The post house set up in Daxia follows the old site "pavilion" system, and improves it on its basis, with a post set up in 30 miles and a hall in 100 miles, which is mainly used for information transmission. According to the record of the "General Dictionary" of Great Xia, there are 1,639 posts and 549 pavilions in the whole territory of Great Xia.

However, if it is managed according to the system of 100 miles, there should be 546 pavilions, and for some reason there are three more post houses, namely the Ma Wei Post House in Bingzhou, the Xijing Post House in Beiwu Prefecture, and the Liantang Post House where Qiu Ye and others stayed at this time.

Liantang Station existed before the founding of the Great Xia, according to legend, the ancestor of the opera artist had passed by this place when he was down, stayed in the Liantang Post House, felt the beautiful scenery here and composed a poem here.

"The lotus leaves have fallen for a long time, and the forest pond is not what it used to be.

The stars come to the court, and the moon is along the eaves. ”

Qiu Ye, Wu Bao, Yang Shiqi and others happened to be in a pre-Qin architectural style tower on the bank of the Liantang described in the poem at this moment. Except for the civet who had a bad face and had gone back to the room to rest, the big marmot who was responsible for guarding the door for the civet did not follow, and the rest such as Qiao Zongshen and his "embroidered clothes Zhizhi" and Liantang Yicheng also came to this tower together.

The tower is five stories tall and is unique among the many inns in Great Xia. It is said that this tower existed before the establishment of the Liantang Post House, because it is five stories high, it is a good place to climb high and enjoy the scenery, so it attracts a lot of literati and ink writers to come here to enjoy the scenery and make endowments. That's it.

Everyone went up to the second floor together, only to see that the inside of the tower looked much more spacious than the outside, there were already several white-robed soldiers standing in the tower, and a leading white-robed soldier saw Wu Bao coming, raised one arm and gave a military salute and said: "General Wu, just now it was time to be on duty, it was supposed to be Xiao Qi's group on duty, but I didn't see a few of them, and my subordinates sent people to look for them, and the bodies of the three of them were found here." ”

As he spoke, the leading white-robed man glanced into the middle of the building. Everyone looked over, and there were three corpses lying there!

The three corpses all fell to the ground on their backs, their upper bodies were naked, and there were bloody wounds on their chests, and the most bizarre thing was that the three of them all had smiles on the corners of their mouths, which made people feel indescribably weird. I felt that when the three of them were killed, they were all extremely happy and proud.

Looking at the smiles on the faces of the three corpses, although there was no breeze in the building at the moment, a chill continued to rise in Qiu Ye's back. The rest of the room felt the same way.

In this Liantang Post House, there are white-robed soldiers inside and out, who would risk killing three people, and without alarming anyone, these three people died so weirdly!

Looking at the corpse on the ground, Wu Bao's eyes were cold, the one hundred and hundred white-robed soldiers he brought out this time were the elite of the carefully selected elite, who could kill three people quietly in front of many masters?

Thinking of this, Wu Bao looked at Qiao Zongshen beside him coldly, then turned his head to look at Yang Shiqi beside him, and said in a low voice: "Mr. Yang, what do you think?"

Yang Shiqi didn't seem to hear Wu Bao's question beside him, just holding a fan in one hand and wrapping the other hand on his chest, his eyebrows locked, staring at the three corpses in front of him, and tapping his chin with the handle of the fan from time to time.

In addition to the duties of letter investigation and supervision, there is actually no shortage of good people who investigate cases. Qiao Zongshen took out a square handkerchief to cover his mouth and nose, untied the short knife on his waist with the other hand, ignored Wu Bao and the others, and squatted in front of the three corpses to check on himself.

Wu Bao saw Qiao Zongshen squatting on the ground and pulling the three corpses left and right with a short knife, he was slightly annoyed in his heart, and said coldly: "Lord Qiao, this examination of the corpse was originally a fake thing, but I didn't expect Lord Qiao to be good at this?" Wu Bao was not angry in his heart, and there was mockery in his words.

Qiao Zongshen didn't seem to hear the ridicule in Wu Bao's mouth, and smiled and asked the leading white-robed soldier beside him, "Are you familiar with these three people?"

The white-robed soldier in the lead, hearing Qiao Zongshen's inquiry, did not answer, but looked at Wu Bao beside him. After all, Wu Bao is the direct leader of this white-robed soldier, and everyone here knows that Wu Bao and this "embroidered clothes" Master Qiao have many and discords, and there are some grievances. At this moment, if the other party asked, if Wu Bao didn't speak, he wouldn't dare to answer no matter what.

Although the white-robed warrior is one of the few elite divisions in the world under the throne of Shu, it is only above the battle array, if it is said that it is not good to fight alone, investigate and handle cases. Wu Bao nodded helplessly at the leading white-robed soldier, who was instructed before he replied: "These three people are all newly elected to the white-robed soldiers, and these three people are all three brothers from the same village who came to Zhixiushui Village, all surnamed Ruan, and they used to make a living by fishing in the village. After entering the white-robed warrior through the competition, the leader of the team is called Ruan Xiaoqi, we are usually used to calling him Xiaoqi, and the other two are slightly younger than him, namely Ruan Xiaojiu and Ruan Xiaoshi. ”

After hearing this, Qiao Zong stared at the corpse, and said with a slightly confused expression: "Are you sure that these three people made a living by fishing before enlisting in the army?"

Seeing that he was questioned, the leading white-robed soldier was a little annoyed in his heart, and stared at Qiao Zongshen with blazing eyes: "It's true, the white-robed soldier recruitment and screening is very strict, and the livelihood status of these three people before enlisting in the army is also checked by a special person, and there will be no mistakes." ”

Without waiting for Qiao Zongshen to reply, Yang Shiqi, who had been silent next to him, suddenly spoke: "If it is a fisherman who fishes in the river all the year round, there will be a special stain on the side of his mouth, that is, rust, but seeing these three people, only two of them have obvious rust on their faces, and the other person has a dark face but no rust, obviously this person is not one of the three brothers, so who is he?"

"The shape of the deceased's chest was apparently caused by a stab in the heart with a short knife that was extremely fast and extremely sharp. Of all the people present, only mine is equipped with such daggers. Qiao Zongshen, who was interrupted by Yang Shiqi, was not annoyed, still smiling and glancing at everyone present, and finally looked at Wu Bao, his eyes playful: "It seems that there are some discordant voices among us, wanting to provoke us to start infighting, some people don't want us to go there, Lord Wu, what do you think?"

Wu Bao also looked at Qiao Zongshen staring at him, but did not answer, his eyes were dark, and he didn't know what he was thinking?

Suddenly, Wu Bao pulled out a short knife from the waist of an "embroidered clothes straight finger", and by the time the "embroidered clothes straight finger" reacted, Wu Bao had already held the short knife in front of the corpse, and after a while, "Lord Qiao, what you said is right, if it is a short knife of normal length, it will never pierce a wound at this angle." The wounds on the chests of these three men were indeed killed by a single blow from a short knife. ”

"But the fatal cause of death of the corpse was not caused by this short knife!"