34 Tea tasting

Unexpectedly, this trip to the torture room once again aroused the pain in Xie Yixiang's heart. It is said that after Zhuang Haoming, the previous chief arrester of the criminal arrest room, died in Dongting Lake, the post of chief arrester has been taken over by the newly appointed "famous arrest and famous sword" Situ Mingjie. Xie Yixiang stepped into the door of the torture room all the way, and didn't see a few acquaintances along the way, and when she thought of Zhuang Haoming's death, her heart became more and more uncomfortable.

As for the current "famous sword" Situ Chief Catcher, Xie Yixiang naturally knew it for a long time, and knew that this person was born in a famous family in Jinling City, and almost all the black and white forces in the south of the Yangtze River had friendships, whether it was "scene" or "affection", he could handle it extremely beautifully, which is commonly known as "eating open". It is actually reasonable for this person to take over the post of chief arrester of the criminal arrest room.

At that moment, Xie Yixiang went to see her new boss as usual, and Situ Mingjie saw her coming back to report on her work, but she was very enthusiastic, and hurriedly asked someone to make tea and watch, and she did not leave her father General Xie in three sentences, and her words were very respectful. Xie Yixiang didn't want to deal with this kind of old fox in officialdom, so he just chatted casually and briefly explained his whereabouts along the way, and he didn't dare to tell him the truth about the previous robbery of military salaries. In the end, she saw that Situ Mingjie did not assign an errand to her, so she exchanged a few polite words with this Situ chief catcher, and got up to say goodbye.

It is said that Xie Yixiang has experienced too many things along the way, and with the gradual increase in age and mentality, most of the suspicions between him and his father have already been eliminated. Seeing that it was Chinese New Year's Eve and New Year, her father was injured at home, and since the former chief catcher Zhuang Haoming was no longer alive, she simply went to her residence to pack her bags and plan to move back home temporarily. She packed her bags and was about to leave the arrest room, but unexpectedly bumped into an acquaintance, who was the eldest sister Yue Ying Qiuyue of Jiazhou Mansion, who was in charge of investigating the disappearance of tourists on Mount Emei in Shudi. At that time, after experiencing the "Emei Blood Baby" case, Xie Yixiang and Shang Buqi jointly recommended her to serve in the Jinling Detention Room, which really made her wish, and now she is also a catcher in the Jinling Arrest Room.

Xie Yixiang and this eldest sister Yue are both handling cases in the criminal arrest room as women, and they can be regarded as mavericks in the world. Xie Yixiang invited Sister Yue to go to the "Xiangyuju" teahouse in Jinling City to taste tea, and when the water was boiling and the tea was strong, Xie Yixiang recalled that he was here for the first time when he met the "Beiping God Catch" businessman and did not give up, and now the teahouse is still the same, the tea fragrance is the same, this self-proclaimed "the first god in the world throughout the ages" The head of the business god has passed away, and he can't help but feel sad. Sister Yue has also been yearning for the ability of the "wicked man to grind" the merchant for a long time, and she worked together on Mount Emei to handle the case, and heard that he had actually been killed in the Tianshan Mountains and died in the hands of the "face-tearing demon", and she was even more embarrassed.

Then Sister Yue asked about Xian Jingyue's situation, and immediately let Xie Yixiang stand on the spot, and rushed back to Jinling all the way, during which too many things happened, but she left her senior brother behind. When they arrived at Yumen Pass, because they suddenly heard the news that King Heng was rebelling in Jiangnan, Xian Jingyue decided to rush back to Jinling to resume his life, so as to say goodbye to himself, so that he could continue to join Shang and rush to Beishu Bali to pursue Ning Cui.

And since the separation of the two, Xie Yixiang has not seen his senior brother so far, let alone heard from him, and at this time, he was asked by Sister Yue, and he suddenly became worried. Unexpectedly, Sister Yue asked this question, but it was because she had already heard about the situation in Yumen Pass in the torture room, and seeing that Xie Yixiang didn't know anything, she immediately told this Miss Xie San the news she had heard.

It turned out that a few months ago, a strange incident of "corpse mutiny" suddenly occurred in Yumen Pass, the head of the three defense lines in the northwest, that is, the dead people turned into "living corpses" and burst out to kill people; once the living people were killed by these "living corpses", the corpses would soon become infected and become "living corpses" who killed people everywhere. For such ghosts and gods, the imperial court would not believe it, but not long after, the Yumen Pass guard sent Lu Yuanpo's military report and the pro-army Governor's Mansion to Jinling at the same time. The emperor did not know the details of this, for the sake of safety, for fear that the "corpse mutiny" at Yumen Pass would spread to the Central Plains, so he had to give up the 100,000 garrisons at Yumen Pass, and ordered Gong Baisheng, the guard of Jiayu Pass, to close the city gate tightly and not let anyone enter the pass.

After more than a month, Yumen Pass ran out of food, and he also sent people to Jiayuguan for help, but was rejected by the guard Gong Baisheng. Soon after, Gongsun Moming, the leader of the Shenhuo Sect, who had disappeared for more than ten years, actually reappeared in the world, and personally summoned the countries of the Western Regions to send troops to the Central Plains, and captured the Yumen Pass in one fell swoop with the 80,000 Semu soldiers of the alliance of the four countries of Bali, Khanate, Turkic and Persian. Unexpectedly, at the critical juncture, the commander of the pro-army Governor's Mansion Guard Army Xian Jingyue stepped forward and defeated the Shenhuo Sect leader Gongsun Mo Ming and the Shenhuo Sect's "Five Elements Protector", and with only one person and one sword, he killed the soldiers of the Four Nations Alliance in the Western Regions on their backs. In the end, the soldiers of the Shenhuo Sect and the countries of the Western Regions had no choice but to hand over the antidote to cure the "living corpse", so as to save the lives of more than 3,000 Yumen Pass garrisons, all of whom returned safely to Jiayuguan under the leadership of Xian Jingyue.

And Gong Baisheng, the guard general of Jiayu Pass, originally wanted to prevent Xian Jingyue and these more than 3,000 garrisons from entering the pass, but a few days later, the Tubo country actually sent 50,000 troops, forming a five-nation alliance with the previous four countries of the Western Regions, and went straight to Jiayu Pass. In a hurry, Gong Baisheng saw that although the three thousand soldiers brought back by Xian Jingyue looked haggard, their bodies were indeed fine, so he was willing to make an exception to let them enter the customs and organize them into the garrison team of Jiayuguan to resist the five-nation alliance army under the city. Then the two sides took the momentum of one attack and one defense, and they launched many bloody battles in front of Jiayu Pass.

Fortunately, Gong Baisheng is also a world-class general, coupled with the parallel defense of the three lines of defense of the inner city, the outer city and the moat of Jiayuguan, forming a meticulous combat preparation of five miles and one fire, ten miles and one pier, thirty miles and one fort, and one hundred miles and one city, and actually fought with the hundreds of thousands of colored soldiers of the Five Nations Alliance, thus making the war into a stalemate.

It is not known whether Xian Jingyue was still fighting with Gong Baisheng against the Five Nations Alliance in the Western Regions in Jiayuguan at this time; it is also possible that he had already left Jiayuguan and was on his way back to Jinling, and wanted to report to the imperial court the detailed situation of the invasion of the Central Plains by the countries of the Western Regions.