Thirty-three people died in the Hezhou Prison tragedy, including 13 serious offenders, 4 prison guards, and 16 soldiers on duty. The number of missing persons is seven, including four felons and three ordinary offenders.

Shangguan Lan designated this tragedy as the Hokage case.

As the file closed, Shangguan Lan asked, "Dzi." In this Hokage case, four felons were lost. They are flower thieves who are quiet at night. Murderous Maniac Wu Ghost Seven. The leader of the illegal salt bandits. Thousand-faced Langjun Meng Qiuchi. You speculate, who is the most likely to rob the prison among these four people? ”

In the past few years, whenever there is a new case, Shangguan Lan likes to discuss the case with the little apprentice like this. Wu Nianting also unwittingly became a master of solving cases in his question.

After Shangguan Lan read the dossier, she had already made up her mind and said: "The movement is so big, the methods are so cruel, those who come to rob the prison must be the masters of the killers." Those who can afford to be masters must be rich people. Among the four felons, the flower thief Ye Jingshen and the thousand-faced Langjun Meng Qiuchi have always regarded themselves as lone rangers and disdain to be in the company of others, so it must not be them. The murderous demon Wu Guiqi is a poor bastard, and he must not be able to afford to hire a killer at a high price, so it must not be him. Then the only thing left is Yang Yandi, the leader of the smuggled salt bandits, who sells smuggled salt is the richest, and the killer who bids high can afford it. Therefore, if there is a possibility of which of these four people is the most likely to rob the prison, it must be Yang Yandi. ”

Well, not much worse than he speculated. Shangguan Lan asked again: "If it was really Yang Yandi's doing, why did he rescue the rest of his fellow inmates?" ”

"Either Yang Yandi is swaying our sight, or the night is quiet, Meng Qiuchi, Wu Guiqi and the three of them are fishing in the water and fleeing in chaos. However, I prefer the latter. Of course, the specific situation can only be concluded if they are caught. ”

Looking at the little apprentice with great satisfaction, Shangguan Lan asked again: "Then according to your latter speculation, you should tell me, where will they hide in the past two days?" ”

Wu Nianting 'uh', thought for a while, and said: "Ye Jingshen must have slept during the day and come out at night to make trouble, but this time has been checked tightly, and I am afraid that he will not dare to make trouble, so the most likely place for him to go should be Goolan Courtyard." As for Wu Guiqi, he is fierce, and at this time, he is afraid that he has already taken someone from a certain family as a hostage, and other people in this family are providing him with food and drink. Yang Yandi is a salt bandit, and he is most accustomed to taking the waterway, and he must be lurking on the waterfront now, and wants to see the opportunity to get a boat out of Hezhou City by water. As for Meng Qiuchi, because he is too good at disguise, he is the most difficult to catch, if I am him, I will be disguised as you, if I want to go out of the city, will anyone dare to oppose it? ”

If Shangguan Lan's thoughts about the hiding place of the previous three felons were exactly the same as those of the little apprentice, the last one made him terrified. He looked at the little apprentice in surprise and said, "Don't say it, it's really possible." ”

After finishing speaking, Shangguan Lan looked outside the house and said, "Balance." ”

"Yes."

"Go to the city defense immediately to inform that all incumbent officials in Hezhou are not allowed to go out of the city, even this government is no exception. If there is a violator, it will be killed. ”

"Yes."

Seeing that Tianping had gone to do something, Shangguan Lan lightly hugged the waist of the little apprentice and said, "Let's talk about it, are the three ordinary criminals dead or alive?" ”

Among the three ordinary criminals were Shi Qian and two other mutes whose identities were unknown.

Speaking of these two mutes, I have to say that two months ago, Shangguan Lan ordered his subordinates to conduct a routine census, which was to put an end to the routine routine inspection of certain spies from various countries. And then the two men were caught. These two were not from Hezhou, and they did not have any customs clearance documents on them that could prove their identities, so of course they were taken back to the prefect's yamen. The two men had not spoken since they were arrested, and everyone thought they were mute. No one knew them, and they couldn't speak, and they didn't seem to be able to write, so Shangguan Lan ordered the painter to draw pictures of the two men and distribute them to the various state capitals for people there to identify, but for two months, there was no news that anyone knew them.

As a result, Shangguan Lan became more and more suspicious of the identities of the two of them, but they did not meet the conditions for serious criminals, so Shangguan Lan kept the two of them in custody as ordinary criminals.

I didn't want to do this, the two of them actually lost their traces in the Hokage case.

Of course, Shangguan Lan did not rule out that the killer in the Hokage case was here to save these two dumb people.

In Shangguan Lan's thoughts, he only heard the little apprentice say, "They must all be alive." ”

"Why?"

"Look at the extremely tragic way of death of the 33 deceased in Hezhou Prison, which shows that the killers who came to rob the prison were extremely ruthless and did not mean to leave a living mouth. Therefore, all the criminals who were not found in Hezhou Prison should be alive, either robbed or escaped by taking advantage of the chaos. I estimate that Shi Qian is the best at stealing chickens and dogs, and it is easy to escape while there is chaos. It's quite suspicious that those two dumb people can escape without knowing or noticing without saying a word. Sure, those killers were invited by these two dumb people. ”

The little apprentice's opinion coincides with his. Smiled and patted the little apprentice's head, Shangguan Lan said, "Not bad." This robbery was either committed by Yang Yandi or by those two dumb people, and they could no longer escape these two situations. ”

can get the master's affirmation and approval, Wu Nianting is a little proud. From the corners of his mouth to his eyes, he was full of pride.

After the tragedy, with the lifting of arrows in the direction of Hezhou Prison, the four gates of Hezhou City were closed in time, and Shangguan Lan rushed to Hezhou Prison with people as soon as possible. At the time of the incident, Zhang Jiaotou also fell in the snow, and he was the only one alive. As for the others, they were all killed with a single sword.

Based on the knife wounds of the deceased, Shangguan Lan accurately judged the time of their death, and also accurately judged that there was more than one killer who robbed the prison.

With the awakening of Zhang Cell, as he told about the strange Hokage murder, Shangguan Lan defined this case as the Hokage case.

Although Zhang did not see how the soldiers on duty in the courtyard were killed, he did not know who the felons who ran out of the hole in the wall were

How the group of felons who came out of the hole in the wall were killed, but judging from his account of the screams he heard in the courtyard after hiding in the cabinet, the Hokage had not yet been killed at that time, which means that there was still a group of killers outside, maybe it was also the Hokage Killer. This is very consistent with Shangguan Lan's inference that there is more than one killer.

"If I had to choose the most likely one between Yang Alkali and those two dumb people, I would choose those two dumb people. The killers must have come for those two mutes. ”

"Why?"

"These two people are definitely not from Hezhou, and maybe they are not from our Dongao. But I also have a lot of knowledge about people in South Vietnam and the North Pole, and I rarely see them like this, and I always feel that they look different from our people from Dongao, South Vietnam, and the North Pole. And this time, the killing methods of the Hokage case are also different from the killing methods of all our killers in Dongao, South Vietnam, and the North Pole, which can be said to be unprecedented. On the one hand, there are people you don't know, and on the other hand, you don't know the methods of killing, and it's really difficult not to associate them with one place. ”

"Well, that makes sense. Go on. ”

"Those two mutes may not be mutes at all, and they don't speak because they can't speak what we have here. Even South Vietnam and the North Pole will not be spoken. In order to prevent their identities from being revealed, they simply did not speak, so that everyone thought that they were dumb. Wait for their men to come and save them. If the Hokage case was really committed by them. In other words, the people who saved them were afraid and would not necessarily say what we were talking about. That is, they had to pretend to be dumb if they wanted to get out of the city. ”

"You mean, keep all the dumb people in check."

"Exactly. It is even more necessary to strictly investigate the dumb people of several people. ”

As Wu Nianting's words fell, Shangguan Yu's voice came from outside, 'Yes, I think so too'.

Shangguan Lan and Wu Nianting were taken aback at the same time, and hurriedly got up to welcome them out, and sure enough, they saw Shangguan Yu standing outside the house.

A snow-colored cross-collared robe with a snow fox fur coat and python-patterned snow fox leather boots on the feet. He is covered with a purple-gold crane feather cloak. There is also a circle of snow fox fur around the brim of the cloak, which makes his eyebrows and eyes handsome, and his body exudes an incomparable sense of purity and nobility, which makes people unforgettable.

"Yu'er!" Did he actually walk out of the glass house? Shangguan Lan and Wu Nianting exclaimed at the same time.

"Don't blame me, don't blame me." As he spoke, it was Long Shihuai who appeared slowly. Smile toothless, full of style.

After making a "nonsense", Shangguan Lan hurriedly picked up Shangguan Yu and quickly entered the house. Then he hurriedly stuffed Shangguan Yu into the quilt and listened carefully.

"Big brother, it's okay."

Although it is okay at the moment, there is no guarantee that it will be okay later. There's no guarantee that tomorrow will be fine. Shangguan Lan glared at Long Shihuai, the initiator, "You're too used to Yu'er." "Needless to say, Shangguan Lan also knew that Yu'er must have begged Long Shihuai, otherwise, those bodyguards would not dare to take Yu'er out of the glass house in such a grand manner.

"This and this...... You didn't return for two days and two nights, and Yu'er was worried about you. Long Shihuai explained.

As Long Shihuai's words fell, it was the meat balls that entered the house, maybe it was Fang who learned to walk, but it was not too neat, so he slipped while walking, and finally walked to the bed, and then slipped into bed while crawling, and then sighed at Shangguan Yu. It's also strange, with its breath, Shangguan Yufang's pale face actually became a little ruddy, and the cold blue lips slowly faded, recovering a faint cyan.

"Scales, quick, bring the mask I made."

Knowing the pain of being locked in a glass house, coupled with the idea of coming up with a glass house when Yu was a child, Shangguan Lan thought of a way to make a mask, and stuffed a lot of sun-dried medicinal orchids into the sandwich of the mask, which can also play a role in filtering air impurities and purifying the air. can allow Yu'er to stay outside the glass house for a longer period of time. But that can only prevent the infection of Yu'er from the outside world from the breath, and Shangguan Lan has not come up with a good way to contact other hands and faces, so this mask is not a long-term solution.

Now, in order to prevent accidents, Shangguan Lan has to stuff Yu'er in the quilt as much as possible to reduce the chance of being infected by external germs.

Seeing that he was protected by his eldest brother and turned into a silkworm chrysalis, Shangguan Yu looked at his eldest brother speechlessly. Shangguan Lan flicked his forehead and said, "Obedient." ”

Shangguan Yu let out an 'oh', because of the mask, his voice was a little urn-like. He said, "Big brother, the perpetrator of the Hokage case should be from Sakura Country. ”

"Sakura Country!" Shangguan Lan, Long Shihuai, and Wu Nianting exclaimed in unison.

"Exactly. The invisibility technique they practiced was called ninjutsu. With the help of the transformation technique of our ancient Tiangang and Earth Evil Formation. You didn't allow me to say more that day, so I didn't say it. In fact, I also know that there are five levels of samurai who practice this kind of ninjutsu, which are called gold ninjas, wood ninjas, water ninjas, fire ninjas, and earth ninjas. Among them, the level of the Alchemy Ninja is the highest, and the level of the Ninja of the Earth is the lowest. Last time, the ninja who chased and killed Long Shihuai should be subordinate to the Earth Ninja, and the killer in the Hokage case was supposed to be subordinate to the Fire Ninja. ”

If this is the case, the two low-level fire ninjas and earth ninjas not only hunted down and killed the crown prince of the current dynasty, but also turned Hezhou upside down, then if the highest-level alchemy ninja killed him, wouldn't it be unguardable?

Everyone was in the same mind, only to hear Shangguan Yu sigh: "It seems that the Sakura Kingdom has the heart to kill me." ”

Wu Nianting knew that Shangguan Yu couldn't think too much, let alone that he wasn't in the glass house now. So he hurriedly sat down, hugged Shangguan Yu and said, "Yu'er, rest well, don't think about it." It is enough that you have given your eldest brother and the prince's brother a reference direction. Leave the rest to them. ”

Shangguan Yu stretched out his hand from the quilt, showed a finger, and said, "I'll say one more thing." ”

Knowing that he would miss out on one night if he wasn't allowed to say that he would miss it, Shangguan Lan nodded. I only heard Shangguan Yu say: "Maybe the Sakura Kingdom not only wants to kill me in the east, but more likely also wants to kill South Vietnam and the North Pole in order to achieve the goal of controlling this continent." Of course, Sakura is not excluded

It is not excluded that Sakura and some people in these three countries have reached a consensus. ”

Hearing this, thinking that he was chased and killed along the way, Long Shihuai was a little annoyed that he didn't leave a single living mouth, otherwise it wouldn't be like he was in the clouds now.

And Shangguan Lan was thinking at this time that if the killer who robbed the prison was really a ninja, if the two mutes in the prison were really in the same group as the ninjas, and they wanted to send fire ninjas to rescue them, it meant that the status of those two mutes in Sakura Country was not low.

Wu Nianting was thinking about how to catch a live ninja.

The three of them had different thoughts, so they only heard Shangguan Yu say again: "Now the focus is to spread the portraits of those two dumb people all over Hezhou City, and all the people should be on guard, and once they see someone who looks similar to the portrait and can't speak, they will report to the official." Pay a lot of money, there is a reward. In the past few days, I have looked through the file and analyzed it carefully, if these two dumb people are really from Sakura, they don't understand my Dongao language and pretend to be dumb. At the same time, it makes sense to be able to work fire ninjas to save them. In the end, if you can catch the two of them, you will definitely be able to catch those fire ninjas. Just as Dzi said, those fire ninjas may not be able to say what I am arrogant, they will definitely pretend to be dumb, and now in addition to the portrait, the most important thing is to check the dumb ......"

"Yu'er, you've said more than one sentence." After Shangguan Lan finished speaking, he looked at Wu Nianting and said, "Don't sue me, you showed the file to Yu'er." ”

Wu Nianting hugged Shangguan Yu and asked with a smile: "Yu'er, how did you see the file." ”

"You showed it to me."

"Ah, you betrayed me, betrayed me." While speaking, Wu Nianting reached out to tickle Shangguan Yu's itch.

Shangguan Yu was most afraid of itching, under Wu Nianting's skillful itching, he could no longer hold back the cold and arrogant look on his face, and fell on the bed with a smile, shouting 'don't, don't'.

"Call sister, call sister and I'll spare you." Wu Nianting still didn't let go.

This Shangguan Yu can be regarded as an outlier, except for the honorific title of Shangguan Lan as the eldest brother, the rest of the people are called by their names. It is Long Shihuai, and Shangguan Yu also calls him by his name. Wu Nianting is not to mention, when he was a child, he still said "Sister Dzi" from time to time, and now how can he still hear the voice of "Sister Dzi", all of them are called "Dzi", which makes Wu Nianting quite unhappy.

"I don't."

Seeing that he was still resisting stubbornly, knowing where Shangguan Yu was most afraid of itching, Wu Nianting took the lead, and scratched his hand again, causing Shangguan Yu to laugh again, shouting 'Big brother save me, big brother save me'. Wu Nianting scratched unrelentingly, and said at the same time: "Look at the next time you dare to betray me, dare to betray me again." ”

"No, I don't anymore." As he spoke, Shangguan Yu coughed. Wu Nianting was startled, hurriedly let go, hugged him and said, "Yu'er, what's wrong?" ”

Shangguan Lan hurriedly poured a cup of tea, and at the same time untied Shangguan Yu's mask and stuffed a pill into Shangguan Yu's mouth.

After taking medicine and drinking tea, Shangguan Yu was weakly paralyzed into Wu Nianting's arms. Gasping softly. Wu Nianting touched his face worriedly, and said softly, "Yu'er, Yu'er." ”

"Hmm."

"Let's go back to the glass house, okay?"

"No, I don't want to. I want to try what it's like to sleep outside. ”

Wu Nianting's heart was sour, and he looked at Shangguan Lan.

Shangguan Lan hugged Shangguan Yu and said, "Okay, tonight, big brother will accompany you." ”

Knowing that his eldest brother was the most promiscuous, Guan Yu already felt that something was wrong when he came out of the glass house, and now he used some brains, plus Fang Cai and Wu Nianting had a quarrel, he really felt extremely sleepy, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep.

Shangguan Lan hurriedly got into bed and went to Yu'er's side, and then gestured to Wu Nianting with his mouth, "If you want the sky to be fierce, they will send the glass house".

Wu Nianting understood, Long Shihuai also understood, and the two hurriedly retreated cautiously.

When the two of them retreated, Shangguan Yu opened his eyes and said, "Big brother, if that thousand-faced Langjun really changes into your appearance, Yu'er thinks that he is disguised into your appearance, not only thinking about it simply to get out of the city, maybe he also wants to provoke someone." ”

Hearing this, Shangguan Lan stretched out his hand to cover Shangguan Yu's eyes and said, "Big brother knows, you go to sleep quickly." ”

"Also, big brother, maybe those four felons and Shi Qian have all been accused by the ninjas of Sakura Country. That's why we haven't caught them for a long time. ”

"Yu'er, do you want your eldest brother to order your sleeping hole?"

"No, big brother. Other. Yu'er sleeps like this, sleeps like this. ”

As always, when Yu'er was in a complicated mood, Shangguan Lan stroked his brows. This time, Shangguan Lan gently stroked Yu'er's brows again, and after going back and forth, Yu'er's heart finally calmed down. After a while, Shangguan Lan listened carefully, and when he heard Yu'er's breathing, he knew that he had finally fallen asleep. Unconsciously, Shangguan Lan let out a long breath.

Holding Shangguan Yu with one hand and not daring to move, and the other hand was pillowed under his head, Shangguan Lan opened his eyes and looked at the top of the tent, but he couldn't sleep anymore.

If Meng Qiuchi, the thousand-faced Langjun, is really easy to become his Shangguan Lan, who does he want to provoke the most? The first one must be the folk princess Wu Nianting who was rumored to be hidden by the people of Hezhou. The second must be the girl with a white silk face and sharp teeth who is always around him.

But in fact, they are all Wu Nianting.

Thinking that Tianying and Tianqiao had been protecting Wu Nianting all the time, Shangguan Lan was not too worried. The only thing he worries about now is the young brother in his arms.

"Father, father, where have you been? Are they all alive? How come there is no news at all. ”

His father, the king, brought hundreds of carrier pigeons with him before going to sea with a group of his subordinates, which were specially trained. If none of the pigeons returned, it would mean that the father had reached a territory where even the pigeons could not fly. Either that, his father and his party have long been ......

Thinking that he might never see his father and the others again, Shangguan Lan's heart throbbed: "Father, father, you must live, you must come back alive." ”

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Shangguan Lan thought about it, and heard the movement of the roof with the tip of his ears, and when he heard the voice, he knew that Ye Ge was coming.

When Ye Ge, who had long hair tied up, a crescent white brocade robe, picturesque eyebrows and eyes, and a gentle smile, floated into the room, he saw the two brothers lying on the bed plus meat balls, and the corners of Ye Ge's eyes twitched unconsciously.

Not wanting to salvage the young brother who was sleeping lightly, Shangguan Lan talked to Ye Ge with lip language and asked Ye Ge if he had made any new discoveries.

Ye Ge also told Shangguan Lan in lip language that he had discovered the murderous demon Wu Guiqi and the leader of the private salt bandits, Yang Yandi, and had stunned the two felons with sweat medicine, believing that they would not wake up until noon tomorrow, just waiting for Shangguan Lan to send someone to arrest them.

Judging from what Ye Ge said, whether it is the murderous demon Wu Guiqi or the leader of the private salt bandit Yang Yandi, the two of them were the same person when they were tracked down by Ye Ge and others, that is to say, the suspicion of the leader of the private salt bandit Yang Yandi, who was the first to suspect that he was most likely to invite a killer to rob the prison, was completely ruled out.

Shangguan Lan asked with his lips again: What about the flower thief who picks flowers in the dark night, and Meng Qiuchi, the thousand-faced Langjun?

Ye Ge shrugged his shoulders.

Shangguan Lan looked at Ye Ge playfully and asked: I didn't dare to enter the Goolan Courtyard, so I didn't find their whereabouts.

Ye Ge's face turned red, and he didn't deny it.

Shangguan Lan still looked at him playfully, and then said with his lips: Go and check. The heart is quiet, and the Goolan Courtyard is the world; The heart is not quiet, and the whole world is Goolan Courtyard.

When Ye Ge heard this, he seemed to have an understanding, then nodded, pointed at Shangguan Yu, and said with his lips: The small glass house is ready, do you want to transport it?

It turned out that Shangguan Yu's glass house was extremely large, like a small house, but with the financial resources and strength of the Xiaoyao Palace, there was actually no inconvenience in transporting it. It's just that as Shangguan Yu grew up, he sometimes ran out of the glass house without authorization, knowing that the glass house was locked and he was bored, Shangguan Lan took into account his younger brother's feelings, and built a small glass house according to the mold of the big glass house, in case of emergency.

For example, tonight, Shangguan Yu came out of the glass house with the connivance of Long Shihuai, and gave Shangguan Lan a surprise, Shangguan Lan hurt this young brother very much, and he always hated the pain of his younger brother's illness on his body. Seeing his younger brother's longing eyes, he couldn't bear to refuse his younger brother's request. If you have a small glass house nearby, you can at least prevent accidents.

The small glass room was the size of an ice coffin, and only an adult man could lie in it. But all the air filtration and poison isolation aspects are the same as those of the big glass house. The most convenient thing about it is that it can be carried around, and no matter how Shangguan Yu wants to run out to play for a while in the future, he just needs to put it on an ordinary carriage. If you really don't feel well, you can lie down and buy a certain amount of time.

Now that he heard that the small glass house was ready, Shangguan Lan's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said with his lips: Ship it immediately.

After explaining a few more things to Ye Ge, Ye Ge left, and Shangguan Lan was relieved to sleep with his younger brother.

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