Tang riddles

"..." Hearing Yuan Qianhe's words, Shen Sui's first reaction was surprise.In a short time, she confirmed it again:

"The lotus maid is missing?"

"Yes!" Chizuru nodded urgently.

Shen Sui took a deep breath and said:

"Why did you disappear, why did you disappear, explain the cause and effect clearly." When she said this, she had already started to dress quickly.

Shen Sui's voice was calm and calm, which made Qianhe calm down a lot.When she heard the movement, she knew that Shen Sui was dressing, so she immediately explained: "I live in the room closest to the exit of the cabin, next door is the room of Sanniang and Wu Ya. Just now, I heard the door of the next room open I went to the door of the room, opened the door and asked Sanniang. Sanniang said that she couldn't sleep and wanted to go to the deck to enjoy the wind, so that I don't have to follow her. She will be back in a while. So I didn't follow. But I also He didn't sleep all the time, just listened to the movement outside at the door of his room.

About the time when a cup of tea was not available, I suddenly heard the sound of water waves 'crashing', which was very loud.I felt something was wrong and immediately left the room and onto the deck.I call Sanniang, Sanniang should not me.I knew something was wrong, I felt around the railing, and found a place full of water damage, extending from the railing all the way to the deck floor.I kept groping along the water stain, and finally found this Sanniang's fur cloak on the ground. "

Qianhe raised her left arm, and on her forearm was a plain white fur collared fur cloak, which was exactly the one Zhang Ruohan usually wore.

Shen Sui's lips were tightly pursed into a straight line.During Qianhe's narration, she had already put on her robe, fastened her belt, buckled her belt, and put on her boots, but she didn't have time to put on her toe. Fortunately, she didn't loose it when she was sleeping, and her hair was tied up in a bun.She quickly grabbed her own knife that was placed by the bed, and tore off the wrapping cloth on the knife, revealing the snow-white blade.Then with a stride, he stepped to the door, grabbed Qianhe's arm and said:

"Take me to the scene immediately!"

It was said that Qianhe took Shen Sui to the scene, but in fact, Shen Sui strode ahead, and Qianhe behind could hardly keep up.

"Where's Wu Ya? What is she doing?" Shen Sui's tone seemed to be full of reproach.

"I've already woken her up, and now Wu Ya is watching from the deck."

"Have the rest been notified?"

"Before we had time, the two of us found something was wrong, so we were the first to notify Da Lang."

While speaking, Shen Sui had already arrived on the deck briskly.Night Breeze was a bit chilly, just like her heart at the moment, cold and lifeless.She took down the lantern from the entrance of the cabin, and immediately walked towards the figure standing in the darkness.

"Boundless!" she yelled.

Wu Ya in the distance heard Shen Sui's voice, and immediately turned around, his voice was already crying with anxiety:

"Shen Dalang... Dalang, Sanniang... Sanniang is gone..."

"I know! Calm down!" Shen Sui said, "You have stood here for so long, have you seen anything?"

"I... I can't see clearly, it's too dark, I can't see anything on the river."

"Then you didn't hear anything?"

Wuya shook his head, but Qianhe said:

"When I rushed to the deck, I vaguely heard the sound of oars in the water in the distance. It was in that direction." Qianhe raised her finger, and Shen Sui saw that she was pointing to the west, the direction of the upper reaches of the river.

Her heart sank to rock bottom.

"Wu Ya, now go and wake up everyone on board, especially the local officials in this area, and ask them to organize troops to rescue immediately!"

Wu Ya was trembling, his face was as pale as paper, for a moment he didn't seem to hear Shen Sui's words, and just froze in place.

"Hurry up!" Shen Sui said angrily.

Wu Ya hurriedly nodded in horror, and hurried down the cabin.

"Qianhe, you go too, find Hutuo Bluebird, and ask them to see if something happened to Zhou Dalang's ship." Shen Sui said, already squatting down, holding a lantern to check the water stains on the deck.

"I see."

Qian He quickly turned back and left, leaving only Shen Sui on the deck.

With the light of the lantern, she could see traces of someone jumping into the water and climbing onto the deck from the side of the ship, and then, there were overlapping footprints in the direction of the person's retreat.It is the trace of embroidered shoes stepping on the wet footprints.The direction of retreat was towards the bow of the ship, and it disappeared at the railing.Shen Sui saw that there was a nail protruding from under the railing, hooked on a piece of burlap, and stained with a few traces of blood.Just under this section of the railing, there are messy footprints on the deck, and it is clear that there has been a struggle here.

A picture of gangsters holding Zhang Ruohan hostage, leading her over the railing and falling into the water together, engulfing her on a boat and fleeing far away, has been shown in front of her.In the dark night, it seemed that there was a terrifying big hand tightly strangling her throat.She was almost out of breath, and there was a buzzing in her head.As soon as her legs softened, she leaned on the railing and leaned down, feeling short of breath and flustered for a while.

Her left hand holding the knife was trembling, and she squeezed the blade tightly to suppress the trembling.Immediately, a nameless evil fire blazed from the bottom of her heart, and she slowly stood up holding the knife.

Throwing away the lantern, she turned back into the cabin.The lights in the cabin were already brightly lit, and amidst the almost hysterical noise of Wu Ya, everyone woke up, many people were disheveled, and they were in a daze not knowing what happened.

Under everyone's gaze, Shen Sui strode across the aisle with a knife in hand like a gust of wind.Zhang Shuo, Pei Yaoqing, and Liu Yucheng were opening the door at that time, and they saw Shen Sui running past him at a glance. The warm and deep black eyes that came from both sides were already bright red at this moment, as if they were about to bleed, and the killing intent around them was fierce. Running around, they were so frightened that they stood there dumbfounded, forgetting to breathe.

In the blink of an eye, Shen Sui disappeared.

"Bo Zhao! Where are you going!"

What Zhang said was obviously too late, Shen Sui had already got out of the official ship, and ran all the way across the dilapidated plank road, towards the official stables at the pier in the distance.

The direction of the stables also happened to be the direction of Zhou's boat.In the night, Shen Sui gazed intently into the distance, and could vaguely see at the other end of the plank road, three figures carrying lanterns quickly disembarked from Zhou's boat, and were running back, facing her.Shen Sui could see clearly that it was Hu Tuo, Blue Robin and Yuan Qianhe.

"Da Lang!" In the darkness, Hu Tuo was the first to recognize Shen Sui.

"How's the situation?" Shen Sui asked loudly, while asking, he had already run to the front and stopped.

"Something really happened. Several government soldiers guarding the Zhou family's boat were severely wounded. Their life or death is unknown. It was obviously a sneak attack from behind. The sampan is gone, and so are the Zhou family members." Hu Tuo panted, saying In a hurry, the blue robin also turned pale.Although after entering the Thousand Feathers Sect, she has seen a lot, but the scene she saw on the Zhou family boat just now still makes her heart shudder.It's too miserable, the eyes are full of blood, those government soldiers were accurately picked at the neck, the blood flowed profusely, and they twitched on the deck like fish caught on board.

"These gangsters! They are too bold!" Blue Robin said angrily.

"They're not just ordinary troublemakers." Shen Sui meant something, and there was a cold murderous look in his words.

"Dalang, what should we do now?" Hutuo asked for instructions.

Shen Sui thought for a moment, then said:

"Blue Robin, you go back immediately and guard Erlang. Remember, find Sun Fei, magistrate of Fengjie County, and ask him to copy all the information about Zhou's family immediately, and then quickly report it to me with Night Owl. This is for you, You blow it, and it will remember the sound." She took out a small whistle from the leather pouch hanging on her belt, and handed it to the bluerobin.

The bluebird took the whistle, nodded solemnly, and then ran to the official ship.

Shen Sui's words to the bluebird made Qianhe frowned.But now is not the time to care about these things, Shen Sui's next order will come soon:

"Khutuo, Qianhe, you follow me, get on your horse now, we will chase after you by land!"

"Here!" Hutuo said loudly, Qianhe didn't make a sound, but just nodded.

Shen Sui led the two of them to the stable as quickly as possible, one of them picked out a fast horse, and after getting on the horse, he quickly chased after it.The horse ran across the beach and entered the riverside road. At the beginning, the forest was not dense, and the big river on the left hand side could be seen rushing in the night, and the river flow reflected the stars and waves.But as the road gradually extended to the north, the distance from the river bank became farther and farther away, and the river flow was gradually lost. Only the sound of the river waves could be vaguely heard, and the fishy smell of the water could be smelled.

Tonight, the stars and the moon are sparse, and the trees on both sides are getting denser and denser, like devil's claws growing from the ground, bending inwardly and grabbing at them.The night was as dark as ink, and the paint was thick, and the road less than seven feet away from the horse's hoof could not be seen clearly.Three people and three horses, without any lights.Shen Sui, on the other hand, frantically galloped his horse forward. Under her urging, the horse ran faster and faster, as if he didn't care about the obstruction of the night at all.Hu Tuo and Qian He, who was galloping beside her, could hardly keep up with her.Hutuo could only vaguely see her light blue robe lifted by the strong wind and the white knife in her hand in front of her, and she followed closely with her hooting voice and the sound of horseshoes.

Hu Tuo had followed Shen Sui for so many years, had gone through life and death, and experienced all kinds of dangers, but tonight was the first time he felt a little panicked in his heart.It seemed that the person in front of her was about to disappear into the night like this, and he could no longer keep up or catch her, and she was going to run into the end in such a rage and out of control, and be swallowed up by the endless night.

He didn't know where this inexplicable mood came from, which made him cry out:

"Da Lang! Where are we going? We'll get lost in this way!"

"Follow this road, you can't go wrong!" Fortunately, Shen Sui's calm voice came from ahead, "Follow the sound of the river, I probably know where the Zhou family is going!"

Not long after her words fell, a unique whistle sounded in front of her.Kuta knew that this was a special whistle for night owls, and the sound of the whistle could guide the direction of night owls far away, so that night owls could find them accurately.By doing this, Shen Sui was ready to receive information from the bluebird at any time.Sure enough, after that, Shen Sui would blow his whistle every short period of time.

Qianhe has been silently following Shen Sui and Hutuo's master and servant, and did not say anything about their actions.

I don't know how far he ran, and he didn't even take the normal path halfway, he took a shortcut in the jungle and rushed along the river, and the branches left a bloodstain on Hutuo's face.Hu Tuo felt that this night run was extremely long, probably more than two hours, when the horse was sweating profusely and couldn't run anymore, Shen Sui finally slowed down the horse.She said:

"There is no need to hurry up. Although the westerly wind is blowing tonight, sailing upstream will help the speed of the boat, but the speed of the Zhou family's boat is still not that fast. We may have overtaken it. Now, wait for the news of the night owl."

Shen Sui began to blow the whistle repeatedly and for a long time, and after traveling less than two miles, she finally reined in completely and stopped the horse.

"Just wait here, I guess the news is coming soon."

"Where are we?" Qianhe asked, she couldn't see at all, there was no difference between night and day.However, following Shen Sui on horseback for such a long distance, she was still a little uneasy.

Shen Sui replied: "Based on the speed of our horses, I calculate that we have walked westward along the river for more than 300 miles. After running for more than two hours, the sky is almost dawn. Now we should be in the west of Fengjie County, I guess Their sampan should stop here." [Note]

"Why?" Hutuo asked a little panting. Riding a horse is definitely not an easy task. After running for such a long distance, not only the horse is tired, but the people are also very tired.

"Because this is their hometown."

"How do you know?" Chizuru asked.

"When we went down the river by boat, I noticed that the cliffs along the river in this section of Fengjie County had very dense hanging coffins, which indicated that there was a very traditional hanging coffin burial custom here. And this place happened to be the place where Governor Zhu The place where the accident happened, because according to Mr. Zhang, they had not yet arrived in Fengjie before he passed out drunk and fell asleep, which shows that the position of the boat at that time was most likely on the river west of Fengjie."

"Why must it be in the west of Fengjie? What if the boat sailed through Fengjie Port and stopped under the cliff of the coffin in the east of Fengjie during the time when Zhang Gong was asleep? And, why did it have to be Have a hanging coffin?" Qianhe didn't quite understand.

Shen Sui sighed, and explained briefly: "This is a temporary conjecture from my journey. There is no evidence to prove it yet, but I think this is the only feasible explanation. Mr. Zhang said that they only drank the wine they brought with them. , that's not strong alcohol, it won't make Zhu Dadu and Zhang Gong, who have a good capacity for alcohol, pass out without drinking a few cups. It means that they should have been drugged, and Zhang Gong and Zhu Dadu were stunned at the same time .

You should pay attention, at this time, the identities of Zhu Dadu and Zhang Gong have changed at the same time.Governor Zhu became an irresistible victim, while Zhang Gong became a witness to exonerate Zhou Dalang's family.In order to make Zhang Gong's testimony more powerful, the Zhou family made a very delicate time trap to change Zhang Gong's memory of the entire boat trip. "

"A time trap?" Hutuo was also confused.

"Yes, Mr. Zhang said that when he fell asleep, it was dusk. This time point cannot be wrong, because before that, he was awake. But he said that he woke up again on the second day Liming, there was a problem at this time point, because he was in a confused state of mind at that time, he didn't have a clepsydra at hand, and the sky was very gloomy, he couldn't see the sun, and he couldn't distinguish dawn from dusk. The only way for him to know the time point was The Zhou family. At this point in time, it became extremely unreliable.

Zhou's family told him that it was the dawn of the second day, but what if it was still the evening of the previous day?He thought he slept through the night, but what if he only slept for a cup of tea?The only state in which people cannot accurately perceive time is in sleep.Suppose, after they stunned Zhang Gong and took away the governor Zhu, they woke up Zhang Gong again in a short period of time and told him that the time had passed overnight.Do you think, if it were you, would you be able to clearly understand this? "

Hutuo and Qianhe were startled, and suddenly realized.

"It is very likely that Zhou's family misled Mr. Zhang. Afterwards, Mr. Zhang fell asleep again, fell into chaos again, and time became unclear again. During this period, he did not know how long the boat traveled or how far it traveled. There may have been a time trap that smoothed out the time it took them to transport Governor Zhu's body to the cliff. In this way, everyone's alibi could be created when Governor Zhu disappeared, and people would have no clue. Suspiciously thought that Governor Zhu fell into the water after drinking."

Qianhe exclaimed: "How can a few boatmen have such wisdom!"

"I guess that they are not ordinary boatmen, especially Zhou Da. He has probably been in the army and worked as a scout before. He has not weak skills and reconnaissance skills. And, I always have a feeling that they The crimes were committed by someone behind the scenes."

"Why do you think so?" Kuta asked.

"Because now they are showing panic and urgency that are inconsistent with the meticulous trap of this case. My performance during the search on Zhou's boat greatly stimulated Zhou Dalang, which prompted him to commit the crime of kidnapping the lotus maid as a hostage tonight, and the whole family fled If he has confidence in the trap he came up with, he should understand that I have no way to convict them. But they have no confidence in this trap. When I provoke them a little, they immediately feel that they have been exposed Yes. I always feel that this is not like a trap they thought up, but someone taught it behind their backs."

Just after she finished speaking, an owl sounded in the sky, Shen Sui immediately raised his whistle and blew it. Not long after, a big black bird descended from the sky, and a pair of round eyes the size of copper bells shone with horror in the night. the light of man.Shen Sui raised his arm, and the night owl landed on her arm accurately, and Shen Sui quickly removed the letter box from the night owl's feet.

After reading the letter, she frowned, thought for a moment, rode her horse again, and said:

"Come with me!"

The author has something to say: here we come, I know you have been waiting for a long time.

[Note] Three hundred miles = 150 kilometers, and the fastest sprint speed of the sweaty BMW is 60 kilometers per hour. If you run the whole distance at this speed, it only takes two and a half hours. The three of Shen Sui ran for four and a half hours. It's almost time, which is equivalent to the speed of an urgent official document of 300 miles. PS: The fastest express official document, 600 miles per day, that is, 10 kilometers in 12-300 hours.

PS: Post it first, and modify the catching bug later.