Li Huaiyu arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, Zhaojiazhuang in the south of the city had a strange fire last night, burning more than 40 people, according to what the minister learned from eyewitnesses, this matter has a lot to do with the two uncles. The minister did not dare to make a decision, so he asked His Majesty to make a decision. ”

The Son of Heaven was shocked when he heard this: "Is there such a thing? ”

Cheng Biting Jin recounted Liu Chengzhi's Zhao Mansion to drive away thieves and make trouble with Zhang's Mansion one by one, and said: "Your Majesty, that Zhang's Mansion just sent someone to take Miss Zhao away at night, and the Zhao Mansion was burned to ruins by fire after dawn the next day, can't this matter be explained that Zhang's Mansion did it?" ”

The Son of Heaven was furious and said: "This Zhang Yun is a dignified soldier of the military department, he should set an example for hundreds of officials, and he loves the people like a son, how can he so wantonly mutilate the people and be lawless?" Two Aiqing, as long as you can come up with ironclad evidence to prove that the fire in Zhaojiazhuang was indeed committed by Zhangfu, I will immediately punish him according to the law, and return Zhaojiazhuang to justice, and never favor personal protection. ”

Cheng Li and the two of them said in unison: "Your Majesty is wise, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

The Son of Heaven issued a holy decree and ordered Li Huaiyu to make every effort to thoroughly investigate the case of the fire in Zhaojiazhuang. Li Huaiyu took the holy decree, left Cuiwei Palace with the same journey, and each led a team of guards to ride out of the palace in a sedan chair, and returned to their respective mansions.

"Daddy is on top, and the child is here." A four-year-old boy kneels in the living room and kowtows to Li Huaiyu.

Li Huaiyu looked very funny and cute, picked him up and hugged him in his arms, and said, "Tianlin, you know so many etiquettes at a young age, and you are very pleased with your father." ”

"Dad, when my mother lets her son grow up, she will also be a good official who serves the country and the people like her father."

"Okay, it's rare that my son doesn't know what to do, and he has the ambition to serve the country. Tianlin, a man lives in heaven and earth, and he must be worthy of the monarchy and the people. Be a person who is loyal to the country and does his best. ”

"Daddy, the kid wrote it down."

It was early afternoon. Li Huaiyu is better in official uniform and wears a black gauze crown. took a vermilion sedan chair and brought the guards and a handsome person to Zhaojiazhuang. But I saw that the courtyard of the village was burned into ruins, and there were many charred corpses in those charred and messy ruins. Under the collapsed embroidery building, the official carried out a female corpse, and after examination, this person had been defiled before her death, and there were signs of strangulation on her neck. It is inferred that the deceased was not burned to death by the fire. Rather, he was strangled to death by life. He checked several charred corpses one by one, and found that they had a little bit of mystery in their noses and lungs. The ingredients of the medicine have not been destroyed by fire. By inference, these people are addicted to inhalation. After the medicine passed out in a coma, he was set on fire to death.

Li Huaiyuxin said: "This can show that Zhaojiazhuang did not have a fire for no reason, but someone deliberately set fire to it." But Miss Zhao has obviously been taken captive, so who is the female corpse in the embroidery building? If the female corpse in the embroidery building is not Miss Zhao, then who set the fire? Could it be ......?"

"Whoosh......" A dart flew towards Li Huaiyu's front door, and one of the guards hurriedly swung his sword and fell to the ground.

The guard picked up the dart and said, "My lord, there is a note on the dart." ”

Li Huaiyu took it apart and took a look. It reads: "If you want to know who the original culprit is, come to the Broken Soul Cliff ten miles outside the city." ”

Li Huaiyu knows that he is in his position, if he can't find out the truth. Neither could he repay the justice of the Zhao family's whole mansion, nor could he hand over the holy decree, he didn't think much about it, and took the escort out of Chang'an City in a sedan chair and came to the Broken Soul Cliff. But I saw that the sky was full of clouds, and the sunset was about to sink in the west; The reeds on the ground swayed left and right in the wind, and the yellow leaves swayed and fell to the ground. Li Huaiyu got off the sedan chair and looked around, and found that the scenery here was pleasant and silent. There wasn't a single figure. However, the guards faintly felt that in this silence, there seemed to be a heavy murderous aura that made people breathless. They looked around left and right. Protect Lord Li in the center. Sure enough, I suddenly saw a flurry of arrows in the reeds and grass. The guards swung their swords and swords to block the arrows, and at the same time prepared to escort Master Li out of this place. Suddenly, dozens of black-clothed masked men flashed out of the reeds, and they instantly started a life-and-death struggle with the guards. The guards were no match for the thieves, and they were all cut down and staggered, and their deaths were hideous.

Li Huaiyu originally had spells and could calculate the past and future, but now his Li family gathered in Wenqu, Wuqu, and Dongdou Samsung, and they could not escape the catastrophe, if he forcibly changed the fate of the Li family and went against the sky, he would inevitably be punished by God, so the catastrophe of the Li family's destruction would be even more unbreakable, so he could only pretend to be a weak scholar and let others slaughter him.

Li Huaiyu's eyes widened, he was very frightened, and cried out: "Heroes, I have no grudges with you in the past, and there is no enmity in the near future, why do you want to assassinate this official?" ”

A person flashed out of the crowd and said, "Li Huaiyu, let you die today." As he spoke, he took off his mask and showed a menacing face.

Li Huaiyu took a closer look, this person was none other than Zhang Yun's second son, Zhang Wenhu, the captain of the light cavalry. He clenched his fists and asked: "Isn't this Captain Zhang, why don't you patrol the capital and train soldiers and horses, but you come here to assassinate your own official?" ”

Zhang Wenhu took two steps and said, "I have to ask your brother Li Huaizhu." Hmph, then Li Huaizhu beat my father and son on the street, making me suffer a lot of shame, and I want him to pay it back a thousand times. He suddenly turned around and pointed at Li Huaiyu and said: "And you, Li Huaiyu, you are a little imperial historian, you dare to lead the order to thoroughly investigate the fire case in Zhaojiazhuang, and you are determined to fight against your master, I must let your kid die without a body." ”

Li Huaiyu said: "So more than 40 people in the whole house of Zhaojiazhuang were burned to death by you, and Miss Zhao was also robbed by you?" ”

"Yes, I did it......"

It turned out that during the day on August 15, Zhang Chenglong and Zhang Wenhu took Wu Liang's family to hang out on Chang'an Street, and happened to meet the glamorous and moving Zhao Xiulan carrying Xiangling maids to buy cosmetics in front of the rouge gouache stall. Zhang Wenhu was walking, when he suddenly stopped and looked at Zhao Xiulan blankly and said, "Eldest brother, how do you see the woman in front of you?" ”

Zhang Chenglong looked back at his younger brother, then turned his head and stared at the woman tightly, grinning: "My mother, this is really a stunner!" ”

The two brothers swaggered to the woman's side, and said to her, "Little beauty, who are you?" ”

Zhao Xiulan saw that these two people were not idle people, so she turned around and left with the maid.

Zhang Wenhu took a few steps forward and said, "Girl, leave an address, if my brother misses you, I can go to you!" ”

The maid stopped Zhang Wenhu and said, "Please respect yourself, my young lady is already famous." She looked back, and Miss was already far away, and she turned around and shouted, "Miss, wait for me!" He also ran after him.

Zhang Wenhu looked at the backs of the two folk girls stupidly and was stunned.

Zhang Chenglong stretched out his hand and shook it a few times in front of his younger brother's eyes, looked at the direction in which the two women disappeared, and said, "Second brother, everyone is far away, don't look at it." ”

Zhang Wenhu came to his senses when he heard his brother speak, shook the folding fan and said: "I don't want to have such a wonderful person in the world, my master is really eye-opening today!" ”

At this time, Wu Liang, a family member, came over and said, "Second master, it's not too early, let's go home?" ”

Zhang Wenhu closed the folding fan, patted Jiading's shoulder, and said, "Wu Liang, you go and investigate to see who the girl is and where she lives." ”

Wu Liang said embarrassedly: "Young Master, this ......"

Zhang Wenhu turned the jade wrench on his thumb and said, "Why, don't you even listen to me?" ”

Wu Liang lowered his head and said, "Du Wei is angry, and the little one will go and investigate." ”

In the evening, Zhang Wenhu sat on a chair, crossed Erlang's legs, shook a folding fan and asked Wu Liang: "How are things going?" ”

Wu Liang bowed down and said, "Young Master, it's all found out." ”

Wen Hu hurriedly put his legs down, closed the folding fan and said, "Oh? Tell me, who is that girl? ”

Wu Liang stood up straight and said, "That girl was originally the daughter of Zhao Yuanwai of Zhaojiazhuang in the south of the city, named Zhao Xiulan. ”

Zhang Wenhu stood up and ordered Wu Liang to summon the six golden steels under his father's seat, and said to them: "The six golden steels, wait until the dead of night, and go to Zhaojiazhuang as soon as possible to bring that Zhao Xiulan back to see your master." ”

The six golden steels clasped their fists and said in unison: "Yes, I'll wait for this to prepare!" ”

On the third watch, the six major Jingang put on night clothes, each brought a steel knife, and ran towards Zhaojiazhuang.

Zhao Xiulan was captured back to Zhang's mansion, and after being molested by that Zhang Wenhu, the two scuffled together. During the fight between the two sides, Zhao Xiulan was unfortunately strangled to death in bed by the thief. After the incident, Zhang Wenhu was very scared and didn't know what to do, so he asked his brother to give him ideas.

Zhang Chenglong was ruthless in order to save his younger brother from a lawsuit, and said: "Since it has caused a big disaster, then don't do anything, burn down the Zhao Mansion, and be a god who doesn't know it." ”

So, the two brothers picked up Zhao Xiulan's body, sneaked into Zhao's mansion, blew the smoke into each room with a thin bamboo pipe, stunned everyone, and put Zhao Xiulan's body on the embroidery floor, and the two thieves set a fire and left.

Listening to that Zhang Wenhu tell the truth, Li Huaiyu was very angry, pointed at him and scolded: "Dog thief, that Zhao Yuanwai is a kind people, and you have no grudges and no grudges, you insulted and killed other people's daughters, and burned to death more than 40 people in the family, so that they suffered a tragedy, you are really unconscionable, pigs and dogs are not as good!" If there is retribution from heaven, you should let you, the thief, have sore scabies on your head, pus on the soles of your feet, and all your internal organs will be torn apart and you will die. ”

Zhang Wenhu waved the long knife in his hand and shouted: "Brothers, quickly dismantle this kid into eight pieces and throw it under the Broken Soul Cliff to feed the wolves." ”

The black-clothed men slowly besieged Li Huaiyu like wolves.

Li Huaiyuxin said: "Chang Xiulan, I have been married to you for less than a year, and you died for no reason, separated from my yin and yang, which made me miss and become ill. In order to keep your body and relieve my lovesickness, I will store your body in the cold cave of Kunlun Mountain. Now it's okay, Li Huaiyu will go to the underworld to reunite with you, and you don't have to suffer from lovesickness anymore. Li Huaiyu laughed three times, jumped to the edge of the Broken Soul Cliff, and fell down the cliff.

Zhang Wenhu and the black-clothed men glanced at the cliff and said, "There is a good chance that the person who jumps off the Broken Soul Cliff will be broken to pieces, and he will definitely die now." He ordered people to throw all the guards in the grass who were loyal to Li Huaiyu off the Broken Soul Cliff, and destroyed the corpses. (To be continued.) )