The legend of the king of crossing

Chapter 114

"It smells so good, brother, let's eat first, I'm hungry."

"Ling'er, smelling the fragrance, are you hungry again?"

"What, it's dinner time."

The scent came from an inconspicuous small shop by the side of the road. I looked up and saw the five characters "Zong's Ham Shop" written on the horizontal board of the shop.

According to research, since the Tang Dynasty, Jinhua folks have started to pickle ham.However, the reputation of Jinhua ham started in the Song Dynasty. More than 100 years ago, Zong Ze, a famous anti-gold general from Yiwu (belonging to Jinhua) in the Song Dynasty, once dedicated his hometown "salted legs" to the court. Song Gaozong Zhao Gou, who was still King Kang at that time, saw him. The meat color is bright red like fire, red and white are distinct, the lean meat is salty and sweet, the fat meat is fragrant but not greasy, and delicious, so it is full of praise, named "ham", also known as "tribute leg".Because ham is concentrated in Jinhua area, it is commonly known as "Jinhua ham".In order to commemorate Zongze, the descendants regarded him as the patriarch of the ham industry. Since then, Jinhua ham has been famous all over the world and lasted for thousands of years.

A portrait of Zongze is hung in front of the restaurant to show its authenticity.

At noon, I ate some dry food casually on Chisong Mountain. At this time, I was already hungry. With the rice wine made by the small shop, everyone returned home happily.

Song Chengzu waited at the inn for a long time, and after returning to the room, he said: "Young Master, the Jinhua government has screened all the foreigners in the past month on the grounds of investigating household registration, and there are a total of 69 people who are still in Jinhua. Young Master, please have a look, here are all the materials, 12 of them are marked with a red pen, I think they may be suspected."

I first looked at the information files of the 12 people, and the name of Hejiazhuang Tang Feng was impressively on it.

Tang Feng's original identity certificate is very simple. Male, 26 years old, place of birth unknown, wandering around when he was young, settled in Qingxi, Muzhou (now Chun'an, Zhejiang) with his adoptive father Tang Tianhao 13 years ago, no fame, no bad deeds .

The following is the record of the yamen servant’s inquiry. Tang Feng claimed that he traveled around because of his lack of study. He came to Jinhua for the first time last month. Seeing the outstanding people here, he stayed at the house of He Dongfu, the housekeeper of Hejiazhuang. Later, he met Hejiazhuang for a martial arts competition. Recruit relatives, win the marriage, and become the son-in-law of He Zhuangzhu.

Tang Feng, Tang Feng, could it be Hu Feng?

Thirteen years ago coincided with the time when Hu Feng disappeared.

"Mr. Song, what is your next move?"

"Young master, I want to focus on these 12 people for further investigation, and send people to spy on them to find clues."

I said "Yes", and after carefully reading the records of the 12 people, I said: "Mr. Song, you immediately arrange for the yamen servants to notify the 69 people above to report to the government office tomorrow morning and apply for temporary identity certificates."

"Temporary ID?"

"Yes, when applying for temporary certificates, we can check to see if any of these people have martial arts skills."

"My lord, do you want to compete in martial arts?"

"That's not necessary."

With Yuan Ji here, I don't think it's a difficult task, unless the murderer's martial arts is higher than Yuan Ji's, then at least he must be like Yin Tianya.

Although Song Chengzu didn't know what method I used to investigate, he didn't dare to ask more.

I continued: "Also, post Hu Yun's arrest warrant in a prominent place. If the murderer is among these people, there will always be some clues."

"My lord, wouldn't you startle the snake after this?"

"Hehe, I'm just trying to scare the snake away. If the murderer stays hidden in the grass and cannot come out, we can only wait. But if we can drive him out of the grass, we have a chance to capture him."

Song Chengzu thought for a while and said: "Well, what you said is reasonable. My son, do you want to monitor these people overnight, or just target these 12 people?"

"Mr. Song, you arrange your subordinates to keep an eye on the other 11 people. This Tang Feng has martial arts and is in Hejiazhuang. I will arrange to monitor him."

"Yes, son."

"Hu Yun still has no news?"

"not yet."

"By the way, you have a catcher who is good at tracking. It seems to be Hou Qiang."

"Yes, my son has a good memory."

"You let him stare at the periphery of Hejiazhuang."

"Yes, I'll do it right away, young master, if there's nothing else, I'll take my leave first."

"Wait, Mr. Song has been an official in Jinhua for three years, do you know the dialect here?"

Song Chengzu smiled proudly: "Young master, I am quite talented in language. Wherever I go, I will quickly learn the local dialect. My Jinhua dialect is exactly the same as that spoken by the locals."

"Well, very good, tomorrow you will be like this."

"Yes, yes, I see, my lord."

After Song Chengzu left, I said to Yuan Ji: "Sir, to investigate Hejiazhuang tonight, you can arrange servants."

"I'm going." Fang Ling was the first to call.

Yuan Ji laughed and said, "Miss Fang, it's important that you stay and protect the young master. Lan Yu, Shen Mo, you two go."

I practiced Wuying Jue once, and went to bed early.After walking on Chisong Mountain for a day, and not having to go to bed early tomorrow, I fell asleep very soundly, and I didn't wake up until Fang Ling called me up for breakfast.

Before breakfast, Lan Yu and Shen Mo also returned to the inn. Everything was normal at night, and the Hejiazhuang was calm and calm. Apart from chatting with the village official He Dongfu, Tang Feng spent the whole night practicing in the room.

"Lan Yu, Shen Mo, you have worked hard all night, you don't have to go to the government office with me in a while, just rest here."

"Son, it's okay, it's nothing."

Yuan Ji also said: "Yes, my lord, this trivial matter is not worth mentioning, let's go together."

In a large house at the side gate of the Jinhua government office, 69 people lined up in a line to apply for temporary identity certificates one by one. A row of Hu Yun's arrest warrants was posted on the wall outside the house, but most of them did not pay attention to the signs on the wall. Notice.Fang Ling and I stood in a nearby hut, looking at the group of people through the window.

"Brother, look, that's Tang Feng."

Among these people, Tang Feng can be regarded as outstanding in both appearance and temperament.Tang Feng's eyes stayed on the arrest warrant for a moment, his face remained unchanged, with an indifferent look.

A hunchbacked elderly yamen guard checked the people who entered one by one in front of the door. Yi Changjiang and several other yamen guards maintained order in front of the door, saying incessantly, "Everyone, line up and prepare your original identity documents. , one by one to be inspected, and no weapons are allowed to enter."

Tang Feng accepted the inspection of the elderly yamen servant very calmly, and the yamen servant touched Tang Feng's body lightly, and said in a low voice: "No problem, go in, next one."

"Name?" Song Chengzu asked in the room.

"Tang Feng, this is my original identity certificate."

Song Chengzu took it over and looked at it, asked a few casual questions with a heavy Jinhua local accent, then took out a blank voucher with the seal of the Jinhua government office, filled it out and handed it to Tang Fengdao: "It's ok. "

It didn't take long for all 69 people to get their temporary certificates.

I came to the big house and said to the elderly yamen servant: "Sir, how is it?"

"My lord, apart from Tang Feng, there is no one with martial arts."

Fang Lingle said: "Mr. Yuan, you really act like a government servant."

Song Chengzu doubted: "This way we can see that none of those people are pretending?"

I smiled and said without explaining, "Mr. Song, what did you find here?"

Song Chengzu didn't dare to ask, and hurriedly said: "Young master, I chatted with Tang Feng casually in Jinhua dialect, and Tang Feng handled it with ease, which is not something an outsider can do at all."

Inside Hejiazhuang.

"My son-in-law, everything is done so quickly?"

"Father-in-law, it's done."

"Well, these days, you are good to practice our Chisong school's martial arts. On June [-]st, I will go to Baoji Temple with the old man, and we will refer to Chisong's post."

"Yes, father-in-law." Tang Feng replied respectfully, "By the way, father-in-law, don't the officials in Jinhua government office like to speak official language?"