Chen Leng left all the disciples of the Martial Arts Academy on the farm, and told them to guard the good prisoners and wait for the county corps soldiers to come over, and then asked them to find Meng Chang'an. That was their mission, not to pursue Yuwen Xiaoce.

Chen Leng didn't take them with him, because he was worried that these young people who should have made achievements in the Daning army would die at the hands of people like Yuwen Xiaoce.

These young people are all excellent. If they are assigned to the border, they are the iron shield of Daning and the city wall of Daning. They have no experience in fighting with people like Yuwen Xiaoce. They are not the opponents of that evil guy.

Yuwen Xiaoce did what he did to kill them one by one.

However, after Chen Leng finished his decision, all the disciples of the Martial Arts Academy were unwilling to do so. In their opinion, chasing Yuwen Xiaoce seemed to be more exciting than catching the secret spies of the black martial arts.

However, Chen Leng seemed to have made up his mind. No matter how the disciples of the Martial Arts Academy pleaded for mercy, Chen Leng never let go. He just ordered them to wait here and send all the criminals to the government office and let them catch up with Meng Chang'an.

Chen Ran was also a little confused. It was even worse to pursue people like Yuwen Xiaoce. Although these disciples of the Martial Arts Academy did not have the experience of handling cases, they were all very skilled in martial arts and had stronger execution ability. It would be better to take them with them than not. But after he persuaded Chen Leng, he still did not agree.

Having no choice but to appease the disciples of the Martial Arts Academy, then set off with his personal soldiers and Chen Leng.

It was already dark when I left the farm, so I should have left early the next morning, but Chen Leng obviously had no such plan. After the arrangement was made, he took Chen Ran and the others away from the farm.

"Lengzi."

Chen Ran lowered his voice and asked next to Shen Leng: "Do you think something is wrong? Otherwise, why would you be so stubborn?"

"No."

Chen Leng said: "I just think it's too dangerous to take them, but they don't actually understand the danger. The young man's youthful spirit is to die at the worst, but the family members who worked hard to send them to the Martial Arts Academy would not think so."

Chen Ran nodded, but he was still skeptical. He always felt that Chen Leng had other considerations, but it was not convenient to say.

Under the moonlight, more than a dozen riders followed the official road. After walking for more than twenty miles, they returned to the entrance to the north of Qishili Gorge. An official road was also built in the Qishili Gorge. The canyon was not narrow, and the official road was flat and there was only one, so they were not worried about getting lost.

Chen Ran urged the horse to Fang Shiyi and asked, "The Seventy-li Gorge is really seventy-li?"

Fang Shiyi smiled and said, "No, any name like this is more watery. It basically means the same as the army that claimed to be as many troops when it went to war. There were not so many, so many, and gimmicks."

Chen Ran asked: "How long is the seventy-limit gorge?"

“Sixty-nine miles more.”

"I'll go!"

Chen Ran glared at Fang Shiyi.

Fang Shi said: "It's indeed less than seventy miles."

Chen Ran took the horse aside and was unwilling to go with him.

Fang Shiyi said: "I am a constable, and you must be serious about being a constable."

Chen Leng seemed to be curious after hearing this. He looked at Fang Shiyi and asked: "You are a constable, you are still so serious. When we went to the farm to catch people, did you think something was wrong?"

"have!"

Fang Shiyi approached Chen Leng and said, "I have carefully observed the cellar and the corpse. First, the two corpses are not right. Why do they die? The time for death is at least two or three hours ago.

If it is for power struggle, why did the middle-aged man commit suicide after killing the elderly man? There were no other scars on his body, and there were no signs of fighting in the cellar, so it means that either he had sneak attacked and killed the elderly man, or the elderly man was willing to be killed by him, but why did it happen before the general?”

Chen Leng glanced at him: "You keep going."

Fang Shiyi cleared his throat and continued, "Second, they burned some things, but the file I found was a record of their operations as spies. Why didn't such an important thing be burned? They definitely didn't have time to burn it, but they didn't intend to burn it at all."

Chen Leng asked: "Then what did you think about it?"

Fang Shiyi said: "The first suspicious point is that I am considering that they did not commit suicide. Neither the elderly nor the middle-aged man committed suicide, but were killed by someone to create the illusion of their suicide. If my speculation is true, then it means that the news of you going to raid the farm by Generals has been leaked. Someone killed the two people in advance before you arrived."

Chen Leng nodded: "What about the second doubt?"

Fang Shiyi continued: "The second doubt is that they burned some things, but the important things in the action record were not burned. I speculate that what was burned might be a list, which is the list of how many real black military spies there are on the farm. After burning this list, even if you arrest everyone, you can't tell them, because the two insiders were dead."

He looked at Chen Leng. He couldn't see Chen Leng's face clearly under the moonlight, but Chen Leng was listening quietly to him, so Fang Shiyi felt that what he analyzed should make sense, so he continued to talk.

"The reason why I did not burn the action records but only burn the list, I speculate that the murderers were due to two considerations. First, he was an open person. He could learn in advance that the general was coming to a raid, and then rushed to the list of killing people as soon as possible before the general, in order to protect himself."

"Second, he wanted to protect the people on the farm, more than 800 people, and there may not be many real secret spies. The court cannot tell them. Do they really want to kill everyone? The court should not do this. He left a record of action, hoping to tell the people in the court that these people have not taken action for six or seven years, to win sympathy. When I saw the record, even I couldn't help but sympathize with it, the purpose was to reduce the sentence."

After listening, Chen Leng hummed: "The idea is very comprehensive. Apart from that, are there anything else? Have you ever thought about the speculation about the murderer?"

Fang Shi said: "Yes."

Fang Shi said, "I just told the general that this person is either a person who knows the general and has an identity in the officialdom. After learning about the general's goal, he left Chang'an early and rushed to the farm to kill people one step earlier than the general. If so, screening from all those who know about the general's mission will definitely find any clues."

He held the war horse and stopped there, Chen Leng and Chen Ran also stopped.

"The second possibility"

Fang Shiyi raised his finger and pointed at his nose: "I am the murderer."

Chen Ran subconsciously held the handle of the waist knife, but Chen Leng did not move.

Fang Shiyi smiled bitterly: "Because I was here wrong, and I happened to have time to kill someone."

Chen Leng nodded: "You do have time to kill people. After all, you have been wandering around the mountains for six or seven days. Logically speaking, you shouldn't have been wandering here for so long. After losing Yuwen Xiaoce's trace, you should return to Nanshan County."

Fang Shi sighed, "So if I were the general, I should now order me to be tied up."

Chen Leng looked at Fang Shiyi and asked, "So, did you kill the person?"

Fang Shi said: "I am a constable and I know the law well."

Law, before there is conclusive evidence that I killed someone or not, my words actually have no meaning. I said I didn’t kill someone, I couldn’t prove it, I said I killed someone, I couldn’t prove it, I said I killed someone, I couldn’t prove it."

Chen Leng: "Then you keep leading the way."

Chen Ran smiled and said, "This is the most serious detective I have ever met."

Fang Shiyi was silent for a while and said, "My father had encountered something similar, so I now understand how sad my father was when he committed suicide."

Fang Shiyi looked up at the moon, covering his face with a layer of cold light.

Chen Ran asked: "What's going on?"

"My father was once a constable in Nanshan County."

Fang Shiyi was silent for a while and said, "He is a bit withdrawn, too rigid, and he doesn't want to play with his colleagues, so he has a bad reputation in the yamen. That year."

He paused for a moment, as if every word was stinging his own heart as he said these words.

"That year, someone opened an underground casino in Nanshan County. It was hidden very well at the beginning, but later a person who borrowed their usury was killed by them because they were unable to repay the situation. The body was found that the county magistrate ordered a strict investigation."

"But later I found out that before every county government's constable operation, someone leaked the secrets, and every time I went to arrest people, they would be lost. So the people in the county government began to doubt each other, and most of them suspected my father because he was really too withdrawn."

"Soon after, someone went to the county government to report the case that the people in the casino were about to escape. The county magistrate immediately ordered all the constables to surround them. As a result, the news leaked again. All the constables except my father went to the south gate and died. My father went to the north gate and blocked all the people in the casino alone."

"After a fight, my father killed all the evil people, but no one left. The blood flowed into a river at the gate of the city. More than 20 murderers were killed by my father. Then all the people from the county government rushed over. I thought the matter was over, but my father was imprisoned because they suspected that my father was killing people to silence him."

Fang Shiyi took a deep breath and said so much in one breath, his chest fluctuated greatly.

He turned to look at Chen Ran: "Soon after, my father committed suicide in the prison. They said he committed suicide because of fear of guilt. My mother was blocked by the villagers and scolded her. My father's body was abandoned in the wilderness and no one cared about it. My mother took me away from Nanshan County and quietly buried her father's body. She has not returned for ten years since then. I was twelve years old that year."

"Ten years later, my mother was seriously ill and died. After I buried my mother, I returned to Nanshan County. The only thing I wanted to do was to find out the truth. When I came back, I found out that the truth had been found out long ago."

He smiled wryly and said, "The second year after my father's death, the county magistrate was promoted and transferred. The new county magistrate was a fair and quiet person. When he was checking the old case files, he found out that all the constables in the county government took it, except for my father who had not taken the money from the underground casino."

He looked at Chen Leng: "The only one of the constables is my father who is clean."

After hearing this, Chen Ran clenched his fists and exposed the blue veins on the back of his hand.

"After the county magistrate knew my identity, he kept me in the county government office. Six years ago, the county magistrate was also promoted and transferred. He wanted to take me with him, but I didn't agree. I wanted to stay in Nanshan County, so he promoted me to be the headmaster before leaving, telling me that this is the only thing he can help me."

Fang Shiyi let out a long sigh again and smiled: "I am a constable. I want to stay here, but I don't allow anything like my father to happen again. Those murderers will not appear. If one is found, I will catch one!"
Chapter completed!