"How do you find it from above?" This should be a problem that would be difficult for any normal person, and without high-tech means, you wouldn't know where the tunnel was going when you were on the ground.

If it's a straight direction, it's a little better, as long as you identify the direction and estimate the approximate distance, you can still find the exit.

But this secret passage is obviously not, it may be because there are stones underground, this secret passage is dug crookedly. It is difficult to find its exact direction from the road.

Li Xie smiled slightly, only to see him close his eyes and put a hand on Cao Ying's shoulder:

"You help me back." As he spoke, he gently pushed Cao Ying's shoulder.

"......" Cao Ying was speechless, but according to what Li Xie said, she helped him slowly return to the entrance where the two had just entered.

After the man returned to the ground, Li Xie gestured his figure, aimed himself at the direction of the tunnel, and walked out step by step.

There is no wall on the ground than in the tunnel, whenever Li Xie wants to hit the wall or a rockery. The two of them would estimate the distance, and then cross the past without hesitation.

In this way, the two walked and stopped, it was a mountain and a wall, and when Li Xie stopped, he stopped in front of a big water tank.

"How can there be a copper tripod here?" Generally, this kind of thing is lucky, it is said that even if you want to put such a thing in the house, it should be placed in the room, but this thing is directly placed outside.

After a long period of wind and sun, the copper on it has changed color a little, and the strangest thing is that it is still filled with water. Li Xie felt strange, so he asked a subordinate who came with the two of them.

"This is what Madame bought, saying that it can suppress luck. It cost a lot of silver when I brought it back. "This copper tripod is nearly one and a half meters high and about one meter in diameter.

I am afraid that it looks like a thousand pounds, and it is really not something that normal people can move at will.

Li Xie took a closer look, and then vigorously peeled off the soil below the copper tripod. Only then did it be discovered that there was a large iron plate under this copper roof.

Something this big is not something that a normal person can move. If the export is here, this tripod will become a big problem.

Cao Ying and Li Xie have both been interviewed just now, and they can't be opened with the strength of the two of them. Not to mention ordinary people.

The reason why it was determined that the person who set the fire must be an ordinary person is because Li Xie guessed that the person who set the fire was most likely that Qian Ting.

Yixue and Yixue have been back and forth for many days, and Li Xie has also taken a look at this person who was said to be a perfect woman by Yixue from a distance. Although Li Xie has no cultivation now, he can be regarded as a semi-grandmaster-level figure by relying on Tai Chi. For this, Li Xie felt that his senses still wouldn't lie to him.

So either this big tripod has a mechanism, or someone helped move this tripod away.

There are now four corpses that have been cleaned up, if Yixue hadn't been rescued by Cao Ying. Then there should be five corpses to be cleaned up.

Yi Xue should have taken the place of a person, as for who this position belongs to, Li Xie is still unclear.

After carefully observing this tripod, Li Xie found something unusual - there is a little place under the big tripod that does not touch the ground.

Li Xie leaned down and took a closer look, and found that there seemed to be something pressing under the ding.

After removing the weeds covering the iron plate from the ground, you can clearly see that there is a very deep scratch on the thin iron plate.

The scratch was dragged backwards, Li Xie tried to drag it back, and found that it was very easy to drag this big ding.

With this power estimate, an adult can move this tripod.

After dragging Dading over here, Li Xie went around to the front again, and then saw that the iron plate was actually folded in half. When the big tripod is dragged away, the iron plate can be turned over.

Da Ding's feet were very short, and when he was dragged over here, he naturally blocked the crack. This is also the reason why Li Xie didn't find this crack just now.

After becoming more aware of how the arsonist had left, Li Xie returned to the burning courtyard again.

By this time, two or three servants had already arrived, and they had begun to examine the corpses.

"Is there a result?" The throats of the four corpses were all slintered, and it was already possible to determine whether they were killed first and then thrown into the fire to be burned or whether they died directly in the fire.

"The preliminary examination is already available, four bodies, two men and two women. Two of the bodies were burned alive, two were dead and then thrown into the fire, and these two bodies must have been dead for some time, because after the autopsy, there was still a smell coming out. It is initially suspected that the two people who were burned alive should be the head of the Ma Mansion and his wife or daughter. ”

The county magistrate bowed and then opened his mouth to explain, and after he finished speaking, Li Xie nodded.

"What's missing from Mafu? Have you found out? "Although Li Xie is not out of the gate, if there is a murder in this small county, there will definitely be news.

Recently, Yixue has been keen to talk about gossip, and if there is news, she will definitely say it at home. So after these two bodies died, they were thrown into the fire, and the corpses inside may also be from Mafu.

"No, it's just that the strange thing is that Dr. Hui, who was called before the fire, is missing."

"Is it possible that one of the people who burned to death was Dr. Hui?" Li Xie asked.

"It's unlikely, Master Ma is notoriously short in this county, and Mrs. Hui is tall and big, so she doesn't match in size, and in terms of the height of this corpse, there is no doubt that Master Ma should be."

When the county magistrate said this, he was unusually sure. Li Xie felt that it was not necessarily. If it were only in terms of its short size, the body that was burned would have been perfectly worthy of a child. At this time, it is too early to say that this short corpse is Master Ma.

There are tunnels that lead directly from here to another place. In the panic at that time, the person could leave calmly after exiting the exit. So it's almost certain that the person who set the fire has fled.

The time to dig that secret passage must not be short, and such a long time of careful planning, there should be no mistakes. And when that secret passage was excavated, the movement must be very large, and the time taken will definitely not be a few nights, such a long time, it is impossible for Master Ma to be the master of this place not to know.

Yixue returned to Mafu, and Li Xie didn't know why for the time being. But the sister-in-law followed Yixue to get medicine in the Huichun Hall, and the matter of giving birth to a child is a big deal, and it is unlikely that Yixue will be invited to the house as a guest halfway.

So it should be a coincidence, but Qian Ting seems to be deliberately approaching Yi Xue before, so Yi Xue has today's difficulty, which should have been arranged by Qian Ting a long time ago.

Li Xie has seen Qianting once, and she is very similar in height and body shape, if you add the burning of the fire, no one can distinguish between the two.

The people had already run away, and the scene of the crime was burned by the fire and left almost no traces. It is impossible to catch the murderer in a short period of time, and the only way now is to find clues through these few words of corpse.

However, it is estimated that the hope is also very slim, at least Li Xie does not hold out any hope.

However, the breakthrough is not impossible, and Li Xie is now almost certain that Qianting must still be alive. So as long as you find Qianting, everything seems to have only the answer.

"Please also ask the county magistrate to look for it and see if the money in this horse mansion is still there." Li Xie asked with a wit. As a woman, it is impossible for Qianting to take away all her property unconsciously.

So if the property is transferred, then Master Ma Ma must be involved.

Soon, the people who went to investigate returned:

"The silver in the silver treasury is still there, but all the silver tickets are gone. According to the person in charge of the treasury, Mrs. Ma had made a visit to the treasury this morning under the pretext of calling a doctor. "It seems that there is no breakthrough in this area either.

"Then the county order continues to investigate, and I won't interfere in this matter." After Li Xie said a word, they politely saluted each other, and then pulled Cao Ying away.

When the two returned home, Yi Xuejing came to her senses.

After Li Xie pulled his mother and interrogated him carefully, he confirmed his guess even more. But there is no other way, now I can only look for a needle in a haystack to find the traces of Qianting, hoping that I am lucky enough to find this person out of the vast sea of people.

When his mother encountered such an unwarranted disaster, Li Xie was also very angry. Two people were burned alive, and two more bodies appeared at the scene of the crime, although it is not known whether the killer killed them. But even if it wasn't for the lives of those two people who were burned alive, they could be recorded on the head of the murderer, and such evil deeds happened in front of him with his own eyes, and Li Xie couldn't sit idly by.

chatted with his mother for a while, and seeing that Yixue really didn't look like a frightened person, Li Xie went out to do his own thing with peace of mind.

In fact, Yixue was really not frightened in any way, and her memory still stuck in the moment before she fell asleep after drinking a cup of tea.

So what kind of raging fire, what kind of fire that died and was rescued, she didn't know at all, she didn't know at all, and she didn't have any consciousness, let alone any fright or not.

Cao Ying stayed at home to accompany Yixue, and Li Xie walked out of the house alone. After walking around the county, I found the mark of the secret guard in an ironsmith shop that sold farm tools.

Li Xie swaggered in and called the shopkeeper, who was obviously startled when he saw Li Xie.

Li Xie felt that the shopkeeper should know him, but after thinking about it, as a prince, it was natural for Li Zhanji to send someone to secretly protect him.

This shopkeeper is a secret guard, so it is natural for him to know himself.

Li Xie didn't say anything, and directly took out the imperial decree.

The shopkeeper originally wanted to say a few polite words, but Li Xie took out the imperial decree. That really startled him, and he quickly knelt down and shouted long live!

"How long has the shopkeeper been here?" Li Xie is not interested in knowing the name of the shopkeeper, in fact, it is also because he is in a bad mood now, and there is a fire burning in his chest, so naturally he will not want to be polite and hypocritical.

"Back to my lord, it's been five years!" Li Xie didn't tell him to get up, so the shopkeeper didn't dare to get up, and honestly knelt on the ground and answered.

"Five years is not a short time. Then you must know the Ma family in this small county! ”

"The villain knows." The secret guards are doing the work of getting information, although they don't dare to say that they have found out all about this small county, but they are still clear about the more famous people in this small county.

"Then the wife of the Ma family, Qianting, you should also know it."

"The villain knows."

"Well, I don't care what you do, I hope to see her appear in front of me in two days." This should be embarrassing. But Li Xie has no choice, now he just wants to breathe this out.

And Li Xie didn't say what punishment would be if he didn't see Qianting in two days. In fact, Li Xie really won't be punished.

"Yes! The villain promised that he would appear in front of the adults within two days. ”

Although the shopkeeper controls the intelligence network of this small county, he still doesn't know what happened in Mafu in such a short period of time. So when he heard that Li Xie wanted to see Qianting, the shopkeeper thought that he could go to Mafu tonight and tie people up.

It seemed that such things were still very simple, so he answered very simply.

Li Xie nodded: "I hope." ”

After Li Xie left the blacksmith shop, the shopkeeper wiped a cold sweat and stood up. While breathing a sigh of relief, he muttered in his heart:

"How did this man know about this place? After walking for a year, I got all the imperial decrees, and I really deserve to be a prince! ”

The fact that the shopkeeper of this blacksmith shop can be sent here shows that he is still very valued by the emperor. At the very least, he should be a very trustworthy person, otherwise with Li Zhanji's suspicious character, he would not let him protect his prince.

Since the matter was ordered by Li Xie, this shopkeeper did not dare to slack off. Immediately organized people and began to inquire about the news of Mafu. Thinking that I can bring people to Li Xie's face tonight.

But the information brought back by the people below made him break out in a cold sweat.

Madame Ma is dead?

Li Xie came to him after he came out of Ma Mansion?

Li Xie knows that Mrs. Ma is dead?

Yixue was taken to the mansion by the people of Mafu and was almost burned to death?

A lot of information was sent back.

The shopkeeper first broke out in a cold sweat, and then thought that Li Xie wanted to whip the corpse. But after hearing that all the corpses were burned to the ground on a black reef, it was impossible to recognize who was who.

The shopkeeper who engaged in intelligence had already guessed that Qianting should not be dead. After this incident, the shopkeeper, who often breathed a sigh of relief, touched a cold sweat and hurriedly ordered the people below to start looking for Qianting's traces.

Two days is not a long time, and it is still very difficult to find a person who has the intention to hide traces in the vast sea of people. At least in this day and age, it is very difficult.

One, there is no surveillance, and two, there is no destination. The shopkeeper can only start from the horse mansion and search out round and round. At the same time, he ordered someone to ask around with the portrait of Qianting, hoping to find some clues.

Although there is a saying that the emperor pays off, some things still depend on luck, not that hard work will have results. At least now, it seems that the luck of this shopkeeper is not very good, two whole days.

Not to mention that the shopkeeper has found someone, even if there are any clues, he has not found them. Therefore, the shopkeeper can only apologize with a bitter face.

Li Xie didn't blame him for this, because he knew that his request was indeed a bit difficult.

"Send someone to continue to look for it, even if it's three or five years, even if you turn over the East Wilderness Road, you have to find someone for me." According to psychology, everyone has a comfortable range of movement in their space, and it is easy not to exceed this range.

Qian Ting can plan a series of things, and she is very bold, but after all, she comes out of a small place, and no matter how bold she is, her range of activities can only be within one Dao, and will not rise to the whole country.

A person's courage and comfort are determined by his strength, which of course includes all aspects of finance, force, and so on.

Mafu seems to be relatively rich, and the storage of silver tickets should not be less. But if they can't get in and out, it is estimated that it will not be enough to support them for a long time. The reason why he said squandering is because he himself has a deep understanding that it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality! The clothes worn by Qian Ting were all silk and satin, and the jewelry she wore was all gold and silver jewelry. Qianting, who is used to living a rich life, will definitely not adapt to the poverty she has suddenly lived. So even during the escape, she will definitely not wronged herself.

Of course, she might start over in a place where no one knows her. But as long as the guards are careful enough, they will definitely find something.

"Yes!" Li Xie seems to be determined to find Qianting. Even if he knew that this would consume a lot of manpower and material resources, Li Xie's identity was so special, and he was holding something like the imperial decree in his hand, the shopkeeper really didn't dare to refute it, so he could only agree obediently.

There are so many doubts about this case, but it was only less than ten days before the county order announced the closure. Of course, he couldn't have been lucky enough to find the killer so quickly.

In fact, not to mention finding the murderer, there is not even a murderer in the case he has closed. A fire the size of Mafu burned down three houses. Two of them were burned alive, and two bodies of unknown origin were burned in them. The cause turned out to be just a family member accidentally overturning an oil lamp.

Li Xie showed the imperial decree in front of the county order, and he also expressed the importance of this case, how dare the county order do such a thing?