In the early morning of the next day, three corpses were found in the bushes by the small river in the southeast of Beihai City, and the matter suddenly exploded. Soon after, the house of Qian Santong, the owner of Beihai Restaurant, was broken into, and the news that Qian Dong's family was beaten like a pig's head and tied up in the house also spread. It is said that the owner of the money was found by the servants of the house, and they were already unable to move.

Immediately afterwards, the news came that there were almost bandits in the city, and that these families had been broken into in the middle of the night, some were injured, and their homes were turned into a mess.

The people of the city were talking, and a sense of panic began to spread.

In the Yazhong of Beihai County, someone came to report the case early in the morning, and Yang Shenjin, who was getting up to wash, was very surprised when he learned of the report, and it was really unexpected that there would be such a serious public security incident. Since Li Yong can't take charge now, this matter can only be handled by Yang Shenjin himself.

Yang Shen went up to the lobby, and the three corpses covered with white cloth lined up in the hall, and the officials of various departments in Beihai County also arrived in the hall.

Yang Shenjin frowned and asked, "What happened?" ”

"Report to Yang Shangshu, the people reported that bandits entered the city last night, killed and injured people, and robbed property. These are the people who have been broken into by the bandits. The three bodies were found by the small river southeast of the city, and they were suspected to have been killed by bandits. ”

Yang Shenjin frowned and looked at Liu Ji who was standing on the side and asked, "Don't drive Liu, how can the bandits in Beihai County be so arrogant?" Has this ever happened before? ”

Liu Ji, whose face was pale and his eyes were bloodshot, hurriedly arched his hand and said: "It's only been a few months since I came here, and I haven't found anything like this yet. I'm afraid that this matter will have to be asked by other colleagues, or by asking Li Taishou. ”

Yang Shenjin was dissatisfied: "Ask him? He governed Beihai County like this, which was really a loss of the court's trust. ”

"Yes, yes." The crowd chimed in.

"How did these people die?" Yang Shenjin asked, staring at the three corpses that were upright.

He stepped forward and replied, "Yang Shangshu, two people died from knife wounds, one had ruptured cartilage in his temple, and he died from a ruptured brain. The preliminary judgment is that they fought each other to the death. The murderer should be a person with martial arts. ”

Yang Shen thought for a while and said, "What are the identities of these three people, can they be identified?" ”

One of the chief bookkeepers of the Sihu said: "The identities of these three people have not yet been confirmed, they are all wearing swords, I thought they were the servants of the yamen or the men of the soldiers, but after checking these two places, there were no three people." Now I was planning to carry it to the square in a while so that the people could identify the body. Maybe you can know the identity. ”

Yang Shenjin was stunned, stood up and walked to the corpse, and said in a low voice, "I'll take a look when I open it." ”

He hurriedly lifted the white cloth on a corpse, and when he only lifted half of it, he saw a hideous face of a dead man, and the people around him did not dare to look at it. But Yang Shenjin didn't seem to care about this, but bent down to look at the deceased's dress carefully, and even deliberately picked up the bloodstained steel knife next to him and looked at it, his face was extremely gloomy and ugly.

"Are these people who got into the house of the robbers last night?" Yang Shenjin glanced at the seven or eight people kneeling beside him.

Several people replied with gossips, Yang Shenjin frowned and listened to their descriptions, the content was roughly the same, all of them said that the robbers came and went without a trace and entered the house without a trace, and their own family members were tied up by five flowers, and whoever resisted was beaten violently, and the house was turned upside down.

Yang Shen waited for them to finish speaking, and said warmly: "So you are just frightened and lost some property, and everyone is fine." That's good, the matter of property theft, as long as we solve the case and recover the stolen money, we can naturally return it to you, and the most important thing is that people are okay. Go back, all of you. ”

The people did not expect any compensation, and they kowtowed and left. Liu Ji waved his hand and motioned for the official to carry away the corpse, and Yang Shenjin suddenly said: "Slow, first carry it to the backyard and put it away, I will deal with this matter myself, you all retreat for the time being." ”

Everyone was puzzled, but they didn't dare to ask, so they had to retreat one after another. Yang Shenjin paced in the hall with his hands in his hands, and after a while, his personal entourage walked into the lobby quickly, whispering a few words in his ear, Yang Shenjin frowned and nodded: "Tell him to come to the back hall to see me." ”

In the back hall room, Yang Shenjin sat in the room with a cloudy face, and there was a sound of footsteps outside the house, and Ji Wen, who was thin and thin in a black robe, quietly came in from outside the door, knelt down and kowtowed to greet him.

Yang Shenjin looked at him coldly and shouted, "Ji Shicao, I think you should also come, what are you doing?" ”

Ji Wen's face was full of shame, and he said in a low voice: "Yang Shangshu, I just got the news from my humble position, and I hurried here. You understand the hardships of the lowly position, the lowly people can't swagger out of the city, and it is troublesome to be seen by Wang Yuan and them. ”

Yang Shenjin snorted and said, "Are those three outside your subordinates?" What the hell is going on? ”

Ji Wen hurriedly said in a low voice: "I saw the lowly position just now, it is indeed the manpower brought by the lowly position. It is precisely because of this that the lowly position comes from. These three people were arranged to monitor him by the house of Qian Santong, the owner of the Beihai Restaurant, and there were robbers in Qian Santong's house last night, presumably they encountered and were killed by the robbers. ”

Yang Shenjin said: "Are you sure? Only three of your men were killed, and none of the rest were killed, and I fear there is something strange about that. Did you ask about the money three links? ”

Ji Wen said: "The humble post came from Qian Santong's house, and the guy was tied up for half the night, almost killing him, and his body couldn't move." He said that there were indeed robbers in the house last night and robbed him of a lot of his belongings. If he hadn't kowtowed and begged for mercy, the robbers would have almost killed him. But he also lost half of his life. ”

Yang Shenjin frowned and said, "You mean it's just a coincidence?" ”

Givin muttered, "Based on what I have seen from my humble position, I am afraid this is just a coincidence. The incident of bandits entering the city has happened many times in Beihai County, and it is not the first time that this has happened. These three fools are used to being arrogant on weekdays, so they naturally don't know how powerful the bandits are, and they are afraid that they don't know whether they are alive or dead to stop them, but they are killed by the bandits. Looking at the methods of this gang of bandits, there should be people with strong martial arts among them, and they can be opponents. Fortunately, the money three links are fine, and it will not affect the next thing. ”

Yang Shenjin nodded slowly and said, "It's best if it's a coincidence, but I'm worried that it's not a coincidence." I trust your judgment though. ”

Ji Wen said: "What Yang Shangshu said is true. If the time is ripe, I can ask Qian Santong and them to report Li Yong quickly, so that I don't have to let my subordinates spy on them, and I can save a lot of trouble. ”

Yang Shenjin said: "Do you think I don't want to get to that step faster? But the matter of questioning is not over yet, and the reports of these people will not have the best effect until the time when Li Yong is actually interrogated. And before that, I have to do my best not to let Wang Yuan see the flaws. At the moment, it seems that this kid is here to make trouble, and I don't want him to see the flaws and look for trouble. ”

Ji Wen nodded and said, "What I said is that everything is arranged by Yang Shangshu." This matter should not be publicized, the three corpses were transported out of the back door to deal with it, so that people could not find out that they were not from Beihai City, let alone let them see that they were the servants of Jingzhao Mansion. ”

Yang Shenjin reprimanded coldly: "You also said that the swords of the three of them all have the logo of the Jingzhao Mansion treasury, but fortunately, I found out and knew that this was your person." If you are carried to the square to teach people to recognize the body, it is inevitable that someone will recognize it. Ji Shicao, you are also a shrewd person, how can you not know how to change ordinary clothes and ordinary weapons for your subordinates. Your cleverness is all false cleverness. ”

In the face of Yang Shenjin's merciless ridicule, Ji Wen's expression was very embarrassed, and he said with a red face: "I will immediately rearrange it when I go back, and Yang Shangshu is angry because of the fault of my humble position." ”

Yang Shenjin waved his hand and said, "That's it, take someone to move the corpse and leave, you shouldn't stay with me for a long time." ”

Givin nodded yes and exited the door.

……

Wang Yuan had just gotten up when he received Yang Shenjin's order to go to the yamen to discuss matters. The spring sun shines all over the courtyard of the pavilion, several flowers in the flower beds are blooming very brilliantly, and a few bees and butterflies are buzzing and flying in the yard, which makes people feel very peaceful in their hearts. Until Yang Shenjin sent someone to call him to the yamen to say that the matter was unknown, Wang Yuan's mood was still good.

The news of the small town spread quickly, and before getting up, Zhang Wulang had already come to report the news of the bandits in many places in the city last night. Zhang Wulang also whimsically asked Wang Yuan if he could help catch the thief, maybe he could make some contributions. As a result, he was reprimanded by Wang Yuan for splitting his head and covering his face, scolding him for whether he was idle and itchy, and whether he wanted to whip dozens of whips to loosen his skin. Zhang Wulang didn't know why he touched his head, so he had to go up with thirty-six plans, hiding in the house and sighing.

Wang Yuan rode the big black horse explosive barrel that pulled the wind, and followed the black slave Wang Dahei on the street, and the return rate was absolutely 100%. When he arrived at the county hall, Yang Shenjin's affairs had just come to an end, and he was sitting in the hall drinking tea and laughing with several officials.

Seeing Wang Yuan's arrival, Yang Shenjin seemed to have learned the ability to change his face, and a smiling face was immediately pulled down and turned into a gloomy face.