Lin Fengsheng listened and hurriedly went in to check, only to see a slender woman's corpse lying prone on the ground, with a single knife stuck in her back, the blood from the wound had already coagulated and changed color, and it was obvious that she had been dead for a while.

Duan Zhiying stretched out his foot and flipped the female corpse over, the female corpse's face was covered with a black cloth, and she couldn't see her face clearly, and exclaimed: "She is the one who sold us water to drink, why did she die, who would kill her?"

Lin Fengsheng said: "It seems that this person is innocent and has been killed." Suddenly remembering something, he asked, "In addition to that Fu Daen, are there any other soldiers missing?"

Duan Zhiying said: "We have counted carefully, and no one else is missing. ”

Lin Fengsheng nodded, pulled out a single knife, handed it to Duan Zhiying, and said, "Put it away, this is the thief's murder weapon, and it may be used as evidence in court in the future." ”

Duan Zhiying wiped the blood stains on the knife with the corner of his robe, and suddenly exclaimed: "General, there is something strange on this knife. ”

Lin Fengsheng took a closer look, and saw that the blade was engraved with the words "Weichu Mansion Ya" near the hilt, and said: "The mark of the Yamen, it seems that this person was killed by Fu Daen, this should be his saber." Let's go back for the time being, and order someone to arrest him as soon as possible. ”

A few people were about to turn around and leave the house, when Mei Ruoxue suddenly said, "Cousin, look, what's wrong with her face." ”

It turned out that Mei Ruoxue was curious and used a sword to pick open the black cloth on the face of the female corpse, only to see that the woman's face was full of devastation, and her skin was already a little ulcerated, but it was vaguely visible that her facial features were good and not ugly.

Duan Zhiying said: "I think that her face was deliberately destroyed by the thief who robbed the food and salary, but I am afraid that it is not the woman who sold us water to drink." In this way, it seems that this woman is probably a substitute for the dead. ”

Lin Fengsheng was also a little confused, and said, "I'm afraid that if this is the case, the person who sold water to you also had a black cloth on his face at that time?"

Duan Zhiying said: "Exactly, I also thought it was strange at the time, but she said that she was suffering from a vicious disease, and her appearance was very ugly and embarrassed to see people, so she covered her face with a black cloth every day. ”

Lin Fengsheng muttered: "From this point of view, there are two possibilities, one is that this woman is really a ghost for the dead, and the thieves have held her hostage, and then disguised herself as her to deceive you, and then kill her after the matter is completed." The second is that this person was indeed the person who carried the water to poison that day, and after he succeeded, he was killed by his accomplices because of the uneven distribution of the spoils. ”

However, robbery and distribution of spoils can only occur in ordinary one-legged thieves, so it is more likely to be the former. After analyzing for a while, they didn't understand the essentials, and then returned to the main road.

At that moment, he gave a few orders to several soldiers guarding the scene, telling them to closely monitor the movements in the vicinity to see if there were any suspicious people passing by, and bury the woman who died tragically by the way. The four of them immediately got on their horses and hurried back to the Weichu Mansion.

As soon as he returned to the mansion, Li Baohua greeted him with a happy face, bowed down and said, "General, good news, Fu Daen has been arrested by the lower officials." ”

Lin Fengsheng sighed, very surprised, and said, "So fast, where was it captured?"

Li Baohua's face was pale, and he said: "The lower officials ordered someone to post a notice to arrest Fu Daen overnight, and this afternoon, some people came to report that they had found Fu Daen's traces, and this guy was hiding in a field haystack in a village ten miles away to sleep." So the lower official personally brought people and horses to arrest him. ”

Lin Fengsheng nodded, and secretly wondered: "How can this person be so careless, I'm afraid that things are not as simple as imagined." He asked, "Where is Fu Da's benefactor?"

Li Baohua thought that he had easily caught the suspect this time, which could be said to be indispensable, and General Yun Lu would naturally look at him differently, and his smug expression was even greater, and said: "Now that he has been detained in the cell of the government office, the lower officials have ordered people to torture him heavily, I believe that if he can't stand it, he will be recruited from the truth." ”

Lin Fengsheng glared at him, didn't say a word, and immediately walked towards the cell.

Fu Daen is burly, about thirty years old, he has been beaten by his fellow government officials, and his clothes are stained with blood, but he still has angry eyebrows and gritted his teeth without saying a word.

Lin Fengsheng hurriedly rushed into the cell, grabbed the whip of the government official with his hand, and shouted: "How can you abuse the punishment without evidence and evidence, what is the use of beating him into a trick? Why don't you quickly remove the shackles from his body!"

When several officials saw General Yunlu's sudden anger, they were so frightened that they even claimed that they had opened Fu Daen's chains according to his words. Fu Daen couldn't support it anymore at this time, and fell to the ground with a bang.

Li Baohua didn't know why, and said incomprehensibly: "General, this person robbed the army's food and salary, and he is heinous, how can the general ......?"

Lin Fengsheng's face sank and said, "Master Li, just imagine, if this person is really a felony who robbed the food and salary, and has already gone away at this moment, how can he be stupid enough to throw himself into the net? Now that the facts of the case are still unclear, does the Lord really want to bend into a trick?"

Li Baohua's face was blue and white for a while, he was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly laughed and said: "How dare you dare, it's all to blame the subordinate for making his own opinions, and from now on, he should obey the general's orders." ”

Lin Fengsheng no longer paid attention to Li Baohua and said, "Cousin, Senior Sister Fengyi, you go and get a basin of water, and then find some medicine that can stop the bleeding." ”

He ordered two officials to help Fu Daen to his room, and after a while, Chen Fengyi brought clean water, Lin Fengsheng personally scrubbed the wound for him, Mei Ruoxue came in with the wound medicine, and Lin Fengsheng dressed the wound for him.

The wound medicine is Mei Ruoxue's belongings, analgesic and hemostasis, very effective, Fu Daen's spirit was lifted, and he struggled to kneel down and said: "Humble Fu Daen, see General Yunlu." ”

Lin Fengsheng stretched out his hand to hold it up and asked, "You haven't been in the mansion for the past two days, how do you know my identity?"

Fu Daen said: "Although I have never met the general, the general's name has long been like thunder. On the day of the Diancangshan Martial Arts Conference, the general showed his might, defeated dozens of heroes in a row, and won the position of the leader of the alliance in one fell swoop. ”

Lin Fengsheng sighed and said, "Did you go to the Cangshan Martial Arts Conference?"

Fu Daen shook his head and said: "Being in the public gate, although I am fascinated, I can't do it, which is really a regret in my life." Humiliation is heard from friends in the word. ”

Lin Fengsheng smiled slightly and said: "The rumors in the rivers and lakes cannot be believed, what happened yesterday, is the bandit who robbed the food and salary really related to you?"

Fu Daen said with an innocent face: "The general is wronged, even if he has great courage, he doesn't dare to do such a rebellious thing." Besides, Zhang Jieba and other bandits have harmed the people of Weichu so hard, and they finally looked forward to the heroes of the righteous army, how could they take revenge and embarrass the general. ”

Lin Fengsheng saw that his sincerity did not seem to be fake, so he nodded and said, "I believe that you are innocent, and you will tell me in detail about the situation after the incident." ”

Fu Daen said: "Obey orders." At that time, a group of lowly brothers met General Duan and others who were escorting the food and salary thirty miles away from Qingfeng Ridge, and learned that the general led the army to arrive soon, and Zhang Jieba and other bandits had become grasshoppers after the autumn, and everyone was happy in their hearts......"

Lin Fengsheng interrupted: "I already know the situation, you just need to tell the truth about the situation after you were fascinated by sweat medicine." ”

Fu Da Enlian claimed that it was, and said: "The humble man was the first to drink the water, who would have thought that the water would be drugged by that person." When I woke up, I found myself in a cave under a cliff, and a group of masked robbers were loading grain, grass and silver. I asked them what they were doing to catch me, and they just sneered and didn't answer. ”

Lin Fengsheng said: "Could it be that they really pushed the grain off the cliff in the west, and your disappearance will definitely arouse our suspicion, so you have naturally become a scapegoat?"

Fu Daen said: "The general is wise, and his guess is not bad at all." They kept me in a cave and worked day and night to carry food and wages, and I don't know where it went. A man came in early this morning and knocked me unconscious, and when I woke up, I was already on the grass in the farmland, and soon Master Li led someone to arrest me. ”

Lin Fengsheng nodded slightly, and asked again, "Where is your saber now?"

Fu Daen said in a panic: "Damn it, after waking up, the saber disappeared, I think it was taken away by robbers." ”

Lin Fengsheng secretly thought: "If Fu Daen is telling the truth, why should this gang of thieves do more, wouldn't it be self-revealing to let one come back alive, what is the purpose of this." ”

Why are the ruts on the road of different shades, and are there really holes under the cliffs? All kinds of details are difficult to understand, and even more confusing and confusing.

At that moment, he asked the officials to escort Fu Daen back to the cell, and he was no longer tortured to extract a confession, and said to Fu Daen: "If you are really innocent, this general will return you justice, and you will be wronged for the time being." ”

I secretly made up my mind that I planned to go to the cliff of Qingfeng Ridge tomorrow to find out. If the situation under the cliff is really consistent with what Fu Daen said, then most of the robbers have other people, and if he is untruthful, this case will have nothing to do with him.

After a night of anxiety, he ordered Li Baohua to prepare a few bundles of long ropes, took Mei Ruoxue and Chen Fengyi, and set foot on the road to Qingfeng Ridge again.

The three of them walked for more than two hours, and because of the hot weather, the horses were panting and running slower and slower, and when they saw that there was a wine shop on the side of the road in front of them, they dismounted and struck.