Lin'an Academy.

At the end of the morning class, a group of students gathered together to chat.

The talented men and women of Taixue have been taking classes here for more than a month, and they have become familiar with each other for a long time... Most of the chats between the classmates on weekdays are about music, chess, calligraphy and painting, but these days it has become Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhan Zhao and the others solved the case of the floating corpse in West Lake four years ago within a few days, which shocked the entire Lin'an Mansion.

The Taixue students are familiar with Zhan Zhao, and know that this is purely based on metaphysics. Zhan Zhao's misfortune fell from the sky, combined with the misfortune of the fourth child, they somehow found the murderer, while the other students all

I admire Kaifeng Mansion very much.

Everyone asked Bao Yan, what case will the Kaifeng government investigate next? There are still several famous old cases in Hangzhou that have not been solved!

Bao Yan was helpless, while Zhan Zhao and Gongsun were still debating whether to close the case.

At this point in the conversation, Xie Yan suddenly remembered something and told Lin Xiao, "I heard yesterday that Li Chengde was looking for connections and wanted to get a painting of yours."

Before Lin Xiao realized who Li Chengde was, Pang Yu asked, "Is that Li Chengfeng's cousin?"

"The one with the bathhouse?" Bao Yan also asked.

Lin Xiao finally understood it, but there were so many people in the world who wanted him to paint, regardless of whether he was Chengfeng or Chengde.

Xie Yan waved his hand, seeming to say that this is not the point, "Li Chengde is a rough man. I have never heard that he likes to collect calligraphy and paintings. Later I asked about it and said that Li Chengfeng liked to collect paintings. Li Chengde wanted to buy it.

Come give it to Li Chengfeng."

This was beyond everyone's expectation.

Bao Yan was curious, "Didn't you say that the two brothers were at odds?"

Xie Yan nodded, seeming to find this matter quite amusing, "What do you think he wants Lin Xiao to draw?"

Lin Xiao himself was also curious, "What to draw?"

"Li Chengde wants you to draw that haunted house and give it to his cousin to make him angry to death."

After Xie Yan finished speaking, everyone was happy and felt that this was too damaging. They were cousins ​​after all, so they seemed to have such deep hatred.

After chatting for a while, the Master came and everyone returned to their seats to continue the class.

Lin Xiao held his chin in one hand and held a pen in the other, and he drew the small building casually.

After finishing the painting, it seemed that it didn't look like it... Lin Xiao recalled it again, changed a piece of paper and continued painting.

This time it felt right after painting... Only after Lin Xiao finished painting did he notice some details that he had never noticed before.

Usually in this kind of building, the windows are in the same position. The windows on the first, second and third floors are in a vertical row. But after Lin Xiao finished painting, he found that the windows on the first, second and third floors of this small building were staggered, and there was no pattern...

…Was it built casually, or was it built this way on purpose?

Lin Xiao held his chin and "disassembled" the building bit by bit, what was the structure of the eaves and roof, the layout of the doors and windows, the arrangement of the tiles, the patterns carved on the walls...

After the class was over, Lin Xiao didn't listen to a word of what the master said, but he drew a dozen pages of structural diagrams of a small building.

Bao Yan and the others looked at the drawings and found that all of this building was related to the number five.

In addition, there are some special patterns on the wall. At first glance, they look like scales, but if you look closely, you can see that they are all in groups of five. They are not scales but eyes.

He didn't know if it would be useful, but Lin Xiao still packed up the drawings and planned to go to another courtyard later to give them to Zhan Zhao and the others.

…

At the same time, everyone in the other courtyard welcomed He Yihang and others who had come from afar.

I haven’t seen Deputy Commander He for a while. I wonder if the soil and water in the south of the Yangtze River is more nurturing. After leaving Black Wind City, He Yihang looked in high spirits.

Shen Shaoxi also arrived, and the young master still behaved like a Confucian general, elegant and calm.

On the contrary, when Qing Lintou came back to Jiangnan, he was still young after all, so he saw everything new and bought a lot of things.

Zhao Pu personally waited at the gate of the other courtyard. He Yihang was quite popular. Everyone came out to pick him up. Even Zhao Zhen from the mountain ran down, shouting "Love~ Qing~ ah ah ah ah~"

The happy emperor ordered that the wine be served in the evening and that he would give the three of them a cleansing.

The scale army brought by Qing Lin replaced the thousand soldiers taken away by Long Qiaoguang and Ouyang Shaozheng, and together with the imperial city army, they were responsible for guarding the other courtyard.

Zou Liang and Qing Lin went to settle their troops, while He Yihang and Shen Shaoxi came to the other courtyard together to put down their luggage and change.

…

Before dinner, He Yihang and Shen Shaoxi came to the yard after having had enough rest.

The children were all there, and Xiao Sizi rushed towards his two "pen pals" from the Western Regions. Shen Yuanchen and Tang Luomei didn't know each other, so Xiao Liangzi introduced them enthusiastically.

Everyone was drinking tea and chatting. He Yihang glanced at the empty space, sat next to Zhan Zhao, and asked with a smile, "I heard that you are investigating unsolved cases in Hangzhou Prefecture recently?"

Zhan Zhao nodded, somewhat surprised. He Yihang came all the way to Hangzhou for vacation, so why did he still inquire about the case?

"When I first entered the city, I heard people talking about the case of the floating corpse in West Lake, and I passed by the small building sealed up by the government office." He Yihang asked Zhan Zhao, "I heard that the unsolved case from four years ago was solved as soon as you came here. Already?"

Zhan Zhao was helpless and sighed, "There are still some doubts, but there are no clues..."

He Yihang smiled slightly, took out a letter from his arms, handed it to Zhan Zhao, and said, "Here, take it!"

Zhan Zhao took the letter and saw that there was only one word "Li" in the signature, but the recipient was "He Wanfeng".

The Fifth Master and Gongsun also came over to read it - it turned out to be a letter from He Wanfeng! Although he received it and not wrote it, they felt very powerful when they saw the words "He Wanfeng"!

Zhan Zhao also sighed that it was a letter received by He Wanfeng, but at the same time he was a little confused and asked He Yihang, "What is this?"

Lao He blinked and said with a smile, "What a clue!"

Zhan Zhao was stunned.

Gongsun pushed him hard and asked him to quickly open it and take a look!

Naturally, the letter had already been opened. There were two pieces of letter paper and a picture inside.

Zhan Zhao opened the picture first. Fifth Master and Zhao Pu were stunned when they saw it. Gongsun was also surprised, "Isn't this the building?"

Bai Yutang and Zhao Pu both nodded - but the color looked much brighter than the current one.

Calculating the age, this letter is from more than a hundred years ago. It is estimated that the small building in this picture is what it looked like when it was just built.

There are two words next to the portrait - Lou Dao.

"Lou Dao?" Gongsun was puzzled, "Is the name of this building Lou Dao, or is the person who painted this painting called Lou Dao?"

He Yihang asked them to read the contents of the letter.

Everyone felt that circulating it one by one was too slow, so they simply asked Gongsun to read it once.

This letter was written by a person named Li She to He Wanfeng.

Li She was a royal relative of the previous dynasty, and her family was quite wealthy.

Li She once won 10,000 taels of silver in a bet with a friend. The friend said that he had no money and could not give him cash, so he could exchange something with him. Li She asked him what he wanted to exchange, preferably something new.

Not to mention land deeds, real estate, gold, silver, jewelry, etc., it’s boring.

The friend asked him, "Do you want a knife?"

Li She doesn't know martial arts, so he has no interest in it, and he doesn't understand, what kind of sword is worth so much money? Is it a precious sword? Wouldn't it be a waste to give him this person who doesn't practice martial arts?

But his friend said, "You can use this knife even if you don't know martial arts, and it's amazingly powerful. The most important thing is that if you kill someone with this knife, you won't have to face any lawsuits in any government office, and no one will be able to catch you!"

Li She was dubious, but found it interesting, so he agreed to pay off his debt with a knife.

Soon after, his friend really came to "give him a knife", but what Li She got was a land deed and a key.

Li She was puzzled, so his friend took him to a small building, pointed to the three-story building with a slightly weird shape and said, "This is the knife!"

When Gongsun read this, even Tianzun was attracted, "So that small building is not a small building, but a sword? Call it a building sword?"

Gongsun nodded, "That's what the letter said!"

Yin Hou asked Gongsun to continue reading, and he was also a little curious.

Gongsun continued to read.

Li She said in the letter that at first he thought his friend was just having fun with him and cheating him out of money by using a broken-down building.

But his friend said quite seriously, "Don't underestimate this building. It is indeed a knife."

Li She had no choice but to ask him, "Even if it's a knife, how do you use it?"

His friend said, knives are for killing people, and houses are for living in. People who live in this building have only two consequences, either they will be killed, or they will kill others. Anyway, if you

Whoever you hate, let him live in this building.

Li She didn't know whether to laugh or cry. His friend gave him the key and asked him if he wanted it or not.

Li She hesitated for a while, decided to give it a try, and reached out to receive the key.

But his friend told him, "This building, or rather this knife, has never seen blood or been sharpened! In other words, no one has ever lived in it since it was built. Once you use it, this building cannot be used."

Resold again!”

Li She was puzzled, "Can't it be resold?"

His friend told him very clearly, "As long as you have harmed someone with this knife, the knife will recognize you as its owner. You will own it from generation to generation and never throw it away! Until you die, it will be owned by one generation after another."

Pass it down from generation to generation. Your descendants can continue to use it, but they cannot abandon it. Until it naturally 'breaks', that is, collapses, the fate between you and your descendants and this knife will be resolved. If you or your descendants abandon it halfway,
To be continued...