Everyone didn't know what this Miss Xie San had discovered, and General Lu decided that she was the daughter of the great general Xie Fengxuan, so he immediately called fifty personal soldiers who came with him on the city wall according to her arrangement, and asked them to block the store of "Yinshan Hall" in the town, and ordered the soldiers guarding the city to close the city gate. Then everyone followed Xie Yixiang down from the city wall, followed the road traveled by the corpse team, and went all the way to Yizhuang outside the street.

The Yizhuang where the corpses were parked was still more than half a mile away from the street, and at this time, the corpse driving team had completely entered it. Xie Yixiang didn't stop, but pointed to the footprints left by the corpse team on the ground and asked Shang Buqi: "Dare to ask Shang Zhutou, how can a team composed of more than a dozen people only leave three lines of footprints?"

Shang Buqi thought for a moment and sneered: "Among the three lines of footprints, two lines of footprints were left by the two Taoist priests in the corpse team. As for the third line of footprints, everyone must have seen clearly that the twelve corpses in the middle walked at the same pace, and the corpses in the back lifted their feet and walked, just stepping on the footprints left by the corpses in front, so this third line of footprints was actually shared by the twelve corpses in it. ”

Xie Yixiang asked again: "It's not easy to let the corpse walk on its own, why do you have to ensure that the twelve corpses leave only one line of footprints, isn't it even more difficult?" Shang Buqi couldn't help but said angrily: "You come to ask me, who am I going to ask?" Xie Yixiang smiled: "Shang Zhutou has been handling cases for many years, and his experience is naturally far better than mine." Dare to ask the head of the businessman, what do the footprints left at the crime scene mean?"

Shang Buqi was about to scold, but he suddenly reacted and muttered: "If there are footprints left at the crime scene, according to the depth and size of the footprints, the height, weight and age of this person can be judged...... I understand, it seems that there is indeed a smuggling of people in the corpse driving team of this 'Yinshan Hall', and naturally they hide things on those corpses, so the footprints will be deeper than those of normal weight. In order to prevent others from seeing the flaws in the footprints, the Taoist priest of the 'Yinshan Hall' would let the twelve corpses share a line of footprints, but in fact, they wanted to destroy the original footprints. ”

Who knew that Xie Yixiang sighed exaggeratedly, shook his head and smiled: "Shang Zhutou's conclusion, although it is not true, it is not far away. It's true that you are smuggled away, but you say that you are hiding something on the corpse, but you are afraid that it may not be. Shang Buqi immediately said angrily: "You girl, it's just by virtue of your 'poor thousands of miles' magical powers, so you can see more clearly than me in the dark night, what kind of ability is it? It's like I brought a dog to handle the case, the dog's sense of smell is naturally far better than yours, can it be said that you are not even as good as a dog?" Xian Jingyue next to him couldn't help frowning and said, "Put your mouth cleaner." ”

While speaking, the group had come to the gate of Yizhuang in Yumen Pass, and the corpse chasing team had clearly just entered, and they vaguely heard the voice from inside. General Lu, Lu and Zhou, together with a dozen or so soldiers defending the city, all stood far away, for fear of colliding into something unclean, but Xie Yixiang did not shy away from it, and went straight forward to push open the gate of Yizhuang. Immediately, I heard someone inside exclaim: "What kind of person? You are really impatient to live, looking for death!" Xie Yixiang sneered: "I'm afraid that it is you who are looking for death." ”

Everyone hurriedly stepped forward to take a look, and then they saw the situation inside Yizhuang. Inside, I saw a huge room, with dozens of coffins, all of which contained unclaimed corpses. The 12 white-clothed corpses in the previous corpse driving team had not yet had time to be put into the coffin, and they were placed on the ground horizontally, without any life. However, looking at the side, in addition to the two gray-robed Taoist priests who drove the corpses one after the other, there were clearly four black-clothed masked people in this Yizhuang, who were sorting out a few bags of things on the ground. Seeing Xie Yixiang and others pushing the door in, these people in Yizhuang were at a loss.

Xie Yixiang smiled slightly, and said in a loud voice: "The so-called 'corpse expulsion technique' is just pretending to be a god and playing ghosts, and the mystery is actually not worth exposing at all. The reason why these twelve corpses were dressed in white was to attract the attention of others in the dark night, so as to hide the truth behind them. Because behind each corpse, there is actually a black-clothed masked man hidden, with the front chest against the back of the corpse in front of him, and the back against the chest of the corpse behind, and then the two legs are trapped and tied together with the legs of the corpse in front, so the man in black raises his feet in the back, and the corpse will also lift his feet. In the dark night of the stars and moon, it looked like a team of corpses in white walking on their own, but in fact, it was the people in black behind the corpses who were doing the trick. ”

After a pause, she continued: "As for the line of footprints left by the twelve corpses, they are actually the footprints of the black-clothed masked man behind the corpse, because there is a corpse tied in front of him, and the weight of two people is equal to the weight of two people when he walks, and the footprints are naturally much deeper than normal people-of course, the corpse also carries some smuggled goods - so the black-robed masked person hiding behind the corpse would come up with such a strange way to let the people behind him step on the footprints left by the people in front of him, so as to cover up this flaw." ”

Only then did everyone suddenly realize, if it weren't for this, how could a few black-robed masked people suddenly appear in this Yizhuang? Then Master Lu couldn't help but ask: "However, General Lu once checked the corpse chasing team of 'Yinshan Hall', but he didn't see any black-clothed masked people in the team, so what's going on?" Xie Yixiang said with a smile: "When General Lu just arrived at Yumen Pass to garrison, 'Yinshan Hall' naturally guessed that General Lu was going to inspect it personally, so he didn't play these tricks that time. As for the 'corpses' that General Lu saw at that time, most of them were pretended to be living people, and then they were stolen and replaced with pillars afterwards, and they were exchanged for real corpses in this Yizhuang, which I will explain later. As for the serious illness of General Lu and his entourage at that time, 'Yinshan Tang' only needs to give you some medicine, but it couldn't be easier. ”

When the words fell, the faces of the two Taoist priests of the "Yinshan Hall" had already changed greatly, and they kept shouting: "One group of nonsense! One group of nonsense!" General Lu behind him snorted coldly and said, "Since everyone has already been stolen, what else is there to say?" At that moment, the sergeants who were accompanying him stepped forward one after another, opened the packages on the ground, and suddenly rolled out of the ivory, rhino horn and other rare objects all over the ground. That time, Master Zhou said indignantly: "What a 'Yinshan Hall', pretending to be a ghost like this, it is really to smuggle it away and avoid tariffs!"

The two Taoist priests and the four black-clothed masked men saw that the matter was revealed, and they also recognized General Lu Yuanpo, the commander stationed at Yumen Pass, and they no longer resisted at the moment, and they were arrested one after another. The sergeant took off the veils of the four black-clothed masked men again, and sure enough, they were all Taoist priests of the 'Yinshan Hall', and they could be regarded as old acquaintances of the sergeants. One of the Taoist priests couldn't help but say: "I also ask General Lu to open the net, presumably the generals also know that the meager income from transporting corpses alone is not enough for us to support our families, so I was confused for a while and moved my crooked thoughts." Another Taoist priest next to him snorted coldly and said in a deep voice: "Rare items such as ivory and rhino horn, if they are transported to the Central Plains for sale, they will have to pay 30% of the tax in Lanzhou City, and there will be no profit." Now that the routine inspection of Yumen Pass has to levy an additional tax of 10% on us, if we don't rely on smuggling, where will we still make money?"

Master Zhou couldn't help but say angrily: "Fart! Although there is a routine inspection at Yumen Pass, the tax paid by one percent is voluntary. However, if the caravan was given this tax, the routine inspection of Yumen Pass would be accommodating, often ten catties of goods were written as seven catties of goods, and when they went to Lanzhou City to pay taxes in the future, the officials there would also collect taxes according to the records of Yumen Pass. So according to this calculation, no matter whether the tax paid at Yumen Pass is paid or not, it will be the same on the books in the end, where is the additional tax of your one percent?"

General Na Lu couldn't help glaring at him, and hurriedly smiled at Xian Jingyue next to him: "It's a joke for the first commander, the military salary of this Yumen Pass has always been tight, and the last general has mentioned it to the king of Thailand many times, and the king of Thailand has no other way but to let the last general solve it by himself." Therefore, the tax collected by Yumen Pass is for the purpose of supplementing military salaries, not for the selfish motives of the generals. Xian Jingyue recalled Li Liu's words in the grocery store, and immediately said, "It's okay." ”

Shang Buqi had already gone around in Yizhuang at this time, and suddenly asked Xie Yixiang: "According to your statement, the 'Yinshan Hall' transported twelve corpses tonight, and there should be twelve black-clothed masked people in the team, but why are there only four at the moment?" Xie Yixiang couldn't help laughing: "I have already said that the smuggled things of the 'Yinshan Hall' are probably not only these goods on the ground, but living people. ”