Qin Lin borrowed a few fast horses from Chen Wangmo, and galloped wildly with Lu Fatzi and others towards Guazhou Ferry, and when they arrived at the ferry, there was a centipede clipper of the Yangtze River Sailor stopped at the pier, and everyone rushed over like a whirlwind, and even people and horses rushed to the boat.

The one who led the boat was the patrol officer of the river, and he was surprised to see the group.

A few sailors shouted: "Woe to you, there are thieves robbing military ships!" ”

Niu Dali was not polite to them, and slapped the sailor with his head dizzy, "Open your dog's eyes and see clearly, this is General Qin Linqin, the deputy of the Jinyi Guard!" ”

Qin Lin showed the waist card of the deputy Qianhu of the Jinyi Guard and shook it, and said in a deep voice: "Immediately drive to Zhenjiang, delay for a while, and arrest you to go down to the North Town Fusi Heavenly Prison!" ”

"Sail, hurry up!" Officer Ge shouted at the top of his throat, looking at the Jinyi Wei Deputy Qianhu waist card that Qin Lin was holding, his heart was furious.

Time was pressing, Qin Lin asked Lu Yuanzhi to take a stack of silver tickets, if he could get to the whole ship in advance, everyone would be rewarded, and he glanced at Niu vigorously, this guy punched the railing with a calf thickness on the side of the boat, and if anyone was lazy, he would also greet him like this.

The sailors immediately hoisted their sails and rowed their oars, but the hull of the ship remained motionless.

"What's going on?" Niu Dali opened his eyes and lifted Officer Ge up.

"Anchor, no anchor yet!" Sentry Ge's face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly ordered two sailors to untie the cable.

Qin Lin took out the seven-star sword, and the sword light flashed, and the cable as thick as a child's arm was broken, and he said lightly: "I don't need it now." ”

O anchor, my anchor! Officer Ge wanted to cry without tears.

Knowing that he had bumped into a ruthless person today, Officer Ge didn't dare to ask why Qin Lin had suddenly changed from a merchant to a deputy Qianhu of Jinyiwei, let alone what this group of fierce and vicious people were going to do in Zhenjiang, so he kept urging the sailors, pulling the sails to take advantage of the strong northwest wind, and shaking the oars fast.

The centipede clipper boat has many long oars sticking out from both sides of the side, looking like a big centipede, and the sailors are paddling hard, and the boat is as fast as an arrow from a string, cleaving the waves on the river.

There were a few river boats on the river, and the centipede clipper swished through them, and the old boatman on the big white boat behind him blinked his eyes and scratched his head to look at the sky: "There is still half a year left for the Dragon Boat Festival, and the people of the Yangtze River sailor have started to practice dragon boating so early?" ”

The speed of this centipede clipper is only a few points faster than the battle charge, and Zhenjiang and Guazhoudu are not far away, and they soon came to Zhenjiang Wharf.

"It's yours!" Qin Lin threw out a few silver tickets and threw them on the deck, and Niu Dali and the others rushed onto the trestle like a gust of wind.

The sailors were so tired that they were about to lose their strength, and they fell down to rest, and the only one still standing was Officer Ge, who was holding a few silver tickets in his hand, and his eyes were a little dull.

The sailors stepped forward to take a look, and suddenly they all exclaimed--the tickets in the hands of the sentry officer were all in denominations of one hundred taels, and there were at least seven or eight of them!

"General Xie Qin rewards! General Qin is rising step by step, and he will be crowned marquis! The sailors shouted in unison.

Qin Lin had already run away like a gust of wind.

He held the waist card of the Jinyi Guard all the way, and hit the horse and went straight into the city, and several guards guarding the door did not figure out what was going on, so they retreated to both sides.

Niu Dali shouted like a thunderbolt: "Jinyi Wei is handling the case under the order of Liu Dudu, where does the Cang ambassador of Zhenjiang Mansion live, take us to ...... quickly"

Before a few city defenders could react, Qin Lin waved his hand vigorously at Niu and said with a wry smile: "No need, someone is one step ahead of us." ”

In the sky above a private house in the west of the city, the green smoke still fills after the fire.

When Qin Lin arrived, the neighbors were still afraid of the fire, and many people stood on the street with basins and buckets, talking about the fire just now.

The courtyard house where he lives is covered with stagnant water from the fire, and a large amount of soot and coke-like things float on the water, making it look dirty.

It was winter, the north wind was blowing strongly, but there were still remnants of the scorching temperature when the fire was raging, and the air was filled with a choking smell of burning, the hall house must be the place where the fire started, and all the debris there had been burned to ashes, Qin Lin even found the remains of a table of eight immortals from the ashes - some gray-white combustion products distributed in a square.

The fire and smoke had raged wildly here, leaving gray-black marks on the lime-painted walls, twisted and hideous, like the teeth and claws of a fire demon.

Qin Lin could distinguish the strange smell of burnt proteins in the ordinary burnt smell, his eyes were half-narrowed, and his face was unprecedentedly dignified, because the appearance of this smell at the fire scene meant that the most undesirable thing had happened.

Following the scent, Qin Lin found his target: a charred corpse.

It was pitch black, the surface of its body had been completely charred, and its posture was twisted into spasms, as if it had struggled violently in its lifetime.

The prefect of Zhenjiang came in a sedan chair, only one step later than Qin Lin, and the two sides exchanged two words, Qin Lin made his intention clear and stated that the case was taken over by Jinyiwei.

"Fatty, it's your turn!" Qin Lin made a gesture towards Lu Yuanzhi.

"No, this is obviously burned...... Lu Yuanzhi muttered, but he still took out the tools and began to dissect the charred corpse.

To be honest, this charred corpse is black, and the smell is like burnt barbecue, which is really terrifying, except for Qin Lin, who is as cold as ice as soon as he enters the state, and this fat man Lu whose nerves are thicker than an elephant, there is really no third person who can dissect it casually.

"Forgive me for taking the liberty of it," the prefect of Zhenjiang arched his hand: "This person seems to have been burned to death, so why should General Qin?" ”

Before the words fell, Lu Fatzi had already shouted: "! There were no blisters or soot in his lungs, and this man was burned after death! ”

In fact, the distortion of the limbs looks like a struggle, which is not ironclad evidence of death caused by fire, because even if a person dies, the physiological life of the muscles does not disappear immediately.

Qin Lin told the fat man this truth, and he meant to point out his assistant, but the prefect of Zhenjiang listened to it beside him, and he was already impressed: no wonder this person can be a deputy of Jinyi Wei at a young age, and sure enough, he has a family history, so he can't be a hereditary commander or a commander in his family.

Now that it has been determined that the deceased was killed before his death and his body was burned after death, Qin Lin's previous inference has been confirmed: Caoyun Yinzi was in Zhenjiang Mansion, and it was the Cang Ambassador surnamed Cui and Shi Jiao who colluded with each other to do it!

The only thing I didn't expect was that the White Lotus Sect's response was so quick and effective that it was directly eliminated from the **, sacrificing the lives of the people involved in the case, and completely cutting off the path of investigation.

The White Lotus Sect is indeed mysterious and weird, and its methods are unusually ruthless.

Since the person in charge had already died, Qin Lin hurriedly asked the prefect to cooperate in searching for Kuding who was transporting silver to the boat.

The family of the deceased was not in Zhenjiang, and there were only two rough girls and a small servant in his house, all of whom were frightened enough by the sudden fire.

Qin Lin patiently interrogated them, did he know who the surname Cui was dealing with, what friends he had friends with, and what his whereabouts were these days.

Helplessly, these few people didn't know anything, even if they threatened to use heavy punishment, they were at a loss, and Qin Lin concluded that they really didn't know.

Soon the arrest of Zhenjiang Mansion also returned, bringing news that was very unfavorable to the detection: all the Kuding involved in the case had disappeared without a trace, and not even one of them could be found!

"me!" Lu Fatzi was so angry that he smashed his fist against the wall, it hurt too much, and after taking it back, he pinched it behind him and rubbed it.

Qin Lin couldn't help but be glad that he had made the decision to investigate before, if the White Lotus Sect had discovered the intention of the investigation from the beginning, I am afraid that they would have done it more carefully and thoroughly, in that case, he would really be blinded and would not be able to find any clues.

Now, although the White Lotus Sect also reacted as quickly as possible after he discovered the clues, it was only one step faster after all, and maybe there were still some clues to be found.

Qin Lin interrogated the two rough girls with a pleasant face, interrogating the personal maid more attentively, trying to take out something useful from their mouths.

I especially asked if there were any big objects at home, which disappeared before and after the boat went to Zhenjiang Mansion to load silver.

Lu Yuanzhi and Niu Dali both secretly praised Qin Lin's clever question, something that can replace 500,000 taels of silver should not be small.

The rough girl and the little girl were puzzled, and muttered to themselves, "Big objects? How big is it? ”

Fat Lu couldn't help but be discouraged when he heard this, no matter how big the object is, the surname Cui can't be used as 500,000 Caoyin, let alone make Caoyin disappear suddenly! A few people have always unpacked the box and seen that the silver ingots are still inside, and the ones in Zhenjiang Mansion are probably mainly cooperating!

"Think about it, think about it again", Qin Lin coaxed the little guy and Yahuan with a pleasant face, "Whoever comes up with useful clues will be rewarded by this official." ”

The little guy was the first to remember: "Oh, yes! Ten days ago, the owner of the house had bought a large wine gourd, filled with a pot full of spirits, and the small one had been secretly drunk many times, but around the seventh day of December, the gourd was gone. ”

What can a big wine gourd have to do with the Caoyin case?

A rough girl also said tentatively: "About half a month ago, the owner of the house bought a whole bag of red salt, afraid that there would be dozens of catties, and kept it behind the door. The maid had ringworm on her feet two days ago, and she was going to get some red salt to soak her feet, but when she went to look for it, she found that the red salt had gone. Sir, does what the servant said count? ”

Red salt, and Cao Yin are even more incompatible, Lu Fatzi and the others were extremely disappointed and became depressed.

Qin Lin smiled and bent his eyes, and rewarded the three meeting tickets to the rough girl and the little maid.

"Interesting, maybe I've already found the mystery of the disappearance of the silver ingot!" Qin Lin laughed and stood up: "Prepare the horse, let's go back to Sanwan!" ”

(To be continued)