Chapter 475 Whispering Secrets Exploring the Ancient Road Lane
The hidden pile in the tea shop is a real family, so it looks flawless. Those who are old read the world, their hearts are like stones, and they find themselves approached by their opponents, and before they can be knocked down, they have already bitten the poison to pieces, and they have been killed in an instant.
And the young couple, who are only eighteen or nineteen years old, have just had their own children for less than two years, and they are still greedy for this family affection, and they can't bear to abandon their own flesh and blood like this. At this moment's momentary hesitation, his jaw has been removed, and he can no longer commit suicide by swallowing poison.
Xu Fei couldn't help but feel unbearable when he saw the tragic situation in this courtyard, but this is not a place to stay for a long time. Immediately, the brothers in the door came in and carried out the living and dead bodies. Lock the gate of the teahouse and retreat to Centipede Street.
By the time Xu flew to Centipede Street, Lin Shiyin had already begun to interrogate the thieves captured by the other four strongholds, and according to the confession, the thieves in each stronghold came in the same carriage, and the carriages described were all similar, all of them were airtight, only ventilated carriages.
Asked if they heard the bell, everyone said they had heard it, and Lin Shiyin asked in detail about the time when the carriage came to greet him, how long he had been in the carriage, the approximate time when he heard the sound, and even used a small clock to simulate the sound of the bell, so that these people could say the most similar volume.
By the time all four of these people had been asked, the area on the topographic map of Kyoto became smaller and more precise, and finally the area was determined within four or five blocks. Kyoto is divided into straight streets from north to south and east to west, so it is extremely easy to divide the area.
However, even four or five blocks are a very large area, not to mention that these blocks are all within the territory controlled by the Supreme Gate. Although Zhou Xiongqi was able to come and go freely with the help of officers and soldiers, the forces in the rivers and lakes did not have this convenience, and it was very difficult to carefully inspect these neighborhoods.
At this time, the good news came, and after Zhou Xiongqi's military horses cleared the stronghold of the traitorous party, they did not retreat immediately, but searched everywhere in the capital to find something. Not only the territory of the Supreme Gate, but also the territory of the Jiangnan Yanyu Building, which made the market a miasma.
However, Chu Jinghong and the hall masters all felt relieved.
There is no need to ask, Zhou Xiongqi is now looking for the exit of the secret passage with great fanfare, although such a fuss is tantamount to telling the traitorous party that there is a secret passage. However, it is no longer too late to secretly investigate this situation, and if we cannot block this opening for troop transportation as quickly as possible, Kyoto will fall into an extremely dangerous situation.
The search was busy until the evening, and although some officers and soldiers were still searching with pine torches, most of them had already returned to the barracks. It seems that this secret passage exit is extremely secretive, and the army horses have been busy for a day in vain.
If the officers and soldiers were so vicious that they could not find the entrance to the secret passage in a blatant search, it would be even more difficult to find them during their own covert investigation under the attack of the Supreme Gate. couldn't help but feel worried, but at this moment, there was good news from Lin Shiyin's side.
Although Xu Fei only caught two eighteen or nineteen young couples and a two-year-old child, the most important clues were obtained from these people. After all, they are still young and have their own children who can't be separated, so the young couple is extremely cooperative.
What's more important is that the dark piles in this tea shop turned out to be skilled craftsmen, but because of the chance to synthesize the subordinates of the Supreme Gate, because they have no strength and ability, it is not easy to expose the hidden treasures, so this time everyone issued a treasure syringe to protect themselves.
The task of this family is to take advantage of their own characteristics that are easy to disguise their identity, and in this tea house, they will restore such treasures as syringes, so that they can be used in rebellion, and the hidden weapons such as these repairs are placed in the cellar of the tea house.
Because they are all skilled craftsmen, many utensils are extremely proficient under the bypass, so when I took the iron carriage into the capital, I noticed the strange sound of the carriage. According to the young couple, there was something wrong with the axle of the carriage, and the right side of the carriage was very worn.
And this sound of wear and tear is mostly due to the fact that the track is often turned to one side, so that under frequent use, because of the frequent steering to one side, the axle will wear unevenly. These are all professional habits, which are nothing, but it is this inadvertent attention that gives Lin Shiyin a great hint.
The young couple said that the carriage ran in a circle to the right all the way, which was in line with the inference that it went around the south of the city to the west gate of Kyoto, and that it was natural to go out of the city directly from the south gate, so there was no need to hide people's eyes. So the carriage has always been a path that goes around in circles in one direction.
There is a long path and the sound of the axle wearing becomes dull and strange, presumably because of the passage in the secret passage. Then, when the sound of wear and tear returned to normal, it was already on the ground. Soon after, the bell was heard, and it seemed that the traitors used horse-drawn carriages to transport men at a fixed hour in the middle of the night.
After stringing together this information, it is possible to determine the relationship between the exit of the secret passage and the location of the bell tower when the sound of the axle wears and when the bell is heard. This inquiry took most of the day, and the small bell that simulated the sound of the bell did not know how long it took, and Lin Shiyin finally narrowed the scope of the secret passage to two blocks.
And these two blocks have been searched by Zhou Xiongqi's soldiers during the day, in fact, not to mention these two places, Kyoto has basically been turned over by the forbidden army, but Lin Shiyin is more sure that the secret passage is within these two blocks, because these two places are extremely special.
Qin Junbai's mansion is located within these two blocks.
No matter how arrogant Zhou Xiongqi's forbidden army was, how dare Qin Junbai's mansion go over to search. Moreover, the entrance to the secret passage, which can be entered and exited by such a huge carriage, must be an extremely wide position, if it were in an ordinary market, it should have been discovered in the past forty years.
Since it has not been discovered, it is now possible to enter and exit the carriage freely without being discovered, and this entrance is only possible in a closed courtyard, and only then can it be possible to go without being discovered for decades, and only in this way can the carriage be freely entered and exited without being discovered.
If it is a carriage driving out of the ordinary people's house, it is really eye-catching, but what kind of mansion is Qin Junbai, even if it is a ten-horse carriage, it is also a reasonable thing, not to mention that because it is the Taishi Mansion, there are no idle people in the surrounding blocks, which is convenient for the carriage to enter and exit.
Lin Shiyin told his inference to the brothers, and everyone felt that it was reasonable, and the inference was so intriguing that it was impossible to refute it, but although it deduced an entrance to the secret passage, everyone was not happy, after all, this Taishi Mansion was not easy to enter, let alone enter the exploration and inspection.
And the entrance of the other place did not have any clues to provide, how to detect it in a very short time in the vast area south of the city, Chu Jinghong on the one hand according to the thieves who were caught confessed that the carriage was an extremely heavy iron carriage, and sent out the eyeliner to find out if there were any abnormal ruts. On the other hand, focus on the investigation of the Taishi Mansion.
Lin Shiyin pondered for a long time, and said his judgment, these thousands of people used this special carriage to transport, must have walked on the same route many times, even if the back of the car dragged branches to clean up the traces, I am afraid that there will be some clues, as long as you find the ruts and follow the vines, maybe you can find the location where the thieves entered the ground on the west side of the city gate.
The other is to infiltrate the Taishi's Mansion, find the entrance to this secret passage, and then sneak into it, and destroy it to block the passage, so that the traitor party has no way to secretly dispatch people. It's just that the Taishi Mansion is in the hinterland of the Supreme Gate, and Qin Junbai is guarded by the master of the "Linglong Stone". It's too dangerous.
How to choose these two paths, let the heroes be difficult, the Taishi Mansion is not as good as the Azure Flower Cannon Factory, there are many masters, and the royal secret passage must be very secretive, otherwise the traitor party will not have just discovered and used it recently, if you want to sneak in to find the entrance, it is really difficult for the Mo family master who does not understand the mechanism.
Xu Fei had an idea after listening.
"If you want my brother, I will say, Sister Xia Aiqing and I will visit the Taishi's Mansion at night, and Brother Lin Shiyin will definitely be able to do it when we go to touch the ruts. ”
Chu Jinghong didn't say a word.
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