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Qin Fengchi ordered people to take the cloth strips from the four people's mouths, and one of the young ones walked forward on his knees, kowtowed heavily at him, and said in a hoarse voice: "Master Commander, the mark Yuan Zhen is from the First Battalion of the Tianjin Mansion Garrison The envoys, I and the other four battalions are all envoys. We all changed defenses from Xuzhou to Tianjin in the ninth year of Yongqing. It took less than a year! The families under the mark have been in the army for generations, and their ancestors are loyal and good. They have absolutely no disobedience. Please be careful, my lord!"

The elder also kowtowed and said, "Yuan Ji, who is under bid, is from the same town as Yuan Zhen. It has been ten years since the soldiers under his command have changed their station every three years, let alone defending the country. And they are all loyal—" before finishing speaking, they were already choked up.

He tilted his head and wiped his tears on the skirt of his clothes, and said again: "We obeyed Zhao Tongzhi's order and only watched the city gate, but the commander ordered us to leave a battalion to guard the gate, and the rest went out of the city with him. Who are you looking for! When the commander wants to kill the spy of the Eagle Feather Guard, we will try our best to stop it, and we have absolutely no intention of rebelling!"

The rest of the soldiers all shed tears when they heard the words, and kowtowed one after another to beg for mercy.

Qin Fengchi listened carefully, thought for a moment after listening, and looked at Yuan Zhen: "Have you ever hurt your life on the road?"

The four people in front of them suddenly turned pale.

Gong Qiancheng looked at Qin Fengchi in surprise: "Commander Qin can even see this?"

Qin Fengchi said coldly: "They rushed past under the tree, and I smelled blood against the wind. What's more, Xu Changshun led people out of the city in the middle of the night to intercept and destroy the evidence. There will be a living." He pointed to the blood on Yuan Zhen's shoulder, "Just now you said that none of the four of them resisted, but there is blood on him, where did it come from?"

He slowly swept across the four people kneeling in front of him. Although his words were tragic, if the knife was stained with innocent blood, he couldn't let it go easily.These things must be clearly distinguished here and now, and when they return to Fucheng, they have to face a bunch of demons and monsters again.

Yuan Zhen gritted his teeth, and said in a low voice: "There was a group of merchants on the road to avoid, the commander drew his sword directly, and ordered me to go forward to encircle and clear the obstacles. There were 16 people in total, the commander killed 11 people, and the remaining five..." He couldn't continue. , the few rows of government soldiers behind them all lowered their heads.

Seeing that he didn't tell the whole truth, Yuan Ji wanted to take the responsibility of those five people, and said anxiously: "Master Commander, we didn't kill anyone! The blood on Yuan Zhen's body was wiped by the commander's knife. The incident happened suddenly. The few of us had just clashed with the commander outside the city gate, and it was too late to stop it. Yuan Zhen contradicted the commander for this, and was almost hacked to death by the commander—"

The detectives around all gasped, and felt chills all over their bodies when they heard it.They are fast catchers, and they are used to seeing villains when they usually arrest murderers, but the situation Yuan Zhen told is completely different.If one person does evil, at most three or five people will be killed, but for a wicked person with power in his hands, the consequences will often be magnified without limit.

Gong Qiancheng was stunned: "I haven't encountered a murder case in which 16 people died in many years." What's more, the murder was committed by an official.It is rare that Xu Changshun acts so cruelly that he regards laws as nothing.

Qin Fengchi didn't want to waste any more time: "You can tell if what the four of you said is true or not."

He took out a white silk handkerchief from his arms, and pulled out Yuan Zhen's saber.

All the sabers of these soldiers should have been confiscated, but it seemed that Zhao Yiqing and his group were in a hurry, so they only tied their arms.However, Yuan Zhen and the others were lucky, otherwise, if the standard sabers were thrown together, no one would be able to tell who belonged to them, and it would be difficult to prove their innocence.

Qin Fengchi held the white silk and wiped the three-foot blade from the beginning to the end, and then spread the white silk.

Under the light of the fire, the white silk cloth was still clean except for some traces of tung oil.After wiping in this way, the remaining three knives were all very clean, without traces of blood.

Gong Qiancheng nodded. In such a hasty night attack, if the blade sees blood, even if it is wiped, blood will remain.It appears that the four were not involved in the killing of civilians.

Qin Fengchi walked up to Xu Changshun, and drew the saber from his body. He didn't need to use white silk to see the thick blood stains on the saber.

He threw the knife in front of the other party in disgust, and sneered: "You are born in Yutai in 11 years, and you live in Xujiazhuang, Tongguan. There are only 27 households in a village, and there are [-] military households. Both your grandfather and father died in the ranks of hundreds of households." Job, your mother remarried, you were brought up by Shemi, a household of your Xu family, and made you conquer hundreds of households and become an official, so you have the glory of commanding a city of soldiers. Now that Yongqing has been ten years old, you also I haven’t been back to Tongguan for ten years, and with so much money, have you ever thought about building an ancestral temple for your clan? Helping the widows and widows in your Xu family village?”

Xu Changshun listened dumbly, and slowly knelt down on the ground, grabbing the ground with his forehead, weeping uncontrollably.

Qin Fengchi didn't have that much patience to watch him confess, and glanced at the uneasy soldiers: "Xu Changshun killed 11 people, and there are five more, and the one who did it came out on his own, and you are still considered guilty and surrendered, and given a lighter punishment. "

Yuan Zhen clenched his cheeks tightly, and just about to move forward, he was bumped hard by Yuan Ji.

After only a moment, six people walked forward on their knees and kowtowed heavily.

Gong Qiancheng looked at the six people and couldn't help but sigh.It is said that a soldier must be ordered and prohibited, but as a person, he must also guard his own bottom line, right and wrong must always be over his head.

He cupped his hands to Qin Fengchi, and said with a smile: "Commander Qin, since we have found the person who did it, let us do the rest, shall we?"

Qin Fengchi glanced at him as a matter of course: "Of course, your Jiufu yamen won't give me a salary."

Gong Qiancheng choked for a moment and could only smile apologetically.

The group of people was divided into two groups, one group rushed back to Fucheng, and the other group stayed behind to escort the government soldiers, and they had to collect the corpse of the caravan on the way back.

The four of Yuan Zhen also followed Qin Fengchi back to the city first. Although they cared about their own soldiers, they had to go back first to pay their crimes and make meritorious service.When the team reached the place where the tragedy happened, the bloody smell still lingered.Qin Fengchi got off his horse, Yuan Zhen and the others looked at each other, even though they were ashamed and timid, they could only follow.

Qin Fengchi didn't change his face when he saw this kind of purgatory on earth, he inspected the corpses, and paid special attention to those bodyguards.He squatted down and rummaged through the clothes of one of the escorts, and took out a list of escorts from his secret pocket, which contained information on the place of departure, business name, goods, darts, etc., stamped with a seal, and a passport from the government.

He squinted his eyes to look carefully at the seal, which said that there would be an escort agency on Guangnan West Road, Guizhou Road, and Linxi Mansion.He looked up and looked around, and sure enough, he saw the dart flag on the carriage.

Escorts from other places...

I'm afraid that the bodyguard team escorted the caravan to the capital, and the bodyguard team took a small order on the way.This caravan is only two bodyguards, and looking at the bodyguard list, the journey is really short, that is, to Cangzhou Mansion to settle the order.For the bodyguard, this is nothing more than earning some private money along the way, but who would have thought that he would lose his life for it.What's even more frightening is that they don't even have a chance to resist, and the "three points and six precepts" are useless.Ordinary people confronting the army is nothing more than a one-sided massacre.

He stood up and handed over the identity certificates of the two bodyguards and other things to Yuan Zhen: "This bodyguard agency is still in the south, how to deal with it in the future is also a matter for your Tianjin government garrison."

Yuan Zhen took the things silently.

He Cheng, who stayed at the east gate to guard the city, couldn't help being surprised when he saw Yuan Zhen and the others.

"You... You didn't follow the commander, why did you come back here?"

Yuan Zhen and the others smiled wryly, and patted him on the shoulder: "Both the Jiufu Yamen and the Eagle Feather Guards are here, so come and pay a visit."

He Cheng saluted Qin Fengchi with a dazed expression, but Gong Qiancheng didn't dare to push him, so he stepped aside.

Qin Fengchi left this mess to Gong Qiancheng, intending to go to the Sili Yuan to find someone.

"Commander Qin," Gong Qiancheng hurriedly stopped him, "Our Master Qianhu is also in the Siliyuan, so you can just tell him what you want to do."

Thousands?

Qin Fengchi thought for a while, and remembered that there was a prisoner named Wang Cheng.

Gong Qiancheng smiled: "It's him."

Qin Fengchi nodded, and rode his horse towards the city.Zhao Yiqing's handling of affairs can be regarded as appropriate, since Zhao Tongzhi is secretly thoughtful, and there are thousands of households from the Jiufu Yamen who are in charge of the prison of the Sili Yuan, there is no need to worry about the safety of Gu Jiuniang and Chu Lou.

He went to the Si Liyuan on his own, but Gong Qiancheng had to quickly grasp the battalions of government soldiers, and sent his men to go to Ximen to control Xu Changshun's cronies first, and then another team went with He Cheng's men. Arrest Chen Danian and He Fengxian.

He Fengxian didn't run away, firstly, his family has a great career and their roots are in Tianjin Mansion, and secondly, if something happened, he would not be able to run away with his whole family.He and Chen Danian were also counting on Xu Changshun to stop the spy, at least for a few days.This crime cannot be escaped, but if you have time, you can replace it with a few fake accounts, and when the time comes, you will be exiled for thousands of miles instead of ransacking your home. Isn't it good?If the money is in place, at least you will suffer a little bit, and there is always a chance to start all over again.

Chen Danian was lying weakly on the couch, logically speaking his hair was not injured, but he just couldn't sit up, as if his energy had been sucked out of his spine.

He Fengxian's face was pale, trembling and circling back and forth.He asked the long follower to go home and inform his wife, presumably the house was in chaos right now.It doesn't matter if it's messy, the key point is to keep the hidden property well, and it must not be stolen away. If you are convicted in the future, you will have to use money everywhere.If it doesn't work, I will divorce my wife and let my wife take away all the antiques from the shop and the dowry!

He was thinking wildly in his mind, he didn't dare to stop for a moment, he just felt that his family was like the pigs and sheep waiting to be slaughtered, the knife on his neck, he didn't know when it would fall - it was not so much fear, but more like silent torture that made him I wish I could die right now so that I don't have to face the catastrophe of extermination in the future.

"My lord," he asked Chen Danian with a trembling voice, "My lord, why hasn't Commander Xu come back? It's been almost an hour—"

How could Chen Danian have the strength to answer him?He stared feebly at the roof, his lips trembling for a while, but finally he didn't make a sound.

At this time, he already had a premonition in his heart.

I'm afraid, I can't run away.

He Fengxian was still muttering nervously, opening the door to look at the yard for a while, and closing the door tightly for a while, wishing to drag a table against the door.Chen Danian thought to himself: Those individuals, all walk through the walls, what's the use of you blocking the door?He grinned like he was having fun in bitterness, and the smile was uglier than crying.

At this time, he couldn't help but think about it, recalling many things.

Chen Danian thought of when he was a child, there was a small courtyard at home, and the jujube tree in the courtyard was said to have been planted by his parents in the year they got married, implying the birth of a precious son early.Then he was born.

He thought of the year when his father died of illness, his mother was crying so hard that she was almost blind, and there were still a few young children in the family, and the situation worsened day by day.Not a single date from that date tree ever entered his stomach again.One year he almost dropped out of school, so he had to carefully pick off the jujubes and take them to the patriarch's house for help. He continued to read the book, but he knocked his head a dozen times, the unbearable teasing his mother received, and the way his elder brother treated him. The ruthless ridicule of a basket of dates still haunts him to this day!

I hate it so much... I can't be reconciled!

The happiest memory in his life, when he thinks about it, seems to be the time he was admitted to Juren.For the first time, he changed his destiny with his hard work. He succeeded in the imperial examination and had a wedding in his bridal chamber. He no longer had to live a life of precarity and no dignity!

Had he been given another life, he might still be on this path.

"Master!" The old butler pushed open the door and ran in staggeringly, "Master, there are many officials coming outside!"

When He Fengxian heard it, he yelled and hid everywhere in the house.

At this moment, Chen Danian calmed down and motioned for the housekeeper to help him.

"Master," the housekeeper helped him up, wiped away his tears and asked, "Do you want Brother Yong to take the ladies to the second master's house to hide for a while?"

Chen Danian stood up straight, gasping for breath from exhaustion.

He was stunned for a moment, then slowly shook his head, and said with a wry smile, "Where are you going to hide? This is a family, and it doesn't matter where you hide." As he spoke, his expression hardened.

"All these years, my family has taken care of me and enjoyed many years of wealth... I have never been sorry to them! Now that the disaster is imminent, we as a big family, don't even think about the imminent disaster. We will fly away separately, even if we die, we will die together. one place!"

He looked at the black-clothed captives who walked into the yard in the distance, as if he saw the scene of his own beheading.

Splashing the sky and wealth is like a big dream.