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It is located in the west of Yixian County, the ancient city of Yandu, backed by Taihang Mountain, facing Yishui River, and accompanied by Qingxi Mausoleum.

Along the way, Bei Yi and Yan Huaichao saw the beautiful scenery on the road, and when they arrived at Taihang Water Town, it was nearly dusk, and they found an inn to stay overnight.

This inn has a very special name, called 'here guest'.

However, not long after I moved in, the local parent officer received the news from nowhere and came to visit in person.

"Bosses, Su Yu is chattering." Seeing Bei Yi's unrelieved burden, Su Yu knew that he came at the wrong time.

"No problem." Yan Huai took a step forward, stepped forward a few steps, and poured a cup of tea for the county magistrate, "Please."

Bei Yi unloaded the burden, put it aside, remembered the hospitality of the innkeeper, and saw that the county magistrate came to visit in such a short period of time, and treated them with extra courtesy. I really value this Taihang Water Town.

Seeing that the other party was entertaining him, Su Yu drank the cup of tea with peace of mind. When he talked about the murder, Bei Yi frowned, "You mean someone was killed last night, and it was the same group as the last murder. Why?"

Seeing Bei Yi's question, Su Yu didn't dare to be sloppy, nodded in agreement, and then told him about the last murder case. After knowing about it, Bei Yi frowned and thought.

The deceased last night was a fisherman on the wharf. When he was not fishing, he would also act as a boatman to ferry people across the river. It was accidentally learned that he had once ferryed a monk.

In the early morning of the next day, the fisherman was found dead, and the fisherman's boat was missing.

That monk was probably the one that Xiucai gave him a warning. What a coincidence, could that group of people be the same as the group that broke into Xiucai's house?

In the last murder case, no one was left alive. The government said that the only dead was the lady in the boudoir of the royal family of the merchant, so as not to cause panic among the people, and Mr. Wang is a well-known local benevolent person. cause no small impact.

On the surface, this case looks like robbers entering and robbing a house, but in fact, the female relatives did not lack any jewelry, and only took a few valuable things at random, which seems to be deliberately causing trouble.

Taihang Water Town is within the jurisdiction of the Beifu. Bei Yi remembered that the Wangfu also had business dealings with their family in the early years, but it happened to be the Wangfu, and it was very likely that they came for their Beijia.

Bei Yi looked at Su Yu, "It's not enough to make a conclusion. I'm going to the dock and the palace to see, as well as their bodies."

Yan Huaichao interjected and asked: "Master Su, did you check who the deceased had any vendetta against, who did he meet that day, and what did he do?"

"I have checked, the master has recorded this information." Su Yu showed a embarrassed expression, "It's just that they are all in the yamen, and I came out in a hurry, so I didn't get them."

Thinking that he was going to say something extraordinary, the county magistrate was really a little dumbfounded, and the two quickly said that they would go to the yamen together tomorrow to check.

Taking care that Bei Yi is the young master of the Bei family, although he is a general, but he has never been on the battlefield, probably he has never seen a corpse, and he heard that he was born weak, Su Yu mentioned, "The autopsy results of Wuzuo are also recorded. , Young Master Bei doesn’t need to look at the corpse.”

Bei Yi smiled mysteriously, "I went to see their bodies, not to confirm the cause of death."

Yan Huaichao thought of the pearl he found, and knew what he was thinking. In order to prevent another situation from happening, he kindly asked, "Have you not touched the corpse?"

Bei Yi obviously didn't think about this possibility, and his face became a little stiff.

"No, no, after receiving the old general Bei's order, the corpses have been kept in Yizhuang as they are." Su Yu seemed to understand a little bit, "Master Bei wants to see their clothes and accessories?"

Bei Yi recovered and gave Su Yu an appreciative glance, "You're right." Then he told him what happened to the scholar.

Su Yu suddenly realized, "So that's how it is. Tomorrow, we can testify to this matter." He bowed to the two, "I hope you will forgive me for disturbing me for a long time, and Su will leave."

After Su Yu left, the room suddenly fell silent. Bei Yi made a fist and pressed his chin, his tone was loose and teasing, "Huai Chao, we really have a good understanding."

Because of this sentence, Yan Huaichao's expression was a little unnatural. Bei Yi's words gave him hope, and he said calmly: "After all, we grew up together. I think there should be no one better than me except your family. I know you better, Ayi."

When saying these words, Yan Huaichao looked at Bei Yi seriously and intently, what he said was also what he thought.

Bei Yi was a little dazed by this straight ball, did he get molested?

He wanted to say a joke and get away with it, but when he met Yan Huaichao's eyes, the words stuck on his lips. He glanced at Yan Huaichao helplessly, and nodded as if giving up.

When Yan Huaichao received Bei Yi's response, his brows and eyes were smiling for a moment, making people feel like a spring breeze. Bei Yi was stunned for a while, his lips swelled slightly, and he pinched Yan Huaichao's face, "You are so happy to see me admitting it?"

Yan Huaichao held Bei Yi's hand that was making trouble around his face, and the seriousness in his eyes could not be ignored, "Of course, Ah Yi like this is rare."

At that moment, Bei Yi's heart moved. His time stopped three years ago, but now in his eyes, everything around him became alive. It turned out that he was the one who was destined.

Sure enough, I complied with Chen's saying that far away in the sky is close in front of my eyes.

The morning dew hangs on the branches, about to fall, but the drop of dew at the end of the green leaves finally falls and soaks into the soil.

Bei Yi woke up leisurely, just when Yan Huaichao came in and called him, "Young Master of Peking University, are you awake? Come and wash up, Su County Magistrate came early, and now he is waiting downstairs."

Bei Yi didn't care about his title, it was avenging his patriarch's vengeance that day, what made him care more was the latter sentence, this magistrate of Su County is indeed a rare and good official, "he Already here? You go down to entertain him first, I will come down soon."

"Okay, then you can go faster." Yan Huaichao asked again worriedly. After last night, the relationship between the two became closer and their words became more casual.

The three of them went to the yamen, and Su Yu brought up the case file, "Please read it, both of you." The two of them looked at the husband for about half a minute, indicating that they understood.

Then Su Yu took the two of them to Yizhuang in the outskirts, "Here it is, and the female relatives in the palace are placed on the left."

There was a smell of corpses in the air, even if the coffin was covered, it couldn't cover it, Bei Yi frowned slightly, and was about to step forward to open the coffin, when Yan Huaichao stopped him, "Let me go, Zhuyu is here too."

"Faning with this will make you feel better." Yan Huaichao gave him his fan, then stepped forward to open a coffin, and took out pearls and jade to compare with the hairpin on the woman's head.

The reason for doing this time is that Yan Huaichao, as a businessman, has a unique vision. He has also seen hairpins with this type of pearls and jade in his mother's place.

It is very strange to find such an object in a scholar's house, so we can only guess that it was left by the gangsters, and according to their modus operandi, there are more than one person, and seeing the broken body today, Yan Huaichao is sure This is a group of gangsters, and someone behind them may be instigating, Bei Yi mentioned to him last night that this matter may be aimed at Beifu.

It can be deduced from this that since pearls and jade belonged to women's hairpins, the gangsters naturally didn't know which of the women's belongings were valuable, so they took some according to the ornaments worn by the women's family members in the palace. Naturally, they couldn't take them all. big.

Bei Yi watched Yan Huaichao open the coffin, holding the folding fan in his hand, considering that the county magistrate Su beside him seemed to be suffering, so he fanned the wind.

The breeze was blowing, which made both of them feel more comfortable, but Bei Yi noticed that there was a faint fragrance in the wind. He had a guess in his mind. He took action and sniffed the fan. As he thought, there was a smell of wormwood on this fan. The amount is not much, it can be said to be very little, so the smell is quite weak.

Bei Yi smiled casually, this person's mind is really meticulous enough.

On the other side, Yan Huaichao, he was very lucky, he only opened one coffin, and it was reflected on it, and he concluded that the pearls and jades were indeed from the ornaments in the palace, that is to say, the one who attacked the scholar's house and the one who destroyed the whole family of the palace It's the same gang.

This leads to another place of doubt, what do scholars and Wang Fu have in common? One is a family of merchants, Mr. Wang is kind and generous, and the other is from an ordinary family. In Beiyi's view, his views are too biased. Do not go together.

"Don't think about it yet, go to the pier and the palace to have a look, and when I get back, I will think about it with you." Bei Yi Chao Yan Huai Chao slapped the wind twice, stretched out a hand, "Let's go."

Yan Huaichao held Bei Yi's outstretched hand and held it like this for the rest of his life.

Coincidentally, the wharf was just in front of the Wangfu, not too far away, the three of them decided to go to the Wangfu first, and then to the wharf.

The degree of damage to the palace is similar to that of the scholar's house, and it can be regarded as a reflection of a gang of criminals from the side.

Bei Yi recalled the contents of the dossier. There were two groups of people who entered and exited the palace that day. The first group was the gangsters, and then the murdered fisherman. It seems that the fisherman was arrested because he witnessed their murder. silence.

But the palace is usually friendly with people, even if the gangsters were ordered to do this, the person behind them must have ordered them to exterminate the family for some reason.

Bei Yi decided to go to the study to find the correspondence between Master Wang and others.

It's like a study in an ordinary house, but the wood is very good, which fits the identity of Mr. Wang. Bei Yi first checked the desk, and he noticed at the first sight that it wasn't put together with other writing brushes, it was just placed on it. That brush on the shelf.

In this case, it can only be that he was writing something, but was suddenly interrupted and he had to go out.

But there was nothing on the table, Yan Huaichao suddenly thought of something, and walked towards the desk, Bei Yi moved away very naturally, Yan Huaichao reached under the desk, and pulled out a thin piece of letter paper .

After reading the above content, Bei Yi's face changed, "It's really the Zhao family. By the way, that scholar is also surnamed Zhao. Because Mr. Wang didn't agree to their cooperation, they became murderous, and they also saved it for us. I feel uncomfortable at home, but this scholar can be regarded as their distant relative, why kill him?"

"Cut the weeds and root out the roots. Huaiyu Town is not far from Taihangshui Town. If a scholar knows something, coupled with his identity, his words will be more credible than ordinary people." Yan Huaichao patted his palm with a folding fan .