Everyone was skeptical of what he said, but they had to follow to take a look, Bai Xingxian was about to take a step, but was stopped by Shen Cuttlefish, only to see him smile sideways and say, "I'll take a look this time." Although Bai Xing was a little moved, he pretended to be disdainful, Qiong's nose wrinkled slightly, snorted lightly, and said with a sneer: "You can't do it." ”

Shen Cuttlefish pursed his lips, and then walked towards the bed, while Bai Xingxian looked at Shen Cuttlefish with his arms around and smiled, his eyebrows were full of joy, Pei Jingnian and Mingjue saw this, looked at each other, and smiled. And An Ning'er, who was standing behind everyone, looked at Shen Cuttlefish's back, and glanced at Bai Xing's strange expression, his expression was extremely complicated, and he was silent.

I saw Shen Cuttlefish follow Chen Guangrui to the bedside, the two squatted down together, Chen Guangrui slowly lifted the curtain on the side of the bed, the bed was pitch black, but through the light in the room, the figures of several people could be vaguely seen, Shen Cuttlefish squinted his eyes and looked closely, only to find that the few people hiding under the bed were the black-clothed people who were let go, and the corpses of Chixiao Tong and Sha Juetian.

Shen Cuttlefish was so frightened that he sat on the ground, his face was full of horror, his whole body trembled, everyone saw this, and hurried to his side, Bai Xing Tear took the first step, came to Shen Cuttlefish's back, raised his eyebrows angrily, his face was slightly red, kicked him, and scolded lightly: "It's really useless!" and half-squatted down, holding Shen Cuttlefish's shoulder, everyone looked under the bed together, all dumbfounded. Bai Xing shouted at Chen Guangrui with tears: "You killed them! How can you make evidence?"

Chen Guangrui shook his head slowly: "No, they were just knocked unconscious." If you want to be arraigned, you can do so at any time. It's just that it must not be in the government, otherwise, the eyes and ears of the Huangquan Dao people will definitely report to Fang Shenxian and tell him to prepare early. Only by pretending to let them go can we stabilize them. Bai Xing laughed lightly and said: "I'm afraid that these people can't go back on time, and they get away with a volley, and the people of Huangquan Dao at this time have already made complete preparations, right?"

"So far, Master Chen, what are you still hiding?" Shen Cuttlefish wiped the beads of sweat on his forehead, calmed his mind, calmed himself, and asked. Pei Jingnian couldn't help asking: "Unless we explain the ins and outs of this matter and the truth, it will be difficult for us to believe what Master Chen said." After all, everyone saw it with their own eyes, when the Taoist priest was performing a trick on the banks of the Huangshi River, Chen Guangrui was watching from the sidelines, and he had no objections. To outsiders, they must have colluded.

Chen Guangrui waved his hand and said helplessly: "I knew that sooner or later there would be such a day, but it came too quickly, I really didn't expect that someone would come to break the deadlock so soon." ”

After that, Chen Guangrui stood up, pointed to the stools again, and said with a smile: "Everyone, please sit down, let me explain this matter to you." After the five Shen cuttlefish were seated at the table, Chen Guangrui told this incredible story: "You came to Zhongtian Mansion, maybe it was providence, or maybe it was fate, since you came from Anhuai Mansion, dare to ask you, did you come to Zhongtianfu from the Feixue Cliff Chain Bridge in Cangyun Mountain?

Everyone was slightly stunned when they heard this, and Shen Cuttlefish looked at the eyes of the other four people, and nodded solemnly. Chen Guangrui continued: "This matter is related to the Guangwang Temple outside the city. I believe that before you came to Zhongtianfu, you had already explored the situation in the city clearly, and you also knew about the bizarre case half a year ago. The last Lord Yin Liu Xun of the Zhongtianfu Mansion, who took office for six days, cracked down on the powerful, redressed unjust, false and wrongful cases, made countless political achievements, and was deeply loved by the people, but later, he disappeared mysteriously. ”

"Deeply loved by the people? Hmph, I don't think so, it's not necessarily. Bai Xingxian crossed his arms and sneered and said, "As far as I know, the people of Zhongtianfu have a lot of complaints about this Lord Liu, saying that although he has worked hard and has very good means to handle cases and trials, he abuses torture and likes torture to extract confessions, which makes the people miserable, but is there such a thing?" Chen Guangrui was slightly stunned, he didn't expect that Bai Xingxian would even inquire about this kind of thing clearly, but he quickly came back to his senses.

Chen Guangrui smiled and nodded, and said helplessly: "Not bad." Where in the world is there such a Baolong diagram, and not everyone can become a Baolong diagram. This Lord Liu Xun, although he is committed to the government affairs of the state government and is upright, he has a stubborn and perverse personality, likes to drill the horns of the bull, to put it bluntly, and even a little distorted. For the sake of his own political achievements and future, in order to handle the case, he will do whatever it takes, so someone in the DPRK and China once gave him a nickname, called Yin Cao Judge. It means that he despises human life and only seeks the so-called truth in his heart. ”

It is precisely because of his character that he is not suitable for the road of official career at all, and he has repeatedly hit a wall in the court, and has been persecuted and excluded. He was originally the head of the Central Council of the Four Grades of the Beijing, but he was sent to this Zhongtian Mansion to be a small mansion, but he still did not change his temperament, and behaved according to his own code of conduct, he vowed to use his achievements in the Zhongtian Mansion to make the court pay attention to himself again and recruit him back to the capital. But I don't want to, he has only been in office for six days in Zhongtianfu, and his whereabouts are unknown. And he had no family, no wife, no one, and no one cared about his life or death. ”

Shen Cuttlefish suddenly asked: "Wait, why do you know so much about Lord Liu's affairs, even if you are an official in the same dynasty, according to what you just said, Lord Liu has hit a wall everywhere, how do you know?" Chen Guangrui smiled slightly, and replied: "Because I am his only friend in the court." As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, but Chen Guangrui said flatly, "In the court, there are clear parties, many factions, open and secret battles, and they have been fighting for hundreds of years, so as officials in the court, they are all trembling and walking on thin ice." As the saying goes, a companion is like a tiger, and you must always be on guard against the open guns and arrows of your colleagues. Therefore, as an official in the capital, there is almost no so-called friendship to speak of, and only eternal interests are what everyone pursues. Power, money, and living. ”

Pei Jingnian said in surprise: "Could it be that Lord Chen, you ......?"

"Not bad. I was originally a senator of the Central Council, the same age as Liu Xun. The two of us are the same year's lifters, he is the role model, and I am Tanhua. They were left in the capital as officials, and climbed all the way from the bottom to the top of the temple. The two of us have known each other since the day we entered Beijing to catch the exam, and we have been promoted together, become officials together, and have supported each other to this day. Our friendship grew stronger and stronger, until he offended the powerful and was sent to this Zhongtianfu as the governor, and on the day he left, I went to see him off, and I never saw him again. ”

When everyone heard this, they inevitably sighed a little, glanced at each other, sighed lightly, and Shen Cuttlefish said coldly: "I don't want to, but he died in the Guangwang Temple outside the Middle Heavenly Mansion." Chen Guangrui's eyes were covered with a layer of fog, and when it came to the emotional place, he recalled the past time, and he was a friend of life and death who was crawling and rolling together in the officialdom, but he died in a foreign land, and the reason for his death is unknown. "Is this the reason why you killed all the monks of Guangwang Temple, in order to avenge your old friends, or did you already believe that they were the murderers of Lord Liu?" Bai Xing stood up with tears in his eyes, suppressing the anger in his heart.

Chen Guangrui sat calmly in front of her, slowly raised his head and said, "How do you know that person is me?" As soon as these words came out, everyone was like being struck by lightning, and they didn't know what to do. Chen Guangrui then explained: "When the news of Liu Xun's disappearance reached the capital, I sent several waves of people to Zhongtianfu to inquire, but there was no news. It is rumored in the market that Liu Xun died in this ghost place because he broke the rule that all successive governors had to go to Guangwang Temple to offer incense, which angered the gods and Buddhas, and was even condemned by the gods. But this kind of nonsense can only deceive those who have no brains. ”

"I deeply feel that there is another hidden truth in this, it just so happens that at this time, the ministry is considering sending a new official to take Liu Xun's place, and find out this strange case, but no one is willing to come to Zhongtianfu to handle this tricky case. I took this opportunity to write to the Privy Council and submit it to the current Shengshang, and I was approved to come to Zhongtianfu to be the governor of the palace. ”

Pei Jingnian said: "Lord Chen wants to find out the truth about the death of Lord Liu Xun? But the rumors in the market say that Lord Chen came to take over the post of Yin of Zhongtianfu, and after taking office, he went to Guangwang Temple to offer incense according to the custom, and did not want the body of Lord Liu Xun to fall out from behind the Buddha statue in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, Lord Chen was frightened, and after investigation, it was determined that the group of monks was the culprit who killed Lord Liu and caused the riot, so they were all beheaded, and for a time the blood flowed outside the city, and even the land was stained red with blood. Then why did Master Chen say that the person who judged the case was not you?"

"It's a long story. At that time, I quit my family in the capital and came to Zhongtianfu. Who knew that when he was about to arrive at Zhongtianfu City, he encountered mountain bandits on the road in a mountain depression thirty miles outside the city, and the officers and soldiers and servants brought by the official were all killed by that group. Just when they wanted to attack the official, the Huangquan Daoist descended from the sky, leading his right-hand men, Chixiao Tong and Ling Kongzi, claiming to have cultivated the Tao in the Tianshan Mountains, and learned from the Taiping Technique. He called for wind and rain, cast spells, and killed two of his subordinates, leaving no piece of armor behind hundreds of thieves, and fled in all directions. I was very grateful, so I asked him to escort me for another ride, and when I arrived at Zhongtianfu, I would definitely reward me with a lot of money after taking office. ”

Bai Xingxian chuckled again when he heard this, naturally sat next to Shen Cuttlefish, and joked with a smile: "Ask a Taoist priest to be a guard, Lord Chen, you really have it." Shen Cuttlefish was afraid that she would anger Chen Guangrui, so he secretly grabbed Bai Xinghua's left hand, pinched her palm, and signaled her not to be too arrogant.