In addition to Liu Jingxuan and Xiao Rangzai being depressed at night, there is another person who is also depressed, and this person has been depressed for a day, he is Zhou Zijian. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Last night, Zhou Zijian followed Zhang Qian all the way to Guo's house, and not only saw the scene of Zhang Qian's arson, but he also saw the murderer. The killer was dressed in black and had a black scarf over his face. Zhou Zijian did not see this person kill Guo Bingnan, but the screams of Guo Zhai's "murder" immediately reminded Zhou Zijian. When this person escaped from Guo's house through the thick smoke, Zhou Zijian followed. The masked man in black ran fast, blinking past the low city walls of Gaoyou County. Zhou Zijian's light skills are also quite good, and he is chasing after him from afar.

Suddenly, the masked man in black disappeared.

Zhou Zijian chased more than a mile before stopping. A murderous aura faintly seeped through the rustling woods on the side of the road.

A majestic voice rang out: "Who is Your Excellency, and why are you chasing after you?"

Zhou Zijian replied loudly: "Send Zhou Zijian in Xiakongtong." If you see someone killing someone, why don't you care?"

The voice sounded again: "Zhou Daxia, I advise you to still know the current affairs, let's go quickly." ”

Zhou Zijian said: "A strong man dares to kill, why don't you dare to show your face and act like a snake and rat with a shrunken head and tail." ”

"Who said I wouldn't dare to show my face!" As soon as these words came out, a man in black turned out from behind a tree.

The man in black was burly and dressed in black. A black scarf covered his face, revealing only a pair of bright eyes. He carried a shiny steel knife on his back, without a scabbard. The unusual feature of this knife is that the back of the knife is carved with the head of a beast, and there are eight copper rings arranged on the back of the knife in turn.

Zhou Zijian looked at the man in black and asked, "Please ask Your Excellency to have a high name?"

The man in black laughed and said, "You see that my face is covered, will I tell me by name?" Zhou Daxia, I advise you to stop chasing me. ”

Zhou Zijian waved his hand and said, "How can that work." Since Your Excellency has killed someone, you will pay for your life if you kill someone, so you should go back to the yamen with me to fight a lawsuit. ”

The man in black snorted: "Then Guo Bingnan robbed the people's daughter, and he died innocently." The government doesn't care, and chivalrous people like us can't care. ”

Zhou Zijian pursed his lips and said, "Guo Bingnan is indeed hateful, but whether he should die or not should be decided by the government." How can you careless of human life, and easily control the life and death of others. ”

The man in black said: "Zhou Daxia, I respect you for being a chivalrous gentleman, please make it convenient, he will repay him one day." If not, don't blame someone for being ruthless. ”

Zhou Zijian said angrily: "A gentleman has something to do and something not to do, whether it is righteousness for Brother Tai to kill people, the government has its own judgment." ”

The man in black said coldly: "Zhou Daxia, I'm afraid it will be difficult for you to stop you." ”

Zhou Zijian said: "Then I will admit it." ”

The man in black said, "Then please show your sword to Zhou Daxia." After speaking, he took off the nine-eared and eight-ring ghost head knife from his back. With the shaking of the steel knife, the copper ring jingles in the wind, which is very pleasant.

Zhou Zijian felt a bone-piercing chill coming to him, and involuntarily pulled out the silver rainbow.

The man in black suddenly stepped forward, and his right hand slashed Huashan towards Zhou Zijian's chest.

Zhou Zijian felt that his body was already shrouded in sword light, and he couldn't dodge, so he hurriedly held the sword in both hands, and came to set up a big sword.

only heard a loud sound of "bell!", Yinhong fell to the ground in response, and Zhou Zijian's front placket was cut open.

The man in black laughed wildly, turned and disappeared into the night.

Zhou Zijian's tiger's mouth had cracked, and his hands were still shaking. Under the cover of the moonlight, his face was pale and his expression was lonely. Obviously, the men in black showed mercy. Zhou Zijian looked at his tattered clothes, looked at the silver rainbow on the ground, looked up at the direction where the man in black disappeared, and didn't know what to do for a while.

"Where is the hero resting here. Leng Buding's voice sounded in his ears, and Zhou Zijian was startled.

A person walked out of the woods on the side of the road and said with a sneer: "Zhou Daxia's third watch is here in the middle of the night to enjoy the moonlight, which is really admirable." ”

Look at this person's medium stature, dressed in a green cloth tights, with short waist leather boots with cow tendon soles on the soles of his feet, and a single knife on his waist.

Zhou Zijian saw the person coming, smiled faintly, and said: "Who should I be, it turns out that the Nine Heavens God Hand has arrived, I don't know what to do?"

The man said, "It's nothing expensive. Just passing by here, I saw that Zhou Daxia seemed to be stupid with a knife. ”

Zhou Zijian said: "You don't have to laugh at me, my skills are not as good as others, I have nothing to say." But you may not be much better than me. If everyone knows about the theft of the thief, I don't know how to comment on this good story in the rivers and lakes. ”

The person who came laughed awkwardly and said, "Just because I didn't say it just now." I'm here to help you, so why take it so seriously. ”

Zhou Zijian looked the person up and down with suspicion, and said, "Lu Fei, will you come to help me? What can you help me?"

Lu Fei said: "Of course, it's to help you figure out the swordsman just now." ”

"Then do you know who he is?" Zhou Zijian glanced at Lu Fei.

Lu Fei said: "That's not it. However, when the swordsman killed the old man of the Guo family just now, he accidentally let me see it. And I also saw him take one of Mr. Guo's things. ”

Zhou Zijian's eyes lit up and asked, "What is it?"

Lu Fei said: "The smoke is too big, and it's still night, I can't see it clearly. But I dare to conclude that the murderer is here for money. ”

Late at night, He Wenqiao hurried back to the Wang Inn from outside. He came to the door of the upper room as usual, and when he saw that the light in the upper room was still on, he said in a low voice: "The villain He Wenweak, please see the master." ”

The figure in the upper room flickered, and the voice of the young man came: "Come in and talk back." ”

He Wenqiao walked into the door lightly, and looked up to see the young man sitting at the table, holding his forehead with his hand.

The young man asked, "What did you find?"

He Wenqiao said respectfully: "Liu Jingxuan, the magistrate of Gaoyou County, has been interrogated for a day, and there has been no progress at all. Except for a few of the Guo Mansion's belongings that were damaged by fire, none of the gold, silver and jewelry were lost. Jiang Huangyun is not in the county office, he should have investigated the whereabouts of the murderer. The people of Guo Mansion and others have returned to their homes, and the county is now at a loss. ”

The young man pondered for a moment and said, "In this case, we will leave for Yangzhou tomorrow. ”

He Wen made a weak promise and withdrew.

Ten days later, an official letter was placed on the case of the Yangzhou prefect Cheng Qian. The official letter was written by Murong Jielie, a first-class guard in front of the emperor, and the content was roughly that Guo Yan's father was killed, and he asked the Lord of Futai to urge Liu Jingxuan, the magistrate of the county, to solve the case as soon as possible.

Cheng Qian looked at the official letter in front of him and shook his head incessantly.

After a while, Cheng Qian called out to the door: "Someone." ”

A family member immediately ran outside the door and asked, "What does the master command?"

Cheng Qian handed the family a gold lacquer post, and said: "Hurry to Gaoyou County, and say that this government asks Liu Zhi County to go to Yangzhou Mansion immediately, and there is something important to discuss." ”

An hour later, Liu Jingxuan received a letter of worship from the prefect. Liu Jingxuan arranged for the prefect's family to wait in the gatehouse, and he stood under the eaves of the corridor for a long time with this letter in his hand, silent.

Master Xiao Rang asked, "My lord, do you see that this prefect is here to pay respects?"

Liu Jingxuan said: "What else can happen, of course, it is the killing of Guo Bingnan." ”

Xiao Rang said, "Then what are you going to do?"

Liu Jingxuan said: "Since the prefect's greetings have arrived, how can I not go." It's just..."

Xiao Rang asked, "Just what?"

Liu Jingxuan said: "It's just that I don't know how to answer. ”

Xiao Rang said: "My lord, there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain. If it comes, it will be safe. Let's talk about it when we meet. ”

Liu Jingxuan sighed and said, "That's it." ”

With the help of Xiao Rang, Liu Jingxuan put on his official uniform, hurriedly rode a horse, and followed the prefect's family Ding to Yangzhou Mansion.

Liu Jingxuan came to the yamen of the Yangzhou prefect, and the prefect led Liu Jingxuan into the back hall.

Cheng Qian saw Liu Jingxuan coming from a distance, got up and walked to the door of the study.

Liu Jingxuan hurriedly took two steps forward, gave the prefect Cheng Qianshen a deep salute, and said, "The lower official sees your lordship." ”

Cheng Qian clasped his hands together and said, "Don't dare, Lord Liu, please." ”

Cheng Qian introduced Liu Jingxuan into the hall.

This hall is very elegant. In the center of the hall is a round table made of sandalwood, surrounded by four wooden piers with hollow embroidered lions. To the north of the hall is a screen with eight gold-sprinkled flowers, on which is painted a picture of the Qingming River. There are two entrances on each side of the hall, which are covered on all sides with colored curtains. In one corner of the hall there is a shrine with sandalwood incense lit.

The two of them were seated separately. Cheng Qian handed the previous letter from Murong Jielie to Liu Jingxuan.

Liu Jingxuan opened it and looked at it, but he was speechless for a while.

Cheng Qian looked at Liu Jingxuan's expression, and he had already guessed in his heart.

Cheng Qian asked: "Lord Liu, I invited you here this time to ask if there are any eyebrows in this Guo family's case?"

Liu Jingxuan had a worried face and said, "Lord Qiyu, the whereabouts of the murderer have not yet been found. ”

Cheng said with a difficult face: "Lord Murong's letter, Lord Liu also saw it. If we can't catch the murderer for a long time, it will be difficult for me to confess to the upper peak. ”

Liu Jingxuan thought for a while and said, "Lord Cheng, what do you think of this? Maybe someone will see the murderer and I don't know?"

Cheng Qian stroked his beard, thought for a moment, and said, "Then there must be a deadline." ”

Liu Jingxuan looked at Cheng Qian and asked, "Then according to the adult's will, is it good to solve the case in a few days?"

Cheng Qian stretched out his hands and said, "Ten days, how about ten days?"

Liu Jingxuan was silent. "Lord Liu, if you can't solve the case in ten days, I'm afraid you and I won't be able to protect it. ”

Liu Jingxuan looked around at no one, took out a silver ticket from his arms, and put it in front of Cheng Qian.

Cheng Qian said with displeasure: "Lord Liu, what does this mean?"

Liu Jingxuan said with a smile: "The lower officials are not effective, which has brought a lot of trouble to adults. I can't argue with my humble position. This is a little bit of the lower official's heart, and please smile at it. ”

Cheng Qian was full of spring and said, "Lord Liu, it's not that the official deliberately embarrassed you. The stakes are very high, and we must pay close attention to it. I'll discuss it with Lord Murong again, it's limited to one month, and it can't be any longer. The case must be solved within a month, and Lord Wangliu must not forget it. ”

Liu Jingxuan arched his hand and said, "Thank you, Lord Cheng, the next official will go back to arrest the murderer." ”

Cheng Qian nodded and said, "There is Lord Lao Liu." ”

The two got up and left their seats and walked out the door.

Coming to the door of the hall, Liu Jingxuan turned around and said, "Please stay here." ”

Cheng Qian shook his head and said, "Lord Liu came from afar, and he didn't drink a cup of tea. This official really didn't want to go, how could he not send Lord Liu away. ”

Cheng Qian sent Liu Jingxuan out of the prefect's yamen, looked at Liu Jingxuan's distant back, and nodded with a smile.

Back in the study, Cheng Qian took out the silver ticket from his arms and looked at it carefully. The smile on his face was even brighter.

Soon Gaoyou County and the surrounding townships and towns posted an official list of documents: Anyone who finds the murderer of Guo Bingnan will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver.

Next to a sign in Gaoyou County, there was a short man who nodded while reading the list.

After a while, he turned around and walked into the restaurant diagonally opposite the county office, "the first floor". At a table by the window on the first floor sat two men and a woman, whispering. One of the men, about fifty years old, dressed in a gray robe, with gray hair, looked like a teacher, with a bamboo stick by his side. The other man was a big fat man, bald without a hat, and carrying a pair of golden cymbals on his back. The woman is dressed in a green Luo skirt and a green hosta, looking like a little girl, but if you look closely, there are many traces of time on her face. The curves outlined by the woman's convex and backward body reveal a charm that the girl does not have. The short man walked over to the table where the three men were, and sat down as well.

"Where have you gone?" asked Mr. Teach.

The short man smiled and said, "I saw a list posted over there, so I went and took a look." ”

"What example?" asked the fat man.

The short man said: "It says that there is a rich man here, Master Guo Bingnan, who has been killed, and the government will reward 1,000 taels of silver." You say, if you can find the murderer, will you get a small fortune? ”

Mr. Teaching said disdainfully: "Xiaocai, I'm afraid that you have a life to earn, but you have no life to spend." ”

The fat man nodded and agreed, "Senior brother is right. It's not uncommon for me to be cheap, and it's more important to live than anything else. Those murderers are the most vicious people, and if we are not careful, we will die in a foreign land. ”

The woman in green said: "Senior brother, I have been with you for decades, although I can't talk about starvation, cold, and poverty. But we are also homeless and unemployed, and we can't even call our families four walls. When we can't walk anymore, what do you say?"

Mr. Teach's face flushed.

The short man said, "Yes, senior brother. At the beginning, we were all young, and we were happy with you. But now it's very different, people walk in the rivers and lakes, and there is nothing. We don't even have a place to live. ”

Mr. Teaching looked at everyone and said, "Senior brother, junior sister is right. We're all old, and it's time to have a home. I see that the mountains and rivers of Yangzhou are beautiful, which is very good. Tomorrow we will be able to go to Yangzhou and settle down there. ”

The woman looked at Mr. Teach and said, "But we don't have the money to buy a house?"

Mr. Teaching's face turned even redder, and he said embarrassedly: "There must be a road before the car reaches the mountain, there must be a way." ”

The short man blinked and said, "This Guo Bingnan's family has a big business, and there is so much money that it can't be spent." Why don't I go to his house and borrow some money to turn around?"

Mr. Teaching was a little angry and said: "Don't talk nonsense, although we can't be called chivalrous, we must not be people who steal chickens and dogs." Before his death, Master repeatedly warned me that even if I could not carry forward the Divine Fire Sect in the future, I would not allow it to perish and fall into the state of the lower three indiscriminates. Stealing and robbing are the way to evil, and we must not do it. With that, he looked at the other three.

For a while, everyone was silent.