Xu Heng and the others only had a headache about being attacked and killed inexplicably, but the city guards had a headache about this matter.

"Tell your lordship, a total of thirty-three corpses were found in the Zhaocai Restaurant, four on the third floor, twenty-seven on the second floor, and two on the first floor, of which twenty-six were specially trained archers judging from the bows and arrows they used and their physical condition, and the remaining seven should be inferred from their attire to be from the rivers and lakes. “

- "Let's go and check the cause of death of the corpse, and see if these two groups are in the same group or if they died together." ”

"Tell my lord, a total of seventeen corpses were found in the alley, all of them were tortured and killed, and they were ......."

- "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, whatever, say anything!"

Moreover, judging from the wounds on the corpse, the perpetrator did not use any weapons, but pierced the chest and bones with his bare hands, and the method was extremely cruel. “

- "Bare hands, piercing the chest and dismantling the bones...... It sounds like a trick that only the people of the evil way would use. Oops, it's a big trouble this time!"

"Tell the lord, the villain has finished the autopsy. ”

- "If you find something, tell me quickly!"

"Yes, Lord Hui, eleven of the archers died from sword wounds, and the rest were killed by sword wounds, and all but one of the Jianghu people was killed by sword wounds. ”

- "In the investigation just now, no people with swords were found, and according to the guests on the first floor of the restaurant, there was also a person with a sword who fell from the second floor. Since the body of the archer contains both stab wounds and sword wounds, and all but one of the swordmen is shot to death, so to speak, the wielder and the archer are not subordinate to each other, but each is a ......"

"My lord, the portrait of the man with the sword has been drawn according to the description of the guests in the restaurant, is the whole city searched?"

- "Wait, if that group of people is from the rivers and lakes, they will not show their true faces, let alone after committing crimes, and it is useless to search." Can't find it. Moreover, at this time, archers are involved, and the training and bows and arrows of the army system are not available to ordinary people, maybe this is the powerful man taking revenge, and we can't get good by rashly mixing in. ”

"So, my lord, what are we going to do next?"

Lord Xue of the city guard sighed at the back molars that began to hurt again, and said with a twitching face: "Since it didn't hurt the civilians, then it is very likely that it is a grudge between the forces of the rivers and lakes, and we don't have to pay attention to it for the time being." ”

After thinking about it, he added: "Send more soldiers to patrol the city, write a notice to announce the whole city, saying that there are bandits from the rivers and lakes sneaking into the city, so that the residents of the city must be careful and report to the officials as soon as they find any abnormal conditions." “

"Also, send someone to chase after the Kong Inspector of the Northern Ya. ”

"No need," the calm and capable middle-aged man walked into the Zhaocai Restaurant in the city and bowed to the city guard meticulously, "Lord Xue, the contemptible person came uninvited." ”

He had only rushed here because someone had reported the case, and he had not yet been notified, so how could he suddenly appear here? You must know that he had just left Dinghuan City this morning and went to Liaodong Province...... Could it be that he already knew, and if he knew, why didn't he point out in advance?

The suspicion in his heart made Lord Xue's back molars hurt even more, he took a breath and said bitterly: "Inspector Kong came at the right time, and the two murders that happened in the city today don't seem to be committed by ordinary people......

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "This matter is indeed a grudge and vendetta in the rivers and lakes, and the adults can transfer this matter to me." ”

"Xia Guan is having a headache about this, that's really unbelievable!" Xue Chengshou's joy was beyond words, he was able to transfer the two troublesome things, saving a lot of thoughts, and even the back molars didn't hurt so much when he was happy.

After all, the other party is from Beiya.

Beiya, the full name of the Beidi Jianghu Division, specializes in dealing with Jianghu incidents.

Since the establishment of the Yang Dynasty for nearly 200 years, two completely different worlds, the court and the rivers and lakes, have coexisted on the land of the Yang Dynasty, and the two worlds have been at peace with each other because they each have their own order.

The order of the imperial court depended on the emperor's hundred officials and criminal decrees, while the order of the rivers and lakes was maintained by the righteous forces of the rivers and lakes.

Emperor Taizu, the founding emperor of the Yang Dynasty, was born as a local hero, and when he overthrew the Punishment Dynasty, he also received the support of a large part of the Jianghu sect forces, so after the founding of the People's Republic of China, he helped the martial arts, which were still chaotic at that time, to rectify the rivers and lakes. Since then, the pattern of the first four gates has appeared: Longhu Mountain in the five counties of Huangjing, Longwang Palace in the seven provinces of the East China Sea, Wanjian Villa in the five continents in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Yuanshen Sect in the southern Xinjiang.

These four gates each guard one place, and as the largest local force in the rivers and lakes, they maintain the black and white of the rivers and lakes. As for the Xijing Erfu Caishen Temple, and the 36 Forts of the Lei Family in Mobei, they are all great forces that rose up later due to need.

Among these six gates, because the territory of the seven provinces of the East China Sea is long and narrow, the power of the three provinces in the north is beyond the reach of the Dragon King Palace, so the imperial court has established the Beidi Jianghu Division. Different from the Huhai Division and the Huangji Palace, which are hidden in the imperial capital, this is an organization that is both the imperial court and the rivers and lakes, all under the Beidi Case Fu Division, and is specially used to deal with the rivers and lakes cases involving the jurisdiction of the imperial court.

For example, coaxing and killing innocent civilians, obstructing the death law of the imperial court, disrupting the order of the government and the opposition, and so on, and so on, are all in the duties of the officials of the rivers and lakes in the north.

This is a yamen that is famous on the black and white roads of the three northern provinces, but is disdained in other places.

However, its establishment did maintain the stability of the three provinces in the north, and it was respected by the officials and people in the north as the northern ya.

Now that Bei Ya has taken over, this matter is simple. There are many masters in the Northern Ya, and they are very powerful, and they have a headache, which is not troublesome for them.

As a figure who often deals with people in the rivers and lakes, Inspector Kong is very experienced in dealing with similar things. After briefly listening to the results of the previous on-site investigation, he slowly walked from the first floor to the third floor, and finally stood in front of the four corpses in the single room on the third floor for a long time, and sighed slowly: "It turned out to be a master of the second heaven after tomorrow, no wonder the Seven Tigers of Heijiang will be planted in their hands." ”

The solemnity of the Northern Patrol Envoy affected the people around him, and Xue Chengshou said cautiously: "This, is it tricky?"

"It's a little tricky, but it looks more like a targeted assassination. ”

Inspector Kong retracted his gaze and walked downstairs with Xue Chengshou: "The mastermind of this type of assassination usually doesn't want to get to the point where everyone knows about it, you order to go down and clean up these corpses, stop in Yizhuang for one night, and find a place to bury them tomorrow." ”

"Be careful, don't bury at night, don't sneak around, just like you would with an unnamed corpse. When he came to the first floor, Inspector Kong specially stopped and advised, "There are too many people who have witnessed this incident, and they can't hide it, and sneaking around will arouse the suspicion of the mastermind behind the scenes." ”

"Yes. ”

The solemn instructions of the envoy of the Northern Ya made Xue Chengshou feel a pang in his heart, and he couldn't help but nod heavily, the former looked at the latter in silence for a moment, turned around and strode out of the inn.

"I'm going to look at that alley. ”

Xue Chengshou hurriedly called out to his right-hand man: "Wang Peng, follow Inspector Kong and tell him about the situation." “