Situ Qiao looked carefully, and although Li Qiufeng's face was yellow, he recognized it. Situ Qiao has an eccentric temperament, and has always been arrogant and rampant, except for a little respect for Liu Yong, the star-picking swordsman of the Huashan faction, he doesn't even pay attention to the heads of major martial arts gangs such as Kunlun, Emei, and Qingcheng. In the cave under the Hutou Rock, he turned his face with Lin Yilang, the head of the Songshan faction, and Deng Yao, the leader of the beggar gang, after a disagreement, and finally broke out in infighting, almost causing everyone to die in the bottomless abyss. It's just that although Situ Qiao has no one in his eyes, he is afraid of Li Qiufeng, knowing that this person is ruthless, ruthless, and cunning, unlike Liu Yong and others, who have a self-respecting identity and act above board. It is because when he was in Hutou Rock, he was extremely jealous of this person. He sneaked into the mound, originally thinking that the gods were unaware, but Li Qiufeng suddenly appeared, frightened him into a ghost, and thought to himself: "Oh no, why did this kid come with him?" Could it be that the second child of Guan really became a god after death as in the legend, and wanted this kid to do bad things for Lao Tzu?!"

Li Qiufeng was attacked in the corridor, and he had already discovered that the enemy's martial arts were extremely high, and he broke into the stone chamber and fired copper coins in mid-air, and he didn't think that he could kill the enemy with this hidden weapon, but he just wanted to delay the enemy's pursuit and buy time to calmly face the enemy. It's just that he didn't expect that there was more than one enemy, and he could fall to the ground, and four people had rushed in from the corridor, holding swords and swords, and surrounded themselves in the middle.

I only heard the leader of the man say in a deep voice: "Sure enough, someone is fighting the idea of Emperor Guan's mausoleum." Okay, since you have taken a photo, you don't have to hide it, and it can be regarded as a hero's act if you report your name!"

Only then did Li Qiufeng realize that the person who spoke was wearing a black gauze official hat, with a feather tail on the hat, wearing dark soft armor on the outside, and a robe, and a robe, which turned out to be the dress of the head of the state and county fast catching team. This man was in his thirties, his face was dark, and he was quite rude. It's just that only the oil lamp on the stone wall is bright in the stone room, after all, it is still a little dim, so this person looks gloomy and uncertain, which is quite weird. Although the other three were also dressed in fast clothes, they were only lower in grade than that team.

Li Qiufeng has been in Jinyiwei for five years, and he is extremely familiar with the costumes of officials at all levels in the Ming Dynasty. Since the founding of Taizu, the criminal department has been responsible for the investigation and arrest. The official of the Criminal Department who is responsible for investigating and pursuing the criminal is the chief arrester of the Criminal Department, and there are generally five to eight people, who are five-rank officials. It's just that most of the criminal department has jurisdiction over civilian cases, and then the cases of arresting officials are handled by the chief arrester of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Each province also has two chief arresters under the jurisdiction of the procuratorial department, although they are also five-rank officials, but their status is lower than that of the chief arrester of the criminal department and the chief arrester of the metropolitan procuratorate. And each governor's yamen has a head catcher, the number of people is uncertain, and it is a sixth-rank or seventh-rank official. According to the chief head catcher of the Yamen of the Inspectorate and the head catcher of the Governor Yamen, they generally do not investigate the case, but are only responsible for the ceremonial staff and guards of the ministers when they travel. However, the real responsible for the investigation and arrest of the criminals in various localities are the heads of the prefect's yamen and the heads of the county yamen. The head catcher of the prefect's yamen is six or seven grades, and is responsible for the security, investigation, and arrest of the state capital. The head catcher of the county yamen is seven to nine grades, and is in charge of the public security, investigation, and arrest of a county. Li Qiufeng saw the costume of the person who spoke, and immediately recognized that he was wearing the official uniform of the prefect's yamen head catcher, and the other three were eight-rank officials judging from their clothes, and they thought they were deputy squad leaders. Under the Ming official system, ordinary catchers are only allowed to hold an iron ruler and are not allowed to carry swords. Among the four people, the one who spoke was holding a long sword, and the other three were holding steel knives, and their status was naturally much higher than that of ordinary catchers.

Li Qiufeng said: "Are you from Luoyang Mansion?"

Seeing that Li Qiufeng did not answer his question, but asked about his origin, the person who spoke showed uncertainty on his face, snorted, and said: "The law of the Ming Dynasty, tomb robbers are punished with death! This official can kill you on the spot." It's just that God has the virtue of a good life, if you are honest and obedient, when we go back to report to the prefect, we can intercede for you, and maybe there is a glimmer of life......"

The other three held steel knives on one side, echoed the voice, and made threatening words, asking the strong autumn wind not to resist and surrender immediately. Li Qiufeng looked at the person who spoke, and said, "Dare to ask this official's surname?"

The man saw that Li Qiufeng was neither arrogant nor humble, although he was under siege, he was not afraid, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart. He thought for a moment, and then said: "This official is Fan Tong, the head catcher of the Yamen of Luoyang Mansion. ”

Li Qiufeng let out an "oh" and said, "It turned out to be Fan Zhutou, disrespectful, disrespectful." ”

After he finished speaking, he took out the waist card of Jinyiwei from his arms, held it in front of Fan Tong, and said in a deep voice: "Since Fan Zhutou is also a person in the officialdom, he naturally knows this waist card?"

Fan Tong held the long sword in his right hand, carefully looked at the brand in Li Qiufeng's hand, and when he saw the three words "Jinyiwei", his face immediately changed. He glanced up at Li Qiufeng, as if he couldn't believe it. Li Qiufeng smiled slightly and said, "Fan Zhutou, you can take this waist card over and check it carefully to see if it's fake." ”

Since Emperor Taizu established the Jinyi Guard, there has been an imperial license, and when handling cases, all the official offices and yamen in the world must give convenience. Although Emperor Taizu once withdrew the right of Jinyiwei to handle the case, it was only after Emperor Chengzu ascended the throne that in order to deal with the remnants of Emperor Jianwen, he re-gave Jinyiwei the right to investigate and torture, and the power was even more arrogant. It was the arrest of the criminal department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the provincial inspection department, the prefecture, the government, and the county yamen who heard the name of Jinyiwei, and they were all frightened, for fear that one would accidentally provoke these emperors' pro-army and be played by them.

This Fan Tong has been a head catcher in Luoyang Mansion for many years, so he naturally knows how powerful Jinyiwei is. At this time, facing the waist card handed over by Li Qiufeng, he hesitated and didn't know whether he should take it. If he takes it, if this person is really Jinyiwei, he will inevitably offend the other party. If you don't answer, you don't know if he's true or not. If this person is a tomb robber, he pretends to be a brocade guard to commit the crime. In the future, when the case was discovered, he committed the great crime of "ignoring mediocrity and allowing the criminals to escape". After thinking about it, Fan Tong looked embarrassed, looked at the waist card in Li Qiufeng's hand, but didn't know whether he should take it for a while.

Li Qiufeng naturally knew his thoughts, smiled slightly, took a step forward, stuffed the waist card into Fan Tong's left hand, and said, "Fan Zhutou, you don't have to worry." We are all public people, and I still understand the rules. If we change places, Fan Zhutou's waist card, I must check. ”

When Fan Tong heard him say this, he was a little relieved, and took the waist card in front of him to take a closer look. After he looked at the front, he turned over the waist card again, but the back was engraved with Li Qiufeng's official title. Fan Tong didn't expect that the person in front of him was only in his twenties, and he was already a hundred households, so he hurriedly and respectfully handed the waist card back to Li Qiufeng, and said: "It turned out to be a hundred households, and the lower officials have offended a lot, and I hope that the adults Haihan." ”

Li Qiufeng took the waist card and put it back in his arms, and said with a smile: "Fan Zhutou's responsibility is to be so careful, but it should be." This official was ordered by Xu Ying, the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, to go to Luoyang Mansion on a business trip. Because the matter is confidential, I didn't inform your mansion in advance, and I don't want to misunderstand, so don't worry about it. ”

Fan Tong didn't even dare to say that the three deputy catchers under him knew that the person in front of him was Jinyiwei, and they were also afraid, so they had to stand aside tremblingly, accompanied by a smiling face, for fear of annoying Jinyiwei, and a catastrophe would inevitably come.

Li Qiufeng said: "Where did Fan Zhutou get the news that there are thieves in the Temple of Emperor Guan Shengjun?"

Fan Tong put his sword into the sheath and said in a deep voice: "I want to teach the hundred households to know that the people came to report the day before yesterday that a large tomb in the west of the city was stolen. Governor Han sent an official document asking us to solve the case quickly. In the past two days, everyone has been running around, and finally has some eyebrows, and found out that the suspect lives in the City God Temple in the east city of Luoyang. Last night we surrounded the City God Temple, but the suspect was cunning and actually escaped for him. We chased him all night, but we couldn't find his whereabouts. Around noon today, the historians in the city sent people to the prefect's yamen to report the case, saying that the eldest young master of the historian family had been killed. The Shi family is a big family in Luoyang, and the patriarch Shi Nianhao is the head of the Shi family's knife, and his martial arts are very good. In the past two days, we have arrested suspects everywhere, and we have also sent documents to some Jianghu sects in Luoyang City, asking them to assist in arresting suspects. Shi Nianhao sent his eldest son Shi Tianbao to lead people to assist in the case. Shi Tianbao led people from Luoyang City to the Shengjun Temple of Emperor Guan, but he had a dirty relationship with the Thunder Fist Sect entrenched outside Luoyang City. I heard that the fourth master of the Thunder Fist Sect killed Shi Tianbao, and in order to avenge Shi Tianbao, the Shi family killed Yang Xiao, the only son of Yang Ziqiao, the head of the Thunder Fist Sect. The power of these two sects is not small, and if such a big thing happens, the two factions must fight. Han Zhifu was afraid of chaos, so on the one hand, he sent people to tell the head of the Shi Family Knife and the Thunder Fist Sect to restrain the disciples of the sect from causing trouble, and on the other hand, he asked the lower officials to lead people to inspect all parts of the city to prevent the Thunder Fist Sect and the Shi Family Knife from fighting. Xia Guan originally led people to guard the Qili River, but when he heard that Shi Tianbao had tracked the suspect all the way to the Guandi Shengjun Temple, he guessed that the suspect had something to do with this Guandi Temple. It was the following officials who rushed here with three brothers. It's just that when I found Sekizuka, I found that the figure flickered and disappeared behind Sekizuka. ”

When Fan Tong said this, he pointed to a forty-year-old catcher on the left and said: "This Liao brother is proficient in agency information, he said that since the figure disappeared here, there must be an agency near the left." Thanks to Brother Liao, they opened the mechanism of Sekizuka, revealing a hole. Xia Guan has lived in Luoyang for twenty or thirty years, and he never knew that there was another world in this round mound. After the four of us entered the corridor, we quietly walked forward, and suddenly found that the adults were hiding in the entrance of the cave and watching, and recognized the adults as tomb robbers, so they immediately attacked with swords. Fortunately, thanks to the high martial arts of the adults, the lower officials did not cause a catastrophe. ”

Li Qiufeng nodded, glanced at the catcher surnamed Liao, and then said to Fan Tong: "Fan catcher's eyes are really like torches. To tell the truth, this suspect is from the capital, and the official chased him for more than a thousand miles, and finally found his traces in Luoyang City, so he followed him all the way here. It's just that there are too many cases on this person, and the official plans not to take action for the time being, to see if he has any accomplices, so he didn't arrest him. ”

When Li Qiufeng said this, Fan Tong's heart sank, and he arched his hand and said: "The lower officials are careless, and they have ruined the plan of the hundred households, and the crime deserves death, please punish the adults." ”

(End of chapter)