Chapter 190: The gold medal policemen gather together, Xu Baocai’s case becomes suspicious
Hearing someone calling his name, Yu Changren was also stunned, so he stopped immediately.
But when he saw the power of Zhou Shi's palm, his expression suddenly changed, and he raised his hand to strike again.
But Hong Anting, who had just been pushed aside by him, stepped in and blocked his attack again. Zhou Shi took this opportunity to stand up quickly and shouted:
"We are Zhao Xuan's people, don't fight!"
Hearing the word "Zhao Xuan", Yu Changren stopped during the fierce battle, but his face became even more ugly.
"Zhao Xuan? You guys?"
He looked at the martial arts disciples who were surrounding him from two directions, but did not relax his posture.
"Listen to me!"
Zhou Shi quickly got up and quickly organized his speech to tell the story of his last encounter with Yu Changren and his battle with the Poison Master, and then he gained his trust.
"I remember your name, Zhou..."
"Zhou Shi."
"Zhou Shi. How many of them are here?" Yu Changren pointed to the disciples surrounding him and sneered, "This battle doesn't look like friendly forces."
"Uh, this is all a misunderstanding..."
When Zhou Shi continued to explain, his mind was spinning rapidly: It seems that Yu Changren didn't know what happened in Jiangdu recently. Where did he go? Wasn't his mission to investigate the Yaoren Group?
"...So, I arranged for friends from Jiangdu Martial Arts School to help with the investigation. They saw you around Yichun Garden and followed you all the way here."
After hearing this, Yu Changren found it difficult to process the huge amount of information and did not speak for a long time.
"Zhao Xuan is in the Yamen right now. If you don't believe it, you can go and confront her."
"No!" He immediately raised his hand to refuse, "It's enough for Lao Ma to go alone, but I can't deal with her."
Seeing that this person's suspicion was lifted, Hong Anting on the side also relaxed his vigilance, cupped his fists and said, "My lord, I just offended you."
Yu Changren looked him up and down, nodded and said: "Hong Quan? Among the masters I know, you are the strongest."
He turned to Zhou Shi and said: "Your skills are not bad. No wonder you were able to kill the poison master last time... Hey, do you know his movements?"
"He's dead."
"Dead?" Yu Changren was startled, and then cursed, "What the hell, I made another trip in vain!"
"What do you mean?" Zhou Shi was about to ask, but felt that there were too many people here, "Master Yu, let's talk somewhere else. I'm fairly familiar with Jiangdu's affairs."
Yu Changren probably also wanted to inquire about the situation in Jiangdu City, so he accepted the proposal.
"Hong Jiaoxi, thank you very much. Please continue to be on duty and come back to me if necessary."
"Okay."
Hong Anting is a smart man. Although he is curious about what these two people said, he is secretly glad that he does not know much.
Martial arts is a profession where one foot is black and the other is white. To walk steadily in it, it is important to know what you should know and what you should not know.
Zhou Shi took Yu Changren for a walk on the street, talking as they walked.
It seemed that Hong Anting passed down the order, so they were not followed again along the way.
Zhou Shi roughly told Yu Changren what had happened in Jiangdu in the past six months, but he weakened his influence in it. Of course, he did not miss the most important information - the demon will launch an attack tonight.
"Wait a minute, you just said that Wu Zhaokun is missing and the new Jiangdu prefect will take office today?"
"Yes."
Yu Changren touched the short mustache on his face with a mocking look on his face: "All good things come together."
"How to say it?"
"Guess where Lao Ma and I have been these past few months?"
Zhou Shi smiled bitterly and said: "Well, this doesn't seem to be something that can be guessed..."
……
"Bashu."
In a side room of Jiangdu Yamen, Ma Jiaxiang, who was standing with his hands behind his hands, turned around and looked at Zhao Xuan sitting at the table in shock.
"Our whereabouts should be kept confidential..."
"Am I right?"
Ma Jiaxiang smiled awkwardly and sat down at the table.
"Can you tell me how you guessed it?"
"Simple. The order you and that big boss received was to investigate the outsiders operating near Jiangdu. As a result, they found that villagers in nearby villages died tragically due to unknown reasons. They also tried to set a trap to catch the murderer, right?"<
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Ma Jiaxiang nodded, this was what he had just told Zhao Xuan.
"But after the murderer escaped, the investigation task was immediately assigned to me - considering the time required for the order to be transmitted, the Ministry of Punishment did not know the progress of your operation when making this decision. Therefore, the higher-ups must have obtained something more important.
The information requires the two of you to rush to investigate.
"The gold medal agents are scattered all over the place. Why do you have to go to Jiangdu, the center of the incident, to investigate? It can only be because it is the most convenient place for you to go. Jiangdu is located at the junction of north, south, east and west, and the transportation is very developed, but what can I say?
The place can only be reached from Jiangdu, so it must be..."
"Located in the mountains, Bashu can only go upstream from the river." Ma Jiaxiang continued, "I really can't hide anything from you."
Zhao Xuan slowly brought the teacup to her mouth, but her handsome face showed a look of pride that could not be concealed.
"Let me tell you, your brain is no worse than that of another colleague of ours. Why can he stay in the capital and ask you to work as a coolie?"
When she heard this, her face suddenly darkened.
"The Bronze Man case in the capital is very strange. Cao Yin is blocking the handling of the case and it is difficult to escape."
Ma Jiaxiang nodded. There was an obvious temptation in his words, but she didn't notice it.
"Don't go too far, so why are you going to Bashu?"
"Don't you try to reason again?"
But after seeing Zhao Xuan's expression, he immediately put away his smile and said seriously:
"After the ambush in Zhoujiazhuang failed, we entered Jiangdu city to investigate and found that Xu Baocai, a wealthy Bashu businessman, was missing in Yichun Garden and was suspected to have been murdered. Further investigation found that he had made an appointment with the family of a Bashu businessman who settled in Jiangdu, which was related to his ship boss
The confession does not match."
Zhao Xuan said thoughtfully: "Which family is he going to meet secretly..."
"That's right. What do you think it's because of? In fact, the Bashu businessman has died and been buried. He wants to transport his coffin back to Shu for burial. This is the last wish of many Bashu wanderers."
"Does this need to be sneaky?"
"It is necessary, otherwise the boatman will protest. People who sail on the river believe that the boat cannot carry dead people, otherwise the ferryman on the Styx will not be able to distinguish between the boat carrying the living and the dead and let the boat sink... Of course this is superstition
."
"I'm afraid not...it was really not peaceful on the river at that time."
"We didn't have much suspicion at the time, but Lao Yu insisted on sneaking onto Xu Baocai's boat to take a look. As a result, we made an unexpected discovery..."
He saw with satisfaction that Zhao Xuan's curiosity was aroused, and then said:
"The smallest ship in Xu Baocai's fleet contained more than thirty corpses."
For a moment, there was silence in the side room.
"They all want to go back to Bashu for burial?"
"I think this is the source of the corpses, but not the purpose. Because these corpses were stacked in the bottom tank, there were no coffins at all. I don't know what means were used, but they did not rot and stink."
"Have you reported it to the superiors?"
"I beat you, but it seems you didn't know about it."
"Hmph, it seems that there are many people involved in this case. Go on."
"We originally planned to investigate deeply while the crew reported to the authorities to look for Xu Baocai and wait for instructions from above. Who would have thought that someone actually sent Xu Baocai's body back, and his fleet set sail the next day?
, you don’t even need to report to the terminal to apply for an extension of sailing!”
"It was a corpse that was sent back, and they didn't raise any suspicion?" Zhao Xuan was very surprised, tapping her white fingers on the table.
"No. And do you know who is the person who sent the body back?"
When Ma Jiaxiang said that name, the sound of rain came from the window.