Datang: Hiding private money, exposed by Xiao Sizi

But Shen Lian, from beginning to end, didn't look at his expression at all.

Instead, he grabbed Xin Tianji's shoes.

He lifted Xin Tianji's feet and looked at Xin Tianji's shoes carefully.

Seeing this, Tianji couldn't help but said, "Why do you still have this hobby? This guy is so big, his feet must be smelly?"

Shen Lian was too lazy to answer Tianji's words. He checked carefully, then looked at Xin Tianji who was thrown to the ground, and said, "The soles of your shoes are stained with some mud, and there is some green moss on them."

"In the past few days, it hasn't rained in Xin'an City."

"So where there is dirt, it should be next to the well."

Shen Lian looked at Sishe and asked, "Sishe, how many wells are there in Xin'an City?"

Si Snake controls the intelligence department, and there are also spies from the intelligence department in Xin'an City, so he already knows the layout of Xin'an City by heart.

When he heard Shen Lian's question, he immediately said, "There are three places."

"One place, in the front yard of the City Lord's Mansion."

"One place, in the middle of the barracks."

"One place, in the north of Xin'an City, there is a grove, and there is a well in front of the grove, where ordinary people get water."

When Shen Lian heard this, he glanced at Xin Tianji whose expression changed.

He smiled and said, "Choose one of the classic three, and this official is best at doing this kind of multiple-choice questions."

"Xin Tianji, you seem to be unlucky."

"Do you know where those explosives were buried?"

Tianji couldn't help but ask when she saw Shen Lian's confident smile.

Xin Tianji also looked at Shen Lian nervously.

Shen Lian smiled softly and said, "Tianji, your question is not rigorous."

"We all know that those explosives were buried under the entire Xin'an City. He wanted to blow up Xin'an City directly to the sky. In this case, no matter where I am, as long as I am still in Xin'an City, I will die. undoubtedly."

"So, those explosives are buried under our feet."

"And what you asked should be where are the entrances and exits where the explosives are buried?"

"After all, it is impossible for Xin Tianji to dig and bury explosives by himself, and others will find out."

"Therefore, this official guesses that there should be some criss-crossing secret passages under the ground, and he just hid those explosives in these secret passages. Detonate, thereby blowing up the entire city."

"And those secret passages are absolutely hidden. There may be only one entrance, so what we are looking for is this entrance."

Tianji was being educated very rigorously by Shen Lian, and looked a little bad.

She felt that Shen Lian was insulting her.

She said unhappily, "You know what I mean, is it interesting to pick up words like this?"

"Of course it's interesting."

Shen Lian smiled faintly, "After all, in our criminal investigation, sometimes the difference of one word can cause the truth to deviate by tens of thousands of miles."

"So I'm sorry, the official's occupational disease requires that the official not allow the slightest deviation."

Tianji was out of breath.

She felt that Shen Lian was deliberately targeting her.

But this time, she was really wrong.

Shen Lian is really an occupational disease, and he has to get to the bottom of every word.

"Don't waste time, quickly find the entrance to the secret passage."

"A little later, maybe it will explode."

Tianji said.

Shen Lian smiled and said, "There's no rush."

He looked at Xin Tianji and said, "Xin Tianji will not detonate in such a hurry."

"First of all, he needs to ensure that he can escape safely, so he will definitely not arrange the time of the explosion so urgently."

"Secondly, he also needs to ensure that the official can enter Xin'an City. What if the official wants to find Xin'an City and completely capture it before entering Xin'an City!?"

"It will definitely take time, so based on the above two points, it will take at least one or two hours for his explosives to detonate."

"If it's too much, maybe we have to wait another day."

"After all, at that time, we can ensure that the official will definitely enter Xin'an City."

Hearing Shen Lian's words, Xin Tianji's pupils trembled again.

He gritted his teeth tightly to keep him from exclaiming.

horrible! !

Shen Lian is really terrible! !
If you infer casually, you can perfectly guess your own thoughts and arrangements.

This gave Xin Tianji an extremely weird feeling.

It was as if everything he did was done under Shen Lian's control.

It was as if Shen Lian was not inferring this.

Instead, unconsciously, control him and let him do these things.

This feeling made his scalp tingle.

Shen Lian looked at Xin Tianji who was trembling with his head lowered, not daring to look at him.

He smiled and said, "However, it is indeed time to find the entrance and exit of the secret path earlier."

"After these matters are settled, I still want to talk to you alone. Now... let's get down to business first."

He continued the previous topic, "In Xin'an City, there are three wells in total, in the city lord's mansion, in the barracks, and next to the woods."

"It's one of three choices."

"But the soles of your shoes have another clue that tells me these secrets."

He chuckled lightly.

Lifting his finger, everyone saw the moss on his finger.

He said, "Moss... This kind of thing, regardless of the growing environment, can be found in many places, but in the courtyard of the city lord's mansion, there are people coming and going, and there are servants who specialize in taking care of it. appeared."

"And what about the barracks?"

"Countless soldiers walked back and forth, trampling the ground until not a single blade of grass grew, and naturally there would be no moss."

"So, on the whole, Moss...there is only the last one."

Shen Lian's lips curled up.

Looking at the nervous Xin Tianji with his head down, he turned around and said with a smile, "Let's go, go to the well next to the woods, the entrance should be there."

With a swipe, Xin Tianji suddenly raised his head.

The pupils in the eyes suddenly shrank, and the whole person's complexion changed drastically.

Shen Lian didn't look at Xin Tianji's expression changes again.

He has [-]% confidence in his deduction.

As a detective, if you don't even have confidence in your own deduction, what qualifications do you have to find the truth?

Therefore, after making a judgment based on existing clues, Shen Lian will unswervingly believe in his judgment.

He said: "Si snake, tie it up and bring it to the well."

Si Snake nodded quickly.

He quickly tied Xin Tianji tightly, then threw him on the horse, got on the horse, and led Shen Lian in front.

Tianji looked at Xin Tianji, who was tied to the horse's back like a rice dumpling, and suddenly regained his balance.

Finally, she was no longer the only one who was tied up in such a humiliating way.

Shen Lian glanced at Tianji who was suddenly happy and felt a little baffled.

What are you happy about?

It's as if you've never been tied up.

"Let's go."

Shen Lian raised his chin and asked Tianji to walk in front of him.Tianji knew that Shen Lian was watching him to prevent him from slipping away.

She had no intention of slipping away now, so she snorted coldly, then drove the horses and followed.

Shen Lian walked at the end, glanced at the holes in the city wall, smiled, and drove his horses to chase after him.

Soon, the snake stopped.

He said, "Master, this is the place."

Shen Lian looked around.

It can be seen that this place is located on the north side of Xin'an City, and there is a small forest here.

However, many trees in the forest have been cut down, and there are not many left.

Presumably these woods were planted deliberately by officials of Xin'an City for their normal use.

This point is different from Datang.

Datang would not build such a forest in the city.

The woods will be outside the city.

Originally, the place in the city was not big, and there were so many people to live there, so how could there be so many places to plant trees.

But Nanzhao is different.

Nanzhao's territory is small, but its population is smaller. On average, the land area occupied by each person is much larger than that of Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, they can waste the land in the city in this way.

Next to the woods, there is a well.

There is a lot of water on the ground around the well, which seems to have been accidentally spilled when fetching water.

Because the ground is full of clods, the water will soon turn into mud when it meets the soil, so after passing here, some mud will be stained on the shoes.

And on the ground, Qin Wenyuan also saw some damp-loving moss growing around.

Because of the trees, there is not much sunlight, great shadows, and a lot of water, which is more suitable for the growth of moss.

Therefore, when passing here, unless you deliberately avoid it, it is easy to get moss on the soles of your shoes.

As for Xin Tianji, he was obviously not that kind of careful person, or... he never thought that he would be caught by Qin Wenyuan, so he didn't pay attention to it.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be the key evidence for Shen Lian to find this place.

Tianji looked around, but after looking for a long time, he didn't find anything special.

She couldn't help but said, "Where is the entrance to the secret passage?"

Sishe also looked at Shen Lian.

Shen Lian looked at Xin Tianji, who snorted, turned his head and said in a low voice, "Don't think I will tell you!"

"We're going to die together!"

He is not very good and seems to really want to die with Shen Lian and others.

Tianji's face couldn't help but change: "Shen Lian, will the explosive explode before we find the entrance?"

If so, it would be miserable.

Shen Lian glanced at Tianji and said slowly, "What? Are you scared?"

"You are not afraid?"

Tianji asked back.

Shen Lian shook his head and said: "Of course I am not afraid, because I know that it will never explode before I find the entrance."

"Use your brain more, and you will be as calm as I am."

Shen Lian sneered at Tianji, then looked at Xin Tianji, and suddenly extended his hand to Xin Tianji.

Xin Tianji was surprised: "What are you going to do?"

Shen Lian chuckled and said, "Why are you nervous? I'll just take out a leaf for you."

While speaking, he withdrew his hand.

Sure enough, he saw a leaf lying on the palm of his hand.

Shen Lian looked at the leaf and said with a half-smile, "It's not the season of falling leaves yet, so why are there such green leaves on you?"

"Xin Tianji, I feel that you can try to quibble now and see if you can fool me?"

Xin Tianji's face suddenly changed.

Xin Tianji looked at Shen Lian with a changed expression. His face, which was originally dark, turned a little white at this moment.

White and white.

At this moment, both Tianji and Sishe can feel Xin Tianji's desperate heart.

Being targeted by Shen Lian, nothing could be hidden from Shen Lian's eyes.

All the secrets were guessed by Shen Lian.

Tianji really understands this feeling very well.

It's just that she is smarter than Xin Tianji, has more cards, and is deeper, so she is not as desperate as Xin Tianji.

But that feeling still lingered in his heart, causing her to have many nightmares.

"It's miserable, it's really miserable."

Tianji looked at Xin Tianji's expression, and she knew that even if Xin Tianji didn't die, he would be shrouded in Shen Lian's shadow in the future. From now on, she would never be able to get rid of Shen Lian's nightmare.

But Shen Lian still had a calm expression on his face.

He took a closer look at the leaves and said, "The leaves haven't wilted yet, which means it hasn't been long since they fell."

"The water well here is not in the forest, and the trees on the edge have been cut down, so here, there is no reason for this kind of leaves to fall on you."

"And this season is really not the season of falling leaves."

Shen Lian's eyes were like those in the woods.

I saw that the trees in the forest were all lush and lush, and those green leaves were unfurling in the wind on the trunks, showing their vitality to the fullest.

It really didn't look like a defeat at all.

Not even a little yellow.

In this case, there is no reason for the leaves to fall.

Shen Lian smiled and said, "So, there is only one explanation for why you have this leaf on your body."

"That is……"

Shen Lian raised his hand, pointed to the woods opposite, and said, "Before you leave here, you went into the woods."

"And the leaves haven't wilted yet, which means that the time is extremely short. If my guess is correct, you left here before you met us."

Xin Tianji's forehead was covered with cold sweat.

Shen Lian continued to smile and said: "As soon as I entered Xin'an City, I found that you disappeared."

"At that time, I felt strange."

"I thought you had escaped, but when I got to the city wall, I found that it was intact, which means you haven't left yet."

"So I didn't understand at the time, where did you go during this gap?"

"No fighting, no leaving, what is it that makes you have to do it at this time?"

"I wasn't sure before, but now, I understand."

Sishe and Tianji both looked at Shen Lian.

Then Shen Lian said calmly: "At that time, you should have turned on the automatic explosion device of explosives, right?"

"You think that Xin'an City will be destroyed today, which means that I will definitely enter Xin'an City, so after confirming these, you immediately start the automatic explosive device. After confirming that the explosion will happen as scheduled, you leave quickly and prepare to escape here to avoid being affected. ..."

"Therefore."

The corners of Shen Lian's lips raised slightly: "The last place you went to was the place where you could control those explosives."

"In other words, here..."

Shen Lian pointed to the woods opposite and said confidently: "This is where the entrance to the secret passage is hidden!"

(End of this chapter)