Chapter 228: A Trip to Hengzhou
"Childe, the eldest young master invites Childe to the front hall to discuss something."
In a flash, half of the morning passed, and he was lying down and resting idlely, and Changkang came to invite.
"What's the matter?"
"Brother Lei is here."
"Huh? Brother Lei is back? That's great. Liu Qin jumped up all of a sudden, raised his steps and hurriedly ran outside.
"Childe, wait for me." Qiu Xun followed and chased out.
Seeing the two of them in a hurry, Lan Ke and Changkang glanced at each other helplessly and followed behind.
"Childe."
Before he arrived in the front hall, he met Bai Lingfeng, who was wandering in the front yard, and greeted him happily.
"Little Brother Bai?" Liu Qin smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "It's been a hard journey, but how can I see that you are not thin at all, but more wise and martial?" ”
Bai Lingfeng didn't know how to respond to Liu Qin's ridicule, standing there, scratching his head, silly.
Qiu Xun, who was following behind, saw his stupid appearance, and couldn't hold back for a while, and laughed out loud.
Liu Qin was still angry about her laughing at herself in the morning, and couldn't help but glance at her, "What's the matter, our little brother Bai is not wise?" Not Shenwu? Not handsome? Not chic? Go, don't know how to appreciate, go, little brother Bai, let's go, ignore her. ”
Affectionately pulled Bai Lingfeng away with his head held high, leaving Qiu Xun inexplicable, who did I provoke with this move?
Bai Lingfeng was pulled by Liu Qin, it had only been so long since they saw each other for the first time, and it was the first time he was so close to her, and the breath of the people around him floated over little by little, surrounding him, making him feel like he was drunk, dizzy, and staggering.
Only great joy filled my heart, like fireworks, and kept blooming in my mind.
Liu Qin, who was anxious to see Lei Hu, didn't notice Bai Lingfeng's abnormality at all, and didn't think much that it was a little inappropriate for him to grab his wrist, until he entered the house and shouted happily "Brother Lei", but he didn't get a reaction for a long time, and then he found that everyone's eyes were focused on his hands.
And he was still holding Bai Lingfeng's hand, but Bai Lingfeng looked like a little boy who was taken advantage of with a blushing face, which made people reverie.
He chuckled in his heart, let go of his hand, and looked at Jiang Li with a weak heart, sure enough, Jiang Li's face turned black again, and even Fang Nuo on the side glared at Bai Lingfeng angrily, only Lei Hu looked at the two of them with complicated eyes, lowered his head and drank tea, pretending not to see it.
"Brother Lei, this trip is hard, and I will give you a celebration wine later." Liu Qin, who had already trained a lot of nerves, simply ignored it and sat down beside Lei Hu with a big grin.
"There's no hurry, it's not too late to celebrate when it's over."
"Well, people sent to the Five Princes' Mansion?"
"I sent it, I sent two people to follow me to protect me at any time."
"Okay." Liu Qin looked at Changxing on the other side again, "Did the gift go?" ”
"I also sent it, and Brother Lei was on the front and back."
"OK, the show is about to start, let's sit back and watch the show." Liu Qin was so excited that she accidentally said the English words, but fortunately, she would come up with some strange words from time to time, and everyone was used to it, so they didn't take it to heart.
"Brother Lei, tell us about your trip to Hengzhou this time?"
"Hmm."
Lei Hu put down the teacup and told the experience of this trip.
They had a total of 32 people, divided into several roads, all the way to Hengzhou, two groups of people went to Huaxing and Heng'an, the two counties that were the hardest hit that year, and Lei Hu took Bai Lingfeng and others straight to Qiliang Mountain, he remembered that Liu Qin said that an official surnamed Xie was robbed and killed here, which was very suspicious.
Unexpectedly, it was here that the gap was opened and the flaw was found.
According to them, there were indeed mountain bandits in the Qiliang Mountain area, but those mountain bandits only took money and did not hurt their lives, and the rabbits did not eat the grass by the nest, but only robbed the passing merchants, and did not harass the surrounding people.
But that year, a gang of bandits suddenly appeared, and even did a few votes, killed people and robbed money, and did not leave a single living mouth, so frightened that the nearby villagers did not dare to go out, even if they were forced to do so, they also took a detour, and did not dare to haunt that area.
It wasn't until the government sent officers and soldiers to exterminate it that the area around Qiliang Mountain was quiet, and no mountain bandits appeared until now.
Speaking of this, the villagers praised the government for doing a good thing, and it was also a clear day.
Lei Hu heard the suspicion from it, the gang of robbers was not only different from the previous mountain bandits, but also appeared out of thin air, and when he asked for verification again, one of the old men said affirmatively: "It is definitely not the gang from earlier, the leader of the mountain bandits from earlier, Qian Mazi, the old man has seen it in the county and county, and he has already changed his ways and found a job in the city." ”
After asking the old man carefully, he sent two people to the county to look for Qian Mazi, Lei Hu himself was still wandering around the Qiliang Mountain, he heard that the people who were robbed and killed back then were thrown into an unfathomable deep valley, and wanted to find a way down the valley to see.
The villagers told him that the valley was bottomless, that birds and beasts were extinct, and that there was no chance of survival for those who fell.
Lei Hu didn't give up, he was still **** looking for a way out near the valley, but he didn't expect that he really found it.
A hunter in the mountains, a man who knows the way down the valley.
It turned out that the hunter was chasing a rabbit when he accidentally fell off a cliff and accidentally found a way to climb on the cliff.
Lei Hu and Bai Lingfeng climbed down the valley and searched carefully in the valley, after nearly ten years, the valley was littered with fragmented bones, which had long been unrecognizable, and it was difficult to find clues from them, but because no one had ever been there, it was also the most likely scene to be discovered.
"We carefully examined the wounds on each of the bones, and found that they could not have been wounded by ordinary bandits, and those wounds were fatal with a single knife, and they were definitely the work of well-trained people. Later, he found Qian Mazi, according to Qian Mazi, the group of bandits didn't say a word, they were injured and driven out of the mountain, he felt that those people were not ordinary people, there was a special smell all over their bodies, like a strong bloody gas, so obediently took his people away, which just confirmed my original thoughts, those robbers were not bandits at all, but officers and soldiers, this is the evidence we found on one of the bones. ”
Lei Hu took out an object from his arms, but it was a swarthy brand, with a big "inner" word written on it, which was the waist card of the inner city royal forest guards, "I heard that the bandits who were exterminated were also thrown into this valley, and there are many arrow holes on this corpse, it is estimated that it is the leader of the group of officers and soldiers who pretended to be bandits, but unfortunately, the birds were all hidden in the bow, and all of them were wiped out after the fact." ”
found evidence in Qiliang Mountain, they immediately rushed to meet with the others, and stepped up the search for the person who knew about the year, and the hard work paid off, and they really found an old friend of Lord Xie who was killed, He Mingchen.
It turned out that Master Xie had a premonition in advance, and quietly found He Mingchen, handed him an account book and a letter, and asked him that if something happened to him, he could hand it over to the person who came to investigate the case.
After Lord Xie died, He Mingchen secretly read the letter, did not dare to hand over the things, for fear of falling into the hands of the three princes and a group of people, and did not dare to stay in Hengzhou, quietly returned to his hometown Heng'an County, hid for nearly ten years, and when Lei Hu and they found it, he confirmed that he wanted to help his friend avenge his grievances, and he did not hesitate to settle his family, and came to the imperial capital together. (To be continued.) )