The river is mighty and rushes to the east.

For many wealthy families in Lin'an City, the more concentrated and busy thing in recent times is the funeral.

The Tang Gate of the Xia Yuan Festival was in turmoil overnight, although it was suppressed in a short period of time by the prepared Imperial City Division and Lin'an Mansion, but in that little space, people who did not want to die could still cause great damage.

More than a dozen high gates were broken into, killed and set on fire, and many people died.

Among them, the former deputy envoy of the Yanjiang system and the new envoy of the Jinghu system Jia Rudao are the most serious.

On the night of Jiafu, the crowd happened to gather to light the lamp, and dozens of people in the family were happily in the courtyard together, watching the rare fireworks sent by Concubine Jia from the palace, just like a group of sheep gathered together, swallowed by the wolves that broke in.

Even Jia Zheng, the head of the Jia family, several sons and nephews who are in their prime and can be called the pillars of the family, more than a dozen family members, and more servants and maids, were slaughtered and killed, and the people who broke in couldn't tell who was who, and they would kill anyone if they caught it, anyway, as long as it was in this house, they wouldn't kill it.

In the bloody rain of swords and swords, Jia Rudao miraculously got out, although his arm was injured and bleeding a little, but after the doctor's examination, it was a skin injury, and he was finished with some medicine.

So he can now stand in front of a large number of spirit tablets without a flawless, and offer incense with a blue face.

Worship the three pillars and bow three times.

Then he withdrew, leaving a group of monks chanting sutras to spend their souls in the Buddha hall. Jia Rudao came to another courtyard separated by a wall, sat in the flower hall, and there were already a few people waiting inside, all of whom were guests of Jiafu, and when they saw him come in, they bowed down and said hello together.

There are several walls here from the courtyard where the murder occurred that night, and Jia Rudao has sent someone over there to carefully sprinkle and sweep with lime, and repaint the wall for decoration, after all, the place where so many people died, the yin qi is heavy.

Sitting in the flower hall, away from the suffocating sandalwood fragrance in the Buddhist hall, smelling the fragrance of the newly built fine tea leaves, Jia Rudao's gloomy face only slightly recovered a little normal, but if there is nothing, there is always a bloody breath rushing into the nose, Jia Rudao frowned and looked around, feeling that this house, I am afraid that it is not suitable for living anymore, should go out as soon as possible, and choose another good place to live.

"Let's talk about it." He picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Don't fool me with the words of the official, otherwise no one will get the money." ”

Several doormen glanced at each other, and a middle-aged man with a mustache smiled and flattered: "Then where can it be?" No one dares to bluff Lord Jia, such a big thing, it is said that it is going to kill someone. ”

"It's good to know." Jia Rudao put down the teacup.

The eight-character beard rolled his eyes and said in a low voice: "A few of us have been inquiring outside for a few days, asking the head catcher who led the team that night in Lin'an Mansion, and also asking the fast hand officials who do specific things below, and also eating and drinking with the familiar officials of the Imperial City Division, talking about it, and looking for countless ways to get some news." ”

He paused when he said this, and secretly glanced at Jia Nidao, thinking that Jia Nidao would say something, but found that the adult had a straight face and didn't say a word, so he had to continue to say it boringly.

"That night, Yousi did get the news in advance and made arrangements, otherwise he wouldn't have reacted so quickly, as soon as the thieves started, the soldiers in the city came out immediately."

However, although he was on guard, he underestimated the time for the thieves to cause trouble. I heard that the head catcher of Lin'an Mansion was drunk and said, in fact, they had a fine work mixed among the thieves, knowing that they were going to rebel and make a rebellion, which was originally set in the days after the Xia Yuan Festival, when the autumn grain from all over the country entered Beijing, and set a fire in the granaries everywhere, the impact was much greater than killing the nobles. ”

Jia Rudao snorted in his nose, touched his head with a figure-eight beard, and corrected him a little uncomfortably: "This, killing the nobleman, the impact is greater and greater." ”

He continued: "But someone revealed the news to the thief, and the thief knew that the imperial court was prepared, so he immediately took action in advance, and took Lin'an Mansion and the Imperial City Division by surprise before he made this shocking bloody case." ”

The coldness on Jia Rudao's face became more and more intense, and when he finished talking nonsense, his face was already as cold as a block of ice, and even if the brightest sun outside shone in, it couldn't melt this hard expression.

"Who's the snitch? Did you make it clear? The words that came out of Jia Rudao's mouth seemed to be awe-inspiring and cold.

Bazihu couldn't help but shudder and shrunk his neck: "This, I don't know yet, there are also people in the Lin'an Mansion and the Imperial City Division, and they can't find out who leaked the news." ”

"These rice buckets!" Jia Rudao was furious, transformed from a cold iceberg to an erupting volcano in an instant, slapped the table, and stood up: "Liang Ruyuan and Wang Deqian, two bastards!" Incompetence and misdeeds! The officials just cut their officials, it's not enough at all! ”

"There are so many people in my family who died, such a big mess, the black gauze hats of the two of them, can they afford to pay for it? Yes~! ”

Several doormen were startled by the rage, and they all took a step back, silent, and didn't even dare to make a sound.

Jia Rudao hummed in his nose, walked back and forth in the house several times in a row, and finally stood up with a "snap" and fixed in front of the mustache.

He pointed his finger at the mustache's nose, and the spit almost splattered on the door of the mustache's head.

"Go, go and find out! It doesn't matter how much money you spend, as long as you can find out, whoever revealed the news to the chaotic party, I will reward you with a thousand gold! Jia Rudao roared, and his voice was like thunder: "No matter who it is, kill him!" Bring your head here, I'm going to use this person's head to sacrifice to my family! ”

"Yes, yes, understood, understood, let's go!" Several doormen were fartful and urinating, and the first time they saw Jia like a mad dog, they were so frightened that their legs became weak, and they bent over and slipped out.

Jia Rudao clenched his fists, sat down on the chair, took a few breaths, and slowly calmed down.

The excitement just now, the chaotic dance of the arm, involved the wound on the left shoulder, and there was a dull pain, which was injured by the opponent's long knife when he killed the last man in black on the night of the Xia Yuan Festival.

The wound hurts, and he remembers the events of that night, and remembers the knife in the hand of the man in black.

Thinking of the man in black's knife, he thought thoughtfully.

That kind of knife, not common, is a kind of blade is not long, the blade is very narrow close knife, in the Sichuan area, more common, and only the high-quality iron ore in the mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan, with the best blacksmith calcination technology, can create this kind of knife with a narrow blade, thin blade, but sharp and hard knife.

It seems that this kind of knife is called Tang Taidao, which is a style handed down from the Tang Dynasty. In the official army of the Great Song Dynasty, there was very little equipment.

In his memory, a spark exploded.

It seems that that night when I confronted Wang Kuichang, Sun Hong and others at the Ezhou Wharf, I saw this kind of knife among the other party's servants.

The sparks exploded and slowly rose.

Jia Rudao sat on the chair for a long time that day, as if he had been pondering, and no one knew what he was thinking.

(End of chapter)