Yan Cigui

 “Dead?” Zhu Cheng was stunned and stunned.

Li Yuanfa was clearly looking at them with his eyes wide open, how could he be dead?

 But facts cannot be false.

"What should I do?" Zhu Cheng said with a trembling voice, "I just pushed him, and I didn't mean to hurt him. I..."

Madam Wang held his hand tightly and said through gritted teeth: "Master, now is not the time to panic!"

Seeing that Zhu Cheng was still as headless as a fly, Mrs. Wang said word by word: "Master, this person has bad intentions!

He and the man surnamed Gao staged such a drama just to steal our gold bricks.

I swear to you, my godfather made it clear. He watched the two boxes of gold bricks being buried with his own eyes, and he will never make a mistake. "

"Perhaps it was replaced by someone else..." Zhu Cheng's thoughts were confused, "It's been so many years, who knows..."

“It’s impossible,” Madam Wang said, “My godfather just borrowed a place, and even the owner of the house at the time didn’t know anything was buried in the ground, and even after digging all these years, the foundation was never dug.

 Gao'an and Jing Daduan were both from other places. How could they know about this? What kind of forbidden books had been prepared in advance to deceive Li Yuanfa?

　　It is this Li Yuanfa who acted in such a play with Gao An after hearing the news from you.

　　It’s not just a matter of getting gold bricks, but I’m here to blackmail you. This kind of **** deserves to die. "

"Deserves it, deserves it..." Zhu Cheng repeated, and only in this way could he not be overwhelmed by the panic and self-blame of the murder, "He deserves it, he deserves it!"

Seeing that Zhu Cheng slowly calmed down, Mrs. Wang discussed again: "Li Yuanfa must be dealt with."

"How to deal with it?" Zhu Cheng asked, "Report to the official?"

 After asking, he vetoed it himself.

 You cannot report to the official, absolutely not.

"If you throw him out, he will hit his head and fall to death," Mrs. Wang said. "When it gets dark and the carriage comes to pick you up, we will throw him out. We don't know outside here. As long as he doesn't Being followed…”

Zhu Cheng was excited and motioned to his mother-in-law to open the door and take a look.

The mother-in-law opened a crack, looked around and found no suspicious person, so she closed the door again.

  She did not notice that there were two people hiding in a hidden corner not far away.

 They were the government servants who were ordered to follow Li Yuanfa.

The two men were murmuring when they saw Li Yuanfa entering the house and not coming out for a long time.

It wasn't until the second watch, when the rain poured down, that they saw the door of the house open.

 A carriage stopped at the door for a while and then left again soon.

 The two exchanged glances, one continued to watch, and the other ran after the car.

Not daring to follow too closely, and because it was difficult to walk in the rain, the yamen servant followed him to an alley, where the carriage disappeared, and he stamped his feet in annoyance.

Looking carefully, there seems to be some kind of shadow on the ground ahead.

 Seems like a person?

The yamen servant walked over and took a closer look. His face turned pale with fright!

Li Yuanfa stared at him.

 This posture, at first glance, seems to have run out of energy!

 Halfway through the second watch, Shan Shen, who had not yet slept soundly, was shouted out of bed again.

"Tell me, what's the matter?" he asked while getting dressed.

“Li Yuanfa was killed and his body was dumped in an alley.”

Shan Shen groaned and rubbed his shoulders, straining his muscles.

 After simply packing up, Shan Shen hurriedly wrapped himself in a raincoat and set out with his men.

 “How can you and others still allow others to be harmed?”

 “Has Wu Zuo rushed over?”

“Are you sure it was the family from Liuguo Hutong who did it? Are they surrounded?”

“Who is that family from? What did Li Yuanfa do with him?”

Shan Shen asked as he walked. When he walked out of the Yamen, he paused slightly.

 Do I have to invite the Clay Bodhisattva?

 The Duke of Fuguo came to sit in charge, and he seemed to be in good shape. Something happened in the case, and I didn’t know if he would hear anything. It might not be good. But after all, it was the middle of the night and it was raining heavily...

A yamen servant replied: "I don't know who lives in that house yet. After Li Yuanfa left the yamen in the morning, he went to see the Duke of Guo's personal entourage and said a few words. Then he went to Liuguo Hutong and stayed there until he was picked up by someone. A carriage was brought out..."

Hearing this, Shan Shen couldn't care less about the rain and the night, so he went to Fu Guogong's mansion to invite people.

 When Xu Jian arrived at the alley, it was already nearly the third watch.

Wu Zuo had done the most basic survey, but due to heavy rain, he had people transport Li Yuanfa back to the Yamen first.

Shan Shen stood aside and looked around.

“When the rain washed away the evidence, there was a lot less evidence,” Shan Shen and Xu Jian said. “All the ruts were washed away.”

Xu Jian lowered his eyes and said calmly: "At least there are witnesses. The Yamen servant saw Li Yuanfa enter the house with his own eyes, and another carriage appeared here."

Shan Shen lowered his voice and asked, "I heard that he asked the Duke's personal entourage about something today?"

"I told him," Xu Jian answered calmly, "We were going to fish with Li Yuanfa, but he couldn't find Zhu Cheng. I happened to know that, so I told him when he came to ask. Unexpectedly, I pointed him out. Dead road."

Shan Shen laughed dryly.

Logically speaking, it is right for the Duke to do this.

 Furthermore, no one expected that Li Yuanfa would die.

They let Li Yuanfa go out just for Zhu Cheng...

etc?

Shan Shen's face tensed up.

With a dull face, he asked Xu Jian: "You mean, the person in that house is Mr. Zhu Si?"

"Master Shan still doesn't know?" Xu Jian asked, and then added, "I saw him from a distance outside Liuguo Hutong. He seemed to be familiar with that area, so I asked him to try his luck..."

Shan Shen understood.

 Li Yuanfa's luck was terrible.

"Let's talk about it..." Shan Shen thought about it and said to Xu Jian in a low voice, "It's definitely not appropriate to release people from the Yamen. It's okay if nothing happens, but something happens..."

Shan Shen sighed, his luck was not good either.

"If it is really Mr. Zhu Si in the house, the Duke of Guo must go there in person." Shan Shen said.

Xu Jian nodded slightly: "Of course, the Holy One asked me to come to Shuntian Mansion just for this purpose."

“Let’s go together,” Shan Shen wiped the moisture from his face. “It’s raining so heavily, so our people will follow. Otherwise, he will have to stay here in the rain until dawn.”

Xu Jian held an umbrella and walked slowly and leisurely.

Li Yuanfa's murder was not part of his plan. It happened suddenly and disrupted many of his original ideas.

 However, with the wet wind blowing, he felt that it was not that surprising.

 Not everything can be changed.

 There are still some things that are bound to happen and are destined to happen, even if it is in a different way.

 This is what he knew earlier.

Lin Yunyan once said that Chen Gui died alone in an alley that year.

 In a remote alley, in the dead of night, no one knew what happened to Chen Gui.

Even if he later heard about the gold hidden in Laoshi Alley and heard that Chen Gui went to Li Yuanfa and Xi Dongjia to ask for gold bricks before his death, it could not be confirmed that he died of murder rather than an accident.

 In this comparison, Li Yuanfa is luckier.

He did not lie alone until dawn. The government servants who followed him can prove that he was harmed and left here.

Xue Jian took out a breath slowly, tapped the ground with her right toe, and moved her right leg a little.

 With some relief from his discomfort, he followed Shan Shen to Liuguo Alley.

 I will try my best to make up for what I owe this week.

  Thanks to the book friends Chunhua Qiuyue 85 for the reward of 10,000 coins, and thanks to the book friends Chunhuaqiuyue85, Oliver_Andy, Aikan Xiaobaishu, Yu Yisi, Mortal Scholar, and Xu Bicheng’s official girlfriend for the rewards. Thanks to bookstore friend Zxm2 for the tip.