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When Su Ruan and the others arrived in Jingzhou City, it was almost night.

The dark clouds in the sky covered the moon, like the chaotic situation in Jingnan today, and the surrounding darkness could only vaguely see the clusters of fires in front of the city gate.

Mo Linglan had already received the news that they were coming, and took people to guard in front of the door for a long time.

When he saw the carriage approaching, he breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as the carriage stopped, Mo Linglan hurriedly walked over.

"I said Zirong, you've finally arrived."

"In the afternoon, your people will come and say that you can arrive at night today, but it is almost too late and there is no one in sight, if you don't come again, I think you are in trouble on the road."

"Crow's beak!"

Qi Wenfu lifted the curtain of the carriage and said, "If you don't speak, no one will treat you as a mute, and we won't be able to do anything if you have an accident." ”

Mo Linglan glanced at Qi Wenfu, and looked behind him, originally wanting to find Su Ruan, but only saw a young figure wearing brocade clothes.

He didn't recognize Su Ruanlai at first, he only looked at the young man who was quite handsome, and was a little puzzled where Qi Wenfu got such a good-looking child, but the more he looked at it, the more familiar he became.

At this time, Su Ruan greeted with a smile: "Brother Mo." ”

Mo Linglan was stunned: "...... Su Nguyen? ”

He glanced Su Ruan up and down, looked at her face for a while longer, and then recognized the person, and then said,

"I almost didn't recognize you in such a way as to dress like this."

Su Ruan smiled, she used to make men's clothes to secretly investigate Jingnan's affairs with Qi Wenfu.

But now that the situation has changed, since she and Qi Wenfu have arrived in Jingzhou openly, and they are also going directly to the Zhizhou Mansion, her identity is naturally impossible to hide.

Su Ruan said: "It's a long way from Jingzhong to Jingnan, and the fourth brother has something to do this time, so I changed into men's clothes for fear of trouble on the road, so as not to drag down the fourth brother too much." ”

When Mo Linglan heard this, he remembered Su Ruan's delicate and bright appearance when she was wearing women's clothes, and nodded: "Yes, you look really eye-catching......

"That's all the nonsense."

Qi Wenfu saw Mo Linglan chattering with Su Ruan, and reached out to block it with some impatience, and then said, "Why are you waiting here, still with so many people?" ”

Mo Linglan remembered the matter at this time, and hurriedly said: "Oh yes, I almost forgot, this is Ye Ping, the canonical history of the Zhizhou Mansion." Fu said to Ye Ping, "This is the history of Qi Yu, who was ordered to come to Jingnan to investigate and handle the case this time, and the other is the county lord of Deping who was personally appointed by His Majesty." ”

Ye Ping is an official of the Zhizhou Mansion, and he has long heard of the reputation of Qiwen Mansion, and he is originally from Jingnan, so he naturally knows that the county lord of Deping is the daughter of Su Xuanmin, the former Jingnan Zhizhou.

Ye Ping said respectfully: "Xiaguan has seen Lord Qi and Lord Deping. ”

"I learned earlier that the two arrived in Jingzhou today, and Lord Crepe originally wanted to come to greet them in person, but the adults were injured by gangsters a few days ago, which was really inconvenient, so I could only let the lower officials come to greet the two."

Qi Wenfu's eyes remained unchanged when he heard the sentence "gangster": "How is Lord Crepe's injury?" ”

Ye Ping sighed lightly: "It's very heavy, my family was originally kind and wanted to shelter those soldiers' relatives, but who knew that those people didn't know what to do, and they actually hurt people." ”

"The government was unprepared, not only was they killed people, but also injured Lord Crepe, who was bleeding at the time, and was in a coma for a long time, but fortunately, he was lucky enough to pick up a life."

He said a few words, and seemed to think that it was a little bad to say this directly on such an occasion, and hurriedly apologized:

"Lord Qi and the county lord have come from afar, the boat is tired, I will tell you what these disappointments are doing, the two of you will settle down in the city with me first, and we will talk about other things later."

Qi Wenfu hummed: "Okay." ”

After Ye Ping retreated, he got into the carriage over there to lead the way, while Mo Linglan turned around and got into their carriage in Qiwen Mansion directly after the people from the government left, and when the curtain was lowered and the carriage moved.

Mo Linglan said directly: "This Ye Ping is simply the dogleg of the crepe Longan, and when he catches someone, he will say how badly the crepe Longan is injured." ”

"After the accident that day, I went directly with the doctor to see it with my own eyes, but it was just a cut of flesh and a little blood, he saw the dead man, and he scared himself out."

Su Ruan heard this and said, "Brother Mo, what the hell is going on, those people are really hurting?" ”

Mo Linglan nodded: "The injury is an injury, and it is indeed a dead person, but I haven't seen what the situation was like at that time." ”

"Didn't you keep looking at those people?" Qi Wenfu said.

When Mo Linglan said this, his face was also a little unsightly, "Don't mention it, I'm/calculated." ”

"Xiao Mian should have told you, the people who died before were not accidents, and they had contact with some people before they died."

"That day, my eldest brother said that he caught the person we had been looking for outside the city, and I hurried over, but who knew that after the person saw me, he first talked about other things, said a lot of nonsense, and after a long time, he directly bit the poison and committed suicide."

"When I noticed that something was wrong and rushed back, there were already dead people on the side of the government, and those people who went to Beijing before somehow all ran away, and Crepe Longan was injured and unconscious, and he died a general sentence, when I asked the reason, the people present at the time only said that there was a conflict between the two sides, and people died after the action."

"But how did he die, who killed him, but no one saw it."

Mo Linglan pursed his lips tightly, his eyebrows and eyes, which he used to laugh at, were full of gloom at this time, he was specially left in Jingnan by Qi Wenfu to protect those people, and even in order to prevent those people from being injured, he almost kept an inch for half a month.

But just such a carelessness turned out to be such a big thing.

Hearing this, Qi Wenfu glanced at Mo Linglan: "You have also been tricked by such a simple plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, I think you have lived in vain for so many years." ”

Mo Linglan had nothing to say.

He himself felt that he was really stupid to die that day.

If he really wants to ask, why can't he tell his eldest brother to send people into the city, and he has to go there himself?

Su Ruan saw that Mo Linglan's face was gloomy, and stretched out his hand to pull Qi Wenfu: "Brother Mo didn't mean it, the deaths of those people in Jingnan before were all treacherous methods, who would have thought that they would do this kind of tricks and feet, and directly use the people of the government to do it?" ”

Qi Wenfu took a deep breath and didn't say anything more.

Su Ruan then looked at Mo Linglan: "Brother Mo, have you found any traces of those people?" ”

Mo Linglan shook his head: "After they ran away that day, they went out of the city directly for fear that the government would want them, and my eldest brother and I have searched the entire Jingzhou City, but we haven't found their whereabouts." ”