The escort's voice landed, and there was a earth-shattering roar from another direction.

The people in the city of Diqiu went out one after another, all looking in the direction of the mountains outside the city, standing high, they could see the gray fog, the gravel was torn apart, and thousands of flying stones fell from the sky.

It's like a spectacular smoky stone flower.

"What's going on?"

"Has the government found a gold mine?"

"I haven't heard of it."

"You see, the convoy is dispatched."

Iron armor and silver helmets, holding a long spear, galloped from the long street on horseback, and the red tassels on the spear were cleansed, like a red thread connected, flying in front of the eyes of the people.

In the blink of an eye, it was already far away outside the city gate, and the dust was gone.

The people continued to speculate and discuss.

Far away in the mountains, after the third explosion, a person staggered out of the thick dust and smoke, covered his nose and looked back, and quickly left the place.

Dressed in a blue silk shirt that stained the black and gray, he picked up a clean corner and wiped his face, waited in the open space for a while, and a person came from different directions.

"It's done." The two of them connected, seeing that each other's tasks were completed, nodded with satisfaction, looked left and right, and said, "Go back first." ”

"Will this work?"

"Bombed like this, look at how the government still finds gold mines." After the older man finished speaking, he asked, "Have you written down the directions?" ”

"Don't worry, I'm very accurate in size, and I will blow up the mountain next to me but it won't affect the ore."

"Well, keep the map and discuss it when the wind is calm in the future."

At the intersection, an old man stood with his back to the two, and when they got closer, he turned around, revealing an old and cold face, a pair of eyes that were cloudy but not lacking in fine light, straightening his back, and the whole person's temperament was renewed.

The two men stood in front of him and saluted a little stiffly, and the old man put his hands behind him, bowed his head slightly, and said, "Without further ado, you leave here overnight, and then join you when I take care of the affairs outside." ”

The three of them walked into the dense forest together, and after turning and turning, a path suddenly appeared, pushing aside the weeds of a human height and walking through a tea, and it was a forest again.

In this way, they walked across and vertically, and walked for nearly an hour, with an open meadow in front of them, backed by mountains on three sides, and on the other side next to the forest they came out of, and a lake not far away, and a cave in front of it.

Surrounded by mountains and green trees, it is quiet and beautiful, like a hidden fairy dwelling.

It's just too quiet, but it's become abnormal.

The old man was the first to ask: "Didn't I let you wait, what about the others?" ”

The older man shook his head: "I said before I left, they won't run around." ”

The man in the blue silk shirt strode forward, "What are you suspicious about, maybe you are all resting in the cave, I'll go and shout twice......"

The old man grabbed him by the arm, "Wait." His head slowly turned in a circle, as if savoring the unusual place, the wind blew the corners of his clothes, his ears suddenly moved, and his face changed suddenly, "Withdraw immediately!" ”

As soon as the three of them turned around, they suddenly stopped.

A few feet ahead, the spears of the guards in iron armor and silver helmets approached step by step, forming a circle around them.

—

Diqiu County Office

The county hall, which has always been wide, is overcrowded today, with more than 100 people of all ages and children crowded together, and even the officials have no place to stay.

Outside the county office, the county government was removed, and there were majestic guards inside and out, all of whom were angry and domineering.

The people of Diqiu gathered more and more, but they didn't dare to get closer, they only pointed at the county office from afar, their curiosity was raised high, and they were all speculating about what earth-shattering events had happened.

Yunqi walked through the crowd and entered the county government with a gentle pace, and the autumn cicada next to him pushed Lu Anran, arrived at the gate, and came face to face with the prince who was pushed by the spoon water.

The two sat in four wheelchairs together, and at first glance, it was quite a bit of a self-portrait in the mirror.

"His Royal Highness the Prince." Lu Anran let Qiu Cicada help him up and saluted.

Zi Sangjin raised his hand and pressed it, "Okay, my legs are lame, sit honestly, this palace doesn't care about these false courtesies." ”

The guards carried the four wheelchairs of the two people inside, headed by Meng Xueli, and next to them sat Nangong Zhi, Qi Shang, Yu Fangjing and Qian Liang.

Seeing Zi Sangjin get up at the same time to greet and salute.

"Lord Meng, this palace heard that the murderer behind the gold mine case has been caught?" Zi Sangjin sat on the top, the young man had a handsome face, but he had the majesty of heaven, even if he threw it out and said lightly, he also invisibly exuded an awe-inspiring and inviolable aura.

Pointing down, "Are you going to tell Hongu that these are all murderers?" ”

Meng Xueli clasped his hands in front of his chest, his eyes were half-open, and he said angrily: "This matter is all due to the responsibility of the adults, and the lower officials don't know the ins and outs." ”

Yu Fangjing's eyelids jumped, he trotted out with his fists clenched, and lowered his eyes: "Go back to Your Highness, before talking about the gold mine case, you have to mention another case first." ”

Zi Sangjin looked at him, Yu Fangjing paused, and then said: "The first Yaksha murder case discovered in Diqiu County, and the later Zhou family annihilation case. He held out two fingers and put them together, "but the two cases can be grouped together." ”

Meng Xueli said on the side: "Lord Yu don't guess the word puzzle, it's better to say it directly." ”

"That's right." Yu Fangjing considered the words, "This is in a hurry, before talking about the case, we still need to invite a few witnesses to come over and identify people." ”

Zi Sangjin asked, "Who do you recognize?" ”

"The identity of more than 100 people in the hall."

Yun Qi waved the jade bone fan and moved his chin forward a little, "I know this one in front of me." His lips rose a little, and he said in a smiling voice: "Steward Zhou, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

The old man kneeling at the front slowly raised his head, his face was still as old as ever, but his eyes were heavy, making his face different from before, and he was extremely depressed.

He smiled coldly, lowered his eyelids and said nothing.

Yu Fangjing said again: "I specially invited Miss Lu to come today, and I also have something to ask for a certificate." As he spoke, he looked at Lu Anran.

Lu Anran bowed his head and signaled.

Yu Fangjing stopped talking nonsense, and directly invited the first person to come up, a middle-aged man.

The man didn't know what was going on, and when he saw so many big people in the hall, he suddenly trembled, "Grass, grass people see adults." ”

Yu Fangjing: "Look at the person kneeling below, do you know it?" ”

The middle-aged man looked over one by one and hesitated: "Grass people...... I don't know. ”

Zi Sangjin furrowed her brows, as if she was dissatisfied with such a result.

Yu Fangjing was not in a hurry or impatient, as if he had already made up his mind for a long time, and said: "Steward Zhou has been going to your incense and candle shop every day to buy things these days, but you haven't seen him?" ”

"Back to the eldest master, although the incense and candle shop belongs to Xiaomin, it is handed over to Xiaomin's brother-in-law on weekdays, and Xiaomin generally doesn't ask." The drum beat in his heart, could it be that his brother-in-law did something that violated the law and caused him?

Who knows, Yu Fangjing did not continue to investigate, but said: "You are talking about the second shopkeeper of the incense candle shop, and the official called you to recognize the person." ”

The middle-aged man was still puzzled at first, but when he saw someone, he was even more confused, "This, my lord, who is this person, Xiaomin doesn't know it." ”

"Not your brother-in-law?"

"My lord, what are you kidding, how can the grass people's brother-in-law not know each other."

Yu Fangjing's words changed, "He is indeed not your brother-in-law." ”

"Huh?" The middle-aged man was about to turn around him.

"But this is the one who has opened a store recently to do business."

"How is that possible?" The middle-aged man's first reaction was that it was difficult for his brother-in-law to secretly give the shop to others behind his back, but the title deed was right in his own hands.

Yu Fangjing gestured to the official waiting outside the door, "This official found a person in the newly built low wall in the backyard of the incense candle shop. ”

The middle-aged man's heart suddenly jumped violently, and he had a bad premonition, and when he saw the official carrying a corpse covered with a white cloth, his heartbeat almost stopped.

"Recognize this body."

The official lifted the white cloth, and many people present gasped, and none of them dared to look directly.

The corpse had long since decomposed, festered and festered.

The middle-aged man was startled, bent over and retched for a long time, suddenly remembered something, grabbed the corpse with his hand and looked at it, and looked up to the sky and cried after seeing it: "Daliang, it's my brother-in-law Daliang, why did you become like this, who hurt you......"

Yu Fangjing sighed and shook his head, "Your brother-in-law has already suffered a few months ago, if it weren't for the fact that the officials in the palace went to investigate the case and found wild dogs digging the wall, I am afraid that it would be difficult to find it for a while." ”

The middle-aged man fell to the ground crying, and pointed to the incense candle shop' with trembling hands, "Did he hurt Daliang, my lord, you have to be the master of Xiaomin." ”

Yu Fangjing asked the official to take the corpse and the person down, turned around and said: "First case, the incense and candle shop guy is fake, as for the real identity, we will talk about it later, and now I have a second person to witness." ”

Regarding Yu Fangjing's trickery, Meng Xueli looked at his nose and nose and looked at his heart and had nothing to do with himself, Nangong Zhi and Qi Shang did not speak because they knew about it, Zi Sangjin was silent and other developments, only Qian Lianghan was like rain and sat like pins and needles.

Yunqi and Lu Anran glanced at each other and exchanged a knowing look.

After a while, everyone's minds turned a few corners, and the official had already brought a second witness over.

Yun Qi raised his eyebrows and smiled.

"This woman's name is Xiufang, a native of Xiasi Village." Yu Fangjing brushed Xiufang's identity aside, emphasizing one point, "I have done things for the Zhou Mansion." ”

Among the people kneeling on the ground, one of the women couldn't help but raise her head and look at Xiufang, who shrank back and hid.

"Miss Xiufang, you told the official that a few days ago, you ran into a person after you left the city, it was the deceased Miss Zhou Pei of the Zhou Mansion, can you do this?"

Xiufang's head almost hung to her chest, and she said in a trembling voice: "Yes, yes, Minnu, Minnu......"

"Will you be mistaken?"

"The folk girl sent an embroidery sample to Miss Zhou," Xiufang shook her head, her eyes shook to the bottom, and her voice immediately became weaker, "Miss Zhou, she has a mole under her lips, the folk girl, the folk girl will not admit her mistake." ”

Yu Fangjing raised his hand and gestured, "Do you know any of the people below?" ”

Xiufang shrunk her neck and hesitated, and Yu Fangjing comforted: "Miss Xiufang don't be afraid, just speak the truth boldly, and the rest is in charge." ”

Xu is words played a comforting role, Xiufang really took a step, walked around the crowd outside, and suddenly stopped somewhere.

Biting his lip, he pointed his hand forward, and said, "She is Miss Zhou!" ”