Whether it is Yan Tian or Shen Gui, or even Gu Zhifu and Mrs. Huang, they are all suspicious of this Liniang who has disappeared from the world. Master Gu was originally an elegant person, and he was concerned about chaos before, so he didn't think of the contradiction between the eight thousand taels of official silver for repairing the city defense and a priceless guqin. The mysteries in front of him at the moment made Master Gu sober up again: yes, not to mention how she transported the eight thousand taels of silver unknowingly, just saying that she left this guqin is far more than eight thousand taels, and the motives that she thought of are not valid at all!

After Shen Gui and the Furnace Hook returned to Jincheng and the beggar gang split the rudder, the young beggar brought him a shocking news: a disciple of the beggar gang found the body of a woman in black on a hill twenty miles west of the city. Although the disciple didn't move the body, it might be the Li Niang they were looking for.

The location where the body was found is indeed very intriguing: Li Niang died twenty miles away from the west gate of Jincheng, which means that she only needs to walk ten miles further to come to the Flying Bear Army camp under Yan Chongwu.

Shen Gui hurriedly took a bath, and didn't care about the residual acid and rotten dead gas on his body, so he quickly changed into the ordinary clothes that the furnace hook had just bought from the black market, and rushed to the scene of the incident with the two Wumen beggar brothers.

This is located in the west of the city twenty miles of a small hill, the mountain is not high or steep, and now the cold air left in early spring has gone for the most part, and the grass and flowers in the forest have begun to sprout and sprout, although it is far from being lush and green, but it has already presented a vibrant early spring scene.

Shen Gui and the three of them were guided by a middle-aged beggar disciple at the foot of the mountain, and they came to a corpse at the top of the mountain with ease.

The corpse was dressed in a night suit, very slender in appearance, lying face down in a prone position, legs stretched straight and stiff, arms hanging naturally at the sides; The fists were clenched very tightly, but the bloody right hand was missing three fingers, leaving only the thumb and little finger clasped in the palm of the hand.

Since the middle-aged beggar who led the way had little experience, the scene was already covered with footprints, and most of them were stepped on by the soles of the two left feet. Undoubtedly, it is the masterpiece that this guide in two left-footed straw sandals stepped on.

Shen Gui carefully distinguished, but did not find any valuable clues. So he supported his shoulders with one hand and his waist with the other, and gently turned the corpse around......

When everyone present saw the corpse clearly, they all gasped in unison. This should have been a graceful and beautiful Guangling thin horse-Li Niang, at this time, her positive appearance was already unrecognizable!

The corpse's night clothes were very neat, and although it was stained with some dirt from the mountains, it could be seen that there were no signs of indecent insults; Although the body has been relieved from the corpse stiffness, thanks to the cold of the remaining winter in the northern spring, it has not yet begun to fester, and there is no strong corpse odor from ordinary corpses; Combined with the lower temperature on the mountain, it can be preliminarily inferred that the time of Liniang's death was about three to four days ago, which is basically correct with the time said by Gu Ziyu, the bitter master. In other words, not long after Li Niang escaped from the Jincheng Mansion, she was killed.

The fatal wound that led to Liniang's death was a huge laceration on the front chest from right to left; The wound was cut from the right armpit to the left armpit, and the flesh of the belt, including the thoracic vertebrae and ribs, was severed. Shen Gui looked at this wound and understood: the person who killed Li Niang must be a left-handed man who is like himself and uses his left hand; The edge of the wound is narrow in front and wide in the back, so it seems that the murder weapon should be caused by a thick-backed sharp weapon such as a knife or a single-edged sword.

And what frightened everyone was not the huge wound on Liniang's chest, but her fair and delicate face, at this time, the entire jaw was already hanging down on the chest, and it was all connected to the flesh of the neck, so that it was not separated from the corpse! Yes, today's Liniang has a pair of godless eyes, and only half of her mouth is left to "open" widely. After being turned over by Shen Gui, he kept staring at the two gray and cloudy eyes, looking at the sky blankly, as if he was complaining to the sky with the only big mouth he had left!

While Shen Gui carefully looked at Li Niang's corpse, the three beggars who were startled by Li Niang's death hurriedly turned around and began to find something "within their power" in order to distract themselves. In fact, these three beggars are also from the rivers and lakes, and they see a lot of corpses on weekdays, whether it is a river drifter who is prostrated by men and women in the water, or a "dirty and lying down" who died of hunger and plague (the plague dies of dirty, and the one who dies of freezing and starvation is net), they are all too familiar to them. As far as Shen Gui mixed into the black market, he was a kind of beggar who specialized in eating dead people's food. It can also be said that in addition to being a doctor, the one who is least afraid of dead bodies should be beggars!

But the body of Liniang in front of her has not yet decomposed, and it seems to be the same as ordinary people, but the wound is too terrifying, which will make the three beggars feel a strong sense of discomfort.

The young helmsman turned and walked to the edge of the cliff, and looked around at the scenery; And the hearth hook and the middle-aged beggar who led the way also turned around to find out if there was anything left by the murderer on the mountain.

"Okay, that's pretty much it."

Shen Gui stood up, grabbed a handful of dirt from the ground at random, wiped his hands full of blood, and then walked to the young helmsman in front of the cliff.

"Get out! Don't touch me with your dirty hands! ”

As soon as the young helmsman heard Shen Gui's voice getting closer and closer to him, he hurriedly moved his body, and his frightened look almost made him roll down the mountain by himself.

"Isn't it just a little blood? What's there to be afraid of? Besides, what room do you have for your rag head to get dirty? You've been looking at it for so long, what have you discovered? Tell me about it? ”

The young man pointed to the lively Flying Bear Barracks in the distance, and said with some uneasiness:

"The mountain we are standing on now, although the mountain is not high, it can also have a clear view of the camp set up by the Flying Bear Army. Do you think this Liniang was killed when she was observing the Flying Bear Barracks, or was she killed before moving here? ”

Shen Gui followed the direction of his finger and looked at the extremely regular Flying Bear Army battalion at his feet and nodded again and again. Judging from the camp he set up alone, Yan Chongwu and his people are definitely not a reckless person who only knows how to fight on the battlefield: the front of this camp is an open area, and the line of sight is unobstructed; The rear of the camp is backed by a river, which is convenient for daily water and cooking; There are also three simple turrets in the camp, and two sentries with longbows loom above each turret; The barracks are at an equal distance from each other, which can not only accommodate the passage of war horses and vehicles, but also prevent the enemy from burning the company camp.

Shen Gui groaned for a long time, and suddenly burst out laughing:

"Wouldn't it be better for us to ask him directly about this question?"

With that, he beckoned to the pretending busy hearth hook:

"Do you see the big camp down there? You go and call their commander Yan Chongwu here, and say that a friend surnamed Shen has invited him to come to the mountain for tea. ”

The furnace hook took Shen Gui's silver and walked down the mountain happily. Before the time of half a pillar of incense, Shen Gui saw this tall and thin beggar dressed in rags, who was shot by an arrow from the sentry on the corner tower in front of his feet, and did not dare to move half a step.

Yan Chongwu, who was in the tent, was also worried about a letter at this time. This is in the morning, from the Fengjing city Pegasus came a royal pen operation in the Jincheng camp. Emperor Xuande Yan Hunt said in his handwriting that he would no longer have the slightest compromise with Beiyan. Therefore, no matter what moves he made in the face of Beiyan, Yan Chongwu could not take weak measures that "humiliated the national character". His Majesty also said that he had fought hard to get the batch of grain and grass from Li Deng, so he hoped that Yan Chongwu would finally be able to take the East Customs in one go, so as to repay the high hopes of his father.

In addition to a letter, Yan Hunt also sent a sword of the Son of Heaven. This means that he has handed over all the command of this battle to Yan Chongwu. Advance and retreat, offense and defense, all depend on his words. In addition to wanting to show his absolute trust in Yan Chongwu, Yan Hunt also has another meaning:

It's up to you to fight this battle, but I only need to win this one result!

In this way, Yan Chongwu's dream of "peacefully settling disputes" was completely shattered.

Just when Yan Chongwu had a headache, a junior colonel came in outside the handsome tent.

"Yu Dashuai, there is a man outside the door, who keeps saying that he wants to invite Dashuai to the meeting for tea!"

When Yan Chongwu, who had just sent away the imperial envoy, he thought it was the second holy decree coming, so he hurriedly closed the imperial letter and sat down, and said solemnly:

"Who is here to invite Ben Shuai?"

"A beggar!"

Yan Chongwu wanted to curse when he heard it, but after thinking about it, he sighed, waved his hand and looked down at the map:

"Go, go, beat it and throw it into the manure pit in the west of the camp. A person who asks for food also came to invite Ben Shuai to drink tea, it seems that Lao Tzu is really handsome! ”

"Marshal, according to the beggar, he was entrusted by a friend of yours from Fengjing City, surnamed Shen, to come to the camp to invite him.

"Are you bothered? How can I have a beggar friend surnamed Shen in the capital...... Oh! I understand, that kid didn't stay well in the capital, why did he come to Jincheng? Well, anyway, I'll just ask him myself. ”

Yan Chongwu stood up as he spoke, picked up the sword of the Son of Heaven on the table with his right hand and straddled his waist, and walked around the handsome case wearing only a civilian suit:

"Let's go, take me to meet this Hanako!"

"Marshal, do you want to call your guard battalion?"

Yan Chongwu shook his head when he heard this:

"No need, the people I'm going to meet aren't good friends, but they're not enemies. Moreover, his martial arts are ordinary, and he has long been known in Fengjing City, so in my opinion, there will be no danger. ”

Although Yan Chongwu and Shen Gui have never had anything to do with each other, they can still be said to have a little to do with each other.

Yes, Yan Chongwu, the commander of the Flying Tiger Army, is Li Deng's optimistic first son-in-law candidate, and he and Shen Gui can be regarded as rivals in love.

When the stove hook with trembling legs outside the camp saw Yan Chongwu, who was as strong as a black bear, really appeared in front of him, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

"With one sentence of his own, he can single-handedly transfer a handsome man with a heavy army out of the camp, and when he sees the recent Huazi on the third road in Youbei, he is really a good man in the market!"