The two sentences of "the end is warm and beneficial, and the lady is cautious" are derived from the "Book of Songs", which expresses a high praise for women's character.

Therefore, there will be these two lines of poetry on this jade pendant, and there is no doubt that this is a jade pendant specially prepared for women.

And Sun Fujia, Du Gou, in their expectations, can run with the boat many times, can kill so ruthlessly, and can even pick up an axe to chisel through the ship's board, no matter how you think that the mysterious person should be a man, so the owner of this jade pendant is a woman, it is really shocking.

Lin Feng listened to Sun Fujia's surprise exclamation, his expression did not change at all, until there was enough evidence to point to the identity of the prisoner, he would never subjectively judge whether the prisoner was a man or a woman, so even if the prisoner was a person who was neither male nor female, he would not have any accidents.

"Even if the crew dies, they must hide it and leave it for future generations, it should be that they think that future generations can find the mysterious person through the jade pendant."

Lin Feng looked at the emerald green and clear jade pendant, and said slowly: "This also proves that this jade pendant was not stolen or robbed by a mysterious person, it is indeed a mysterious person's own thing, and it should be very recognizable, not something that any person can have...... In addition, this jade pendant has a surname, and the texture is excellent, it is not surprising, this jade pendant should be the inheritance jade pendant or identity jade pendant of a certain family. ”

"If we can find the family represented by this jade pendant, we should be able to know who its owner is."

Listening to Lin Feng's words, Du Wei and Sun Fujia both nodded again and again.

They think the same thing.

Du Wei said: "The big family surnamed Chen, there is one in Linshui County!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at Lin Feng, and a strange look flashed in his warm eyes: "Zide, you say...... Could it be the Chen family? ”

Lin Feng narrowed his eyes, and his mind recalled the scenes he had in the Chen family, every word he had said when he came into contact with Chen Yitian, and Xiao Yu and Xiao Man'er's trust in the Chen family.

He shook his head and said, "So far, at least I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary...... However, the only Chen family I contacted was the head of the Chen family, and this jade pendant was a women's jade pendant, even if it was a jade pendant of the Chen family, it was definitely not Chen Yitian. ”

"So whether it's the Chen family or not, you still need to go there in person."

Du Wei reminded: "Don't startle the snake. ”

Lin Feng smiled: "Don't worry, I have my own plans." ”

Du Gou's cautiousness towards Lin Feng is naturally trustworthy, after all, in order to hide his identity and meet him, Lin Feng made a pioneering choice in the thatched toilet, and for that meeting with the smelly thatched toilet, Du Gou felt that he would never forget it in his life, and he reminded Lin Feng that it was only out of his own cautiousness.

With the direction of the follow-up investigation, Lin Feng temporarily put away the jade pendant.

He looked around the room again, thought for a moment, and said, "Just to be on the safe side, let's search this room carefully, and don't let go of any corner, to see if there is anything else hidden." ”

When Du Wei and Sun Fujia heard this, they naturally had no objections.

The three quickly separated and conducted a search.

Half an hour later, the three of them got up.

"Nope."

"I don't have one here."

Listening to the words of the two, Lin Feng nodded: "It seems that there are no other clues here......"

With that, he turned around directly and walked out: "Let's go, go to the last room." ”

The three of them left the ship's room and walked a short distance down the dimly lit corridor before they came to the last door.

The door in front of me was ajar, but there were obvious signs of rough impact on the door.

Du Gou said: "When the officials were dealing with the water here, the door was locked with a lock, and they didn't have a key, so they had to use this method to smash it open and release the water inside. ”

Lin Feng nodded slightly, and said slowly: "This is the only door in the entire ship that has been locked, and the hole that has been chiseled is also here, it seems that the mysterious person is also afraid that after he leaves, those crew members will break free from the rope and escape, so this door is specially locked, in order to prevent them from changing the outcome of the wreck even if the crew will escape unexpectedly." ”

Du thought for a moment and said, "In this way, in the eyes of the mysterious man, the importance of the shipwreck is higher than the importance of the extinction. ”

Sun Fujia didn't know enough about this case, and when he heard the words at this moment, he couldn't help but wonder: "Since you are afraid that the crew will break free from the rope, why don't you just kill them first?" Anyway, they're all tied up, so it shouldn't be difficult to kill them. ”

Lin Feng said with a smile: "Since you want to fake it as a follow-up water ghost murder pretense, you naturally have to make it look weird, only by letting the people on the shore hear the cry for help in the boat, can people believe that there was really a crew member when the ship was sunk, in this way, the people of the yamen can't find any corpses, so that it can be even more weird, and it can also remind people of the rumors of water ghosts." ”

Du Gou nodded in agreement: "Zide is right, it was because the farmers on the shore were sure that there were cries for help at that time, and they were sure that no one escaped, that when the county government couldn't find the body, all kinds of rumors spread all over the sky...... Otherwise, there will be doubts about whether they escaped before the shipwreck, and the subsequent massacres may be rumors of the deceitful murder of the crew of the first ship, rather than the murder of the water spirits. ”

Lin Feng pushed the door in, and said, "That's it, besides, with the caution of the mysterious people, since they are tied, it is impossible for them to have a chance to break free...... He would lock the door, just out of a more cautious nature. ”

Sun Fujia listened to Lin Feng and Du Wei's words, nodded and said, "This mysterious person's plan is really one link after another, his mind is extremely delicate, and he has achieved the ultimate in all aspects. ”

As they spoke, the three of them entered the last boatman's quarters.

As the lantern illuminated the dormitory, the scene in front of them made the three of them a little strange.

I saw that in the room in front of me, there was a very obvious hole in the ground, and the hole was very deep, reaching the bottom of the ship, and beyond that...... The whole room is so undeniable that the cargo ship has undergone the process of sinking and salvage, and compared with the other two rooms, it is simply clean and not like the room of the same cargo ship.

No messy wet quilts.

There is no garbage.

"How can it be so clean?"

Sun Fujia frowned and said, "Is there no one living in this room?" ”

In the interval between Sun Fujia's words, Lin Feng went straight to the only cabinet, looking at the lock on the cabinet, he squinted his eyes, and immediately turned around and came to the door, directing the guards to get the axe.

Not long after, the guards returned and handed the axe to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng came to the cabinet again and went down with an axe.

I heard a loud "bang", and the small lock that locked the cabinet was immediately knocked open.

Lin Feng threw down the axe, removed the lock, and turned the cabinet lid open.

Looking inside, the next moment, I saw Lin Feng's pupils shrink suddenly.

"Zide, what's wrong?"

Seeing Lin Feng's strange appearance, Du Wei and Sun Fujia subconsciously took a step forward and looked at the cabinet.

Then, both of them stared wide-eyed.

"This ......"

"How can there be a female corpse here!?"

The two were stunned.

And he saw that the cupboard was full of water.

And in the water, there was a female corpse in a pink pleated skirt.

It's just that this female corpse has been soaked here for two months, and it has long lost its original appearance, and it looks shocking and terrifying.

Rao is Du Wei and Sun Fujia are used to seeing dead corpses, and they can't bear to take a second look.

"Someone!"

Lin Feng stared at the female corpse in the cabinet and said, "Take it away immediately, and then let it be a quick autopsy, no matter what method you use, tell you that you must find out her age, the cause of death, and everything he can detect." ”

The guards listened to Lin Feng's words and didn't dare to hesitate.

They hurriedly took out the female corpse from the cabinet, and were just about to carry it away, when they heard Lin Feng say: "Do this matter secretly, don't let anyone else know about the existence of the female corpse, including the people in Linshui County...... In addition, after the autopsy, he was restrained and did not allow him to leave without the permission of the official. ”

Although the guard didn't understand why Lin Feng did this, he didn't say anything, nodded quickly, and quickly carried the female corpse out.

Du Wei quietly waited for Lin Feng to finish the order before he said, "Zide, are you guarding against the Chen family?" ”

Lin Feng didn't hide it, he said slowly: "Whether the jade pendant is the jade pendant of the Chen family, I don't know for the time being, in case it is the Chen family, with the power of the Chen family, what the county government can know, they will definitely know, so we can't help but guard against it." ”

"Of course, I'm not just guarding against the Chen family's ......"

Lin Feng looked at Du Gou and said, "This woman is neither a crew member on the list, nor a mysterious person...... She's a third-party person who shouldn't be here. ”

"As I said before, this ship is an illegal business, and I will never dare to let outsiders board the ship...... And if the mysterious person comes to kill people, I don't think the mysterious person will bring an unknown person who does not trust. ”

"So, why is she here, why is she locked here? Why did the mysterious man lock him here, and why didn't he let Zhang Mo and them take him away like everyone else? ”

When Du Wei heard Lin Feng's words, he couldn't help but say, "You said she was locked here by a mysterious person?" ”

Lin Feng nodded, his eyes were still looking at the cabinet, and said, "Look at the cabinet, under the female corpse, is a folded futon. ”

"And the whole room, there is no bedding, and the bed is clean...... This cargo ship has three rooms for people, the first room is for the crew, and the second room is for the captain, so there is no doubt that this room that has been carved out of the hole and is very clean can only be occupied by a mysterious person. ”

As he spoke, Lin Feng looked at the clean room and said, "This mysterious person should have extremely high requirements for cleanliness and tidiness, he knows how dirty the bedding will be if it is placed on the bed after the shipwreck, so he put it in the cabinet in advance, in order to keep the room clean and tidy." ”

"Therefore, this female corpse was placed on the futon, and it should have been locked inside by the mysterious person before he was ready to start sinking the ship."

Listening to Lin Feng's words, Du Wei and Sun Fujia pondered for a moment, and then they both nodded in agreement.

Sun Fujia said: "In this way, this woman should have some kind of relationship with the mysterious person, if her identity can be found out, maybe the mysterious person can be directly locked." ”

When Du Wei heard this, he couldn't help but excitedly say: "We are closer to the mysterious man. ”

Lin Feng smiled, slowly exhaled, and said, "I hope so...... Either way, it's a good thing to make new discoveries. ”

The investigation is most afraid of no progress, no ideas, no clues and discoveries, this time the inspection of the wreck, can find the jade pendant and the unidentified female corpse, it is already a lot of gain.

Lin Feng finally glanced at the clean and tidy room, and said: "This room has been cleaned by the mysterious person, it seems that there are no other clues, go out, calculate the time, the navigation information of these ships should also arrive, and ...... next." Let's see if we can surprise us on the route. ”

…………

As Lin Feng said, as soon as they left the shipwreck, they encountered the guards who had returned from the county government.

The guards hurriedly handed the information of all the ships they had taken to Lin Feng.

Lin Feng looked at the thick pile of paper and couldn't help but say, "So much? ”

That's just two years of sailing.

If you collect a complete six-year of information, then you can't stack it a foot thick?

Du Wei said: "These papers not only record navigation information, but also cargo information, employer information, etc., the information is more comprehensive, but also complicated, so it is relatively thick. ”

Lin Feng frowned and said, "If we have enough time, it doesn't hurt to take a closer look, but now we are pressed for time, and we don't have so much time to study in depth." ”

"So ......"

He looked at the two of them and said, "Let's only pick the key points, only look at the route." ”

"Lai Guogong, Sun Langzhong, we will divide labor and cooperate next, I will copy out the route and date with Lai Guogong, and the other information will be skipped for the time being, and then Sun Langzhong will copy out the route, with different colors of paint marked on the map, in this way, we can intuitively see whether their routes have a high degree of overlap, and we can also judge whether we can find the detention places of those people according to the route."

When Du Wei and Sun Fujia heard this, their eyes lit up.

They were all smart people, so as soon as Lin Feng said it, they would be able to know how efficient and intuitive Lin Feng's methods were.

Du Wei immediately said: "No problem...... But what you want, there's no here, we'll have to go into town. ”

Lin Feng nodded: "It's okay, this shipwreck has been investigated, and there is no point in staying here, let's go...... Go back to the county seat. ”

Three hours later, the county government of Linshui County.

Inside Du Go's temporary office building.

As Sun Fujia drew the last route information on the map, Lin Feng's work on sorting out the routes of the five ships finally came to an end.

Even if the three of them worked together, even if they didn't look at other information at all, it still took more than two hours.

Fortunately, before dark, they finally sorted it out.

Looking at the dense routes on the map, looking at the routes that crossed and separated, Rao is Sun Fujia felt a little dizzy.

He said: "Intuitive is intuitive, but all the routes are drawn on the same map, which is inevitably a little too crowded, dense, and very confusing." ”

Du Wei looked at this map, and he had the same idea as Sun Fujia.

But Lin Feng stared at the map, carefully distinguishing the route above and the berthed ferry, and said slowly: "If the route of each ship is drawn on a map, it will certainly look beautiful, but it will be much more troublesome for us to compare." ”

"As it is now, although it is crowded, it can intuitively reflect the situation of these ship routes."

As he spoke, Lin Feng raised his hand and pointed to the red lines drawn with a cinnabar pen, and said, "You see, this red line represents the route of the shipwreck. ”

"The route of this ship covers all the waters of Datang, it has traveled through many places in the past two years, and there seems to be no pattern, but after extending the time to two years and marking all the routes, you can see the ......"

Lin Feng drew a circle with his finger on the map and said, "It passes through this water area the most times, no matter where the starting point is, at least six out of ten times it will pass through this water area." ”

Listening to Lin Feng's words, Du Wei and Sun Fujia quickly looked at it.

Sun Fujia's eyes moved slightly: "Could it be ...... It has a different starting point, picking up the captives from different places? And where it passes the most, is where it unloads the people? ”

"It must be so!" Du Wei looked at the map with burning eyes, and said, "Otherwise, it wouldn't be so frequent to go here, which is obviously different from the routes of other ships...... The business of these cargo ships is not fixed, and whichever employer gives more money, they will go, so unless there is a fixed employer, they will not go to a water area frequently. ”

"But in my investigation, there was no fixed employer for the wreck."

When Lin Feng heard this, he shook his head with a smile: "It's not that there is no fixed employer...... It's that the fixed employer is hidden in the shadows, and as you said, there is a fixed employer, and it will be a high frequency to walk a water. ”

Lin Feng's words seemed to be deliberately with Du Gouqiang, but Du Gou was sharp-minded and quickly understood what Lin Feng meant.

He nodded hurriedly: "That's right, the employer of the shipwreck is the Four Elephants Organization, and it has been smuggling people for the Four Elephants Organization all these years, so ......"

He looked at Lin Feng: "These people must be in this water." ”

"And this water area ......" Du Wei looked at the map and said in a deep voice: "It is the waters of the Zhanghe River...... Looking at its length, it is two hundred miles long, including even the range of Cizhou. ”

Lin Feng touched his chin and nodded: "But the distance is still a little long, two hundred miles along the river, the area involved is too extensive, and there are many deep mountains and dense forests, which can not be searched in three days at all." ”

"But it's already a huge breakthrough."

Lin Feng let out a long breath, looked at the two of them, and said slowly: "I won't hide it from you, in fact, I have always been worried that the place where those people are hidden is far away, if it is as far away as Chang'an, then it will really be desperate, even if we know where they are hidden, it will not be too late to rescue...... After all, the journey was more than three days. ”

"And now, knowing that they are within a two-hundred-mile radius of us, or even less than two hundred, is enough for us to arrive in less than a day after finding out where they are trapped, which for me is tantamount to solving my worst fears."

"Let me know that my efforts have a chance to save them, not a powerless struggle."

Listening to Lin Feng's words, Du Wei and Sun Fujia glanced at each other, and immediately looked at Lin Feng with pity.

Behind Lin Feng's seemingly relaxed smile, he really carried too much.

Sun Fujia smiled: "Even if there are only these, the roadmap we have worked so hard to create is not a loss." ”

"Sun Langzhong, don't say that."

Lin Feng smiled: "I still hope to find more clues, if I can directly find their trapped place, it would be great." ”

Sun Fujia hurriedly snorted twice: "Look at my mouth, yes, it's good to find it in one go, let's continue to look for it." ”

Everyone's eyes fell on the map again.

However, except for the road map of the wreck, which has a very obvious concentration of waters, the routes of other ships cannot be said to be highly overlapping, but can only be said to be irrelevant.

The four cargo ships had all sailed in the waters of the Zhanghe River, but they were not as concentrated as sunken ships.

Except for the second slaughtered boat, which sailed more times in the waters of the Zhanghe River, the other three ships did not even make a trip once a year.

This made Du Wei and Sun Fujia frown.

Du Wei said solemnly: "How can this be? Why do other boats sail the Zhanghe so rarely? Could we be wrong? Aren't those people hiding in the waters of the Zhanghe River? ”

When Sun Fujia heard this, his heart couldn't help but sink, this was the good news that Lin Feng had finally come up with, if he denied it because of this, wouldn't it be that Lin Feng's pressure to relax a little bit would increase suddenly?

He couldn't help but look at Lin Feng worriedly.

saw Lin Feng shake his head and said, "No! There is a shipwreck of a cargo ship carrying people, and its route will definitely not be a problem. ”

"So, it's not the sunken ship that is in question, it's the other four ships."

Du Gou was stunned: "The other four ships? ”

Lin Feng nodded, he pointed to the map, and said, "You see, the second ship has sailed in the waters of the Zhanghe River more times in the past year and a half than a year and a half ago. ”

"And one more is continuous, until two months ago......"

"And this ship."

Lin Feng's finger moved, pointing to the third cargo ship that had an accident, and said, "And this ship, in the period of two years ago and a year and a half ago, sailed the waters of the Zhanghe River at least once a month. ”

"But at that point in time a year and a half ago, the number of voyages it sailed plummeted, and it only went once in half a year, and the remaining year, only this time it was slaughtered, and then it went to the waters of the Zhanghe River again."

Lin Feng looked at the two of them and said, "Do you see the problem?" ”

"The third ship, just after stopping its voyage in the waters of the Zhanghe River, began to increase the number of voyages in the waters of the Zhanghe River......"

Du Wei's brain turned quickly, and he saw his eyes flashing, and hurriedly said, "What do you mean...... The Four Elephants Organization did not use these four ships at the same time, but used one ship for a period of time? ”

Lin Feng met Du Go's gaze and said, "Do you remember what we saw in Wang Heng's diary?" Wang Heng said that the time he saw the mysterious man walk out of the third ship was three years ago......"

"Three years ago!" Du Wei's eyes widened suddenly, his pupils dilated slightly, and he said, "Yes, three years ago...... So, the mysterious man found the third ship only three years ago, that is, the third ship only worked for him three years ago, and a year and a half ago, the third ship suddenly stopped going to the waters of the Zhanghe River, and the second ship began to relay ......"

"That's right, just like you said." Du Wei said excitedly: "They don't act at the same time, but each ship walks for a period of time, and maybe even each ship can be used for a year and a half." ”

Each ship is a year and a half, and four ships are exactly six years...... This is consistent with the time when Lin Feng of the original Dali Temple hid in Dali Temple, Lin Feng's eyes flashed slightly, and he felt that he was close to the truth.

"But ......"

Lin Feng picked up the paper and compared the second and third ships with the ferry where the wreck docked in the waters of the Zhanghe River.

Then he frowned and said: "There are no less than a dozen of them mooring in the waters of the Zhanghe River, and there are many more who just pass by the Zhanghe River and do not stop in the waters of the Zhanghe River. ”

Du Wei and Sun Fujia were both smart people, and they quickly understood what Lin Feng meant.

Sun Fujia frowned and said, "They deliberately hid the ferry in the hiding place? ”

Du Wei pondered for a moment and said: "It may not be that they are deliberately hidden, after all, they sail for reasonable reasons on the surface, so those terminal ferries should be the end points of their employers on the surface in order to hide people's eyes, but in fact, they only need to secretly dock at a certain ferry port at night during the navigation of the Zhanghe River for a period of time, and then leave before dawn, and no one will find out at all." ”

Sun Fujia's heart couldn't help but sink, and said, "Doesn't that mean that we can't rely on the starting and ending points of their voyage to determine the location of the ferry?" ”

Du Wei nodded heavily.

I thought that I could make a breakthrough by discovering the law of the Four Elephants Organization using cargo ships, but who knew that it was actually caught by Sun Fujia's crow's mouth.

The useful clues they were able to get were the initial delineation.

This made them look at Lin Feng solemnly, and at this time, Lin Feng's brows were tightly knit between them.

Lin Feng said: "Actually, I had expected this, with the cunning and prudence of the Four Elephants Organization, this situation is normal. ”

"And what worries me the most is here."

Du Wei and Sun Fujia subconsciously looked at the area where Lin Feng's finger was pointing.

Then, their expressions changed suddenly, and their pupils contracted suddenly.

I heard Lin Feng say in a deep voice: "The Four Elephants Organization uses cargo ships to secretly transport some kind of mysterious goods, that is to say, the waters of the Zhanghe River are either the starting point or the end point...... Then, there must be another end, either the beginning or the end. ”

"Therefore, if the second and third ships are removed from the other navigation routes, leaving only the ones that connect the waters of the Zhanghe River, you can find ......"

"The other side of them, no matter what water they take, will end up in this area."

"This is the concentration of eight rivers such as the Wei River and the Jing River, and near these eight rivers, there is the most important city."

Lin Feng said as he looked at Du Wei and Sun Fujia: "Chang'an! ”

"How could it be Chang'an?"

Sun Fujia was shocked in his heart.

Du Wei is even more numb in the scalp.

With their abilities, they realized what this meant in an instant, and this guess made their composure disappear at this moment, and they were terrified.

Lin Feng looked at the two of them and said in a deep voice: "It's okay if Chang'an is the starting point, but if Chang'an is the end...... That shows that Chang'an City is the goal of the Four Elephants Organization! ”

"In the past six years, the Four Elephants Organization has been transporting certain things to Chang'an without interruption."

"It took them a full six years, little by little to transport to Chang'an City, little by little to plan, not in a hurry, not in a hurry, not in a hurry, no one knows about the six years of secrecy."

"Now, they've completed their delivery plans."

"Even the mouth has been extinguished, the tail has been dealt with, and all the aftermath has been solved."

"So...... Two people. ”

"Chang'an City ......"

Lin Feng stared at the map, took a deep breath, and said with a terrifying solemnity in his voice, "I'm afraid it's dangerous!" ”

(End of chapter)