Hearing the name of "Lan Guifang", Yang Zhen's brows couldn't help frowning, and when he looked at Tang Feng again, he found that the other party also looked thoughtful. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIsn't that flower boat exactly where he took An Jizong, and how does it have anything to do with Lu Zhongming? Is it just a pure coincidence, or is there something hidden inside?

In order to ensure that it was correct, Yang Zhen asked again: "Are you sure you saw the flower boat called 'Lan Guifang' on Lu Zhongming with your own eyes?" The stakes are high, don't lie to us! ”

Seeing his solemn appearance, Lu's wife hurriedly cursed again: "The folk woman didn't dare to lie in front of adults, she did see him get on the flower boat, and asked a tourist by the lake to know the name of the flower boat." ”

With such an explanation, the original suspicion was dispelled. Yang Zhen also thought it was a little strange that she was a woman who knew the name of the flower boat. Since he felt that her words were credible, Yang Zhen didn't dare to leave anything out, and asked again: "Do you remember when you followed Lu Zhongming this year?" See if there are any other people on the boat? ”

"This ......" Lu's wife recalled, but fortunately, women have always had a very good memory of this kind of thing, so she said: "It should be the end of the first month, less than February...... It's the twenty-seventh day of the first month, yes, that's it! Before that, I felt that he was preoccupied, and he was not as considerate to me and the child as before, and he scolded me for being troublesome when I asked him what was wrong...... And the day before, I had smelled the smell of fat powder from his clothes, and I guessed where he had gone, and I followed him on the twenty-seventh. ”

Seeing that she even told these details, Yang Zhen believed that it was impossible for her to remember the wrong days. Moreover, when compared with the time when the silver vault was repaired to the ground, it can be confirmed that there is no difference in time. It seems that it was during this period of time that Lu Zhongming was threatened or bribed, and then he had the next act of stealing silver. The poor wife thought that her husband was looking for flowers and willows, but she didn't know that in fact, on the flower boat, her husband had been pulled down into the troubled waters and lost his life.

"And one last question, did he behave or say anything different before the accident?"

"It was no different before than before, and he always seemed a little worried during that time." Lu's wife looked down and thought for a while before she remembered something: "I remember that the night before the accident, he asked me if I wanted to leave Hangzhou, but I said that my home is here and I don't want to go anywhere." ”

After asking Lu to take his wife and two children down, Yang Zhen said to Tang Feng: "Baihu, it seems that this Lu Zhongming's role in this theft case is very important." Although he is dead, he finally left a clue, and the flower boat is still implicated in the righteous son of Grandpa An, how should we act? ”

Tang Feng looked at the dark night sky above his head and said: "Everyone has worked hard in the past few days, and now it is nearly three watches, so let's rest for a day, and tomorrow we will go to the West Lake to torture the people on the flower boat." If Lu Zhongming was the one who was on the boat, the people on the boat would always know something. Hey, those people have a good idea, and they are discussing such things on the flower boat, but they are hidden and safe! ”

Nothing was said all night.

After dawn, Yang Zhen took more than ten people and went straight to the West Lake. At this time, the city of Hangzhou was still under martial law, not only the goods entering and leaving the city gate had to be unlocked for detailed inspection, but even pedestrians with packages on their backs had to be searched to ensure that there were no omissions.

This decision made the people of Hangzhou and the merchants who came here miserable, and sometimes it took half a day to get out of the city just by lining up at the city gate, and if they were a step late, they might not be able to get out until it was dark.

But under the coercion of the government, the people dare not disobey no matter how much they are dissatisfied, but discussions at the city gate are inevitable. Seeing this situation, Yang Zhen knew that it was not a matter to go on like this, and the case must be solved as soon as possible, and both people and money must be taken, otherwise the sign of Hangzhou's paradise on earth will be completely smashed. Presumably, those officials were more anxious than themselves at this time, and wanted to close the case as soon as possible.

I thought that in such a situation, there must be very few people who would come to the West Lake to enjoy it, but when they came to the vicinity of the West Lake, they found that this was not the case.

From a distance, I saw dozens of people around the lake, and in front of them there was a painting boat parked on the water, and those people were pointing and talking in a whisper around the painting boat.

Just when Yang Zhen was a little puzzled, he found several people in tolerance costumes from the side of the crowd, who were blocking the people from continuing to approach the painting boat, which made his heart sink suddenly, and he had a premonition that something bad was wrong. Looking closely at the decoration on the painting boat, his face became even more gloomy, and on the red lantern raised high at the bow of the boat, the words "Lan Gui Fang" were written impressively.

Immediately, Yang Zhen didn't delay any longer, stepped forward quickly, pulled away the onlookers, and was about to walk to the painting boat. Seeing that someone was about to squeeze out of the crowd and lean over, the public guarding the lake immediately waved the iron ruler in his hand and scolded: "Didn't you see that there was a murder here, why don't you hurry back, what's there to see?" ”

As soon as his words fell, a carved and simple waist card appeared in front of him, and when he saw the words Jinyiwei written on it, the face of the duke suddenly changed, and he became extremely respectful: "It turned out to be an adult, you are ......"

Yang Zhen put away the waist card before asking, "This boat is Lan Guifang, right?" What happened? ”

"It's Lan Guifang. There was a bloody incident on the ship, and more than a dozen people died on the ship......"

"What?" Yang Zhen's heart tightened even more, he stopped talking, and walked past the duke. Several other brocade guards also followed him and stepped onto a gangplank and boarded the deck of Nalan Guifang.

Hearing the movement of someone coming on the boat, a capable man suddenly flashed out of the cabin inside, and when he saw that it was not his own brother, his face sank: "Who dares to trespass on the scene of the murder!" As he spoke, he pressed his hand to the hilt of the knife at his waist.

Yang Zhen showed his waist card again and reported his identity: "Yang Zhen of Jinyi Guard." ”

"It turned out that Lord Yang, who took down An Jizong and found out the whereabouts of the treasury silver, was disrespectful and disrespectful. The lowly Hangzhou government is always the head of the hunt. Only then did the man put away his guard and bowed his hand.

In recent days, Yang Zhen's reputation in the Hangzhou Yamen has been quite great, especially when he dared to hold An Li's righteous son and find out the treasury silver yesterday, which was even more praised. I saw Chang Huai saying polite words while still looking Yang Zhen up and down, which was very surprising that he was just a young boy.

But soon, Chang Huai quickly came back to his senses from the previous excitement, and asked suspiciously, "I wonder why Lord Yang came here?" But ......" he vaguely thought of something.

Yang Zhen saw that the matter had come to this point, so he had no intention of hiding anything, but simply said: "Last night, we found out that this Lan Guifang was very related to the theft of the silver vault, so we came to get someone early in the morning. After a pause, he asked rhetorically: "What's the situation here, please introduce it to Chang Zhutou." ”

"Sure enough......" Although he felt that these two were really a little incompatible, Chang Huai still truthfully introduced the situation they had mastered: "Just an hour ago, a fisherman who came to the West Lake to fish found that there was no figure on the painting boat floating on the lake. Intrigued, the man boarded the boat to find out. As soon as he got on the boat, he saw a boatman who had died on the deck, and in a frightened way, he hurried to report to the officer.

"When we heard the noise, we also attracted a lot of onlookers. After getting on the boat, it was found that fourteen people had died, ten of whom were the boatlady and the next person in the painting boat, and the other four were pleasure seekers. Now Chen Yanzuo of the government is conducting an autopsy inside. My brothers and I also looked around and found that there were still a lot of valuables such as gold and silver on board, and I guess it was not the bandits. ”

When Yang Zhen heard this, his brows furrowed slightly: "If I expected it to be true, this murder should have happened last night." Is it possible to find any witnesses? But there was another thought in his heart, there is no such coincidence in this world, they found out that this Lan Guifang was related to the theft of the silver treasury, and the people here were killed, which must be the act of some people wanting to kill people. Could it be that I am still a step late this time?

Chang Huai nodded: "It should be like this, yesterday evening there were still people who saw the sound of silk and bamboo on the painting boat." As for the witnesses, it is difficult to find, after all, the crime happened at night. I didn't know that such a big case would happen, who would pay attention to such a painting boat? ”

Yang Zhen nodded in acceptance, and then proposed: "Ordinary people naturally can't see the situation in the lake, you can go and ask the pleasure seekers who came here last night to see if those people see anything." As he spoke, he stepped into the cabin.

As soon as he entered the cabin, Yang Zhen had already smelled a pungent smell of blood, which had completely covered up the original scent of incense and fat powder here. In the delicately decorated cabin, which was now occupied by corpses, two catchers were on the side, and a man in cloth was squatting in front of the corpse of a woman wearing a light veil, carefully examining it. The once charming and gentle township has now turned into a morgue.

Chang Huai agreed to Yang Zhen's instructions and asked, "Lao Chen, how is it, have you found some clues?" ”

Lao Chen, who was standing up at this time, smiled bitterly when he heard the words: "I only know that they were all killed by swords and other sharp weapons, and there should be four or five murderers, and they are all stubborn people who are good at killing." Others, but I can't see anything. ”

This answer made Chang Huai's brows even deeper, and there were words in his mouth: "It's troublesome now." More than a dozen lives, how to explain to adults. ”

At this time, Yang Zhen, who had been concentrating on the row of corpses on the ground after coming in, suddenly asked a question called Chang Huai who was a little surprised: "Is that all the dead on the ship?" ”