Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 786
royal garden.

He Liu sat in the township and commanded three thousand Dongchang slaves and five thousand Jinyi guards. It took two days to almost turn the Imperial Garden upside down!Every inch of dead grass was poked three times with a long spear and cut three times with a waist knife.However, the assassin was nowhere to be found.

Deputy Qianhu He Chuan handed He Liu a cowhide water bag: "Master Liu, it's really hot in autumn. Please drink some water."

He Liu drooled, wiped his mouth, and asked He Chuan, "Are you sure that after the assassination, the troops from the Fifth Army Battalion immediately sealed off the Imperial Garden?"

He Chuan replied: "Master Liu, I can't be wrong. It took only a moment for the assassin to shoot the arrow in the back, and I fired the cloud-piercing arrow. The Fifth Army Battalion is the forbidden army of the capital, well-trained. They definitely blocked it immediately. Yuyuan! Even a bird can’t fly out of Yuyuan. What’s more, the assassin is a living person?”

He Liu frowned: "That's weird. Could it be that the assassin would escape from the earth and go underground?"

Chen Ju asked from the side: "Sixth Master, do you think this assassin can still be caught?"

He Liudao: "If the assassin is still in the imperial garden, he will definitely be caught. If you are afraid, he has already slipped away."

The governor of the Fifth Army Battalion beside him, Yu Shanguang, was a little anxious: "Master Liu, are you questioning that our brothers in the Fifth Army Battalion were negligent in their duties, did not surround the imperial garden, and let the assassin go?"

Yu Shanguang once served under Yu Dayou.He is a warrior who says what he says, and has a hot temper.

He Liuchao and Yu Shanguang smiled slightly: "That's not what I meant."

Yu Shanguang said: "I can't tell, it's because the people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei didn't do enough to search? Sixth Master, why don't you change the fifth military battalion with the factory guard, and the fifth military battalion will enter the imperial garden to search, and the factory guard will guard the outside .”

Chen Ju interrupted: "Forget it! After such a toss, the assassin is more likely to escape the shell!"

When He Liu heard the word "golden cicada escapes its shell", his heart moved!He remembered a past event more than 30 years ago.

During the Jiajing period, Japanese slaves rebelled in the southeast.There is a Nanyang demon monk named Monk Liaochen who secretly communicated with Japanese slaves to resell firearms.

He Liu received the news that Monk Liaochen was hiding in the Jiming Temple outside Hangzhou.Ding Sanjiao, the leader of the Cao Gang, is concerned about his family and country, and took the initiative to take the brothers of the Cao Gang to help He Liu go to Jiming Temple to arrest Monk Chen.

However, Monk Liaochen played a golden cicada to escape the shell.Changing out of cassocks, he changed into ordinary clothes, pretended to be a member of the Cao Gang, and escaped from Jiming Temple.

Could it be that the assassin used the same method to pretend to be someone from Dongchang or Jinyiwei?
He Liuyi slapped his head: "Not good! Eunuch Chen! Immediately gather all the people from Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and call names one by one according to the roster. It seems that there is not one more person!"

Chen Ju was at a loss: "There is one more person? What do you mean, Master Liu."

He Liu explained: "I suspect that the assassins changed into the official uniforms of Dongchang or Jinyiwei, and mixed in with the people who searched! Anyway, in the past two days, none of the soldiers or wrestlers have left the Royal Garden. As long as we call the names, We can catch this smug assassin!"

Chen Ju suddenly realized: "Okay, Master Liu, I'll ask the people below to roll the roll immediately!"

More than 8000 people called the roll call, which took an entire hour.

An hour later, Chen Ju came to He Liu with a roster in his hand: "Excluding 160 people who stayed in Dongchang, 32 people asked for leave for some reason. The rest came to Yuyuan with a total of 27 people. The roll call is a No more, one less."

He Liu asked, "Where's Jin Yiwei?"

Chen Ju said again: "Except for 95 guards in brocade clothes who stayed at Fusi in the South and North Towns; 42 asked for leave for some reason; Not many, not one less. In other words, the assassins did not mix among the factory guard brothers."

He Liu frowned: "This is weird. Assassins should not have wings, and they can't escape from the earth. Governor Yu of the Fifth Army Battalion said that Yuyuan couldn't even fly a bird... Where did the assassin hide?" ?”

After finishing speaking, He Liu glanced at his apprentice Luo Sigong.

Compared with Wang Zhizhen, Luo Sigong is more impatient.To put it bluntly, there is a little cleverness.

He Liu deliberately tested his apprentice: "Si Gong, what do you think?"

Luo Sigong said: "Master, could it be that the assassin was originally from Dongchang or Jinyiwei?! After the assassination, the brother of the factory guard went to the imperial garden to search. He changed into the official uniform of the factory guard and mixed in with the searchers! He I was originally from the factory and Weizhong, so the roll call will naturally not find any abnormalities in the number of people."

He Liu nodded in satisfaction: "Well, this kind of possibility is the biggest. Well, if that's the case, we don't want to catch the assassin!"

At this time, Wang Zhizhen led Jiang Tanzhi, a hundred households in charge of Beizhen Fusi, to come over.

Jiang Tanzhi, the son of Jiang Yan, the Fourth Taibao during the Jiajing period.I am in my 40s this year.Like his father, he likes to study all kinds of firearms and exquisite weapons.He Liuwu made the best use of it and let him take charge of Beizhen Fusi's arsenal.

Jiang Tanzhi held a mahogany tray in his hand.On the tray, there were more than 20 crossbow arrows.It was these more than 20 crossbow arrows that hit He Zezhen's soft armor.

He Liu keenly noticed that Jiang Tanzhi's complexion was pale.

Wang Zhizhen said: "Master Liu, I have asked Jiang Baihu to appraise these more than 20 crossbow arrows."

He Liu asked: "Oh? Jiang Baihu, tell me, what's so weird about these 20 or so crossbow arrows?"

Jiang Tanzhi said hesitantly, "Here, these more than 20 crossbow bolts are all smeared with huge poison."

He Liudao: "The arrow is blue. It is poisonous. What else?"

Jiang Tanzhi fell to his knees with a "thump": "Master Liu! I deserve to die! These crossbow arrows are equipped with the locust mechanism crossbow in the arsenal! I saw the crossbow arrows, so I went to the arsenal to find the leech mechanism crossbow Never thought...the wooden box where the crossbow was placed is empty and has been stolen!"

He Liu's complexion changed: "What? That is to say, the weapon used by the assassin to assassinate the eldest son of the emperor is the locust mechanism crossbow stored in Fusi's arsenal in Beizhen?"

At this moment, Hong Lang came to He Liu with a strange crossbow: "Master Liu, our brother found this in the hole of a birch tree."

He Liu looked down, and what Hong Lang was holding in his hand was the leech machine crossbow!
With 56 years of experience in handling cases, He Liu determined one thing: there is an inner ghost in Jinyiwei!

This inner ghost should have stolen the locust machine crossbow in the arsenal first.Then with a crossbow, he hid in the imperial garden, waiting for an opportunity to assassinate the eldest son of the emperor who came to hunt.The assassination failed, and he hid in the royal garden.The people from the factory and the guard went into the imperial garden to search, and he changed into the official uniform of Jinyiwei, and mixed in with the searchers!

He Liudao: "Forget it. Don't search Yuyuan. If I'm right, the assassin should have escaped. Team up, let's go back to the capital."

(End of this chapter)