The atmosphere in the yamen of the Tixing Division has become surprisingly good. The new lord Tixing Officer is a genius in solving crimes. With just a few moves, difficult and unsolved cases have been solved. The imperial court has awarded him awards, and all the yamen in Kaifeng Mansion have looked at him. This feeling is surprisingly refreshing.
In particular, these old yamen and old policemen were all kicked out by other yamen as if they were kicking balls. They were all trash that others despised, so this felt a bit elated.
A group of people walked in front of others, their backs straight, and their posture could be described in one sentence: "You used to ignore me, but now I tell you that you can't climb up."
After witnessing the methods used by the criminal officer to solve the case, everyone's confidence in Lin Jue greatly increased, and their enthusiasm also increased. Suddenly, there was an upsurge of all-out efforts to solve the case in the yamen. Don't look at the old yamen and the old police officers who are getting older.
But if you really want to get excited, you will have a fierce energy. For a time, the enthusiasm for investigating the case became popular, and brainstorming broke out frequently in the yamen. In the past, when we gathered together, we would talk about family affairs and gossip, but now we started to discuss
Let’s discuss the case and discuss the business. This is really a spectacle.
Lin Jue was also in a good mood. The six cases he solved had laid the foundation for his position as a criminal judge. In this situation, his position was safe for the time being, because he had already proven to the court that he could solve the case.
Ability, although the solving of these six cases was a bit of a fluke. These six cases alone are not enough, and Lin Jue knew it in his heart. Zhu Zhirong also pointed out this point when talking to Lin Jue. Zhu Zhirong's implication was that he wanted Lin Jue to
Jue must hurry up and solve several serious serial murder cases and vicious cases of mass deaths. If a few such cases can be solved, then the original agreement between the two of them will be fulfilled.
Zhu Zhirong's meaning naturally included the Sansanliqiao case that Lin Jue sat on. That case caused a sensation in the capital. The case was not solved, and the pressure was still there. Zhu Zhirong was unable to cope with the progress inquiries over the past three days. However, Lin Jue
But he was unable to solve the case. Could it be that he ran to Zhu Zhirong in a panic and told him that he was the culprit?
Lin Jue also understood that he had to work harder and solve a few vicious serial murder cases in order to make his position more stable.
However, it was almost mid-March, and Lin Jue still had one most important thing to do, which was to go back to Hangzhou to pick up the little princess from Beijing. Guo Caiwei wrote a letter saying that she misses Lin Jue. At this moment, spring is blooming, and she is here
Lin Jue couldn't stay in Hangzhou anymore. Lin Jue wrote back and made an appointment to pick her up in Hangzhou in April. After calculating the round trip, it was time to prepare to leave.
The advantage of being a criminal officer is that Lin Jue does not have to resort to excuses to ask for leave. He can leave the capital in the name of investigating the case for public benefit, so Lin Jue can leave at any time. Lin Jue counted the days and planned to stay there for a few more days.
We can set off after March 20th, so we can arrive in Hangzhou easily by water in more than ten days, stay in Hangzhou for a few days, and then return to Beijing in time. However, the plan cannot keep up with the changes, and the arrival of one person makes it difficult for Shi Shiran to return to Beijing.
Lin Jue had to hit the road early.
It was evening on March 12th. Lin Jue was riding his horse home from the Yamen. When he walked to the west wall of his mansion, he found a figure leaning against the wall and peering around. It was a fat girl wearing earthen clothes.
In her colorful clothes, she looked like a farm girl from the countryside who had never seen the world.
When Lin Jue galloped past her, he turned his head and glanced at the girl. The girl turned around and left in a hurry, but Lin Jue was so surprised that he almost screamed.
Soon after, several guards came out from the Lin family mansion, surrounded the girl at the entrance of the alley, stuffed her mouth with her hands and feet, and dragged the girl into the house with her head covered. The girl struggled repeatedly and tied her waist
The dagger she had attached fell to the ground. Unfortunately, she was no match for the guards, so she was dragged into the house with a cloth bag over her head.
When the bag on her head was taken off, the dazzling light made it difficult for the girl to open her eyes. Someone next to her asked her to kneel down, but she refused. Someone kicked her in the crook of her leg, and she unconsciously
Kneeling down. At the same time, her eyes also saw the situation around her clearly. She was brought into a brightly lit, elegant and tidy hall, with a bunch of men with fierce looks standing high and low beside her. In front of her was a group of men with fierce looks.
Sitting on the big chair was a handsome young man wearing a blue official uniform, staring directly at him.
The girl panicked when she saw it, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing in broad daylight? Is there any royal law?"
"Wang Fa? My young master is Wang Fa." A man shouted sharply: "Tell me, what are you doing sneakily next to my house? What are your intentions?"
"I...I didn't, I passed by here..." the girl resisted.
"Bah, you didn't go to Xiangguosi Street, but you went to the alley around our house? You're hiding next to the house and peeking. What do you want? If you don't say anything, I'll kill you with one knife." The man raised his bright waist knife and came over.
The girl's eyes flickered.
"I...does this road belong to your house? I took a shortcut, right? This is the capital. Are you people in the capital so unreasonable?" the girl protested.
"Ahem!" The handsome young man on the big chair coughed twice and said in a hoarse voice: "Little girl, tell me the truth and you will save yourself the trouble."
The girl was quite disappointed. Originally, this handsome young official had a clear face, but when he spoke, his voice was so hoarse that it immediately ruined the whole feeling and made people feel very uncomfortable.
"What are you going to tell me? I am an ordinary citizen, and I passed by here, and you arrested me. You are an official, how can you be so lawless?" the girl blushed and shouted.
"Hey hey hey." The handsome young man let out a weird laugh that made people get goosebumps all over his body.
"Are you a common person? Who are you lying to? Do common people walk around with daggers on their bodies? What's more, you are a young woman. You don't want to say so? Then let me guess your identity. Hmm... Not much is happening in the capital recently.
Ansheng, there are always some unscrupulous people sneaking into the capital to do bad things. That's right, you don't belong to the surrounding areas of the capital. Could it be that you are a bandit from the Funiu Mountain village that has been causing a lot of trouble recently? Yes, you must be
Yes, do you admit it or not."
The girl almost fainted, feeling regretful and shocked. She didn't do anything, and she concealed herself very well along the way. How could she be revealed by the person in front of her? What's going on? From Funiu Mountain to the capital.
, it’s not like I haven’t encountered any interrogations along the way, but no one recognized me at a glance as someone from Funiu Mountain. This is really strange.
"You are not talking? It seems that I guessed it right. It turns out that you are a gangster from Funiu Mountain. Tell me quickly, what are you doing in the capital? What are you doing sneakily?" the handsome official shouted sternly.
The girl gritted her teeth and shouted: "What are you talking about? I don't understand anything. What is Funiu Mountain? I have never heard of this place."
The handsome official shouted sternly: "You still deny it, I tell you, the court will kill you gangsters one by one on sight, and there is no mercy at all. But... I am a soft person. Let's make a deal, you tell me Funiu Mountain
If you want to deploy our troops, draw a detailed map of the mountain, tell us the situation in the mountain, I will spare your life, what do you think?"
The girl shook her head and shouted: "I don't know what you are talking about?"
The handsome official changed his expression and shouted loudly: "It seems that you are toasting instead of being punished with wine. I know your details very well. Are you called Sha Niu? Are you following a female bandit leader named Gao Muqing? Your details have already been revealed.
We know everything clearly, and you still dare to deny it."
The girl was once again stunned and speechless. As expected, the other party knew her details clearly. She was one of Gao Muqing's female guards who came to the capital from Funiu Mountain, named Sha Niu. Sha Niu thought she was unnoticed.
He entered the capital, but he didn't expect to be recognized by the imperial court. Now it was really over. He failed to complete his mission, but his identity was discovered by the imperial court. He was too stupid, too stupid, he would die.
Come on, this will ruin a big thing in Luoyan Valley.
Feeling remorseful and blaming himself, the young official shouted again: "If you dare not to confess, I will order someone to scratch your face. Are you afraid? You have no other way out but to cooperate with me. You still haven't told me the number of people in your village."
And the fortifications, in detail, not a single thing is missed.”
Sha Niu trembled, with a look of horror on her face. What young girls fear most is to have their appearance disfigured, which is more terrifying than killing themselves. Sha Niu was no exception. She looked at the young official in front of her.
With a handsome face, Silly Girl seemed to have seen the devil. She knew that there was no way to escape today. Revealing the secret of the cottage? That was impossible. It was a dead end anyway. Rather than being threatened by him cutting her face open, it would be better
Just die.
Thinking of this, Sha Niu shouted: "Master of the village, Sha Niu is gone." She jumped up suddenly and hit the long knife held by a man beside her, intending to commit suicide. However, she failed to do so.
, the man dodged, and the silly girl was knocked into the air. His body was quickly controlled.
"Let me die, let me die." Silly Girl shouted.
"What a strong woman. She would rather die than betray the bandits? What benefits did they give you? That you are not even afraid of death?" the young official said loudly.
"Bah! Kill me. Don't think about me betraying Dazhai. How do you dog officials know the friendship between people in our village? Even if you die today, you don't want me to tell you the secret of the village. It's best to kill me. But
I tell you, in the future, the leader of my village and the military advisor will go to the capital and chop off all the heads of you bunch of dog officials." Sha Niu scolded loudly.
"Hahaha, I'm not ashamed of my words. The leader of the big village is just a bandit leader. What kind of bullshit military advisor? Bandits still have military advisors? I'm afraid they are dog-headed military advisors." The young official laughed.
"You are not allowed to be disrespectful to my stronghold master and military advisor. My stronghold master is the best stronghold leader, and my military advisor is the most capable person in the world. He is both civilized and military. He is the star of Wenqu and Wuqu in the sky. He...he..."
Silly girl suddenly stopped talking.
"How is he? Why don't you say anything? Is he really that powerful?" the young official frowned.
Sha Niu snorted and said: "Of course, I can't tell you enough about how powerful he is. I don't want to tell you either. In short, if I die today, they will all avenge me in the future."
The young official seemed a little scared and frowned: "Your village master and military advisor are so powerful. If I kill you, they will definitely retaliate against me. Why don't I let you go because your military advisor is so powerful?"
Bar."
Sha Niu couldn't believe her ears and looked at the young official in astonishment. With a strange smile on his face, the young official suddenly stood up, waved to the people around him and said, "You guys, please step aside."
After hearing the words, seven or eight guards retreated one after another. Sha Niu's heart was pounding and her eyes were fixed on the young official, not knowing what he wanted. But she saw him suddenly turned his back and raised his hand to his face.
The swishing movements were like a cat washing its face or wiping rouge on itself.
After a while, the young official finally turned around and chuckled with a magnetic voice: "Silly girl, look who I am?"
Sha Niu's eyes fell on his face, and the next moment Sha Niu let out a high-octave scream, as if she had seen a ghost.
"Military...strategist! How could it be? How could it be..." Silly girl's lips trembled and she could not speak clearly.
The young official laughed and said: "It's me, it's me. Silly girl, how could anyone else recognize you except me? Silly girl, you must be scared."
Sha Niu stared blankly at the face of the military advisor in front of her, and then watched helplessly as the military advisor tore off a layer of the mask, revealing the handsome face before, and switched it over like a magic trick. Sha Niu finally believed that before
That fierce-looking official was the military advisor himself.
Silly girl collapsed on the ground and cried loudly.
"Commander, you bully me, you scare me. How can you scare me like this? I will go back to the mountain and complain to the leader of the village, saying that you are teasing me, military counselor. I am almost scared to death. Wuwuwuwu."
Lin Jue laughed loudly and stepped forward and said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, silly girl, I just wanted to make a joke with you. I want to see how you would deal with it if you were caught by the officers and soldiers. How would you behave?
It's very good, I'm very satisfied. I'm sorry, the military advisor has apologized to you."
Silly girl burst into tears, twisted her body and kicked her legs on the ground and cried: "Silly girl suffered a lot along the way. She was so frightened that she came to the capital to find the military advisor. The military advisor threatened me like this. Oh wow, I was so scared that I almost wet my pants just now.
.The military advisor is so bad, I don’t care, I want to file a complaint. Wuwuwu.”
Lin Jue smiled bitterly and said, "It's my fault, don't cry anymore. If you come from a big girl's family, you will be laughed at if you cry like this."
Sha Niu wiped away her tears, stared at Lin Jue's face, and suddenly started crying again.
"What's wrong? Silly girl." Lin Jue scratched his head and said.
"The military advisor deceived us. The military advisor was obviously good-looking, but he turned out to be ugly on the mountain. How could the military advisor lie to us? Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"" Silly girl cried, wiping away her tears.
Lin Jue laughed loudly and said: "Silly girl, don't you know my true face now? Don't cry, your face has turned into a big face. Let's go to the back house, you take a bath, change clothes, and eat something
Things, and then talk to me about business. You are not just here to hang out in the capital, right?"
Upon hearing this, Sha Niu hurriedly got up and said, "Of course it's business, I can't explain it clearly. The leader of the village has a letter, I'll give it to you."
After saying that, Sha Niu stretched out her hand and started to untie her clothes. Suddenly her face turned red and she said, "The military advisor turned around."
Lin felt speechless, knowing that the letter must be hidden somewhere close to him, so he quickly turned around. He heard a sound of rustling, and the sound of tearing cloth, and finally Sha Niu's voice came out.
"Okay, military advisor, here is the letter from the leader of the stronghold."
Lin Jue turned around. The silly girl was disheveled, with torn strips of cloth hanging down inside her clothes. She was holding up a white cloth handkerchief. There was faint writing on the cloth handkerchief. It must have been that the letter was hidden in her lapel.
within.
"Silly girl, I will order someone to take you to the back house. After you finish cleaning up, come to the study to meet me." Lin Jue reached out and took the cloth and kicked it in his arms. He shouted for someone to come and led the silly girl back to the back house.
…
In the study, under the candlelight, Lin Jue sat beside the desk with a face as heavy as water. The white handkerchief covered with handwriting was spread on the desk. It was the autographed letter written by Gao Muqing.
Lin Jue had just finished reading this letter, and was feeling very anxious at the moment. He never expected that in just a few months, drastic changes had already occurred in Funiu Mountain, and Luoyan Valley was already in crisis.
Gao Muqing's letter described all the changes that had happened in the Funiu Mountains since last winter. Qin Donghe, the leader of the Black Wind Village, took advantage of a risky food robbery to gain the upper hand and controlled the large and small villages to attach themselves to him.
A meeting of the Funiu Mountain Village Alliance was held in Heifeng Village, where he announced himself as the new leader of the village, and led his troops to capture Taoyuan Dazhai. From then on, he began his ambitious journey to unify Funiu Mountain.
Starting from the end of the year, Qin Donghe continued to use troops, using force to force the villagers to attach themselves to him. Anyone who was unwilling to obey would attack with troops, and the methods were cruel. Qiu Zhengchun, the owner of Dazhai Village in Yehuling, west of Funiu Mountain, relied on the villagers to rely on the villagers.
Refusing to rely on the dangerous terrain, Qin Donghe led 4,000 village soldiers to attack Yehuling Dazhai for five days and five nights. Finally, Qiu Zhengchun's entire family, 19 people old and young, poured bamboo from their hips and poked it out of their mouths.
On the cliff at the top of the mountain. This is the most cruel punishment called "looking up to the sky". It can be said to be the most brutal and cruel punishment. More than two hundred soldiers from Yehuling Village were also pushed into the cliff and fell to death. Qin Donghe threatened that this would
It is the result of resistance. Whoever dares to resist will have no way to survive.
Suddenly, there was a bloody storm in Funiu Mountain. Starting from Yehuling Dazhai, from west to east, from south to north, more than 20 Dazhai fell into the hands of Qin Donghe within a few months.
When Qin Donghe was attacking large and small forts everywhere, the Luoyan Valley stronghold had different opinions on whether to interfere. In addition, Qin Donghe sent the deputy village leader to Luoyan Valley to ask for a meeting with Gao Muqing in person, and promised that he would never attack Luoyan Valley.
When Dazhai attacked, it was said that Heifengzhai was forcibly annexed for the unification and harmony of the original Funiu Mountain villages, and to change the shortcomings of the previous scattered villages that could not resist the officers and soldiers. It was said that Luoyan Valley Dazhai did not originally belong to the old tribe of Houshu, so Heifengzhai
The village will never attack Luoyan Valley. As long as the leader of Gao Da Village does not take action, Black Wind Village will never attack Luoyan Valley.
Gao Muqing, who was originally hesitant, received such a guarantee and decided not to interfere. The leader of the second village, Liang Qi, and others made several suggestions, but Gao Muqing did not agree. Luoyan Valley Dazhai decided to use all its strength to defend the village and protect Luoyan Valley.
The strategy of the people and property was to strengthen the fortifications, build fortresses, and be ready.
The unscrupulous hands of Luoyan Valley Dazhai made Heifeng Village unscrupulous. In early February, Bao Meng of Beishan Dazhai asked Luoyan Valley for help because Heifeng Village had already attacked the top of Beishan Dazhai. Gao Muqing weighed it again and again and refused. Bao Meng refused.
In order to survive, Meng took refuge in Heifeng Village, and the forces of Heifeng Village finally reached the side of Luoyan Valley.
In mid-February, Qin Donghe sent someone to send a handwritten letter to Luoyan Valley, requesting Luoyan Valley Dazhai to hand over Mu Buping, the hidden owner of Taoyuan Dazhai No. 2 Village, to Heifeng Village for disposal, and also to hand over the hidden secrets of Mu Buping, the leader of Taoyuan Dazhai Second Village, to Heifeng Village, and to hand over the information to Heifeng Village where he had fled to in the past few months.
Luoyangu Dazhai surrendered all the thousands of people and village soldiers who had taken refuge. He also made a request that Luoyangu Dazhai provide Heifengzhai with 30,000 shi of food every year. Qin Donghe told Gao Muqing that these three conditions must be agreed, otherwise
Then he attacked Luoyan Valley Dazhai and broke his previous promise.
Gao Muqing's wise self-preservation finally caused the fire to fall on Luoyan Valley Dazhai. Of course Gao Muqing would not agree to these three conditions. So after the time limit was up, Qin Donghe launched an attack without any scruples. The first one they captured was the Stone Man.
Shan Dazhai, which itself had few defensive manpower and was far away from the main village, was easily captured by Qin Donghe at the cost of several hundred men. Yuan Lang, the leader of the third village stationed at Shiren Mountain, and more than 300 Luoyan troops fought with all their strength.
After that, the power of Black Wind Village flooded the entire Funiu Mountains like a tide, leaving only the east and west peaks of Luoyan Valley and a huge valley, existing alone like an isolated island in the sea.
Around the line of Pheasant Ridge, at the southern end of Luoyan Valley and the Xifeng area, fighting is going on all the time. In the past twenty days or so, Qin Donghe gathered all the village soldiers and launched a crazy attack. Fortunately, the defenses of Luoyan Valley were strong, and Luoyan
The combat effectiveness of the army should not be underestimated, and it was not easy to take down Luoyan Valley in one fell swoop. However, Qin Donghe was determined to take down Luoyan Valley, and regardless of the casualties of the soldiers, he gave a fatal order to attack. He even gave the order to attack.
He did not hesitate to drive the common people to attack the mountain as the vanguard.
With a force five times their own and an attack that was not afraid of death, the Luoyan Army also felt tremendous pressure. As the casualties of the Luoyan Army increased, the consumption of bows and arrows and other supplies increased, the fatigue of the personnel after prolonged combat, and the dangers continued to increase.
One night at the end of February, the exhausted defenders almost broke through the fortifications at the south entrance of Luoyan Valley. If Liang Qi had not led 300 Luoyan Army brothers to desperately block the breach, and Bai Yushuang, who was recovering from his injuries in the mountain stronghold, also came to help, the situation would have almost happened.
A big disaster.
Under this situation, Gao Muqing realized that she might not be able to cope with the situation, so she sent Sha Niu to the capital with a letter to meet Lin Jue. At this moment, her only hope was Lin Jue.
