Li Xuan woke up instantly, and hurriedly put on his clothes and got out of bed. King Ming only divided this place as his jurisdiction, and now the war has not ended, his general status is not stable, and the jurisdiction cannot have an accident, otherwise it will be unfavorable to him. Therefore, everything can only be done by oneself to stabilize the hearts of the people.

Li Xuan led a team of guards to the place where the accident occurred, the crowd was crowded, the performance troupe was so anxious that they didn't dare to move the child's body without authorization, so they could only form a circle to protect the scene.

"Get out of the way!" The officers and men in front opened the way and made way in the middle. Li Xuan strode forward, walked to the middle of the circle surrounded by the performance troupe, and first glanced at the deceased who was lying on the table in a prostrate position from a distance, it was actually a child!

"Who killed it?" Li Xuan glanced around the performance troupe with great majesty, and his eyes locked on a young man who couldn't stop trembling, it was the flying knife man.

The flying knife man stepped forward in fear, his face was pale, his mouth was fighting, and he said weakly: "Yes...... It's me. ”

"Take care of him." Li Xuan did not have a trace of emotion and hesitation, and ordered someone to keep an eye on him. Then he turned his head and approached the child slightly, but he did not directly examine the corpse, which was a kind of consciousness that had been cultivated since the years of fighting.

When the two sides are at war, there are often cases of fraudulent death, and once you are not careful, it is easy to fall into the enemy's trap and be caught off guard. Although this is their territory, they can't be very assured, and this place is not comparable to the battlefield, and they can pick up corpses with a spear, so they can only take a rough look from a distance.

This is a skinny child, dressed in tattered clothes and covered in mud, combined with the fact that there is no one in the crowd at the time of his death, Li Xuan guesses that he is a wandering orphan.

His face was pressed under him, and he couldn't see it, but he had a throwing knife stuck tightly in front of their temple, and the blood that flowed out of it coagulated down his cheeks, and it seemed that he had lost his vital signs for a long time, so he couldn't be pitied.

Li Xuan suddenly couldn't bear to look at it, and said angrily: "What a cruel method, he actually killed a child like this, and he deserved death!" Take the murderer down for me and torture him! ”

Li Xuan thought it was a vicious wounding case. I think it was the children who saw them perform to earn money, came up to beg, caused conflicts on both sides, and then died in the quarrels, pushing, and chaos. Therefore, regardless of the reason, the person must be detained first.

The officers and soldiers stepped forward to hold up the knife man, and the knife man panicked and struggled hard, "It's not me!" Not me! ”

The crowd of onlookers was in an uproar.

Seeing this, the performance troupe stopped the officers and soldiers and wanted to come forward to explain, but the officers and soldiers thought that they had the intention of resisting and drew their swords to threaten them.

"Carry the corpses back, and bring them all back!" Li Xuan ordered again, and there was a discussion in the crowd.

A boatman finally couldn't stand it anymore, stood forward, and shouted to the officers and soldiers who were detained: "Wait, sir, is this crime so hasty?"

The boatmen watched the crowd for a long time, and all eyes were watching here, and it was the child who had crashed into it and had an accident. If the general arrests people and does not ask the eyewitnesses what happened, he will be convicted, and where can he convince the public.

Some of the people took the lead, and the rest dared to echo the grievances, "Yes, we all watched, it's not his fault!" ”

Li Xuan was originally a new official, and he wanted to give everyone a first impression of pity for the civilians and severe punishment of the evil forces, but also to show his iron-faced selflessness and resolute attitude towards doing things.

Li Xuan beckoned the boatman at the beginning to come out, "Tell me what's going on." ”

The boatman told the matter as it was, and Li Xuan listened to it and felt a lot of emotion in his heart. This child, who was a lonely and helpless wanderer, did not know if he fled here because of the scourge of war, and saw the carving of the flying knife man, and he did not know how similar he was to the person in his impression, so he rushed forward to hug him tightly regardless of the danger, seeking comfort, but suffered this tragedy.

It is indeed not the flying knife man who is wrong, Li Xuan signaled to release the people of the performance troupe and compensate everyone, "Today's matter is that I am reckless, you can go." Everyone has also dispersed, and we will deal with it here. ”

"What about this kid?" The boatman couldn't bear to see him expose his corpse for a long time, and he was even more worried that this group of officers and soldiers would casually throw him into the wilderness, so they tried to find a good ending for him.

Li Xuan knew what the boatman was thinking, and this was also a good opportunity to save his image and establish his reputation, so he made a regretful appearance and replied: "You can rest assured, we are not unscrupulous generals, if one day unfortunately spills blood on the battlefield, I also hope that there will be good people to collect the corpses for us, so that we can return to our hometown." Thinking of this and that, I will first call the painter to paint the image, post it everywhere, look for his family, and then bury it properly. ”

The surrounding people were deeply moved when they heard this heartfelt truth. They saw that Li Xuan was not an unreasonable official, pitiful and weak, but he was a little anxious, so they tolerated and respected him a little.

Li Xuan captured everyone's emotions and wanted to make the scene of mercy for the innocent a little more sufficient, so he walked to the table in a deep sorrow and raised the child's head slightly. The child was about twelve or thirteen years old, his face was withered, and after half a day, the ice sculpture had melted most of it in his arms, and it was wet under him, reflecting his little face, pale and purple, and his lips were completely bloody, and he was ...... There's a hint of horror!

Either pathetic or horrible to be. Li Xuan's heart palpitated! At the same time, when he took a closer look, he suddenly felt that the wound on the child's temple seemed to be fake! A bad premonition hit his heart, Li Xuan instinctively wanted to retreat, but his right hand was bitten by something, and a heart in his chest kept hitting up and down, and he was dizzy.

Everyone was waiting for Li Xuan's follow-up, but seeing that he had not moved for a long time, and was wondering, there was a chilling scream, "Ahhh............h He's dead!

"Ahhh There was another scream, only this time from the crowd of onlookers, out of fear.

Two lives suddenly occurred in one night, and even ordinary people could detect the strangeness in it. The accompanying deputy guard was the first to react and stepped forward in defense, at this time the child who fell on the table suddenly opened his eyes, waved his hand, and the flying knife on his temple stabbed straight at the deputy guard, and the deputy guard swung the knife to block, and the flying knife fell to the ground.

"Catch him!" The deputy guard gave an order, and the soldiers gathered around, only to see that at this time, a centipede on Li Xuan's right hand rushed into the child's sleeve, and the child let out a burst of adulterous laughter, "Hahahahaha......" and then flew back into the crowd.

The child who suddenly came to life made the people riot again because of fear, and the deputy guard saw that something was wrong, but fortunately he kept his sanity awake and shouted, "Catch this group of acrobats!" The soldiers took up their positions, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

The sentries of the high-rise buildings saw the chaos here, knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly reported it, and it didn't take long for reinforcements to arrive. Even if the acrobats were skilled and courageous, they could not withstand the siege of this group of well-trained soldiers, and gradually lost their physical strength, so they could only fight and retreat.

However, the people had not yet evacuated, which made it difficult to arrest them, and these thieves kept retreating into the midst of the people to disturb their sight, and it didn't take long for a few to escape.

After a fight, there were casualties on both sides, and the people innocently suffered a few wounded, but they still caught many accomplices.

The people have long been frightened stupid, hiding here and there, the deputy guard has no time to appease them for the time being, his sword eyebrows are raised, he raises his sword with a heavy sword, and he lets go of his throat and orders, "Pass the order down, close the city!" ”

Then all the remaining masses were gathered together and examined them one by one. Walking up to the boatman who had just spoken, the boatman was already frightened by this change, and shrank back, not daring to look directly at the deputy guard. Seeing this, the deputy guard recalled that it was because of his words that Li Xuan was provoked to get close to the child, and then his anger and blood surged, and he pulled the boatman out, "This is also an accomplice, take it away!" ”

"No, sir, I'm not!" The boatman tried his best to argue, but no one would listen to him, and he was dragged down.

The rest of the boatmen were so frightened that they did not dare to come out, let alone say more, and watched as their companions were taken away.

In order to better find out where the thieves were hiding, he first detained the group of people to reduce the difficulty of the search.

Sheng Lingyun and Uncle Wu waited for a long time before they could come to the buyer, but they first heard the sound of officers and soldiers gathering outside the post station. "What's wrong?" Sheng Lingyun was startled, put down the teacup, and wanted to go out to check.

"Don't be impatient, it's none of our business, it's easy to get into trouble if you're nosy." Uncle Wu stopped Sheng Lingyun, this place is not as good as the world of rivers and lakes, but in the royal land, regardless of chivalry, loyalty and treachery, as long as he shows a little threat, he will be treated as a thief.

Sheng Lingyun restrained his curiosity, and no one came to inform them to be careful, which proved that the chaos had nothing to do with the post station, so he had to sit back again, "Why haven't you come yet?"

"Look at the scene outside, I'm afraid it's a delay on the road." Uncle Wu also has a worried face, he will never be late.

Silence returned to the outside, and it was a long time before the officers and soldiers knocked on their doors, "Forgive me, General Zhu asked me to tell you that you can only stay here for one night today." ”

Sheng Lingyun noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What's going on outside?"

"There are thieves caught outside, it is not safe for you to go out, and it will also cause us trouble, please stay here for one night with peace of mind, and you will be free tomorrow." After the officers and men finished speaking, they retreated, and all rooms received the same notice.

"Looks like I can't wait for today." Sheng Lingyun looked at Uncle Wu, as if he had something to say.

Uncle Wu smiled stiffly, "What does the young man want to say?"

"Uncle Wu, do you know the purpose of this batch of goods that Jiang Xiaotian asked you to send?"

"I don't know." Uncle Wu didn't hesitate at all, "We only care about delivery, and everything else has nothing to do with us." ”

"What about the silver-faced man, what is the purpose of intercepting the goods?" Sheng Lingyun was suspicious, he just wanted to test how much the Storm Gate was involved in this matter, and what kind of secret he was hiding here.

"I don't know, even if it's a secret transaction, I never ask the details." Uncle Wu's mouth was very tight, and the answers were fluent, and he couldn't find any place to delve into it.

"Can we go see Li Heng now?" Sheng Lingyun didn't ask any more, but he had some doubts about the secret that Uncle Wu shook out on the boat. In addition, the businessmen who met with them today will not be able to come as scheduled anyway, so it is better to go and find out other news.

Uncle Wu's plan was also disrupted by this sudden accident, so naturally he couldn't go to Li Heng, because they didn't actually have any business to discuss.

Only then did Uncle Wu show a little discomfort on his face, and hesitated: "Young man, this is not in line with the morality of doing business."

"It's time to finish talking!" Sheng Lingyun They have been waiting here for so long, can they still hand over ordinary delivery for a few hours!

Li Heng and the others were tired of waiting in the room for a long time, but it had always been Uncle Wu who came to them after they had negotiated business, but today Uncle Wu made it up without telling them in advance, causing them to dare not act without permission. And just now there was news that they had to stay here tonight, and Li Heng also had no idea. However, he also suddenly wondered, what kind of business was the storm gate usually doing? What secrets are still hidden in sea salt?