"

"Can!"

The two agreed, and Li Hao stopped worrying about it and said quickly: "Sister Na, you have more connections in the Inspection Department than I do. Can you do me a favor?"

"Tell me."

At this moment, Li Hao, because he showed Chen Na the file, no longer hid it, and whispered: "Can you help me check the whereabouts of a few people? The first one is Wang Haoming's brother. He is not in the bank. In Yincheng City, his only relative is Wang Haoming. After Wang Haoming died, he didn't come back for a long time."

"The second one is Zhao Shihao's daughter! After Zhao Shihao's death, his daughter moved away from Yincheng with his wife, and there is no news about her."

The area that Yincheng Inspection Department can manage is Yincheng. It has no jurisdiction over other areas, let alone the qualifications for file inquiry.

The reason for looking for Chen Na was because Chen Na knew more people in the Inspection Department.

As for the Inspection Department, Li Hao is not familiar with the Inspection Department in the outer city, but there are always other people's colleagues, classmates, and friends who work in the Inspection Department in other places. If he really wants to inquire about it, he can also find out the news. .

Chen Na's eyes flickered slightly.

Check how many family members of the parties involved?

What does Li Hao mean?

"Sister Na, do you think you can check it?"

Chen Na thought for a while and nodded: "Generally speaking, if there is an area, it will be easier to investigate. I am afraid that there will be no clues. You have to know that outside of Yincheng, the world is huge. We do not have cross-regional law enforcement authority, nor If you don’t have the authority to inquire about information, if you ask someone else, you have to have a fixed target to ask someone to inquire about it.”

"Understood. I have some information about them. I will write it to you later. Although I don't know the specific location, I still know which city it is in."

Li Hao checked for a long time and had some understanding of the families of the deceased. It was just because they were out of town that Li Hao could not contact them.

"That's easy to handle, leave this matter to me!"

Chen Na happily agreed.

Li Hao quickly thanked him.

The two talked for a while, and Chen Na suddenly lowered her voice and said: "Li Hao, there is something... Anyway, you should pay attention to it! I think... I think this matter may not be simple."

She is not stupid, and she has generally guessed a few things.

At this moment, Chen Na was thinking, if Li Hao was really the Li in the slang song "The Sword of the Li Family", would he also be in danger?

The Inspection Department is not afraid of danger, but is afraid of danger from unknown sources.

Those cases were all caused by accidents.

Li Hao nodded slightly and said nothing more.

And Li Hao himself has a lot of things to be busy with at the moment and needs to be verified.

He wants to investigate the case 10 years ago. Is anyone in the Zheng family dead?

If circumstances permit, he will go to Zhang Yuan's home. After Zhang Yuan's death, his home will be empty. Li Hao wants to see if the Zhang family's sword is still there?

Not only the swords of the Zhang family, but also the hammers of the Hong family and the guns of the Zhou family. Do these weapons in slang exist? Do they still exist?

Is it the people of the Eighth Family that Hongying is eyeing, or the weapons of the Eighth Family in Liqu?

Needless to say, fists and kicks, if a person dies, then there is nothing.

But if the weapons are really inherited by each family, like the Li family, if they are passed down as heirlooms, some clues may be found.

Only by determining Hongying's purpose and understanding the other party better can we better deal with the crisis.

…

Li Hao did not go directly to Zhang's house, nor did he go home. He had other things to do.

Inspection Department.

Archives.

Aunt Zhao, who managed the archives, moved a pile of information from the dusty warehouse, dusted it, and raised a gray mist.

He handed the yellowed information to Li Hao and said a little strangely: "Xiao Hao, what do you want these for? From 1715 to 1719, the names of the Zhengs who died and had their accounts canceled in Yincheng are all here. There must be a few hundred people in total. But everyone has been dead for many years..."

Li Hao's face was filled with an innocent smile, "Sister Zhao, there are some mysterious cases in the confidential room that involve these. I can't go into details. You are tired and I found the clues later. I'll treat you to a meal."

"Forget it about eating, Xiao Hao, you are already 20 years old, so you are not young at all. My daughter is 22 this year, which is two years older than you..."

"..."

Li Hao was a little helpless, but still kept smiling: "Sister Zhao, let's talk later, I'm still young."

With that said, he took the file and left quickly, looking slightly embarrassed.

The aunts in the inspection department are very enthusiastic, but they are not very good at this. They like to introduce their daughters to him.

Either a daughter, a niece, or a girl from so and so.

Who allowed him, Li Hao, to pass the Yincheng Ancient Academy? Even though he dropped out, it still didn't hinder his popularity.

Li Hao, who got the list, quickly looked through it.

There is not much list of hundreds of people, and the cause of death is generally introduced. This is the list of account cancellations. Next, Li Hao has to exclude some of them and combine them with some other information to find out whether there are any Zheng family members he wants to find.

The best result is naturally to be directly introduced and die by self-immolation. That is the best and most convenient.

Li Hao finally discovered that Hong Ying killed people, or if there was any force behind Hong Ying, they killed people, direct descendants of the eight families or solemn children, and they all used self-immolation to kill people.

If not, Li Hao wouldn't be able to target the first few people.

There may be some secrets hidden in this, which Li Hao cannot find out yet.

"There was a self-immolation case in 1720, and then another in 1723, so the previous time should be equal or longer and longer. The most likely death is before 1717."

Li Hao watched as he walked. He had to make sure whether the Zheng family member was dead.

If he died, it meant that his previous guesses were correct.

If they are not dead... then if the Zheng family is alive, it is not without gain. The other party may provide more clues to Li Hao if the other party is alive. He even thinks that it is better for the Zheng family to be alive, which is likely to be directly related to Hongying. .

"In the slang song, it is sung about the young master of the Zheng family being a hindrance, which is different from other families... Maybe the Zheng family is also a little different."

Just as he was thinking about it, Li Hao turned to a page.

"Zheng Yunqi, died on September 12, 1715, cause of death: gas explosion..."

Li Hao's eyes suddenly became sharp, a gas explosion?

In this case, when you die, you may die without a complete body, which is very similar to death by self-immolation.

And this way of death is not too noticeable.

"is it him?"

Li Hao murmured, "If the gas explodes, more than one person may die. In this case, the Zheng family can even take care of it all at once!"

Looking through the hundreds of lists, this person is most likely to be from the Zheng family in Slang.

"Maybe... you can go and have a look."

Li Hao thought, it contained the other party's address. Of course, it was hard to say whether that place would still be there 15 years later.

Chen Na's slang song today gave Li Hao a lot of clues in an instant.

In my mind, the key to this self-immolation case gradually became clear.

If this Zheng Yunqi is the Zheng family member Li Hao is looking for, then among the eight surnames, he may be still alive.

"Revenge? Or something else?"

"Is Hongying artificially raised, or does it have a special ability, or is it just a deception?"

Li Hao touched the jade sword on his chest again. Is this ancestral jade sword just a simple family heirloom, or does it have some other function?

"Everyone from the Seven Families is dead, so I must be the next one. How did the other party find me and the others? There is nothing special about us. Why can Hongying target us?"

The crisis of death seems to be approaching gradually.

At this moment, Li Hao already felt that a storm was coming. He quickly checked the communicator in his hand. He wanted to find out which day had been rainy recently. According to the time rules, the next rainy day might be when the red shadow appeared. .

"July 18th, Yin!"

Li Hao's face changed slightly. Today is the 12th. The weather will be good in the next few days. It will turn cloudy on the 18th, and it will be rainy for a while.

"In other words, at the earliest, the red shadow may appear again in six days? Even if it is not six days, the other party may appear in the next rainy days."

At this moment, Li Hao's heart seemed to be clenched!

Before, he was not sure whether the other party was looking for him and whether he was the next target. But at this moment, he was very sure that Hongying's next target was himself.

"Xiaoyuan finally asked me to escape. Does it mean that he also guessed it, or learned from Hongying that I will be killed next?"

"Then why didn't Hongying kill me directly last time? Why did he wait a year to kill me?"

"Hong Ying may have a limit on killing people, or perhaps the self-immolation method can only be used once, but to kill me, self-immolation must be used?"

Rubbing his temples, Li Hao suddenly smiled.

"At ease!"

The fear of the unknown is actually better than the coming crisis.

He knew too little about Hongying before. Li Hao knew nothing about the purpose, origin, goal... so he was actually very scared this year.

However, when he figured out some clues and knew clearly that the other party's target was him, Li Hao became less afraid.

Some are just angry and resentful!

eye for eye!

This time, if the other party really appears, even if he risks being exposed, he will go to the night watchmen, go to them, and tell them that he can see the red shadow!

If you can kill Hongying, even if you end up dead, it will be worth it!

"Xiaoyuan...and parents, if you also die in Hongying's hands, I will definitely avenge you this time!"

Li Hao clenched his fists, and his gentle face showed an unmatched ferocious look!