In the early hours of the morning, the cold air penetrates the heart, and the morning of Saibei is as cold as an ice cellar, dripping into ice, and haqi into frost.

The bodies of eighteen Jinyiwei were lined up in a room in the backyard of the Yamen of Jinyiwei's Qianhu in Ningxia Town, and the heads and faces of these corpses still had ice ballast on their bodies that had not yet melted; This is the trace left by the preservation of the corpse in the ice cellar.

Some of these corpses were dressed in civilian clothes, some were dressed as servants, and three were still wearing the clothes of border soldiers, and they had been dead for more than half a month.

Song Nan burned incense with both hands and hung his head to pray, and the guards around him symbolically burned some paper money, and then Song Nan rolled up his sleeves and stepped forward, stretched out his hand and began to take off the corpse's clothes.

Hou Dabiao, Wang Yong and the others hurriedly stepped forward and said: "My lord, the matter of burial and changing clothes is for the flag school to do, why should the adults do it themselves." ”

Song Nan shook his head and said, "I'm not going to change their clothes, I'm going to see their injuries." ”

When everyone heard this, they came up together to help, and after a while, the corpse's clothes were stripped naked, and the frozen corpse was pale and white, and the blood stains on the body were condensed into black ice cubes, and there were faint corpse spots on it, which was really disgusting to look at.

Song Nan squinted his eyes and looked carefully, these corpses were all killed by sharp weapons, and the wounds showed open tear marks, almost all of them were fatal with one blow, it can be seen that most of them were killed in defenseless situations, and it may be that the other party's strength is too high to resist at all.

Hou Dabiao looked through several corpses and frowned and asked, "Do you see what's going on?" I don't have a clue at all, these are ordinary sword wounds, and I can't see anything special. ”

Song Nan didn't answer, and continued to rummage through the body, Hou Dabiao wanted to stay and ask, but was stopped by Wang Yong, Wang Yong knew Song Nan's temper, once he silently began to scrutinize, he would never want to be disturbed.

Time passed slowly, Song Nan slowly and carefully looked at the wounds on the corpses, so small that he had to take a closer look at the hair, lower pubic anus, etc., and the officials of the brocade clothes and guards looked at each other with big eyes, and they were a little disrespectful to the dead.

In the silence, Song Nan's figure stopped at the corpse of a short Jinyi guard's secret agent, and he sighed, bent down to look at the wound, and frowned suddenly.

Everyone hurriedly walked over to check, and Wang Yong asked, "My lord, have you found anything?" ”

Song Nan pondered for a while, then pointed to the scar on the corpse's chest and said, "Wang Yong, this wound should not be a sword scar. ”

Wang Yong looked closely and saw that there were five or six tooth-shaped holes in the chest of the corpse, and the black blood flowing out of it condensed into several large ice cubes, and said in surprise: "What kind of blade is this?" It's weird. ”

Hou Dabiao also said: "It seems to be injured by a nail rake, look at these snow caves lined up, isn't it the injury caused by the tip of the nail rake?" ”

Song Nan said: "Who will carry a nail rake to kill people?" Except that Zhu Bajie's blade in the script is a nail rake, who will use a nail rake as a blade? ”

"That's definitely not, I haven't seen anyone use a nail rake as a weapon in so many years." Wang Yong shook his head and said.

Song Nan instructed: "Fetch hot water." ”

The guards hurriedly brought the hot water basin and brought fragrant pancreas, thinking that the commander should make the adults clean their hands, but Song Nan grabbed a hot towel dipped in water and wiped the wound on the chest of the dead corpse clean, this time the shape of the wound was clearer, these juxtaposed small holes were actually not holes, but flat and thin as cicada wings, the slender knife edge, arranged so neatly, the distance between the wounds was almost equal, this must not be forged after the fact, and the fake wound only needs to be smashed into a wound, and there is no need to bother to calculate the distance and stab a few knives to set up a suspicious array.

Song Nan had a smile on his face, and nodded slowly: "Sure enough, sure enough." ”

Wang Yong asked thoughtfully, "Do you remember someone who used this strange blade?" ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "It should be right, Wang Yong, do you remember when we went to Xiangshan last autumn?" On the way, Fang Gu and I also fought with two palace guards from the Western Regions, who were from Gagandu Si Dasi Mawanhu Mansion, and at the same time served as guards under the command of the King of Anhua. ”

Wang Yong's eyes were bright, and he exclaimed: "When my lord said this, I remembered that you described to me afterwards the blades of two guards disguised as scholars, which were folding fans that could stretch out more than a dozen knives when unfolded; This wound ...... This wound is the wound of the folding fan. ”

Song Nan nodded and said: "That's right, the wound is thin and flat, it is left by the sharp blade, the fan is semicircular, after piercing, only five or six swords in it enter the body, and the rest do not leave scars, if my guess is right, these wounds must be deep and shallow, and the middle wound should be the deepest one." ”

Jiang Feng, who was dumbfounded, exclaimed: "My lord, did you say that the guards of the palace killed this brother?" ”

Song Nan nodded and said, "Nine times out of ten." ”

Jiang Feng said: "That's it, this dead brother's name is Zhu Fu, he is hidden in the prince's mansion as a handyman, and the prince of Anhua lives in Qingwangfu, so he and other brothers who are hidden in the palace are ordered to secretly investigate this matter." ”

Song Nan said: "What other people are hidden in the palace?" ”

Jiang Feng pointed to a few corpses in the corner of the wall and said, "Those are all of them." ”

Song Nan walked over quickly, and soon found the same scars on two of the corpses, and there was no doubt that the fact that several spies in the palace had all died at the hands of the palace guards could basically be determined.

Song Nan sighed, didn't make a fuss about the corpse, and after cleaning his hands, he ordered to buy a good coffin to bury them thickly, and bury them alive. Dozens of flag schools changed more than a dozen corpses into the clothes of the red armor and yellow helmets of the Jinyi Guard, although these people are secret agents, but they are the people of the Jinyi Guard, and after they die, of course, they have to change into the clothes of the Jinyi Guard that they can't wear on weekdays.

Several of the flag schools who collected the corpses kept muttering: "Brothers, you can't show your head when you're alive, don't fall into the breeze of our brocade guards when you die, don't fall into the breeze of our brocade guards when you die, see the cow, ghost, snake and god dare to make things difficult, don't be polite to embroider the spring knife, it's fucking your turn; Go well, go well. ”

Everyone listened with compassion, Song Nan stood at the door thoughtfully, thinking about something, Wang Yong and Hou Dabiao came up left and right and whispered: "My lord, since it was done by the palace guards, it can be seen that our investigation of the king of Anhua must be exposed to their eyes; What are you going to do? ”

Song Nan said slowly: "Don't do anything, you can't do anything with this wound, what I want to know is what these brothers found out before temporarily, the identity of the secret agent may have been under the eyes of others, but they didn't kill sooner or later, but they were killed when these two cases were thoroughly investigated, and they were killed at the same time in different identities and places, obviously the murderer had an agreement in advance, that is, to kill the people we are tracking at the same time with a thunderous force, it can be seen that there must be a collusion between the two." ”

Wang Yong nodded and said, "What my lord said is that the question is how we get started. ”

Song Nan turned around and beckoned Jiang Feng to the front and asked, "Jiang Qianhu, I looked through the file you sent last night, and the file said that they were all suddenly killed overnight, and their bodies were thrown on the desert outside the city. What I want to know is, how did you hear about this? ”

Jiang Feng said: "Report to my lord, this is a few people who went out of the city to hunt rabbits found the corpses in the grass, so they went back to the city to report the case." ”

Song Nan said: "Why can you bring this corpse back?" Isn't it the governor's yamen who filed a case for investigation? ”

Jiang Feng said: "Yes, we waited for the yamen to do an autopsy, and after the yamen buried the body outside the city, we took the brothers to dig it back secretly at night, because we know that the adults must see the corpses when they come. ”

Song Nan said again: "Didn't the yamen organize the identification of the corpse?" After all, three of them were wearing border armor. ”

Jiang Feng sighed: "The chief soldier of God denies that these three people are people in the army. The generals also said that there were no three people, and the armor on these three people was also tattered, so they must have not taken it off, and they just got dirty. ”

"However, the palace also denied that there were miscellaneous servants of the palace and refused to claim it?"

"Yes, unclaimed, as an ownerless corpse wrapped in a reed mat and buried."

Song Nan's brows trembled, and he said: "Such a ruthless group of people, since they took their lives, they are not even willing to pretend to claim and bury them, I will write down this account for them." ”

Everyone turned back to the inner hall of the yamen, and they were busy all morning, and they didn't even eat breakfast; As soon as everyone sat down, picked up millet porridge and hot steamed buns and prepared to fill their stomachs, they saw the flag school outside the hall rushing to the school, looking for Jiang Qianhu in a stack, Jiang Feng got up and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The flag school shouted: "There are several adults from outside the yamen, saying that they have come to meet our commander, Lord Song. ”

"Who are they?"

"Lord Jiang Han, the chief soldier, Li Zeng, the eunuch Li Zeng, Li Gonggong, the governor An Wei, Lord Xue'an, and Lord Zhou Dongzhou, the Shaoqing of Qincha Dali Temple."

Jiang Feng was slightly surprised, these people were almost all the real power figures in Ningxia Town, and they all came here to meet Song Nan, and they didn't know if it was a good thing or a bad thing.

Jiang Feng turned his head and looked at Song Nan inquiringly, Song Nan put down the hot porridge bowl and put chopsticks on the table and said, "They should also come, invite them in." ”