The prison in Puyang City has two floors, the upper layer is to hold some ordinary prisoners, and the lower layer is located underground, which is used to hold serious criminals in the imperial court, especially those who have martial arts, usually in the lower layer, Xiao Zhuge Lu Deng is the undisputed first master in the Kaide Mansion army, and at this moment of course he is locked up in the darkest area of the lower level.

Zhao Bufan went down the gloomy stairs to the bottom floor, and the tip of his nose immediately lingered with a lingering odor, as if he had entered a thatched house that had not been cleaned for a long time, but there was more rotten smell inside, which made people feel very uncomfortable, and Hu Sanniang beside him involuntarily covered his nose and frowned slightly.

Xue Renfu, who was as careful as a hair, noticed that she was not very used to it, and immediately smiled and said: "The female general might as well wait at this entrance for a while, the more you go inside this dungeon, the more unpleasant it will be, and maybe you will see a lot of indecent things." ”

"It's okay!" Hu Sanniang nodded.

Zhao Bufan didn't care so much, and walked straight to the depths of the dungeon, it was already late at night, and many prisoners were asleep, so his footsteps seemed extremely clear.

Xue Renfu, who served in Dali Temple, was naturally accustomed to seeing this kind of dungeon, not only did he not feel uncomfortable at all, but walked in front of him with ease and led the way, and after a while, he came to the innermost area of the dungeon, which is also the darkest place, if there are no torches on the wall, I am afraid that even if I stretch out my hand, I can't see the five fingers, but there are some vents on the top, but I basically can't see the light coming in.

Soon, Xue Renfu came to a cell in front of a cell.

"My lord, it's Little Zhuge Lu Deng!"

Zhao Bufan looked at it slightly, and saw only a wooden bed, a toilet, a dilapidated table, a candlelight, a broom, and nothing else, but the wooden bed was covered with thick dry straw, and the quilt was also brand new, indicating that the prisoner here had just been imprisoned.

At this time, there was a big man in prison clothes lying on the wooden bed, although he was sleeping on his side, and his face could be seen through the iron fence, but because of his disheveled hair, he could not see clearly, and he could only feel that this big man was very strong.

Xue Renfu quickly walked to the side of the iron fence, grabbed the lock of the iron gate and tapped it gently.

"Lu Du Eunuch!Lu Du Eunuch!!"

Lu Deng, who was in the cell, opened his eyes suddenly, and when he saw Xue Renfu, he immediately jumped up like crazy, crawled to the front, grabbed the iron fence, and shouted with red eyes: "Lord Xue, have you helped me send a message to Taishi Cai or Zhao Zhongshu?"

"Lord Zhao has already come, but he is no longer Lord Zhongshu, he has already been transferred to the Imperial History Zhongcheng, and now he is ordered by the emperor to supervise your case, tell him everything you refused to say earlier!" Xue Renfu was obviously very sympathetic to him, not only his voice was very soft, but his tone was also slightly apologetic.

At this time, Lu Deng's hair was scattered, his face was full of sludge and oil, where could he still see Xiao Zhuge Confucian demeanor, only those eyes were bright, he looked carefully for a moment, and suddenly turned his head and asked Xue Renfu: "Lord Xue, is this really Lord Zhao Bufan?"

"Don't you know Lord Zhao?" Xue Renfu wondered.

"I haven't seen it before!" Lu Deng shook his head, stared at Zhao Bufan for a long time, seemed to think of something, gritted his teeth and said: "My lord, if you are really Lord Zhao, I have something important to tell you, this matter is also related to my lord, and I hope that my lord will give me a clear answer!"

Something to do with me?

Zhao Bufan was puzzled, looked at the down-and-out Lu Deng for a long time, and didn't know how to prove his identity, so he had to take out a token from his arms and said: "There is a token here, it is my Xuanfu order as a Xuanfu envoy, and it has not yet been returned to the imperial court, believe it or not, I can only look at you, and I can't prove anything." ”

Now Lu Deng is a frightened bird, he is extremely cautious, frowns and thinks for a long time, and suddenly asks: "When Lord Zhao conquered Liangshan, a group of people bought some things from Puyang and sent them to Yunzhou, but this group of people was repelled by General Lu Zhishen, I don't know if you remember what they transported?"

"Buy something from Puyang and send it to Yunzhou?"

Zhao Bufan chattered to himself, and reacted with a little recollection.

"Salt!"

Hearing this, the tears in Lu Deng's eyes could no longer be controlled, and he suddenly rushed out, shouting excitedly: "Lord Zhao, I am wronged, I was framed, you must save me, I have a grudge with Cai Xue, but I never thought of killing him in private." On the night of the incident, I didn't go to his house at all, but was ordered by him to secretly investigate the group of people who bought salt and sent it to Yunzhou!

When I ran to find him, it was already the eve of dawn the next day, when I walked into his outer house, saw the corpses all over the ground, and knew that something was wrong, but I soon found that the blood from some of the corpses was still hot, and I immediately searched the house, hoping to find Cai Xue, but I saw a man in black rummaging through boxes and cabinets in the inner courtyard. When the man saw me coming, he turned around and ran, and I followed him, and when the master happened to come in, he saw the back of me chasing the man out!"

When Xue Renfu heard this, he immediately rushed to speak: "Lu Dujian, why didn't you say it earlier!"

Lu Deng replied bitterly: "Lord Zhao is not here, I dare not say that the group of people who bought salt are no one else at all, it is an organization called ghost pawns, it is a child ......"

"Lu Deng!" Zhao Bufan interrupted hurriedly before him, because he hadn't yet determined which side Xue Renfu was, so he hurried to stop it, and asked instead: "I know what you're talking about, what I want to know now is, what is that man in black is looking for, and why was Cai Xue killed?"

Lu Deng also realized something, and did not say it explicitly, but only hinted: "It's evidence! It's ironclad evidence that can make that person fall to justice!!"

Zhao Bufan instantly gasped.

"What is it? How did you find it?"

Lu Deng replied: "It was secretly obtained by his subordinates when they tracked down the batch of people who bought salt, it was a small box full of letters and account books, Cai Xue and I opened it to see, and then he said that he would secretly hand it over to Cai Taishi, and I didn't care about it anymore, I thought that this matter had nothing to do with me, but on the afternoon of the day of the incident, Cai Xue asked me to send a letter to that place at night, but unfortunately when I went again, the building was empty, and when I came back on the eve of dawn the next day, Cai Xue had been killed!"

Xue Renfu's eyes flashed and he suddenly spoke.

"Lord Zhao, you don't trust me?"

Zhao Bufan shook his head: "It's not just a matter of trust, this matter is too big, for you, the less you know, the better!"

"The person in your mouth is Tong Guan!" Xue Renfu answered with a sneer.

"Huh?" Zhao Bufan looked over in surprise.

Xue Renfu smiled faintly: "Master Li has asked me to track down the ghost pawn for a long time, since the northern Xinjiang was inexplicably breached, it has always been me who is following the ghost pawn, at that time, the Imperial City Division was investigating, our Dali Temple was investigating, and even the Criminal Department was also investigating, but unfortunately those who defected were all dead, and the clues were all broken, but I knew that the ghost pawn was involved in the original incident, and I knew that the ghost pawn was an organization that followed Tong Guan!"

After a moment of silence, Zhao Bufan suddenly asked, "What is the relationship between Li Xiao, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Taishi Cai?"

"Master Li is a hand-picked by Taishi Cai!" Xue Renfu said flatly.

Zhao Bufan understood, since Li Xiao, the secretary of Dali Temple, claimed to be Cai Jing's person, then Dali Temple held Tong Guan and did not let go, which just showed that Cai Jing had been secretly arresting Tong Guan's evidence, thinking that if Tong Guan was not moved, then it would be used to coerce, and if Tong Guan was moved, it would be put to death, in short, he wanted to hold Tong Guan dead in his hands.

Xue Renfu looked at Zhao Bufan, who was deep in thought, shook his head and continued: "Lord Zhao doesn't have to think too much about me, I am a small tui cheng of Dali Temple, specializing in investigating and handling major cases, and reporting whatever is found, nothing else has anything to do with me, I just want this Da Song to have fewer grievances and do my duty!"

This person is quite righteous in his words and deeds, if he can stand the test, it is worth attracting and cultivating, since he has been open and honest, it is better to take the opportunity to test.

Zhao Bufan thought so in his heart, so he no longer avoided him, but looked at Lu Deng and asked, "Then where did you go five days after Cai Xue's death?"

Lu Deng hurriedly replied: "At that time, I chased the man in black out of Cai Xue's outer house, but found that he was holding my stolen treasure knife, and then observed, and found that he was still wearing my shoes, I didn't know that this person was trying to frame me, how dare he let him run away, desperately chased, but unfortunately that man's martial arts and I was between the middle, and I couldn't help him, and then he threw away my knife, and a helper came, so I hurriedly picked up the treasure knife and fled." ”

"Then why did you want to come back?" Xue Renfu asked.

Lu Deng smiled bitterly: "My mother is still at home, and my father and mother are still at home, if I don't come back, let them take the blame?"

Xue Renfu was sullen for a moment, and also sighed: "Forget it, these are no longer important, the key now is that the murder weapon is yours, the footprints at the scene are yours, the back seen in the master book confirms that it is you, and your martial arts can also do all this, just know everything around Cai Xu, and there is no alibi, it can be said that all the clues and evidence point to you, and everything you say cannot be verified, at most, I will continue to investigate what you said as a suspicion, but I can't exonerate you at all!"

Lu Deng's eyes were red, and he frantically grabbed his loose hair.

"My lady knows about the theft of my treasure knife!"

Xue Renfu shook his head: "Your lady is your closest relative, her testimony is useful?

"I ......" Lu Deng's mouth opened, but he couldn't speak.

Zhao Bufan thought for a while, and then continued: "Lu Deng, how high is your martial arts, show me now, remember to use all your strength, this is related to your life!"

Lu Deng immediately shook his head: "I was forced to take medicine, and now I can't use my internal force at all!"

"Give him detoxification!" Zhao Bufan didn't say a word, and directly ordered Xue Renfu.

"This ......"

Xue Renfu hesitated slightly.

"My lord, Lu Deng's martial arts are very high, if he lies to us, it will be a little dangerous!"

Zhao Bufan frowned: "What are you afraid of, I haven't seen any master, I'll let you solve it!"

Xue Renfu gritted his teeth and looked at Lu Deng deeply.

"I also heard that you are a loyal and upright man, I will believe you once today, don't let me regret it!"

As he spoke, he took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, gently took out a round pill and handed it to Lu Deng.

Lu Deng didn't speak, glanced at him, took the pill and threw it directly into his mouth, and quickly sat cross-legged on the ground to breathe.

After a while, as his internal strength surged, a sense of oppression obviously appeared from him, and the spirit of the whole person changed greatly, which made Xue Renfu nervous, and quietly protected Zhao Bufan, and now the whole world thinks that his martial arts are useless.

Suddenly, Lu Deng jumped up, removed one of the legs of the plank bed, held it in his hand as a war knife, and slammed it against the iron fence.

"Smack!!"

The wooden leg in Lu Deng's hand was broken in two, and the iron fence was bent several times.

"Good kung fu! worthy of being the number one master in the Kaide Mansion army!" Xue Renfu showed appreciation.

But Zhao Bufan smiled and shook his head lightly: "Lu Deng shouldn't be a murderer!"

"Why?" Xue Renfu turned his head in an instant.

"Because his martial arts are fierce and suitable for the battlefield, it is not fast at all, nor is it strange, and with his martial arts, he can't erase the necks of three people in different positions in one move!" Zhao Bufan looked at Lu Deng with a smile, his eyes full of trust.

"What if he's clumsy?" Xue Renfu asked.

"Just look at his hands!"

Xue Renfu looked down and suddenly found that Lu Deng's tiger mouth had cracked, blood was flowing everywhere, and he even trembled slightly, and he quickly understood it at the moment.

"It is impossible to bend the iron fence with a wooden stick with the strength of his arms alone, and the fence must have been unable to bear and break at the moment before the fence was bent, so he did use internal strength, so in the case of internal force operation, his hands were naturally protected by internal strength, if he didn't do everything, the tiger's mouth would not be shattered!"

Zhao Bufan smiled faintly: "That's right, so he did everything he could, and his martial arts are weaker than that murderer, and a lot weaker!"

"How is it possible?" Lu Deng's eyes were full of shock, and without waiting for Xue Renfu to answer, he said bluntly: "When the murderer fought with me, they didn't feel much like each other's martial arts, could it be that he hid his strength?"

Zhao Bufan was immediately happy: "Look at it, such a frank person, I would rather believe that he is not a murderer!"

"That's the same!" Xue Renfu also smiled, shook his head, and said instead: "My lord, what should we do now? Where to start investigating and collecting evidence? This alone is obviously not enough to prove that Lu Deng is not a murderer, after all, this is speculation based on martial arts, not specific evidence!"

Zhao Bufan smiled and shook his head: "I don't know this, I have no experience in investigating cases, I can only look at you, but I think that maybe we can change our thinking, since we can't prove that Lu Deng is not guilty, it is better to simply go back and start again, and even follow Lu Deng's earlier investigation to investigate, since they want Lu Deng to die, it means that they are also afraid of Lu Deng, if we investigate like this, they will also be afraid of us, then they will naturally show their feet." ”

When Lu Deng in the cell heard this, he hurriedly shouted: "Lord Zhao is right, you can go and check two points, one is the evidence that Cai Xue hid, that thing is too important, since the murderer has not been found, he will definitely try to find it again." The second point is the Blood Knife Gate forty miles east of Puyang City, where I stole the evidence of Tong Guan's evildoing, and the batch of salt that was sent to Yunzhou was purchased from the Blood Knife Gate to He Qianqian in the east of the city, and He Qianqian was obviously opening a pawnshop, but in fact he was also doing a private salt business.

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