Chapter Seventy-Five: Cover-up
Ye Feng stayed in the room alone for an afternoon.
Xie Zhenliang and Zhang Fatzi have not woken up yet, and no one knows what he did in the room alone, perhaps, as Miss Cheng said, he is just talking to these two unconscious brothers.
By the time he left, it was already dusk.
As soon as he stepped out of the gate of the mansion, he looked up and saw Chang Wuyi and Tang Da standing outside the door, quietly waiting for him.
It seems that their investigation has come to fruition.
Chang Wuyi looked at Ye Feng who came over with some interest, and said: "It seems that no matter how smart a person is, when facing feelings, he will be carried away and will do unreasonable things. ”
Ye Feng was a little stunned, not understanding what he meant.
Chang Wuyi said a little coldly: "In order to see Miss Cheng, you were willing to take the risk to enter the courtyard." Now it's a forbidden area, and anyone who enters it may be infected with the epidemic at any time, but now you have the hope of finding the Five Poison Gate, if even you are infected, then it is really over. ”
In the end, he sighed and concluded: "The old saying is true, it is indeed the hero who is sad to pass the beauty pass." ”
Ye Feng was a little confused when he heard it, he didn't just go in to see Miss Cheng, this should be very clear to Chang Wuyi.
It took him a long time before he realized that he was joking!
He almost couldn't believe that Chang Wuyi, such a gloomy-faced, cold person, would even joke?
He was indeed joking with Ye Feng, as early as the Beijing case, he had already seen the rather delicate relationship between Ye Feng and Miss Cheng, and this time when they met again, the two of them had clearly taken a big step forward, which he saw very clearly.
But although he was joking, he was really not good at it, his expression and words were too cold, and this joke was also very cold, cold to the bone, not funny at all, but full of cold embarrassment.
Ye Feng's heart also felt cold, Chang Wuyi would choose to make such an inappropriate joke at this time, which could only mean that he should have found nothing.
In order to avoid the embarrassment that followed, he wanted to make a joke to ease the atmosphere, but the situation turned out to be even worse.
Although he already had a premonition in his heart, Ye Feng still had to ask Chang Wuyi, "How is it, did you find anything?"
As expected, Chang Wuyi slowly shook his head and said, "You asked me to check on the affairs of the former prefect, but I couldn't find anything. I went to find the current Xi'an prefect, Lord Zhao, who was transferred later, and this case was not handled by him, so his knowledge is limited. ”
He only knew that the former prefect embezzled public funds and accepted bribes while in office, and he was dismissed from his post after the incident. Originally, he was going to be escorted to Beijing for questioning, but it is said that someone spent a lot of money to save him, and he was only sentenced to a reduction in his post and sent back to his hometown. ”
Later, I heard that the unfortunate former prefect met robbers on the way back to his hometown, and not only was he looted, but his whole family died tragically under the bandits' knives. ”
Ye Feng frowned unconsciously when he heard this, why did he think this plot was so familiar?
After thinking about it, I suddenly remembered, Zhang Fatzi and them were out of righteous indignation, didn't they have ever played such a play?
At that time, they also united with Zhang Xin, the Marquis of Longping, and sent someone to pretend to be a robber to kill the Huang County Commander who betrayed and framed his mentor Zhou Xinzhou for his greed for wealth and wealth, so as to obtain a high promotion.
This incident was a very happy thing at the time, but it turned out to be so similar to the fate of the former Xi'an prefect in front of him.
It seems that the death of the former prefect will never be as simple as being unlucky enough to meet robbers.
Ye Feng shook his head and asked, "Then what about the details of his embezzlement of public funds and accepting bribes during his tenure?
Chang Wuyi sighed and said: "Governor Zhao doesn't know very well, and now that the main owner is dead, there is no way to find out." ”
Ye Feng was still a little unwilling, and asked: "For such a big case, the file records in the government office, and the local chronicles are all certain
There will be records, as well as those officials who have experienced these cases, since they have worked under the former prefect, they will also know some inside information. How can there be no way to find out?"
Chang Wuyi made a bitter face and said with infinite regret: "What you said is good, but the wing room where the case files and records are stored in the government suddenly caught fire a month ago, and all the previous documents were burned to the ground, leaving nothing to verify." ”
"And those who had served as errand boys under the former prefect and who might know some of the inside information, none of them were spared in this plague, and all of them were infected with the epidemic and died cleanly. ”
Ye Feng's face changed slightly: "They all died of illness?"
Chang Wuyi nodded very resolutely and said: "That's right, I have confirmed them all one by one, all of them died of the plague, and the cause of death is not suspicious at all." ”
Ye Feng was silent for a long time, and then he sighed: "It seems that there is indeed no way to find out." ”
Chang Wuyi felt very strange, and finally couldn't help but ask: "The top priority at the moment should be to find the whereabouts of the people of the Five Poison Sect who spread the Gu poison, why would Ye Gongzi suddenly be so interested in the affairs of this former prefect?"
Ye Feng pondered a little dazedly, and replied: "It's not good to say now, it's just some vague thoughts in my heart, and I can't be coherent yet, and there is still something missing." ”
Although it was just a few fragmentary thoughts, Ye Feng was now more and more sure in his heart that his direction was not wrong.
How could that be such a coincidence?
Will the heavily guarded government suddenly catch fire, and the burned down is the room where all the case files and documents are stored?
This plague also came so coincidentally, it happened that all the people who knew the details of the previous prefect were sick and died?
When too many coincidences come together, they will never be coincidences again.
This is clearly a conspiracy to cover up the things behind the corruption and fraud case of the former prefect.
If the creation of the plague is also part of this conspiracy, then what is the relationship between the five poisons that created the plague and the case of the former prefect? What exactly are they trying to cover up?
Ye Feng pondered for a while, but he couldn't think of any results.
As soon as he looked up, he saw Tang Da standing aside without speaking, and the smile on his face seemed to have a little mystery and smugness.
Ye Feng asked Tang Da, "Is there anything you found on the side of Heavenly Providence Lou Ji Gongzi?"
Tang Da spread his hands and said, "I don't know." ”
Ye Feng was stunned for a moment: "How could you not know?"
Tang Da still had that mysterious smile on his face, and said lightly: "I really don't know, Ji Gongzi didn't tell me anything." It's just that he asked me to inform you and let you go and see him immediately, and he is too busy to come here. ”
Ye Feng was stunned for a moment, and then his heart moved: "Could it be that he found some clues over there?"
Tang Da still shook his head: "He didn't say it, but seeing that he was in such a hurry, maybe he really found something." ”
Ye Feng's heart swelled with joy.
In the past few years, he has seen the vast supernatural powers and great power of the Heavenly Providence Building. If there is anyone in the world who can find some clues except the government, it must be the Providence Building.
Chang Wuyi also felt a burst of excitement, if Tianyi Lou could really find out something and help Ye Feng find those heinous Five Poison Gates that were hidden, not only the current epidemic in Xi'an City, but also the case about the mysterious death of the five hundred Jin Wuwei that he was carrying was about to be revealed.
How could he not be excited?
At this time, he saw Ye Feng suddenly say to him: "Now I'm afraid I have to trouble Lord Chang to investigate someone." ”
Chang Wuyi nodded firmly and said, "Say, who else are you going to investigate?"
Ye Feng approached him a little mysteriously and whispered a few words in his ear.
Chang Wuyi listened, but his face was full of disbelief, and he asked with some hesitation: "He, are you sure you want to check him?"
Ye Feng nodded resolutely and said, "Not at all."
No, we have been ignoring this person before, and now it seems that maybe he is the biggest breakthrough in the whole thing. ”
Although Chang Wuyi felt a little unbelievable, he still nodded and said, "Don't worry, he will leave it to me." ”
Ye Feng let out a long breath, turned his head to Tang Da and said, "Okay, now let's go meet that Ji Gongzi and see what secrets he has to tell us." ”
He looked up at the sky and said, "It seems that we have to hurry, but I am afraid that there is not much time left for us." ”
The three of them left in a hurry.
They didn't notice that there was a pair of eyes around the corner that had been secretly watching them.
Seeing them leave, a sneer appeared on the corner of the man's mouth, and he also turned to leave.
If they saw this man, they might be surprised. Because not only did this man surprise them, but they knew them all!
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After Miss Cheng finished dealing with Senior Brother Song's funeral, it was already dark.
Seeing Senior Brother Song's body being devoured in the raging flames and turned into ashes made her feel unusually heavy in her heart.
Brother Song devoted his life to saving lives and helping the wounded, relieving people's pain, but in the end it was inevitable to die under the epidemic, although this is a medical virtue that should be adhered to as a doctor, but it is still inevitable that people will have a kind of "hound must die in the mountains, and the general will inevitably die before the battle" sadness.
At this moment, Miss Cheng, who was in a heavy mood, wanted to be able to have Ye Feng by her side, to be able to spit out at him, and tell the troubles and confusions in her heart.
But Ye Feng had already left.
Of course, she also understood that the most important thing for Ye Feng at the moment was to quickly find the culprit who spread the Gu poison and caused the plague, which was related to all the patients who were struggling between life and death here, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Xi'an City.
This Gu poison is too powerful, after this day and night of painstaking research, exhausting all her life's learning, Miss Cheng still feels that she is still 108,000 miles away from overcoming this epidemic.
It's like it's hard to design a difficult problem for a person, but it's undoubtedly more difficult and time-consuming to solve it.
In the face of such a situation, it may be more realistic to expect a breakthrough from Ye Feng's side than to wait for the doctors to overcome the epidemic.
After all, these people who are still struggling between life and death don't have much time to wait.
Miss Cheng deeply understands this truth, so she supports Ye Feng very much in her heart.
It's just that when she remembered that Ye Feng and she were both facing their own dangers at the moment, fighting for other people's lives, but even meeting and talking to each other had become a luxury, her heart was inevitably a little gloomy.
But now she doesn't have time to feel sad.
Senior Brother Song had just given his life, and there were countless people's lives waiting for her and other doctors to save, how could she think about these things at this time?
She forbade herself to think about it any longer.
Looking up at the sky, she remembered that it was time to feed the poisoned unconscious phoenix girl with medicine.
Holding the medicine bowl, Miss Cheng walked into the room where the phoenix girl was lying.
The Phoenix Girl's wing room was in the backyard of the house, which was relatively secluded, not many people came, and it was relatively far away from the sick people who were infected with the disease in the courtyard.
But as soon as she stepped into the wing, Miss Cheng was suddenly stunned.
The phoenix girl, who was originally lying unconscious on the bed, is gone at this moment, and the bed is empty!
What's going on?Where did Phoenix Girl go?
Could it be that she was taken captive?
Miss Cheng was anxious for a while, looked left and right, but didn't see anyone, and the windows were closed well.
She was about to turn around and go out to call someone, but at this time, the door behind her suddenly "squeaked" and closed suddenly!
Miss Cheng was startled, and the medicine bowl in her hand was so frightened that she fell to the ground and shattered it all at once.
She heard a gloomy voice behind her: "I've always been here!"