Chapter 51: The Truth of the Liangzhou Case (1)
This discovery really shocked Chang An, he never thought that he would reunite with Lao Zhou in this situation.
At this time, the scenes of two months ago resurfaced, and some doubts seemed to have new explanations.
But he is not in the mood to recall the past at the moment, because the mystery in Liangzhou City has been solved by him.
He slowly put away Lao Zhou's head, left Yizhuang silently, and walked slowly on the street, combing everything he had seen in the past two days, slowly, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and a clear vein had been held in his palm.
On the silent street, there was a sudden sound of fragmented footsteps, and a middle-aged fat man with a sideways face walked in front of him, only to see that he was burly, fierce and vicious, but seeing Chang An, he seemed to have changed his face, and trotted to Chang An with a flattering smile
"Hey, hey, owner."
It was the owner of the gambling house in the daytime, named Ling Hu.
Chang An glanced at him and said lightly
"How's it going?"
Ling Hu carefully took out a note from his arms, bowed his head and handed it to Chang An, and said
"I found out, they were once the Gu family's doormen."
Chang An took the note, looked at the dense handwriting on the paper, frowned, and asked
"How's Mobei doing?"
Ling Hu said
"I was about to report to the owner, Mo Daxia's village is about to be built, but it's ......"
"But what?"
"There's one more person in the village."
"Who?"
"It is said that it is a child rescued by Mo Daxia, named Gu Yuanwu."
Chang An's eyes flashed slightly, and in the dark night, he couldn't see his expression clearly
"Got it, stand down."
Ling Hu bowed his head and left.
April 20
Pang Chong and the others sat down in the lobby early, and in addition to them, the rest of the guests in the inn also sat in the lobby.
"Squeak!"
The sound of pushing the door sounded, Zhao slowly and Chu Muhe walked into the inn, and Zhao slowly looked around
"Where's Chang Daxia?"
Pang Chong looked at Zhao Slowly and Chu Muhe beside her, and said coldly
"He'll come down in a moment."
Zhao slowly glanced at him, found a table near the door, and sat down.
On the other side, the cold voice of Leng Lian Yi came from time to time
"How long are we going to wait? We're not here to play with you. ”
There was also some commotion among the people around the rivers and lakes.
Obviously, they came to the box at the gate of the city, and they were stopped in the inn by Chang An last night, so they naturally held a grudge, but they were afraid of Chang An's martial arts, but they also dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, but now, the box is gone, for the sake of a murder case that has nothing to do with them, let them continue to stay here, they are naturally unwilling.
Footsteps came from the stairwell, and Chang An, dressed in a fancy dress, appeared from the corner of the stairs, smiling, followed by a middle-aged fat man with a full face, it was the owner of the gambling house, Ling Hu.
Everyone looked at Ling Hu suspiciously, but Zhao Huan and Chu Muhe were shocked, and Chu Muhe said
"Master Chang, I didn't even notice when this inn entered."
Although he went to the West City Gate last night, the entire inn was still monitored by the masters of the City Lord's Mansion, but for the whole night last night, they didn't even notice when the middle-aged fat man beside Chang An entered the inn.
Ling Hu smiled slightly and slowly explained to Chu Muhe and Zhao
"His name is Ling Hu, and he is the owner of the Changle Gambling House in this city, of course, this gambling house is the property of the Chang family."
Zhao Slowly's face softened slightly, although this Ling Hu was so mysterious, since he was Chang An's subordinate, at least, he was not her enemy.
But the people in the rivers and lakes around were not calm, the pair of twin thieves looked at Ling Hu with gloomy faces, and on the other side, the three masters of the Lion and Tiger Hall also had extremely bad faces, staring at Ling Hu deadly.
"Yo, Ling Da, who used to dominate the martial arts, is now hiding in this Liangzhou City and opening a casino."
Leng Lian Yi played with the wine glass in his hand, and said in a weird voice, the voice was not loud or small, but the people in the inn happened to be able to hear it.
Zhao slowly looked at Chu Muhe suspiciously
"Uncle Chu, what is the origin of this person?"
Chu Muhe frowned
"Five years ago, this Ling Hu was an absolute first-class master in the rivers and lakes, the fourteenth in the world, under the three major grandmasters, after the ten grandmasters, it was him, the big master of Lingyun Village, Ling Hu, people gave nicknames, Chaotang Tiger."
"Chaotang Tiger?"
Zhao slowly became even more puzzled, how could he come up with such a name.
Chu Muhe explained
"It is said that this guy has always wanted to be a fast catcher, and he is determined to fight unevenly, but the government thinks he is ugly, and he will lose the face of the government when he goes out in an official uniform, and he can only fall into the grass in desperation, but he is a grass coward in the open, but secretly he often helps the government to arrest key criminals in the rivers and lakes, and several guys in this inn have suffered secret losses in his hands, but he didn't expect that he was actually taken under the command of the head of the Chang family."
Zhao slowly laughed out loud, looking at Ling Hu's fierce and vicious face, he actually felt a little cute at this time, who would have thought that such a fierce man would be a guy with justice in his heart and like to fight unevenly.
Ling Hu looked at those martial arts people with unkind expressions with a smile, and he was not angry, and said lightly
"Hehe, I am no longer the big boss of Lingyunzhai at home, and the Lingyunzhai in the early years no longer exists, and now, I am just a guy watching the field for the owner."
"Humph!"
Leng Lianyi snorted coldly and stopped talking.
Pang Chong stood up and looked at Chang An
"Chang Daxia, today is the last day of our agreed period, I hope Chang Daxia can give us an explanation."
Chang An said confidently
"Deputy Commander Pang, please rest assured, I have gathered everyone here today just to give everyone an explanation."
Zhao said slowly
"Then let's start with Chang Daxia."
Chang An checked his face and asked Ling Hu on the side in a low voice
"How long will it take for the people sent out yesterday to come back."
Ling Hu said in a low voice
"I've entered the city at this moment, and I'm rushing here."
Chang An nodded slightly and turned to everyone
"Ladies and gentlemen, you must have doubts about what has happened in the past few days, and now I will tell you a story."
"This story starts a year ago, a year ago, everyone present must have known what happened, Gu Jingshi, the king of the northern realm, died in the imperial capital, and the Gu family was wiped out overnight."
Leng Lianyi laughed darkly
"I don't know who is so bold that he even dares to destroy the door of the Gu family."
The twin thieves on the other side sarcastically said
"This is much stronger than some people, but it is the gate of the king of the northern realm that they destroy, and some people only dare to kill some small fish and shrimp."
Hearing this, Leng Lian Yi looked at the pair of twin thieves with a cold face.
Chang An glanced at them, and the three of them immediately retracted their momentum, and he continued
"There are many speculations about this matter on the rivers and lakes, some people say that the Gu family escaped a young master, and some people say that Gu Jingshi relied on his high merits, entered Beijing privately, tried to rebel, and his plan was revealed to have died in the imperial capital.
"But everyone ignores one thing, why would Gu Jingshi, as a prince who has a fiefdom and a broken territory, not bring a single soldier and not a single soldier, but rush to the imperial capital alone, even if he wants to rebel, he is also mindless."
"It's all because of one thing."
Chang An said.
Zhao slowly looked stunned, and then seemed to suddenly realize
"Is it ......?"
Chang An nodded
"Yes, it's the box that Commander Qu was ordered to escort this time."
The big boss of the Lion Tiger Hall asked again
"How did the head of the Chang family know about this?"
Chang'an Road
"Do you remember why you gathered in this Liangzhou City?"
The twin thieves recalled
"A few days ago, there was a news circulating in the rivers and lakes, a young man who claimed to be Gu Yuanwu, an orphan of the Gu family, wanted to offer treasures to the palace, and our brothers didn't care about these grievances in the court, but, I don't know where it came from, saying that it was a treasure, and it was a mystery of immortality.
Leng Lian Yi also echoed coldly
"Yes, I'm here for that, and while I'm skeptical of the news, I'd like to try my luck."
Chang An looked at the rest of the people again, and they all nodded slightly, indicating that it was for the same reason as Leng Lianyi.
Chang An said with a smile
"Regardless of whether that Gu Yuanwu is true or not, have you ever thought about it, the root cause that really prompted the Gu family to be destroyed may be this palace treasure."
Leng Lianyi and the others were slightly stunned, thinking about it carefully, but there was such a possibility.
Chang An continued
"Since the Gu family has a heavy treasure in their hands, they will naturally attract the covetousness of others, but the Gu family will definitely not easily reveal the secret of the heavy treasure they hold, so how did the murderer know that the Gu family obtained this heavy treasure."
"There are traitors in the Gu family."
In the corner, Hirakawa calmly took over.
Chang An nodded and smiled
"There is only this possibility, if someone divulges the secret of Chongbao, naturally someone will target the Gu family."
"Then, there is a story of the king of the north who entered the imperial capital alone, but was in prison, so why did the king of the north not be summoned to the order, but he still had to enter the imperial capital alone, this is a mystery that puzzles me."
"We pushed the time to this year, the young man who called himself Gu Yuanwu wanted to present treasures to the palace, and Qu Feng, the commander of the forbidden army, went directly to the order to go to Ningchuan Prefecture to collect the treasure."
"Deputy Commander Pang also suspected that the palace destroyed the Gu family for this treasure back then, the reason is that he thought that at the moment of taking the treasure, Commander Qu really wanted to kill that young man, although I don't know why, Commander Qu didn't do it in the end."
"But from what I've gathered, the facts seem to be slightly different."
Pang Chong looked at Chang An suspiciously
"Is there something hidden in this?"
Chang An laughed, and then said categorically
"That's right! There is indeed a hidden situation, my Chang family's business has been doing well in the past few years, all over the north and south of the river, and Gu Jiajun in the north has always had a supply relationship, Ling Hu! ”
Ling Hu, who was beside him, suddenly took out a scroll of paintings, and he untied the red thread on the scrolls
"Wow!"
The scroll falls to the ground in response, and a portrait is displayed.
"Grand Commander!"
Pang Chong exclaimed.
The portrait painted on it seems to be Qu Fengzhi, the commander of the forbidden army.
Ling Hu explained
"What you see now is the portrait of Xu Fengzhi, the head of the Gu Jiajun and one of the guests of the Gu Prince's Mansion, that is, Qu Fengzhi, who is now the world's famous commander of the forbidden army and one of the seven great grandmasters, of course, he was naturally not as famous as he is now, nor did he become a grandmaster."
I saw that under the portrait, there were three words written on it.
"Impossible!"
Pang Chong shouted, he looked at the portrait in disbelief, he would never be able to mistake the great commander he got along with day and night, but such a truth was indeed unacceptable to him, because this was not only a matter of the head of the Gu family's army or the commander of the forbidden army, but also related to a more important matter.
That's right, it's the traitor who betrayed the Gu family at a critical moment a year ago!
In this matter, he recalled that when Qu Feng looked directly at Gu Yuanwu, his eyes were full of murderous intent, and everything had an answer.
Chang An continued
"After the Gu family was destroyed, Qu Fengzhi changed from the head of the Gu family's army to the commander of the dignified internal forbidden army, which can be described as a step to the sky, so, how did he do it."
Zhao slowly sank like water and took over
"He is the traitor who betrayed the Gu family."
Chu Muhe said
"If he is a traitor, but he has turned into the commander of the forbidden army, then does it prove that the original Gu family extermination case is indeed inseparable from Tai'an City."
Chang An looked at him
"When I first found out his identity last night, I thought the same thing, but one thing doesn't make sense, why didn't Qu Fengzhi cut the grass and kill Gu Yuanwu? There is only one reason, Deputy Commander Pang and others were present at the time, he couldn't kill, and if he did, it was equivalent to telling the palace that he had something to do with the Gu family's annihilation, and why he couldn't let the palace know about it, naturally because the palace was not a participant in this matter. ”
Chu Muhe said
"That still doesn't prove that the palace has nothing to do with it."
Chang An nodded
"Indeed, this alone does not mean that the palace is not involved in this matter."
"Let's go on, it was there that Qu Fengzhi took the box, and on the way back to the imperial capital, he encountered more than 20 interceptions in a row, and the means were endless, Qu Fengzhi brought out fifty brothers, and when he arrived in Liangzhou, there were only thirteen people left."
Saying this, Pang Chong and the others lowered their heads lonely, as if recalling that terrible journey.
Pang Chong said in a low voice
"That's the most complicated assassination method I've ever seen in my life, you can imagine, even a passing cat, it may be covered with poison, a kitchen knife in the hand of a cook will suddenly split into a dozen or so flying knives, when you are extremely hungry, suddenly smell the fragrance in the distance, although you will instinctively want to see, but you know that it is a trap and will never touch it, but when you smell the incense, you have already been smeaned, even if you kill the assassin, their body will exude poison, pull you to die together......"
Everyone listened to Pang Chong's words, silent, even if they just listened, they all felt frightened, which shows how terrible memories people who have experienced these things will be.
"Ahem"
Chang An's coughing broke the silence in the inn, and he continued
"Then they got here, and they were so tired that they were going to rest for the night and then they were on their way."
"It's just that the flame of revenge has already been ignited in the hearts of some people, how can it be extinguished because of the death of some forbidden soldiers, Qu Fengzhi, a traitor, is the first person he wants to kill the most, that person may not know who the person who made Qu Fengzhi betray the Gu family is, but he is sure that Qu Fengzhi is the first person he wants to kill."
Speaking of this, Chang An slowly looked at Zhao Slowly, and said meaningfully
So, Fu Rushui, who had been waiting here for a long time, challenged him.
With Chang An's words, Ling Hu on the side unfolded another picture scroll
"Wow!"
On this painting, there is a woman, this woman has a phoenix hairpin on her head, graceful and luxurious, although she looks over thirty years old, but she is still very beautiful, and the lower right corner of the portrait is written, Gu Rubing.
Zhao slowly looked at Chang An suspiciously
"Who is this?"
Chang An smiled and looked at Zhao slowly
"Miss Zhao, I still remember that you told me why your master left the City Lord's Mansion a year ago."
Zhao slowly nodded blankly
"The master said that it was for the sake of the old man, is this the old man of the master?"
Chang An nodded
"I guess you must have guessed that this woman named Gu Rubing must have an inseparable relationship with your master, and she is the princess of the northern realm back then, because she married Gu Jingshi, she changed her husband's surname, so few people know that her real name is Fu Rubing."