Tibet

With the cover of night, Cheng Xiao left the post house and came to the house of the county captain Wang Bin.

He was taken directly to the back hall, where Zhang Huan and Jiang Quan were already waiting for him.

As soon as he sat down, Cheng Xiao didn't have time to take a sip of water, so he knocked on the table and said dissatisfiedly: "What's going on? Zou Xiancheng actually turned against him and brought back all the county government's catchers!"

Zhang Huan and Jiang Quan looked at each other, and Jiang Quan asked anxiously: "Didn't Cheng Sizhi receive my letter?"

Cheng Xiao was stunned, shook his head and said: "What letter? I didn't receive any letter!"

Jiang Quan was like a dog that failed in a fight. All his energy and energy disappeared, and he collapsed on the couch, "It's over, it's completely over!"

"What's over? What happened? Have you done what the Prime Minister told you?"

Zhang Huan shook his head, "We accomplished nothing!"

Cheng Xiao was immediately furious and knocked on the table and said: "How did the Prime Minister tell you to come here in advance, take away the list, replace it with a fake list, and then unify the caliber and arrange the corpses? You guys are all eating dry food." ? Why didn’t you do anything?”

Jiang Quan was also irritated, jumped up, pointed at Cheng Xiao's nose and yelled: "You are just doing nothing, and you come to accuse others without doing anything. Do you know where our warriors have gone? Do you know Yang Jian was so frightened that he fled with the Qingshan Tower warriors? Do you know how the warrior who sent the message disappeared? Do you know how the other party killed people? He grabbed your hair and cut off your neck with a knife. He was more vicious than the devil. You Have you ever seen such a killing? You haven’t seen any shit, and you still have the nerve to accuse us?”

Zhang Huan quickly advised: "Sir, calm down! Calm down! Cheng Si does not understand the situation. Once he understands the situation, he will not criticize us."

Cheng Xiao was scolded like crazy, but he understood a little better. He hesitated and asked, "Is it possible that the Li family also sent an advance team?"

Zhang Huan nodded, "That's right, we have already competed."

"Who is sent by the Li family?"

"Li Ye!"

"Hiss!" Cheng Xiao gasped, it was the murderous demon king who came.

"How did you compete?"

Zhang Huan briefly explained what happened in the past few days. Cheng Xiao frowned as he heard this. He was simply a scoundrel. He came directly to the door and robbed him. When he heard about the incident in Mawang Township, Cheng Xiao couldn't help but said: "So cruel Brutal, you write a detailed report and I will impeach him!"

Jiang Quan sneered: "Is it appropriate for us to interfere in the Yang family's affairs?"

Cheng Xiao was speechless and could only curse bitterly: "The Yang family is too useless. What's the use of establishing Qingshan Tower? Why don't you just get beaten up and run away?"

Zhang Huan sighed and said: "This man does not follow the rules and is ruthless. I guess Zou Xiancheng was also threatened by him, otherwise he would not be like this."

Cheng Xiao said worriedly: "The key is how we will explain to the Prime Minister when we go back? We will start investigating tomorrow."

Jiang Quan put his hands on the table, lowered his voice, and said to the two of them with cold eyes: "Unless Shang Fangguan suddenly becomes seriously ill tonight and leaves Heyang overnight, the investigation will be suspended and the investigation will be restarted when Zhang Xiangguo comes in person!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a dagger ‘Whoosh! ' The shot came in and was nailed to the back of Jiang Quan's left hand. The back of his hand was shot through, and he was nailed to the table.

"ah--"

Jiang Quan raised his head and screamed in pain. Zhang Huan and Cheng Xiao quickly took four or five steps back, staring at the dagger on the back of Jiang Quan's hand in horror, as if they had seen a ghost.

Early the next morning, a group of people came to Qiligou. The head catcher Wu Feng pointed to a mound and said: "We were here at that time. Magistrate Li was riding here. I held a shield and a knife in front of him."

"Where are the bows and arrows?" Fang Guan asked.

"Replying to the envoy, I have the bow and arrows on my back, so I can't use them for the time being."

Fang Guan nodded, "Continue talking!"

"The brothers were standing in front with water and fire sticks. At that time, we found many farmers holding hoes, iron forks and wooden sticks in their hands. We were all nervous!"

"Then what?"

"Then Magistrate Li shouted, "Don't mess around. Sit down and discuss anything. If you mess around, you won't be able to get a share of the imperial tax exemption!" "

Fang Guan stroked his beard and nodded secretly. This is true. Li Yu is not as stupid as he thought!

"Go on, what's next?"

"Next, someone in the peasant team shouted, 'Don't believe their lies. If we kill them, the court will take them seriously and we will be exempted from taxes.' Then the peasants yelled and rushed up, scaring us so much that we turned around and ran away."

"You didn't fight the farmers? Suppressed them?"

Wu Feng smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, there are thousands of people on the other side! We took out hoes and iron forks in our hands. There are only thirty-two of us. How can we resist? It's good if we can escape with our lives. We surrounded the county magistrate and fled for our lives. We ran for five or six miles before we stopped, and found that they were not pursuing us, so we did not dare to go back. In the afternoon, we heard that people had died, hundreds of them. We all thought that the farmers trampled each other to death."

"Didn't any of you go and investigate on the spot, how did you die?"

"Well, County Lieutenant Wang came back to investigate and told us that they were all trampled to death, and some of their intestines were stepped out."

Everyone looked at Wang Bin, and Wang Bin said with a guilty conscience: "I heard what others said, and I didn't go to the scene."

At this time, Peng Haiyan stood up and said: "I have been to the scene and found a large amount of blood, just two miles ahead!"

Fang Guan nodded, "Go and have a look!"

The crowd continued walking along the official road, and after turning a corner, Peng Haiyan pointed to an open space and said: "Look, everyone, there is a large piece of land here that is brown in color. It is actually stained with blood. There are more than sixty people here." He was killed right here.”

Fang Guan looked at it and asked, "Captain Wu, have you been here before?"

The head catcher Wu Feng shook his head like a rattle, "There are farmers all the way, and the roads are blocked. How can we get through? Besides, this is a turning point, and we can't see what's happening here at all, so We don’t know anything.”

Censor Zheng Ang snorted and said: "I don't know who caused the bloodstains here. I think it was because there were too many people, the road was narrow, and there was a serious stampede. Cheng Sizhi, what do you think?"

Cheng Xiao was very silent today and didn't say a word. When he saw that Zheng Ang finally asked him, he could only say perfunctorily: "Although I am the director of Dali Temple in my humble position, this is the first time I have encountered this kind of thing, so I don't dare to speak nonsense!"

Zheng Ang immediately glared at him, what happened to this bastard today? Did he let himself go shirtless alone?

Fang Guan waved his hand and said: "There is no need to draw conclusions prematurely. Just ask the dead and injured people to find out."

Fang Guan turned around and asked, "Has Zou County Cheng gone to find witnesses?"

"We set off early in the morning and will probably be here soon."

Everyone waited for about a quarter of an hour. Zou County Prime Minister brought more than thirty people. He stepped forward and said: "Reporting to the Minister, these are the people we found from the five villages in Mawang Township. There are ten family members of the deceased and the rest." It’s the injured.”

Fang Guan is the chief officer of the Criminal Department and is very professional. They have a strict system for verifying evidence and witnesses. Fang Guan ordered the verification officer: "Verify their identities!"

How to verify identity? First, state your name and home address. For example, if a person is called Chen Gui, you have to say which Chen and which Gui. If you are an imposter, you may only know how to read it, but not how to write it.

This step is right, then take the second step, which is also the most important step, to check the fingerprints. When they receive the money and grain, they all take their fingerprints and leave their fingerprints. If they do not come to receive the money in person, they can first use the testimony and then supplement the authentication. fingerprint.

After a while, except that the three people did not come to receive the money and food on their own, everything else was checked and approved.

Fang Guan asked an old man: "What do you call me, my father-in-law? Where is your home?"

"Replying to the master, this little old man's surname is Wang Dashan. He lives in Sanhuai Village, Mawang Township."

Fang Guan nodded, "Are you a family member of the deceased or an injured person?"

"The little old man is the injured one!"

"Let me see where it's hurt!"

The old man took off his shirt, leaving his upper body bare, and he saw that there was still ointment on his left shoulder socket, "I was hit by an arrow here!"

A coroner from the Ministry of Justice came forward to examine his injuries, nodded and said to Fang Guan: "Servant, it's an arrow wound. Judging from the scab, it was at least half a month ago!"

In other words, the wounds were not caused intentionally in the past two days.

Fang Guan smiled and asked, "Where did you get injured?"

"This is where a lot of arrows were shot from the bamboo forest. Many people were hit by the arrows and died. Everyone was in a mess. I wanted to run for my life, but the second round of arrows came out and one hit me in the shoulder socket!"

Fang Guan nodded and asked the other twenty injured farmers: "Are you all injured here?"

"Exactly!"

Everyone was talking: "A lot of arrows were shot from the bamboo forest. We couldn't hide and were hit by arrows. Many masked men in black rushed out of the forest and started killing people!"

Fang Guan turned around and asked Zheng Ang, "Does Yushi Zheng have any objections?"

Zheng Ang said with a livid face: "It is necessary to find out who these men in black are? Are they other killers arranged by Li Yu? Li Yu has threatened these farmers and will kill them all if they make trouble again. He has a motive to kill. .”