"I don't want to come to you"

Wan Guojun gritted his teeth with hatred and said: "But the Wei brothers have run away, their whereabouts are unknown, Longling Villa was also burned down, how much effort did King Liang find the clues, now there is nothing, seeing that the beaked duck flew away again, how can you explain to King Liang?"

"Hmph, how to explain to King Liang is your business, it has nothing to do with me, if you handed over Jiang Enxin to me earlier, maybe I could still help you, but now? I'm sorry, I can't help you." ”

Wan Guojun heard that a fire was burning in the southwest at noon, so he sent people to Longling Villa, and found that the two brothers he sent to monitor the villa were killed, and the villa was burned to the ground, and the Wei family general had disappeared, which immediately made Wan Guojun panic, and the warriors of the Wei family escaped, so how could he explain to King Liang

Thinking about it, he felt that the responsibility lay on Lai Junchen, and he said that the two would join forces to attack the villa and seize the evidence, but it was because Lai Junchen did not cooperate with him that he was escaped by the Wei brothers.

He came to Junchen Xingshi to ask for guilt, but Junchen didn't take the promise to King Liang seriously at all, Wan Guojun had to soften again, "I don't know what I want to check in Zhongcheng, can you tell me, maybe I can help Zhongcheng." ”

Lai Junchen heard that his tone had softened, so he thought for a while and said, "I suspect that Li Xian and Xingtang will collude, can you give me some advice?"

"Xingtang Society"

Wan Guojun was suddenly taken aback, "Will Xingtang still be there?"

"Nonsense, if I don't check what it does, Xingtang will never disappear, and has been operating in secret, but this time I met it, of course I want to track it down, I want you to fully assist me, you tell me first, how many people did you brought?"

"His Royal Highness King Liang didn't want to be too ostentatious, so he only let the lowly post bring twenty people, three of whom had already died, and now there are seventeen people. ”

Lai Junchen then understood why he didn't attack the Wei brothers, it turned out that he had less than twenty people, no wonder he had to wait for himself to act together, Lai Junchen pondered for a moment and said: "I suspect that the group of people who ambushed Dali Temple in Yongqing County is the Xingtang Society, but I don't know where to start now, King Liang told you, do you have any clues in Fangzhou?"

Wan Guojun suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly said: "The prince sent a group of warriors to hide in Fangzhou last year, but for some reason, all these warriors were killed, and it is still a mystery.

Lai Junchen's brows furrowed, he understood what Wan Guojun meant, could that case be the work of the Xingtang Club? He also felt that there was this possibility, and secretly wondered in his heart: Dao Dali Temple was ambushed in Yongqing, does Xingtang want to stop them from investigating this case? ,

At this time, Lai Junchen felt that it was necessary for him to talk to the people of Dali Temple.

"Someone," Lai Junchen shouted and ordered.

Immediately rushed in a samurai, "lowly in the office"

"Immediately inform all the brethren to withdraw, give up the search for Gan En-sin, and all come to me to join me. ”

The town where Junchen is located is called Lingdong Town, which is the only way for Fangling County to go to Xiangzhou, and Jiang Enxin passed through Lingdong Town not long after, the war horse died, and he fled into the reckless forest.

Li Junchen carefully inquired about the county order, and found that the person who pursued Jiang Enxin did not go into the forest to search, and he suspected that Jiang Enxin was still hiding in the forest, or that he was killed in the mouth of a fierce beast in the forest, if so, the letters and documents carried by Jiang Enxin must still be left in the forest.

It was with this glimmer of hope that Lai Junchen divided his men into five groups, each of three people, and went into the forest to search, hoping to find some clues.

At this time, it was already dark, the forest became no longer safe, there was always an inexplicable sound, as if some animal was walking in secret, three black warriors were retreating to the edge of the forest, they searched for more than thirty miles deep in the forest, and still found nothing, but when night fell, they had to quickly withdraw from the forest.

At this time, the three of them were still five or six miles away from the edge of the forest, and the three of them were holding long swords and crossbows, back to back, while nervously watching the things around them, and slowly withdrawing outward, they had just heard the abnormality, and they were worried that they would encounter a fierce beast.

At this time, not far from them, a group of black shadows had quietly surrounded them, raised crossbow arrows, aimed at the three black warriors, in the dark, someone whistled on the big tree overhead, and dozens of crossbow arrows shot at the three people like lightning, the three of them were caught off guard, and they all screamed and fell to the ground.

Then the shadows rushed up, and someone probed their noses and whispered, "All dead"

The leader hung a bronze plaque on a branch, waved his hand, and "go" and everyone followed him and left.

A quarter of an hour later, at the edge of another forest two miles away, another group of black warriors was ambushed, killing three of them on the spot, and soon after, an ambush occurred in another forest, and three black warriors were hacked to death by swords.

Overnight, three of the five search teams sent by Lai Junchen were murdered, and only two groups returned to Lingdong Town.

As the day began to dawn, Lai Junchen, who had been waiting all night, sensed that something was wrong, and hurried to the forest with the remaining seven or eight men and Wan Guojun's samurai, and soon after they entered the forest, they found their men who had been killed, and in a short time, all nine of them who had died in three locations were found.

Lai Junchen was so angry that he almost fainted, he killed four of his subordinates outside Fangling West City, but he didn't expect to be lost by nine more people in Lingdong County, and he had never suffered such a big loss.

At the same time, he was a little afraid, he only had a few subordinates in Lingdong Town, if the other party was attacking him, then he was the one who died last night.

At this time, Lai Junchen began to worry about another group of brothers who had rushed to Yongqing County, whether they would also be ambushed?

"Zhongcheng, there is a discovery"

One of his men shouted in the woods, and Lai Junchen walked quickly into the woods, and his men met him and presented him with a bronze medal, an item we had found at the ambush site, hanging from a tree branch.

Lai Junchen took the bronze medal, held it in the palm of his hand and glanced at it slightly, his eyes widened suddenly, "Xingtang Hui, three words jumped into his eyes, he was so excited that he squeezed the bronze medal tightly, for fear that this bronze medal would grow wings and fly away, this is the clue he dreamed of."

Although the real mission of Dali Temple was also to find evidence of the rebellion of Li Xian, the king of Luling, an ambush in Yongqing County greatly damaged the vitality of Dali Temple, and Sun Li temporarily gave up the idea of continuing to investigate the king of Luling, and turned to investigate a major case that occurred last summer, and they rushed to Fangzhou under the pretext of investigating this case.

However, this case has been passed for too long, and many key witnesses have disappeared mysteriously, and their progress is very slow, so to speak, nothing.

Sun Li and his men lived in a large mansion next to the county office, and in addition, there were several internal security soldiers to assist them in handling the case.

"Sicheng, I think the inexplicable disappearance of these people is a clue in itself, they are the only ones who saw the corpse and disposed of the corpse, I can bet that they must have found something before they were killed"

Cao Jin said the two words very seriously, Sun Li suddenly jumped up, he looked out, and immediately lowered his voice and said: "Old Cao, it seems that I have to warn you, there are too many whirlpools in Fangzhou and too deep, and if you are not careful, you will fall into it, of course I know that there are many strange things in this case, but if you think about it, twenty young and strong men died mysteriously together, I am afraid that the water involved behind this is too deep." ”

Cao Jin couldn't help but shudder, of course he understood what Sun Li meant, that is, to tell him that this case was suitable to stop and not to investigate further.

At this moment, one of his subordinates hurriedly ran to the bottom of the hall and said in a loud voice: "Sicheng, Yushitai is here."

As soon as his words fell, he saw Lai Junchen break into the courtyard with a few subordinates, and walked towards the lobby with a fierce momentum, whether it is official position or actual power, Sun Li is far lower than Lai Junchen, he and Cao Jin hurriedly greeted him, bowed down together, "See Lai Zhongcheng for humble duties"

Lai Junchen glanced at him, and said with a smirk on his face: "I am thinking about things in my heart, it is a bit rude, Sun Zhongcheng is not to blame." ”

"Don't dare to be humble, come to Zhongcheng and ask for a seat"

Lai Junchen was not polite, walked directly into the lobby and sat down, Sun Li and Cao Jin did not dare to sit, stood aside and talked to him, at this time, a subordinate served tea to Lai Junchen, Lai Junchen took a sip of tea, and then slowly asked: "Last year's big case, how is the progress of the verification of Dali Temple?"

Sun Li smiled bitterly and said, "So far, there has been no progress for the time being. ”

Lai Junchen frowned, "How could it be? What have you done?"

"We examined the bones yesterday and found that they were all wounded by sharp blades, and looked at other evidence, but we didn't find any clues. ”

"Show me the file," Lai Junchen said unceremoniously.

Sun Li gave Cao Jin a look, Cao Jin understood, and hurriedly went down, and after a while, he picked up a few stacks of files and put them on the small table.

Lai Junchen opened one of the stacks of files, looked at it for a moment, and asked, "Have you asked about the person who first found the body?"

"Back to Zhongcheng, that is a merchant, when we wanted to find him, I heard that he had returned to his hometown Shuzhong. ”

Lai Junchen's face sank, "The case has not been solved yet, how can the witnesses leave at will, and which other witnesses are leaving?"

"There are also three servants, two of whom were poisoned by corpses, and died of illness last year, and the other person also went back to his hometown for treatment because of his serious illness. ”

What a shrewd person Lai Junchen is, all the key witnesses are either missing or dead, this is clearly someone covering up this case, but he didn't ask anything more, opened the file again, read it carefully, he closed the file together, and asked: "I suspect that this involves official dereliction of duty, from now on, this case will be taken over by Yushitai, and all the evidence will be transferred to me, and Dali Temple will not need to ask again." ”

Sun Li was shocked and said hurriedly: "But this is the case handed over by Li Siqing to the humble position-"

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Lai Junchen waved his hand and said impatiently: "The imperial court has a law, and cases involving officials sitting on stolen goods and dereliction of duty must be taken over by Yushitai, Li Siqing's side I will explain, you just have to cooperate with me to handle the case." ”

Sun Li had no choice but to bow down and salute, "the official obeys the order"