Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 118 Up the Mountain Again (Part [-])

Gao Er and Xu Da also looked up at the mountain.

Wu Chen remembered that when the three men were in ambush, one of them said: "Go up the mountain after hacking to death."

Why go up the mountain?
If Wu Chen was killed, would Laojie Mountain be sealed off?If it is blocked, wouldn't it be a dead end to go up the mountain?Even if they were not blocked immediately, would they leave traces when they went up the mountain?Could it be found during subsequent investigations?

When he came to Laojie Mountain today, Wu Chen deliberately did not bring the policemen from the Imperial City Investigation Department. On the one hand, he didn’t want to have too many battles. However, Liang Kuan and the others must be cautious, and it was difficult for him to see the clues.

But Wu Chen didn't expect that someone would want to kill him so impatiently, and it was planned in advance. If he died here, wouldn't that mean there was something wrong with Old Jie Mountain?Wouldn't it attract more scrutiny from the government?How could they act so thoughtlessly?
"Go up the mountain! We must see that Taoist temple today." Wu Chen said with a sullen face.

The second year of high school and Xu Da didn't know why, but they didn't ask. They wanted to go up and have a look, but Liang Kuan couldn't follow him. Not easy, coupled with some fright, naturally can not go up the mountain.

And those yamen servants had to guard the five corpses, and the yamen servants hurried back to find the carriage.

Wu Chen only took the sophomore and Xu Da up the mountain together, and the three of them stayed at the foot of the mountain. Wu Chen was worried, so he asked Liang Kuan to go back to the county town and tell the guards in the house to come pick him up as soon as possible, and just wait at the foot of the mountain.

Liang Kuan was eager to go back as soon as possible, saying yes again and again, and hurriedly left the yamen servant guarding the corpse waiting for the carriage, and left first.

……

Wu Chen and Xu Da, the sophomore, hurried up the mountain, and Wu Chen didn't remember until they were halfway up the mountain, and they didn't ask where the temple was.

The second year of high school said: "The Taoist temple is easy to find. There is only such a mountain road. The Taoist temple must not be far from the mountain road. Let's just look carefully. But we haven't had lunch until now, and we don't have dinner now. It's better to be a big brother. You know how to bring dry food wherever you go.”

Xu Da said: "The people from the county government should have brought them, but we left in a hurry and forgot to ask them for some food."

The second year of high school snorted and said, "Are we in a hurry? Didn't you see that Liang Kuan didn't turn his head after climbing on the horse, and he was even more anxious to go back!"

Wu Chen frowned and said: "What we are going to do should be beyond their expectations. We don't have time to arrange it, so we want to kill and set fire to attract our attention. It looks like...they don't want us to go up the mountain, but if they If you succeed, it’s just to stop this day, and maybe in the future we will send troops to seal the mountain.”

"That's why I can't figure it out. Why did they kill you? Let's use two people to pretend to be the family members of the informant..."

Gao Er didn't finish his sentence, Wu Chen stopped, he frowned and asked:
"Do you remember that I asked the woman how Zhang Cai was discovered? She said that Zhang Cai went hunting in the mountains and hadn't returned for a long time, so she asked her uncle to look for him. The uncle seemed to be in his twenties, so how could he stay at home? Didn’t they go up the mountain together? The uncle said that Zhang Cai died with a terrified face, no injuries on his body, and Liang Kuan was standing there in an official uniform. Neither of them asked whether Zhang Cai was murdered? When will the real murderer be caught? It can be seen that they didn't report the case, why didn't they report the case? But everyone in the county government knew that Zhang Cai was frightened to death, who reported it to the county government? They answered very quickly to my questions, and the woman even cried twice. But it’s fast too.”

"What do you mean? Don't you all know that the two of them are fake?" asked the sophomore.

"Yes, I mean that the two of them are full of flaws, but I didn't find out in time. This is also related to my not asking too many questions. If I keep asking, there will be more flaws! If I didn't go up the mountain to see tourists, I would think that the prey is not easy to come by. It is necessary to wait until the servants at the foot of the mountain come up to report."

Xu Da said: "By that time, the hut has been burned and the body has been charred."

"Yes, how should I investigate then? Where do I start? No, they think I will die on the way to the hut."

After Wu Chen finished speaking, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to walk up the mountain, saying as he walked, "Laojie Mountain is a bit strange. If you look at the mountains outside Anping County, they are mountains connected to mountains, and they are endless. Standing so lonely here, there are some hills around, but they can't be called mountains."

"This is arranged by God, do you have an opinion?" asked the sophomore.

"No, I'm just saying that on the day the five hundred soldiers were killed, some villagers saw them at noon. It stands to reason that they passed through Laojie Mountain and continued eastward. They were cavalry and would leave Laojie Mountain in a short time. Here are some There is a gap in time, that is, who else has seen the entire team all afternoon? Zhang Cai reported the case the next morning. We can infer that he got up before dawn and went to the soldiers for some reason. The place where he was killed, after being frightened, thought of going to the county government office, how would he go? His family didn’t have any fodder for the stables, and he couldn’t afford to raise horses, so how would he go to the county seat?”

Xu Da said:
"It doesn't make sense for you to say that. The county government said that Zhang Cai reported the case in the morning, that is to say, he came in as soon as the city gate opened. But it takes several hours to walk from here to the city gate, that is to say Did he see it in the middle of the night? Or maybe he saw it at night..."

"It's written on the file that Zhang Cai said he saw it early in the morning." Wu Chen said, "Zhang Cai is illiterate. There are clerks in the county government who took notes and confessed. The records in the dossier should be different, which means that the time when the soldiers’ bodies were discovered was wrong.”

The sophomore said 'oh' and said, "there are still people from the county government."

"Yes! I asked Liang Kuan today, if Cao Bingde was not dead, would it be Cao Bingde who recorded the statement for Zhang Cai? Liang Kuan said it was possible..."

"You mean that these two cases are actually the same thing?" Xu Da asked in surprise.

Wu Chen took a deep breath and said:
"I'm not sure yet, but it doesn't make sense to destroy the Cao family just because he wanted to make a false statement. Let him fall ill for a few days, and he can't work in the county government on that day. There's no need to make such a big mess." When the battle comes, even if the person behind them is very good, it is troublesome and unnecessary."

Xu Da said: "That's the reason. If these two cases are related, maybe Cao Bingde knows something."

The second year of high school said: "When I go back to the county government office, I can ask the clerk who took the record that day."

Wu Chen smiled and asked, "How do you tell the truth? How do you know if he's telling the truth, or if he's lying? There's no proof right now."

As Wu Chen spoke, he looked around for a while. He remembered that Cao Kang had told him that a ghost had told him before leaving: Old Jieshan, you can't afford to mess with it.

(End of this chapter)