I practice the Tao by blind practice

At night, the dense clouds have already covered the moonlight.

The strong wind is still breathing, but the snowflakes flying all over the sky have long since disappeared in the past few days.

City Lord's Mansion, inside the study.

Light a candle to illuminate the entire study room as bright as day.

Dressed in brocade clothes, the city lord Fang Datong sat on the chair in front of the desk, took the secret documents on the desk in front of him, opened them one by one, and checked the contents recorded on them.

It was freezing outside, and the inside of the study was equally gloomy and chilly. The brocade clothes on his body looked frighteningly thin, but he couldn't feel the slightest chill.

Just with normal breathing, it seems that there are blossoming flames burning around Fang Datong's side.

"Pfft..." There was a muffled sound.

It was as if a cold wind had blown and the door of the study was blown open.

Fang Datong frowned, and he put down the letter in his hand, which was only half seen.

He clearly remembered that the door of the study he was in had already been bolted to death by him. Logically speaking, no matter how strong the wind outside was, it should be difficult to blow the door of the study open.

Standing up, he swept around. After confirming that there was nothing abnormal in the house except for the cold wind still howling outside, he walked to the door in a few steps, closed the study door again, and bolted the door again. tight.

After doing all this, when he turned around and was about to sit back at the desk again, his expression changed, and he was already frozen on the spot.

"It's been so many days, Fang Datong, haven't there been any results for the matter we told you to investigate strictly?" In front of the desk, at the position where Fang Datong was sitting just now, at some point, there has been an extra Two figures, one white and one red.

Tian Yin, dressed in white, sat on the chair, while Mei Ji, dressed in red, sat directly on the desk.

Of the two of them, one had a cold face, the other had a smile on his lips all the time, and their eyes fell on Fang Datong.

"The subordinate Datong pays respects to Emperor Tianyin and Empress Meiji..."

With a tremor in his heart, Fang Datong had already reacted instantly. He knelt down on one knee, without saying a word, and saluted the two people in front of him.

Immediately afterwards, he trembled and continued to report: "Emperor, empress, during this time, I have dispatched all the people in the city lord's mansion."

"It's a pity that although a lot of people have been arrested, the prisons in the City Lord's Mansion are already overcrowded, but there has been little effect. We haven't found any clues about the person the two adults are looking for."

"Adhering to the tenet of killing the wrong and never letting them go, none of the people who entered our Donglin City in the past month or so have been let go. We have carefully investigated them. Now those people are either dead or still in prison. Inside the prison in the mansion..."

With his head down, Fang Datong didn't dare to raise his head, and even less dared to meet the sharp eyes of Tianyin and Meiji looking at him.

To be honest, on top of what Tianyin Meiji and the other two explained, he has really tried his best.

But he couldn't come up with outstanding results. No matter how much he did, it was still just a waste of effort.

"Fang Datong, what do you want me to say about you?"

"If I remember correctly, this Donglin City is in your hands and has been under your control for thousands of years. You only have such a little control? You just asked you to find someone, and you have been looking for it for six or seven days, but you still haven't seen any clues? "

"Just to ask you, can you find someone? If you can't, take the blame and resign yourself, and someone else will take over your position and take control of Donglin City!"

Tian Yin, who had always had a gloomy face, looked directly at Fang Datong and snorted coldly.

Meiji on the side, although she didn't speak, she also looked at Fang Datong with a clear chill in her beautiful eyes.

"Dijun, empress, give me another five days, and I will definitely be able to find the trace of that person."

"If I can't do it, I have no face to continue to sit on the position of the city lord of Donglin City. I will leave by myself and go back to the headquarters of the Demon Palace!"

"At that time, no matter how the palace masters punish me, I will admit it!"

His head was so low that it almost fell into his crotch, Fang Datong gritted his teeth and promised.

What he said is almost equivalent to a military order, but how sure is he that he will find the person Tianyin and Meiji are looking for?

He was not sure at all. Under the current situation, he was really forced to make this oath.

"Five days?"

"Remember what you said, when the time comes, if you still haven't found anything, don't blame us for being ruthless and ungrateful!"

Looking at each other, Tianyin and Meiji nodded.

After leaving a few words, a gust of cold wind blew by, and the two who were still in the study just now disappeared completely as if they had never appeared before.

……

In the early morning, the wind and snow that lasted for a long time finally stopped completely, and a round of red sun slowly rose from the sky.

It's a pity that the streets are still chilly, and the rising sun can't bring much warmth to the people in Donglin City.

"Damn the wind and snow, I stayed indoors for a long time and couldn't go out. If I go out of the city today, if I can't get any harvest, my family will have to run out of food!"

"To each other, who knew that this blizzard would last for nearly half a month? If I had known this earlier, I should have gone to the casino less often and kept more bacon at home."

"Boss Wu, if you want to go out of the city, you can't go here. You have to go through the east gate. I don't know what the city lord's mansion is doing. All the gates are closed, and only the east gate is allowed to pass!"

……

It was rare that the weather turned better, and the streets were crowded with people. Many people walked in groups towards the direction of the city gate.

It's a pity that after receiving the news that the city gate here has been closed, most people had to turn back, change the direction of leaving the city, and move on.

"drive……"

A skinny bay red horse and a dilapidated carriage, looking like a hunchbacked old man who could be blown away by a gust of wind, leaned listlessly on the shaft, waving a whip in his hand, and mingled among the crowd.

Sitting in the dilapidated carriage, Chen Hai flipped through a miscellaneous book to pass the time.

The rest of the servants in the mansion have been dismissed by him.

After all, their strength was limited, and it was simply not suitable for Chen Hai to take them back to Jinxia Island across a million miles.

He left Donglin City with Aoki alone.

Aoki, who was unwilling to be a coachman even after being beaten to death, did not escape this fate after all. He picked up the whip, drove the dilapidated carriage, and drove slowly towards the only passable gate of the east city.