Chapter 558: The Dead Are Gone
Ah Yu learned that the gang of thieves with an ear green water dragon was ordered to be killed by the order of Qiupu County, and immediately fought Duan Linrui and asked about the whereabouts of his father and the dart team.
Chang Huan and Lu You saw each other and wanted to step forward to pull the frame, but they were stopped by Mu Yixing.
Mu Yixing, who didn't think it was a big deal to see the excitement, jumped to waving the flag and shouting to Ah Yu, and asked Duan Linrui of Qiupu County to quickly explain the whereabouts of Uncle Huo and others.
Because he found something too shocking, Mu Yirong actually forgot about Uncle Huo for a while, and after pulling Ah Yu away, he immediately glared at Duan Linrui, Liang Zi and the others, asking about the whereabouts of Uncle Huo and the dart team.
Liang Zi and the others, who hung their heads, were silent, and Duan Linrui, the county magistrate who was beaten out by Ah Yu, said sorry to Ah Yu with an apologetic face.
When Duan Linrui, the county magistrate of Qiupu County, found that it was too late for the Yiyi Qingshui Dragon and others to intercept and kill the dart team, and when he led people to hurry to Sankesong, the bandits such as the Yiyi Qingshui Dragon had already killed everyone in the dart team and were cleaning up the battlefield.
Looking at the dead corpses on the ground, and the smug appearance of a blue-eared water dragon, Duan Linrui hated to slaughter a blue-eared water dragon.
But he was still patient, asked about everything, heard that someone had fled, and immediately thought that that person would definitely go to Chizhou City to move troops to suppress the bandits, and hurriedly asked one ear Qingshui Long and others to go to the mountains to hide first, so as not to implicate Qiupu County, and then he took the county people to clean up the scene.
At that time, in addition to the bodies of several bandits, there were nine men and one woman, all of whom had already swallowed their breath, and the bodies were all transported to the mountain by board truck and buried.
Nine men and one woman, just with the eight dart masters of the Jiuchang Dart Bureau, plus Uncle Huo, plus the number of Xu's mother.
Ah Yu, who sat on the ground, stared at the sky for a long time, and then howled loudly, crying so much that many people cried one after another.
Seeing Ah Yu crying like this, Mu Yixing couldn't help but step forward and squat down, hugged Ah Yu, and cried as well.
Lu You and Chang Huan saw each other and wanted to come forward to persuade each other, but in the end they hugged each other, and the four of them cried bitterly.
In the end, it turned out to be Mu Yixing, the most ignorant young master, who stopped crying first, patted Ah Yu's shoulder, and said arrogantly: "Men don't flick when they have tears, good brothers, we will be brothers in the future." My father is your father, my eldest brother is your eldest brother, I see that whoever dares to bully you in the future, I will definitely break his dog's leg. ”
Lu You and Chang Huan also learned Mu Yixing's tone, patted their chests and said that they will be brothers in life and death in the future, and their father is Ah Yu's father, if anyone dares to bully Ah Yu, they will definitely beat each other to cry and call their mother.
Along the way, the four of them have experienced ups and downs, and their relationship has improved a lot.
Ah Yu, who was so moved, hugged Mu Yixing and the three of them cried bitterly again, and it took a while to stop.
Strictly speaking, the death of Uncle Huo and the dart team is not directly related to Duan Linrui, the commander of Qiupu County, and if Duan Linrui had known earlier that the Yiyi Qingshui Dragon and others planned to rob the dart, he would have stopped it.
It's a pity that Duan Linrui knew too late.
Duan Linrui killed an eared green water dragon and others, which can be regarded as helping Ah Yu avenge it. It's just that the bodies of Uncle Huo and others can't be buried in Qingshen Mountain like this.
Mu Yirong was in a hurry to escort the green swordsman Han Xiangzi back to Shangjing, worried that it would be too late for a change, but he wanted to accompany Ah Yu to retrieve Uncle Huo's body, and he was in a dilemma for a while.
Ruicao, who saw through Mu Yirong's thoughts, said that she would cooperate with Liu Mingyi, escort the prisoners to set off first, and wait for Mu Yirong and Ah Yu to collect the bodies of Uncle Huo and others, and then catch up from behind.
Although Mu Yirong is not at ease, he has no other way at the moment, but he can only tell Ruicao to be careful and beware of someone hijacking the prisoner's car. Hearing that Mu Yirong was going to collect the corpse, Liu Mingyi, the assassin of Chizhou, nodded and said that there was no problem, the question is, is the matter of stealing copper mines in Qiupu County really related to the eldest prince?
Mu Yirong looked at Liu Mingyi, the assassin of Chizhou, and nodded, saying that if Liu Mingyi didn't want to get involved in this matter, it would not be too late to quit now.
Liu Ming discussed the history of a local assassination, but he did not get involved in the partisan disputes in the capital, and he did not want to get involved in it in the future.
But there is such a good opportunity to be added to the rank in front of him, how can he easily let it go, and righteously said that he doesn't care about those battles for imperial power, and only does his own thing. Since such a bad case occurred in his jurisdiction, he could not sit idly by because he was afraid of the imperial power and worried that his official position would not be secured.
A bold statement, saying that he would personally escort the prisoners to the capital of Chizhou, Liu Mingyi, undoubtedly made a bet, and Mu Yirong did not say much about it.
It's just that when Liu Mingyi, the assassin of Chizhou, escorted Duan Linrui, the county commander who was locked in the prisoner car, out of the city, he was stopped by many county citizens crying and shouting.
Liu Mingyi, who waved the horse whip in his hand, shouted angrily to the county people: "If it weren't for the Dali Temple squire to intercede for you fools, this assassin would have shackled all of you fools, escorted them to the capital together, and cut off your heads." ”
With a history of assassination in his hands and a murderous aura, many county residents in Qiupu County were suppressed and did not dare to continue to make trouble.
The team escorting the prisoners, amid the cries of the citizens of Qiupu County, swept out of Qiupu County and headed for Shangjing.
And Mu Yirong took Ah Yu, Mu Yixing of the Flying Eagle Society, and more than a dozen Chizhou city defense soldiers, led by the longevity of the guilty meritorious service, and went to Qingshen Mountain again.
This time, because everyone was anxious, the speed of travel was very fast, after leaving the east gate of the county, they rushed all the way to the southeast, and soon arrived at Qingshen Mountain.
The bodies of Uncle Huo and others were buried in the grave of Qiupu County, except for Xu's mother, who had fallen back to her roots, and was ordered to set up a grave, the rest of the corpses were all dug up, cleaned up simply, and moved to the carriage.
The weather was bitterly cold in winter, and the corpse was not decomposed, and as soon as Ah Yu saw his father's corpse, he rushed over and cried loudly.
Mu Yixing and the three of them stepped forward to cry together, Mu Yirong's eyes were also red, remembering that before Uncle Huo left Beijing, he said that he would invite Mu Yirong and Seocho to drink, and the tears finally couldn't help falling.
Mu Yirong stepped forward to persuade Ah Yu to mourn and change his life, and bring the bodies of Uncle Huo and others back to Shangjing as soon as possible, so that the deceased can be buried as soon as possible.
It has come to this point that no matter how much we mourn and cry, the dead will not be able to come back to life.
Ah Yu, whose emotions gradually calmed down, endured his grief, simply cleaned up his father's body, and then temporarily wrapped the body in a straw mat and placed it on top of the carriage.
Qiupu County has horses, but there are no coffins, so they can only wait on the way back, go to Chizhou City, buy a few more coffins, and put the corpses in it.
Nine carriages, carrying nine corpses, Mu Yirong and Ah Yu and their party, all with gloomy faces and sad expressions, went on the road. On the way, Mu Yirong, who had a somewhat chaotic head, thought about a lot of things, and under the chaotic and complicated emotions, he still figured out a lot of questions.
The eldest prince is really not as simple as Yu Shang'an, a doctor in the Ministry of Industry, said, in order to ascend the throne, he has been donating money for disaster relief everywhere over the years, and has a good reputation of loving the people and being close to the people.
However, disaster relief needs money and food, and the household department of the imperial court does not allocate funds, so where can he get these silver coins to fill the bottomless pit.
I don't know where I learned that there was a copper mine in Qiupu County, and I didn't know what kind of benefits Duan Linrui had promised, so the people of Qiupu County helped him dig copper mines and mint coins privately to buy grain for disaster relief.
However, there are too many places to use money, and the eldest prince can only find ways to collect money everywhere, and his personal guard Lin Zhengyi has become his best helper.
After incarnating as Han Xiangzi, one of the four great swordsmen in the rivers and lakes, Lin Zhengyi, who was walking the rivers and lakes, collected a lot of information, and knew that Liu Jingshan, the county lieutenant of Lintong County, used road bandits to open a casino in Shangjing City to collect money, and there was a large amount of illegal money at home, so he went to steal it, and just happened to meet Dali Temple to investigate the case, so he took advantage of Mu Yirong to solve the case and interrogate Liu Jingshan in Liu's mansion, and stole the silver money in Mrs. Liu's room.
Dai Chunxiang in Huanxianglou was killed before, and there were a large number of scratches in the house disguised as demon beasts, which should have been left by the iron claws used by Lin Zhengyi, and the purpose of killing Dai Chunxiang was probably for the rumored eight hundred taels of silver.
Whether these eight hundred taels of silver are real or false, and whether they fell into the hands of the eldest prince in the end, Mu Yirong does not know.
But he thought from this that Lin Zhengyi was outside to collect money and kill people for the eldest prince, and there may be more than one or two incidents.
In addition, the money collected by the eldest prince far exceeded the amount he used to give relief to the victims, and it may be used for more than just disaster relief.
Thinking of this, Mu Yirong's mind flashed, and he suddenly remembered that Yu Shang'an and Shen Guogong, doctors in the Ministry of Industry, had testified that the eldest prince was the main culprit in robbing the second prince's dart silver, and the person who robbed the dart at that time, according to Ah Yu, was a group of well-trained people who looked like soldiers in the army.
This is very likely to show that the eldest prince is excessively accumulating wealth in order to raise soldiers!
When the second prince saw the eldest prince in front of Hanguang Gate for disaster relief, he once complained that his eldest brother would pretend to be a good person when he bought food and donated it to the poor all day long, but in fact he was true and hypocritical.
Now that I think about it, did all the food purchased by the eldest prince really donate to the poor?
Or did he feed and drink the soldiers he had hoarded near Shangjing?
Mu Yirong, who was riding on the horse, seemed to be drenched in ice and rain, and couldn't help but shiver.
The murderer who pretended to be a monster and killed people in Shangjing City was Lin Zhengyi, so the person who sent the man in black to intercept and kill Qingmu Jingzhong of Dali Temple should also be the prince.
Although it is not known for the time being, it can be inferred that the black-clothed Lao Qi and others are actually dead soldiers raised by the eldest prince.
Mu Yirong, who couldn't help but fight a cold war again, remembered that Yu Shangan and others said that the nineteenth prince had been secretly supporting the eldest prince, and the news that the black-clothed man Lao Qi and others had ambushed and intercepted Mu Jingzhong, the secretary of Dali Temple, was the letter that the nineteenth prince ordered someone to report to Mu Yirong.
Then this matter was discovered by the eldest prince, and there was a feud between the eldest prince and the nineteenth prince, and with all the subsequent events, the eldest prince had the intention of killing the nineteenth prince.
No wonder the nineteenth prince disappeared, Mu Yirong and Ruicao traced it to the end, and they found Liu Qingyan and Wang Guifei.
It turned out that all of this was a plan set up by the great prince.
Therefore, the man in Huanxianglou Qingyan's mouth is very likely to be the eldest prince.