Chapter 24: Discovering the Clues
The man hid behind a broken wall, stumbling to escape through the uncollapsed house. Chen Tongsheng turned over and dismounted, rushed straight over, jumped on the broken wall, stepped lightly a few times, and then crossed a pile of wood and stone obstacles, fell in front of the man, turned around and kicked the man, sweeping the man to the ground.
It was a woman who fell to the ground, and she didn't look like that kind of girl who was weak and impassive, and after falling to the ground, she fell to the wall and immediately stood up, looking at Chen Tongsheng vigilantly and fearfully.
Song Zhilan couldn't see the scene behind the broken wall clearly, and shouted as she ran: "Chen Tongsheng!" ”
She ran a few steps to it, and when she saw that she was hiding from a woman who looked ordinary and dressed in clothes, she also asked Chen Tongsheng to block it, and immediately let go of half of her heart, and said: "The more silent you are, the more bold you are, and you dare to rush first." ”
He raised his chin at the woman: "What's your name?" Where? What are you doing here? ”
When the woman first heard Song Zhilan speak, the complexion on her face changed several times, and her eyes fixed on Chen Tongsheng's face for a long time before she said, "...... What are you here for? ”
Her voice was a little hoarse, and Chen Tongsheng saw that her lips were chapped and her face was pale, not like she was with the dark department or the Imperial Doctor, so he said, "Do things." ”
The corners of Wang Chengnan's mouth moved, and he wanted to laugh a little, but this action tore the skin on his lips and overflowed with blood beads. Song Zhilan asked tightly, "What about you?" What are you here for? ”
She still laughed: "Are you Chen Tongsheng?" ”
Chen Tongsheng looked at her, and he already had a premonition in his heart. Song Zhilan didn't answer, and took a step forward and said: "The whole village of Kushui Village secretly hides Feiguang, and you sit on the sin of the five clans, you appear here alone, aren't you from Kushui Village?" Still is...... You're here for another purpose? ”
Whatever the purpose, it would be very suspicious to come to this burned village on purpose, especially since she was most likely the one who wandered outside the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.
The other party did not hide it, and even turned a blind eye to Song Zhilan's temptation and hostility, just looked at Chen Tongsheng and said: "Little Queen Chengnan, the daughter of Orion, I came here to find Feiguang." ”
Song Zhilan smiled deliberately: "The flying light hidden in Kushui Village has already been burned out, where is it." What's more, you are just looking for it, why didn't you come earlier and delay it for so long? ”
"Because I was before, let me be this person," she stretched out her hand and pointed at Chen Tongsheng: "Arrested and put in prison." ”
This is the man who was arrested as a substitute for the dead! Chen Tongsheng's attitude suddenly eased inexplicably, and he glanced at Song Zhilan.
The news in the dark department was that Fang Heming had taken too much Feiguang, fell into madness, and went on a killing spree in Kushui Village, but it happened to call the officers and soldiers of Wankai County who received the news and went to arrest him, and had to correct Fang Heming on the spot.
It can be said that in this way, not only did they cover up the crimes they committed in Kushui Village, but they also ruined Fang Heming's last reputation.
It's really ruined, and you can't die well.
As an apprentice in Kushui Village with Fang Heming, Chen Tongsheng is also suspected of smoking Feiguang and killing villagers.
can look at the appearance of the person on the other side who was arrested as himself, but it doesn't look like he has been interrogated by the secret department, although he is emaciated, but at least he is still dignified, and he doesn't have the appearance of being driven out that night, and he will be released at this time.
Chen Tongsheng became more and more confused, saying that she was safe, that the master had died tragically, that she was not safe, she was unaware of this time in the Chen Mansion, and even ran all over the city in the middle of the night to collect evidence and slash the enemy, but there was nothing to do. Even the person who was put in prison as if she was not missing an arm or leg, let alone endangering his life.
"So, why would you, be released?"
Wang Chengnan smiled miserably: "They think that I will definitely be able to find the flying light hidden from the Fengchi Wharf in Kushui Village." ”
"I have nothing to hide," she said, "do you know about the Fengchi Pier Flying Light case?" My dad was the one who was involved in this and was killed by himself. ”
Strictly speaking, whether Wang Orion is dead or not, Wang Chengnan has not witnessed it with his own eyes. But judging by the tone of her voice, she would rather this dad die.
"My dad doesn't eat it, but it's been selling Feiguang for a long time." Wang Chengnan's words began like this.
According to Wang Chengnan's confession, Wang Orion began to sell Feiguang privately a few years ago, and gradually only Wang Chengnan was in charge of the shops on the street. Although she knew that this was a bad thing, she didn't have the determination to kill her relatives in righteousness, so she had to pretend not to know and keep silent. A few months ago, Wang Orion behaved abnormally, and finally one evening after he went out with an abnormal look, Wang Chengnan couldn't help but follow. Wang Orion went straight out of the city, and indeed picked up a train of mule-drawn wagons on the mountain road.
But then she almost got lost in the unfamiliar mountains, and stumbled all the way to Kushui Village, but she didn't find Wang Orion, and the shadow of the goods, and then she was alarmed by the commotion from afar, and ran through the woods to the vicinity of the village's house, and then the fire ignited, and she let the explosion fall from a height, and when she passed through the backyard of the village, she saw a bow on the ground. In the end, she was born in Orion, and she was more familiar with a bow than a knife, so she subconsciously grabbed it and carried it on her back.
Then she panicked on the mountain road, was caught by the officers and soldiers who left, and sent to a cell.
Wang Chengnan told the officials when she first went to prison, but she was transferred from the local prison to the Criminal Department, and then to Dali Temple, and no one paid attention to her. It seems that those people don't care whether it is Chen Tongsheng himself who is holding it. It wasn't until yesterday that Shaoqing of Dali Temple came to see her and released her from prison temporarily.
As Chen Tongsheng listened, he walked around the village quickly, just as Song Zhilan said, the original stock of this Kushui Village had burned out as early as the explosion. The cellars in some yards were directly blown up, and some of them were blown out of a black hole, barely maintaining a state of imminent disintegration.
She squatted down and looked inside, Song Zhilan took out a fire fold from her arms and asked, "Throw it in and take a look?" ”
"......" Chen Tongsheng said: "If the light does not fly, it is not burned out......"
"Such a big fire." Song Zhilan pulled the fabric hanging down from somewhere next to her, which had already burned the fire into a black curl, and she broke it as soon as she pulled it: "Is there anything left?" ”
"The cellar is not as good as the ground, on the ground." Chen Tongsheng said: "It's inside, the light is burning inside, and the burning gas, no, if it is released, it will explode again." Do you try? ”
Song Zhilan pursed her mouth and took the fire fold back into her arms.
Chen Tongsheng finished reading it in the village, and said to the other two people, you stand here and wait for a while.
She walked along the path by herself and walked up to Fang Heming's small courtyard on a high place again. Perhaps because of the direction of the wind that night, the yard didn't burn much or collapse. The courtyard gate made of a few logs was a little twisted to the side, looking like it was about to collapse at any time, but it has been tenacious, twisted and not collapsed.
Chen Tongsheng didn't go in, but just looked at the door for a while, took a deep breath, and turned around to go back.
It's just that the moment she turned around, her eyes suddenly swept over something-looking down from Fang Heming's small courtyard, you can see the reunited villages not far away, a few acres of rice fields, puddles and ponds, and the mountain road they came on horseback was right in front of them, looming among the trees, half-cut and half-exposed.
And just below the road from which he came, there was an extremely narrow dirt road, which was hidden under the cradle, and he did not know where it led.
The width of the road did not seem to be enough to support the carriages carrying goods through it, but it was more than enough to pass through. Seeing this, Chen Tongsheng went down and told the other two about it.
They went back the way they came, and only then did they find that the entrance to the dirt road was blocked by a tree growing right in the middle, which meant that the goods could never be lowered from here.
"That's weird, if you don't come from here, so many flying lights, where else can you run?" Chen Tongsheng looked at the tree, turned around and asked, "Go down and take a look?" ”
Song Zhilan wanted to speak and stopped, glanced at Chen Tongsheng and then at Wang Chengnan.
Wang Chengnan nodded and said okay, Song Zhilan didn't speak anymore, and followed Chen Tongsheng.
Nine times out of ten, this path was dug by hand, and the three of them didn't go far, turned a few corners up, and walked up to take a look, just behind Kushui Village.
Song Zhilan said: "Hey, what should I do, it turns out that it is still a trick of the three cunning rabbits, and Kushui Village uses it to escape for life, right?" ”
Chen Tongsheng nodded and continued to walk in the direction of the road. At the back of the village, the road was much wider and connected to the rest of the village. The open space behind the village seemed to be a special place to turn around, Chen Tongsheng walked to one of them, squatted down and looked at them for a moment, and said to them, "Come and see." ”
It was the mark of a rut, imprinted in the mud, and it had not disappeared because there were no other vehicles, horses, or pedestrians.
"Yes......" Song Zhilan said: "Is it the car that transported that batch of goods?!" ”
Wang Chengnan also bent down to look.
"The people in the village, ......" Chen Tongsheng said: "If it is, the three caves of the cunning rabbit, the people have to go, the goods have to be transported, and they are transported away." ”
Song Zhilan clapped her hands: "This is the way they can take the freight out of the village and temporarily avoid searching!" ”
"But ......," Wang Chengnan whispered, "there is also that road." ”
The rut turned a corner in the clearing, from one road to another, but did not see the village, Chen Tongsheng said: "Perhaps, this is it." ”
This is the road where Wang Orion avoided Wang Chengnan and Orion and carried the freight to the vicinity of the village. Presumably, there was some other connection point on the mountain road they entered, but they didn't notice it.