"Zhou Tai, Han Dong, when you were on duty in the front yard, did you ever see any suspicious characters entering the post station?"

"Don't say it's a suspicious person, it's just a fly flying by, and we'll shoot it down too."

"Then during the period when Lord Cao left the post station and returned, did anyone enter his room?"

"Guard Yang has been in."

Zhou Tai and Han Dong spoke in unison.

Song Che and He Qiu looked at each other.

"Why did Guard Yang go in, do you know?" Song Che asked.

Zhou Tai thought for a while, "It seems that Lord Cao is missing something, and asked him to come back and get it, and he came out after a while." ”

"The study window—"

He Qiu was about to ask, but Song Che stopped him, shook his head and signaled to keep it for the time being, and then said to the guards in the front yard: "Go down, call the guards in the back yard Hu Zun and Nie Tong in." ”

The front yard retreats, and the back yard comes in. Song Che asked the two people in the front yard again, and asked the backyard again, and the answer was exactly the same.

The backyard retreated, and summoned the other two shifts of guards Xu Wei and Zhong Gan, and learned from them that counting Yang Xin and Li Cheng, the eight guards were often in two shifts, alternating shifts in the front yard and the back yard;

But because Yang Xin and Li Cheng went out with Cao Tian today, the two of them could only guard one after the other, and sometimes they would spare time when they drank saliva and went to the thatched house.

That killer martial arts must be good, and the guard's soaking in urine is enough to make him escape into the elegant house and wait for the rabbit.

In the end, Song Che summoned Yang Xin and Li Cheng.

"Escort Yang, I heard that you have returned to the post station and entered Lord Cao's room, what are you for?" Song Che asked.

Yang Xin said: "Lord Cao took a fancy to a jade hairpin in Baiyulou and wanted to bring it back to give it to the Ling family's daughter, but Baiyulou didn't accept flying money, so Lord Cao asked me to come back and get cash." Li Huwei and the proprietress of Bai Yulou can both testify about this. ”

"According to your colleagues, you don't seem to be on duty at the post station from the first watch day to the second watch," Song Che asked, "Where did you go?" ”

Yang Xin snorted coldly, "Aunt Song, right?" If you suspect that I killed Master Cao, then I really don't dare to compliment your brain...... As a transit envoy and escort, if my master's house is assassinated, I will not escape punishment, how can I be a murderer? ”

"Yang Guard," He Qiu said coldly: "Whatever you ask, you will answer, if you don't answer what you asked, then the official can only take you back to the Suzhou Mansion Court." ”

Yang Xin's face was gloomy, and he confessed for a long time: "I just went to the Runfa Gambling House to try my luck, if you don't believe it, you can go to the gambling house to verify, I still lost fifty taels of silver in it." ”

"Please step aside."

Yang Xin snorted and exited the dark room.

Then, Song Che asked Xu Xiao to immediately go to the Runfa Gambling House to verify, and the results obtained were indeed true, Yang Xin never left the gambling house in the hour when Cao Tian was killed.

"What's going on? Everyone has an alibi, is the murderer an outsider? He Qiu frowned.

"Lord He, don't worry, I still have a plan, I can let him reveal his true form!"

Song Che whispered a few words in He Qiu's ear, He Qiu raised his head, and had to obey: "Where did you learn these conspiracies?" ”

It's not that heroes don't read "Three Kingdoms", of course Song Che won't tell him that these conspiracies and conspiracies are all learned from a novel.

……

He Qiu ordered someone to carry Cao Tian's body back to Suzhou Mansion, and then collected the team and left the post station.

Three more.

As the site of the crime, unrelated personnel have long been evacuated, and only a few are left to guard the periphery.

Black lights blind fire.

Tired in the dead of night.

Suddenly, I saw a figure, carrying a ladder and holding a broom, sneaking along the courtyard wall into the pavilion.

The figure went up to the second floor, gently pushed open the door of the house, pressed the ladder against the wall, and then climbed up the beam along the ladder, and quickly swept the dust off the beam with a broom.

However, he didn't know that thirty feet away, in a tall building, someone was monitoring his every move.

"The clown jumped off the beam." Song Che put away the binoculars and smiled at He Qiu beside him.

He Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, and beckoned to Xu Xiao and the other officials who were ambushed in the alley downstairs: "Arrest someone." ”

Xu Xiao rushed out of the alley with more than 20 officials, quietly approached the backyard of the post station, and quickly surrounded the pavilion.

Xu Xiao walked the wall, jumped to the second floor in two steps, kicked open the door, "choked" pulled out the official knife, and cut the ladder in half.

The sudden intrusion frightened Yang Xin and almost fell down, he looked at Xu Xiao with a panicked face, "Xu Dutou? You...... Why is that? ”

Xu Xiao sneered and did not speak.

Several officials carried torches and blocked the window and doorway.

"Escort Yang, I don't sleep in the middle of the night, what are you doing running to the beam?" Song Che stepped into the house with He Qiu in his hand.

Yang Xinqiang pretended to be calm and explained: "I heard the news that the murderer of Lord Cao is likely to have been ambushed on the beam of the house, so I thought that there might be his footprints on the beam, and I came to collect evidence alone." ”

"If it's evidence collection, why don't you hold the lamp? Why are you holding a broom? ”

"The moonlight is bright tonight, I don't need a palm lamp, I use a broom to clean the cobwebs," Yang Xin waved the broom pretendedly, and said with a smile: "You see, the beams of this house have not been cleaned for a long time, and there are cob......webs everywhere."

Song Che smiled coldly, "Then did you see the footprints on the beams?" ”

By the light of the fire, the beams of the house are clean, where are the footprints? But if there is no ash on the beam, wouldn't it be in line with the fact that he is cleaning? Yang Xin's eyes rolled, and he pointed to one place and said, "Yes!" Yes! What a big footprint, this must have been left by the murderer! ”

"Yang Xin!" Xu Xiao said: "You idiot, you fell for Aunt Song's plan to 'make something out of nothing', I checked the beam in the middle of the night, the murderer has already wiped off the dust, the news you heard was deliberately released by Aunt Song to lead you to the next set!" ”

Seeing that the matter was revealed, Yang Xin jumped and tried to escape through the window, but only in the process of his descent, Xu Xiao volleyed him in the air, intercepted him from the air, and pressed him on the table with a lock throat!

"Boom!" Several white blades were instantly placed around his neck.

"Yang Xin, as a personal guard of the transfer envoy, you did not serve as a protector, but murdered him, so far, what kind of quibbles do you have!" He Qiu said.

Yang Xin shouted loudly: "My lord is wronged!" When Lord Cao died, the villain was having fun in the gambling house, you have seen it, how can I be a murderer! ”

Song Che squatted in front of Yang Xin and said, "It's true that you didn't kill the person, but you must be an accomplice." As the captain of the guard, you are familiar with the rules of the guard's shifts, and you know that there is a shortage of manpower during the alternation, and there is an opportunity to take advantage of it...... The murderer is what you put in the house. ”

Yang Xin's head was sweating, but his mouth was not soft: "You haven't seen it with your own eyes, why do you say that I am an accomplice?" Although I, Yang Xin, am not a high-ranking official, but I am also a Bapin Duwei who eats the emperor's grain, you profiteer, make up nonsense, and frame the court officials, what crime should you be guilty of! ”

"Yang Huwei, since you are on an errand in Jingzhou, then you should know better than me about those things in the officialdom - someone must be responsible for the death of Lord Cao, as the chief of the guard, you failed to protect the master, the crime of dereliction of duty is one of them, as an accomplice, it is inevitable to cut off your head, and if you become the murderer of the imperial court officials, the whole family will be wiped out,"

Song Che got up slowly and stared at Yang Xin coldly, "If I were you, I would never carry this black cauldron that was full of people and wiped out the three clans." ”

He Qiu added another sentence at this time: "I think he is the most suitable, so that the official does not need to spend energy to hunt down the real murderer." ”

Yang Xinhan rained down, weighed for a moment, and bowed his head: "It's a window opened by a lowly position, and the person who is put is ......"

"Where is the murderer! Who is he! Why kill the transporter! If you recruit from the truth, the official can protect your whole family from being implicated! He Qiu glared and scolded, and asked three times in a row.

"He's—"

"Whoosh!"

Without waiting for Yang Xin to open his mouth to confide, suddenly, a dart shot in from the window, stabbing into Yang Xin's throat in an instant!

Yang Xin vomited blood and was speechless.

"Protect your Excellency and Aunt Song!"

"Still protect a fart, don't go hunt for the murderer!"

Leaving two guards to wait, Xu Xiao rushed out of the house with the rest of the guards.

He Qiu grabbed Yang Xin's collar and asked loudly: "Who is he!" Tell me about it! ”

Yang Xin's throat has been broken, where can he still speak? A mouthful of blood spat out, staring and dying!

"Boom, bang, bang......" There was a fierce intersecting of blades in the backyard.

Song Che looked out of the window and saw a man in black holding a double sword, who was fighting with Xu Xiao and other officials, and the sparks of the collision of weapons were splashing in the night!

The thief's martial arts are so high, with the strength of one person, he resisted nearly thirty servants and did not fall behind, he fought and retreated, with ease, and when he retreated to the side of the courtyard wall, he swept away thousands of troops with one blow-

"Huh!"

An air flow can be seen with the naked eye, instantly breaking the front row of errand weapons!

Sword Qi!

Mom sells batches too! This martial arts world is becoming more and more incomprehensible! Song Che secretly cursed the province in his heart, pulled out the revolving musket, and aimed at the thieves who wanted to escape over the courtyard wall.

"Smack! Syllable! Smack......"

Six shots were fired in succession, hitting the thief in the right shoulder as he fell.

"Chase!"

Xu Xiao took a few good hands to climb out of the courtyard wall to chase, and it can be seen that the thief, holding his shoulders, jumped up and down on the roofs of each house, with the light skills of Xu Xiao and others, he couldn't keep up at all.

No surprises.

Half an hour later, Xu Xiao returned disappointed.

"Please forgive me, that person's martial arts are too high, I'll wait...... Failed to catch up, allowing him to escape. ”

"Thirty people, can't hold one person, what's the use of Suzhou Mansion raising you!"

He Qiu was angry loudly, and the officials and guards had to bow their heads and be scolded.

"Lord Xu is angry, the murderer is indeed strong in martial arts, otherwise he would not dare to kill in front of us, but he has been shot by me, even if he can't lose his life, he can't be cured in a short time."

Song Che said to the officials again:

"For the sake of the present, when the gates and docks of the city are cordoned off, and anyone who goes out of the city is strictly checked, he is nearly eight feet tall, and he has a sword in both hands, and he must have calluses, which can be used as a filter;

The government can issue a bounty to make his physical characteristics public, so that he has nowhere to hide;

He was shot in the right shoulder, and there was blood left behind, which could be collected and sniffed by hounds to search for in the city...... Heaven and earth are under the same net, and he has nowhere to escape! ”