Starting from the Greyhound, seventy-two changes

It rained continuously for two or three days in late autumn.

In the outer city, in a certain alley.

"Captain Li, we have already investigated clearly. Huang Gun stayed in that yard for two days...and then someone went in. They seemed to be rummaging around, but there were no signs of a fight..."

Li Yuancheng was squatting in the alley, with a fast-shift policeman behind him reporting the situation in the yard.

He ignored the words of his disciple Tong Xiaowu behind him.

He just caressed the adobe floor in the alley in front of him with his hands. There were cracks on a few bricks...

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Bang!

Li Yuancheng used his five fingers hard, like an eagle's hook, to grab a few adobe bricks below. Suddenly, he could see some yellow-black traces under the adobe bricks, which had merged with the soil under the bricks.

"What is this?" Disciple Tong Xiaowu asked.

"Corpse powder."

Li Yuancheng's eyes flashed with sharp edges:

"This should be the place where the corpses were destroyed. It can be determined that two people were fighting here. The one who died was probably Huang Gun..."

Tong Xiaowu asked subconsciously: "Why, Master?"

Li Yuancheng did not hide this newly accepted disciple. He stood up and analyzed: "If it was another person who died, then Huang Gun's house would not be so messed up. Even if Huang Gun wanted to escape from the county, He would only hide the traces of living here, how could this be the case? "

Tong Xiaowu thought thoughtfully and said: "So, Master, what you are saying is that someone attacked and killed Huang Gun at the entrance of this small courtyard, and then used corpse powder to dissolve Huang Gun's body, leaving us without a trace. The traces can be found. If this is the case, why would you deliberately search in his yard and leave traces of the search? "

Li Yuancheng sighed and said: "Searching for traces can only prove that Huang Gun was indeed killed by others, but after the body was turned into corpse powder, how was Huang Gun killed, and what weapon was used to kill him? Where? What sect's martial arts? Even the opponent's martial arts skills are all unsolved mysteries, and there is no way to tell based on the traces that have been rummaged through the yard."

"Then can't we start with the origin of the corpse powder?" Tong Xiaowu asked subconsciously: "This kind of poison is not simple, nor is it easy to buy."

Li Yuancheng glanced at his apprentice and said: "Corpse powder is indeed difficult for others to obtain, but... don't forget who Huang Gun is? Who reported the case? We must arrest Huang Gun and bring him to justice, even if ...In the past few days, I have a few black market hooks, and I also told my teacher that someone is offering a reward for Huang Gun on the black market? "

Tong Xiaowu was excited and said: "Yaowangtang?"

Li Yuancheng took a deep breath and said: "Stop talking... This case is not big in the first place. If it involves the people behind Yaowangtang, it is not something that I, a deputy chief catcher, can do. You few little detectives can investigate it." , don’t get yourself into trouble.”

"What about us?"

"Go back to the county government office and hand over the on-site intelligence and analysis to the county magistrate. Just listen to the county magistrate's comments. If the county magistrate wants to investigate further, it will be Lord Sword King's case."

Li Yuancheng had some things that were difficult to explain to his apprentice.

That is the annual tax revenue of Baojiao County. The three main tax revenue sources are Yaowangtang, Yulonghui and Chaitiepu, as well as the commercial taxes of other trade groups.

Among them, just one Yaowang Hall can collect 700,000 taels of tax revenue in one year.

If it was true that Yaowangtang was cleaning up the house on its own, it is estimated that if it fell into the hands of the county magistrate, he would turn a blind eye and close the case.

After all, why is Huang Gun worthy of the county government making the decision for him and launching an investigation into Yaowangtang?

As for the rumored imperial envoy "Tan Chongrui" who was going to be sent to Baojiao County to pilot reforms, his idea seemed to be to target the wealthy officials, gentry and wealthy families in Baojiao County.

At this juncture, it was too late for the yamen bosses and the big shopkeepers to hug each other tightly. How could they start fighting among themselves and give Tan Qingtian an opportunity to take advantage of them?

"Wait, Master, if the county magistrate really closes the case, I'm afraid that the director of the Liangjiang Guild Hall, the 'Golden Faced Tiger' Huang Muxia among the top ten masters of Baojiao, won't let it go so easily... "

After Tong Xiaowu finished speaking, he couldn't help but shrink his neck when he thought of the legend of the golden-faced tiger.

There are only a few strong and capable people at the top of Baojiao County, and they naturally spread their branches and have big houses. Those who can hold high positions have relatives and friends, form cliques, and lead people to vote.

Although the Huang Family and the Liangjiang Guild Hall cannot compare with the status of the three giants in the county.

But in a sense, he is a middleman that every household cannot do without.

The so-called Liangjiang Guild Hall refers to the people from Jiangnan and Jiangdong who went north from the Liangjiang area in the south of the Epoch Dynasty to do business in various provinces, prefectures and counties. Their footprints were all over the thirteen provinces of the Epoch Times. In order to unite with fellow townsmen, there was some kind of mutual communication. A trade stronghold, also called a public office, was designed to unite fellow merchants and play a role in foreign trade.

It is also called "Yabang" or "Yaxing", which means middleman.

The curator, Huang Muchia, is from Jiangdong. More than a hundred years ago, his grandfather Huang Wenlin came to Baojiao County with his fellow villagers to do business. Later, his grandfather went bankrupt and his family was poor. He was not from a martial arts family.

When Huang Muxia was twelve years old, he unexpectedly became a disciple of an escort from the Mingyuan Escort Bureau in this county, and entered the martial arts. After three years of training, he became a martial artist. Later, due to his outstanding talent, he switched to the famous boxer "Magic Hand Yu Zhankui" from Qiulong Mansion. , learn the magic skills.

After the age of 20, he was unwilling to be complacent, so he left Qiulong again, traveled north and south, learned martial arts along the way, visited famous teachers, and learned the boxing and martial arts of nine well-known masters in succession, integrated them, and finally returned home in glory at the age of 31.

In the same year, he became the head of the Huang family. Since then, he often fought with the directors of major martial arts halls and never lost. Later, his skills and reputation improved, and he took control of the "Liangjiang Guild Hall" in Baojiao County, which connected the major gangs, and became its head.

People called him-Golden-faced Tiger Huang Muxia, ranked eighth among the masters in Baojiao County, and a rare Tongmai realm.

Li Yuancheng muttered to his apprentice, holding the knife in his hand: "This is the matter of Yaowang Hall and Liangjiang Guild Hall, which has nothing to do with us. You are small, don't think about going to the top, and withdraw your team."

Having said that,

He couldn't help but think of his brother-in-law. It seemed that he had to find a chance to warn him. After all, he was promoted to deputy head of the police thanks to Chen Ku. He taught him that if there was a conflict between the two families, he must be careful to protect himself. After all, it was not easy to come out of the countryside.

Here, Li Yuancheng collected the team and went back to make an investigation record.

Not long after.

In the Medicine King Hall.

Chen Ku was in the pharmacy. After getting the smell of bait rats, he took advantage of last night to release the dog.

Now that his cultivation level is high, he will not feel tired if he lets the dog out for a day and a night. If he persists for a long time, he can also last for two days.

Just wait for the dog to cross the border and get a few more bait rats back.

He has inquired about the price of this bait rat on the black market. Now that the typhoid epidemic in the countryside has shown signs, the price has risen to more than three hundred taels. After a few days, it may rise again.

Originally, Chen Ku was also worried about his relatives in the countryside. He would make more bait rats, whether to sell them or keep them for his family as a life-saving talisman, or to use the money to buy a large courtyard in the inner city and bring his relatives to live in the city. It would be enough.

Just when Chen Ku took the opportunity to learn pharmacology.

Boom!

Suddenly, a loud "boom" sound came from the lobby outside the Medicine King Hall, as if something collapsed.

Then, the voice of the waiter spread to the various courtyards.

"Something big happened. The Huangmen head of the Liangjiang Guild Hall came to visit with his disciples..."

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