Wuzhong walked out of the palace and looked up at the sky. It was already evening. Due to an unexpected incident, the palace had suspended the rent reduction and exemption registration business. At this time, the front door of the palace was empty.
"Commander Wu" Chen Ruxin and several personal guards chased him out at this time: "We brothers will go with you to get the thief."
Wuzhong shook his head: "Guard the palace and kill anyone who breaks into it without mercy."
Chen Ruxin frowned: "Who dares to enter the palace privately at this time?"
"Do you know what it means to be dark under the lamp?" Wu Zhong chuckled, looked at him and said, "I will turn the city upside down later. When the thieves have nowhere to hide, where do you think they will go?"
Chen Ruxin finally understood, surrendered to Wuzhonggong and led his men back to the palace.
Wu Zhong breathed out, grasped the handle of his knife and was about to get on his horse, when he saw Qiao Sanxiu galloping towards him from a distance.
Following Dongchang's order, the Yamen's work was extremely efficient. They immediately sent troops to block the four city gates, and at the same time, the entire city was searching for anyone with stab wounds.
"If we talk about the closing time of the city, then Wanhuhou may not be in the city anymore, but the blood bats will not have time to leave the city," Wuzhong speculated.
"In that case, let's look for the blood bat first. He was injured and trapped in the city and can't fly." Qiao Sanxiu has always been as calm as a mountain, but what happened today really angered this honest man.
Wuzhong shook his head: "The blood bat is a first-class light-body fighter, and he is the best at concealing his whereabouts. It is not easy to catch him no matter whether the city is closed or not. Just when he was injured, he was able to escape under my nose. Now it is even more difficult to catch him."
"It's difficult." He raised his head and looked at the sky: "If there is no clue where he is hiding within an hour, after dark, he will be like a tiger returning from the mountain and a dragon entering the sea, or even flying out of the city."
"So what are your plans?" Qiao Sanxiu frowned.
"Instead of wasting time on this stinky bat, it would be better to catch the Wanhu Hou."
"But he is very likely to have left the city. The place where the incident occurred is near the east gate. He could have escaped before the gate was sealed," Qiao Sanxiu said with a frown.
Wuzhong laughed: "Master Qiao rarely travels in the Jianghu. He doesn't know the tricks of the Jianghu people. He just thinks that we think so, so he is very likely to do the opposite and hide in the city instead."
Um... Qiao Sanxiu was stunned.
Wuzhong said again: "He was stabbed several times by you and Master Chen and was seriously injured. How far can he walk out of the city in such hot weather, and the target is so obvious that he can be easily caught up. In addition, he obviously has an accomplice who is conspiring, so there must be some danger in the city."
There is a place to stay.”
"How can we conclude that there is a place to stay in the city if there are accomplices collaborating?" Qiao Sanxiu was puzzled.
Wu Zhong glanced at him: "The whereabouts of the little governor are uncertain, but the thieves' assassination method was obviously carefully planned, which shows that they have been following the little governor for at least two days. How can they not have a place to stay in the city for several days? And the most important thing is
, these ten thousand households are originally from Lu, but if they are not preserved, they are still from Yanzhou Prefecture."
Qiao Sanxiu nodded and admired Wuzhong in his heart. Although this person usually made a lot of noises, his experience in the world was indeed not enough, so he asked: "Where to start?"
Pharmacies and brothels.
Although people traveling around rivers and lakes will always carry wound medicine with them, if they suffer a stab wound in different places, they are very likely to buy medicine. They may not go there by themselves, but anyone who buys wound medicine is suspected.
In addition, brothels are the most common place for these Jianghu people to stay, and they are also the best place to get all kinds of news.
So the two of them went in two directions to inquire about the news.
Qiao Sanxiu had little experience in the world, but knew how to use the power in her hands. As soon as she and Wu Zhong separated, she encountered a group of patrol officers and soldiers, so she took the Dongchang badge and said: "Strictly investigate drugstores and brothels!"
Dongchang's waistband has always been very easy to use.
The officers and soldiers did not dare to neglect at all, and it was definitely not ordinary thieves who could let people from the East Factory personally supervise and investigate.
For a time, the city of Yanzhou was in a state of chaos.
As the night deepened, people who listened to the constant sound of frogs in the pond were distracted. Chen Ruxin led more than ten personal guards to wander back and forth in Prince Lu's palace with knives and lanterns. His brother Chen Suole led another group of people to do the same thing.
The palace is very large, with many deserted places and many hiding places.
No one knows whether the blood bat is hiding somewhere in the palace.
But they had to be careful and careful.
On the top floor of the main hall, which is the highest in the palace, Kuang Ren and several sharpshooters each chose a position, observing quietly from a high position, and conducted an integrated land and air search to minimize the danger.
At the entrance of the main hall where Chang Yu was, Chen Wangting sat motionless with a knife in his hand, looking at the night sky.
In the room, Lian Xin was serving Chang Yu some medicine. It was a great tonic medicine that Zhu Yihai had asked a famous doctor in the city to brew. It was said that one of the main ingredients was wild ginseng grown over a century ago, which Zhu Yihai spent a lot of money to obtain.
"Don't worry, Eunuch Chang. The city gate has been sealed. Even if you dig three feet into the ground, I will catch the thief." Zhu Yihai's face was full of hatred. What kind of thief would commit murder in broad daylight, right before him?
In front of his eyes, this was a slap in the face. Furthermore, if Chang Yu had some shortcomings and the emperor blamed him, how could he not be implicated.
Chang Yu's complexion was rosy, and he looked much better than the white hair and blue eyes just before he was about to die. Zhu Yihai thought that the tonic had worked. Although it did, he didn't know that Chang Yu was gifted with extremely miraculous and powerful self-healing skills.
ability.
"Our family is upright, and we have enemies all over the place. There are not a hundred but also eighty people who want our head. This kind of thing has become a common thing for a long time, but it has disturbed the prince and makes him feel deeply uneasy."
Tsk tsk tsk, look at other people’s experiences, they are used to it.
Look how good this person is at talking.
"You must not say that. It is really my king's poor hospitality and my failure to show my kindness to the landlord that put Eunuch Chang in danger. I feel very guilty in my heart..." When Zhu Yihai was really about to dig out his heart and lungs, he suddenly heard that he had an accident.
There was a noise, and I was suddenly startled, thinking that the thief was coming again.
But he saw that it was Wuzhong who had arrived, and he was carrying a man covered in blood. He threw it at the door, strode in, and said to Chang Yu, "Fortunately, I did not disgrace my life!"
Chen Wangting looked at the huddled man on the ground and couldn't help but kick him. The man screamed in pain.
"The Blood Bat or the Marquis of Wanhu?" Chang Yu raised his eyebrows, and Lian Xin quickly helped him up and lay him down.
"If nothing happens, the blood bat should have left the city by now," Wuzhong said calmly.
Chang Yu frowned: "Is he really that awesome?"
"Really" Wu Zhong nodded: "If not for this, how could he have escaped from the hands of his humble position again and again?"
"How did you catch this guy?" Chang Yu turned his attention to the man huddled on the ground at the door: "Let me see what this Wanhu Hou looks like." That's right, although he was stabbed by Wanhu Hou before
I stabbed him several times, but I didn't even see his face clearly.
"Master Qiao was the first to discover this guy's traces. When he was arrested, he was frightened and ran away. He happened to be intercepted by a humble official." Wu Zhong said lightly and walked to the door and lifted the man up.
I don’t know how Wanhu Hou was tortured by Wuzhong so much that he couldn’t stand up. So two guards carried him to Chang Yu. After taking a closer look, they found that he was still a handsome young man, but at this time his eyes were dull and his face was full of tears.
The color of pain.
"Do you know me, and what hatred does I have against you?" Chang Yu asked sharply.