Li Zhen didn't have anything to do in the afternoon, he didn't go out, he sat alone at the small table and read, at this time, the housekeeper Uncle Lin hurriedly walked to the courtyard and said: "Son, someone is looking for someone outside the gate, saying that it is your subordinate, surnamed Yang!"

Li Zhen was slightly stunned, and immediately thought that this should be the main bookkeeper Yang Xin came to find him, this is the first time he has come to the house to look for himself, there must be something important, Li Zhen got up and came to the gate, only to see a person standing outside the gate, black, thin and short, with small mouse whiskers and small eyes, it was really Yang Xin.

Generally speaking, there is a deep gap between officials and officials, from officials to officials, not only to have strong ability, but also to have deep qualifications and connections, Yang Xintong guò more than 20 years of hard work, only step by step from the official to the nine officials, and from the nine officials step by step to the six officials.

Because there is no meritorious fame, generally the sixth-grade official will reach the top, and the sixth-grade or above belongs to the doctor's level, unless there is a special contribution, otherwise it is basically impossible to rise.

Li Zhen originally didn't have a good impression of Yang Xin, his appearance was obscene, and his face was full of sneers, but since Cui Shaoying, who was outstanding, took refuge in Princess Taiping, Li Zhen didn't care much about Yang Xin's appearance.

"Master Yang, what's the important thing to find me?" Li Zhen walked out with a smile.

When Yang Xin saw Li Zhen come out, he hurriedly gave a salute, pulled him aside again, and handed him a red cloth bag, "Take a look at this." ”

Li Zhen opened the red cloth bag, only to see that it was a three-inch-long short crossbow arrow, and a letter was inserted on it, he was startled, "What is this?"

"This is what appeared on the wooden pillar of the commander's office just now, but I don't know when it was shot in?"

Li Zhen didn't read the letter, but his face was gloomy, and he actually dared to shoot the arrow letter into his official room, which was undoubtedly a stern threat to his person.

"Let's go to the official room first!"

Li Zhen was not in a hurry to read the letter, but followed Yang Xin back to the official office in Quanshanfang, and went directly into his official room. ”

Li Zhen looked at the arrow marks, the arrow marks were quite deep, there were three points into the wood, the arrows were shot with a hand crossbow, to shoot such arrow marks, they must be shot within ten steps, Li Zhen looked in the direction where the crossbow arrows came from, and saw a small hole in the pasty paper of the window, indicating that the arrow was shot from outside the window.

Li Zhen sneered, turned back to Yang Xin and said, "Is there anything in Master Yang's book?"

Yang Xin nodded, "If the arrow has a letter on it, it is impossible to shoot such a small hole, it should be a large piece of window paper, I also think it is strange." ”

"Not only that, but if the arrow had been blocked by the window paper, it would not have been possible to penetrate so deep into the wood, and if I am not mistaken, this is an arrow letter shot from someone standing in my room. ”

Yang Xin's expression was a little unnatural, and he hurriedly explained: "It's definitely not a lowly act-"

Li Zhen didn't wait for him to finish speaking, he raised his hand to stop his words, "Master Yang doesn't have to be careful, I never said what you mean, this letter arrow has been shot for at least a day or two, Master Yang might as well check it secretly, I suspect that it was done by insiders." ”

Yang Xin was flattered, and hurriedly saluted: "I understand the humble position." ”

Li Zhen opened the letter at this time, and there was only one sentence in the letter: "Lu Wu of Cause and Effect Lane, this person is also one of the assassins. ’

Li Zhen's brows suddenly furrowed, he investigated the inn records afterwards, there should be ten assassins now, but there were only eight corpses at the scene, and two more escaped, could it be that Lu Wu of this Cause and Effect Lane was one of them?

Also, who shot this arrow letter to himself?

Li Zhen handed the letter to Yang Xin, "What does Master Yang think?"

Yang was nervous, read the letter, bowed his head and thought for a moment before saying, "It seems that someone is deliberately guiding the commander and providing the commander with some important witness evidence. ”

"Do you think it could be perjury?" asked Li Zhen again.

"I don't think so, after all, the commander is a witness to the assassination, whether it is perjury in the first trial, this Lu Wu should be a real assassin, I heard that the saint has handed over this case to Lai Junchen, then Lai Junchen will definitely come to the commander to understand the situation, so this letter is to provide some clues and information to the commander first, so that the commander can transfer it to Lai Junchen. ”

After a pause, Yang Xin said again: "I feel that even if the commander ignores this letter, this messenger will leak the information of the assassin to Lai Junchen again. ”

Yang Xin's words made Li Zhen look at him with admiration, his analysis was reasonable and his vision was unique, no wonder Sun Li strongly recommended this Yang master book to himself, and he really had some ability.

Li Zhen thought for a moment and asked, "You mean that someone wants to deliberately expose the truth, right?"

Yang Xin nodded, "This is exactly what the lowly position means, when the Shangguan Sheren has not returned, the assassination case has been spread in Luoyang, obviously someone is deliberately proclaiming, the lowly position guesses, it should be the opponent of the assassin behind the scenes, if the commander really wants to catch the assassin, he might as well go to the Cause and Effect Alley." ”

Li Zhen pondered for a moment, he really had to discuss this matter with Shangguan Wan'er first......

It's only been two hours since they broke up, Li Zhen was startled when she saw Shangguan Wan'er again, only to see that all kinds of documents in her official room were piled up, she buried herself in a large pile of scrolls and worked hard to write, and when she saw Li Zhen enter the house, Shangguan Wan'er smiled without raising her head: "I thought I could be lazy when I went back to my hometown, but it turned out that everything was indispensable, and it was all piled up here." ”

Li Zhen also joked: "Isn't there someone who really wants to share the worries of the Sheren?

Shangguan Wan'er smiled, looked up at Li Zhen and said, "If you are willing to share my worries, I will be happy to give you half of them." ”

"I am willing, but I am afraid that the Holy One will recognize my handwriting, and she will not be happy. ”

"Actually, it's okay, the saint has told me more than once, let me find a few well-read palace maids to be scholars, but unfortunately I haven't found the right one yet, in fact, you are very suitable, but I need you to do more important things, to be my scholar, I am too wronged by you. ”

After the two said a few words, Li Zhen handed the arrow letter to Shangguan Wan'er, and said Yang Xin's analysis again, Shangguan Wan'er smiled lightly: "This Yang master's analysis is not bad at all, it is consistent with my guess, he is a good talent, you might as well use him well." ”

"So what should I do now?"

Shangguan Wan'er pondered for a moment and said: "Although there are people with intentions to guide us, if we grasp the evidence earlier, we can prevent Lai Junchen from using this case to expand the attack, we might as well take advantage of the situation and understand the truth first." ”

Li Zhen nodded, "I understand." ”

After hesitating for a moment, Li Zhen asked again: "I don't know where Junchen is now?"

"I got the news that he took people to Shaanxi County the night before yesterday to investigate the assassination, and he has to make a show anyway, and it is estimated that he will be back tonight or tomorrow, and we had better catch the key witnesses of the assassination before he returns. ”......

Located in the Tonghufang on the north bank of Luoshui, Cause and Effect Lane is a deep alley where more than 20 families live, and most of the residents of this alley are craftsmen, who are controlled by the government and have a low social status.

In the afternoon, Li Zhen led more than 70 internal guard soldiers to surround the Cause and Effect Alley, blocking all exits, and the assassin named Lu Wu was hiding in the arrow letter.

According to the investigation sent by Li Zhen in advance, there is indeed a family surnamed Lu in this alley, but it is unknown whether it has anything to do with this assassin surnamed Lu.

In fact, Li Zhen also felt that there were many suspicious things in this piece of information, for example, how could the assassin live alone, and even if the assassin escaped, why could the person behind the assassination not find this person?

Although the worst possibility was that they were ambushed, Li Zhen thought about it repeatedly and still felt the need to investigate, just like Shangguan Wan'er's attitude, and took advantage of the situation.

At this time, Jiu Zhi rushed over and whispered to Li Zhen: "It's strange that a short crossbow arrow appeared on the eaves of the innermost house. ”

Li Zhen's heart moved, and he immediately took out the crossbow arrow that appeared in his official room, spread it on the palm of his hand and asked, "Is it the same as it?"

Jiuzhi stared at it for a moment, nodded and said, "That's right, it's exactly the same as it." ”

Li Zhen suddenly understood a little, and even told himself about the hiding place, I was afraid that this assassin was hiding here by the messenger, so he immediately decided: "Surround this courtyard, be sure to catch it alive!"

Dozens of internal guards quickly surrounded a house located in the innermost part of the alley from all directions.

Li Zhen gave an order, and the internal guard soldiers on the wall jumped into the courtyard one after another and rushed into the room, Li Zhen also kicked open the courtyard door and rushed into the courtyard, only to hear an angry shout from the room, and someone was caught by the internal security soldiers.

Soon, the internal guards pushed out a tightly bound man, a young man of about twenty-seven or eighteen years of age, of medium height, with a fleshy face and a fierce look in his eyes.

Li Zhen looked at this man for a moment, he suddenly swung his sword, brushed several swords, and picked all the clothes on this person's right arm, revealing the upper part of his right arm, only to see a wolf head pattern tattooed on his right arm, Li Zhen sneered, and sure enough, as Shangguan Wan'er expected, this man was very likely to be the lone wolf dead soldier among the generals of the Wu family.

"Take him away!"

As soon as Li Zhen waved his hand, the internal guard soldiers strangled him with a thick rope to prevent him from chewing his tongue and killed himself, put a black hood on the man, escorted him out of the house, and pushed him into a sealed carriage specially designed to carry prisoners, and the carriage quickly drove away from Cause and Effect Alley.

At this time, Zhao Qiuniang walked over slowly, holding a plate in her hand, and there were seven or eight items on the plate, including a bronze waist badge of a samurai general, a sharp blade, a few ingots of gold, and a set of black night clothes.

"This is all the items found in the room, it's strange, there is actually a waist card of the Wu family general. ”

Li Zhen picked up this square bronze waist plate and looked at it carefully, only to see that the front was engraved with the words 'Wu Family General', and behind it was a wolf's head, with a small 'Jiaten' number underneath.

Zhao Qiuniang said in a low voice: "As far as I know, there are a total of twenty lone wolf dead soldiers of the Wu family, all of whom are outlaws with high martial arts, either retreat after success or die in failure, they usually live in the deep mansion compound of the Wei Palace, and I have never heard that someone will hide outside, command, there are many strange things here!"

Li Zhen nodded, he also realized these strange places, if this assassin was true, it only showed one thing, this lone wolf assassin didn't want to be killed by Wu Chenghe, so he escaped, but was hidden here by Wu Chengsi's opponent, and finally betrayed the assassin to himself.

If the messenger is really Wu Sansi, then this Wu Chengsi is too stupid, such an important assassination plan will actually be mastered by Wu Sansi, and it also proves Wu Sansi's insidious cunning and unscrupulous means from one side

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