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Chapter 380 Old Cases
"I checked around and found that Shi Erlang was indeed kidnapped. But the group of people disappeared without a trace. To search for Li Xia, we can only figure out his whereabouts first."

Jing Jie felt a little depressed, spread out the map, and began to point out.

"The route Li Xia arranged for Yang Guo was to go south to Shouzhou, and then cross the Huaihe River to Huaiyou in the Song Dynasty. It can be seen that the Huaihe River must be supported by the Song Army. The reason why he didn't go to Hanzhong should be because he was jealous of Wang Dechen."

Zhang Rou was displeased and said to herself: "He is afraid of Wang Dechen, but not me?"

"This... Maybe he expected that my uncle would agree with Shi Shuai to let Yang Guo take up the post in Shouzhou."

"Humph!"

Jing Jie smiled bitterly and said: "Besides, what Shi Shuai and Alan Da'er said was to send Yang Guo to our site to test us."

"Send someone to test us, but this person defected, Shi Tianze is not afraid to take responsibility." Zhang Rou snorted again.

"The Shi family's father and son are deeply in love. This matter is not too harmful to us." Jing Jie said: "But Li Xia dared to send him to the door, this time he will be kept."

Zhang Rou glanced at his excited expression, and gave a faint "hmm".

He was a little tired of arresting Li Xia.

It's like a mouse has entered the house. It's nimble and smart, it can't be caught, it can't be killed by medicine, and he still has many important things to do. How can he have time to catch the mouse every day?

On second thought, Li Xia is much more harmful than rats and must be eliminated.

Only then did Zhang Rou cheer up, and said: "From Kaifeng to Shouzhou, Li Xia will definitely follow Yang Guo secretly. You go back to Bozhou to discuss with Wulang, and find this little beast."

"Yes." Jing Jie said, "This time we will definitely try our best to..."

"Do your best? You don't have to try too hard." Zhang Rou actually said like this, and then said: "This son is good at assassination, you all pay attention to safety."

"Uncle..."

Zhang Rou waved her hand and said: "After returning to Bozhou, the security of the mansion will be strengthened. People in the mansion are not allowed to go out unless necessary."

Jing Jie agreed, but even though the manhunt had not yet started, he was already inexplicably frustrated.

He ordered his men and went to the south gate of Kaifeng. He took out Zhang Rou's letter at the city gate, and was searched and interrogated carefully, and was finally released from the city.

The fast horse galloped for two days and arrived in Bozhou. When Jing Jie entered the city, the sky had just darkened, so he immediately went to Zhang Hongdao.

……

"Cousin came back early? What's the matter?" Zhang Hongdao was leaning over the table to read the letter, and turned his head to look at Jingjie, with a look of worry on his face.

"It's getting late too, you're not in good health, why are you working so hard?"

"It's nothing official." Zhang Hongdao waved his hand, "It's a letter from Balang. He has returned to Zhenshuntian Road. A while ago, Li Fen wrote to him."

Jing Jie sat down and said, "Li Fen is too blatant to communicate everywhere."

"The more people he contacts, the less Han Ting dares to touch the princes easily, let him go."

"What did Hachiro say?"

"He wrote back to Li Fen, urging him to be loyal to the Khan court."

Jing Jie nodded and said, "That's fine, if we find out in the future, Da Khan will also understand the Zhang family's loyalty."

"You haven't said why you came back early?"

Jing Jie sighed and said with a wry smile: "I don't know whether I should tell you about this matter... so as not to bother you any more?"

"Alan Da'er wants to force father?" Zhang Hongdao frowned.

"That's not..."

Jing Jie turned his head to look, and saw a pair of calligraphy and paintings hanging in Zhang Hongdao's study room, on which was written a song "Hillside Sheep".He knew that Zhang Hongdao used it to motivate himself, or maybe he was really touched by the "prosperity, the people suffer; death, the people suffer" from the bottom of his heart.

It can be seen that Zhang Hongdao has not let go of Li Xia's affairs.

"Li Xia has arrived in Kaifeng." Jing Jie said:

Zhang Hongdao was stunned for a moment, and then coughed a few times.

"Cough cough cough... Li Xia... dare to come back?"

"Yeah, I'm making trouble again, and this time I provoked Shi Tianze." Jing Jie talked about Kaifeng City...

Zhang Hongdao was a little surprised when he heard this, but after thinking about it, he felt that Li Xia could do anything.

"Looking at what Shi Tianze meant, he planned to let Yang Guo's family go to Song Dynasty, send Li Xia away as soon as possible, and finish it hastily."

"Is that what the kid wanted?"

"Shi Tianze doesn't have a big reason in Li Xia's hands. He just asked Yang Guo to hand over the information. Although there is a difference for him to silence Yang Guo or send him away, the difference is not too big."

"But we are different. I really killed the guardian."

"So, Shi Tianze is willing to let Li Xia go, but we have to kill him."

Zhang Hongdao sighed helplessly, and said, "Just thinking about hunting him down again already makes people feel exhausted."

"Uncle said that there is no need to force it. When the time comes to block the road and search for Yang Guo's team, if they can find Li Xia, they will kill them."

"What if you can't find it? Did you really let him do this thing again and leave?"

Jing Jie asked back: "Since we can't find it, so what?"

"Search first..."

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Two days later, a group of people entered Bozhou City.

Liu Zhongzhi sat on the carriage, looked at the middle-aged scribe seated opposite, and asked, "Why does Mr. Bai suspect that Li Xia went north to contact the Zhang family?"

Bai Pu asked back: "Could it be that Liu Jingli thinks that Li Xia is here to find the historian?"

Liu Zhong said straightly: "The historian is indeed more suspicious than the Zhang family. For example, when Li Xia entered Kaifeng, he met Shi Erlang."

"He did it to kidnap Erlang." Bai Pu said, "I'm not trying to excuse the historian. My father is Shi Shuai's aide, and he knows Shi Shuai's loyalty to the Khan best."

"Loyalty." Liu Zhongzhi smiled slightly.

Bai Pu said: "If Li Xia has contact with historians, he only needs to send someone to send a message. There is no need to go to Kaifeng City. Besides, the hook-up exams are in full swing. I am afraid that he wants to make historians suspicious? Afterwards, Erlang eliminated Liu After experiencing doubts, Li Xia saw that the Gou Kao Bureau could not be allowed to conflict with historians, so he took Erlang abducted."

"It's not impossible." Liu Zhong rubbed his chin and thought.

"Also, last year when Li Xia went north, why did the Zhang family let a spy easily pass through? When Li Xia arrived in Kaifeng, it was still the Zhang family who was hunting for him, and Shi Shuai never intervened. As a result, the city was full of trouble, but the man escaped. Zhang Wulang really Can't catch him?"

"Mr. Bai thinks that the Zhang family is secretly helping Li Xia?"

Bai Pu nodded, touched the beard on his lips with his hand, and said, "Isn't it suspicious?"

Liu Zhongzhi asked tentatively: "Perhaps...Mr. Bai was ordered by Shi Shuai to shift the blame to the Zhang family?"

"I was indeed ordered by Shi Shuai to investigate Erlang's captivity, and then found Zhang's family." Bai Pu said, "As for what Liu Ching thinks... Shi Shuai really doesn't care."

"is it?"

"Liu experience, it is you who want to follow me all the way."

Liu Zhongzhi was so choked that he couldn't speak.

But thinking that celebrities always have the demeanor of celebrities, he didn't care about this ridicule, and smiled apologetically: "Mr. Bai is right. However, when dealing with these big princes, we should talk about evidence, not just speculation."

"Where there is speculation in advance, you can only find evidence along the way."

Bai Pu wanted to touch his beard again, but when he stretched out his hand, he lifted the curtain of the car, glanced outside, and said casually: "There is another old case, I don't know if Liu Experience has heard of it?"

"Which pile?"

"Last year, Dalu Hua Chier Dunba Ri, who guarded Bozhou, was killed."

"Tangtang's town guard was killed, I must have heard of it." Liu Zhong said bluntly, "Di Cong's command was lax, and there was a rebellion. His family was confiscated, he lost his position as Marquis, and his whole family went to the army."

Bai Pu said: "Di Cong has guarded Yingchuan for many years, how could he not control his subordinates and cause such a big mess?"

Liu Zhongzhi couldn't help but frowned and thought.

"Mr. Bai means... Maybe the Zhang family did this?"

"It's hard to say." Bai Pu said slowly: "But the Zhang family obviously has too many ties with Li Xia, which is strange."

Liu Zhongzhi nodded and fell into deep thought.

The princes of the Han region had their own thoughts, and the chaos far exceeded his expectations.

Previously, it was suspected that Shi Tianze had secretly communicated with Zhao Song's secret work, and even passed on information, so he was suspected of spying on the situation and harboring disloyalty.But this kind of small secret action is actually a common thing in troubled times.

And if the Zhang family really killed the town guard, it would be called a rebellion...

(End of this chapter)