Chapter Seventy-Eight: Capture the Spies
Suddenly, the old woman stood up.
"What are you doing? On your knees! A villager immediately rushed over and tried to press her.
The old woman was super calm, quickly winked at Wei Shihao, turned to the villager and said, "I can't hold it back, I want to go to the thatched house." ”
The others didn't notice the old woman's eyes, but Wei Shihao did.
"If you can't hold it, hold it back for me!" Xiang Yong took a knife in his right hand and pressed it on the old woman's shoulder with his left hand.
"Stop! Why are you so fierce to the elderly? Aren't you going to a thatched house? You can't look down on an old man like a big man? Wei Shihao said, and beckoned to the old woman and the villager: "You two come here...... Go ahead, take the old man to the thatched house. ”
The walls of the restaurant are made of green bricks, and the floors are made of sturdy wooden planks, with a front building, a back building, and a large courtyard in the middle.
"Where are you going? The latrine is over here. When the villager saw the old woman walking towards the back building, he pointed to a row of small houses behind the banyan tree.
After the two walked towards the backyard, Wei Shihao and Xie Yingjun also followed.
"I'm used to going to the latr......ine on the second floor," the old woman laughed awkwardly.
At this moment, the soldiers who searched the rooms on each floor all went downstairs one after another, and reported to Wei Shihao and Xie Yingjun, saying, "Tell the two lords, the restaurant has been searched, and there is no one else. ”
When the old woman heard this, she was a little anxious, and gave Wei Shihao another look.
When he walked into the lobby, Wei Shihao knew that the big fish had not been caught yet, and the old woman gave him a look again and again, and there must be an article in it.
Wei Shihao turned to Xiang Yong, who was holding the old woman, and said, "Just do it according to the old man." Xie Dusi, let's go to the back building to check it out! ”
The soldiers have searched it all, what else is there to see?
Xie Yingjun didn't understand what he wanted to do, so he had to follow him up to the second floor of the back building.
The old woman went up to the second floor and turned left. When she passed the door of a warehouse, she gave Wei Shihao and Xie Yingjun a strange look, pointed into the house, and walked towards the thatched house located at the edge of the floor.
Wei Shihao smiled at the old woman and nodded, and then went into the warehouse to check.
At this time, Xie Yingjun and the villager Yong realized that the old woman's visit to the toilet was fake, and it was true to report to Wei Shihao.
The old woman usually does hygiene, once accidentally sent a secret room in the warehouse, and now the shopkeeper is obviously in the restaurant, but the officers and soldiers can't find him, so she believes that the shopkeeper must be hiding in the secret room, so she reported to Wei Shihao to atone for his crimes.
However, after Wei Shihao and Xie Yingjun entered the warehouse to search carefully, they did not publish any information.
Could it be that the old woman is playing tricks? No way? She didn't have the guts.
The two of them glanced at each other and continued their search.
Rice, soybeans, peanut oil, etc., which are neatly arranged, are stored in several rows of shelves. Looking around the four blue brick walls, there is indeed no suspicious place to hide people, could it be that there are other treasures hidden here?
When the old woman came back from the hut, she saw that the two of them were looking around in the warehouse, but they still couldn't find the mystery, so she shook her head vigorously.
At this time, the village warrior who guarded her was very polite to her, and said in a low voice: "Uncle, you can guide the maze!" Maybe our head will reward you with silver and let you go home!" ”
The old woman's eyes lit up, and now that the good man has done it to the end, and there may be a reward, why do it?
She hesitated for a moment, then tiptoed into the storeroom, pointed to a brick on the west wall, and spoke to Wei Shihao in a dumb voice.
Wei Shihao looked at it, the west wall was indeed a little wrong, it was added later, and judging from the old woman's mouth, what she said was the word "organ".
Following the position pointed by the old woman, Wei Shihao and Xie Yingjun both found that the surface of a blue brick about five feet above the ground was worn out to a little smooth, which may be the location of the organ that the old woman said, right?
Wei Shihao was about to open his mouth to verify, but the old woman had left in a hurry. She was worried that she would be known that it was the clues she provided to the officers and soldiers, and she would be settled by the autumn queen.
After Wei Shihao and Xie Yingjun looked at each other, they both pulled out the long swords hanging from their waists and walked over.
Wei Shihao pressed it lightly, this brick is very loose, and there is indeed a problem.
"Boom ......"
When Wei Shihao pushed in on time, the blue brick wall in front of the two suddenly opened like a door...... No, it's actually an elaborate secret door.
"Whoosh, whoosh!" Two ...... Before the secret door was fully opened, two throwing knives suddenly flew out of the room and stabbed them in the heart.
The speed and accuracy of the flying knife show that the person who released the knife is not an ordinary rat.
"Be careful!" Wei Shihao shouted, and since both of them were on guard, they blocked with their swords and slashed the flying knives to the ground.
"Haha...... Sure enough, it's good! The old man has been waiting here for a long time. ”
I saw an old man about sixty years old with black hair and long beard and a slightly thinner face, holding a long knife plate and sitting on a wooden stool facing the secret door.
Wei Shihao frowned slightly, and as he expected, this old man was the shopkeeper of the former Jingliu grain and oil store.
"Sure enough, it's you. When you see your uncle coming, don't you kneel? After Wei Shihao walked into the dark room, he threw his long sword to the right, and his movements were very chic.
"You, what are you pretending to be cool? Why don't you get caught soon? Xie Yingjun hated the traitor the most, and wanted to go up and pick the other party with a sword, but the flying knife just now made him feel that the other party was not an idle person, and seeing that Wei Shihao was not in a hurry, he didn't dare to attack rashly.
"Haha, if you want the old man to sit still, it depends on whether you two hairy children have that ability?" After the old man sneered again, he suddenly bounced up from the wooden bench and slashed at the two of them.
The light of the knife is like electricity, it is instantaneous, the dark room itself is not big, and ordinary people are afraid that their heads will fall to the ground before they have time to blink their eyes, but Wei Shihao and Xie Yingjun are not ordinary people, and they are not so easy to kill each other's knives.
"Zheng!" Wei Shihao took the lead and blocked the opponent's big knife.
"Good knife technique!" Wei Shihao praised.
"So-so! It's okay to slaughter the two of you. The old man said.
"What a so-so! Then today, I will teach your uncle. Wei Shihao said.
The two exchanged swords, Xie Yingjun wanted to hit the handle, but the dark room area was too small, and the speed of the two of them was like lightning, so he couldn't intervene at all.
After more than ten returns, the two still haven't decided the winner.
However, the old man's forehead was already soaked with beads of sweat, and he obviously underestimated Wei Shihao's strength.
At this time, the soldiers downstairs had heard the sound of the rear building, and more than a dozen soldiers armed with spears quickly arrived and surrounded the doors and windows of the warehouse.
"Boom!" Xie Yingjun rarely found a gap, and stabbed a sword at the old man's waist, the other party hurriedly dodged, and before he came back to his senses, he had already eaten Wei Shihao's heavy kick in the chest, and the wall that was not strong enough was knocked down by the old man's body with a big hole.
The old man fell to the ground, his chest tightened, and a mouthful of blood spurted out, and when he tried to struggle, several spears were already in his chest.
"No movement!"
The old man's face was painful and unwilling, he had few opponents in the rivers and lakes for decades, but he didn't expect to be planted in the hands of a teenage boy today.
Wei Shihao put his sword into the sheath and walked out of the dark room while fanning away the dust near the tip of his nose with his hand.
"So cunning, I almost slipped through the net."
"It's still the two masters of the two divisions, even if he gets into the wall, he will come out."
"Stand up for me, don't play dead here!"
The soldiers all chattered and mocked the old man on the ground, and some deliberately took the opportunity to pat the two Dusi on the back.
Wei Shihao said: "Escort me back to the barracks!" ”
This compartment has been victorious, and that compartment is still suing Wei Shihao for having no military discipline and mobilizing the army without authorization.
Shen Chuan went to Xie Zongbing's complaint and was blocked, and he was very unconvinced, thinking that the other party would bring ruin to Qingyuan Mansion sooner or later if he instigated the two young men to come. So, he rushed to the state official and sued Wei Shihao and Xie Yingjun.
Mobilizing troops without permission, is this worth it?
The state official was furious, and immediately rushed to the barracks with a few dignitaries to ask for the guilt.
As soon as they walked into the barracks, Shen Chuan was dumbfounded, Qin Zhenhui's department and other troops had all been drawn according to Wei Shihao's deployment before, why had they all returned to the barracks to practice in a blink of an eye, which one was this play?
"Deputy Chief Shen, what's going on?" The old man of the state official looked gloomy and asked, pointing to the soldiers who were training.
"This ...... I'm confused now too. I saw that several troops had already been deployed...... At that time, I also reported to Mr. Xie, but he didn't squeak. I think it's a big deal, so I'm going to tell you, the governor. Shen said.
While he was talking, Mr. Xie walked over with a smile.
"Mr. Xie, what the hell is going on? The deadline to solve the case has arrived, and I haven't had time before the two young people asked, this is good, and the whole thing about transferring troops without authorization? The governor asked angrily.
"Huh! The transfer of troops was approved by me and is not considered a mistake. Mr. Xie said with a smile.
"You approved it? Then when I reported the situation to you, why didn't you make it clear? Shen Chuan said in surprise.
"Mobilizing troops is not a trivial matter, you dare to hide it from me? You've got a lot of power, you! ”
The state official said so, but when he saw that the troops had returned after leaving the barracks, he guessed in his heart that there must be something hidden in it, so he said this, and he didn't really blame General Xie for saying this.
"Huh...... Adults, please come with me, and you will know! Mr. Xie smiled and made a gesture of invitation.
At this time, Wei Shihao had already dismissed all the handymen in the restaurant and returned home, and also rewarded the old woman who reported the meritorious service, and only conducted a surprise trial on a few backbones in the restaurant.
In addition, in the arrest of spies, Wei Shihao also accidentally dug up two spies hidden in the barracks. During the interrogation, Wei Shihao also found out that the battle of Menliangshan last year was the information that these two spies revealed to Lu Man.
The old man who was caught from the restaurant was locked up in the stable by Wei Shihao for interrogation.
"Please look up, who am I?" Weatherhowe said.
The old man knelt on the ground, glanced at Wei Shihao with slanted eyes, and shook his head pretending to be calm: "Who doesn't know, you are the capital of the famous Qingyuan Mansion?" ”
"Hmph...... Are you still pretending? I'm afraid that Jingliu Grain and Oil Store has only been open for five or six days, and you will close your doors, right? Say, Who is it that accuses you of trapping me and my Abba? ”
"This ...... What are you talking about, I don't know! ”
Wei Shihao felt that he couldn't ask any questions, so he glanced at his subordinates next to him and said, "Your subordinates have been recruited, but you still haven't recruited?" It seems that you are not eating and drinking...... Good life waits for him! ”
"Okay!" A soldier with a horsewhip deliberately raised his voice in response.
"Pap, papa, papa" was whipped on the old man's body three times in a row, and he cried and called his mother.
"Stop, stop, I say, I say, I know all I know......" said the old man.
"Stop, that's right, to suffer from the flesh and skin." The corners of Wei Shihao's mouth turned up slightly: "What's it called?" ”
"Liao Shiyi."
"Who sent you to inquire about the military situation in Qingyuan Mansion?"
"Land and sea...... No, it's Deng Weili...... No, no, it's the two of them. ”
"How many times has the intelligence been sent?"
"Three times."
"What's in it?"
……
After Wei Shihao finished asking about Qingyuan Mansion, he changed his words and said, "Who instructed you to trap me and my Abba?" ”
"It's Deng Weili. Deng Weili wants to occupy your family's fertile land, and Deng Qian's disciples eat your jealousy, so Deng Weili came up with a vicious plan to frame your father and son. I didn't expect Master Wei to have a great life, but because of this, he met a nobleman and became the capital secretary. ”
"Do you know that I became the capital secretary and dared to come to inquire about the military situation of Qingyuan Mansion?"
"This was all forced by Deng Weili."
"You don't seem to have finished talking about me and my Abba, do you?" Wei Shihao felt that Deng Weili alone did not have such great ability, and Xincheng Tusi Ensheng must be indispensable among them.
"Yes, yes, Master Wei is wise. I remembered, there was one more person. Deng Weili and Tusi Ensheng are in a group. After Deng Weili hemorrhaged, he conspired with Ensheng to frame Lord Wei and Lord Ling Zun. ”
At this point, the case of Wei Darttou and Wei Shihao being framed in Xincheng has been revealed.
At the same time, Wei Shihao made meritorious contributions in solving the case of treachery, and also found out the real culprit behind the battle of Menliang Mountain, so he was once again rewarded by the state official.