Gu Ze politely bowed his hand and said, "It turns out that you were sent by Lord Wan, and you have worked hard." ”

The clerk was also very polite: "Mr. Gu, please get in the car." ”

Gu Ze followed the scribe into the carriage, and Gu Ze asked the scribe something about Cheng Qizhi's case, and the scribe said that he was only a low-level scribe, so he didn't know much about the case.

The carriage went straight to the Yushi Terrace, and Gu Ze fell asleep soon after getting into the car.

Fu Xiaojiu told Wan Lin that Gu Ze estimated that he would rush to the capital day and night, and as soon as he came back, he would definitely go straight to Yushitai to find Wan Lin.

Wan Lin said that he was waiting for Gu Ze at the Yushitai today, and when he arrived, he would take him to Dali Temple to testify.

When Wan Lin arrived at the Yushitai, he first asked the guards if anyone had come to him, and the guards said that all the officials who came in the morning were officials from the Yushitai, and no outsiders came in or out.

Wan Lin probably described Gu Ze's appearance to the guards, and told them that once Gu Ze came, he would take him to see him immediately.

Wan Lin waited for Gu Ze all morning, but he didn't come back yet.

Wan Lin muttered a little, he couldn't sit still, so he went to the hospital to find Fu Xiaojiu.

Fu Xiaojiu said that according to the estimate, even if Gu Ze set off this morning, it would be noon, how could he enter Beijing, and if he didn't return for so long, didn't he encounter something and be delayed?

After Fu Xiaojiu said his guess, Wan Lin and her both changed their faces, and said at the same time: "Could it be that something happened to him?" ”

Fu Xiaojiu was a little flustered, "What can I do about this?" Where are we going to find him? ”

Wan Lin forced himself to calm down, thought for a moment and said: "Leave this matter to me, I will send someone to look for Gu Ze on the way to Beijing, and then send someone to look for him in the capital, don't worry, lady, I will definitely find him." ”

Fu Xiaojiu said uneasily: "I'll go look for him too!" I asked him to leave the capital for the time being, and then informed him to come back, and if anything happens to him, I can't help it. ”

Wan Lin understood Fu Xiaojiu's mood, and in order to reassure her, he had to say, "Okay, you go with me to find Gu Ze." By the way, lady, are you panicking? ”

Fu Xiaojiu stroked his heart and said, "I haven't felt panicked for the time being, Gu Ze had better be safe." ”

Wan Lin suddenly remembered something, and asked again: "Lady, didn't you say before that you were a little flustered when you mentioned Shen'er?" Do you still feel that way now? ”

Fu Xiaojiu felt it carefully and replied: "I don't feel panicked when I think of Shen'er now, I must have felt a deviation in my feelings at that time, it should be Xu Jingshan who was panicked because of something, not Shen'er." ”

Wan Lin said with the expectation wing: "It's best if you don't panic." Let's go. ”

Wan Lin and Fu Xiaojiu went back to the Yushitai first, and Wan Lin told Gui Sinian that he suspected that something had happened to Gu Ze and wanted to send someone to find Gu Ze.

Gui Sinian agreed to Wan Lin's request without hesitation, and sent all the guards of the Yushitai to help them find Gu Ze.

Wan Lin sent a team of people to look for Gu Ze's traces on the official road to the capital, and he and Fu Xiaojiu took a team of people to look for Gu Ze in the capital.

The two of them went to the place where Gu Ze might go first, and even went to the Hanging Ji Hall, but there was no trace of Gu Ze.

Bai Yusheng learned that Gu Ze was missing, and grabbed Wan Lin to ask him what was going on, and Wan Lin had no choice but to tell him everything about Gu Ze.

Bai Yusheng was shocked when he heard this, and he also wanted to find Gu Ze, Wan Lin asked him to calm down for a while, and waited for news in Xuanji Hall.

Wan Feizhi was also very anxious after hearing this, and Bai Yusheng stayed in order to appease her emotions.

Wan Lin went to Zhenting Wangfu after leaving Xuanji Hall, because the only person he trusted most now was Fu Xiaojiu, and the only one he trusted was Zhenting King.

When King Zhenting heard that the most important person certificate had disappeared again, he immediately decided to send a police officer to help them find Gu Ze together.

After looking for Gu Ze for a while, a team of people came to report, saying that they asked the guards of the city gate, and some people said that when the city gate was just opened, they had seen someone who looked like Gu Ze, and he followed a person who looked like a scholar to get into a carriage, and the carriage drove in the direction of Yushitai.

Wan Lin's face changed instantly when he heard this, and Fu Xiaojiu's heart suddenly panicked.

Wan Lin said nervously: "This is someone who deceived Gu Zeyu away!" Although the carriage was heading in the direction of Yushitai, there were many intersections on the way to Yushitai, so maybe Gu Ze was taken somewhere. ”

Fu Xiaojiu stomped his feet anxiously, "Then let's search every household on every street, and we will definitely be able to find Gu Ze'e." ”

Wan Lin replied helplessly: "At present, there is only one way." ”

The two of them were not together this time, but took people to look for Gu Ze separately.

Seeing that it was noon, he still couldn't find Gu Ze after searching almost every street leading to the Yushitai.

Fu Xiaojiu had an ominous premonition in her heart, but she hadn't felt flustered yet.

Even so, Fu Xiaojiu didn't dare to relax, he was afraid that he had actually lost the ability to predict, and Gu Ze might have had an accident a long time ago.

The more she thought about it, the more frightened Fu Xiaojiu became, she walked behind this team of government soldiers, and her hands and feet were cold.

"If Gu Ze was deceived by someone, who would be the person who deceived him? There must be a lot of people who have private transactions with Cheng Qizhi, where should they start? ”

When Fu Xiaojiu was at a loss, he suddenly heard a commotion in front of him.

Fu Xiaojiu immediately looked up and saw a pair of government soldiers carrying a person out of a courtyard.

"Is that Gu Ze?"

Fu Xiaojiu couldn't wait to run over, and his heart was about to jump out of his chest.

"What's going on?" Fu Xiaojiu asked anxiously without waiting to get closer.

A government soldier replied, "We found a body in the backyard of this house. ”

"Corpses?" Fu Xiaojiu's brain suddenly went blank, "Let me see!" ”

The two government soldiers carrying the corpse stopped, and Fu Xiaojiu came to the corpse and trembled and lifted the cloth covering the corpse.

This is a corpse with a smashed head, and it is already difficult to identify the appearance, but Fu Xiaojiu can still tell that this is not Gu Ze.

"It's not him!" Fu Xiaojiu immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

But what about this corpse?

He appears to have had his head smashed with a blunt object, and he had been involved in a fierce fight with someone during his lifetime.

A government soldier suddenly said: "Fulangzhong, I see that this person is dressed like a scholar, do you think he will be the one who took Mr. Gu away?" ”

"Ah, you're right." Fu Xiaojiu just looked at this person's face, ignoring his dress, and after being reminded by the soldiers, she found that this person did look like a scholar.

"Could it be such a coincidence?" Fu Xiaojiu was a little suspicious, "If he is the one who tricked Gu Ze away, then why did he die?" Could it be that Gu Ze killed him? ”

Fu Bing continued: "It is very likely. According to the experience of his subordinates, he had a fierce fight with people before his death, perhaps after he took Mr. Gu away, Mr. Gu found that the situation was wrong, so he wanted to escape. Then he stopped Mr. Gu, and even wanted to kill Mr. Gu, but was counter-killed by Mr. Gu. ”

Fu Bing's analysis was clearly organized, and Fu Xiaojiu agreed with it but still had questions.

"So Gu Ze should have fled? But where did he flee? Why not come to us? ”

Thinking of this, Fu Xiaojiu immediately said to the soldiers: "Please search this mansion carefully, Gu Ze may also have been injured in the process of fighting, maybe he is hiding in a certain room and fainted because of his injuries, everyone must find him as soon as possible!" ”

The soldiers of Zhenting Wangfu all had combat experience, and as Fu Xiaojiu had guessed, they immediately began to look for Gu Ze's whereabouts from room to room.

The house was a two-courtyard house, with at least ten rooms, and they did not forget to look up the cellar to see if there was a secret door.

Fu Xiaojiu was not idle, she was carefully inspecting the place where the body was found, looking for clues left by Gu Ze around.

There was a bloody stone on the ground, which was supposed to be the murder weapon.

Fu Xiaojiu picked up the stone and wrapped it in a handkerchief, and held it in his hand, thinking that if Gu Ze was injured in the fight, he would definitely leave blood stains on the ground or somewhere.

"Gu Ze, are you here? I'm Fu Xiaojiu, I'm bringing someone to you! ”

Fu Xiaojiu shouted while looking for traces that Gu Ze might have left behind, and she accidentally bumped into a tree.

"There's blood here!"

Fu Xiaojiu found blood stains on the bark of the tree, which looked like a handprint.

"Could this be Gu Ze's handprint?" Fu Xiaojiu muttered to himself uncertainly, and was startled, "Ah, this should be Gu Ze's handprint!" ”

Fu Xiaojiu remembered that Gu Ze was a left-handed person, and the handprints left on the bark looked left-handed.

"If that person was stoned to death by Gu Ze, Gu Ze must have held the stone with his left hand, so his left hand was stained with the most blood."

After such a guess, Fu Xiaojiu's heart immediately ignited hope.

"Gu Ze, where are you?"

Fu Xiaojiu shouted, because after seeing this bloody palm print, she had a strange feeling, she always felt that Gu Ze should not have left here.

But the soldiers of the government turned this mansion almost upside down, and even searched the cellar and the well, but there was still no trace of Gu Ze.

A government soldier said disappointedly: "Fu Langzhong, Mr. Gu may have left here." ”

Fu Xiaojiu cautiously analyzed: "No, he shouldn't have gone far." Think about it, there is no one else here, there is no change of clothes anywhere, if Gu Ze stoned that person to death, there must be blood stains on his body. From the front and back gates of this courtyard are the streets, and if he goes out with a bloodstained man, will he not attract people's attention? ”

After listening to Fu Xiaojiu's analysis, Fu Bing nodded and said: "What you said makes sense, if someone sees him, they will definitely tell us, but we asked the people nearby, and they all said that they didn't see anything suspicious." ”

As soon as the soldier finished speaking, another soldier suddenly ran in from outside the door in a hurry.