There is a place outside the north gate of Guangzhou City, called Baihua Bridge; There is a place not far from the bridge, which was originally the cemetery of a large family, with a large area, one side is a mound, and one side is a tomb at the sunrise under the slope of the pond. When this family was still prosperous, many paper flowers and paper money were enshrined here all day long, and the name of Baihuaqiao also came from this.

Later, the family fell into ruin, and the cemetery was reduced to a righteous village where coffins were parked. The houses have collapsed, the weeds have become barren, and they have long since ceased to be the way they were. In addition, it is surrounded by righteous graves, and it is close to the human field, except for a few beggars who rest in Yizhuang on weekdays, this place has become a sparsely populated place; After Yun Xi's "Prohibiting Beggars and Wandering People" reached Guangzhou, it became even more deserted.

At this time, in the small house where the coffin was parked, an old man with goosebumps was discussing countermeasures with a hooded man whose face could not be seen clearly.

The man's voice was very panicked and said, "Master Wude, the news just came that just half an hour ago, the guards of the Ming Kingdom surrounded the Gao family's mansion, and Gao Jingde has been discovered. ”

"Gao Jingde is different from us, his whole family is in Guangzhou, after being arrested, in order to suffer less, or even just so that a child can survive to continue the incense of the Gao family, everything will be offered, so you can't continue to stay here, you have to go to other places immediately."

"Gao Jingde was discovered? How was he discovered? Master Oud was calm when he heard his words, and after being slightly surprised, he knew that there was no time to delay, and immediately began to collect his belongings in his hands, and asked.

"He has too many traces of his work, and he may have been reported to their emperor by the Ming Dynasty's Jinyi Wei in Guangzhou, or other people who found out about it." The hooded man said.

"He can't live even if he summons any decree from the Ming Kingdom, why do you think he will confess immediately? Even if he can't bear the punishment and confesses, it is impossible for him to confess everything in such a short time. Master Oud asked again.

"Master Wude, this is the first time you have come to the Ming Kingdom, and you don't know the customs of the Ming people. The Ming people, unlike us, have no faith. You see that they believe in Buddhism and Taoism, but they believe in these things for the sake of benefit, and they believe in them because they think that these gods and Buddhas can bless them, and once they find out that the gods and Buddhas cannot bless them, they will immediately stop believing in gods and Buddhas. ”

"The most important thing for them is to continue the descendants, in the case that their own lives can no longer be saved, they are willing to do anything in order to continue the descendants, as long as the people who interrogated them in the Ming Kingdom promise to spare one of his sons, they will confess anything."

"I thought they were just infidels, but I didn't think they even believed in their own gods and Buddhas."

"But this won't be an obstacle in the first place, as long as I can successfully kill the emperor of the Ming Kingdom." Wizard Oude said with some discouragement: "My head-lowering technique has been broken, and I don't dare to send it out again in order to prevent the traces from being discovered, and I can't do it again, and there are capable people in the Ming Kingdom!" This Taoist priest named Zhang Sanfeng can have such a big name, and he really has some ability. However, this spell is not my best spell, and if I have the chance, I really want to compete with him with his best spell to see who is more powerful. ”

"Wizard Oud, stop talking about this, hurry up and leave." The hooded man said.

"It's almost there." Wizard Oud replied. But at this moment, his expression suddenly changed, and he said with a sneer: "There are people who shouldn't have come, and we can't leave." ”

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"Bell, bell, bell" rang a bell. The sound of the bell is very pleasant, and it still sounds very good in the open field.

But the hearts of all who heard the bell sank to the bottom.

Song Liang was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said loudly: "Surround this place immediately, you must not get away with a person!" Then he shouted to the people not far from him, "You people rush in with me!" ”

The people he ordered secretly complained: Now he has to risk his life. But they didn't dare to disobey Song Liang's orders, so they could only sort out the things they were wearing again, and follow Song Liang to rush to the courtyard; Seeing this, Song Qingshu said a few words to the people beside him, and also led them into the courtyard from another direction.

The moment Gao Jingde shouted that he wanted to confess to the others, Song Liang understood why he did this. Participating in the witch Gu case is full of crimes, almost like complicity, and his family was found on the spot, and there is no room for exclamation, in order to survive, even if it is just to let himself have an underage child to be pardoned, it is very good, and he will definitely let him confess whatever he wants.

And it happened that Song Liang wanted Yun Xi to see his talent, so he ordered the soldiers not to take Gao Jingde away for the time being, and chose a place in the Gao family's mansion to interrogate Gao Jingde in person.

But Song Qingshu persuaded: "Brother Jinming, Your Majesty just asked us to come to inspect the Gao family, but did not let us come to interrogate Gao Jingde, nor did we arrest other criminals, we still handed over the criminals to the Guangzhou Police Department or the Guangdong Provincial Prosecutor's Office, and went back to report to Your Majesty." ”

Of course, Song Qingshu understood what Song Liang was thinking, but Yun Xi did not let them interrogate the Gao family's people by the way after getting evidence of the Gao family's involvement in the two major cases, let alone let them arrest other criminals, so it was better for them not to overstep their authority.

But Song Liang insisted on interrogating Gao Jingde. How could he usually have such an opportunity to handle such a case? His Majesty does not leave the capital very often, let alone often delegate him to do anything, and this may be his only opportunity before he is thirty years old, and he must grasp it tightly. Song Qingshu couldn't stop it, so he could only go.

Gao Jingde confessed: "Sinners began to look for 'big medicine' everywhere more than ten years ago to prolong their lives,......。 Five years ago, the criminals went to Dongguan County to meet the head of the Zhao family there, and somehow when they were searching for the 'big medicine', they 'stumbled' into a Taoist priest who claimed to be the Taoist name Jin Rong. ……。 In August of this year, the mage known as Wude came to my Gao house under the introduction of the Taoist priest Jin Rong. At that time, the steens were still very happy, because judging from the few techniques he revealed at that time, his ability was above Jin Rong, and he thought that there was another person who could combine great medicine for the sinners. ”

"But after he combined the 'big medicine' for the criminals several times, he suddenly took out the evidence of these 'big medicines' and coerced the criminals to do things for them, and if they didn't comply, he would send these evidences to the various yamen of the imperial court, so that the high families of the criminals would not die well. The sinners panicked at that time, and in order not to be executed by Ling Chi, they agreed. ”

"He was going to do the work of harvesting and cutting in Guangzhou, and asked the criminals to summon the local people in Guangdong who were doing this 'business' to come to Guangzhou. The sinners had no choice but to call Ning Cai, who had known him before, at a high price, and asked him to gather a few people to come to Guangzhou to harvest and cut. ”

"But Ning Cai didn't confess to you, why is that?" Song Liang suddenly asked. Ning Cai's confession yesterday did not mention that the person who sent someone to find him was Gao Jingde, but only mentioned Wizard Wude.

"My lord, although the sinner once bought the 'great medicine' from him, he did not know the identity of the sinner, only that he was the one who bought the 'great medicine'. People like them don't care about the identity of the person who buys the medicine, as long as they can do business in a safe place, they don't ask who bought it. Gao Jingde said.

Song Liang nodded when he heard this, and motioned for him to continue.

"Then it was reported that His Majesty was coming to Guangzhou, and the sinners immediately told this Oude wizard to stop harvesting and cutting in the city of Guangzhou and go to other places. But he just sneered and insisted on doing the work of harvesting and cutting in the area of Guangzhou City. ”

"At that time, the sinners had already sensed that something was wrong: although they didn't know why, the wizard known as Oud was probably going to be against His Majesty! But when the time comes, there is no room for the sinners to retreat; Besides, the sinners still had the luxury of hoping that they would not be discovered, so they continued to do it. ”

A few days later, not long after His Majesty had come to Canton, another man who called himself Su Dongli found the sinners and said to have brought something to tell the Wizard Oud. He seems to be behind this matter, and the Wizard Oud was very respectful when he saw him, and I don't know what the two of them said, and then the Wizard Oud began to arrange the formation to the detriment of His Majesty. He and Su Dongli also went out from time to time to take a look around Guangzhou City, but they didn't know what they were investigating. ”

"After that, Ning Cai and others, who were engaged in the matter of harvesting and cutting, were found and arrested. After this incident, the Wizard Oud immediately arranged the formation faster and wanted to murder His Majesty. ”

"The next thing is that His Majesty was cursed by him, but His Majesty Jiren has his own natural appearance and was rescued by Zhang Zhenren of the Wudang Sect. When the sinners learned of this, they were very worried in their hearts, and once wanted to turn themselves in so that my family would not be destroyed; But just when the criminals hesitated, Lord Song came to my Gao's house with soldiers and found these evidences. ”

Of course, Song Liang automatically filtered the words that Gao Jingde exonerated himself, and thought while listening; When he heard the name Su Dongli, he suddenly felt a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard this name, so he put it down for the time being, and asked after Gao Jingde finished speaking: "Where do you know the Wizard Wude and the person named Jin Rong, and the person named Su Dongli now?" Where exactly do they come from? Why did you murder Your Majesty? ”

"Lord Song, Wizard Wude and Jin Rong claimed to be from the country of Majapahit, and their faces were similar to those of the people of Daming, so they would not be recognized as outsiders in Daming. The sinners don't know how old they are, but the Oud wizard has goosebumps and looks to be over fifty years old; That Jin Rong looked about forty years old. ”

"The two of them claimed that they were very dissatisfied with the Ming Dynasty because they had attacked the Majapahit Kingdom a few years ago, so they wanted to murder Your Majesty."

"That Jin Rong had left Daming a few days ago and returned to his country, but the Ud Wizard was still in Daming, and was placed outside the Great North Gate in the north of the city by the criminals. Five years ago, the sentencing bought a piece of land outside the Great North Gate as the cemetery of the sinner's family, and went to the scene to investigate, knowing that the place was very desolate, full of tombs and villages, and even beggars did not want to stay longer on weekdays, so the sinner placed the Oud Wizard there. ”

"Su Dongli also claimed to be from the country of Majapahit, and the reason for murdering His Majesty was the same as that of Wizard Oude and others. The sinners did not know where he lived. This person's whereabouts are secretive, and the criminals have sent people to keep an eye on him several times, but he has lost it. ”

"If we have something to do, we will meet somewhere outside the Great North Gate. No one came to that place on weekdays, and it was very quiet and did not leak news; It is well known that the sinners once bought a piece of land there and moved the tombs of their ancestors, and even if the sinners went there, it would not arouse suspicion. Gao Jingde said again.

"Majapahit? Not Annan? Song Liang was very surprised. He had always guessed that it was the Annan people who were planning this behind the scenes, but he didn't expect that it was the people of the Majapahit Kingdom who were behind the scenes.

However, he immediately remembered that Zhang Sanfeng had said that most of the people who had cursed the emperor were from islands in the South Seas, and felt that perhaps they were not completely telling the truth: they were actually from Annam, but they lied that they were from the kingdom of Majapahit.

He then stopped paying attention to their nationality and decided to catch the Oud Wizard first. After asking where Wizard Oude was located, and after asking some things about Wizard Oude and Su Dongli, he ordered someone to send Gao Jingde to the Guangzhou Police Department, and he himself wanted to take people to arrest Wizard Naud.

Song Qingshu immediately persuaded again: "Brother Jinming, Your Majesty did not order us to arrest other criminals. Brother Jinming just interrogated Gao Jingde, and His Majesty didn't care; But if the elder brother disobeys His Majesty's order to arrest the criminal without authorization, if he catches it, it is fine, if he alarms the criminal and has not been caught, then His Majesty is afraid that he will blame the elder brother, and Brother Jin Ming still thinks twice. ”

Song Liang listened to his words and hesitated. Song Qingshu's words are very reasonable, and he just interrogates and interrogates them, but if he arrests people without authorization, it is not a good thing for him to make people run away.

After thinking about it for a while, he was about to tell Dadao to go back to his house and report to Yun Xi.

But at this moment, there was a sudden commotion from outside the courtyard, and not long after, a man wearing a six-rank official uniform walked in.

As soon as Song Liang saw him, he was very surprised and asked, "Qian Tongju, how did you come here?" ”

"Song guards, Your Majesty has instructed the lower officials to lead the police of Guangzhou Mansion to come to Gaofu, if the Gao family is indeed the culprit of the two major cases, let the lower officials interrogate Gao Jingde on the spot, and immediately lead the police and the soldiers of the guard to arrest the criminals after asking where the rest of the criminals are." Qian Minglin said. After Song Liang took the people away, Yun Xi was worried that the Gao family was being copied and inspected so that the other prisoners would find out about it and run to other places, even if he asked where the other prisoners were, it would be useless, so he sent someone to Qian Minglin and asked him to bring the police over to interrogate on the spot and send people to arrest the other criminals on the spot.