Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 116 Assassinated (Part [-])
Wu Chen turned to look at Liang Kuan and asked, "Where did you say Zhang Cai lived? There was a record. It was recorded when Zhang Cai reported the crime?"

Liang Kuan nodded and said, "Exactly! I thought I was going to be here today, so I wrote down the content in my mind in advance..."

"What do you remember?"

"Who is your last name, where do you live, who is in your family, and what you do for a living."

"Did you remember that?"

"No, there was some chaos at the time, so I ordered the civil servants to record that County Magistrate Chen was mobilizing manpower and preparing horses, so he was too busy..."

"So, you say that Zhang is the Orion, because the record is the Orion."

"Correct!"

Wu Chen frowned even deeper. He looked at Xu Da and said, "They are well prepared."

Xu Da looked bewildered.

Wu Chen thought of something and suddenly turned his head to look at Liang Kuan and asked, "If Cao Bingde hadn't died, wouldn't he be doing this kind of recording?"

"It's possible."

"After Cao Bingde's death, will there be new civil servants entering the county government?"

"No, there are enough civil servants in the county government office, so there is really no need to add new ones."

Wu Chen stopped talking, he thought about it seriously, and said, "Let's go down the mountain, I'll go to the Taoist temple another day, and go to see the murder scene first."

"Murder case?" Xu Da asked in surprise: "I didn't hear anything, how would you know..."

Before Xu's big talk was finished, Wu Chen had already walked down the mountain.

……

After a few people had walked for a stick of incense, Xu Da then saw the sophomore walking up, he hurriedly asked, "But there was a murder case down the mountain?"

The sophomore looked up, was taken aback for a moment, and then asked, "How do you know?"

Xu Da pointed to Wu Chen.

Gao Er sighed and said, "The uncle and sister-in-law were killed in the house just now."

Liang Kuan staggered and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, Wu Chen's eyes were sharp and his hands quickly caught him.

"Thank you Mr. Wu, them, how could the two of them... die?"

The sophomore said: "The murderer wanted to set fire to the hut after someone cut his throat. Fortunately, we arrived in time and they ran away. We put out the fire. I left the two yamen servants to watch..."

"Elder brother and second brother, they want to destroy the corpse, so you two hurry over there. I'm afraid that the murderer is not far from the hut. Seeing the second brother leave, they may attack again. The two yamen servants may lose their lives if they are unable to stop them."

Gao Er and Xu Da didn't hesitate, and rushed down the mountain, and soon disappeared.

Wu Chen was impatient, but Liang Kuan couldn't move anymore, so Wu Chen simply left two yamen servants to accompany Liang Kuan down the mountain slowly, and asked where the thatched hut was, then took the rest of the people and walked down the mountain quickly .

……

It was already past noon, and if the big head was around, he would complain about the lack of food, but Wu Chen was so focused on the murder case that he could not wait for the wind under his feet. I don't see any difference from usual, is there such a big gap between vertical and horizontal?
Wu Chen was also impatient, he couldn't see how far he left the yamen servants behind, and he didn't count how long it took him to go up the mountain, and how long it took him to go down the mountain.

Just as Wu Chen was thinking, the sound of footsteps came from his ears.

Wu Chen stopped and listened carefully, just in time for the yamen servant behind him to catch up.

Wu Chen heard it clearly, and the yamen servants also came to the side, Wu Chen asked them in a low voice: "Are you guys good at kung fu?"

Several yamen servants shook their heads seriously.

Wu Chen took a deep breath and asked, "Which one of you brought a whip?"

A yamen servant untied a rope from his waist and said, "Is it okay to tie the rope? There is no whip."

Wu Chen nodded and said, "Stand here and don't move. No matter what you see, don't come over. I'll call you when I'm done with it. Come over again."

A few yamen servants didn't understand everything, they only understood that they stood still and walked over after being called, and they nodded one after another.

Wu Chen walked forward with the tied rope, while several yamen servants stayed where they were.

At this time they had already reached the foot of the mountain, Wu Chen walked forward along the path by the side of the mountain alone, listening to the panting sound in the forest in front of him, there should be three people listening to the movement, these three people have not moved at this moment, only Wait for Wu Chen to approach.

Wu Chen frowned, he wasn't from the Ghost Gang!

The members of the Ghost Mandrill Gang did not dare to underestimate Wu Chen so much. Even in the assassination two days ago when there were few people, there were more than a dozen people ambushed in the forest.

Wu Chen approached slowly, and he heard one of the three ask in a low voice, "Why didn't the yamen servant follow?"

One person replied: "It would be better not to follow. I counted to three, and the three of us rushed out at the same time, and ran up the mountain while he was dazed and hacked to death."

Wu Chen's heart sank, he was really afraid of throwing a few hidden weapons, even if he could hear it, he might not be able to avoid it, and now his liver hurts even if he lost a drop of blood.

Wu Chen lowered his head and put down the binding rope in his hand as he walked, held a section, then dragged the binding rope and listened to the number of people in the forest saying 'three, two, one! '

The three raised their knives and rushed out of the forest. At the same time, Wu Chen used the rope as a whip and waved lightly in the direction the three came from. His eyes didn't look at them.

One whip is enough.

Enough is enough, and too much.

Wu Chen was so handsome that he didn't stop. He could hear clearly that there was no one else in the forest ahead. He shouted loudly, "Tie up these three people and bring them back to the county government."

The yamen servants looked dumbfounded from a distance. They heard Wu Chen yell, but couldn't hear clearly. They only saw Wu Chen leaving so gracefully. go.

Although Wu Chen didn't stop, he walked very slowly, and soon several yamen servants chased after him.

Wu Chen asked blankly, "Are those three tied up?"

Several yamen servants hurriedly turned around again, Wu Chen stopped and waited, and then heard a yamen servant shout: "They are all dead!"

Wu Chen stopped pretending and ran back in a hurry, seeing that the three of them seemed to have been shot by a machine gun, with blood holes all over their bodies, how could they still be alive.

Wu Chen took a deep breath, his heart was full of waves, a vast ocean!
Wu Chen wanted to keep alive, and he must keep alive, so he just waved lightly. He remembered that the night outside the col, his shot had a success rate, that is to say, the fatality rate was not 100%. It was also thinking about this that he waved the whip lightly, thinking that he could always leave a life alive.

Wu Chen scratched his forehead. He didn't know how to vent the anger in his heart. The strange power in his body may not be effective when he needs it urgently, but it is very useful when he wants to show mercy.

Wu Chen walked around in a circle, trying to calm himself down, which made several government servants even more confused.

A yamen servant asked tentatively: "Mr. Wu, do these three corpses need to be brought back to the county yamen for inspection?"

"Are you stupid? What do you want Wu to inspect? Are these three people male or female?" Another yamen servant slapped the person who had spoken before.

"That's right, there's no need to check, these three people wanted to assassinate Mr. Wu, but Mr. Wu whipped them, and they didn't even touch them, so they died?"

Wu Chen ignored them and knelt down to examine the bodies of the three of them carefully.

(End of this chapter)