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That night, everyone requisitioned the Zou family's mansion. Because Zou Fengzhi's incident happened and he confessed to the crime, all the family property was confiscated and the family members were driven into the wing room under strict supervision. As for the inspectors of the Wanxiang Yuan Fangtang, as well as a group of
Pei Zhongze couldn't control how much money the county government officials and others made during the seizure and inspection process, and Zhao Ran had no idea of restraint.
This group of people works hard, and asking for some benefits is what the question says. If it is too harsh, who will work for you in the future? Of course, the leader of the team, Hall Leader Wei and Team Leader Zhang, came hand in hand.
The five thousand taels of silver notes held in both hands were also accepted by Zhao Ran with a smile. The same was true for Pei Zhongze. Who said that monks are really unworldly? Without huge financial resources to support, where can the elixir come from? Where can it come from?
Talisman? Where did the magic weapon come from?
This is not only the case for the Zou family, but also for the Li family. Li Mazi's wife died early, and he himself had no children. All affairs in the village were taken care of by Aunt Zhao. Now that Aunt Zhao is involved in the case, no matter how he is convicted in the end, the Li family's
The wealth of Wan Guan's family cannot be saved no matter what. The inspection team of Wanxiang Yuan and the county government officials rushed to Lijiazhuang overnight in order to capture the suspect Aunt Zhao and take stock of the family wealth.
Late at night, Zhao Ran and Pei Zhongze were sitting in the courtyard chatting. From time to time in the wing room of the courtyard next door, the cry of the imprisoned family members of the Zou family could be heard. Pei Zhongze sighed: "One person's carelessness affects innocent people, and the Zou family has been defeated; not only the Zou family
, even the Li family couldn't get a good deal, so you shouldn't be careless when making friends. After making friends like Zou Fengzhi, Li Zhong not only died and his family was destroyed, but now he doesn't even have an inheritance. It's really a pity."
Zhao Ran was a little surprised: "I thought senior brother would put the blame on Li Zhong's concubine Zhao."
Pei Zhongze said: "Although Aunt Zhao is hateful, how can a weak woman cause so many disasters? It is still Zou Fengzhi's problem..."
Zhao Ran joked: "After all, it's still Li Zhong's problem."
Pei Zhongze was stunned, and Zhao Ran smiled and said: "If Li Zhong doesn't come back in the middle of the night..."
Halfway through the conversation, the two of them shouted at the same time: "There is indeed something wrong with Li Zhong!"
Both of them are practitioners. Being up late at night is nothing but a hardship to the Taoist priests, inspectors and government servants who followed. Zhao Ran kicked everyone out of bed, and he took Zou Fengzhi with him sleepily.
Immediately go to the Li family mansion in Shehong County and arrive early the next morning.
Most of the big martial arts families such as Li Zhong and Zou Fengzhi are also local landowners, so their homes are outside the city. Li Zhong's body was buried under the river embankment two miles northeast of Li's house, because it had been many days since the incident.
, when it was dug out, it exuded a putrid smell.
After Zou Fengzhi went on a murder spree, he had no intention of searching Li Zhong, so the government officials easily found a robe from Li Zhong. When they untied the robe, a pile of things was poured out, including several large banknotes.
There was a pile of scattered silver, two pieces of yellow paper and a square silver medal.
Pei Zhongze picked up the yellow paper and looked at Zhao Ran, and the two of them immediately became energetic.
These are two of the lowest-level fireworks talismans. For practitioners, they are extremely ordinary. But for a layman who has not yet entered the threshold of spiritual practice, they are very unusual.
Zhao Ran checked the banknotes. When he saw that they were all worth one hundred taels, he naturally stuffed them into his arms. The remaining dozens of taels of broken silver were divided among the inspectors, yamen and others. Everyone was smiling.
, all the fatigue in his body was swept away. He picked up the silver medal and looked at it carefully, and saw that there were spiritual energy fluctuations on it. So he handed it to Pei Zhongze.
Pei Zhongze took it and looked at it, and saw a snake shape engraved on the front. He frowned and returned it to Zhao Ran. Zhao Ran asked all the inspectors of the Fangtang of Wanxiang Yuan and the county government officials, but no one knew them. He asked Zou Fengzhi again,
Zou Fengzhi also looked confused.
After searching the bodies, everyone entered the Li family mansion again. Aunt Zhao and the Li family servants were detained in the woodshed by the government servants who arrived yesterday. Zhao Ran gave an order and everyone began to search for clues in various rooms.
After just a moment of searching, a yamen servant came over with a stack of manuscript papers and reported: "Master Immortal, I found this from the study. Please take a look at it."
Zhao Ran and Pei Zhongze looked at the manuscript paper and saw some lines drawn horizontally and vertically on it, along with numbers and the words Tiangan and Earthly Branches. Zhao Ran wondered: "What is this? It looks like a geometric figure?"
Pei Zhongze was puzzled: "Geometry?"
Zhao Ran said: "Well, it's just the knowledge of calculating the land area, shape, length..."
The yamen officer praised: "The immortal master is really knowledgeable. This is the art of traps. I have captured a thief who dug a grave before, and I have seen something like this."
Zhao Ran came to his senses and asked people to bring Zou Fengzhi over and asked: "Is Li Zhong good at the art of mechanism?"
Zou Fengzhi replied: "Li Zhong used to make a living by visiting tombs when he was young. He claimed that the martial arts he learned were secrets obtained from tombs."
Pei Zhongze also figured it out. He was overjoyed and urged everyone to step up the search for more clues.
They searched everything but found nothing of value, so they brought Aunt Zhao over for interrogation. Aunt Zhao had never seen this formation before, and she really knew everything about it.
At that moment, according to Aunt Zhao's confession, the Taoist inspection team and the county government officials were divided into two teams. One team rushed to the county seat and raided the house of Zhang Dekun, a wealthy family in the county, while the other team went to the west store of the county to search for the martial arts master.
Chen Dajiang.
These two people have close contacts with Li Zhong, especially the rich man Zhang Dekun, who is a well-known tycoon in the martial arts world of Tongchuan Prefecture. His kung fu has reached a state of perfection and he is a top figure in the world. According to Aunt Zhao’s identification, Li Zhong has already gone to Tongchuan Prefecture this year.
I visited Zhang Dekun's house twice, and it took him three to five days at least and ten days and eight months at most to return.
As soon as Zhao Ran and Pei Zhongze discussed it, they focused on Zhang Dekun and led most of their men to the county seat.
Zhang Dekun's family is in Zhongyifang, the county seat. The house occupies a small half of an alley. It is a really big family. When they arrived outside Zhang's house, Tangtou Wei and Team Leader Zhang immediately divided their people into four teams. One team blocked the back door, and two pairs of people blocked the back door.
They circled the house for surveillance to prevent Zhang Dekun from jumping over the wall. The team with the largest number of people entered from the main entrance to search for the suspect Zhang Dekun.
After the assignment was decided, dozens of people, each armed with weapons, broke into the alley and blocked both ends of the alley. A government official came forward and knocked on the door loudly. When the concierge of Zhang Mansion came out and saw it, he was frightened.
Shrinking his neck: "What is the purpose of your coming here?"
The yamen servant shouted: "Is your master here? Is Zhang Dekun here?"
The porter timidly said: "My master is taking a nap at noon. If you have any questions, please tell me. I will go and report to the master right now."
The officer grabbed the concierge by the collar and pushed him straight into the house: "Something happened to Zhang Dekun! Where is he? Lead the way and don't shout, otherwise I will let you go to the dark prison to have a taste of it!"
The Daomen Fangtang inspector and the county government officials were both experienced in handling cases. They immediately swarmed in and sealed all the doorways and corridors. When they encountered the screaming servants, they were kidnapped and escorted to a row in front of the main hall.
Kneel down.
The concierge of Zhang House was frightened by the wolf-like patrols and government officials, and did not dare to resist. He was pushed by the government officials and quickly arrived at a small courtyard, and then pointed to the wing in the middle.
Team leader Zhang winked, and five or six government officials came out in large numbers. Iron rulers, water and fire sticks, ropes and other various objects that could be used to hold people were all displayed, and they closed the door.
Tangtou Wei also ordered his seven or eight men to inspect the square halls and blockade several key locations to prevent Zhang Dekun from escaping.
Several government officials tiptoed to the door when they suddenly heard a "snap" sound, and the door fell from the inside out. This explosion suddenly caused one of the government officials to be crushed to the ground by the falling door, and the other several government officials were knocked to the ground.
The yamen servant fled away in great embarrassment.
I saw an old man with white beard and white hair standing in front of the door. Although he was old, he was quite strong, especially his eyes were bright, and he looked very majestic.
Zhang Bantou shouted: "Zhang Dekun, you have committed a crime, are you still trying to resist?"
This old man is Zhang Dekun, a famous martial arts tycoon in Tongchuan Prefecture. He looked at Zhang Bantou and said contemptuously: "Zhang, you are the only one who wants to stop me?" With a glance, he saw Wei Tang in the square hall of Wanxiang Courtyard.
He turned his head, his face became solemn, he nodded slowly and said: "It turns out that the Eight-Armed Magical Power has also come, it's very good!"
Tangtou Wei said coldly: "Zhang Dekun, it is said that two fists are difficult to defeat with four hands. No matter how good your kung fu is, there are so many of us, do you think we will be lucky today? It's better to put aside your thoughts and capture him without any effort." (To be continued.)