17 He rode south to chase the murderer

Thinking of that words, Xie Yixiang immediately gritted her teeth, eager to break this person's body into thousands of pieces, dig out one of his black hearts like this "human kitchen" and cook it. You must know that at the end of last year, the "corpse army" bypassed the garrison of King Weiyi of Ningxia and quietly sneaked into the Central Plains, in a vain attempt to sneak attack Jinling and subvert the dynasty in one fell swoop. If it weren't for this, how could my father call the soldiers of the "Piloting Battalion" guarding the imperial city to ambush the emperor without authorization, so as to settle the truth with the emperor and finally lead to death?

And my father had told him a thousand times before that night, telling him not to hold a grudge against the emperor, let alone have any revenge. Although Xie Yixiang still can't understand this, she can't disobey her father's deathbed instructions, so she can only bury this hatred deep in her heart, and the whole person is even more decadent because of this, and she can only live in fear. After thinking about it for several months, although the direct murderer of his father was the emperor who sent a steamed goose on Chinese New Year's Eve, the cause of the whole thing was always that Yan Sidao, who was the real murderer of his father.

Unexpectedly, because of Sister Yue's kindness, he stayed away from Jinling City in the name of investigating the case and came to Shaoxing to investigate this "human kitchen case", but in the end he had something to do with that Yan Sidao. For a while, Xie Yixiang was already extremely angry, and her mind was even more confused, where could she care about reasoning and verification? She immediately stomped her foot violently, and immediately led people to the south to chase Ning Yi and arrest the old man and the young man who had passed through Dongyang Pass three days ago.

Yang Zhutou and the others didn't know why this Miss Xie San suddenly became angry, and they couldn't ask the reason, so they could only persuade each other, saying that there are many people with the same appearance in this world, and no matter how clever the painting skills are, they can only outline a person's demeanor at most, and cannot accurately depict the appearance; Therefore, the old and young who passed through Dongyang Pass three days ago, the girl among them may not be the missing daughter of Butcher Li, and it is necessary to confirm the matter from a long-term perspective, so it is better to wait for two more days to see if there are any new discoveries in other places except Dongyang Pass in the south of Zhuji.

But at this time, where could Xie Yixiang still listen to persuasion? Seeing everyone's posture, it was clear that she was looking for an excuse to delay, and refused to go to Ningyi with her, and she didn't bother to pay attention to it at the moment, so she went back to the house to pack her bags, and then left the Shaoxing Mansion Yamen alone. Who knew that out of the yamen, she had just stepped on her horse, but Yang Zhutou chased after her alone, stretched out her hand to grab Xie Yixiang's reins, and persuaded: "Miss Xie San, don't act rashly, this ...... This one...... In fact, it's not that we are lazy and unwilling to go to Ningyi with you to investigate, but ...... But...... The Ningyi City in the south is really impossible to go to right now!"

Hearing Yang Zhutou's words, Xie Yixiang calmed down a little, frowned and said: "I have also broken through the sword mountain and the sea of fire, and there is only one Ningyi City, why can't I go? Since you don't want to go with you, then just stay in Shaoxing, and don't stop me from going." With one knife per person, it is enough to arrest that guy!" Yang Zhutou still refused to let go of her horse's reins, sighed to himself, and finally told Xie Yixiang the reason.

Originally, this Ningyi city in the south, located in the south of Jinyun and the east of Lishui, is just at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, which can be described as the gateway of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the throat of Fujian, and is undoubtedly a strategic place for soldiers to fight. Since King Heng rebelled, he has been eyeing this Ningyi City and wants to take it into his pocket. Unexpectedly, Lord Fang Tieyi, the prefect of Ningyi, was really loyal to the imperial court, no matter how King Heng's rebels lobbied, even if he brought in gold and silver mountains and made a promise to divide the territory and seal the territory, this Lord Fang was also unswerving, and refused to lead the city to surrender if he said anything. For this reason, King Heng even sent a large army to besiege the city, trying to force this Lord Fang to surrender, but in the end he returned in vain.

At the beginning of this year, the rebels under the command of King Heng withdrew from Jiangsu and Zhejiang on all fronts, and all of them retreated to Fujian, wanting to fight the imperial court for a long time. So at the beginning of this month, it is said that King Heng has sent an army of 30,000 to surround Ningyi City in three layers, and he will force the prefect to admit defeat and surrender and surrender and hand over the city. The besieging rebels pursued the principle of "only entering but not leaving", that is, outsiders could enter the city as usual, but once they entered the city of Ningyi, they could no longer leave the city; if the people in the city dared to step out of the city gate, they would immediately be shot back by the rebels besieging the city.

Because of this, Dongyang Pass, which is located in the south of Zhuji, will strictly check the passers-by, especially the pedestrians from Jinyun, Ningyi and Lishui, and must be repeatedly interrogated and searched to find out whether they are spies sent by the rebels of King Heng. For pedestrians heading south, they will tell them about the current situation in Ningyi City, and tell them to choose other routes to avoid Ningyi City. Three days ago, when the old man and the young man passed through Dongyang Pass, they claimed that they were going to visit relatives in Ningyi City, and no matter how persuaded the sergeant guarding the pass, he also insisted on going, which naturally left a deep impression on the sergeant guarding the pass, and at the same time recorded the names of the two in the book.

Therefore, for the current situation in Ningyi City in the south, even if Yang Zhutou summoned all the arresters, commissioners and officials of Shaoxing to go with Xie Yixiang, it was actually useless; I was afraid that before everyone entered Ningyi City, they would be stopped by the 30,000 rebels besieging the city under the command of King Heng, and even killed everyone on the spot. Yang Zhutou is just a small head catcher in the yamen of Shaoxing Mansion, how can he lead everyone to take this risk?

Hearing this, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked, "King Heng's rebels are besieging the city, is the imperial court ignoring it?" Yang Zhutou sighed: "The general trend of the world today, everyone sees it, the only little force in the south of the Yangtze River has already been transferred to Tongling, Xuancheng and Huzhou to garrison and guard the Jinling Imperial City; Don't be a troubled person, Miss Xie San, I know that you have a lot of ability, but you still listen to my Yang Jude's advice, those of us who should be arrested quickly, can only solve a few cases and catch a few murderers in the Taiping World, like Ningyi, a war-torn place is not a place where we should go. ”

Xie Yixiang couldn't help but say in a deep voice: "The war in Mobei continues, and there are disputes in the Western Regions, coupled with the rebellion of King Heng and the rampant Japanese Bandits, what has become of the world? It seems that the one enshrined in the court is really a good emperor!" Since this case was very likely to be related to that Yan Sidao, Xie Yixiang didn't care about anything else for a while, and immediately reached out of his hand and slapped Yang Zhutou's arm heavily, making him let go of his horse's reins. Then Xie Yixiang rode his horse and whipped up, and went straight to the south, but he wanted to ride alone to the Ningyi City to inquire.