Tang riddles

In the early afternoon of the same day, the follow-up troops who received the news finally rushed to the town.The town, which was originally quite large, became crowded in an instant, and the people were disturbed, not knowing what happened, so many officers and soldiers came, and there was panic on their faces.Zhang Shuo's complexion was not good, and when he got off the carriage, he led Pei Yaoqing, Liu Yucheng, Liu Zhi and other officials into the town medical center.

Shen Sui was already waiting for them in the front hall of the medical hall. The robe on his body looked a little rustic and didn't fit well, and his body still exuded a strong smell of medicinal wine.But it has been groomed and tidy, and it looks as energetic as usual.

"Bo Zhao, are you okay!" Zhang said seeing Shen Sui, the first thing he said was to ask her about her safety.

"Mr. Zhang, don't worry, there is nothing wrong with Sui, and Mrs. Zhang is also very good."

"Where is she?"

"I was resting in the backyard room. I caught a cold and had a fever. I just took medicine before I fell asleep."

"Okay, then I won't bother you." Zhang said and nodded, and then hurriedly asked Wu Ya, who was following behind, to visit their third mother.Wu Ya couldn't wait any longer, he hurriedly carried his luggage and ran all the way to the backyard.

Bluebird pushed Shen Jin out of the crowd and met Shen Sui.They didn't seem worried, and they were quite calm when they met Shen Sui.After meeting each other, the blue robin also pushed Shen Jin into the backyard.

All the officials took their seats in the front hall, and the servants of the medical hall came to deliver tea in fear. He had never seen so many officials in his life.

Zhang said that he had been traveling for a long time, and he was also thirsty. After drinking tea, he sighed and said, "This time something like this happened, how can I ask someone to explain to Jiu Ling?"

Shen Sui smiled and said: "Mr. Zhang, I'm the one to talk about this matter. I believe that Mr. Qu Jiang will not blame you for it. This case is about to be solved, but you still need to send some people to go with me." In one place, we can find key witnesses."

Zhang said he was curious and asked:

"Oh, where?"

"Let me keep it a secret, everyone is tired from the long journey, rest first, I'll go change my clothes, I'll be back soon." Saying that, he said goodbye and left.

Shen Sui's performance last night really surprised and admired many people present.The kidnapping of Zhang Ruohan was a sporadic and sudden incident. Everyone panicked because they didn't expect it at all. Only Shen Sui was so calm and decisive, and her reaction was extremely fast. to save people.And if she really saved the person, it can be said that her actions are like lightning, like a storm.What surprised everyone the most was that the ability of the servant named Blue Robin to communicate with Shen Sui, really greatly shortened the delay in spreading the news, allowing them to get the news in time.It was eye-opening and unbelievable to see how they could use night owls at will.

Pei Yaoqing and Liu Yucheng still remembered the scene of Shen Sui running through the cabin, his red eyes looked like a Tyrannosaurus whose scales had been brushed against it.Looking back now, I feel that expression is not simple, could it be...Shen Bozhao is interested in Mrs. Zhang San?

They were skeptical, but Zhang said he was very relieved in his heart. Shen Sui's behavior fully demonstrated her affection for Sanniang.Young people are thin-skinned, unwilling to admit it on the lips, and promise the marriage so reluctantly, but in fact they are eager for it in their hearts.If these old guys don't have the cheek to help add firewood to the fire, when can the raw rice be cooked?Time is fate, and a couple is born.

Seeing it clearly, the three officials sat in the front hall, and the old god was drinking tea on the ground, but secretly flirted with each other several times to communicate with each other.

Zhang Shuo, Pei Yaoqing, and Liu Yucheng are all members of the central government system, but the local officials headed by Liu Zhi are not very familiar with Shen Sui and Zhang Ruohan's affairs. Looking at the eyebrows of the three central government officials, they are all at a loss water.What the hell are the secret officials doing, don't make fun of them or use them as a shield at that time, I really can't afford to play anymore.

Not long after, Shen Sui came out.She changed into a black brocade and silver silk moire gown, and wore a footless headdress, with a strand of red hair hanging from each ear, which set off her white skin and red lips, and she was incomparably handsome.There is a snow knife tied with a silver belt around his waist, and he walked out a few steps to make everyone's eyes shine.Why are you so beautifully dressed?Liu Yucheng squinted at Shen Sui, always felt that this kid had a spring in his brows and eyes, and his whole body was comfortable, and he became more and more charming, even a bit hateful.Zhang Shuo was very satisfied, feeling that he really picked a good husband for San Niang.

Shen Sui followed Hutuo, holding a bamboo basket in his hand, the basket contained something unknown, it was covered with a layer of blue cloth, so it couldn't be seen clearly.

"Everyone, it's not too late, let's go now."

Everyone didn't know where they were going, they just followed Shen Sui into the carriage, and Kutuo led the way, leading a group of officials and a large group of soldiers to the depths of the dense forest.After a while, the carriage failed, and everyone had to get out of the carriage and walk.After being repeatedly questioned by the officials, Shen Sui finally explained:

"I'm going to take you to see Zhou Da's family now."

Everyone now knows that Zhou Da's family is dead, and the four younger ones have escaped and are being hunted down.As for how and why Zhou Da's family died, they don't quite know.

When Shen Sui led the crowd to the edge of the cliff, everyone saw the corpses of Wednesday, Zhou's wife, and Zhou's wife piled up on the edge of the cliff, as if they had just climbed the cliff and were killed.The fatal injury was a knife wound, which cut into the neck and severed the trachea and major artery, very simply and neatly.Zhou Da's corpse was a few steps away, and he fell to the ground. The aorta in his neck was cut off with a single knife, and he died instantly.He still had a rope wrapped around him.

"What's going on here?" Seeing such a bloody scene, the officials were not very comfortable.Pei Yaoqing frowned and asked.

"At that time, Mrs. Zhang was transported by a sampan to the bottom of the cliff. They took Mrs. Zhang up the cliff. Unexpectedly, a mysterious figure appeared on the cliff. This figure killed them and cut the rope. I arrived in time and saved Mrs. Zhang San, otherwise she would be murdered now. The mysterious figure fought fiercely with me, and I was knocked off the cliff by him, but because Hutuo and Qianhe arrived in time, the mysterious man I was scared away, and I didn't have time to kill me and Mrs. Zhang San. I fell down the cliff, split the hanging coffin with a knife to stop my fall, and was trapped on the cliff for a while. I didn't climb until Hutuo borrowed a rope. Come up."

Shen Sui made some insignificant embellishments to the whole matter, such as modifying the plot where he and Zhang Ruohan fell off the cliff together, and only said that he fell off the cliff by himself.She did this because she didn't want to scare Zhang Shuo too much. After all, Zhang Ruohan was his beloved niece. He was old, and he probably couldn't bear to hear such exciting things.Secondly, for the purpose of protecting Zhang Ruohan's reputation, she was trapped in a hanging coffin with the man in the middle of the night. If it spreads, someone with a heart will save the key points. Under the rumors, Zhang Ruohan's reputation can be regarded as ruined.

Even so, Zhang said that after listening to Shen Sui's brief narration, his face turned pale with shock.He could fully imagine the dangerous scene at that time, and it was God's blessing that he did not lose his niece and future niece and son-in-law.

Pei Yaoqing collected herself and asked, "What about that mysterious person you mentioned?"

"This... I should have asked Zhou Da. This case was manipulated by someone behind the scenes. It was the person behind the scenes who told Zhou Da how to murder Governor Zhu. Now that Zhou Da's family has been killed, the person behind the case must not be able to get rid of it." Open the relationship. Right now, we can only know the clues of the people behind it after the four juniors of the Zhou family are caught." Shen Sui said.

"This Zhou Da, why is he so cruel, not to mention killing Governor Zhu, but even planning to kidnap Mrs. Zhang San, what is he going to do?" Liu Yucheng frowned.

"He wants revenge." Shen Sui said, she made a gesture of invitation, and gave Hutuo a look, Hutuo understood, and immediately led the way.Shen Sui continued:

"Come with me, everyone, and I will take you to Zhoujia Village."

"Zhou Family Village?!" Sun Fei exclaimed, "Brother Bo Zhao actually found Zhou Family Village?"

"Yes, Zhou Family Village, which has been abandoned for many years, if you take a look at the scene, you can probably understand why Zhou Dahui is so vicious, and took such a big risk to kill Governor Zhu." Shen Sui replied.

Some of the government soldiers and foremen stayed behind to deal with the corpses of Zhou Da's family, and the rest followed Shen Sui to the depths of the dense forest.

"Brother Bozhao, I have searched for Zhoujia Village for a long time but have not found it. I have been to this dense forest before, but I always get lost and dare not go deep." Sun Fei walked to Shen Sui's side and explained in a low voice.

Shen Sui understood what he meant, and said with a smile: "It's okay, I understand. If I hadn't hit by mistake this time, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to find this place. People have been buried in a maze around here, but don't worry, I'm out of the maze." Let’s go, clear a way, and it will be convenient to come here again in the future.”

Sun Fei was shocked again, looked at Shen Sui, and sighed in his heart: This person is so wise and close to a monster!

There was indeed a maze near here, but Shen Sui found it and broke it on the way to the cliff to save people.The labyrinth was set up by taking advantage of the special terrain in the vicinity. A piece of bluestone placed at a special point can make people spin around in place, and it is impossible to get out no matter what.The way to break the formation is very simple, but remove the bluestone.Shen Sui directly chopped the bluestone into pieces with a knife.Apart from the bluestone, the maze also has a special cracking point, which is a torch tied to the tree trunk. The light of the torch that Hutuo and Qianhe saw while chasing Shen Sui was the light of the torch.But then the flame disappeared, not because Shen Sui broke it, but because the flame was extinguished by someone hiding in the dense forest.

Shen Sui guessed that the person who took away the torch was the one who donated the formation. He probably knew that the formation had been broken, but for some reason, he simply took the second breaking point and dispelled the formation by himself.

After walking for two minutes, Hutuo pushed aside the towering bushes that obscured his sight, and when everyone saw the deserted scorched-earth village in the dense forest.In the daytime, this deserted village showed an unusual scene, not as bleak and terrifying as at night, but it was more desolate and desolate.

"County magistrate Sun, please confirm, this is the Zhou family village recorded in the county annals?" Shen Sui said.

Sun Fei frowned with a pair of thick eyebrows, walked to the front, saw cooking smoke rising from the northeast, and asked:

"That's Yun'an Village?"

"It's Yun'an Village." A mansion soldier beside him who acted as a guide replied, he was from Yun'an Village, and he was very familiar with it.

"Have you never been here?" Sun Fei asked the mansion soldier.

"No, the old man in the village won't let us go west. He said that the forest in the west is haunted. If you go in, you can't come out again. In our village, there are two disobedient children. They went in and never came out again. There is also an old man who has no one at home, and one day he found that he was gone, and they all said that he went to the west and couldn't come back." The mansion soldier replied.

Sun Fei turned his head, looked at Shen Sui, and the officials behind Shen Sui and said, "It seems that this is Zhoujia Village, that's right. According to the county records, the barren village to the southwest of Yun'an Village was the former Zhoujia Village."

Shen Sui asked the mansion soldier:

"When did the child and the old man disappear?"

"The child disappeared a year and a half ago, and the old man disappeared half a year ago." Fubing replied.

Shen Sui nodded, but did not speak.She took the lead in entering the deserted village, seeing the desolate and decaying scene, her heart was heavy.

"This week's family village used to be shipbuilding, and the village is full of highly skilled carpenters. Look at the keel, halfway through the shipbuilding, it suddenly suffered a catastrophe." Shen Sui pointed to the huge toppled keel at the head of the village.

"Bo Zhao, start from the beginning and explain to me what you know one by one. There is no need to worry about it. I have an obligation to thoroughly investigate this matter," Zhang said.

Shen Sui said: "Okay, everyone, come with me, and we will talk as we walk.... Everything that Shen said next is just conjecture, and there is a lack of definite evidence for many links. Listen, everyone, we can only deal with this case at present. The case will be settled within the scope of the evidence available.”

There was something in Shen Sui's words, and all the officials frowned, feeling uneasy.

Shen Sui continued: "More than ten years ago, I think the exact time should be 16 years ago, the son-in-law of Zhou Family Village, Sima Zhang Yue of Jiangling Prefecture brought a big business to the village, and a certain dignitary entrusted him to Let his wife's natal family, that is, Zhoujiacun, build something for this powerful person. This thing requires superb craftsmanship, and someone has taken a fancy to Zhoujiacun's craftsmanship. I think the person who first approached Zhang Yue to talk about this matter should It was Lu Zixiu.

The people of Zhoujia Village were just a group of carpenters. Attracted by the huge profits, they took over the business and produced what the powerful person needed.But also because of this, they provoked a fatal disaster.That dignified person, like a dead dog, wants to kill them.

The matter of silence was handed over to Lu Zixiu, Zhu Yuanmao's cousin, who was in charge of the entire underworld forces in Jingnan at that time.Lu Zixiu brought people to Zhoujia Village, slaughtered the whole village, and carefully left people here to guard to ensure that no one would find out in a short time.At the same time, this powerful person had a good hand and eye, and by some means, the then magistrate of Fengjie County in Kuizhou forged the household registration of Fengjie County, and took advantage of the authority of Jingzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to move the population of [-] households of retired sailors to Zhou Dynasty. Near the old site of the family village, to cover up the eighty people who suddenly disappeared here.

Two years later, in late spring 14 years ago, Zhang Yue brought his wife and daughter to die.Zhang Yue survived the past two years without being silenced, probably because he was always in the Jiangling mansion, and there were always people around him, so it was not easy to attack.Or maybe the people behind the scenes wanted to keep him for a longer period of time. The specific reason is not known now.In short, he was lucky enough to live less than two years longer than the people in Zhoujia Village, until he took the initiative to take his wife and daughter back to Zhoujia Village to visit relatives and return to the province, and finally brought a chance to the people behind the scenes.

The only thing I can confirm is that Zhang Yue is really ignorant of the disaster he brought to Zhoujia Village, otherwise he would never bring his wife and daughter back to the province.But when he saw the ruins and the unwarranted disaster he had brought to Zhou Family Village, he completely collapsed.The most terrifying thing is that the killer appeared, waiting to send them to reunite with the people of Zhoujia Village.Panicked, he took his wife and daughter desperately trying to escape back to Jiangling, but in the end they were overtaken by the killer. Zhang Yue, Zhang Yue's wife, wife and sister were killed before falling into the water, and his two daughters disappeared. not see.

This is a complete tragedy, a shameful and cruel unilateral massacre.But the massacre was not complete, and there must be embers after the fire.There are two survivors, still alive in this world.One side was Zhou Da's family who were away at that time.Zhou Da was serving in the army at the time, working outside on Tuesdays, and taking his family, women and children on passenger ships on Wednesdays to make a living, traveling around all year round.They are the survivors of this massacre, and the extreme grief has created extreme anger and madness, and they plan to revenge.However, they were very tolerant and endured it for many years. When the land was completely turned into a wasteland and the people behind the scenes no longer paid attention, they finally started their revenge plan.Zhou Da served in the Gyeonggi area, and a third party contacted him, told him some secrets, and taught him some clever killing techniques.Giving Zhou Da great confidence, he planned to take this opportunity to kill Zhu Yuanmao completely. "

Zhang Shuo raised his hand and interrupted her: "Wait, why is it Zhu Yuanmao? Sixteen years ago, Zhu Yuanmao was still in Chang'an and had not yet been appointed as the governor of Jingzhou. Even though Lu Zixiu is his cousin, this matter should have nothing to do with him. Why didn't they kill Lu Zixiu, but Zhu Yuanmao?"

Shen Sui said: "Don't be impatient, Mr. Zhang. Listen to me. Lu Zixiu was already dead at that time, and his whole family was wiped out a year and a half ago. Even if Zhou Da wanted to kill him, there was no way to kill him. Zhou Da wanted to kill him." Wait until I am discharged from the army before taking revenge. I think that Lu Zixiu was originally on his revenge list, but someone else did it for him first."

"You mean, the one who killed Lu Zixiu's family was a survivor from the other side of the Zhou Family Village Extermination Incident?" Zhang said that he vaguely understood Shen Sui's meaning.

Shen Sui nodded and continued:

"As for why Zhou Da chose to take revenge on Zhu Yuanmao, I am afraid that Zhu Yuanmao is inseparable from that incident back then. He is an insider, and is likely to be a messenger. Although he is far away in Chang'an, this incident He ordered Lu Zixiu to do it. Only he can order Lu Zixiu."

While speaking, they had already arrived on the river beach along the track extending under the keel, looking at the dock formed by a natural cave in the distance, Shen Sui said softly, as if sighing:

"Now, we may soon meet the culprit who killed Lu Zixiu's family. They lived in that dock for 14 years..."

The author has something to say: When I wrote this chapter, I felt Zhang Gong was cute.

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