Murder

Sima Liangren pondered for a moment, and denied his own thoughts: "Although there is such a possibility, we should not get too entangled in this possibility. Whether or not we made a mistake, and how we made a mistake, it is pointless to discuss it now. Jie Zilou has already taken precautions, and I will remind you one or two more times. Is Gan willing to use it? Do you need to find another doctor?"

"It should work. Shuanghua vomited and became dizzy. He seems to have been poisoned." Sima Feng said, "Gan Lingshi has some research on poison, but it is more effective than the doctor."

"That's good. I already know the matter. You go back to Jinyan Pond, and I will send a few letters to Yingbeishe's Pengyang branch." Sima Liangren said.

With various thoughts in mind, the two set off separately.

Although it was late at night, Jinyan Pond was still very lively.The Qinshuang courtyard seemed a little quieter, and several girls who were friends with Shuanghua were waiting in the courtyard. When they saw Sima Feng coming in, they gathered around to ask.Sima Feng hurriedly reassured that there was no serious problem, and flexibly broke free from the restraints of the girls' jade arms, and went upstairs to Shuanghua's room.

There are quite a few people in Shuanghua's room, besides the madam, there are Ah Si, Gan Yue and Song Beiyan.Gan Lele was packing up tools, and when he saw Sima Feng walking in, he nodded to him: "I'm already awake."

Sima Feng walked to the bed and saw Shuanghua leaning on the bed and drinking water.Her face was pale and her lips were bloodless, but luckily she was still in good spirits.

"What's the matter?" he asked. "Why do you suddenly have a headache?"

"Just now Gan Lingshi asked me if I had eaten something I hadn't eaten at the banquet, and I just remembered that there was raw fish at the banquet tonight, which was delicious, and I couldn't help but eat a few more chopsticks." Shuanghua whispered Said, a little embarrassed, "I guess this is the reason."

Sima Feng: "...Yusheng?"

He was a little confused.I've been busy all night, and it's because of this?

"Did you meet anyone you didn't see before at the banquet?" Sima Feng was worried and continued to ask her.

Shuanghua frowned slightly, as if recalling.She thought of playing the piano in the waterside pavilion, of the many people listening around, and of the scene where she and Sima Liang were coming and going.Later... Later, I heard that King Lu was debating with others, and the literati left one after another. She...recalling this, Shuanghua's eyebrows twitched.

Ah Si kept paying attention to her reaction, and quickly asked, "Is there any pain?"

"No, it doesn't hurt." Shuanghua replied quickly.

She's just a little fuzzy about herself.

"Did you think of something?" Sima Feng asked softly.

"No." Shuanghua shook his head, "I haven't met anyone I don't know. After I finished playing the piano, everyone went to listen to King Lu's debate. Since it was already late, I bid farewell to the master's house and came back just like that. "

Sima Feng was convinced.It seemed that it was Yusheng's fault, and it was just a false alarm.

"Take a good rest." Sima Feng urged.

A slight remorse swirls in his mind.Regardless of whether it was a false alarm or not, he and Sima Liang really shouldn't have involved Shuanghua in this matter.Sima Liangren rescued Shuanghua that day, but let her use this method as his eyeliner. Thinking about it this way, this "rescue" seemed too purposeful and not kind enough.

When leaving Qinshuangyuan, Ah Si was still reluctant to part.Sima Feng was silent along the way, constantly thinking about what happened tonight.Except for Shuanghua's sudden illness, everything seemed to be safe and sound.But he always felt a little uneasy.It's hard to explain this uneasiness, because it hasn't formed yet, it's just like a light cloud, covering Sima Feng's heart like nothing.

The sound of tuk-tuk horseshoes is especially clear in the deserted streets late at night.He suddenly misses Chi Yebai very much, wishing he could run to Yingbeishe immediately to meet him.

"When will Master Chi come?" Ah Si who was at the side suddenly asked.

Sima Feng was taken aback, thinking that he had just said something unintentionally, but then he heard Ah Si continue to say, "If he comes, we can mobilize everyone in Yingbeishe. Protect Qinshuangyuan for a few days."

"..." Sima Feng kicked him.

In the evening two days later, Frontier brought good news.

"I just passed by the city gate, and I heard that Chi Dang's family is outside the city." He told Sima Feng, "I'm inspecting the newly built city wall. I don't know what it is for."

Sima Feng didn't even finish his meal, and almost choked his throat.He hastily wiped his mouth, straightened his clothes, and ran out like the wind.

Ah Si greeted Bian Jiang to sit down and eat.Several dishes were placed on the table, but Sima Liang was not at home, only Sima Feng, Ah Si, Gan Yue and Song Beiyan were sitting around the table.Next to the seat vacated by Sima Feng was Gan Lele, and Gan Lele glanced at the frontier with displeasure.

Bian Jiang scratched his head and did not sit down.

"I still have to go to Jiutou Mountain, so I won't eat any more." He turned his head and asked Ah Si, "Ah Si, do you have steamed buns? Get me two."

He often came to look for Gan Lele these two days, and Gan Lele learned from him that Sima Feng had somehow made an agreement with Bian Jiang, and he was so angry that he refused to accept Bian Jiang as a house-breaking student, and even treated him very differently. bad.Bian Jiang couldn't figure out how he had provoked Gan Le to be so angry, and was puzzled for a while, so he had to try his best to behave and not dare to say a word.

"Brother Bian is still going to Jiutou Mountain?" Song Beiyan asked him, "Did anything happen?"

"Nothing happened, but the woman who reported last time disappeared for some reason." Bian Jiang replied.

He always remembered what the old man who was looking for his son and the widow said, but he went to the brick kiln on Jiutou Mountain several times, but he still didn't find anything suspicious.Passing by the inn outside the city today, he remembered that the woman was staying at the inn, and said that she would never go home unless she had an explanation, so he wanted to ask her some more questions.But the shopkeeper said that the woman had disappeared, and she disappeared without a trace even before paying the rent.

Frontier couldn't help becoming suspicious.The inn is outside the city, and a woman leaves the inn only to return to the city or to her hometown.But she hadn't waited for the "explaining" she wanted, so she disappeared inexplicably, and she didn't go back to the city to find the government, and he went to the post station to inquire, and he didn't see any lonely women leaving through the post station recently.

"Are you afraid that something will happen to her?" Gan Le put down the bowl and chopsticks and asked him.

Bian Jiang finally waited until he took the initiative to talk to him. He was surprised and happy, and nodded again and again: "Yes. I plan to go to Jiutou Mountain again."

Bian Jiang remembered that the man who the woman said was greedy for money was named Liu Dali, and he was her husband's brother.However, during the inquiry at the brick kiln that day, the people in the brick kiln indeed only compensated Liu Dali with 50 taels of silver, and Liu Dali did hand over the 50 taels of silver note to his sister-in-law, and the number on the bank note was correct. .

He didn't know if he would gain anything if he went up the mountain now.

Gan Le thought for a moment, and said to him, "Be careful in everything."

Bian Jiang stayed on the spot, stunned for a moment before speaking, with a nervous and grateful smile on his face: "Thank you Gan Lingshi, thank you Gan Lingshi..."

Gan Lexi was a little embarrassed, and held up the empty bowl as if to eat, but when he saw that there was nothing in the bowl, he couldn't help being embarrassed.

Ah Si came back with a few steamed buns, and Bian Jiang held the steamed buns in his arms, reluctant to let go, and walked away step by step.

Song Beiyan: "Brother Gan, Brother Bian is such a nice person, why are you so aggressive with him?"

Gan Lele: "What does a brat know? He has ulterior motives!"

Song Beiyan wanted to talk again, but Ah Si stopped him: "Don't ask, I'll tell you in detail later."

Gan Le: "What do you want to say?"

Ah Si: "Hey hey hey..."

Song Beiyan didn't understand, so he also followed him and got up.The two were so complacent that they were slashed hundreds of times by Gan Yue's eye knife.

In the middle of the night that day, Zhang Songbai and others came outside Liu Fangcun's residence to ask for an audience.

The three had already arranged everything, and Wang Huanxi didn't notice any killing intent at all.Liu Dali prepared explosives, and Zhang Songbai and Ban Mu each held sharp knives, waiting to explode.Wang Huanxi was originally on the same shift as the three, but Zhang Songbai pretended to ask Wang Huanxi whether he would choose to patrol or check the workers' attendance at the brick kiln.Wang Huan likes not to do activities, so he chose not to patrol.

"We chose Chen Zi Kiln." Zhang Songbai said, "Chen Zi Kiln is backed by a mountain, so you can hide, and it is the only kiln that produces bricks tonight. Wang Huanxi will wait outside the brick kiln."

"How did you lure him in?" Liu Fangcun asked.

"It's another team working in the Chenzi Kiln tonight. I've told them that when we give the signal, they will call Wang Huanxi in the kiln and lead him in."

Liu Fangcun was still making tea slowly, and raised his eyebrows when he heard this: "Do they know why Wang Huanxi was asked to enter the cave?"

"I don't know." Zhang Songbai said frankly, "I gave those people a hundred dollars each, and only said that I wanted to play a joke on Wang Huanxi."

Liu Fangcun nodded and didn't go into details.

Those people in the brick kiln will die together with Wang Huanxi tonight.Ban Muyou remembered that Zhang Songbai was already very calm when they first blew up the brick kiln, but now hearing what he said, he felt that this person was extremely calm and his thoughts were hot.

There are fourteen brick kilns on Jiutou Mountain, which are the twelve earthly branches and one day and one land, but only two brick kilns are built against the mountain, one is the Chen character kiln and the other is the Mao character kiln.The Maozi kiln will not start work tonight, they discussed repeatedly, and finally decided on the Chenzi kiln.After listening to the general idea, Liu Fangcun didn't think there was any problem, so he waved the three of them away.

With one shot of the explosives, Wang Huanxi died, and the task entrusted to him was naturally completed.Liu Fangcun sat on the chair with his back straight, holding a book in his hand, and a pot of tea on the table, enjoying himself and enjoying it.

In this way, about two hours later, on the quiet Jiutou Mountain, there was another loud noise.

The sound was so loud that the dust on the beams of the house rustled, and Liu Fangcun couldn't dodge in time, so he was in a panic.

"Bastard!" He was so angry that he couldn't help cursing.Chenzi Kiln is quite far away, he didn't expect Zhang Songbai and others to use such strong explosives.

Getting up and dusting off the dust on his clothes, Liu Fangcun picked up the precious purple sand pot and blew away the dust on the pot carefully.

Wang Huanxi died, so naturally Zhang Songbai and others couldn't stay.He will report the case to the Pengyang government overnight, saying that he has found out the instigator of the recent landslides in the brick kiln, and then escort the three people to...

"grown ups!"

Liu Fangcun was taken aback. Looking up, it was his confidant Ma Yongzhi who rushed in.

"What's wrong!" Liu Fangcun asked hastily, his heart beating wildly.

"It was a mistake!" Ma Yongzhi's face was pale, with cold sweat rolling from his temples, "They didn't blow up the Chenzi kiln, they bombed the Maozi kiln!"

Liu Fangcun opened his mouth, his fingers suddenly softened, and the purple sand pot wrapped in a layer of paste rolled down on the table with a clatter, and fell to the ground with a gurgle, shattering.

"My lord!" Ma Yongzhi shouted again, and finally called Liu Fangcun's soul, which had been flying for half a day, back to its place.

But the terrified soul failed to support Mr. Liu, on the contrary, it made his legs and feet weak, and he slammed down on the chair.

"It's over... Maozi Kiln..." Liu Fangcun's lips trembled, and his voice kept trembling, "It's over...your life and mine..."