The county commander was stunned and agreed, and Song Yichang began to carefully inspect every detail of the mansion, first the triple courtyard, then the study, courtyard and timber yard in the backyard, and there was not a single part of the entire courtyard that was not carefully inspected. It wasn't until he checked Zhao Tianren's master's bedroom that he suddenly laughed. You carefully looked inside and outside the bedroom a few times, and returned to the gate and said to the county order: "It seems that Xiao Gongzi is guilty of escaping, but I think you haven't even found that Fang Shoushan stone, and the confession has not been recorded, so it is not so easy to close the case clearly." ”

"I have an extremely important eyewitness, and if there is a confession from this witness, I think you will be much stronger when you close the case."

The county commander said: "Who is it?" Please sir please sir to come out immediately. ”

"I'm afraid this matter is a little difficult," Song Yichang said: "This witness is estimated to be extraordinary in martial arts, and he can't be caught easily if there are fewer people." ”

The county magistrate said: "There are always more than 50 people in the two classes of officials and strongmen here, can you still make that person run away?" ”

Song Yichang nodded and said, "In this case, please come with me, everyone must be careful, I am afraid that the witness is too powerful, and ten or eight people are not his opponents." ”

After saying that, he whispered a few words in the ear of the squad leader, and the squad leader showed surprise on his face, and then left with a few officials.

Song Yichang took the county commander, the county lieutenant and dozens of people to Zhao Tianren's bedroom, pushed the door in, and shouted at the east wall with only a few simple pieces of furniture: "Master Zhao, you have been hiding in the wall for so long, you should come out to see the sun." ”

In the midst of everyone's shock, a secret door was pushed open with a creak in the corner of the wall, and an old man with a slightly obscene and unusually sharp eyes walked out slowly.

Song Yichang turned to the county order and said, "This is the important witness Zhao Tianren and Zhao Weng who have to be seen in this case." ”

As if he had seen a ghost, the county commander said in a trembling voice: "You—Aren't you burned to death?" So what kind of case are we investigating these days? ”

Zhao Tianren did laugh a few times, his voice seemed to be shaking countless sand and stones into a copper pot, hoarse and ugly: "Really powerful scholar of the Southern Dynasty, how did you see through my plan?" ”

"It's simple." Song Yichang said slowly: "Your Excellency is worthy of being a first-class smart person in Daye County, you set up this trap to frame Xiao Gongzi, and no one in the tens of thousands of people in Hexian County can see through it." It's not that everyone is not resourceful enough, it's just that your plan is so subtle and hidden that even I can't see through the mystery. ”

"It's a pity that you lack the so-called point-to-point skill of a painter, and the painting that you yourself participated in has ruined the entire delicate and meticulous web of conspiracy." Song Yichang said: "The half-bloody handprint you asked the servant woman to imprint last night is the fatal mistake that made you reveal your hiding!" ”

Zhao Tianren was stunned for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "I originally knew that Lu Dao shouldn't find Zhang Shi to add that handprint, but if Xiao Rong's case is not settled as soon as possible, it will not be easy for me to calmly get out and go back to the north." ”

"Yes, if it weren't for your superfluous action. I won't see through that you're still alive. Song Yichang said: "Until yesterday, when I inspected the entire mansion, I clearly remembered that there was no such handprint on the wall of the Moon Gate, so the only explanation was that it was a ploy to frame him." I think this is the imprint left by Zhao Gongzi who inadvertently dipped his hand in the ink and pressed it on the paper when he was appreciating the stone, and it is estimated that you didn't care about it at the time, until you remembered afterwards that you wanted to use this method to further tighten the trap. ”

"Not bad." Zhao Tianren sneered: "I don't want this small move to be peeped through by you, this is my wisdom and willingness." ”

Daye County Commander said loudly: "You and Xiao Rong Gongzi don't know each other, why do you want to weave such a vicious trap to frame him!" ”

"Who is in the mood to frame this gentleman," Zhao Tianren snorted from his nostrils: "This is just to teach someone a lesson." ”

"The person you are talking about is Xiao Rong's uncle, that is, Meng Shuai's tooth general in Huangzhou." Song Yichang said: "Just because you are a spy from the north, and you were tracked down urgently by Xiao Rong's uncle, so you came up with this method, one can fake your death to get out, and the other is to take revenge on Xiao Rong's uncle." ”

"Sure enough, it's a smart person." Zhao Tianren is also not obscure: "I am really a subordinate of Zhang Rou of the Mongolian Han Army, and I don't need to tell you my real name, but the northerners give me the nickname Buddha with a thousand faces, I think you have also heard of it." ”

Song Yichang stretched out his hands: "I've never heard of it." ”

Zhao Tianren snorted and continued: "That Xiao Rong's uncle has been tracking me for half a year, and I am about to find out my existence in Daye County, so I just don't do anything, first cheat to death to escape, and then set a trap to kill Xiao Rong, so as to win some time for me to get out of the north and return to the north." ”

The county commander sneered: "You didn't expect that Mr. Song would see through your treacherous schemes. Not to mention personal revenge, even if you want to get out, it is impossible. ”

As soon as he gave the order, more than a dozen catchers rushed forward and surrounded Zhao Tianren.

Zhao Tianren is known as the Buddha of a Thousand Faces, which means that he is proficient in the art of disguise, not how strong his martial arts are. When the officials of the Southern Dynasty pounced, he did not resist.

But on the other hand, Song Yichang underestimated the servant woman with martial arts, and when the head of the squad went to lock it with the officials, the servant woman knocked down three servants, injured one of the arms of the head of the class, and fled from the county seat in a hurry.

On the other hand, in addition to taking Zhao Tianren's family into custody, the county government also acquitted Xiao Rong in a timely manner.

The first thing Xiao Rong did after he was released from prison was to go to the inn to thank Song Yichang for saving his life.

"Needless to say, Song was entrusted with loyalty." Song Yichang took out a letter from his baggage: "This is Bai Yijie's handwritten letter to you, and you may already know the things in it." ”

Xiao Rong opened the letter and read it carefully, and said excitedly: "So, Brother Bai plans to mix the mineral deposits of Daye, Pingxiang and Hanyang, and the pawns of the craftsmen?" This is really a bold idea, just let me preside over the affairs of Daye smelting, I am just an ordinary landing talent who does not learn and has no skills, how can I take on such a major task? ”

"The person Bai Yijie has a crush on will never be wrong." Song Yichang patted Xiao Rong on the shoulder: "Do it well, with Bai Yijie in front of us to open the way, the road to fame is at your feet." ”

Xiao Rong asked, "Then what are Brother Song's plans?" ”

"I'm leaving Daye County now," Song Yichang showed an inexplicable smile: "But before leaving, there is one more small thing to do." ”

At the foot of Mangdang Mountain in Yongcheng County, Henan Province, is a wide plain, which was originally used as a farm for farming in the Jin Kingdom. It was once a poetic pastoral. The Great Khan of Wokotai went south to Luoyang, passed by this place when he took Kaifeng, and ravaged all the crops of tens of thousands of dumps, and slaughtered all the peasants. The village had burned down, it had been unoccupied for years, and the weeds had grown several feet long, almost obscuring the white skeletons that were lying all over them. Now it looks like an uninhabited meadow.

This is the environment that makes every Mongolian feel at ease. It was not until more than ten years after entering the Central Plains that the Mongolian nobles who lived uncomfortably in the high-walled compound proposed to the Great Khan of Ögedei that all the Han inhabitants in the north be exterminated and all the land used as pasture. This ridiculous suggestion is naturally impossible to put into practice, and it is said that it is the result of the persuasion of the good minister Yelu Chucai on how much cloth and grain can be collected in the Han land, but in fact, many of the main forces used by the Mongols to attack the Jin State are the warlords of the Han land, and it is undoubtedly a matter of letting them die by killing the people in their territory.

Although this suggestion was not implemented, the Mongol generals under Wokotai, and even the generals of the Han, Jurchen, and Khitan tribes who had lived in the Central Plains for generations, carried out the Mongol tradition of "slaughtering the city if they dared to shoot an arrow", and slaughtered the Central Plains on a large scale, and millions of civilians were anointed with blood on the blades of the barbarians.

On the steppe, a group of Mongol cavalry pressed a group of numb civilians towards a mountain. Most of the old and weak of them have died on the way under the severe urging of the enemy, and the rest of them are just stealing their lives, but today, the days of stealing life have come to an end.

On the top of the hill were two rows of ironclad horsemen, and the banners held high were written in Uighur script. A tall cavalryman stood in front of the cavalry with the reins in one hand and a large beetle made of cow hair in the other.

A thousand households jumped out of the queue, pointed the iron rod in his hand at the people below the mountain, and shouted: "The people ahead, kill them all, not one will be left!" ”

The cavalry responded with a thunderous roar, and the cavalry scattered into a sparse formation and rushed down the hill with the sound of the mustache.

The unknown people suddenly saw the Mongolian cavalry on the mountain rushing towards them like crazy, and no longer ignored the shouts of the escorted cavalry, they turned their heads and fled in all directions.

The cavalry who rushed down the mountain chased the fleeing people while beginning to fire their bows and arrows, and it was evident that they had all undergone strict bow and arrow training, and every time they raised their hands and opened their bows, one of the people must have fallen from the arrow. As they got closer and closer to the people running on foot, the frequency of firing the bow became more and more urgent, and at the end of the day, they were all like a series of flying beads, and the rain of arrows continued to shoot towards fewer and fewer people, and there were only a few dozen middle-aged men who were desperately running in the front. The cavalry in front put away their bows and arrows, drew their long knives at their waists, and fiercely shouted the name of their families and rushed towards the last survivors.