Outside the city of Qingzhou, five miles into the poplar forest, a small road winds through, and in the distance are several hills, rolling and undulating, and there are several houses and several families living under the hills.

After entering the winter, the villages near here, are women stay at home to weave, men come out to chop firewood and pick up wood during the day, this poplar forest, is the only way to enter Qingzhou City, often some merchants, leave something when passing by here, people in the village come here every once in a while to try their luck.

Today, too, two men from the village made an appointment to come here, and who knew that they would see the carriage parked here from afar. Originally, they thought they were resting here, but the two of them took a look from afar, and then went back, thinking that they would come back after lunch.

After lunch, the carriage remained the same, and did not move. The two of them noticed that something was wrong, and they came over boldly, only to realize that the forest was full of blood.

The officials of Qingzhou City came quickly, and there were a lot of people, and they had already surrounded a large area of forests around it, and when Yin Si and Liang Zhesi rushed over, Jiang Yu, the prefect of Qingzhou City, had already arrived at the scene.

"What's the situation?" Liang Zhesi knew Jiang Yu, and the two had helped solve the case together.

"Lord Liang," Jiang Yu was listening to what he was saying, Liang Zhesi was surrounded by the officials, so he had to shout at the top of his voice, Jiang Yu heard his voice here, and immediately asked people to let him come over, and he quickly greeted him.

"This carriage is a little familiar!" Liang Zhesi muttered quietly, and the voice was just heard by Yin Si behind him.

"Lord Liang," Jiang Yu had already arrived at the message of Dali Temple, knowing that Liang Zhesi and Li Chenru, the prince of Wei, would come over, Liang Zhesi he recognized, and the person who followed Liang Zhesi behind, "This is the King of Anding?" ”

"Jiang Yu, the prefect of Qingzhou City," Liang Zhesi introduced between the two, "This is the third son of Wei, Li Chenru, the king of stability. ”

"Luckily!" Jiang Yu bowed, Yin Si nodded, and his eyes looked straight at the mess behind him.

There were two wagons, five ox carts, and there were 20 people lying on the ground, and there were blood stains on the trunks of the trees around them, on the ground, and the smell of blood was very strong, mixed with the dirt, and it was very pungent.

"Both, but you're looking for the caravan with the coffin?" Jiang Yu saw it very clearly, and immediately made a brief report on the situation, "This group of caravans is all here, and there is not a single living mouth." ”

After receiving the report at noon, Jiang Yu didn't dare to eat it, so he directly brought someone to find it. At the foot of the imperial city, in the view of refuge, one thing is not settled, and another one is rising. The eldest lady of the Imperial History Mansion, who has not yet found out who poisoned her, the second lady of the Gongbo Mansion and the eldest lady of the Xiangguo disappeared on the same night.

Jiang Yu is not stupid, he can be the prefect of Qingzhou City, so he naturally knows what the people in the imperial city want to investigate. As soon as the caravan mentioned in the hurry was ordered to go down to investigate, a report was received here, saying that a caravan had been assassinated in the poplar forest, and none of them survived.

He came here to check for himself, and it was indeed the group of people told by Dali Temple, there were 5 cows, 11 horses, 24 people, 6 people knew martial arts, and 18 people were ordinary businessmen. There were 2 carts of tea, 1 cart of porcelain, 2 carts of cloth, and two carriages, one for people and one for rations and water.

In the entire woods, there were traces of fighting, but on the side of the caravan, it was obviously powerless, and no one had time to escape, and they all gave their lives here. There were no casualties in livestock and no loss of cargo, which was clearly not a robbery.

"Could it be that they know that they have been targeted by us, so-" Liang Zhesi made a gesture of wiping his neck, in order to hide people's eyes, so he killed people.

"It won't be that simple," Jiang Yu shook his head, although he didn't go to Huangpi to solve the case, he also knew that if it was really his accomplices who knew that they had been exposed, then killing people and killing people should be done cleanly!

Such an obvious and unconventional robbery is more like someone deliberately doing it.

"Maybe it's not that complicated," Yin Si squatted down and looked at the corpses on the ground, their expressions were serene, but their eyes bulged out, expressionless, like frogs, indifferent and funny.

"Why do these people look like this?" Liang Zhesi also squatted down and looked at several corpses, all of them without exception, all of them were expressionless, with bulging eyes, like a frog.

"This must be frightened, right?" Jiang Yu also noticed the strange appearance on the faces of this group of people, and he asked him about it, and he said that it was possible for a person to maintain this expression when he was frightened and was killed by a sword.

"Everyone is like this, it's not just frightened, check if they have been poisoned," Yin Si already had the answer in his heart, and went around to the back of the ox cart with porcelain, and sure enough, he saw an arrow pointing to Qingzhou City, which was full of gold dust.

"Is this to-your?" Liang Zhesi naturally saw it, someone mixed in the caravan?

"Isn't it your people?" Yin Si asked rhetorically.

"If any of us are mixed in with them, then the little philosophers will still be in the refuge view at this time," if they have someone here who answers, they will not fall into their way.

"It's the same," Yin Si squatted down to look at the mark, then at the other goods, and then frowned when he saw the ox cart with the tea leaves.

"Two, but what did you find?" Jiang Yu finished the order and followed again.

"This cow-" Liang Zhesi also saw who was so lacking in virtue that he took off all the hair on the cow's belly, leaving an extremely ugly circle, and he also dyed the circle with paint into turmeric.

"This cow - what's wrong?" Jiang Yu looked at it for a long time, except for a psoriasis ring coated with medicine on the belly of the cow, there was nothing else.

"Is this a sign?" Liang Zhesi remembered the three signs in the cave, the circle, the cross, and the arrow.

"What mark?" Jiang Yu didn't understand, did he mean the round psoriasis?

"Possibly," Yin Mi nodded.

"Let's go our separate ways, you follow the cow, I follow the arrow," Yin suggested.

"Why didn't I follow the arrow, and you pulled the cow?" Liang Zhesi refused, how should I follow this cow, it is alive, not dead, and it is not clear which direction it is pointing.

"Is that the arrow?" Jiang Yu saw the arrow on the ground, how could there be a mark?

"Let them unload the oxen from the cart, and you can follow the oxen," Inmi suggested, "and both men follow the arrow, what if the mark is wrong?" ”

"Let's two go together," Liang Zhesi thought for a while, made up his mind, pulled Jiang Yu over, and pushed the cow, "Let him send someone to follow the ox cart!" ”

"Huh?" Jiang Yu pointed at himself, stunned, he didn't hear it wrong just now, right? They told him to follow the ox?

"It's okay," Yin Si stared at Jiang Yu for a while, Jiang Yu, this person, there is a record in the Qingwan Pavilion, he is quite clear and honest, and he is a trustworthy person.

"Master Jiang, then bothering you?" Liang Zhesi put his arm around Jiang Yu's shoulders, "We brothers, we have something to say, right?" ”

"Lord Liang, I will cooperate," Jiang Yu is most afraid that the people from their Dali Temple will come to set up, and the more enthusiastic they are, the more they will not discuss it, and they will be afraid to think about it.

"Then there will be work!" Liang Zhesi encouraged him, and then followed Yin Si to Qingzhou City.

After a delay in the poplar forest, after entering the city, it was almost dark, and the two of them first found a street food stall, ordered two bowls of chaos, a plate of noodles, and listened to the people around them talk about trivial things while eating.

The matter in the poplar forest on the outskirts of the city has already been reported in Qingzhou City, and people have gathered together, muttering and speculating in small voices. What is the reason that the entire caravan is dead?

The two of them ate this meal until it was dark, and then they sorted out something.

The caravan that died in the woods, someone in Qingzhou City knew it, and it was from the capital of Wei State, saying that it had an intersection with the Prince of Wei and was protected by the Prince of Wei, so every time he came, he brought the best cloth and tea from Wei State.

The caravan comes three times a year, each time in March and May, and in the summer, when the weather is hot, it stops a little.

The goods in this caravan are not easily sold to the shops in the Wei Kingdom, they are all transported to the Qi State as they are, and many shops in Qingzhou City, looking at their high-quality goods, all want to be red-eyed, but the caravan boss just won't give it.

The caravan was killed this time, and it was suspected that it was Boss Wang of the porcelain shop who did it, because Boss Wang went to this group of merchants every year, and he didn't let go every time, but he never got their consent, and every time he mentioned it, he had to scold him happily.

Liang Zhesi originally asked Yin Si to go to this porcelain shop with him to meet this boss Wang for a while, but Yin Si refused and took him to an inn.

"Brother Li, why is this?" Watching Yin Si open the room, take the room number, and take the lead to follow Xiao Er upstairs, Liang Zhesi didn't understand very much.

It wasn't until the two entered the room and saw the people waiting in the house that Liang Zhesi came back to his senses. Yes, it has something to do with the crown prince of Wei, how could Yin Si not pay attention to it?

"Go and invite Boss Wang over," Yin Si told Xiao Er to step down.

Xiao Er got the order and immediately went to invite someone. Guarding the room was another middle-aged man, who saw Yin Si and Liang Zhesi coming in, and immediately got up and saluted, "Young master, Liang Gongzi!" ”

"The shopkeeper of this inn, surnamed Li," Yin Si made a brief introduction, and after the two of them saluted and sat down, he asked.

Regarding Li Chenliang, he has always let Qingwan Pavilion keep an eye on it, as long as the forces or people who are related to him, he will let his subordinates pay attention to it, this incident happened suddenly, and he didn't have time to ask about the background of this group of businessmen, and after hearing about the prince of Wei at the stall, he felt a little confident in his heart.

Shopkeeper Li has already received Kurong's instructions, and Qingwan Pavilion is also staring at the movements in Qingzhou City, not letting go of a little bit, this caravan, they have been staring, this time something happened, it was indeed found.

"I'm afraid it's related to Xiangyiyuan," Shopkeeper Li didn't dare to be ambiguous.