Chapter 161: Swift Arrest
The portrait drawn by Lu Sheng made everyone gasp. Even the royal painters of the court would never be able to paint such realistic portraits. Soon, the hawker's face jumped on the page, as if the hawker had been pressed directly into the painting.
"Shen Ling, take out this painting for the brothers to identify, is there anyone who recognizes it. β
Lu Sheng said, and immediately painted the second one. When Lu Sheng drew all five paintings, the identification of the five people was successfully completed.
The vendor sells small household items, combs, mirrors, boxes, or sweets. The second is the owner of a noodle restaurant, a cobbler at the entrance of the vegetable market in the west of the city.
Moreover, these five people all came to Jinling about five years ago, interspersed with the crowd, and there were many people in Xuantianwei who had bought their things and eaten their noodles.
On the map of Jinling City, Lu Sheng marked the location of these five people. The five of them are all distributed in the five directions of Jinling City, and there seems to be no connection between them.
"Ladies and gentlemen, these five people are likely to be five of the six Kou in the Central Plains, because they are relatively far apart, I suggest that they act separately and at the same time. There were five people leading the team, and the arrest was carried out at the same time.
Everyone should be careful, among the six Kou in the Central Plains, there is one with extremely high martial arts. And I can't be sure who this martial artist is. Maybe it's the sixth man who never shows up, maybe it's one of the five.
Therefore, I must be on standby in this place to ensure that if that person with great martial arts makes a move, I can rush to support as soon as possible. Lu Sheng pointed to the map and told about the arrest plan.
"Since the Central Plains Liukou are very strange and cunning, once we rush to their target, I am afraid that they will be alert in advance and flee. Duan Fei asked hesitantly.
"Then approach by searching, the Wu family was wiped out, and Xuantian Mansion was very angry, so Xuantian Mansion searched the whole city with great fanfare and interrogated suspicious people.
And the first person to interrogate is the people in the rivers and lakes. In this way, it can give the Central Plains Liukou a reassurance. They hid in Jinling as ordinary people, and they had long been regarded as ordinary people, so they would not be interrogated. When we got closer, we suddenly made a move. β
"Okay, that's it!" Liang Yongren shouted shaking his fat.
"I said Lu Sheng, how did you lock these five people?" Shen Ling's words had been held in his heart for a long time. As soon as the words came out, everyone pricked up their ears.
"These five people watched the excitement at the gate of the Jin Mansion yesterday, and today they watched the excitement at the gate of the Wu Mansion. The two crime sites are thirty miles apart, and they are both early in the morning, are they panicking?"
"That's it?" Shen Ling asked in surprise, feeling a little incomprehensible.
"Lord Lu is wise. But Liang Yongren gave Lu Sheng a thumbs up with admiration, "Shizi, I have encountered similar criminals before, especially serial murderers.
Later, after being caught and interrogated, they all returned to the scene of the crime after finishing the case, and some of them even dangled in front of our arrest. Using this as a basis to arrest people, although it cannot be used as evidence, it is very accurate to arrest people. β
After the meeting was adjourned, Duan Fei, Liang Yongren, Lin Yu, Shen Ling, and Lu Jian each led a team along the road to start the investigation.
The people of Jinling City have already heard about the case that happened this morning. Therefore, everyone can understand that Xuantian Mansion can have such a fierce reaction.
Every time Xuan Tianwei passed by an inn restaurant, he would go in and interrogate him. Stop-and-go, the five teams slowly approached their respective goals.
Lu Sheng stood on top of the tall tower, the sword in his hand gently leaning against the eaves, letting the breeze blow across his face. Lu Sheng closed his eyes, feeling the pulse and fluctuations between heaven and earth.
Today's weather is fine, with a faint cool breeze wafting in the scorching heat of June.
The flags of a noodle shop flutter in the wind, and the kitchen of the noodle shop is set up at the window at the door.
All passers-by can smell the rich aroma of the noodle shop as long as they pass by the door. The owner of the noodle shop is very good at doing business, and putting the kitchen at the front desk is a real advertisement.
"Boss, starving to death, is the noodles ready?"
"Coming, coming......"
The middle-aged boss's smiling face was full of wrinkles, and he brought two bowls of hot noodles to the table, "Guest officer, your noodlesβ"
Suddenly, a team of Xuan Tianwei poured into the door of the noodle shop, Duan Fei swept the noodle shop with cold eyes, and finally fixed his gaze on the noodle shop owner.
"How many officials, do you want to eat noodles?" the noodle shop owner greeted him with a smile.
"The flying needle is broken, and the six Kou in the Guanzhong are closed. Take it!"
"Wait, my dough is getting mushy...... Wait ......" before the owner of the noodle restaurant was shackled. There was not even any resistance from beginning to end.
This point was completely beyond Duan Fei's expectations, if he was really the sixth Kou in Guanzhong, how could he be arrested without resistance? But since he had already taken it, Duan Fei did not continue to think about it, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered someone to take the noodle restaurant owner away.
Not only did the arrest of the noodle restaurant go smoothly, but the arrest of the other four places also went unexpectedly well.
There was no resistance, no fighting, everything seemed to fall into place. It wasn't until all five suspects were brought back that Lu Sheng was convinced that the operation was surprisingly smooth.
In the interrogation room of Xuantian Mansion, Shen Ling, Lu Sheng and the others looked at the five people who knelt down in front of them with solemn faces. Liang Yongren kept comparing the portraits, and there was no doubt that they were the five of them.
Shen Ling and Lu Sheng glanced at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes. Don't...... Caught the wrong one.
"Liukou in Guanzhong, five years ago, rampant in Guanzhong in the Northeast, killing, kidnapping, robbing, blackmailing, you can do everything......" Liang Yongren put away the portrait, took the leather whip in his hand and gently tapped the soles of his shoes.
"You ...... Confession?"
"My lord, in the past five years, we have been waiting for this day to come every day, yes, we are the six heroes of Guanzhong back then, and we also know that the great crime should be cut by a thousand cuts. Adults can ask whatever they want, we just want adults to give our brothers a good time. β
The old shoemaker at the head was very calm, and there was no quibble at all.
When encountering recalcitrant prisoners, Liang Yongren had a way to deal with them, but when he met acquaintances, Liang Yongren didn't know what to do for a while.
Such a cooperation made Liang Yongren muttered in his heart, this can't be a group of fakes, right?
"Five years ago, you were rampant, and I think you couldn't remember how many evil things you did. And we have a foot-thick file of your crimes.
This is not what this official wants to know, this official wants to know now, why did you come to Jinling five years ago, and then wait until today?" Lu Sheng took over the conversation and asked instead of Liang Yongren.
"Five years ago, we had planned to wash our hands of another big golden basin, but that year, the Yellow River was flooded, and we couldn't find a suitable target for several days. I thought about leaving the Yellow River Valley and going to the Central Plains to try my luck.
It seems that it is also this time, we were unlucky, and we met the Ice Spirit Sword Immortal Bu Feiyan. The six of us were picked off by Bu Feiyan in one move, and our tendons and tendons were abolished. Except for the fourth child who died, several of us survived.
Without martial arts, we had no choice but to withdraw from the rivers and lakes. And in the land of Guanzhong, there are too many people who want to break our corpses into thousands of pieces, so we have to move south, and we arrived in Jinling. β
"You have been abolished from your martial arts?" Lu Sheng asked in surprise, and Shen Ling and the others also showed an expression of disbelief.
"Naturally, the martial arts were abolished, otherwise, you might not have caught us so smoothly. β
This would explain why the arrest went so smoothly. However, how can they, who have been abolished martial arts, destroy the Jin family?
Lu Sheng's eyes flashed, "Your martial arts were abolished by Bu Feiyan, why didn't she kill you back then?"
"Back then, it was the fourth child who teased Bu Feiyan in his words, but Bu Feiyan didn't know our identity, so the fourth child died, and we were abolished. β
"So, didn't you do the case of the Jin Mansion and the Wu family?"
"Naturally not, let alone now, even if our martial arts have not been abolished, we can't move the golden sword invincible. β
"Since you didn't do it, why did you show up at the scene of the crime twice?"
"Someone is impersonating us to commit a crime, of course we have to go and see it. From the first time he pretended to be us, we knew that we were not far from that knife. β
Lu Sheng's face became solemn, he looked at these five people deeply for a long time, and slowly took out a file from his side.
"Five years ago, you could say that you had the greatest evil, but in the past five years, you have become a bodhisattva with a good heart? In the past five years, you have often helped poor families, given alms to beggars, and sponsored children to go to school.
If it weren't for our investigation, I really wouldn't know you did so many good deeds? Tell me why?"
"There is a saying in Buddhism that the sea of suffering is boundless, and turning back is the shore. There is also a saying that puts down the butcher's knife and becomes a Buddha on the spot. We also know that people like us who are traitors and evildoers will not become Buddhas even if they put down their butcher knives.
After being abolished by Bu Feiyan's martial arts, we remembered a warning in the rivers and lakes that those who come out to mix will have to be paid back sooner or later. When people become honest, many of their minds will change with them.
We have nightmares at night, we dream of those we kill...... They will come to us. Maybe it's to make sure you have peace of mind, maybe it's to atone for your sins as much as you can. But we also know that these small favors can offset the sins of the past? After death, we will not be able to do anything in the eighteen layers of hell. β
"Since you have such an awareness, then the official doesn't say any lies, the state has national laws, even if you have reformed in five years, but the accounts of five years ago cannot be counted like this. I will ask the prefect and the yamen to give you a lenient sentence, and Ling Chi will change it to a decisive decision. β
"Lord Xieβ"
The six Kou in Guanzhong were imprisoned, and Lu Sheng and others got together again.
Shen Ling knocked on the table with a wry smile, "What is this? What is this? The murderer imitated the six Kou in Guanzhong to commit murder, and in the end we arrested the real Six Kou in Guanzhong? But the murderer still didn't catch it?"
"No! The six Kou of Guanzhong are in Jinling, perhaps the mastermind behind the scenes knows, and he deliberately used the methods of the Six Kou of Guanzhong to handle the case, just in the hope that we will find out the Six Kou of Guanzhong.
So, what is the purpose of the murderer? Is it just that he wants us to arrest the six criminals in Guanzhong?" Duan Fei said speechlessly, feeling that the mastermind behind the scenes was an idiot who took off his pants and farted.
"No! the murderer's purpose is to distract us!" Lu Sheng said, tapping on the table.