The weather in Haixi is like this. It changes at any time, which is hard to predict.
The rain was not too heavy, but it was a steady patter, but it made the temperature drop a lot. Cao Peng threw two pieces of charcoal into the brazier and took a stick to stir the charcoal. The light of the fire made his face flush.
I feel a little hot, but I still feel a little cold in my heart.
An almost unbelievable thought lingered in Cao Peng's mind, making him unable to calm down.
If this is really the case, then the problem is serious!
Tuk-tuk-tuk...
There was a gentle knock on the door.
"who!"
Cao Peng woke up suddenly, raised his head and asked.
"Youxue, it's me!"
An old voice sounded, causing Cao Peng to get up quickly.
He walked to the door and opened it. He saw Pu Yangkai standing on the porch outside the house. When Cao Peng opened the door, Pu Yangkai smiled slightly.
"Youxue, haven't you rested yet?"
"Mr. Puyang, why do you..."
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a figure flashing around the corner of the corridor.
Cao Peng had sharp eyes and recognized the figure of Wang Mai at a glance.
He seemed to understand all of a sudden. He smiled bitterly and shouted towards the corner: "Brother Hutou, stop hiding, I have already seen you!"
Wang Mai walked out of the darkness with his head lowered, like a child who had done something wrong.
"Youxue, don't blame Ah Mai, he cares about you too."
Cao Peng shook his head and stepped aside to make way, "Mr. Puyang, come in and talk...Brother Hutou, you can come in too. It's raining outside and it's so cold, but you still woke up Mr. Puyang. I told you that I'm fine."
You... come in and talk."
Puyang Kai and Wang Mai walked into Cao Peng's room and sat down.
Cao Peng took off the clay pot from the hook of the brazier and poured a bowl of hot water for Puyang Kai and Wang Mai.
"Well...why does this water taste so weird?"
"Ginger soup!" Cao Peng smiled, "The weather is a bit cold. Drink some ginger soup to warm up the body. Mr. Puyang, please go first."
With that said, Cao Peng also sat down.
His bedroom was very simply furnished, with a bed, a bookshelf on one wall, a writing desk and three couches.
"Youxue, I heard from Ah Mai that you have encountered a headache?"
Cao Peng hesitated for a moment, "Actually, it's not really a headache... There's just one question that I haven't figured out yet. In other words, I haven't been able to confirm it."
"oh?"
"Mr. Puyang, do you still remember that I mentioned the pirate spies?"
"Well... remember."
"This matter must start with Chen Sheng." Cao Peng took a sip of ginger soup, sorted out his thoughts, took out a piece of hemp paper, and drew a few circles on it.
"When Feng Chao said that his father, Magistrate Feng, was killed by a strongman, we all thought it was Chen Sheng who did it. But later I discovered that Chen Sheng had nothing to do with it. Whether he was unreasonable or unreasonable,
But I don’t think he is related to the strongman. The reason is very simple... If Chen Sheng is related to the strongman, there is no need to fight an economic war or a public opinion war with us. Anyway, he has killed the county magistrate and directly found people to raid the sea.
Xi, just kill us. With his temper, how can he go through so much trouble?"
Pu Yangkai nodded, "Go on."
"If Chen Sheng was not the person who killed Magistrate Feng, then who was?
There is another question. Not all the past county magistrates were as powerful as Magistrate Feng, so why were they all killed in strange ways? Feng Chao said that Magistrate Feng offended the salt owl. Well, Magistrate Feng offended the salt owl.
So, did all the other county magistrates offend Yan Xiao? In the past few years, the county government office has been vacant, but there is one person who lives in the county government office as a gatekeeper and has not yet received his salary.
I just felt like there was something wrong here.”
Pu Yangkai's face gradually became serious.
He is not a fool, how could he not hear that there is something in Cao Peng's words.
"Youxue, what do you mean..."
"Mr. Puyang, I was just confused at first, until after we got rid of Chen Sheng, I found this in Chen Sheng's study."
Cao Peng picked up the copper coin and pushed it down in front of Puyang Kai.
"Fish Kiss Copper Town!" Cao Peng said softly: "Feng Chao told me that this Copper Town has a long history, originating from the creation of Li Guangli of Haixi Kingdom. After that, Haixi Kingdom became Haixi County. This Fish Kiss Copper Town
The town, like the treasure of the town government, has been passed down.
At the same time, Feng Chao also mentioned to me a treasure left by Li Guangli back then.
Originally I didn't connect these things, but Feng Chaoyi said that I suddenly had a very strange idea. If, I mean if... this treasure really exists, and this copper town is the key to finding the treasure.
There is a person... Well, I don’t know who he is now. This person accidentally learned about the treasure and even heard about Yuki Copper Town. So he came to Haixi County to secretly search for this treasure.
Treasures everywhere... Later, he discovered the whereabouts of Yuki Copper Town, so he..."
Cao Peng made a gesture of wiping his neck, and Puyang Kai reacted immediately.
"You're saying that the deaths of several county magistrates are related to the treasure?"
"Um!"
Pu Yangkai's expression changed.
"Youxue, please continue talking."
"I've been wondering who this traitor is.
He must meet several conditions. First, his family must be wealthy. Even if he is not from a wealthy family, he must at least be able to live and feed well. Otherwise, this person must not be able to contact the county government; second, this person must have a good reputation and must be well-off.
There is some good reputation; thirdly, he can enter and exit the county government without being suspected... He did discover the whereabouts of Yuki Copper Town, but unfortunately, Magistrate Feng suddenly handed over the copper town to Chen Sheng
.So, after the death of County Magistrate Feng, this person could not find the whereabouts of Tongzhen, and soon a new County Magistrate came.
Several county magistrates were killed in mysterious circumstances, Xuzhou also fell into chaos, and no one cared about Haixi anymore.
This is the best time to look for Tongzhen. But how will he look for it? This requires someone to stay in the county government and not be suspected."
"Mai Cheng!"
Puyang Kai blurted out and his face changed drastically.
Cao Peng smiled and said, "It seems that Mr. Puyang is very impressed by this person.
Theoretically speaking, it is perfect for a jailed prisoner to stay in the county government. His status is not too high, and he will not be suspected if he stays in the county government. When we arrived in Haixi
, I feel strange, what is Mai Cheng doing in the county government office?"
Puyang Kai seemed a little excited, stood up and wandered around the room.
"Impossible, impossible!"
"What's impossible?"
"Mr. Magong was a senior official during the late emperor's reign, and he was also a very moral person. How could he..."
"Mr. Puyang, I haven't finished speaking yet. Please sit down and listen to me slowly."
Cao Peng stood up, helped Puyang Kai and sat down again.
"you say!"
Puyang Kai calmed down and calmed down.
Cao Peng gave him another bowl of ginger soup and felt that his thoughts suddenly became much smoother.
When you are a criminal police officer, you often have to analyze the case. To put it bluntly, it is to state the ideas for solving the case and let everyone fill in the gaps.
Cao Peng had been keeping this matter in his heart before and couldn't find anyone who could talk to him.
Now, Puyang Kai is here.
His character and virtue can be trusted.
After Cao Peng talked to him, he suddenly felt that his thinking became clear again.
One link after another is ready to come out.
Cao Pengdao: "To be honest, I didn't think about Doctor Mai at first. The person I suspected was Wang Cheng!"
"Wang Cheng?"
"Yes!" Cao Peng nodded, "That's Wang Cheng.
When we arrived in Haixi, Wang Cheng was the first person to take the initiative to visit us. He was also the one who announced that we were going to fight pirates and recruit soldiers. As a result, the entire Haixi County became hostile to us.
At that time, I was thinking, why is Wang Cheng so active? After Chen Sheng died, he asked again when we would suppress the pirates. This made me feel that he had an extraordinary enthusiasm for fighting pirates.
.Why? There seems to be no hatred between Wang Cheng and the pirates.
If I think about it from another angle.
At first he claimed that we were fighting pirates to isolate us so that we could not stay in Haixi?"
Cao Peng laughed when he said this.
"He wants to drive us away." Pu Yangkai narrowed his eyes.
At this time, Wang Mai seemed to understand, "Ah Fu, so it seems that Wang Cheng's second inquiry is actually to find out the truth."
"right!"
Cao Peng said seriously: "He must understand our goal."
"Youxue, go on."
"From now on, I make an assumption.
Wang Cheng knows that Yuki Copper Town is not in the county government. But he is worried that our expansion in Haixi will affect his plan to dig out treasures. Therefore, he must understand our thoughts. At the same time, he also wants
Let’s confirm where exactly Yuki Copper Town is located.”
Cao Peng's mouth felt dry as he spoke, so he picked up the bowl and took a sip of ginger soup to moisten his throat.
He drew circles one after another on the hemp paper, and in the last circle, he filled in the words "Qiqiao Yin Ji".
"I just never thought about what Wang Cheng meant by giving me so much rags.
Brother Hutou said something that made me suddenly wake up. He said that the fish kissing the copper town was also a strange and obscene technique. Wang Cheng declared to the outside world that my father was a wealthy man in Yinmo, so I also like these weird things, and
Asking those merchants to collect things from their homes and give them to me to play with... It's not that I want it, it's that he wants it! He wants to see if Yukiss Copper Town is hidden in the hands of the merchants.
But in the end...he didn't know that Yuki Copper Town was in my hands."
"So, you conclude that this Wang Cheng is deceitful."
"Well, that's pretty much the truth."
"No, no, Wang Cheng is Wang Cheng, and Mai Cheng is Mai Cheng...Maicheng is from Doctor Mai's clan. He stayed in the county government because of Doctor Mai's envoy. There seems to be no connection between the two."
Cao Peng picked up the pen and drew a line on the circle with Wang Cheng's name, connecting it with the circle with Mai Xiong's name.
Pu Yangkai's face looked very ugly.
He shook his head repeatedly and said: "Impossible, this is impossible!"
"Mr. Puyang, how long has it been since Doctor Mai didn't show up?"
"Uh, long time!"
"Last time my brother-in-law went to visit Mai's house, Doctor Mai didn't show up, right?"
"That's right."
"It stands to reason that when the new county magistrate visits the local gentry, he will show up even if he is not feeling well. This is a courtesy... As a Taizhong doctor, how could Doctor Mai not know this? But unfortunately, he had the intention to intervene.
Mai Cheng, but he didn’t see my brother-in-law.
Don’t you think there’s something wrong here?”
"You mean..."
Cao Peng leaned on the bookshelf, raised his head and said to himself: "What if Doctor Mai is not Doctor Mai?"
