Chapter III: Officials
Changping Street, Liule Fang.
"Yo! Isn't this Lord Li and Master Guo! What kind of wind is blowing you two here today? Girls, don't you want to entertain these two adults! ”
The old bustard Si Niang of Liu Le Fang walked out.
This official in a scarlet robe and embroidered with clouds and geese is named Li Wuzhen, his face is charred and indestructible, his eyes are like torches, his chin is flat, and he stands like a peak.
He was appointed as the secretary of the Xuanlu Temple in Kyoto, Daxia, and was mainly responsible for the security of Gyeonggi, and was instructed by the emperor to verify the hundred officials, and at the emperor's behest he could arbitrarily obtain local intelligence and call Gyeonggi guards.
As one of the most important official organizations of the Great Xia Dynasty, Xuanlu Temple, while controlling the security of Gyeonggi, followed by the eyes placed in the court as the emperor, regularly checking the authenticity of the achievements of hundreds of officials.
After a while, Li Wuzhen waved his sleeves, and then a column of gun-wielding guards walked out from each side behind him, tightly surrounding the main hall and the second-floor attic of Liu Le Fang.
The official next to him who was wearing a green robe and embroidered with a white bird was named Guo He, with a Chinese face, a high nose, high eyebrows, and a slightly pointed chin.
As a bachelor of the Hallym Academy, he stood out from the many literary attendants.
He was only responsible for assisting Li Wuzhen to record the investigation and results, equivalent to a clerk, and writing to the emperor to draft an edict.
"By the will of the Holy Lord, we will investigate the evil deeds in Kyoto Castle. Si Lao Bustard, what's wrong with you here lately? I heard the people around me say that I heard a few screams from you here last night, isn't it a monster? ”
Li Wuzhen said lightly.
"Monsters? Ah! Mom. ”
Between breaths, I heard that it was a monster, and the girls in Liu Le Fang hugged Si Lao Bustard's side, frightened.
Those rich sons, wealthy people, and dignitaries who were eating and drinking in Liule Fang were shocked, either afraid of things and disappeared, or they were stopped by the guards, and they stood in the workshop at a loss.
"Strange? Lord Li's eyes are like torches, don't you listen to the opinions of the neighbors, except for the sons and brothers who are looking for pleasure and getting drunk, and the rich businessmen, I haven't seen anything unusual! What about monsters? ”
Si Lao Bustard shook the handkerchief in his hand.
"If you don't believe it, you can search it yourself!"
There is a bit of firmness in Si Laobu's words, and he may be accustomed to big scenes, after all, Yanagi Le Fang is the largest ...... in Kyoto
Forehead...... There are countless entertainment venues, big officials and the like.
Hearing this, Li Wuzhen made a look, and the guards in the workshop moved according to the order and began to search Liule Fang everywhere.
Seeing that he couldn't stop people, Si Lao Bustard was so anxious that he burned his eyebrows.
"Oops! Ladies and gentlemen, don't scare my guests! Don't smash my Liule Fang signboard! Our wife still has to rely on it to eat! ”
Si Lao Bustard sometimes went upstairs to block it, and sometimes went downstairs to shout, not idle!
The guards kicked in the door......
Except for a few men and women, there is no difference.
The searching guards searched room by door, very carefully......
"My lord, an official robe was found under the bed!"
A subordinate in a soap coat gasped for breath and knelt down in front of Li Wuzhen to reply.
"Official robes? ”
Li Wuzhen was stunned.
Then together with Guo He, he walked to a guest room on the second floor of Liule Fang.
The room was in a mess, and there was a pool of blood on the floor......
"Si Lao Bustard, what's going on?"
Li Wuzhen said lightly.
The guards escorted Si Lao Bustard...... The girls of Liu Le Fang have long been scared out of ......
"How did you find out?"
Li Wuzhen interrogated his subordinates.
Official: "Lord Qiyu, the little one just searched, and saw that the door was locked, so he smashed the chain open, and found this official robe in the room. ”
Li Wuzhen pondered for a moment.
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Facing the adult in front of him with eyes like a torch, Si Lao Bustard seemed to have lost his soul for a while.
She stared inarticulate at the puddle of blood on the ground, and her fear went straight to the heavenly spirit cover.
"Huh? Adults should check it out! The women don't know! ”
Si Lao Bustard's legs were weak for a while, and she fell to the ground, and the guards escorting her couldn't hold her.
Li Wuzhen walked into the room, looking at the thick blood on the ground, he slowly squatted down, dipped his index finger in the blood, and put it in front of his nose to sniff......
Then frowned.
"Fishy? It must be demon blood! ”
The thick smell of blood mixed with the fishy smell emanating from the surface of the fish skin shocked the experienced middle-aged man.
Guo Hetan, who was on the side, stepped forward, looked at the incomprehensible bruises on the ground, and asked:
"What do you think?"
"So far, the official has concluded that there is indeed a demon, but it is just ......"
Guo He: "What else did you find?" ”
"Lord Guo, you see, the bruises on this ground are charred and black, and they must have been solidified for a long time, which is enough to prove the reality of the monster, since it is bruising, presumably this demon will be removed...... Or still hiding in this Kyoto castle. ”
Guo He was shocked.
"Isn't it that the nameless immortal family has already eliminated the monster?"
Guo He first thought of immortal cultivators.
Li Wuzhen shook his head, and he didn't know anything.
Instead, he remembered the official robe found by his subordinates.
Looking at the official robes in the maroon lacquer plates in the guards' hands, Li Wuzhen didn't have the slightest clue.
"Dressed in green robes and embroidered quails from the Nine Rank officials? Can you get involved with the goblins? ”
"The official robe is here, but what about the people?"
It's just puzzling.
Li Wuzhen stroked his dark beard and fell into deep thought......
"Approaching the heavenly sacrifice, the demons are becoming more and more restless! It's really weird! ”
Then sort out the ins and outs of the whole incident:
"The Holy Lord ordered us to thoroughly investigate the evil in Kyoto, and the demon has not been caught, but the officials involved in the case have appeared. Mo is not a tracking route out of the pool. The goblin fled after killing people, after all, it is not a legend that monsters eat people, but how can demons eat people leave official robes alone? What's more, the official robe is so complete. ”
Li Wuzhen recalled Guo He's words and seemed to have an epiphany.
"Sniping demons, mortals can't do it, but the world's masters?"
Looking at the green-robed official uniform in the lacquer plate, Li Wuzhen found a few fish skin crumbs.
After a while, he interrogated the inarticulate bustard.
"Do you have any dignitaries here to make fun?"
Li Wuzhen said lightly.
"Fireworks Willow Lane, there are still many officials, I don't know who the adults are asking?"
Si Laobu's eyes were confused.
The clue is broken again......
Li Wuzhen gritted his teeth.
Guo He stepped forward, pointed to the official uniform and said respectfully:
"Adults may wish to check one by one among the hundred officials, who did not come to the early dynasty, just ask! Then carefully interrogate the officials involved, who dares to disobey the will of the Holy Lord. ”
"Master Guo...... It's a good plan, but it's the hardest to execute! ”
"If there is really a demon, the officials involved must have already become a goblin belly, and there is nowhere to find it, and it is still necessary to determine the whereabouts of the demon at the moment, and the heavenly sacrifice is imminent, so there can be no mistake."
"Even if an official survives, it's hard to open his mouth."
Li Wuzhen felt that this was too much to startle the snake, which was obviously inappropriate, even if the officials involved survived, he asked among the hundred officials who lost their clothes in Liu Lefang?
If it is a party, it will definitely not admit it.
Losing clothes is a small matter, and who will carry the loss of reputation.
Confessed in front of the hundred officials that he went to the Qinglou to sleep with the girl last night?
It's exciting to think about!
Meet in the future:
"Yo, that's not ......! Clothes back? ”
Officials involved: "......"
Compared to this, Li Wuzhen still felt that he should pay more attention to the clues of the incident, the saint sent him to investigate the demon, regardless of the private life of his colleagues, of course, he didn't want to care.
The self-proclaimed great power, if he has to say that there is something evil in this Kyoto city, and it is worth the heavenly sacrifice, the national event, and the Holy One will definitely not allow all evil filth to defile the sacrifice.
As the leader of the Xuanlu Temple in the Great Xia Kingdom, Li Wuzhen, who is in charge of the safety of Gyeonggi, is a third-grade scarlet robe, and naturally becomes a backstabber!
"Lao Tzu is diligent every day, do you wear small shoes for me in front of the saint? I'm not doing it! ”
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Azure Dart Board,
"But where did the clues come from?"
Xu Darttou interjected.
Listening to Xu Darttou's question, Xu Changshou hesitated for a moment.
"Indeed, with a mouthful of nonsense? No, the most important thing in a lawsuit is to find the opponent's handle and observe the words. If it is simply an indictment without evidence, then it must be a lawsuit with an almost zero chance of winning. ”
As a result, if you can't produce evidence for a while, you are very likely to lose the lawsuit.
Moreover, in this feudal dynasty that cares about people's lives at every turn, it is very difficult to win a lawsuit, but unfortunately the Azure Dart Game itself does not have a strong background, and it is indeed difficult to win the lawsuit, after all, the backstage is also part of the strength.
"But I'm just an ordinary traverser."
Xu Changshou instantly felt that God was playing tricks on him, and unemployment was just the beginning.
The rhetoric is just talk on paper, and Xu Changshou knows this.
"If it weren't for the rules, I could sneak directly into the prison of the Yongle County Ya and rescue the leader, but there are rules for everything, and the same is true for immortal cultivators, if force can solve the problem, what else do you need rules?"
"Uh...... Shopkeeper Han, do you remember the housekeeper who came to find the boss that day? ”
The first step in a lawsuit is to determine the target, and then come up with a plan to counter-target.
Shopkeeper Han pondered for a moment.
"Zhang Qi, that's right! It is Zhang Qi, the Song family is a businessman on the rich side of Yongle County, and it is reasonable for Master Song not to come forward in person. The Song family is well-known, but in the past, Master Song himself came. Oh, by the way, the old man remembered, Zhang Qi said that his old man was sick and needed to send the dart bureau to transport the goods out of the city, as for the reason, he did not tell him. ”
"The chief had been conferring with the butler until late at night, and I was taking care of the accounts. From time to time, I can hear the boss arguing with the housekeeper of the Song family. However, because the brothers were practicing martial arts in the training ground, it was too noisy, so they did not listen carefully. ”
Listening to the words of the shopkeeper Han, Xu Changshou had a slight eyebrow.
"Zhang Qi, a strange and clueless person, besides, the rice grain also needs to invite a dart master? Isn't it cheaper to work as a handyman? ”
Xu Changshou was surprised.
"Shopkeeper Han, can you still find the accounts of the darts?"
Xu Changshou feels that it is not feasible to be blind and blind to obtain clues from memory, and memory is sometimes unrealistic, because memory has been processed by the brain many times and becomes detached from reality.
"What do you want to do with your accounts?"
Shopkeeper Han looked puzzled.
Xu Changshou didn't want to explain too much, after all, it was a waste of time.
"Look for clues! A clue that can prove the innocence of the dart game! ”
Shopkeeper Han was a little skeptical that this guy had a good head, maybe he was just a newborn calf who was not afraid of tigers.
"I remember it clearly, what can you, an outsider, see?"
Shopkeeper Han never believed how many big waves the crane tail in this dart master could turn over.
"Take it!"
Shopkeeper Han found the account information of the Song family from the wooden box where he stored the account book...... A yellowed deed.
"The housekeeper of the Song family came to talk about business for the master? Merchant, rice grain, corpses! What a mess. ”
Xu Changshou first connected all kinds of information together without a clue, and only felt that his head hurt.
He took the deed from the shopkeeper Han.
Then he came to the side room where he usually takes care of chores in the Azure Dart Bureau.
"Rice grains, grains...... The Song family ran a rice grain shop, and Master Song fell ill and sent a housekeeper to discuss business. ”
"It's all useless 'data'."
Many trivial clues were spliced together, and Xu Changshou felt that his CPU was burning.
I've never been in a lawsuit, and I've just started with K.O?
If you want to overturn the case, you can only expose the scam and find evidence to prove the innocence of the leader.
But now he has nothing! There seems to be no useful information in the accounts.
Unlike demon scavenging, good monsters will leave scent information, while people cannot.
Besides, he can't hope for a dog!
Shopkeeper Han pushed open the door, touched the goat's whiskers, looked at Xu Changshou who was at a loss next to the oil lamp and sighed, then pulled the door and left.
Xu Changshou frowned at the accounts.
It's all time-wasting data, and it's if you don't catch the subject!
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