On a moonlit night, except for the four sides of the bright moon, the entire night sky felt as black and heavy as ink.

The drunken fairy building, which had just been turned off, was slightly bright again, but the house that flashed bright light was in the alley between the two houses, not against the street, so many people could not see it.

There were two people in the house, and they were one of the county orders that Xiahou Xue and the people who were questioned in the government during the day. Xiahou Xue said: "This wind is so tight, why do you still want to come here?

The county ordered: "I heard that Pu Mu came alone, without helpers, and ate in your store." ”

"Yes, I don't know what you have to say?" Xiahou Xue said.

The county ordered: "This Zhao Governor will really find a place...... If you want to help me clear my name, it's up to you. ”

Xiahou Xue sneered: "Help you clear your suspicion, and they will suspect me." ”

"Now you and I are still separated?" the county magistrate said.

Xiahou Xue said: "When are we in a gang, you are an official, I am a people." I don't dare climb high-"

"Haha...... You mouth. Then you didn't share it so clearly with you, the official, when I was an official. I remember that on the 10th day of August last year, the autumn was high and the water was turbulent, and the ship that you were waiting for had a problem and capsized on the big lake. If I hadn't helped you send the families of those boatmen, you would have eaten the lawsuit until you died—" the county magistrate said.

Xiahou Xue said: "But afterwards, you asked our Chamber of Commerce for three thousand taels of silver. I have to pay you if I lose money?"

"Don't talk about old accounts now...... Fortunately, your husband has never been exposed when he opened a shop here, otherwise the Ouchi commanders would have taken you and the others away. Now that everyone is in trouble, why bother to fight in the same room? Governor Zhao ordered the food here, and we will have a chance to turn over, and you will be hidden here, and you can also retreat when the time comes——" The county commander said.

"Retreat with your whole body?" Xia Houxue wondered.

The county commander smiled: "You are such a shrewd person, do you still need to explain your words?"

Xiahou Xue didn't reply, and the county order continued: "Governor Zhao ordered a meal for Pu Mu here, if Pu Mu can see the clues in your store, he will suspect Governor Zhao, and I can retreat." He can't take care of two places alone, and when he is dealing with Governor Zhao, you take the opportunity to escape from Xiangyang—"

"Escape from Xiangyang? This Xiangyang City is under martial law, where am I going? You go quickly, it's windy at night, and it's not good to go back and catch a cold later." Xiahou Xue opened the door and said, "Yang County Order, please—"

Yang Xian Ling got up and glared at Xiahou Xue and said, "So you want to help me throw it out?" Then you are not afraid that I will confess you?"

"Please—" Xiahou Snow Road.

Yang Xian Ling angrily walked out of the Drunken Immortal Building, and the Drunken Immortal Building extinguished the lights again.

I saw that Yang Xianling trotted for a while, and he had arrived at the gate of the city. The guard at the city gate recognized him and said, "The little one has seen Yang County Order, I wonder how Yang County Order can go out of the city late at night?"

"Today, the official overslept in the inn of the official post, and when he woke up, he remembered that there was still an urgent official document to be done in the county office, so he had to hurry at night-" Yang County ordered.

The guard said: "Yang County's order also please forgive me for not being able to release it, Zhao Governor has an order, no one is allowed to let go after two o'clock, if you want to be released, you need to get a letter from the government to Zhao Governor's Mansion, and after Zhao Governor's approval, you can go out of the city." ”

"Governor Zhao's Mansion is still in the government at the moment?" asked Yang County Order.

The guard said: "In the past few days, the prefect of Zhao has moved to the government office for a while, and Yang County ordered to go to the government office." ”

Yang County Ling nodded and said, "Thank you so much for the guard brothers, this official will go to the government to ask Governor Zhao." ”

In the government office, as soon as he fell asleep in the morning room of the prefect of Zhao's mansion, a government official came to report and said, "Lord Prefect, there is a county order in front of the court that came at noon to ask for a pass. ”

Governor Zhao was puzzled: "Which county magistrate is it? Why did you come to ask for a pass so late?"

The official replied, "The county magistrate did not sign up, but I have seen this person during the day." ”

"Okay, you go down to watch the night first, I'll go to the public hall to have a look-" Governor Zhao tidied up his clothes, then went out of the guest room, and after passing the back hall, he went to the front public hall.

"It was originally the order of Yang County, why didn't you return to the county during the day?" asked Governor Zhao.

Yang County Commander naturally told the prefect Zhao what he said to the guard, and the prefect Zhao said: "I see, I see, ......" took a pen and paper as he spoke, and opened a permit for passage.

"This official is a little heavy today, I think it's the cold wind on a winter night, and the head wind is offended. If you need a horse to go to the stable, you need a horse—" Governor Zhao handed the paper to Yang County. Yang County ordered to bid farewell to Zhao Zhifu and went to the stable, took the horses and drove the horses quickly. After Governor Zhao returned to the guest room, he thought about it and suddenly realized that this matter was very strange--he overslept during dinner, why should he rush to the night instead of continuing to rest and recuperate and wait until the end of the day? And the county under the jurisdiction of the Yang County Order is not far from Xiangyang City, even if there are official documents that need to be approved, there is no need to rush away--The Zhao Governor's Mansion immediately left the palace, summoned the officials, and said: "Go to the inn to find Master Pu to come--the rest of the hurry to chase after the Yang County Order, don't let him run away-"

The officials replied to the order, and they all turned on the lights, took their sabers, and left the palace.

Governor Zhao had no sleep in the public court, wandering around, anxiously waiting, and sighing for his lack of rigidity. When he was young, Pu Mu was led to the public court by a servant. Seeing this, Governor Zhao immediately stepped forward and explained to Pu Mu in detail what had just happened.

Pu Mu said: "Governor Zhao is waiting in the public court, I'll go and arrest that guy-" After saying that, he tightened the knife lock of the double knife that was tightly matched, and immediately left the palace after tidying up his clothes a little.

It is only said that after the Yang County Commander drove the horse out of the city gate, he walked all the way along the official road, and suddenly felt some noise in front of him, and there were torches jumping, so he abandoned the horse on the official road and hid in the bushes by the roadside. It was only said that a team of people came ahead, and the people on the horse were led by Long Xiangtian.

When the group saw that there were horses standing on the official road, they immediately stopped. Long Xiangtian said: "For no reason, how can there be a horse standing here, and the bridles, saddles, and stirrups are all complete, and it is not a wild horse." You two, go down and find out what this horse is—"

The two people on the left and right replied to the order, dismounted and went to lead the horse, only to see that the saddle of the horse was marked with a mark engraved with "Jingxiang Horse Producer". Seeing this, the two immediately stepped forward to explain to Long Xiangtian. After listening to the words, Long Xiangtian said: "The horses and harness raised by the Jingxiang Horse Prison are all ordered by the Jingxiang Prefecture Government. If a private person buys a horse from the Jingxiang Horse Warden, it must be reported to the household department official for record, and if the horse of the Jingxiang Horse Warden is sold at a high price to a private person, if it is a private horse, how can it be abandoned here?"

A subordinate said: "Could it be that an official went out of the city at night to do errands, and he was in a hurry, so he put the horses on the official road first?"

"No—" Long Xiangtian immediately vetoed the idea of his subordinates, and continued: "First, I heard that Pu Mu has arrived in Xiangyang City to thoroughly investigate the officials, and Xiangyang City has been under martial law, and it is not timely for the official to go out of the city at this time;

As soon as the words fell, the rest of the people were getting off their horses, and at this time, they saw a group of lights moving in front of them, and Long Xiangtian immediately stopped everyone. After a short time, another group of people came to the official road to meet them, and those people were the officials in Xiangyang City, and when they saw this group of people dressed in regular clothes and a horse standing in the official road, they asked: "Where did you come from, why did you go to the official road assembly at night?"

I saw that Long Xiangtian's subordinates on the right showed the token in the army, and said: "Dongting Army is doing business-this is the dragon commander of the Great Interior, we are ordered to investigate the case, and we need to enter the city tonight......" Long Xiangtian stopped the man's words and said: "You are the people from the government office in Xiangyang City, right?"

The officials said, "Exactly...... Precisely...... Meet the Dragon Commander—"

Long Xiangtian motioned to the officials to excuse themselves from courtesy, and said, "You and the Dongting Army will search the mountains and forests on both sides of this official road to see if they can find people-"

All the people received the order and dismounted to search. It is only said that these people put up lanterns and torches, and searched everywhere in the mountains and forests, only to see a sound in the mountains and forests, and said, "There are people in this dry well—"

After Long Xiangtian heard the sound, he immediately led the crowd to the dry well, and the torches were concentrated at the mouth of the well, only to see a person lying at the bottom of the well, face down. Long Xiangtian said: "This person seems to have lost his breath, so he fished him up." ”

The men immediately found ropes, and they were in a hurry for a long time before they fished the man out of the dry well. I saw that the blood on the man's head had coagulated, his face had been blurred, and his limbs had stiffened, and he had been breathing for a long time. "Official uniform? This face was blurred with flesh and blood, and I couldn't tell who it was. Come on, carry it to Xiangyang City first, and wait for dawn to make plans-" Long Xiang Tiandao.

A servant said: "Commander Long, this person thinks it is the Yang County Commander who is wanted by the Xiangyang Mansion." ”

"Yang County Order, you talk about it in detail, and explain the whole thing clearly-" Long Xiang Tiandao.

The official ordered Yang County to flee at night, and the prefect of Zhao sent people to arrest all the things clearly, Long Xiangtian nodded, and said: "Immediately form a team, return to Xiangyang City, I will wait for the night, first in Xiangyang City to rectify the soldiers and horses, and discuss matters in the Yazhong Mansion at dawn." ”

The soldiers all replied to the order, and Long Xiangtian continued to say to the group of officials: "You will carry this person back first, and also, take back the people involved in the case who we have arrested—" Long Xiangtian pointed to the two people who were tied up in the horse team in the rear.

The officials replied, picked up the corpse and put it on their horses, and escorted the two bound men into the ranks. Long Xiangtian continued: "When you return to the city, you must not mention us to anyone, and the city gate has not yet opened, so we will not enter the city first. After dawn, we will enter the city in batches, and I will go to the government to pay a visit, and you have to mention this matter to Pu Mu. ”

The officials all gave the order to get on their horses and drove away one after another. Long Xiangtian and the others were stationed on the side of the road, and he looked up and saw the moon that had moved to the west, and said, "Can the dry well just now be marked?"

The subordinate beside him said, "We have already marked." ”

Long Xiangtian nodded and said, "Send a few good hands to protect this well." There are also flying pigeons and other brothers on the road, entering Xiangyang City in batches. Remember, everyone is subject to the previous order. ”

The subordinate took the order and gave the order to go down.

It was dawning, and the body was placed in the morgue of the mansion. Governor Zhao and Pu Mu are discussing——

"Thanks to Lord Long last night, this person thinks it's Yang County's order. In the dossier recorded by the prefect, it has been said in detail——" Zhao Zhifu said.

Pu Mu nodded, took the file and flipped through it, checked it for a while, and said: "What this test is that he fell into a dry well, and after his head hit the ground, he died of excessive blood loss after bleeding from the cranial cavity, which also recorded that his right leg fell and his right tendon was also slightly stretched. ”

"Heaven has eyes, and cause and effect are reincarnated. When he abandoned his horse and fled, his right foot tripped over a thorn in the mountains and forests beside the road, and then he fell into a well and died. Governor Zhao said.

It's just that this person is unrecognizable, and it is impossible to see whether he is Yang County Commander at this time. Pu Mu said.

While talking, a government official came to report, saying that Long Xiangtian had arrived in the government office. After hearing this, the two immediately went to the public court, and Long Xiangtian saw the two coming, and immediately stepped forward to pay a visit.

Pu Mu said: "Thank you Brother Long last night, Brother Long has shown his skills twice in this case, which really makes Pu admire——"

Long Xiangtian said: "Brother Pu is strategizing, I am just running errands, so Brother Pu doesn't have to be humble." ”

"Both of them are rare good players in the big house, and this time the lower officials have opened the eyes of the lower officials, and the lower officials admire them-" Zhao Zhifu said.

Pu Mu said: "By the way, who are the two people involved in the case that Brother Long asked the officials to escort back to the palace?"

"Both of them were in Lizheng on the banks of the Miluo River, and I passed through the countryside there, and secretly observed that the fishing boats in this village were similar to the transport boats in the Three Gangs of Boats. It was there that I learned that all the people in this village were threatened by the three gangs to hide for them. And those two were the accomplices of the people in the three gangs, and it was the two of them who led those people to the village. The three gangs did not let the fishermen of the village do anything, but only gave them houses to live in, and let them fish with the villagers. When I arrived, the gang was no longer in the village, and went to fish in the Miluo River with the fishermen. But the fishing boats were not all out of the river, and I always thought that the fishing boat was suspicious, so I sneaked into the house and found this-" Long Xiangtian took out a silver ticket from his pocket.

"This silver ticket is ......," Pu Mu wondered.

Long Xiangtian continued: "The silver ticket of the Wynn Ticket Bank. And there are 1,000 taels, and the monthly payment for one is only one or two halves, where does this 1,000 taels of silver come from? Sure enough, in the evening, when the fishermen came back, some people said bad things about the place, and I realized that it was the benefit of this place, so that the people of the three gangs came to live here. At night, the fishermen were allowed to take the group's fishing boats to deliver food to some beaches in the Miluo River, and during the day, the group hid in the fishermen's fishing boats. ”

Pu Mu said: "Using their fishing boats is tantamount to estimating time, first, their fishing boats are easy to identify by themselves, and there are many boats, and the styles of the boats are complicated, they think that we are afraid that they will not be able to find out, if it is not for Brother Long's keenness, I am afraid that they will escape; second, even if the government finds out at night, the first to detain the villagers are the villagers, and they will have time to make countermeasures; third, during the day, they disguise themselves, except for the leaders of the five lakes and three gangs, we can't recognize a few people. ”

Governor Zhao sighed: "It is a dereliction of duty for the lower officials to hide such thieves in the place under the jurisdiction of the lower officials...... Please forgive me—"

"These five lakes and three gangs are doing legitimate business on the surface, Zhao Governor's Mansion is the most evidence-oriented on weekdays, and he is familiar with the laws of the imperial court, and these people are also determined to be adults, even if there are some bad deeds, they will already destroy the evidence, and the county orders in the counties under the jurisdiction of the adults also secretly collude with them, and it is difficult for adults to investigate. Pu Mu said.

Governor Zhao said: "What the adults said is extremely true, but this is to say that the sky is broken, and the lower officials cannot escape the blame." ”

Pu still needs to inform Governor Zhao, Governor Zhao is a bit conformist on weekdays, and it will be difficult to deal with these people if they are always in the rules. Pu Mu said.

Governor Zhao said: "Thank you Lord Pu for mentioning it, keep in mind that the lower officials will definitely be rectified into the way of officials." ”

Long Xiangtian said: "Governor Zhao doesn't have to be like this, you have been an official here for many years, remember the laws of the imperial court, and be honest and upright." However, there is no perfect person in the world, and since Zhao Zhifu is already such a character, he will pay a little attention in the future, why do you need to say that you want to rectify such words. ”

Pu Mu looked at Long Xiangtian and said, "That's right, Brother Long." Have all your soldiers gone into the city?"

"I told them to go into the city in disguises so that they would not be suspected. In this city, I think there are still people from the Five Lakes and Three Gangs...... "Long Xiang Heavenly Dao."

Pu Mu didn't reply, and said: "Brother Long came from afar, I think I'm hungry, why don't I ask Brother Long to go to the Drunken Immortal Building to talk about it, just so I'll talk about the progress of the case in the past few days." Governor Zhao, please also sit in the government office, if there is anything abnormal, report to us in time. ”

Governor Zhao replied to the order, and the two of them went out of the mansion together, and after getting on the horse, they went straight to the Drunken Immortal Tower, and immediately the conversation between the two did not decrease-

"This Governor Zhao, can you talk to him about anything?" asked Long Xiangtian.

Pu Mu said: "There is no need to doubt this person, he is an honest person." ”

"The place you went with me must be the place where you suspect that there are people from the Five Lakes and Three Gangs, right?" he continued.

Pu Mu said: "When I was having dinner here that day, someone was drugged in this meal, but the amount of the drug was only a small amount, but there was no drug at dinner. ”

Long Xiangtian said: "I think this meal was ordered by Governor Zhao—"

Pu Mu nodded, and the two dismounted. Long Xiangtian said in front of the store: "Then the suspicion of this person has not been ruled out-" After that, he entered the store and said nothing.

Xiao Er saw that Pu Mu came earlier than yesterday when he came today, and there was still a person, so he stepped forward and asked, "The official came too early today, and I haven't made lunch with the official yet, and this official was also introduced by Lord Zhao?"

Pu Mu took out a piece of silver and said, "Little brother, today I invited my brother to come here for dinner, and I didn't eat the lunch ordered by Governor Zhao." I also asked the little brother to let the kitchen prepare a table of good dishes and a pot of good wine for us. ”

"Okay, the guest officer upstairs, please, it's still the same place—come, pour tea for the guest officer—" The little two said.

The two runners led Pu Mu and Long Xiangtian into the room together, and the running hall poured tea for the two and went out to wait.

As soon as the door closed, the two began to talk about the sky, and Xiao Er was called upstairs by the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper said, "I'll serve the food later, press this, and talk according to this-" After that, the shopkeeper stuffed a piece of letter paper into the hand of the little two.

When Xiao Er heard this, he immediately nodded and went downstairs, put the letter paper in his pocket, and continued to greet the guests.

only said that the two people in the room were talking, but they were talking about some ups and downs and parents. A runner immediately went upstairs, and the people in the upstairs room were Xiahou Xue and Yang County Commander - last night's Yang County Order did not die in the dry well.

The runner told the two of them what he said, and Xiahou Xue said: "Come to me to talk about this, I think it's just for me to relax my vigilance." You go down and keep an eye on it, and then come up and talk to me about it. ”

Yang County ordered: "I see that you overestimate them, yesterday I waited for this 'golden cicada to come out of the shell', and they all fell for it." You also said that Pu Mu would visit your drunken immortal building at night, and what was the result?

Xiahou Xue sneered: "If it weren't for the people from my Iron Leopard Village to take your hand, you would still make this 'golden cicada shell'?"

The two were still talking, the picture turned to the second floor, Long Xiang Angel wrapped the snake body and lay on the room board to listen to the words of the two, Pu Mu dipped his fingers in the tea, and wrote on the table full of words on the two: "Strategy.