Chapter 19: Tracing the Trail
Li Shaoyuan glanced at the people behind Duan Qingyun, frowned slightly, and said, "They are?"
Duan Qingyun hurriedly said: "Brother Shaoyuan, let me introduce to you, this is Nangong Muwu, the fourth son of the Nangong family, this is the famous Tieyi of Yunzhou, and this is the Jingfeng brother. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Li Shaoyuan laughed, "Brother Duan, as the master of the hall, you have to take a longer view, hehe." With that, he ignored the crowd and walked straight into the purple smoke inner hall.
"Rub, this kid's eyes are above the top, and those who don't know think that the first sword in Yunzhou is him, not his old man!" Tie Yi looked at Li Shaoyuan's back and spat.
Duan Qingyun bowed his hand apologetically, "Brothers, I'm sorry, I'll come back to accompany you later." ”
Tie Yi waved his hand and said: "Accompanying this kind of second ancestor has made the Duan Hall Master suffer." ”
Duan Qingyun smiled helplessly and chased after him.
At this time, I saw an official running over in a hurry and whispering a few words in Tie Yi's ear.
"What?!" Tie Yi's face turned pale, "When?!"
The official whispered a few words again.
"Rub, these people are really looking for death!" Tie Yi's muscles twitched on his face, and he was extremely angry. He suddenly got up and said goodbye, "Brother Nangong, Brother Jing, if the serious case is needed, I will leave first." ”
Nangong Muwu arched his hand and said: "Brother Jing and I have fought against those villains, if Brother Tie needs help, we can also help." ”
Tie Yi was about to take a step, when he heard this, he suddenly paused, he pondered for a moment, and said: "Tracing the source of the Bliss Pill does require the help of two brothers, it is not a secret, just now my subordinates informed that the spy I sent out to find out the news has been killed, and the body is in a sack and left in front of the yamen." ”
Nangong Muwu couldn't help frowning, "These people sell psychedelic drugs, do illegal things, and even provoke the government, who are they, so arrogant?!"
Tie Yi shook his head, "Now that the spies have been killed, the clues have been interrupted, and the only thing that can be relied on is this key." ”
"Oh, that's right!" Nangong Muwu patted his head, "Qi Qian used to say the word 'sea chart' before. ”
"Nautical charts?" Tie Yi frowned, "Is it a nautical chart?"
Nangong Muwu shook his head, "We don't have a so-called sea chart on him or in the house, I don't know if we want anything else." ”
Tie Yi pondered and meditated for a while, but still couldn't grasp the point. Jing Feng on the side suddenly opened his mouth, "Is it the name of the place?"
Tie Yi was stunned, "Place name?!"
Just now, Tie Yi had been taking the nautical map as a starting point, thinking about possible clues, but he ignored that the word "nautical chart" could be the name of the place, is there a town called nautical chart?
After thinking about it for a while, Tie Yi shook his head helplessly, Beiyun City is not close or far from the coast, about thirty miles, and there seems to be no sea chart in more than ten villages and towns along the coast.
"Well, Brother Nangong, let's go to the small village you described again and take a closer look. Tie Yi came to a conclusion.
Nangong Mu Wu said: "I am willing to help." ”
Tie Yi said a few words to the official behind him, turned his head and said, "Everyone, time is pressing, let's set off." ”
After a little preparation, the three of them were led by Nangong Muwu and Jing Feng and went to the village again. In addition to Tie Yi, there are also twelve officials who went on this trip, which can be quite impressive.
Along the way, Nangong Muwu and Tie Yi were very worried, one of the spies discharged by the two returned in vain, and an innocent died, whether they could find clues and find the whereabouts of this gang of bandits was a big problem in front of them.
The Tao is that Jing Feng has no pressure, Liu Yuechan's body is gradually recovering, Lian Xi is guarding on the side, the silver money obtained from Zhao Pang is completely enough, as long as Yuechan's body is fully recovered, she can go to investigate the murderer of the murder case ten years ago.
When the group came to the dense forest, Jing Feng suddenly thought that when he and Nangong Muwu were looking for clues that day, he felt the prying eyes in this place. It is very likely that the owner of the gaze is the two people who went to Beiyun City, which means that he and Nangong Muwu passed by those two.
He told Nangong Muwu and Tie Yi about this idea, and after discussing it, he was even more certain that these two people and the goddess were in a gang, selling Bliss Pills, and they also colluded with Dongying Ronin, and the power of this gang of bandits was really not small.
Rushing to the small mountain village where they once settled, everyone couldn't help but be surprised, but they saw that the scorched earth in front of them was full of mess.
Two days ago, this was still a very lively small mountain village, but I didn't expect it to be burned to the ground at this moment, looking at the broken ruins, Nangong Muwu and Jing Feng looked at each other. "It seems that we are late, and the bandits have burned this place for fear of leaving a trace. ”
After listening to Nangong Muwu's account of what happened that night, Tie Yi frowned and said, "I didn't expect this gang to be so tightly organized, and they also got a small village to take medicine and deceive people." It's just that this fire is really hateful, and a lot of evidence has been burned. ”
Nangong Muwu secretly screamed that it was a pity, after Jing Feng woke up that day, they were in a hurry to leave, but they only checked the footprints of the goddess and her party leaving, and did not pay careful attention to the other clues left in the village.
After checking for a week, I didn't find any clues.
Tie Yi groaned: "Brother Nangong, Brother Jing, I remember you said that the goddess abducted a large number of people, and you saw this with your own eyes?"
Nangong Muwu nodded, "It's true." ”
Tie Yi frowned slightly, this had almost become a sign of his movements, and he had to frown before speaking. "It's a strange thing, it looks like they're taking these people captive to grow the Bliss Flower. And so many people disappeared without a trace in a short period of time, and there was no news from the neighboring state capitals, it seems that their base is at sea, and these people left by boat. ”
There is some truth to this analysis, otherwise it would be difficult to understand where so many people would be hiding.
"Then how should we find the location of the island next?" Nangong Muwu asked, and the focus of the investigation had changed at this time.
"It's not easy to find the island, but we can start with their access to the sea. Jing Feng made a suggestion.
Tie Yi nodded, "What Brother Jing said is very good, finding the location of going out to sea and entering the sea, and then using it to search for the island, the difficulty is reduced a lot. ”
The house burned down, and no clues could be found, Tie Yi led the officials to follow behind Jing Feng and Nangong Muwu,
Nangong Muwu relied on his memory to point out the direction of the disappearance of the footprints he saw that night, "Start from here, go straight to the southeast." ”
Tie Yi nodded and said to his subordinates: "Sun Yuan, you lead the three people to continue to investigate this small village thoroughly, and if there are any clues, you must keep them and report them in time." The rest of the people follow me, as well as Brother Nangong and Brother Jing, let's find those bandits together and wipe them out!"