Chapter 15: Clues
In the yali of Qiantang County, fifty-year-old Lord Zhang was sweating profusely in front of a young man wearing a black suit, wearing an embroidered spring knife, and a scar on his face.
"Lord Ma is angry, angry, the official didn't expect that there would be such a vicious gangster near my Qiantang County, and the officer immediately notified General Jiao of the Shenji Battalion to transfer troops to suppress the bandits, who expected that the horse bandits were fierce, and the entire battalion of soldiers was gone, this ~ this~"
'Bang!' A pot of tea was swept to the ground and splashed all over the official uniform, but Master Zhang did not dare to move: "Zhang De! At this time, you still want to quibble! According to the report from the spies of the Six Doors, the horse bandits obviously started their activities in the middle of last month, but you only reported to the prefect at the beginning of this month, and you did not report it to the prefect at the beginning of this month! You are such a big dog! If it weren't for your delay and prevarication, how could Master Jiao's actions let the horse bandits get the news! A battalion of 300 soldiers was killed in battle, who knows if you have fornicated with horse bandits in Qiantang County! Punishment of your capital crime is considered light!"
"Master Ma spares his life!" Zhang De knelt on the ground with a miserable scream, and cried: "I really have selfish intentions in the next place, and the three-year term will expire, if the horse bandit is under the rule of this county, a middle and lower evaluation is indispensable, Zhang is only doing this for the sake of a smooth career, who would have thought that the horse bandit was so fierce, the county's officials could not suppress it, and they had to report it to General Jiao, General Jiao Jimingling was ambushed and did not know, and even when General Jiao led the troops to come to the county, this horse bandit did not have anything to do with Zhang!"
"Hmph, why did Lord Zhang pack up and run away that night after hearing that General Jiao was killed, if it weren't for the official 800 miles in an emergency, the Lord must be flying in the sky now!" Ma Cai sneered.
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"Shut up!" Ma Cai shouted: "Don't think that you can escape with a Hubu Shangshu as a backer, you really think that this official can't kill you!" took out a jade plaque from his sleeve and slapped it on the table, "Look what this is?"
The jade plaque was engraved with four gold hooks and silver strokes of four big characters, 'Hunting for the Heavens', and eight small characters were written in the lower right corner: 'Edict Hundred Officials, First Chop and then Play!'
"Jin Wu Ling!" is it ...... Your Majesty" Zhang De's face was like ashes.
Ma Cai's face softened, helped Zhang De up, and whispered in his ear: "Lord Zhang has done a bad job in this matter, what is the place behind Qiantang County, Luodu, this dynasty is accompanied by the capital, there are a lot of royal relatives in it, and the horse bandits are in turmoil, can these princes and princes not be frightened!
"Come on! Put the criminal officer Zhang De in prison and wait for his fate. "Two Fanzi, who had sharp hats and green clothes and a Pu knife on their waists, took the order and dragged Zhang De away like a corpse.
"Before the imperial court order is issued, the official is temporarily in charge of Qiantang and has the power to enforce the county order, and you need to make meritorious service for your crimes! Don't miss your own life!"
"My lord, there are three people outside asking to see you!" a fan whispered to Ma Cai, "This is the old man's jade pendant!"
Ma Cai looked at the jade pendant, took a breath of cold air, and immediately said, "Please ask these three people to meet in the back hall." โ
In the back hall of the county government, Ma Cai hurried over to find three teenagers; Ma Cai was puzzled but his face did not move, and he arched his hand and said: "I don't know what the relationship between the three of them and Zhou Xunzhou's predecessors is?
Zhou Qian scratched his head and said: "I am his apprentice! This is my eldest brother Wang Hu, second brother Li Sanshan, the master asked us to help you catch the horse bandits, let us listen to you in everything." โ
"This, I don't know where Senior Zhou is? Ma Cai frowned and looked at the three teenagers, thinking that this senior was too weird, what was the use of letting these three teenagers come.
"This is a letter that the master asked me to hand over to my lord. Zhou Qian took out a letter from his arms.
Ma Cai took it, and after seeing it, his face changed slightly, and he immediately said: "Since it is the request of the senior Zhou, the younger generation should obey it, and my six-door spies have found traces of horse bandits in the estuary, so I will trouble the three young men to investigate." Then he ordered a fan to take the three to the mouth of the river.
Ma Cai looked at the disappeared backs of the three of them, and was silent for a while. There was a fan son behind him who said boldly: "My lord, although this Zhou Xun is a first-class figure in the rivers and lakes, but the adult is a guard with a knife in front of the emperor, and he catches his head in brocade clothes, wouldn't it be child's play to let these three teenagers do this?"
"What do you know?" Ma Cai turned around and reprimanded, "That Lantian Pisces jade pendant is a gift from His Majesty, seeing jade is like seeing people, besides, there are many strange people in the rivers and lakes, and all martial arts are unpredictable, my six doors have suffered heavy losses in this case, and I have to borrow the power of these people, don't say this in the future, I let you and others gather how many martial arts people came?"
"Ghost leg Zhao San, the head of the Four Seas Dart Bureau Qian Zong Dart and his twenty silver order dart masters, the brothers and sisters of the Golden Sword Wang family, the Fakong monk, the fast knife A Fei, the money dart Liu Shou, and the head of the local gang Qiantang Sword Sect Liu Yifan and three elders, the flower beggar Feng Bu stingy. My lord, is it a big fuss to invite so many martial arts masters here?" said Fanzi carefully.
"This matter is by no means simple, as long as they are sound-headed, horse bandits will not cause chaos under Luodu, and how can there be evil people in the valley of evil people and people in the chain dock among the horse bandits? They are by no means just trying to make ordinary money!"
Zhou Qian and the three of them rushed to the mouth of the river with the fanzi, the mouth of the lower reaches of the Qiantang Lake is gourd-shaped, and there are dense jungles on both sides, and the surging river water in the Qiantang is flooded during the high tide, and the embankment cannot be stopped, and the trouser legs of the four people have already been submerged by the lake.
"Shut up!" Wang Hu shouted, "The senior's approach has his own intentions, and we, as juniors, should not speculate on our own." โ
"Boss, why are you so obedient?" Second Brother Li muttered.
Fan Zi led the three of them to a remote place, took out a strange-looking whistle, blew three short and one long whistles, and after a while, three men in robes came out of the depths of the jungle.
"What's the matter?" said the gloomy man in the lead.
Fanzi took a few steps forward and whispered a few words to the gloomy man, who looked at the three of them suspiciously, and then said: "Since the three little brothers are willing to assist in handling the case, it will not be better! โ
Gong Yi called out Fanzi, and led the three of them to walk and said: "The Shenji Battalion was ambushed in the Jiming Valley, and after the news was learned, I took people to investigate on the horse, who knew that the horse bandit was crazy! Three hundred soldiers, whether dead or alive, were all made into adult horse stakes......
"What do you mean by a human stake?" Zhou Qian said curiously.
"Sharpen the top of the stake, insert it from the buttocks, stick it out of the mouth, nail it to the ground, and cut off the limbs of the person, and the victim will not be able to survive, and he will not be able to die!" Gong Yi glanced at Zhou Qian with dissatisfaction and said coldly.
A chill came out of the backs of the three of them at the same time, what a madness!
"I set up spies to survey around, just now there are four people in black sneaking outside the valley of Jiming, see me and so on to escape, a chase and escape into the estuary jungle, originally the four people have been injured by us, who would have expected that the thief a flying rocket came out, a large number of accomplices came to the tea kung fu, under a fierce battle, the man in black snatched the corpse of his companion and escaped, we can't pursue. โ
Came to the scene of the fight, it was really a mess, the surrounding grass and trees were messy and broken, there were dozens of six doors scattered around, sixteen people died, and more than a dozen people were bandaging their wounds.
Gong Yi seemed to be quite unimpressed with the help of Zhou Qian and the three of them, and after greeting him, he led his subordinates to command and deploy, leaving the three of them to look at each other.
Indeed, the six doors are worthy of being the secret agent of the imperial court, with extremely high efficiency and a clear division of labor, some explore the terrain, some conduct autopsies, some guard the surroundings, and some investigate the scene, and the three of them do feel a little redundant.
Zhou Qian approached a spy, who was muttering about a knife mark on a tree, and the pen in his hand kept writing on parchment.
"The knife is one zhang seven long, about three inches into the wood, the thief should be the right hand holding the knife, the knife is ruthless, heavy, this knife is a horizontal chop, so the height is about six feet four inches, the arm length is ......"
"It's amazing!" Zhou Qian couldn't help but say.
The man frowned and glared at Zhou Gan, Zhou Gan sneered, knowing that he had disturbed others, smeared oil on the soles of his feet and flashed to the side.
It just so happened that there was an autopsy nearby, and Zhou Qian was not afraid of the corpse, so he came to him.
The man squatted beside the corpse, with gloves on his hands, examined the wound of the deceased for a long time, then took out a black vial, and dripped two drops of colorless liquid on the wound, the wound immediately turned black, and a foul smell came to his nose, and he immediately got up and said to Gong Yi with a solemn face: "The enemy's knife is poisonous!"
"Despicable!" Gong Yi scolded angrily, and hurriedly said, "Can you make an antidote?"
"The poison itself should be wolftooth juice, it is not very toxic, as long as the antidote is made within an hour, it should be fine, butโ" He hesitated for a moment.
"Something to say!" Gong Yi said impatiently.
"The six deceased were all stabbed in the throat and heart, and the wounds were about half a foot, all of which were fatal with a single knife! The murderer's knife technique was extremely ruthless and profound; in this case, is it a bit redundant to apply poison with this knife? In other words, with the status of such a master, even if he uses poison, it should not be such a superficial poison!"
"This ......," Gong Yi frowned and pondered, "You mean that this group of people deliberately concealed their identities and did not dare to use their own weapons?"
"I dare not speak falsely. He said humbly: "It's just that the enemy has the intention to lead us to the mouth of the river, and in a short period of time can gather a large number of masters, and after the fierce battle, we can not find the slightest trace of the enemy, unless the enemy can fly away, or take a boat down to Qiantang Lake, but the mouth of the lake has long been blocked by the Qiantang Lake outlet water army, then ......" Qi Zuo said here and simply shut up.
"Do you suspect that there is a traitor in the navy?" Gong Yi's eyes were like lightning, and he stabbed at him fiercely.
"I don't know about the lowly position, but the lowly position heard that Ma San, the deputy governor of the Qiantang Water Army, had a nickname when he was mixed in the rivers and lakes, and this black-clothed man led the knife quickly, accurately, and ruthlessly;
"That's enough! Framing an official of the court is a capital crime!" Gong Yi said in a low voice. "Don't mention this matter in the future!"
"What are you holding me for?" Not far away, there was a sudden scream like a dead father of Second Brother Li.
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