The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

Chapter 1893 Going to Hedong Alone

When Big Wolf and Li An were having their second round of drinks, Yang Zixiong just came back from outside. He came behind Feng Jiuxiao and whispered, "My lord, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you."

Feng Jiuxiao remained calm: "You say."

"The Imperial City Department sent a man named Li Tianjun a few days ago. Does your Excellency know him?"

Feng Jiuxiao thought for a moment, "Oh, Li Tianjun, I know him, he seems to be a scout from the C Division. Why did he come to Wenchuan?"

"They said they were carrying out a secret mission to pick up a batch of goods to the Central Plains. This batch of goods needed to be transported from Hexi to Hedong first. In order not to alert the Tibetans, they did not take the normal route and did not alert the Hexi Li family."

"It seems that this batch of goods is indeed very important!" Feng Jiuxiao narrowed his eyes slightly, "Where can I get it?"

"In Yanmen Village."

"You told me this specifically because you think there's something wrong?"

"I originally thought there was nothing wrong, because Li Tianjun asked me to send someone to lead the way and did not make any additional requests, so I only sent Captain Kong to lead the way. But when the adults mentioned this morning that Panlong Temple was a Tibetan spy base, I felt something was wrong! My county government may have been infiltrated by spies! The plan for the handover operation in Yanmen Village may have been leaked!"

"So you're worried about someone sabotaging it?"

"Yes!"

"What are you worried about? Isn't this a good thing?"

"Good thing?"

"I asked you to investigate the Wenchuan spy case, but you just don't have any clues. This is a good opportunity to make use of this as an opportunity to discuss the matter!"

"Sir, how can you take advantage of this issue?"

"You want to find a spy, and Mr. Li also suspects that the Zhang family is a spy. You might as well assume that the Zhang family is a spy."

Yang Zixiong was a little confused: "..."

Feng Jiuxiao said calmly, "Is it possible to make something out of nothing? Is it possible to make a mountain out of a molehill?"

Yang Zixiong couldn't understand what was going on for a moment and just stared at Feng Jiuxiao blankly.

Feng Jiuxiao looked at him as if he were a stranger, a little unhappy: "You were quite smart when it came to making money, but why are you so stupid when I asked you to handle a case? You're not going to be a county magistrate anymore, right?"

Yang Zixiong's eyes immediately lit up as if he had suddenly realized something. "What your Excellency means is..."

Feng Jiuxiao immediately interrupted him: "Hey, I didn't mean anything, it was you who meant it!"

Yang Zixiong immediately smiled and said, "I understand, I understand, that's what I mean!"

He already understood what Feng Jiuxiao meant!

The deputy envoy clearly wants to deal with the Zhang family!

If you want to deal with the Zhang family, then isn't that easy? If there is evidence, then find it. If there is no evidence, then create it!

In short, the evidence against the Zhang family must be there, and it must be complete! The evidence must be as strong as a mountain!

Yang Zixiong secretly felt lucky that he had surrendered early, and the deputy envoy had finally left him a glimmer of hope! Given the deputy envoy's scheming and tactics, if he offended him, he would probably die without knowing how!

He immediately went out to arrange for people to make arrangements!

……

The Wenshui River flows mightily through Yanmen Village in the north of Weizhou Town, Wenchuan County. The shadows of the trees on both sides of the river sway, and it seems as if countless ferocious beasts are lurking in it!

A tea-horse caravan was carefully crossing the river on several ferries. The ochre-yellow dart flags fluttered in the wind, and the dazzling sunlight reflected the tension and uneasiness on everyone's faces!

Liu Chengwu, the second master of the Hexi Liu family, stood at the bow with a frown on his face, looking around vigilantly!

Although this section of the river is close to the upper reaches of Wenchuan and there is no one living on both sides, Liu Chengwu still dares not be careless!

A few days ago, the eldest brother Liu Chengwen finally got in touch with Wei Qiansui, the head of the Imperial City of the Great Song Dynasty, through various connections. Everyone in the Liu family was excited about this!

With this relationship, we will be able to stand out in the Hexi area of ​​Wenchuan and no longer be controlled by the Li family. Our future development momentum will be limitless, and by then, the Zhang family in Hedong will also have to surrender to us!

This time, Wei Qiansui assigned them a task to transport some military supplies. In addition to war horses, there were also some saffron and Tianshan snow lotus, as well as a crucial "Hezhou Market Map", which was related to the trade lifeline of the entire Wenchuan area! With this map, the Song Dynasty could quickly control various markets, obtain a large number of high-quality war horses through the tea-horse trade, enrich the military and strengthen the national strength; on the other hand, by influencing the economic exchanges between the Central Plains and foreign regions, they could exchange for the most scarce resources!

The importance of "Hezhou Market Map" can be seen from this!

Suddenly, a sharp sound of breaking through the air pierced the night sky, and an arrow came with a bloody wind and accurately pierced Liu Chengwu's chest!

His eyes widened, his face full of disbelief, his body swayed a few times, and then he fell into the river!

The guards around were suddenly in chaos, with shouts and screams coming one after another!

At the same time, a group of pirates emerged from the river, jumped onto the ferry like wolves, and hacked at anyone they saw! For a moment, the knife flashed, blood splattered, and screams were heard!

When everything was settled, the scene was already a mess!

There were still two ferries half exposed above the water, and the rest were either sunk or washed away by the river! The water in this area was relatively shallow, and the riverbed was covered with pebbles a few feet below the water surface, so if a boat sank, it would be easier to find it!

At this time, there were already several people standing on the shore, and several bloody people were lying on the ground! They had just pretended to be dead and sank to the bottom of the water to escape!

Chief Constable Kong Deling and Imperial City Investigation Officer Li Tianjun and others all had gloomy faces!

They both have their own thoughts!

Others may not know that the deputy commander-in-chief of the Great Song Imperial City Department came to Wenchuan today, but Kong Deling knew it! He knew it when the three carriages just entered the city this morning! Because when the guards sent people to the county government to inform the county magistrate, he happened to be at the scene!

At that time, the county magistrate had just finished assigning him the task and he was about to leave.

When he arrived at the inn and met Li Tianjun, a spy from the Imperial City Bureau, he knew that although Li Tianjun was from the Imperial City Bureau, he did not know that their deputy envoy had entered the city!

At that time, he had an evil idea, which was to pretend to be confused. He did not ask Li Tianjun whether he knew that Lord Feng came to Wenchuan. He just followed the procedure and exchanged a few words of greeting before taking Li Tianjun to Yanmen Village!

He expected everything to be uneventful.

When they arrived at the place, Li Tianjun met the contact person, and then his mission as Kong Deling was completed.

But the mess before his eyes, the dead bodies floating on the river, the bloody red bloodstains on the shore, and a few dying survivors covered in blood, all told him that a big crime had occurred here!

Originally, this kind of case was nothing unusual, because there have been so many such cases recently, and they are nothing more than murder for money!

Even the murderer is about to be revealed! Apart from the Zhang family in Hedong, who else is so arrogant?

It would be fine on normal days, but today is a special day!

Today is the day when the Deputy Envoy is going to enter the city, but a murder happened at this time. What would the Deputy Envoy think if he knew about this?

This shows that the public security in Wenchuan is too poor and banditry is rampant! Some people are trying to intimidate the Deputy Envoy!

How would I feel if I were the deputy envoy? I would definitely slap the county magistrate in the face!

Of course, the county magistrate could still protest his injustice, saying that he had just arrived. If he was blamed, who could he blame? How many years had he worked as a police chief in Wenchuan? If someone pointed at him and asked him, how did he manage the public security in Wenchuan?

How do you answer?

Li Tianjun was already extremely angry in his heart!

The fact that I was sent out alone to carry out the mission, isn't it because my superiors wanted to give me a chance to make meritorious service?

Ever since I received the advice from the Deputy Envoy, I have been promoted rapidly from a "personal attendant" to a "commander-in-chief". Now is the time for me to realize my ambitions!

The reason why Wei Qiansui sent me here was for two tasks! One was of course to let me accumulate military merits on the surface, and the other was to deliver the secret letter of the Qiansui Lord to the Deputy Envoy! Who in the entire Song Dynasty court didn't know that the Deputy Envoy was now in the territory of Dashu? The Qiansui Lord asked me to deliver a letter to the Deputy Envoy, which was very meaningful!

But the scene before him made him furious!

How the hell am I going to explain this to Lord Qiansui?

How to meet the Deputy Envoy?

Complete mission failure!

With such a big incident, not to mention keeping his job, even his life might be in danger!

He now has a murderous look on his face! If he knew who did it, Li Tianjun wanted to kill that person's entire family!

Liu Chengwu's body has been salvaged, and the "Hezhou Market Map" in his arms was missing three pages!

There was a faint smell of goat milk at the tear. It seemed like an ordinary smell, but Kong Deling immediately caught the clue! This special smell of goat milk can only be found in the milk of the northern Tibetan antelope!

The target of the attack is Zhang Taiping, the second-in-command of the Hedong Zhang family!

Because there are very few people raising sheep in the entire Wenchuan area, they can be counted on one hand, and there is only one family raising Tibetan antelopes, and that is Zhang Taiping!

The reason why there are few sheep in Wenchuan is very simple and crude - because the Zhang family monopolizes the entire mutton market in Wenchuan, including the beef market!

Kong Deling said coldly: "Too arrogant!" Li Tianjun said: "I suspect that the action plan was leaked in advance! There is a traitor in your county government!"

Kong Deling pondered, "I only knew I had to pick you up half an hour before I set out. When the county magistrate was talking to me, there were four yamen runners beside him, which means the suspect must be among those four people!"

Li Tianjun looked at Kong Deling and said in a deep voice: "It is not ruled out that the county magistrate is the master!"

Kong Deling was startled, then relieved. The other party's identity was completely reasonable to suspect anyone, including himself!

"Now what?"

Li Tianjun said: "Preserve the evidence. Collect and consolidate the evidence to the maximum extent. Then trace the flow of the goods." He looked at the "Hezhou Market Map", "Those three pages are the most critical three pages! They thought they tore it cleverly and no one noticed that the "Hezhou Market Map" had been tampered with, but they didn't know that one of my tasks was to get those three critical pages! So we must find the mastermind and recover those three pages of the "Hezhou Market Map"!"

Kong Deling said, "Then I will go back and call more people, including the coroner."

Li Tianjun said: "Okay. I'll protect the scene here. Don't forget to call some doctors. If we delay any longer, these guys will die!"

"it is good!"

……

When Kong Deling returned to the county government office, the banquet had ended and the county magistrate was resting.

Feng Jiuxiao and the others also took a temporary rest in the county government office. Because Big Wolf was drunk this time! Instead of helping a drunk to find an inn outside, it is better to sober up in the county government office first!

Li An and his son also left in a car. Li An was carried into the car. Before getting in the car, he vomited all over the floor!

But no one laughed at Mr. Li!

The drinking contest between him and Big Wolf was definitely enough to set off a martial arts history! Both of them drank a thousand cups! A full thousand cups!

After drinking three hundred cups, Mr. Li was still not drunk, and everyone was deeply impressed!

Pang Shiwu and Zeng Yong were completely stunned at that time!

I have traveled around the world and met countless people, but have I ever seen such a large number of people?

In fact, Big Wolf was a little drunk when he drank the second three hundred cups!

Mr. Ang Lee went to the toilet three times. He strongly requested Big Wolf to accompany him. He wanted to prove to everyone that he was just going to pee, not vomit!

Big Wolf also called Mr. Li three times. The two went to the toilet six times in total.

Without using internal energy to expel the wine, both parties drank openly!

The two kept insisting until the thousandth cup, when Big Wolf said he gave up, and then Mr. Li also said he gave up. In the end, the two smiled at each other and ended in a draw. Everyone felt it was perfect!

When they parted, everyone was still chatting and laughing, and promised to fight again next time. But the moment Mr. Li stepped out of the county government gate, his body went limp, and his son and daughter-in-law hurried to help him up.

Big Wolf looked calm until he entered the West Flower Hall, but he fell down as soon as his right foot crossed the threshold!

It feels like a mountain is collapsing!

Pang Shiwu almost couldn’t help it by himself!

Are all drunkards so heavy?

Although the county magistrate has already gone to bed, the matter is of great importance and he must be woken up!

Feng Jiuxiao didn't drink much, but the noise from the county magistrate's side alarmed him, so he went directly to the county magistrate's inner house and knocked on the door to ask for a meeting. Yang Zixiong sobered up halfway on the spot! He immediately went out to greet Feng Jiuxiao!

Kong Deling finally met the legendary Lord Gengshi!

He didn't expect that the other party was actually a teenager!

Yang Zixiong said: "Why are you standing there? Talk about something!"

Kong Deling immediately said, "Sir, the goods were robbed! I suspect it was the Zhang family who did it!" Then he told the story of Liu Chengwu being shot dead with an arrow, the war horses he was transporting, the saffron being robbed, and the three most important pages of the "Hezhou Market Map" being lost.

Yang Zixiong's eyes flickered, and he immediately became a little excited: "You suspect the Zhang family? Do you have any evidence?"

Kong Deling said, "You need to send someone to collect the evidence as soon as possible! As far as I know, those bandits smelled of Tibetan antelope milk, and the Zhang family is the only one in Wenchuan that has Tibetan antelopes!"

Yang Zixiong was immediately disappointed, "Smell of mutton? How can this be used as evidence?" But when he saw Feng Jiuxiao beside him, he suddenly remembered something and immediately said, "Okay! As long as all the signs point to the Zhang family, then it will be easy for us to deduce the evidence!"

Kong Deling immediately realized that the county magistrate was clearly planning to take down the Zhang family!

Yang Zixiong said, "Bring all the people to collect evidence immediately! Oh, and where is Commander Li of the Li Tianjun Army?"

"He's guarding there to prevent the evidence from being destroyed by local woodcutters, fishermen and villagers!"

"Okay, you go first, I'll be there soon!"

Feng Jiuxiao said: "You guys go ahead and do your work. I'll go out for a walk, get some fresh air, and sober up!" He clasped his hands together, said goodbye, and turned to leave!

Yang Zixiong and Kong Deling exchanged punches at the same time to bid farewell to each other!

Feng Jiuxiao strolled along the long street with a frown on his face.

He had no close relationship with the Liu family, but he could not sit idly by and watch the brutal acts of Yanmen Village openly robbing and killing people on sight! The blood of the second son of the Liu family could not be shed in vain!

What's more, if those three pages of "Hezhou Market Map" fell into the hands of the Tibetans, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Feng Jiuxiao walked eastward along the bluestone road and unknowingly arrived at the embankment.

Walk on the embankment and enjoy the scenery on both sides.

The wide river surface is calm and peaceful, just like a lake. Many ferries are traveling back and forth on the river, creating a prosperous scene.

He looked at the other side of the river, east of the river, which was the Zhang family's territory.

After walking along the embankment for a while, we finally arrived at a ferry.

There are many small boats moored here, which are used to ferry people.

The ferry was full of passengers crossing the river, all kinds of people, even lamas, all queuing up to board the boat.

Feng Jiuxiao randomly picked a team and stood at the end of the crowd.

The ferry is not big, and can carry about ten people at a time. Although the river here is relatively narrow, it still takes about half an incense stick of time to go back and forth.

Two incense sticks later, Feng Jiuxiao finally boarded the boat, and after a while he finally set foot on the land of Hedong.

This place is obviously more prosperous than Hexi.

Feng Jiuxiao directly found out the location of Zhang Mansion. When many people heard him asking about Zhang Mansion, they all showed vigilance!

Feng Jiuxiao didn't care at all. It would be normal even if someone went to Zhang's house to inform him of the news.

When he arrived at the gate of Zhang's mansion, a lot of strong men in strong suits had gathered outside!

They had indeed gotten wind of the situation in advance! Normally, who would have more than a dozen burly men standing at the door? Wasn't this just a show of force to scare people?

You really think of yourself as a newborn calf!

The two heavy doors, painted in red and with copper nails and animal heads holding rings, stand tall, as if they were isolated from the hustle and bustle of the world. A golden plaque hangs high above the door lintel, inscribed with the two characters "Zhang Mansion" in a flamboyant style, with powerful strokes, demonstrating the power and heritage of the owner!

Ten sturdy men stood on both sides, all dressed in black, with short knives on their waists, and their arms were so muscular that they seemed to be able to tear tigers and leopards apart! Some of them even had tattoos on their arms, some of which were dragons or tigers, and they looked ferocious and terrifying!

Their faces are stern, their eyes are like lightning, and their temples are slightly bulging, which shows that they are experts in both inner and outer cultivation!

When pedestrians passed by the door, they all lowered their heads and walked quickly, even coughing in a low voice, for fear of alarming these evil spirits.

Feng Jiuxiao walked up to them, stood with his hands behind his back, and said softly: "Please inform them and ask Zhang Taiping to come out to see me."

The ten big men immediately frowned, like the angry Vajra statues enshrined in the temple. One of them even shouted sternly: "Where did you come from, kid? You dare to come to Zhang's house and make trouble. You are looking for death!"

Feng Jiuxiao flicked his sleeves, and with a snap, five blood-red fingerprints suddenly appeared on the big man's face!

"How dare you hit me?" The big man covered his face in anger, drew his sword and chopped without any hesitation. It seemed that he was used to killing people in this way!

Feng Jiuxiao said, "You're used to killing people, right?" With a flick of his sleeves, the big man flew behind him. He didn't care where he landed, but the nine big men in front of him were shocked and angry. The arrogant inertia did not frighten them. Instead, the large number of people aroused their fighting spirit. The nine men drew their swords and rushed towards Feng Jiuxiao at the same time!

Thank you Yudong for your strong support and encouragement!