Section XI

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Night, a little deep.

Yunnan Governor Xu Zhiming's Mansion.

Luxurious as a royal mansion, the lamp wall is brilliant. There are rockeries, flower beds, ponds, small bridges, pavilions in the courtyard.

On both sides of the main entrance passage, there is a post in three steps and a post in five steps. All gates, paths, and courtyards are guarded by soldiers. There are also small teams of officers and soldiers who patrol on time, which can be described as heavily guarded.

Xu Zhiming's study.

A masked man in black stood and said to Xu Zhiming, who was watching the night scene outside the window:

During the day, Shen Tianpeng and others had already visited the Qujing Mansion. ”

"He is worthy of being an expert in handling cases in the Criminal Department, and as soon as he made a move, he took the key point. What is the situation with Tang Jian?" Xu Zhiming turned around and asked.

Even the account book and Deng Erheng's concubine and Deng Erheng's daughter were all confessed. He is currently being held in the government jail. The acting prefect was Yuan Tongju. Shen Tianpeng and others have rushed to Guizhou. ”

"Dog minions, raising this kind of waste for nothing. If he had known this, he should not have been allowed to live to this day. Xu Zhiming scolded indignantly. He asked again: "The night before, you took someone to try the martial arts of Shen Tianpeng and others, what did you gain?"

Shen Tianpeng and Yue Haikun are really first-class masters in the rivers and lakes. The masked man in black couldn't help but praise.

"Could it be that with your famous stunt, the Golden Bell Jar Iron Bush Fir is not their opponent?" Xu Zhiming said dissatisfied.

This masked man in black was originally an outcast in a small fishing village on the bank of the Jinsha River, lost his father at the age of two, and was kicked out of the house by his stepfather at the age of seven. In the meantime, in order to survive, he contracted a lot of bad habits; Whoever steals, robs, steals, cheats, abducts, and deceives..... Anything goes. When he was thirteen years old, he met an old monk who practiced with a compassionate and kind dervishes, and the old monk could not bear to be willing to fall and destroy his life, so he took him to the Nanputuo Temple under the five old peaks in southern Fujian, and wanted to use Buddhist scriptures to educate him to be good. Who would have thought that his bad habits would be difficult to change, and he was used to being free and casual since he was a child, and he couldn't stand the constraints and restrictions of the rules and precepts in the temple. Three years later, with a little literacy and hyphenation, he sought an opportunity to escape from Nanputuo Temple; When he escaped from Nanputuo Temple, he took the sheep and stole a martial arts secret book for practicing the golden bell jar of Tiebushan in the temple's scripture pavilion. Relying on self-study and self-training, he is talented and intelligent, and he has a very high understanding, and he actually opened up the second pulse of Ren Du Zhou Tian and practiced the top-level Tiebushan Golden Bell Jar martial arts. When he became an adult, he was already a famous Jiangyang thief in the southwest, he was too arrogant, he accidentally stole to Xu Zhiming's house, and was chased and captured by the "red bat". In less than two years, Xu Zhiming made him the first ruthless killer of the "Red Bat" organization with more than 100 killers, awarded him a gold bat chest ornament, served as the chief commander of the "Red Bat", and the master of the "Red Bat" Kunming Branch, and led the entire "Red Bat" organization for Xu Zhiming.

"That's not it, if you fight alone, your subordinates are not afraid of what kind of eagle claws and gossip palms he has; But to deal with the two of him at the same time, it is difficult to predict who will die. The subordinates are incompetent, I hope the adults will be tolerant!"

"There's no rush to this. There is no need to clash with them head-on for the time being. You just need to secretly send someone to follow them, let them go to the aunt and nephew of the Deng family and the account books, and once they get the account books, we will not be too late to do it. No matter how high his martial arts are, he can still escape from the palm of my dignified governor?!" As Xu Zhiming spoke, he slapped his palm on the desk, "What matters now is that the subordinates you sent to track down Deng Yiheng's sister and daughter, what news is there? Why hasn't there been a response for a long time?"

"Your Excellency, my subordinates were about to report this," the masked man in black replied with sincere fear. "More than a dozen of the subordinates sent by his subordinates have been killed, and even Xuan Mingzi, who has martial arts skills, was cut off by someone on the grass sea in Weining Prefecture, Guizhou. ”

"Is that the one-eyed old Taoist?Xuan Mingzi who knows how to use martial arts as the upper level of internal skills, "Piercing Flowers and Fluttering Butterfly Gong", "Xuanwu Gong", and "Nine Palace Pile Gong"?" Xu Zhiming was also surprised.

"That's right, it's him. They either died in the country road, or died in the dense forest, all of them were cut by a sword, and the incision into the throat was exactly an inch deep, neat and straight, clean and neat, if they were not top masters, they would not be able to leave such a wound. My subordinates also wondered, why were all of these dozen or so people at the level of masters among my killers? Who did it?"

"Where did such a person come from? Could it be that Shen Tianpeng and others did it? Is there really someone in Deng Yiheng's daughter and other group who has such a method? What countermeasures do you have?"

"The subordinates and Shen Tianpeng had a trick, and six people were killed, and it was definitely not their doing; As for whether Deng Yiheng's daughter and other people did it, the subordinates are not sure. This matter seems to be somewhat involved with the young son of the Lincang North Gate family. Because I heard that Deng Zishan, the youngest daughter of the Deng family, had a marriage contract with the young son of the Beimen family. When he was young, he was brave and fierce, and he had some kung fu, but he had never heard of any outstanding skills, and besides, he had stayed abroad for many years and had only recently returned. As for why the young prince of the North Gate suddenly returned home this time, and what purpose and motive it was, his subordinates are investigating it in detail. ”

"In this way, it seems that you had better go to find the account books and monitor the whereabouts of Shen Tianpeng and others. But before that, you can help me do two things. Xu Zhiming instructed. ,

"Do as your master commands!"

"Tang Jian has betrayed, and he is an important witness in Deng Erheng's case, and it is useless to keep it. He can't keep any insiders. Yuan Zhenglun is used by Shen Tianpeng, not a thing in my pool, and he is in a critical position in the prefect's mansion, like a fish thorn choking his throat, and sooner or later he will hurt me and other major things, so, do you know what to do?!"

"My subordinates understand, and they will do it immediately. ”

"It is necessary to use the eagle's claws and the eight trigrams to end the matter; It is necessary to make people look like Shen Tianpeng, Yue Haikun and other sect masters. This official is also good to play the court, suspecting that it was Shen Tianpeng and others who did it, and let the emperor and a group of ministers in the court speculate indiscriminately, whether he believes it or not, it can be delayed for a while. Xu Zhiming spoke, and handed the masked man in black a cardboard box, "This is the antidote to the poison you are waiting for this year, you take it and share it with your subordinates." You tell your subordinates to do this errand well, and as a reward, I will completely remove the poison from your body, and I will never break my word!"

"Thank you, Lord for your grace!"

"Turn around 'Lynx', except in case, you must not reveal your identity unless you have my secret order. ”

"It's obedience!"