It's already dark!

1,800 years ago, Zhongyang Town could not have any nightlife. There are no all-night liquor shops here, and there are no green buildings where Yingge and Yan dance. People go home early to rest after a busy day...... Rise with the sun, rest with the moon, and so on.

The bazaar is deserted, with little to no pedestrians in sight.

Cao Peng wore a gray gown, and took advantage of the dark night to come to a high wall.

Seeing that there was no one left and right, he walked to the foot of the wall, brushed away the dead grass, and a small dog hole appeared. However, looking at the withered grass at the entrance of the cave, it must have been abandoned for many years. Cao Peng took a deep breath, got into the wall from the dog hole, squatted under the corner, and carefully looked around.

This is the backyard of Shing Kee Trading Company, with two buildings, high and low.

One building was used as a storehouse, and the other was used for human habitation.

In his previous life, Cao Peng had dealt with people like Chengji...... He knows very well that this kind of person is narrow-minded and will repay him, and he is a typical villain.

What do rich people care about?

The answer is simple: face!

Wang Meng cut Chengji's face during the day, with the surname of a person like Chengji, how could he swallow his anger?

Not to mention that this incident started because of Cao Peng's mother, but it was just Cheng Ji who forcibly snatched his mother's jade pendant, and Cao Peng couldn't let him go easily.

I can't remember that there is such a sentence in that novel: There is a beast hidden in everyone's heart.

In a society governed by the rule of law, regardless of whether the word legal system is in quotation marks or not, the effect is obvious. Heavy laws have firmly suppressed the beast in the hearts of men. Cao Peng is a law enforcer, so this kind of suppression is particularly obvious. But now reborn in the troubled times of 1,800 years ago, the constraints seem to have become insignificant. When Cao Peng helped his mother leave during the day, he keenly captured the murderous intent hidden in the eyes of Chengji and the three elders...... At that moment, Cao Peng knew that this matter was not over!

Instead of being victimized by them, it is better to take the initiative yourself!

The gunshot next to the Bears Ears River Reservoir not only killed his surname, but also untied the layers of shackles that pressed on Cao Peng's heart.

If no one offends me, I will not offend anyone......

But since you've provoked me, don't blame me for being ruthless.

Cao Ji is a loyal and honest person, and his first reaction after learning the reason for the incident was to come to reason with Chengji and seek justice. Wang Meng's previous experiences, Cao Peng didn't know, and he didn't want to know about them. But he knew that maybe Wang Meng was lawless in the past, but now he ...... Wang Mai had become a shackle to him, making it impossible for him to do as he pleased.

Wang Mai was a lawless fellow, but he couldn't tell him about it.

Therefore, Cao Peng decided to seek justice himself.

While buying medicine, Cao Peng observed the environment of Cheng Kee Trading House and discovered this unknown dog hole. He knew that this Cheng Ji firm was the best place to live in Zhongyang Town, and according to his understanding, Cheng Ji usually came to Zhongyang and would live in the firm......

It's not that the three elders are not enthusiastic, but Chengji is a person who is greedy for enjoyment.

Since he lived comfortably in his own trading house, it was absolutely impossible for him to live in someone else's house.

Cao Peng observed the situation in the courtyard, leaned against the wall, and came to the door of the room unconsciously. He reached out and gently pushed the door...... The door opened slightly. The door was unlocked, and the room was pitch black, and there was silence inside.

Chengji was invited to drink by the third elder at night, so there was no one else in the room at this time.

Cao Peng dodged into the room and closed the door with his hand.

It was pitch black, and I couldn't see the furnishings inside.

Cao Peng narrowed his eyes and tried his best to adapt to the darkness in this room, groping one foot deep and one foot shallow, and soon found out the layout of the room. Directly facing the main door is a low mat. The bed of the Three Kingdoms period has a very peculiar shape...... It is about two meters long and about one meter four wide. It has six legs and is twenty centimeters high. The wound surface is a live drawer board, equipped with fences on all sides, and a gap is left at the front and back to facilitate getting up and down. One side of the bed, against the wall, leaves only a notch for use.

I can't see the overall shape of the bed, but Cao Peng can still get a rough idea of its specific shape.

In front of the bed was a low table with a scroll of wooden tablets.

Cao Peng fumbled for a while, and soon found a cabinet in the corner. It is about two meters three or four meters high, and there is a groove hidden at the top of the cabinet. After testing the width and height, Cao Peng put away the short knife, jumped up suddenly, grabbed the edge of the cabinet with both hands, and with the strength of his arms, his body fell into the groove. Lying in this cabinet, it is difficult for outsiders to find it without paying attention.

At this time, there was the sound of footsteps outside the house.

Cao Peng hid on the top of the cabinet and looked out through the gap in the wooden bar...... I saw the lights flickering, and then the door was pushed open. Two handymen walked in with lanterns, lit oil lamps, and went to the center of the room, and lifted a piece of the floor to reveal a black fire pit.

A handyman came out of the house, brought in coals from outside, and poured them into the fire.

"Hurry up, the master will come back in a while, if the temperature is not enough, you and I will suffer."

"Am I doing this?"

Another handyman used a blowtorch and kept blowing air into the fire. The coals in the pond gradually lit up, and the temperature in the house gradually increased.

"Dog, did you say that the master had passed the day?"

"What's wrong?"

"I mean...... We all know who the daughter-in-law of the Cao family is. People came to pawn jade pendants in order to ask for talisman water for their son.

If the lord does this, it will inevitably hurt the peace of heaven.

To be honest, I can't see it...... Our master is not short of that little money, why bother to embarrass the woman's family? ”

"Shut up!"

The dog hurriedly stopped the handyman and said softly: "This kind of thing, it's not our turn to hold grievances." Don't you know who the lord is? The goose plucked its feathers and pulled bubble to instigate the people...... If you want me to say, it is also the daughter-in-law of the Cao family who does not have long eyes, and came to us to pawn. How can the master let go of the good things that are delivered to the door? If you want to blame, blame her for having no one above her, she deserves to be unlucky! ”

Then, the dog lowered his voice and said, "Do you think our master is a good match?"

How about Wang Laohu! That is the first hero in Zhongyang Mountain...... But let me tell you, in less than three days, that tiger will become a dead tiger. ”

Cao Peng was lying on the top of the cabinet, his eyes suddenly cold.

Sure enough, Cheng Ji really wanted to poison Wang Meng......

"Dog, how do you know?"

"Did you see four in the afternoon?

Let me tell you, that guy was ordered by the master to rush back to Wuyin County. It is estimated that at this time, he is almost in Wuyin County...... If the eldest master's side reacts quickly, he will definitely send someone over before dark tomorrow. At the latest, we will arrive in Zhongyang early the day after tomorrow.

Wang Laohu can indeed fight, but can he withstand our master? ”

The servant grinned and said no more.

But looking at him blowing the fire hard, you know that this guy is afraid.

The fire pit soon burned, and the house was as warm as spring. As they spoke, the two servants exited the room and closed the door.

Cao Peng was on top of the cabinet, motionless.

Fortunately, I made a decisive decision, otherwise, it would have been a big disaster.

But the more this is the case, the stronger Cao Peng's desire to kill Cheng Ji becomes. This is a mad dog, and if you can't kill him, sooner or later you will endanger one party.

He curled up and closed his eyes.

Now that the fire pit has been lit, I guess Na Chengji will be back soon!

One of the compulsory courses for being a criminal police officer is to squat and wait. I think that Cao Peng squatted for six days in order to catch a criminal. This moment of waiting seemed to him nothing at all. Closing his eyes would have made it easier for him to recharge his energy and wait for Na Chengji to come back.

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Little by little, time passed.

About an hour and a half later, there was another sound of footsteps outside the house.

The door was pushed open suddenly, and Cheng Ji, supported by a guard, walked into the room drunk, shouting as he walked.

"Sooner or later, I will let him die a good death!"

Who will not die well?

Cao Peng didn't know.

But when it comes to the conversation they had just now, it should be Wang Meng.

"Master, do you want to take the decanting soup?"

The guard helped Chengji to sit down on the bed and asked cautiously.

Cheng Ji waved his hand drunkly, "Six, you go and rest...... You're going to go into the mountains with me tomorrow morning...... By the way, where did you put the box that Lao Cheng gave me just now? ”

The guard gestured to the side of the bed, "Right next to you."

Master, don't you really need a villain to serve you? The villain will go down first, and if anything happens, you can just call out. ”

"Go down, go down!"

Nariki waved his hand impatiently, and the guards hurriedly exited the room.

It's just that he didn't notice that on the top of the cabinet in the corner of the house, a pair of cold-eyed eyes stared at Chengji through the gap in the wooden railing.

Chengji picked up a bowl of water and took a big sip.

Then he picked up a box, opened it, and laughed non-stop.

The box was not very large, twenty centimeters long, less than ten centimeters wide, and about five centimeters high. On the lid of the box, a delicate pattern is engraved......

Chengji put the box next to him, then took out a jade pendant from his arms and put it in the box as well.

Cao Peng could see clearly on the top of the cabinet where he was, and in that box, there were a few bright and shining golden cakes. Each piece of gold bread is about the size of a baby's fist, and is estimated to weigh around seven or eight taels. And that jade pendant, isn't it the jade pendant that my mother was robbed of?

Cao Peng subconsciously moved, and his feet were accidentally lifted on the wooden fence.

He was startled, and quickly shrank up and lowered his head. However, there was no movement in the room, and after a while, Cao Peng heard a snoring.

When I looked up again, I saw that Chengji had fallen on the bed, sleeping soundly.

The big stone in my heart was finally put back in my stomach. But Cao Peng was not in a hurry to make a move, and continued to curl up on the top of the cabinet, motionless.

After about an hour, it was quiet outside.

In the house, the light of the oil lamps flickered, and the coals in the fire pit flickered brighter and darker.

Naruki snored loudly, apparently asleep...... Cao Peng slowly propped himself up, stretched his legs, and landed gently along the cabinet, and then crawled around, and after observing for a while, he saw that Chengji was indeed sleeping to death, so he slowly got up and walked lightly to the bed.

Gently pulling out the hunting knife, in the light of the room, Chengji's oily fat face was clearly visible.

Cao Peng's heart was pounding.

He raised the hunting knife and slowly approached Chengji's neck, and when the hunting knife was about half a centimeter away from Chengji's neck, he pressed one hand on the back of the knife and slammed it hard...... Poof, the hunting knife sharpened by Cao Peng slashed into Chengji's neck.

Cheng Ji's eyes opened suddenly, but before he could see clearly who the murderer was, Cao Peng held the handle of the knife with his other hand and pulled it hard.

The knife edge left Chengji's body with a stream of blood...... Nariki stared, one hand covered his neck, and blood gurgled down the seams of his hands, instantly staining the bed red. A hand reached out and grabbed Cao Peng's arm, his mouth opened, but he couldn't make a sound.

Cao Peng was not nervous at this time.

Raising his hand was another knife, and he didn't enter the face door of Chengji.

The fat body twitched twice, and Chengji fell in a pool of blood, with his head on the ground, half of his body tilted......

However, Cao Peng also used too much force, so that the hunting knife broke into two with a bang. A blade will be left on Chengji's head!

Cao Peng stuck the half-cut knife at his waist, broke away from Cheng Ji's hand, and then reached out and picked up the box placed on the side of the wooden sleeper.

He opened it and took a look, and the gold and jade pendants were still there. So he took a look into his arms, glanced at Nariki's corpse, and stepped forward to untie a bag from the corpse's waist. I weighed it in my hand, and it was five baht, at least two or three times. Cao Peng didn't hesitate, put the money bag into his arms, and then quietly walked out of the room.

Because Cao Peng's killing was clean and neat, there was not much movement.

The guards in the next room were apparently dead asleep, unaware of the changes that had taken place here. The cold air blew in, which cleared Cao Peng's mind.

He closed the door and saw that there was no movement in the yard, so the cat trotted all the way to the dog's hole.

Returning along the same path, Cao Peng was outside the courtyard wall, arranging the dead grass again. After a glance around, he saw that there was no one, so he trotted all the way down the path and left Cheng Kee Trading Company. ran out three or four hundred meters at once, and Cao Peng stopped, holding on to a tree on the side of the road, bending over and gasping for breath.

In his previous life, he had killed people!

But that's in the capacity of law enforcers......

Now, he is killing people as a criminal, and the excitement and panic are intertwined, so that he can't calm down for a long time.

No, we have to go back quickly!

Leave Zhongyang Town before dawn, otherwise there will be endless troubles.

Thinking of this, Cao Peng straightened up and prepared to go home.

After coming out for so long, he didn't intend to hide anything. Cheng Ji deserves it, and killing him may make Cao Ji more determined.

In the afternoon, Cao Peng heard the conversation between Cao Ji and his wife.

Don't look at what Cao Ji said, but Cao Peng knew that Cao Ji was still a little hesitant.

Perhaps only in this way can Cao Ji no longer have any nostalgia. This Zhongyang Town has now become a place of right and wrong.

After turning a corner, you can see your home if you go further.

Cao Peng's mood was also calm, and he was thinking about his words, when suddenly a person rushed out of the darkness and grabbed his arm.

"Bastard, you dare to kill!"

In an instant, Cao Peng's soul was scattered, his legs were weak, and he almost sat on the ground.

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20 The first watch was served, and at night I drank too much with the people of the publishing house, so I went to bed first......