Although Su Xingfang pounced on him and let out a loud cry, it seemed that nothing was touched, but Sun Shaozong still cautiously stayed in the distance, and only after more officials arrived, did he return to the alley.

At this time, the six officials who were hit by the arrows were all black and whimpering - those arrows were obviously coated with poison!

Chen Jingde was afraid of it from then on, so he relied on the support of others to not sit on the ground.

There is no need for a meat shield now, Sun Shaozong naturally didn't bother to care about him, and asked for an iron ruler from a catcher, and then stuck to the root of the wall and came to the place where the poisoned arrow was shot.

When I looked closer, I found that I didn't know how many holes had been dug out of the earthen wall, but because it was located in the depths of the alley, and the wall was mottled, I didn't get close to the front, and I couldn't find those holes at all.

Sun Shaozong tried to poke it with an iron ruler, but he couldn't get into the hole, so he ordered instead: "Come a few people, go over the wall and take a look, and see what kind of mechanism is arranged inside!" ”

Seeing the corpses in this place, several nearby officials looked a little cringe.

"I'm coming!"

At this time, I saw Huang Bin come out of the crowd, neatly rolled up the sleeves of his robe, first followed the open door, climbed up the battlement, and then climbed over the earthen wall from the battlement.

"Your Excellency!"

That is, as soon as he landed on the ground, I heard him exclaim behind the wall: "There are a lot of crossbows behind here!" ”

Hand crossbows?

Hearing that he was safe and sound, several more servants climbed over the wall, and after a short time reported that behind the wall was also a desolate courtyard, and that there was no mechanism in sight other than these crossbows.

Hearing is false, seeing is believing, Sun Shaozong was about to turn over and take a look-the detour was too far--Su Xingfang came over with tears in his eyes.

"Master Sun."

I saw him arch his hands and said in a dumb voice: "Su wanted to see your demeanor, but he never thought that he would kill his uncle." ”

Speaking of this, he shook his head slightly, and his face became more and more bitter: "My mother only has this younger brother, and now she has suffered an accident, and she doesn't know what to be sad about - Su really has no intention of caring about it now, let alone investigating any case, so he can only say goodbye first." ”

Listening to his choked words, Sun Shaozong was also quite reluctant to go-people were kind enough to help, but they folded his uncle in.

I had the heart to comfort a few words, and it was light and weightless, and in the end I had to give a deep salute and solemnly promised: "Brother Su, rest assured, Sun will find out the real murderer, and respect your uncle for justice!" ”

After that, he personally sent Su Xingfang to the sedan chair, and then returned to the depths of the alley and neatly climbed over the earthen wall.

Sure enough, as Huang Bin said, there was a wall full of hand crossbows behind the earthen wall, and it was also a hand crossbow with three arrows.

On the premise of trying not to damage the scene, Sun Shaozong carefully took one to check and found that the structure of this thing was very exquisite, but the workmanship could only be said to be unsatisfactory.

According to the inference, the effective range of this thing is about twenty paces, and if three crossbow arrows are loaded at the same time, the range will be further reduced, and the accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

This should be a small workshop thing, compared to the same specification of the crossbow equipped by the military, the quality is several grades worse, but in some special cases - such as Fang Cai - the power is still considerable.

The murderer even smeared poison on it, which was obviously to put Sun Shaozong to death!

What's more......

Not only is it cheap, but it can't be made in batches in just a day or two—at least not in a shoddy small workshop.

In this way, the inference of the beggar's revenge seems to be untenable.

Even if the beggars had the financial resources, it was unlikely that they would have prepared so many contraband in advance—you must know that such a quantity would be enough to be punished for rebellion!

But since it wasn't a beggar for revenge, who killed Daoyan's master and apprentice?

What would be his purpose in killing Dao Yan's master and apprentice?

Sun Shaozong looked at the crossbow repeatedly, and couldn't stop deducing it in his heart, but he never got the point.

At present, it is known that he has had a festival with Daoyan's master and apprentice, and has the ability to arrange so many crossbows, I am afraid that there is only one person who is loyal to the king.

But the problem is that the king of Zhongshun has already stabbed this matter in front of the emperor, and there is no need to use such means at all......

That's it.

Let's take a look at the scene first, and see if there are any traces left.

Thinking like this, Sun Shaozong began to check the situation of those crossbows one by one.

At this time, Huang Bin came up again, pointed to one of them and said, "My lord, you can take a look at this hand crossbow first." ”

Sun Shaozong followed his instructions and looked, but saw that there was still a hand crossbow that had not been successfully activated on the many empty hand crossbows.

Judging by the location of the visit, this should not have been deliberately missed by the murderer, but because the mechanism was flawed, so it was not successfully triggered.

Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong immediately approached, and took a closer look at the bracket of each hand crossbow, and sure enough, he found some subtle traces of wear.

This is supposed to be something that was put on it, and when it was triggered, it pulled hard, causing the crossbow bolt to be fired, leaving a trail.

Wait a minute!

If that's the case, someone must have triggered the trap on their own initiative!

Could it be ......

"In the villain's opinion, that thief may be hiding behind this earthen wall, otherwise how can he trigger the mechanism in time?"

This Huang Bin's thoughts coincide with Sun Shaozong.

But......

Is it really that simple?

Sun Shaozong remained silent, checked all those crossbows again, and then commanded in a loud voice: "Deputy Chen Si, you learn from Su Zhixian's uncle, where he was standing at that time, try to say a few words to this alley." ”

Chen Jingde listened to his instructions, although he was still a little weak, but he had to tremble, and came to the place where the middle-aged official sank the corpse, and learned from his appearance, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the place ......."

"Louder!"

"Ladies and gentlemen......"

"Louder!"

"My lords, this is the place!"

In the end, Chen Jingde almost shouted at the top of his voice, and finally heard the truth on the side of the earthen wall.

"This ......"

Huang Bin was puzzled: "When the villain passed the word, it didn't seem to be so difficult. ”

"That's because you're talking to a wall with holes, and he's talking with his back to the wall, and there's a considerable distance away - if the murderer is really hiding behind the wall, it's not hard to hear the tempting person talking, but it's not so easy to hear what the other person is saying."

"And ......"

Sun Shaozong pointed to the hole in the wall, if he really wanted to hide behind the wall and commit murder, he should at least have a hole in the air, so that he could peek out, right?

"What do you mean, my lord?"

"The person who triggers the mechanism is not inside the wall, but outside the wall—that is, in that alley or that yard!"

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