Zhang Bai
The two walked towards the village entrance, where the horses they had ridden were parked.
Along the way, there was always someone following behind the two of them, and they tacitly pretended not to notice.
Before Lin Yan was about to mount his horse, he pretended to say, "It looks like there are no clues in this village, so there's no need to come here."
Lin Yi glanced at the bushes behind Lin Yan and raised his voice, "I am the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple, but I can't find any clues."
The two men pretended to sigh and prepared to mount their horses.
"Wait," a voice came.
Lin Yan and Lin Yi smiled at each other and turned to look at the source of the voice.
"You always knew I was following you," the man said angrily when he saw the two of them laughing.
"If I'm guessing correctly, you must be Zhang Bai," Lin Chang asked. She was quite surprised. She didn't expect Zhang Bai to be a boy who looked about eleven or twelve years old.
"Yes, it's me." Zhang Bai pursed his lips, looked at Lin Yi and said, "Are you really the Shaoqing of Dali Temple?"
"Guaranteed genuine," Lin Yidao said.
"I know who you are looking for. I can tell you everything I know, but you must avenge my father." Zhang Bai couldn't help but tear up when he thought of his father who died tragically.
Lin Yan knew that this was not a place to talk, so he said to Zhang Quan: "It's not safe here. Take the things you want to take and let's go to a safe place."
"I won't go," Zhang Bai warned, "What if you lie to me?"
"You've been hiding for so long because someone is looking for you. Now you're exposed," Lin Yan continued, "If you don't want to die, come with us."
Lin Yi took out the token of the Shaoqing of the Dali Temple and said, "I don't know if you recognize it. This is the token that represents my identity."
Zhang Bai didn't recognize the token, but he knew that what Lin Yan said was right.
Ever since his father passed away, he sold his father's clinic and has been hiding here. If he hadn't seen the masked men who were looking for him fighting with Lin Yan, he would never have dared to come out.
Zhang Bai heard a lot of the conversation between Lin Yan and the other man while they were searching for clues in the house, and he knew who they were looking for.
They are the only ones who can help themselves right now.
"I'll go with you."
Lin Yan and the other two accompanied him to get the things he left behind.
Several people came to the cave in the village, and Lin Yi was surprised: "You are quite good at hiding."
Zhang Bai packed up his things and carefully kept the silver needle left by his father. He said in a muffled voice: "They wanted to kill me. If I hadn't hidden here, I would have died long ago."
Lin Yi sighed, patted Zhang Bai's shoulder, and comforted him silently.
It was getting dark, and they quickly returned to the Zou Mansion. Tang Yuelin had been waiting in the mansion for a long time.
Tang Yuelin stood at the door, pacing back and forth, feeling a little anxious that the two had not returned yet.
Seeing the two men stop on horseback in front of the door, Tang Yuelin pointed at the young man they brought back and asked in confusion: "Who is he?"
"Zhang Bai, the son of Doctor Zhang," Lin Yidao said.
Tang Yuelin was delighted: "You found him."
Tang Yuelin quickly let the few people into the mansion. She had explained everything to her uncle early in the morning, and the mansion also cleaned up guest rooms for the few people to rest.
Several people sat down around the table and began to discuss today's affairs.
"I asked my uncle. Doctor Zhang disappeared inexplicably three months ago. The government found him in his own clinic," said Tang Yuelin.
"The coroner's autopsy revealed that Dr. Zhang died in mid-February, which was the time he disappeared. Therefore, it is very likely that he was murdered on the day he disappeared."
"The government officials have been investigating for a long time but have not been able to find out who the murderer is."
"During this period, the government has been looking for Doctor Zhang's son Zhang Bai," Tang Yuelin said, glancing at Zhang Bai, and then continued, "Because some people said they seemed to see Zhang Bai running out of the clinic in a panic on February 17th."
Tang Yuelin paused here and looked at Zhang Bai and said, "It's close to the time of Doctor Zhang's death."
"After that, some people spread the rumor that Zhang Bai had a bad relationship with his father and that Zhang Bai killed his father."
"It wasn't me." Zhang Bai stood up suddenly, his eyes full of anger: "It was the man my father saved. He was the one who killed my father. I saw it with my own eyes."
Lin Yi pinned Zhang Bai down and asked, "If you want to catch the murderer, tell us everything you know."
Zhang Bai calmed down and said calmly, "Four months ago, one night, my father went up the mountain to look for medicine. He met a man covered in blood. He brought him back and treated him well."
"But the man was seriously injured and my father was helpless. But my father had a good friend who was an excellent doctor and he cured the man."
Hearing this, Lin Yan's face darkened: "Doesn't your father's good friend often carry a frame on his back and hold a rosewood cane?"
"Yes." Zhang Bai guessed that Lin Yan and the other two might be looking for his father's good friend. After all, that man seemed to have an extraordinary background and his medical skills were hard to fathom. His father was killed, but that man was just captured.
The man was very strange. Ever since he met him two years ago, he had been chasing him all day long, wanting to take him as his apprentice.
But at that time he only wanted to go against his father. That man was his father's friend, and Zhang Bai still did not agree. He did not tell this to Lin Yan and the others.
Lin Yi patted Lin Yan's shoulder and motioned Zhang Bai to continue.
"My dad's friend is very capable. In less than a month, he saved the man from being half-dead and back to full health."
"After he recovered, he said he was betrayed by a good friend and then robbed by robbers. He described himself as pathetic, then said he had nothing and insisted on staying to help my father."
"My father felt sorry for him and kept him. I tried to persuade him not to keep just anyone, but he was a good person and didn't listen to me. I had a fight with him and then I ran away from home."
"I often quarreled with my father and ran away from home, so the neighbors thought that my father and I had a bad relationship. This is why some people later thought that I killed my father."
"Later, I calmed down and secretly returned to the clinic. I hid in a closet to scare my father, but I didn't expect that this would be the last time I saw my father."
As he spoke, Zhang Bai began to break down and cry, his body shaking, and he choked, "I saw the man my father saved, he was no longer as timid as before, he picked up the sword and killed my father, blood splattered on the spot."
"I hid in the closet and watched my father fall. He saw me and shook his head at me with his last breath. He told me not to come out. As for the person you are looking for, he was also taken away."
"I wanted to rush out and take revenge, but the man's hands came down. I was afraid of being caught, so I ran away quickly. However, the traces I left there were discovered. During this time, they have been looking for me."
Zhang Bai bit his lips tightly. Thinking of the scene of his father's death, he wanted to cut that man into pieces.
"Do you remember what that person looks like?" Tang Yuelin asked.
"I remember, even when he turned into ashes."
Tang Yuelin took a piece of straw paper and a pen and said, "If you tell me what I am talking about, I should be able to draw what that person looks like."
Lin Yan looked at Lin Yi in surprise.
"Alin has been learning painting since she was young and has superb skills, so these are no problem for her," Lin Yi explained.
"That person has very deep eyebrows, a low nose bridge, and narrow eyes..."
Based on Zhang Bai's description, Tang Yuelin quickly drew the man's appearance.
Looking at the paper, everyone fell into deep thought.
"Why do I feel that this person looks familiar, but not quite familiar?" Lin Yi said as he looked at the painting.
"He looks a bit like Zhao Qing who came to participate in the martial arts competition to win a bride," Tang Yuelin reminded at the right time.
There is actually some connection between this painting and Zhao Qing. Tang Yuelin guessed that the man must have changed his appearance, but she couldn't explain it, so she deliberately moved the painting closer to Zhao Qing based on Zhang Bai's description.
At this time, Zhao Qing's disguise skills may not be as advanced as in the future, so the similarity between the two faces can still be seen.
"I was surprised at the time because Zhao Qing's fighting style was a bit strange, not like an ordinary martial arts hero," Lin Yi recalled. "By the way, his face was also a bit strange. He kept protecting his face when fighting with him."
"If the two of them are related, they are either relatives or they have changed their appearance." Lin Yan has been traveling around the world for so many years and is very familiar with these tricks.
"I later inquired about this guy named Zhao Qing, but I didn't expect that his identity in participating in the martial arts competition to win a bride was fake," said Tang Yuelin.
Two extremely similar faces, fake identities, there is a connection between the two no matter how you look at it.
"That person must know that we have found Zhang Bai now. Let's post this portrait. Maybe there will be some clues there," said Lin Yan.
"It's so late, go and rest," Tang Yuelin said, and then ordered the maid to take Lin Yan and others to rest.
The next day, Lin Yi took his Dali Temple Shaoqing token to the government office and asked them to issue a wanted order for Zhao Qing.
Lin Yan has been thinking about one thing since he heard Zhang Bai's words yesterday. The man's target has always been Lao Zhao. Lao Zhao has never shown up in the world in these years. Except for them, no one knows what Lao Zhao looks like. So how did he know what Lao Zhao looks like?
The reason for arresting Lao Zhao was simply because they knew that Lao Zhao was the world-famous miracle doctor. From being rescued by Zhang Bai's father to arresting Lao Zhao, every step was planned long ago.
Coincidentally, the person Lin Yan sent to follow the group of masked men came to report that the group of masked men went to meet a man who was wearing a mask and his face could not be seen.
Lin Yan's men told her all about their conversation. The place where the group met was in Yanshan, which was a dangerous place and they did not dare to enter casually.
Yanshan, coincidentally, Zhang Bai’s father was the one who saved the person there.
Lin Yan told everyone what he had found out.
"My father usually only dared to collect herbs at the foot of the mountain. It was very dangerous inside the mountain. There was a group of bandits stationed there, who were ferocious and vicious. So my father believed what that man said at the time, and the government officials did not dare to provoke them easily," said Zhang Bai.
"Why don't the government officials get rid of them?" Lin Yi asked.
"The terrain there is dangerous and no one knows what's going on inside. Officials don't dare to go in and investigate easily. Plus, if you don't provoke them easily, they won't come to embarrass the people of Wenzhou."
"We must go to Yanshan. Old Zhao is very likely there," said Lin Yan.
"But it's dangerous there, and no one knows what's going on inside," Tang Yuelin said worriedly.
"I'll go ahead. If I don't come out within half a day, Ayi, you will take the government officials and charge into the mountains," said Lin Yan.
"No, this is too dangerous," Lin Yi frowned.
"Don't worry, nothing will happen to me, trust me." Lin Yan patted Lin Yi's shoulder.
"No," Lin Yi was still worried and firmly disagreed.
"I don't need your consent. I will go into the mountains tomorrow. You can do whatever you want." Lin Yan didn't care whether Lin Yitong agreed or not.
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