Chapter 69: Nearing the End
Another whole day passed, and Ding Feng's plan was steadily progressing and was nearing its end.
Hai Kuotian has disappeared, and there is no trace of him, perhaps he has drifted in the icy waters, and has gone to accompany his second brother.
Chu Liuxiang was really anxious, he couldn't figure it out, and he fell into a mess, and he suddenly found that when he needed help the most, there was no one around him who could help.
Hu Tiehua was completely entangled by Jin Lingzhi...... No one can refuse such a girl's invitation, let alone drink!
For Hu Tiehua, there is nothing in the world, and it is more important than drinking.
It is said that beautiful wine and beauty are joyful in life! It's just that women and wine, not women drink wine.
Women give the impression of being beautiful, delicate, and in need of care, and it is difficult to associate women with drinking, but it must be women who can really drink.
Jin Lingzhi's amount of alcohol is simply amazing, although she herself was drunk, but she also poured Hu Tiehua, who was known as a thousand cups of not drunk, into consciousness.
And Zhang San can only guard the drunk Hu Tiehua...... There were one accident after another on the ship, and he naturally didn't dare to leave even for a moment.
Nangong Yan took care of Jin Lingzhi, who was also drunk and fainted.
Chu Liuxiang was in the most helpless, so she had to investigate everything that happened on the ship alone.
But the hook chief was inseparable from him, and he looked extremely curious.
Chu Liuxiang naturally couldn't believe him at first, until the hook chief revealed his identity and involved a huge case.
It turned out that more than two months ago, General Zhenyuan, who had been stationed in the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion from outside the customs to escort tributes to Beijing, suddenly lost his head in the middle of the night. A batch of things that were going to be paid tribute to the imperial court were also lost.
All the 120 men who were with him were slaughtered cleanly. Not a single live mouth was left.
But people are not as good as heaven, and the murderer thinks that this case has been done cleanly enough. But I don't know that God left someone to be their witness.
This person was one of the concubines of General Zhenyuan, and she escaped by hiding under the bed at that time, and although she did not see the face of the crime, she heard everything they said clearly.
The crime was committed by two people, an old man and a young man, and after the matter was completed, he was ready to flee overseas and find a "gold cave" to enjoy for a lifetime.
It was according to this clue that the hook chief chased here.
And his identity is actually a personal guard of General Xiong outside the Guanwai. It was on the orders of General Xiong that he came to investigate this case.
As soon as the hook chief said this, as long as he was not an idiot, he had already guessed that the old man and the young who made such a big case must be Gongsun robbing the rest of the master and apprentice.
This time, Chu Liuxiang is on this boat, and the only person who can believe in it and can help him is the hook chief.
Chu Liuxiang even had doubts about this. There is not the slightest evidence to refute his suspicions.
If Chu Liuxiang was given enough time, he would definitely be able to find out everything, knowing that the hook chief was just a thief shouting to catch a thief, and he was the real criminal. Gongsun robbed the rest of the master and apprentice to be the real people in the government.
It's a pity that time is running out, Ding Feng doesn't need to hide everything forever, he only needs to temporarily disturb Chu Liuxiang's thinking direction. It was enough to not notice what he was doing next.
However, Chu Liuxiang is by no means very human, even in the midst of all difficulties. He still peeled back the cocoon and came to the conclusion that Ding Feng was the murderer.
But at this time. The hook chief disappeared, and Ding Feng died suddenly!
Chu Liuxiang has nothing to do, and there is nothing to do......
When he came to find Feng Xiaoxiao, Feng Xiaoxiao could only smile bitterly except for a bitter smile.
Lights have been lit in the cabin.
Feng Xiaoxiao returned to the table, sat down slowly, and said with a wry smile: "It's really not the right time for you to come. ”
Chu Liuxiang closed the hatch with her hand and said with a smile: "I know, you must know something." ”
Feng Xiaoxiao was silent for a while, and suddenly turned his head sideways and said, "Just listen to you and capture them all!" ”
Ying Yue nodded slightly, and her graceful figure had disappeared into the room, disappearing through the window.
Chu Liuxiang rubbed her nose and said, "It seems that I have ruined your good deeds." ”
Feng Xiaoxiao smiled: "No, you helped me make a decision." ”
After just two sentences, there was a faint and dull sound of fighting below the deck, but it quickly stopped.
Chu Liuxiang also sat down and asked, "What's going on, I really don't understand." ”
Feng Xiaoxiao reached into his arms, took out a ball of oiled paper, gently put it on the table, and said, "If you come one step too late, I will already be gone, and you will only find this map." ”
Chu Liuxiang stared at the wax pill in a daze, and even took out a ball of identical oil paper from his arms.
He asked, "Could it be that you also have a bat on that map?" ”
Feng Xiaoxiao nodded and said, "This is a nautical chart with the location of the Pinjin Cave, as long as he has this map, Zhang San can easily drive a boat to find Bat Island." ”
Chu Liuxiang said: "Bat Island? Is it the gold cave? No wonder, no wonder Yun Conglong secretly handed over the matter to me solemnly before he died, and it really mattered. ”
Feng Xiaoxiao said: "Ding Feng is in a maze, with only one purpose, so that you can't find out that he is preparing to abandon the ship and lead us away." ”
Chu Liuxiang groaned: "Ding Feng is really pretending to be dead, who are 'you' referring to?" ”
Feng Xiaoxiao said: "I, Invite Yue, Jin Lingzhi, Nangong Yan, and Hook Chang." ”
Chu Liuxiang was obviously stunned, and said in a lost voice: "The hook is long? ”
Feng Xiaoxiao smiled: "You didn't expect it! On the entire ship, except for the three of you, the others were all Ding Feng's people, from sailors to passengers, without exception...... In a sense, I'm sort of. ”
Chu Liuxiang was stunned for a moment and asked, "Hai Kuotian and Xiang Feitian are too?" ”
Feng Xiaoxiao said leisurely: "Before they died, naturally too. With so many people acting around you, if you can still not be fooled, then hell! ”
He sighed and continued, "You didn't expect it! Before this ship set off, it was already full of death, and Ding Feng had no intention of letting this ship reach the Pinjin Cave from the beginning......
"Dang", the hatch was suddenly kicked open, Hu Tiehua's face was red, and the smell of wine broke in, his body staggered, and he shouted with a big tongue: "Old bedbug, come out ...... What's wrong? How...... How to ......"
Zhang San poked his head out from behind him and said in a panic: "Everyone is dead, all are dead!" ”
Chu Liuxiang stood up, led the two of them in and sat down, and said, "There's no need to worry now, you might as well speak slowly!" ”
Hu Tiehua said loudly: "Why aren't you in a hurry? Don't you hear me? Everybody's dead! He's dead! ”
Zhang Sankou explained: "I heard the sound of a fight in the bilge just now, so I hurriedly ran to take a look, who knows...... All the sailors in the bilge have become dead! ”
Feng Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "You heard it wrong, the sound of the fight came from below the outside of the ship, not from the bottom of the bilge, no wonder, there is only a deck between the inside and the outside, no one would have thought that the sound of the fight came from the sea, naturally it is easy to hear it wrong." ”
Zhang Sanjiu was on the boat, and when he heard it, he understood, and shouted: "There was a life-saving boat on the deck, could it be that it has been launched?" (To be continued......)