"Squeak...... Squeak......"

On the long street in the dark night, two carriages quietly walked side by side, only the gentle grinding sound of the ruts came from the ruts.

"How's it going?"

A muffled voice came from one of the carriages.

"Rest assured, everything is under control and plans are being implemented."

The man in the other carriage said.

"Be careful!"

A deep voice said another, and the carriage turned into a fork in the road.

In the Tang Mansion, a sneaky figure flashed to the backyard and looked at the hole in the secret room of the Tang Mansion that had been dug up during the day, only to see that the hole was covered with a felt cloth, and everything seemed normal.

However, under the opaque felt cloth, there was a shadowy light in the secret room, Xu Rui wore white gloves and laboriously removed a piece of gravel, carefully sweeping the stains on the floor with a brush, and Li Kuang watched his movements curiously.

"It took so much effort to sneak in, just to clean the secret room?"

Seeing that Xu Rui had been brushing the floor, Li Kuang asked puzzled.

Xu Rui stopped what he was doing, pointed to the bluestone slab on the ground and said, "Come and see these traces." ”

Li Kuang followed Xu Rui's finger and saw that there were pieces of bluestone bricks on the floor, and after Xu Rui swept away the sludge, there were many messy scratches on these stone bricks, the scratches were of different depths and were not connected to each other, as if they were left by wild beasts scratching indiscriminately.

"What is this?"

Li Kuang asked puzzled.

Xu Rui didn't answer, but pried up the bluestone slabs laid on the ground piece by piece, then compared them one by one, rearranged them, and then put them back together like a puzzle.

Looking at the reassembled floor, Li Kuang's pupils suddenly shrank.

"It's ......"

It turned out that with the rearrangement and combination of the floor, the original chaotic scratches were connected one by one, turning into a complete pattern, the pattern as a whole is circular, in which there are dense strange words, and in the middle is the figure of an eagle, like a totem.

"I've seen this pattern, in the same tunnel where you were kidnapped!"

Li Kuang finally remembered where he had seen this totem and exclaimed.

Xu Rui smiled: "By the way, you took over the tunnel with Jinyiwei before, I remember you told me that there is a hidden secret room in the tunnel, and there is this pattern in it." ”

Li Kuang frowned, "I obviously haven't shown you this picture, and how did you know about the pattern combination?" ”

Xu Rui took out a note, and the note turned out to be this pattern.

"Remember those two old men who rescued me? They showed me how I found the pattern......"

Xu Rui pointed to the floor, then pointed to the small flowers on the wall, and said, "Look at these two locations." ”

Li Kuang took a closer look, and saw that the small flower on the wall was missing a corner, and the missing part appeared on another wall tile not far away, which was difficult to detect if he didn't look carefully.

"These wall tiles have been moved, you only guessed when you saw this flower......"

Then, he looked at another place that Xu Rui asked him to see, and he was shocked again when he saw a little yellow-white thing left on the floor tile.

"It's wax, and there's wax around the secret room pattern in the tunnel, but I haven't told anyone about it, how do you know?"

Xu Rui smiled: "I don't need anyone to tell me, you look at the surrounding environment, and then look at this totem, the secret room, the totem is obviously a place for some kind of ritual, and candles and incense ashes are indispensable." ”

"But what does that mean?"

Li Kuang asked.

Xu Rui said: "When I was locked up in the tunnel, I found that there were very small bloody handprints next to the blowhole, which seemed to be left by a child, indicating that children had been imprisoned there, and the little flowers here, as well as the children that Feng Jin heard, screamed......"

"In the case of the disappearance of children, there used to be a lot of children in these two places!"

Li Kuang was shocked.

Xu Rui nodded: "Shangguan Buda once said that they were blackmailed by a cult before they found out that I was imprisoned, and the totems of the cult appeared in these two secret rooms, which means that this Tang Jiuguang is likely to be related to the cult, and the cult is related to the disappearance of the child." ”

"So he's also a member of the cult? Could it be that they are holding children for some evil ritual? But Wan Guilong's family did not find any clues related to the cult. ”

Li Kuang frowned.

Xu Rui shook his head: "I don't think Tang Jiuguang is a member of the cult, on the contrary, the cult may be a tool in his hands." ”

"Tools?"

"If you think about it, even if Tang Jiuguang is an agent of the princelings' dark wealth, there is still no way to explain why he can live such a luxurious life, and when the number of children lost dropped sharply half a year ago, his Jiangnan Business Road also happened to be closed, this is no accident."

"Could it be that these children are not sacrifices of a cult, but a business!"

Li Kuang said in a deep voice.

Xu Rui nodded: "Looking at it now, this is probably the case, and this business is probably not the prince's business, but the private goods that the prince's smuggling channels are used for him, so he is so rich." ”

Li Kuang shook his head: "Human trafficking is a serious crime, and all links require a lot of manpower and material resources, even if this Tang Jiuguang has the prince as a cover, it is impossible for him to do it so easily for more than ten years." ”

"So, he died......"

"Are you saying there's a bigger force behind him, and that his death is related to human trafficking?"

Xu Rui nodded and said, "Maybe it's not the direct cause of death, but it must be a breakthrough."

If you think about it, the turning point of the matter is that half a year ago, his Jiangnan business road, that is, human trafficking business, was blocked, which caused a series of problems, and finally attracted the disaster of killing, which must be greasy.

Also, if I'm not mistaken, Wan Guilong, who just died today, should have already made all the arrangements for the future, right? ”

Li Kuang was taken aback: "This is what I just found, and I haven't had time to tell you yet, how do you know?" ”

Xu Rui said: "Wan Guilong's own martial arts are not weak, and he was stoned to death by a falling plaque in the lobby of the river yamen in full view, if he doesn't want to die, how can it be such a way to die?"

Also, Tang Jiuguang's autopsy results showed that he committed suicide, which means that Tang Jiuguang and Wan Guilong both knew that they were going to die, but they didn't even resist.

This means that they must be hiding something, and what they are going to hide is a hundred times more important than their lives, but they don't know what it has to do with human trafficking. ”

"There is something I haven't had time to tell you, there are also people missing in the Jinyi Guard these days, I checked one of them, and found a surveillance record in the secret compartment of his house, which shows that before Tang Jiuguang and Wan Guilong died, the prince had sent someone to talk to them secretly."

Li Kuang said with a solemn expression.

Xu Rui was stunned, he was not surprised by this result, the more he investigated this case, the more clues related to the prince would be found, whether it was the treasury case or the door destroying case, or the smuggling case involved later, it was a shocking case, enough to pull the prince off the horse.

Not only that, but it is obvious that the household department is not clean in the treasury case, does not report the information, frames colleagues, and even conspires to subvert the prince, all kinds of signs point directly at the king of Liao, and his situation has become difficult.

But Xu Rui always felt that things were still strange, whether it was the crown prince or the king of Liao, they were more like they were forced into a corner, and there seemed to be an invisible black hand behind them controlling all this.

The simplest example is that Tang Jiuguang has helped the prince smuggle for more than ten years, although it is impossible to be airtight, but such a big case Liu Haofei and Li Kuang can be easily seized in a short time, and Wan Guilong has just been found, and Wan Guilong is dead.

It's more like someone deliberately throwing out clues to get them to find out about the case, but they don't want to see them find out the truth.

What is the real purpose behind these people?

Xu Rui took out the two pamphlets that Li Kuang had just given him, on which were records of the recent whereabouts of King Yu and Lu Hua.

He rubbed the booklet, pondered for a moment, and said to Li Kuang: "The enemy is in the dark, we are in the light, we can't be led by their noses like this anymore, we must take the initiative to attack, let's start with the traitor!" ”

Li Kuang nodded: "What do you need me to do?" ”

Xu Rui said: "The court has begun to turmoil, a bigger turmoil is brewing, time is pressing, I can't take care of everything, the matter of the cult will be handed over to you." ”

"Don't worry!"

Li Kuang nodded again, then turned and walked towards the outside of the secret room.

Xu Rui was left alone in the secret room again, and he turned his gaze back, looking at a strange set of numbers on the ground.

This set of numbers was engraved on the back of a certain floor tile, and today he found this set of numbers by accidentally priing up this floor tile in order to combine the pattern on the ground.

Judging from the traces, the numbers should have been carved on the floor tiles for no more than two months, but this set of numbers is very strange and seems to correspond to certain symbols, and it is not clear what the meaning is.

However, his intuition told Xu Rui that this set of numbers seemed to be more important than he imagined, and maybe there would be some shocking secret hidden behind it.

In King Yu's mansion, a carriage slowly drove in from the back door, and several subordinates hurriedly surrounded him, and walked out of the carriage with a tired look on his face.

"Lord ......"

Huang Zhengyuan stood not far away and saluted King Yu with his fists.

King Yu nodded: "Go to the study and say." ”

Huang Zhengyuan understood and silently followed the study of the Yu Dynasty.

The groom, who was leading the horse, squinted at their backs, not knowing what to think, until the steward reminded him to come to his senses and unload the horse from the carriage.