Chapter 18: The Turning Point

The Huns, who had been slapped in the face, were suddenly unconvinced.

"Only sneak attack, what kind of hero is it!"

As soon as he heard this, there was a story, Cheng Liu grabbed Dian Wei, who still wanted to beat him, and asked, "What's the matter with the sneak attack?" ”

"Harm, this man saw that his companions had been killed by me, and immediately wanted to escape, so I directly picked up a stone and hit him on the back of the head, and then I brought him back."

Cheng Liu already had pictures in his mind, but this was not the most important thing, he didn't want to ask these childish questions.

"Why did you Huns come to Danyang County?"

The man snorted coldly.

"Why? I heard that Danyang County has just taken up a county guard, and we think that you must not be familiar with this place, so we plan to station a group of people here first, as for the reason, this has nothing to do with you. ”

Cheng Liu suddenly scolded secretly, Damn, this has nothing to do with us, this is my territory!

But on the surface, he still smiled and said: "Then since you are here, why do you want to kill people again?" ”

"We didn't kill those people, we lost a scimitar earlier, so we have been looking for it for the past few days, but unfortunately we haven't found it, I don't know why you want us Huns."

Didn't they kill it?

Cheng Liu's head suddenly became a little big.

"First, there is no place to sell scimitars here, so there should be no second person besides you Huns. In addition, you said that your scimitar was lost, but why is it so coincidental that as soon as the scimitar is lost, someone loses his life because of the scimitar? ”

Although the Huns had a scruffy beard, they were delicate, and they hurriedly explained at this time.

"You didn't ask us to investigate at all, you wanted us for no reason, and even if there was evidence, we couldn't give it to you in the first place. In addition, the reason why the scimitar was lost was because we didn't go out with the knife when it rained, and when we got home, we found that the scimitar had been stolen. ”

"And since the loss of the scimitar, we have been searching, but there is no clue at all, until you talk about this problem, it occurred to us that if we continue to stay here, I am afraid that the suspicion will become bigger and bigger, so let our former trading partners send us out of the city."

Cheng Liu saw that the head of his analysis was the Tao, so he directly said the key point.

"But that evening on Square Street, you made a jade bracelet, and there was a corpse under the ditch not far from the pawnshop, you should know, right?"

The man thought for a moment, as if reminiscing.

"We didn't actually want to be a jade bracelet that evening, and the jade bracelet itself wasn't worth much silver, so we didn't want to be it at all, we just wanted to see if our scimitar was in the pawnshop."

Indeed, if the scimitar is lost and stolen by a thief, it is likely that it will be exchanged for money at the pawnshop in the first place.

But in this case, the clue seems to have been cut off from him.

"Well, even if you didn't kill people, at least I still have to know the purpose of your stay here, right? I am the county guard of Danyang, and I should know what the Gentiles are doing on my territory. ”

The man sighed, as if he was struggling in his heart, and only replied after a moment: "Alas, we heard that the newly appointed county guard of Danyang County is carrying out drastic reforms, such as building water conservancy and building some workshops, we just want to come and see, by the way, how you govern the county......

It's as simple as that?

Although Cheng Liu didn't believe it, it sounded like this, and it seemed to be very reasonable.

"In that case, why so many people? One or two people will do, right? ”

The Huns suddenly laughed and said: "How can it be so simple, although it is only a superficial record of this matter, but your governance measures are long-lasting, we must rotate, one person will stay for a few days and then go back, and this place is very exclusive to foreigners, if a person lives here for a long time, it is inevitable that he will be depressed." ”

I see.

But at this time, the Huns suddenly provided another clue.

"After we came out of the pawnshop, you sent someone to follow us?"

Cheng Liu didn't expect him to ask directly, and he was a little embarrassed, but he still nodded.

"Actually, in addition to you, there are a group of people who are also following us, but not from your Danyang County. We didn't look into it because it had nothing to do with our plans and didn't notice it, but that night, there was another group of people besides us. ”

In other words, on a rainy day that night, someone was behind the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finch?

"How did you find out?"

The Huns immediately replied: "It's very simple, you originally followed us, but then I don't know why you deviated, it was a rainy day, and the road was not easy to walk, and it was at night, so it was normal to follow the loss, but now I heard you say this, and then I thought about it, this group of people seems to be deliberately trying to lead you to the corpse." ”

"In this way, all the contradictions are concentrated in the hands of us Huns, even if there are too many, it is useless, after all, you saw with your own eyes, the knife wound on the corpse was caused by a scimitar, and there are not a few blacksmiths in the entire Danyang County who can make scimitars, so there is no need to investigate at all, you can point the finger at us."

What he said is indeed very reasonable, but Cheng Liu is too lazy to dwell on this now, and said directly to him: "I can let you go now, but you can't appear in Danyang County again in the future, otherwise you should know the consequences." ”

"Don't worry, if something like this happens, do you think I'll stay here? It's a pity, my friends died unjustly! ”

Cheng Liu didn't bother to listen to his crying, and after asking Dian Wei to loosen his rope, he sent him away.

"Lord, do you believe what he says?"

Cheng Liu smiled and asked rhetorically, "Have you ever seen the official words of the Huns so good?" There is a problem with this person, whether the person was killed by him or not, there is a problem, you find someone to follow, although there will be no gain in the short term, but it is important to find out what their real purpose is in Danyang County. ”

Dian Wei nodded, and immediately followed out with a long knife.

Sweet potato waited outside the door of the backyard for a long time, and finally saw Cheng Flowing, and after putting on his coat, he asked with concern: "Childe, the weather is getting colder, Yingchuan may be colder, let's go over, let's prepare more thick clothes, right?" ”

After Cheng Liu hummed, he walked forward on his own.

Halfway through, he said, "Prepare two carriages tomorrow morning and let Xia Chan and Chun Die follow." ”

Sweet potato was stunned, and a smile squeezed out of the corner of his mouth: "Yes, Childe." ”

Except for the highest martial arts of these five people, he has never seen real kung fu in each of them, and Cheng Liu still has some expectations.