Chapter 19: Wu Qixiong is missing
Duan Qianqiu knew that the more anxious he was, the more chaotic he became, he was busy reining in his mind, his arm was like steel and iron, and he was hard to resist Tian Hengyu's three moves to break the jade magic skill, and his arm was numb, but he also forced Tian Hengyu to retreat to the corner.
Duan Qianqiu's purpose was in the black jade blood ginseng, he saw that Bi Baicao was about to jump out of the study, his body rushed towards Bi Baicao like a swift wind, and the cloud piercing palm struck out for the second time, at this time, Tian Hengyu's palm power beside him had already hit.
Duan Qianqiu was helpless, his body was slightly twisted, Tian Hengyu's stele palm swept over his shoulder, Duan Qianqiu's shoulder was like being pressed by Mount Tai, his blood surged, and the cloud-piercing palm that he shot out was deflected, but it still hit Bi Baicao.
Bi Baicao roared, his body smashed the window lattice and flew out of the house, and the house fell into darkness, only Duan Qianqiu's heavy breathing was heard.
Tian Hengyu's figure did not stop, and he stretched out his palm to take Duan Qianqiu's injured right shoulder. Duan Qianqiu no longer answered, and he followed Bi Baicao out of the window.
At this time, the light of torches flashed in the courtyard in the distance outside the window, and the figures rushed from far and near, and Duan Qianqiu looked at it intently
, Bi Baicao has disappeared.
But behind him, Tian Hengyu has been killed like a ghost.
Duan Qianqiu knew that it was impossible to get back the black jade blood ginseng tonight, his body jumped up sharply, avoiding Tian Hengyu's palm, the person had already arrived at a rockery, Tian Hengyu followed like a maggot with a bone, Duan Qianqiu kicked the mountain stone, the mountain stone flew to Tian Hengyu, and at the same time, the third palm of the cloud piercing palm struck out!
Tian Hengyu grabbed the palm of his hand, and the mountain stone that hit his face was shattered, flying like cotton wool, but Duan Qianqiu's third cloud-piercing palm, he could only avoid it! When he jumped on the rockery again, the night was dark, as if it had swallowed everything, covering everything, and Duan Qianqiu had disappeared.
After a while, the soldiers of the Caodu Yamen arrived, and the torches were bright, surrounding Tian Hengyu in the middle.
Tian Hengyu stood in the courtyard with his hands behind his back, pacing Shi Shiran. When Wei Wenting and Cai Liancheng arrived, he only bowed to Cai Liancheng and said, "Little Prime Minister, there is no Wu Qixiong in the mansion, when we arrived, the people in the mansion were already dead, and there was no one alive." ”
Cai Liancheng has never been a humble and polite person, but he actually arched his hand to Tian Hengyu and said, "General Tian has just fought with someone, who is coming?"
Tian Hengyu looked at the many soldiers beside him, only nodded, and did not speak.
Cai Liancheng was annoyed by the quick words just now, so he said to Wei Wenting: "Lord Wei, can you send someone to search for Lord Wu in the mansion?"
Wei Wenting said in a deep voice: "Someone has already done it." After that, he pointed at Tian Hengyu and asked, "Who is this person, why did he break into the Wu Mansion at night?"
Cai Liancheng knew that Wei Wenting still didn't believe him, so he retreated many soldiers into the distance, and then pulled Wei Wenting aside and whispered: "Lord Wei, do you think that I am framing Lord Wu, and now I am sending someone to destroy his entire family?"
Wei Wenting was silent, his eyes suspicious.
Cai Liancheng said: "Master Wei, you just need to think about it, what good will it do me to frame Lord Wu, and then pull you in?"
Wei Wenting thought carefully, Cai Liancheng is indeed reasonable, as we all know, he belongs to Cai Xun's lineage, whether he admits it or not, without Cai Xun, there would be no current Cao Governor Wei Wenting, although he has no role in Cai Xun's party struggle, but he has outstanding political achievements and outstanding political reputation, but Cai Xun's positive momentum in the court has helped a lot, Cai Liancheng, as Cai Xiang's eldest son heir, has no reason to overthrow him.
But if what Cai Liancheng said is true, what is Wu Qixiong's purpose? Where is he now, and why is his entire government poisoned?
A series of questions, like the suffocating breath before a big storm, weighed him down.
He didn't answer any more questions from Cai Liancheng, he has been immersed in officialdom for a long time, and he knows that sometimes a thousand words are not as good as a silence.
Cai Liancheng saw that he was silent, and thought in his heart: "Even if it is to win the spring breeze and return to the wild goose, it is too much to destroy Wu Qixiong, Wei Wenting has always been an official and does things, what is the purpose of placing such a heavy bargaining chip? He has never been attached to any faction, could it be that he wants to sit big?"
Cai Liancheng had a string of question marks in his heart, and he was also heavy-hearted, and the two of them were speechless for a while, so they froze on the spot.
After a while, the soldiers came to report that all 38 people in the Wu Mansion, including the servants, were dead, and Wu Qixiong's wife and concubine and daughter were also among them, but Wu Qixiong himself and his only son were nowhere to be found.
After a preliminary examination of the corpses, all of them were poisoned and died at about the same time, indicating that the murder was premeditated.
Wei Wenting's face was as cold as ice, and he asked someone to protect and sort out the scene and arrange the aftermath.
He was about to send someone to report the history of Huaiyin's assassination, because this was already a local public security criminal case, and it was supposed to be handed over to the local government to investigate and deal with, and Cai Liancheng was in the criminal department to be punished, and he had the right to be questioned, but Wu Qixiong was a third-grade official, and he and his eldest son were missing, and they were destroyed, which must be a major case, and the Dali Temple in the capital also needs to be sent to preside over the investigation.
Cai Liancheng stopped him and explained to him: "Lord Caodu, the current tragedy of the Wu family's destruction is very likely to be related to the brocade box received by Lord Wu, we should search his entire mansion first, and it is not too late to report the assassination history when the traces of the brocade box are found." ”
Wei Wenting said coldly: "I don't know what the brocade box is, if Lord Cai wants to find it, you can wait for Lord Assassin Shi or wait for the imperial court to come and search together, and Wei will not accompany him." Farewell!" After that, he ordered to report the history of Huaiyin's assassination, and ordered the Cao soldiers to strictly control the scene, and then walked away.
Cai Liancheng's eyes flashed with anger, but he couldn't attack, so he could only lead his people out of the Wu Mansion. Returning to his mansion near the Yunju Teahouse, he also temporarily set up his office here, and he felt that Huaiyin Mansion was now full of storms, and the coming of a violent storm was inevitable.
After Duan Qianqiu left the Wu Mansion, he sneaked back to the inn where he settled before the officers and soldiers surrounded him.
His shoulder injury was extremely painful, but fortunately he was protected by soft armor and did not break his bones. After applying medicine to his shoulder, he removed the human skin mask from his face with potions and tools. Now Xiao Tietang's identity has been exposed and can no longer be used.
After everything was cleaned up, he began to abandon distracting thoughts and meditate cross-legged, his martial arts came from the family tradition, but not from his parents, but from his grandfather, a serious, old-fashioned, strange old man, this old man never told him about family affairs, only said that he was his grandfather, and did not tell Duan Qianqiu his own name, so Duan Qianqiu could only call him "grandpa" all the time.