This morning's Criminal Procuratorate was a little different from the past, and when Zhao Ping walked into the main hall, he could clearly feel the dense clouds in the hall.

After all the civil and military officials arrived, Luo Cheng, the secretary of the Criminal Procuratorate, finally raised his gloomy face, looked at the Shaoqing of the Criminal Procuratorate and the internal history of the Criminal Procuratorate who were sitting on his left and right, and then said to everyone: "Before you came, you have already read the briefing sent to you, right?" ”

Zhao Ping and a group of colleagues nodded, and the main hall of the Criminal Procuratorate, which was full of people, was so quiet that even a needle could be heard.

"I won't say much about it, this poisoning case has affected almost all the residential areas near Dengnan Port, and now the 31st Regiment of the City Guard and the Xiang Army of Gyeonggi Province has entered there, and the follow-up investigation needs to be jointly presided over by our Criminal Procuratorate and the Internal Guard."

"Except for the sixth team that needs to escort the mission, the rest of the people will put down what they are doing first and concentrate their men on Dengnan Port first. In addition to you, the sect will also send people to help. ”

After saying this, Luo Cheng glanced at the subordinates in front of him and said, "I'll assign the task of the Black Knife Guard first, the first and second teams are led by Zhao Ping, and they will go to the fishing boat alley where the situation is most serious to search. The third team, led by Zhang Yuan, went to Nigou Lane ......"

After instructing the division of labor of the Black Knife Guard, Luo Cheng arranged the work of the civilian officials again, and when all this was done, he waved his hand and motioned for everyone to start acting.

Watching his subordinates walk out of the main hall quickly, Luo Cheng's head hurt again. He picked up the cup, took a sip of brown beans, and then gently rubbed his forehead with his right hand holding his head.

He couldn't help but worry about his future, and it was just when the Abyss Mission had not yet left, and the rumors at the border were starting to get nervous. At this critical juncture, such a major event happened in the royal city, and Luo Cheng, as the chief officer of the Criminal Procuratorate, could not shirk his responsibility no matter what.

The report from Gyeonggi Prefecture was shocking, and it was only an hour since the incident occurred, and the number of victims in the first briefing reported by the city guards alone had reached 4,000, and the number of victims is still being counted, and no one knows how staggering the number will be in the final report.

"What the hell is going on?" Luo Cheng didn't want the officials in the main hall to see that he looked like ants in a hot pot, so he rolled up his sleeves and walked quickly towards his public hall while meditating.

Although he was anxious, there was nothing he could do at the moment, and after pacing around his office room for a few laps, Luo Cheng finally reluctantly decided to continue to wait, first look at the news from his subordinates before making the next step.

Zhao Ping thought that he was mentally prepared in his heart, but when he himself came to the mouth of the fishing boat alley and saw the corpses carried out by the city guards, he found that reality would break through all the precautions that most people had prepared in advance.

Zhao Ping's hand was holding the hilt of the knife, his eyes were red, and the green tendons on his arms that had risen from anger were clearly visible.

"Yu Hou, Yu Hou ......"

After his soldiers carefully reminded him several times, Zhao Ping woke up from his anger.

He took a deep breath and said in a tone that tried to suppress his tone, "Let's go, let's go in and have a look." ”

After briefly checking Zhao Ping's waist card, the soldiers of the Xiang Army guarding the entrance of the alley respectfully welcomed the two teams of black knife guards into the fishing boat alley. It was not long before a sturdy and somewhat well-made officer hurried over, and judging from the outfit on his clothes, it was the regimental commander of the 31st Regiment of the Xiang Army, who had taken over the residential area near Dengnan Port.

"Are you Lu Wu'an, the commander of the 31st Regiment? I am Zhao Ping, the Marquis of the Black Knife Guard, and I am responsible for investigating the poisoning case in the area of Fishing Boat Alley. ”

Although Lu Wuan was ten years older than Zhao Ping, as an officer of the Xiang Army, his rank was younger than Zhao Ping, so he did not dare to pose in front of the senior military attache of the Black Sword Guard.

"Zhao Yuhou is young and promising, Lu Mou has known it for a long time, this time with Hou Yu personally leading the team, the truth of the case must be ......"

"Where, with the cooperation of Commander Lu, this case will definitely be solved." Zhao Ping didn't want to listen to superfluous polite words, and after interrupting and briefly complimenting Lu Wuan, he asked bluntly: "What is the specific situation at the moment, and where are the victims mainly concentrated?" ”

Lu Wuan wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied, "There are dead people everywhere!" ”

……

Just when the government and the opposition in the Western Desert Kingdom were in chaos and panic due to this sudden poisoning case, Shi Cheng, Wu Neng and Tie Mian were drinking tea together in a teahouse near Hu's house.

Where the three of them were, they could clearly see the movement on the Hu Mansion. The mansion of the once prosperous upstart merchant turned into a scorched earth overnight, and even a few surrounding houses were also damaged, if it weren't for the timely arrival of the soldiers of the underground fire shop in the city, I am afraid that Shi Cheng and his party would not be able to drink tea in this teahouse today.

The front and back doors of Hu's mansion were sealed by the government, and about 20 arresters from Gyeonggi Province were searching around in the charred courtyard and carrying a charred corpse to the front yard.

The sun gradually rose, and Shi Cheng's heart became more and more impatient. If he was traveling by carriage, the distance between the Western Desert Martial Academy and Hu Mansion would only be two to three quarters of an hour, but now that it was time, he still didn't see Hu Tianming's shadow.

Just when Shi Cheng was guessing the possible reason, a newsboy hurriedly ran upstairs and shouted to all the tea guests: "Oh no, old man, neighbors, it's bad!" ”

There were not many guests on the second floor, so the voice of the newsboy was heard by all the guests, and everyone looked at the newsboy in unison, and there were a few guests who were drinking tea and chatting with each other with displeasure on their faces after being interrupted.

However, the next sentence of the newsboy made everyone lose their minds to drink tea.

"Oh no, old man, there's an accident over there in Dengnangang!" The newsboy shouted breathlessly: "The residents of several alleys have somehow suddenly been poisoned, and now the officers and soldiers are already patrolling the streets, and the corpses are being pulled out one by one, and the royal city has begun to post notices to identify the corpses." If you have friends or relatives living there, take a look and help put them away. ”

The whole teahouse immediately stirred.

Shi Cheng and the three of you, you look at me, I look at you, and the three of them were stunned by this sudden news. Li Doujin, Zhang Tian and several other entourages were sitting at the table next to Shi Cheng and the others, and their faces were all pale without exception.

"Old ...... Master. Li Doujin stammered to Shi Cheng: "Fishing Boat Lane is near the port, Sun San was there this morning, he ...... He's going to be fine, right? ”

Shi Cheng couldn't sit still, he hurriedly called his men to get the money, and then the group stood up and hurriedly walked to the carriage parked downstairs.

A few tea customers with relatives in Dengnan Harbor couldn't sit still, and they panicked like fish caught in a net. After being stopped by the teahouse guys, a tea customer remembered that he hadn't paid the bill, so he hurriedly grabbed a few pennies from his purse, and stumbled out without bothering to ask the shop for money.

After Shi Cheng and his party returned to the car, Zhang Tian was so anxious that he whipped the horse several times, and the carriage galloped through the streets and alleys, almost hitting a stall.

When everyone hurried to the fishing boat alley, Shi Cheng realized that the seriousness of the matter was far beyond his expectations.

The originally crowded Fishing Boat Alley was lifeless at this time, and it was only within Shi Cheng's eye, and there was no place without dead bodies. The officials and villagers looked numb, and under the watchful eyes of the soldiers of the Xiang Army, who were responsible for maintaining order, they kept moving the corpses lying on the side of the street outward.

The only people alive inside and outside the alley were the chief writers of the Di newspaper who were crowded outside the cordon, and they were like sparrows, and the officials guarding there were overwhelmed by the problems of the cannons.

Looking at the hell-like scene in front of him, the cold wind of early winter seemed to enter Shi Cheng's heart, making him, a half-step grandmaster, tremble.

"What do you guys do?" A ten-year general guarding the entrance of the alley walked over and asked Shi Cheng and his party.

"This boss, we have a fellow villager who has been here a lot in the past two days. So we just heard that something was going on here, so we hurried over. Li Doujin was worried about Sun San's safety, and he explained in front of the ten generals while comparing paintings and explaining without a word.

"That's right." A touch of sympathy appeared on the face of the ten generals, "It just so happens that the government has posted a notice to the outside world, you should hurry up to the south entrance of the lane, but you have to be mentally prepared, since we arrived here, we haven't seen anyone being carried out panting." ”

After speaking, the ten generals no longer paid attention to Li Doujin, whose hands and feet were cold, and shouted to a soldier who looked like an indigenous man not far away: "Anawu, you take them to the south entrance of the alley to identify the corpse!" ”

……

Under the guidance of a soldier who was familiar with the fishing boat lane, Zhao Ping and his subordinates were checking the situation room by room.

Zhao Ping suddenly found that people can face death with a numb attitude, and in just half a morning, he has seen many more dead people in his eyes than any officer who has returned home from a mission from the Set's garrison.

"Marquis Yu, a total of three bodies were found, two men and one woman." After saying this, a captain beside Zhao Ping repeated what he had said countless times today: "The preliminary judgment of the cause of death is the same as what was found before. ”

"I see." Zhao Ping said very blandly: "Shi Quan, what is the surname of this family, is there only three people in the family?" ”

Shi Quan was the name of the soldier of the Xiangjun who led Zhao Ping, he was sweating profusely and flipped through the book in his hand, and reported to Zhao Ping after a while: "Lord Hui, the surname of this family is Lu, the name of the head of the family is Lu Feng, and there are four people in the Ding Kou book, and his wife's original surname is Zhang, and her single name is Xin. The eldest son Lu Fang and the eldest daughter Lu Yue. ”

"If you can't match the corpses in the courtyard, write down this family, find out the whereabouts of this son and daughter, and the identity of this young man."

After giving these words, Zhao Ping took people to check the house again, recorded the situation at the scene, and then went to the next house. After Zhao Ping and the others left, the villagers who were waiting outside the door immediately entered the house and carried the bodies of the Lu couple and Sun San out.

Zhao Ping walked into the next courtyard, which was a shared compound, three houses were rented by three different families, and there was a deep well in the middle of the courtyard.

Six bodies were carried out, four women and two men, one of whom was a boy under the age of 10.

"What's going on with this corpse, how is it holding an urn?" Zhao Ping asked, pointing to a female corpse on the far left.

One of the soldiers of the Black Guard complained, "My lord, this woman's arm has locked this box so tightly that it cannot be broken, and the brothers cannot remove her arm, so they have to carry it like this." ”

Shi Quan carefully inspected the corpse and the urn, flipped through the book, and replied, "My lord, this woman's name is Wang Zi, and she was surnamed Sun before she got married. The small one took a look and the urn was supposed to be her husband's. Speaking of which, she and her husband are originally from Lizhou, both of them were soldiers and civilians in the Four Years' War, and her husband died in the Battle of Cuiqiu outside the city of Dongdan Wang. ”

"It's the widow of a righteous man who sacrificed her life for the country...... Zhao Ping was solemn in his heart, and solemnly ordered: "Tell the people outside the door, settle the life, don't take the box in her arms, and bury it all together when the matter is over." ”