The surging killing intent pressed towards Huang Feng like a mountain, making his face suddenly pale and sweaty on his forehead, but his body seemed to be frozen, unable to move. It was a terrible sensation he had never felt before, and it made him lose the ability to speak for a short time.

Until Yang Chen spoke again, he shouted in a low voice: "Say it quickly!" After that, he woke up like a dream, and hurriedly defended: "The adults know clearly, and the small ones don't dare to harm you even if they eat the bear's heart and leopard gall...... This case is still a villain asking for your help, and I don't know that such a change will happen, otherwise how can I work as an adult......"

In the face of these words, Yang Chen was not moved at all, just continued to stare at the other party, waiting for his explanation. Being stared at by this suspicious gaze, Huang Feng felt even more flustered, and finally went around to the important matter: "As for why I was okay before, it must be because I only ate the nest head and didn't drink the soup." ”

After he reminded him like this, a hint of understanding flashed in Yang Chen's eyes. He also remembered that when he drank the soup in prison before, he obviously felt that it had a strange taste. At that time, he only said that the food in prison was like this, and now it seems that someone must have drugged it.

But then, his suspicions rose again: "Why don't you drink soup?" If you know there's a problem, why don't you alert me? ”

"I've heard the little one mention that there is one in the prison who will pee in the soup, so he doesn't dare to drink anything except white water. But after all, this is just a little speculation, and there is no certainty, so I didn't dare to stop the adults in this matter. Huang Feng said, bowing his head a little ashamedly.

Immediately, he looked at Yang Chen again: "But my lord, the little one has really never had the intention of harming you, otherwise he wouldn't have reminded you repeatedly in prison just now, let alone escaped with you." If it hadn't been for the adults who came to the rescue just now, I'm afraid the little ones would have died under that chaotic array of arrows. ”

Although the explanation was a little far-fetched, Yang Chen couldn't find any flaws for a while, and what the other party said later did make some sense, and finally made him temporarily press down his suspicion, and his hand left the hilt: "If what you say is true, then it is the best." ”

As soon as the pressure on his body was gone, Huang Feng involuntarily took two steps back, almost sitting on the ground, with a wry smile on his face: "My lord, you scared me to death just now......

"It's a big deal, I have to be careful." Yang Chen's face finally softened, and he patted the other party's shoulder, which could be regarded as an apology.

"Huh? Isn't it just a murder case? How can it make adults seem so nervous? Huang Feng asked with some confusion. Yang Chen glanced at him: "At first, I thought it was just an ordinary murder case, but now it seems that things are far from being as simple as we thought." Otherwise, why do you think there is a bloody case where the Chen family was wiped out? Why would anyone risk trying to get rid of me in prison? ”

As soon as these two questions were thrown, Huang Feng had nothing to say at all, so he could only stand there in a daze: "How can this be?" How did this case become so serious? What should we do? ”

"You can relax, since I dare to escape, I naturally have a way to deal with it." As Yang Chen spoke, his eyes looked around the forest, secretly estimating the direction and the number of pine trees.

When he entered the forest just now, because it was still the moment when the sky was about to dawn, he didn't see it too clearly, but now that the golden sunlight was shining obliquely from the sky, the situation in the forest was much clearer. Yang Chen found that this pine forest covers a really large area, several acres, and the pine trees are also quite dense, and it is difficult to see the situation outside in the depths of the forest.

Seeing him look around, Huang Feng also subconsciously followed and glanced around, but apart from those straight and dense pine trees, he really couldn't see anything else.

Just as he was about to ask again, Yang Chen took a step forward and said, "You count from the east to the west, and stop when you count to ten." ”

Although he didn't understand why he wanted to do it himself, Huang Feng still agreed, and then found the right direction, and counted them one by one: "One, two, three...... Ten! At last they came to a tree not too far from them and stood still.

And Yang Chen also came to the north end of the forest at the same time, quickly counted the number of thirty-three trees, and walked to the tree. As a result, the two found that the two sides were still separated by a long distance at this time.

Yang Chen frowned slightly, and then understood, it seems that this is another trick to split the vote, Chen Zhigao buried the things under the two trees. So he said to Huang Feng: "You dig under the tree to see if there is anything buried in it." As he spoke, he crouched down and drew his knife to dig through the dirt at the roots of the tree.

After digging for a long time, his movements were just a pause, and he hurriedly lifted the tip of the knife. But I saw that there was indeed a very tightly wrapped oilcloth bag there. At the same time, Huang Feng over there also heard a cheer: "My lord, there is a package here!" ”

Yang Chen's face finally showed a hint of a smile, he quickly got up, patted the dirt on the package, and then untied the waterproof tarpaulin bag, revealing the contents - one, no, half a book. At this time, Huang Feng also took the package over, glanced at Yang Chen, and quickly untied it, and also took out the other half of the account book.

"This is ......" Huang Feng looked at Yang Chen with some puzzlement. The latter took the account book in his hand and combined the two together, and then said: "This is the clue that Chen Zhigao left us, and it is likely that his family was killed." ”

Huang Feng suddenly changed color when he heard this, and said in his mouth: "Is there such a terrible account book?" My lord, how did you know it was hiding here? ”

"Remember that half of the pawn ticket? The clue is there. As Yang Chen spoke, he opened the account book and quickly swept over the things recorded on it. At first glance, his face quickly sank, and he finally knew why those guys would do such a crazy thing, and even wanted to kill themselves in the county jail. If this account book is reported, many people in this remote county yamen will be killed.

Huang Feng didn't seem to be very literate, and after following a few glances, he was still a little dazed, until he found that Yang Chen's face had changed drastically, and then he hurriedly asked, "My lord, what is written on this?" ”

"In this account book, all written are the specific figures of Chen Zhigao's bribing of the county government and even some people in the thousands of households in the city." Yang Chen didn't hide it, and replied casually.

"Actually...... Is there such a thing? He's so bold! Huang Feng couldn't help but scream. He was not shocked by Chen Zhigao's bribery of officials, he had seen this kind of thing a lot in the county government for many years, what surprised him was that Chen Zhigao actually dared to record these things, did he want to use this to blackmail the people of the county government?

Yang Chen had already turned the account book to the second half at this time, and his face was even more gloomy: "Sure enough, the matter is in the repair of the city this time. Didn't you find out the clues before, saying that Chen Zhigao's recent acquisition was to provide bricks and stones for Guancheng. Do you know how much it cost him? It's five thousand taels, just to get such an opportunity. ”

This time, Huang Feng couldn't even exclaim. Five thousand taels, this is a wealth that he can't earn in his lifetime in this small city, and Chen Zhigao is actually just trying to win this business, so you can know how much benefit he can gain from this matter.

"In two months, the official money spent on repairing the city wall was thirty thousand, and some of this should have been allocated to the craftsmen, but do you know how much he benefited from it?" Yang Chen said, and raised a finger: "Fifteen thousand taels." Half of the money went into his own pocket! In other words, the bricks and stones used to build the walls of the Great Wall were all inferior goods that he bought at the lowest price, but they were all accepted by the government and treated as high-grade bricks and stones to build the walls. ”

Huang Feng was dumbfounded when he heard it: "He...... He is so bold that he dares to do such a thing, so he is not afraid that the matter will be exposed? ”

Of course he was afraid, and he was even more afraid that those officials would put all the blame on themselves after the accident, so on the one hand, he paid a huge amount of money to bribe and buy off the officials, and on the other hand, he left behind and wrote such an account book. This is clearly written, half of the fifteen thousand taels of silver he obtained through this means have already entered the pockets of the adults, from the Zhu County Order to the secretaries of each room, and they have not been less. In addition, there are many people in the Thousand Households who have benefited. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Chen glanced at Huang Feng again: "What about you?" Have you also benefited from him? ”

Huang Feng's face changed again, and after a while, he finally nodded weakly: "In the past two months, the little one has indeed received several benefits from Li Xingshu, but I didn't expect it to be related to the safety of Guancheng." ”

"Yes, I'm afraid many people can't imagine that the silver they get is closely related to the safety of my Biguan County, my Biguan Pass, and even the entire Northland Great Wall. In fact, as long as you think about it deeply, everyone can know how much impact it will have on the entire Guancheng if he is allowed to be shoddy, but they don't see it all, just to satisfy their own selfishness. It wasn't until things changed and might be exposed that they panicked and did not hesitate to commit bigger crimes in order to cover up their crimes! Yang Chen's expression was gloomy and he said the truth and essence of the matter, and his tone was full of calmness.

If his guess is right, the purpose of the imperial court to order him to come here should not be to find out this case, after all, no one knows that this eccentric pass has been eroded to this point, but he knows that compared to the foreign enemy conspiracy that does not know the truth or falsehood, these silverfish parasitic on the Great Wall are much more harmful!