Two days later, a piece of news spread all over Beiping again, shocking the whole of Beiping: the salt merchant Zhao Wanguan was dead, and the Zhao family was nowhere to be found.

A few months later, there was another tragedy in Beiping, and it was the salt merchants who were wiped out. In addition to the increase in manpower at all the city gates, all the yamen in the entire Beiping were mobilized, and the streets and alleys of the city were full of suspicious people.

"You, come here, yes, I'm talking about you, what did you pick?" On the streets of Peiping, such random searches can be seen everywhere.

At the same time, in the yamen of the chief minister, there was another small black room, and a small meeting was also urgently held.

An obese man said: "It's really his grandmother's evil, and the family is dead, and the fucking choice is at this time, you say, could it be the bald man who asks for money and the stubborn Chen Shu who is doing ghosts?" Is it possible for them to join forces? Our envoy is very upright. ”

A tall young man shook his head: "It's hard to say, although that kid is close to the surname Chen, he hasn't had a real relationship with Chen Shu these times, I speculate that he is also suspicious of Chen Shu, suspecting that the surname Chen is in the same group as us." ”

The fat man snorted: "You won't fall in love with other people's daughters, so you deliberately help your father-in-law say good things." ”

The tall young man was very embarrassed by what he said, and he snorted without talking, and the fat man said again: "Last time your appearance was seen by him, now people already know your identity, from today onwards, you will gradually withdraw from that side, but you will withdraw without leaving a trace." ”

"So what do we do next?" The young man asked.

The fat man remained silent: "This matter is a little strange, I'll think about it first." ”

Throughout the night, there was an undercurrent surging in the city of Beiping, all parties were meeting in secret, and many transfers were being carried out in secret. Yao Guangqi also didn't sleep all night, calculating all possibilities.

Early the next morning, Chen Shu came to the Yamen of the Political Secretary.

Chen Shu has always been polite and thorough, and when he saw the political envoy Li Yu, he first saluted respectfully: "Xiaguan Chen Shu pays a visit to Lord Li." ”

Li Yu's face was kind, and he hurriedly stepped up and grabbed Chen Shu's hand: "Lord Chen is still so polite, you and I are colleagues, working together in Beiping, and we have resisted the Tartars together and experienced life and death, why do you have to see each other like this every time?" ”

Chen Shu smiled and let Li Yu hold his hand: "After all, Lord Li is responsible for a province, and the lower officials are only responsible for a provincial prison, there is a difference between the top and bottom, and Shu doesn't dare to make a mistake." ”

Li Yu laughed: "You, you're always so restrained, I can't let go, what are you doing today?" ”

Chen Shu restrained his smile: "Presumably adults already know that there is another big case in Beiping, Zhao Wanguan's family was killed the night before yesterday, and it is another big case involving salt merchants. ”

Li Yu asked expressionlessly: "The impact of this case is indeed too bad, do you have any progress there?" I still need the help of this officer. ”

Chen Shu said calmly: "A family of more than 20 people was killed, and all the corpses were transferred, this situation is not the first time, this must not be an ordinary underworld gang can do, presumably this is a well-organized and very powerful gang, so this official wants to carefully inspect all the dart bureaus in and around Beiping City, the martial arts hall and the halls of the Jianghu sect, according to the judge's yamen all the officers have been released, and now they are being searched and arrested in the whole city, but there is still not enough manpower, The lower official requested that some people be seconded from the Chief Secretary to help investigate the case. ”

Li Yu's eyes narrowed imperceptibly, but he immediately recovered: "Okay, how many people does Master Chen want to borrow?" ”

Chen Shu arched his hand: "Of course, there are as many as you borrow, at least fifty people." ”

Li Yuyi frowned, "There are only more than 100 people in my yamen, and you can borrow 50 people at one time, and it is difficult for me to even do basic official duties in this yamen." ”

Chen Shu nodded: "The difficulties of the adults are known to the lower officials, but if this case is not too important and urgent, and the lower officials really have no other way, the lower officials will never borrow so many people from you." If the case is not solved this time, I am afraid that even if the salt merchants in Beiping are not killed, they will be frightened. ”

Li Yu sighed: "You are also duty, but also for the court, okay, you take fifty people away, but there is a word first, people can only borrow you for seven days, seven days later, no matter how the clues are checked, people have to come back, after all, my official business cannot be delayed." ”

"Thank you, Master Chengful!" Chen Shu was very grateful and bowed down again.

"Look at you, you're so polite again, let's go, let's get into the distribution now." Li Yu pulled Chen Shu and walked towards the main hall.

This time, Beiping City was simply turned over, all possible or suspected people were investigated, even Liu Ergou, who killed pigs, and Zhao Haozi, who pulled the blank, were summoned and searched their homes, and the martial arts halls of the major dart bureaus and the halls of various gangs were the top priority, and the whole city of Beiping was not at peace for a while.

Finally, at night, maybe the toss during the day is too fierce, but the night is extraordinarily quiet. Even those food stalls and small vendors who usually like to have evening stalls have closed their stalls early.

Beiping in the middle of summer, even at night is very hot, but fortunately, there is no daytime stuffiness and irritability, every household has open doors and windows, at this time make a pot of tea in the window, sit comfortably, the window blows a gust of breeze from time to time, that hearty will immediately make the whole body comfortable.

At this time, the Yamen of the Political Secretary was quieter than the rest of Beiping, except for the gatekeeper who was secretly drinking and punching, and the entire front yard of the Yamen could only hear the cicadas on the trees.

Taking advantage of the night, Yao Guangqi sneaked into the yamen of the political secretary, and went straight to the study in the backyard after entering. Came to the door of the study, saw that it was dark inside, Yao Guangqi's hand just touched the window frame, suddenly, two hidden weapons penetrated the window paper and hit Yao Guangqi's chest and left shoulder respectively, this is a sneak attack that has been planned for a long time, suddenly, hidden and close at hand, changed to an ordinary martial arts master, he must have died at this moment, but Yao Guangqi reacted quickly, and narrowly avoided the moment the hidden weapon hit the vital point.

There is an ambush and must be withdrawn. But at this time, it was too late, two judge's pens suddenly appeared from the roof, condescendingly pressed down from the top of the head, and at the same time, the other two judge's pens broke out of the window and took Yao Guangqi's vital point from the front, this was not the end, a long knife flashing with cold light blocked Yao Guangqi's retreat from behind.

Faced with a desperate situation, Yao Guangqi pulled out the ink cloud, secretly crossed Chen Cang with one move, dissolved the four judge's pens above and in front of him, and the Feiyun footwork under his feet dodged the long knife.

Yao Guangqi turned over and planned to escape on the wall, but who knew that the person was still in the air, and a series of hidden weapons had already hit, and he was forced back.

"It's easy to come, but if you want to go, you can't help it." The man with the long knife approached Yao Guangqi again.

"The sound is blowing from east to west, there are indeed ghosts, but you are not a little less alone." It was the gray-clothed man in Niu Village who spoke, still holding the judge's pen.