Although Li Zhiyun replaced the soldiers guarding the granary with new troops and blocked possible loopholes, he was still worried. As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of being caught. If the people sent by Song Jingang are not arrested for a day,

The danger will never be eliminated. They are like a time bomb that may explode at any time.

.Passive defense is never the best way, because people will relax sometimes, and the soldiers guarding the granary are no exception. Besides, you can only be a thief for a thousand days, but there is no one who can guard against thieves for a thousand days. Therefore, you must take the initiative.

, Catch all those guys in one fell swoop, so that the scourge can be eliminated once and for all.

Li Zhiyun told his two subordinate officials what he thought, and then said: "Now, the most critical issue is to find these people." Cai Hu said: "Why don't we search door to door and arrest anyone who is a stranger?"

Interrogation." Li Zhiyun shook his head and said: "With more than 10,000 households, how long will the search last? Besides, it will make too much noise, mobilize troops in such a way, waste people and money, and make it easier for the enemy to fish in troubled waters."

Zhang Zheng pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, do you think this is okay? We can go to the county government officials. They are all local snakes. If you have a face, you will not be able to escape their eyes." Li Zhiyun's eyes lit up after hearing this.

He hurriedly said: "This is what I'll do

The law is good, why did I forget it?" He patted his head and said, "This is called taking the mass line." Cai Hu didn't understand and said, "What line?" Li Zhiyun happily patted him on the back of the head.

He slapped me and said with a smile: "You don't understand even if I tell you."

Li Zhiyun took Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu to the county government office, found Ma County Lieutenant, and said that he wanted to find out some information from his government officials. Ma County Lieutenant immediately summoned all the government officials to the lobby. There were forty or fifty people in total, and the place was full.

There was a room full of people sitting.

Li Zhiyun sat on the main seat and said: "Everyone, let's get straight to the point and tell you what you have to say. I came to you today to inquire about some situations. To be honest, Song Jingang has sent people to Baibi City.

People are the bane, we must dig them out as soon as possible. In recent days, have you encountered any strangers who behave suspiciously? Or, have you encountered some strange things? "

Li Zhiyun didn't ask them to name all the strangers, because there were tens of thousands of residents in Baibi City, and it was impossible for the government officials to know all of them, plus the nearby villagers who came to the city, and the business travelers who came and went. If they were strangers, they would be suspicious.

That may end up being too much trouble, and finding the real spy becomes like looking for a needle in a haystack.

After hearing this, the government officials whispered to each other, but no one spoke. Sitting next to Li Zhiyun, Lieutenant Ma Xian kept urging everyone to tell everyone what they knew. Under Lieutenant Ma's repeated urging, several

A yamen official named the person he suspected, and Li Zhiyun asked Zhang Zhengdu to record them one by one.

At this time, a thin government official in his thirties said, "I wonder if women count?" Li Zhiyun nodded and said, "Of course it counts, you tell me." The official cleared his throat and said, "Yes.

One thing.yesterday

Early in the morning, I was returning home from my errand at the Yamen. When I was passing by Liulin Street, I saw a woman coming out of Xu Sige's house in the granary to empty the toilet." Upon hearing this, Lieutenant Ma frowned and said, "What's so strange about a woman emptying the toilet?

of?"

"No," the yamen servant explained, "Xu Sige didn't have a wife before. Last month he came to the yamen to report that his home had been robbed. I went to his home and he said he hadn't married yet."

"Maybe he just married recently?"

"Maybe. However, I have never seen that woman before, and she looks unfamiliar. Didn't King Chu say that he wanted to find a stranger? I told him so."

"You said it very well." Li Zhiyun said approvingly, "You just said that Xu Sige is working as an errand in the granary?"

The yamen servants nodded. Li Zhiyun turned to Zhang Zheng and said, "This woman should be paid special attention to." Next, the yamen servants successively named some suspicious strangers, a total of more than a dozen.

After leaving the county government, Li Zhiyun said to Zhang Zheng: "You will immediately transfer some people from the New Army to monitor all these dozen people and see if you can find any useful clues." Zhang Zheng hurriedly clasped his fists and said he obeyed the order.

Li Zhiyun divided the work, and Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu were responsible for finding the people sent by Song Jingang. He and Scarface were responsible for guarding the granary. For convenience, all four of them moved to the military camp in the city.

Zhang Zheng and Cai Hu also divided their labors. They divided the dozen or so subjects under surveillance into two groups, with each person responsible for one group.

That evening, Zhang Zheng came to Liulin Street and walked into a room. This was a surveillance point, and Xu Youwei's yard could be seen from the window. After he entered, there was only one person in the room. According to regulations, surveillance

There must be two people at the spot at the same time. Zhang Zheng frowned and said, "Wang Wu, where did Xiao Lu go?"

"He has a stomachache and has gone to the latrine."

Zhang Zheng nodded and asked, "Did you find anything?" Wang Wudao said, "Yes, this afternoon, the woman went to the house opposite."

"Is she going to visit?"

"have no idea."

"How long was she there?"

"It takes about half a stick of incense."

Zhang Zheng pondered for a moment and walked to the window. Wang Wu showed him with his finger: "Here, it's the courtyard opposite." As the two of them were talking, the gate of the courtyard opened and a man walked out of it.

.The man turned around and closed the door, then turned and walked along the alley toward the street.

Zhang Zheng said to Wang Wu: "You stay here, I will follow this man." After Zhang Zheng said this, he left the house, about seven or eight feet away from the man, and followed him closely. The man left the alley.

Then, he turned right and walked forward along the street. Along the way, he did not look back, so Zhang Zheng followed easily.

After walking for more than two miles, the man turned into an alley. Zhang Zheng looked up and saw a large shop next to the street. The plaque on the door said: Dongsheng Trading Company. Zhang Zheng remembered it silently and followed the man.

Entering the alley. The alley is not long. After exiting the alley, what appears in front of us is a house. The house is very large, covering an area of ​​three or four acres, and there are many houses in the yard. The man knocked on the door.

Finally, I walked in, and then the door was closed.

Zhang was waiting for a cup of tea outside, but the man hadn't come out yet. He walked half a circle around the house and found a big tree next to the wall with very lush branches and leaves. He jumped on the wall and hid among the branches.

Observation in the Chinese and Korean courtyards, the following is

There was no one in the back garden of the house. He jumped down, ran to the side of the main house, went to a window, pierced the window paper with his fingers, and peeked inside. There was no one in the house, and there were many items piled on the ground.

.He pushed open the window sash and climbed in.

This room was quite large, with more than a dozen wooden boxes on the floor. He took out a dagger from his arms and pried open one wooden box, only to see that it was full of flint. He pried open another wooden box.

The box contained sulfur, and the third wooden box was opened, which contained rosin. Obviously, these flammable materials were used to burn down the granary. It seemed that this was the thief's lair.

Just as Zhang Zheng put away his dagger, the door of the house was suddenly pushed open, and two burly men burst in. Zhang Zheng was caught off guard and it was too late to hide. As soon as the two men saw him, they screamed that there was a thief, and drew their sabers and pointed at him.

He rushed over. Zhang Zheng hurriedly drew his sword to resist. After a while,

Two or three more people rushed into the house. There were so many people on the other side that Zhang Zheng did not dare to fight, so he retreated and retreated to the window, jumped out, and then ran to the courtyard wall, where he pulled onions on dry land and put his feet on one foot.

After tapping lightly on the wall, he passed over the wall and landed outside the house.

Zhang Zhenggang breathed a sigh of relief, and someone jumped out from the courtyard wall and landed more than ten feet away from him. This person was of medium height, with a strong build. He wore tight black clothes and looked like a knight in black.

.

The knight in black held a steel sword in his hand and stared at him fiercely. He smiled and said: "Look where you are going to run?" After saying that, he thrust the sword towards him. Zhang Zheng hurriedly swung his sword to block it. The two of them went back and forth, each other.

After fighting for a while, after a few moves, Zhang Zheng was secretly shocked: This person's swordsmanship was not inferior to his, and he even had a slight upper hand. He did not dare to be careless and quickly worked up his spirits.

At this time, more than a dozen people ran out from the gate of the house and surrounded them. Zhang Zheng glanced at the surrounding exits and found that several exits around him had been guarded by these people. It was impossible to escape from the ground.

, he could only use his special skill of lightness and escape from the roof. Thinking of this, Zhang Zheng pretended to be defeated, retreated to a corner, and jumped onto the roof.

The houses in this area are all connected. Zhang Zheng stepped on the tiles of the roof and ran quickly. The knight in black also jumped on the roof and chased after him. At this moment, it was already dark, and the two of them were

They were chasing and fighting on the roof, and the steel swords touched each other, and sparks flashed out. Zhang Zheng tried his best to get rid of the opponent's entanglement, fighting and running.

The knight in black drew his sword very quickly. Zhang Zheng was not paying attention and was stabbed in the left blade. After he was injured, he gradually fell into disarray. At this time, the knight in black used a deadly sword move, the steel sword.

It went straight to his heart and stabbed him. Zhang Zhengxin made a horizontal stroke. He neither dodge nor block with his sword, but used the sharp sword in his hand to strike directly at the opponent's throat. This was a fight to the death. If the opponent did not dodge, the two of them would only

can die together.

The knight in black was secretly startled and hurriedly sheathed his sword to dodge. Unexpectedly, his foot fell into the air and he fell down the house. Zhang Zheng saw the opportunity, turned around and ran away. After running a hundred or so steps, he jumped off the roof and landed on the roof.

In the yard of a house. At this moment, Zhang Zheng was dizzy and his limbs were weak due to excessive bleeding. He just took a few steps and fell to the ground and fainted.

After the knight in black got up from the ground, he picked up the lost sword and jumped on the roof again. He found that Zhang Zheng had disappeared. At this moment, Pan Furu led a dozen people and chased after him holding torches. When the knight in black saw him,

Then he jumped down from the roof. When Pan Furu saw him, he quickly asked: "Where is the person?" The knight in black shook his head and said: "He is gone."

"We must catch him and never let him go back to report the news!"

"Don't worry, he was seriously injured and couldn't escape. He may be hiding in the yard of a nearby house."

A strong man holding a torch next to him said: "Then we will search house to house." When Pan Furu heard this, he shook his head and said: "No, it will make too much noise and it will alert the government."

"What should we do?"
Chapter completed!