"Huh? This...... No, no, no! ”

Ding Shouan was stunned for a moment, and then defended: "I'll go... I sent someone to look for it, but I really didn't find it! I really had no choice but to ask my family to go to the state government to complain, and I didn't mean to shirk my responsibility! ”

Lin Xi frowned and sneered: "Do you think I can't find the family members who complained?" ”

"You ......" Ding Shouan stammered again, pretending to be calm and said: "I'm afraid you don't have the right to interrogate your family......

"Really?" Lin Xi took out a jade plaque from his sleeve: "Do you know this?" ”

Ding Shouan glanced at it, and only felt that the price of this jade plate was very expensive, in addition, the jade plate was also engraved with a particularly conspicuous word "Kou".

Ding Shouan stretched out his hand to take it, but was blocked by Lin Xi: "This jade card, I'm afraid you don't have the right to take it." Have you ever heard of Prime Minister Kou Zhun? ”

Ding Shou was taken aback: "Listen... I've heard of it, isn't this jade plate ......?"

"Hey, you guessed it. This jade plaque is Kou Xiang's! Why, do you want me to introduce my identity? ”

"No, no! Humble... I don't know that Lin Gongzi is here on behalf of Kou Xiang, and his words are offensive, please Lin Gong... No, no, please forgive your sin! ”

Seeing the scene in front of him-Ding Shouan was so frightened that he knelt down for Lin Xi again regardless of his previous words, Yu Yutang secretly rolled his eyes, and made a strange expression with a smile on his face.

"I've said enough, I'll ask again at the end, what is going on with the disappearance of people in Liuhe County? Why are you reluctant to help families find missing persons? Do you know what's going on? ”

"This, this, this... This matter is really a matter in the dark, and I don't know it! ”

"Humph!" Lin Xi's long sword smashed the ground, scaring Ding Shou'an.

"Pederick officials, incompetent fools! It's clear that you don't want to take responsibility, but you put all the blame on the gods and ghosts, in the dark, it's really unreasonable! ”

"Your Excellency, Your Excellency! What a degrade wrong! I really sent someone to search it, but there really wasn't any trace! I will never dare to shirk my responsibilities, please be aware of it! ”

"Okay -- when I find the family members of the missing persons, I want to see if you are as clean as you say you are."

Ding Shou'an knelt on the ground tremblingly, trembling and shouting, "Please be clear!" ”

"Get up." Lin Xi said in a deep voice.

"Master Xie......" Ding Shouan trembled and got up.

"Lord Lao Fuding will inform me of the address of the family of the missing person, and I will rush there immediately." Lin Xi patted Ding Shou'an.

Ding Shou'an's head was like pounding garlic: "Yes, yes, a few wait a minute, and immediately go to the Yamen for the record!" ”

Lin Xi coughed lightly: "Go and come back quickly, if it's been a long time, I'm going to see what Master Ding is doing." ”

Ding Shou'an's shoulder shook, "Yes, yes, I must go and come back quickly!" ”

Lin Xi didn't speak anymore and waved his hand.

After Ding Shou'an left, the few people who stayed in the hall exchanged glances with each other and didn't say a word.

"A few people have been waiting, waiting!" Soon, Ding Shouan hurried back from outside, still holding a thick dossier in his hand.

"Your Excellency, please look! This is the household registration information of those family members......" Ding Shouan pointed to a name and said: "From this person onwards, these two pages are the names and addresses of the family members who complained. ”

“…… Okay, hard work. ”

Lin Xi replied perfunctorily and glanced at Yu Yutang.

Yu Yutang comprehended, and hurriedly said: "Okay, okay, Lord Lin is also anxious about the case, Lord Ding should not be afraid." We will not frame you for nothing! ”

"Big young master, the little ones don't dare, where the words collide with everyone, please Haihan, Lord Lin-"

Lin Xi nodded with a smile: "There are some inconsiderate words in the following, please forgive me." ”

"Uh, don't dare, don't dare!" Ding Shou'an's face turned a little white with fright: "Adults care about the people, who else can you!" You are really a good official who has never been born! You are ......"

"Hey, hey," Lin Xi frowned and stopped Ding Shou'an, "Don't blow it, go down, you, let's go too." ”

"Yes, yes, yes! Walk around...... Ouch! Ding Shou'an hurriedly ran out of the door, but before leaving, he tripped over the door frame, and his face hit the ground only half an inch, and he almost lost his big teeth.

Ding Shouan looked back, Lin Xi was tugging at his collar, this was the real reason why he didn't fall and eat.

"Thank you, Lord Xie......" Ding Shouan stood up with a disgraced face.

"Look at the walk in the future, don't look like a headless fly."

"Yes yes yes ......"

After Ding Shouan left, everyone also left the county office.

Leaving the serious county office, everyone relaxed a little.

Yu Yutang smiled: "I thought you had any ability, and you could only use the identity of Kou Xiang to suppress the county order that had never seen the world." ”

Lin Xi retorted unhurriedly: "Hey, aren't you the same? The difference is that you use your own identity, while I use Kou Xiang's identity, right? ”

"This is also to deceive a small county order with bad news, but if Ding Shou'an is smart, aren't you showing your stuff on the spot?"

"Hey, are you stupid or am I stupid?" Lin Xi teased: "Even if Kou Xiang is demoted, he is also a five-grade governor, as the saying goes, the official is crushed to death at the first level, let alone a seven-grade county order?" ”

"Okay--you're smart, don't you have to rely on me to get in?"

Lin Xi raised his eyebrows, "What's the matter, after all, you are a big man in this place, which makes you have a sense of existence, I don't know how to do it." ”

"And I have to thank you?" Yu Yutang asked with a smile.

"Hey, that's a good idea!"

"I said the two eldest brothers......" Yanshou squeezed into the middle and forcibly pushed the two away, "We still have business, can we talk while walking?" ”

"Okay-" Lin Xi gently patted Yanshou's head.

Guanyin's laughter came from afar: "You're not in a hurry now?" ”

"Okay, let's go-" Lin Xi put away his smile, got on the horse with everyone, and ran out of the city.

"Feng Zhang's, Zhou Li's, Yang Zhao's - from Qiaokou Town, Liuhe County, Tanzhou."

The first page of the dossier bears these names.

The husbands of the three women disappeared and went to the county government to report the case, but in the end the case was pushed to the state office.

When the group came to a private house, Lin Xi waved his hand to let everyone stay away and knock on the door himself.

"Knock Knock"

"Is anyone there, please?"

"Is there ......?"

"Who are you looking for?" An eldest lady shouted from afar.

Lin Xi turned around and saw that the eldest lady was far away, and he understood that he must have seen so many people here, and he was afraid in his heart and did not dare to approach.

Lin Xi walked over and asked politely, "Auntie, may I ask - is this Feng Zhang's home?" ”

"This ...... Who are you? ”

"Oh, we are county officials, and we want to ask Feng Zhang about his husband's disappearance."

"Why, they didn't go to the county office?"

Lin Xi was stunned for a moment when the eldest lady asked her like this: "Auntie, what did you say?" ”

"Uh... This morning, a group of officials came to the village, saying that they wanted to ask Feng Zhang's about their husband's disappearance, and brought them to the yamen! ”

"Taken away? What about the Zhou Li clan and the Yang Zhao clan in your village? ”

"Let's take a car and leave."

"Auntie, where are they going?"

"Go west! Listen to them, who else are going to Ningxiang to pick up......"

After hearing this, Yanshou immediately opened the file and looked for it inside.

"Lin Xi! You see - there are four old men in Ningxiang whose sons are also missing, and they have also gone to report the crime! ”

Lin Xi's eyes lit up: "Yes, they must go to Ningxiang to pick up these old people and deceive them too!" ”

Yanshou nodded: "Well, it must be like this!" Auntie, how long have they been gone? ”

The eldest lady thought about it: "I saw them when I was in the morning...... It's been more than two hours. ”

Yu Yutang lowered his head and thought: "Ningxiang is nearly thirty miles away, and those people are in the car, and they will definitely not go too fast - counting the time, they should have just left Ningxiang not long ago." ”

Tang Xiao asked with trepidation, "Could it be that they have already killed those family members?" ”

"No, it won't." Lin Xi shook his head.

"Why?"

Lin Xi glanced at the girls next to him, and then showed a slightly relieved smile: "Guanyin, explain to Sister Xiao." ”

Guanyin had a strange expression, as if he wanted to say, "How do you know that I understand".

Tang Xiaoqiao's face flushed slightly.

"Weird, is he calling me?" Tang Xiao's head seemed to be half a beat slower.

"Sister Xiao--" Guanyin snorted, and then shouted after Lin Xi's salutation: "If they want to kill the witnesses, then why bother to take them away?" Why don't you just kill it here? ”

"That's right—so there won't be any danger to these witnesses for the time being, and we're still in time."

"Oh......" Tang Xiao nodded as if he didn't understand.

Lin Xi knocked Tang Xiao's head and said with a smile: "I don't believe you like this, it's okay, then let's take a look." ”

Yanshou asked: "They definitely won't take those family members to the county office, should we chase them in another direction?" ”

Tang Xiao nodded a little dumbfounded: "Yes, yes, I think so too, Lin Xi, do you say that they will take people to the state city?" ”

Lin Xi looked at everyone, "You all think so?" ”

Seeing that everyone nodded, Lin Xi beckoned and asked everyone to come over: "You look at the map, it takes thirty miles to the west from Qiaokou Town to Ningxiang, and it takes more than twenty miles to the east to Changsha, the state capital.

If they really want to bring people to the state capital, why don't they go to Ningxiang first and then come here, which saves time and effort, but they must do the opposite, which shows that they have not thought of sending these complaining families to the state city at all. ”

"And where will they go?"

Lin Xi didn't speak, pointing into the distance.

"Liuhe County?"

"Those family members have all been to the county office, and if the direction is not right, they will soon find out the problem, so it is very likely that these family members were taken by them to a place near the county seat and locked up. So, we are going to chase the line from Ningxiang to Liuhe. ”

Yanshou clapped his hands and suddenly realized: "That's right! We're on horseback, they're on the bike, and we might even catch up with them! ”

Lin Xi smiled happily and said, "Thank you for your hard work, get on the horse and chase!" ”

"It's quite polite, and you haven't worked hard for everyone." Yu Yutang said with a smile.

"If you don't speak, you'll die." Lin Xi glanced at him helplessly.