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"Don't be so childish next time. I will keep these two people for use." The man patted him on the back and said, "You write a letter to Zhongyang Wei, saying that the Chunlai Inn is Southeast's private matter. As for that Wei Qian Ge... You don't know anything, just let them find out. Choose yourself early, and don't do such childish things in the future, you understand?"

"Yes." Qi Chu looked up at him with tears in his eyes, and whispered, "Master, when will you come back to the southeast, why do you have to—"

"Other things, you shouldn't ask, so don't ask." The man smiled softly, but his tone was creepy, "Okay, just do what you have to do, and I will send you a message when I have something to do." letter."

"Yes," Qi Chu watched the man get up from the ground, brushed his sleeves, and couldn't help asking, "Master, are you leaving now?"

"Don't let me down, Ah Chu," the man stroked his hair, and walked towards the other exit of the secret room, "Next time I'm free, I'll let you play for me—"

Qi Chu knelt on the ground and was stunned for a while.It took a long time before he got up from the cold floor of the secret room. He knelt for too long, and when he got up, he felt dizzy for a while.He wiped the tear stains on his face with his sleeve, picked up the qin on the ground, and turned back into His Highness Ping Wang who was uncertain in the eyes of his servants and the world.

It was only when he went out to get into the sedan chair that he realized that the palm of his hand had been pinched by himself, with strands of red oozing out.He put his hand to his lips and licked it, showing a weak but fishy smile.

He lifted the curtain and took a look outside. It seemed that a dark wind was blowing across the winter sky.

In the morning of the second day, Zhou Lanmu and Chu Shao went to the local Zhao Sin Department.

After the two left the city from Zhongyang, the local government only heard that Zhongyang sent people to investigate the case, but they didn't say who they sent or when they would arrive.

In order not to miss their tracks, the two took off their luxurious accessories, and didn't even bring any conspicuous weapons. They changed into a pair of coarse cloth clothes bought by the roadside, looking like ordinary people.When passing by the bridge hole under the city tower, the two saw a group of people surrounding a notice.

Chu Shao didn't like excitement, but Zhou Lanmu was most interested in such excitement, so he dragged him to watch.Unexpectedly, there was a reward posted on the bulletin board. It only said that the case of Chunlai Inn was of great importance. If anyone had any clues, they could provide them to the Department of Prosecution, and the Department of Prosecution would definitely reward them with a lot of money.

Zhou Lanmu grabbed Chu Shao's arm with one hand, and pointed to the notice with the other: "Yuan Jia, do you think such a notice is useful?"

Chu Shao glanced at it and said with a sneer, "It's no wonder it's useful. If someone talks nonsense for the sake of rewarding money, how will the Zhao Sin Division judge whether it's true or not?"

Zhou Lanmu nodded: "That's right."

He pushed aside the crowd and took two steps forward, then suddenly reached out and took off the notice.

There was a burst of "tsk tsk tsk" from the people watching, and the aunt who had something good to do asked, "Young student, what did you see?"

Zhou Lanmu said nonsense calmly: "Exactly, I happened to pass by the Chunlai Inn that night and saw a few masked thieves. I was worried about how to inform the government of this matter, but the government actually posted a notice - aunt, confess your crime How do you go?"

The aunt showed him the way very enthusiastically, Zhou Lanmu squeezed out from the crowd, and dragged Chu Shao along the path pointed by the aunt.

Chu Shao looked back at the troublemaker who had just followed them and wanted to ask a few more questions, and couldn't laugh or cry: "What bad idea did you come up with again?"

"Is there any bad idea? I want to see the body of Chunlai Inn. It's not easy to reveal my identity now, so I can only expose this first to fool them." Zhou Lanmu said with a smile, "Let's go, let's take a look first. Say it again."

Chen Ping, the director of the Shichuan Zhaocriminal Division, was born in the army. Later, he thought it was too hard to be a soldier, so he packed a lot of money to come to Shichuan. It took more than 20 years to become a moderate official.

Now that he is over half a century old, these cases are very troublesome on weekdays, and he almost turns a blind eye to them.But the case of Chunlai Inn is of great importance, Zhongyang even sent someone to come here in person, if one is not careful, it will affect his official career.

Besides... If the higher-ups find out about his collusion with the death river black market, even if he has ten lives, he will not escape death.

Just when Chen Ping was worried, someone from his subordinates came to report that someone had released the notice.

There are two young men on display, the older one is a beauty, he has been in the death river for so many years, he has never seen such a handsome man, the younger one has a ponytail, looks very energetic, but...

The clothes on her body are too ordinary, even people with a little property in the family don't bother to wear such clothes.

Zhou Lanmu didn't know that the two clothes he bought at the side of the road were arranged in this way, and when he saw someone coming, he got up and saluted politely: "It must be the Lord Zhao Sin, Cao Min is very polite here. "

Seeing that he saluted naturally, Chu Shao also bowed his hands pretendingly, then stood behind him and refused to speak.

Seeing that he was so respectful, Chen Ping secretly guessed in his heart that these were two young people who had never seen the world, so he couldn't help putting on an official tone, sat down slowly, and said: "There is no need to salute."

Although he was posing with the score, his eyes were glued to Zhou Lanmu's face and refused to move away. Chu Shao didn't bother to look at him, so he just heard Zhou Lanmu make up in front of him: "My lord, Cao Minyuan is from the east. My parents died during the year, and I had to take my brother around to make a living, so I had the chance to see..."

Chen Ping interrupted him directly, not interested in what he wanted to say at all, instead he asked kindly: "It must be hard to live with my younger brother, but what does my little brother do for a living?"

Zhou Lanmu paused for a moment, and quickly replied: "I can read a few words on weekdays, so I write letters to sign contracts for others. My younger brother was born stronger, and he usually delivers letters and runs errands. There are many people in the river and lake. , so that we can barely make ends meet."

Chu Shao rolled his big eyes behind him.

This person is simply too good at making things up, he speaks nonsense, and he doesn't need to type out the manuscript when he tells a lie. If he is any more stupid, he will definitely be deceived.

...Although it's not much better now.

Chen Ping nodded in understanding, and smiled kindly: "Then tell me, what did you see that day?"

Zhou Lanmu lowered his eyelashes, and answered honestly: "The night before the massacre at the Chunlai Inn, I copied books for guests at the inn opposite Chunlai, and left with my brother in the middle of the night, who knows..."

He raised his eyes and pretended to be terrified, and said vividly: "The two of us walked to the door of Chunlai Inn, and suddenly saw two men in black coming out from the door of the inn. My brother and I were frightened, and we hid quickly to prevent them I saw, then, then... I was so frightened that I didn't dare to look any further, I only heard the footsteps of a group of people, and then there was no sound."

After Zhao Sinsi removed the body, Shichuan's Jianghu organization sealed the Chunlai Inn.There are many people in the Shichuan Jianghu, and the Lange is so powerful that the government dare not control it. Besides, it is the scene of the crime. They sealed it for the government, and the crime department is happy.

Before closing the inn, he went in to have a look. There were so many blood marks in it, it was not difficult to see that there were many people. What Zhou Lanmu said was almost all nonsense.

Could it be that this person... is coveting the few taels of silver that was offered as a reward?

Chen Ping thought about it, and moved his eyes to Chu Shao behind him: "Then what about this little brother's younger brother, have you ever seen anything?"

He was in the army for too short a time, and since then he has been in Shichuan, and he only heard of Chu Shao's name, but he couldn't recognize anyone.

Chu Shao was too lazy to talk to him, and was afraid that he would reveal too much, so he simply kept silent, Zhou Lanmu looked back at him, and said with a smile: "My lord, my brother hurt his head when he was young, and now he is a fool. Just ask me anything."

After he finished speaking, he added anxiously: "I don't know the reward mentioned in the notice..."

Even though he is a scholar, he puts on a fake and lofty air, but in the end he didn't come to cheat those taels of silver rewards.Chen Ping knew in his heart that there are many people cheating rewards in the past few days, and all of them have such a set of rhetoric. Is it really easy to get the money from Zhao Sinsi?

If he left before, he would find a few servants to beat him up and send him away, but... seeing the looks of the two brothers in front of him, he could make other plans.

He thought about this, and said face-to-face: "The reward of silver is naturally indispensable to you, but...it will take a while for the money to flow out of the account. If the two brothers don't dislike it, how about staying with me for a while?"

For fear of being suspicious, he hastily added: "I used to be from the east side, and I couldn't bear to see the two of you making a living, so I just stayed and chatted with me about things in the east. I haven't gone back for many years. I miss it very much in my heart. Don’t worry, the money will definitely not be missing from you.”

Zhou Lanmu said in surprise and joy: "Then...thank you sir!"

After he thanked him, he thought for a while and added: "When your lord is free, can you show us those corpses? Maybe after seeing the corpses, I can think of other things."

As a scholar, it is embarrassing to lie to Yinzi for no reason, and always has to say a few more words to show what he really knows.Chen Ping secretly smiled in his heart, but he responded readily, and called someone to arrange accommodation for the two of them, as well as prepare meals.

In the afternoon, he sent someone to take the two of them to look at the corpse. Afraid that he might suspect him, Zhou Lanmu had no choice but to take a quick look.

All the people in Chunlai Inn died of poisoning. The poisoning should have been a peaceful death. Because of the different time of drinking the poison, there should be some subtle differences.But the expressions of this group of people were extremely distorted before they died, as if they had experienced something terrible, and according to what Wu Zuo said, they should have died at the same time.

Only Wei Qiange was different. Wei Qiange was killed with a single knife, the fatal wound was on the neck, and his strikes were swift and swift.The woman next to him was not poisonous, Wu Zuo said, as if she was frightened to death.

After seeing the corpse, Zhou Lanmu was in a daze all afternoon in the room Chen Ping prepared for the two of them. Chu Shao lay on the bed for a while, looked at Zhou Lanmu's expression and said, "What are you thinking?"

Zhou Lanmu frowned slightly and said, "Think about something very strange."

Chu Shao pursed her lips, and said intentionally: "Then I'll tell you something even stranger - I just heard a lot of gossip in front of the bulletin board, saying that the old man of the Zhao Sin Division is domineering and domineering. Lange restrained himself a little after he arrived in Shichuan, but why is he so kind now, do you know what he wants to do?"

Zhou Lanmu turned his head to look at him, showing a faint smile: "If I didn't want to know what he wants to do, would I live in this crappy room?"