Outside the Shuibo Gate in the northeast of Yingtianfu, near the river bank is a fishing village of the Tan people, the Tan people live on the fishing boats on weekdays, the fishing boats are connected end to end, it is a water village with a forest of masts, the boat cable is untied, and it can be turned into a flexible fishing boat, galloping back and forth on the river.

The life of the Tan people is very hard, so many merchants set up warehouses and warehouses here, and hire them at extremely low prices to do some of the hardest and most arduous work.

There were hundreds of warehouses and warehouses, most of which were scattered along the shore, and the resident stewards and shopkeepers built countless simple houses and miscellaneous courtyards around them, forming a huge and densely populated village.

People come and go, noisy and noisy are the main tone here, and the roads that extend in all directions and are as dense as spider's webs are the characteristics of this place, so it is no wonder that Dongji Pavilion will set up a secret interrogation point here.

The appearance of this courtyard looks a little dilapidated, almost exactly the same as the other houses around, even if it is guided by the flying talisman of Dongfang Li, Zhao Ran also looked for a long time to find here, and after a little calculation, the silver paid for this flying talisman reached four taels, and he believed that Dongfang Li cost more, it should be ten times his own.

There is still a long way to go to improve the flying talisman!

When Zhao Ran entered this small courtyard, Qiu Yunqing, the elder of the East Pole Pavilion, Wei Chaozong, Zhuo Yunfeng and Dongfang Li of the East Pole Pavilion had already gathered here, and they were discussing nervously.

After Zhao Ran went in, he listened for a while, and then heard that Wei Chaozong was introducing, saying that he had already sent someone to inquire about it, and it was Lingji Palace that distributed charcoal to the monks in the palace, asking them to send it to poor people's homes, ten catties per household, mainly to emulate the practice of the monks of the Daolu Division's Dharma Hall.

But Wei Chaozong added: "This incident is indeed unexpected to us, and it has brought us difficulties in investigating the case, but it cannot be ruled out that the possibility of these two thieves passing on the news through charcoal, because they cannot reasonably explain why they sent charcoal to the empty suspect's whereabouts." If there is a hidden meaning in it, this raises the second question, what does charcoal really mean, and why thirteen roots?"

Qiu Yunqing looked at Zhao Ran and said, "What is Zhi Ran's opinion? Sending charcoal was done by the Daolu Division first, and then the Upper Third Palace followed closely and began to do so, so Zhi Ran thinks that is there a possibility of covering his true motive with this behavior?"

Zhao Ran first looked at the thirteen pieces of charcoal that had been broken into twenty-six sections on the ground, whether in terms of the shape of the cloth bag or the charcoal, they were the same as the regulations distributed by the Daolu Division that day, and it was obvious that they should have been bought by the same charcoal merchant.

After thinking about it, he flew to Li Dayin first, and after a while, he received a reply from Li Dayin, so he said to a few people in the house: "These charcoal were all purchased by Li Dayin, the deputy of the Daolu Division, from a merchant, and the charcoal merchant is an imperial merchant who has been in the charcoal business for several generations. Then, he explained his original thoughts and motives, and finally said: "I don't dare to guarantee that Lingji Palace does not have the idea of transmitting news through these charcoals, but I privately think that it is unlikely. Just crush all the charcoal and see if there's anything hidden in it. As for the thirteenth...... Maybe it has nothing to do with the number of roots, you can weigh these charcoals to see if it is just ten catties. ”

The result of weighing is nine catties and eight taels more than a few dollars, although it is less than ten catties of integers, but it can already be considered ten catties, this imperial businessman is quite conscientious, and has not done too much to steal empty materials, maybe they don't dare to steal empty materials to Li Dayin.

Then all the charcoal was carefully crushed, and nothing was found, proving that there was nothing wrong with the charcoal itself.

Wei Chaozong has been investigating the case for many years, and he has a good mentality, and he was not embarrassed because he had gone into a misunderstanding, but said: "Fortunately, Senior Brother Zhao was invited to prevent us from walking into this dead end, it turned out that the initiator was actually Senior Brother Zhao, haha, I really can't imagine it." ”

The charcoal matter was put on hold for a moment, and the people began to discuss the square card, and passed the pattern in their hands, but they could not see what was drawn on it.

But Qiu Yunqing and Wei Chaozong both swore that the pattern on the square card was definitely the contact code often used by the suspect, and three such patterns had been found in the East Pole Pavilion, and the general style was very similar, but the three patterns were different, and it was judged that they should convey different meanings.

With these three patterns, no one knows what they represent, Wei Chaozong said that the two thieves, Chunfeng and Guanyun, insisted on not knowing what was going on, and they were tortured many times but to no avail.

Judging from the performance, these two thieves can't bear the punishment, the ghost cries and the wolf howls and doesn't say anything, the urine can't be controlled, and they are completely out of shape. At first, he said that he didn't know, but then he changed his mouth and said some nonsense, which was completely unreasonable, and then he insisted that he didn't know the inside story again. If I look at the results of the torture alone, I have to believe that they really don't know anything, but judging from the whole process, they didn't know that they really saw the hell. ”

Indeed, as Wei Chaozong said, the two Taoists sent charcoal, but did not send it elsewhere, but ran to this alley to send it; other families did not send it, but gave it to this uninhabited house; it was just a matter of sending charcoal, the key was to look at the square card a priori, use mana to turn it into powder, and then go to push the door, when there was no one in the door, still throw the charcoal into the house. This series of actions, if you want to say that the two of them don't know, that the two of them have nothing to do with the key suspects arrested by the East Pole Pavilion, who can believe it?

Zhao Ran asked Dongfang Li: "Will Senior Brother Li be a Yin and Yang Soul Searcher?"

Dongfang Li shook his head: "Senior Brother Jing is good at this method, but I can't." But there is no need, one is to respect the junior brother and the other is to retreat, and the other is the means of Xiao Wu and Xiao Ding of the East Pole Pavilion, which is also first-class and powerful, and does not lose to the Yin and Yang soul searcher. ”

At this point, the matter has reached an impasse, Wei Chaozong does not dare to use torture anymore, and if the torture continues, Chunfeng and Guanyun will definitely not be able to endure it, but if they don't need to be tortured, how can they find the whereabouts of the key suspect?

Zhao Ran looked at Dongfang Li and hesitated: "Meng ......"

Dongfang Li nodded and said: "In this case, the two thieves have already confessed, and they also confessed to some things about Xiu'an, saying that they went to the Manifestation Palace to drink a few times of flower wine, and most of the people who came out to accompany them were women from Xiu'an, in addition, they also went to Xiu'an in Guizhou, Huguang and other places, but the two places they said were destroyed after we found out, and they were useless." The only useful thing now is the identification of Wang Shouyu and Lin Zhibin, who are accomplices in the Meng Yanzhen case. ”

"Can you arrest someone?"

Qiu Yunqing shook his head slightly: "I always feel that it is not enough, it is still a little close! What we want to catch the most is that key person, and all indications indicate that that person is the only contact person between the upper three palaces and Xiu'an in various places, and it is even likely to be the initiator who came forward to promote the establishment of Xiu'an in the first place." ”

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