Chapter 140 Corpse Feather Arrow

Li Xiaoliu has been in the Jinyi Guard Yamen for seven days and seven nights.

On the first night, when he was suddenly called back from home, as soon as he entered the gate of the Zhenfu Division, he felt a heavy breath from afar.

It's like sleeping on his own kang, and just by the sound of his mother's footsteps, he can accurately judge what today's breakfast is.

As the youngest Xiaoqi of Jinyiwei promoted this year, the clothes on his body have already separated himself from ordinary fans, but he is at the very edge of the circle of 100 households, 100 trial households, and general flags. He couldn't hear Qianhu standing in the center of the circle say anything to his immediate boss Hu Baihu, but judging from his expression and demeanor, he was probably not talking about something trivial like what to eat for breakfast.

"General Banner Jiang, General Banner Cheng."

Li Xiaoliu sorted out his new clothes and came to the right corner of the entrance where the Jinyi Guard officers gathered. This is a place for newcomers to advance, and it is for them to stand for petty officials who have just been promoted from Fanzi.

"Li Xiaoliu." Jiang Zongqi nodded, his eyes were still sharp, but the clothes on his body were slightly messy, and the Divine Tower was tired. Jiang Zongqi is close to thirty-five years old, and he still has to take on the main body of the Jinyi Guard's task, and he has to rotate continuously, probably no one can stand it.

However, the Jinyi guards in the Beijing division are all like this. Especially in Jinyiwei, who serves in the East and West Divisions, once there is a big and important case, the person who does not end the case will basically have to live in the Zhenfu Division.

Seeing that neither of them spoke, Li Xiaoliu had no choice but to ask boldly: "Why is this even the one who mentions the street back?" He saw a few fans outside, and on weekdays, he was active in the street where his house was located, and he drank tea at his house.

"Be vigilant today, you see that today is not only the return of Tihar Street. Even the commander of the Admiral, who can't be seen a few times a year on weekdays, and the commander of the Five Cities Terracotta Division are here. ”

In the Ming Dynasty system, the middle and high-ranking officials of the Five Cities Terracotta Division were often rewarded by the emperor to the fathers of the imperial concubines and princesses. Therefore, from the Chenghua period, the commander of the Five Cities Terracotta Division was returned to Jinyiwei from the Ministry of War, and Jinyiwei commanded the commander, which was equivalent to the Terracotta Division becoming a subordinate institution of Jinyiwei.

But on weekdays, this Zhou commander usually follows the leaders of the Jinyi Guard to meet the emperor directly, and it is really rare to be able to come to the first-line guard in person.

When Li Xiaoliu was looking around, there was the sound of Fanzi clicking a knife and a rush of footsteps outside the hall. He didn't have time to look back, and as soon as he stood upright facing the lobby, there was a thick bloody smell around him. The commander who did not hide his injuries in the slightest made Li Ruolian come to the forefront with the company of the envoys of the north and south towns, the commander Tongzhi and a group of thousands and hundreds of households.

And with them came in were the corpses of eight dead fanzi carried in by more than a dozen fans, and one of the corpses was placed next to Li Xiaoliu.

The corpse had not yet been cleaned up, and it looked like it had been brought back directly from the battle scene.

Li Xiaoliu has worked in the experience division for two years, and he has a good memory, and he vaguely seems to remember the name of this fanzi. It should have been outstanding in the winter solstice cleaning of the Jinyi Guard, and he was directly taken by the command and transferred to the Yiluan Guard. But in Li Xiaoliu's memory, this one is extremely brave every time, and he always gets himself injured, but he didn't expect to avoid it this time.

He was now lying on a simple stretcher, his back facing the sky, his hands hanging limply on either side of the stretcher. The blood was drained, so the face was pale and sallow. The main cause of death is probably the feathered arrow still in the left chest. It is estimated that the distance is very close, and the feather arrow directly penetrates the body, leaving only a short tail feather, which looks like it should not be the standard weapon in the Ming army, and the feathers are crooked, as if they are about to fall off.

Li Ruolian, who was standing in front, was about to take a roll call, but he saw this small flag that tilted his head to pay attention to the corpse of his colleague. He didn't seem to have seen enough, and he still wanted to reach out.

Li Ruolian turned around and came down from the hall again, and Li Xiaoliu was still a little unaware.

"What did you find? Or what's in doubt? "Li Ruolian has been busy for a long time, and he has found nothing except the corpses of twelve assassins. Not even the means of transport used by the Assassins to reach the ambush site were discovered. The power of the Ming grenade at close range was so great that the Assassin's clothes, weapons, and body provided little information.

In the end, it was Zhu Youzhen who relieved him and asked him to go back to the Zhenfu Division first to deal with his injuries, and then reorganize the way of investigating the case. In the end, in order to allow him to step down, His Majesty the Emperor also gave a four-character tone of loose on the outside and tight on the inside.

But Li Ruolian must be unwilling, if this assassination case cannot be solved, he is already ready to resign from the command. Therefore, according to the emperor's request, he did not seal the city, but arranged for his cronies to set off first, so that all the backbone of the Jingshi of Jinyiwei would return to the official office to gather. He was pressed to the military academy by His Majesty the Emperor, and asked Dr. Wu to pull out the arrow for himself and put disinfectant on it.

There were some things he didn't understand, but he just thought that this little flag staring at the corpse on the ground should be something different. If this had been left on hold, he would never have asked such a reckless question, but today was different, he felt that the pressure on his shoulders was too heavy.

There was even the slightest hope, and he thought he could give it a try.

"Is there anything wrong with this corpse?"

Li Ruolian knew that the wound caused by his feather arrow was still oozing blood, and the wound of the feather arrow was not big, but in order to take out the feather arrow with a fork, Dr. Wu cut his muscles again, and finally sewed it up with needle and thread in front of His Majesty the Emperor. It was covered with a thick layer of white powder with a strange smell, and then tied up with a white cotton cloth. He also repeatedly told himself not to exercise vigorously and not to allow water to penetrate into it.

But he ran back from outside the city on horseback, and along the way he thought his horse was running too slowly, and the pull of the reins and sweat, he vaguely felt that his wounds were still bleeding, but who cared?

This Xiaoqi may also be talking to his big boss for the first time, and his voice is a little shaky.

"This eldest brother's subordinates should know, and his subordinates handled the paperwork for him when he went through the division."

Li Ruolian nodded.

"I have a heart." After that, when he was about to turn around and leave in disappointment, he heard Xiaoqi say:

"This arrow does not conform to the system of the Ming Army, and it should be temporarily assembled."

"Oh?" Li Ruolian stood up and said to Li Xiaoliu:

"You just stand here and don't move, I'll talk to you later."

Li Xiaoliu didn't know what he should do, so he just stood beside the corpse in a daze, watching Li Ruolian pass down the orders one by one above the lobby, and then saw thousands and hundreds of households surrendering their hands, and then hurriedly left with his subordinates.

It wasn't until half an hour later that Li Ruolian hurriedly came over again with a few fellow acquaintances and Jinyiwei's servants, including Jinyiwei Xiaoqi's boss Li Xiaoliu.

"Li Xiaoqi, let's talk about it specifically."

It seems that Li Ruolian already knows his identity, and he also squatted next to the corpse like Li Xiaoliu.

"The feather arrows of the Ming Dynasty, whether they are the military department or the border army, including the guards of the Son of Heaven, are glued with a swim bladder made of yellow croaker or eel, and then dried in the shade. No matter how close the distance is in the battle formation, no matter how strong the force is, this rarely appears. ”

He pointed to the tail of the feathered arrow on the corpse's chest, which was visibly crooked, and even half of it had fallen off.

"The subordinates don't know...... Where did the injury occur, or to whom? Li Xiaoqi still stammered a little.

"In the past, the cases involving feather arrows in the Jingshi were basically read by the subordinates when they had nothing to do, and most of them were feather arrows that flowed out of the Beijing camp or workshop. But why this time with such improvised feathered arrows? It stands to reason that the accuracy and precision of this feather arrow are much worse. ”

"There are only two biggest possibilities." Li Xiaoliu didn't have to wait for Li Ruolian to ask, and said to himself.

"One is that the person who uses this kind of feather arrow doesn't want people to know his identity, and once he knows his identity, then it is easy to find out his old bottom. One is that he is very unaccustomed to the standard feather arrows of the Ming Dynasty, and feels that the temporary moulting arrows may be more uncomfortable than his original ones. At the same time, it is also easier to camouflage. ”

"Can I cut these feathered arrows off?" Li Xiaoliu asked.

Li Ruolian glanced at the servant who was following him. It's also very innocent, and my job is not good or bad.

"The corpses have been handed over to you, and some fragments of bows and arrows and fragments of clothes have been collected at the scene, so you can see them if you want. Li Xiaoliu, right? Li Ruolian felt that he was okay, at least he heard a lot of directions in the mouth of this little flag.

Now, even if His Majesty the Emperor summons him to inquire about the direction of his case, he will not be speechless.

"You're there now?" Li Ruolian asked.

Naturally, there was a big guy next to him who wanted to show his face and replied.

"Li Xiaoliu only raised the small flag last month, and now he is serving as a small flag in the East Division of the subordinate office." It was a hundred households who spoke, and it was estimated that Li Xiaoliu would not be able to speak on weekdays.

"Cheng, this is your credit. Now follow Bai Qianhu for the time being. Looking back, whether it is Shoufu or His Majesty asking, it needs to be like this. ”

Li Xiaoliu, who was still struggling to cut feather arrows, didn't feel anything, but there were several more envious and jealous glances next to him.